All the News Without Fear or Favor The Cambodia daily Volume 65 Issue 71 Monday, October 3, 2016 2,000 riel/50 cents EU Brexit Procedure to Be Triggered In March ReuTeRS BiRmingHam, U.K. - British Prime minister theresa may said she would trigger the divorce proce- dure to leave the e.U. by the end of march, offering the first glimpse of a timetable for a shift that will rede- fine the U.K.’s relations with its biggest trading partner. the U.K.’s shock vote to leave the e.U. propelled may to power and the former home secretary has since been under pressure to offer more details on her plan for the U.K.’s departure, beyond her oft-repeated catchphrase that “Brexit means Brexit.” in a move to ease fears among Pring Samrang/Reuters her ruling Conservatives that she A rider urges his horse forward while preparing for annual races at Wat Vihear Sour in Kandal province on may delay the exit, may will tell Saturday. (Story page 3) members at the party’s annual con- ference in Birmingham, central england, that she is determined to move on with the process and win Rare Wood Rules Tightened; to What Avail? the “right deal.” By ZsoMBor Peter africa on Friday that exceptions to signed up to CiteS—Cambodia invoking article 50 of the e.U.’s The cambodIa daIly rules restricting the cross-border among them—before they close lisbon treaty will give the U.K. delegates at a major international trade of Siamese rosewood, or dal- out their latest triennial meeting just a two-year period to clinch one conference to regulate the trade of bergia cochinchinensis, should be later this week. of the most complex deals in eu- endangered species have ag reed to scrapped. it also agreed to place Forest trends, a U.S.-based envi- rope since World War ii with the tighten the rules around Siamese basic trade restrictions on the ronmental watchdog group, called other 27 members of the e.U. rosewood, a favorite of Cambodia’s world’s 300-plus other dalbergia the changes “a huge victory for the “We will trigger before the end illegal loggers, and other local trees species in hopes of avoiding the world’s most threatened forests.” of march next year,” may told the increasingly targeted in its stead. same decimation that has already But they joined others in warning BBC’s andrew marr show. a committee of member states hit Siamese rosewood in Cambo- that beefed-up rules were only as “now that they know what to the Convention on international dia and across the region. good as the commitment of conven- our timing is going to be...[i hope] trade in endangered Species of to take effect, the committee’s tion members to enforce them. that we’ll be able to have some Wild Fauna and Flora (CiteS) decisions will have to be approved “it’s up to consumer countries to Continued on page 2 agreed during a meeting in South by a majority of the 183 countries Continued on page 2 Rebels Prepare to Leave Jungle in Colombia By Nick Miroff FaRC. Yesterday, Colombian vot- campsites. The WaShIngTon PoST ers were in the process of deciding talking to Yurluey was like meet- el diamante, Colombia - “do you whether to accept a peace deal with ing someone who had stepped out of want to see my gun?” Yurluey men- the FaRC, whose members have a time machine. She has never used doza asked about 90 minutes into waged the longest-running insur- the internet, never seen the ocean, our conversation. gency in the Western Hemisphere. never been to the movies or ridden a now we were getting some- the rebels were meeting last week bicycle. where. this was the guerrilla to discuss the accord and figure out She was also clearly not used to equivalent of being invited inside their future after 52 years at war. answering questions. for coffee. many, like Yurluey, are preparing “Why me?” Yurluey asked. “Why Tourism Venues to be Vetted, We were in the rebel-controlled to reenter the modern world. they did you pick me?” Ranked by Government hinterlands for what was billed as the have spent years roaming Colom- i told her i wanted to talk to some- Page 4 final gathering of the Revolutionary bia’s mountains and forests, bathing one who had spent their whole life cambodiadaily.com armed Forces of Colombia, or the in creeks and sleeping in crude Continued on page 7

មានដំណឹងបែែសមែួលជាភាសាខ្មែរនៅខាងក្នុង The Daily Newspaper of Record Since 1993 2 The Cambodia daily monday, ocTobeR 3, 2016 ANd AlSo NEWSMAKERS What’s Dead and Red All Over? n the team behind the jaMes BoNd films wants daNiel craig to return ReuTeRS turns red due to heat and light be- as 007, the spy series’ executive producer said on Friday, even after the a salt lake in northern China’s cause it holds the red-orange pig- British actor said he would rather slash his wrists than appear again. the Shanxi province has become a new ment beta-carotene, which scientists 48-year-old star was “absolutely the first choice,” calluM Mcdougalltold tourist attraction after a portion of it say protects it from UV radiation. BBC radio. Craig said last year he was “over” the role after filming recently turned red, state media re- local officials were cited as say- wrapped up on the last instalment “Spectre,” which went on to gross $880 ported on thursday. ing the phenomenon is an annual million worldwide. When asked if he could imagine doing another Bond the red color occurs when the occurrence, but it was not immedi- movie, Craig told london’s time Out magazine: “now? i’d rather break amount of the microalgae called ately clear why only one section of this glass and slash my wrists.” His words triggered a flurry of speculation dunaliella salina reaches a specific the lake had changed. over who might appear next, with idris elBa, toM hiddlestoN and number. the lake, formed around 500 aidaN turNeramong the top contenders. Craig has been widely praised the algae survives in saline envi- million years ago, is called “China’s for bringing a fresh grittiness to the role of the suave secret agent over four films, starting with Casino Royale in 2006. (Reuters) ronments and is normally green, but dead Sea,” according to CCtV.

after the vote and is now trading gotiating partners in the middle of Brexit to satisfy impatient voices. Brexit... about $0.40—or 25 percent—lower talks. “it is very technical and it’s not a than the six-year highs it reached in “it’s not just important for the U.K., big deal,” said anna Soubry, a Con- coNtiNued froM Page 1 mid-2014. it’s important for europe as a whole servative who is the former small preparatory work so that once the For some businesses, may’s re- that we are able to do this in the best businesses minister. “But trigger- trigger comes we have a smoother luctance to offer what she describes possible way so we have the least dis- ing Brexit as early as march really pro cess of negotiation,” may said. as a “running commentary” on her ruption for businesses...and when concerns me, it troubles me huge- Britain’s decision to leave the strategy has deepened fears that we leave the e.U. we have a smooth ly,” she told itV television, citing e.U. in the June 23 referendum they could end up paying higher transition away from the e.U.,” may the French and german elections. sparked turmoil in financial mar- costs if operating from the U.K. said. But may was clear that she had kets as investors tried to gauge “there’s actually a difference be- She was also set to unveil at the to deliver on what the U.K. wanted what the impact would be on both tween not giving any commentary conference a much anticipated and that meant limiting migration the world’s fifth largest economy and giving a running commentary. move to repeal the 1972 european into the country, while trying to and the e.U. What i am doing today is setting Communities act, the act that took balance the need of businesses for the U.K.’s allies fear that its exit out some further detail on the tim- it into what is now the e.U., to tariff-free access to the e.U.’s sin- from the e.U. could mark a turn- ing and the way we are going to ap- make the U.K. “a sovereign and in- gle market. ing point in post-Cold War interna- proach this whole question,” may dependent country,” next year. “i want the right deal for trade in tional affairs that will weaken the said. But even members of her own goods and services and what we West in relation to China and Rus- Some Conservative lawmakers Conservative Party said that what are doing at the moment...is listen- sia, undermine efforts toward eu- said triggering article 50 so early may has billed as the “great Re- ing to businesses here in the U.K., ropean integration and hurt global could put pressure on the U.K. as peal act” was little more than a listening to different sectors, find- free trade. elections in France and germany technicality, used to paint the pic- ing out what it is that is most impor- Sterling plunged to a 31-year low next year could change london’s ne- ture that may was moving on with tant to them,” she said.

the last time the countries got “this will help in understanding Vietnam has reported to CiteS Wood... together—in Bangkok in 2013. the degree to which trade is ‘detri- repeated Siamese rosewood im- Since then, any convention mem- mental to the survival of the ports from Cambodia since 2013. coNtiNued froM Page 1 ber exporting its Siamese rose- species in the wild,’ the core func- Cambodia, however, says it has adopt broader policy solutions that wood has had to issue a special cer- tion of CiteS. Without knowing not issued a single certificate for tackle the problem at its root— tificate each time guaranteeing, in what trade exists in reality, no one the trees since export restrictions demand,” Forest trend’s director theory, that the shipment poses no can ever have an informed position were imposed that year, claiming of forest policy, trade and finance, threat to its existence in the wild. on whether further protection is that all the certificates must have Kerstin Canby, said in a statement. But the listing came with what en- required,” he added. been faked. “as the world’s largest consumer vironmental groups recognized Some fear the change is too little “the reality is that Vietnam and of rosewood, China holds the key from the start was a major loophole. too late for Cambodia. China have fundamentally failed in to preventing the loss of the last re- added under the convention’s though the country has no up- their application of provisions of maining old-growth forests in annotation 5, the certificates apply to-date accounting of how much CiteS, as they have not adequate- africa and Southeast asia.” only to exports of logs, sawn wood Siamese rosewood is left in the ly verified the CiteS permits sup- it’s the demand for fancy rose- and veneer. any additional pro- wild, many believe it has been posedly issued by Cambodia [but wood furniture in China that has cessing, vaguely defined, gets an nearly wiped out. local loggers in fact not] presented to them,” driven much of Cambodia’s ex- exemption. regularly risk their lives sneaking mr. Wadley said. ports, often through Vietnam and One of the changes approved by into thailand to cut down trees “Vietnam accepted a load of all illegal since 2013. despite a committee in Johannesburg on there; dozens have been shot dead fakes and then passed those on to blanket ban on Siamese rosewood Friday moves Siamese rosewood by thai soldiers in the past few China. Both had clear reason to be- logging and export declared by from annotation 5 to annotation 4, years. lieve that no permits could or Prime minister Hun Sen that year, eliminating the exemption. loggers have also turned in- should have been issued by Cam- thousands of cubic meters worth Besides closing the loophole, the creasingly to other “replacement bodia,” he added. “However, they millions of dollars have continued public may also get a better idea of species” to keep the Chinese furni- ignored those facts when accept- to make it into Vietnam. a ban on the actual global trade in Siamese ture market fed. Recognizing the ing permits for the wood.” all timber exports to Vietnam in rosewood, said Jago Wadley, a sen- shift, CiteS members on Friday this points to what environmen- January has cut the traffic in half at ior forest campaigner for the envi- also agreed to require certificates tal protection groups consider anoth- best, and it appears to be wearing ronmental investigation agency, a for the export of all 300-plus dalber- er weakness of the CiteS system— off ever more with each passing london-based watchdog group. gia species. they include dalbergia its heavy reliance on member states month, according to Vietnam’s “it will generate the obligation of oliveri, another lucrative favorite of to abide by the rules. own import figures. all parties to publish far more species Cambodia’s illegal loggers. ty Sokhun, a secretary of state at in a bid to curb the trade, CiteS specific trade data...so the world will But as the last three years have the agriculture ministry who heads members listed Siamese rosewood have a better picture of actual trade in proved with Siamese rosewood, cer- Cambodia’s enforcement of CiteS, under the convention’s appendix ii the species,” he said in an email. tifying exports is far from foolproof. could not be reached for comment. monday, octobeR 3, 2016 The Cambodia daily 3 NatioNal Prosecutor Appeals Release of Illegal Fishermen in Kandal By Aun PheAP protect the public interest,” he men after police set fire to the nets urged him to turn a blind eye to the cambodia daily said. “I think the four Vietnamese they were caught with, and that Vietnamese nationals sneaking A Kandal provincial court pros- nationals should not have been prosecuting them risked causing across the border to fish. ecutor has filed a complaint with freed because they crossed the problems for local officials collud- “There are some bad officials in- the Court of Appeal against a lo- border illegally to fish illegally in ing with illegal fishermen. volved in fishing crimes who have cal judge who released four Khmer territory.” “I think it’s no problem if we put come to me and tried to negotiate Vietnamese nationals—without Judge Manoka declined to com- four Vietnamese fishermen in jail, with me to let Khmer and Yuon charges and at the request of the ment, while officials at the Appeal but some of our officials will also be fish in the lake because they provincial governor—caught ille- Court could not be reached. involved because the offenders already paid. But I refused and gally fishing in Cambodia. Provincial governor Mao Phi - confessed to the court that our offi- told them that we will take action The four were caught fishing run said yesterday that he asked cials conspired with them,” he said. to stop all illegal fishing,” he on a lake in Kandal’s Koh Thom for the release and ran through a The governor said he knew the said, using an often derogatory district on September 23 when lo- trio of reasons why he did so. First, officials letting the Vietnamese word for Vietnamese people. cal authorities converged on a he said, was the need to protect through, but had no interest in hav- Mr. Bunchhorn said the sea- larger group of Vietnamese fisher- Cambodians who similarly cross ing them arrested and prosecuted. sonal flooding was making it easy men who had crossed the nearby into Vietnam on a regular basis. “We have no need to open an in- for Vietnamese fishermen to cross border with Vietnam, but watched “If we take strong action against vestigation because we already the border by boat and that hun- most escape. four Vietnamese nationals for en- know the officials working along dreds had been spotted in his dis- Investigating Judge Y Manoka tering to fish in Cambodia, the Viet- the border who are responsible trict in the past few days. ordered the quartet’s release the fol- namese government will respond for letting the Vietnamese enter,” “My police officials told me that lowing Tuesday without charges. in the same way. That’s why I he said. “We will just educate they have seen almost 1,000 Viet- Yesterday, court prosecutor asked the court to release the four them.” namese nationals fishing illegally Lim Sokuntha said he had filed a Vietnamese fishermen and let Koh Thom district police chief in Koh Thom district,” he said. complaint on Friday against the them return home,” he said. Chhoeun Bunchhorn said he was “We will take urgent action to stop judge over the decision. Mr. Phirun said court officials “disappointed” about the recent the fishing crime after the Pchum “I filed the complaint with the also told him they lacked evidence release and confirmed that cor- Ben festival.” Appeal Court to find justice and to to press charges against the fisher- rupt local officials sometimes The national holiday ends today. Spirits High, But Buffalo Numbers Waning, at Annual Races

