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By Colin Meyn and Ben Sokhean The Cambodia Daily The U.S. ambassador said on Friday that Cambodia was in a league with only three other countries—Sudan, Somalia and Zimbabwe—in being in arrears to the U.S., and said the gov- ernment should stop dwelling on the past and start planning how to pay back a loan from the 1970s now worth $500 million. “I am not sure that’s a group Reuters that it’s in Cambodia’s interest Protesters hold effigies of the leader of Romania’s leftist Social Democrat Party and others dressed as to be a member of,” U.S. Am- prisoners during a demonstration against corruption in Bucharest, Romania, on Saturday. bassador William Heidt said of countries in arrears to the U.S., speaking to journalists from Khmer-language media Rainsy Bristles at Threat to Dissolve CNRP outlets at the U.S. Embassy on Friday, in a recording obtained By Zsombor Peter of the country’s opposition mit “serious mistakes”—a clear by The Cambodia Daily. The Cambodia Daily movement. reference to Mr. Rainsy and the “Until it takes care of its debt Having thus far failed to CNRP. The CPP said on Friday it with America and its other cred- CNRP President Sam Rainsy split the CNRP, the product of hoped to pass the amendment in itors, it cannot have a normal said yesterday that the govern- a fraught merger between the April, in time for June’s commune relationship with the IMF” or ment’s apparent plans to dissolve two largest opposition parties in elections. National elections are take advantage of other opportu- his party would make Cambodia 2012, Prime Minister Hun Sen due next year. nities to borrow money from the an official one-party state, but last week promised to change Mr. Rainsy faces a defama- international markets, he said. insisted it would do nothing to the law to force the dissolution tion conviction widely seen as Continued on page 2 knock him from the forefront of any party whose leaders com- Continued on page 9 Bangladesh Readies Desolate Island for Rohingya

Reuters Welcome to Thengar Char, have joined more than 200,000 a muddy stain in the murky Rohingya people already liv- thengar char, Bangladesh - waters of the Bay of Bengal, ing in official and makeshift The island is two hours by boat identified by Bangladesh as a camps, straining resources in from the nearest settlement. short-term solution to the hu- one of Asia’s poorest regions. There are no buildings, mo- manitarian crisis unfolding on Bangladesh says the refugees bile phone reception or people. its border with Burma, across bring crime and a risk of disease. During the monsoon, it often which about 70,000 Rohingya The influx has prompted floods and, when the seas are Muslims have fled. Bangladesh to revive a plan— PM Against ‘Internationalization’ calm, pirates roam nearby wa- Those refugees, escaping much criticized by humanitar- Of Rohingya Muslim Crisis ters hunting for fishermen to an army crackdown on insur- ian workers when it was first Page 6 kidnap for ransom. gents that began in October, Continued on page 19

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be in arrears. Buildings coming itary who pay the price for that frastructure,” he said. Hits Back... up all over the city, foreign in- decision, not really the United “You destroyed us and de- Continued from page 1 vestment coming in, government States.” mand us to pay the debt.” revenue is rising rapidly,” Mr. He also said that new threats Mr. Heidt also spoke crit- Heidt added. by the ruling party to amend the ically of Cambodia canceling The ambassador said that Law on Political Parties in a way “So we have never military exercises with the U.S. dwelling on the history of the that would likely sideline oppo- and of Prime Minister Hun Sen debt—delivered during a time sition leader Sam Rainsy and discussed seriously or proposing legislation that would when the U.S. was carpet-bomb- perhaps dissolve the CNRP were considered canceling sideline the main opposition par- ing parts of Cambodia along the moves in the wrong direction. ty. “I don’t think that’s what Vietnamese border—would not “At the end of the day, rec- that debt with the Cambodian people want.” be fruitful. onciliation is letting various Cambodia.” Since the election of U.S. “I’m saying it’s in Cambodia’s political forces operate inside —US Ambassador William Heidt President Donald Trump, Mr. interest not to look at the past, Cambodia. And things like that, Hun Sen has publicly lobbied the but to look at how to solve this throwing people out of the game, U.S. to cancel the debt, which because it’s important to Cam- removing parties...I don’t think With the CPP making a pub- started as a $274 million loan bodia’s future,” he said, adding that’s what the Cambodian peo- lic issue of the debt in the hope mostly for food supplies to the that the U.S. had never seriously ple want and I don’t think that of catching the attention of the Lon Nol government, but has considered canceling the debt. helps Cambodian democracy new U.S. administration, Song almost doubled as Cambodia “I will say that the issue of develop,” he said. Chhang, an information minister has refused to hash out a re- cancellation...that wasn’t on CPP spokesman Sok Eysan under Lon Nol who now lives payment plan. the table when I was here in said he was not pleased by Mr. in California, weighed in with Mr. Heidt said that as an eco- the 1990s. It has never been Heidt’s remarks. a post on Facebook yesterday. nomic officer at the U.S. Embassy on the table since then. So we “His speech is a strong, pow- “I am afraid that negotiation in the late 1990s, he had been have never discussed seriously or erful speech—like his country with the Trump administration part of an effort to hammer out considered canceling that debt is bragging that it is the most is going to be tough. Besides, a deal that would have allowed with Cambodia,” he said. powerful country in the world,” there are too many ways Cam- Cambodia to pay back the loan “Now, working out a deal that Mr. Eysan said. bodia can go wrong. It was Lon over 40 years and with no interest works for both sides—that we’re In what has become a com- Nol’s Cambodia who contracted for 16 years. happy to do at any time.” mon refrain from the CPP, he that debt and which lost the “The number we were talking During the 40-minute meet- said the loan was symbolic of war to the communist Khmer about back then was less than ing, Mr. Heidt also said that the U.S.’s bombing campaign in Rouge. President Trump does $200 million. So now, 19 years he was “disappointed” by Cam- Cambodia from the mid-1960s not like losers,” he wrote. later, I come back; the issues bodia’s decision last month to to mid-1970s, and mostly con- “He likes to make deals. But remain unsolved; and that num- cancel military training exercis- tributed to bloodshed in the Cambodia hardly has anything to ber has grown to $500 million, es, though he noted that it was country. use in the deals—no petroleum about. So to me, I think that is a missed opportunity to learn “In my opinion, they should pipeline, no automobile industry, unfortunate, I think that’s not from the most skilled soldiers eliminate it because that money no steel mine, no missile launch- in Cambodia’s best interest to in the world. was not taken to develop the ing pad to trade with Trump keep letting that grow forever,” “So to me it was disappoint- country, but was borrowed to in the deal, except perhaps a he said. ing, but I do think at the end fight against the competitors— tariff on every shirt and every “To me, Cambodia does not of the day it is the Cambodian to buy the bombs and drop them pair of jeans Cambodia exports look like a country that should people and the Cambodian mil- to kill tens of thousands people to the US. That can help when and destroy properties and in- handled by skillful negotiators.”

Correction: The article “Kith Meng Backs Plans for 3 Hydro- power Dams” (February 3) incorrectly stated that the Interna- Publisher’s note: The Cambodia Daily would like to express tional Monetary Fund, rather than the International Finance its gratitude to the Southeast Asia Globe for the use of its office Corporation, had helped finance the Lower Sesan II dam. during power outages yesterday. Monday, February 6, 2017 The Cambodia Daily National 3 Sar Kheng Fires 3 Police Officers Implicated in Beating Death

By Ouch Sony was made due to a request from Mr. Komsath said the fir- Asked why the court had not The Cambodia Daily the provincial police chief,” Mr. ings were “partly linked” to issued summonses earlier, Mr. Komsath said yesterday. the beating allegations. The Sokuntha said time was needed Three police officers in In October, Chamroeun Sey- sacked officers still face pos- to question the plaintiff, wit- Kandal province were fired last ha, 26, died in a Takhmao City sible charges from an ongoing nesses and then the suspects, month, according to a declara- hospital the day after he and his criminal investigation. inspect the evidence and work tion signed by Interior Minister brother-in-law, Tith Leap, 22, “If those people are involved on other cases. Sar Kheng, following an out- were released from the Sa’ang with any court case, we will “I will speed up this case for of-court settlement related to district police station. Mr. Leap follow through on the court’s the benefit of justice for both their alleged involvement in the said they were severely beaten decision,” Mr. Komsath said. parties,” he said. beating of two men in October, by police officers while they “We will follow whatever the Seng Socheat, Sa’ang dis- one of whom died after he was were detained, as well as on the court decides.” trict’s police chief, said Na- released from police custody. street after a traffic dispute with Lim Sokuntha, Kandal pro- tional Police commissioner The three Sa’ang district a district officer wearing plain vincial prosecutor, said the court Neth Savoeun and the provin- police officers—Chhay Sina, clothes—later identified as Mr. had issued a summons for ques- cial police chief had previously Pheakdey Vitou and Kheang Song Sina, the district immigration tioning for the three officers on ordered district police to look Theng—were fired for failing to police chief—turned violent. January 11, but they had yet to for the three officers, but they show up to work and will have Police initially claimed that show up to court. had not received warrants for their wages and other benefits a mob on the street had beaten “I will summon them next their arrest. cut off beginning next month, the men, believing they were week. I will summon them Mr. Socheat added that the the January 18 document says. thieves, but local witnesses said again and if they do not show officers had failed to show up to Saran Komsath, a National they saw officers attack the pair. up according to this summons, work since October 22, the day Police spokesman, confirmed In December, Chamroeun we will place charges against Chamroeun Seyha died. the firings and said it was stan- Seyha’s widow, Khuon Sreymom, them,” Mr. Sokuntha said. “Regardless of whether they dard disciplinary procedure to and her brother, Mr. Leap, ac- In the months following are police officers or ordinary dismiss officers who abandoned cepted a payout of $20,000 from the beating, court officials re- people, whenever they commit their work. the families of the three officers peatedly said they would issue offenses and criminal wrongdo- “They did not come to work in exchange for dropping a civil summonses if the officers did ings, we will punish them,” Mr. for many months and the firing complaint. not appear for questioning. Socheat said. 4 National The Cambodia Daily Monday, February 6, 2017 Health Official Released After Violent Rampage

By Buth Kimsay The Cambodia Daily The director of a com- mune-run health center in Kratie province accused of running his mistress off the road in an ambulance, then beating and robbing her, has been released by court officials who said they could find no evidence of the alleged crimes. Sim Chanveasna, 47, direc- Emil Kastrup/The Cambodia Daily tor of the O’Krieng commune A retired Taiwanese accountant, who gave her name only as Chen, at a store in Phnom Penh yesterday health center in Sambor district, was arrested last Monday af- ter his 22-year-old mistress of Hun Sen Bans Taiwan Flag from Cambodia seven years filed a complaint alleging the violent chain of By Phan Soumy is not allowed,” he said. ment from Taiwan. Taiwan first events, which she said occurred The Cambodia Daily Cambodia also considered tried to set up a trade center in earlier in the month. Tibet, an autonomous province Phnom Penh in 2009. The woman told police she Prime Minister Hun Sen de- of China whose independence Despite the diplomatic the- had been riding through the clared over the weekend that movement has a long history of atrics, Mr. Hun Sen made clear commune on the back of an- the flag of Taiwan was banned suppression, as part of China, that Taiwanese investment in other man’s motorbike on Jan- from being raised in Cambodia, he added. Cambodia was welcome. uary 24 when Mr. Chanveasna during the same speech in which Mr. Hun Sen told the audi- “I only agree with doing busi- crashed the ambulance into the he said the country’s door was ence of 4,000 that his decision ness. I can do that. For instance, motorbike and attacked both open to Taiwanese investment. was a continuation of Cambodia’s the direct flights from Taipei to of them, before dragging her Speaking at a friendly dinner long-standing foreign policy to- Phnom Penh and from Taipei to into the ambulance and steal- at the Cambodian-Chinese As- ward China. Siem Reap,” he said. ing her jewelry while driving sociation on Saturday, Mr. Hun “You need to understand what According to statistics released her home. Sen took the opportunity to this foreign policy is—a policy by Taiwan’s Finance Ministry last Kratie Provincial Court outline Cambodia’s stance on that has been implemented since year, bilateral trade between Tai- spokesman Hak Han yester- Taiwan, reiterating the gov- Sihanouk’s regime regarding Chi- wan and Cambodia reached about day said that Mr. Chanveasna ernment’s staunch support for na,” he said, referring to gov- $744 million in 2015, a 1 percent was released on Friday after Beijing’s “One China” policy. ernments led by King Norodom drop on the previous year. Taiwan’s court officials were unable to “We should not do anything Sihanouk until 1970. exports to Cambodia reached $678 prove accusations that he was that affects the respect of Chi- It’s not the first time that million, while imports from Cam- in possession of two firearms na’s sovereignty and indepen- the prime minister has gone bodia were valued at $66 million or that he had committed a dence through shaking hands out of his way to make sure that for the year. crime. and stepping on feet. I cannot Taiwan’s official presence here On the streets of Phnom “We questioned the suspect do it,” Mr. Hun Sen said. remains minimal. In July 2014, Penh yesterday, it was business and spent a day investigating “We need to respect the sov- the Taiwan External Trade De- as usual for the Taiwanese com- at his house, but we could not ereignty of China, which places velopment Council announced munity in the city. find any evidence to charge the same value on respecting that it would open an office in A 62-year-old retired accoun- the suspect. That is why we Cambodia’s sovereignty too.” Phnom Penh, in a bid to increase tant from Taiwan, who gave her released him,” he said. Describing Taiwan—which is trade and investment between name only as Chen, was over- “It was not an actual crime,” independently ruled—as another the two countries. seeing a mart called “Taiwanese he added. province of China, he announced However, just a week later, Family” for a friend, and said During questioning with that the country’s flag should not Mr. Hun Sen announced that she was planning to move here court officials, the plaintiffs be raised in Cambodia. he would block the council from permanently. gave answers that “were dif- “I request to people here: opening an office because of the “We can come here to do busi- ferent and were not linked to Please don’t raise the Taiwanese government’s strict observance ness,” she said, adding that the the crime,” and the woman had flag whenever you are gather- of the One China policy, despite flag snub would not affect their since withdrawn her complaint, ing, even at the hotel during business leaders calling for more business. “Many opportunities Mr. Han said. Taiwanese national holidays. It practical steps to boost invest- are available here.” Monday, February 6, 2017 The Cambodia Daily National 5 Land Activist’s Trial Adjourned After Descending Into Chaos

By Sek Odom years and put me in jail three The Cambodia Daily times.” Presiding Judge Long Kes- The trial of prominent activ- phirum attempted to regain ist Tep Vanny was postponed some order by telling Mr. on Friday after the hearing de- Hoeun to leave the courtroom scended into chaos when she while he continued questioning became enraged upon learning Ms. Vanny. that new complainants against “Why did you go there? What her were from the notorious- was your purpose?” he asked ly violent Daun Penh district her of the petition delivery. security guard unit. “We went to find justice for Ms. Vanny was being ques- the land issue and to call for tioned at the Phnom Penh Mu- the release Ms. Yorm Bopha. nicipal Court over a 2013 protest I never asked anyone to beat in which about 30 residents of Siv Channa/The Cambodia Daily the authorities,” she replied. the capital’s eviction-hit Boeng Prominent Boeng Kak activist Tep Vanny smiles as she is transported “It was only the Daun Penh Kak neighborhood attempted to a hearing at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Friday. guards who used violence to deliver a petition seeking against us,” she added. the release of fellow activist unit that gained notoriety for are you so fat yet would let The judge then called Mr. Yorm Bopha. State security forc- brutality before and after the women beat you?” Ms. Vanny Hoeun back into the courtroom, es beat 10 of the activists and 2013 general election. shouted as Mr. Houen entered but security guards couldn’t lo- threw others in police trucks. Mr. Hoeun and another the courtroom. cate him. As a result, the judge During questioning, Ms. guard, Uk Rotana, claim they “I feel bad when the plain- adjourned the hearing without Vanny erupted after catching were knocked unconscious by tiff is the person who beat us mentioning when it would be a glimpse of one of the plain- Ms. Vanny after she pelted while we protested for nearly rescheduled. tiffs, Hor Hoeun, who was a them with plastic bottles, soft 10 years,” she said, yelling and “I see now the situation is member of the Daun Penh drink cans and shoes. pointing directly to his face. messy and I’m feeling unwell,” district security guards, a “Oh, he is a plaintiff? How “You harassed me for 10 Judge Kesphirum said. 6 National The Cambodia Daily Monday, February 6, 2017 Cambodia Against ‘Internationalization’ of Rohingya Crisis

