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WORKERS striking at Ocean Garment factory say they still fear for their safety after being ordered back to work on Friday, where a manager accused of sexual harassment continues to work. More than 2,500 workers at the Phnom Penh factory – which supplies retail giant Gap – rallied behind six female employees, who accused their Bangla- deshi manager, Faruk Ahmad, of sexual abuse, in an August 11 protest that has stretched on for nearly two weeks. The women lodged formal criminal complaints to the police and municipal court last week; however, investigations are still pending, president of the Col- lective Union of Movement of Workers, Pav Sina said. He said the workers had continued their strike inside the factory’s walls yes- terday, and would gather again today in support of five worker representatives, suspended by Ocean despite all workers being ordered back to the factory in a Phnom Penh Municipal Court injunc- tion on Thursday. According to Sina, Ocean Garment suspended the five worker representa- tives when the employees returned to work on Friday. “The court released the protection warrant and asked all workers to return to work in 48 hours on Friday, and we Shifting sands agreed with the court order. But the A sand dredging operation on the Mekong River has allegedly resulted in the collapse of riverbanks in Kandal province's Kien Svay district. PHOTO SUPPLIED Story - page 3 Continues on page 6 Fretting ‘ASEAN-alisation’
Justine Drennan analyst group Cambodia Institute of Students fear losing jobs to skilful neighbours Development Study, said. HE vision regional leaders “The issue is how many skilled labour- have for an ASEAN Economic 22, said yesterday, ahead of Prime Min- be in the future [Cambodians] will be relax foreign worker quotas – being dis- ers we can produce when 80 per cent of Community by 2015 may ister Hun Sen officially opening the jobless after ‘ASEAN-alisation’,” she said, cussed at the economic minister’s meet- labour in the economy is in rural areas,” become clearer after this meeting today. using a term coined by one of her pro- ing only includes certain skilled sectors: he said. week’sT Economic Ministers meeting in Students who have not mastered the fessors, who urges students to study architecture, engineering, accounting, “Because of seasonal unemployment Siem Reap, but not everyone has a rose- English language also fear employment hard and choose their subjects care- surveying, medicine and tourism. and the dependence on a subsistence coloured view of what such integration opportunities will fade into the ether in fully so they can compete in a regional University students may have reason economy of Cambodian rural house- might mean for Cambodia. the face of stiffer competition for Eng- labour market when the AEC’s free to fear, experts say. But, ultimately, few holds, it is very difficult to promote the “My peers are really concerned that lish skills, Kakada, who hopes to one day movement of skilled labour agreement Cambodians have technical skills that benefits of acquiring more skills,” other countries have many more skills open her own travel agency, said. comes into effect. will be impacted under the AEC labour Chandararot said, emphasising that for and higher study levels,” National Insti- “If Cambodian students can’t com- The AEC’s proposed labour agree- agreement, Kang Chandararot, head of tute of Business student Chan Kakada, pete with other ASEAN countries, may- ment – to facilitate work permits and the economics unit at independent Continues on page 5
Business ASEAN's financial world Hollande sends page-7 gap highlighted page-13 message to Greece 2 THE PHNOM PENH POST august 27, 2012 National Is it the start of the end for Vietnam’s ruling party?
sued, wildcat strikes spread recently fled into hiding after and the property market slid racking up debts of $2 billion. into its current comatose state. Both Binh and Dung were Regional Insider As the New York Times arti- political acolytes of senior cle reported: “Vietnam’s ma- party men, none of whom Roger Mitton jor cities are now scattered have been punished, of with hundreds of abandoned course, just as none of the A farmer works in a parched rice paddy in Kampong Speu province’s construction sites.” mentors of Kien or Hai have Kong Pisei district earlier this month. heng chivoan HE media was awash day when news outlets like the As well, after multiple cur- been targetted – as yet. last week with stories Agence France Presse head- rency devaluations and rising But political storm clouds about Vietnam’s dire lined: “Second tycoon arrested prices, people pruned their are growing, as discontent Improve yields while economic situation, amid bank run in Vietnam.” spending; the sale of produce over the nation’s economic which,T as the Wall Street Jour- Ly Xuan Hai, the ACB’s chief and general goods in stores, for mismanagement mounts, nal noted, “is going from bad executive, joined Kien in the example, has recently plum- even within the ruling Viet- the sun shines: NGO to worse”. slammer for alleged financial meted by 20 to 30 per cent. nam Communist Party itself. On Tuesday, the local Tuoi irregularities and that led to Making matters worse, for- PM Dung, whose daughter Khouth Sophak Chakrya hopeless, but should start to Tre newspaper revealed that yet more bank runs and a dis- eign investment for the first Nguyen Thanh Phuong part- grow rice and other crops,” the powerful banking mogul, astrous $4-billion slide in the half of this year was only one- nered Kien in banking endeav- This year’s dry spell could be Koma said. Nguyen Duc Kien, had been ar- stock market. quarter the amount during the ours, is now openly being chal- an opportunity rather than a “The rainy season will con- rested for financial violations. The picture was darkening same period three years ago. lenged by his long-term rival, disaster for farmers, Cambo- tinue for about two more Kien is among Vietnam’s 20 ominously, as was evident As a result, with GDP growth President Truong Tan Sang. dian Center for Study and De- months,” he said, adding richest and best-connected from a front-page New York now down to barely 4 per cent Sang is supported by party velopment in Agriculture (CE- that during this time, farmers businessmen – he is close to Times article headlined: “In and falling, Vietnam has the boss Nguyen Phu Trong and DAC) officials said yesterday. should supplement their rice Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Vietnam, Growing Fears of an region’s worst-performing Deputy PM Nguyen Sinh Although drought has de- yields with other crops like Dung and co-founded the Economic Meltdown.” economy and faces the har- Hung, which means the PM’s stroyed several thousand hect- sweet potatoes. Asia Commercial Bank, one Those fears were reinforced rowing prospect of an infla- days could be numbered. ares of crops in the past two The advice extends beyond of the nation’s largest. when the official Vietnam tionary depression. In a devastating article last months, Cambodia’s largest this year, Khortieth said, point- News of his jailing caused News Agency reported mid- As the Associated Press re- week, Sang slammed both the agricultural NGO is encourag- ing out that most rainy seasons Vietnam’s already moribund week that prices had begun ported, there are now “doubts inefficient state-owned enter- ing farmers to use the dry times have a dry spell in the middle. stock market to suffer its big- to creep up again. about the financial stability of a prises and the corruption, irre- to improve their yields. Ou Ith, a farmer in Banteay gest drop in four years and Not long ago, in order to curb country once seen as an emerg- sponsibility and moral degrada- “We want all farmers to see Meancheay’s Thma Puok dis- resulted in panicky deposi- rampaging inflation which ing Asian tiger economy”. tion of Dung’s government. He [the drought] not as a crisis but trict, who had planned to find tors mobbing ACB branches had hit 30 per cent, the gov- Last week’s jailings fol- could well have aimed his criti- a chance to double their yields work in Thailand after his rice to pull out their savings. ernment radically curtailed low the conviction of Pham cism at the party as a whole. and income,” Him Khortieth, crop was hit by drought, said Some $400 million was credit and restrained growth. Thanh Binh, formerly head of To paraphrase Winston communication officer for CE- he will now grow another crop. withdrawn over the next two It worked and the rate of infla- state-owned shipbuilder Vi- Churchill, the economic de- DAC, said yesterday. “My family relies on the rice days and the central bank had tion came down to single digits nashin, whose financial mis- bacle may not herald the end CEDAC’s president, Yang Sa- crops so we will grow another to dispatch truckloads of cash this year; but the cost was severe. deeds saddled the company of the VCP, but it is perhaps ing Koma, said farmers should in the last of this rainy season,” to prevent commercial banks Youth unemployment with debts of $4.5 billion. the end of the start of the par- plough and collect natural fer- he said. Khortieth said the ad- from running out of funds. soared, infrastructure projects Concurrently, Duong Chi ty’s demise. tilisers to prepare their fields vice applies more to upland ar- A brief semblance of calm were postponed or scrapped, Dung, the ex-boss of state- for end-of-season rains. eas. ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY JUSTINE was then shattered on Thurs- serious power shortages en- owned shipping giant Vinalines, [email protected] “Farmers should not feel DRENNAN
MINISTRY OF HEALTH KINGDOM OF CAMBODIA National Religion king Chaos-causing elephant tranquilised in Koh Kong INVITATION FOR BIDS The Ministry of Health has the honor to inform all domestic and foreign suppliers Khouth Sophak Chakrya and Claire Knox The elephant, about 30 years old, was Sarah Brook, a flagship species officer for that Ministry intends to supply Consumable-Drug wich described in Technical being readied for transportation to the zoo, the NGO Flora and Fauna International, said Specification. A WILD male elephant trampling around the where it was to get treatment and mate with that although relocating wild elephants to Bid forms could be obtained from the Ministry of Health at the following addresses: fringes of National Road 48 in Koh Kong prov- three female elephants, he said. zoos or rescue centres was not a long-term Procurement Unit Ministry of Health ince was tranquilised on Saturday by a team “It will arrive no later than tomorrow or the solution to human-elephant conflict, this #151-153 Avenue Kampcuhea Krom, Phnom Penh, Cambodia Tel: 023-723 849 of forestry officials and conservationists after day after tomorrow,” he said. particular animal had a badly injured leg. “causing disturbance” and destroying crops Bids must be delivered to the Ministry of Health, Procurement Unit at the above Sam Saeoun, deputy police chief of Botum “It is possible that human-elephant con- address befor 14h 30 O’clock, on 25/09/2012. and rice fields, said Ratanak Pich, director of Sakor district, said although the elephant had flict incidents will increase in Cambodia in Bids will be opened at the same address at 14h30 O’clock on 25/09/2012 Takeo province’s Tamao Zoological Park and not hurt anyone, it had damaged valuable the near future, with increasing land-use in the present of the Bidders’ represntatives who wish to attend Wildlife Rescue Centre. crops and caused chaos on local roads. changes,” she said.
www.expocambodia.com THE PHNOM PENH POST august 27, 2012 3 National Sinking feeling on river’s edge Suspect net widens in safrole oil bust: police Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
BOUT 50 villagers in Phak Seangly over the phone and using code Kandal province pro- names in communication, said tested yesterday in THREE more suspects and Si Savin, chief of the anti-drug an attempt to halt the numerous additional safrole office in Pursat. activitiesA of a Vietnamese sand- oil harvest locations are being Savin said that two Vietnam- dredging company, which they pursued by Pursat provincial ese nationals and another Cam- said has caused a huge swath of police after the biggest safrole bodian were involved in the their land to slide into the Me- oil bust this year took place smuggling of the safrole across kong River. on Thursday. Thai and Vietnamese borders. Residents of Kien Svay dis- Over the weekend, provin- “The three other suspects trict’s Koh Prak village said that cial anti-drug officials ques- rarely went to the safrole har- over the course of the compa- tioned Vietnamese-Cambodian vesting sites and always lived in ny’s first month of operations, Keo Thou, who turned over mobile locations,” Savin said. a length of shoreline more than new information about his Authorities also learned that 500 metres long and five me- accomplices and the large-scale the harvesting was not isolated tres wide has collapsed into the safrole oil-producing racket. in a single location but deep in river, taking crops with it, and Thou was charged by Pursat the forest at various locations threatening the homes of those Provincial Court with stock- along the border of Koh Kong living nearest the river. piling 114 barrels of the illegal and Pursat, as well as Battam- According to village repre- A portion of the river bank in Kandal province’s Kien Svay district allegedly collapsed recently as a result of compound, which can be used bang. Once the root of sas- sentative Tuy Phy, 51, villagers sand dredging on the Mekong River. photo supplied as a pre-cursor for MDMA, safras trees growing in those began their protest yesterday commonly known as the party locations were harvested, they morning at the Koh Prak port – The barges obliged until just “I am afraid that my house house if a solution is not found. drug ecstasy, at his dilapidated were bought to a sophisticated where the dredging barges dock before midday, Phy said, but and land will slide into the river Kien Svay district police chief house near the base of the Car- cooking operation near Thour’s – then piled into five motor- when the protesters returned some day,” he said, adding that Var Samath said the “issue is a damom Mountains in Pursat. house to distill the valuable sa- boats and sailed over the barges home, they resumed dredging. according to villagers’ reports, matter for the Kien Svay district “The suspect admitted that frole oil from the vegetation. to ask them to stop their work. Villagers don’t even know the the company’s activities direct- governor, who issued [the com- he guarded and prepared to According to Savin, Thou’s “The activity of sand dredging company’s name, he added, ly affected 46 families, and over pany’s] licence”. transport the 114 barrels of sa- only duty was to guard the saf- of this Vietnamese barge com- since none of the employees 100 more indirectly. Samath said he had personal- frole,” provincial court prosecu- role stock location in Pursat. pany has severely affected our speak Khmer, but its six to sev- Im Sarom, 54, another resi- ly observed the loss of shoreline tor, Yu Yeunny, said, adding the Thou could offer police few villagers’ lands and houses,” he en barges had been operating dent, said villagers have sub- in Koh Prak, but maintained suspect was being held in pre- details of the other suspects told the Post. “To protect villag- on a daily basis. mitted a complaint asking that much of the erosion was trial detention while authorities involved in the trafficking and ers’ lives, their houses and their Phok Dara, 52, a farmer in Phoum Thom commune offi- due to natural forces. continued to question him. production of the oil but said lands from collapsing into the Koh Prak village, said that his cials to intervene but have not Neither representatives of the Questioning of Thou revealed five to 10 barrels at a time would river, we asked the barge to stop house and land were on the yet received a response, adding company, nor Kien Svay district a growing network of drug traf- be moved to Phnom Penh for dredging sand from Koh Prak Mekong’s banks, just 15 metres that villagers will stage a protest governor Heng Theam could be fickers who worked separately further processing. ADDITIONAL RE- village from now on.” from where the barges dredge. at Prime Minister Hun Sen’s reached for comment. and secretly, speaking mostly PORTING BY RACHEL WILL 4 THE PHNOM PENH POST august 27, 2012 National General arrested Ancient Senior army More corruption cases heard official linked riches Buth Reaksmey Kongkea them from Phnom Penh to Siem to drug bust Reap to Banteay Meanchey. uncovered he Court of Appeal on At each step of the crack- two-star general and Friday continued to downs, illicit substances, cash in Takeo one other man were ar- hear the appeals of for- and property were confiscated Arested in Phnom Penh by mer anti-drugs chief from arrested suspects. a joint force of police and military MoekT Dara, his second in com- “Later, after their question- Kim Sarum police, led by the anti-drug mand Chea Leng and fugitive ings, Chea Leng and Morn department at the Ministry of Morn Doeun in the seventh of Doeun had released [some of AUTHORITIES have covered Interior, on suspicion of drug 25 criminal cases against them. the suspects] in exchange for over what they believe is an trafficking, police said yesterday. In the fifth day of hearings receiving bribes,” Chandara- ancient burial site in Takeo According to department focused on corruption charges vann said. province’s Angkor Borei district director Khieu Saman, General against Leng and Doeun who “And during doing their ac- after residents were finding gold Chan Rithydy, the deputy chief of have been convicted for al- tivities, Chea Leang and Morn and pearl jewellery in dirt dug staff of the army’s infantry divi- lowing two drug traffickers to Doeun has also seized a total up by road workers, officials sion and an unnamed associate escape detention and subse- of 36 items of the suspects’ real- said yesterday. were arrested at a luxury villa quently seizing the traffickers’ estate properties and their bank Hundreds of people had located in O’Andong 1 village, real estate properties as their accounts,” he added. flocked the area in Prek Phtorl in Meanchey district’s Prek Pra own in 2009. “With these 36 items of doc- commune’s Kampong Pou vil- commune. In the raid, police The presiding judge at the uments seized, Chea Leng and lage, where a new road is being seized more than one kilogram Court of Appeal, Chay Chan- Morn Doeun bribed the sus- built, after villagers reported of crystalline ecstasy, and nearly daravann, read aloud Banteay pects to purchase three luxury stumbling upon the treasures. 85,000 pills of an amphetamine- Meanchey Provincial Court’s motorbikes for them to secure Villager Chea Peuy, 35, said the type stimulant known as WY. documents that on May 31, return of the seized property,” area was not known for its natu- Rithydy isn’t the first high- 2009, Chea Leng’s anti-drug the judge read. ral minerals, but he was more ranking military officer to be police forces began a series of Their appeal hearings will Former anti-drug czar Moek Dara (right) is seen at the Appeal Court in than happy to enjoy the treas- linked to drug busts this year. large-scale crackdowns leading continue on September 4. Phnom Penh last week. hong menea ures being found. In May, an assistant to the “I’ve been able find a small Royal Cambodian Armed Forces amount of gold and can sell it for Cabinet of General Command tens of thousands of riel,” he was caught with a cache of vari- Salvation Party sets million-dollar goal said. “Others have been able to ous drugs. Last month, a former find even more.” major general and a Ministry of Angkor Borei District Gover- National Defence deputy com- Meas Sokchea will go toward the party’s cam- “We are very sure that we will Panha estimates that the CPP nor Sav Hor said human bones mander were sentenced to 12 paign costs. collect at least $1 million,” said spent roughly $10 million in the had also been unearthed at the and 16 years in prison, respec- THE newly launched Cambo- The National Rescue Foun- a confident Sochua. “They hate June commune elections. site, which authorities believe tively, for drug trafficking and dian National Salvation Party dation was established earlier oppression; they want to have He added that to make elec- was a former royal palace site. illegal weapon possession. (NSP) is setting aside a financial this month, and according to a change.” tions truly fair, there should “We also found clay pots there Ky Bunnara, the deputy war chest for the upcoming an online tally, has raised Even if the NSP reaches its be a ceiling on campaign from hundreds of years ago.” municipal prosecutor, would not 2013 national election by creat- about $26,000. goal, however, it can’t begin to spending. Moul Huon, district police comment in detail, but said the ing a foundation with the goal Most of the donations have compete with the financial Cheam Yeap, a senior law- chief of Angkor Borei, said that decision to arrest Rithydy was of raising US$1 million. poured in from Cambodians might of the Cambodian Peo- maker for the ruling CPP, did villagers were left disappointed made after a lengthy investiga- The money, said Mu Sochua, living abroad, with the bulk of ple’s Party, said Koul Panha, not agree, saying the amounts yesterday after authorities tion. LIENG SARITH a senior lawmaker and presi- the cash deriving from the US head of election monitoring of money spent is a decision made the decision to fill in dent of the NSP secretariat, Cambodian community. organisation Comfrel. better left to each party. holes at the site. THE PHNOM PENH POST august 27, 2012 5 National Drug-resistant malaria Carlsberg promises support in health officials’ sights Shane Worrell
