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Thursday, august 27, 2020 Intelligent . In-depth . Independent www.phnompenhpost.com 4000 RIEL public schools Infrastructure calls for probe set to reopen needs upgrade, into putin critic’s on September 7 ministry says poisoning claims national – page 5 business – page 6 world – page 10 Government lauded for reforms

Mom Kunthear Committee (CHRC) president Keo government to accept inputs from late the law and the rights of others, pecially the legal basis and measures Remy via video conference that was civil society regarding the draft laws especially protests that can cause taken by the authorities,” he said. N special rapporteur on also attended by representatives from on associations and non-govern- racial discrimination and disrupt Malin said the meeting provided a the situation of human the ministries of Interior; Foreign Af- mental organisations (Lango); pub- public order and social security. floor for Cambodia to explain in de- rights in Cambodia Rhona fairs and International Cooperation; lic order; and the establishment of CHRC vice-president Chin Ma- tail the current situation as opposed Smith praised the govern- Justice; Information; and Health. national human rights institutions. lin told The Post on Wednesday that to biased allegations of human rights mentU for its efforts in addressing However, Smith also expressed The laws, she said, should be in line the virtual meeting yielded positive violations. He said the government issues related to freedom of expres- concerns on Covid-19 disinforma- international human rights principles. results and demonstrated growing shared some of her concerns and sion, judicial reforms and Covid-19 tion and the passage of laws on civil Smith said while she remains con- mutual understanding. will do more to address them. preventive measures. society organisations. cerned about restrictions on free- “What we can assess is that Smith “We accept her suggestions and will Smith made the remarks on Tuesday She called for constant prevention dom of expression and assembly, seems to understand the real situa- as she met Cambodian Human Rights of Covid-19 fake news and urged the she did not support rallies that vio- tion and reality in Cambodia and es- Continued – page 2 Afghanistan flash floods kill over 70 as search goes on RESCUE workers in Afghani- their salvaged belongings. stan searched on Wednesday “I was alone when the for survivors of flash floods flood-hit. I grabbed the win- that killed more than 70 peo- dow and was holding it for ple and destroyed hundreds two hours until the neigh- of houses in a city north of bours came to rescue me. I the capital, officials said. lost everything … my jewel- Troops pulled dozens from lery, money and property,” the rubble of collapsed build- said 70-year-old Hamida. ings in Charikar, capital of Flash floods were also report- Parwan province, after it was ed in other provinces – includ- hit by heavy rains overnight, ing Nangarhar, Panjshir, Wardak, but officials and witnesses Loghar, Paktika and Kapisa – but said many children were there were no reports of casual- among the dead. ties, the ministry said. Mohamed Qasim, a 45-year- Torrential downpours and old farmer from the city, said flash floods kill scores of peo- 11 members of his family were ple annually in Afghanistan. killed in the floods. Many poorly built homes, Piles of rocks from destroyed mostly in rural areas, are at risk KrisEnergy is currently developing the Apsara oil field in Block A of the Khmer Basin in the Gulf of Thailand. KrisEnergy buildings were scattered across of collapse during the rains in the city, with roads blocked by the impoverished country. mud and debris and cars Earlier this month, 16 people, flipped on their sides. including 15 children, were “The figures we have col- killed and dozens of houses Kingdom’s oil extraction on lected from hospitals show that destroyed when flash floods 72 people have died and over ravaged a village in the eastern 100 are injured,” said Ministry province of Nangarhar. of Disaster Management Heavy monsoon rains have target for year’s end, says firm spokesman Tamim Azimi. also wrought havoc on neigh- Waheeda Shahkar, the bouring Pakistan, with May Kunmakara The load-out and sail-away in the Gulf of Thailand. ergy (Apsara) Company Ltd, spokeswoman for the Parwan authorities in the southern of the topsides and jacket (the It said the fabrication of the noted that nine months had governor, confirmed the toll, city of Karachi reporting 30 SINGAPORE-BASED oil and gas legs of the platform) were com- Mini-Platform began early in elapsed from the “first steel- adding that more than 500 deaths over the past three exploration company KrisEn- pleted on Tuesday, it said, December at the facility of PT cutting” to the “sail-away”. houses had been destroyed. weeks from flood-related inci- ergy Ltd said on Wednesday that This marks a significant step NOV Profab, a subsidiary of He said: “This landmark is In parts of the city, anxious dents, including injuries from the fabrication of the minimum towards the company’s ambi- Houston, US-based oilfield made all the more remarkable residents gathered to see if collapsed buildings, drown- facilities wellhead platform tious target of extracting the equipment supplier National given the difficulties and restric- relatives would be pulled from ings and electrocutions. (Mini-Platform) for the Apsara first drop of oil before the Oilwell Varco Inc (NOV), on tions our project team and ours the wreckages by rescue work- President Ashraf Ghani had oil development offshore Cam- year’s end. Indonesia’s Batam Island. NOV Profab colleagues have ers using heavy machinery. ordered emergency relief to bodia has been completed and KrisEnergy is currently Kelvin Tang, the CEO of Kris faced since early 2020 as Many people stood on be sent to Charikar, the pres- its components are on their way developing the Apsara oil field Energy and president of whol- rooftops as the rain continued idential palace said in a state- to the Kingdom’s waters. in Block A of the Khmer Basin ly-owned subsidiary KrisEn- Continued – page 7 to lash the city, holding on to ment. AFP Cash assistance programme THE PHNOM PENH POST National News for Kingdom’s poor extended Inside page 3 2 THE PHNOM PENH POST august 27, 2020 www.phnompenhpost.com National ‘More need Nutrilatt baby formula ‘iron deficient’ to be done Voun Dara

HE General Depart- on human ment of Consumer Protection, Competi- tion and Fraud Re- right issue’ pressionT (CPCFR) is calling for a civil settlement for consum- Continued from page 1 ers who purchased Nutrilatt milk powder for their babies. continue to work together to It is also asking the Ministry improve the human rights sit- of Commerce to stop the dis- uation in Cambodia,” he said. tribution of the baby formula. Cambodian Institute for The CPCFR alleges the iron Democracy president Pa content in Nutrilatt is lower Chanroeun saw Smith’s posi- than the company’s declara- tive assessment as merely an tion and international coding acknowledgement of the gov- standards. It presented labo- ernment’s efforts in contain- ratory findings on Wednesday ing Covid-19. to back its claims. He claimed human rights The presentation was made abuses in Cambodia persist by CPCFR director-general and the situation has not Phan Oun with participation improved. from parents, representatives “As for the human rights of Nutrilatt, WHO, UNICEF, situation and the decline of Helen Keller International and democratic processes in Cam- representatives of the Mater- bodia, this is an indisputable nal and Child Health Centre at fact that has prompted the the Ministry of Health. EU to withdraw 20 per cent of Oun told The Post that six CPCFR director-general Phan Oun wants Nutrilatt baby formula off store shelves for misrepresentation of iron content. ministry of commerce its Everything But Arms (EBA) batches were analysed by Eu- scheme. It’s because human rofins FoodT esting Singapore ny does not agree, we will send CPCFR for a solution. take responsibility and pub- number of irregularities. rights abuses remain serious Pte Ltd, an independent and the case to court,” he said. Liu Samnang, a mother of licly acknowledge the powder “Nutrilite milk powder and systematic,” he said. internationally accredited Oun said CPCFR would also a baby who used the formula is iron deficient. completely rejects the results Chanroeun said he did not laboratory in Singapore. advise commerce ministry offi- said her child is suffering from “The company should con- of the CPCFR announcement. expect the government to fol- The results show the iron cials to check the milk powder anaemia and severe iron defi- tact the National Pediatric Nutrilatt observes a number low Smith’s recommendations. contained in the milk powder and confiscate the products. ciency. She said the parents Hospital and Kantha Bopha of irregularities in the unilat- He said citizens, civil society was lower than the company’s Iron deficiency in infants have asked Health Minister Children’s Hospital to check eral declaration of the results organisations and relevant declaration and the Codex In- who use this formula may Mam Bunheng to check the and take responsibility for ba- and the results are very dif- UN agencies will continue to ternational Standard. lead to anaemia, fatigue and quality of the milk powder, bies who suffered from the use ferent from those obtained monitor the situation and de- “We want a civil settlement for weak bodies, he said. but they didn’t get any result. of this milk powder,” she said. by the company from the mand that the authorities ful- victims if the company agrees to Oun said 16 families of in- They then turned to CPCFR. Nutrilite Milk Powder Com- BVAQ Laboratory and the ALS fil their promises to respect deal with the parents of the af- fants have had problems after “The parents of the infants pany issued a statement de- Laboratory of Singapore,” its human rights and democracy fected babies. But if the compa- using the formula and asked have asked the company to nying the results, claiming a statement said. in Cambodia. Oral sanctuary land grab thwarted Consultation council Soth Koemsoeun ‘active’ on land work KAMPONG Speu provincial Long Kimmarita These reports have reached police and NGO ACNCIPO Hun Sen already,” he said. director Chea Hean stopped THE secretariat head of the Phal Virun told The Post on nearly 100 people from grab- Supreme Council for Consul- Wednesday that most cases bing more than 200ha illegally tation and Recommendation that his institution looked in the Phnom Oral Wildlife responded on Tuesday to into involved land disputes Sanctuary on Wednesday. criticism his institution was (90 per cent). For each mis- The incident occurred at not independent and did not sion, a delegate writes a re- the Trapaing Thmea village in do enough to solve land port and highlights related Oral district. disputes. points and people. Hean said on Wednesday In hitting back at allegations “Specific names of officials the people intended to claim that the council is merely the related to land issues are in the area for private owner- government’s servant and Phnom Penh, Siem Reap, ship and prepared to build did not have any influence in Preah Sihanouk, Battambang, sheds and clear forest land to tackling major issues, Chhim Pursat, Banteay Meanchey, grow crops. Authorities inter- Phal Virun said council mem- Mondulkiri, Kampong Thom vened and the 100 or so fami- bers submit reports directly and more,” he said. lies protested. to Prime Minister Hun Sen. His institution, Phal Virun He said they eventually At a press conference on said, does not have a duty to listened to instructions and Tuesday, he said about 90 per tackle any issue directly, and returned to their respective cent of the reports relate to that it is the government that homes. land disputes, and that the releases legal letters based “We explained to them that names of people who have on the notes of the Prime we stop all forms of forest Nearly 100 people from Trapaing Thmea village were stopped on Wednesday from grabbing more than 200ha positions in government are Minister. land encroachment. If any illegally in the Phnom Oral Wildlife Sanctuary in Kampong Speu province. facebook clearly indicated. Rights group Adhoc spokes- person clears State land, we Through report writing man Seung Senkarona told will cooperate with the police ordinary people, but allowed land. Even though the author- A notice released by the and discussion with the The Post on Wednesday that to build a case,” he said. powerful and wealthy indi- ities had repeatedly warned Phnom Oral Wildlife Sanctuary prime minister, each of the the work of the council is Trapaing Thmea villager viduals to occupy State land them, they did not listen and office on August 14 and seen members always raises the new. He said this duty in the Hong Vuthy, 35, said on illegally. illegally built huts. by The Post on Wednesday said main issues and reveals the past fell to political parties Wednesday that villagers had “We agree not to occupy the He said five of the families the encroachment is against names and positions of offi- to tackle land disputes for occupied the land and re- land anymore, but we request asked him last week to sign the law as stipulated under cials who encroach on State citizens. lied on it for their livelihoods the authorities to investigate documents recognising the Article 62 of the Law on Natu- land, he said. Senkarona said he appre- since 2012. But they had no with transparency and justice grabbed land, but he refused ral Protected Areas, which was “In response to the accu- ciates all the work because titles or recognition from lo- because I am afraid we will be and told them to stop be- promulgated by a royal decree sation that each member of it serves to tackle issues for cal authorities. However, he evicted only to have the land cause the land is protected by dated February 15, 2008. this institution is the servant people. He expects all re- agreed to leave the land. given to others. a royal decree. The notice said any persons of the government, the work quests are handled without He urged the authorities to “I am a poor citizen. We “The villagers saw a lot of who violated the article would shows that each is trying to discrimination. act against powerful individ- plan to write letters asking empty land, so they gathered be punished as committing prove himself by reporting is- “I cannot evaluate all the uals because he doesn’t want the authorities for land in the to grab it, but we cannot meet grade-4 natural resources of- sues to the Prime Minister. work in a political perspec- to see biased actions against area for our families’ liveli- such demands,” he said, add- fences, which carry a prison “If people see delegate re- tive, but I believe that if each the people. hoods,” he said. ing that some villagers already sentence of five to 10 years ports, they will know. They role is fulfilled, it benefits the Vuthy said he received in- Trasal commune chief Dul had land granted to them by and a fine of up to 150 million do not only consist of the is- people. If citizens get advan- formation that the authori- Sokhom said 100 families had the authorities, but they sold riel ($36,700). Evidence will sues but also the names and tage from it, it is acceptable,” ties had cracked down on gathered to grab the State it and tried to get new land. be seized as State property. positions of people involved. he said. THE PHNOM PENH POST august 27, 2020 www.phnompenhpost.com 3 National Poverty subsidy extended Ministry launches Mom Kunthear transport hotline