By Khuon Narim and Hannah Hawkins The Cambodia Daily Prime Minister Hun Sen emerged from a meeting with visiting Burmese President Htin Kyaw on Saturday declaring he did not support the “internation- alization” of Burma’s escalating Rohingya crisis, going against mounting global fears of an im- pending genocide. “[Cambodia] disagrees with the attempt to internationalize the Rohingya issue, considering it is an internal issue of Myan- mar, and the Asean Charter prohibits the inference in the internal affairs of each mem- ber state,” said Mr. Hun Sen, as quoted by Minister of In- formation Khieu Kanharith on Facebook, using another name Pring Samrang/Reuters for Burma. Burmese President Htin Kyaw, left, walks with Prime Minister Hun Sen after arriving for a meeting at the The Rohingya are a Muslim prime minister’s office building in Phnom Penh on Saturday. minority from Burma’s northern Rakhine state, where they suffer well as systematic, indicating 2013 request for international tively low GDP regionally, the widespread persecution by the the very likely commission of intervention over a temple dis- government is quick to curry country’s Buddhist majority. Ac- crimes against humanity,” the pute with Thailand in Preah favor with those perceived to be cording to a report released by report says. Vihear province. more powerful, Mr. Nee added. the U.N. Human Rights Office Sok Eysan, a spokesman for “No one pushed Cambodia to Soewin Sabiramad, a Rohing- of the High Commissioner last the CPP, reiterated that Cam- resolve the issue international- ya refugee living in Cambodia, week, military operations have bodia and Burma were bound by ly—Cambodia itself [took] the said that while the international killed hundreds and internally Asean’s non-interference policy. lawsuit to the International community stalled, his family displaced an estimated 22,000 “The Rohingya issue is an Court, and other [Asean] mem- in Burma suffered. people since October. Another internal affair of Myanmar.... bers were silent,” he said. “I called my mother a week 66,000 are believed to have fled We are not interfering in the Political analyst Meas Nee ago—she cannot do anything; she to Bangladesh. internal affairs of countries that said the government’s hard line does not go outside,” Mr. Soewin “The attacks against the are members of Asean,” he said. against internationalization said, adding that his brother and Rohingya population...seems Mr. Eysan said the situation should not be surprising. two sisters were also languishing to have been widespread as was different from Cambodia’s And given Cambodia’s rela- in poverty and living in fear. League for Democracy Party Rallies to Demand Release of Members

By Aun Pheap merely defending LDP mem- “We arrested 13 people yes- “The arrest was made after The Cambodia Daily ber Ly Kim Hong, who he said terday because they destroyed many families filed complaints is ensnared in a long-standing the crops of a villager, and they with our authorities and accused Hundreds of supporters of land dispute with his sister over also cleared a plot of state land the 13 people and Ly Kim Hong the League for Democracy Party a quarter-hectare plot of land in an attempt to grab the land,” of attempting to grab the fam- (LDP) rallied yesterday outside there. he said. ily’s land,” he said. the Kampot provincial police “Police arrested our members Major General Chanmathu- Mr. Vuthea said that police headquarters to demand the re- and supporters yesterday after- rith said he was not sure how continue to search for Mr. Kim lease of 13 jailed party members, noon and we are now coming to much land the suspects were Hong, who eluded arrest in the officials said yesterday. ask authorities to release them accused of clearing, but that the confrontation. The 13 suspects Police arrested the 13 LDP because they did nothing wrong,” group was being questioned at were set to be sent to court to- members on Saturday, accusing he said. “The 13 people were try- the provincial police station. day, he said. them of destroying crops and ing to stop a woman from planting Deputy provincial governor Mr. Vuthea denied that poli- attempting to seize state land in crops on the disputed land when Sim Vuthea said the disputed tics played any role in the arrests. Chhuk district’s Techo Aphivat about 20 police arrived.” land lay within a 1,280 hectare The LDP is headed by Khem commune. Provincial police chief Mao social land concession that had Veasna, an outspoken politician Protester Rin Kosal said the Chanmathurith gave a different already been granted to other best known for his combative men were innocent and were account of events. families. radio show. AMBODIA AILY Monday, February 6, 2017 The C D 7

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Interested candidates are • Ability to travel to field and stay late at night for extensive fieldwork is strongly required. requested to submit their CVs with cover letter, expected salary and • Cambodian nationality. a passport size photo to SBK Head Office at the address below: #43, The Application deadline is 15 February, 2017. St. 317 Corner St. 572, Sangkat Boeng Kak II, Khan Toul Kork, Phnom Submission of Application: All interested candidates should send their CV with a photo Penh, Cambodia, or by email: [email protected] . For detail (4x6) together with a cover letter through this e-mail address: [email protected] or submit a hard copy to URC at the 3 rd & 4 th floor, # 10, street 214, Sangkat Chey Chum Neas, information about job, please contact: 068 893 888. Deadline for Khan Daun Penh, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. submission: February 17, 2017. Please note: Only shortlisted candidates Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted for interview. will be contacted for interview. 8 National The Cambodia Daily Monday, February 6, 2017 Landmine Rise in Cataract Surgeries Sees Good Results Kills One, By Matt Surrusco and Buth Kimsay Wounds Three The Cambodia Daily Nut Borin donned oversized By Van Roeun sunglasses as he sat on a hospital The Cambodia Daily bed in Phnom Penh last week, about a decade after he first no- Villagers digging up tree ticed strange things happening stumps to make furniture with his eyesight. accidentally detonated an an- The 27-year-old garment ti-personnel landmine in Oddar factory worker from Kampot Meanchey province, killing a province was recovering from man and injuring his son and cataract surgery. His right eye two others in the third fatal was operated on the previous landmine explosion this year. day; his left two days earlier. Matt Surrusco/The Cambodia Daily The man died instantly when “Before I had surgery, I did Nut Borin recovers from eye surgery at Preah Ang Duong Hospital in the mine exploded at about 4 not see very well. I opened my Phnom Penh last week. p.m. on Thursday at the foot eyes for a short time and then had of Dangrek mountain in Tra- to close them,” Mr. Borin said, The Fred Hollows Foundation. At Ang Duong Hospital’s eye paing Prasat district, said Sun adding that he started struggling The trend is the result of center, the five-year memoran- Bourann, the district’s military to see when he was 18. a greater focus on treating dum of understanding (MoU) commander, on Friday. “I felt like there were stones and preventing eye ailments with KSA will provide new sur- “The villagers dug up the in my eyes,” he said. by both the government and gical equipment, increase the Beng trunk, then used a chain- A relatively quick and easy health NGOs, according to number of poor patients able to saw to cut off its root, but hit cataract surgery changed that. medical professionals. get free eye surgeries and allow the landmine buried next to the When the nurse removed the “There has been a decrease for the training of local doctors root and detonated it,” he said. bandages from his eyes after in the prevalence of blindness by foreign volunteers, said Kong Chhay Poeun, 63, was killed the operation, “I could see my as more and more cataract sur- Piseth, deputy director of the and his 13-year-old son, Peng mom and sisters,” he said. geries have been conducted,” hospital and chairman of the Sim, was hospitalized in critical More poor patients living said Damian Facciolo, a regional ophthalmology department. condition with a head injury, with cataracts like Mr. Borin program manager at the Interna- “We need more to help people Mr. Bourann said. will soon have the opportuni- tional Agency for the Prevention with blindness get knowledge Yay Chantana, the director ty to undergo surgery free of of Blindness, in an email. and share experiences with each of Jayavarman VII Hospital in charge at the Cambodia-Korea From 2004 to 2012, the vol- other,” Dr. Piseth said. “The Siem Reap City, where the boy Friendship Eye Center at Preah ume of cataract surgeries has quality of the surgery will go up.” was being treated yesterday, said Ang Duong Hospital in Phnom quadrupled, according to data The hospital currently em- shrapnel had been removed from Penh, following the signing of from the Health Ministry’s Na- ploys 20 ophthalmologists, in- his head. an agreement between the hos- tional Program for Eye Health. cluding 12 surgeons who togeth- “Now the victim is awake pital and NGO Khmer Sight Ngy Meng, the program’s er perform about five cataract and begging to eat. He still re- Association (KSA) on Friday. chairman, said the government operations each day, he said. members both of his sisters,” Cataracts, a clouding of the was able to curb blindness thanks Once the MoU takes effect he said, adding that he would lens of the eye, are the leading to better health infrastructure. in April, the program hopes to likely remain hospitalized for cause of blindness in the country, Eye health services were boost the number of surgeries a month. and the vast majority of cases available at 21 out of 80 pro- per day to as many as 100 to Ros Phean, 55, and his are avoidable, according to The vincial and district referral hos- 180, helped by international 18-year-old-son, Chhin Bun- Fred Hollows Foundation, an pitals, according to the Health surgeons who would volunteer thoeun, sustained minor inju- international eye health NGO. Ministry’s national plan for for 10-day stints in Phnom Penh, ries to their legs and arms, and The prevalence of blindness blindness, released in 2011. said Sean Ngu, KSA’s founder. were discharged from Tomnup in both eyes due to cataracts Dr. Meng said that along “The surgeries will start at Dach Commune Health Center reached nearly 2 percent, or with about 20 facilities around 7 a.m. till 6 p.m. each day with on Friday. an estimated 29,300 people, the country that could perform six surgeons plus one standby The area remains infested in 2007, according to Health cataract surgery, there were also to rotate,” he said. with anti-personnel landmines Ministry data. And about 5 per- mobile eye units, which allow Soeung Soryoun, an eye sur- that were planted along the prov- cent of the population over 5 doctors to perform cataract sur- geon at Ang Duong who per- ince’s border with Thailand in the years old had some or a lot of geries in rural areas far from pro- forms two or three operations a 1980s. Last month, a 55-year-old difficulty seeing or could not see vincial hospitals, to fill the gaps. day, said the new program would deminer working with the NGO in 2014, according to the most “Every year, we have in- help overcome one of the biggest Halo Trust died in an explosion recent Cambodia Demographic creased capacity,” he said. barriers preventing people from while attempting to clear a field and Health Survey available. But for most patients to get having the surgery. of landmines laid by the Khmer Nevertheless, in the past 20 the surgery, they need about “They don’t have money to go Rouge in Pailin province. years, the prevalence of avoid- $100 for a standard surgery by to the hospital,” he said. “They (Additional reporting by Buth able blindness has decreased by hand or more than $300 for a have to delay their cataract sur- Kimsay) nearly 70 percent, according to machine-assisted procedure. gery until their vision is very bad.” Monday, February 6, 2017 The Cambodia Daily National 9 Rainsy... Continued from page 1 politically motivated and has been barred from returning to Cambodia—he lives in Paris— on the grounds that his return would “cause trouble.” Though Mr. Hun Sen’s CPP has ruled the country for more than 30 years, Mr. Rainsy yes- terday said amending the Law on Political Parties as the prime minister wants would shatter any illusions the country maintains of being a multi-party state. “This law aimed to institu- tionalize a one-party system would be tailor-made for me since the CNRP is the only opposition party represented at the National Assembly and the only party that can defeat Emil Kastrup/The Cambodia Daily the CPP,” he said via email. A woman rides a bicycle past the CNRP’s headquarters in Phnom Penh yesterday. Yet should the CPP pass the amendment—the ruling party Funcinpec President Prince In that case, he said a return “The CNRP has made almost has the National Assembly num- Norodom Ranariddh, who was of the mass opposition rallies like no gains in the last few years and bers to do so—Mr. Rainsy said it soon booted from the party amid those that followed the disputed has never been weaker. More would have little practical impact a bitter power struggle. Though 2013 results could be just what worrisome, the CPP does not on the political scene. Funcinpec would survive both the government wants, handing it lose commune elections and, if “Whatever my position in the blows, the CPP’s only realistic an excuse to order a heavy-hand- threatened, still has an opportu- party, I remain the symbol and challenger at the time was ir- ed police response. nity to manipulate the outcome embody the spirit of resistance to reparably crippled. “In this case, violence will be of them. The threat against the the autocratic and corrupt Hun “Then, he did it indirectly,” unavoidable and therefore the CNRP is the sign of strength.” Sen regime, and this is what mat- Mr. Bunthet said of the prime blame could be placed in the Mr. Morgenbesser said the ters in the minds of the Khmer minister. “This time, he punches hands of [the] CNRP,” he said, threatened amendment was no people,” he said. more directly.” with martial law soon to follow. bluff, but rather the next step in When Mr. Hun Sen named He said the head-on attack “This latest phenomenon two years of mounting repression. CNRP Vice President Kem showed that Mr. Hun Sen was could happen shortly before “In terms of the future, the Sokha the Assembly’s new mi- genuinely afraid of the CNRP, the election, could be 2017 or result will be either a national nority leader and his designated which surprised many by nearly 2018, and in this case the gov- election devoid of all competition “dialogue partner” late last year capturing the National Assembly ernment could declare for no or an election against a severely in an apparent bid to sideline in the 2013 national elections. election until [a] later date,” he disempowered, or perhaps lead- Mr. Rainsy, the CNRP president He said Mr. Hun Sen would said. A postponed vote, he added, erless, CNRP. There is not much similarly downplayed its impor- have to weigh the very real pos- could even pave the way in a few room for alternative scenarios tance, insisting titles had little sibility that outlawing his main years’ time for the succession of anymore,” he said. meaning. opponent this time around would the prime minister’s eldest son, Some observers expect Mr. But longtime observers and only galvanize and energize the whom many analysts believe is Hun Sen to avoid risking outright analysts say Mr. Hun’s latest forces he was seeking to suppress, being groomed to lead. pariah status with the West. But threat, the first of its kind, should engender an election boycott, and Lee Morgenbesser, a research Mr. Morgenbesser said the op- be taken seriously. rob the vote of any semblance fellow at Australia’s Griffith position should not expect some Cham Bunthet, a political an- of legitimacy. University who specializes in of its traditional allies abroad to alyst and adviser, said this was “That’s why I think Hun Sen electoral politics in Southeast put the same amount pressure on the first time Mr. Hun Sen had would think about this very care- Asia, agreed that Mr. Hun Sen’s the CPP this time around—or threatened to pass a law openly fully,” he said. “That would give threat to amend to the Law on for Mr. Hun Sen to care as much designed to bring down an entire him a lot of room to think if that Political Parties marked an un- as he once did. political party. would be the right position.” precedented direct attack on a “It’s game over,” he said. After the CPP’s loss to Meas Nee said he and a group major opposition party. “With China firmly backing the Funcinpec in 1993, Mr. Hun of fellow political analysts who But he said the prime minister CPP and the United States under Sen bullied his way into a pow- came together after the 2013 was taking aim from a position [U.S. President Donald] Trump er-sharing deal by threatening elections to peer into the near of strength, not fear. advocating an illiberal foreign pol- to secede with the eastern prov- future saw a move to dissolve “What does he have to fear?” icy, supporters of democracy in inces. In 2006, firmly back on the CNRP by engineering and said Mr. Morgenbesser, author Cambodia should not expect any top, the CPP pushed through using its leaders’ criminal records of “Behind the Facade: Elec- tangible overseas assistance.” legislation outlawing adultery, a as one of “four storms” likely to tions Under Authoritarianism (Additional reporting by Colin move widely seen as targeting hit the party. in Southeast Asia.” Meyn) 10 Business The Cambodia Daily Monday, February 6, 2017 3.8M $380B 1.2M families headed by total cost of the people potentially non-US citizens on US F-35 fighter affected by mine closures Business welfare in the country jet program in the Philippines

Closure of 23 Philippine Mines Raises Questions for Minister

Reuters manila - A team that reviewed an audit of Philippine mines rec- ommended suspension of oper- ations and payment of fines for environmental violations, rather than the closure of 23 mines ordered by the minister over- seeing the process, two people with knowledge of the matter have said. Environment and Natural Resources Secretary Regina Lopez on Thursday ordered the mines shut, saying many were operating in watersheds. The mines to be closed account for half of nickel ore output by the world’s top supplier of the metal. Another five mines were suspended. The decision has angered the country’s mining industry, with Reuters miners saying the shutdowns A worker looks at an Australian-owned open pit mine in central Philippines in 2007. will affect 1.2 million people with some vowing to overturn reporters on Thursday. Not allowing the Mines and “There has to be due pro- the ruling. “You cannot have any kind Geosciences Bureau personnel cess,” said Vicente Lao, owner However, the review team of mining operations in a wa- to attend the press conference of chromite producer Mt. Sinai that advised on the process be- tershed. Water is life.” “leaves a lot of doubt in the fair- Mining Exploration and Devel- lieved some of the violations, Damage to watersheds and ness of the entire process,” Ar- opment Corp, which was ordered which included insufficient siltation of coastal waters where temio Disini, chairman of the to close. rehabilitation of mined areas, the mines are located were the Chamber of Mines of the Philip- Australian miner OceanaGold absence of tree-cutting permits major reasons that led to Lopez’s pines, said in a letter to Finance Corp, which was ordered sus- and construction of alternate decision to shut them, said a Secretary Carlos Dominguez on pended, said it “will not rule haul roads, were rectifiable, and second person with knowledge Friday. out commencing proceedings did not warrant permanent clo- of the matter. Dominguez has expressed to appeal to a higher authority, sure, one of the people said. “The secretary herself went concern over the looming job and seek to stay and overturn “She’s the boss, she has all to the mining sites and she per- losses. the order” once it receives it. the discretion,” the person said. sonally reviewed the documents “The only question is what was and that led to the decision,” her basis in her decision?” the person said. Business Brief Lopez, a long-time environ- Lopez launched the environ- mentalist who took over the mental audit of the mines in department that oversees the July, initially suspending 10 and Iran Oil Production to Grow Despite US Tension mining sector last June when saying 20 more were at risk of Iran is set to boost its crude output next month and a deadline tough-talking President Rodri- being halted. The bureau’s re- to bid for oil and gas fields has been pushed back, a top Iranian go Duterte came to power, has view team began examining the oil official was reported as saying on Saturday, amid fears a recent declined to release the recom- audit results and the responses missile test could lead to new U.S. measures that would deter mendations of the Mines and from miners in December, one foreign companies from investing in the nation’s petroleum. Despite Geosciences Bureau review team. of the sources said. the tensions, Iran’s Oil Ministry news agency Shana reported “What’s important here is Members of the review team Ali Kardor, chairman of state-run National Iranian Oil Co., as the decision I make as cabinet were banned from Thursday’s saying on Saturday that the country’s production would surpass secretary, not the recommen- briefing, according to a mining 4 million barrels a day by the end of March. Iran is exempt from dations.... Don’t try to make industry group and one of the supply cuts agreed to on November 30 by the Organization of things complicated,” she told sources. the Petroleum Exporting Countries. (WSJ) Monday, February 6, 2017 The Cambodia Daily Business 11 Pentagon, Lockheed Reach F-35 Deal After Trump Tweets