ANISH brewer Claire Knox and Sen David deaths – a decrease of 23 per Carlsberg has cent compared with last year, vowed to improve A CONSORTIUM of health which had 55,000 cases in the the working condi- officials from Cambodia, My- corresponding period. tionsD of Angkor and Carlsberg anmar, Thailand and Laos In Pailin, however, about beer promoters in Cambodia met in Siem Reap on Friday to 26 per cent of malaria cases as it tries to stamp out co- develop a strategy on how to were drug-resistant in 2012, erced workplace drinking. contain drug-resistant strains up from 10 per cent in 2010. The company announced of malaria. WHO epidemiologist Steven late last week it had joined Although efforts to combat Bjorge said it was crucial to forces with the Danish Con- the disease by the govern- keep in mind that the overall federation of Trade Unions ment’s National Malaria Cen- number of cases had dropped (LO) to confront issues beer tre appear to have proved suc- and monitoring of the disease promoters specifically in Cam- cessful country-wide, Chor had increased. bodia face, such as pressure Meng Chuor, director of the from customers to drink while National Center for Parasito- You can’t just sit on working and sexual abuse. logical Entomology, said the one drug. We have “We are pleased with the co- government was increasingly a very good idea operation agreement with LO concerned about the forested which drugs that will help us in our goal areas fringing the country’s are resistant to provide our sales promot- border with Thailand. ers with decent, dignified and “Fighting [drug-resistant Bjorge said Falciparum, the safe employment,” Carlsberg An Angkor Beer promoter protests at the Cambrew headquarters in Phnom Penh last year. meng kimlong malaria] is a huge concern prevalent species along the Group spokeswoman Anne- for us. We have educated Thai-Cambodian border, had Marie Skov said in a state- at the University of Guelph in many desperate for money, suggested I contact the large, the community via the me- shown a high resistance to a ment dated Thursday. Canada, between 2004 and he added. ‘in-house’ union that they dia, television and radio and number of drugs. The company and the this year drank regularly at Lubek yesterday welcomed said represented many of the our community education “It is monitored very closely union group will also work to work to earn tips from de- international unions’ interest Angkor beer sellers, headed by programs, including urging by the WHO, and is a chang- erode the negative stigma at- manding customers. in working conditions in Cam- a former HR director of Cam- people to sleep in mosquito ing situation. You can’t just sit tached to beer promoters and “Our research shows that bodia, but wanted LO to verify brew,” he said, adding that nets,” he said, adding that the on one drug. We have a very encourage freedom of associ- beer promoters are consum- whether workers for Carlsberg it was actually the external Cambodia model was going good idea of which drugs ation and collective bargain- ing on average 1.5 litres of or Cambrew, which produces Cambodian Food and Service to be used in the neighbour- are resistant, and drugs are ing, the statement adds. beer per night – that’s six Angkor Beer, could join what- Workers’ Federation that had ing countries to combat drug- changed following a very The Post reported on glasses of beer, 27 nights a ever union they chose. organised the strike. resistant malaria. strict protocol,” he said. Wednesday that 85 per cent month,” Lubek said. “At the time of the 2011 Lubek said he hoped the gap Chuor said that in the first Resistance to drugs had of the 1,660 beer promoters The promoters’ average strike [over beer promoters’ between what beer promoters seven months of this year, gradually risen, not only on surveyed by Ian Lubek, ad- wage of $75 and their month- overtime payments], Carls- were paid and their living ex- Cambodia had 42,000 cases the border but also in other junct professor of psychology ly expenses of $180 made berg executives in Denmark penses would be addressed. of malaria and at least 30 parts of Thailand, he said.
In brief NEC to rid lists of ghost voters Top monk back home Restaurants raided for Kim Yuthana liking their meat rare Khouth Sophak Chakrya approach to ensure the tri- and dead voters from the lists. CONSERVATIONISTS from the umph of this affair,” NEC pres- Koul Panha, executive direc- SUPREME Patriarch Nun Nget, group Wildlife Alliance took VOTER registration errors, ident Im Sousdey said. tor of election monitor the leader of Cambodia’s Kanak part last week in raids on which occur because citizens The NEC was calling on the COMFREL, said the registration Mohanikay branch of Budd- seven restaurants in do not inform commune clerks ministries of interior, culture system was “not accountable hism, had made a full recovery Ratanakkiri’s Banlung town, of migration, incarceration or and arts, education and cults for inaccuracy” and commune after receiving medical treat- and found that three were deaths of family members, had and religion to inform officials, councils and the NEC tended to ment in Singapore, his person- serving meat from legally led to 130,000 incorrect list- celebrities, monks and students blame each other for mistakes. al assistant said yesterday. protected animals. The raid, ings that the National Election about registration procedures 250 COMFREL representa- “His health has recovered,” which was carried out with the Committe planned to cancel, tives will monitor voter registra- aide Roth Sophal said, add- Supreme Patriarch Nun Nget left military police, resulted in the NEC officials said on Friday. The current tion at a sampling of the 1633 ing that the 90-year-old had for Singapore on Saturday. sam rith confiscation of more than 30kg The officials are appealing to registration system registration locations, Panha left on Saturday and returned of rabbit, wild pig, deer and government institutions to is not accountable said, but he forecasts that “not last night. “It is not serious; he been recent in-patients in the porcupine meat, Wildlife Alli- carefully examine voter regis- for inaccuracy too much [will] improve,” only had a stomach problem.” prosperous ASEAN country. ance official Prum Nol, who tration lists for errors and to because the NEC has “no polit- Medical treatment in Sin- Nget has been in the news joined the operation, said. One increase citizens’ knowledge for the September 1 to October ical commitment” to change. gapore is the choice of many recently for his purported of the raided restaurateurs of election mechanisms in the 12 registration period, he said. Sousdey estimated that the high-ranking Cambodia Peo- role in silencing activist monk criticised officials for singling lead-up to the 2013 parlia- Election watchdog repre- number of eligible voters in ple’s Party officials such as Loun Savath. Savath told the out his business so harshly. mentary elections. sentatives confirmed the need the next July’s parliamentary Senate president Chea Sim, Post he had been “forced” to “If they really want to stop the “All ministries, departments to correct registration lists but election would exceed nine Deputy Prime Minister Sok An thumbprint an agreement in wild-animal trade, please go and relevant institutions must noted that until now, the NEC million. ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY and Prime Minister Hun Sen’s Nget’s presence to no longer to the forest to arrest the hunt- take a highly collaborative had failed to purge repetitions JUSTINE DRENNAN father Hun Neang, who have engage in political protests. ers. Do not come to my rest- aurant,” he said. phak seangly Hundreds of pregnant women get diet advice Students fear losing jobs to skilful neighbours ALMOST 500 pregnant women from in and around the capital Continued from page 1 edgeable people, in order to pick up the country,” Sinoun said. However, struction, car repair and internet technol- met with health officials good jobs.” this two-steam approach is ultimately ogy with business applications, faces a yesterday to glean advice on Cambodians to upskill into technical Under current conditions, as ASEAN counterproductive in the face of tough task, since even aspiring profes- the impact of iron in their fields like surveying or medicine, there economies integrate. Cambodia may regional integration and the Asian sionals tend to pursue administrative pre-natal diet. The meeting needed to be a tangible incentive to do get stuck supplying other countries Development Bank and labour and rather than technical skills, according to marked the end of a so. Without such an incentive, the with unskilled labour, which current education ministries are trying to ADB and ministry materials. government-funded study that Cambodian labour market will “not be agreements don’t regulate or protect, encourage private businesses to imple- ASEAN programs like the Initiative for provided the women with iron, able to absorb benefits from integra- while foreign workers take skilled jobs, ment regional standardised certifica- ASEAN Integration (IAI) also are encour- a crucial nutrient many tion”, he said. Tola said. “2015 is a little bit early for aging skills acquisition in Cambodia, said Cambodians failed to take, In a country where 50 per cent of the Cambodia [to integrate] if you look at 2015 is a little bit early director of ASEAN’s integration monitor- health official Hem Sokhon workforce has not finished primary the situation,” he said. for Cambodia [to ing office Aladdin Rillo. The IAI’s invest- said. “If the mother does not school, AEC integration will be a chal- Even professionals from sectors integrate] if you look at ment and development programs broad- use it, the baby faces the lenge for Cambodia, but also a chance included in the labour integration the situation. ly seek to close the “development gap” chance of death during to catch up, according to Sok Siphanna, agreement said they were unaware of between the original “ASEAN-6” and the pregnancy and a 20 per cent adviser to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs the pending changes. tion toward an AEC “common frame- less-developed member states of Cam- chance of disability,” he said. and International Cooperation. “Especially private businesses, they work for quality assurance”, said Mar bodia, Laos, Vietnam and Myanmar. Long Vanrun, 32, said she had But Moeun Tola, head of the labour just think of themselves, not with respect Sophea, ADB senior social sector officer. “But these are actually national issues,” benefited from the iron she program at Cambodian NGO Commu- to ASEAN or 2015,” Koam Sinoun, who A Labour Ministry and ADB initiative, Rillo said. “If countries are not able to had taken. “I want to see my nity Legal Education Centre, said, “What is a dentist in private practice and also a for example, offers technical and voca- implement these changes, they will still baby healthy. I want to give my I can see at the moment is Cambodia has Ministry of Health official, said. tional education and training certification have the same problems.” For this reason, baby a good future,” she said. not done anything yet in terms of “[Private practices] are working to to secondary level students at 38 sites he said, “I think realistically there will be sen david improvement of human resource quality, improve, not with respect to the ASEAN across the country. some short-term adverse effects of the in terms of skilled workers and knowl- plan, but just separately, for the needs of This program, which focuses on con- economic integration.” 6 THE PHNOM PENH POST august 27, 2012 National police In brief blotter Hun Sen to meet with PM gives pro-dolphin decree non-aligned countries Mob attacks innocent Prime Minister Hun Sen and a Chhay Channyda man in broad daylight delegation of senior officials A GANG of misinformed vigi- will leave for Iran on Wednes RIME Minister Hun lantes set upon an innocent day to attend the 16th Summit Sen on Friday ap- 30-year-old man on Saturday of the Non-Aligned Movement proved a new sub- while he was being held at to be held in Tehran on August decree geared toward gunpoint by police who sus- increasedP protection of the pected him of stealing a 30-31, according to a press release from the Ministry of endangered Mekong river dol- motorbike in Phnom Penh’s Foreign Affairs. Hun Sen will phin through a series of fish- Daun Penh district. An eyewit- hold talks with the presidents ing and motorised transport ness said that a police officer of Iran and North Korea. The restrictions in the Mekong was pursuing the man when trip comes ahead of the river in Kratie and Stung Treng he drew his gun and pointed it October 18 United Nations provinces. at him, prompting an unruly Security Council vote. The Council of Minister’s mob to punch and kick the Cambodia is campaigning for sub-decree, obtained on Fri- suspected thief. After a short a non-perman ent seat for day by the Post, sets out to time, however, police 2013 to 2014. Koy Kuong, meet management and con- announced that the man was spokesman at the Ministry of servation obligations on Cam- not involved in any crime. bodia for the species. Kampuchea Thmey Foreign Affairs, said he could Irrawaddy dolphins swim in the Tbong Klah pool, in Stung Treng province, last year. World Wildlife Fund/Hang “There are approximately not comment on whether Hun Sereyvuth Police find machetes in Sen will lobby countries of the between 155-175 Mekong dolphins remaining in Cam- car of local joy-riders non-aligned movement to bodian Mekong River under list in 2004. The sub-decree Michelle Owen, acting coun- and the Fisheries Adminis- MILITARY police in Poipet support Cambodia’s candidacy. the conservation efforts of bans the use of all kinds of try director of World Wildlife tration will also need strong town in Banteay Meanchey vong sokheng and cheang sokha the government throughout fishing grills and motorised Fund in Cambodia, applauded backing from the Cambodian province arrested two men, Cash crisis at tribunal the last six years,” the sub- transport exceeding 30 kilo- the decree’s role in Mekong government and international both 24, on Friday for disturb- decree reads. metres per hour. River conservation. donors to support enforce- ing the peace. Police said the averted for now: official Conservation efforts for The clearance of forest and “To be effective the sub- ment of the sub-decree.” two were habitual trouble- THE Khmer Rouge tribunal’s the Mekong dolphins have large-scale construction of in- decree must be supported by The Mekong river dolphin makers, and locals feared international arm will have increased after the species frastructure along the island local communities along the protection zone covers 7,630 them. One resident, however, funds to sustain operations was listed in International near Kratie in the protected Mekong river,” said Owen dur- square metres and stretches got up the nerve to report the through until October after two Union for Conservation of zone is also prohibited under ing Friday’s meeting. 180 kilometres from Laos into two for blasting loud music donor countries make good on Nature’s endangered species the 12-point sub-decree. “The Dolphin Commission Cambodia. from their car. Police stopped their pledges in the coming the joy-riding pair, and when weeks, a senior UN official officers did a search, they said yesterday. David Scheffer, found a stash of machetes. the UN-appointed Special Kampuchea thmey Expert for the Khmer Rouge Suppliers of Gap in the spotlight tribunal, said in an email to the Gang of six snatch cell Post that two major donor Continued from page 1 immediately respond to the Post’s requests other workers, so I decided to sue him,” phone in Phnom Penh countries will make good on for comment. she said. Three men, aged 18 to 24, their pledges of financial company then announced to suspend us One of the six to allege the sexual harass- Meanwhile, Dave Welsh, country director were apprehended on support. Australia’s offering of five workers representatives – that’s why all ment, 27-year-old Heng Samphors, said she of the American Center for International Thursday after allegedly almost $1.5 million should workers decided to strike again,” worker was terrified for her safety with the knowl- Labor Solidarity, said the court’s move to snatching a cell phone in the arrive at the end of this month, representative Keo Kim Heang added. edge Ahmad was still employed at the fac- reinstate the worker representatives sug- capital’s Chamkarmon dis- and a $1.1 million donation Sina said the company yesterday agreed tory. She alleged he called her frequently gested it could be on the strikers’ side. trict. Military police said that from the Norwegians will be to accept the five back to work, but the work- and propositioned her for sex, offering $50 He said he also believed Ahmad was still three suspects, along with paid “as soon as possible”, he ers remained distrustful of management for the act, and when she refused, he threat- working at the Dangkor district site and the three others, colluded to said. The financial reprieve will and wanted the move verified in a letter. ened her with termination. story was spreading around the world. grab the phone from the expire at the end of October, He told the Post Ahmad was still working “I told the president of the union and the “International press … have a hold of it 26-year-old victim at about when the court will face a at the factory, but that he had not made police chief officials about my concerns – this is what major brands try to resist, this 11pm, before fleeing on US$4 million shortfall for the contact with the workers. and they said that if I was still scared and would be a major concern for Gap now,” motorbikes. The arrested rest of 2012. joseph freeman Ocean Garment and Ahmad did not keep it a secret that he will do the same to he said. men confessed to the crime, and were sent to court, but police are on the lookout for other suspects. nokorwat Police: stolen motorbike used to steal necklace A 26-YEAR-OLD man was arrested on Saturday for alleg- edly snatching a necklace from a woman in Kampong Chhnang’s Kampong Chhnang town, police said. After pur- loining the pendant, the thief escaped on a motorbike, and the victim filed a complaint with police who located and arrested the suspect. The sus- pect confessed not only to stealing the necklace, but to stealing his getaway motor- bike. Police said the suspect had already sold the goods. Nokorwat Security guard killed in motorbike accident One security guard was killed and another seriously injured in a traffic accident on Friday in Kampong Chhnang’s Samaki Meanchey district. Police said the victims, both 22, worked at a garment facto- ry, and were taking a motor- bike home at around 6:30pm when a speeding truck tried to pass a car and collided with their motorbike head-on. The driver escaped on foot, and the truck was taken into police custody. Koh Santepheap
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44th ASEAN Economic Ministers meeting schedule The 44th ASEAN Economic Ministers meeting is taking place in Siem Reap this week and will include representa- tives from all ASEAN countries in addi- tion to those from the US, Russia, China, Japan, South Korea, Australia, Canada, India and New Zealand. The meeting began on Saturday, August 25.