By BrendAn O’Byrne Six years ago, there were about falo fighters for sturdy mounts. as a rogue buffalo or horse got too And ChhOrn PheArun 40 buffalos participating, but less “Most people who used to have close for comfort. the cambodia daily than 20 ran in this year’s race. It’s a buffalo have sold them now,” said “This year has more people WATVIheArSour, Kandal province- problem that does not go unno- Pat reath, a 24-year-old monk who than last year,” said Pat reath. “I Moan Som has been coming to ticed by spectators. has lived at Wat Vihear Sour for like to watch the people go ‘oh’ the Pchum Ben buffalo races here “In the 1990s there were 50, 60, the past eight years. “Most years and ‘ah,’” he said, smiling as the for as long as she can remember, even more than 60 buffalos,” Ms. there were more buffalo than hors- crowd reacted to a particularly but the 59-year-old hasn’t lost her Som said of the animals, which es. Now there are not so many, it feisty horse temporarily freeing it- excitement for the beasts at the can weigh upward of 400 kg. “Now is mostly horses.” self from its handler. center of the show. it is mostly horses. It is not as fun.” Still, the numbers of spectators But for some, the races just aren’t “Buffalo! Buffalo!” she shouted About 40 horses joined the buf- keeps growing, he said. the same without all the buffalos. on Saturday morning, smiling falos this year, all sporting ornate Throughout the morning races, “There are more people now, broadly and pointing at the ani- headgear for their sprint down the children and adults alike broke out but it was more fun before,” Ms. mals passing by with their heads track—more of a fashion show in laughter when the riders lost Som said after the event. “I will still and horns covered in sparkling than a contest of speed, an oppor- control of their animals. The crowd come back, but I hope there are decorations. tunity for riders to show off their was occasionally forced to scatter more buffalos next year.” Thousands of people joined her skills and sequined beasts. to watch the annual buffalo race at The annual festival, which in- this sprawling pagoda in Khsach cludes traditional wrestling match- Kandal district, which has hosted es and ceremonies for the ances- the event for almost a century. tral holiday, has made this pagoda Crowds lined the narrow dirt track and the surrounding village some- and perched on top of statues to thing of a pilgrimage site for many. watch riders urge their buffalos “It’s very important to us. even and horses toward a group of during the Pol Pot regime we had monks awaiting them at the steps this festival,” said Mr. Thang, who of the sprawling pagoda’s main for the past 13 years has volun- temple. teered his time to organize the The race has seen a sharp in- event, which began in the 1920s. crease in spectators after the 2011 But the waning number of buffa- opening of the Prek Tamak los poses a new threat to the age- bridge, which crosses the Me - old tradition. kong river only a few kilometers Mr. Thang said there were sev- from the pagoda, making it an eas- eral reasons for the shrinking herd. ier trip from nearby provinces, Access to mechanical farming said Thai Thang, 47, the organizer equipment has made buffalos less of the event. necessary for farmers. There has Yet as the audience grows, the been an increase in demand for the Pring Samrang/Reuters number of buffalos taking part has animals from Phnom Penh restau- A buffalo kicks up mud as it prepares to race into Wat Vihear Sour in been on a steady decline, he said. rants for meat and Vietnamese buf- Kandal Province on Saturday. 4 The Cambodia daily monday, octobeR 3, 2016 NatioNal Briefing Tourism Venues to Be Vetted, Ranked by Gov’t by Hang sokuntHea the cambodia daily Security Guard Charged The Ministry of Tourism has “This will generate more With Raping Minor unveiled a new system to rank the income and everyone can A security guard at a popular quality of service at restaurants, nightclub in Siem Reap City was adult entertainment establish- gain from that.” charged with raping a 15-year-old ments such as bars and clubs, and —Ho Vandy, girl on Saturday, police said yester- event venues such as conference CHairman, Cambodia day. Provincial penal police chief halls, guiding tourists through assoCiation of traVel Duong Sokha said Mao Dara, 36, their stay in Cambodia. had been drinking with the victim Clubs, karaoke parlors and beer agenCies inside the Angkor Archaeological gardens will be packaged into one Park in the early evening, before category, receiving up to three “or- Travel & Tourism Council. he brought her back to his apart- chids” on a ministry-assigned certifi- However, the quality of services ment—where he lived with his cate. Restaurants will be eligible for is still lacking. Cambodia was wife—in the city’s Slakram com- up to five stars, while events venues ranked 105 out of 144 countries in will receive a certificate of recogni- Siv channa/the cambodia daily the World Economic Forum’s mune. “They went to have a meal Tourism Minister Thong Khon and drink beer in front of Angkor,” tion, according to a statement from “Travel & Tourism Competitive- he said, adding that when the vic- the ministry released on Thursday. that provincial tourism officials ness Report 2015,” due largely to tim became drunk the suspect “let “We created the ranking stan- would conduct the assessments. poor hygiene and tourism infra- her sleep in his room.” Mr. Dara dards to improve quality as well as Venues that do not meet basic structure. Once the new rankings are en- left with his wife for his shift at the to strengthen human resources criteria would not receive the nod forced, they will benefit the entire- Galaxy club that night, but bor- and skills,” Tourism Minister of approval from the government, ty of Cambodia by encouraging rowed a friend’s motorbike to re- Thong Khon said yesterday. negatively affecting their busi- ness, he added, referring further more tourists to visit, said Ho turn home and raped the sleeping The goal, he said, was to create questions to Kim Sereyroth, direc- Vandy, chairman of the Cambodia girl, forcibly holding her down a “One Service, One Standard” framework to ensure certain stan- tor of the tourism industry depart- Association of Travel Agencies. when she awoke, Mr. Sokha said. dards across the industry. ment, who could not be reached. “This will generate more income She managed to escape after ask- “The department will go evalu- A central part of the govern- and everyone can gain from that,” ing to go to the bathroom, and ran ate those places—for example, ment’s economic plan, tourism ac- he said. “If your business has quali- outside onto the street in just a tow- which have better toilets, restau- counted for 13.5 percent of the ty, it will have a long life.” el screaming for help, he said. Mr. rant service, et cetera—so they can country’s gross domestic product (Additional reporting by Janelle Dara was sent to the provincial receive the scores,” he said, adding last year, according to the World Retka) court yesterday, where he was charged with rape and sent to the provincial prison to await trial, he Xi to Make First Presidential Visit This Month added. (Phan Soumy) the cambodia daily gal assault on the opposition Critics have condemned Cambo- Elite Soldier Charged For Amid deteriorating relations with CNRP and other critics ahead of dia for doing China’s bidding by re- Unlawfully Firing Gun Western countries due to the gov- local elections next year and na- peatedly blocking joint Asean state- ernment’s suppression of critics, ments against its claims to the A soldier from the military’s elite tional elections in 2018. Chinese President Xi Jinping is due During a U.N. Human Rights South China Sea and deporting Tai- paratrooper unit was arrested in to visit Cambodia this month for the Council session in Geneva last wanese criminals to the mainland Kompong Chhnang province on first time since taking office, accord- week, however, China defended rather than repatriating them. Friday night after illegally using his ing to a Facebook post by National Cambodia, with its U.N. represen- In a meeting with King Norodom standard-issue firearm to intimi- Police chief Neth Savoeun. tative Wang Ying urging outsiders Sihamoni in Beijing in June, Mr. Xi date a family friend, police said yes- During a meeting on Wednes- to leave the country to find “a suit- said the two countries “should deep- terday. Kompong Leng district po- day morning between General able human rights development en practical cooperation to achieve lice chief Pal Choeun said Yun Savoeun and China’s deputy min- model and path.” mutual benefit and win-win results,” Saniya, 32, a Brigade 911 soldier ister of public security, Wang Xi- This year alone, Beijing has according to a statement from Chi- based in Preah Vihear province, aohong, the Chinese official laud- poured at least $600 million in aid na’s Foreign Affairs Ministry. was visiting his wife and her family ed the strong ties between the two into the country, making it by far Mr. Xi’s last trip to Cambodia in Pur commune for the Pchum countries and said his trip fore- the largest single donor. was in 2009 as vice president. Ben holiday. When Mr. Saniya’s shadowed that of his president. brother-in-law invited a friend— “Wang Xiaohong stated that the Nop Kongkea, 22—over to drink reason he came to Cambodia was to with him, Mr. Saniya threatened to have discussions with relevant insti- shoot the man, he said. As the tutions in regard to hosting the visit friend approached the stairs lead- from the president of China, who ing up to the house, the soldier will visit the Kingdom of Cambodia shouted at him: “I don’t like mess- in October 2016,” the post said. ing around—if you climb up I will Gen. Savoeun added that prepa- fire,” before firing his handgun rations for the president’s visit once, Mr. Choen said. Mr. Kong - were already in motion. kea reported the incident to police, Ministry of Foreign Affairs offi- who sent Mr. Saniya to the provin- cials could not be reached for com- cial police station, he said. Provin- ment, while Chinese Embassy cial court spokesman Long Sitha spokesman Cheng Hong Bo said said Mr. Saniya was charged yes- he had “no idea about this visit.” terday with the illegal use of a Cambodia has recently taken a firearm and remanded in provision- verbal beating from Western Reuters al detention. He faces six months to countries decrying what is widely Chinese President Xi Jinping, center, arrives at a reception celebrating two years in prison. (Phan Soumy) seen as a politically motivated le- China's National Day in Beijing on Friday. monday, octobeR 3, 2016 The Cambodia daily 5 regional Duterte Denies Originating Hitler Label, Spokesman Says ReuteRs with the unpredictable leader of a manila - Philippine President Rodri- country that has long been a de- go Duterte should not be compared pendable U.S. ally. to adolf Hitler, and his reference to abella said Duterte recognized the Holocaust was an “oblique de- the deep significance of the Holo- flection” of claims that he is a mass caust and said that the initial com- murderer, his spokesman said on parison to Hitler “did not originate Saturday, as anger smoldered over from the president.” his incendiary remarks. “The [presidential] palace de- Duterte’s comments on Friday plores the Hitler allusion of Presi- that he wished to kill millions of dent Duterte’s anti-drug war as an- drug dealers as part of his anti- other crude attempt to vilify the narcotics war, and those he made president in the eyes of the world.” about the deaths of millions of Jew- When challenged about the ish people, were “two entirely differ- drug deaths, he has insulted U.S. ent things,” spokesman Ernesto President Barack Obama and U.n. abella said in one of two statements, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, which stopped short of an apology. Reuters among others, and the bulk of his “The president’s reference to Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte gestures while delivering a speech criticism has been leveled at Wash- the slaughter was an oblique de- to female police officers during a gathering in Davao City, Philippines. ington. many analysts say Du - flection of the way he has been pic- he would “be happy to slaughter” 3 with some deaths during shootouts terte’s meteoric rise to the presi- tured as a mass murderer, a Hitler, million Filipino drug users and ped- in police operations and others the dency will not only change the sta- a label he rejects,” abella said. dlers, adding that he had been por- work of vigilantes, police say. tus quo in the Philippines, but may “He likewise draws an oblique trayed by critics as “a cousin of The near-daily tide of astonishing also impact geopolitics and how far conclusion, that while the Holo- Hitler.” “if Germany had Hitler, the remarks from Duterte has caused he is willing to test partnerships caust was an attempt to extermi- Philippines would have...,” he said, outrage in the West, although he is with countries like Japan, the U.S. nate the future generations of Jews, pausing and pointing to himself. popular among Filipinos for deliver- and, most recently, Vietnam. the so-called ‘extrajudicial killings,’ more than 3,100 people have ing on promises as president and as Closely watched will be the ex- wrongly attributed to him, will nev- been killed since “Duterte Harry,” mayor of the city of Davao for 22 tent of his overtures towards China. ertheless result in the salvation of as he has been dubbed, took office years before that. Duterte has said that the Philip- the next generation of Filipinos.” on June 30 and kicked off a drug The Hitler comments triggered pines, a longtime U.S. treaty ally, The maverick 71-year-old presi- war that was the bedrock of his shock and anger among Jewish was seeking to build “many news al- dent appeared to liken himself on election campaign. most of those groups in the U.S., which pressured liances” and could turn to Russia Friday to the nazi leader, and said killed were drug users and dealers, Washington to take a tougher line and China for help. 6 The Cambodia daily monday, octobeR 3, 2016 regional First UN Investigator to Protect LGBTI People Appointed ReuteRs Syria and as a special rapporteur in Geneva, said in a statement. lence that included knife attacks, london - The U.n. Human Rights on north Korea. The International lesbian, anal rape and genital mutilation, Council on Friday appointed its The U.n. agreed on the new Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Inter - as well as stoning and dismem- first independent investigator to role in June, after the 47-member sex Association said the newly berment, the U.n. said in a report help protect homosexual and council overcame strong objec- created role was critical to give published last year. trans gender people worldwide tions by Saudi Arabia and other justice to lGBTI people who More than 2,000 transgender from violence and discrimination. Muslim countries to adopt a have been attacked, abused or and gender diverse people were The U.n. expert Vitit Muntar - Western-backed resolution by a discriminated against. murdered in 65 countries be - bhorn will have a three-year man- vote of 23 states in favor and 18 “never has there been a more tween 2008 and 2015, according date to investigate abuses against against with six abstentions. urgent need to safeguard the to the Trans Murder Mon itoring lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgen- Human Rights Watch wel- human rights of lGBTI persons project, which is coordinated by der and intersex people. comed the appointment, saying the around the world,” said executive lGBTI rights group Transgender Muntarbhorn is an internation- U.n. council “made history.” director of IlGA, Renato Sab - Europe. al law professor at the Chula - “This critical mandate will bring badini, in a statement to In 2011, the U.n. rights body longkorn University in Bangkok, much-needed attention to human reporters. declared there should be no dis- Thailand. rights violations against lGBT Hundreds of lGBTI people crimination or violence against He has served on several U.n. people in all regions of the world,” have been killed and thousands people based on their sexual bodies, including in quiries on John Fisher, the group’s director injured in recent years, in vio- orientation. Thailand Still Golden for Chinese Tourists Despite Zika Fears ReuteRs Thailand Governor Yuthasak shrine popular with Asian visitors “These are very rare cases and BAnGKoK - Confirmation that the Supasorn told reporters, and Zika killed 20 people, seven of them the virus isn’t a concern for them,” Zika virus had caused micro- fears were not expected to spoil from China, but failed to put a Supawan told reporters. cephaly in Thailand is not likely to the holiday mood. dent in arrivals. Charoen Wangananont, presi- scare off large numbers of Chi - “We have confidence in Thai - Supawan Tanomkieatipume, dent of the Association of Thai nese tourists due to jet in for holi- land’s public health system. The president of the Thai Hotels As - Travel Agents echoed that opti- days in the next week, tourists number of Chinese tourists com- sociation, said she had not heard mism. “I haven’t found any and industry operators said. ing to Thailand should be on tar- of any hotel cancellations since Chinese tourists, even ones that Thailand reported on Friday get,” Yuthasak said. the confirmation of Zika-linked are pregnant, voicing this con- the first confirmed cases in Roong Mallikamas, head of the microcephaly. cern,” he said. Southeast Asia of microcephaly, a macroeconomics and monetary birth defect marked by small policy department at the Bank of ------Regional Briefs ------head size, linked to the Zika virus, Thailand, said Zika would not a day after U.S. officials recom- have a big impact on tourism be - Chinese Navy on Five-Day Visit to Neighbor Burma mended that pregnant women cause it was not as serious as BEIJInG - Two Chinese navy ships arrived in Burma’s main city of Rangoon postpone travel to 11 countries in other diseases previously seen in for a five-day visit, state media said on Saturday, the latest move by Beijing the region, including Thailand, the region, such as a deadly 2003 to reinforce military ties with its strategically located southern neighbor. because of Zika. outbreak of Severe Acute Re - China has been on a diplomatic offensive since the government of nobel China’s “Golden Week” break, spiratory Syndrome. Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi came to power in April, aiming to which started on Saturday, sees Zika has spread extensively in forge good ties with the resource-rich country. Suu Kyi visited China in an exodus to overseas holiday latin America and the Carib bean August, where President Xi Jinping told her he wanted to ensure the “cor- spots with tropical Thailand a over the past year or so, and rect direction” of relations, and a senior Chinese military officer went to favorite for Chinese visitors, who more recently it has been crop- Burma last month. The two warships, the Xiangtan and the Zhoushan, are already the most numerous in ping up in Southeast Asia. arrived on Friday, and were met by senior Burmese military officers, the the country. Thailand has confirmed 349 official Xinhua news Agency said. China had a close relationship with In Bangkok’s bustling China - Zika cases since January, includ- Burma’s former military-run government, and has looked on with some town, tourists said they were ing 33 pregnant women. nervousness at its democratization process. China has been pushing scared about Zika, but not Budget-friendly Thailand has Burma to resume work on the Chinese-invested $3.6 billion Myitsone dam deterred. seen a steady increase in Chinese project, 90 percent of whose power was originally planned to have gone to Tina lan, 30, from Shanghai, tourists over recent years. A hit China. In 2011, then-President Thein Sein angered China when he sus- said she had booked her Golden 2012 Chinese comedy film, “lost pended work on the dam, at the confluence of two northern rivers in Week flights to Thailand six in Thailand,” boosted the image the Ayeyarwady river basin, over environmental protests. (Reuters) months ago. of a tourist paradise of Buddhist “I’m slightly scared because temples and beaches. Russia to Summon Dutch Envoy Over MH17 Probe Zika is transmitted by mosqui- Thailand expects a record 33 MoSCoW - The Russian Foreign Ministry will summon the dutch toes and there are lots of them million visitors this year, driven ambassador in Moscow today to explain Russia’s reasons for not here,” lan told reporters, but she mostly by an increase in Chinese accepting the findings of an investigation into the crash of Malaysia added she will continue her tour numbers. Airlines Flight 17, the ministry said on Friday. A team of international in Thailand, which she has visited The tourism industry, which investigators on Wednesday presented findings showing that the mis- before. accounts for about 10 percent of sile launcher used to shoot down MH17 over Eastern Ukraine in 2014 Industry officials also said news gross domestic product, has came from Russia and was returned there afterwards—despite Russian of Zika was expected to have no weathered more than a decade of denials of involvement in the conflict in Ukraine. The dutch Foreign impact on Chinese arrivals, at unrest including military coups in Ministry summoned Russia’s ambassador in The Hague for a diplomat- least in the short term. 2006 and 2014 and a wave of dead- ic rebuke on Friday after Moscow made remarks critical of the MH17 Thailand expects 220,000 ly bombings in August that killed investigation. The ministry, citing spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, said Chinese visitors during the four Thai tourists and injured that Moscow will explain its reasoning for not accepting the methods of break, up about 30 percent from dozens, including foreigners. the international investigation, which took the probe “in a wrong direc- last year, Tourism Authority of A bomb last year at a Bangkok tion.” (Reuters) monday, octobeR 3, 2016 The Cambodia daily 7 InternatIonal thing we regret,” she said. “They Rebels... were errors made in the course of an irregular war that forced us to continued from page 1 use unusual tactics.” fighting in the jungle. Not one of Yurluey described her role in the younger soldiers. Someone the insurgency as something like closer to my age (39). being an armed social worker. In She glowered. “You think I’m areas under rebel control, she that old?” would work with farmers to en- Yurluey, the nom de guerre by courage them to grow more food. which all her rebel “comrades” She taught math and reading to know her, joined the FARC at age children in remote areas where 14, “about 20 years ago,” she said. the government did not, extolling Yurluey had been on a heli- the virtues of Marxism to their copter for the first time only a few parents. days before. It was a Red Cross air- I had asked on the first day how lift to the FARC gathering. When someone like her joins the FARC. she and the other fighters climbed She spoke, somewhat vaguely, aboard, the crew handed them about wanting to fight for access foam earplugs, and one of the Reuters to public education. She learned to guerrillas tore open the wrapper Fighters from Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia walk at the read and write in the FARC, she camp before the closing ceremony of a rebel congress near El and popped them in his mouth, Diamante in Yari Plains, Colombia. said. thinking they were candy. Yurluey started picking coffee “I always imagined that the day ers like makeup and lots of pink. and told me to come back later. beans and cleaning houses at age I rode in a helicopter would be the Her bed in the rebel camp was I returned with gifts: Medjool 8 in southern Caqueta depart- day of my capture,” Yurluey said. an earthen mattress of sticks and dates from California I’d found at a ment, where she grew up. It is She has been to the big city only mud, fluffed with dried grass un- fancy market in Bogota. Yurluey one of the many isolated parts of once, after a bomb shredded her der a sheet of black plastic. picked one up, studied it, and bit the Colombian countryside where left foot, leaving her nearly crip- On the pole that was her bed- down. “These are good,” she said, the presence of the state—includ- pled. She left the jungle with a fake post hung her MP5 submachine then ate four more and invited a ing schools, health clinics and oth- ID, and took a bus to Bogota, the gun. In her ammo belt was a 9mm few comrades to try them. er government services—was capital, with a wad of cash for an pistol, stamped “Made in Israel” Three of Yurluey’s siblings had scant. orthopedic surgeon. and swaddled in cellophane. followed her into the FARC—two On the second day, I asked “Do you know what it’s like to She handed me the rifle, which younger sisters and a brother who again what turned a 14-year-old spend 20 years at war?” she asked. was worn and oily. I showed her was later killed in combat. Her par- girl into a guerrilla fighter. She I said I most certainly did not. the iPhone 6. It can take pho- ents are growing old, and she said there was another reason. “It’s hard,” she said. “Really tographs and videos and send wants to help them when the war “When I was about 7, on St. Pe- hard.” them across the world, I said. It ends. ter’s Day [June 29], I went into Yurluey, one of about 7,000 also works as a flashlight, a com- Like other rank-and-file guerril- town with my father to see the cel- FARC fighters, was a member of pass and a map. She stared for a las whose only criminal charge ebration,” Yurluey said. A band in the plaza was playing songs by re- the “Teófilo Forero” mobile col- moment into the screen. under Colombian law is “rebel- quest to celebrate the holiday. umn, a feared and despised rebel “There are so many new things lion,” Yurluey will probably get Her father asked for a popular division linked to some of the war’s I will have to learn,” she said. amnesty if the peace deal passes. folk ballad that had a reference to worst violence. Her right thigh Was it worth it, all this hard- She said she has a guerrilla “com- ship? I asked. panero” who would like children. the late FARC founder Manuel had a divot from a combat wound, Marulanda. the bullet just missing bone. Her The peace deal includes none of Not her. the sweeping revolutionary “Two police officers came over,” right eardrum was blown out in “I don’t see myself becoming a changes the FARC has long she continued. “The music another bombing, one of six she mom,” she said. “I don’t want any- fought for. But Yurluey said she stopped. They asked who com- survived. thing right now that ties me had helped win something, even if missioned the song.” down.” She went several days without it was only the promise of full po- Yurluey said the police knocked eating sometimes, she said: litical rights from a government She would like to travel, to go to her father to the ground, kicking “There are times when you can’t she has never trusted. She school, but said she will be ready him, then took him to jail. walk from so many blisters, or seemed tired, but not regretful. for whatever postwar task the “I ran home to tell my mother, your backpack chafes off your “You do it because you tell your- rebel leaders assign. but she was nine months preg- skin. Or you have to step over the self the sacrifice is worth it,” she Over the years, the FARC sus- nant, so she told me to go back to bodies of comrades, who you love said. “So that something in this tained itself largely on the profits take care of my father,” she said. like family, when they fall.” country will change.” of the drug trade, and by levying The police locked her father Like a lot of guerrillas, she Within weeks, if the peace ac- “taxes” on families and businesses overnight in a cell so small he spoke in the language of doctrine. cord is approved, Yurluey and the in areas under its control. Those could barely sit down, Yurluey The FARC’s enemies were “the other FARC guerrillas will begin who didn’t pay were sometimes said. “There was a space under oligarchy.” The U.S. was “the em- turning in their guns. kidnapped and killed. the door, and I put my hand under pire.” The guerrilla army was “the Yurluey said it will be hard to let Yurluey asked my impressions it so he could touch my finger. We movement.” the MP5 go. “That gun has pro- of her “movement.” I said I sat like that on the floor for a long But Yurluey was no robot. Like tected me for so long,” she said. thought it had lost a lot of hearts time. other female guerrillas, she acces- “But if they really open up a space and minds with those tactics. “I remember how badly I want- sorized her drab fatigues with big for us in politics, I won’t need it Yurluey said, fairly convincing- ed to be big at that moment when earrings, bracelets and colorful anymore.” ly, that she had not handled co- they were beating my father,” she scarves. Her hair was bouncy and The next morning, Yurluey had caine and had not been involved in said. “I think that’s when I decided dyed blond. Unlike female sol- a wary look again, as though she kidnappings. But she said the I wanted to be powerful, or to be diers in the U.S. who tend to dress was wondering if she said too rebels “made mistakes.” part of something powerful. To and groom in a way that plays much the day before. She was “We killed civilians. That make them know they could nev- down their femininity, FARC fight- busy with camp chores, she said, caused suffering, and it’s some- er do that to us again.” 8 The Cambodia daily monday, october 3, 2016 InternatIonal Hungary Set to Reject EU Migrant Quotas in Referendum reuters In a letter published in a daily Orban’s hardline approach on Hungarians at home, cementing buDAPesT - An overwhelming ma - news paper on saturday, Orban migration has won allies in his Fidesz party’s lead over the jority of Hungarians were expected again urged Hungarians to send Central europe. eastern europe’s opposition. to reject the e.u.’s migrant quotas a message to the e.u. that its former communist states, now in “We must preserve our Hun - in a referendum yesterday, which migration policies were flawed the e.u., are opposing a policy garian national character here in should boost Prime Minister and posed a threat to europe’s that would require all e.u. coun- the middle of europe and all the Viktor Orban’s standing at home security. tries to take in some of the hun- other european states should and embolden him in his battles “We can send the message dreds of thousands of people also preserve their national char- with brussels. that it is only up to us, european seeking asylum in the bloc. acters,” resident Judit Hegyi said Orban, who has been in power citizens, whether we can jointly Opinion polls show support for as she took a leaflet from a Fidesz since 2010, is among the tough- force the union to come to its a rejection of e.u. migrant quotas stall in budapest in the run-up to est opponents of immigration in senses or let it destroy itself,” of more than 80 percent among the vote. the e.u., and over the past year Orban wrote in the Magyar Idok those who say they will vote. but but others raised their voice has sealed Hungary’s southern newspaper. they also indicate turnout might against government propaganda, borders with a razor-wire fence While budapest says immigra- not necessarily top the 50 percent which they say vilifies refugees and thousands of army and police tion policy should be a matter of required for the poll to be valid. and incites hatred. some said that border patrols. nat ional sovereignty, human erzsebet Virag, voting near bu - with the campaign and the refer- After casting his vote in a rights groups have criticized the dapest’s eastern railway station endum, the government only wealthy budapest district yester- government for stoking fears and where a year ago thousands of wanted to divert attention from day, Orban told reporters that he xenophobia, and for mistreating migrants camped outside waiting corruption and problems in would go to brussels this week to refugees on the border. to get on trains towards Vienna, health care and education ahead start talks, empowered by the out- last year, hundreds of thou- said: “I voted [no] because there of 2018 national elections. come of the referendum. sands of migrants fleeing war and are a lot of poor people in our “We came here so that we “And I shall try, with the help of poverty in the Middle east country too and if more poor peo- would be less ashamed of our- the outcome—if this is an appro- crossed Hungary on their way to ple come in we will be even poor- selves on sunday night,” said priate outcome—to achieve that richer countries in Western eu - er and have to work even more.” Zsuzsa berkesi, 46, a teacher, one we should not be obliged to rope. This year Hungary record- Orban has linked mass immi- of those who demonstrated in the accept people in Hungary with ed around 18,000 illegal border gration from the Middle east to capital on Friday. whom we don’t want to live.” crossings. an increased risk of violent at - “I expect the worst: that it will He also said his government Around 1,500 people demon- tacks in e.u. societies. be valid, with more than 50 per- might modify the Hungarian con- strated in budapest on Friday The anti-migrant rhetoric has cent of people voting, and this stitution after the vote. against the referendum. gone down well with many makes me sick.” EU Seeks to Hasten Ratification Process of Paris Agreement reuters over an individual ratification Tejerina, alluding to Poland. after it was reached by delegates brussels – e.u. states aimed on process so sluggish that the head Germany drew a red line over from nearly 200 nations and Friday to agree to a shortcut to of the e.u. executive described it Poland’s demands. “We cannot before the next round of u.N. cli- ratify the Paris climate deal this as “ridiculous,” it was agreed start horse trading over the differ- mate talks next month. week, keen for a rare political “that the e.u. cannot just talk, but ent national ideas on climate poli- “It’s about keeping our interna- breakthrough at a time of discord also has to deliver on its promis- cy,” said environment Minister tional leadership role in fighting over migration and the u.K.’s es,” a bloc official said. Jo- chen Flasbarth. climate change. We can’t fall to the vote to leave the bloc. With Poland seeking conces- When e.u. regulators unveiled back of the pack,” Austria’s minis- Faced with the embarrassing sions for its coal-fired economy plans in July for spreading the ter for agriculture, forestry, envi- prospect of being left out when ahead of Friday’s gathering, e.u. burden of the bloc’s climate goal ronment and water management, the pact to curb global warming environment ministers were of reducing greenhouse gas em - Andrae rupprechter, said. “It is that the e.u. had championed seeking to smooth disputes over issions by 2030 to at least 40 per- paramount for the european takes effect, the bloc’s leaders breaking with normal procedure cent below 1990 levels, Poland union to remain credible.” hatched a plan to bypass lengthy and jointly locking into the Paris objected to its target. Cementing the Paris accord ratifications by each of the 28 accord. If ministers can seal a fast track before the u.s. presidential elec- member states when they held a “There is one member state for the e.u., the world’s third- tions on November 8 would also summit last month in bratislava. that will not make the discussion greatest emitter, it would tip into make it harder to unravel if When France raised doubts easy,” said spain’s Isabel Garcia force an accord to keep planet republican candidate Donald temperature rises “well below” 2 Trump, who has opposed it, wins degrees Celsius, less than a year that vote.