By Doug Cameron decades. Operating costs push The Wall Street Journal the projected cost to $1 trillion. The F-35’s cost has fallen The Pentagon said on Friday with each deal, and the Penta- it had reached a deal for the next gon last year imposed a contract batch of F-35 combat jets, broad- on Lockheed that priced each ly in line with its price target F-35A at $102 million. The Pen- before U.S. President Donald tagon said at the time that it Trump started criticizing the expected the price of the next cost of the program. batch of the jets to fall 6 percent The planned deal for 90 jets to 7 percent in the deal now with program leader Lockheed being negotiated. Martin Corp. prices the F-35A Lockheed last month said it model of the planes used by expects the next group of F-35s the U.S. Air Force and overseas to cost less than $100 million allies at $94.6 million each, a Reuters/Lockheed Martin each, matching a Pentagon tar- 7.3 percent drop compared with Three F-35 Joint Strike Fighters fly over California in 2011. get that existed before Trump’s $102 million for the prior batch. criticism. Hewson said on an The Pentagon said the terms by the Pentagon include engines, mitted to cutting the F-35’s price. investor call that Lockheed is mark a reduction of $728 million which were negotiated under “President Trump’s personal close to a deal with the Pentagon from the previous deal, which separate agreements with Unit- involvement in the F-35 program to sell 90 more planes, including the Defense Department im- ed Technologies Corp. accelerated the negotiations and the F-35A model being used by posed on Lockheed after more In December, then Presi- sharpened our focus on driving the U.S. Air Force, at a price of than a year of talks failed to dent-elect Trump started crit- down the price,” Lockheed said. less than $100 million. yield an agreement. icizing the cost of the plane as The F-35 is the Pentagon’s The company hopes this year Lockheed and Trump had “out of control.” Since then, he most expensive program ever, to secure contracts for anoth- previously talked of $600 mil- has met with Lockheed CEO with a forecast cost of almost er batch of the jets. It expects lion in savings between the two Marillyn Hewson, and the world’s $380 billion to buy more than profit margins on the plane to batches, but the prices reported largest defense company recom- 2,400 jets over the next several continue rising. 12 Business The Cambodia Daily Monday, February 6, 2017 Trump’s Welfare Draft Order Imperils Millions of Children

By Caitlin Dewey a public charge for deportation Medicaid—until they have implementation, immigrant use The Washington Post purposes. While the federal been in the country for five of public benefits fell off dra- government has prohibited even years. Immigrants are immedi- matically, prompting the U.S.’s Millions of Americans could legal immigrants from accessing ately eligible for SNAP if they Harvard University economist go hungry if U.S. President Don- many of these programs as soon have young children, and data George Borjas to look a. He found ald Trump moves forward with as they arrive in the U.S., some from multiple sources suggests that for every 10 percent drop a draft executive order that re- states allow access if they have that many households take the in the fraction of the immigrant stricts the welfare benefits avail- children under 18 years old. And government up on that bene- population that received public able to immigrants, according some federal benefits, such as fit. However, according to the assistance, there was a 5 per- to experts in immigration law. nutritional support for Women, Department of Agriculture, cent increase in the number of That’s because the order Infants and Children, the school the SNAP participation rate households classified as “food would restrict access to needs- lunch program and emergency among eligible noncitizens is insecure.” based nutrition programs, like Medicaid, are not restricted. already significant lower than Borjas recently ran the num- the Supplemental Nutrition Practically speaking, almost no it is among eligible citizens. bers on immigrants and welfare Assistance Program (SNAP), one is deported for receiving such “There is a perception that again: Last year, 8.9 million U.S. that are currently accessed by benefits unless there’s evidence participating in SNAP could households were headed by a millions of first-generation immi- they deceived the government affect immigration status...but noncitizen. Of those, almost grants both for themselves and at the time they immigrated. this is not true,” the depart- 3.8 million received Medicaid, on behalf of their second-gen- The executive order could ment writes in its guidance to food stamps or cash assistance. eration, citizen children. change that, barring potential noncitizens. “It is important for While it’s impossible to According to a recent analy- immigrants who may need nu- noncitizens to know they will calculate an exact number for sis by the National Academies trition assistance and making not be deported, denied entry how much taypayers could save, of Sciences, 45.3 percent of all the use of these programs a to the country, or denied perma- numbers from the National immigrant-headed households deportable offense. Advocates nent status because they apply Academy of Sciences suggest with children use a food as- say that will cut the number of for or receive SNAP benefits.” it could be near $19 billion. sistance program. Eighty-eight people who apply for SNAP and Trump’s draft order could, According to work by re- percent of all children living reduced-price school lunch, even of course, change that. searchers at the National Cancer with immigrant parents are when they, are legally eligible In 1996, then-U.S. President Institute, children who don’t get themselves U.S. citizens. for them. Bill Clinton signed the Personal enough to eat are more likely “He would literally be tak- “It’s a radical change to 100 Responsibility and Work Oppor- to develop chronic health con- ing food out of the mouths of years of case law that say the tunity Reconciliation Act, the ditions and to require hospital- babes,” said Kevin Appleby, exact opposite,” said Charles welfare-reform law that first ization. Among adults, hunger the senior director of interna- Wheeler, the director of training established the five-year wait frequently contributes to less tional migration policy at the and legal support at the Catho- time for cash benefits for im- productivity—as well as social Center for Migration Studies, lic Legal Immigration Network. migrants. In the years following isolation and illness. “and some of them would be “It’s like imprisoning someone U.S. citizens.” for failing to pay a debt. Didn’t The draft executive order, we take care of that a long time Cambodia Securities Exchange which was publicly leaked last ago?” Sunday, February 5, 2017 week, seeks to reduce the num- Immigrants already face ber of immigrants using gov- restrictions on the welfare Index Value Change Open High Low Volume ernment assistance. It’s unclear benefits they can receive, CSX 360.78 -3.48 360.01 360.78 360.78 2 when Trump plans to sign the Wheeler said. Since the late order, if at all, and whether it 19th century, it has been for- Stock Value Change Open High Low Volume will be signed in its current form. mal U.S. immigration policy PPWSA 4,100 - - - - - But as it is currently written, to deny admission to people Grand Twins 4,740 - - - - - the draft order instructs the who seem likely to need gov- PPAP 5,200 - - - - - State Department and Depart- ernment aid to subsist, usually PPSP 2,750 - - - - - ment of Homeland Security to because they’re unable to work overhaul their definition of a or require institutionalization. Foreign Exchange Source: Ly Hour Exchange “public charge”—a person who (Critics contend that, in recent is likely to become dependent years, this policy has not been ¥/US$ �����������������������������������112.573 Sing$/US$ �����������������������������1.4182 on government help after im- enforced.) When an immigrant £/US$ �������������������������������������0.8010 Euro/US$ �������������������������������0.9270. migrating. It would also make comes to the U.S. through a AU$/US$ �������������������������������1.3014 SKoreaW/US$ ��������������������� 1,137.01 immigrants who use public ben- familial connection, that spon- HK$/US$ ������������������������������� 7.7575 ThaiB/US$ ������������������������������35.05 efits “for which eligibility or sor must also sign an affidavit SwissF/US$ �������������������������� 0.9905 Riel/US$ ��������������������������������� 4,040 amount is determined in any promising to take responsibility way on the basis of income” for the immigrant’s finances. Local Gold Source: Ly Hour Exchange subject to possible deportation. Once they are admitted Under long-standing policy, to the U.S., legal immigrants Gold Type (O’Russei Market) Buying Selling the government has not consid- cannot apply for cash bene- Canadia ($/damlung)...... 1,470...... 1,480 ered receipt of nutrition, medical fits—including Temporary Kilo ($/damlung)...... 1,470...... 1,480 or housing benefits when eval- Assistance for Needy Families 99% ($/damlung)...... 1,450...... 1,460 uating if someone has become (TANF), Social Security and 97% ($/damlung)...... 1,410...... 1,420 AMBODIA AILY Monday, February 6, 2017 The C D 13 រាល់ដំណឹងទាំងអស់គ្មែនការភ័យខ្លែច ឬ លម្អៀង

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ចិន​តែវ៉ែន់​។​ ហ្វេសប៊ុក

​នៅ​ក䮓ុង​ពិធី​ពិសអាហារ​​សមគ្គី​នែ​សមគម​​​ លោក ធិន ច បាធានាធិបតី មីយ៉ាន់ម៉ា គោរព វិញ្ញាណក្ខន䮒 ពាះបរមរូប ពាះបរមរតនកោដ䮋 សម䮊ាច ឪ នរោត䮏ម សីហនុ ក䮓ុង ខ្មែរ​-ចិន​កាលពី​ថ䮄ែ​សៅរ៍​លោក​ ហ៊ុន​ សែន​ រាជធានី ភ䮓ំពាញ កាលពី ថ្ងា សុកា។

បន​ឆ䮛ៀត​ឱកាស​​បញ្ជែក់​ពីជំហរ​​របស់​កម្ពុជា កម្ពុជា​​​មិនយល់សៃប​​​លើការ​​​ធ្វើ​​​អន្តរជាតូបនីយកម្ម​​​​​​នៃវិ​​​បត្តិ​​​រ៉ូហ៊ីងយ៉ៃ​​​ ចំពោះ​​​​​កោះតែវ៉ែន់​​ដោយ​​​បន​បញ្ជែក់​ជា​​​​ថ្មី​​​​ម្តង​​​​​ HANNAH HAWKINS ទៀត​​ថា​រដ䮋ែភិបល​​​​​គំទែពែញទំហឹង​ចំពោះ​ ឃួន ណារីម និង បែទែស​មីយ៉ែន់ម៉ែ​​​​ឡើយ​​​​ដោយ​​​បែឆាំង​​​នឹង​​​​ ខៃមបូឌា​ដៃលី គោល​នយោបយ​​"​ចិន​តែ​មួយ​"​របស់​រដ䮋ែភិបល​​​​​ ពិភព​លោក​​ដែល​កំពុង​ភ័យ​​​ខ䮛ែច​​​​​​កាន់តែ​​​ខ䮛ែំង​​

កែុង​ប៉ែកាំង​។​ លោក​​​នាយក​​​រដ䮋មន្តែី​ ហ៊ុន​ សែន​ បន​​​ ឡើង​ថា​​​​នឹង​​​អាច​​​កើត​​​មនអំពើបែល័យ​​​ពូជ​

លោក​​លើក​ឡើង​ថា​"​យើងមិន​តែូវ​ធ䮜ើ​អ䮜ី​ ចែញ​​​ពី​​​ជំនួប​​​ពិភាកែសា​​​ការ​​​ងារ​​​ជាមួយ​​​លោក​​ សសន៍​​​​ក䮓ុង​ពែល​ឆាប់ៗ។ Htin Kyaw ដែល​នាំ​ទៅ​ដល់ការ​ប៉ះពាល់​​នូវ​ការ​គោរព​ ធិន​ច​( )​បែធានាធិបតី​​​​​​មីយ៉ែន់ម៉ែ​ បែសសន៍​​​របស់លោក​​​​ហ៊ុន​សែន​ តែូវ​​​

ឯករាជែយ​​អធិបតែយែយភាព​របស់ចិន​​​តាម​រយៈ​ ដែល​​​​​​មក​​​បំពែញ​​​ទសែសនកិច䮅​​​​​​កាលពី​​​ថ䮄ែសៅរ៍​​​​​​ បន​​​ដក​​​សែង់​​​ដោយ​​​លោក​​​​ ខៀវ​ កាញារីទ䮒​ ​

ការ​ចាប់​ដែ​ជាន់​ជើង​នោះ​ទែ។​ខ䮉ុំ​មិន​អាច​ធ䮜ើ​ ដោយបន​​​​​​បែកាស​​​ថា​លោក​​​មិន​​​បន​​​គំទែ​​​ រដ䮋មន្តែី​​​កែសួង​​​ព័ត៌មន​​​តាម​​​ទំព័រ​​​ហ䮜ែសប៊ុក​​​ថា

បន​​​នូវ​រឿង​នែះ​ទែ។​យើង​តែូវ​គោរព​នូវ​ "​​​ការ​​​ធ䮜ើ​​​អន្តរជាតូបនីយកម្ម​​​"វិបត្តិ​​​ជនជាតិ​ដើម​​​ "​​​កម្ពុជា​​​​​​មិន​​​យល់​​​សែប​​​លើ​​​ការ​​​ប៉ុន​​​ប៉ង​​​​​​​​​ធ䮜ើ​​​អន្តរ​

អធិបតែយែយភាព​របស់​ចិន​។​ការ​គោរព​អធិប​ ភាគតិច​​​​​រ៉ូហុីង​យ៉ែ​ដែល​​កាន់​តែ​ធ䮄ន់ធ䮄រ​​​​ឡើង​​​នៅ​​​ ជាតូប​​​​​​នីយកម្ម​​​បញ្ហែរ៉ូហុីងយ៉ែ​​​ទែ​ហើយ​​​ចាត់​​​ទុក​​​​​

តែយែយ​ភាព​របស់​ចិន​​មនតម䮛ែ​ស្មើ​ការ​គោរព​ តទៅទំព័រ១៦

អធិបតែយែយភាព​របស់កម្ពុជា​​ផង​ដែរ​"។ LDP គណបកៃស​​​​ បៃមូល​​​ផ្តុំ​​​គ្នៃ​​​ទាមទារ​​​ឲៃយ​​​ដោះលៃង​​​សមាជិក​​​១៣​​​នាក់ ដោយ​ចាត់ទុក​កោះតែវ៉ែន់​​ដែល​តែូវ​បន​​​​ អូន ភាព គែប់គែង​ដោយ​ឯករាជែយ​ថា​ជា​ខែត្ត​មួយ​របស់​​ នគរបល​បន​​​ឃាត់​​​ខ䮛ួន​​​សមជិក​គណបកែស​​​ ខៃមបូឌា​ដៃលី បែទែស​​​ចិន​ លោក​បន​បែកាស​ថា​ ទង់ជាតិ​ សម័្ពន䮒​​​ដើមែបី​​​បែជាធិបតែយែយ​ចំនួន​​​១៣​​​នាក់​​​

របស់​កោះ​តែវ៉ែន់​​មិន​តែូវ​លើក​នៅ​ក䮓ុង​បែទែស​​​ កែុម​មន្តែី​​​​​​បន​និយយ​​​កាលពី​​​មែសិលមិញ​​​​​​​​ថា​​ កាលពី​​​ថ䮄ែ​​​សៅរ៍​ដោយ​ចោទ​​​ពួកគែ​​​ថា​ បន​​​

កម្ពុជា​​ឡើយ។​លោក​មន​បែសសន៍​ថា​"​ខ䮉ុំ​ អ䮓កគំទែ​​​រាប់​​​រយ​​​នាក់​​​របស់​​​គណបកែស​​​សម័្ពន䮒​​​ បំផ䮛ែញ​​ដំណំ​និង​​​ប៉ុនប៉ង​​​ចាប់​​​យក​​​ដី​​​រដ䮋​​​ក䮓ុង​​​ឃុំ​​​ LDP សំណូមពរ​បង​ប្អូន​នៅ​ទីនែះ​កុំ​ដល់​ពែល​បុណែយ​​​​ ដើមែបី​​​បែជាធិបតែយែយ​( )​​​​កាលពី​​​មែសិល​មិញ​​​​​ តែជោ​​​អភិវឌែឍន៍​នៅ​​​សែុក​​​ឈូក។

ជាតិ​តែវ៉ែន់ម䮊ងៗ​​នាំគ្នែ​លើក​​ទៅ​ធ䮜ើ​​​ជួប​ជុំគ្នែ​ បន​​​ជួបជុំ​​​គ្នែ​​​នៅ​​​ខង​​​កែែ​​​ស䮓ងការដ䮋ែន​​​នគរ​ អ䮓ក​​​តវ៉ែ​​​ឈ្មែះ​រិន​ កុសល​ បន​​​និយយ​​​

តាម​សណ្ឋែគរ​​លើក​ទង់ជាតិ​តែវ៉ែន់​​នៅ​ក䮓ុង​ បល​​​ខែត្ត​​​កំពត​ដើមែបី​​​ទមទរ​​​ឲែយ​​​ដោះ​លែង​​​ ថា​បុរស​​​ទំង​​​នោះ​​​ជា​​​មនុសែស​​​​គ្មែន​​​​កំហុស​ទែ

ពិធីជប់​លៀង​ណមួយ​​មិន​អនុញ្ញែត​​ទែ​"។ សមជិក​​​បកែស​​​ដែល​​​ជាប់​​​ពន䮒នាគរ​​​១៣​​​នាក់។ ហើយ​​​គែែន់តែ​​​ការពារ​​​សមជិក​​​គណបកែស​​​ តទៅទំព័របន្ទាប់​ តទៅទំព័របន្ទាប់​

កាសែតបែចាំថ្ងែដ៏លែបីលែបាញតាំងពីឆ្នែំ១៩៩៣ ថ្ងៃ​​​​ច័ន្ទទី៦​ខៃកុម្ភៈ​ឆ្នៃំ២០១៧ ខ្មបូឌា ដ្លី ព័ត៌មានជាតិ ១៥ លោក ហ៊ុន ស្ន ហាម ... Taiwan External Trade Devel- របស់​ចិន​ត្វ៉្ន់​( កោះត្វ៉្ន់​​ដ្ល​បន​ច្ញ​ផ្សាយ​កាលពី​ឆ䮓្ំ​ opment Council តមកពីទំព័រ១៤ )​​​បន​ប្កាស​ថ​ខ䮛ួន​នឹង​បើក​ មុន​បង្ហ្ញ​ថ​ ពាណិជ្ជកម្ម​ទ䮜្​ភាគី​រវង​កោះ​​