The schedule for the rest of the week is as follows: Monday, August 27 - Opening Ceremony to be presided over by Prime Minister Hun Sen. 26th AFTA Council Meeting 15th AIA Council Meeting AEM Working Dinner Tuesday, August 28 - AEM Plenary Senior economic and trade officials from the 10 ASEAN member states attended the SEOM preparatory meeting on Sunday. Photo supplied AEC Council Meeting Wednesday, August 29 - 11th AEM-MOFCOM Consulta- tions ASEAN’s newest look for cash AMBDC Ministerial Meeting AEC-ROK Consultations May Kunmakara after the bloc’s foreign ministers 2015 deadline for integrating many said they will push for easier busi- 15th AEM Plus Three Consulta- Siem Reap failed to issue a joint communiqué aspects of the region’s trade and ness access to neighbouring states. tions at the ASEAN Summit in July. finance regulation, a goal some ex- Ngoun Meng Tech, director general Gala Dinner & Fashion Show OUNGER Southeast Asian Cham Prasidh, who will host the perts have called improbable. of the Cambodia Chamber of Com- countries will look for a meeting, expressed confidence in Fear of global economic reces- merce, told reporters on the side- Thursday, August 30 - means of filling the financial finding new sources of develop- sion and its potential effects on lines of the 10th ASEAN-Business Breakfast for all Economic Minis- gap between poorer main- ment funding for Cambodia, Laos, the region’s weaker states echoed Advisory Council that the private ters, SG of ASEAN and spouses, SEOM Yland ASEAN members and more Myanmar and Vietnam – ASEAN’s among ministers from mainland sector will seek approval for special Leaders and DSG of ASEAN developed states this week during newest members collectively countries yesterday. Nam Viyaketh, travellers’ card for businesspeople AEM-USTR Consultations the 44th ASEAN Economic Ministers known as CLMV countries – from Laos PDR’s Minister of Industry from member states. ASEAN Economic Ministers Plus Meeting, which kicked off today. the region’s economic and financial and Commerce, said poor econom- “Of course, we have a lot of pro- ASEAN FTA Partners Consultations At the five-day meeting which powerhouses such as Indonesia, ic conditions outside the region posals for the ministers, but what 4th Mekong-Japan Economic Min- Prime Minister Hun Sen was ex- Singapore and Malaysia. would hurt countries such as Laos we are eagerly requesting from isters Meeting pected to address this morning, “We are meeting here today to and Cambodia without a stronger them is an agreement on issuing 1st EAS Economic Ministers Cambodia will also push for a high- raise the projects and ask [the more partnership between older and special travellers’ cards for busi- Meeting er degree of accessibility for busi- developed countries] for help in newer states. nesspeople,” he said. 18th AEM-METI Consultations nesspeople traveling within the 10- order to lessen the gap between “Therefore, it requires us to en- “This would make it easier for us member economic bloc, according us,” Cham Prasidh said yesterday hance cooperation [with more ad- to travel – no wasted time queuing. Friday, August 31 - to officials. during a game of golf held for the vanced countries],” Nam Viyaketh Special cards would be issued for 2nd AEM-Russia Consultations While Cambodia’s ASEAN Eco- ministers. said at the 4th CLMV Economic businesspeople so they would be 10th AEM-India Consultations nomic Minister Cham Prasidh said “I do believe that the meeting will Ministers Meeting, which was held able to quickly get through security 17th AEM-CER Consultations the Kingdom was well prepared to seek more donations from other yesterday. and that the ASEAN governments 1st AEM-Canada Consultations lead the meeting, insiders will watch country members to help the four Trade liberalisation will be an would recognise them. We hope AEM Dialogue with AFTEX carefully the cohesiveness of the re- younger member of ASEAN.” overarching theme of the meeting, that we will get a reply from them Media Conference gion’s top economic policymakers ASEAN leaders hope to meet a and commerce leaders in Cambodia by November.” 8 THE PHNOM PENH POST august 27, 2012 Business Diary THIS week EVN may have massive debts wednesday, August 29 to saturday, september 1: asean garments and textiles fair Stuart Grudgings But the latest proposals an- The fair will be held at the Angkor COEX (exhibition hall), nounced in July appear to fall Siem Reap, from August 29 to September 1, 2012. The fair ROM the rural heart- short of tackling the cronyism is organised by the Cambodian Inter-Ministerial Commit- lands to traffic-choked and muddled priorities that tee for International Exhibitions and Word Exposition Af- cities, Vietnam Elec- have allowed the 100 larg- fairs (Chaired by the Ministry of Commerce of Cambodia), tricity Group is hard est state-owned enterprises in co-operation with the Garment Manufacturers Associa- toF miss. It builds apartments, (SOEs) to run up debts of $50 tion in Cambodia (GMAC) as well as the ASEAN member runs a bank, oversees a stock billion – equal to nearly half countries. This year’s fair will not only feature the best of brokerage, provides electrical Vietnam’s annual economic Cambodian and ASEAN based manufacturers but will also power to millions of homes output in 2010. host two other exciting events, namely the ASEAN Gar- and employs 100,000 people. The problems, say bankers ment & Textile Conference and ASEAN Fashion Show. For Today, Vietnam’s sole retail and industry experts, extend more information visit: http://sourceasean.com/safsa- power supplier, known as EVN, well beyond Vinashin and full-service/safsa-news/the-asean-garment-textile-fair- looks badly over-extended, ac- Vinalines. 2012-cambodia/ cording to a senior industry “They are the tip of the ice- official with knowledge of its berg,” said David Koh, a Viet- Thursday, August 30: business. It is the latest state nam expert at the Institute of ASEAN-US Business Summit behemoth to face scrutiny in Workers repair an electric grid operated by state utility group Vietnam Southeast Asian Studies in Sin- the wake of debt blowouts that Electricity in Hanoi last year. reuters gapore. The summit will focus on innovation and the digital econo- have shaken investor confi- A failure at EVN, for example, my. It will bring together the US and ASEAN business com- dence and symbolised the de- asked not to be identified. in the mould of South Korea’s could have a far bigger impact munities to discuss how technology can be used to enhance cline of a country once tipped The arrest this week of high- “chaebol”. on the overall economy by dis- business competitiveness, facilitate trade and contribute to as Southeast Asia’s next eco- profile tycoon Nguyen Duc The central bank was forced rupting the cheap energy sup- economic growth. Following the discussions, business lead- nomic star. Kien, the multi-millionaire to make a rare public assur- ply that is the lifeblood of the ers will share the results with ASEAN trade ministers and US Some fear that the debt founder of Vietnam’s fourth- ance that funds in ACB were its manufacturing sector. trade representative Ron Kirk. The summit will take place at problem at EVN could dwarf most valuable bank, Asia Com- safe as depositors queued up A report in the Saigon Times Le Meridien Angkor on Thursday, August 30. Registration is that at shipbuilder Vinashin, mercial Joint Stock Bank (ACB), to withdraw their money, while in May citing a State Audit closed. For more information, visit aseanus.businesssummit. whose default on a US$600 adds to deepening fears of Vietnam’s main stock index body document said that EVN asean.org/ million loan damaged Viet- financial malaise in the Com- has fallen about 9 per cent this had debts of 240 trillion dong nam’s reputation among for- munist-run country of about week. (US$11.5 billion) at the end of Friday, August 31: eign investors, although the 90 million people. The near-collapse of Vinash- 2010, nearly three times that of meeting of asean federation of textile industries monopoly has garnered far His detention inflamed wor- in in 2010 and deep troubles Vinashin at the same time. less international attention. ries about a sector strained by at shipping line Vinalines this The Tuoi Tre newspaper re- The meeting will take place at the Angkor Conference I “I can tell you that its debt ties to debt-laden state com- year, with combined debts of ported in December that EVN Room, First Floor, of Apsara Angkor Resort and Confer- is far worse than Vinashin, panies, including many like $6.5 billion, prompted a gov- had losses from production ence centre. At 5:30pm the ASEAN Economic Ministers maybe hundreds of trillions EVN that have strayed well ernment vow to redouble re- of 8.4 trillion dong, more than and AFTEX will hold a second meeting to discuss the state dong,” said the industry of- beyond core businesses as forms of state firms, which take 12 times the amount reported of the garment and textiles industries across Southeast ficial with first-hand knowl- policymakers sought to build up a third of the economy and by EVN itself, according to the Asia. edge of EVN’s debts who world-beating conglomerates crowd out private investment. same report. REUTERS
10 THE PHNOM PENH POST august 27, 2012 Business Chinese bank loans seek to aid rice millers
Rann Reuy tween 270,000-450,000 tonnes a decision will be made is un- Lim Sokundarun, director of unmilled rice. clear,” he said, adding that CEDAC’s enterprise, said Cam- HINA’S Export-Im- The $70 million would be the the discussed loans would bodia’s challenges for the rice port Bank officials but a fraction of the $200 mil- have an annual interest rate of sector include the lack of the proposed to provide lion that Cambodia seeks to one per cent, with the interest capital to purchase paddy rice loans of up to US$70 improve the nation’s rice mill- rate jumping to 2.5 per cent for for stocking and processing. millionC for rice milling in an ef- ing facilities as it aims to accel- loans to the private sector. Inevitably there is some loss fort to aid Cambodia’s efforts to lerate its exporting of rice in ac- Sen Rith, president of Siem from the processing of rice, export a million tonnes of rice cordance with Prime Minister Reap’s Rice Milling Association, more rice would enable the by 2015, government officials Hun Sen’s wishes. said the private sector also met producers to meet demand. said yesterday. Kunthor, said that of the with the bank officials, but for “It is very good that there The bank’s officials visited 270,000 tonnes of milled rice, any agreement to be made are foreign investments Cambodia last week to met 210,000 tonnes of milled rice they need the government’s coming into Cambodia, in with Cambodian government would be exported to China, guarantee on the loans. order to push us to meet the officials and rice millers to 50,000 tonnes would be ex- Interest rates between three Prime Minister’s rice export- study the feasibility of provid- ported to world markets, and three per cent annually ing target.” ing loans to the rice process- while the final 10,000 tonnes are fine for the producers, Prime Minister Hun Sen ing sector to aid exports of rice would be distributed to the A woman dries paddy rice in Prey Veng province. derek stout and better than any interest has set the goal of exporting to China. domestic market. rate received from domestic a million tonnes of rice a year Son Kunthor, president of Under the proposed loans first there are some conditions while the government needs banks, which are between by 2015, when Cambodia will the Cambodian state-owned rice mills would be estab- the government needs to en- more time to examine the pro- eight and 10 per cent a year, join the ASEAN Economic Rural Development Bank, told lished in the Battambang, sure,” he said. posal and before making a de- he continued. “Our private Community. Cambodia is cur- the Post that his Chinese coun- Banteay Meanchey, Prey Veng When an agreement will be cision. Approval must also be sector always looks to co- rently not on track to meet this terpart proposed the establish- or Takeo province. reached was not disclosed be- sought from the National As- operate with the government years goal of exporting 250,000 ment of $70 million in loans “This is their plan. We don’t cause Kunthor’s Chinese coun- sembly as well, he said. and to have low interest rates, tonnes of rice due to the for rice milling, which would know how much about it or if it terpart requires the Cambodian “The government is exam- so the government should in- drought that is affecting many enable the production of be- will come to fruition, because government to insure the loan, ining the proposal, but when sure it,” he said. regions of the country. Fixed Deposit Interest Rates Earning money and making a difference Cambodian On Deposits Financial Institutions 3 Months 6 Months 12 Months Gregory Pellechi interested in participating, same, even when they may down to this misconception because maybe in the future share similar goals. that some investors feel like As of August 24, 2012 USD RIEL USD RIEL USD RIEL SOCIAL enterprise may be I will run a business and “[There is] this attitude social enterprises just really Prasac 5.50% 6.50% 6.50% 7.50% 8.00% 9.75% more than just a buzzword if somehow help the commu- which I heard this morning in are NGOs trying to help peo- last Saturday’s attendance at nity. I want to know what are the questions of still thinking ple and they’re not looking ABA Bank 3.50% N/A 4.50% N/A 5.50% N/A Cambodia’s second-ever con- the things we can repair of social enterprises as NGOs to maximise profit. They’re ACLEDA Bank 2.50% 5.00% 3.75% 6.00% 5.00% 7.00% ference on the matter was before running a business.” or not being able to separate not thinking about the eco- anything to judge by. Her definition of a social ANZ Royal Bank 1.45% 3.50% 2.75% 4.00% 3.75% 5.50% in one’s mind the NGO men- nomic aims as much as the The 350 person-plus crowd enterprise was much the same tality from the business men- social aims. So therefore, Bank of India 2.25% N/A 3.00% N/A 4.00% N/A of attendees consisted pre- as the others at the confer- tality,” she said. they wouldn’t be good on Cambodia Asia Bank 3.50% N/A 4.50% N/A 5.50% N/A dominately of Cambodians, ence: a business that can both “I think that is really critical their investment, they for whom doing business make money and help the when starting a social enter- wouldn’t be able to repay a Cambodia Mekong Bank 2.75% N/A 3.25% N/A 3.50% N/A appears to be about more community. prise. People really have to loan. They’re just going to Cambodian Public Bank 2.50% N/A 3.50% N/A 4.25% N/A than merely creating jobs Lina’s idea of help from focus on the profit maximisa- lose money. Perhaps that’s and turning a profit. These business was in line with the tion and not lose sight of the because some social enter- Canadia Bank 2.50% 5.00% 3.50% 6.00% 4.75% 7.00% aspiring entrepreneurs also models described by Alissa social goal, but drive the busi- prises do, but I don’t think Maybank 2.25% N/A 3.25% N/A 4.25% N/A want to do good. Caron, country co-ordinator ness forward and not think we for the most part it’s a fair Lina, a fourth-year chemical for Population & Develop- OSK Indochina Bank 2.75% 4.00% 3.75% 5.00% 5.00% 6.00% need to pay our workers assumption to make. engineering and food tech- ment International Cambo- extravagant salaries just And just as a social enterprise SBC Bank 3.00% N/A 3.50% N/A 4.50% N/A nology student from the Insti- dia, who in her speech dis- because they come from this needs a thought-out business Union Commercial Bank 3.50% N/A 4.50% N/A 5.50% N/A tute of Technology of Cambo- cussed the various models on really vulnerable community,” model, it also must have a clear dia, said that she attended the which social enterprises could she continued. message, she said. Maruhan Japan Bank 2.00% 2.00% 3.00% 3.00% 4.50% 4.50% conference at the Cambodia- be based and emphasised the The lack of profit maximi- “Your social message has to Japan Cultural Centre to learn need for them to be business- sation is what Caron feels be integrated or your custom- how to make any future busi- es first. has limited the growth of ers won’t be interested,” she ness she may run socially Caron saw a need at the social enterprise invest- continued, emphasising the benefit the community. conference to dispell the ments in Cambodia and importance for a social busi- “This conference is about notion that social enterprises around the world. ness to be clearly more than social enterprise and I’m and NGOs are one and the “I think it ultimately comes just a business.