INISTER of Economy and Khouth Sophak Chakrya He said the questions mostly Finance Aun Pornmoniroth focused on technical assistance, has extended the imple- THE Ministry of Public Works public services, vehicle regis- mentation of the Cash As- and Transport launched the tration, technical inspection, Msistance Programme for Poor and Vul- “1275” hotline number on vehicle ownership transfer and nerable Families During the Battle of Wednesday to make it easier driver’s licence examinations. Covid-19 to August and September. for people to seek informa- “Through the hotline, the Further extensions will be determined tion and advice related to three officers immediately separately in the fourth week of each transportation. find solutions to questions month based on situation developments. “This mobile phone sys- effectively and transparently. The second round of the cash assistance tem will help people with free The system records all conver- programme which is dispensed through calls for inquiries, problem- sations between callers and the Wing money transfer service will re- solving, technical assistance our staff,” Sotheayuth said, quire a national budget of $30 million for and consulting,” said its an- adding that it can also identify more than 2.6 million people in August. nouncement on Tuesday. and locate callers. The budget grew from $26 million in “The service answers ques- Affiliated Network for Social July and $23 million in June, due to an tions related to public services Accountability executive di- increase of 60,000 newly identified poor and automation systems, vehi- rector San Chey said coordi- households. cle registration, driver’s licence nating immediate solutions to A woman carries her child in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district. Hean Rangsey Ministry spokesman Meas Sok Sensan examinations, vehicle technical people’s inquiries through the said on Tuesday that the government turned home to apply for equity cards. problems are encountered,” Da said. inspections, vehicle ownership hotline is a new development. would spend between $25 million and Other vulnerable families fell into pov- The Coalition for Integrity and Social transfer, business registration, But the effectiveness of re- $28 million each month to provide for the erty during the Covid-19 crisis,” he said. Accountability executive director Him and understanding Cambo- sponding to problems and poor and vulnerable. “There is no short- However, Da said his ministry had ob- Yun said the IDPoor cards are provided dian driving rules and the Road how good the solutions are is age of funds for this programme. We have served irregularities because some fami- to poor people, but some well-off fami- Care mobile app,” it said. still unknown. already allocated the money,” he said. lies which had better living conditions lies also have the card. He said higher Ministry spokesman Heang “I encourage people to use Ministry of Planning spokesman Srey were jealous of the subsidy and also ap- authorities should issue warnings or take Sotheayuth told The Post the this system to get advice and Da told The Post that subsidies to poor plied for it. other measures to prevent such fraud. hotline officially began taking solutions from officials on and vulnerable families during the pro- This added to the burden placed on lo- “If the authorities cannot prevent it, calls on Wednesday with three various concerns related to gramme’s first round in June and July cal authorities and working groups of pro- they are responsible according to the staff to answer questions. public services,” Chey said. achieved about 97 per cent success from vincial planning departments who were law,” he said. a total population of 613,000 families, forced to identify real poor families as well Prime Minister Hun Sen announced the equivalent to about 2,480,000 people. as remove those who were better off. launch of the cash subsidy programme in Da said the ministry has since found “As a precautionary measure against June and made it clear the work is almost an additional 56,000 poor and vulnerable the increase and irregularities, the minis- entirely dependent on local authorities. families, equal to about 280,000 people. try has instructed the capital, provincial He said it must be done most clearly The total number of poor and vul- and municipal planning departments and thoroughly and avoid scams like nerable families nationwide, he said, is throughout the country to conduct in- families and relatives who are not poor about 669,000 families or about 2.7 mil- spections at the local level. or vulnerable receiving the allowance. lion people. “In particular, they must cooperate “I will take immediate action and there “In the second round, the ministry ob- closely with the commune council will be no exceptions if abnormalities served that the number of poor families and ask for guidelines from the pro- are found in any village, commune or did not decrease as migrant families re- vincial governor to have a solution if district,” Hun Sen said. Vehicle inspection in Banteay Meanchey province​. MPWT 4 THE PHNOM PENH POST august 27, 2020 www.phnompenhpost.com National KTV night raid nets 93, Rong Chhun denied bail courts’ support for judicial border poles Nº 114-119 in Kim Sarom police’s “arbitrary” act. Tbong Khmum province as a This, he said, is because Ch- representative of the Cambo- THE Appeal Court on Wednes- hun’s arrest ran counter to the dia Watchdog Council (CWC). large amount of drugs day denied the bail request of Criminal Code that prohibits After the field visit, Chhun union leader Rong Chhun who the arrest of suspects at night, posted his findings on social Long Kimmarita has been charged with “incite- unless in case of flagrante media, urging the government ment to cause social unrest” delicto (in blazing offence) to strengthen territorial integri- HNOM Penh munici- in relation to a border issue. – a legal term used to indi- ty and return the 60ha in ques- pal police arrested 93 Chhun, the president of the cate that a criminal has been tion to the Cambodian people. people and seized a Cambodian Confederation of caught in the act of commit- The authorities then accused large quantity of drugs Unions, was arrested on the ting an offence. him of inciting protests as his duringP a raid at a KTV in Ph- night of July 31 after he went Presiding judge Khun Leang social media posts implied sar Depot I commune, in Tuol to meet residents in Trapaing Meng could not be reached Vietnam had encroached on Kork district. Phlong commune, in Tbong for comment on Wednesday. Cambodia’s land. The raid was carried out Khmum province’s Ponhea Chou Ngy emphasised that Chou Ngy said: “He went under the orders of munici- Kraek district. the Appeal Court had tried to see the area because he pal police chief Sar Thet at A resident claimed Cambo- Chhun in two cases at the wanted to find out the truth 1am on Wednesday. dia had lost land to Vietnam same time. The first case is after residents complained Phnom Penh municipal po- and the Vietnamese authori- the detention warrant and that Cambodia had lost about lice minor crimes bureau chief ties had pushed residents the second is the case of the 60ha [to Vietnam]. Bun Satya led the operation. 200m into Cambodian land. bail request. “Chhun told the court he Satya told The Post on On August 1, the Phnom He cited Chhun as telling didn’t cause social unrest at Wednesday that a large Penh Municipal Court charged the judge he had done nothing all. His actions are meant only amount of drugs and many him with incitement to cause wrong when he went to check to serve society.” new cars were taken to the social unrest under Article 495 Phnom Penh municipal po- of the Criminal Code. lice office. He said police are The Appeal Court’s Wednes- still questioning everyone. day decision came as roughly “We have not accused or A large amount of drugs and many new cars were taken to the Phnom 20 civil society activists gath- found anyone related to the Penh municipal police office. fresh news ered outside the court ap- drugs yet, but the work is not pealing for his release and over. We have not released any ownership changed and ly the confiscation of drugs. the dropping of all charges of the 93 people yet,” he said. the place was renovated. It He said it is a must to pro- against him. Tuol Kork district police chief planned to reopen as a KTV, hibit illegal KTVs because it is Chuong Chou Ngy, one of Sok Heng told The Post the KTV but then it was changed to a Covid-19 concern, but many Chhun’s lawyers, said outside is suspended temporarily. a restaurant. There was no are still secretly open. Kim Eng the courtroom after a two- Phsar Depot I commune problem, so I do not know said it is important for safety hour hearing that he and his chief Pov Samoch said the ven- how it turned out this way. to take the matter seriously. two co-lawyers – Lor Chunthy ue was previously a KTV and “The owner of the building “It can cause many infec- and Sam Sokong – will discuss was turned into a restaurant is Cambodian and the space tions like in other countries with Chhun whether to take because of the Covid-19 re- is rented to a Chinese to open and it will be more serious. the case to the Supreme Court. quirement by the government. this business,” Samoch said. We are facing Covid-19 and “The Appeal Court ruling is She said local authorities had People’s Centre for Develop- people are facing problems. If not correct because it harms checked the restaurant and its ment and Peace president Yong drugs do not decrease, it will the rights and freedom of paperwork many times. Kim Eng said he appreciated become another heavy bur- Rong Chhun,” he said, adding Civil society activists gathered outside the court calling for Rong Chhun’s “It used to be a KTV. The the work of the police, especial- den,” he said. the decision amounted to the release and the dropping of all charges against him. Hean Rangsey THE PHNOM PENH POST august 27, 2020 www.phnompenhpost.com 5 National Man held Public schools scheduled to reopen for trying to rape his on September 7, third phase to come granddaughter ALA Krao district police Khorn Savi are questioning a suspect Safter he was arrested on UBLIC kindergartens, primary Monday night for attempting to and secondary schools will reo- rape his granddaughter at a brick pen September 7 for at least kiln in Pailin province’s Sala Krao three months before the semes- commune. Pter ends, the Ministry of Education, Youth District police chief Meak Sarorn and Sport said on Wednesday. on Wednesday identified the suspect It emphasised that the schools as a 59-year-old brick kiln worker have to clean up their environment who lived at the kiln in the com- and promote the practice of good hy- mune. The victim was 10 years old. giene standards. Police arrested the suspect af- The ministry’s instruction said the ter he touched the victim’s genital schools have to carry out measures area with his private part, but he to disinfect the virus and limit class- stopped short of penetration, ac- rooms to 15-20 students. They have to cording to a medical examination prepare physical distancing of at least by a doctor at the Pailin Provincial 2m and keep all school campuses Referral Hospital, Sarorn said. open to avoid overcrowding. The suspect and his grand- High schools must have teachers in daughter were from Takeo charge of health to apply first aid and province and came to live in Pailin check on students and academic staff. province to work as brick kiln They also have to get students’ parents workers a few months ago. and guardians to provide information Around 8pm on Monday, while on health and travel history. Students other workers took their rest, and staff must have their temperatures the brick kiln owner heard the checked before entering their schools. girl scream. Prime Minister Hun Sen decided The owner then called the to allow the Ministry of Education to other workers to help look for Public high school students will be heading back to class next month for the first semester of the year. hong menea reopen public pre-schools, primary where the scream came from and schools and high schools in September for schools with higher standards. The “For private schools, there will be an While no new Covid-19 case has caught the suspect with the girl. after 20 international private schools second is for schools with medium announcement after the ministry dis- been reported in the past 12 days, a to- The girl’s mother was resting at a reopened in August in the first stage. standards and the third is for schools cusses the matter with them,” he said. tal of 273 infected cases had been re- factory nearby. The government announced the with minimum standards. Cambodia has so far prevented corded in the Kingdom since January The owner reported the closure of all schools nationwide Education Ministry spokes- community transmission of Covid- 27. Ten people remain hospitalised. situation to the police and they in March, requiring town and rural man Ros Soveacha told The Post on 19, based on which Prime Minister Globally, Covid-19 has had a major arrested the suspect. students to follow distance learning Wednesday that the ministry will re- Hun Sen agreed to reopen schools impact on public health, economies Sarorn said the suspect may be via television and social media to lease another notice after a meeting and allow for the Khmer New Year and education. In March, UNICEF involved in other offences and is curb the spread of Covid-19. with private schools on Thursday on replacement holiday as the Kingdom claimed that more than one billion being held at the Sala Krao com- School reopening is to be divided reopening private secondary schools has proven itself capable of manag- students worldwide are not in school mune police station. Kim Sarom into three phases. The first phase is in the second stage. ing the pandemic. due to the pandemic.

