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national lifestyle The latest from the Moek Dara trial page 4 ‘There she is, Miss Cambodia’ page 17

Sweeping measures Sor Leash, 20, sweeps up at the Al-Azhar mosque in Phnom Penh yesterday. The Thai government is allegedly trying to keep tabs on Cambodian Muslims travelling to Thailand. HONG MENEA Story - page 3 A profession’s sobering statistics

Shane Worrell and Mom Kunthear 2002 showed that the average beer promoter made US$55 per month, ALIS, not her real name, Beer promoters compelled to drink – a lot but had monthly living expenses of appears forlorn as she their restaurants empty-handed. venues, it can be a full-time job – 27 of Guelph in Canada, about 85 per cent about $110. describes what her Malis would know – she sells for the nights a month. of 1,660 Cambodian beer promoters Women were drinking with custom- daughters go through to same beer company. “Every night, I have to talk to cli- he has surveyed between 2004 and ers and offering sexual services as a Msecure tips from their customers. “I very much pity my daughters for ents and persuade them to drink my 2012 regularly drink at work. way of making up the difference – The young women, promoters for a following me into this work, but what beer,” Malis says. “I have to force “Our research shows that beer pro- ensuring they could provide for their major beer company, reluctantly spend can I do?” the 42-year-old says. myself to drink with the clients moters are consuming on average children or send money to their pro- their nights getting drunk on their own Getting drunk may be only a weekly because it’s the only way they will 1.5 litres of beer per night – that’s six vincial families. product – it’s what customers demand or monthly pleasure for the customers, buy it – I can’t avoid it.” glasses of beer, 27 nights per month,” According to Lubek’s most recent and can be the difference between the but for the women who serve them in According to Ian Lubek, adjunct pro- Lubek says. promoters earning tips and leaving restaurants, beer gardens and karaoke fessor of psychology at the University Research Lubek conducted in Continues on page 2 2 THE PHNOM PENH POST august 22, 2012 National A profession’s Preah Vihear sobering land primed statistics for plantation

Continued from page 1 concessions study, conducted this year, the promot- May Titthara ers’ average monthly wage has climbed to $75, but expenses have grown even THE GOVERNMENT has reclassified faster, to about $180 per month. 23,182 hectares of state land in Preah “[Now] they’re averaging a BAC or Vihear province for private develop- blood-alcohol content of .05. ment by three agro-industry firms, pav- They’re basically drunk every night,” ing the way for them to secure econom- Lubek says. ic land concessions. “Overuse of alcohol at such a high Reclassification of state public land to rate leads to liver disease. Also, wom- state private land is a key step toward en aren’t told not to drink when establishing ELCs, concessions that they’re pregnant.” Prime Minister Hun Sen declared a tem- Major companies involved in Cam- porary moratorium on in May amidst bodia’s beer industry including mounting criticism that the country Carlsberg (an owner of Angkor Beer) was being rapidly carved up among and Heineken (an owner of Anchor, businessmen. ABC and Tiger) established Beer Selling But a loophole in that moratorium, Industry Cambodia (BSIC) in 2006. criticised by rights groups as self-defeat- Included in a code of conduct it ing and deliberately vague, allows the released were commitments to government to grant ELCs that had pre- increase education for beer promot- viously been under negotiation. ers, scrap demeaning uniforms, pro- On August 3, the prime minister vide contracts and crack down on An Anchor beer promoter serves a customer at a beer garden in Phnom Penh on Monday night. pha lina signed off on the reclassification of land sexual harassment. in Borie, Kulen and Roveang districts to To address drinking, the COC speci- John-Paul Schuirink, a spokesman months after they begin working . . ing back, not just to Angkor or Anchor, Green Choice (Cambodia) Co, Ltd (7,863 fies that beer promoters “should not” for Heineken International, says pro- That’s too late to prevent HIV/AIDS but to world-famous breweries like hectares), Aminent Elite (Cambodia) drink with customers. moters who sell his company’s beer are and alcohol dependence.” Carlsberg gives them a lot of leverage.” Co, Ltd (7,359) hectares and Distinct According to the BSIC Monitoring also well paid. One company not affiliated with Carlsberg is, however, taking positive Harvest (Cambodia) Co, Ltd (7,960 hec- Report 2011, authored by Indochina “The current average base salary . . . BSIC, the Phnom Penh Beer Com- steps toward establishing a memoran- tares) respectively, according to the lat- Research, there is a marked differ- is $92 per month for a 30-hour working pany, says its workers are “not encour- dum of understanding that could est Royal Book. ence between the conditions of beer week. A 10 per cent increase was imple- aged” to drink. improve conditions for its workers, The land reclassification process is promoters employed by BSIC com- mented this year. [It] compares favour- “We don’t want them to drink because Welsh adds. managed by the Ministry of Agricul- panies and those working for non- ably to the average income in Cambo- we want them to maintain their dignity Phol Sophea, deputy director of the ture, Forestry and Fisheries accord- BSIC companies. dia,” he says. . . . It also looks bad for the company if Cambodian Food and Service Workers’ ing to a statement announcing the The report, based on monthly inter- Schuirink says his company recog- they drink,” a spokesman says. Federation (CFSWF), in Siem Reap reclassification from Preah Vihear views of beer promoters last year, says nises the risks associated with beer pro- When asked if the company provides province, believes some progress is Provincial Hall. 61 per cent from BSIC companies nev- motion, which is why it founded BSIC health services for workers battling being made to improve conditions for When asked yesterday whether the er drank with customers, while 38 per and banned workers from drinking. alcohol addiction, he says, “No, we don’t beer promoters, but problems such as government should still be negotiating cent sometimes did. “Research shows that the beer pro- have any problems like that.” drinking remain. ELCs in spite of the moratorium, Chan Only 31 per cent of beer promoters moters working for Attwood [a distribu- Kingdom Breweries, also not affiliated “Many workers have problems with Sarun, minister of Agriculture, Forestry from companies not part of BSIC never tor for the company in Cambodia] have with BSIC, says it no longer has beer physical health,” Sophea says. and Fisheries. declined to comment, drank with customers, while 56 per cent the highest rate of awareness and com- promoters, but would not elaborate. “I ask them to visit the health centre, saying he was busy with a guest. sometimes did, the report claims. pliance with this rule,” he says. Dave Welsh, country director of the a service the companies provide free of It Nody, a secretary of state at the Min- Vo Thi Mai Trang, public relations and Heineken’s priority was preventing American Center for International charge. “But there is no support from istry of Agriculture Forestry and Fisher- communications manager for Carlsberg alcohol use during working hours by Labor Solidarity, says beer companies the companies if a beer promoter ies could not be reach for comment. Indochina, says the number of beer giving training and information about need to do much more to ensure their becomes dependent on alcohol.” Numerous ELCs have been granted promoters drinking in Cambodian its consequences, Schuirink adds. promoters’ rights are protected. CFSWF advises its members to tell since the premier announced the mor- workplaces has decreased dramatically “Besides that there is medical assist- “There’s a real health issue with customers that drinking on the job will atorium, and Am Sam Ath, a senior since BSIC was formed. ance available in case of problems.” unregulated drinking,” Welsh says. make them sick. investigator at the rights group Licadho, “And this is thanks to [the] BSIC Code Lubek, however, believes the COC has “It’s an unhealthy environment to “But some clients just don’t listen,” said this was yet another example of the of Conduct as well as the intensive been largely ineffective. work in, frankly.” Sophea says. “So if the women don’t sit insincerity of the premier’s actions. training that we provided to our [beer “Statistics don’t show any improve- Offering beer promoters a wage that and drink beer with clients, they won’t “We don’t know how many compa- promoters],” she says, adding that ment in the amount of beer drunk covered their monthly expenses is sell their products and they won’t have nies will continue the procedure, so it Carlsberg’s beer promoters are the in the workplace . . . our research something beer companies should con- any tips. makes the people confused with the highest paid after two pay increases shows that company health educa- sider, he says. “The clients are kings to them, government and the directive 01 [ELC last year. tion, if any, may come six to 12 “The amount of profits that are flow- because they have money.” moratorium] ineffective,” he said.

Deaths, injuries, illness? Pedophile charged BEATOCELLO IN CONCERT French national Blame it on the python given one-year Jayavarman VII Hospital Mom Kunthear Thun said that last year, of the python will avenge sentence, fine seven Prey Krasaing villag- those who killed and ate it. (Kantha Bopha III) ILLAGERS in Kam- ers caught a large python All the people who killed and FRENCH national accused of pong Speu province near the pagoda. They killed, ate the python cannot escape sexually molesting five minors Siem Reap Angkor are claiming that the cooked and ate it, washing from dying. Even now, some A was sentenced yesterday in Siem vengeful ghost of a the apparently tainted meal of them do not die, but they Reap to one year in prison and ordered butcheredV python has caused down with wine. will next time.” to pay 800,000 riel, or US$200, to each freak accidents and the grisly Sicknesses and accidents At the funeral for the man of the victims, in addition to a 2 million Every Saturday deaths of two people. were not long in arriving. last Sunday, villagers report- riel or US$500 fine. Un Thun, a Prey Krasaing Someone fell from a palm edly saw a small snake slither Morin Marcel, 58, was found guilty of 7.15 pm commune councillor, said tree, another slipped while up to the man’s coffin. Vil- indecent acts against five minors under yesterday that a woman’s walking, and a third became lagers did not dare harm the the age of 15, Judge Chhay Kong said. death earlier this year was mentally ill. Everything was creature, for the lesson of the Siem Reap provincial anti-human blamed on the snake, as was blamed on the angry spirit of snake had been learned. They trafficking and juvenile protection of- Dr. Beat Richner (BEATOCELLO) the recent demise of a man the python. removed it from the ceremo- ficial Doung Thavery said police in the past two weeks. Their When the second man be- ny and placed it peacefully had arrested Marcel on February 18 plays Cello Music and informs about exact ages are unknown, came ill, villagers took him to back into the grass. at a guest house in the Svay Dangkum though they are not elderly. a doctor. “But he could not But even after recounting Commune, based on evidence coll- According to Thun, the bod- cure him, and then they went the mysterious tale, Thun ected by the child-protection ies of both snake-ghost vic- to see the fortune-teller, who remains a sceptic, preferring NGO Action Pour Les Enfants. tims contorted and writhed said that he had done a bad to stick with more boring, if “He approached nine under-age boys Kantha Bopha Children’s Hospitals right before dying, and their deed,” Thun recalled. likelier, explanations. during the night by buying them food, the activities of the �ive skin grew scales resembling a And the appetite of the “I don’t think they died and kissing and caressing their private python’s leathery exterior murderous, grudge-bearing got sick because of the py- parts, fondling their genitals and Free admission The saga of the haunting reptile is far from sated. thon’s spirit, but maybe they inviting them into his guest house,” reptile began like many sa- According to Thun, “As the had a disease which could Thavery said. THIK KALIANN gas: with wine and a murder. fortune teller said, the spirit not be treated,” Thun said. THE PHNOM PENH POST august 22, 2012 3 National Monitoring questions mount Ratha has fighting

Vong Sokheng fairs, said Cambodian Muslims words for Hun Sen and Joseph Freeman who cross into Thailand are seeking work, not warfare. May Titthara Chan Soveth, a senior inves- FFICIALS from “They don’t have any ill- tigator with the rights group Cambodian immi- will purpose. It is specula- WANTED so-called secession- Licadho, has been summonsed gration, law enforce- tion on pleasant people,” he ist plot ringleader Bun Ratha to court on the vague charge of ment and diplomatic said. “When they enter, it is blasted Prime Minister Hun “assisting specific perpetrators” circlesO were either unaware of, [the Thai] authorities’ duty in Sen during a radio interview that an anonymous court offi- or unwilling to talk yesterday checking with them while they yesterday, dismissing as “fake” cial has told the Post is in rela- about, an alleged request from stay in Thailand.” allegations the premier has tion to his alleged connection the Thai government to help Numerous attempts to reach levelled against him, Beehive to secessionist allegations. monitor Cambodian Muslims the Thai Ministry of Foreign Af- Radio Station director Mam Mam Sonando, who regu- crossing into the country. fairs were unsuccessful. Sonando and rights worker larly used his radio station to “That is a Thai problem,” said Members of Muslim commu- Chan Soveth. air outspoken criticisms of the Pin Piseth, head of immigration nities in Phnom Penh yesterday Ratha, who fled into hid- government, was arrested and at the Ministry of Interior, de- voiced concern about the per- ing just before he was targeted charged in July, also in connec- clining to elaborate. ceived targeting of Cambodians during a brutal security forces tion with the plot, which the He would not confirm or who share the Islamic faith. crackdown on a village in Kratie government claims was led by deny that the government was Chi Ya, 58, in the Chroy province that left a 14-year-old a group called the Association aiding its neighbour in keeping Changva village of Russey girl dead in April, is wanted of Democrats. an eye on Muslims travelling in Keo district, said he was wor- along with several others for his Ratha said he had nothing to the days following the end of ried about neighbours who go alleged role in trying to form an do with the Association of Dem- the holy month of Ramadan. through Thailand to visit family autonomous mini-state. ocrats and that the prime min- News of the alleged monitor- members in Malaysia. If they During an interview with Ra- ister was inventing information Haji Yusef, an imam at the Al-Azhar mosque in Phnom Penh’s Russey ing surfaced on Monday when Keo district, speaks to the Post yesterday. hong menea get arrested based on stereo- dio Free Asia yesterday, Ratha to conceal the real reason for Thai Deputy Prime Minister types, “that would be bad”. said anyone who dared to the government crackdown on Yutthasak Sasiprapa told the a publication in Thai media,” tion, said it’s a matter of reli- Haji Yusef, imam of the Al- question the government’s real Pro Ma village – corrupt local Bangkok Post that thousands she said. gious profiling. Azhar mosque in Russey Keo, motivation for the crackdown, government officials trying to of Cambodian Muslims were It’s unclear how the Thais “The Thai government is al- read about the alleged Thai pol- which he maintains was to steal land. entering Thailand as “tourists” would be able to accurately ways speculating about Khmer icy online, but rejected the idea forcibly end a land dispute, was Ministry of Interior spokes- every day, and that the Im- identify Cambodian Muslims Muslims who cross into Thai- that a fundamentalist strain of being targeted with the same man Khieu Sopheak said Bun migration Bureau was given apart from their dress. They land when there is problem in Islam existed in Cambodia. fictitious allegations. Ratha’s allegations were un- instructions to keep tabs on account for just a fraction of a the south – it is usual,” he said. “We have a good network of “I would like to deny that I likely given the government their movements. predominantly Buddhist popu- Over the past eight years, the Khmer Muslims in Cambodia, am involved with Chan Soveth. never acted like that toward its He also said that Cambodian lation, religious affiliation is not south has been a hotspot of and if a member of us is sus- And I think Mr Hun Sen is cre- own people. authorities would be asked to listed on Cambodian passports, brutal violence as insurgents pected to have connections ating more fake evidence to “What he is saying is only for co-operate. But the Cambodian and hundreds of thousands of waged a deadly campaign with bad Muslims from outside, shut up any official or people the purpose of seeking political ambassador to Thailand, You Cambodians travel to Thailand against the government to seek we would detain them immedi- who dare to talk about the is- asylum,” he said. Ay, said she had not received throughout the year. an independent Muslim state. ately and hand them over to the sue of Pro Ma village, Kampong The Post was unable to con- any such requests. Khieu Kanharith, the Cam- But Koy Kuong, a spokesman government.” ADDITIONAL REPORT- Damrei commune in Kratie,” tact Bun Ratha for comment “I don’t know anything, it was bodian Minister of Informa- for the Ministry of Foreign Af- ING BY CHEANG SOKHA he told Radio Free Asia. yesterday. ‘Harassed’ workers stick to their guns Claire Knox and Mom Kunthear More than 2,500 of the Phnom the workers rejected his advanc- ment industry], yet we know it is Penh factory’s 4,000-strong work es and they are very worried for common in this industry,” she OCEAN Garment yesterday force have been on strike since their security,” she said. said, lauding the courage and refused to meet the sole demand August 11, and yesterday, the Four women claimed to have solidarity of the women. of thousands of striking workers allegedly abused women endured repeated sexual harass- But Ken Loo, secretary-gener- to have their manager, accused announced they would be press- ment from the manager for al of the Garment Manufactur- of sexual harassment, sacked. ing criminal charges. almost a month now. ers’ Association of Cambodia, An inter-governmental min- Worker representative Keo Executive director for Gender said sexual harassment was not isterial committee met with Kim Heang said workers were and Development for Cambodia endemic in the industry, and union and employer represent- left feeling thwarted, having Ros Sopheap said the fact the that it was rather a case of atives, but Bangladeshi-owned expected a positive outcome. women had reported the alleged “friendly behaviour being mis- Ocean Garment – which sup- “He asked the workers to go abuse was a breakthrough. construed as sexual advances”. plies retail titan Gap – refused to out with and then have sex with “I think in almost more than Choun Vicheka, Ocean Gar- terminate the manager accused him, especially the beautiful 10 years, I have not seen a claim ment’s administrative manager, Police confront striking workers employed by Ocean Garment Co Ltd by workers of misconduct. workers. He was so angry when of sexual harassment [in the gar- could not be reached. during a protest in Phnom Penh on Monday. vireak mai