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YRIAN opposition activists IRAN welcomed a group of 120 accused President Bashar al- developing nations on Sunday Assad’s forces yesterday of com- to a summit it says proves that mitting a massacre of scores of Washington has failed to iso- peopleS in a town close to the capital that late it from the rest of the the army had just retaken from rebels. world. More than 200 bodies were found in Opening the Non-Aligned houses and basements around Daraya, Movement (NAM) meeting in a working-class Sunni Muslim town to Tehran, Foreign Minister Ali the southwest of Damascus, according Akbar Salehi said he hoped for to activists who said most had been a show of solidarity against killed “execution-style” by troops on sanctions the West has imposed house-to-house raids. to punish Iran for its nuclear Due to restrictions on non-state me- activities. dia in Syria, it was impossible to inde- “The non-aligned (move- pendently verify the accounts. ment) must seriously oppose “Assad’s army has committed a mas- ... unilateral economic sanc- sacre in Daraya,” said Abu Kinan, an tions which have been enact- activist in the town, using an alias to ed by certain countries against protect himself from reprisals. non-aligned countries,” Sale- “In the last hour, 122 bodies were dis- hi told the summit’s opening covered and it appears that two dozen session. died from sniper fire and the rest were Western diplomats have summarily executed by gunshots from sought to downplay the impor- close range,” Abu Kinan said. tance of the summit and the The activist said he witnessed the start of Iran’s three-year presi- death of an 8-year-old girl, Asma Abu dency of NAM, a body set up in al-Laban, shot by army snipers while 1961 to counter big power she was in a car with her parents. domination of international “They were trying to flee the army relations. raids. Three bullets hit her in the back A member of the Free Syrian Army holds an unexploded shell as he eats during clashes with Syrian army soldiers in Aleppo. REUTERS But 80 countries are partici- and her parents brought her to a make- pating in the summit at the shift hospital. Nothing could be done The rest were reportedly killed in the ring-road shelled the southern neigh- committed many more offences than level of minister or higher, For- for her,” he said. Idlib, Deraa, Hama and Homs, outlying bourhoods of al-Lawwan and Nahr the rebels. eign Ministry spokesman Ram- The official state news agency said: provinces where poverty and discon- Aisheh late into Saturday night and The report said government forces and in Mehmanparast said, with 50 “Our heroic armed forces cleansed tent with Assad’s minority Alawite rule fighting raged in the eastern Ghouta militiamen loyal to Assad committed a sending their heads of govern- Daraya from remnants of armed ter- have been building up since bloody suburbs of the capital, residents said. massacre of more than 100 civilians in ment. rorist groups who committed crimes repression by Assad’s father, the late The army overran Daraya, one of a the town of Houla in May that the gov- And the expected attendance against the sons of the town and scared President Hafez al-Assad, killed tens of series of mostly rundown Sunni Mus- ernment blamed on Islamist “terrorists”. of big players including UN them and sabotaged and destroyed thousands of people in the 1980s. lim towns that surround Damascus, The United Nations estimates that Secretary General Ban Ki-moon public and private property.” Video footage from activists showed on Saturday after three days of heavy more than 18,000 people have been and Egypt’s new president, The Local Coordination Commit- numerous bodies of young men side- bombardment that killed 70 people, ac- killed in the conflict that pits a mainly Mohammad Mursi – the first tees, an activists’ organisation, said by-side at the Abu Suleiman al-Darani cording to opposition sources and resi- Sunni opposition against a ruling sys- Egyptian leader to visit Iran Assad’s forces killed 440 people across mosque in Daraya, many with what dents. They said most of the dead were tem dominated by the Assad family for since the 1979 Islamic revolu- Syria on Saturday, including dozens looked like gunshot wounds to the civilians. the last five decades. tion - will give the meeting dip- of women and children, in one of the head and chest. The activist Daraya Coordination Assad is an Alawite, an offshoot of lomatic heft. highest death tolls since the uprising “A massacre,” said the voice of the Committee said in a statement that Shi’ite Islam, and the sectarian nature Since the toppling of Egypt’s against his rule broke out in March man who appeared to be taking the among those found with gunshots to the of the conflict has already had an im- Western-backed President last year. footage. “You are seeing the revenge of head were eight members of the al-Qas- pact on neighbouring countries. Hosni Mubarak last year, non- The organisation, which monitors Assad’s forces ... more than 150 bodies saa family: three children, their father A Lebanese man who was abducted Arab Iran has hoped for a thaw Assad’s military crackdown, said 310 on the floor of this mosque.” and mother and three other relatives. with a group of 10 other Lebanese Shi’ite in relations with the regional people were killed in Damascus and its The southern fringe of Damascus is a UN investigators said in a report this pilgrims in Syria in May, triggering tit- power, but Cairo has appeared environs, including Daraya, 40 in the frontline in what has snowballed over month that both sides in the conflict for-tat kidnappings of Syrian activists less eager to embrace Shi’ite northern province of Aleppo and 28 in the last 17 months from anti-Assad pro- had performed summary executions in Lebanon, arrived home on Saturday, Muslim Iran which is viewed Syria’s Sunni tribal heartland region of tests into a sectarian civil war. – a war crime – but that Assad’s troops hours after Syrian rebels released him with suspicion by its Sunni Gulf Deir al-Zor. Tanks deployed on the Damascus and militia loyal to the president had as a “goodwill gesture”. REUTERS Arab neighbours. REUTERS
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In brief Road crash, fire claims 36 in northwest China Israeli soldiers speak of abuse A BUS collided with a methanol tanker in northwest Harriet Sherwood stones on the road because China early yesterday and they can kill,” he said. burst into flames, killing 36 ORE than 30 “That specific kid who actu- people, state media said, in the former Israeli ally lay there on the ground, latest incident to highlight soldiers have begging for his life, was actu- China’s dangerous roads. disclosed their ally nine years old. I think of Three of the 39 bus Mexperiences of the treatment our kids, nine years old, and passengers travelling around of Palestinian children dur- a kid handling this kind of 2am on a highway near Yan’an ing military operations and situation, I mean, a kid has to in Shaanxi province, survived arrests, pointing to a pattern beg for his life? A loaded gun the crash and were being of abuse. is pointed at him and he has treated in hospital, the official A booklet of testimonies, to plead for mercy? This is Xinhua news agency said. published by Breaking the something that scars him for Traffic accidents are among Silence, an organisation life. But I think if we hadn’t the leading causes of death in of former Israeli soldiers entered the village at that China, according to public dedicated to publicising the point, then stones would be health officia. reuters day-to-day actions of the thrown the next day and per- army in the occupied terri- haps the next time someone Thai minister claims tories, contains descriptions would be wounded or killed foreign-policy success of beatings, intimidation, as a result.” THAILAND’S Foreign Ministry humiliation, verbal abuse, Some of the statements illus- has been particularly night-time arrests and injury. trate the disjunction between successful in restoring Most of the children are sus- the Israeli military and Palestin- relations with neighbouring pected of stone-throwing. ians. One soldier said: “You put countries during the first year The witness statements up a checkpoint out of bore- of the government under were gathered to show the A cat walks behind Palestinian children inside a cave in the shepherd community of Al-Mufaqara, near the dom, sit there for a few hours Prime Minister Yingluck “common reality” of acts of West Bank city of Hebron earlier this month. REUTERS and then continue on. Once I Shinawatra, Foreign Minister violence by soldiers towards saw kids passing, and one of the Surapong Tovichakchaikul Palestinians, including chil- names, you never talk with pick him up in the morning. less. I heard him do it, I wit- guys, a reservist who spoke Ara- said yesterday. With dren, in the West Bank, said them, they always cry, shit in He sits there like a dog …” nessed his embarrassment. bic, wanted to ask them what Cambodia, there had been no Yehuda Shaul of Breaking the their pants … There are those Children frequently soiled I also smelled it. But I didn’t they study. He didn’t mean it in more cross-border clashes. Silence. “Sadly enough this annoying moments when themselves, according to the care,” said another. any bad way. Then I saw how The government was able to is the moral consequence of you’re on an arrest mission, testimonies. “I remember Another soldier describes an the kid nearly peed his pants separate the dispute over the prolonged occupation of the and there’s no room in the po- hearing him shitting his pants incident in Qalqiliya in 2007 in as the guy tried to kid with him, Preah Vihear temple from Palestinian people,” he said. lice station, so you just take the … I also remember some oth- which a boy was arrested for how the two worlds are simply trade and investment One of the ex-soldiers de- kid back with you, blindfold er time when someone pissed throwing stones. “At the end disconnected. The guy was kid- co-operation with Cambodia, scribes serving in Hebron in him, put him in a room and in his pants. I just became so of the day, something has to ding and the kid was scared to he said. reuters 2010: “You never know their wait for the police to come and indifferent to it, I couldn’t care make these kids stop throwing death.” THE GUARDIAN Untested Socialists leading Dutch polls
AN untested leftist party is The Socialist Party op- taking the lead ahead of the posed the euro before it was Dutch election next month, introduced, although it does reflecting resentment over not want to scrap it now, and austerity and signalling that defied a europhile consensus one of the euro zone’s core by successfully campaigning northern countries could against the European consti- reject German demands to tution in a 2005 referendum. tighten public deficits. Roemer wants to preserve Opinion surveys show the welfare benefits for the poor Socialist Party could out-poll at a time when Prime Minis- the pro-business Liberal Par- ter Mark Rutte of the Liberals ty on September 12, suggest- is pushing for spending cuts ing it can win between a fifth to bring the Netherlands’ ra- and a quarter of the seats in tio of public debt to gross do- parliament. mestic product under three That would put the Social- per cent, in line with Euro- ist Party and its leader, Emile Roemer, in a position to form The idea was not to a coalition where they can run too big a deficit influence policy on Europe ... the deficit should despite having no experi- tend towards zero ence of government beyond the local level. pean rules. The appeal of Roemer, a “Three per cent is not a 50-year-old former teacher holy percentage,” Tiny Kox, with a toothy smile and a a Socialist powerbroker, told down-to-earth manner, lies Reuters, expressing a view in his very ordinariness. He that resonates with left-wing takes his holidays on the parties elsewhere in Europe. Dutch island of Texel, enjoys “The idea was not to run Italian food and says he’s too big a deficit. In the long “no bookworm”. A favourite run, the deficit should tend movie of the man who could towards zero,” Kox said, in- be the Netherlands’ next terviewed at party headquar- prime minister is The Silence ters, a modernist building in of the Lambs. the city of Amersfoort. “Of course at local level it’s The party rejects austerity – about roads and schools, and at home and elsewhere in the at national level it’s much euro zone – and all charges harder, you are dealing with- of extremism. Europe. But he understands “This is a normal, Krugman compromise,” Gijs Moes, view of how to get out of the a Liberal politician who crisis,” Kox said, referring worked with Roemer in local to the Nobel Prize-winning government, said. economist who has criti- One area where the two cised European countries parties differ and where the for focusing more on deficit Socialists are making waves reduction than on economic is Europe. growth. REUTERS THE PHNOM PENH POST august 27, 2012 13 World Hollande sends message to Greece
Elizabeth Pineau But Hollande, who has taken situation, Europe should not a softer line than Germany on hesitate to act. RENCH President the need for austerity to help “Once we have this report, François Hollande the euro zone rein in its defi- once the commitments ... are said Greece’s leaders cits, added that Greece, where confirmed, Europe has to do must demonstrate unemployment has hit a record what it has to do,” he said. theirF commitment to reform 23 per cent, must not push its “That means after the troika and Europe must decide on people too far. report at the European summit how to help the country as “It [Greece] must demon- in October.” soon as possible after it re- strate again the credibility of Samaras, whose conserva- ceives a progress report from its program and the will of its tive-led government took pow- Athens’ international lenders leaders to go through with it er in June promising to fulfil the in October. to the end, whilst ensuring it’s austerity pledges Greece made Greece must also stay in bearable for the population,” to receive its bailout, wants Eu- the euro zone, he added after Hollande told reporters. ropean leaders to give his coun- a meeting with Greek Prime He said that once the “troika” try more time to push through Minister Antonis Samaras on of the European Commission, the unpopular reforms. Saturday, echoing comments European Central Bank and He has been hoping for a by German Chancellor Angela International Monetary Fund two-year extension to the bud- Merkel, who held similar talks lenders have handed in their get targets promised under with Samaras on Friday. next report on Greece’s fiscal Greece’s second, €130 billion (US$163 billion) bailout from the European Union and Inter- approval ratings drop for national Monetary Fund, as the country struggles through its president, prime minister fifth year in recession. Germany’s finance minister France’s President François Hollande (right) welcomes Greece’s Prime Minister Antonis Samaras at the FRENCH President François satisfied or very satisfied reaffirmed his opposition to Elysee Palace in Paris on Saturday. REUTERS Hollande’s approval rating with Hollande’s performance giving Greece more time in an fell to 54 per cent in August, in May, the month he interview with the Tagesspiegel solve the fundamental prob- that would not be a confidence- The Eurogroup of euro zone continuing a steady decline became president, to 59 per on Sunday newspaper, accord- lems of the euro zone.” building measure,” he said. finance ministers will meet in since he came to office, cent in June and 56 per cent ing to advance excerpts. Schaeuble said extending Samaras said in a German Luxembourg on October 8 and according to a poll released in July. The popularity of “More time generally means the period of the program newspaper interview earlier may discuss the troika’s report on Saturday. The declining Prime Minister Jean-Marc more money, and that very so soon after it was agreed at this week that Greece could on Greece and any plans to ratings reflect the Ayrault also declined, falling soon means a new [bailout] the end of 2011 would send a stay afloat if it received its next loosen its bailout terms. EU challenges Hollande faces in by four percentage points to program,” Wolfgang Schaeuble bad signal. tranche of aid later than Oc- heads of state and government tackling high unemployment 57 per cent in August, was quoted as saying. “That “If after just half a year that tober, but will be broke if the will then meet in Brussels on and a stagnant economy as according to the survey. This would not be the right way to were no longer to be sufficient, money does not arrive. October 18 and 19. REUTERS he seeks to slash €33 billion compares with an approval from next year’s budget to rating of 65 per cent in his meet deficit targets, part of a first two months in the job. drive to restore faith in the The poll was based on the euro. The poll, by Ifop for Le views of 920 people aged 18 Journal du Dimanche and over, interviewed by newspaper, marked a slide telephone on August 23 and from 61 per cent who were 24. REUTERS
Armed group bulldoze a Sufi mosque in Libya
Taha Zargoun from the revolutionaries,” Magariaf told reporters on Sat- ATTACKERS bulldozed a urday night. mosque containing Sufi Mus- He did not elaborate on how lim graves in the centre of security forces took part. Tripoli in broad daylight on A Reuters reporter saw the Saturday, in what appeared to bulldozer level the Sha’ab be Libya’s most blatant sectar- mosque as police surrounded ian attack since the overthrow the site and prevented people of Muammar Gaddafi. from approaching and did not Government officials con- stop the demolition. demned the demolition of Inside the mosque, empty the large Sha’ab mosque graves lay gaping in the rubble. and blamed an armed group “A large number of armed who, they said, considered its militias carrying medium and graves and shrines to Sufi fig- heavy weapons arrived at the ures un-Islamic. al-Sha’ab mosque with the in- It was the second razing of tention to destroy the mosque a Sufi site in two days. Ultra- because of their belief graves conservative Islamists wrecked are anti-Islamic,” said a govern- Sufi shrines with bombs and ment official who declined to another bulldozer and set fire be named. to a mosque library in the city He said authorities tried to of Zlitan in the early hours of stop them but, after a small Friday, an official said. clash, decided to seal off the Libya’s rulers have struggled area while the demolition to control armed groups who took place to prevent any vio- are competing for power in the lence spreading. north African country a year af- “The SSC [Libya’s Supreme ter Gaddafi’s fall. Security Council] joins the ... The president of Libya’s newly condemnation,” said council elected National Congress, Mo- spokesman Abdel Moneim hamed al-Magariaf, called the al-Hurr. prime minister to an emergen- A man who appeared to be cy meeting yesterday. overseeing the demolition said “What is truly regrettable and the Interior Ministry had autho- suspicious is that some of those rised the operation after discov- who took part in these destruc- ering people had been worship- tion activities are supposed to ping the graves and practising be of the security forces and “black magic”. REUTERS 14 THE PHNOM PENH POST august 27, 2012 World Blast kills 39 at Venezuela oil refinery
