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All the News Without Fear or Favor The Cambodia daily Volume 63 issue 42 Tuesday, January 12, 2016 2,000 riel/50 cents Brazen Home Invasion Leads To Shootout With Police By Buth Kimsay the cambodia daily Police in Prey Veng province are searching for a gang of armed rob- bers who made off with thousands of dollars in cash on Sunday after holding the family of a jewelry store owner hostage and opening fire at police in a violent heist that a local official said was “like a movie.” Equipped with AK-47 rifles and a handgun, the six suspects showed up at the home of 44-year-old Sao Yuk in Komchay Mear district’s Seang Khveang commune at about 7 p.m. on Sunday, according to com- mune police chief San Som An. Mr. Yuk lives with his wife and adult son inside a walled compound Reuters - that includes his house and a sepa- A woman wearing Ziggy Stardust style makeup visits a mural of David Bowie in Brixton, south London, yesterday. Bowie, a music legend who used daringly androgynous displays of sexuality and glittering costumes rate building that contains the jew- to frame legendary rock hits 'Ziggy Stardust' and 'Space Oddity,' died of cancer on Sunday. elry shop and a mobile payment ki - osk, Mr. Som An said. The police chief said the intrud- ers initially held a gun to the head White House Ponders Penn’s Role in Drug Case of a neighbor and ordered him to By michael memoli the surprising disclosure that Penn planes, trucks and boats.” call Mr. Yuk and ask that the gate los angeles times had interviewed him at length in Speaking on CNN’s “State of the be opened. When the neighbor re- A senior White House official de- October for a potential film project. Union,” McDonough called the re- fused, he added, the suspects beat scribed as “maddening” Joaquin McDonough focused on what he marks “maddening.” him unconscious, restrained two “El Chapo” Guzman’s boasts about called Guzman’s “braggadocios” “We see a heroin epidemic, opi- oth er witnesses and scaled the wall. sending illegal narcotics to the U.S., comments about how his cartel has oid addiction epidemic in this coun- “After they got into the house, the but he declined to say Sunday if ac - distributed illegal drugs throughout try,” he said. “We’re going to stay on robbers pointed guns at the owner, tor Sean Penn faced potential legal the world. top of this with our Mexican coun- tied up his son and his wife, then liability for meeting with the fugitive “I supply more heroin, metham- terparts until we get that back in the shouted at him for money,” Mr. drug kingpin. phetamine, cocaine and marijuana box. But El Chapo is behind bars Som An said. Denis McDonough, the White than anybody else in the world,” and that’s where he should stay.” “At first, the owner of the Wing House chief of staff, was asked on Guzman told Penn, according to McDonough said he had not read kiosk would not give money to the several TV talk shows Sunday about the actor’s account in Rolling Stone. the Rolling Stone interview but had Continued on page 2 Guzman’s recapture on Friday and “I have a fleet of submarines, air- Continued on page 2 For Reform Agenda, CPP Takes Cues From CNRP By alex Willemyns was that the CPP had been handed on the events. “We’ve learned from and Kuch naren a harsh lesson, but had come back this campaign to push very quickly the cambodia daily from worse situations in the past for social justice to provide better In the aftermath of the 2013 elec- and could do so again if it corrected justice to the people.” tion, Prime Minister Hun Sen or- its errant ways. Two and a half years on, and dered his colleagues in the ruling “We expect for those voters to halfway until the 2018 national elec- CPP to stand before a come back in 2018,” explained tion, the electoral program pursued News Analysis mir ror and cleanse them- Coun cil of Ministers spokesman by the ruling party has, in fact, insti- selves of the sins that had Phay Siphan in the days after the tuted a number of major reforms. Tax Revenue From Casinos almost allowed a united opposition shock result, which put Mr. Rainsy Many of them have coalesced Rises Sharply in 2015 led by Sam Rainsy and Kem Sokha within seven seats of ousting Mr. around a few familiar ideas from Page 22 to sweep to power. Hun Sen. 2013—those espoused by the op- The message, delivered in a six- “We learn from the people,” Mr. position CNRP. cambodiadaily.com hour speech on state