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CHARGES relating to corrupt anti-drug operations domi- was ‘fed’ memories nated the second day of appeal hearings for former anti-drug Stuart White of the imperative to Michael Karna- czar Moek Dara and anti-drug “conserve our forc- vas, defence coun- chief Chea Leng yesterday. N OTHERWISE es to the maximum” sel for Ieng Sary, One of the many convictions routine cross-ex- and that each “one also took a jab at Leng is appealing is for using amination at the of us had to kill 30 co-investigators, an undercover agent to sell Khmer Rouge tribu- Vietnamese; if we citing a subtle dis- heroin confiscated from a Naga nalA yesterday began with the did that, we would crepancy between casino boat raid to drug dealers defence teams for both Nuon surely win.” a signed summary and pocket the proceeds of the Chea and Ieng Sary question- Yesterday, however, the wit- of Siek’s statement to the court sale himself in 2007. ing the methods of the co- ness said that her testimony and her testimony. “Chea Leng had asked his investigators responsible for over the previous days had Yesterday, Siek acknowl- subordinate [. . .] to take two collecting witnesses’ official jump-started her memory. edged the “irregularity,” which packages of heroin hidden in pre-trial statements. “And I did remember such an concerned whether she had the drawer of his office table First, Jasper Pauw, defence educational broadcast to the seen Ieng Sary at the Ministry Chea Leng (right), an accomplice of former anti-drug czar Moek Dara, and sell it to drug dealers at leaves the Appeal Court in Phnom Penh yesterday. heng chivoan counsel for Nuon Chea, sought soldiers back then.” Siek main- of Foreign Affairs on the day Phnom Penh’s Sydney Hotel,” to demonstrate that over the tained that she had truthfully of the fall of Phnom Penh – a presiding judge Chay Chan- bought from a Tela gas station in the history of Cambodian course of her interviews with told investigators in 2009 she sighting that would have been daravann summarised from near the National Police Com- courts,” he said, adding the impossible, Siek said yester- trial hearing documents. missioner,” the judge said. case would be dwarfed only day, given that on that date “But the deal was raided, and Both Leng and Dara have perhaps by Case 002 at the We believe we will show that “there was no ministry”. when the drug dealers were pleaded innocent. Khmer Rouge tribunal. certain information was fed “Now we have a witness – arrested by another unit of the “I recommended my police “I want the suspects to say as and we are grateful – that has anti-drug police department in officers correct the drug deal- much as they can to plead their to the witness recognised the irregularity and Ministry of Interior, [Leng] ers’ answers because I wanted case so the court can find jus- corrected it,” said Karnavas, ordered [the undercover agent] to maintain the reputation of tice for them,” the judge said. co-investigators, witness Sa had forgotten the broadcasts. calling the documents’ pre- to go into hiding,” he said. my anti-drug department . . . I Unexplained Anti-Corrup- Siek was made aware of matters Pauw responded by an- sumed accuracy into question. The three arrested drug deal- was afraid this was a trick of tion Unit cameras again filmed that she would have otherwise nouncing that his team Siek explained that she had ers confessed that Leng via an drug criminals to put blame on the day’s proceedings. ACU been unable to testify about. would be filing a request to missed the mistake because undercover agent had sold us in order to dishonour us,” officials did not respond to Pauw quoted passages from transcribe “relevant parts” of she had been “fatigued” when them the heroin but that Dara, Dara told the court. questions about the cameras. the former Ministry of Propa- the interview. she reviewed her statement. allegedly to protect the identity Chandaravann announced The court began questioning ganda employee’s 2009 official “We believe we will show that At the end of her testimony, of the undercover agent, doc- yesterday that the appeal, orig- Dara on the fourth case against statement to the court in which certain information was fed to the court called ex-Ministry tored the dealers’ confessions. inally slated to take all week, him involving accepting a she denied remembering “any- the witness, so that she can now of Propaganda employee Kim “He corrected the dealers’ would likely take longer. US$20,000 bribe. That quest- thing like” Democratic Kam- testify to matters that she was Vun to the stand. His testimo- phrases to say the drugs were “This will be the longest case ioning continues today. puchea-era radio broadcasts not aware of in 2009,” he said. ny continues today.

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Interested candidates should be highly motivated, have an excellent working knowledge of English with proven writing skills, and be fully procient with the current Microsoft O ce applications including managing electronic calendars. The successful candidate will receive an initial induction of one week in the job. This is a short time service agreement and will not lead to a longer term appointment with UNFPA.

Only shorted listed candidates shall be contacted. UNFPA retains the rights to contact referees directly. There is no application, processing or other fee at any stage of the application process. UNFPA does not solicit or screen for information in respect of HIV or AIDS and does not discriminate on the basis of HIV status. THE PHNOM PENH POST august 22, 2012 5 National Southern China now Cheating rampant: report on your television set Chhay Channyda

ATIONAL High Khouth Sophak Chakyra “Through this programming, School Exam candi- we expect that the solidarity of dates each spent an UNDER the supervision of both countries’ government average of 120,000 Cambodia’s Ministry for Infor- and people will be stronger and Nriel – about US$30 – on bribes mation, the state-run Cambo- closer,” he said. over this year’s two-day testing dia’s National Television (TVK) The two state-run television period to secure exam answers, and China’s state-run Guangxi stations have a long-standing according to independent re- Television Station launched a relationship and co-operated search released yesterday. new joint initiative to dissemi- in 2004 to advertise the China- Social researcher Kem Ley’s nate information about the ASEAN exhibition in Guangxi. report Turning a Blind Eye southern Chinese province. Shen Beihai, the minister of purported that 92 per cent The joint Showcase Week propaganda in Guangxi, said of students were involved in will include the screening of that during that period of co- bribery or cheating during six documentaries about life operation, there had been an the exam, which is conducted in Guangxi and Cambodia- exchange of programs between under the supervision of high- Guangxi relations, Zhou Wenli, the two broadcasters and that school proctors, teachers and the general director of Guangxi the Cambodian program Sovan police officials. TV said at the launch. Bopha (Golden Girl) had been a “We also see that 55 per cent The TV program series will hit with Chinese viewers. of answers were copied from focus on the development of “Many pretty female artists, their hand phone after the economics, society, culture like Sovan Bopha, were invited answer was made and sent and tourism in the Chinese to perform in China to perform around by email,” Ley said, province that borders Vietnam, shows to show off Cambodia’s noting social media site Face- Zhou said. arts,” Beihai said. book had emerged as a popu- lar means to cheat during this year’s exams, which took place on August 6 and 7. A recent study showed that about 55 per cent of students used their mobile phones to cheat in high-school exams. will baxter More maids head home “However, while this is a self-formed habit to bribe the Ministry of Education and gov- Rong Chhun, president of quality of education in Cam- Sen David Affairs spokesman Koy Kuong [exam supervisors], this year ernment development part- the Cambodian Independent bodia, it could not produce a said in a statement. there was a bit of improvement ners UNESCO and UNICEF Teacher Association, agreed that competitive labour force for IN the space of only about two Among those waiting for a compared to last year,” he next week, Ley told the Post, exam irregularities greatly dim- the 2015 ASEAN integration. months, the Cambodian em- flight home was Ggol Pich, said, pointing to more diligent in a bid to put pressure on the inished the quality of the educa- Sam Sereyrath, general dir- bassy in Malaysia had helped who has reached the end of monitoring of exam rooms by government to reform the ed- tion system in Cambodia. ector at the Ministry of Educa- eight Cambodian maids whose her two-year contract. police officials as stemming ucation system. “It isn’t a new thing. Although tion, said the research was a employers abused them, the She would arrive home to- the amount of exam answer For Ley, the solution lies in it was quieter around exam somewhat “small sample”, so government said yesterday. morrow, Kuong said, adding cheat sheets physically used improving the quality and eth- rooms this year, that is because it was incapable of evaluating “The maids have been mis- that others had already been by students. ics of teachers and exam invig- they are copying via email and the whole high-school exam. treated by their employers and repatriated. In October, Cam- The 40-page research find- ilators through appropriate re- Facebook,” Chhun said. “The result would have been some have finished their con- bodia put a ban on sending ings from interviews with 157 muneration or up to $150 per He added that if the govern- much more positive if he had tracts and want to come back maids to Malaysia after a spate students will be sent to the day during the exam period. ment did not deal with the interviewed more,” he said. home,” Ministry of Foreign of incidents involving abuse. 6 THE PHNOM PENH POST august 22, 2012 National Police In brief Blotter Kratie vendors protest  pricey relocation site Truants learn it’s not IN AN effort to improve Kratie all fun and games town’s aesthetics, authorities SIX school-skippers in Kam- have ordered about 300 shop pong Cham town were dragged owners on central roads and along the river bank to from their computer-gaming relocate their operations or shop chairs by police on Mon- face physical removal. Vendors day after a group of peeved were given until today to move parents complained their chil- to a location about a kilometre dren were continuously skip- away, but are protesting the ping school. Police later dis- new site’s fees of 150,000 to covered the gaming shop was 300,000 riel ($37.50 to $75) for masquerading as a café and 1.2 square metres, according to vendor representative Norn operating illegally. The shop Phalla. “We filed a complaint owner bolted, while police to commune officials for help, destroyed the computers and but we did not hear anything,” games. The rueful students Phalla said. Shop owners said apologised and promised to authorities were attempting to stop cutting classes. DEUM AmPIL beautify the city in order to bolster tourism. Vendor Sam Attentive neighbour foils Saveoun claimed deputy provincial governor Cheak attempt at inside job Meng Heang had told her: POLICE in Phnom Penh’s “I reminded you to move. Meanchey district arrested a Otherwise, you would be Vietnamese man yesterday fol- surprised when military lowing a sneaky subterfuge that police come to take your involved the suspect claiming stuff.” MOM KUNTHEAR Current affairs ownership of a house that wasn’t his. The man allegedly Chinese nationals tried Touch Roth, 17, charges batteries at a shop in Prek Takov commune, in Kandal province’s Khsach Kandal district. Many of Cambodia’s rural and for drug trafficking urban poor use car batteries to power lights and electric appliances in their homes. HENG CHIVOAN locked himself in the house and TWO Chinese nationals accused began to pilfer property. Howev- of trafficking illegal drugs totall- er, a neighbour saved the day by ing 1.5 kilograms are being tried calling out for help. Police by the Phnom Penh Municipal embarked on a wild chase Court in a hearing that began of the crook through the city’s yesterday. Tu Wei Jun, 27, and Skills race on for 2015 union streets. They eventually caught Lin Zhi Long, 26, were arrested him and sent him to court. last year in possession of meth, Sen David grade levels seven through starting in 2015. We hope that Ouk Davany, director of the heroin and marijuana in Prampi nine across the country. this new program will make us Technical Standard Institute, koh santepheap Makara after another trafficker HE MINISTRY of La- “Many youths across the competitive in the ASEAN job said the Skills Bridging Pro- tipped off police. When arrested, bour is launching a country are dropping out of market. We have enough hu- gram should prepare these Moto hi-jinks land two Wei Jun was staying in a room new training program school and taking jobs with- man resources and do not want students to work in the fields alleged dealers in jail rented from Zhi Long, who to prepare Cambo- out finishing their education, to see other ASEAN labourers of electronics, car repair and TWO alleged young drug deal- claims he had no knowledge of diansT to compete in the in- so they do not have skills com- overwhelm our country.” construction. ers in Phnom Penh’s Tuol the drugs. Defence lawyer Ouk tegrated ASEAN Economic parable with workers in other Sophan said that of Cambo- He noted that currently Kork district were arrested by Vandet asked the court to reduce Community (AEC) slated to countries,” Pich Sophan, sec- dia’s seven million current work- “most students want to study police on Monday for drug Wei Jun’s punishment and drop come into being in 2015, min- retary of state at the Labour ers, a full 50 per cent dropped subjects that involve office the charges against Zhi Long. istry officials said yesterday. Ministry, said yesterday. out of school at the primary lev- work, but do not seem to focus trafficking. Police said they Judge Kor Vandy said the verdict The “Skills Bridging Program” “This worries us, because our el. Rural areas, where standards on professional technical train- found two swollen packages of would be announced on Sept- will offer training in standard country will face job competi- of living are generally lower, have ing, which means that other drugs on the two, one aged 15 ember 12. LIENG SARITH professional skills to youth in tion with other ASEAN countries especially high dropout rates. countries have an edge”. and the other 21, while they were hooning about on their motorcycle. When police tried to pull them over, the two sped on, but were eventually caught. The men subsequent- ly admitted they were en route to distribute the dope and have been sent to court. rasmey kampuchea

Drunken trio injure foreigner in accident A BARANG was seriously injured in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district after a drunk driver slammed his motorcycle into him. Allegedly, the victim was aboard his own motorcycle when the vehicle, with three inebriated men aboard, lost control and crashed into him. The suspects have been sent to court. DEUM APIL

Neighbours silent in face of domestic violence AN ALLEGED wife-beater was arrested in Kampong Speu’s Phnom Sroch district on Mon- day. Police said neighbours wit- nessed him thump and thrash his wife about until she was seriously injured, but they were too afraid to restrain him. The suspect was arrested and sent to court while his wife remains in hospital. kampuchea thmey

Translated by Sen David THE PHNOM PENH POST august 22, 2012 7 Business Indicative Exchange Rates as of 21/08/2012. Please contact ANZ Royal Global Markets on 023 999 910 for real time rates.