Sailu Urribarri A gas leak had caused the and Marianna Parragar explosion, and many of those killed were National Guard N EXPLOSION tore troops providing security for through Venezuela’s the 645,000 barrels-a-day fac- biggest oil refinery ility, Ramirez said. on Saturday, killing Officials said 18 of the sol- 39A people, injuring dozens diers were confirmed dead, more and halting operations along with 15 civilians. Six at the facility in the worst ac- bodies were still unidentified. cident to hit the OPEC nat- “There was a National ion’s petroleum industry. Guard barracks near the ex- Energy Minister Rafael plosion . . . The installation Ramirez said no production was too close to the operat- units at the Amuay refinery ions,” Ramirez said, adding had been affected and there that production could resume were no plans to halt exports at Amuay within two days. — a sign that the incident will “We need to boost product- likely have little impact on ion at other refineries and fuel prices. look for floating storage near The charred remains of a car after an explosion at the Amuay oil refinery in Punto Fijo, Venezuela, on Saturday. REUTERS Photographs taken just after the complex,” he said. the pre-dawn blast showed The explosion follows re- this year after a small fire and ion could spill into an already The explosion broke win- ficient to guarantee 10 days of wrecked vehicles, flattened peated accidents and outages the failure of a cooling unit. bitter campaign, but is un- dows at homes in the area, a exports and local sales. fences and giant storage tanks during the past decade across Those problems have likely to overtake larger pol- peninsula in the Caribbean PDVSA had no plans to in- buckling and crumpling as installations run by the state spurred accusations of inept itical concerns such as crime sea in western Venezuela, as voke force majeure, which flames lit the night sky. oil company PDVSA that management by the gov- and the economy. well as at Amuay’s main ad- lets companies stop ship- A nearby National Guard have limited oil output and ernment of President Hugo “I want to convey the deep- ministrative building. ments because of accidents building was shattered, and crimped expansion plans. Chavez, who is running for est pain that I’ve felt in my The blast was also felt out at or extreme weather, he said. officials said a 10-year-old Operations at Amuay have re-election on October 7. heart and soul since I started sea in Paraguana Bay, where Amuay, together with a child was among the dead. partly shut down at least twice Acrimony over the explos- to get information about this crew members of moored neighbouring facility, forms tragedy,” Chavez told state tankers were knocked off part of the Paraguana Refin- television. He declared three their feet by the shock wave, ing Centre, the second-big- days of mourning. a shipping source said. gest refinery complex in the Venezuela has traditionally Ramirez said the fire that world, with an overall capac- been a big supplier of fuel to began after the explosion had ity of 955,000 barrels a day. the United States and the affected only nine storage In 2010, there was a huge Caribbean, but refinery shut- tanks holding mostly crude fire at a PDVSA fuel terminal downs have become so com- oil and some processed fuels on the Caribbean island of Bo- mon that they rarely affect including naphtha. naire, then a blaze at a dock at market prices. Officials said two tanks were the Paraguana complex that Traders said the docks at still burning off residual fuel, halted shipping for four days. the refinery were shut, and and a witness at the scene Also in 2010, a natural gas tankers were anchored off- said large, black clouds of exploration rig, the Aban shore waiting. They said this smoke hung above the area. Pearl, sank in the Caribbean. would cause delays to some Ramirez said fuel stocks All its 95 workers were rescued of the country’s exports. around the country were suf- safely. REUTERS US claims insurgent dead but comrade begs to differ
Michael Georgy tant relative, 13-year-old Osa- the US’s most feared enemies ma, was killed in the strike and in Afghanistan. A US drone in Pakistan may his funeral had been mistaken The Haqqanis are the most have killed a senior comman- by locals for Badruddin’s. experienced fighters in der of Haqqani insurgents The insurgents would soon Afghanistan, and the loss of behind some of the biggest provide proof that Badruddin one of the group’s most impor- attacks on Western and gov- was alive, Jan said. tant leaders could ease pres- ernment targets in Afghani- “We have proudly announced sure on NATO as it prepares to stan, sources say, but this has before when our people died withdraw most of its combat been denied by a senior in action or in drone strikes. troops at the end of 2014. Haqqani leader. Jihad against the occupying “We are 90 per cent sure he Pakistani intelligence offic- forces in Afghanistan is our was in the house that was ials and militant sources said mission, and death is certain attacked with a drone on Tues- Badruddin Haqqani, the net- in fighting them. Why would day,” another Pakistani intel- work’s head of operations, who we keep it secret?” he said. ligence official said. is also believed to handle its Afghanistan’s Taliban move- Sources close to the Haqq- vital business interests and ment, allies of the Haqqani ani network also said Badrud- smuggling operations, may network, also said Badruddin din was believed to be in the have been killed during the was alive. house hit by a drone strike as strike last week in Pakistan’s There was no official word militants were planting explo- North Waziristan province. on Badruddin’s fate from the sives in a vehicle meant to be A senior Pakistani intelli- network. Other intelligence used for an attack on NATO gence official said Badruddin officials were cautious. forces in Afghanistan. had fled a compound he and “Our informers have told us “The drone fired two missiles other militants were in after it he was killed in the drone on the house last Tuesday and was hit by a missile, but was attack on the 21st, but we can- killed 25 people, most of them killed by a second drone strike not confirm it,” one of the members of the Haqqani fam- on a car he was in. Pakistani intelligence offic- ily,” one of the sources said. But Maulvi Ahmed Jan, a ials said. Pakistani Taliban and tribal senior Haqqani network com- If Badruddin’s death is con- sources said they believed mander, denied Badruddin firmed, it could deal a major Badruddin had been killed in had been killed. He said a dis- blow to the Haqqanis, one of the drone attack. REUTERS THE PHNOM PENH POST august 27, 2012 15 World Giant of space exploration dies
Cass Jones doing his job. He served his nation its condolences on today’s passing proudly as a Navy fighter pilot, test of Neil Armstrong, former test pi- EIL Armstrong, the first pilot and astronaut. lot, astronaut & the 1st man on the man to walk on the moon, “While we mourn the loss of a moon. Neil was 82.” has died aged 82. The for- very good man we also celebrate Armstrong grew up in Ohio with mer US astronaut, who his remarkable life and hope that it a keen interest in flight and earned Nwill go down in history as the most serves as an example to young peo- his pilot’s certificate when he was famous pioneer of space exploration, ple around the world to work hard just 15. After flying combat mis- passed away as the result of heart to make their dreams come true, sions during the Korean war, he be- complications following surgery. to be willing to explore and push came a test pilot and joined Nasa’s As commander of the Apollo 11 the limits, and to selflessly serve a astronaut program in 1962. mission, he became the first per- cause greater than themselves.” Armstrong was joined on his son to set foot on the moon, on Other tributes have come flood- moon landing by Buzz Aldrin and July 20, 1969, fulfilling the longheld ing in for the astronaut as news of the pair spent nearly three hours dream of the United States to get his death spread across the world. walking on the lunar surface, col- there before the Soviet Union. His US president Barack Obama hailed lecting samples, conducting ex- first words as he stepped on to the Armstrong as one of America’s periments and taking photographs. surface – “That’s one small step for greatest heroes. In a statement is- Last night Aldrin called Armstrong man, one giant leap for mankind” sued by the White House, he said “a true American hero and the – instantly became one of the most the crew of Apollo 11 carried with best pilot I ever knew”. The Apollo recognisable phrases ever uttered. them the aspirations of an entire 11 mission turned out to be Arm- Armstrong underwent heart by- nation when they set out for the strong’s last space flight. The fol- pass surgery earlier this month, just moon in 1969. He later tweeted: lowing year he was appointed to a two days after his birthday on Au- “Neil Armstrong was a hero not just desk job at NASA, later becoming a gust 5, to relieve blocked arteries. of his time, but of all time. Thank lecturer in engineering at Cincin- His family released a statement on you, Neil, for showing us the power nati University. Saturday describing him as a “reluc- of one small step.” In 1961 President Kennedy had tant American hero who always be- Former astronaut Tom Jones, declared before the United States lieved he was just doing his job”. who completed four space shuttle Congress that the US would have a It read: “We are heartbroken to flights between 1990 and 2001, man on the moon before the turn share the news that Neil Armstrong said: “Mr Armstrong was one of the of the decade and the moon walk has passed away following compli- astronauts that was my hero when marked America’s victory in the cations resulting from cardiovas- I was growing up and I watched cold war space race. An estimated cular procedures. Neil was our lov- his initial landing on the moon in 600 million people – a fifth of the ing husband, father, grandfather, 1969 with incredible interest. He world’s population – watched and brother and friend. Neil Armstrong really was an inspiration to an en- listened to the moon landing, the was also a reluctant American hero tire generation of people.” The US largest audience for any single A portrait of Astronaut Neil A Armstrong, commander of the Apollo 11 Lunar Landing who always believed he was just space agency tweeted: “Nasa offers event in history. THE OBSERVER mission, in a NASA studio file image. REUTERS 16 THE PHNOM PENH POST august 27, 2012 World Past, future haunt Greek isle
Vanessa Thorpe
N a jetty alongside the town beach a loud phone call dis- turbs the peace of a handfulO of Spetses residents lying in the sun before tak- ing their daily swim – one free pleasure that is still available to all. A rich weekender from Athens booms ostentatiously into his mobile, directing a man behind the wheel of a sizeable speedboat. “Just ignore the line of buoys,” he says, “and steer straight over to me so we can talk.” The instruction pro- vokes a furious reaction from locals, who yell out angrily that boats are never allowed to come so close to the swim- mers. A nasty row flares up – a sign of growing social ten- sions on an island where poor locals live cheek-by-jowl with the holidaymaking rich. Antonis Samaras, the Greek prime minister, spent last week pleading with Eu- ropean leaders for more time to implement the se- vere austerity program that is, ultimately, the condition for Greece remaining in the euro. Back home, and on is- lands such as Spetses, those well-off Greeks who remain financially cushioned from the effects of the deepen- ing crisis, and from the fresh austerity measures due to be A coachman drives alongside the coast on the Greek island of Spetses, a playground for the wealthy. REUTERS imposed next month, are the targets of growing fury. While Athenians can enjoy he knows that appearances towards a possible exit from little Spetses has come to same skippered boat before, The Saronic isle, with its browsing in the expensive must be kept up to attract the euro, the glamorous fa- be known as the Monaco and they all seem to get on horse buggies and flowery deli that has replaced the wealthy guests, no matter çade is intact. Far from look- of Greece. It is somewhere, and to be interested in each villas, has been chosen as souvlaki outlet in the square, how difficult life becomes for ing down-at-heel, or being along with a few other smart other.” Russians also now the location for a new Greek the majority of Spetsiots can residents. Leisure and plea- daubed with angry graf- islands such as the neigh- regularly hire out her yachts tourism advert, designed to no longer afford to eat in lo- sure are Spetses’ only lifeline fiti, Spetses has never looked bouring Hydra, where those for lavish weekend parties. reassure international visi- cal restaurants. The price of in the crisis, but might also more affluent. The failed Greeks who still have lots of Back in the 1980s and 1990s tors that the beaches and food in supermarkets and put islanders in peril. Kostas economy is the fearful topic money can spend it in splen- the island of Spetses flirted the bobbing fishing boats are shops has soared. is aware that communities of conversation everywhere, did seclusion. with cheap package tours, still waiting for them, despite “It is a theatre now,” says on the mainland are envi- but the place is gleaming. There are no private cars but British firms pulled out in the economic meltdown. Kostas, who is stockpiling ous of the apparently lavish Smart decking has replaced on the island and so the lo- the recession, leaving in their Yet the place is also a mi- food against a coming na- lifestyle on the isle. There are crumbling concrete around cals travel on mopeds or wake an adventurous group crocosm of the country’s tional emergency and has fears that if the Greek econ- the cobbled maritime mosa- quadbikes. Visitors, on the of British women who had troubles: 78 square kilome- hunting guns positioned omy really does melt down, ics of the Dapia, the island’s other hand, take horse bug- fallen in love with the island, ters that encompass unimag- around his home. But as the Spetses could be targeted neat port, and alongside a gies, traditional wooden and with some of its men, inably big gaps in income. son of an old Spetses family, as a symbol of the feckless new crop of sophisticated fishing boats, or water taxis and stayed to raise families. rich even as most of its year- bars and clothes shops, two that charge €€18 (US22.52) Fortunes have ebbed and round inhabitants struggle sparkling rival frozen yoghurt to cross the bay to the Old flowed since then, as mass to get by. tourism beat a slow retreat The glitzy reputation is not The majority of Spetsiots can from Spetses’ beaches. But new. By custom elderly wom- behind the picture-postcard en, wrapped in black scarves no longer afford to eat in local façade, the times have never and long dresses, would gath- been worse than now. er in the afternoon to share restaurants. The price of food The island, once described slices of watermelon as they in supermarkets has soared by Fowles as “a place so sat in the shade. A scene from beautiful, quiet and empty old Greece, sure enough, but parlours vie for trade with an Harbour, while those who that it verged on the terrify- this was never really a rus- equally clinical-looking ice are really flush can be heard ing” is full of worried people. tic island – not the kind with cream café. landing on the island’s pri- Memories of the atrocities donkeys and quiet tavernas The imposing Edwardian vate helipads. inflicted on Greeks by Greeks with broken chairs. Proximity Poseidonian Grand Hotel – Middle-class European at the end of the second to Athens ensured that it be- so disliked by John Fowles tourists tend to come to the world war, and recounted in came a tycoons’ playground when he set his 1966 novel wider Saronic Gulf for its safe The Magus, are still vivid for as soon as international ship- The Magus here – is more sailing. Although the sea can many. They may have been ping began to make billion- stately than ever. But its lin- be affected by the unpredict- distorted in the retelling, but aires in the 1950s. en-covered terrace tables are able meltemi wind, it is a ha- they remain powerful enough And so it has continued. In reserved for the owners of a ven for amateurs in search of to create fear and suspicion. 1962 Stavros Niarchos, sec- succession of vast, state-of- day trips and weekend excur- After all, people were lynched ond only to Aristotle Onas- the-art yachts moored at the sions. Trade is just about sur- on the Dapia and shot outside sis in the magnate stakes, marina on the promenade. viving, says Melody McKay the Poseidonian. bought the tiny neighbour- Perhaps most tellingly of Burton, who runs the Aegean An old sense of vulnerabili- ing private island of Spetso- all, no restaurant here, no Sailing School from nearby ty is returning to Spetses, be- poula where Charles and Di- matter how traditional, seems Aegina. People are booking hind the beach parasols and ana later spent part of their to serve retsina, the national much later, but still booking. designer sunglasses. honeymoon; and in the early wine. “Tastes have changed,” Her work, she adds, brings The words on the island’s 1980s when Duran Duran’s say the waiters. Moneyed her in touch with all nation- flag, which dates back near- Simon Le Bon wanted to cel- Athenians have largely alities and so has emphasised ly 200 years to the Greek war ebrate a birthday, he did so switched to the European- Greece’s key position at the of independence, are: “Free- under the flashing lights of a style Greek wines that have meeting point of the Middle dom or Death”. They no lon- disco in Spetses’ glamorous started winning admirers. East and Europe. “We have ger seem such a quaint rem- Old Harbour. This opulence, tailored had Palestinians and Israelis, nant from a swashbuckling Even as Greece staggers for the few, explains why Greeks and Turks, all on the past. THE OBSERVER THE PHNOM PENH POST august 27, 2012 17 World Deadly shark attacks spark debate
