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All the News Without Fear or Favor The Cambodia daily Volume 63 Issue 54 Tuesday, January 26, 2016 2,000 riel/50 cents Police Arrest, Free Woman In Latest Facebook Case By Khuon nArim the cambodIa daIly A woman was arrested by police from the Interior Ministry’s inter- nal security department yesterday for allegedly posting an im age to Facebook that claimed Prime Min- ister Hun Sen died after being cursed in 2014. Police said she was released hours later, however, after they de- termined her account had been hacked. Det Mengkheang, 30, was ar- rested in Phnom Penh’s Mean - chey district at around 8:30 a.m., said Meng Hengtith, chief of the municipal police’s internal security department. Reuters “She was sent for questioning at US Secretary of State John Kerry, right, and US Ambassador to Cambodia William Heidt pose for a photograph the Ministry of Interior’s internal with a passer-by on the riverside in Phnom Penh yesterday evening. (Story page 3) security department,” Mr. Heng - tith said, explaining that police identified Ms. Mengkheang as the owner of the “Kim Bopha” Face- Thousands of Dead Chickens Dumped Into Canal book account that had posted the By Khy Sovuthy The chicken farm in Stung Sen “A chicken farmer said that fake death notification. the cambodIa daIly City is owned by local business- there were a total of 12,000 chick- According to a screenshot dis- A farm in Kompong Thom prov - man Siet Sim and managed by CP. ens at the chicken farm, and that tributed online, the january 17 post ince that supplies Thai agro-industry It was home to 12,000 chickens be- 11,500 chickens died and 500 was titled “Death Notice” and read: giant Charoen Pokphand (CP) fore all but 500 were discarded into chickens remained,” Mr. Meng - “The corpse of Hun Sen died at a dumped the carcasses of 11,500 the canal, which is used to irrigate chhang said. “I think that by taking hospital in Singapore by being diseased chickens into an irrigation rice farms during the rainy season the dead chickens to throw into cursed by the Khmer people in ca nal on Sunday, poisoning the wa- and serves as a source of drinking the canal, they are spreading the 2014.” Below the words is an im - terway and endangering local live- water for livestock year round. disease to other birds, animals and age of Mr. Hun Sen lying in what stock, according to officials. Tann Mengchhang, director of the people in that area.” appears to be a casket. Company officials yesterday de- the Agriculture Ministry’s animal “This morning, I and other offi- Saran Komsath, a spokesman for nied responsibility for the incident, health office in Stung Sen City, said cials went down to the chicken farm the National Police, said Ms. Meng - while local officials disagreed about locals reported that Mr. Sim himself and we asked a farmer to kill the kheang was released at about 4 p.m. whom to blame. threw the chickens into the canal. Continued on page 6 Continued on page 2 S Korea Offers Rehab for Internet-Addicted Teens By AnnA FiField of despair. “I thought, ‘My future is an analog life. the WashIngton Post pitch-black,’” he said over a lunch “The government has been pro- Muju, South Korea - Since he ar- of spaghetti Bolognese and kimchi moting [information technology] rived at the camp, Yoon Yong-won on a recent day. “I’m so frustrated. and these kinds of devices, so the had experienced recurrent night- I feel like I’m being held captive.” government helped cre ate this mares. He was playing a game on South Korea is the most wired problem,” said Shim Yong-chool, his phone, and the image of the coun try on the planet, a coun try the director of the National Center phone in his hands was so vivid. where it’s entirely unremarkable for Youth Internet Addiction Treat- But then he woke up with a fright for ele mentary school students to ment camp at a con verted school and stared at his hands: empty. carry smartphones, where the mo- near Muju, in the center of the coun- Hun Sen Laments Foreign Yoon was in day six of a 27-day bile network is so good that people try. “Now, the government’s trying Competition in Rice Sector camp aimed at teenagers like him: live stream TV on the subway. The to help solve it.” Page 5 state-certified Internet addicts. flip side: South Korea is grappling Surveys have suggested that The first day he arrived and had with a growing number of digital about 10 percent of South Korean cambodiadaily.com to turn over his devices was