លក​​បន​​​​​​​បន䮏​​​ថ​ ​​​ប្ទ្ស​​កម្ពុជា​​ក៏​​បន​​ ការិយ​ល័យ​មួយ​នៅ​殶ជធនីភ䮓ំព្ញ​​ក䮓ុង​ ត្វ៉្ន់​ និងកម្ពុជា​​ បនឈាន​ដល់​ប្មណ​

ចាត់ទុក​ ទីប្តិ៍​​​ជា​ខ្ត䮏​ស䮜យ័ត​​របស់​​​ចិន​ដ្ល​ បំណង​​​​​​បង្កើន​ពាណិជ្ជកម្ម​និងការ​វិនិយោគ​ ៧៤៤លន​ដុល䮛្រ​​ក䮓ុង​ឆ䮓្ំ​២០១៥​ពោលគឺ​

ចលន​ទមទរ​ឯក殶ជ្យ​​របស់​ខ䮛ួន​​ត្ូវ​​បន​គប​​​ រវង​កម្ពុជា​និង​កោះ​ត្​វ៉្ន់។ ធ䮛្ក់​ចុះ​ត្​១ភាគរយ​ប៉ុណ្ណ្ះ​បើធៀប​ទៅ​នឹង​​​

សង្កត់​ជា​​​យូរ​​មក​ហើយ​ ​ថ​​​ជា​ផ䮓្ក​មួយ​របស់​ ទោះជាយ៉្ង​ណា​ត្ឹម​១សប䮊្ហ៍​ក្្យ​​​ មួយ​ឆ䮓្ំ​មុន​នោះ។​​ការ​នំច្ញ​របស់​កោះ​

ចិន​ផង​​ដ្រ​​។​ មក​លក​​ហ៊ុន​ស្ន​​ប្កាស​ថ​លក​នឹង​ ត្វ៉្ន់​ មក​កម្ពុជា​ ​បន​​កើន​ដល់​​៦៧៨លន​

លក​​បន​ថ䮛្ង​ទៅ​កាន់អ䮓ក​ចូលរួម​​​ប្មណ​​​​ 殶殶ំង​ក្ុម​ប្ឹក្សា​ន្ះ​មិន​ឱ្យ​បើក​ការិយ​ល័យ​ ដុល䮛្រ​​ចំណ្ក​ឯ​ការ​នំ​ចូល​ពី​កម្ពុជា​​មន​ទំហំ​

៤.០០០​នក់​ថ​​​លក​​​​សម្្ច​បន䮏​គោល​នយោ​​​ ឡើយ​ដោយ​សរ​ត្​​រដ䮋្ភិបល​​ប្កាន់​ខ䮇្ប់​យ៉្ង​​​​ ទ​ឹក​ប្្ក់​​៦៦លន​ដុល䮛្រ​សម្្ប់​ឆ䮓្ំនោះ។​

បយ​ការ​បរទ្ស​យូរ​អង䮜្ង​របស់​កម្ពុជា​​​លើ​​​​បញ្ហ្​​​​ តឹងរុឹង​នូវ​គោល​នយោបយ​"​ចិន​ត្​មួយ​"​​​​​ថ䮜ីបើ​​ នៅ​តាម​ផ䮛ូវ​នន​ក䮓ុង​殶ជធនី​ភ䮓ំព្ញ​​កាល​

ប្ទ្ស​ចិន​។​លក​មន​ប្សសន៍​​​សំដៅ​ដល់​​​ ថ䮓្ក់​ដឹកនំ​ខង​ធុរកិច䮅​អំពាវ​នវ​ឱ្យមន​​វិធន​ការ​​​ ពី​ម្សិលមិញ​ ការ​រក​សុី​បើក​ដំណើរ​ការ​ធម្មតា​​

រដ䮋្ភិបល​​ដ្ល​ដឹកនំ​ដោយ​​អតីត​​​ព្ះ​មហា​​ ជាក់​ស䮊្ង​ជាង​ន្ះ​ដើម្បី​ជំរុញ​ការ​វិនិយោគ​​ សម្្ប់​សហគមន៍​​​ចិន​ត្វ៉្ន់​។​

ក្សត្​​​នរោត䮏ម​សីហនុ​រហូត​ដល់​ឆ䮓្ំ​១៩៧០​ ពី​កោះ​ត្វ៉្ន់​​ក䮊ី។​លើក​​ទី​១​​​​កោះ​ត្វ៉្ន់​បន​ ស䮏្ី​គណន្យ្យករ​ចូលនិវត䮏ន៍​​​​វ័យ៦២​ឆ䮓្ំ​ Chen ថ​"​​បង​ប្អូន​ត្ូវ​យល់​ថ​អ䮜ី​ទៅ​គោល​​​នយោ​បយ​​​ ព្យាយម​​បង្កើត​មជ្ឈមណ䮌ល​​​ពាណិជ្ជកម្ម​មួយ​ ម䮓្ក់​​​​ឈ䮘្ះ​ឈិន​( )​មកពី​កោះត្វ៉្ន់​

ការ​បរទ្ស​​ហើយ​ជា​នយោ​បយ​​ការ​​​​បរទ្ស​​ នៅ​殶ជធនី​ភ䮓ំព្ញ​​កាលពី​ឆ䮓្ំ​២០០៩។ ដ្ល​ ជា​​​អ䮓ក​មើល​ការ​ខុស​ត្ូវ​ម៉្ត​មួយ​កន䮛្ង​​​ Taiwanese ដ្ល​អនុញ្ញ្ត​​តាំង​ពី​ព្ះករុណា​ព្ះបិតា​ជាតិ​​​​​ ថ䮜ីបើ​​​​វ​ជា​ឆកល䮁្ន​ផ䮓្ក​ការ​ទូត​ក䮊ី​ក៏​លក​​​​ មនឈ䮘្ះ​ថ​ "គ្ួសរ​ត្វ៉្ន់"​ ( Family សម䮊្ចព្ះ​នរោត䮏ម​សីហនុ​ក䮓ុង​​​​​​​បញ្ហ្​ទក់ទិន​ ហ៊ុន​ស្ន​បន​គូស​បញ䮇្ក់​ថ​ការ​វិនិយោគ​​ )​ឱ្យ​មិត䮏ភក䮊ិ​និយយថ​គត់មន​គម្្ង​​​​

នឹង​គោល​នយោបយ​ចិន​​ន្ះ​​​ត្​ម䮊ង​"។ របស់​ចិន​ត្វ៉្ន់​​នៅ​​​​ប្ទ្ស​​​កម្ពុជា​ត្ូវ​បន​ ផ䮛្ស់មក​រស់នៅ​ទីន្ះ​ជាអចិន䮏្្យ៍​។​

ន្ះ​មិនម្ន​ជា​លើកទី១​ទ្​​ដ្ល​លក​ ស䮜្គមន៍។​លក​មន​ប្សសន៍​ថ​"​ខ្ញុំ​យល់​ អ䮓កស្ី​និយយ​ថ​ ​"​យើង​អាច​​មក​រក​សុី​

នយក​រដ䮋មន䮏្ី​បន​ព្យាយម​យ៉្ង​ខ䮛្ំង​ដើម្បី​ ព្ម​​ត្ឹម​ត្​រក​សុីប៉ុណ្ណ្ះ។​ ខ្ញុំ​ធ䮜ើ​បន​​ឧទ​ នៅ​ទីន្ះ​បន​"​ហើយ​​ការ​មិន​អើ​ពើ​ទក់​ទិន​

ធ䮜ើ​ឱ្យ​ប្្កដ​ថ​ វត䮏មន​​ផ䮛ូវ​ការ​របស់​​ចិន​ត្វ៉្ន់​​​​ ហរណ៍​​សព䮜ថ䮄្​មន​ការ​​ហោះហើរ​​​ពី​ត្បុិ​​មក​ ទង់​ជាតិ​ន្ះ​មិន​ប៉ះពាល់​ដល់​ការ​រក​សុី​​របស់​​​​​

នៅ​ត្​តិចតួច។​កាលពី​ខ្​កក្កដ​ឆ䮓្ំ​២០១៤ ភ䮓ំព្ញ​ពី​ត្បុិ​​ទៅ​សៀម殶ប"។ ព​​ួក​គ្​​​ទ្​។​ គត់​បន​បន䮏​ថ​ ​"នៅ​ទីន្ះ​មន​

ក្ុម​ប្ឹក្សា​អភិវឌ្ឍន៍​ពាណិជ្ជកម្ម​ក្្​ប្ទ្ស​​​​ យោង​តាម​ស䮐ិតិ​​របស់​ក្សួង​ហិរញ䮉វត䮐ុ​​ន្​ ឱកាស​ច្ើន"៕ សខុ មុ ​

គណបក្ស LDP ប្មូល ផ្ដុំ ... ពួកគ្​​​ក៏​​​បន​​​ឈូស​​​ឆយ​​​ដី​​​រដ䮋​​​ប៉ុនប៉ង​​​ដណ្តើម​​​ រក​​​លក​ លី​ គឹមហុង​ ដ្ល​​​បន​​​គ្ច​​​ពី​​​ការ​​​ តមកពីទំព័រ១៤ យក​​​ដី​​​​​នោះ​​​​​​​ដ្រ"។ ឃាត់​​​ខ䮛ួន​​​នៅ​​​ព្ល​​​ប្ឈម​​​មុខ​​​គ䮓្​​​នោះ។​​ជន​

សម័្ពន䮒​​​ដើម្បី​​​ប្ជាធិបត្យ្យ​ឈ䮘្ះ​​លី​​គឹមហុង​​​ ឧត䮏មស្នីយ៍​​​ទោ​ម៉្​ច័ន䮑មធុរិទ䮒​បន​​​មន​​​ សង្ស័យ​​​១៣​​​នក់​​នោះ​​​នឹង​​​ត្ូវ​​​បញ្ជូន​​​ទៅ​​​តុល​​

ដ្ល​​​​គត់​​​​​​និយយ​​​ថ​​បន​​ជាប់​​​ពាក់​ព័ន䮒​​​ក䮓ុង​​​​ជម䮛្ះ​​​​​​​ ប្សសន៍​​​ថ​លក​​​មិន​​​ប្្កដ​​​ថ​ដី​​​ចំនួន​​​ប៉ុន䮘្ន​​​​​​ ការ​​​នៅ​​​ថ䮄្​​​ច័ន䮑​​​ន្ះ។

ដី​​​ធ䮛ី​​​យូរ​​​មក​​​ហើយ​​​ជាមួយ​​​បង​​​ប្អូន​​​ស្ី​​​របស់​​​ខ䮛ួន​ ដ្ល​ពួក​​​ជនសង្ស័យ​រង​​​ការ​​​ចោទ​​​ប្កាន់​​​​ថ​បន​​​​​ លក​បន​​​បដិស្ធ​​ថ​ ការ​​​ចាប់​​​ឃាត់​​​ខ䮛ួន​​​

ទក់ទិន​​​​​​ដី​​​មួយ​​កន䮛្ង​​ទំហំ២៥អា​​នៅ​​​ទីនោះ។ ឈូស​​​ឆយ​​​នោះ​​​ទ្​ប៉ុន䮏្​​​ថ​​​​ក្ុម​​​ន្ះ​​​កំពុង​​​ត្ូវ​​​​​​​ ន្ះ​​​មិន​​​ពាក់ព័ន䮒​​​នយោបយ​​​ទ្។​"យើង​​​មិន​​​

គត់​​បន​និយយ​​​ថ​"នគរបល​​​បន​​​ឃាត់​​ បន​​សកសួរ​​​នៅ​​​ស䮓ងការដ䮋្ន​​​នគរ​​បល​​​ខ្ត䮏។ បន​​​ឃាត់​​​ខ䮛ួន​​​សមជិក​​​គណបក្ស​សម័្ពន䮒​​​ដើម្បី​​​

ខ䮛ួន​​​សមជិក​​​​និង​​​អ䮓ក​​​គំទ្​​​របស់​​​យើង​​​កាលពី​​​ លក​ សុឹម​ វុទ䮒្​ អភិបល​​​រង​​​ខ្ត䮏បន​​​ ប្ជាធិបត្យ្យ​ទ្។​យើង​​​បន​​​ឃាត់​​​ខ䮛ួន​​​ជន​

រសៀល​​​ម្សិលមិញ​ហើយ​​​ឥឡូវ​​​យើង​​​មក​​​ស䮓ើ​​​ មន​​​ប្សសន៍​​​ថ​ដី​​​មន​​​ជម䮛្ះ​​​នោះ​​​ស䮐ិត​​​ក䮓ុង​​​​​​ ល្មើស​ពីព្្ះ​​​ពួកគ្​​​បន​​​ប៉ុនប៉ង​​​កាន់កាប់​​​ដី​​​

សុំ​​​ឲ្យ​​​សមត䮐កិច䮅​​​ដោះល្ង​​​ពួកគត់​ពីព្្ះ​​​ តំបន់​​​​សម្បទន​សង្គមកិច䮅​​​ទំហំ​​​១.២៨០​​​ហិកតា​​​ សម្បទន​​​សង្គមកិច䮅"។

ពួកគត់​​​មិន​​​បន​​​ធ䮜ើ​​​អ䮜ី​​​ខុស​​​ទ្។​មនុស្ស​​​១៣​​​ ដ្ល​​​ត្ូវ​​​បន​​​ផ䮏ល់​​​ជូន​​​គ្ួសរ​​​ផ្ស្ង​​​ៗទៀត​​​ គណបក្ស​​​សម័្ពន䮒​​​ដើម្បី​​​ប្ជាធិបត្យ្យ​ដឹកនំ​​​​​

នក់​​​នោះ​​​បន​​​ព្យាយម​​​ឃាត់​​​ស䮏្ី​​​ម䮓្ក់​​​មិន​​​ឲ្យ​​​ រួច​​​ទៅ​​​ហើយ។ ដោយ​​​លក​ខឹម​វសន​ជា​​​អ䮓ក​​​នយោបយ​​​

ដំ​​​ដំណាំ​​​លើ​​​ដី​​​មន​​​ជម䮛្ះ​​​នោះ​ ហើយ​​​នគរ​ លក​​​បន​​​មន​​​ប្សសន៍​​​ថ​"ការ​​​ឃាត់​​​ និយយ​​មិន​​សំច្​មត់​ដ្ល​​​ល្បី​​​ល្បាញ​​​​ដោយ​​​

បលប្ហ្ល​​​២០​​​នក់​​​បន​​​មក​​​ដល់"។ ខ䮛ួន​​​ន្ះ​​​បន​​ធ䮜ើ​​​ឡើង​​​បន䮑្ប់ពី​​​ប្ជាពល​​​​រដ䮋​ជា​​​ សរ​​​​កម្មវិធី​​​វិទ្យុ​​​វយ​​ប្ហារ​របស់​​​លក។

ស䮓ងការ​​​នគរបល​​​ខ្ត䮏​ លក​ ​ម៉្​ ​ច័ន䮑​ ច្ើន​​​​​គ្ួសរ​​​បន​​​ប䮏ឹង​​​មក​​​សមត䮐កិច䮅​​​របស់​​​យើង​​​ ទោះ​​​ជា​​​យ៉្ង​​​ន្ះ​​​ក䮏ី​គណបក្ស​​​របស់​​​លក​​​

មធុរិទ䮒​ បន​​​​​លើក​​​​ឡើង​​​​ផ្ស្ង​​​ពី​ន្ះ​។​ លក​​​​​​ និង​​​បន​​​ចោទ​​​មនុស្ស​​​ចំនួន​​​១៣​​​នក់​​​នោះ​​​​និង​​​ ទទួល​​បន​​​ជោគជ័យ​​​តិចតួច​ណាស់​​នៅ​​ក䮓ុង​

មន​​​ប្សសន៍​​​ថ​ "យើង​​​បន​​​ឃាត់​​​ខ䮛ួន​​​មនុស្ស​​​​ ឈ䮘្ះ​ លី​ គឹមហុង​ ថ​បន​​​ប៉ុនប៉ង​​​ដណ្តើម​​​ ការ​​បោះ​​ឆ䮓្ត​ដោយ​​​ឈ䮓ះ​​​បន​​​ត្​​​​អាសនៈ​​​​

ចំនួន​​​១៣​​​នក់​​​កាលពី​​​ម្សិលមិញ​ពីព្្ះ​​​ពួកគ្​​​​ យក​​​ដី​​​របស់​​​គ្ួសរ​​​ន្ះ​"។ ក្ុម​​​ប្ឹក្សា​​​ស្ុក​មួយ​​​ប៉ុណ្ណ្ះ​នៅ​​​​ក䮓ុង​​​ការ​​​

បន​​​បំផ䮛្ញ​​​​​ដំណាំ​​​របស់​​​អ䮓ក​​​ភូមិ​​​ម䮓្ក់​ហើយ​​​ លក​​​បន​​​​​​បន䮏​​​​​​​ថ​នគរបល​​​​កំពុង​​​​បន䮏​​​ស䮜្ង​​​​​ បោះ​​​ឆ䮓្ត​​​ឃុំ​​​សង䮀្ត់​​​ឆ䮓្ំ​​​២០១៤៕ មនតិ ១៦ ព័ត៌មានជាតិ ខេមបូឌា​ដេលី ថ្ងៃ​​​​ច័ន្ទទី៦​ខៃកុម្ភៈ​ឆ្នៃំ២០១៧