Alison Rourke Many conservationists be- system. If you remove them, lieve the sharks should re- there can be hugely detri- HE deaths of five main protected. “Australia mental effects on whole spe- swimmers killed by has an immense moral and cies, as new predators step up sharks in the waters legal responsibility to protect to where the sharks were. off Western Australia great white sharks in our wa- “The big question is why Tduring the past 12 months ters,” Alexia Wellbelove, of the there have been so many att- have led local officials to con- Humane Society, said. acks in the past year. sider ending the ban on the The latest fatality was Ben “There’s been something killing of great whites. Linden, 24, who was surfing about Western Australia in “There’s no documented 200 metres offshore when a that time that has brought account of fatal attacks att- great white bit him in half, ac- them closer, and that’s what ributed to white sharks in cording to witnesses. we need to find out.” such a short time and geo- A would-be rescuer on a jet The federal government graphic location, anywhere ski was driven away by the says it is reviewing its great in the world, like we have shark. white protection plan, but experienced in Western Aus- Theories to explain the getting accurate information tralia, and action is necessary number of attacks range from is not easy. Only about 100 to deal with it,” state fisheries increasing populations of great white sharks have ever minister Norman Moore said seals, sea lions and whales been tagged or sampled in in the wake of the most recent that the sharks feed on, to Australian waters. fatal attack last month. there being more people in “Trying to find them is like “I think we need to have the water as Western Austra- looking for a needle in a hay- another look to see whether lia’s population grows. stack, because they roam there’s been a significant in- What is clear to scientists across such large distances crease in great white numbers is that the sharks are now and don’t necessarily hang since they became protected. bigger. Professor Shaun Col- out in groups,” said Professor “And if that’s the case, lin, from Western Australia John Pandolfi of Queensland should they still be on a pro- University’s Oceans Institute, University, whose recent Constable Jeromy Jones holds a surfboard involved in a fatal shark attack at Gracetown, Western Australia, tected list?” said: “There's no doubt the study on great whites estab- in August, 2010. REUTERS Moore asked for urgent bans have allowed the sharks lished that there are two ge- clarification from Canberra to grow to greater maturity.” netic populations in Austra- last October, swimmers from they used to. “We err on the fresh instructions on shark on the shark’s status as a pro- Collin believes removing lia: one on the east coast and the surf club were enjoy- side of caution and only swim sightings and encouraged to tected species. Since 1999, great whites from the protec- another that travels between ing the water. About a dozen about 20 metres off the shore, put up posters about shark the animals have been listed ted list would be a mistake. South and Western Australia. women aged from 60 to 90 in water that’s waist-deep,” safety. At Cottesloe, there as “rare or likely to become “Sharks may be apex preda- Last week, at Perth’s Cott- swim up and down the beach said Jean Burling, 67, who are beach patrols and a hel- extinct”, and fishing or culling tors, but they are also a very esloe beach, where Bryn Mar- for 20 minutes each day. They swims at Cottesloe every day. icopter monitors the coast- them has been banned. important part of the eco- tin, 64, was killed by a shark stick closer to shore now than Surf clubs have been given line. THE OBSERVER 18 THE PHNOM PENH POST august 27, 2012 Opinion
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Publisher Ross Dunkley Editor-in-Chief Comment Alan Parkhouse You Sokunpanha Managing Editor John Yeager Editor-in-Chief Post Khmer Kay Kimsong IGH-SCHOOL seniors in Managing Editor Post Khmer Sam Rith Cambodia are anxiously Chief of Staff Cheang Sokha awaiting the results of the Deputy Chief of Staff school-leaving examinat- Chhay Channyda National News Editor ionH they sat just over two weeks ago. Chad Williams Deputy News Editor For many, the exam was the cul- Vong Sokheng mination of years of hard work Group Business Editor Stuart Alan Becker and gruelling preparation. Deputy Business Editors How they performed in it is crucial, Don Weinland, May Kunmakara Property Editor because it will determine their Rupert Winchester Foreign News Editor chance of a place in university, Dan Besant which will, in turn, help or harm Sports Editor Dan Riley their future employment prospects. Pictorial Editor Sadly, there was evidence of wide- Will Baxter Lifestyle Editorial Director spread bribery and cheating during Peter Olszewski 7Days Editor the exam. Marcus Casey Stories have circulated of proctors Lifestyle Editor Poppy McPherson who set a “quota” – the amount of Deputy Head of Lifestyle Desk money raised by those sitting the Pan Simala Copy Editor exam in each room – that had to Michael Philips Sub Editors be paid in return for a blind eye David Boyle, Bridget Di Certo, Shane Worrell, towards blatant acts of plagiarism Stuart White, Joseph Freeman, Justine Drennan, Rachel Will including copying from “cheat Reporters sheets” that were allowed into Meas Sokchea, Mom Kunthear, Khouth Sophak Chakrya, May Titthara, Khuon Leakhana, Kim test centres. Yuthana, Roth Meas, Ung Chamroeun, Sen Da- For extra money, some proctors vid, Phak Seangly, Rann Reuy, Buth Reaksmey reportedly even offered to write Kongkea, Chhim Sreyneang, Sieam Bunthy, papers on test-takers’ behalf. Lieng Sarith Chief Photographers That such practices occur at all is Meng Kimlong, Sreng Meng Srun, Heng Chivoan, Pha Lina, Hong Menea unfortunate, though not surprising. Regional Correspondent Even the most stringent, well- Roger Mitton Director, Post Digital thought-out proctoring system Jesse Gage cannot eliminate cheating. But the Web Editor Justin Heifetz , Leang Phannara most worrying aspect is that the Webmasters Seng Sovan, Uong Ratana, Horng Pengly practice of bribery, in exchange for cheating, is now so pervasive that Siem reap bureau it is accepted as a fact of life and Grade 12 students in Phnom Penh are blessed by Buddhist monks during a ceremony before their final exams last month. HONG MENEA Bureau Chief ceases to “feel wrong” or to shock Peter Olszewski Executive Assistant the consciences of those involved. Thik Skaline Distribution Manager On one hand, some proctors treat needed to lead a fulfilling life and want to leave our children with. introduce other requirements such Seng Sech exams as an opportunity to “earn” become productive, responsible Addressing this issue is not easy, as admission essays that challenge Reporter Thik Kaliyann extra income. On the other, some citizens able to contribute to their but it is possible. The Ministry of students to carefully think about, Marketing Executive students simply opt to pay to pass country’s development. Education, Youth and Sport can and articulate, their reasons for Sophearith Blondeel exams instead of studying and Furthermore, in a more globalised begin by introducing a zero- wanting a tertiary education. production & printing preparing for them. society, they will find it difficult to tolerance policy towards cheating And these measures should be Head of Desktop Publishing In addition, parents are willing to compete with the knowledge work- and bribery during exams. complemented with longer-term Nhim Sokphyrak Desktop Publishing give their children money to bribe ers of other countries in the region Proctors who solicit, or accept, policies aimed at recruiting, training Suon Savatdy, Tim Borith, Tep Thoeun Thyda proctors, and a small industry has and the wider world. 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In brief Foreign funny men sweep British awards A mellower Colin Farrell Performers from the United States, Norway and New Zealand swept Britain’s top comedy awards at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival on Saturday, finds solace in family life the first time all three prizes have gone to non- British comedians. American Phil Burgers from Los Angeles took the top prize, the Foster’s Best Comedy Show award, while the Best Newcomer award went to Norway’s Daniel Simonsen. Reuters Scorcese lawsuit ‘absurd’, say reps Representatives for Martin Scorsese on Friday said it was “shocking” that Cecchi Gori Pictures had sued the famed director for failing to make a promised movie for the Italian production company, and labelled the claims in the legal action “absurd”. The Oscar-winning filmmaker of The Departed was sued by Cecchi Gori Pictures earlier this week for choosing to make The Wolf of Wall Street, which started filming on Thursday, instead of its movie, Silence. The suit, filed in Los Angeles alleging breach of contract, also claims the director and his company owe Cecchi Gori $1.5 million plus 20 per cent of other fees Scorsese received from making movies that were put ahead of Silence. reuters Actor Colin Farrell poses on the red carpet before the premiere of his latest movie, Total Recall. Reuters Tom Cruise gets off olin Farrell is giving larly employs it as an idiom for “There is a lot of energy and people that it looks as though where his life turned around, cheaply from divorce someone a right tick- Brad and Angelina’s brood, for it’s brilliant to be part of it be- I’ve tried to redesign my career but by shooting smaller films he The quick-fire divorce ing-off, gesticulating example, and that family is re- cause I know that back in the but it’s not really like that.” edged out of the spotlight and, settlement between Tom with one hand and vered. Farrell, however, was not day I would have dragged my- His last blockbusters were as a consequence, sidled away Cruise and Katie Holmes proddingC him in the chest with to know. self through this and been as both commercial misfires. from many of the pleasures and left the actress with much the index finger of the other. The “My first-born was three years loud as hell, smoking two ciga- Oliver Stone’s 2004 swords-and- temptations that follow in its less child support than she fellow, a reporter, seems embar- of age before I made anything rettes at once and being really sandals epic, Alexander, in which shadow. Whether he sought it or would have received if the rassed but doesn’t object; sev- that I would even pretend was a obnoxious. But that’s not part of Farrell tackled the lead role, not, the actor has finally found case had gone to trial, eral pokes later he retreats into mature decision,” he says. “So I my life now and I’m glad.” earned less than $35 million at time to work out what he really according to the TMZ another room. Farrell follows can’t say that fatherhood imme- Farrell’s journeys through ob- the US box office (against a pro- wants. website. It reports Holmes him, maintaining a frown and diately changed me. But I’m dif- noxiousness – fuelled at various duction budget of around $150 He doesn’t mind recalling the will receive $400,000 a year daggering the man with suspi- ferent to what I was yesterday, stages by heroin, cocaine and million), while Michael Mann’s dark days of inebriation and in child support, which cious glances. We’re both here, and life is quieter now for me alcohol – have been well docu- Miami Vice fell short of the $65 sexual industriousness, because Cruise must pay until their in a Mexican hotel, to interview than it was a few years ago. I’m mented, and the actor himself million mark in the States (it cost he “can talk about it objectively. daughter, Suri Cruise, is 18. the actor, who is promoting his cool with that. I love my kids. has proved a good sport when $135 million to make). More re- I feel so far away from that, ex- He also is covering all new film. Farrell has been chip- I’m crazy about them.” talking about his troubles. cent outings – the likes of Lon- perientially, now. And the rise related health, insurance per all day. I wonder what’s got He leans in when he talks, “It’s helped to stay away from don Boulevard and Fright Night that I had from the point of Ti- and other educational costs his goat. and whispers conspiratorially. cocaine and whisky,” he says, – have gone largely unnoticed. gerland through all these films, and has agreed that she will A while later, when I sit down It makes you wonder if you’re smiling, when we touch on past “I had signed up to do quite a and the money I had thrown at not attend a primary school. with him, he looks at me aghast. privy to secret information, misdemeanours. “Life moves in few of those films before I went me, and the beds I ended up in, the wASHINGTON POST “Can you f---in’ believe what he or whether he simply doesn’t cycles. I’m not going to say there away to rehab after Miami Vice,” it was crazy.” It’s many blokes’ said?” he asks with eyebrows want anyone else to hear what was a particular day or time he says of his independent out- dream, I note, being romanti- arched. I presume he’s refer- he’s saying – because there is [when things changed], or even put “but I had also done a cer- cally linked to the likes of Brit- ring to the poking scene and another presence in the room. that I’m a different man. I enjoy tain amount of big budget films ney Spears, Demi Moore or any confess I don’t know what was A small, smartly dressed lady is the work more, I enjoy being a that didn’t perform that well. one of the more glamorous yet said. What is it, Colin? “Well, sitting quietly in the corner. She dad more, I enjoy doing things Consequently, there weren’t lesser-known models. “I know, I couldn’t believe it,” he con- is not clicking away on a Black- that I never thought I’d enjoy.” that many big films that were and the fact that I got to experi- tinues. “He said that I had a Berry, so she can’t be a publicist. Like what? “Like yoga,” he says. coming knocking for me. ence that was amazing. But I am patchwork family. The cheek She entered with Farrell and, if Yoga, parenting or enjoy- “I was probably due an arse glad it is done.” of it. That’s no way to talk about I’m honest, looks like she might ing his work, the moves are kicking,” he continues. “I really The small, smartly dressed another man’s family.” be his mum. paying off – Total Recall is the was. I was having too much fun lady who’s been sitting in the One can see why Farrell ob- “So, anyway,” Farrell whispers, actor’s first big-budget Holly- and being too loud about it. I’m corner suddenly appears at the jects to the term, although upon breaking my reverie, “things wood picture since 2006’s Mi- not saying that my hand was to- actor’s elbow. “This is my mum,” investigation I discover that the have changed. I am happier, ami Vice. It was after that film tally forced but, of the work that says Farrell, confirming my ear- offender was German, and that more settled now.” Farrell is here wrapped that Farrell checked then presented itself, I did the lier suspicion. “She’s here to the phrase “patchwork family” to talk about the big-budget re- into rehab, back in December most interesting jobs. They were make sure you don’t write any- carries no negative connota- make of the 1990 sci-fi hit Total 2005. “Everything is by design, not all particularly good films, thing mean,” he half-jokes. His tions in his native tongue. It’s Recall, in which he takes on the even if you think it’s not,” he and not of all them worked.” mum, Rita, then fixes me with simply a rather neat expression role of Quaid, famously deliv- says. “I can’t say that I sat down Farrell earlier referred, now a steely look and offers an in- for a family in which the chil- ered with a string of one-liners and said, ‘Right, I am going to begins to emerge. The actor, scrutable smile. I say my good- dren are born to different par- by Arnold Schwarzenegger in reinvest.’ I know from talking as we’ve seen, cannot identify byes and hope that she likes the Actor Tom Cruise. Reuters ents. The German media regu- the original film. to some friends and different an epiphany moment, a day piece. THE GUARDIAN 20 THE PHNOM PENH POST august 27, 2012 Travel