------International Brief ------77 People Injured in Gas Explosion in Southern Spain MADrID - At least 77 people were injured, five of them seriously, after a gas cylinder exploded on saturday in a restaurant in the spanish town of Velez-Malaga on the southern coast, a spokesman for the Andalucia region’s emergency unit said. The spokesman said the explosion occurred during a festival in the town, which is 40 km east of the popu- lar tourist destination of Malaga. Video footage posted on social media showed people fleeing a fire inside a small restaurant close to the center of Velez-Malaga, with the street outside covered in debris. None of those seriously injured were at risk of death, a spokesman for the local hospital said. The majority of injuries were cuts and bruises. el Pais newspaper said a cook at the restaurant was able to alert customers to a fire in the kitchen, which gave most enough time to escape serious injury. (Reuters) Volume 15, Issue 342 Monday, October 3, 2016 The Cambodia daily English Weekly ភាសាអង់គ្លេសបេចាំសប្តេហ៍ Fill in the Blank Idioms

Choose the word that best HIT THE NAIl ON THE HEAD - used if something someone says or completes each sentence. writes is precisely correct 1.) Earlier this month, 36 countries issued a The political commentator was so well liked and widely read statement during a U.N. Human Rights Council session raising deep ____ “about the because her analyses often hit the nail on the head. current escalation of political tensions in Cambodia, which threatens legitimate activi- COSTS AN ARM AND A lEG - when something is very expensive ties by opposition parties and human rights NGOs.” Vuth’s new watch is finely crafted, but it costs an arm and a leg. a. water b. concern c. points d. ideals HIT THE BOOKS - to study very hard 2.) Ney Sam Ol, Cambodia’s ambassador to After reforms to prevent widespread cheating were enacted, high the U.N., responded with a statement saying that the concerns were based on a false ____ school students had to hit the books if they wanted to pass their exams. presented by “some political parties and enti- ties,” adding “we do not welcome interfer- ence in our political situation.” Antonyms

a. picture b. philosophy c. ideology d. motive Pick the antonym—the opposite—of the word in parentheses. 3.) Nicolas Agostini, the International 1.) Foreign Minister Prak Sokhonn defended the government before the U.N. Federation for Human Rights’ representative to the U.N., said Cambodia’s defense against General Assembly in New York on Saturday, saying that the ruling party was being international ____ was starting to sound held to (unrealistic) expectations of a “perfect democracy” while the opposition was increasingly similar to China, now its largest “committing very serious crimes.” foreign benefactor. a. aid b. wars a. impractical b. attainable c. fanciful d. idealistic c. criticism d. disease 4.) “This is partly bluff, and partly a look 2.) Delivering his first (major) address to the U.N., the new foreign minister was the lat- towards China as an ally that doesn’t care est government official to hit back at claims that the CPP is attempting to cripple the how much Cambodia ____ human rights,” opposition and other critics ahead of national elections in 2018. Mr. Robertson said. a. minor b. important c. significant d. principal a. treats b. violates c. enforces d. visualizes 3.) Both opposition leader Sam Rainsy and his deputy, Kem Sokha, have been (effec- 5.) Government spokesman Phay Siphan tively)sidelined by what are widely seen as politically motivated court cases. said criticism from the Western world simply a. impressively b. forcibly c. effectually d. uselessly came down to cultural ____. a. symbolism b. relativism 4.) Phil Robertson, deputy Asia director for Human Rights Watch, also said that the gov- c. exchange d. differences ernment’s (rejection)of Western opinion could be seen as leaning toward Beijing. a. denial b. refusal c. acceptance d. renunciation Answers Answers Fill in the Blank: Antonyms: 1.) b, 2.) a, 3.) c, 4.) b, 5.) d 1.) b. attainable, 2.) a. minor, 3.) d. uselessly, 4.) c. acceptance page 2 Monday, October 3, 2016

WORD SCRAMBLE Target Unscramble each set of mixed-up letters, one letter in each space, to form ordinary words. RDINAU S N C 1. _ _ __ H S E k I t mtAbNUAR How many words of two letters or more can 2. ______you make from the above letters? In each word, each letter can be used only once. there must be at least one nine-letter word tUfoADRgNRI in your list. the answers will be in 3. ______next week’s edition. targets: 8: good AcpbepARl 12: very good 4. ______20 or more: excellent Last week’s answers: barstools, aborts, assort, blasts, bloats, boarts, Now arrange the letters in the circles to find boasts, boosts, borals, labors, roasts, robots, roosts, the answer, as suggested in the following stools, taboos, torsos, abort, altos, basso, basts, clue: blast, blats, bloat, blots, boars, boast, boats, bolos, bolts, boors, boost, boots, brass, brats, lasso, lasts, Hint: this type of food is healthy, sometimes loots, orals, roast, robot, roost, roots, salts, slabs sweet and found in cambodia.

Answer: _____ Wise Words

“one good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.” RIDDLE “Don’t gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.” Are you clever enough to figure out this mental puzzle? “the greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him • What do tigers have that no other animals have? positively.”

“open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you’re living?”

“truth is everybody is going to hurt you; you just gotta find the Answers ones worth suffering for.” “life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. flee from hate, Word Scramble mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts; put your vision 1.) durian, 2.) rambutan, 3.) dragonfruit, to reality. Wake up and live!” 4.) crabapple; Answer: fruit Bob Marley Jamaican musician Riddle: baby tigers 1945-1981 Monday, October 3, 2016 page 3

Select the part that is not the Synonyms: Pick the word or phrase that most acceptable form in standard written English. closely matches the meaning of the word or phrase in parentheses. 1.) the government (a. expecting) that its rapid inter- vention to save a rice sector (b. crippled) by a sudden 1.) A South African man caught at phnom penh slash in domestic paddy prices will (c. boost) the rul- International Airport with a stomach full of cocaine cap- ing party’s popularity (d. ahead) of upcoming elections sules tried to move the drugs through cambodia because police here are (poor) at detecting drug mules, next year and in 2018, cpp spokesman Sok eysan said. an anti-drug department official admitted on monday.

2.) With the value of paddy having (a. fallen) from a. amazing b. inadequate about $250 per ton in the middle of last month to just c. wealthy d. spectacular over $190 earlier this month due to a (b. drop) in inter- national demand, the government (c. acted) quickly to 2.) Jacobus Dawie botha, who was (detained) on friday (d. mitigated) the effects of the tumbling prices on morning, had left brazil with the drugs and boarded farmers. transit flights in Dubai and then bangkok, officials said.