The seven police officers are being held by the Kampong Speu provincial court for owning and using illegal weapons following a drunken night that led to the firing of the weapons in public. police Samrong Tong police officers charged for shooting spree Voun Dara grounds of the Samrong Tong Pheary and another officer, district court on August 19 while Kan Saoly, are the owners of THE Kampong Speu Provincial in a state of drunkenness. the weapons. Court has charged Samrong ACNCIPO head Chea Hean, Rights group Adhoc spokes- Tong deputy police chief Kang who has been observing the man Soeng Sen Karuna, said a Pheary and six other police case, said there used to be people further investigation should officers of owning and using to intervene and release them. be carried out on all officials illegal weapons. “If anyone requests to release in the Kingdom. The officers are being the officers or request they “We want an investigation on detained temporarily at the remain free on bail, I will con- illegal weapons used by officials. Kampong Speu provincial pris- duct an investigation related If the weapons belong to their on, investigating judge Tith to corruption. Meanwhile, the units, we can check and identify Dalin said on Wednesday. prosecutor has already charged them. However, these officials Pheary and the others were and detained them,” he said. bought those weapons to use for taken into custody on charges Kampong Speu provincial themselves and this is a danger- they fired 10 rounds on the police chief Sam Samoun said ous thing,” he stressed. 6 THE PHNOM PENH POST august 27, 2020 www.phnompenhpost.com Business

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Trading Information on Cambodia Securities Exchange Date: August 26, 2020 Auction Trading Method (ATM) No Stock Closing Price Opening Price High Low 1 ABC 17,300 17,220 17,340 17,220 2 GTI 3,500 (SQ) - 3,500 3,500 3 PAS 14,780 14,700 14,780 14,700 4 PEPC 3,450 3,350 3,450 3,350 5 PPAP 11,700 11,700 11,700 11,700 6 PPSP 2,300 2,270 2,300 2,270 7 PWSA 6,100 6,000 6,100 5,840 Infrastructure ‘needs upgrade’ August sees seven Thou Vireak new projects worth

HE government is working to mod- $71.7M approved ernise the Kingdom’s transport infrastruc- Thou Vireak teay Meanchey province and tureT and ensure the logistics will deliver 20 jobs. sector’s competitive edge in THE Council for the Develop- Cam-Icare Co Ltd’s $5.5 the region, Minister of Pub- ment of Cambodia (CDC) has million eyeglass and case lic Works and Transport Sun approved seven new invest- factory is located in Siha- Chanthol said on Tuesday. ment projects this month that noukville Special Economic He was speaking at a meet- are worth $71.7 million and Zone (SSEZ) – the Kingdom’s ing held at the ministry on the expected to generate 4,016 largest industrial park – in Bit challenges faced at border jobs for Cambodians. Traing commune’s Pou Thoe- checkpoints with Vietnam Newtoshi Homewear Co ung village in Preah Sihanouk and Thailand. Ltd’s $3.4 million project is province’s Prey Nop district The ministry is pushing for located in Chhoeu Tom com- and will generate 380 jobs. additional projects to expand mune’s Bamnak village in Forever Fug Garment Co and upgrade land transport Pursat province’s Krakor dis- Ltd’s $10.3 million garment infrastructure, railways and trict and will create 949 jobs, factory is situated on Street waterways, he said. the CDC said on Wednesday. 127 in Lot B in Prey Nhat “We encourage all partici- Tokyo Happy Ice Cream commune’s Tbong Ang vil- pants of the meeting to voice Co Ltd’s $3.1 million project lage in Kampong Speu’s Kong their opinions on transform- is situated in Phnom Touch Pisei district and will provide ing Cambodia into a logistics The transport ministry is pushing for additional projects to expand and upgrade land transport infrastructure, commune’s Wat Phnom vil- 2,263 jobs. railways and waterways. HENG CHIVOAN hub and warehouse centre that lage in Kampong Speu prov- Cambodia Chamber of serves neighbouring countries. Khut Saroeun told The Post and cut through some red located near National Roads ince’s Oudong district and Commerce vice-president “Take into account how Cam- on Wednesday that reinforc- tape,” Saroeun said. 3 and 4, as well as the Phnom will provide 156 jobs. Lim Heng told The Post on bodia has emerged as a transit ing logistics would help revive The government is cur- Penh Special Economic Zone. Rong Xing Paper Industrial Wednesday that the projects point for trade in goods between the freight sector as it contin- rently studying the feasibility Cambodia’s weak logistics Co Ltd’s $3.6 million card- likely come amid heightened Thailand and Vietnam, given its ues to reel from Covid-19. of establishing a logistics cen- infrastructure has long imped- board factory in Kantaok expectations among inves- favourable strategic geography “We welcome and support tre in western Phnom Penh, ed its trade sector, with a 2014 commune’s Kantaok Choe- tors ahead of the signing of in the region,” Chanthol said. the ministry in its modernisa- with a recently-completed World Bank report showing the ung village in Phnom Penh’s the eagerly-awaited Cambo- Cambodia Logistics Associa- tion of transport Infrastruc- early-stage feasibility analy- Kingdom’s export costs were Kambol district will supply dia-China bilateral free trade tion (CLA) president Sin Chanthy ture, at a time when reforms sis showing that the project is 30 per cent higher than those 117 jobs. agreement (FTA). lauded the ministry’s progress in are needed to safeguard our economically viable. of neighbouring countries. K&K Pipe (Cambodia) Co The companies are look- modernising logistics capacity logistics sector in the face of The Phnom Penh Logistics In 2016, the Japan Interna- Ltd’s $6 million water pipe ing to the Kingdom as a host and “pushing the sector”. the Covid-19 crisis,” he said. Complex will be located on tional Cooperation Agency plant can be found on Street for their factories to produce But he said it must do more He stressed that innovation 98ha in Dangkor district’s estimated that Cambodia 130 in Ponhea Pon commune’s goods for export to the Chi- to improve freshwater and in the logistics field will draw Samrong Krom commune, an charges its exporters $540 per Sre Don Toch village in Phnom nese, US and European mar- marine infrastructure, as well in more foreign investors to area lying just west of Phnom twenty-foot equivalent units Penh’s Prek Pnov district and it kets, he said. as railways to serve the inter- the Kingdom. Penh International Airport. (TEU), compared to $200 in will create 131 jobs. “They are already looking ests of the private sector and “Revamping logistics en- The location is strategically Thailand and $250 in Vietnam. Ray Power Supply Co Ltd’s at export opportunities to remain ahead of the game tails pricing our services simi- significant as it sits betweenS i- TEU is an inexact unit of $39.8 million 30MW solar the Chinese market, which against regional competition. larly to those of neighbouring hanoukville Autonomous Port cargo capacity often used to far is situated in Preah Netr will benefit greatly through SHA Transport Express countries. That will help the and the Poipet rail line on the describe the capacity of con- Preah district’s Chhnuor the Cambodia-China FTA,” Co Ltd CEO and co-founder sector slash costs, save time border with Thailand. It is also tainer ships. Meanchey commune in Ban- Heng said. CLMV ministers discuss commercial connections at online meet

ECONOMIC ministers of Cambodia, the implementation of projects and proposed countries pay attention to tive and important destination for technology to host virtual meetings Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam (CLMV) activities within the CLMV Action facilitating and streamlining proc- investors, he said. in line with the theme of ‘Cohesive discussed measures to fight Covid-19 Plan for 2020. esses and procedures relating to Ministers agreed with Anh’s recom- and Responsive’ for ASEAN 2020. and revive economic activities, par- These difficulties pose great chal- import and export activities at border mendations and agreed to enhance The ministers approved the action ticularly in border areas, at an online lenges to CLMV countries in fighting areas as well as enhance transport coordination to reduce the impacts plan on economic cooperation for meeting on Monday. the disease while taking measures to and logistics connection. of Covid-19 on economic activities of 2020-2021 with focus on five key They also shared initiatives and recover the economy. He also suggested countries have new countries and keep trade and invest- areas, including trade and invest- measures to help tackle difficulties Anh suggested CLMV countries cooperation projects in research and ment flows. ment cooperation, implementation for the business community in trade increase cooperation in policies and training, capacity improvement and At the meeting, CLMV ministers of regional commitments, post-pan- and investment at the 12th CLMV measures to tackle difficulties caused technical support in the digital econo- reviewed and assessed the imple- demic recovery plan, CLMV develop- Economic Ministers’ Meeting which by Covid-19 and support the connec- my, innovation, start-ups and transport, mentation of the CLMV Action Plan ment framework and human resourc- was held as part of the 52nd ASEAN tion of businesses as well as deal with logistics and commercial linkage. on Economic Cooperation during the es development. Economic Ministers’ Meeting. difficulties for businesses in import CLMV countries also needed to 2019-2020 period. The ministers agreed to entrust heads Vietnamese Minister of Industry and export activities and remove bar- share information and experience in Anh proposed countries proac- of Senior Economic Officials Meeting and Trade Tran Tuan Anh said the riers in border trade activities. policy building and creating a favour- tively and flexibly adjust contents (SEOM) to increase coordination activ- Covid-19 pandemic has led to the To ensure the operation of supply able environment to welcome a wave and implementation methods of ities in proposing new projects in line interruption of many supply chains chains, support businesses and help of investment shifting, particularly activities that have not been execut- with cooperation and development and economic and commercial activ- resolve reductions in trade exchang- during the context of the Covid-19 ed or cancelled due to Covid-19 with demands in the new context. VIET NAM ities. The pandemic has also harmed es between CLMV countries, Anh pandemic, to make CLMV an attrac- priorities to applying information NEWS/ASIA NEWS NETWORK THE PHNOM PENH POST august 27, 2020 www.phnompenhpost.com 7 Business Everything Korean banks see H1 profit overseas ‘on track’ for ESPITE border restrictions business saw a combined net profit placed during the Covid- fall 12.9 per cent year-on-year to 19 pandemic, South 101.2 billion won. While it saw some platform’s Korea’s major lenders KB gains in Cambodia and Kazakhstan, KookminD and Hana posted robust net its key businesses in North America profit overseas in the first-half of this saw huge losses. installation year, buoyed by their performance in Its US subsidiary Shinhan Bank Southeast Asia. America posted a net loss of 1.1 billion Continued from page 1 Overall, the combined net profit of won and its Canadian subsidiary’s net four major banks in South Korea – KB profit plummeted 74 per cent to 400 a result of the coronavirus pandemic. Kookmin, Hana, Shinhan and Woori – in million won year-on-year. “Thanks to the enormous efforts of the first-half of this year increased 20.1 Woori Bank dealt similar blows, all parties involved, including suppli- per cent to 289.2 billion won ($242.9 with total net profit for its overseas ers and contractors who have over- million), the latest data showed. business declining 25.5 per cent year- come logistical hurdles to keep deliv- While KB Kookmin and Hana gained on-year. Its US subsidiary’s net profit eries of equipment and materials on momentum, taking advantage of the nearly halved year-on-year to seven track to the Batam facility from across Cambodian and Vietnamese markets billion won, while the lender’s Euro- the globe, we continue to advance that reopened with the successful con- pean entity based in Germany posted towards our target of first Apsara oil tainment of the virus in the second a net loss of 11 billion won, sinking before the end of the year.” quarter, Shinhan and Woori were hit deeper in the red. Cheap Sour, director-general of the severely by their operations in North Its Chinese subsidiary, however, Ministry of Mines and Energy’s Gen- America and Europe. saw its net profit double to 8.6 bil- eral Department of Petroleum, con- KB Kookmin’s overseas business lion won and its Indonesian subsid- firmed to The Post on Wednesday that saw total first-half net profit qua- KB Kookmin acquired a 70 per cent stake in Cambodian affiliate Prasac worth $630 iary Woori Saudara Bank’s net profit the Mini-Platform was en route to its druple year-on-year to 40.9 bil- million in April and plans to turn it into a subsidiary after buying the rest of the stake gained 22.8 per cent to 18.8 billion offshore location and is expected to soon. YONHAP NEWS AGENCY lion won. Its operating profit also won in the cited period. arrive within five days. jumped 300 per cent to 305 billion buying the rest of the stake soon. profit from its overseas businesses The data was released as lenders “We appreciate the company’s won in the period. KB Microfinance Myanmar Co Ltd, jumped 97 per cent to 98.8 bil- have been seeking to diversify their efforts to develop the project and Performance by its new Cambo- the local unit that’s owned 100 per lion won, while its operating profit revenue sources, as the Korean mar- meet its target despite the disruption dian affiliate Prasac Microfinance cent by bank, posted a net profit of gained 28.7 per cent to 646.1 billion ket has saturated. brought on by the pandemic. Institution Ltd – in which KB Kook- 300 million won after struggling in the won in the same period. Shinhan Financial Group and “According to the plan, it’ll take the min acquired a 70 per cent stake red during the first-half of last year. Its Chinese subsidiary’s net profit Hana Financial Group recently Mini-Platform five days to arrive at worth $630 million in April – bol- Its Cambodian and Chinese subsid- for quadrupled year-on-year to 57.5 signed a deal to jointly expand their the development project. stered its overall overseas profit. iaries each saw 32 per cent and 1.3 per billion won, despite coronavirus global business in an unprecedented “Unless we encounter adverse Prasac posted 35 billion won in net cent gain year-on-year to 2.6 billion risks. Its Indonesian subsidiary saw a move, hinting that the competition weather conditions, installing the plat- profit alone in the first-half of this year. won and 7.5 billion won in net profit six-fold net profit increase, raking in overseas has gotten tougher for local form will take another 12 days,” he said, KB Kookmin plans to turn its Cam- in the same period. 35.2 billion won in the same period. lenders during the latest pandemic. adding that the production barge bodian affiliate into a subsidiary after Hana’s combined first-half net Meanwhile, Shinhan’s overseas THE KOREA HERALD/ASIA NEWS NETWORK would be transported at a later date. NOV Profab managing director Kim Lamb said it was great to play an inte- gral role in such a pioneering project for the Kingdom. “The NOV and the KrisEnergy VN aims for 100,000 digital tech firms by 2030 project teams worked closely togeth- er, adopting a fully integrated team VIETNAM hopes to develop 100,000 nology advancements in socio-eco- The draft strategy aims for the Vietnam’s competitive advantage approach to deliver a quality plat- digital technology companies by nomic fields as well as accelerate country to have 100,000 digital tech- of cheap labour was being under- form which is a true testimony of the 2030 which will contribute 20 per national digital transformation. nology companies by 2030 with a mined by breakthroughs in new tech- dedication of all involved. We look cent to the country’s gross domestic Under the draft strategy, Vietnam will workforce of 1.5 million. nologies, the ministry said. forward to working with KrisEnergy product (GDP). focus on developing four types of dig- Digital companies would contribute It was critical to develop a national again in the future,” Kim said. This was a highlight of the draft ital technology companies, namely 20 per cent of GDP and Vietnam would strategy for digital technology, KrisEnergy noted that the Apsara national strategy for developing Viet- those developing core technologies, be one of the top two countries in stressed the ministry. oil field is “an unproduced geological namese digital technology compa- developing digital technology products, ASEAN and the top 50 in the world in The ministry said the first solution basin in Cambodian maritime waters nies which the Ministry of Informa- providing digital technology solutions technology and innovation ranking. would be improving the legal frame- of the Gulf of Thailand”. tion and Communications recently and digital-technology start-ups. The ministry said about 43,000 work to create a favourable environ- It said: “Due to the unproven pro- made public for comments. By 2025, Vietnam hopes to have enterprises currently operate in the ment for digital technology compa- duction performance of the basin, Digital technology companies are 70,000 digital technology companies information and technology sector nies. development of the Apsara area will expected to play an important role in with a workforce of 1.2 million. Dig- together with 17,000 others doing The country will also focus on be in several phases to mitigate risk making Vietnam a developed and ital technology companies are business in distributing and provid- strengthening research and develop- and provide time for the collection industrialised country with rapid, sus- expected to have revenue growth 1.5- ing IT products and solutions. ment capacity, developing a robust and analysis of critical data to be tainable and inclusive economic devel- to-two times higher than the coun- It said hitting 100,000 digital tech- market for digital technology com- applied in future phases. opment as well as turning Vietnam into try’s GDP expansion rate and export nology companies would be challeng- panies, building a data industry and “The Mini Phase 1A development a high-income country by 2045. growth at 10-20 per cent per year. ing, given the country’s heavy depend- digital technology ecosystem. Devel- comprises the Mini-Platform and five The government estimated that Digital companies are expected to ence for core technology on foreign oping human resources in digital initial development wells connected Vietnam would need at least 100,000 contribute 10 per cent of GDP and to countries, the low added value of IT technology was also important. to the Ingenium II production barge digital technology companies to bring Vietnam into the top three products and limited innovation The draft also said the govern- for oil, gas and water processing. develop a digital economy, smart countries in ASEAN and the top 70 in capacity and competitiveness, togeth- ment’s digital technology projects “The Mini Phase 1A Apsara develop- urban areas, e-government and pro- the world for technology and innova- er with increasing competition from would aim to create a spillover effect. ment is expected to reach a peak rate mote the application of digital tech- tion ranking. international IT companies. VIET NAM NEWS/ASIA NEWS NETWORK of 7,500 barrels of oil per day.” What now for gold after historic bull run?