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In Australia, VN 826 Daily 13:30 14:40 VN 827 Daily 11:35 12:35 6:30, 8:00 10:00, 12:00, 19:30 6:30, 8:00 10:00, 12:00, 19:30 A lack of skilled workers a similarly sized country that VN 3820 Daily 17:45 18:45 VN 3821 Daily 15:55 16:55 PP-PREAH VIHEAR PREAH VIHEAR-PP is one of many bottlenecks has long attracted immigrants, K6 3820 Daily 17:45 18:45 K6 3821 Daily 15:55 16:55 8:15 7:30 that have lately brought the foreigners account for about VN 828 Daily 18:20 19:20 VN 829 Daily 16:20 17:40 PP-MONDULKIRI MONDULKIRI-PP world’s sixth largest econo- 20 per cent of the workforce. VN 3822 Daily 21:35 22:35 VN 3823 Daily 19:45 20:45 8:30 8:30 my to a near standstill. From The debate over a more flex- K6 3822 Daily 21:35 22:35 K6 3823 Daily 19:45 20:45 PP-KOH KONG KOH KONG-PP 7:30, 9:30, 12:30 7:30, 9:30, 12:30 construction sites to oil rigs ible immigration framework SIEM REAP - INCHEON INCHEON - SIEM REAP PP -BT.MEANCHEY BT.MEANCHEY-PP and technology operations, reflects Brazil’s new status KE 688 1.3.4.7 23:25 06:35 KE 687 1.3.4.7 19:00 22:25 6:30, 8:00, 9:00, 10:00, 12:00, 2:00 6:00, 7:00, 7:30, 9:00,10:30, 11:30 companies are struggling as an emerging economic OZ 738 Daily 23:40 07:10 OZ 737 Daily 19:20 22:40 SR-SOUNG,KAMPONG CHAM PURSAT, BATTAMBANG-SIEM REAP to find qualified workers to power. Near full employment SIEM REAP - KUALA LUMPUR KUALA LUMPUR - SIEM REAP 7:30, 8:30, 10:30 7:30 ramp up their operations in has boosted the popularity of AK 281 Daily 08:35 11:35 AK 280 Daily 06:50 07:50 PP-KRATIE KRATIE-PP Brazil. Internet giant Google President Dilma Rousseff, her- MH 765 1. 6 13:00 16:10 MH 764 2.4.6 11:00 12:05 6:45, 7:15, 7:30, 8:00,10:30 7:00, 8:30, 9:30, 11:30, 2:30 for instance, currently has 39 self the daughter of a Bulgar- SIEM REAP - SINGAPORE SINGAPORE - SIEM REAP Further information, please contact: Tel: 023 210 359, email:[email protected] open positions in Brazil. ian immigrant. MI 622 2.4 10:40 15:20 MI 622 2.4 08:40 09:50 REGULAR SHIPPING LINES SCHEDULES “This country has become “We need to reach a level of 2 MI 630 5 12:25 15:40 MI 616 7 10:40 11:50 CALLING PORT ROTATION very isolated from the rest of to 3 per cent of our workforce MI 615 7 12:45 16:05 MI 636 3 13:55 17:35 LINE CALLING SCHEDULES FREEQUENCY ROTATION PORTS the world in terms of its la- made up of foreigners. That MI 636 3 06:25 21:35 MI 630 5 07:55 16:35 1 Wed, 08:00 - Thu 16:00 1 Call/week SIN-SHV-SGZ-SIN bour markets and that is af- means multiplying the current MI 617 5 18:35 21:55 MI 618 5 16:35 17:45 RCL 2 Thu, 14:00 - Fri 22:00 1 Call/week HKG-SHV-SGZ-HKG fecting our competitiveness,” levels by 10,” said Paes de Bar- SIEM REAP - VIENTIANE VIENTIANE - SIEM REAP (12calls/moth) (HPH-TXGKEL) 3 Fri, 20:00 - Sat 23:59 1 Call/week SIN-SHV-SGZ-SIN said Ricardo Paes de Barros, ros, a Yale-educated econo- QV 522 2.4.5.7 10:05 13:00 QV 512 2.4.5.7 06:30 09:25 1 Th, 08:00 - 20:00 1 Call/week SGN-SHV-LZP-SGN who heads a team on stra- mist. “If we do that we should SIEM REAP - GUANGZHOU GUANGZHOU - SIEM REAP MEARSK (MCC) - HKG-OSA-TYO-KOB (4 calls/moth) - BUS-SGH-YAT-SGN tegic initiatives at the presi- be fine.” CZ 3054 2.4.6 11:25 15:35 CZ 3053 2.4.6 08:45 10:30 2 Fri, 22:00- Sun 00:01 1 Call/week - SIN-SHV-TPP-SIN dent’s office. Brazil granted 70,524 work CZ 3054 1.3.5.7 19:25 23:20 CZ 3053 1.3.5.7 16:35 18:30 SITC (BEN LINE HCM-SHV-LZP-HCM- “We want to turn that permits to foreign profession- (4 calls/onth) Sun 09:00-23:00 1 Call/week NBO-SGH-OSA-KOB- around so Brazil will be better als in 2011, 25.9 per cent more BUS-SGH-HGK-CHM ITL (ACL) connected with the rest of the than in 2010, according to the (4 calls/month) Sat 06:00 - Sun 08:00 1 Call/week SGZ-SHV-SIN-SGZ world in terms of transfer of Labour Ministry. That’s almost APL (4 calls/month) Fri, 08:00 - Sun, 06:00 1 call/week SIN-SHV-SIN knowledge,” he said in a tele- three times more than the COTS phone interview. 25,400 permits issued in 2006. (2 calls/month) Irregula 2 calls/month BBK-SHV-BKK-(LZP) FLY DIRECT TO MYANMAR WED+SAT A former Portuguese colony, And yet by some estimates 34 call/month YANGON-PHNOM PENH Brazil has a long history of the country still needs an ad- BUS= Busan, Korea SGZ= Songkhla, Thailand welcoming immigrants from ditional 20,000 engineers a PHNOM PENH-YANGON HKG= HongKong SHV= Sihanoukville Port Cambodia kao=Kaoshiung, Taiwan ROC SIN= Singapore all over the world, similar to year to keep up with ambi- No. 479-481Eo, Kampuchea Krom Kob= Kebe, Japan TPP= TanjungPelapas, Malaysia the United States. In the last tious plans to modernise its KUN= Kuantan, Malaysia TYO= Tokyo, Japan (St. 128), 12155, Phnom Penh LZP= Leam Chabang, Thailand TXG= Taichung, Taiwan few centuries, the country has obsolete infrastructure and Tel 023 881 178 | Fax 023 886 677 NBO= Ningbo, China YAT= Yantian, China received waves of immigration tap massive offshore oil re- www.maiair.com OSA= Osaka, Japan YOK= Yokohama, Japan SGN= Saigon, Vietnam from Africa, Europe, Japan serves. Reuters THE PHNOM PENH POST august 27, 2012 21 Entertainment NOW SHOWING The Interrupters @ Meta New doco from director Steve James Legend cinema is an unusually intimate journey into the stubborn persistence of violence PARANORMAN (3D) in American cities. It tells the story In this animated adventure horror film, a mis- of ex-convicts who go daily into the understood boy who can speak with the dead streets of Chicago to try to talk gang takes on ghosts, zombies and grown-ups to members out of shooting each other. save his town from a centuries-old curse. 11:45am, 2:30pm, 5:40pm US $2. Free for Khmer students. Meta House, #38 Sothearos Blvd. THE BOURNE LEGACY 7pm An expansion of the universe from Robert Ludlum’s novels, this centres on a new hero whose stakes have been triggered by the events of the previous three films. 9:40am, 2:35pm, 9:15pm Margarita mayhem
PLATINUM cineplex Shake your blues away with margaritas in every flavour. Buy one get one free all TOTAL RECALL night. Enjoy mash-up remixes and tunes A factory worker, Douglas Quaid, begins to suspect with DJ Narata. that he is a spy after a visit to a company that pro- vides its clients with implanted fake memories goes Riverhouse Lounge, Cnr Sisowath Quay wrong and he finds himself on the run. and St 110. 8.30pm 11:50am, 4:35pm
DARK KNIGHT RISES Eight years on, a new terrorist leader, Bane, over- Sailboats fill the harbour in Chicago, Illinois. Gang violence in the city is the subject of a new documentary whelms Gotham’s finest, and the Dark Knight to be shown at Meta House tonight at 7pm. REUTERS resurfaces to protect a city that has branded GTS @ Sofitel him an enemy. A selection of standard and original 7:20pm 2:00 PM - CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM: Seinfeld co-creator tunes to recreate a typical jazz club TV PICKS Larry David stars as himself in this hilarious, off-kilter feel. The flicks 1 & 2 comedy series that presents an unflinching, self-depreci- ating depiction of his life. MAX Sofitel Phnom Penh Phokeethra, 25 Old Auguste Site, Sothearos Blvd. WOODY ALLEN 7.30pm Iconic writer, director, actor, comedian, and musician 3:25PM – THE FIRST WIVES CLUB: Reunited by the death Woody Allen has allowed his life and creative proc- of a college friend, three divorced women seek revenge ess to be documented on-camera for the first time. on the husbands who left them for younger women. HBO 6:00pm Yoga @ The Flicks FOOTNOTE 5:35PM – GROWN UPS: After their high school basket- ball coach passes away, five good friends and former Eliezer and Uriel Shkolnik are father and son as well The highly experienced Oskar Nery as rival professors in Talmudic Studies. When both teammates reunite for a Fourth of July holiday weekend. is your yoga teacher for one hour, men learn that Eliezer will be lauded for his work, HBO every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at their complicated relationship reaches a new peak. 8.00am and Saturday at 10am. 8pm 7:20PM – HALF PAST DEAD: the story of a man who goes undercover in a high-tech prison to find out The Flicks Community Movie House on The Flicks Community Movie House on Street 95 Larry David in a scene from Curb Your Enthusi- information to help prosecute those who killed his Street 95 (between St 310 and 360) (between Str 310 and 360) asm, on Max today at 2pm. BLOOMBERG wife. MAX
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ACROSS DOWN 1 French cleric 1 Sitting on 5 Modem units 2 Island in the Java Sea 10 Extremely dry champagne 3 Indulge in self-praise 14 Fictional plantation of Georgia 4 Roof projections 15 “Captain Blood” star Flynn 5 Late comedian Mac 16 Fury 6 Middle East denizen 7 Descendant of Sanskrit 17 Big name in Norwegian royalty 8 “That oughta ___!” 18 Diameter halves 9 Like snakes and eels 19 Wight is one 10 Tote with you 20 Three holes to fill 11 Abrade with a tool 23 ___ Lanka 12 Fruit that doesn’t sound pretty 24 Squeeze from mom 13 Person ’twixt 12 and 20 25 ___ de mer (seasickness) 21 DuPont fiber 28 Hero 22 Your and my worshiper? 25 “___ mia!” 32 ___ in the hole 26 To no ___ 35 Dispatch boat 27 Yorba ___, Calif. 29 Daisy look-alike 37 Litigious type 30 Heats up in a microwave 38 Hang a right 31 Name on many tractors 39 Four holes to fill 32 Parent’s sisters 42 Thigh- 33 Oil-bearing vessel covering skirt 34 Contest submission 43 Hang a sharp right 36 Glide down peaks 44 Prefix for “act” or “play” 38 Cargo measure, perhaps 45 ___ mode (served with ice cream) 40 Hackneyed 46 Most concise 41 “What she said” Wednesday’s solution Wednesday’s solution 48 Feeding trough site 46 Little spasm 49 Title for Sean Connery 47 Official seal 50 Possessive pronoun 49 Mode of being 51 Tool for this puzzle’s title 52 Three holes to fill 52 Soft foods 61 Length X width 53 Presentation type 62 Temptress 54 Nevada city near the California 63 Highly rated border 64 Breathe like a dog 55 Fluid from the liver 65 Creme de la creme 56 Hat part 66 Job for a plumber 57 Hairy Himalayan, reportedly 67 Blackthorn fruit 58 Rhinoceros protuberance 68 Relinquish office 59 English novelist Bagnold 69 They can be made to meet 60 Iron-pumper’s count 22 THE PHNOM PENH POST August 27, 2012 Social Life toun Chanreaksmey & Chhim Sreyneang
Charity exhibit parades Grand Opening Asian Square Restaurant eco-friendly fashion drive
On 23 August internet service provider Ezecom launched a special eco-fashion drive. They donated their old advertising banners to the NGO Mith Samlanh who made it into dresses and accessories. They will go shown at the Ezecom e-café on Preah Sihanouk Boulevard for a month. The dresses and accessories will be given out to Ezecom customers when they sign up with the company. The eco- friendly exhibition is intended to highlight Mith Samlah’s work. The organisation supports street- children and people struggling to find work. They also help the H. E Chhor Bonavy and H. E Sour Yara cut ribbons at the grand opening community to develop creative projects.
The opening of Siem Reap’s Asian Square Restaurant and Lounge was marked with a grand party on August 25. A mix of international and national guests from hotels and travel agencies, including His Excellencies Lok Chum Chhor Bonavy and Sour Yara. They were treated to Western and Khmer food and enjoyed Khmer traditional music played with classical instruments. Caption
Oeun Leaklita, Model
Tabu, Presenter at MyTV
Keo Soklinna; Cheung Sokha, general Ouch Sophy, general Srey Sophon, from the Victoria manager at the Angkor Holiday Hotel; manager of the Asian Than Rina, owner of Your Beauty Spa and Hotel, and Phlong Bora, from and Vat Is Pirath, assistant sales and Square Restaurant student Than Dina the Vinagolf Angkor Hotel marketing manager at the Victoria Hotel and Lounge
Inge Olde Rikkert, Marketing Manager James Sutherland, International Communications at Ezecom Coordinator at Friends International
Khun Thanet, from the Tara Thon Molyka, senior sales executive, Hotel, and Chea Malen, sales Students Mut Davy and and Van Chan Rith, NGO Marom Run Sitha, from Green Era Travel, and Run manager at the Sokha Hotel Mut Dalin Restaurant Vichna, from About Asia
Srun Sreypov, a student at Friends International, model Oeun Leaklita and Kong Sreylen, also a student at Friends International
Cheas Penh, managing director of CIC Cambodia, and Chun Sok Panha, Ito Yumiko, operator, and Hoshino Hiromi, general Thy Chhay, from Korean Air, Tuon Lida, business resident director of finance at the Park manager, of Happy Smile Tours, with Ly Kheang, development officer at Cambodia Airports, and Hyatt hotel from the Asian Square Restaurant and Lounge Oum KongKea
Lean Boramy from the City River Hotel; Ty Sokheng and Emma Lese from the Jo Crisp, from Peak Adventure Hong Heng, from the National Museum; and Veng Chantha, Centre for Peace and Travel, Alex Kong and Srey Seafood company A violin band from Siem Reap serenaded the party all night from Tringle Ma Conflict Studies Kloeng owner Eong Sichhay
Lun Reaksa, operations Thy Chanra, restuarant assistant at the Pacific Hotel; Sang Sivuthy, gen- Om Lalin, sales co-ordinator at the Asian Square Restaurant & Lounge, executive at Indochina eral manager at the Pacific Hotel; Mut Vanda, assistant director of sales Chheong Leakhena, who works at the Ree Hotel; Lam Vichet, sales execu- Om Vannsy and Om Kimseun, owner of the Ratanak Sambath Partner Travel at the Ree Hotel; and Lek Komsan tive at the Ree Hotel; Yin Anita; and Un Sophy, from the Sokhalay Hotel diamond shop THE PHNOM PENH POST August 27, 2012 23 Social Life
Semi-final in race to find face of Hiruscar at Legend cinema
Soth Simarch, general manager at Magic Gecko; Virath Chau, from the Heritage International School; Princess Singers Nop Bayarith Chhit Sovanpanha and Tito In Soma Norodom; and Sopheary Cheng, from Fruit Nirvava Ryan Drewe Taylor and Kanary Sros from Hong Meas Production
Local and international stars enjoyed a night at the Legend Cinema on August 25 for the semi-final of the competition to find the new face of Hiruscar skin care. Judges picked the 10 best to go through to the final in the race to win the US $1000 top prize. The top 10 will also model clothes at Cambodia Fashion Week.
Nana Lee, Roxy Leak and Roxy Leap Artist Em Riem and Kim Hong Singers Nop Bayarith and Chhit Sovanpanha, from Hong Meas Production Khemera Ngy, director at NOVA
James Sutherland, International Communications Coordinator at Friends International
Kuy Danich, a Sapor model, and Leang Mirjam Vigier, managing Dah Lee, co-founder and partner at the Edge Syna, from the Sapor Modelling Agency director of Siren Media Management Group
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Tat Sukin Chally Dung Vuthina Vichka
Srey Pich ..Hiruscar competition models 24 THE PHNOM PENH POST august 27, 2012 Sport Thin Seng Hong to fly the flag at Paralympic Games
Yeun Ponlok and Dan Riley ing limb, Seng Hong has become records over the same distances – At the 2004 Athens Games, men’s one of the Kingdom’s most prolific 12.98 in the 100 metres and 27.10 T44 sprinter Nhork Kimhor did not hin Seng Hong, Cambo- athletes with a disability, capturing in the 200 metres set in 2006 and advance past the first round with dia’s sole representative gold in the 400-metre and silvers 2008 respectively. The 39-year-old is times of 12.93 and 26.55 over 100 at the 2012 Paralympic over 100-metre and 200-metre at competing in both races in London, metres and 200 metres respective- Games, set off for London the 6th ASEAN ParaGames in Solo, where she will look to retain her 100- ly. Four years later in Beijing, Kim onT Friday ahead of her participation Indonesia, last December. metres gold medal from Beijing. Vanna set slower times in identical in the women’s 100-metre and 200- She said she was determined Should Seng Hong succeed in events to also miss out on the final. metre T44 competitions. The T44 to break her personal bests in her achieving qualification for the finals Yi Veasna, executive director of group of ambulant athletes with a events in London, being inspired of either of her events, she would the National Centre of Disabled disability are classified by the Inter- by the chance to race against the set a new precedent for Cambodian Persons and general secretary of national Paralympic Committee as world’s top athletes. Paralympians. The Kingdom’s rep- the National Paralympic Commit- those with a unilateral below knee “The real problem for me is the resentatives have failed to progress tee of Cambodia and who requires amputation or equivalent. Prelimi- [cold] weather in London. Also, from the opening rounds in all pre- a wheelchair having had both legs nary heats for the women’s 100-me- my [prosthetic racing] limb is not a vious editions. amputated after contracting polio tre T44 are this Saturday, with the fi- new model. Other athletes will have At the 2000 Sydney Games, the as a child, is heading the Cambo- nal on Sunday. Women’s 200-metre better models,” Seng Hong told the men’s standing volleyball team dian delegation bound for Lon- T44 heats are on September 5 with Post before her departure. won just two sets during five don. He is being accompanied by the final the following day. Seng Hong set her record times group match losses against the his wife as his personal assistant, The Kampong Cham native, 26, in Indonesia last year, running the likes of gold medallists Germany, while Thin Seng Hong’s assistant lost her right leg when she was 10 100 metres in 17.13 seconds and bronze medalists Slovakia, USA, coach Mao Sochea will also travel years old after stepping on an anti- 200 metres in 36.07 seconds. Ameri- Israel and Poland. However, they after getting the nod ahead of na- Thin Seng Hong displays her gold medal won at the 2011 ASEAN ParaGames in Indonesia. The sprinter personal mine. Running with a car- can sprinter April Holmes currently bowed out on a high note, beating tional team coach Phay Sok. TRANS- will represent the Kingdom at the London Paralym- bon-fibre blade in place of her miss- holds both of the women’s T44 world Australia 3-2. LATIONS BY UNG CHAMROEUN pics, which start on Wednesday. YEUN PONLOK THE PHNOM PENH POST august 27, 2012 25 Sport Pressure builds on Deans Don’t cry for me, Greg Stutchbury says Armstrong ustralia’s failure to regain the Bledis- Lance Armstrong was back what I’m focused on, and I loe Cup from New on his bike on Saturday, urg- think people are supportive Zealand has upped ing his supporters not to cry of that. It’s great to be out theA pressure on under-fire for him a day after the United here,” he said. coach Robbie Deans and States Anti-Doping Agency’s Despite giving up the fight raised questions as to whether (USADA) decision to strip his against the charges, Arm- he will see out his contract. seven Tour de France titles strong has maintained his The Wallabies were humbled and ban him for life. innocence and railed against 22-0 by the world champions In his first public appear- what he says is an unfair at Eden Park in Auckland on ance since announcing he witch hunt. Saturday, continuing their would no longer fight doping The Texas-born cyclist, run of losses at the ground charges brought by USADA, who famously beat cancer stretching back to 1986. Armstrong finished second and whose foundation, Live- It was also the first time in in a 36-mile mountain bike strong, has raised hundreds 50 years Australia had failed race in Aspen, Colorado, five of millions of dollars in the to score against the All Blacks, minutes behind a 16-year-old fight against the disease, has whose defence swamped an rider, Keegan Swirbul. retained major sponsors and attacking Wallabies backline Wearing sunglasses and enjoyed the backing of many capable of destroying most black and gold riding gear key cycling figures. other teams when the mood adorned with sponsors’ lo- Others, including WADA takes them. gos, Armstrong appeared un- chief John Fahey, say his fail- The All Blacks’ victory en- fussed by the media throng ure to contest his charges can sured they retained the Ble- New Zealand’s Cory Jane gets away from Michael Hooper of Australia in their Bledisloe Cup match. reuters that had travelled to the only mean he is a drug cheat disloe Cup for a 10th suc- mountain resort amid con- who has defrauded the cy- cessive season and made New Zealander at the helm, was quoted as saying by New first victory over South Africa cerns his legacy has been ir- cling tour, his rivals and mil- the third match in Brisbane, the drums will be beating Zealand’s Herald on Sunday in their second Rugby Cham- revocably tarnished. lions of sports fans for more which is not part of the Rugby louder for a change. newspaper. pionship match, before the “Nobody needs to cry for a decade. Championship, a dead rubber But he told reporters in Auck- “They’re a side playing with Springboks rallied to snatch a me. I’m going to be great,” The Armstrong case has yet before both sides embark on land on Saturday that his side the confidence of being world 16-16 draw. Armstrong told reporters. to rest, with cycling’s global northern hemisphere tours. had met a team showing the champions, and I don’t think The match had looked like “I have five great kids and a governing body, the Inter- Deans’ contract runs un- confidence of their World Cup there’s any side in the world ending in a perfect home de- wonderful lady in my life. My national Cycling Union, de- til after the British and Irish triumph last year, and few that could have footed it with but for the Pumas, famously foundation is unaffected by manding USADA hand over Lions tour of Australia next would have matched them. them tonight — including our- tough opponents on Argentine all the noise out there. its evidence. The Court of Ar- year, but after a 14th loss in 17 “Let’s give credit to the All selves, obviously.” soil long before their entry into “I think people understand bitration for Sport could ulti- internationals against their Blacks. That was an outstand- Meanwhile, Argentina stood their first annual major -tour that we’ve got a lot of stuff mately have a final say on his trans-Tasman rivals with the ing performance,” Deans on the brink of a remarkable nament. REUTERS to do going forward. That’s guilt or innocence. REUTERS