3.) An emergency grant of $27 million was (a. a. freed b. sentenced approved) to (b. subsidize) rice millers and (c. stabi- c. arrested d. imprisoned lizedly) the price they pay for paddy, while the govern- ment also requested an additional $300 million from 3.) He was stopped after cambodian officials received a (tip)from the U.S. Drug enforcement Administration. china. cpp officials and their friends in the private sec- tor were asked to personally (d. purchase) and trans- port as much rice as possible. a. program b. reward c. payment d. alert

4.) mr. eysan said farmers (a. would) inevitably (b. 4.) He said the drugs were cocaine, though officials still return) the (c. favor) after the cpp’s financial interven- (planned)to do additional testing, he said. tion due to the (d. prevail)buddhist culture of gratitude. a. intended b. ignored 5.) According to the Rural Development bank, mills c. doubted d. forgot across the country have (a. purchased)about 7,000 tons of paddy since the government (b. released) funds last 5.) even though the cocaine was likely bound for week, while another 2,700 tons of (c. milled) rice were thailand, drug mules prefer not to enter that country (d. sell)in the same stretch of time. through the airport because of its (sophisticated) detec- tion equipment, instead choosing to transfer to phnom 6.) Deputy prime minister Hor Nam hong (a. met) with penh and then take the drugs overland, mr. Song said. chinese Ambassador Xiong bo on monday to (b. ask- ing) china to (c. expedite) the requested $300 million in a. weak b. lame emergency funds and to (d. fulfill) its promise to pur- c. advanced d. simple chase 300,000 tons of milled rice annually. 6.) “the airport in thailand is more (strict) and they have enough materials and tools to thoroughly check. He cannot enter,” he said. “for us, it is still limited, so he can enter through our terminal as we don’t have enough materials and tools.”

Answers a. rigorous b. relaxed c. lenient d. careless Select the part 1.) a. expects, 2.) d. mitigate, 3.) c. stabilize, 4.) d. prevailing, 5.) d. sold, 6.) b. ask Synonyms 1.) b, 2.) c, 3.) d, 4.) a, 5.) c, 6.) a •TRANslATeD News FRom The Cambodia daily (pRevious issues)