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Bangkok developers trim prices of condos LUXURY condos in Bangkok’s by five to 40 per cent so that Sukhumvit area have slashed they could close the project prices to attract buyers, while as soon as possible.” demand for condos as a sec- CBRE also found out that ond home has been rising. last year, 61 per cent of buy- Aliwassa Pathnadabutr, ers bought condos for resi- managing director at CBRE dential purposes, 34 per cent Thailand, the local affiliate bought for investment and of US commercial real es- five per cent bought as a sec- tate services and investment ond home. firm CBRE Group Inc, said But in the first half of this the property market in the year, the number of people second quarter of this year buying condos as a second is showed positive signs after home rose to 25 per cent the government eased lock- while those buying for invest- down measures imposed dur- ment went down to 16 per ing the height of the Covid-19 cent, and 59 per cent bought outbreak. for residential purposes. She said: “Demand is start- Aliwassa said: “This is be- ing to climb while developers cause the current economic Shopping malls cover the most retail space in Phnom Penh, at 51 per cent. HONG MENEA are launching promotional status is not suitable for re- campaigns to attract buyers selling so fewer people are to sell their stock of finished choosing to invest in condos, condo projects and regain while those who already have cash flow to compensate the a house are looking for con- Capital’s retail space gains 4% contraction during the out- dos located in city areas for break. convenience in commuting.” Hin Pisei (25 per cent), “community The Post on Wednesday that cline and the resulting business- “CBRE statistics also show Meanwhile, Major Develop- malls” (14 per cent) and “retail Covid-19 had sapped the mo- crushing market saturation. that the number of poten- ment Pcl managing director ETAIL space in podiums” (10 per cent). mentum of the retail rental Where throngs of visitors tial buyers visiting projects’ Suriya Poolvoralaks said the Phnom Penh surged Vacancy rate stood at market, with three projects once roamed, commercial cen- mock-up units in July is high- company’s Munich Sukhum- four per cent to around 10.2 per cent as of postponed early this year. tres and other rental locations er than that of the same pe- vit 23 luxury condo project 326,000sqm in the June 30, down from 10.63 per But the market situation has remain unoccupied, he said. riod last year. is now 70 per cent sold with firstR half of this year from cent on December 31. shown steady strides since “Nowhere is the issue of “This year, the condo mar- one-fourth of the buyers for- 314,000sqm at the end of last The report lists the current the beginning of the second unused rental locations more ket has fewer supplies in the eigners, mostly from Hong year, a research report from average monthly prices at quarter, she noted. severe than in the centre of luxury section while most Kong. real estate service provider $28.46 per square metre at “As Covid-19 fears subside, the city,” Sakhom said. new projects have been fo- He said: “The Covid-19 situ- CBRE Cambodia said. “prime shopping mall” units I am all the more optimistic But the retail rental market cusing on units lower than ation has prevented potential The report, which was (down 12 per cent from the that the retail rental space is likely to recover as eco- three million baht [$95,000] foreign customers from com- obtained by The Post on December 31 rate), $26.03 at market will be incrementally nomic growth picks up, more or less than 150,000 baht per ing in so we launched a pro- Wednesday, said the number “prime retail podium” units restored to its former glory by so after an effective vaccine sqm to suit the purchasing motional campaign offering of buildings that provide re- (down 13 per cent), $22.23 the end of 2020,” she said. against Covid-19 has been power of people during eco- discount of 30,000 to 80,000 tail space increased to 23 dur- at “community mall” units Cambodian Estate Alliance developed, he said. nomic contraction. baht per sqm to attract do- ing the period. (down four per cent) and CEA Co Ltd vice-chairman Sao CBRE Cambodia predicted “As a result, developers of mestic customers. Broken down by category, $26.23 at “prime high-street” Sakhom told The Post that the that three new retail rental luxury condos, especially in “We expect that the move will “shopping malls” covered the units (up one per cent). market had been derailed by a buildings would launch by this the Sukhumvit area which help drive the sale of the project most retail space at 51 per cent, CBRE Cambodia senior Covid-19-driven triple whammy year’s end, adding 50,000sqm has around 4,000 unsold to 80 to 90 per cent.” THE NATION followed by “shopping centres” manager Kim Kinkesa told of social distancing, income de- of retail space to the capital. units, are slashing their price (THAILAND)/ASIA NEWS NETWORK Experts: Property prices in VN to bottom by mid-2021

THE Vietnamese property market is Buyers are waiting for prices to “Buyers are now hesitant to buy expected to slow down, with prices drop further, hopefully by 15-20 per while sellers are being urged to sell starting to drop by the end of this year cent, to buy, experts said. out due to losses.” and hitting the bottom by mid-2021, Phu Vinh Group director-general “This is also a good time for acqui- creating opportunities for home buyers Phan Cong Chanh said investors who sition of real estate projects across sitting on cash, experts have forecast. had bought property at peak prices the country, especially in major cities Viet An Hoa Real Estate Investment (before the pandemic) are now strug- like Ho Chi Minh City,” he said. JSC director-general Tran Khanh gling to repay bank loans while they Quang said: “Housing prices will find it extremely hard to sell their Affordable segment preferred begin to plummet by the end of this property now. Ho Chi Minh City Real Estate Asso- year and bottom out by mid-2021 With the real estate market remain- ciation (HoREA) chairman Le Hoang when the [Covid-19] pandemic has ing uncertain in the first half and Chau said the market would con- impacted almost every sector, espe- probably continuing to be so for the tinue to have high demand for afford- cially the housing market.” rest of the year the commercial hous- able apartments while the supply in Since the second wave of the pan- ing segment in Ho Chi Minh City this segment is limited. demic began late last month, inves- faces a slump, said Savills Vietnam, “There is need for more investment tors’ confidence has once again the local unit of the UK-based real in the affordable housing segment. weakened as property sales dived estate services provider. This segment has high demand and and incomes were hit hard. The outbreak has forced people to also high liquidity,” Chau said. Quang said: “Investors have to wait tighten their purse strings due to loss Foreigners now own around 16,000 apartments, or two per cent of Vietnam’s total Nguyen Duc Them, project sales supply. VIETNAM NEWS AGENCY/VIET NAM NEWS and observe the market . . . The finan- of income, which would also affect manager at Savills Vietnam, said cial market has faced fluctuations housing demand. The website’s internet consumer nam said, the supply of condos in the demand from foreigners was also since the beginning of the year when Housing development has also been research data also show that in Dan- primary market decreased by more than increasing. the outbreak started. facing a prolonged legal and licensing ang, the new disease epicentre, it 9,100 units, or 52 per cent year-on-year, Foreigners now own around 16,000 “A large amount of long-term cash barrier, hitting buyers’ confidence. dropped by 20 per cent, the highest to the lowest level in the last five years. apartments, or two per cent of the flow is still waiting for good prices to The resurgence of Covid-19 caused rate in the country. The supply of land lots plummeted total supply, and this has not affected buy . . . from the end of the year to the the online real estate market to slow by 53 per cent and that of villas and locals’ opportunity to buy housing, first half of 2021 will be an opportu- down by seven per cent last month Opportunities for buyers townhouses, by 23 per cent. Sales of HoREA reported. nity for home buyers. The most as measured by users’ likes and Once borrowers cannot afford to land declined by 67 per cent. Since 2015, big-name developers affected segment is the higher end.” number of searches, popular prop- repay loans, the likelihood is that The number of condo transactions have sold 12,335 units to foreigners, 81 Experts said the most valuable erty website Batdongsan reported. banks will begin to sell their collat- in the first half dropped by 55 per per cent of them in Ho Chi Minh City. assets in or near the central area are The amount of news posted and the eral, which is expected to happen in cent to just 6,800 units, again the low- Most people coming from Europe, expected to be hit hardest. level of interest in the market has seen the next six to 12 months. est in the last five years. The number North America, Australia and Japan Tourism real estate, restaurants and a decrease since late last month due to Nguyen Khanh Duy, director of of transactions for villas and town- prefer to rent when they come to work hotels and resorts at tourist hotspots, the return of the deadly virus, it said. housing business at Savills, said: houses decreased by 34 per cent. in Vietnam, while those from mainland especially along the coast such as Phu Interest levels in online real estate “This is a golden opportunity for both Duy said that when the market gets China, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Quoc, Nha Trang and Danang, are floors in provinces recorded an aver- home buyers and investors to buy.” gloomy, most developers tend to be Kong and Singapore prefer buying, it expected to be the worst affected. age drop of 10 per cent. In the first half of the year, Savills Viet- cautious due to uncertainty. added. VIET NAM NEWS/ASIA NEWS NETWORK thursday, august 27, 2020 www.phnompenhpost.com