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Meas Chansatya

HONEY collectors from four provinces in Cambodia signed an agreement with the Cam- bodian Center for Study and Development in Agriculture (CEDAC) in order to bring more honey to the capital. CEDAC has encouraged farmers from four provinces – Preah Vihear, Kratie, Koh Kong and Mondulkiri – to col- lect honey from their commu- nities to sell in CEDAC stores in Phnom Penh. The initiative comes as cus- tomers are relatively uncer- tain about the country’s hon- ey products, but CEDAC is attempting to take the honey to be examined and standard- ised, which customers tend to be more interested in, accord- ing to CEDAC President Yang Saing Koma. Under the agreement, bee- hunting communities would supply 4,000 litres of pure for- est honey each year for sale in 10 shops across Phnom Penh, Yang said. “We hope that, through this Fishermen set out at daybreak on the Tonle Sap river in Phnom Penh. meng kimlong agreement, CEDAC and forest honey hunter communities will benefit by both increasing their incomes and preserving natural resources for each community,” said Yang. Wild lobster stocks replenished Pich Phony, president of the Cambodian Honey Hunter Rann Reuy million so far this year. We re- However, hatching lobsters for freshwater lobster, farm- “My clients in Siem Reap Community, which represents leased about 200,000 young is a problem due to their ten- ing of the crustacean in Cam- and other provinces have about 300 members in Mon- EVEN million young losbters in Ang Trapaing dency to fall ill and die, he bodia has increased. order more because they dulkiri, Koh Kong, Kratie and lobsters had been Thma in Banteay Meanchey said, adding: “We are collect- A kilogram of top-quality were successful in feeding Preah Vihear provinces, said released into Cambo- province and other places.” ing the females via fishing. lobster sells for about US$30, the lobsters they received the honey would be sold to dia’s rivers and Tonle The Fisheries Adminstra- But, after we release those up from $10 in 2005, accord- from me once they hatched, CEDAC for US$9.70 per litre. Sap Lake this year in an ef- tion previously released hatched in capitivity there are ing to lobster farmers. The and were able to grow them He added that the honey fort to build the nation’s fish 120,000 young lobsters in a lot of deaths.” government is seeking to to a size that fit their needs,” hunter communities in the and shellfish stocks, officials 2010, with the number in- Each day, there are be- foster growth in Cambodia’s he said. four provinces are able to said yesterday. creasing to one million last tween five to 20 illegal fish- wild lobster population after Khieu Sam, a lobster hatch- collect from 5,000 to 8,000 Nao Thouk, general direc- year, while this year, they ing operations that are overfishing diminished the er from Tramkok district in litres of honey in total per tor of the Fisheries Admin- planned to release seven mil- stopped by Fisheries offi- population significantly in Takeo province, who previ- year at present. istration at the Ministry of lion more, according to Nao cials, Nao said. recent years. ously hatched about 20,000 According to official fig- Agriculture, Forestry and Thouk, who spoke with the “Illegal fishing activities Prom Vath, who runs a to 30,000 young lobsters a ures, only 10 per cent of the Fisheries said, about a half Post late last year. will not end because there are lobster hatchery in Angkor year, quit the business this 500,000 litres of honey million baby lobsters were Cambodia harvests about people who live on or near Borei district in Takeo prov- year because of a lack of or- demanded domestically each released into the rivers and 100 tonnes of wild lobsters a the water and are in need of ince said that he increased ders from lobster farmers year is currently supplied by waterways of Cambodia in an year, though the market de- food or money. I compare it the number of lobsters who were incapable of feed- Cambodia’s collectors. effort to increase the amount mands about 1,000 tonnes. to the possibility of eliminat- hatched to meet demand ing their stock properly. It is hoped that the deal will of wild lobsters after sharp From the seven million lob- ing crime in Phnom Penh. If from customers who have “The raising of hatchlings also help strengthen commu- decreases in their population sters released, only about five we manage to do that then sought nearly one million that have been reserved re- nity conservation of hives and in recent years. per cent of them are expected illegal fishing would end as lobsters this year alone, up quires a lot of capital. If there natural forest resources, said “We released young lob- to live long enough to reach a well,” he said. from around 600,000 lob- are no orders, it leads to a Pich Phony. sters, numbering nearly a weight of one kilogram. As prices continue to climb sters last year. loss,” he said. 8 THE PHNOM PENH POST august 22, 2012 Business

AirAsia calls for In brief Jain Irrigation bets Somali PM plans to upgrade to Don focus on economy SOMALIA’S new government will focus on the economy as on lending unit Mueang Terminal 2 it seeks to rebuild a nation shattered by two decades of Pratik Parija Boonsong Kositchotethana AirAsia expects traffic war, Prime Minister Abdiweli through Don Mueang to soar Mohamed Ali says. The east AIN Irrigation Systems, NO-FRILLS airline group Air to 14 million passengers a year African country was in the Asia’s biggest irriga- Asia is urging Airports of Thai- over the next four years, point- final stages of selecting a tion-equipment maker, land (AoT) to renovate Termi- ing to a need for additional ter- two-tier parliament, Ali, Jis banking on its new nal 2 at Don Mueang airport in minal capacity. who is a candidate to lending unit to attract cash- parallel with work being done Meanwhile, Tassapon ex- become president, said in strapped farmers to its prod- at Terminal 1 to deal with traf- pressed his improved confi- an interview in the capital, ucts and revive sales growth fic that will quickly build up. dence that Don Mueang will Mogadishu, last week. that has slowed for the past Tassapon Bijleveld, the be ready as a fully functional Lawmakers were scheduled seven years. chief executive of Thai Air airport by October 1. to vote in a new president The non-banking financial Asia, a sister airline of Asia’s “Key infrastructure is yesterday, although the company, scheduled to begin largest low-cost carrier, ad- there, and the fact that two process might be delayed operations in October, would vocates such a move, saying airlines have already been because the vetting of help cut its parent’s interest he expects Terminal 1’s traf- operating out of it indicates parliamentarians had burden, managing director fic to reach capacity 12 to 18 it is quite ready to a certain taken longer than Anil Jain said in a phone in- months after it becomes fully extent,” he said. expected, Ali said. Bloomberg terview from Mumbai. operational on October 1. Tassapon said the issue of Government subsidies used “Don’t wait. It’s better to most concern is the effective- Indonesia shuts most tin to fund the purchase of pipes Boys play in an irrigation tube leading to a water reservoir. Asia’s have the capacity available ness of flood prevention at smelters to thin supply and sprinklers might take as leader in irrigation equipment has turned to lending. reuters ahead of time rather than try- Don Mueang, which was rav- INDONESIA has idled about long as 18 months to collect, ing to catch up with traffic de- aged by last year’s floods. 70 per cent of the tin- forcing Jain to resort to short- quarterly loss since 2004 in the told analysts in a conference mand later on,” he said. The personal involve- smelting capacity in its term loans at about 14 per three months through June. call on August 16. Tassapon was commenting ment of Transport Minister biggest producing region cent, he said. Shares in the Janus Invest- Jain Irrigation fell 2.1 per cent on the state-controlled air- Jarupong Ruangsuwan and amid a three-month bear The unit will be able to bor- ments LLC-backed company to 73.95 rupees (US$1.33)as of port authority’s plan to revive Deputy Minister Chatchart market, curbing the world’s row at a lower rate. have declined 15 per cent this yesterday morning in Mumbai Terminal 2 only after Terminal Sithipan in the first phase of biggest tin exports and “We found that this way, it year, whereas the benchmark trading, after gaining as much 1 reaches capacity, to avoid renovation should provide setting the stage for a won’t be sustainable for us to Sensitive Index has gained 15 as 2.3 per cent. The shares last what AoT now perceives as a additional assurance of the global shortage. Producers continue,” Jain said. per cent. week fell 9.5 per cent after the premature investment. airport’s readiness. in Bangka-Belitung “It is difficult for me and my “One can see sales growth company reported a loss of After renovation, Terminal 2 Meanwhile, Tassapon re- province have closed 24 balance sheet to finance for starting next quarter,” said 169 million rupees (US$3 mil- will be able to handle 22.5 mil- newed AirAsia founder Tony of the 28 smelters, the more than six months. Siyoni at KR Choksey, a Mum- lion) for last quarter because lion passengers a year – the Fernandes’s recent call for Indonesian Tin Mining “With an NBFC, funds are bai-based brokerage that rates of a 32 per cent reduction in its capacity that was available AoT to slash the passenger Association estimates. cheaper, I get all the money the stock a buy. micro-irrigation business and when Bangkok’s old airport service charge or airport Demand will exceed supply up front and I don’t have to “With receivables coming held-up subsidy payments. was closed upon the opening tax for international flights by 7,000 metric tonnes next pay for working capital.” down, more of the cash flow Sales fell 9.5 per cent to 8.43 of Suvarnabhumi in Septem- at Don Mueang, now at 700 year, equal to about 60 per Reviving sales growth will will be used to repay debt.” billion rupees. ber, 2006. baht (US$22.23) per person, cent of global stockpiles help boost cash flows and cut The Jalgaon, Maharashtra- Thirteen of the 18 analysts Tassapon said the Air-Asia for the sake of stimulating tracked by the London finance costs, says Ronald Si- based company is also close to who cover the stock recom- group would shift its base passenger traffic. Metal Exchange, Barclays yoni, an analyst at KR Choksey raising US$200 million from a mend buying it, while four from Suvarnabhumi to Don Suvarnabhumi is likely to Plc estimates. Bloomberg Shares and Securities. combination of private equity favour selling. Janus owns 6.9 Mueang on October 1, gener- receive well over the 45 mill- Rising interest payments investment, debt and convert- per cent of the company, ac- ating traffic of as many as 10 ion passenagers it is capable Apple’s market value have eroded profit, causing ible bonds to revamp its debt cording to data compiled by million passengers in the first of handling this year. exceeds Microsoft’s the company to report its first and lower finance costs, Jain Bloomberg. BLOOMBERG year at its new home. THE BANGKOK POST APPLE’S market value climbed past US$623 billion on Monday, surpassing the record set by Microsoft during the heyday of tech- nology stocks in 1999. Apple Thailand lacks long-term energy security shares rose 2.6 per cent, bringing its gains this Soonya Vanichkorn Thailand predominantly depends The cost of imported gas is also is an exemplar of well diversified month to almost nine per on natural gas as its main source of expected to increase, adding pressure fuel sources. cent as Wall St bets on the NO one would dispute that energy and fuel to generate electricity, account- on national expenditures. The Japanese government made a September 12 roll-out of electricity are the essential backbones ing for 72 per cent of all fuel used for In addition to the rising cost that firm commitment to diversify fuel the latest version of the of a modern economy. However, ques- power generation. would be passed on to the population, sources after the spike in oil prices fol- iPhone, the device that tions about what kind of fuel should About 60 per cent of gas is pro- if gas pipelines are disrupted, we would lowing the oil crisis in the 1970s. Before revolutionised the mobile be used to generate this power have duced locally with the rest imported face severe power cuts in the country if that, Japan predominantly depended industry. Microsoft, long been debated and are causing from Myanmar. we only rely on one fuel, said Pongdith on petrol for power generation. however, retains the title uncertainty in Thailand’s long-term Other fuels include coal (20 per cent) Potchana, Egat’s assistant governor for In 2008, coal accounted for 27 per cent of history’s most valuable energy security. and hydropower (5 per cent) both corporate social responsibility. of power generation there, gas 26 per company if its 1999 peak Without clarity in national policy as domestically and from Laos. Although the Power Development cent, nuclear 24 per cent, petrol 13 per value of about $621 billion to the types of fuel the country would Gas production in Thailand is expect- Plan 2010 calls for reduction of gas cent, and hydropower eight per cent. were to be adjusted for depend on in the long term, Thailand ed to peak in 2015 before declining if no dependence to less than half the energy Egat has pushed for a more diversified inflation. reuters has been trapped at an energy impasse, new field is discovered, to the extent resources by 2030, it does not exactly energy portfolio to ensure long-term said the Electricity Generating Author- that existing supplies are expected to say which type of fuel is to replace gas. power security as demand has been on Cnooc profit drops ity of Thailand (Egat). run out in 18 years. Japan’s national energy portfolio the rise. THE BANGKOK POST after output losses CNOOC, China’s biggest off- shore oil and gas explorer, posted a 19 per cent decline in first-half profit that was worse than analysts esti- mated after a spill closed its largest local field. The shares slumped. Net income had dropped to 31.87 billion yuan (US$5 billion), or 0.71 yuan a 7-Eleven earnings to break share, from 39.34 billion the 10bn baht mark yuan, or 0.88 yuan, a year CP All, which operates the 7-Eleven convenience-store chain in earlier, CNOOC said Thailand, projects this year’s net profit will break the 10 billion yesterday. That compared baht (US$317 million) mark for the first time, up by 25 per cent with the 35.07 billion yuan from eight billion baht last year, the Bangkok Post reports. median estimate of seven Sermsuk blazes own path, analysts in a Bloomberg beginning in November survey. CNOOC shares fell as much as 5.5 per cent, the LISTED beverage firm Sermsuk is developing a road map for most since October, 2011, strategic growth after 59 years of serving outsiders, including after the company cut its Pepsi. Its bottling and distribution agreement with US bever- age giant PepsiCo will end on November 1 this year, and its dividend, citing the need to new business direction is to become a producer and distribu- conserve capital for the $15 tor of both beverages and foods, the Bangkok Post reports. billion takeover of Canada’s Nexen Inc. Bloomberg THE PHNOM PENH POST august 22, 2012 9 MarketsBusiness Vehicle tax revenue Polly Peck tycoon moves up a gear found guilty of theft Peter Griffiths May Kunmakara TURKISH-CYPRIOT tycoon HE Kingdom’s revenue Asil Nadir, who built one of from taxes collected the most successful busi- on vehicles rose 36 per nesses in Britain during the cent year-on-year in 1980s before fleeing the 2012,T officials said yesterday. country after his firm’s col- Taxes collected on vehicles, lapse, was found guilty of of all makes and models, ac- theft on Monday. count for approximately 10 per Nadir, who spent 17 years as cent of the total tax revenue a fugitive, was accused of steal- of the state and totalled more ing from the Polly Peck empire than US$25 million for 2012. he transformed from a small Officials said increasing pub- textiles firm into the darling of lic awareness of the importance the City of London. of paying taxes was the main A jury at London’s Old Bailey engine for this growth. court found the 71-year-old Sim Eang, royal delegate guilty of three theft charges, in charge of the General De- cleared him of one other, and Turkish-Cypriot businessman Asil Nadir leaves the Old Bailey court in partment of Taxation, said A 2012 tax stamp displayed on the front of a motorbike in Phnom Penh was still considering nine London earlier this year. reuters during the press conference yesterday. pha lina more counts, the Press Asso- at a signing ceremony with ciation said. yesterday to consider the that Nadir had stolen £34 mill- Acleda Bank Plc in Phnom it even simpler, he said. “We lecting taxes was a step forward Polly Peck’s demise, one of remaining charges. The maxi- ion (US$53.4 million) from Penh yesterday that the have noticed that tax payers to complete transparency. Britain’s biggest corporate fail- mum sentence for theft is Polly Peck to enrich himself and awareness and willingness now understand more about “Although we only have this ures, was a huge embarrass- seven years in prison. his friends and associates. of people to pay their taxes their duty to pay tax.” agreement with the bank for ment to the Conservative Nadir, wearing a dark suit, a Philip Shears, prosecuting, has resulted in revenue from Critics have laid claims of the payment of taxes on vehi- Party since it had received green tie and a matching hand- said Nadir had transferred vehicle tax stamps increasing corruption against the depart- cles, it is a very significant im- donations from Nadir. kerchief in his top pocket, millions of pounds abroad significantly this year. ment. However, Kong Vibol, provement in accountability The verdict is a serious set- appeared shocked when the through a complex network of The department has been secretary of state for the Min- and transparency for the de- back for Nadir, who returned jury returned the guilty ver- companies and banks. trying to promote information istry of Economy and Finance, partment, which it is normally to Britain in 2010, promising dicts. His wife Nur left the court He had used some of the about the taxes to the public said that the memorandum criticized for. We will consider he clear his name. in tears and was taken away in money to buy antiques, pay in order to build awareness as of understanding between having other taxes collected The seven men and three a chauffeur-driven Jaguar. off debts and prop up the well as to improve the tax pay- the department and Acleda to by the bank if it will help to in- women jurors were sent out for During the seven-month trial, price of Polly Peck shares, ment procedure by making make the bank a partner in col- crease tax revenue further.” the night and were to return prosecutors presented evidence Shears said. REUTERS 10 THE PHNOM PENH POST august 22, 2012 Business Part of the daily grind in Korea Hotel price-fixing