កម្ពុជា​មិន​យល់​សេប​... ទំនង​​​​ជា​​មន​​​​ករ​​​បាពាឹត䮏​​​​​​ឧកាិដ្ឋ​​​កម្ម​​​​​​​បាឆំង​​​ ភ្ញាក់​​​ផ្អើ​​​ល​​​ឡើយ។ តមកពីទំព័រ១៤ មនុសាស​​​ជាតិ"។ លោក​មស​នី​បនមន​​​បាសសន៍​​​បន䮐ាម​​​ បញ្ហា​​​នាះ​​​ថា​ជា​​​បញ្ហា​​​ផ䮑ាក䮓ុង​​​របស់​​​មីយ៉ាន់​​​ម៉ា​​​ លោក​សុខ​ឥសន​អ䮓ក​​​នាំ家កាយ​​​គណបកាស​​​ ថា​ហើយ​​​ដោយសរ​​​​​​ផលិតផល​​​​​​ក䮓ុង​​​សាុក​​​សរុប​​​​ GDP ដាល​​​ធម្មនុញ្ញ​​​អាស៊ាន​​​​​​ហាម​​​ឃាត់​​​​​​ករ​​​លូក​ដា​​ បាជាជន​​​កម្ពុជា​​​​​​បន​​​មន​​​បាសសន៍​​​ឡើង​​​វិញ​​​ ( )​ទាប​​​របស់​​​បាទាស​​​កម្ពុជា​ក䮓ុង​​​តំបន់​​​​​ ព​ី​​​សមជិក​​​អាស៊ាន​​​ផងគ្នា"។ ថា​បាទាស​​​កម្ពុជា​​​និង​​​បាទាស​​​មីយ៉ាន់ម៉ា​​តាូវ​ រដ្ឋាភិបល​តាូវ​បាញាប់​​​​អាប​​​អប​​​បាទាស​​​​ណា​ ជន​​​ជាតិ​​​រ៉ូហុីងយ៉ា​​​គឺ​​​ជា​​​ជន​​​ជាតិ​​​ភគ​​​តិច​​​ បន​​​ចង​​​ភ្ជាប់​​​ដោយ​​​គោល​​​នយោបយ​​​មិន​​​ជាៀត​​​​​ ដាល​មន​ឥទ䮒ិពលជាង​។ មូស䮛ីម​​​​​មកពី​​​រដ្ឋ​​​រ៉ាក់ឃីន​​​ភគ​​​ខង​​​ជើង​​​​​​បាទាស​​​ ជាាករបស់​​​អាស៊ាន​​​។ លោក​​​បន​​​ថ䮛ាង​​​ថា​"​​​មីយ៉ាន់ម៉ាដើរ​​​មុខ​​​កម្ពុជា​​​​​ មីយ៉ាន់ម៉ា​​​កន䮛ាងដាល​​​ពួកគា​​​​​​ទទួល​​​រង​​​​​​ករ​​​ធ䮜ើ​​​ លោក​​​ម​​​ន​​​បាសសន៍​​​ថា​"​​​បញ្ហា​​​រ៉ូហុីងយ៉ា​​​​​​ រួច​​​ទៅហើយ​​​...។​យើង​​​តាូវ​​​ពឹង​​​ផ្អាក​​​លើ​​​​​​បាទាស​​​​​​ ទុក​​​បុក​​​ម䮓ាញ​​​​​​ដ៏​​​រល​​​ដល​​ពី​​​សំណាក់​​​បាជា​​​ជន​​​ គឺ​​​ជា​​​កិច䮅​​​ករ​​​ផ䮑ាក䮓ុង​​​របស់​​​មីយ៉ាន់ម៉ា...​​​។​យើង​​​ ជិត​​​ខង​​​"។ Soewin Sabira- ភគចាើន​​​ដាល​​​កន់​​​ពាះ​​​ពុទ䮒សសនា​​​នៅក䮓ុង​​​ មិន​​​ជាៀត​​​ជាាក​​​​​​កិច䮅​​​ករ​​​ផ䮑ាក䮓ុង​​​របស់​​​បាទាស​​​​​​ លោក​សឺវីន​សប៊ីរ៉ាម៉ាត់​( mad) បាទាស​​​នាះ។ ជា​​​សមជិក​​​អាស៊ាន​​​ឡើយ"។ ជន​​​ភៀស​​​ខ䮛ួន​​​រ៉ូហុីងយ៉ ា​​​​​​ម្នាក់ដាល​​​រស់នៅ​​​ យោង​​​តាម​​​របយ​​​ករណ៍​​​មួយ​​​ដាល​​​ចាញ​​​ លោក​សុខ​ ឥសន​ បន​​​មនបាសសន៍​​​ ក䮓ុង​​​បាទាស​​​កម្ពុជា​​​​​​​​បន​​​និយយ​​​ថា​ទន្䮑ឹងនឹង​​​​​​ ផាសាយ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ដោយ​​​​​​ករិយល័យ​​​ឧត䮏ម​​​ស䮓ងករ​​​អង䮂ករ​​​​​ ថា​ ស䮐ាន​​​ករ​​​ណ៍នាះ​​​វា​​​ខុសគ្នា​​​​​​ពី​​​សំណើ​​​របស់​​​ សហគមន៍​​​អន䮏រជាតិ​​​មិនមន​​​ចំណាត់ករ​​​នាះ​​​ សហ​​​បាជាជាតិ​​​ទទួល​​​បន䮑ុក​​​សិទ䮒ិមនុសាស​​​​​​កល​ពី​​​​ កម្ពុជា​​​កលពី​​​ឆ្នាំ​​​២០១៣សុំ​​ករ​​​អន䮏រគមន៍​​​ពី​​​ ហើយ​​​​​​​​​​ទើប​​​កាុម​​​គាួសរ​​​របស់លោក​​​នៅក䮓ុង​​​ សប䮏ាហ៍មុន​​​​​បន​​​ឱាយ​​​ដឹង​​​ថា​ចាប់​​​តាំងពី​​​ខា​​​តុលា​​​ អន䮏រជាតិ​​​ជុំវិញ​​​ជម្លាះ​​​បាាសទ​​​ជាមួយ​​​បាទាស​​​​​ បាទាស​​​មីយ៉ាន់ម៉ា​​​​​​​បន​​​ទទួល​​​រងគាាះ​​​​​។ មក​បាតិបត䮏ិករ​​​យោធា​​​​​​បន​​​សម្លាប់​​​មនុសាស​​​​​​រប់​​​​​​ ថា​​​​​​នៅក䮓ុង​​​ខាត䮏​​​ពាះ​​​វិហារ។ លោក​​​សឺវីននិយយ​​​ថា​"​​​ខ្ញុំបន​ទូរស័ព䮑​​​​​ទៅ​​​ រយ​​​នាក់​​​​ហើយ​​​បន​​ធ䮜ើ​ឱាយ​បាជាជន​​បាហាល​​​​​​ លោក​​មន​​​បាសសន៍​​​ថា​"​​​គ្មាន​​​បាទាស​​​ណា​​ ម䮏ាយ​​​របស់ខ្ញុំ​​​កលពី​​​មួយ​​​សប䮏ាហ៍​​​មុន​​​​គត់​​​មិន​​​ ២២.០០០នាក់​​​​នាក់ផ្លាស់ទីលំនៅ​ក䮓ុង​បាទាស​។​​​​​​ មួយ​​​ជំរុញ​​​ឱាយ​​​កម្ពុជា​​​ដោះសាាយ​​​បញ្ហា​​​នាះ​​​​ជា​​​​ អាច​​​ធ䮜ើ​​​អ䮜ី​​​បនទា។​លោក​មិន​​​អាច​​​ចាញ​​​កាា​​​​​បន​​​​​ គា​​​ជឿថា​បាជាជន​​​៦៦.០០០​នាក់​​​ទៀត​​​​​​​បន​​ អន䮏រជាតិ​​​ទា​គឺ​​​កម្ពុជាខ䮛ួន​​​ឯង​​​យក​​​បណ្តឹង​​​នាះ​​​ ទា។"។​គត់​បន​​​បន䮐ាម​​​ថា​បង​​​ប្អូន​​​បាុស​​​​​ម្នាក់​​​និង​​​​​ ភៀស​​​ខ䮛ួន​​ទៅ​​​កន់​​​បាទាស​​​បង់​​​ក្លាដាស។ ទៅកន់​​​​​​ត​​​ុលាករ​​​អន䮏រជាតិ​​ហើយ​​​​​បាទាស​​​ជា​​​ បង​​​ប្អូន​​​សាី​​​​ពីរ​នាក់​របស់់​​​​គត់​ក​៏​​​កំពុង​​​ជួប​​ភព​​​ របយករណ៍​​​ដដាល​​​នាះ​​​បន​​​លើកឡើង​​​ សមជិក​​​អាស៊ន​​​ផាសាង​​​ទៀត​​​​​​នៅ​​​ស䮄ៀម​​​"។ កាីកា​​​ហើយ​​​រស់នៅ​​​ដោយ​​​ករ​​​ភ័យ​​​ខ្លា​​​ច​ដារ​។ ថា​"​​​ករ​​​វាយ​​​បាហារ​​​មក​​​លើ​​​​​​ជន​​​ជាតិ​​​រ៉ូហុីង​យ៉ា​​...​​​​​​​ លោក​មស​នី​​​​អ䮓ក​​​វិភគ​​​នយោបយ​​​​​​បន​ លោក​​​​​​និយយ​​​ថា​"​​​បាជាជន​​​មិន​​​អាច​​​​​​ធ䮜ើ​​​អ䮜ី​​​ ហាក់ដូច​​​ជា​​​មនករ​​​រល​​​ដល​​ពាមទាំង​​មន​ មន​​​បាសសន៍​​​ថា​​ករ​បាឆំង​​​​របស់​​​រដ្ឋាភិបល​​​​​​​​​​​ បន​​​ទា។​ពួកគត​​​់​​​​​​​​​មិន​​​អាច​​​ធ䮜ើ​​​ករ​​​បន​​​ឡើយ​​​។ ” លក䮁ណៈ​​​​ជាបាព័ន䮒ផង​ដារ​ដោយ​​​បង្ហាញ​ថា​ ទៅ​នឹង​ករ​​​ធ䮜ើ​​​អន䮏រជាតូបនីយកម្ម​​​​​​គ្មាន​​​អ䮜ី​គួរ​​​ តើ​​​ពួកគត់​​​បនអ䮜ី​​​​​ទទួលទាន​​​​​​ទៅ? ៕​​​សរនុ ​ Volume 15, Issue 359 Monday, February 6 2017

The Cambodia daily English Weekly çöìönEÚºCÁk‰WÑö‹kXö“lˆ ö Fill in the Blank Idioms

Choose the word that best MAdE oF MoNEy - To be very rich. completes each sentence. I can’t afford a brand-new Lexus SUV. I’m not made of 1.) A law that could eliminate the opposition money! CNRP ahead of _____ elections is expected to be approved at the National Assembly in April, a CPP spokesman said on Friday. wAlK oN EggSHEllS - To be very careful. My boyfriend just forgave me yesterday for calling him a. soon b. little more c. almost d. upcoming stupid, so I’m walking on eggshells to make sure I’m nice to him.

2.) Prime Minister Hun Sen announced plans dANCE wiTH dEATH - To do something very dangerous. on Thursday to _____ alter the law governing political parties so that “anyone committing Crossing the roads in Phnom Penh without looking both serious mistakes would cause their party to ways first is dancing with death. be dissolved,” in a blatant reference to opposi- tion leader Sam Rainsy, who faces a slew of criminal charges widely perceived as politi- cally motivated. Antonyms a. drastic b. drastically c. drastical d. drasticness Pick the antonym—the opposite—of the word in parentheses.

3.) CPP lawmakers and the party’s legal 1.) Kith Meng, one of the country’s (wealthiest) businessmen, is behind three pro- experts met on Friday to discuss the proposed posed hydropower dams, the Council of Ministers has confirmed, including what amendment and decided to do everything _____ to pass it when the National Assembly would be the largest by far on the main stream of the Mekong River in Cambodia. returns in April, party spokesman Sok Eysan said. a. best b. worst c. poorest d. coolest

a. possible b. possibly 2.) The 400-megawatt hydropower project is nearing completion after being plagued by c. could d. can accusations of illegal logging, forced evictions and (heavy) damage to local fish stocks. 4.) “Because the National Assembly will return to session in April so we have two a. serious b. minimal c. some d. hurtful months _____ —February and March—and then we will have enough time to draft the 3.) All three projects have been on the government’s drawing board for years, part of amendment and submit the petition for a pro- its plans to (lower) some of the highest electricity prices in Southeast Asia. posed amendment with the National Assembly,” he said. a. higher b. deal with c. cancel d. raise a. timing b. to c. left d. going

Answers Answers Fill in the Blank: Antonyms: 1.) d, 2.) b, 3.) a, 4.) c 1.) c. poorest, 2.) b. minimal, 3.) d. raise page 2 Monday, February 6, 2017

WORD SCRAMBLE Target Unscramble each set of mixed-up letters, one letter in each space, to form ordinary words. S E O PRAS T A C 1. __ I N R How many words of two letters or more can ICAA you make from the above letters? In each 2.___ word, each letter can be used only once. There must be at least one nine-letter word in your list. The answers will be in RDELE next week’s edition. 3. ___ Targets: 8: good 12: very good 20 or more: excellent ELBU Last week’s answers: balancers, barnacles, barnacle, arables, arsenal, 4. __ balance, cablers, lancers, abaser, arable, arcane, arenas, balers, blares, braces, cabals, canals, clears, cleans, lancer, rascal, scarab, abase, acres, areas, Now arrange the letters in the circles to find the answer, as suggested in the following arena, clear, clean, saner, snarl, base, acne, aces, clue: able, barn, bars, earl, crab, clan, sane, sale

Hint: The above words all make up the first part of these delicious, round, pickable fruits. Wise Words

Answer: ______“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”

“If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be RIDDLE polished?” Are you clever enough to figure out this mental puzzle? “Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”

“Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputa- • What belongs to you, but others use far tion. Be notorious.” more often than you do? “Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”

Answers “Silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation.”

“Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Word Scramble Unfold your own myth.” 1.) rasp, 2.) acai, 3.) elder, 4.) blue; Answer: berries. Jalaluddin Rumi Iranian poet Riddle: Your name. 1207-1273 Monday, February 6, 2017 page 3

Select the part that is not the Synonyms: Pick the word or phrase that most acceptable form in standard written English. closely matches the meaning of the word or phrase in parentheses. 1.) Eight months ago, Adam Whittington, the (a. so- called) “child recovery agent” was (b. languished) in 1.) The trial of (prominent) activist Tep Vanny was post- a stark Lebanese jail facing kidnapping charges poned on Friday after the hearing descended into chaos (c. after) a failed attempt to snatch two children from when she became enraged upon learning that new com- plainants against her were from the notoriously violent the streets of Beirut and (d. return) them to their Daun Penh district security guard unit. mother. a. unknown b. famous c. good d. controversial 2.) Now, the former Australian soldier is (a. free) and has turned up in Cambodia, where on Thursday, he was 2.) Ms. Vanny was being questioned at the Phnom Penh (b. sitted) in a smart bar and restaurant in Phnom Penh Municipal Court (over) a 2013 protest in which some 30 talking about his latest venture, (c. which)will see him shift residents of the capital’s eviction-hit Boeng Kak neighbor- hood attempted to deliver a petition seeking the release of his focus from rescuing kidnapped children to hunting fellow activist Yorm Bopha. State security forces beat 10 (d. down) pedophiles with the launch of Project Rescue of the activists and threw others in police trucks. Children (PRC). a. regarding b. above 3.) After Mr. Whittington (a. snatched) the children c. in d. because from the street, they (b. was) taken to a safe house with their mother (c. while) he arranged for them to 3.) During her questioning, Ms. Vanny erupted after (d. be)taken out of the country by boat. catching a glimpse of one of the plaintiffs, Hor Hoeun, who was a member of the Daun Penh district security guards, a unit that gained notoriety for (brutality) before and after the 2013 general election. 4.) The TV crew, who (a. were) filming for the popular “60 Minutes” program, were (b. released) with Ms. a. sophistry b. craziness Faulkner after the network (c. forked in) a huge pay- c. cruelty d. effectiveness ment to her estranged husband to (d.drop) the charges. 4.) Mr. Hoeun and another guard, Uk Rotana, claim they were knocked unconscious by Ms. Vanny after she 5.) Mr. Whittington (a. believes) a rival investigator (pelted) them with plastic bottles, soft drink cans and informed Lebanese police (b. about) the sting. He also shoes. accused the TV network of (c. lying) by claiming they had not paid him in an attempt to distance a. bought b. killed (d. himselves)from the case. c. rioted d. bombarded

6.) PRC, (a. which)on its Facebook page (b. states)“We 5.) “I am feeling bad when the plaintiff is the person who beat us while we protested for nearly 10 years,” she said, Hunt Those Who Hunt Children,” officially launches (yelling)and pointing directly to his face. today, (c. although) it has already been (d. conducted) surveillance work on suspected pedophiles and children a. talking b. louding at risk. c. screaming d. suggesting

6.) The judge then called Mr. Hoeun back into the court- room, but security guards couldn’t locate him. As a result, the judge adjourned the hearing without Answers (mentioning)when it would be rescheduled.