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#113 Mao Tse Toung Blvd, No 2FD1 Phone: (+855) 95 955 777 Email: [email protected] www.c21mekong.com.kh facebook.com/C21Mekong 10 THE PHNOM PENH POST august 27, 2020 www.phnompenhpost.com World India may turn Kremlin denies Navalny poisoning former British USSIA faced mounting in- ternational calls on Tues- flagship into day for a probe into the poisoning of opposition motorbikes leaderR Alexei Navalny even as the Kremlin dismissed the findings of SCRAP metal from what was once his German doctors. the world’s oldest serving aircraft The 44-year-old Navalny, who is carrier – and Britain’s flagship dur- one of the fiercest critics of President ing the 1982 Falklands war – could Vladimir Putin and has exposed mas- be used to make motorbikes, the sive official corruption, is being treat- firm charged with breaking it down ed in a Berlin hospital after falling ill said on Tuesday. on a flight in Siberia on August 20. The Shree Ram Group at Asia’s He was treated for two days in a largest ship scrapyard in Alang, Gu- hospital in Siberia before being air- jarat state, said it had secured the gi- lifted to Berlin’s Charite hospital, ant vessel in an auction and would whose doctors said on Monday that take up to a year to break down. clinical tests “indicate poisoning The ship entered Britain’s Royal with a substance from the group of Navy in 1959 as the HMS Hermes af- cholinesterase inhibitors”. ter being laid down in 1944. She was These are substances used in sold to the Indian Navy in 1986 and nerve agents as well as medicines renamed the INS Viraat before serv- and insecticides that suppress an ing another 29 years. enzyme needed for the central ner- Viraat, which means “giant” in vous system to function normally. Sanskrit, was decommissioned fi- Navalny’s supporters claim he was nally in 2017 having sailed more poisoned by a cup of tea he drank than a million kilometres – roughly at a Siberian airport before a flight equivalent to circumnavigating the to Moscow, pointing the finger of globe 28 times. blame at Putin. In 1987, then-Indian Prime Minis- But Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Moscow faces mounting international calls for a probe into the poisoning of opposition leader Alexei Navalny. AFP ter Rajiv Gandhi reportedly used the Peskov ridiculed accusations of Pu- ship to holiday on a remote tropical tin’s involvement. an impartial probe. Britain in 2018. Two Russian military valny “fairly likely was poisoned”, island in the Arabian Sea with his He told journalists: “We cannot In a statement on Tuesday, US Sec- agents identified by Britain as suspects saying there were other possible ex- family and friends. take such accusations seriously. retary of State Mike Pompeo called have disappeared from view. planations. After a solemn decommissioning These accusations cannot be true at for “a full and transparent investi- In 2006, former Russian security He said Russian medics at the ceremony in Mumbai in 2017, there all and are more likely empty noise.” gation . . . and for those involved to service agent Alexander Litvinenko hospital in the Siberian city of Omsk were plans to turn the ship into a He also accused the German be held accountable”, adding that died in London after drinking tea had also detected a low level of the floating museum and hotel, but they medics of haste in concluding that Washington is “deeply concerned” laced with radioactive polonium- cholinesterase enzyme and treated fell through. Navalny was poisoned, saying the by the apparent poisoning. 210. Russia refused to extradite the Navalny with the antidote atropine, Now the steel from the vessel toxin responsible for his illness has The EU has also urged Russia to hold chief suspect, Andrei Lugovoi. as the German medics are doing. could find another use. not been identified. an “independent and transparent in- The Kremlin reaction angered Na- The chief toxicologist at the Omsk Shree Ram Group chairman “We don’t understand why our vestigation” while German Chancellor valny’s allies. hospital, Alexander Sabayev on Mon- Mukesh Patel said: “Once the ship German colleagues are in such a Angela Merkel called for those respon- Navalny’s spokeswoman Kira day said Navalny tested negative for docks at Alang, it will take us around hurry. The substance hasn’t yet been sible to be held accountable. Yarmysh tweeted: “It was obvious cholinesterase inhibitors, however. nine to 12 months to dismantle it established,” Peskov said. Navalny is the latest in a long line that the crime would not be properly The Russian doctors earlier sug- and then we shall sell it as scrap to Russia has not opened a criminal of Kremlin opponents to fall seri- investigated and the criminal found, gested that Navalny had a “meta- recover the cost. investigation into the poisoning and ously ill or die from poisoning, ei- though we know very well who he is. bolic disorder” and low blood sugar. “We have been approached by two Peskov said there was “no pretext” ther suspected or proven. “But the particular way Peskov He was attacked in 2017 by pro- motorcycle makers who want to use for this until the toxin is identified. The nerve agent Novichok was used talks about this makes me rage.” Kremlin activists who threw green the steel from the warship to build Peskov’s comments came as West- against former Russian double agent Peskov cast doubt on the German dye at his face, causing chemical bikes . . . But nothing has been fina- ern leaders urged Russia to conduct Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in government’s statement that Na- burns to his eye. AFP lised yet.” AFP Hurricane Laura heads for US coast China protests US plane’s RESIDENTS of Gulf Coast to fight the spread of the virus. ‘breach into no-fly zone’ US states Texas and Louisi- “Covid-19 is going to be in Tex- ana evacuated flood zones as throughout the hurricane,” THE Chinese military strongly Wu said China has urged and boarded up windows on Abbott said, calling on families protests a high-altitude US the US to stop similar provo- Tuesday as Hurricane Laura who can afford it to take refuge spy plane trespassing into the cations, and take concrete barrelled towards the coast- in hotels or motels so they “can no-fly zone that is currently actions to maintain regional line, after earlier causing 25 be isolated from others”. hosting a live ammunition peace and stability. deaths in the Caribbean. In New Orleans, Mayor drill by the People’s Liberation According to local maritime The storm’s maximum sus- LaToya Cantrell also called Army (PLA) Northern Theatre safety administrations, China tained winds were nearing for health measures to be re- Command, Ministry of Na- is currently hosting military 150km/h, with gusts higher, the spected despite the threat of tional Defence spokesman Se- drills in three of its adjacent US National Hurricane Center wind, rain and flooding. nior Colonel Wu Qian said in a waters, including the Bohai (NHC) reported, and forecast- She tweeted: “Don’t forget statement on Tuesday. Sea, the Yellow Sea and the ers expect it to strengthen sig- covid19 with weather effects On Tuesday, a Lockheed South China Sea. nificantly in the next 24 hours. from Hurricane #Laura on U-2 high altitude reconnais- The exercise in the Bo- The centre said: “Laura is Laura could reach Category 4 status, with winds of up to 251km/h. AFP the way.” sance aircraft trespassed hai Sea, which is the north- expected to be a major hur- ry 4 status, the second-highest, “this is going to be more of a The city’s historic French into the no-fly zone, and western and innermost gulf ricane at landfall.” with winds of up to 251km/h. wind event”, the governor said. Quarter was emptied of its “seriously disrupted China’s of the Yellow Sea bounded It is forecast to reach the Texas “We need to be prepared,” Laura also threatens the tourists, while sandbags routine training activities”, by the coastlines of Hebei, or Louisiana coast on Wednes- he said, especially as the state major oil refining centres of were piled up in front of the Wu said, adding that the ma- Shandong and Liaoning day night. Storm surges could continues to struggle with the Lake Charles, Louisiana and doorways of colonial-style noeuvre also seriously vio- provinces, began on August reach up to 4m in places and coronavirus pandemic. Beaumont-Port Arthur, Texas, buildings and windows were lated Sino-US maritime and 21 and ends on Friday. The will be accompanied by “large He warned that high located near the coast. boarded up with plywood. flight safety codes and inter- drill in the South China Sea and destructive waves”, it said. winds were expected to blow Evacuations have been un- Robert Dunlap, a business national norms. began on Monday and ends The centre warned that the through the state’s most for- derway since the morning in owner said: “I’m not wor- He said: “The incident can on Saturday. storm surges could reach up ested area and there was po- areas most at risk, especially ried about the water getting very easily lead to misunder- The PLA Eastern Theatre to 48km inland from south- tential for tornadoes. on the coast where the water in here from the storm, I’m standing and misjudgement, Command said on Monday western Louisiana and south- Compared to Category 3 could rise to three metres. worried about the rain and and may even lead to an ac- that its naval aviation units re- eastern Texas coastlines. Hurricane Harvey, which Several emergency shelters then the pumps not working cident. It is also a blatant act cently conducted full-day ex- Texas governor Greg Abbott caused catastrophic flooding opened on Tuesday in Texas, and that’s what will cause the of provocation that China ercises in the East China Sea. said Laura could reach Catego- and killed 68 people in 2017, with health precautions in place flooding.” AFP resolutely opposes.” CHINA DAILY/ASIA NEWS NETWORK THE PHNOM PENH POST august 27, 2020 www.phnompenhpost.com 11 ASEAN Soursop leaves PM: Thailand not a proven cure for cancer, ready to stand warn doctors HERE is no evidence to show that soursop leaves can be used to treat Tcancer, Thailand’s Department of Medical Services warned. up to legal row However, the department’s director- general Dr Somsak Akksilp said soursop leaves do contain substances that may help with inflammation and tumours. The soursop tree is also known by its with Facebook botanical name Annona muricata and is native to the tropical regions of the Ameri- HAI Prime Minister fend the rights of all internet cas and the Caribbean. General Prayut Chan- users and are preparing to le- Its leaves are hailed in Cambodia and o-cha says Thailand gally challenge this request,” around the world as a proficient treatment will stand up to any the platform said. for a myriad of ailments, but its cancer-re- challengeT from Facebook The company did not give lated claims have drawn the most attention. over the banned group “Roy- details of the legal action but Dr Somsak said: “Though some studies alist Marketplace”. warned that such require- are indicating that soursop leaves can The premier accused ments would undermine its treat cancer better than chemotherapy, overseas organisers of the ability to reliably invest in Thai Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-o-cha accuses overseas organisers of the ‘Royalist Marketplace’ these studies were only conducted on Facebook group of causing conflict in Thailand and failing to take responsibility for their actions. ROYAL THAI GOV’T Facebook group, which has the country. cells and animals. about one million mem- Prayut identified self- “genuine discussion” on the group and allegedly restrict- was another matter. “Hence, it cannot be definitively said bers, of causing conflict in exiled academics Somsak monarchy, including its po- ing Thai netizens’ freedom Human Rights Watch that soursop leaves can treat cancer in Thailand and failing to take Jeamteerasakul and Pavin litical role and protesters’ of expression, Prayut said: slammed Thailand for us- humans.” responsibility for their ac- Chachavalpongpun as the proposals for reforms. “Thai people should know ing “rights-abusing laws” to National Cancer Institute director Dr tions. men behind the group but He said the group’s remov- that whatever they [Somsak crackdown on freedom of Jinda Rojanamatin said human studies Following threats of legal said they were nowhere to al by Facebook showed the and Pavin] do, they will not expression. are necessary and must cover several action by the Thai govern- be found in Thailand and company was working to face the consequences in this Asia Advocacy Director areas such as effects on cancer stem ment, access to the page in have not taken responsibil- “promote authoritarianism” country, but the people will. John Sifton said: “Facebook cells, cell signalling, separation of subs- Thailand was blocked on ity for their actions. in Thailand, and “endorsing “We have to deal with should fight the govern- tances, toxicology, safety, quality control Monday. Somsak and Pavin moved the government’s tactic in these kinds of online groups ment’s demands in every and product standards. A Facebook spokesperson abroad after the 2014 coup censorship of information”. and pages with the law, not forum it can to protect Thai He said: “There are a variety of sour- said the network had been following summons by the “It has become a part an alleged dictatorship.” people’s human rights.” sop-derived products available, such as “compelled” by the govern- military junta. Pavin has of the obstruction of the Minister of Foreign Affairs After Royalist Marketplace capsules and tea, but consumers must ment to remove the group. identified himself as the democratisation process in Don Pramudwinai said the was blocked in Thailand on check the ingredients before consuming “Requests like this are se- man behind Royalist Mar- Thailand, as well as of free Digital Economy and Society Monday, a new group was and consult a doctor immediately if there vere, contravene internation- ketplace, but there is no speech.” Ministry had followed Thai quickly created and attracted are any abnormal symptoms. al human rights law, and have evidence that Somsak helps Following Facebook’s an- law by demanding that Face- back half of its followers (ap- “Cancer patients should see a doctor a chilling effect on people’s run the group. nouncement that it was book block pages or groups proximately 500,000) in less before using the product.” THE NATION ability to express themselves. Pavin told AFP that the considering suing the Thai that criticise the monarchy, than 24 hours. THE NATION (THAI- (THAILAND)/ASIA NEWS NETWORK We work to protect and de- page had been a place for government for blocking the adding that international law LAND)/ASIA NEWS NETWORK, AFP Vietnam DPM Binh Covid stifling widows, single mums urges aviation security WHEN Malaysia went into a to cut back spending on their partial lockdown in March children’s education by as VIETNAMESE Deputy Prime Binh ordered the Ministry because of a sudden spike of much as 84 per cent. Minister Truong Hoa Binh of Transport to work with coronavirus cases, single par- Children living in these has ordered domestic airlines the ministries of public se- ent Naimah Sudaian was left households are at risk of de- to take action to avoid further curity, defence, information out of job with zero savings to teriorating dietary quality be- incidents that threaten avia- and communications to im- survive the coming months. cause of changes in their food tion security. prove quality of information With three children to raise, consumption and a worsen- Chairing a meeting on Tues- network security and safety. the 49-year-old was dumb- ing of education outcomes day which aimed to review civil They have been assigned to founded as to how she was due to challenges in accessing aviation security and safety in organise response drills for going to afford rent and gro- home-based online learning. the first seven months, Binh, cybersecurity incidents. ceries after being laid off as a Furthermore, UNICEF who is chairman of the Na- Relevant ministries were security guard that month. Malaysia social policy chief tional Civil Aviation Security urged to step up the progress Naimah told The Straits Stephen Barrett said, a large Committee, pointed out sev- of establishing police stations Times: “I remember going proportion of low-income eral shortcomings that lead to at key airports and building home that day, crying. I have children face more challenges aviation insecurity. air security forces. no savings to get me going when they eventually go back These include thefts, pas- The transport ministry must and with my last pay cheque to school after the MCO. sengers carrying weapons closely monitor contractors of 1,200 ringgit [$288], I care- Barrett was quoted as saying and dangerous items, public and relevant units conducting fully planned our expenses. by news site the Malay Mail disorder and assaults on avia- runway upgrade projects at Ha- “We had to ration our food Low-income households headed by women like widows and single Online: “It is a known fact that mothers are among the worst affected by Covid-19. AFP tion personnel. noi’s Noi Bai and Ho Chi Minh and survive mostly on crack- hungry children do not learn Most of those incidents City’s Tan Son Nhat airports to ers and instant noodles. Oc- homes except to buy food regarded as the most useful. properly. So there is a risk that were caused by human mis- ensure their progress as well as casionally, we would have or essential items or to seek The respondents also pre- low-income children may end takes, he said, asking the Civil security and safety, he said. rice and eggs because that is medical treatment. ferred sustainable assistance up not going back to school. Aviation Administration of Dinh Viet Thang, CAAV direc- the cheapest ‘real meal’ we These controls were eased such as employment, and “Coupled with the rising Vietnam (CAAV) to inspect tor and National Civil Aviation could afford.” on May 4, allowing most busi- longer-term aid rather than instances of child poverty direct, indirect causes and ef- Security Committee chief of She was not alone in strug- nesses to reopen and people just one-off cash handouts. and general malnutrition in fects to seek preventive solu- the secretariat, said 80 per cent gling to make ends meet dur- to travel for work. “Cash handouts help, but Malaysia, Covid-19 will fur- tions, especially to supervise of aircraft managed by domes- ing the movement control or- But despite life having re- one-off assistance is not sus- ther exacerbate these dispari- the problem-solving process. tic airlines are not operating. der (MCO) to curb the spread turned to normal in most cas- tainable. In particular, they ties between lower-income National flag carrier Viet- In the first seven months of of the coronavirus. es in Malaysia, the impact of want jobs. So it is not a [cul- households and their higher- nam Airlines director-general this year, airports nationwide Research by UN agencies the MCO has been damaging. ture of asking for government income counterparts despite Duong Tri Thanh said some received about 43 million found that households with The UN study, entitled Fam- handouts],” Malaysia-based the efforts of the government people even accessed the passengers, a year-on-year family heads earning below ilies On The Edge, said low- public policy research out- to close these disparities.” booking reservation systems decrease of 37.5 per cent. MYR2,000 ($500) a month tend income households headed fit DM Analytics managing As for Naimah, she is do- to steal personal informa- Among 43 million passen- to spend more on eggs (52 per by women like widows and director Muhammed Abdul ing odd jobs today, including tion of passengers. Vietnam gers, there were only seven cent) and instant noodles (40 single mothers are among the Khalid told financial news washing dishes at a restaurant Airlines staff have discovered million people from overseas, per cent), and less on protein worst affected, with higher site The Edge on Monday. in Selangor. She gets about many thefts at check-in coun- down by 71.1 per cent com- and rice, compared with those rates of unemployment and a “They are very proud, re- MYR100-300 a week, depend- ters or on flights. pared to the same period last earning above the bracket. pessimistic outlook on pros- sponsible and rational peo- ing on luck. Airports Corporation of Viet- year. When Malaysia first im- pects for recovery in the next ple,” he added. Her three children, aged five, nam (ACV) director-general Phiet added that the busi- posed movement curbs on six months. With a sample of 500 house- eight and 11, are not attending Vu The Phiet said unlicensed ness would face revenue loss- March 18, it forced schools And although there were holds with children in Kuala school for now. “The last thing taxi services resumed opera- es of nearly 600 billion dong and non-essential businesses various forms of government Lumpur’s low-cost flats, the I want is for them to get sick,” tion in June and July, posing ($25.9 million) this year. VIET to temporarily shut down. assistance given during the research also revealed that she said. THE STRAITS TIMES (SINGA- risks to airports’ security. NAM NEWS/ASIA NEWS NETWORK People were confined to their MCO, cash assistance was the urban poor were forced PORE)/ASIA NEWS NETWORK 12 THE PHNOM PENH POST august 27, 2020 www.phnompenhpost.com Opinion