Hyunjoo Jin scheme goes to court

HESE days, a stroll on Nick Brown ers, with the online market now the streets of south- accounting for about half of all ern Seoul is just as EXPEDIA, Hilton Worldwide US hotel room sales, the lawsuit likely to bring the fra- and other big hotel retailers contends. If not for the scheme, granceT of fresh-brewed coffee and operators have been ac- consumers would have paid as that of kimchi or more tra- cused in a federal lawsuit in less for rooms, the plaintiffs say. ditional Korean foods. California of conspiring to fix In Britain, regulators an- Nearly one in every two build- hotel room prices as they bat- nounced provisional findings ings boasts a coffee shop, from tle small online retailers who of a breach of UK competi- Starbucks to local brands such sell rooms more cheaply. tion laws following an investi- as Caffé Bene and Angel-in-us Two consumers are seeking gation of price-fixing for hotel Coffee. Despite the existence of class-action status for the suit rooms involving online travel shops a mere 70 metres apart, it filed on Monday in a California companies, British media re- can still be hard to find a seat on federal court, which alleges ported in July. some evenings, even though a the hotels teamed with online Among the roughly 15 de- cup can cost more than a meal. room sellers to set minimum fendants of the California law- In short, South Korea, home rates on rooms and is seeking suit are online retailers Orbitz to the world’s third-largest unspecified money damages. Worldwide, Travelocity.com number of Starbucks stores Plaintiffs Nikita Turik and and its parent, Sabre Holdings. after the United States and Eric Balk say the companies Also included are big-name Japan, has become a battle- broke federal and Califor- hotel operators Marriott In- ground for coffee chains. nia state anti-trust laws with ternational and Starwood “There are few places where agreements whereby hotel op- Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, I can meet my friends com- erators ceased doing business which runs the Sheraton, W fortably, so I go to coffee A woman drinks a mug of coffee at a Caffé Bene outlet in Seoul. Almost every second building in southern with online retailers that sold and Westin hotel chains. shops,” Ko Sun-bee, a high- Seoul has a coffee shop. bloomberg rooms below certain prices. Travel sites “created the ill- school teacher in Seoul, says. The agreements, drawn up in usion” that consumers could Although coffee was once fee imports jumped 44 per The spark was lit by Star- of US culture and it has meetings and during industry seek out the best deals, Steve a luxury drink, the market in cent to 130,000 tonnes over bucks, which entered the gained widespread popu- conferences, were designed to Berman, an attorney for the South Korea has grown at a the past four years, the Korea market in 1999, analysts say. larity among young Koreans combat mounting competition plaintiffs, said in a statement dizzying rate. The number of Customs service says. “Without Starbucks, there who admire it.” from smaller online retailers on Monday. coffee shops jumped nearly The value of the market over- would be no coffee boom The number of Starbucks that sold rooms more cheaply, “The reality is that these il- ten-fold to 12,381 between all has risen 17-fold to 2.48 here,” says Lee Taek-gwang, stores has more than doubled according to the complaint. legal price-parity agreements 2006 and 2011. trillion Korean won (US$2.19 a culture commentator and to 367 over the past five years. The hotel operators played mean consumers see nothing South Korean adults con- billion) in the same period, ac- professor at Kyung-hee Uni- The company said last year it along because they could not but cosmetic differences and sumed an average 338 cups cording to a think tank affiliated versity in Seoul. planned to raise that number afford to lose access to busi- the same prices on every site,” of coffee last year, and cof- with the KB Financial Group. “Starbucks is the symbol to 700 by 2016. REUTERS ness from the big online retail- Berman said. REUTERS THE PHNOM PENH POST august 22, 2012 11 Business Thailand Vietnam Singapore Malaysia Hong Kong China Japan Taiwan Thai Set 50 Index, Aug 20 Ho Chi Minh Stock Index, Aug 20 FTSE Straits Times Index, Aug 20 FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI, Aug 20 Hang Seng Index, Aug 20 CSI 300 Index, Aug 20 Nikkei 225, Aug 20 Taiwan Taiex Index, Aug 20 900.0 500 4000 1700 25000 3000 9500 8000

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Germany 10-Year 1.750 07/04/2022 101.89 / 1.54 -0.295 / 0.032 06:14 Item Unit Base Average (%) The broker has maintained its “outperform” rating on the stock. Amata Gasoline R 5100 4800 -5.88 % Japan 10-Year 0.800 06/20/2022 99.80 / 0.83 0.154 / -0.017 04:30 Corporation shares were up 1.8 per cent at 17 baht. Diesel R 4900 4600 -6.12 % Australia 10-Year 5.500 04/21/2023 118.15 / 3.45 0.001 / -0.001 02:40 The shares have risen 34.9 per cent this year, outperforming the 19.8 per Petroleum R 5000 5000 0.00 % cent gain of the broader SET index. REUTERS Gas Chi 77000 66000 -14.29 % Brazil 9-Year 10.000 01/01/2021 1,025.48 / 9.82 0.072 / 0.006 05:10 Charcoal Bath 1300 1200 -7.69 % 12 THE PHNOM PENH POST august 22, 2012 World Assange cramped but wired to world

Karolin Schaps and Estelle Shirbont

LIVING on takea-way meals in a small room with a treadmill to burn off frustrated energy and a vitamin D lamp to make up for a lack of sunlight, Julian Assange has the one material thing he values most: a computer with an internet connection. The WikiLeaks founder took refuge nine weeks ago at the Ecuadorean embassy in Lon- don to avoid being extradited to Sweden, where he is wanted for questioning over alleged rape. Having feared jail, he now finds himself living like a prisoner. Yet his British friend and sup- porter Vaughan Smith, who hosted Assange at his country mansion for a year during his failed legal battle against extradi- tion, said the Australian was in good spirits and enjoying the vir- tual freedom of his computer. “He seemed to be bearing up fine. The key to understanding Assange is that if he’s got a com- puter, he’s normally happy,” Smith said after he visited the embassy, housed on one floor of In sight a red-brick apartment block in A soldier participates in an anti-terror drill at a subway station in Seoul yesterday. On Monday, South Korean and US forces began on Monday the Ulchi Freedom Guardian (UFG) drill, affluent Knightsbridge. an annual joint exercise to test their defence ability against North Korea. REUTERS “The thing that concerns him most is the possibility he won’t be able to work properly – and that’s why he seems less keen on prison cells than embassies.” On Sunday, the world had its first glimpse of Assange since June 19, when he slipped into the Russia warns West on Syria embassy. Last week, Ecuador, led by leftist president Rafael Correa, Dominic Evans was not certain the stockpile granted Assange asylum – but was secure. Britain still plans to arrest him if USSIA warned the Obama has been reluctant to he tries to leave. West yesterday embroil the US in another war Appearing on a narrow bal- against unilateral in the Middle East and refuses cony to berate the US over action on Syria, a to arm Syrian rebels, partly for what he called its “witch hunt” Rday after US President Barack fear that some of those fighting against his anti-secrecy web- Obama threatened “enormous the Iranian-backed president site, the 41-year-old former consequences” if his Syrian are Islamist radicals equally computer hacker was in the counterpart used chemical or hostile to the West. full glare of the world’s media biological arms or even moved Turkish Foreign Minister Ah- for 10 minutes. them in a menacing way. met Davutoglu was quoted His distinctive white-blond Russian Foreign Minister as saying the UN may need to hair now trimmed short, he Sergei Lavrov, speaking after create a “safe zone” in Syria to wore a neatly pressed shirt and meeting China’s top diplomat, accommodate those fleeing tie and appeared in good said Moscow and Beijing were the fighting, saying his country health, if rather tired. committed to “the need to would not be able to take in His speech delivered, he strictly adhere to the norms of more than 100,000 refugees. paused to survey cheering sup- international law . . . and not But creating a safe haven porters, busy journalists and to allow their violation”. would require imposing a no- stern London police on the Russia and China have op- fly zone, an idea which US De- street below, before retreating posed military intervention in US President Barack Obama speaks on Monday from the briefing room of the White House in Washington, fence Secretary Leon Panetta to his private world within. Syria throughout a 17-month- where he threatened Syria over its use of chemical weapons. REUTERS said last week was not a “front- Smith said Assange was sleep- old revolt against President burner” issue for Washington. ing and working in a single room Bashar al-Assad. They have But Obama used some of ple to secure Syrian chemical it had chemical or biological When Obama was asked that looked like someone’s office vetoed three UN Security his strongest language yet on and biological weapons, he weapons and said it could whether he envisaged the pos- hastily converted into living quar- Council resolutions backed by Monday to warn Assad not to said his view could change. use them if foreign countries sibility of using US forces at ters. He had started out with an Western and Arab states that cross a “red line” of even shift- “We have been very clear to intervened. The threat drew least to safeguard Syria’s chem- air mattress but that had been would have put more pressure ing unconventional weapons the Assad regime, but also to strong warnings from Wash- ical arsenal, he said: “We’re replaced by a real bed. on Damascus to end violence in a threatening manner. other players on the ground, ington and its allies, although monitoring that situation very “It’s a small room. It has a that has cost 18,000 lives. Seeking re-election in No- that a red line for us is [if] we it is not clear how the Syrian carefully. We have put together window, but I wouldn’t The United States and its vember, Obama noted that he start seeing a whole bunch armed forces might use such a range of contingency plans.” describe it as airy. I didn’t see allies have shown little ap- had refrained “at this point” of chemical weapons mov- weapons in urban warfare. The Global Security website any kitchen facilities, though I petite for military action in from ordering US military en- ing around or being utilised,” “We cannot have a situation says there are four suspected understand he has access to a Syria, in contrast to last year’s gagement in Syria. But when Obama said. “That would where chemical or biological chemical weapons sites in Syr- microwave. He has access to a NATO campaign that helped he was asked at a White House change my calculus.” weapons are falling into the ia producing the nerve agents shower. A supporter gave him topple Libyan leader Muam- news conference whether he Syria last month acknowl- hands of the wrong people,” VX, sarin and tabun. It does a running machine,” Smith mar Gaddafi. might deploy forces, for exam- edged for the first time that Obama said, adding that he not cite its sources. REUTERS said. REUTERS THE PHNOM PENH POST august 22, 2012 13 World Ecuador warns UK on embassy bid

Lizzy Davies territories could be violated all over the world.” Such a move, he HE Ecuadorean pres- added, would be disastrous, es- ident has warned pecially for Britain, he said. Britain not to att- Downing St has said Britain is empt to enter his committed to seeking a diplo- Tcountry’s embassy in Lon- matic solution with Ecuador in don to seize Julian Assange, the stand-off over Assange, who claiming that to do so would it insists it is obliged to extradite be an act of political suicide to Sweden to face questioning that would leave Britain’s dip- over allegations of sexual mis- lomatic premises vulnerable conduct, which he denies. the world over. But last week, as Ecuador Speaking on state television prepared to announce its decis- days after his government an- ion to grant Assange asylum, Dance with a message nounced it had decided to grant Foreign Office officials in Quito An entertainer, surrounded by statues of Chuchok, a greedy Brahmin who, in a story from the Buddhist Vessantara Jataka, died from gluttony as a result of his new-found wealth, dances at Baan Chuchok in Bangkok yesterday. REUTERS the WikiLeaks founder political delivered a letter to the Ecua- asylum, Rafael Correa showed dorean government in which little sign of seeking to ease they claimed a legal right under tensions with Britain, which the Diplomatic and Consular threatened last week to use an Premises Act 1987 to revoke an Russia searches for more Pussy Riot members obscure piece of legislation to embassy’s diplomatic status. enter the Ecuadorean embassy Asked on Monday night RUSSIAN police were searching for more the two-year prison sentences last Friday not yet identified the suspects. Police did and arrest the Australian. whether he thought there was members of Pussy Riot, a spokeswoman as part of a clampdown on a protest move- not say how many people they were looking “I think it would be suicidal for any chance the British authori- said, signalling further pressure on the ment and reminiscent of the show trials of for, or whether they faced arrest and charg- the United Kingdom,” he said, ties would carry out its threat, punk-rock band despite an international dissidents during the Soviet era. es or were wanted merely for questioning. according to the Spanish news the BBC reported that the presi- outcry over jail terms for three women who Police said on Monday they were search- “The necessary search operations are agency Efe. dent said: “While the UK hasn’t protested against Vladimir Putin. ing for other members of the group in con- being conducted,” a representative of the “After that, the diplomatic retracted or apologised, the dan- The Russian president’s critics have con- nection with the protest at Moscow’s Christ Moscow police told the Interfax news premises of [the UK] in other ger still exists.” REUTERS demned the court proceedings that yielded the Saviour cathedral in February, but had agency. THE GUARDIAN Iran shows off its upgraded weapons, but doubts linger

Yeganeh Torbati range missiles capable of hit- ting Israel, and tested dozens IRAN unveiled upgrades to six of missiles aimed at simulated weapons yesterday, including air bases. a more accurate short-range It also presented a more missile and a more powerful powerful, 5,000-horsepow- naval engine, Iranian media er sea-borne engine, the reported, in what seemed to Bonyan-4, Fars quoted Vahidi be its latest response to in- as saying. A previous version ternational pressure over its had 1,000 horsepower, the Ira- nuclear program. nian Students’ News Agency The hardware was present- (ISNA) said. ed at a ceremony marking Military experts have cast Defence Industry Day and doubts on Iranian claims of attended by President Mah- weapons advances, espe- moud Ahmadinejad and De- Iranian President Mahmoud cially its assertions about fence Minister Ahmad Vahidi. Ahmadinejad at an Islamic its missile program, saying Israel has said it is consider- summit this month. REUTERS Tehran often exaggerates ing air strikes on Iran’s nuclear its capabilities. sites if the Islamic Republic “I have no doubt that our “The Fateh-110 has a crude does not resolve Western fears defensive capabilities can guidance and control system it is developing the means stand up to bullying and put a that operates during the mis- to produce atomic weapons, halt to their plans.” sile’s ascent rather than dur- something the Islamic Repub- The United States has also ing final descent,” Michael lic denies. not ruled out military action Elleman, senior fellow for Iran says it could hit Israel against Iran but says the pri- missile defence at the Inter- and US bases in the region if it ority of world powers remains national Institute for Strate- comes under attack. the use of diplomacy and gic Studies, said. It has also threatened to sanctions to rein in its nucle- “The Fateh-110 appears to block the Strait of Hormuz, the ar activity. lack the sub-systems needed neck of the Gulf through which Among the upgrades was a to effect terminal steering,” he 40 per cent of the world’s sea- fourth generation of the Fateh- said in an email. borne oil exports pass. Such a 110 missile, which boasts a Iran also presented Armi- move would probably invite range of about 300 kilometres. ta, an “airborne laboratory” a military response from the Iran said earlier this month to help test aircraft launch United States. that it had successfully test- systems and oxygen genera- Ahmadinejad said yester- fired the new model and that tion and train fighter pilots, day that Iran’s military ad- it was equipped with a more Fars reported. vances are purely for defen- accurate guidance system. Vahidi said it was named sive purposes and should not “This missile is one of the after the daughter of Dari- be taken as a threat, but said most precise and advanced ush Rezaeinejad, an Iranian they would dissuade world land-to-land ballistic missiles scientist who was shot dead powers from imposing their using solid fuel,” Vahidi was last year. will on Iran. quoted as saying by Fars news Iran believes agents working “Defensive advances are agency. “In the last decade it with foreign intelligence ser- meant to defend human in- has had a significant role in vices including the American tegrity, and are not meant to promoting the Islamic Republic CIA and Israel’s Mossadare be offensive moves toward of Iran’s defence capabilities.” were behind the assassinat- others,” Ahmadinejad said, ac- In July, Iran said it had suc- ions of several of its nuclear cording to Mehr news agency. cessfully test-fired medium- scientists. REUTERS 14 THE PHNOM PENH POST august 22, 2012 World