Select the part a. saying b. scheduling 1.) b. languishing, 2.) b. sitting, 3.) b. were, c. officiating d. acting 4.) c. forked out, 5.) d. themselves, 6.) d. conducting Synonyms 1.) b, 2.) a, 3.) c, 4.) d, 5.) c, 6.) a •TrANSLATEd NEwS From The Cambodia daily (prEviouS iSSuES)

As Evictions Start Again, Kbal Chhay ពល​​​រដ្ឋដែលមិនពែម​​​​​​ចែញពី​​​​​​តំបន់​​​កែបាល​​​ឆាយ​​​ចាក​​​ Holdouts Leave Their Homes ចែញ​​​ហើយ​​​​ខណៈការ​​​បណ្តែញ​​​ចែញ​​ចាប់​​​ផ្តើម​​​ជា​​​ថ្មី​​​

By AishA Down Most of the site’s residents ដោយA ishA Down The Cambodia daily are poor day-laborers in Almost all of more than town who bought patches of ខែមបូឌា​ដែលី 100 families still living on dis- land there without a title, បែជាពលរដ្ឋស䮑ើរតែទាំងអស់ក䮓ុងចំណមបែជាពលរដ្ឋជាង ១០០ គែួសារ puted land near Sihanouk- lured by cheap offers from ville’s Kbal Chhay waterfall opportunists and specu- ដែលនៅតែរស់នៅលើដីដែលមនវិវាទកែបែរតំបន់ទឹកធ្លែក់កែបាលឆយក䮓ុងកែុងពែះ were finally cleared out from lators. The state began to សីហនុនោះ ទីបំផុតតែូវបនបណ្តែញចែញពីកន្លែងនែះកលពីពែឹកមែសិលមិញ ដោយ the site yesterday morning evict them from the area in កម្លែំងសន䮏ិសុខរបស់រដ្ឋែភិបលដែលបនបន䮏រុះរើផ䮑ះជាចែើនខ䮓ងដែលពួកគត់បន by state security forces, who November. រស់នៅ។ proceeded to tear down Yun Min, the provincial យោងតាមបុគ䮂លិកសិទ䮒ិមនុសែសក䮓ុងមូលដ្ឋែនម្នែក់បនឲែយដឹងថា ករបណ្តែញ many of families’ cr ude governor, promised to give ចែញដោយបង䮁ំនែះបនកើតឡើងក䮓ុងរយៈពែលតែមួយសប្តែហ៍ប៉ុណ្ណែះបន្ទែប់ពី houses. those on the disputed land បែជាពលរដ្ឋ ១២០ គែួសារ ដែលរស់នៅលើដីនោះបនយល់ពែមទៅរស់នៅលើដី The forced eviction came new plots, but many resi- ថ្មីទំហំ ៥ ម៉ែតែ គុណនឹង ២០ មែ៉តែ នៅកែបែររោងចកែកត់ដែរមួយកែែកែុងពែះ just over a week after the dents had refused to go, សីហនុ។ 120 families living on the saying the new space was ប៉ុន䮏ែបើទោះជាមនករពែមពែៀងនិងយុទ䮒នករបន䮏ដើមែបីបណ្តែញបែជាពលរដ្ឋ land agreed to move to new too small for them to make ចែញពីកន្លែងនោះក៏ដោយ ក៏ពួកគត់មួយចំនួននិយយថា ពួកគត់គ្មែនករភ្ញែក់ 5-by-20-meter plots of land a living. ផ្អើលឡើយ។ near a garment factory out- On January 20, however, លោក សំ ឌី អាយុ ៤៦ ឆ្នែំ ដែលមនផ䮑ះមួយខ䮓ង និងចម្កែរខ䮓ុរនៅលើដីដែលមន side Sihanoukville, accord- about 120 holdout families វិវាទនែះបននិយយថា “ពួកគែមិនដែលបែែប់យើងមុនថា ‘អ䮓កទៅកន់ដីថ្មីហើយ ing to a local rights worker. finally agreed to an offer ចាប់ផ䮏ើមសង់ផ䮑ះដោយខ្លួនឯងនៅទីនោះទៅ’ឡើយ។ ពួកគែគែែន់តែមកហើយ However, despite the deal from Mr. Min to enter a lot- ‘ ” and an ongoing campaign to tery to decide which plot និយយថា រុះរើដោយខ្លួនឯងទៅ អ䮓កមនដីនៅទីនោះហើយ' ។ evict people from the site, they would receive, said Bun ករបណ្តែញចែញនែះជាផ䮓ែកមួយនែវិវាទដីធ្លីដែលបន䮏កើតមនជាមួយពលរដ្ឋ some of the residents said Narith, who has been moni- បែហែល ៣.០០០ គែួសារ ដែលរស់នៅលើដីរដ្ឋចម្ងែយបែហែល ១៥ គីឡូម៉ែតែ ពី they were still caught off toring the evictions for តំបន់ឆ䮓ែរ។ ភគចែើននែបែជាពលរដ្ឋដែលរស់នៅទីនោះគឺជាកម្មករកែីកែដែលបន guard. rights group Licadho. ទិញដីមួយកែបាលតូចៗនៅទីនោះដោយមិនមនប័ណ䮎កម្មសិទ䮒ិ ដែលតែូវបនអូស “They never told us “They said they would ទាញដោយជនឱកសនិយម និងអ䮓ករកសុីខាងអចលនទែពែយថាមនតម្លែថោក។ before, ‘You go to the new enter the lotter y for land រដ្ឋែភិបលបនចាប់ផ䮏ើមបណ្តែញពួកគត់ចែញពីតំបន់នោះកលពីខែ វិច䮆ិក។ land and start to build your- from the state,” he said. លោក យន䮏 មីន អភិបលខែត䮏បនសនែយាផ䮏ល់ដីថ្មីដល់បែជាពលរដ្ឋដែលរស់ self a house there,’” said Tuy Vanny, who had land នៅលើដីដែលមនវិវាទនែះ ប៉ុន䮏ែពួកគត់ភគចែើនបនបដិសែធមិនពែមទៅ ដោយ Sam Dy, 46, who has a at Kbal Chhay, said he went និយយថា ដីនោះមនទំហំតូចណាស់ដែលពួកគត់មិនអាចបែកបរបរចិញ䮅ឹមជីវិត house and jackfruit field on to the site yesterday morn- បនឡើយ។ the disputed land. “They just ing and was surprised to see លោក ប៊ុន ណារិទ䮒 នែអង䮂ករសិទ䮒ិមនុសែសលីកដូដែលបនតាមដនករ came and said ‘Remove the crew of police and mili- បណ្តែញចែញបនមនបែសាសន៍ថា ទោះជាយ៉ែងណា កលពីថ䮄ែទី ២០ ខែមករា yourselves—go—you have tary police officers. បែជាពលរដ្ឋបែហែល ១២០ គែួសារ ដែលមិនពែមចាកចែញនោះ ទីបំផុតបនយល់ land there already.’” “They evicted nearly all of ពែមទទួលយកសំណើរបស់លោក យន䮏 មីន ឱែយចាប់ឆ្នែតដើមែបីសមែែចថា តើពួក The evictions are part of them,” he said. “I wasn’t គត់នឹងទទួលបនកែបាលដីមួយណា។ លោកបនថ្លែងថា “ពួកគែនិយយថា ពួក an ongoing land conflict brave enough to get too ” involving about 3,000 fami- close.” គត់នឹងចាប់ឆ្នែតដើមែបីទទួលយកដីពីរដ្ឋ ។ lies living on state-owned Mr. Min, the provincial លោក ទុយ វណ䮎ី ដែលមនដីនៅតំបន់កែបាលឆយបននិយយថា គត់បនទៅ land about 15 km from the governor, could not be កន់កន្លែងនោះកលពីពែឹកមែសិលមិញ ហើយមនករភ្ញែក់ផ្អើលដោយឃើញ coast. reached yesterday. នគរបល និងកងរាជអាវុធហត䮐យ៉ែងចែើន។ លោកបននិយយថា “ពួកគែបនបណ្តែញបែជាពលរដ្ឋស䮑ើរតែទាំងអស់។ ខ្ញុំ holdout (n.) ​អ䮓ករឹងទទឹង មិនមនភពក្លែហានគែប់គែែន់ដើមែបីចូលទៅជិតទែ”។ tear down (phr. v.) រុះរើ លោក អភិបលខែត䮏 យន䮏 មីន មិនអាចទាក់ទងបនទែ៕ សារុន crude (adj.) បែបបណ្ដែះអាសន䮓 evict (v.) បណ្ដែញចែញ • NoTES state-owned (adj.) ដែលជាកម្មសិទ䮒ិរបស់រដ្ឋ day-laborer (n.) កម្មករគ្មែនជំនាញធ្វើការដោយទទួលបែែក់ថ្ងែ The English weekly is prepared by: title (n.) ប័ណ្ណកម្មសិទ䮒ិ Brendan O’Byrne opportunist (n.) ជនឱកាសនិយម Associate: speculator (n.) អ䮓កទិញទុកលក់យកចំណែញ,​ឈ្មួញ,​អ䮓ករកសុី Kim Chan refuse (v.) បដិសែធ The Cambodia daily • No. 29, Street 84 lottery (n.) ការចាប់ឆ្នែត,​ការផែសងពែែងសំណាង PhNom PeNh, Cambodia • tel: 855-23-426-602 Monday, February 6, 2017 The Cambodia Daily Regional 17

“The U.S.-Japan alliance is critical to ensuring that this region remains safe and secure.” Regional —US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis Page 20 Burma’s Probe of Lawyer’s Killing Beset by Leaks, Confusion

By Shwe Yee Saw Myint and Simon Lewis Reuters rangoon - Burma’s National Police chief has taken personal charge of an investigation into the killing of a prominent lawyer and adviser to Aung San Suu Kyi’s ruling party, police sources said, after leaks and conflicting comments by officers about its progress. The killing of Muslim advo- cate Ko Ni, 63­—shot in the head last Sunday in front of onlook- ers while he held his grandson outside Rangoon’s international airport—has rocked the com- mercial capital, where acts of political violence are rare. It comes amid heightened religious and communal tensions in the Buddhist-majority coun- Reuters try, with a report from the U.N. Supporters carry the coffin of Ko Ni, a prominent member of Burma’s Muslim minority and a legal adviser human rights office on Friday for the ruling National League for Democracy, in Rangoon last Monday. saying a military crackdown on Rohingya Muslims in the gation on condition of anonym- The leak sparked a race on Ko Ni, the office said in a state- northwest in recent months ity, said the military’s domestic social media—use of which has ment, adding that police were “very likely” amounted to crimes intelligence agency was also rocketed in Burma since recent searching for more suspects. against humanity. involved in the probe. telecommunications reforms— Police said Kyi Linn—who is Tens of thousands turned A military intelligence agent to identify a man who, according charged with murder—has been out for Ko Ni’s funeral, and told reporters he was instructed to the document, Kyi Linn said imprisoned twice in the past for the public is closely watching to monitor Ko Ni in the months enticed him to shoot Ko Ni. trafficking Buddhist artifacts, how authorities investigate a before the lawyer’s death. Facebook users posted pho- but was released in a 2014 am- killing the civilian president’s The intelligence agency was tos of purported suspects, and nesty granted by then-President office has called an attempt to primarily concerned with finding analyzed CCTV footage from Thein Sein. destabilize the state. out how the suspect obtained the airport to devise often far- Another former cellmate Colleagues have told re- a firearm, ownership of which fetched conspiracy theories. told reporters he thought Kyi porters Ko Ni was working on is tightly controlled in Burma, Many in Burma distrust the Linn would do anything “for his amendments to Burma’s military the official said. police, who are under the re- business and money,” adding: “I drafted constitution to help the The suspected shooter— mit of the military. don’t think he is related to any National League for Democra- named by police as Kyi Linn, Police themselves have made political and religious issues.” cy-led government rule effective- 53—was arrested after a group contradictory statements on In his home village of Sai ly in a system that keeps soldiers of taxi drivers chased him down. whether suspects are under Lyar, members of Kyi Linn’s in control of key ministries. One of the drivers was himself arrest or not. family were shocked by the Maj. Gen. Zaw Win, chief shot and killed. The office of Burmese Pres- news, carried by police and of the Burmese police force, Despite a ban on police ident Htin Kyaw said late on reporters who have visited arrived in Rangoon from the officers talking publicly about Friday that a 46-year-old named their farming community in capital, Naypyitaw, on Thursday the case, photographs showing Aung Win Zaw had been de- rural Sagaing Division since to oversee the probe, which is parts of a report on Kyi Linn’s tained in the early hours of last last Sunday. being led by the police’s criminal interrogation have spread wide- Monday, just hours after Ko Ni’s “I am sure my brother would investigation department, two ly online. Officials believe the shooting, in the eastern state of not kill someone on his own,” police officials told reporters. images were leaked after police Kayin, which borders Thailand. Kyi Linn’s younger sister, Win The official, who like other used the messaging app Viber Aung Win Zaw is accused of Kyi, told reporters. “There must police spoke about the investi- to share them with colleagues. conspiring with Kyi Linn to kill be someone behind him.” 18 Regional The Cambodia Daily Monday, February 6, 2017 Church ‘Out of Touch’ in Blasting Drug War, Philippines Says

Reuters were indifferent to the killings, Manila attended by reporters, mistakes,” she said. “Let’s give or even approved of them. though not all. Church sources them a chance to change.” manila - The Philippine govern- Abella, a former pastor, said said the Archdiocese of Manila Elsewhere in Manila, at the ment derided Catholic bishops the war on drugs had made the issued a circular telling parish- Chapel of the Eucharistic Lord, yesterday as “out of touch” after country safer, “far from the ‘ter- es to read the pastoral letter, a packed congregation listened they used weekend sermons to ror’ the bishops paint rather a copy of which was obtained attentively to the plea to stop attack a war on drugs they said dramatically.” by reporters prior to the first the killings. had created a “reign of terror” “The officials of the CBCP readings. “Life is a gift from God, and for the poor. are apparently out of touch with The drugs war is a conten- only God can take it away,” Members of the Catholic the sentiments of the faithful tious issue, with some bishops said Ligaya Reyes, a govern- Bishops’ Conference of the who overwhelmingly support keen to make a stand and others ment worker. “It was a strong Philippines had dramatized the changes in the Philippines,” hesitant to risk a backlash by statement, it should have been Philippine President Rodrigo Abella said in a statement. criticising a campaign that enjoys made a long time ago when the Duterte’s campaign and, instead More than 7,600 people have broad public support. killing began.” of criticizing, should focus on been killed since Duterte un- Duterte has routinely at- The statement was also heard contributing to the “reign of leashed a ferocious crackdown tacked the church, and as re- at a chapel in the Philippine peace” that innocent people seven months ago, with over cently as this week called for a National Police headquarters on now felt, presidential spokes- 2,500 dying in police raids and “showdown” with priests whom Saturday. Not all agreed with it. man Ernesto Abella said. sting operations. he has accused of having wives, “They’re not being killed if The church assailed blood- Human rights groups believe engaging in homosexual acts, they just surrender,” said a police shed that had caused suffering, many other deaths that police graft and child abuse. officer’s wife, who gave her name and said killing people was not had attributed to vigilantes were Katrina Rufael, an office as Dolores and said the PNP the way to deal with illegal carried out by assassins likely worker who attended mass had been unfairly depicted as drugs. colluding with police. The gov- at the Baclaran Redemptorist murderers for shooting drugs In a pastoral letter read ernment and police vehemently Church, said the pastoral letter suspects resisting arrest. out on Saturday and repeated deny extrajudicial killings have was justified. “We have to op- “What the president’s doing to congregations at churches occurred. pose the war on drugs, because right now...he’s doing good. Be- yesterday, bishops said it was The CBCP’s message was we cannot just put an end to the cause for the common people, disturbing that many Filipinos read at numerous churches in life of people who have made it’s our safety.” Monday, February 6, 2017 The Cambodia Daily Regional 19

people,” they should be helped Rohingya... on humanitarian grounds. Oth- Continued from page 1 ers from the village echoed that sentiment, saying they were proposed in 2015—to move fellow Muslims and deserved thousands of people to this assistance. uninhabited island about 250 The crisis is the biggest chal- km northwest of their border lenge facing the government camps. of Aung San Suu Kyi, strain- While most experts dismiss ing Burma’s relations with the the scheme as impractical, a countries of the region hosting Bangladeshi minister told re- large Rohingya populations such porters this week that it was as Bangladesh and Malaysia, as determined to push ahead with well as the U.S. the plan, adding authorities About 1.1 million Rohingya would provide shelters, other live in apartheid-like conditions facilities and livestock. in northwestern Burma, where they are denied citizenship. Many in Buddhist-majority Burma regard them as illegal “We have only heard immigrants from Bangladesh, bad things about the while the authorities in Dhaka say they are Burmese nationals Rohingya. If they work and must ultimately go back with the pirates and get to Burma. It takes about two hours by involved in crime—we boat from Rahman’s village on don’t want them here.” the coast of Sandwip—one of the largest islands in an archi- —Bangladeshi villager pelago in southern Bangladesh —to Thengar Char. Reuters Reporters were escorted Top: Rohingya refugee children attend school, where they are learning Local administrators, how- there by a fishing boat and a to read the Quran at Kutupalang Unregistered Refugee Camp in Cox’s ever, say they have not been coast guard vessel carrying Bazar, Bangladesh, on Saturday. Bottom: A Rohingya refugee man informed, and when reporters seven officers equipped with carries water at the camp on Saturday morning. visited the island the only signs Chinese-made machine guns to of activity were a few buffalo stave off potential pirate attacks. mighty Meghna river. 30,000 Rohingya living in lazily grazing on the yellow Villagers complain criminals While Thengar Char looked camps run by the U.N. near the grass along its shores. roam the nearby waters, seizing calm on a sunny winter after- border with Burma, while tens “We have only heard bad vessels, stealing the catch and noon, the main objection voiced of thousands more are crammed things about the Rohingya. If releasing fishermen only after by aid agencies to Bangladesh’s into slums that have grown up they work with the pirates and receiving a ransom. plan is the area’s unforgiving around them, without proper get involved in crime—we don’t Thengar Char is flat and climate. sanitation or health care. want them here,” said Mizanur featureless, covered by bushes, “These areas are cyclone The Rohingya from those Rahman, 48, the administrator grass and windswept trees. It and flood-prone,” said Quamrul settlements sometimes find of Might Bangha village, the emerged from the sea about 11 Hassan, a meteorologist at the employment, but most are closest settlement to Thengar years ago, off Sandwip’s western Bangladesh Weather Depart- sustained by local villagers and Char. coast, one of myriad shifting, ment, adding that the islands rations quietly distributed by Rahman added, however, unstable islands formed by in the Bay of Bengal were “es- international aid agencies. that if the Rohingya were “good sediment in the mouth of the pecially risky” to inhabit. “We can operate here, but “Average rainfall during the we can’t really talk about it,” monsoon season in the coastal said one aid worker based in areas is more than double that of the border region. the other parts of the country.” Rohingya refugees spoken Many people living on the to by reporters did not want islands are regularly evacuated to stay where they were—but during the cyclone season to neither did they want to be shelters built on the coast, said moved to Thengar Char. local journalist Saleh Noman. “We left everything in Bur- He thought the relocation ma,” said Abu Salam from Kya plan wasn’t realistic. Guang Taung, a village in north- “There is a similar island ern Burma that was destroyed in the area and it took some in the crackdown. He crossed 40 years for it to develop. But the border in December. even now it’s all very basic,” “That’s where our home is. he said. If only we could get citizenship, There are currently about we would like to go back.” 20 Regional The Cambodia Daily Monday, February 6, 2017 Mattis Reaffirms US Alliance With Japan ‘for Years to Come’