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EDITORIAL PERSONNEL Publisher & Chief Executive Offi cer Opinion Ly Tayseng Vincent Piket and Peter Schoof Executive Editor-in-Chief Joshua Purushotman S the world grapples with Managing Editor Post Khmer the outbreak of the Covid-19 Sam Rith pandemic, and starts deal- Deputy Chief of Staff ing with its longer-term Phak Seangly impacts,A governments and societies Business Editor May Kunmakara take a moment to reflect on what we Deputy Business Editor can learn from this crisis and use Sangeetha Amarthalingam these lessons to build a better future. Deputy Head of Lifestyle Desk We would underline three key les- Pan Simala sons. Senior Reporters With more than half of the global Meas Sokchea, Niem Chheng population locked down, the first les- Reporters son learned is the deep interdepend- Khouth Sophak Chakrya, Kim Sarom, ency between our countries and Long Kimmarita, Khorn Savi, Hin Pisei, regions as well as the high exposure Soth Koemsoeun, Voun Dara, Sous Yamy, that we all have to unanticipated Thou Vireak external shocks. With the virus spreading from continent to conti- Photographers nent, it has been those governments Heng Chivoan, Hong Menea, Hean Rangsey that have accepted responsibility for Web Editor the well-being of their citizens and Leang Phannara come out with a clear plan that have Webmasters weathered the crisis best. Sous Chanthy, Pang Vichea SIEM REAP BUREAU The second lesson is that multilat- Offi ce Manager eralism and solidarity work, globally Sophearith Blondeel and regionally. Within the EU, PRODUCTION & PRINTING between EU and Indonesia and Head of Desktop Publishing ASEAN, within ASEAN, countries Nhim Sokphyrak have joined forces to activate and improve coordination and informa- We stand ready to work with Indonesia and its citizens to put in place and implement clear and robust low carbon policies and green Desktop Publishing recovery strategies. ANTARA/THE JAKARTA POST Suon Savatdy, Chum Sokunthy, Danh Borath tion sharing mechanisms. We have Tep Thoeun Thyda, Tim Borith, Than Veasna collectively mobilised assistance to today, together. The good news is: not tion of the environment needs to be order, and multilateralism are crucial the most affected and the particularly only we can do it, but we can – actu- the basis, the fuel and the compass to avoid lapsing back into a fossil fuel HEAD OFFICE vulnerable, effectively saving lives ally – use the economic rebound for economic growth. and resource intensive recovery, and livelihoods. from Covid-19 to accelerate the tran- Together the EU leaders have which would put people and the The third lesson has been the sition to a safer, more resilient future. reconfirmed their commitment to a planet irreversibly in peril. necessity and benefits to accept sci- This is the potential we see in Indo- green, digital and resilient recovery, We stand ready to work with Indo- Post Media Co, Ltd. entific evidence, and respond to it nesia’s “reboot and transformation” embedded in a proposal for the “EU’s nesia and its citizens to put in place The Elements Condominium Level 7, swiftly. plan. The choices we make today will recovery plan”. Through this plan and implement clear and robust low Hun Sen Boulevard, Phum Prek Talong, And this is where we draw a parallel define many tomorrows. Over the (called Next Generation EU) and an carbon policies and green recovery Sangkat Chak Angre Krom,12353, Phnom to climate change: Covid-19 in 2020 next two years, governments around overhauled EU budget, every euro of strategies. This will give our societies a Penh, Cambodia is an exceptionally large-scale human the world will seek to spend around investment will be made available to sense of direction and purpose, and Tel: 023 888 161, 023 888 162 tragedy, and similar outbreaks can be $10 trillion borrowed from future get Europe back on its feet, while guide investors, businesses, workers Cellcard: 078 555 166, 078 555 133 expected in the future. But 30 years of generations. accelerating the twin green and digit- and consumers towards sustainability. Smart: 086 822 999, 086 277 999 scientific consensus tell us that this is The massive investment needed to al transitions and building a fairer The EU is engaging with Indonesia SIEM REAP just a mere warning compared to the and ASEAN on ways to direct invest- No 629, Street 6 Dangkum Commune existential risks we all face with glo- ment to environmentally sustainable Tel: 063 966 290, Fax: 063 966 590 bal warming in the years to come. Global warming is even harder to tackle economic activities. We can further COMMERCIAL DEPARTMENT If the international community fails than the Covid-19 pandemic. There strengthen our partnership on these Chief Operating Offi cer to bring the increasing greenhouse gas foundations: to share expertise, to James Ong Soon Teck emissions in check, parts of our planet will be no vaccine against climate finance projects, to explain regulations Advertising Department will become uninhabitable in the near and principles for sustainable finance. 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This is why the for the next seven years will be spent staying true to our values and com- CIRCULATION & DISTRIBUTION These are ingredients for a very recovery plans should be designed as on climate-friendly investments. mitments, listening to science, Acting Distribution Manager unsettled world. With its high coast- a once-in-a-generation opportunity Some focus areas (where strong action strengthening our economies, and Thenh Rithy, 087 888 854 to-land ratio, Indonesia stands to “build back better” and invest in can lead to big impacts) include the building a better, safer future. There Circulation Supervisor among the most exposed. an economy of the 21st century, and built environment (renovation), simply is no other pragmatic alterna- Nou Chanthy, 096 999 2828 Global warming is even harder to not in the obsolete carbon-intensive, mobility (electrification), and energy tive to green recovery: the business as Yim Veasna, 015 814 499 tackle than the Covid-19 pandemic. resource-intensive, nature-destroy- (renewables and clean hydrogen). usual model is much more costly. THE ADMINISTRATION There will be no vaccine against cli- ing economy of the past century. The EU will stick to its goal to be JAKARTA POST/ASIA NEWS NETWORK Admin & HR Manager mate change and its devastating Just like President Joko “Jokowi” Pich Socheat climate neutral by 2050 – and we are impacts. Flattening the emissions Widodo mentioned in his speech on encouraged that Indonesia is plan- Vincent Piket is EU ambassador to Indonesia. 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UILDING on a new constructed eight greenhous- hanging garden es on roofs in New York, Chi- trend, a greenhouse cago and Denver, and French atop a Montreal Urban Nature, which is plan- warehouseB growing egg- ning one in Paris in 2022. plants and tomatoes to meet A local Montreal super- demand for locally sourced market has also offered foods has set a record as the since 2017 an assortment largest in the world. of vegetables grown on its It’s not an obvious choice of roof, which was “greened” in location to cultivate organic order to cut greenhouse gas vegetables – in the heart of emissions linked to climate Canada’s second-largest city change. – but Lufa Farms on Wednes- day inaugurates the facil- ‘Reinventing food system’ ity that spans 15,000sqm, or Lebanese-born Mohamed A greenhouse atop a Montreal warehouse growing eggplants and tomatoes to meet demand for locally sourced foods has set a new record as the about the size of three foot- Hage and his wife Lauren largest in the world. AFP ball fields. Rathmell, who is from the “The company’s mission neighbouring US state of Ver- harvested each week to feed the produce but laments that Quebec winter, he explains. Profitable since 2016, the is to grow food where peo- mont, founded Lufa Farms in 20,000 families, with baskets some items are always out of “We also put to use spaces private company now em- ple live and in a sustainable 2009 with the ambition of “re- tailored for each at a base stock. “I can never get pep- that were until now com- ploys 500 people, around 200 way,” spokesman Thibault inventing the food system”. price of C$30. pers”, she says. pletely unused,” he said. more than before the pan- Sorret said, as he showed off At Lufa, about 100 varieties Sorret said the company’s Fully automated, the new demic, he said. its first harvest of giant egg- of vegetables and herbs are “online market” also sells Sales doubled amid Covid-19 greenhouse also has a water It is currently working on plants. grown year-round in hydro- goods produced by local part- Sorret said: “We are now system that collects and re- the electrification of its fleet It is the fourth rooftop ponic containers lined with ner farms including “bread, able to feed almost two per uses rainwater, resulting in of delivery trucks and is in the greenhouse the company has coconut coir and fed liquid pasta, rice, et cetera”. cent of Montreal with our savings of “up to 90 per cent” process of exporting its model erected in the city. The first, nutrients, including lettuce, On the ground floor of the greenhouses and our partner compared to a traditional “to different cities around the built in 2011 at a cost of more cucumbers, zucchini, bok new greenhouse, a huge dis- farms. farm. world”, starting with Canada than C$2 million (US$1.5 mil- choy, celery and sprouts. tribution centre brings to- “The advantage of being Sorret says Lufa “more than and the US, he added. lion), broke new ground. Bumblebees pollinate the gether nearly 2,000 grocery on a roof is that you recover doubled” its sales during the “What’s a little crazy,” he Since then, competitors plants, while wasps and la- products for offer to “Lufa- a lot of energy from the bot- new coronavirus pandemic, recalls, is that none of the picked up and ran with the dybugs keep aphids in check, vores”, including restaurants. tom of the building,” allowing a jump attributable “to con- founders “had grown a toma- novel idea, including Gotham without the need for pesticides. Shopper Catherine Bonin considerable savings in heat- tactless delivery from our on- to in their life” before opening Greens from the US, which Enough vegetables are says she loves the freshness of ing, an asset during the harsh line site”. the business. AFP Uneasy peace as virus calms Montenegro’s tourism GLIDING across Montenegro’s majes- mer crowds and chaos.” for any help they can get. tic, mountain-ringed Kotor bay, cap- Tourism contributes to around a “It’s wonderful that there are no traf- tain Ivan Gvido Krivokapic revels in quarter of Montenegro’s economy in fic jams and that I quickly travel about the unusually tranquil waters of a normal times, and employs nearly 20 20km from home to work, but the price destination that has become a tourist per cent of the workforce. is too high,” said the owner of a local magnet in recent years. Economists say the pandemic has travel agency in the coastal town of But any joy brought by the pan- exposed the dangers of “putting all Budva, Danica Kazanegra Gregovic. demic-triggered peace is tinged with your eggs in one basket”, revealing an Last year, the company, through anxiety about the economic future of urgent need to diversify an economy leading global tourist operator TUI, a tiny country, which heavily depends that otherwise rests on agriculture – brought 72,000 tourists to Montene- on its tourism industry. which accounts for 50 per cent of gro, mainly from Western Europe, Boat passengers will “probably never gross domestic product (GDP) – serv- Nordic countries and Russia. again experience such an empty bay ices and a small industrial sector. This year, it has brought 300. and see all the beauties of our city”, This summer, tourist arrivals and In the coastal city of Tivat, only two Krivokapic says wistfully on a picture- spending have plummeted around planes are arriving daily – compared perfect summer afternoon, framed by 90 per cent compared to last year, to last summer’s average of 50 planes the rocky mountain slopes that jut into official data show. and 9,000 passengers a day. the Adriatic’s deep blue waters. That is a bigger-than-expected Locals say they can’t remember Gone are the gargantuan cruise ships drop and will likely send shock waves such a quiet season, even during a that have become a daily feature of across the economy. devastating 1979 earthquake, or the Kotor’s port and the tour groups that The International Monetary Fund’s The pandemic-induced tranquility on Montenegro’s Kotor bay may provide a welcome 1990s wars in former Yugoslavia. change for a while but locals are worried about the economic future of a small country, clog up the charming alleyways of the latest forecasts show that Montene- reliant on tourism. AFP “This is currently at the level of a walled Old Town, steeped in history. gro is on course for its largest con- catastrophe,” says Dejan Radjenovic, And yet it is hard to feel at ease as traction – nearly nine per cent – since and out of the need to preserve the Infections then started to mount who works for his family’s restaurant fear mounts over the economic fall- its 2006 independence. status quo, so as not to lose their jobs, last month and have now reached a in Budva. out of the coronavirus pandemic, or any other income.” total of more than 4,300 cases and 80 Stefan Petrovic, a 29-year-old who which is weighing heavily on the Formerly ‘corona-free’ But the opposition is trying to cap- deaths in the population of some manages a restaurant in Kotor, says minds of voters ahead of parliamen- The governing Democratic Party of italise on the concern, with critics 620,000. young people are already struggling tary elections on Sunday. Socialists (DPS), which has been in lambasting the government for its with high unemployment, at more Branko Radulovic, who rents out power for three decades, hopes the handling of the crisis so far. ‘Too much vacation’ than 18 per cent, and low wages aver- apartments in Kotor, said: “People are uncertain future will sway voters to The current pessimism is a bleak Desperate to salvage the travel indus- aging just over €500 a month. enjoying [the peace] but they are not play it safe and stick with what they turnaround from just a few months ago, try, the government recently opened He said: “For us young people, who happy, because the economic know in Sunday’s polls. when Montenegro gleefully declared borders to top markets – including Ser- want to work and make money, this moment is crucial. Analyst Zoran Radulovic, editor of itself the first country in Europe to be bia and Russia – which had been shut has not been pleasant. “We are now in some ways aware weekly news magazine Monitor said: coronavirus-free after a period of no due to their high virus numbers. “This is too much of a vacation of how dependent we are on the sum- “Citizens could vote more out of fear new infections for several weeks. Tourism operators are desperate for us.” AFP 14 THE PHNOM PENH POST august 27, 2020 www.phnompenhpost.com Lifestyle Thinking caps