Three Nabbed in Raid as មនុស្សបីនាក់ត្ូវចាប់ខ្លួនចំព្លការចាប់ខ្លួនទាក់ទង​​​ Drug Arrests Climb នឹងគ្ឿងញៀនកើនឡើង Ministry’s National Authority By Chhorn Phearun ដោយ ឆន ភារុណ the cambodia daily for Combating Drugs report- ខ្មបូឌា​ដ្លី Nearly half a kilogram of ing 7,035 ar rests compared to illicit drugs was seized in 4,564 in the same period a គ្ឿងញៀនខុសច្បាប់ជិតកន䮛ះគីឡូក្្មត្ូវបានរឹបអូសក䮓ុងខ្ត្តកោះកុងកាល Koh Kong province on year earlier. ពីថ្ង្អាទិត្យ ដោយឈានទៅដល់ការចាប់ខ䮛ួនមនុស្សបីនក់ ជការចាប់ខ䮛ួនថ្មី បំផុត Sunday leading to three The number of drug-relat- ចំព្លដ្លមនការកើនឡើងនូវការចាប់ខ䮛ួនទាក់ទិនគ្ឿងញៀន៥៤ភាគរយទូទាំង arrests, the latest amid a 54 ed cases was also up, 2,926 ប្ទ្សក䮓ុងរយៈព្ល៨ខ្ថ្មីៗន្ះ។ percent nationwide spike in through August compared តាមរបាយការណ៍នគរបាល ការិយល័យប្ឆំងគ្ឿង ញៀនរបស់នគរបាល drug-related arrests over a to 2,114 for the same period ជតិរឹបអូសបានម្តំហ䮜្តាមីនទឹកកក (ម៉្ទឹកកក) ១០៣,៧ ក្្ម ម្តំហ䮜្តាមីន recent eight-month period. the year before—a 38 per- គ្្ប់ ៥២០គ្្ប់ និង កញ䮆្ ៣៣៩,៥ក្្ម ក䮓ុងការឆ្មក់ចូលផ䮑ះ មួយដ្លមនជន The provincial police’s cent increase, according to សង្ស័យបីនក់ស្ន្ក់នៅ គឺឈ្ម្ះ ស៊ូ ហ៊័រណុល អាយុ ៥០ឆ្ន្ំ មន្ត្ី យមតំបន់ឆ䮓្រ anti-drug bureau confis- the figures. ចូលនិវត្តន៍ គួច វល័ក䮁ណ៍ អាយុ ៤៧ឆ្ន្ំ និង សៅ ថុន អាយុ ៤៧ឆ្ន្ំបន្ទ្ប់ពីទទួល cated 103.7 grams of crystal The amount of drugs con- បានតម្ុយពីអ䮓កផ្តល់ដំណឹង។ methamphetamine, 520 fiscated, however, fell 6 per- លោក យឹម ផ្ង ស䮓ងការរងនគរបាលខ្ត្តបានហៅការចាប់ន្ះថា ជការចាប់ meth pills and 339.5 grams cent from 113.18 kg to គ្ឿងញៀនធំបំផុតក䮓ុងខ្ត្តកោះកុងនៅឆ្ន្ំន្ះ ហើយលោកបានលើកឡើងថា ជន of marijuana in a raid on the 106.32 kg, a reflection of សង្ស័យទាំងបីនក់ន្ះនឹងត្ូវបញ្ជូនទៅសលាដំបូងខ្ត្តដើម្បីធ䮜ើការសកសួរនៅ house of three suspects— busts bringing in smaller ថ្ង្ន្ះ។ retired coast guard official hauls. On average, just 15 ការឆ្មក់ចាប់ន្ះធ䮜ើឡើងអំឡុងព្លមនការកើនឡើងនូវការចាប់ខ䮛ួនពាក់ព័ន䮒 Sou Hor Nol, 50; Kouch grams of drugs were seized គ្ឿងញៀនក䮓ុងរយៈព្ល ៨ខ្ ចាប់ពីថ្ង្ទី ២៥ ខ្ធ䮓ូ ដល់ថ្ង្ទី ៣១ ខ្សីហា Voleak, 47; and Sao Thona, from every suspect arrested ដោយ អាជ្ញ្ធរជតិប្យុទ䮒ប្ឆំងគ្ឿងញៀនក្សួងមហាផ䮑្រាយការណ៍ថា មន 47—following a tip from an through August, compared informant, according to a to 25 grams for the earlier ការចាប់ ខ䮛ួនមនុស្សបាន ៧.០៣៥នក់ បើប្ៀបធៀបទៅនឹងរយៈព្លដូចគ្ន្ន្ះ police report. period. កាលពី ឆ្ន្ំមុនដ្លចាប់បាន ៤.៥៦៤នក់ ។ Deputy provincial police Asked if the smaller busts តាមតួល្ខន្ះ ចំនួនករណីទាក់ទងគ្ឿងញៀនក៏បាន កើនឡើងផងដ្រគឺ chief Yim Pheng called it the were an indication of the ២.៩២៦ករណី រហូតដល់ខ្សីហា បើប្ៀបធៀបទៅនឹងរយៈ ព្លដូចគ្ន្ន្ះ biggest drug seizure in government pursuing small- កាលពីឆ្ន្ំមុនដ្លមន ២.១១៤ករណី គឺកើនឡើង ៣៨ករណី ។ Koh Kong this year, and said time drug dealers over high- ទោះយ៉្ងណ ចំនួនគ្ឿងញៀនដ្លរឹបអូសបានបានធ្ល្ក់ចុះ ៦ភាគរយ ពី the three suspects would be er-level distributors, Meas ១១៣,១៨គីឡូក្្ម មកត្ឹម ១០៦,៣២គីឡូក្្ម ជការឆ䮛ុះបញ䮅្ំងឲ្យឃើញថា sent to the provincial court Vyrith, secretary-general of ការឆ្មក់ចាប់ន្ះ ធ䮜ើឱ្យចំនួនន្ការចាប់បានកាន់ត្តិច។ ជមធ្យម គ្ឿងញៀនត្ for questioning today. the National Authority for ១៥ក្្មប៉ុណ្ណ្ះត្ូវបានរឹបអូសពីជនសង្ស័យគ្ប់រូបដ្លត្ូវបានចាប់ខ䮛ួនរហូត The bust comes during a Combating Drugs, said no មកដល់ខ្សីហា បើប្ៀបធៀបទៅនឹងរយៈព្លមុនដ្លមន ២៥ក្្ម។ surge in drug-related ar - one was being protected. នៅព្លត្ូវបានសួរថា តើការឆ្មក់ចាប់ក䮓ុងទ្ង់ទ្្យតូចៗន្ះជការបង្ហ្ញ rests through the eight “It doesn’t matter how big ឱ្យឃើញថា រដ្ឋ្ភិបាលតាមចាប់ត្អ䮓កច្កចាយគ្ឿងញៀនតូចតាចក䮓ុងចំណម months from December 25 you are—they’ll catch you,” អ䮓កច្កចាយទ្ង់ទ្្យធំឬយ៉្ងណនោះ លោក មស វិរិទ䮒អគ䮂ល្ខាធិការ អាជ្ញ្ធរ to August 31, with the Interior Mr. Vyrith said. ជតិប្យុទ䮒ប្ឆំងគ្ឿងញៀនបានមនប្សសន៍ថាមិនមននរណម្ន្ក់ត្ូវបាន “ illicit (adj.) ​ខុសច្បាប់ ការពារទ្។ លោកបានមនប្សសន៍ថា មិនថាអ䮓កឯងធំប៉ុណ្ណ្នោះទ្ គ្ចាប់ ” seize (v.) រឹបអូស ទាំងអស់ ៕ សរុន spike (n.) ការកើនឡើងខ្ល្ំង confiscate (v.) រឹបអូស • NoTes raid (n.) ការឆ្មក់ចូល,​ការបង្ក្្ប tip (n.) តម្ុយ,​ការឱ្យការណ៍ The english weekly is prepared by: informant (n.) អ្នកឲ្យការណ៍,​អ្នកផ្ដល់ដំណឹង Matt Surrusco seizure (n.) ការរឹបអូស Associate: bust (n.) ការឆ្មក់ឆ្កឆ្រឬចាប់ Kim Chan surge (n.) ការកើនឡើងខ្ល្ំង The Cambodia daily • No. 7, Street 228 haul (n.) ចំនួនឬបរិមាណ​(របស់អ្វីដ្លខុសច្បាប់) PhNom PeNh, Cambodia • tel: 855-23-426-602 monday, octobeR 3, 2016 The Cambodia daily 9 InternatIonal Gulf States Russia Set to Send More Warplanes to Syria ReuteRs Call on UN beirut/moscow - russia is send- ing more warplanes to syria to ramp up its air campaign, a russ- To Intervene ian newspaper reported on Friday, as the u.s. said diplomacy to halt In Aleppo the violence was “on life support” but not dead yet. ReuteRs Fighting continued to intensify a DoHA, Qatar - the six-member week into a new russia-backed sy - Gulf cooperation council de- rian government offensive to cap- manded on saturday that the u.N. ture rebel-held eastern Aleppo and intervene in syria to stop aerial crush the last urban stronghold of a bombardments of the city of Alep- revolt against syrian President po that it said were killing hun- bashar al-Assad that began in 2011. dreds of civilians. moscow and Assad spurned a the sunni muslim dominated u.s.-russian brokered cease-fire council—representing saudi Ara- agreed to last month and launched Reuters bia, the united Arab emirates, attacks on rebel-held areas in Alep- A civil defense member carries a dead child in a site hit by what bahrain, Kuwait, oman and po in potentially the most decisive activists said were airstrikes carried out by the Russian Air Force in Qatar—said that a syrian govern- battle in the syrian civil war. Maaret al -Numan, Syria, on September 17. ment offensive on the city was sys- u.s. secretary of state John Ker- bility washington has on sy ria, risk now because any immediate ac- tematically destroying neighbor- ry and russian Foreign minister encouraging Assad and his russian tion would risk provoking an open hoods and a “flagrant aggression sergei Lavrov spoke by telephone backers to continue the carnage, conflict with russia. contrary to international laws.” for a third straight day, with the top and prompt saudi Arabia and other According to the tape of his “the secretary-General...de- russian diplomat saying moscow Assad opponents to arm rebel meeting with the syrian group in mands that the u.N. security was ready to consider more ways to groups with better weapons with- New York, Kerry warned that if council intervene immediately to normalize the situation in Aleppo. out consulting washington. the u.s. started using muscle, stop the aggression on the city of but Lavrov criticized washing- it also would leave the u.s. vul- “then everybody ups the ante, Aleppo and end the suffering of ton’s failure to separate moderate nerable to attacks that it failed to in- right? russia puts in more, iran the syrian people,” the Gcc said rebel groups from those the rus- tervene to halt war crimes, propo- puts in more; Hezbollah is there in a statement on saudi state news sians call terrorists, which had al- nents of ending the diplomacy ar- more and Nusra is more; and sau- agency sPA. lowed forces led by the group for- gued, according to officials familiar di Arabia and turkey put all their it called on the u.N. to “imple- merly known as the Nusra front to with the internal discussions. surrogate money in, and you all ment relevant council resolutions violate the u.s.-russian truce ciA director John brennan said are destroyed.” over the syria crisis.” agreed on september 9. in an interview on Friday that rus- western countries accuse rus- For 10 days, a russia-backed the u.s. made clear on Friday sia’s actions in syria over the last sev- sia of war crimes, saying it has tar- syrian government offensive has that it would not, at least for now, eral weeks have shown that russian geted civilians, hospitals and aid de- been underway to capture eastern carry through on the threat it made President Vladimir Putin has not liveries to crush the will of 250,000 Aleppo and crush the last urban on wednesday to halt the diploma- been serious about negotiating a po- people trapped inside the besieged stronghold of a revolt against syri- cy if russia did not take immediate litical solution to the conflict. rebel-held sector of Aleppo. an President bashar al-Assad that steps to halt the violence. “i think that pushing back against moscow and Damascus say began in 2011. “this is on life support, but it’s a bully is appropriate,” brennan told they have targeted only militants. the collapse of the latest syria not flat-lined yet,” state Depart- reporters. “i think that is very differ- the Kremlin said on Friday there cease-fire has heightened the possi- ment spokesman mark toner told ent than rushing in and bombing was no time frame for its military op- bility that Gulf states including sau- reporters. the hell out of a place.” eration in syria. the main result of di Arabia and Qatar might arm syr- in a 40-minute discussion with military options that administra- russian airstrikes over the past ian rebels with shoulder-fired mis- syrians, diplomats and others on tion officials say are still being dis- year is that “neither [the] islamic siles to defend themselves against the sidelines of the u.N. General cussed include providing more so- state [militant group], nor al-Qaida syrian and russian warplanes, u.s. Assembly meeting in New York phisticated arms, logistical sup- nor the Nusra Front are now sitting officials said last monday. last week, Kerry said the adminis- port and training to syrian rebel in Damascus,” Kremlin spokesman France’s foreign minister said tration had failed to make any groups, though not shoulder-fired Dmitry Peskov told reporters. on wednesday he was working to threat of military force that gave anti-aircraft missiles, either direct- russia’s izvestia newspaper re- put forward a u.N. security coun- him leverage with russia. ly or via the Gulf Arab states or ported that a group of su-24 and cil resolution for a cease-fire in “i think you’re looking at the three tur key, these officials said. su-34 warplanes had arrived at Aleppo, and that any country that people, four people in the adminis- Another idea, they said, was syria’s Hmeymim base. opposed it would be deemed com- tration who have all argued for use first to attempt humanitarian relief syrian government forces and plicit in war crimes. of force, and i lost the argument,” flights over Aleppo or other em- rebels fought battles on Friday in the u.s. continues to maintain Kerry told the group, according to a battled areas, escorted by fighter the city center and north of Alep- that negotiations are the only way recording of the session obtained by jets, to see how the russians and po, where government troops had to end the carnage. the New York times. syrians respond. Further down recaptured a Palestinian refugee but frustration with washington u.s. officials and analysts ar- the list would be launching an air camp on thursday that had al- has intensified, raising the possibil- gued the white House has few al- or cruise missile strike on a syrian ready changed hands once since ity that Gulf allies—key backers of ternatives. “if we do walk away base, with a tentative list already the start of the attack. syrian rebels—or turkey will no from this diplomatic process, drawn up of what one official said the sides gave conflicting ac- longer continue to follow the u.s. as...moribund as it is, what are the was “slightly more than a dozen” counts of the outcome of Friday’s lead or will turn a blind eye to options?” toner asked. syrian airbases, barrel-bomb fac- fighting. North of the city, the mil- wealthy individuals looking to sup- the white House put on hold for tories and other targets. itary said it had captured territory ply man-portable air defense sys- now proposals to end the talks de- However, senior officials con- around the Kindi hospital near the tems, or manpads, to opposition spite the possibility that continuing cluded there was no alternative to refugee camp. rebel sources de- groups. them would erase whatever credi- leaving the door open to talks for nied the army had advanced there. 