television, Siphan said, casting a positive spin Continued on page 6 មានដំណឹងបែែសមែួលជាភាសាខ្មែរនៅខាងក្នុង The Daily Newspaper of Record Since 1993 2 The Cambodia daily tuesday, JanuaRy 12, 2016 ANd Also NewsmAkers Cat in a Not So Purr-ty Situation n The iconic Los Angeles mansion of hugh hefner, the founder of the Playboy empire, is being put up for sale for $200 million, Playboy Enter- los angeles times While searching the car, deputies prises said, one of the highest asking prices for a private residence in the Los Angeles County sheriff’s dep - found a substance believed to be U.S. The Gothic Tudor-style mansion, which has an area of nearly 1,858 uties found a cat with its legs taped heroin, as well as a cat stuffed upside- square meters and boasts 29 rooms, sits amid 2 hectares in Holmby Hills together this weekend while arrest- down in an animal carrier. The cat’s west of the city. In addition to amenities such as a tennis court and a free- ing two people during a narcotics front and rear legs were each tied form swimming pool, the estate is home to the infamous Playboy grotto, investigation. together with electrical tape. which over the years served as the setting for some of Hefner’s most lav- The discovery came when dep u - “The helpless cat could not move ish, hedonistic parties. The mansion, in which Hefner still lives, also has ties approached a vehicle occupied and was ‘meowing loudly in dis- a zoo license, the company said in a statement announcing the sale. “The by a man and a woman short ly after comfort,’” according to a statement Playboy Mansion has been a creative center for Hef as his residence and 11:30 p.m. on Saturday and spotted from the Sheriff’s Department. workplace for the past 40 years, as it will continue to be if the property is a jar of syringes inside, sheriff’s Lieu - The pair was arrested and booked sold,” the statement added. (Reuters) tenant Brenda Cam bra said. on suspicion of animal cruelty. of harming local residents. same day, four armed men broke agents are fully trained in terms of Shootout... When the officers retreated un - into the home of a Wing operator in security procedures relating to cash der a barrage of bullets, the sus- Kandal prov ince, beating the man’s management including CCTV cam- continued from page 1 pects fled with 14 million riel (about family and stealing $30,000 in cash eras within individual cash express robbers, and they hit him with the $3,500), $700 in U.S. bills and 1 and $6,500 worth of gold. outlets,” Ms. Khuon said in an email handgun,” he said, explaining that damlung worth of gold necklaces, yesterday. when the suspects threatened to he added. Reached later by telephone, Ms. hurt Mr. Yuk’s family, the man tear- Commune chief Sorn San de- Khuon said that while CCTV cam- fully gave up the combination to his scribed the robbers as fearless, and “It was like a movie where eras only recorded video during safe. said the victims were lucky to lose the robbers and police are operating hours, Wing cooperated Mr. Som An said two commune only money and gold. routinely with police officials to police officers arrived on the scene “They fought police without fear,” shooting at each other.” make its kiosks as safe as possible. at about 8 p.m. after being alerted he said. “It was like a movie where —sorn san, “We work with the Ministry of to the robbery in progress by an- the robbers and police are shooting Interior; they get our database and commune chief other neighbor. When the officers at each other.” also provide us constructive feed- showed up, he said, a member of Sunday’s was the third armed back on how we can improve,” she the gang standing sentry outside robbery targeting the owner of a said. the compound taunted them, yell - Wing money transfer kiosk in re- Frandara Khuon, director of op- Prey Veng provincial police chief ing: “If you want to die just come at cent weeks. erations for Wing, said kiosk oper- Sreng Chea and the Komchay me!” before opening fire with an as- On December 12, a group of men ators receive two days of training Mear district police chief said their sault rifle. toting AK-47s shot a Wing operator on risk management and personal forces were investigating Sunday’s “The robber shot at police with dead inside her house in Pur sat safety, during which they are dis- robbery, but that they were too busy an AK-47, then police shot back at province before fleeing with more couraged from keeping large sums to comment further.