In brief Historic Sectarian clashes Japan may widen response wound 22 in Lebanon parliament AT LEAST 22 people were Kaori Kaneko wounded in overnight clashes opens in between Sunni Muslim and APAN said yesterday it was Alawite neighbourhoods in considering taking meas- Somalia Lebanon’s northern city of ures beyond diplomatic Tripoli, local security and Jaction in its feud with medical sources said South Korea over a group of Nastasya Tay and David Smith yesterday. Gunmen in the disputed islands, suggesting two districts exchanged Tokyo may take the unusual A DUSTY seaside car park gunfire and launched rocket- step of extending the stand- with black folding chairs was propelled grenades, residents off into the economic arena. the makeshift setting on Mon- said, in fighting that continued Finance Minister Jun Azumi day for the first parliament to sporadically through the suggested last Friday that Ja- sit in Somalia for more than night. reuters pan could roll back an emer- two decades. gency currency-swap arrange- About 250 MPs wearing Divers recover body ment that was agreed last year new ID tags and, in some of Philippine minister and expires in October. cases, the scent of cologne DIVERS had recovered the Japanese media have also were sworn in by the chief body of the Philippines’ interior speculated that Tokyo could justice on worn copies of the minister from the wreckage of abort a plan to buy South Quran in front of Somalia’s a light aircraft that crashed Korean government bonds, a national flag of a white star into the sea near the central step agreed as part of financial on sky blue background. island of Masbate three days and economic co-operation It was a day that many hope ago, a senior official said between the two countries. will mark a new chapter after yesterday. The body of Interior Japan’s cabinet yesterday held A Japanese Ground Self-Defence Force CH-47 helicopter carries an armoured vehicle with ropes past the civil war and bloodshed Secretary Jesse Robredo was a meeting to discuss a response Mount Fuji during a training exercise west of Tokyo yesterday. REUTERS that followed the collapse of pulled from the six-seat Piper to what Japan considered a pro- central government in 1991. Seneca plane that had been vocative visit of South Korea’s Azumi would not comment his trip to Seoul, scheduled for phia University professor and But sceptics warn that the carrying him, Transportation president to disputed islands on the swap deal yesterday and this week, and the government political commentator, said. process is already tainted and and Communication Secretary earlier this month. other ministers said the issue postponed two other minis- Japan’s ruling Democrats, likely to unravel. Mar Roxas told reporters. Chief Cabinet Secretary was not even discussed. terial-level meetings between under voter pressure and The inauguration was held reuters Osamu Fujimura said Prime The islands, known as Dok- the two countries that were likely to lose the next elec- at the main airport, one of the Minister Yoshihiko Noda told do in Korea and Takeshima planned for late this month. tion, seemed to have over- most heavily secured areas of Krygyz forces shoot his cabinet to consider addi- in Japan, lie equidistant from Tokyo has said it will take the reacted to media criticism the capital, Mogadishu, fugitive border guard tional measures to deal with the two mainlands and are be- long-running islands territo- that they were too soft in watched over by African Union KYRGYZ security forces on the conflict, beyond usual lieved to contain frozen natu- rial dispute to the International disputes with Japan’s neigh- peacekeepers in armoured yesterday killed a fugitive diplomatic channels. ral gas deposits potentially Court of Justice. bours, said Nakano. personnel carriers. border guard suspected of “Prime Minister Noda in- worth billions of dollars. But it would be unusual for The spat with South Korea Just over a year after the shooting dead five people at structed ministers to prepare Japan recalled its ambassa- Japan to play the economic card coincides with a stand-off be- militant Islamist group al- a remote frontier post, the peaceful solution in accor- dor to South Korea after Lee in disputes with its neighbours. tween Japan and China over Shabaab was driven out of border guard service of the dance with an international law, Myung-bak became the first “They are talking about it, another island chain, which the city, suicide bombings former Soviet republic said. strengthen information policy ... South Korean leader to set but I am not sure they will sparked major anti-Japanese and assassinations remain a Border guards and police and consider possible additional foot on the islands. carry through the threats. Talk protests across China last constant threat. found the lone gunman, measures,” Fujimura said. Azumi last week called off is cheap,” Koichi Nakano, a So- week. REUTERS Although ordinary citizens named as Balbai Kulbarak could not vote, there was Uulu, in a gorge near the campaigning in Mogadishu, Kyrgyz border with Kazakhstan with election posters hanging a day after he fled the scene of on buildings and from cars, a the attack. Reuters US general’s aircraft hit by rebel rocket fire scene scarcely imaginable when it was a war zone. New Zealander killed INSURGENTS fired two rockets at the “He was nowhere near the aircraft. We gents from surrounding hills and fields. By the end of the day, Soma- by Swede in bar brawl main NATO air base in Afghanistan, dam- think it was a lucky shot,” NATO spokes- Sporadic attacks also occur at NATO’s lia had achieved a parliament, A NEW Zealand man was aging an aircraft used by US Joint Chiefs man Colonel Thomas Collins said. other main air base in Afghanistan, Kan- still some way short of the stabbed to death by a Swedish of Staff chairman Martin Dempsey, a The aircraft was being used temporarily dahar Airfield, in the volatile south, final target of 275 members. man in a bar in Pattaya, Thai- NATO spokesman said yesterday. The by Dempsey and his staff. The rockets also although they rarely cause deaths or There should also have been land during a quarrel about general was not on board at the time. damaged a nearby helicopter. major damage. a new president and speaker the suspect’s girlfriend and Dempsey arrived in the country on Dempsey, who had been in the country Before leaving Afghanistan, Dempsey but, in a transition process pet dog, reports said yester- Monday in a C-17 transport aircraft that for talks with NATO and Afghan com- met his Afghan counterpart, General Sher that has taken a year longer day. Police said they received was parked at Bagram air base, north of manders on a string of recent rogue shoot- Mohammad Karimi, who raised the issue than the original deadline, the a report about 2am yesterday Kabul. Two rockets landed near the apron ings, left the country on another aircraft. of insider attacks by rogue forces that international community has that a foreigner had been late on Monday night, slightly wounding Bagram is occasionally the target of have killed 10 American troops in the past had to lower its expectations. killed in a bar. THE BANGKOK POST two ground staff. rockets and mortar shells fired by insur- two weeks. REUTERS THE GUARDIAN Ethiopian strongman dies abroad

Aaron Maasho His forces, widely regarded ment to other countries, at as among the strongest on the least until the new leader is ETHIOPIAN Prime Minister continent, have entered Soma- firmly established in office,” Meles Zenawi, who led the lia twice to battle Islamist David Shinn, a former US Horn of Africa country for militants, winning him acco- ambassador to Ethiopia, said more than two decades, died lades from the West for sup- recently. of an infection while being porting its fight against groups “For internal security rea- treated abroad for an undis- linked to al-Qaeda. sons, there will be a continu- closed illness, state-run televi- State media said Deputy ing focus on Somalia, and I do sion said yesterday. Prime Minister Hailemariam not foresee any significant Speculation that Meles, 57, Desalegn would be the acting change towards Eritrea,” he was seriously ill grew after he prime minister. Television said, referring to Ethiopia’s failed to attend an African broadcast footage of Meles arch-foe, with whom it fought Union summit in the Ethio- against a backdrop of solemn a decade-long border war. pian capital of Addis Ababa instrumental music. But Ethiopia would be less last month. Ethiopia’s government said willing to devote a lot of time “Prime Minister Meles sud- last month Meles was taking a and resources to problems fur- denly passed away last night. break to recover from an Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles ther afield, Shinn said. He was recovering in a hospital unspecified condition. Zenawi in an April, 2009 file However, international rights overseas for the past two Diplomats in Addis Ababa photograph. REUTERS groups say Meles was intoler- months, but died of a sudden had said Meles was being ant of dissent. Several opposi- infection at 11:40 [on Monday treated in Brussels for an regional disputes, including tion figures and journalists night],” state television said. undisclosed illness. Others rifts between Sudan and have been arrested under a Meles seized power in 1991 said he was in Germany. South Sudan. 2009 anti-terrorism law. from Mengistu Haile Mariam’s During his time in office, “I believe that any successor State television said details of military junta. As president and Meles was credited with to Meles will focus first on his funeral, the Horn of Africa then prime minister, he turned steering Ethiopia towards domestic issues and, for the country’s first state burial in Ethiopia into a key player in economic growth and also most part, leave the regional modern times, would be regional security affairs. helped mediate in several and international engage- announced soon. REUTERS THE PHNOM PENH POST august 22, 2012 15 Technology Focusing on a good user experience

Gregory Pellechi and adoption of Web technology in However, appealing to the growing Cambodia.” middle class will be in large part based OMPANIES and individuals But being user-friendly isn’t enough, on customer experience. need to do more than just he added. “It is not only the user inter- “At the low end of the market, you create technology. They need face itself, it is the validity of the informa- tend to compete on price, but there’s a to optimise the services and tion and the service that comes together rich middle class and it will only grow goodsC they provide, especially when with the product that will complement – how do you encourage brand loyalty introducing new concepts to devel- the user experience. For instance, an and reduce churn for those segments? oping markets such as Cambodia. e-shop needs to go hand-in-hand with Customer experience,” Ng said. That was the message from one pre- good logistics and a call centre that can Smart Mobile CEO Thomas Hundt, senter at last weekend’s T3CON12- handle requests efficiently.” who did not attend the conference, ac- ASIA conference in Phnom Penh. Ng and Stankowski agree that a knowledged Ng’s point: “At the present The conference focused on bring good user experience is the key to moment, price sensitivity is largely dom- professionals and enthusiasts from the Cambodian companies moving into inant over user experience and product Web and mobile development fields the global market. quality. This is absolutely not limited to together to exchange ideas about use- “To be competitive in ASEAN and telecommunications services, but is a ability, publishing to different devices, in international markets, Cambodia general phenomenon. website optimisation, quality assur- should absolutely focus on develop- “The very limited purchasing ance, IT infrastructure management ing design capabilities. Doing what power among the vast majority of and business best practices. everyone else does gives you what the population is the reason for it. It also offered three days of training in everyone else gets,” Ng said. However, with an increasing level of using TYPO3, an open source content “Businesses are coming to Cambo- wealth, quality will become a signif- management system, as well as Web dia because labour in places like India, icantly more important factor.” development for those interested. China and the Philippines are getting Hundt agreed that user experience Sam Ng, co-founder and director of more expensive. Without a sustainable would become more important. Optimal Usability a user experience competitive advantage, this will last a “Price-wise, the bottom has been consultancy group, spoke on Saturday few years until businesses find another practically reached. Yes, user experi- about the concept of “user experience country that is even cheaper. But im- ence will be factors to focus on even as your core competence”, which he agine if Cambodia could offer great more,” he said, adding that Smart described as “a nice way to say how we price and well-designed solutions – Mobile was excellently positioned make things easy for people to use and over time businesses will stay even if to take advantage of this shift. how we make people feel good when Cambodia is not the cheapest.” Hundt listed the numerous addi- they’re interacting with technology”. Ng suggested Cambodia work to- tional services on offer, such as clear The essence of Ng’s presentation: ward developing a strength not often voice calls and text messaging, mobile think of the users first, then think of found in Southeast Asia. internet and “value added services” as the systems. “Good design is how well some- the key differentiators that made his “[Good design is] one of the new thing works. That applies not just to business viable for the future. competitive advantages in a sluggish the products and services but to the Ng’s advice for the future is to look at economy. And even in a thriving one, if interactions themselves – how enjoy- areas, such as mobile phones, where we look at things that people can copy able is it to interact with Cambodian Cambodia doesn’t have a legacy to very easily, technology is certainly one businesses and government depart- contend with, and develop from there. that is increasing commoditised.” ments? It’s possible for Cambodia to “There are opportunities to leapfrog He went on: “There are lots of prod- be an economic leader in ASEAN if it and bypass some of the things done ucts that are effectively ‘me too’ ver- focuses on making design one of its in developed countries. For instance, sions of each other, but experience in core strengths. It’s something none of mobile technology is one of those terms of how we can deliver really good the other ASEAN countries are partic- things that is a massive enabling tech- customer service or how we can get ularly accomplished at.” nology. When we have more affordable word-of-mouth, good word-of-mouth, Stankowski concurred: “Usability accessible data on mobile devices and more systemically is something that is is also a topic that is not yet enough a high penetration rate, you can do a incredibly hard to replicate and also is taught at universities. It is hard for us Sam Ng, co-founder and director of Optimal Usability, a user experience consultancy lot of things differently. something that is incredibly hard to do to find good front-end developers and group, at the T3CON12-ASIA conference in Phnom Penh. Gregory Pellechi “Developed countries have a lot of well, consistently.” designers, because IT curriculums legacy to deal with. They’ve invested Dominik Stankowski, the execu- generally focus on programming and going on internationally on an e-com- as one sector where user experience heavily in old infrastructure and the tive director of Web Essentials and or- not usability.” merce level. Additionally, Cambodia is likely to be the trump card for any cost of change is significant. Develop- ganiser of the conference, offered this Stankowski said keeping tabs needs an e-payment system that can savvy company to win customers and ing countries can skip some of these thought on good design: “Whilst we on global technology trends is es- handle credit card sales efficiently and maintain their loyalty. stages. Good design can inform how do not see so many good user in- sential, and the government must legislative efforts need to be made for “You have 10 mobile phone provid- we use technology effectively to leap- terfaces in local websites, I am con- move with the times as well. an e-commerce law,” he said. ers to choose from, and customers are frog developed countries,” he said. vinced that user interfaces will also “To go internationally, designers and On the home front, Ng sees the al- choosing based on the difference in For more information got to: http:// make a big difference in the useability developers need to understand what is ready crowded mobile-phone market price. It’s a race to the bottom,” he said. t3con12-asia.typo3.org/ India blocks hundreds of websites US satellite to begin tracking space debris INDIA blocked about 250 web- Pakistani websites, which Singh sites and social networking said he would share. THE US Air Force yesterday nificantly enhances the abil- sites on Monday, accusing Although some analysts said said yesterday it would be- ity to provide timely, critical them of spreading inflamma- the curbs were justified because gin operational use of a new information so desperately tory content that triggered the sites posed a threat to public Boeing surveillance satell- needed to support warfight- panic among thousands of order, others said the actions ite built to monitor debris er decision-making,” the air workers and students from the were a knee-jerk response from and other satellites in space force said. country’s eight northeastern a weak government unable to – nearly two years after the When the satellite was states last week. effectively assuage the concerns satellite was launched. launched in September, 2010, The government’s blame list of its frightened citizens. Air Force Space Command Boeing predicted it would be ranged from Facebook to fun- “This is a government that is said the Space Based Surveil- ready to perform its mission damentalist Pakistani sites, trying to hide its incompe- lance Satellite system had within 60 days, but its “initial Twitter to text messages, and tence by blaming everybody achieved its initial level of operational capability” was Google to YouTube videos. but unwilling to look at itself capability and was ready to delayed by problems with Authorities also barred the for failure to protect its citi- support US military require- some on-board electronics. sending of text messages to zens,” said a government offi- ments after a delay linked The problem occurred more than five people at a time cial who spoke on the condi- to a piece of electronics on when the satellite travelled for two weeks. Activists from Assam Public Work, an Indian NGO, burn Pakistan’s tion of anonymity. board the satellite. through the South Atlan- Thousands of people from national flag during a protest on Sunday. REUTERS Others said that by cracking The system is the only tic Anomaly, an area where northeastern India fled several down on websites and social space-based sensor capable the Earth’s magnetic field is cities in the south and west of erately tried to inflame pas- of sites. We have also identi- media, the government was of detecting and monitor- weakest and orbiting satell- the country last week after text sions, hosting morphed videos fied a number of sites which dodging the deeper issue of the ing debris, satellites and ites are exposed to higher messages circulated warning of violence against Muslims in were uploaded from Paki- racism and alienation felt by other space objects without than usual levels of radiation. that they faced reprisal attacks Burma and asserting that they stan,” Home Secretary RK many people from the north- disruptions from weather, The Air Force began imple- from Muslims over recent eth- were filmed in Assam. The Singh told reporters in New eastern states, who are deni- atmospheric factors or the menting a fix for the issue in nic clashes in the northeastern images went viral and provoked Delhi on Monday. grated by their fellow Indians time of day that can limit May, followed by successful state of Assam. riots by Muslim residents of Pakistani Interior Minister for supposedly being more ground-based systems. software testing that allowed The government said a Mumbai just over a week ago. Rehman Malik has asked India Chinese or Southeast Asian in “This improved access to it to begin using the satellite. number of websites had delib- “We have blocked a number for evidence about the alleged appearance. REUTERS observe orbiting objects sig- REUTERS 16 THE PHNOM PENH POST august 22, 2012 Opinion