10 The Cambodia daily monday, october 3, 2016 InternatIonal Pakistani Gov’t Rejects Indian Claim of Cross-Border Strikes reuters cabinet meeting on Friday. ta Party, wrote in a column for the Kashmir state, part of the 3,300 islamabad/srinagar, india - Pak- it added that the country was indian Express newspaper. km border. istan on Friday “completely reject- ready “to counter any aggressive india has also launched a diplo- Hundreds of villages were be- ed” india’s claim to have sent indian designs,” but gave no fur- matic campaign to try to isolate ing cleared along a 15 km strip in troops across its disputed border ther details. Pakistan. its decision on Tuesday the lowland region of Jammu and in Kashmir to kill suspected mili- The U.s. state department said to boycott a summit of south asian further north on the line of Con- tants, as india evacuated villages Washington was watching the situ- leaders next month in islamabad trol in the Himalayan mountains near the frontier amid concerns ation closely and urged “calm and was followed by afghanistan, of Kashmir. about a military escalation. restraint” by both sides, saying it bangladesh and bhutan express- “Our top priority is to move in a rare public announcement of did not want to see escalation by the ing their “inability” to attend. women and children to govern- such a raid, india said it had carried two nuclear-armed countries. sri lanka said on Friday that ment buildings, guesthouses and out “surgical strikes” on Thursday, “nuclear-capable states have a peace and security were vital for marriage halls,” said nirmal sending special forces to kill men clear responsibility to exercise re- regional cooperation, but stopped singh, deputy chief minister of preparing to sneak into its territory straint regarding nuclear weapons short of pulling out. Jammu and Kashmir. and attack major cities. and missile capabilities,” state de- While india’s public and politi- “People who have not been able indian officials said troops had partment spokesman mark Ton- cians have welcomed the opera- to migrate were instructed not to killed militants numbering in the er said. “That’s my message pub- tion, Pakistan greeted new del- venture out of their houses early double digits and that its soldiers licly and that’s certainly our mes- hi’s version of events with skepti- in the morning or late at night.” had returned safely to base before sage directly.” cism and ridicule. modi’s government has been dawn, but declined to provide Pakistan captured an indian sol- Television news channels and struggling to contain protests on more evidence of the operation. dier on Thursday on its side of the newspapers reported only small the streets of Kashmir, where Pakistani Prime minister na - border, but india said this was un- arms and mortar fire, a relatively more than 80 civilians have been waz sharif maintained that india related to the raid as the man had routine occurrence on the de facto killed and thousands wounded in fired unprovoked from its side of inadvertently strayed across the border. the last 10 weeks after a young the heavily militarized frontier in frontier. india’s announcement of the separatist militant was killed by in- the disputed region of Kashmir, a senior leader of modi’s ruling raid on Thursday raised the possi- dian forces. the flashpoint for two of three wars party declared himself satisfied with bility of military escalation that Pakistan said on Friday that between the nuclear-armed neigh- india’s “multi-pronged” response to could wreck a 2003 Kashmir sharif’s special envoys had arrived bors, and killed two soldiers. the attack on the army base. cease-fire. in beijing to brief China on the de- “The Cabinet joined the Prime “For Pakistan, terrorism has india evacuated more than teriorating situation in indian-con- minister in completely rejecting come as a cheaper option all these 10,000 villagers living near the trolled Kashmir. China, a Pak- the indian claims of carrying out years. Time to make it costly for border, and ordered security istani ally, expressed its concern, ‘surgical strikes,’” sharif’s office it,” ram madhav, national gener- forces to upgrade surveillance Pakistan’s Foreign ministry said said in a statement issued after a al-secretary of the bharatiya Jana- along the frontier in Jammu and in a statement. monday, october 3, 2016 The Cambodia daily 11 InternatIonal Rules for Hurricane Matthew Storms Toward Caribbean reuters total rain accumulations of 38 to 63 dows and we’re moving things in Arms Exports kingston, Jamaica - Hurricane centimeters over southern Haiti, vulnerable areas to safer areas,” Matthew, the most powerful cy- with possible isolated maximum said Mary Lowe, owner of Wilks clone to form over the Atlantic amounts of [101 cm],” the Miami- Bay resort near Port Antonio on Under Review since Hurricane Felix in 2007, based hurricane center said. the northeast coast. churned across the Caribbean on the hurricane could rival the Disaster coordinators, police In Brazil saturday on a path expected to put destruction caused by Hurricane and troops are on high alert and it over Jamaica and Haiti today. gilbert in 1988, but Jamaican shelters are being opened across reuters Matthew, with winds at about Prime Minister Andrew Holness the island. sAo PAULo - Brazil is reviewing its 240 kph, could make landfall as a told reporters in a phone interview Forecasters described Matt - procedures for controlling arms major storm on Jamaica’s southern that he was cautiously optimistic. hew’s movements as erratic on exports, Defense Minister Raul coast, home to the country’s capital, “the impact of the hurricane will saturday, but said it was ap- Jungmann said on thursday, kingston, and its only oil refinery. probably be similar or greater than proaching Jamaica and southwest- when asked about an investigation the hurricane could also affect Hurricane gilbert, but our pre- ern Haiti yesterday. Haitian offi- into a sale of guns by Forjas tau- tourist destinations such as Mon- paredness would be far better and cials said storm preparations were rus sA that allegedly violated U.n. tego Bay in the north and the south- therefore we would be able to miti- focused on the south, which is sanctions. west coast of flood-prone Haiti was gate the effects,” Holness said, prone to devastating flooding. “We are updating the regulations also in harm’s way, forecasters said. adding that he expects hits to both the hurricane is expected to in this area, seeking objectivity and Matthew was about 620 km the tourism and agriculture sectors. reach Cuba on tuesday. transparency. they need updating,” southeast of kingston on satur- the Jamaican capital got a pre- Cuba declared the first stage of the minister said. Jungmann said day afternoon and the U.s. nation- view of what might be in store an emergency in five eastern the review was part of a “periodic” al Hurricane Center ranked it at when the road to the airport tem- provinces. in its second city, santi- update of arms export regulations. Category 4 of the five-step saffir- porarily flooded due to unusually ago de Cuba, the ruling Commu- taurus, the largest weapons simpson scale of hurricane inten- high tides. Rain fell and authorities nist Party opened shelters and or- manufacturer in Latin America, sity. Earlier it had been ranked at told fishermen to moor in a safe ganized volunteer teams to clean confirmed a report last month Category 5, the highest level. harbor until the storm had passed. storm drains and gather food about charges against two former “Matthew is expected to produce “We’re boarding up the win- supplies. executives who prosecutors al- lege sold weapons in 2013 to a Yemeni arms trafficker who was on a U.n. sanctions list. Colombians Vote in Referendum on Peace Deal Prosecutors said Fares Mo- reuters of an argument,” said sandra gue- housewife Fanny Castro, whose hammed Hassan Mana’a, who BogotA - Colombians looked set vara, a 42-year-old secretary. “i’m son-in-law is in the army. “We have was placed under U.n. sanctions to back a peace accord with Marx- voting yes because i’m betting on to vote no or we’ll have the guerril- in 2010 for violating an arms em- ist rebels in a referendum yester- hope, to guarantee my son can see las on top of us.” bargo in somalia, then redirected day, the final hurdle to a deal end- a better country.” For decades, the FARC bank - the weapons to his country’s civil ing 52 years of war that calls for Under the accord the FARC, rolled the longest-running conflict war. Revolutionary Armed Forces of which began as a peasant revolt in in the Americas through kidnap- in an emailed statement on Colombia (FARC) fighters to reen- 1964, can compete in the 2018 ping and extortion, spreading a thurs day, taurus—which does ter society and form a political presidential and legislative elec- sense of terror that left few Colom- not face any charges in the case— party. tions and has 10 unelected con- bians unaffected. the conflict said the review on arms imports the plebiscite asks for a simple gressional seats guaranteed claimed more than 220,000 lives and exports was part of an ongo- “yes” or “no” on whether Colombi - through 2026. and displaced millions of people. ing discussion on changes to leg- ans support the accord signed last While the number of seats is if the peace accord is approved, islation on the purchase of Brazil- week by President Juan Manuel not enough to sway legislation, santos will likely turn his focus to- ian firearms that had been occur- santos, who has staked his legacy some are still outraged. ward a much-needed tax reform ring for months. on peace, and the rebel comman- “the president has given the and other measures to compen- Brazilian prosecutors charged der known as timochenko. guerrillas the ability to be in gov- sate for a drop in oil income, as the two former taurus executives the FARC, whose numbers ernment. He’s sold out the coun- well as possible talks with the in May with shipping 8,000 hand- dwindled to about 7,000 in recent try,” said 66-year-old Bogota smaller ELn rebel group. guns to Mana’a. the U.n. sanc- years due to a U.s.-backed military tions banned any weapons sales or offensive, have agreed to turn in financing for the trafficker, and or- weapons and fight for power at the dered an asset freeze and travel ballot box instead of with bullets. ban on him. After four years of negotiations U.s. President Barack obama in Havana, the final agreement also named Mana’a and 10 others was applauded around the world. in a 2010 executive order banning the latest polls showed about two- business with individuals and thirds of voters are likely to vote groups accused of contributing to “yes.” unrest in somalia. influential former President Al- taurus said in the statement varo Uribe has led the “no” camp, that the arms were destined for the arguing that rebels should pay for government of Djibouti and had all crimes in jail and never be given the necessary licenses, and Mana’a congressional seats. But most had acted as an intermediary. Colombians, including even some A lawyer for the two former tau- who see the accord as too soft on the FARC, seem convinced that rus export executives charged by reuters prosecutors said the accusations an imperfect peace is better than Demonstrators take part in an event organized by supporters of the “do not reflect the facts of the more war. 'no' vote for the referendum on a peace deal between the government matter.” “Even one less death is enough and FARC rebels in Bogota on Saturday. The Cambodia daily