KINGDOM OF CAMBODIA MINISTRY OF PUBLIC WORKS AND TRANSPORT INVITATION FOR BIDS
Date: 27 August 2012 ADB Loan No. 2373-CAM (SF) and Government of Australia Grant 0096-CAM – GREATER MEKONG SUBREGION - SOUTHERN COASTAL CORRIDOR PROJECT (SCCP) SCCP – CW5 – Road Safety Billboards on National Roads Deadline for Bids submission: 10 October 2012
1. The Kingdom of Cambodia has received a loan from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Project Management Unit 3 a grant from the Government of Australia towards the cost of the GMS SOUTHERN COASTAL Ministry of Public Works and Transport (MPWT) CORRIDOR PROJECT. Part of the grant will be used for payments under the contract above. 4th Floor, Northern Building, Corner Norodom Blvd. & St. 106 Bidding is open to bidders from eligible source countries of the Asian Development Bank (ADB). Phnom Penh, Cambodia The eligibility rules and procedures of ADB will govern the bidding process. Tel. 855 23 724 565 Facsimile: 855 23 724 595 e-mail: [email protected] 2. The Ministry of Public Works and Transport (MPWT) (“the Employer”) of the Kingdom of Cambodia invites sealed bids from eligible bidders for the SUPPLY AND INSTALLATION OF 6. A complete set of bidding documents may be purchased by interested eligible bidders on ROAD SAFETY BILLBOARDS ON NATIONAL ROADS. The Road Safety Billboards comprising submission of a written application to the address above from 27 August 2012 from 7:30 to 12:00 the Works are sited at 79 no strategic locations along national roads and 5 no locations within and from 14:00 to 17:30 local time and upon confirmation of payment of a non-refundable fee of Phnom Penh. The Civil Works comprise construction of 84 no reinforced concrete footings and US$200 in the bank mentioned below. In case bidders are from within Cambodia, the bidding fabrication and erection of 84 no steel mono-pole columns and steel support frames for dual faced documents can be obtained from the above address while for those outside the country the signs approximately 7.50 m high. The Signage Works consist of the fabrication and installation bidding documents will be couriered if requested, upon confirmation of payment including courier of 168 no metal backing panels and vinyl sheet facing of 6.0m x 4.0 m sign panels including fees of US$ 100. safety messages and artwork/ graphics. The work also includes compliance with the Project’s Environmental Management Plan (EMP), which is included in the Specifications. Bank: National Bank of Cambodia Acct Name: MEF Current Account 3. Only eligible bidders that meet the following requirements should participate in this bidding: Acct No: 000000001333
all pending litigation shall be treated as resolved against the Bidder and so shall in total not 7. Bids shall be delivered: represent more than seventy five (75) percent of the Bidder’s net worth; to the address above minimum average annual construction turnover of US$ 1 million calculated as total certified on or before the deadline: 10 October 2012, on or before 15:00 hours local time payments received for contracts in progress or completed, within the last three (3) years.; together with a bid security of US$ 10,000.00, or an equivalent amount in a freely convertible financial resources, in terms of at least his latest year’s working capital and lines of credit, will currency. be adequate to cover his Bid Price and current work; experience under construction contracts in the role of contractor, subcontractor, or management The bid security shall be, at the bidder’s option, in any of the following forms: contractor for at least the last five (5) years prior to the applications submission deadline; (a) an unconditional bank guarantee; participation as contractor, management contractor, or subcontractor, in at least two (2) contracts within the last six (6) years, each with a value of at least US$ 0.24 million that have been (b) an irrevocable letter of credit; or successfully or are substantially completed and that are similar to the proposed works; and (c) a cashier’s or certified check; experience in both design and construction of civil works, i.e reinforced concrete and fabricated steel structures, and in the design, supply, installation and finishing of large roadside all from a reputable source from an eligible country. billboards and signs, including sign graphics and artwork, as well as implementation of an Environmental Management Plan or an equivalent strategy to mitigate environmental impacts Bids will be opened at 15:30 hours local time on the same day thereafter in the presence of of the works (Lead Firm only). bidder’s representatives who choose to attend. 8. When comparing bids, ADB’s Domestic Preference Scheme will not be applied in accordance 4. The Procurement will be done through National Competitive Bidding (NCB) in accordance with with the provisions stipulated in the bidding documents ADB’s Single-Stage :One – Envelope Bidding Procedure. 9. MPWT will not be responsible for any costs or expenses incurred by the Bidders in connection 5. To obtain further information and inspect the bidding documents in English, bidders should contact: with the preparation of Bid. 26 THE PHNOM PENH POST august 27, 2012 Sport
Coaches attend FIFA MA Coaching Course Thirty football coaches and assistant coaches from Raid-Alaxan reeled in by Cambodian league clubs and national teams concluded their FIFA MA Coaching Course on Friday. The four-day course, organised by the Football Federation of Cambodia in Team Sharky in overtime collaboration with the sport’s world governing body, was led by Australian coaching expert H S Manjunath Kelly Cross, with Naga Corp coach Prak Sovannara as his eam Sharky lived up to their assistant. Cross aimed to name in thrashing back against strengthen the coaches’ the mighty Raid-Alaxan FR in a capacity to build football teams fierce battle that was grudg- through technical knowledge inglyT settled in extra time on Saturday. and lessons in refereeing, The heightened excitement of Team administration and medical Sharky’s 61-54 victory ended Raid- matters. Nine newly certified Alaxan’s two-week unbeaten run in A-Licence coaches, including the Cambodia Basketball Challenge men’s national team head presented by Banzai and Sabay at the coach Hok Sochetra, Beeline Arena. also attended the course. Curran Hendry, just back after a UNG CHAMROEUN trip to Scotland, produced one stun- ning basket for Sharky with barely 25 Juve win, Fiorentina seconds left in the fourth quarter that grab victory late on would turn the contest on its head. Champions Juventus enjoyed Raid-Alaxan, who had jumped into a 2-0 victory over Parma with an early lead, managed to cling on to it banned coach Antonio Conte for all of 39 minutes before Team Sharky watching in the stands, and began their counter-attack. Hendry’s Fiorentina came from behind basket tied the game at 50-50, forcing to grab a last-minute win in extra time, which Team Sharky quickly the first matches of the Serie turned into their advantage as Colin A season on Saturday. Second- Meyn hit back-to-back three-pointers. half goals from Stephan Meyn top scored for Team Sharky Lichtsteiner and Andrea Pirlo with 24 points with team-mate Jeff were enough for Juve in a Kane adding 14. Team Sharky’s Curran Hendry (centre) drives to the hoop during their Cambodia Basketball Challenge game against Raid-Alaxan FR on match that could have been Raid-Alaxan could hardly raise their Saturday at Beeline Arena. Team Sharky won 61-54 in overtime. SRENG MENG SRUN postponed due to a downpour own game, and the side’s leading in the lead up, as fans made scorer Aimar Sabayo, who accounted Served well by Im Pronita’s triple of four of them in the third quarter, as much ado, beating Mobitel XG War- their feelings about the for every one of his side’s 18 points in three-pointers, the Crabs, who remain Sela Meas took a firm hold and picked riors 79-71. punishment of their coach the second half, went scoreless in ex- the only unbeaten side, owed their vic- scores of over 20 in all the four quar- The Dragons jumped into an early for his involvement in match- tra time. Overall, Sabayo was easily the tory to Sokhun Vireak (9 points) and ters. Pheng Dara came into his own 8-0 lead, thanks to successive three- fixing clear with a series of most productive, tallying 26 points, his Kim Veng Ngoun (8). For CCPL Heat, with some slick shooting for a per- pointers by Jerry Roxas, who by the chants. REUTERS third straight over-20-points game. Sok Tour and Sovan Panha scored 13 sonal tally of 18 points. end of the game added three more to Well before this dramatic finish un- points apiece. For the Knights, who found the pace emerge as the side’s top scorer with folded, Sabay Salty Crabs rolled into In a game dominated by fast breaks too hot to handle, Mark Ruel (18) did 17. Admirable support came from Saturday’s results their third victory, this time shutting off and a horde of three-pointers, the all- well in the company of Jaypee Garcia Kelvin Chan (14). English Premier League CCPL Heat 51-44. The Crabs led early Cambodian team Sela Meas posted and Jurizze Santiago, who each con- For the Warriors, Josua Schmitz (21) Swansea 3 West Ham 0 and kept going, and at one stage had a the highest score and the biggest win- tributed 15 points. and Jerry Manus (18) fought bravely. 20-point lead early in the third quarter. ning margin of the competition so Successive defeats had only made Sabay Salty Crabs lead the Week 3 Aston Villa 1 Everton 3 The Heat tried to make a desperate far when beating HTPS Mike’s Burger Phnom Penh Dragons more deter- standings with nine points, ahead of Man United 3 Fulham 2 run in the fourth quarter, but it was Knights 85-59. mined than ever to break the ice, and Team Sharky, Raid-Alaxan FR and Sela Norwich 1 QPR 1 far too late to make any impact. Sok Pagna drilled five three-pointers, the team achieved that goal without Meas, all on seven points. Southampton 0 Wigan 2 Sunderland v Reading Postponed due to waterlogged pitch Tottenham 1 West Brom 1 Chelsea 2 Newcastle 0 Rooney faces four weeks out after gashed leg Spanish La Liga R. Sociedad 2 Celta de Vigo 1 Wayne Rooney faces at least “It’s a very bad one, he’s gone but Wayne is going to be miss- each managed their first goals guson said. “It was his first full Espanyol 1 Real Zaragoza 2 four weeks on the sidelines after straight to hospital,” Sir Alex ing for maybe four weeks,” the for the club in a 3-2 win. game for us and he will develop Real Betis 1Rayo Vallecano 2 picking up a badly gashed knee Ferguson said. United manager said. “It was Van Persie’s equaliser was a better understanding with the Malaga 1 Mallorca 1 at the end of Saturday’s game Several players near the inci- just an accident.” probably the pick of United’s other players as time goes on. Italian Serie A against Fulham. The striker will dent on the pitch recoiled in If Manchester United are goals, an unanswerable left- “That goal lifted the team, miss England’s World Cup qual- horror at the sight of the gaping going to have to manage with- foot half-volley that gave the from that moment on we played Fiorentina 2 Udinese 1 ifiers against Moldova and wound, but the injury is out Rooney during September Fulham goalkeeper Mark very, very well, but instead of Juventus 2 Parma 0 Ukraine next month as a result thought to be just a deep cut they made a start on Saturday. Schwarzer little chance after winning by four or five goals, as German Bundesliga of being caught by Hugo Rodal- with no added complications. The England man began the Patrice Evra had sent over a we should have done, we gave Augsburg 0 Fort. Dusseldorf 2 lega’s studs as the pair chal- “I don’t know quite what hap- game on the bench, with Robin cross from the left. away a goal in the second half B. M’gladbach 2 Hoffenheim 1 lenged for the same ball follow- pened. I think the player fol- van Persie up front and Shinji “It was a fantastic goal from through bad defending and Gr. Furth 0 Bayern Munich 3 ing a free kick. lowed through and caught him Kagawa just behind him, and Robin to get off the mark,” Fer- suddenly it became a match again when it should never have Hamburg 0 Nuremberg 1 been a match. Freiburg 1 Mainz 1 “Once again, it was all a bit E. Frankfurt 2 B. Leverkusen 1 too nervy as the end, when we Stuttgart 0 Wolfsburg 1 should have been in easy On Friday street.” B. Dortmund 2 W. Bremen 1 Fulham manager Martin Jol French Ligue 1 actually agreed with Ferguson about United being up to half Nice 2 Lille 2 a dozen goals better. “We had Nancy 0 Toulouse 1 a good win last week, put play- Reims 1 Sochaux 0 ing here is a little bit different Rennes 3 Bastia 2 to playing at home against Troyes 2 Lorient 2 Norwich,” Jol said. Valenciennes 3 AC Ajaccio 0 “Even though we scored an On Friday early goal, we were still not full Evian T.G. 1 Lyon 1 of confidence, and United played so well in the first half I thought it might be a really bad Tonight’s Fixtures day for us. We just couldn’t keep up with Tom Cleverley and Spanish La Liga Anderson, but we managed to Valladolid v Levante – 1am win the second half 1-0, so it Atletico Madrid v was a game of two totally dif- Athletic Bilbao – 3am Man United’s Wayne Rooney receives treatment on an injured knee before being stretchered off the pitch during the match against Fulham. REUTERS ferent halves.” THE GUARDIAN THE PHNOM PENH POST august 27, 2012 27 Sport Australia win Clijsters praised but Afghanistan as role model impress in ODI
Australia won the match but Afghanistan won plenty of admirers before going down before last slam by 66 runs in their one-day international in Sharjah. Will Swanton letes the game saw in women’s Playing only their second ODI against tennis,” Sharapova said. an established side, Afghanistan restricted aria Sharapova and “And just a really great person, Michael Clarke’s team to 272-8 before re- Andy Murray led a very humble. At the end of the sponding with 206 all out from 43.5 overs. torrent of praise for day, just a down-to-Earth per- “It was a big occasion and we learnt a lot Kim Clijsters on Sat- son that reflected on life in a very from the experience of playing Australia,” Murday as the three-time US Open good way.” Afghanistan captain Nawroz Mangal told champion prepared for the final Clijsters praised Murray’s ability reporters through an interpreter. tournament of her storied career. to handle pressure at Wimbledon “I’m satisfied with the performance of my Clijsters is chasing a fairytale this year and the Scot returned the team. We couldn’t put runs on the board in ending at Flushing Meadows be- favour in New York. the top order but Australia are a major team fore retiring at the age of 29. She “As a person, which is much more and they know how to win.” first retired in 2007 but returned important than the tennis, she’s a The match actually spanned two days, two years later to become the lovely person,” Murray said. starting at 6pm local time (9pm Cambodian first wildcard to win the US Open He also admired the competitive time) on Saturday and finishing at 1:30am and the first mother to win a ma- side of Clijsters, Murray said. the following day in an effort to combat the jor championship since Austra- “Early in her career she obvi- extreme heat of the United Arab Emirates lian Evonne Goolagong Cawley ously had a lot of tough losses. summer. in 1980. She was competing with Justine Belgium’s Kim Clijsters will play in her last grand slam tournament, the 2012 US There was no direct sunlight for the play- “What’s there to say about Kim?” Henin and a lot of pressure came Open which starts today, before retiring from the game. REUTERS ers to contend with but extremely high hu- Sharapova said. “There’s so many with that. She lost a lot of tough midity allied to a temperature that never great things besides the fact she’s matches to Henin. She managed successful return to the tour in dream, you can do whatever you dipped below 30 degrees Celsius made it as been an incredible tennis player to turn that around after taking 2009 fuelled hope that her own re- want.” much a case of the survival of the fittest as a and champion. She’s someone a break. To come back to win a covery from an autoimmune dis- Top seed Victoria Azarenka de- cricket match. that went away from the sport to slam, or a couple more slams, is ease was possible. scribed Clijsters as the ideal role Afghanistan, who lost by seven wickets to commit herself to being a mother pretty incredible. “Kim has had a resurgence like model. “For the kids she’s one of Pakistan in February in their previous ODI and a good wife and then coming “I’m sure she will be remem- no other, coming back to win two the people who you always like encounter with a leading side, now head to back and being a professional and bered as one of the best players of majors,” Williams said. to be around,” she said. “Obvi- Trinidad to continue preparations for the winning a few more grand slams. the last 15, 20 years, and also one “I think she’s inspiration for ously a lot of people love here. ICC World Twenty20 tournament in Sri Lan- “She was always so focused and of the best people.” everyone who has said if you She’s definitely one everybody is ka next month, which they have qualified determined. One of the best ath- Venus Williams said Clijsters’ put your mind to it, if you have a going to miss.” REUTERS for along with Ireland. REUTERS