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Publisher Ross Dunkley Editor-in-Chief Alan Parkhouse Managing Editor into a diplomatic headache John Yeager Editor-in-Chief Post Khmer Kay Kimsong Managing Editor Post Khmer Comment Sam Rith Mohammed Abbas Chief of Staff Cheang Sokha Deputy Chief of Staff RITAIN’S options in dealing Chhay Channyda National News Editor with WikiLeaks founder Chad Williams Deputy News Editor Julian Assange are limited, Vong Sokheng and British lawyers and Group Business Editor diplomatsB reckon its best course of Stuart Alan Becker Deputy Business Editors action is simply to sit tight and wait. Don Weinland, May Kunmakara Business Sub Editor Two months ago, Assange took Gregory Pellechi Property Editor refuge at Ecuador’s London embassy Rupert Winchester to avoid being extradited to Sweden, Foreign News Editor Dan Besant where he faces questioning over Sports Editor rape allegations. Dan Riley Pictorial Editor This triggered a diplomatic stand- Will Baxter Lifestyle Editorial Director off that turned heated last week, Peter Olszewski when Britain threatened to raid 7Days Editor Marcus Casey the diplomatic mission and Ecuador Lifestyle Editor granted Assange political asylum. Poppy McPherson Deputy Head of Lifestyle Desk However frustrating it finds Ecua- Pan Simala Copy Editor dor’s position, by prompting Latin Michael Philips American accusations of colonial Sub Editors David Boyle, Bridget Di Certo, Shane Worrell, arrogance and suggesting a move Stuart White, Joseph Freeman, Justine Drennan, Rachel Will that may well be illegal and would Reporters certainly set a dangerous precedent Meas Sokchea, Mom Kunthear, Khouth Sophak for its own diplomats, Britain was Chakrya, May Titthara, Khuon Leakhana, Kim Yuthana, Roth Meas, Ung Chamroeun, Sen Da- unwise to make the threat, legal vid, Phak Seangly, Rann Reuy, Buth Reaksmey and diplomatic experts say. Kongkea, Chhim Sreyneang, But Ecuador’s leftist, ardently anti- Lieng Sarith Chief Photographers Washington president Rafael Correa, Meng Kimlong, Sreng Meng Srun, Heng and Assange himself, who made his Chivoan, Pha Lina, Hong Menea Regional Correspondent first appearance in two months from Roger Mitton an embassy balcony on Sunday, also Director, Post Digital Jesse Gage have few options, they argue. So Web Editor Justin Heifetz Britain has little to gain from haste. Webmasters “I don’t think the possibility of Seng Sovan, Uong Ratana, Horng Pengly spending months, or even years, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange speaks to the media from a balcony at the Ecuadorean embassy in London this week. REUTERS Siem reap bureau at the Ecuadorean embassy is Bureau Chief very attractive for Assange,” says the risk of repercussions abroad. Akande, a lecturer in public inter- accused of trying to muzzle its critics Peter Olszewski Executive Assistant Francisco Panizza, who studies “There’s no obvious direct action national law at Britain’s Oxford in the media. Thik Skaline Latin American affairs at the they can take. I exclude the possi- University, says. The New York-based Committee to Distribution Manager Seng Sech London School of Economics. bility of their simply barging into “That would mean Britain would Protect Journalists describes Correa’s Reporter “And, in a way, Britain has the embassy,” Oliver Miles, a former have to give this guarantee in the press-freedom record as “among the Thik Kaliyann Marketing Executive everything to gain by playing British ambassador to Libya, says. abstract, without knowing precisely very worst in the Americas”. Sophearith Blondeel the waiting game.” Miles says breaking off diplomatic what re-extradition might entail, Craig Barker, a law professor at production & printing Although the 41-year-old Austral- relations with Ecuador would be a what evidence might be available Sussex University, says Assange Head of Desktop Publishing ian anti-secrecy campaigner has won more “realistic”, but not very attrac- and what the precise charges against and the Ecuadoreans may tire Nhim Sokphyrak a right to live in Ecuador, he has no tive, way to resolve an impasse to him would be. Desktop Publishing of each other in time. 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In brief Clues sought in director’s suicide Khmer Rouge refugee INVESTIGATORS sought clues on Monday to what had prompted British-born film- maker Tony Scott to take his own life in Los Angeles, while much of Hollywood a rare ‘Miss Cambodia’ focused on an unconfirmed news report that he was suffering from brain cancer. Seth Kimsoeurn Scott, the director of such blockbusters as Top Gun and CAMBODIAN-AMER- Beverly Hills Cop II, jumped ICAN singer who was to his death on Sunday from nearly killed as a child a suspension bridge over Los by the Khmer Rouge Angeles Harbour, leaving willA be the first Miss Cambodia behind a suicide note in his to compete in an international office and a list in his car of beauty pageant since 2006. people to contact. REUTERS Phanith Sovann has been selected as an entrant in next Comedian on mend year’s Queen of the Universe after heart attack 2013, an annual beauty con- NBC’S Rosie O’Donnell test in California. recently had a heart attack, Sovann, born in a refugee but is now on the mend, camp in Kao-I-Dang, Thai- thanks to Bayer aspirin land in 1989 to young parents and the internet. As People who, orphaned by the Khmer magazine noted, O’Donnell, Rouge, escaped to the border, 50, published a blog post said her family was lucky to on Monday titled My heart have survived. attack, in which she They were forced to run and explained that after helping hide from Thai soldiers who an “enormous woman” raided the camps periodically, (O’Donnell’s words) get out forcing refugees who did not of her car last week, the have permits back to the kill- former talk show host felt ing fields of Cambodia. an ache in her chest and “My mother always said soreness in her arms. that my family almost died THE WASHINGTON POST many times,” she said. At the age of two, Sovann Stand-up Phyllis and her family moved to the Diller dies at 95 US with nothing but a few COMEDIAN Phyllis Diller, bags of clothes. They lived in Phanith Sovann, the Cambodian-American who will compete in an international beauty contest next year. photo supplied. the former housewife whose a small garage in California, raucous cackle and jokes where Sovann’s parents en- about her own looks made couraged her to learn her na- resenting Cambodian beauty. cancelled a Miss Cambodia ing her application, Hem girls all over the world to pur- her one of America’s first tive tongue, Khmer. She said: “I want the world contest, saying he would not Heng, ambassador of the sue their dreams. I want ev- female stand-up comedy By the time she was six, af- to see that Cambodia is mar- allow the event to go ahead Kingdom of Cambodia in the eryone to know that you don’t stars, died in her sleep ter performing her first solo in velous in so many ways. I until poverty had been more US, said: “Your efforts to rep- have to have a title to become on Monday at the age of 95, church, her parents enrolled have not seen Cambodia rep- than halved. resent as Miss Cambodia is a an ambassador of love, hope, her long-time manager said. her in piano classes, where she resented in an international Three years later, a beauty brave commitment and a big and peace to the world. Diller was found in bed at learned how to read notes. pageant for a while, so even if pageant for victims of Cambo- gesture in your life, which I “I want people to know her home in the affluent By the age of eight, she had I’m not perfect, I want to take dia’s millions of landmines was am sure is appreciated by all that you don’t have to be the Brentwood section of Los taught herself to play music by that first step.” cancelled after the government Cambodians back home as tallest, or the most beautiful Angeles by her son, Perry, ear and tabulate it, and wrote The last Miss Cambodia to denounced the event as an in- well as Cambodian-Ameri- to represent your country. who had come to visit her, her first song. compete in an international sult to disabled people. cans here who have always You just have to have a good manager Milt Suchin said. In 2004, Sovann won the beauty contest was Sun Srey Entrants to the competition, thought of their native coun- heart, compassion, vision, “She had a smile on her face, international John Lennon Mom, who competed in Miss which will be held in California try Cambodia no matter how and determination.” as you’d expect,” Suchin told Songwriting contest, and re- World in 2006. She was the first have to raise a minumum of far away they were compelled On the day of the event Reuters. Diller’s publicist, corded an original song titled in more than 50 years to vie for $3,000 sponsorship. to live due to the necessity in there will be an evening-wear Fred Wostbrock, called her My American Dream. the coveted title. Phanin has been given a let- one’s life.” round, a swimsuit competi- “a true pioneer” and “the first Sovann is humble about Plans for beauty pageants ter of support from the Cambo- Sovann said she hoped to set tion and each delegate will be lady of stand-up comedy.” her chances of success at next inside Cambodia have run dian ambassador in the US, at an example to young women. questioned. Judges will pick Joan Rivers, a friend and year’s contest, but believes that into trouble in recent years. In home to back her campaign. “My hope in doing all of this a top 10 to go through to the fellow comic, said on Monday taking part is a first step in rep- 2006, Prime Minister Hun Sen In a letter of support, back- is to inspire young women and next round. Diller had cleared a path for a younger generation of female stand-up artists to trade on their jokes alone. reuters International comedy show back in town

Post staff Smith, who counts Sarah Mil- land. They just look at you like, lican and Joan Rivers among ‘What are you doing here? We A star-studded comic line- her influences, said she was want to see a bloke.’ ” up will grace the stage in excited to bring her brand of But Smith says she has had Phnom Penh tonight as the personal, observational com- to adapt her material in light city’s biggest international edy to Asia for the first time. of cultural differences. comedy night returns. “I love Cambodia. It’s wonder- “I told a joke about Brownie Canadian comic Allyson ful,” she said, adding that the Guides in Singapore, which fell Smith and Britain’s Imran Yusuf crowds in Asia were more wel- flat as they were all asking: will perform at Pontoon as coming to a female comic than ‘What is that?’ Comedy Club Cambodia, which some of the male-dominated “The jokes that work every- hosts comics from around the comedy clubs in Britain. where are the ones about family world, comes back from a sum- “It is way more 50-50 here. In and relationship problems.” mer hiatus. Asia people are just learning Smith and Yusuf will perform Yusuf is renowned in the UK about comedy clubs, so there at Pontoon Club, St 172. Tickets for his fast-paced wisecracking, aren’t those associations. can be bought from Pontoon bis- Canadian comic Allyson Smith will join Britain’s Imran Yusuf perform- often about being a Muslim “Sometimes it can be intimi- tro beforehand or on the door. A laughing Phyllis Diller at her ing stand-up at Pontoon tonght. photo Supplied in Britain. dating at certain clubs in Eng- The show begins at 8pm. Los Angeles home. reuters 18 THE PHNOM PENH POST august 22, 2012 Health The pros and cons of sleeping pills

Laura Barton

AST year in Britain, 15 million prescriptions were made for sleep medication. Patients in EnglandL alone received 5.4 mil- lion prescriptions for zopiclone and 2.8 million for temazepam, the most popular sleeping pills. According to the Economic and Social Research Council, one in 10 Brits regularly takes some form of sleeping tablet and their use has soared since the recession. But last week, a leading sleep specialist – Kevin Morgan, pro- fessor of gerontology at the University of Loughborough – argued that the NHS should be looking beyond sleeping pills and training its staff to provide psychological therapies such as cognitive behavioural therapy to help those with insomnia. Morgan argues that CBT of- fers a better long-term solution, and that sleeping pills hold fur- ther dangers: addiction or de- pendency; medication-related accidents; and spiralling costs for the health service. So how easily can we be weaned off them? Sleep is perhaps only rivalled by sex in terms of our concern about how much we get, how much we want and how we go about doing it. Earlier this year, when Nuffield Health report- ed that UK adults “miss out” on 378 million hours of sleep a week, their respondents averaging 7.1 hours a night, Two of the biggest-selling insomnia drugs in the US. Sales fell in 2006 after reports that the pills may cause binge eating and driving while sleepwalking. bloomberg they stressed that this figure was “much less than the rec- between 1969 and 1980, with “I got pains in my body, terri- Kripke compared 10,500 pat- been very little evidence over them to take control of their own ommended eight hours”. 2.3 billion sold in 1978 alone. bly tight stomach muscles, and ients taking prescribed sleeping the last 60 years that these sleep- sleep problems. In light of this, are sleep- “It’s quite a good drug,” a doctor I was panicky. I knew after a year pills with 23,000 patients not on ing pills do any harm,” he insists CBT works on the basis of ing tablets really so terrible? told The New Yorker at a 40th- that I was hooked.” The effect sleep medication. The risk of wearily. “Do I think sleeping understanding and manipulat- “They do have a place in treat- anniversary party thrown in Va- was devastating. “It completely death was four times higher in tablets are a good thing? I sure ing the two processes that affect ment,” says Dr Andrew Hall, a lium’s honour. “It has pleasant wrecked everything,” he says. those taking sleeping tablets. do. People who criticise them an individual’s sleep: first, the consultant in sleep-disorder side-effects. My wife doesn’t let “I couldn’t sleep, I had anxiety, I Kripke is keen to stress that don’t treat people with insom- learned behaviour of spending medicine and a member of me take it,” he added tellingly. had no interest in life.” much of this was seen in patients nia – people who haven’t slept too long awake in bed trying the British Sleep Society, “es- Ian Singleton is 65, and a senior Singleton went cold turkey, who had other co-morbidities for weeks and it has destroyed to get to sleep; and second, the pecially for an acute problem project worker at Bristol Tranquil- experienced an epileptic fit such as obesity, suggesting that their life.” thinking that accompanies that such as a grief reaction.” liser Project. Singleton himself and was hospitalised for several such conditions might interact “The best approach to sleep time, which can become pan- Yet for all our increasing reli- became dependent on benzo- months. “I would never advise with the dangerous effects of problems is good sleep hy- icked and obsessive. Morgan ance on medicated sleep, there diazepines in the 1980s, having anyone to take sleeping pills,” hypnotic sleeping tablets. He giene,” says Hall, “which means argues that a mere five hours of lingers a residual social suspicion visited his GP about recurrent he says. “Unless they have been is adamant about the implicat- how you organise your sleep: CBT can deliver benefits in more of sleeping tablets – fired, perhaps, stomach upsets and work-relat- through a traumatic event.” ions of his research, though: “I no over-stimulating activities than 70 per cent of cases. by the memory of barbiturates ed stress. “My doctor diagnosed In February, BMJ Open pub- conclude that none of the drugs too late at night, no computers “It gives a better quality of sleep and of the zombified “mother’s stress,” he recalls. “But he didn’t lished perhaps the most alarm- we were able to study are safe or television.” up to a year later. Thirty years of little helper” image of Valium. ask why I was stressed, he just ing argument against the use of enough to use.” The shift in thinking towards sleeping tablets have created Valium, which became the said he would give me drugs to sleeping tablets. An American Professor David Nutt is scep- treatments such as CBT aims passivity, the idea it is out of your biggest-selling drug in America help me get back to work.” study overseen by Dr Daniel tical of this research. “There’s to empower patients, enabling control.” THE GUARDIAN Avid tooth-brushers less likely to develop dementia Natasja Sheriff gum disease-related bacteria in their cal records and in some cases death brains than a person without Alzheimer’s, certificates to determine that 1,145 of PEOPLE who keep their teeth and gums said Paganini-Hill. the original group had been diagnosed healthy with regular brushing may have a It’s thought that gum disease bacteria with dementia. lower risk of developing dementia later in might get into the brain causing inflam- There was a significant difference seen be- life, according to a new study. mation and brain damage, she said. tween men who had all, or at least most, of Researchers who followed close to 5,500 So she and her team wanted to look at their teeth, or who wore dentures, and those elderly people over an 18-year period, whether good dental health practices over who didn’t – the latter group were almost found those who reported brushing their the long term would predict better cogni- twice as likely to develop dementia. teeth less than once a day were up to 65 tive function in later life. That effect was not seen in women, per cent more likely to develop dementia The researchers followed 5,468 resi- though. Paginini-Hill could only speculate than those who brushed daily. dents of a Californian retirement com- on the reasons for the different outcomes. “Not only does the state of your mind munity from 1992 to 2010. Most people in Perhaps women wear their dentures more predict what kind of oral health habits you the study were white, well-educated, and often than men, and they visit the dentist practise, it may be that your oral health relatively affluent. When the study began, more frequently, she suggested. habits influence whether or not you get de- participants ranged in age from 52 to 105, The new findings, published in the mentia,” said Annlia Paganini-Hill, who led with an average age of 81. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, the study at the University of California. All were free of dementia at the outset, cannot prove that poor dental health can Inflammation stoked by gum disease-re- when they answered questions about cause dementia. lated bacteria is implicated in a host of con- their dental health habits, the condi- This report “is really the first to look at ditions including heart disease and stroke. tion of their teeth and whether they the effect of actions like brushing and And some studies have found that peo- wore dentures. flossing your teeth,” said Dr Amber Watts, Research has linked good oral hygeine with a lower risk of developing ple with Alzheimer’s disease, the most When the researchers followed-up 18 who studies the causes of dementia at the dementia in later life. bloomberg common form of dementia, have more years later, they used interviews, medi- University of Kansas. reuters THE PHNOM PENH POST august 22, 2012 19 Travel