Reuters anese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has increased defense tokyo - U.S. Defense Secretary spending since taking office Jim Mattis wrapped up a visit to in December 2012, a move he Japan on Saturday reaffirming said was “on the right track.” Washington’s commitment to its Japan’s defense spending defense treaty with Tokyo amid is about 1 percent of gross concerns about U.S. President domestic product, compared Donald Trump’s approach to the to about 2 percent for China region and the alliance. and more than 3 percent for Mattis reiterated that provo- the U.S. cations by North Korea, which Mattis also repeated that is advancing its nuclear weapons Trump’s administration would and missile programs, as well as adhere to Washington’s com- China’s growing as sertiveness mitment to defend disputed in the South and East China Reuters East China Sea islands that are Seas, left no room for doubt US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, left, and Japanese Defense Minister under Japanese control, but are about U.S. commitment to Tomomi Inada attend a news conference after a meeting at the also claimed by China, an as- Japan’s defense. Japanese Defense Ministry in Tokyo on Saturday. surance that Tokyo has been That was similar to the mes- keen to hear. sage that Mattis—making his Japan were benefiting from a Tomomi Inada. Inada said she told Mattis first overseas trip since tak- U.S. security umbrella without But in what could been seen that Japan would play a proac- ing office—delivered in South sharing enough of the costs. as a subtle prod to Japan to do tive security role, in line with Korea, Washington’s other key “The U.S.-Japan alliance more, he said: “But make no legal changes enacted under Asian ally, earlier in the week. is critical to ensuring that mistake: In my meetings with Abe that eased the limits of He appeared eager to reas- this region remains safe and Japanese leaders, both our na- its pacifist constitution on its sure Japan of U.S. resolve, after secure—not just now, but for tions recognize that we must military’s operations overseas. suggestions by Trump during years to come,” Mattis said at not be found complacent in the At the start of her talks with last year’s election campaign a joint news conference with face of the emerging challenges Mattis, Inada said she hoped his that both South Korea and Japanese Defense Minister we face.” visit to Seoul and Tokyo would “As our alliance grows, it deepen three-way security ties. will be important for both our Japan’s relations with South Ko- nations to continue investing rea have frayed recently due to in our defense personnel and a feud over wartime history, just capabilities,” he said. as tensions over North Korea Mattis said Tokyo’s finan- make cooperation vital. cial support for U.S. troops in “South Korea is an important Japan had been a “model of neighbor,” Inada said. “I want cost-sharing” while Inada said to link Secretary Mattis’ visit to there had been no discussion of Japan and South Korea to the whether Japan should increase further deepening of defense that funding. cooperation among the three Mattis also noted that Jap- countries.”

Regional Brief China Outlines Plans for Territory Development beijing - China on Saturday issued its first strategic plan for ter- ritory development and preservation, outlining the protection of arable land reserves and islands, the official Xinhua News Agency reported. Issued by the State Council, the plan demands the retention of 1.2 million square km of arable land by 2030, roughly the size of South Africa. China, the world’s third-largest country by size, has a landmass of 9.6 million square km and nearly 3 million square km of maritime area. Urban areas must occupy no greater space than 116,700 square km by 2030, according to the plan. The plan also calls for enhanced restoration of the ecology on the nation’s islands. It also said infrastructure on islands with development plans must be improved to protect their natural resources. The plan said development of tourism projects on remote islands would be encouraged, and the ocean economy would account for a greater share of the country’s growth. (Reuters) Monday, February 6, 2017 The Cambodia Daily Regional 21 South Korea’s Blue House Blocks Search During Graft Probe

Reuters compound, the office said. inal offense except insurrection their effort to search her office. The prosecution later said it or treason. Prosecutors were also search- seoul - South Korean special had asked acting South Korean The Blue House said earlier ing the offices of the Korea Fair prosecutor officials withdrew President Hwang Kyo-ahn for the offices could not be searched Trade Commission and the Fi- from the presidential Blue House cooperation in getting access to for security reasons and it would nancial Services Commission in on Friday after it blocked them search the presidential offices. instead provide documents as their investigation of Samsung from searching offices there, in “We arrived at the conclusion requested by prosecutors. Group, whose leader, Jay Lee, the latest twist in a corruption we cannot force our search if the Park was stripped of her has been named a suspect in scandal that has gripped the subject refuses,” Lee Kyu-chul, powers after parliament voted the scandal. He has denied country for months. the spokesman for the special to impeach her, but she remains wrongdoing. Park was impeached by par- prosecutor, said. in the Blue House compound. A Korea Fair Trade Commis- liament on December 9 on suspi- He said he believed the search Her prime minister, Hwang, sion spokesman confirmed that cion of colluding with a long-time could go ahead if the acting pres- has been acting president since investigators were conducting a friend, Choi Soon-sil, to pressure ident gave his approval. then, while she waits for the Con- raid, but did not comment on big business to donate to two The Blue House called the stitutional Court to either uphold details. A spokeswoman for foundations set up to back the attempt to search the presiden- or reject the parliamentary vote. the FSC said prosecutors were president’s policy initiatives. tial office unconstitutional as the Television broadcaster YTN making copies of documents and Park is also accused of allow- president cannot be charged with had said the prosecutor’s office searching offices. She said the ing Choi to exert inappropriate a crime while in office. wanted to search the offices of raid was linked to prosecutors’ influence over state affairs. Both “It is a deep regret that their the Blue House chief of staff, suspicion that the Samsung of them have denied wrongdoing. excessive investigation with a as well as offices used by Park’s Group had provided bribes to The special prosecution office warrant naming the president bodyguard detail. Park and Choi for favors regarding has not explained why it needs as a suspect violates the con- No raid has ever been suc- its businesses. to search the Blue House, saying stitution,” the office said in a cessfully carried out on the Blue If Park’s impeachment is only that it would be done in statement, referring to the prose- House. upheld by the Constitutional connection with its investigation. cutor’s warrant to raid the office. Lee, the special prosecutor’s Court, she will become the first A prosecution team trying The law states that as long spokesman, said investigators democratically elected leader in to carry out a search on Friday as Park remains president, she would question the president, South Korea to be removed from was blocked at a gate into the cannot be charged with any crim- regardless of the outcome of office. Missing Chinese Tycoon’s Company Operating, But Shares Slump

Reuters on its official microblog late on spokesman Lu Kang declined Hong Kong last year of five staff Thursday its own operations to comment on the matter at who worked for a bookseller that shanghai/beijing - Listed firms were unaffected. a daily briefing. published gossip on China’s controlled by Tomorrow Hold- “The production activities A spokesman for Canadian leaders. ings, the company run by miss- of Tomorrow Holdings and its Foreign Affairs Minister Chrys- Three of those staff were ing Chinese-born businessman subsidiaries are operating as tia Freeland said consular offi- detained while in China, but Xiao Jianhua, slumped on Friday, normal,” the company said in a cials were “actively reaching out” two with foreign passports were despite the parent group saying statement on messaging service to local authorities about Xiao, taken there against their will its businesses were all operating WeChat. “We thank everyone for who is a Canadian citizen. He from Thailand and Hong Kong. normally. their interest and deep love for declined to comment on whether Xiao was ranked 32nd on Mystery swirled around bil- Mr. Xiao Jianhua and our firm.” Xiao holds a Canadian passport. last year’s Hurun China rich lionaire Xiao’s whereabouts ear- However, shares in firms di- Despite conflicting accounts list, China’s equivalent of the lier this week, with some reports rectly or indirectly controlled of Xiao’s whereabouts, the case Forbes list, with an estimated saying he had been abducted by Tomorrow Group slumped has echoes of the abduction in net worth of $5.97 billion. from Hong Kong and taken to on Friday, with Baotou Huazi mainland China. Industry and Xishui Strong Year A statement purportedly Inner Mongolia both falling by Regional Brief from Xiao posted in a Hong Kong the maximum 10 percent. newspaper said he was seeking In a notice, dated February medical treatment “outside the 3 and posted on the door of its China Punishes 11 Officials After Fatal Bus Fire country.” listed Beijing office, the firm said beijing - The government of the northern Chinese region of Hong Kong police told re- it had not been told to cooperate Ningxia has punished 11 officials for dereliction of duty after a porters that Xiao had entered in any legal investigations, add- deadly bus fire last year killed 18 people in the regional capital mainland China through a ing it could use legal means to go Yinchuan. The man blamed for starting the fire, Ma Yongping, border checkpoint on January after media outlets for spreading was executed in December. He set alight two plastic bags filled 27 and that they were seeking rumors. The office appeared to with gasoline on the bus after getting involved in a personal work more information from Chinese be unused and a receptionist dispute, according to an official account of his crimes. In a state- authorities. at the building told a reporter ment late on Saturday carried by the ruling Communist Party’s Tomorrow Holdings, a fi- that the company had moved. anti-corruption watchdog, the Ningxia government said the fire nancial group headquartered He did not give further details. exposed a lack of concern and lack of sense of responsibility by in Beijing, said in a statement Chinese Foreign Ministry certain officials. (Reuters) 22 International The Cambodia Daily Monday, February 6, 2017

“Without the presence of the president, the republic is likely to become stronger.” International —Isabel Almeida, Angolan national Page 23 Documents Show Trump Still Benefits From Business Assets

By Rosalind Helderman and Drew Harwell The Washington Post Before taking office, U.S. President Donald Trump promised to place his assets in a trust designed to erect a wall between him and the businesses that made him wealthy. But newly released docu- ments show that Trump him- self is the sole beneficiary of the trust and that it is legally controlled by his oldest son and a longtime employee. The documents, obtained through a public records request by the investigative news service ProPublica and first reported by The New York Times, also show that Trump retains the legal power to revoke the trust at any time. Reuters The documents were filed to US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump attend the 60th Annual Red Cross Gala at the Alcoholic Beverage Control Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida, on Saturday. Board in Washington to alert the board that oversees liquor be run by family members comment about the documents Those resignations provide licenses at Trump’s D.C. hotel who remain the most trusted on Saturday. evidence the president no longer of the change in the business. members of Trump’s inner circle, The trust document obtained has official management respon- The documents show that raising questions about whether by ProPublica is attached to li- sibilities in the businesses, as he Donald Trump Jr., the presi- Trump’s promises to limit com- cense filings tied to Trump’s and his attorney pledged during dent’s eldest son, and Allen munication about the business’s Washington hotel, and it remains a news conference last month. Weisselberg, the Trump Orga- fate are realistic. unclear whether other Trump Still, Trump will continue to nization’s chief financial officer, “What I’m going to be doing businesses are governed under profit from their success. were placed in legal control of is my two sons, who are right the same trust. The company The company has also named the trust on January 19, one day here, Don and Eric, are going has declined requests to provide Bobby Burchfield, a veteran Re- before Trump took office. to be running the company,” company trust agreements that publican lawyer who has advised But they outline that the Trump said at a news confer- could provide more clarity. both Bush presidential teams, trust’s purpose is “to hold as- ence shortly before taking office. In recent weeks, corporate to serve as an outside ethics sets for the exclusive benefit “They are going to be running filings have documented that the adviser, indicating that some of Donald J. Trump,” who “has it in a very professional manner. Trump Organization has been corporate transactions would the power to revoke the Trust.” They’re not going to discuss it removing the president as an not be undertaken without The records provide docu- with me.” officer or director of the more his sign-off. mentary evidence of what ethics Less than two weeks after than 400 entities registered The question of Trump’s experts have been warning about returning to their New York across the country associated continued ownership stake has since before Trump took office. home following their father’s with the organization. been particularly nettlesome at While Trump has promised inauguration, Donald Trump Jr. The Trump Organization his Washington hotel, which is he will observe a separation and his brother Eric Trump, also also provided a list, signed by located in the Old Post Office between his business and the assigned to run the business, Trump on the day before his building and is owned by the presidency, he retains ownership were back in Washington this inauguration, of more than 400 federal government. The terms of the business and will per- week to attend the announce- companies from which he had of the 2013 lease agreement with sonally benefit if the business ment of Trump’s nominee to agreed to resign. Other com- the General Services Admin- profits from decisions made by the Supreme Court. panies have been dissolved in istration prohibit any elected his government. Trump Organization repre- recent months, the company official from benefiting from Further, the business will sentatives did not respond for said. the property. Monday, February 6, 2017 The Cambodia Daily International 23 Angola’s Dos Santos Calls End To 38-Year Reign as President

Reuters years as low crude prices ham- mered growth in sub-Saharan luanda, Angola - Angolan Pres- Africa’s third largest economy. ident Jose Eduardo dos Santos Critics accuse dos Santos— confirmed on Friday he would Africa’s second longest-ruling not run in this year’s presidential leader after Equatorial Guin- election, calling an end to 38 ea’s President Teodoro Obiang years as head of state, but he will Nguema Mbasogo—of misman- retain control of the powerful aging Angola’s oil wealth and ruling party. making an elite—mainly his Dos Santos, aged 74, said family and political allies—vastly in March he would not run in rich in a country ranked amongst elections due in August this the world’s most corrupt. year, but opponents remained Married to former model suspicious given he had reneged and air hostess Ana Paula, 18 on similar pledges during nearly years his junior, dos Santos has four decades running Angola. been accused of trying to build a The ruling People’s Move- family dynasty to control Angola ment for the Liberation of Ango- beyond his lifespan. la (MPLA) approved 62-year-old “He’s pursuing a legacy plan Defense Minister Joao Lourenco with family members retaining as its presidential candidate at control of key financial institu- a meeting on December 2, dos tions,” said Darias Jonker, Africa Santos said in a televised speech. Director at Eurasia Group. “We Lourenco told reporters he see signs that he plans to retain was ready to step out of dos some power behind the throne.” Santos’ shadow and lead the The MPLA won parliamen- ruling party’s campaign despite tary majorities in the three elec- having only seven months before tions since the end of the war. national polls. Lourenco, a former soldier “It is a big challenge, but I and deputy president of the believe that although difficult, MPLA, is a close ally of dos it is not impossible to replace Santos. Also a veteran of the President dos Santos,” Lourenco independence struggle, Louren- said in the capital Luanda shortly co studied history in the Soviet after the announcement of his Union from 1978 to 1982 before candidacy. starting a long career in politics. Dos Santos, a commu- Angolans in the streets of the nist-trained oil engineer and capital Luanda were cautiously a veteran of the guerrilla war optimistic of the prospects of life against Portuguese rule, will re- under a new president for the main president of the MPLA, first time in nearly four decades. retaining sweeping powers that “Without the presence of the include choosing parliamentary president, the republic is likely candidates and appointing top to become stronger, because he posts in the army and police. has already given the best he His inscrutable public de- had to give to the party,” said meanor belies his tight control 33 year-old sales manager Isabel of Angola, where he has overseen Almeida. an oil-backed economic boom Some Angolans were more and the reconstruction of infra- skeptical, saying they preferred structure devastated by a 27-year to wait and see whether dos civil war that ended in 2002. Santos would truly step down “The real news is dos San- and relinquish his grip on the tos hanging on,” said Gary van administration. Staden, political analyst at NKC “I think that seeing is be- African Economics. lieving, because the president Despite its oil wealth, most of has spoken so many times about Angola’s 22 million people live in retiring but never accomplished poverty and they have become it, said a 28-year-old man who increasingly frustrated in recent didn’t give his name. 24 International The Cambodia Daily Monday, February 6, 2017 Kuwait Denies Travel Ban Praised by Trump