12 business monday, october 3, 2016 Merkel Can’t US Data to Put December Rate Hike in Focus reuters September is expected to support been no sign of an immediate shock Afford to Bail DUBLIN - The limits of central bank the case for a Fed rate hike before to the economy, although the full largesse are set to be a hot topic in year-end.” picture will continue to emerge,” the coming week as global policy- After inflation showed signs of ac- said Office for National Statistics sta- Out Deutsche makers head to Washington for celerating on Friday, but consumer tistician Darren Morgan. the annual International Mone- spending unexpectedly fell, this Purchasing Managers’ Indexes Bank: Press tary Fund meetings and key data week’s Institute for Supply Man- for the manufacturing, construc- reuters may harden the case for a tighten- agement indices of manufacturing tion and services industries— ing of U.S. monetary policy. and non-manufacturing activity, completing the quarter that German Chancellor Angela After last month brought the lat- which both slipped markedly in Au- followed the Brexit vote—should Mer kel cannot afford to bail out est overhaul of monetary policy Deutsche Bank given the hard line gust, will also be closely watched. make the picture even clearer, Berlin has taken against state aid in from the Bank of Japan and signs As will the remarks of Fed offi- alongside industrial production other European nations and the of reluctance at the European Cen- cials in another busy week of “Fed- data for August. risk of a political backlash at home, tral Bank to extend its quantitative speak,” with four speeches sched- What remains far less clear is German media wrote on Saturday. easing program, expectations for uled for this Friday, after the re- what form the U.K.’s exit talks The government denied a news- a U.S. Federal Reserve rate rise by lease of the jobs report. with the E.U. will take next year paper report on Wednesday that year-end are set to dominate the They will also have an update of when the full impact of the refer- said it was working on a rescue first week of this month. the IMF’s World Economic Out- endum is likely to be felt. Focus plan for Ger many’s biggest bank, Fed Chair Janet Yellen said last look to digest. Managing Director will thus be on the ruling Conserv- as its shares went into a tailspin fu- week that she expected one rate Christine Lagarde said last week ative Party’s annual conference eled by a demand for up to $14 bil- rise this year if the U.S. job market that the institution would lower its over the week lion from U.S. authorities for mis- continued to improve and major 2016 U.S. growth forecast again af- “There will be widespread selling mortgage-backed securi- new risks did not arise, leading ter cutting it to 2.2 percent from yearning for any detail on the ties before the financial crisis. economists and financial markets 2.4 percent in July. broader Brexit economic strategy Germany, which has insisted to price in a December move. Lagarde will share the stage in and negotiations although we that Italy and others accept tough Friday’s U.S. non-farm payrolls Washington on Thursday with don’t necessarily hold out much conditions in tackling their prob- for last month, the first of three re- Bank of England Governor Mark hope that this will be the point at lem lenders, can ill afford to be maining jobs reports ahead of the Carney who will be mulling over which significant details are un- seen to go soft on its flagship bank, Fed’s second-last meeting of the further strong post-Brexit data veiled,” economists at RBC Capi- the Frankfurter Allgemeine wrote. year on December 13 to 14 may that raise questions over whether tal Markets wrote in a note. “Of course Chancellor Merkel narrow the debate over how much the BoE will follow through on its In a quiet week for data else- doesn’t want to give Deutsche Bank slack remains in the labor market. plan to cut interest rates again at where in Europe, the focus will any state aid,” it wrote in a front- “Given the recent weakness in its meeting next month. likely remain squarely on the woes page editorial. “She cannot afford it activity-based indicators, all eyes The latest sign that the econo- of Deutsche Bank whose chief ex- from the point of view of foreign pol- will be on the labor market data my did not slump immediately into ecutive has sought to reassure icy because Berlin is taking a hard rather than inflation metrics. a major slowdown after the U.K.’s staff that Germany’s largest lender line in the Italian bank rescue.” Specifically, the employment in- vote in June to leave the E.U. ar- remained robust. The Munich-based Sued- come trend will be crucial for the rived on Friday when the U.K.’s gi- The main interest rate decisions deutsche Zeitung wrote that Merkel economic outlook and policy ac- ant services sector was shown to will be made in Australia and India would be breaking a promise to tax- tion,” Nordea economist Amy have grown strongly in July. with analysts polled by reporters payers if she were to bail the bank Yuan Zhuang said. “Together this fresh data tends seeing both keeping their rates on out, which could spell disaster for “The employment report for to support the view that there has hold on Tuesday. her re-election bid next year as the anti-immigration Alternative for Ger- many (AfD) party gains ground. Petronas Mulls Exit From Canada LNG Plant The AfD is already benefiting reuters the project as a more than 50 per- The sources said Petronas has from a backlash against Merkel’s Malaysian state oil firm Petro- cent slide in crude oil prices since been considering a sale for open-door refugee policy, making liam Nasional Bhd is considering the middle of 2014 has hit the months, after it became apparent huge gains in two regional elec- selling its majority stake in a $27 tions last month and hitting an all- group’s profits and prompted cuts that a Canadian approval was pos- time high of 16 percent support in billion Canadian liquefied natural to capital expenditure and jobs. sible, but had yet to take a final de- an opinion poll last week. gas plant, three people familiar Amid the cost-cutting, the eco- cision. Other options are also be- “A state aid package would drive with the matter said this week. nomics of the Canadian project— ing considered, including putting voters into the arms of the AfD,” the Petronas, as the company is which took three years to get ap- it on ice. Sueddeutsche wrote in an editorial. known, said in a statement on Sat- proval due to environment con- “They are going to be looking at “Domestic political considera- urday that it “categorically denied” cerns—have been called into gas prices, costs and returns be- tions make it unlikely that Berlin a report on Friday that the compa- question as LNG prices have fall- fore they make the final decision,” would play this joker. Even more ny is considering the stake sale. en more than 70 percent in two said one of the sources. “It is a unlikely is that the European Com- “Petronas reiterates that, to- years. very tough call.” mission would agree. The political gether with the project partners, it Petronas was given the go- The Canadian project is Pet - risk would be simply too high.” will study the conditions that come ahead for the $27.34 billion project ronas’ biggest foreign investment Shares in Deutsche Bank re- with the approval and conduct a by the Canadian government ear- and seen as a sign of Malaysia’s covered somewhat on Friday from total review of the project prior to lier this week. It said then that ex- global energy ambitions. An exit a record low earlier in the day after making a decision on the next ecutives would study the 190 con- would underscore the financial a report that it was close to a cut- steps forward,” the company said ditions imposed by the authorities constraints at the state-run firm price settlement of $5.4 billion in- in a statement on Saturday. and conduct a review before de- and also the soft outlook for LNG stead of $14 billion. Petronas is weighing options for ciding on the next steps. prices. monday, october 3, 2016 The Cambodia daily 13 Science Russia’s Plan to Cull 250,000 Reindeer Threatens Nomads By Amy WAng Kobylkin told reporters. “Only a more often animals get sick,” said spores in the cold. They play the the washington post small area was quarantined.” Nikolai Vlasov, deputy head of long game, waiting in the soil for You know Dasher and Dancer, The Yamal Peninsula, where Russia’s Federal Veterinary and the temperature to rise. Once it Prancer and Vixen, Comet and the outbreak occurred, was im - Phytosanitary Surveillance Ser - hits a certain threshold, the bac- Cupid? mediately closed off and the car- vice, according to the Siberian teria morph back into a more Their cousins may all be dead casses of the dead animals Times. “Density of livestock, mobile, infectious state.” soon. burned. Kobylkin said all the rein- especially in the tundra areas that “The soil in the Yamal Pen - Faced with a public health cri- deer on the peninsula—some are very fragile, should be regu- inisula is like a giant freezer,” said sis straight from a dystopian hor- 300,000—were vaccinated, repor- lated.... Otherwise, they will kill Jean-Michel Claverie, a biologist ror movie, officials in a remote ers said. the pastures and later will destroy with the National Center for region of Siberia have proposed Hundreds of nomadic reindeer the indigenous minorities of the Scientific Research in France, in killing off 250,000 reindeer before her ders were evacuated to Sale - north who will have nothing to August. “Those are very, very Christmas to minimize the possi- khard, the region’s capital, and live on. It is impossible to breed good conditions for bacteria to ble spread of deadly anthrax bac- the government set aside about reindeer without limits,” he remain alive for a very long time.” teria, according to the Siberian $1.3 million to help them build a added. In addition to culling a quarter- Times. new settlement, according to As the warmer temperatures million reindeer this year, officials The alarm started in July, when reports. caused a layer of permafrost to have also proposed that the ani- an outbreak of the bacteria killed Still, the outbreak has prompt- melt, an infected reindeer carcass mals be moved south and fenced a 12-year-old nomadic boy and ed officials to propose killing was exposed to the surface—and, in to allow northern pastures to sickened nearly 100 people in the 250,000 reindeer by Christmas, a with it, spores of reanimated recover from overgrazing, the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Ok - far greater number than would be anthrax bacteria that grazing rein- Guardian reported. rug, a vast northwestern region of reduced normally in an annual deer quickly picked up. Both proposals have drawn the Siberian tundra. More than cull of the animals that takes As was reported in July: criticism from those who say they 2,300 reindeer also died. place each November and “Zombie bacteria that awaken would be detrimental to the way The region’s governor, Dmitry December, the Siberian Times from old corpses might sound of life for some of the nomadic Kobylkin, declared a state of em - reported. like the stuff of an ‘X-Files’ herders. ergency, but also tried to reas- A Russian federal veterinary episode. The premise is far from “A huge number of nomads on sure the Nenets, the nomadic official has said the reindeer pop- a complete fiction, however. the Yamal and Gydan peninsulas indigenous people of the region ulation in Yamal was already “too “For one, anthrax bacteria are will lose their means of existence who roam with the herds of rein- high,” and, thus, unsustainable. hardy microbe. As University of and opportunities to maintain deer and depend on them for “The more dense the animal Missouri bacteriologist George their traditional way of life,” Olga their existence. population is, the worse the dis- Stewart told the Missourian in Murashko, an anthropologist, “There is no epidemic in Ya mal,” ease transfer medium [and] the 2014, the organisms turn into told reporters. 14 The Cambodia daily monDay, october 3, 2016 OpiniOn CPP Needs to Accept New Ideas if it Is to Maintain Credibility By PEnny Edwards darkroom of an isolationist and killing designed to protect the finan- Sen and his party had rescued Cam- am thankful for Hun Sen,” deeply paranoid communist re - cial integrity of a political empire. bodia for: the future of Cambodia. a Cambodian actress gime, Kem Ley was gunned down Piseth Pilika’s killer was never They were, in other words, the rul- “I once told me. “Without in broad daylight in the bustling found. No arrests were made. In Oc- ing party’s rhetorical raison d’être. him, the Khmer Rouge would have heart of a free-market democracy, tober 1999, the French magazine No leader has risen to replace killed off every last one of us.” Her while sipping his morning coffee L’Express ran an excellent piece of Chea Vichea, and nobody has gratitude is no at a StarMart. investigative journalism, featuring dared presume Piseth Pilika’s platitude. It is an- Kem Ley’s assassination came the following excerpt from the slain place in matters of the heart. It is Letter chored in grief for days after the release of a Global Wit- diva’s diary: “I don’t know whether too soon to surmise Kem Ley’s to the Editor the countless the- ness report that countered the CPP’s they will let me live or die, because legacy. But one thing is clear. atrical kin she lost to a regime that repeat soundtrack of self- the earth is under their control.” In Forty years after Sinn Sisamouth’s epitomised British political philoso- sac rifice with a tally of the private as- 2003, the same regime that had murder by the Khmer Rouge, pher Thomas Hobbes’ leviathan: sets belonging to Mr. Hun Sen’s failed to coordinate an inquiry into Hobbes’ state of “continual fear, “No arts; no letters; no society.” family. Kem Ley’s crime was not to her murder orchestrated a sweep of and danger of violent death” pre- The Khmer Rouge regime was have spoken truth to power, but to city booksellers, locating and confis- vails for those thinkers and artists (per Hobbes) “nasty, brutish and have spread that truth to the power- cating every last copy of a new pub- in Cambodia who, like Kem Ley, short.” Founded in April 1975, it less, by moving such data beyond lication about her death. dare to dream a different future. was toppled on January 7, 1979, not the expatriate bubble that is the stan- Spaced years apart, these kill - If Mr. Hun Sen’s party is to main- through international action but by dard circuitry of NGO reportage, to ings were no isolated acts, as a tain any credibility in the next na- a renegade movement, backed by his nationwide following, through a glance at any Human Rights tional election—scheduled for Vietnam and spearheaded by three radio broadcast in Khmer. Watch or Amnesty International 2018—then it needs to stop pro- ex-Khmer Rouge cadres. The most Within an hour of Kem Ley’s kill - report will tell you. But they are tecting its elite echelons and their junior in age and rank was Hun ing, hundreds had rallied to the the most symbolic, and they spot- hired assassins, and allow new Sen, who is now in his 31st year in scene. One distraught young light an uncomfortable truth for ideas and leadership skills to grow office and Asia’s longest serving mourner lamented via Youtube: Cambodia’s current leadership. in the post-Khmer Rouge genera- prime minister. “He was a pannavoan [intellectual]! Kem Ley, Chea Vichea and tion. They would be wise to do so. The actress who expressed her Why did he have to die?” A marker Piseth Pilika—like Mr. Hun Sen In 2018, the majority of eligible vot- debt to Mr. Hun Sen was speaking of true stature, the title pannavoan and other CPP stalwarts—were all ers will have been born after the from the heart. From such senti- cannot be bought or bestowed by children of rural Cambodia, and all fall of the Khmer Rouge. They will ments, the prime minister and the individuals or institutions. Kem Ley survivors of the Khmer Rouge era. have no living memory of that CPP have carved their redemption “had” to die precisely because he Born respectively in Takeo, Kandal genocidal regime, but nor will they narrative. The message is clear: We was an intellectual, whose wisdom and Svay Rieng provinces, none have forgotten the newly fallen. have saved you from terror, and if and outreach had earned him both were products of exile (a label often Penny Edwards is an associate we fall, Cambodia will return to dark- audience and respect. used to smear the opposition), nor professor of Southeast Asian studies ness. A major plank of propaganda This was no anomaly. Kem were they born to power through at the University of California, in the 1980s, this mantra of self-sac- Ley’s murder echoed the public family nepotism. Each made their Berkeley. This article was originally rifice has been a mainstay on the execution of two of Cambodia’s own way. As such, they were living published online by Open Democra- party’s campaign trail since the U.N.- most talented: performer Piseth (if now dead) proof of what Mr. Hun cy at opendemocracy.net. sponsored election of 1993. A Pilika, who was killed in 1999, and keynote of this anthem is that the labor leader Chea Vichea, killed in Khmer Rouge killed off Cambodia’s 2004. Like Kem Ley, they were Thaad System Has Been Badly art ists and intellectuals, reducing a gunned down in the bright light of once glorious culture to rubble. day and in the prime of life. One such artist was singer and Chea Vichea was shot in the head Handled, But Is Badly Needed songwriter Sinn Sisamouth (1932- on January 22, 2004. Tens of thou- 1976), whose genius is celebrated sands took to the streets to mourn a Editorial neighborhood that is close to the in the 2015 documentary “Don’t leader who was young, charismatic, Korea Joongang Daily golf club, have been protesting the Think I’ve Forgotten: Cambodia’s uncorrupt, and whose vision for the The Korean Defense Ministry plan. Lost Rock and Roll.” If digital re- future embraced the dignity and announced it would station the Followers of Won Buddhism touch has restored fresh intimacy rights of Cambodia’s rapidly grow- Terminal High Altitude Area De- joined the protest because their to Sinn Sisamouth’s voice, the pas- ing workforce. I was in Phnom Penh fense battery at a golf course run temple is near to the golf club. sage of time has worked a different at the time. The grief and outrage by Lotte Group far from residen- The authorities once again had magic, rebirthing the title love- were palpable, and the Central Mar- tial neighborhoods in Seongju in been careless and negligent in song as a posthumous threnody to ket florists were barely visible be- the hopes of bringing in the U.S. persuading residents. Reporters its creator and, by extension, to all hind the giant wreaths ordered in antimissile system without trig- covering defense affairs could not artists killed by the Khmer Rouge. his honor. To his credit, the U.S. gering further controversy. fully cover the announcement be- “Don’t think I’ve forgotten,” Embassy’s deputy chief of mission The issue became a political cause it was made both in Seongju Sinn Sisamouth croons, “I re- attended Chea Vichea’s funeral. He hot potato and rapidly fomented and Seoul. member everything, so many sto- was the only diplomat to do so. social division. Despite the justifi- But regardless of the procedur- ries.” The Khmer word for “sto- Rewind five years. On July 6, able need for stronger protection al blunders, what is irreversible is ries”(roeung) has a wide range. It 1999, Piseth Pilika—Cambodia’s against elevated missile and nu- that Thaad must be stationed. can also refer to “events,” includ- most beloved classical dancer and clear threats from North Korea, North Korea has this year alone ing those of a political nature. movie star—was shot three times in the deployment was highly con- tested nuclear devices twice and This summer, a new murder the back at a busy Phnom Penh in- tested because authorities failed carried out high-profile missile story has given “Don’t Think I’ve tersection. More than 10,000 to make prior endeavors to per- launches, including one fired from Forgotten” fresh traction. On July flocked from across Cambodia to suade the public. The entire a submarine. North Korea is now 10, 40 years after Sinn Sisamouth mourn her loss, and to protest an process has been sloppy. feared to be capable of positioning died at the hands of the Khmer abuse of power that many suspect- Despite earlier flops, the De- missiles that could carry nuclear Rouge, public intellectual and ed but few dared to name: Her fense Ministry was also not able to warheads within the next six or 12 mas ter raconteur Kem Ley was killing had been ordered by a jeal- generate much support for its new months. The Defense Ministry shot dead in Phnom Penh. Where ous spouse. This was no heated choice. Tens of thousands of peo- must deploy the battery as soon Sinn Sisamouth was killed in the crime of passion. It was a calculated ple from Gimcheon, a residential as possible. MONDAy, OCTOBER 3, 2016 The Ca mbo d ia d a il y 15 o pinio n More Rigorous Probe Needed to Understand Toyosu Mess Ed i t o r i a l works project costing taxpayers that failing to do the work according fy and correct the problems with THE ASHAHI SHIMBu N hundreds of millions of dollars has to the expert council’s proposal was the way in which the metropolitan he Tokyo metropolitan been undertaken in an extremely like violating the Constitution.” government has been developing gov ernment’s report on its opaque manner. Adding salt to the This remark only makes us won- and executing polices. T investigation into a dubious wound are the false explanations der more strongly why the propos- How have decisions on such change in the plan to build a new given to citizens in the capital. al was not followed to the letter. huge public works projects been wholesale market in the capital A former official who oversaw op- As Koike has said, the aim of made? Does the metropolitan gov- came as a grievous disappointment. erations at the Tsukiji market and the probe into the scandal is not ernment have a healthy working The report has raised serious was interviewed by the metropoli- ferreting out the culprit. relationship with the metropolitan concerns that Governor Yuriko tan government said, “We thought Its primary purpose is to identi- assembly? Koike’s “autonomous reform” ini- Koike has been entrusted by vot- tiative may end up being substan- ers with the important mission of tially watered down. uncovering the hidden facts related Koike on Friday unveiled the re- to these and other key questions port on an internal inquiry into the concerning the metropolitan gov- questionable abandonment of the ernment’s policymaking process. original plan to replace contaminat- We applaud the governor for ed soil and raise the ground level to wasting no time in tackling the build a new Toyosu fish and veg- challenges so soon after she took etable market. office in early August. The report cites a lack of com- However, two months have munication between divisions in- passed since she took over and it volved in the new market project is time for her to produce certain and the metropolitan govern- tangible results. ment’s compartmentalized orga- With regard to safety issues nization as the primary reasons con cerning the new market’s facil- for the failure to carry out the plan ities and groundwater, she should proposed by a council of experts. wait for the expert panel to exam- But the document did not make ine them and reach its conclu- clear who was responsible for the sions. The governor should avoid change or when the decision was doing anything that could unnec- made. essarily set off negative publicity The original blueprint called for that damages the new market. removing the soil at the site, which But as for the failure to replace formerly hosted a Tokyo Gas Co. a mbo d ia a ily the contaminated soil and elevate plant, and laying fresh earth on the The C d the ground, the metropolitan gov- ground for the market buildings. Bernard Krisher, Publisher ernment should continue its ef- The change of plan left huge un- Deborah Krisher-Steele, Deputy Publisher forts to root out the truth. derground spaces beneath the new Colin Meyn, Editor-in-Chief The government’s reform head- market in Koto Ward. It was built to Jodie DeJonge, Managing Editor quarters has a project team on in- replace the famed Tsukiji fish mar- Chhorn Chansy, News Editor ternal governance, which, work- ket in Chuo Ward. Van Roeun, Senior Editor ing with independent experts, in- Three days earlier, Koike told spects divisions. The scandal pre- Barton Biggs, Editor Emeritus; Michelle Vachon, Feature Editor; Isobel Souster, Night Editor; the metropolitan assembly that Hannah Hawkins, Weekend Editor; Michael Dickison, Aisha Down, Sonia Kohlbacher, sents a critical test of the team’s in- the local government has an Brendan O'Byrne, Ben Paviour, Zsombor Peter, Janelle Retka, Saing Soenthrith, Laurence vestigative capabilities. “obligation” to investigate the Stevens, Matt Surrusco, George Wright, Associate Editors; Buth Kimsay, Kuch Naren, Khuon Besides hosting the Olympics causes of the scandal to ascertain Narim, Sek Odom, Aun Pheap, Ouch Sony, Kang Sothear, Ben Sokhean, Hang Sokunthea, in four years, the metropolitan who made which decisions and Phan Soumy, Khy Sovuthy, Reporters; Siv Channa, Photographer; Ben Paviour, Web Editor; government is also responsible when and where they were made. Tan Kimtin, Web Assistant; Phuon Chansereivuth, Copy Editor; for dealing with a raft of policy If the government fails to fulfill Pol Meanith, Kim Chan, Senior Translators; Som Sarun, Tem Sokhom, challenges. These include re- this obligation, Tokyo citizens will Sie Suychhieng, Translators; Nhor Bora, Dorn Darin, Typists; Kevin Doyle, sponding to the problems caused naturally feel bitterly frustrated. James Kanter, Robin McDowell, Thomas Beller, Julia Wallace, Contributing Editors by the rapid aging of society. The market soil problem, how- Douglas Steele, General Manager Citizens in Tokyo are longing to ever, is not the only mess Koike Eam Sopheap, Business Associate; Sok Chamroeurn, Sales Representative; see their local government discard needs to clean up. Her initiative to Chan Vincent, Art Director; Chhun Sinath, Collections Director; Chap Pireak, its old tradition of making policy de- review the ballooning costs of the Circulation Manager; Khun Silen, Tang Sokchamreoun, Design Staff; cisions behind closed doors and Song Raksa, Business Assistant; Som Phay, Chief Technical Director; 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Para- Scott Harlow, Matthew Rosin, Jason Wik, Technical Advisers; creating a transparent and efficient lympics have also encountered a Adam Lincoln Steele, Director of Future Planning policymaking process. series of sticky problems. This reform initiative should The Cambodia Daily is an independent newspaper dedicated to strengthening a To be sure, these are formida- free press and training journalists. Published six times a week in Phnom Penh. not be allowed to lose its momen- ble challenges for any newly elect- The following organizations provide their news free of charge: The Asahi Shimbun, tum now. ed governor. 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