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VN 800 Daily 21:00 22:40 VN 801 Daily 18:20 20:00 7:00 To 12:00, 13:00, 14:30, 16:30 7:10, 8:00, 10:30,12:15, 14:00,15:30,17:30 IFancy a drink? Pop into the “If the ban on tourism con- SIEM REAP - HO CHI MINH CITY HO CHI MINH CITY - SIEM REAP PP-BATTAMBANG BATTAMBANG-PP Tiger bar at the Taj hotel. Want tinues, it will be the end of the VN 3818 Daily 11:10 12:30 VN 3809 Daily 09:15 10:35 7:00, 8:00, 9:00, 10:00, 11:00, 12:00 5:30, 6:45, 7:45, 8:30, 9:30,10:30 to rest your head? Try the Ti- tiger in India,” he says. “We’re K6 3818 Daily 11:10 12:30 K6 3809 Daily 09:15 10:35 PP-POIPET POIPET-PP ger Moon Resort. Little in this the ones who track them. We VN 826 Daily 13:30 14:40 VN 827 Daily 11:35 12:35 6:30, 8:00 10:00, 12:00, 19:30 6:30, 8:00 10:00, 12:00, 19:30 Rajasthani town has not suc- deter poachers.” VN 3820 Daily 17:45 18:45 VN 3821 Daily 15:55 16:55 PP-PREAH VIHEAR PREAH VIHEAR-PP cumbed to tiger mania. Belinda Wright, executive K6 3820 Daily 17:45 18:45 K6 3821 Daily 15:55 16:55 8:15 7:30 Sitting cross-legged on a director of the Wildlife Protec- VN 828 Daily 18:20 19:20 VN 829 Daily 16:20 17:40 PP-MONDULKIRI MONDULKIRI-PP stage by the main road, Yad- tion Society of India, based in VN 3822 Daily 21:35 22:35 VN 3823 Daily 19:45 20:45 8:30 8:30 vendra Singh hands over his New Delhi, says a tourist ban K6 3822 Daily 21:35 22:35 K6 3823 Daily 19:45 20:45 PP-KOH KONG KOH KONG-PP 7:30, 9:30, 12:30 7:30, 9:30, 12:30 business card, decorated with would be a “total disaster”. SIEM REAP - INCHEON INCHEON - SIEM REAP PP -BT.MEANCHEY BT.MEANCHEY-PP orange and black stripes. Stressing she is pro-tiger KE 688 1.3.4.7 23:25 06:35 KE 687 1.3.4.7 19:00 22:25 6:30, 8:00, 9:00, 10:00, 12:00, 2:00 6:00, 7:00, 7:30, 9:00,10:30, 11:30 Since 1992, he has run Tiger rather than pro-tourist, she OZ 738 Daily 23:40 07:10 OZ 737 Daily 19:20 22:40 SR-SOUNG,KAMPONG CHAM PURSAT, BATTAMBANG-SIEM REAP Eye Adventure Tours, taking says: “There is no way the for- SIEM REAP - KUALA LUMPUR KUALA LUMPUR - SIEM REAP 7:30, 8:30, 10:30 7:30 visitors from around the world estry department alone can AK 281 Daily 08:35 11:35 AK 280 Daily 06:50 07:50 PP-KRATIE KRATIE-PP on safari inside the nearby protect tigers from poachers MH 765 1. 6 13:00 16:10 MH 764 2.4.6 11:00 12:05 6:45, 7:15, 7:30, 8:00,10:30 7:00, 8:30, 9:30, 11:30, 2:30 Ranthambore national park. and local encroachment on SIEM REAP - SINGAPORE SINGAPORE - SIEM REAP Further information, please contact: Tel: 023 210 359, email:[email protected] But for the past three weeks, the land.” MI 622 2.4 10:40 15:20 MI 622 2.4 08:40 09:50 REGULAR SHIPPING LINES SCHEDULES Singh has not been allowed in Since the court’s judgment MI 630 5 12:25 15:40 MI 616 7 10:40 11:50 CALLING PORT ROTATION the park to check on the 27 on July 24, Singh has not MI 615 7 12:45 16:05 MI 636 3 13:55 17:35 LINE CALLING SCHEDULES FREEQUENCY ROTATION PORTS adult tigers and 25 cubs that earned a penny. Along with MI 636 3 06:25 21:35 MI 630 5 07:55 16:35 1 Wed, 08:00 - Thu 16:00 1 Call/week SIN-SHV-SGZ-SIN call it home. No one has, after dozens of other guides and MI 617 5 18:35 21:55 MI 618 5 16:35 17:45 RCL 2 Thu, 14:00 - Fri 22:00 1 Call/week HKG-SHV-SGZ-HKG India’s Supreme Court issued drivers who feed their families SIEM REAP - VIENTIANE VIENTIANE - SIEM REAP (12calls/moth) (HPH-TXGKEL) 3 Fri, 20:00 - Sat 23:59 1 Call/week SIN-SHV-SGZ-SIN an order banning tourism in by servicing the tiger tourists QV 522 2.4.5.7 10:05 13:00 QV 512 2.4.5.7 06:30 09:25 1 Th, 08:00 - 20:00 1 Call/week SGN-SHV-LZP-SGN all core tiger habitats. who flock to Ranthambore ev- SIEM REAP - GUANGZHOU GUANGZHOU - SIEM REAP MEARSK (MCC) - HKG-OSA-TYO-KOB (4 calls/moth) - BUS-SGH-YAT-SGN The decree was temporary: ery year, he has been holding a CZ 3054 2.4.6 11:25 15:35 CZ 3053 2.4.6 08:45 10:30 2 Fri, 22:00- Sun 00:01 1 Call/week - SIN-SHV-TPP-SIN only until tomorrow, when the roadside protest to remind the CZ 3054 1.3.5.7 19:25 23:20 CZ 3053 1.3.5.7 16:35 18:30 SITC (BEN LINE HCM-SHV-LZP-HCM- court meets again to assess authorities how integral tigers (4 calls/onth) Sun 09:00-23:00 1 Call/week NBO-SGH-OSA-KOB- whether tigers and tourists are to the town. BUS-SGH-HGK-CHM ITL (ACL) can co-exist in India. The interim order has hit (4 calls/month) Sat 06:00 - Sun 08:00 1 Call/week SGZ-SHV-SIN-SGZ The decision will have rami- hard, says Goverdhan Singh APL (4 calls/month) Fri, 08:00 - Sun, 06:00 1 call/week SIN-SHV-SIN fications not just for India’s Rathore, a doctor who runs a COTS 1,700 tigers, but for the tens, free hospital from the profit (2 calls/month) Irregula 2 calls/month BBK-SHV-BKK-(LZP) FLY DIRECT TO MYANMAR WED+SAT if not hundreds, of thousands made from his guest house. 34 call/month YANGON-PHNOM PENH of Indians whose livelihoods “We’ve already had 10 per BUS= Busan, Korea SGZ= Songkhla, Thailand depend on the big cats. cent of bookings for next sea- PHNOM PENH-YANGON HKG= HongKong SHV= Sihanoukville Port Cambodia kao=Kaoshiung, Taiwan ROC SIN= Singapore “I couldn’t believe it,” says son cancelled. Forty per cent No. 479-481Eo, Kampuchea Krom Kob= Kebe, Japan TPP= TanjungPelapas, Malaysia Singh. “I’ve spent 20 years, of guests have asked us to let KUN= Kuantan, Malaysia TYO= Tokyo, Japan (St. 128), 12155, Phnom Penh LZP= Leam Chabang, Thailand TXG= Taichung, Taiwan half my life, doing this. And them know what happens. If Tel 023 881 178 | Fax 023 886 677 NBO= Ningbo, China YAT= Yantian, China sudd-enly I’m supposed to the ban is extended, next sea- www.maiair.com OSA= Osaka, Japan YOK= Yokohama, Japan SGN= Saigon, Vietnam find a new job.” son is over.” THE GUARDIAN 20 THE PHNOM PENH POST august 22, 2012 Entertainment NOW SHOWING Comedy Club Cambodia @ Pontoon Legend cinema Comedy Club returns from its TOTAL RECALL summer holiday with two international stand-up stars. Factory worker Douglas Quaid begins to suspect he is a spy after visiting Rekall a company that pro- – Canadian comic Allyson Smith and vides its clients with implanted fake memories Britain’s Imran Yusef take to the of a life they would like to have led – and when stage tonight at Pontoon, promising everything goes wrong, he finds himself on the run. to deliver a gag-packed night. 9:45am, 12:35pm, 9:35pm Former drama teacher Smith ditched THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN the classroom for sassy, straight- Peter Parker finds a clue that may help him talking stand-up, while Yusef, a understand why his parents disappeared when fast-talking London geezer, is he was young. His path puts him on a collision renowned for his biting street slang. course with Dr Curt Connors, his father’s former partner. Admission: $8. 10am, 9:20pm Pontoon, St 172 PLATINUM CINEPLEX 7:30pm

BRAVE (3D) Set in Scotland in a rugged and mythical time, Brave features Merida, an aspiring archer and Drink and Draw impetuous daughter of royalty. 11:10am, 4:45pm They supply the art supplies and model. You do the rest. THE BOURNE LEGACY An expansion of the universe from Robert Artillery, St 240 1⁄2, Phnom Penh Ludlum’s novels, this film centres on a new COMEDY CLUB CAMBODIA @ PONTOON 7-9pm hero whose stakes have been triggered by Stand-up Allyson Smith, who will perform tonight as Phnom Penh’s Comedy Club returns. PHOTO SUPPLIED the events of the previous three films. 9:20am, 11:50am, 2:20pm, 4:50pm, 8:15pm 1pm - UP: By tying thousands of balloons to Strictly Salsa TV PICKS his home, 78-year-old Carl sets out to fulfil his life-long dream to see the wilds of South Free beginners’ steps from 8-9pm THE FLICKS America. FOX Movies and DJ Jimmy Salsa from 9-11pm. Vamos a bailar! BATMAN: THE DARK KNIGHT 4:30pm - GROWN UPS: After their high-school basket- Equinox, St 278, Phnom Penh When Batman, Gordon and Harvey Dent launch ball coach passes away, five good friends and former 8-11pm an assault on the Mob, they let the clown out team-mates reunite for a holiday weekend. HBO of the box. The Joker is bent on turning Gotham City on itself and bringing any heroes down to 7:20pm - SHE’S OUT OF MY LEAGUE: In this Amer- his level. ican romantic comedy, an average Joe meets the 6pm perfect woman, but his lack of confidence, and the Wassup Wednesday influence of his friends and family, begin to pick BLOOD DIAMOND away at the relationship. MAX A fisherman, a smuggler and a syndicate of Hip-hop and dance from resident DJs BBoy Peanut and Bob Revo businessmen match wits over the possession 8pm – THE NEWSROOM: TV series about a news of a priceless diamond. anchor who has found a safe niche but is forced Riverhouse Lounge, corner Sisowath 8pm to work with a new team of colleagues. HBO John Gallagher Jr, Emily Mortimer and Alison Pill Quay and St 110, Phnom Penh star in The Newsroom. BLOOMBERG Thinking caps

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ACROSS DOWN 1 O’Hara’s portrayer 1 Pull with perspiration 6 They beg to differ 2 Cotton gin inventor Whitney 11 Sleep on it 3 Hostel work environment? 14 Some arm bones 4 Joke writer 15 ___ Gras 5 Obedient dog 16 Gene’s makeup, briefly 6 Sphere of influence 17 Holiday cookie 7 DEA worker 19 Put an end to alcohol? 8 Elm, for one 20 Artificial water channel 9 Ms. Lupino 21 Endow with a quality 10 Fries, usually 23 Most fleet 11 Popular tire maker 26 Words to live by 12 Happen as a result 27 They want to know 13 Female equivalents of knights 28 Leopard or lynx 18 “Broom Hilda” creator Myers 30 Title in Russian history 22 Bert Bobbsey’s sister 31 Stable studs 23 Ill-___ (doomed) 32 Cry convulsively 24 Analyze 35 Enjoy lunch 25 Ramped-up items? 36 In vogue 26 Drinks in yards 38 The way, in philosophy 28 Rip off 39 Change the color of hair, cloth, 29 City on its own Great Lake etc. 31 Lip-___ 40 “For that reason” 33 Like certain cereals 41 “Jail” or “extremes” lead-in 34 Churlish chaps 42 Tree limb 36 China’s most populous city Tuesday’s solution Tuesday’s solution 44 Atlanta Braves field 37 Keep goal in hockey 46 Teem (with) 41 Small explosive shell 48 Irish moonshine whiskeys 43 Baseball score 49 Subject of some dictionaries 44 Male turkeys 50 Naval rank 45 Mormon, often 52 Paul McCartney or Elton John 46 One might be liquid 53 Like some Valentine’s Day 47 Russian pancake candies 48 Swindler’s victim 58 Not-so-desirable bread slice 50 Edible starch 59 Shield of classical mythology 51 “___ go bragh” 60 Like a great deal 54 Ending for “musket” 61 “’___ the season to be jolly” 55 “___ Goes the Weasel” 62 Tongue-in-cheek humor 56 History book chapter, perhaps 63 Asian kingdom 57 Costa-Sol connector THE PHNOM PENH POST august 22, 2012 21 Sport

No place for Pietersen in limited-overs squads Kevin Pietersen’s rapid fall Armstrong fails in latest suit from grace in international cricket was completed yesterday when the controversial batsman was left out of the England squads for against anti-doping group the Twenty20 World Cup and a one-day series against South Africa. Last week, the 32-year- James B Kelleher old Pietersen was dropped for the third and final test against US federal judge on Monday South Africa at Lord’s after dismissed seven-time Tour admitting to sending de France winner Lance “provocative” text messages to Armstrong’s effort to block opposing players. National aA probe into whether the retired cy- selector Geoff Miller explained cling champ cheated by using perfor- that Pietersen’s international mance-enhancing drugs. future “was still being Last month, US District Judge determined” so it was always Sam Sparks, in Austin, Texas, dis- unlikely the England and missed Armstrong’s original bid to Wales Cricket Board (ECB) stop the US Anti-Doping Agency were going to select him for (USADA) from proceeding with its the upcoming limited overs case, calling the lawsuit a “lengthy events. REUTERS and bitter polemic”. But Sparks al- lowed Armstrong’s lawyers to file an Nine, Fox Sports pay $1 amended lawsuit. billion for rugby league On Monday, Sparks threw out the Nine Entertainment Co, the revised complaint, though he dis- Australian media company missed it “without prejudice”, mean- owned by private equity group ing Armstrong can try again. A lawyer CVC Asia Pacific, retained for Armstrong could not immediately broadcast rights to rugby be reached for comment. league matches in the Accusations of doping have dogged country alongside pay- Armstrong, who won seven straight television broadcaster Fox Tour de France championships be- Sports. Nine and Fox Sports tween 1999 and 2005 when he as- will pay A$1.02 billion cended to the top of the cycling world (US$1.07 billion) to broadcast after overcoming cancer. games over five years, the In a statement, USADA chief execu- Australian Rugby League tive Travis Tygart said the agency was Commission said yesterday. pleased with the ruling and defended That compares to the A$1.25 its process for investigating doping billion that Seven West Media charges, saying it had “protected the Ltd (SWM), Foxtel and Telstra rights of athletes for over a decade”. Corp paid for rights to The USADA, a quasi-governmental Australian Football League agency created by the US Congress Seven-time Tour de France winning cyclist Lance Armstrong has had his lawsuit against the US ADA dismissed by a federal judge. reuters matches in April 2011. The in 2000, formally charged Armstrong ARL Commission, which runs in June with doping and taking part the Washington Post, the agency said late Armstrong’s right to a fair trial administered to him in his career – a rugby league in Australia, in a conspiracy with members of his it also has at least 10 former team- and that it lacks proper jurisdiction to total of 500 to 600 tests ... more drug said in a statement that it championship teams. Five other cy- mates and colleagues of Armstrong charge him. tests than any athlete in history”. signed the agreement clists have been accused of conspir- who will testify he used doping drugs In February, the Justice Department They say the International Cy- following “several days of ing with Armstrong over the course of during races from 1999 to 2005. dropped an investigation centred on cling Union has proper jurisdiction intense negotiations with 14 years to hide doping activity. Lawyers for Armstrong contend the whether Armstrong and his team- in the case. representatives of all The agency said in a letter to Arm- USADA gathered evidence by threat- mates cheated the sponsor of their The USADA charges will be consid- commercial television strong that it has blood samples from ening to ruin the careers of fellow bike racing team, the US Postal Ser- ered by its own arbitration process. Any networks.” BLOOMBERG 2009 and 2010 that are “fully consis- cyclists who have agreed to testify vice, with a secret doping program. penalties would be binding within the tent” with doping. against him. Lawyers for Armstrong Armstrong’s attorneys contend that sport, but federal courts have the power Valverde wins mountain In the letter, which was published in also argue that the agency’s rules vio- he has “passed every drug test ever to overrule the agency. REUTERS top stage to take lead Alejandro Valverde won stage three of the Tour of Spain on Monday and moved into the overall lead. Fellow Spaniard Joaquim Rodriguez Usain Bolt, Stars working out T20 role: Warne finished a narrowly defeated second in the four-man Shane Warne was appointed trying to find Olympic sprint retirement last year to play in gold medalist Bolt were con- quee athletes from other sports sprint that decided the as captain of the Melbourne champion Usain Bolt a role Australia’s inaugural Big Bash tinuing after the Jamaican risk devaluing the competition mountain top stage, with Stars Twenty20 cricket team with the squad. League competition, said expressed an interest in join- and may hamper the develop- Britain’s Chris Froome in and said the franchise is still Warne, who came out of talks with six-time Olympic ing the Stars. ment of local talent. third and Spain’s Alberto “We’ll have ongoing conver- “We’ve got to be careful that Contador in fourth. REUTERS sations with him and work out it just doesn’t become a nov- what sort of role he can play,” elty event,” John Inverarity, Kuznetsova among US Warne said yesterday at a tel- Australia’s national team selec- Open tennis withdrawals evised news conference in Mel- tor, told reporters last week. Russia’s Svetlana Kuznet- bourne. “We hope he can come Leg-spinner Warne, who quit sova, the 2004 US Open down, he’s available and all international cricket in 2007 champion, heads a group of those sorts of things.” with an Australian record 708 players who joined Rafael Bolt, 26, played junior crick- Test wickets, said Bolt’s poten- Nadal in withdrawing from the et before focusing on track. tial involvement won’t cheapen final major tournament of the During the London Olympics, the event. tennis season. Kuznetsova, 27, the 1.96-metre Bolt and train- “If you look at the bigger who also won the 2009 French ing partner Yohan Blake, who picture of it all, to have Usain Open, was 48th in the latest took the silver medal in the Bolt, if he’s good enough to WTA Tour rankings. Also 100 and 200 meters at the play a game and he wants to withdrawing from the women’s games, regularly bantered be with us, then that’s pretty draw are top-20 players Kaia with Australian television good isn’t it?” he said. “We’ll Kanepi of Estonia and Flavia reporters about their cricket- just keep talking to him and Pennetta of Italy, and Elena ing prowess. see what we can come up Baltacha of Britain. The US Blake, 22, said in an interview with, but it’s exciting that one Tennis Association didn’t give a last Thursday with the UK’s Sky of the biggest superstars on reason for the withdrawals Sports that there was a possibil- the planet wants to be ahead of the US Open, which ity of him joining the Sydney involved in some capacity.” begins August 27 at the Sixers, the defending Big Bash The Stars open the second National Tennis Center in New League champions. edition of the Big Bash League, York. BLOOMBERG “I would love it to come true,” a six-week competition featur- Blake said. “I’m a better crick- ing 35 matches in the sport’s eter than I am a runner.” shortest format, on December Chess Puzzle solution: Jamaica’s Usain Bolt bowls a bouquet into the crowd after receiving his London 2012 Games men’s 4x100m relay Organisers have been warned 7 against the Melbourne Ren- Qa7, Qxa1 (forced). It is a stalemate. gold medal at the Olympic Stadium on August 11. The sprinter has expressed an interest in playing cricket. REUTERS that the moves to enlist mar- egades. BLOOMBERG White King has no squares to go. 22 THE PHNOM PENH POST august 22, 2012 Sport