For nearly four years Serbian artist Vladimir Miladinovic painstakingly copied 400 pages from a notebook written by Ratko Mladic, one of the Balkans’ most notorious war criminals. afp Belgrade exhibition turns Ratko Mladic diary into Eerie art OR nearly four years and primary documents that conversation with Momcilo “DEBIT CARD” Serbian artist Vladi- deal with the “problematic Krajisnik, a Bosnian Serb po- mir Miladinovic parts of the past that are still litical leader also convicted ACROSS 57 They often involve many phone 27 Dosage amt. started his day with a negotiable in the present”. by the International Criminal 1 Arles’ river calls 29 Lord’s Prayer word morningF coffee and the diary Tribunal for the former Yugo- 61 Green-eyed monster ‘Banal’ 6 Word of regret 30 Scissors sound effect of one of the Balkans’ most slavia (ICTY). 10 Provide too much of a good thing 62 Smallest margin of victory? 31 Without faith in God notorious war criminals, Rat- Lining the walls of the stark Mladic’s own point of view is 14 Eagle abode 63 Puts money in the pot 33 Football players can take one ko Mladic. gallery space, the diary entries hard to find, though in one en- 15 Whimsical adventure 64 Abound 34 Part of TGIF Word for word, he painstak- are easy to read – written in try he writes under the words 16 Roll call reply 65 Practice punches 36 Picked up the tab 66 Hon ingly copied the notebook’s simple, spare language with “my contribution” that Bos- 17 Where a judge will hear a sad 37 With a bow, in music DOWN 400 pages by hand onto fresh ink wash – but their sheer nia’s Serbs need “unity”, “man- tale 38 Half hitch, for one 20 Dundee hill 1 Animal in a warren white sheets, which now cover number makes them difficult power and officers”, “funds for 39 Words said at an altar 21 Slayer of the Minotaur 2 The Munster family car the walls of a Belgrade exhibit to fully absorb. conducting a war” and “allies”. 40 Wing of a building 22 Final ending? 3 All fancied up raising questions about how Spread out page for page, they 43 Person for whom something 23 Night vision 4 Big name in sneakers ‘Opposite’ of forgetting is named to confront one of the region’s make visible the effort needed 24 Counter by argument 5 Always, poetically 44 One who bluffs a dealer? darkest chapters. to face one’s history, individu- The art exhibit, titled “The 28 Grow choppers 6 First Greek letter 46 Camry maker For the 39-year-old artist, ally and collectively through Notebook”, is only the latest 30 Blue state 7 “Bye for now” 47 One who brings in the bucks the task was in part a “per- institutions like a court. incarnation of the diary. 32 Listening, in times of yore 8 Circle segments 35 Agent, briefly 48 Suitable for evening wear formative act of trying to deal And yet the pages them- Dating from 1992, the start 9 Hebrides terrier 36 Physically working off a debt 50 Spicy condiment with this very harsh material selves reveal little about the of Bosnia’s war, it was one of 10 Selected 40 A friend may lend one 51 One spelling for a mideast prince which we are still forced to writer. some 18 notebooks discovered 11 Romanian currency 41 Give an answer 54 Tiny particles deal with today, 25 years after Drafted in militaristic prose, by ICTY investigators behind a 12 Hockey legend Bobby 42 It grants permission to drive 55 Unappetizing cafeteria serving the war”, he told AFP from the these are not the crazed scrib- fake wall in the Belgrade home 13 “Are we there ___?” 45 Like an active chimney sweep 56 Word with “punch”or “ticket” austere gallery on the banks blings one might expect from of Mladic’s wife a decade ago. 18 Speakers, essentially 49 Drug used to treat Parkinson’s 57 Voided tennis shot of the Danube. a man deemed the “epitome At the time, the man him- 19 Muffet morsel 50 Stone paving block 58 Slender figure? His subject, the 77-year-old 52 Paddle kin 23 Fake bedding item? 59 Hail, to Horatio former Bosnian Serb com- In the end we can say that it’s 53 Art of folding paper 25 Capital of Switzerland 60 Wee bit mander whose troops com- 56 Harp of yore 26 Exploited mitted genocide in Srebrenica even banal, banal language among other war crimes dur- that says nothing but at the Wednesday’s solution ing Yugoslavia’s collapse, was sentenced to life in prison by same time says a lot an international tribunal in The Hague in 2017. of evil” by a UN rights chief. self was still on the run and His appeal trial is due to Rather, they are a neat log would not be arrested until a start on August 25. of notes from political and year later in Serbia, ending a Yet while the legal process military briefings, with bul- 16-year manhunt. moves forward, the wounds let-point lists recording each Handwritten in Cyrillic, the he left in former Yugoslavia speaker’s remarks. diaries were transcribed by a still fester and his personal “In the end we can say that team of graphologists into a legacy remains a battle- it’s even banal, banal lan- digitised version. ground. guage that says nothing but This text was then trans- Many Serbs still consider at the same time says a lot,” lated into English and French Mladic a hero and deeply dis- the artist said. for the court’s international trust international courts they Some entries are purely lo- members. Wednesday’s solution feel are biased against them. gistical, for example one that Miladinovic continued the After his conviction in 2017, notes the limited supplies of cycle, using the English text Serbian President Aleksandar flour and oil for a local bakery. as the basis of his own work. Vucic called on the country to Another details the precise The exhibit has garnered “start looking to the future”. number of Serbs in various more attention internation- But Miladinovic has gone Bosnian towns, eerily bring- ally than at home, which does in the other direction: finding ing to mind the ethnic cleans- not surprise him. artistic inspiration through ing that took place as Mladic “The work itself is trying to immersing himself in the carved out a Serbs-only state- do something which is the granular details of his coun- let in an area once shared opposite of what (Serbian) try’s troubled history. with Croats and Muslims. society is trying to do, to for- His previous works have “We have a state on a plat- get – to deny, to erase such involved a similar redrawing ter, we just need to take it,” important issues from the of wartime newspaper pages reads one comment in a past,” he said. afp THE PHNOM PENH POST august 27, 2020 www.phnompenhpost.com 15 Sport Flustered Williams gets served in New York