Reuters dubai - Kuwait has denied a media report which said it had imposed a travel ban on citizens from several Muslim-majority countries, a story which U.S. President Donald Trump praised on Facebook. “Smart!” a post on Trump’s official Facebook page said on Thursday, linking to a report on Jordanian news website Al Reuters Bawaba which alleged that Ku- Syrian Democratic Forces fighters dance in the north of Raqqa city, Syria, on Friday. wait had “mirrored” a decision by the Trump administration to temporarily bar travelers from US-Backed Force in New Phase of IS Assault several countries. The article alleged that Reuters southern Syria on Friday night, es yet to capture the I.S.-held “Syrians, Iraqis, Iranians, Pa- hitting an ammunition depot, a Euphrates dam. kistanis and Afghans” would not raqqa province, Syria - An car bomb factory and a barracks. Airstrikes on Friday in Raqqa be allowed to enter the Gulf alliance of U.S.-backed mili- I.S. is fighting hard to pre- hit two bridges over the Euphra- state “while the blanket ban tias started a new phase of its serve its Syria foothold as it los- tes river, hindering movement is in place.” campaign against the Islamic es ground in Iraq. It still holds from the city southwards and But Kuwait’s Foreign Min- State militant group-held city swaths of Syrian territory, mostly killing six IS militants, the istry refuted the report, which of Raqqa on Saturday, aiming to in central and eastern Syria. Syrian Observatory for Human was widely picked up by news complete its encirclement and A SDF commander told Rights reported. websites popular with Trump sever the road to militant strong- reporters the forces had so far U.S. support for the SDF has supporters including Breitbart, holds in Deir al-Zor province. advanced a few kilometers in been a point of tension with Infowars and Sputnik. The Syrian Democratic the latest phase, which aims to NATO ally Turkey, which views Kuwait “categorically denies Forces said in a statement the capture areas to the east of the the YPG as an extension of the these claims and affirms that action was being undertaken city, including the highway link- Kurdistan Workers Party, a group these reported nationalities... with “increasing support from ing it to Deir al-Zor province. that has fought a three-decade have big communities in Kuwait the [U.S.-led] international Deir al-Zor, which is almost insurgency in Turkey. and enjoy full rights,” a ministry coalition forces” through both entirely in I.S. hands, stretches The U.S. says it is providing spokesman was quoted as saying airstrikes and backing from all the way to the Iraqi border. training and material support on state news agency KUNA coalition special forces on the A Kurdish military source told only to Arab elements of the on Friday. ground. reporters on Tuesday that the SDF. It supplied them last Confusion and protests at The SDF, which includes the goals of this phase include cap- month with armored vehicles airports greeted the executive powerful Kurdish YPG militia, turing the main highway. for the first time to help in the order Trump signed last week- launched its campaign in No- Several hundred U.S. special Raqqa campaign. end to bar for 90 days entry into vember aimed at encircling and forces soldiers have been sup- U.S. President Donald the U.S. by travelers from Iran, ultimately capturing Raqqa. It porting SDF operations against Trump signed an executive Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, is the main U.S. partner in the I.S. in northern Syria. order last week requesting the Syria and Yemen. fight against I.S. in Syria. Representatives of the U.S.- Pentagon, joint chiefs of staff Representatives of the coun- I.S. is also being fought in a led coalition looked on as the and other agencies to submit a tries as well as several neigh- separate campaign by the Turk- statement declaring the start preliminary plan in 30 days for boring nations condemned the ish army and Syrian rebel groups of the new phase was read out defeating I.S. move, but Trump on his Twitter northeast of Aleppo, and on sev- in a village in northern Raqqa The U.S.-backed campaign account said the initiative had eral fronts across Syria by the province. against I.S. in Syria has focused support in the region. Syrian government backed by This is the third phase of mostly on northern parts of the “Interesting that certain the Russian air force and Iran- the Raqqa operation. The first country. Turkey launched its Middle-Eastern countries agree backed militia. phase targeted areas north of own offensive against the group with the ban. They know if cer- Jordan, part of the U.S.-led Raqqa city. The second, tar- along the border in August, de- tain people are allowed in it’s coalition, said it had conducted geting areas to the west of the ploying its army in support of death & destruction!” he wrote. airstrikes against I.S. targets in city, is ongoing, with SDF forc- Free Syrian Army rebel groups. Monday, February 6, 2017 The Cambodia Daily International 25 Poland’s ‘Bluff’ in EU’s Climate Talks Tests Bloc’s Patience

Reuters to uphold its pledge made as reporters, in which Poland out- ers there, no doubt,” a Polish part of the global climate change lines its position for other mem- diplomat said, adding that its brussels - Poland is threaten- deal reached in 2015 in Paris to ber states, takes issue with the new protest was only an opening ing to challenge a draft E.U. slash greenhouse gas emissions “legal basis and global context” gambit in the early stages of climate law in court, E.U. doc- by at least 40 percent below of the climate change draft. negotiations. uments seen by reporters show, 1990 levels by 2030. Warsaw proposes to strike A spokeswoman for the Eu- in its latest move to slow the Climate rules touch a raw from the title and preamble to ropean Commission said it was bloc’s campaign against global nerve in Poland, however: More the draft any mention that it confident of the legal grounding warming that Warsaw sees as than 80 percent of its energy aims to fulfil the E.U. commit- for its climate change bill. a menace to its coal-powered comes from high-polluting, coal- ment to the Paris Agreement, “It’s a bluff [by Poland],” said energy industry. fired plants and the conservative saying the wording is “too another E.U. official, though In what Polish diplomats Law and Justice (PiS) party, far-reaching” and raises doubt adding that the E.U. execu- describe as leverage for talks elected in 2015, campaigned about the voluntary nature of tive was still concerned it may now underway on how to spread on a pledge to defend the coal the global pact. cause market uncertainty. “The the burden of E.U. climate goals industry. It also cites an article in minute they get what they want, among member states, Warsaw is Warsaw’s opposition to E.U. E.U. treaties that says rules they’ll drop it. For them, it’s an opposing the legal basis for the climate goals is driven by a on a nation’s “choice between issue of national pride.” rules—a battle it could take to wider anger on the part of the different energy sources” can There is precedent suggest- the European Court of Justice. euroskeptic government over only be adopted with the unan- ing Poland’s action is serious: It puts Poland at odds with E.U. complaints that its policies imous consent of the bloc’s 28 It has separately sued at the the rest of the 28-nation bloc, are eroding Polish democracy, nations, which would bypass the ECJ to undo an E.U. reform of deepening fears in Brussels for including steps to limit the E.U.’s environmentally-minded the carbon market that added the E.U.’s ability to take the lead independence of the judiciary parliament. to costs of burning fossil fuel. if U.S. President Donald Trump and media. Polish diplomats pushed to Under the PiS government, rows back, as he has warned, “But to challenge the legal append this same wording to Poland has become the first in from global diplomacy to tackle basis [of E.U. climate policy] is the E.U.’s ratification of the the E.U. to be put under Eu- climate change. extreme even for Poland,” one December 2015 Paris accord ropean Commission watch to The E.U.’s climate talks aim E.U. official told reporters. to curb greenhouse gases. ensure it sticks to the rule of to strike a burden-sharing deal An E.U. document seen by “We were the troublemak- law and democratic principles. 26 International The Cambodia Daily Monday, February 6, 2017 Cameroon Forest Defenders Fight Loggers Using Smartphones

Reuters “The government needs to streamline its forest governance kadey, Cameroon - In an inno- reforms by putting an end to vative push to combat illegal impunity,” said Richard Eba’a logging and the corruption Atyi of CIFOR, an international that enables it, community forest research organization. volunteers in Cameroon are Anicet Ngomin, the Forest being trained to use smart- and Wildlife Ministry’s head phones to take geo-tagged of monitoring for reforestation, images of freshly cut stumps said the government was as- and relay the information to sessing the gravity of the illegal the authorities. logging problem and seeking Under a partnership between ways to get communities in- the government and environ- volved in protection efforts, mental groups, young people are particularly since the signing using satellite-linked phones to Reuters of the Paris Agreement on cli- document tree cutting in areas A trained forest defender is ready for duty tracking down evidence of mate change. where logging is not allowed. illegal logging in Kadey, Cameroon’s East Region, early last month. “Empowered people, capable They can then upload the of taking action and contributing photos and make toll-free calls Rodrique Ngozo, Foder’s est resources for their livelihood to the protection of their forest to report the suspicious activ- chief of programs, said the and so, when involved in the resources, will certainly help in ity, not just to the police and forest defenders would act as control of their own resources, the fight against forest resource Forest Ministry, but also to the whistle-blowers under the legal they do so in the best interest of depletion,” Ngomin said. National Anti-Corruption Com- protection of the government. their community and the future In October last year, the gov- mission, said Bangya Dieudonne, Such work can be risky, of their children.” ernment reinstated payments a forestry and wildlife official however. Global Witness, an Volunteers say they are ex- of 10 percent of annual forestry in Kadey, in the country’s East international human rights or- pected to pass on what they royalties to local communities. Region. ganization, documented 185 have learned to others in their Those payments had been sus- “Getting these three institu- killings of people defending communities. pended in 2014 after a new tax tions informed makes it difficult their forests, land or rivers “We have been trained not regime allocated the money to for forest exploitation criminals across 16 countries in 2015, only to monitor illegal and cor- councils instead. to bribe their way through,” he the highest annual death toll rupt activities in our forest, but Officials say progress is be- said. on record. also to train others to better fight ing made in cracking down on Training frontline forest de- Eric Tah of Cameroon wild- illegal logging,” said Bertrand illegal logging. fenders aims to reduce illegal life law enforcement organiza- Eyoum, one of the new forest In November, the govern- deforestation, which is depriving tion LAGA, which works with observers in Kadey. ment suspended the concessions the government of millions of the government, described The training has given local of 23 logging companies and dollars in income, hurting com- the forest defenders’ work as people a better understanding two community interest groups munities that make their living “a tough job.” of the importance of their forest working on forest issues for six from the forest and making the “You must be committed resources and the need to fight months. country more vulnerable to the to do it and the government is corruption, he added. The government said they effects of climate change, offi- aware of the dangers involved,” A report by the Congo Basin were guilty of unauthorized cials said. he said. Forest Partnership says corrup- logging, fraudulent use of With corruption continuing Security has been beefed up tion is “promoting illegality in documents, and failure to to hamper forest management, by deploying elite soldiers in the sector with serious conse- comply with contractual obli- new and stronger measures are forested areas to support forest quences for the environment, gations and technical operating needed, Dieudonne said. guards and community defend- local communities and the state’s standards. So far, more than 100 people ers in their efforts to stop illegal budgetary revenues.” Early last year, Cameroon also have been trained as community operators, he added. Timber is Cameroon’s second suspended the licenses of four “forest defenders” in the East Despite the danger, involving most important export commod- logging companies, issued 35 Region and other areas where communities in reporting ille- ity after crude oil, according to other companies with warning logging has been especially gal logging can be an effective government statistics. In past notices and generated $88,139 prevalent, officials said. way to curb it, not least because decades, logging has accelerat- in fines related to illegal forest The training has been or- most people living in or near ed, attracting Chinese, Leba- activities. ganized in collaboration with forests depend on them and nese, French and other foreign “These suspensions are the Forest and Rural Development, have a strong interest in their companies. latest in the government’s grow- or Foder, a Cameroonian group protection, experts say. The presence of many timber ing efforts to tackle illegality that works with communities to “The forest people are the firms, combined with a failure to and reinforce governance in the monitor forest activities, combat most vulnerable to the effects of apply forestry laws, has fueled a forest sector,” said Philip Ngole corruption and improve gover- forest exploitation and climate surge in illegal activities, experts Ngwese, Cameroon’s minister nance of forests. change,” said Manfred Epanda, say. Training volunteers is seen of forestry and wildlife, at Sep- The Rainforest Founda- Cameroon coordinator for the as a good step, but much more tember’s observance of Inter- tion UK is also supporting the African Wildlife Foundation. needs to be done to curb illegal national Anti-Corruption Day project. “They depend on these for- deforestation, they argue. in Yaounde. Monday, February 6, 2017 The Cambodia Daily Opinion 27 Refugees Are Vigorously Vetted. I Know—I Vetted Them

By Natasha Hall and screenings, including home interview, the officer has a stack ment performs its own inten- The Washington Post country reference checks and of biographical information on sive screening. The refugees’ biological screenings such as the refugee. information and fingerprints conducted one of my last iris scans. The Homeland Security of- (also taken by Homeland Se- interviews as an immigra- By the time Homeland Se- ficer then conducts a detailed curity officers) are run through tion officer with the De- curity steps in to conduct an interview. Next, our govern- the databases of nine law en- partment of Homeland forcement, intelligence and ISecurity in Istanbul, with security agencies and matched Mahmoud and his 8-year-old against criminal databases and son from Aleppo, Syria. The biographical information such boy had lost his legs in the ex- as past visa applications. plosion that killed Mahmoud’s Even before this extreme wife, sister and other children. vetting process was established, It was supposed to be his first refugee resettlement did not day at school in two years. In- represent a profound threat to stead, they were in my office, Americans’ safety. reliving the worst experiences According to a report re- of their lives in an attempt to cently released by the Cato come to the U.S. Institute, out of millions of I had never been both so sad refugees resettled to the U.S. and so proud that this boy would over several decades, just 20 be able to come to the U.S. and have committed or attempted start school and a new life. Now attacks. I imagine them, four years after They killed three people, leaving Syria and three years all in the 1970s, before the cre- after registering as refugees, ation of the modern screening being told to go back. system. The annual chance of This is what U.S. President being killed in a terrorist attack Trump’s recent executive order committed by a refugee is 1 in has done. The order bans entry The Cambodia Daily 3.6 billion. for citizens of seven countries Bernard Krisher, Publisher So not only does the exec- for 90 days, suspends all refugee Deborah Krisher-Steele, Deputy Publisher utive order provide no logical admissions for 120 days, halves Colin Meyn, Editor-in-Chief benefit to national security, such the total number of refugees Jodie DeJonge, Managing Editor policies feed into the extremist Chansy Chhorn, News Editor allowed into the U.S. this year Michael Dickison, Deputy Managing Editor narrative that the U.S. hates and bars refugees from Syria Kate Ginn, Deputy Managing Editor all Muslims—thereby hurting indefinitely. Van Roeun, Senior Editor national security, as Michael Whoever wrote this order is Hayden, former CIA director Barton Biggs, Editor Emeritus; Isobel Souster, Night Editor; Michelle Vachon, evidently not aware that these Feature Editor; Aisha Down, Hannah Hawkins, Sonia Kohlbacher, Brendan during the administration of screenings, procedures and ques- O’Byrne, Ben Paviour, Zsombor Peter, Janelle Retka, Saing Soenthrith, Laurence former U.S. President George tions already exist. Stevens, Matt Surrusco, George Wright, Associate Editors; Buth Kimsay, Kuch W. 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Reuters field situational awareness, allied around him.” Greene also has a theory to a formidable offensive line and Exercise scientist Mat- that it perhaps was a blessing Tom Brady has a good chance a few touches of good fortune, thew Reicher believes Brady’s in disguise for Brady to be taken of becoming the oldest starting have enabled him to avoid the longevity may end up being a as a lowly 199th overall pick in quarterback ever to play in the injuries that have hampered “psychological question” rather the 2000 NFL draft. U.S.’s National Football League, many other quarterbacks. than a physical one. He could “Because he started out according to a consensus reached Brady’s only serious career decide to retire once he feels under-rated, he had a chance by sports science experts inter- injury was torn knee ligaments his motivation waning, Reich- to develop without having the viewed by reporters. that forced him to miss most er says, even if he is still good pressure to succeed,” Greene They say that only a serious of the 2008 season. enough to remain as a starting said. injury, or lack of motivation, will “Unless he gets a major in- quarterback. The experts also emphasized likely stand in the way of the jury, [he can continue playing] “He’s human. At some point the importance of injury avoid- New England stalwart, who at 39 a lot of years,” said Mike Hahn, eventually he’s going to wake up ance not just in the longevity was going for a fifth Super Bowl director of the Bowerman Sports one day and not feel the same,” of a career, but also the quality, championship yesterday when Science Clinic at the University said Reicher, the head athletic citing as an example five-times he lead the Patriots into battle of Oregon. “How many is a lot: trainer at the NY Sports Science NFL most valuable player Pey- against the Atlanta Falcons. five-to-seven? Lab in New York. “Strength in ton Manning. Despite having Brady has given no hint that “Brady has done well to ride the arm is the first thing that major neck surgery, Manning he plans to retire any time soon, the peak performance stage will slow down.” played until 39, but his per- but he will need to play six more most athletes have from their Biomechanist Michael Greene formance declined at the end, seasons to eclipse Steve De- late 20s to early-mid 30s. His cited an ESPN analysis that especially his throwing strength. Berg, who was nearly 45 when [throwing] form is classic and examined Brady’s near-perfect “A huge series of compen- he made a start as quarterback he’s constantly aware of where throwing mechanics and con- sations arise after injury,” said for the Falcons in 1998. he’s at and playing 100 percent cluded that he releases the ball Hahn of the Bowerman Clinic. Brady, in his 17th season and within his comfort zone.” at 98 km per hour, significantly So for all the speculation of the oldest active quarterback “It’s no coincidence he hasn’t faster than most other quarter- Brady playing until he is 45, in in the league, shows no sign of been injured more and you’ve backs, and can hit a target the the end it might come down slowing down or skill diminution. got to credit the Patriots for the size of a dinner plate about 18 simply to whether he can avoid Experts believe Brady’s on- way they’ve put together a team meters away. that one bad career-ending hit.