The Spaniard Sergio García’s closing round of 66 on Monday was sufficient to earn victory at the rain-delayed Wyndham Championship in North Carolina and a place on the European team for the Ryder Cup. REUTERS García win seals Ryder Cup spot

Ewan Murray Cup moved to its present format. last year in Europe but it’s been a Championship. It remains virtually standings and unlike Colsaerts, will “It’s great,” García said after moving while here in the United States and certain, however, that the English- not feature at this week’s Johnnie ergio García supplied a up to 17th in the world rankings. “I it feels great,” García added. man will receive one of two wild-card Walker championship at Gleneagles. timely reminder of his tal- kind of did it last year, too, in Ger- “I hit some really good shots and selections available to the European That tournament represents the last ent by winning the Wynd- many when I needed to play re- made some nice four- or five-foot- captain, José María Olazábal. Those chance for players to earn Ryder ham Championship, thereby ally, really well to get into the Open, ers when I had to. I’m very happy picks will be announced by Olazábal Cup qualifying points. guaranteeingS the Spaniard a place which is my favourite tournament, about the way the week has gone. next Monday. A finish of second place or better in Europe’s team for next month’s and I almost won there and then got Sometimes it hurts to hear people Rory McIlroy, Justin Rose, Graeme for Colsaerts in Scotland would see Ryder Cup. myself into the Open. Winning is al- not giving enough credit to some McDowell, Paul Lawrie, Francesco him leapfrog Kaymer, who has been García’s triumph by two shots in ways nice. This means quite a bit.” of those other wins because they’re Molinari, Luke Donald, Lee West- out of form. the rain-delayed event in North García has played in five previous in Europe. wood, García and Peter Hanson are England’s David Lynn, runner-up Carolina on Monday was his first on Ryder Cups and has performed im- “Fortunately, I know how much now guaranteed nine of Europe’s 10 at the US PGA, and Rafael Cabrera- the US PGA Tour in more than four pressively. When the event was last they mean to me and I know how automatic places for the meeting Bello of Spain could have earned years. A closing round of 66 – which played, at Celtic Manor in 2010, he difficult they are so, you know, with the United States at Medinah. a Ryder Cup debut by winning at included birdies at three of his four was a non-playing vice captain un- they were great and they really García’s success, and a tied sev- Gleneagles but that option has now final holes – was sufficient forG arcía der Colin Montgomerie. His Wynd- helped a lot.” enth place at the Wyndham for Ni- been removed after Hanson with- to see off the challenge of Tim Clark ham success is more notable given García’s win means Ian Poulter has colas Colsaerts, leaves Martin Kay- drew. There are no longer enough and avert the possibility of Spain he used the services of a local caddie been knocked out of a guaranteed mer in a vulnerable position. The ranking points available for either having no playing representation for the week. Ryder Cup spot a little over a week German currently occupies the last Lynn or Cabrera-Bello to displace in a European team since the Ryder “Obviously I won a couple of times after tying for third at the US PGA automatic berth in the European Kaymer. THE GUARDIAN It’s your move, Augusta, home of the Masters, admits first female members plan carefully. Augusta National Golf Club, and positive time” for the club “He welcomes this develop- home of the Masters golf tour- and that Rice and Moore were ment, thinks it was too long in Peter Salazar v Vladimir Chomsky nament, finally ended an all- subjected to the same review as coming but obviously believes male policy that had endured other candidates. it’s the right thing to do,” for 80 years when it announced “Consideration with regard White House spokesman Jay 8 on Monday that two women to any candidate is deliberate, Carney told a news briefing would be admitted as members held in strict confidence and on Monday. for the first time. always takes place over an Rice, recently appointed to Former US Secretary of extended period of time,” the US Golf Association’s nom- 7 State Condoleezza Rice and Payne said. “The process for inating committee, said in a financier Darla Moore will Condoleezza and Darla was statement: “I have visited become the first women to no different.” Augusta National on several 6 don the renowned green jack- Obama had increased the occasions and look forward to ets when the Augusta, Geor- pressure on Augusta Nation- playing golf, renewing friend- gia, club re-opens for a new al when he said in April that ships and forming new ones season in October. the club should admit wom- through this very special 5 Augusta National’s male-only en as members. opportunity.” REUTERS status has drawn criticism for years. Ahead of this year’s Mas- 4 ters tournament in April, Presi- dent Barack Obama weighed in on the matter, saying through a spokesman that he believed 3 women should be admitted. “This is a joyous occasion as we enthusiastically welcome 2 Secretary Condoleezza Rice and Darla Moore as members of Augusta National Golf Club,” Billy Payne, the club’s chair- 1 man, said in a statement. Payne, who has refused in the a b c d e f g h past to speak publicly about White to play and draw Solution on page 21 membership matters, did not directly address the gender bar Moving house? Call 023 880 951 or visit www.asiantigersgroup.com for more information issue in his statement, saying Augusta National Golf Club admitted former US Secretary of State Condo- only that it was a “significant leezza Rice (pictured) and Darla Moore as its first female members. reuters THE PHNOM PENH POST august 22, 2012 23 Football

Preah Khan Reach beat national team in friendly Reigning Hun Sen Cup Fergie blames poor finishing champions Preah Khan Reach defeated the Cambodian Jamie Jackson national team 2-1 at Olympic Stadium yesterday in the fifth ir Alex Ferguson bemoaned of a series of friendly fixtures Manchester United’s finishing arranged with local clubs to and his side’s inability to har- help the senior squad prepare ness Robin van Persie as they for the 2012 AFF Suzuki Cup wereS beaten by Everton in an early qualifiers in Myanmar in blow to their hopes of reclaiming the October. The result was the Premier League from Manchester City, second loss for the national who began their challenge by beating side after three wins in their Southampton on Sunday. first three ties. In yesterday’s Ferguson chose to start van Persie on game, Sos Souhana struck in the bench, introducing the striker only the first minute before PKR after 68 minutes as his team lost 1-0 to midfielder Prak Mony Udom Marouane Fellaini’s goal. He said: “It brought things back level 10 was a pretty good game and there wasn’t minutes later. A tighter second anything between the two teams. We half saw Joseph Olatubosun were the better football team, they had snatch the winner on 73 eight shots on target and David de Gea minutes. Matches at Olympic [the United goalkeeper] did very well Stadium against Metfone for us in that way. C-League champions Phnom “But we had the possession and Penh Crown and current made some great openings without leaders Naga Corp are actually finishing it. We were a wee bit scheduled for Saturday and [disappointing] in terms of finishing off next Tuesday respectively, the approach play we had. Other than before the national team take that we played good football, good on their Filipino counterparts combination play, and on another day on September 5 and a team we would have won the match. comprised of Cambodians “There were a couple of moments: living abroad on September 13. Tom [Cleverley’s shot was] blocked by UNG CHAMROEUN Phil Jagielka on the line. We had these kind of moments but the team worked Barca complete signing well and played some great football. of Song from Arsenal It’s difficult here. You have the crowd Cameroon midfielder Alex influencing the referee all the time.” Song has completed his move On van Persie, who entered the from Premier League side match to play alongside Wayne Rooney Everton’s Steven Pienaar (left) challenges Man United’s Tom Cleverley during their English Premier League match at Goodison Park. reuters Arsenal to Barcelona after in a 4-4-2 formation, Ferguson said: signing a deal worth €19 “We played around him too much, we Vidic of his recognised central defend- David Moyes, the Everton manager, would not have said we started the million (US$23.45 million), didn’t show enough penetration and, ers fit and he was making a first senior said: “I’m really pleased because I season badly. You probably judge it both clubs said on Monday. with Robin in your team, you know appearance following injury last De- thought the team performed ever so after about 10 games how you start The 25-year-old, who has you want to use his ability against cen- cember. This forced the manager to well and got a great result. We haven’t the season.” agreed a five-year contract, tre-backs in situations he is very good field Michael Carrick as an emergency started the season very well [in recent A positive omen for United is that became Barca’s second major at. But we didn’t use him enough.” centre-back. “That is a problem but we seasons] and even tonight’s result they are the only Premier League club reinforcement for the new With Rio Ferdinand, Chris Small- coped quite well. I don’t think you can doesn’t tell you you’ve started the sea- to have lost their opening match and season after Spain full back ing, Phil Jones and Jonny Evans all criticise their performance in that re- son well. gone on to claim the title. They have Jordi Alba was landed from injured, Ferguson had only Nemanja spect,” said Ferguson. “Just like if we’d lost tonight we done it twice. THE GUARDIAN Valencia for €14 million. Song was presented to fans at the Nou Camp later in the day when Barca lost 1-0 to Sampdoria in the annual Joan Deportivo triumph on return to La Liga Gamper trophy, a traditional friendly. REUTERS

Riki and Nelson Oliveira 5-1 at home on Sunday, and Australian FA appoint helped Deportivo Coruna cel- Real Betis, who overcome Ath- Gallop as their new CEO ebrate their return to La Liga in letic Bilbao 5-3 in an eight-goal Football Federation style with a 2-0 home win over thriller at San Mames. Australia named David Gallop Osasuna in their opening game “We aren’t going to get car- as its CEO on Tuesday, of the new season on Monday. ried away with ourselves. The replacing Ben Buckley, whose Another promoted club, Real objective remains the same,” position had been weakened by Valladolid, also started with a Oltra told a news conference the country’s shambolic victory, winning 1-0 at Real in reference to their stated campaign to host the 2022 Zaragoza, while Rayo Vallecano aim of securing their top- World Cup. Buckley’s six-year beat Granada by the same flight future. tenure had become blighted by scoreline thanks to a dramatic “The important thing is we Australia’s failed bid, when 95th-minute freekick from have achieved a good result A$50 million ($52.25 million) in Roberto Trashorras. and started well. It is going to taxpayers’ money resulted in Depor’s Riki cut in off the right be a long and difficult year.” one vote from the FIFA flank and beat Osasuna goal- Valladolid were the brighter Executive Committee when keeper Andres Fernandez at his side at the Romareda and they selected Qatar to host the near post in the 53rd minute, Oscar stabbed them in front tournament in December 2010. making up for a penalty miss from close range after helping Public fallouts with A-League just before the break when he set up the move just before club owners and the collapse of fired against the post. the break. the North Queensland Fury and Jose Luis Oltra’s side, who Zaragoza goalkeeper Rob- a proposed Western Sydney had made most of the running erto kept the hosts in the game team did little to improve at a festive Estadio Riazor tipping a Victor Perez penalty Buckley’s reputation. REUTERS after a year in the second divi- on to the post in the 67th sion, were penned back in minute and joined his side in tonight’s fixtures their penalty area in time attack in the frantic finale, but added on before Portugal for- to no avail. English Premier League ward Oliveira broke away to It was a case of déjà vu in Val- Chelsea v Reading – 1:45am lob the ball over Fernandez lecas as Rayo Vallecano UEFA Champions League for their second. snatched all the points against Along with Valencia, Depor Granada when Trashorras Qualifying Playoff Round are one of only two teams to struck a superb freekick into AEL Limassol v Anderlecht have denied Real Madrid and the top corner in added time. 1:45am Barcelona the Spanish league Rayo won by the same 1-0 BATE Borisov v Hapoel Kiryat title in the last 16 years, and scoreline in front of their own Shmona – 1:45am were regulars in European fans on the final day of last sea- Braga v Udinese – 1:45am competition before sliding to son against Granada, when Raul relegation in 2011. Tamudo also netted in time Din Zagreb v NK Maribor The win put them third in the added on to save them from 1:45am Deportivo Coruna’s Abel Aguilar (right) battles for the ball with Osasuna’s Raoul Loe during their Spanish standings, behind leaders Bar- relegation and send Villarreal Malaga v Panathinaikos First Division match at the Riazor stadium in Coruna on Monday. REUTERS ca, who thrashed Real Sociedad down instead. REUTERS 1:45am 24 THE PHNOM PENH POST august 22, 2012 Sport S Africa usurp England as Test No 1

Andy Wilson ence in the Lord’s Museum. “Having touched it before “That catch, that’s the one mo- we’ve learned some lessons,” ore than an hour ment. I’m conscious that these said Smith. “We’re pretty hum- after his team had three fingers managed to hold ble about this whole thing. I climbed to the top on to Matt Prior.” don’t think there will be too of the world Test In the stands, Smith’s wife, many flashy things happening Mrankings in an unforgettable, Morgan, had cradled their with our team going forward. nerve-shredding final session tiny baby daughter Cadence, The initial achievement is of on Monday, Graeme Smith who took her first flight at less coming to England and win- was still staring at the tips of than a month old to be here ning 2-0. But the number one the fingers on his left hand. for this special moment, one is something we’ve pushed for, South Africa’s captain, who which South Africa’s captain and it will take a few nights for was leading his country for a has dreamed of and worked us to reflect on that. record-equalling 93rd time in towards for years. “From a personal per- his 102nd Test, had been put The last time his team as- spective, last year was an thoroughly, almost sadistically, cended to the top of those extremely tough year. So through the wringer, as Matt rankings, almost exactly three to come back like I have Prior counter-attacked thrill- years ago on August 24, 2009, and have these milestones ingly, and was reprieved first they did so almost by default, means a lot. I need time to by a Morne Morkel no-ball, when England regained the reflect on them.” then by the third umpire Rod Ashes to displace Australia. This time South Africa will Tucker, who awarded him the South Africa’s captain Graeme Smith holds the ICC mace as he walks around the ground with coach Gary South Africa did not even be able to take the field as the benefit of the tiniest doubt Kirsten (right) after South Africa defeated England in the third cricket Test match at Lord’s on Monday. reuters play a game as the world’s world’s best Test team when in deciding that he had not best, because before they they head for Australia for a been stumped. 45 for four, then 146 for six, and about South African chokers. innings. The ball flew low to started their next Test, against three-Test series, in which vic- Smith could almost touch 208 for seven, and even 282 Then Vernon Philander, in Smith’s left at first slip. England, India had beaten Sri tory would lift Michael Clarke’s the mace awarded to the for eight, were now within 52 his first over with the second “All I keep thinking is it stuck Lanka to take over at the top. team to top spot – and pos- world’s best Test team with runs of the most improbable new ball from the Nursery End, in my left hand,” he reflected, They were coached at the time sibly dump England down to those big fingers. But England, victory, one which would have found Prior’s outside edge, ex- sharing a smile with Philander by Gary Kirsten, who is now in third, depending on how they apparently dead and buried at dragged up all the old taunts actly as he had done in the first at the winners’ press confer- charge of South Africa. do in India. THE GUARDIAN