N out-of-gas Serena Wil- liams crashed out of the Western & Southern Open on Tuesday, losing in three setsA to 13th seeded Maria Sakkari 5-7, 7-6 (7/5), 6-1 in New York. The 23-time Grand Slam winner finished with a whimper at the end of the two-hour, 17-minute match as Sakkari clinched the victory with a backhand down the line that a de- jected Williams just watched with- out making an effort to move. At other points in the match, Wil- liams flung her racket into the spec- tator-less stands and rebuked the chair umpire for slapping her with a time violation. Sakkari, of Greece, advances to the quarter-finals of the no-spectator event where she will face Johanna Konta who cruised past Vera Zvonar- eva in straight sets 6-4, 6-2. The joint WTA and ATP tourna- ment was moved from Cincinnati to New York where the same quaran- tine bubble will house the US Open starting on August 31. It was the second straight two- hour-plus match for Williams who at 38 was trying to become the oldest winner of the event. She still holds the record, having won this event in 2015 at age 33. Williams survived a scare in her opening match, prevailing in a two hour, 48-minute marathon over qualifierA rantxa Rus. It was her lon- An out-of-gas Serena Williams crashed out of the Western & Southern Open on Tuesday, losing in three sets to 13th seeded Maria Sakkari 5-7, 7-6 (7/5), 6-1 in New York. afp gest match since 2012. “It is hard to play the way I have “I am walking all the way to get my sets victory and reach the quarter-fi- where he will play German Jan-Len- Osaka, who is the only top 10 play- been playing and stay positive,” Wil- towels... I mean, I am getting my own nals of the hardcourt tournament. nard Struff, who defeated seventh er left in the women’s draw, clinched liams said. “To play nine hours in towels. That’s not fair,” said Williams. Djokovic breezed through the fi- seed David Goffin 6-4, 3-6, 6-4. the victory when Yastremska was a week is too much. I don’t usually “You didn’t give me a warning. I nal game by winning four straight Djokovic had pulled out of doubles called for a foot fault while serving play like that. It is all new for me.” am actually a really fast player. Next points, closing it out with a cross- on Sunday with pain in his neck, but on match point. Williams made seven double faults time you warn me. I’m done.” court forehand winner to take it in did not appear to be bothered by the Japan’s Osaka blasted eight aces, and won just 66 per cent of her first The ball people usually get the 88 minutes on Tuesday. injury against Sandgren. won 83 per cent of her first serve serve points against Sakkari. towels for the players but not in the “All in all it was a great perfor- “The neck is doing well,” he said. points and broke Yastremska’s serve After losing the second set in a tie- Covid-19 bubble. mance,” said Djokovic. “I felt better Also on the men’s side, hard-serv- four times. breaker she tossed her racket over On the men’s side, world No1 and played better than last night. I ing Canadian Milos Raonic routed Osaka moves to the quarter-finals her shoulder into the empty stands Novak Djokovic won his 20th am going in a great direction.” Brit Andy Murray 6-2, 6-2 and third where she will face Anett Kontaveit, behind her. straight match of 2020 with a hard- American Sandgren, who is ranked seeded Daniil Medvedev, of Russia, who defeated Marie Bouzkova 6-3, Williams, who has lost her cool at fought 6-2, 6-4 victory over Tennys 55th in the world, made the Serb swept past Aljaz Bedene 6-3, 6-3. 6-3. events in New York before, also ad- Sandgren. work for the victory as he survived In other women’s action, fourth Yastremska, who at 20 was the monished chair umpire, Aurelie Tourte Djokovic, who captured the Aus- five match points in the ninth game seeded Naomi Osaka rolled over youngest player left in the field, made of France, during a changeover for call- tralian Open in February, needed six of the second set. Dayana Yastremska in straight sets six double faults and won just 38 per ing a time violation for slow play. match points to tough out the straight Djokovic advances to the quarters 6-3, 6-1 to advance. cent of her second serves. afp Man Utd captain Maguire gets suspended sentence

Manchester United captain at a nightclub in Mykonos. courts we will be appealing. his innocence,” the club said. The 27-year-old defender, land boss explained he had Harry Maguire was on Tuesday He was charged with assault, “I remain strong and confi- The statement from Old who has 26 England caps, stood by him after speaking to given a 21 month and 10 day bodily harm, verbal abuse and dent regarding our innocence Trafford went on to spell out spent two nights in police cus- Maguire, the world’s most suspended prison sentence attempted bribery, all of which in this matter – if anything grounds for an appeal. tody before flying home at the expensive defender following after being found guilty of he denied. myself, family and friends are “It should be noted that the weekend. his £80 million ($105 million) assaulting a police officer, Maguire, who did not attend the victims.” prosecution confirmed the move from Leicester to United bribery and other charges by a his trial on the Greek island Manchester United backed charges and provided their Taken off England squad last year. court in Greece. of Syros, in a statement their player. evidence late on the day before Maguire’s brother Joe was “It is clearly a decision that The England international, declared: “Following the “Harry Maguire pleaded not the trial, giving the defence found guilty of repeated bod- is not straightforward,” South- who announced he would hearing today, I have instruct- guilty to all of the misdemeanour team minimal time to digest ily harm, violence against pub- gate told a press conference. appeal the verdict, was arrested ed my legal team with imme- charges made against him and them and prepare. lic employees and attempted “I have spoken with Harry. I late last Thursday after a fight diate effect to inform the he continues to strongly assert “A request for the case to be bribery. have the insight to the story adjourned was subsequently The friend, Christopher which is very different to what denied. On this basis, along Sharman was found guilty of is being recorded. You can only with the substantial body of insult, repeated bodily harm make decisions on facts you evidence refuting the charges, and violence against public are aware of. Harry Maguire’s legal team will employees. “If facts or information now appeal the verdict, to Both were sentenced to 13 change I will have to review allow a full and fair hearing at months in prison, suspended that decision, but I have a fan- a later date.” for three years. tastic relationship with the boy The sentence is suspended As his fate was being decided – he has been a fantastic char- for three years. in Greece, Maguire was simul- acter for us. He has my support According to media reports taneously being named by at this moment.” the nightclub fight started over manager Gareth Southgate in Later Tuesday Daisy Maguire claims his sister Daisy was England’s Nations League posted on Instagram: “Three injected with what the defence squad, only to be removed things cannot be long hidden: claimed was a suspected drug. hours later. the sun; the moon, and the Maguire was arrested along “In light of this evening’s truth – Buddha.” with his brother and a friend developments, I can confirm I While Maguire is now out of after being driven from the have withdrawn Harry Maguire immediate involvement on club to a police station, where from the England squad for the the international scene his there was an altercation with matches against Iceland and club United are due back in the prosecution claiming Denmark,” Southgate told the training on September 2, with Maguire offered money to be Football Association’s website. no pre-season friendlies A Greek court handed Harry Maguire a 21-month suspended sentence on assault and bribery charges. afp released. Earlier in the day the Eng- scheduled. afp 16 THE PHNOM PENH POST august 27, 2020 www.phnompenhpost.com Sport Messi divorce as ‘bombshell’ fax signals end of era at Barcelona

IX-TIME Ballon d’Or winner those to have been linked to Messi, Lionel Messi told Barcelona who is among the greatest players he wants to leave – on a free in history and has wages to match, transfer – in a “bombshell” with a reported weekly salary of faxS on Tuesday that is expected to nearly a million euros. spark a legal battle over a buy-out ESPN reported that Messi spoke clause worth hundreds of millions last week with Manchester City of dollars. manager Pep Guardiola about a Signalling the end of an era at Bar- possible move. A Barcelona-based celona, where Messi is the record Brazilian journalist also said Messi scorer and has won four Champions wants to play under his former Bar- League titles, the disgruntled Argen- celona coach. tine wants to terminate his contract “unilaterally” by triggering a release Drastic changes clause, a source said. Barcelona have yet to react officially Relations have plummeted this but are understood to believe Messi’s Lionel Messi is waving goodbey to Barcelona after a decade but a legal fight over millions of dollars will come first. afp year and speculation swirled about release clause expired in June, and Messi’s departure after this month’s that he remains under contract until conceded eight goals in a game message to Arturo Vidal, Ivan Rakit- of handing Real Madrid the title humiliating 8-2 Champions League the end of the 2021 season. since losing to Sevilla 8-0 in the 1946 ic and Samuel Umtiti. turned into a brutal, but honest, as- quarter-final defeat to Bayern Mu- “In principle, this clause expired Spanish Cup. sessment of their season. nich, which left Barca without a tro- on June 10, but the unusual nature of The defeat has sparked drastic ‘Rock bottom’ As his relationship with the phy for the first time since 2007. this season disrupted by the corona- changes. Coach Quique Setien was “The club needs changes,” said club hierarchy grew increasingly The 33-year-old’s demand, faxed virus opened the way for Messi to ask sacked after barely six months in defender Gerard Pique following strained, Messi also reacted publicly by his lawyers, prompted protests to be released from his contract now,” charge, and sporting director Eric the Bayern demolition. “Nobody is when Abidal appeared to blame the against Barcelona’s under-fire presi- wrote Spanish sports daily Marca. Abidal was also dismissed. untouchable, least of all me. Fresh players for the sacking of Ernesto dent Josep Maria Bartomeu outside “It’s the first step towards opening According to Spanish media, Mes- blood is needed to change this. Valverde in January. the Camp Nou where Messi, synon- negotiations over his departure, on si met with new coach Ronald Koe- We’ve hit rock bottom.” He also led the fightback from the ymous with the club’s most success- the basis of which his release clause man last week and told the Dutch- Argentine sports daily Ole de- Barcelona players over a dispute with ful period, is worshipped by fans. amounts to 700 million euros ($828 man he saw himself “more out than scribed Messi’s wish to leave as a the board in March regarding pay cuts “I don’t see him anywhere else. I million).” in” at the club. “complete bombshell”, but he has during the coronavirus pandemic. can’t believe it,” said Ruben Tejero, Messi joined Barcelona’s youth Koeman has vowed to “fight to had regular disagreements with the “Respect and admiration, Leo. All 28, one of about 100 fans at the sta- academy at the age of 13 and made put Barca back on top” and said at club’s board in recent times. my support, friend,” tweeted Barca dium calling for Bartomeu to resign. his debut in 2004 as a 17-year-old, his unveiling he was hopeful Messi The Lisbon loss, Barca’s heaviest great Carles Puyol, a long-time former “I prefer to think it’s an ultimatum before going on to score a club-re- would remain at the club for several in Europe, exposed an ageing team team-mate of Messi, to which Suarez given to management for Bartomeu cord 634 goals. more years. that Messi repeatedly had said was replied with two applause emojis. to go.” But his future at Barca was thrown But Koeman has reportedly told simply not good enough. Vidal also tweeted: “When you Manchester City, Paris Saint-Ger- into serious doubt by the 8-2 loss Luis Suarez he is no longer part of He said it in February and again shut a tiger in a cage he doesn’t give main and Inter Milan are among to Bayern, the first time Barca had Barca’s plans, delivering a similar in July, when a rant in the aftermath in, he fights back.” afp There will be fans at Tour de France, vows race boss THE coronavirus pandemic But Tour director Christian played havoc with sporting years attracting hundreds of and all zones run by organis- for several years,” Prudhomme has forced the rescheduling of Prudhomme has vowed that events and current French thousands of people along the ing company ASO are also said, adding that all organis- the Tour de France away from some fans will be accommo- government law limits gather- roadsides. measures being taken. ers’ cars this year are hybrids its traditional summer slot dated when the delayed 2020 ings to 5,000. “Yes, the public will have Prudhomme said the fact the for the first time. that sees millions of French Grande Boucle gets under way That means a cataclysmic access to the Tour de France,” Tour had been pushed back Turning to the actual racing, and tourists alike swarming to in Nice on Saturday. change for Tour organisers, Prudhomme said in an inter- two months was in itself the Prudhomme predicted that watch cycling’s greatest race. The Covid-19 pandemic has with some climbs in previous view. “first health measure”. the riders would be more than “But there will be screening “Moving from July to Sep- fired up come the start on Sat- areas at the start and finish tember naturally means fewer urday, with a daunting areas to allow the current gov- people,” he said. 3,470km-long course ahead of ernment maximum of 5,000 “People are at work, children them that ends in Paris on fans. have gone back to school, the September 20. “Screening will also be in tourists are no longer there. “From what I could see when place in the 20-or-so climbs “On the Tour routes, there competition resumed, the rid- and passes,” Prudhomme are 20 per cent foreigners in ers are like they’re starved to added, explaining that “in cer- July, 50 per cent in some pass- death,” he said. tain places, only people on es. We already know that we “They have a desire to com- foot, by bicycle or who come will no longer have the Brit- pete, a thirst to compare them- on public transport set up by ish, the Australians, the selves to others, the need to the hosting towns or villages Americans.” shine in a very short but extraor- can go to the passes”. The so-called “caravan” of dinarily loaded season.” Health and safety protocols vehicles for organisers, teams, Previous winners Chris for riders and teams involve officials, journalists and spon- Froome and Geraint Thomas them being kept in a bubble sors is also down by 35-40 per both missed out on selection and tested several times, with cent, according to Prudhom- for Team Ineos, but Prudhom- the smallest possible interac- me. me downplayed their absence, tion between respective bub- He was quick to bat away instead highlighting the poten- bles. questions over the ecological tial changes teams will have to Two tonnes of handgel dis- footprint the Tour leaves. make. tributed over 60 points, man- “There is a lot less plastic “There are plenty of sporting datory wearing of facemasks that will be handed out, some- questions that I like,” he said. Tour director Christian Prudhomme said fans will be accommodated when the race starts in Nice. afp at the start and finish areas thing we’ve been working on afp