a day natives who don’t know how to live Continued on page 2 មានដំណឹងបែែសមែួលជាភាសាខ្មែរនៅខាងក្នុង The Daily Newspaper of Record Since 1993 2 The Cambodia daily tuesday, januaRy 26, 2016 ANd AlSo NEWSMAKERS Islanders Age Rum on Sea Floor n TEL AVIV - Israeli elder statesman Shimon pereS was hospitalized asahI shImbun the island’s diving shop, hit upon Sunday night for the second time in as many weeks after complaining On the south side of Hahajima, in the idea with friends. They had of chest pains, his doctor said. Peres, who was released from the hos- the Ogasawara island chain nearly heard about the high quality of pital last week after suffering a mild heart attack on january 14, was 1,000 km south of Tokyo, rest 1,200 wine aged on the sea floor, which conscious and the hospitalization was a precautionary measure, Peres’ bottles of rum on the sea floor in an apparently results when placed in personal physician, Rafi Walden, told reporters. Walden, who is also inlet lapped by gentle waves. the right water temperature and Peres’ son-in-law, said Peres wanted to return home immediately, but The cache is not part of an an- stirred by gentle waves. that doctors at Tel Hashomer hospital in Tel Aviv decided to keep the cient shipwreck, but a local effort to They are aging Kaitei jukusei 92-year-old former president and prime minister in for observation, at least overnight. Polish-born Peres is credited with setting up Israel’s age rum for 10 months at the bot- Rum, a local liquor made from su - nuclear capabilities, and won the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in the tom of the sea at the unesco World garcane on Hahajima. The 470 or 1993 interim peace deal with the Palestinians. He has served twice as Heritage site. so islanders hope it will become a prime minister and was president from 2007 to 2014. (Reuters) Takaaki Shimojo, 32, a guide at new local specialty. would now begin the search for Ms. Mengkheang was the latest ing him a death threat on Facebook. Facebook... those who had done the hacking. target of a campaign announced on On Friday, the prime minister’s “This is according to her an- December 28 by Mr. Hun Sen eldest son, Hun Manet, who heads Continued From pAge 1 swers. The authorities will continue against his tormentors on the social the Defense Ministry’s counterter- after a day of questioning in which to search for the real culprits,” the media network, on which his page rorism department, also announced she convinced investigators she was spokesman said. “When we have surpassed the 2 million “likes” mark that he was suing Chham Chhany, not in fact the one who made the post. not found any new evidence, we last night. who used Facebook to accuse him “She was allowed to return have to listen to her answers.” “If I want to take action against and his mother of having links to the home already,” Lieutenant Gen- Earlier in the day, Lt. Gen. Kom- you, we will get [you] within seven illicit luxury timber trade. eral Komsath said in a WhatsApp sath explained by telephone that hours,” Mr. Hun Sen warned Face - In another case, the Interior Min- message in the evening. “Her Ms. Mengkheang had crossed the book users who insult him or his istry last week asked Interpol to help name [on Facebook] was hacked line of acceptable discourse on so- family online. ar rest a “Cambodian living abroad” by somebody and used.” cial media. Since then, he has stuck to his whom the government believes Asked how police established “This was not constructive criti- word, with police earlier this month pho toshopped an image of Mr. Hun that the account had been hacked, cism,” he explained. “It was an in- ar resting a farmer from a staunchly Sen’s wife, Bun Rany, standing up- Lt. Gen. Komsath said they simply sult to the head of the government CPP family in Kompong Thom prov - right to make it seem as if her legs ac cepted the woman’s defense and that was voted in by the people.” ince for allegedly insulting and send- were spread apart. interacting with people offline. not. They applied to send him to ward for it,” said Yoon Suk-ho, a Rehab... Many also become withdrawn or the camp during his winter break. 14-year-old middle school student feel lonely, or they show aggres- On day six of the camp, one from Daegu. He acknowledged, Continued From pAge 1 siveness and impulsiveness. group of boys—and this intake however, that he might need teens are Internet addicts, and the “We consider Internet addic- was all boys, there are separate help.