All the News Without Fear or Favor The Cambodia daily Volume 66 Issue 17 Thursday, November 24, 2016 2,000 riel/50 cents eCCC Nuon Chea, left, and Khieu Samphan await their appeal verdict yesterday at the Khmer Rouge tribunal in Phnom Penh. Both had their convictions for crimes against humanity and accompanying life sentences upheld. Samsung Khmer Rouge Leaders’ Life Terms Upheld By george Wright case against them, both defense out by its president Kong srim, up- Raided by the CambodIa daIly teams filed lengthy appeals and the held the life sentences against the staring ahead with stone-faced Khmer Rouge leaders were still pair, it also scrapped numerous de- expressions, Khmer Rouge lead- legally presumed innocent until a cisions made by the trial chamber S Korean ers Nuon Chea and Khieu sam- verdict was reached by the su - in its initial decision, including mul- phan yesterday became the first preme Court Chamber. tiple convictions. Prosecutors senior regime leaders to have Nuon Chea, 90, Pol Pot’s second- In the end, the supreme Court been handed a final guilty verdict in-command, and Khieu samphan, concluded that “the massive scale By Jonathan Cheng for their roles in crimes committed 85, the regime’s head of state, were of the crimes, the complete lack of and eun-young Jeong during Pol Pot’s reign of terror in seeking a reversal of the judgment consideration for the ultimate fate the wall street journal the 1970s. and a complete acquittal. Khieu of the Cambodian population” and seoul - Prosecutors raided the of- After being found guilty of crimes samphan also requested a reduc- “the significant roles of the ac- fices of the samsung conglomer- against humanity by the extraordi- tion in his sentence if his appeal cused” meant “that the imposition ate yesterday as a scandal sur- nary Chambers in the Courts of against the judgment was rejected. of a life sentence for each of the rounding the country’s president Cambodia’s Trial Chamber in Au- While the tribunal’s supreme accused is appropriate.” and her top advisers crept deeper gust 2014 in the first phase of the Court Chamber, in a decision read Continued on page 6 into the nation’s largest business group. Prosecutors conducted a day- In Peacetime, Gov’t Military Spending Soars long sweep of the samsung head- quarters in the Gangnam neigh- By Ben Paviour the military, with Defense Min- costs for military personnel. Ana- borhood of seoul. At the same the CambodIa daIly istry’s annual budget jumping lysts say that the CPP wants its most time, prosecutors also raided the Cambodia is at peace, Prime from $75.7 million in 2006 to $464 heavily armed constituency happy, offices of south Korea’s National Minister Hun sen regularly tells million in next year? and say that the move also buttress- Pen sion service—the world’s third his constituents. “The spending doesn’t respond es border security with Thailand largest, with about $460 billion in “We turned former battlefields to the needs of priority sectors and discourage domestic threats. assets, and the largest shareholder into markets and developed ar- such as education and health, but “We don’t spend much on wea - in many of south Korea’s biggest eas,” he boasted in an the defense sector keeps increas- ponry,” said Council of Ministers News october speech mark- ing,” said CNRP lawmaker son spokesman Phay siphan. Instead, companies. Analysis The pension fund last year voted ing 20 years of peace in Chhay during Tuesday’s parlia- the funds go “mostly to salaries as decisively in favor of a merger be- former Khmer Rouge stronghold mentary debate on next year’s na- well as to the social welfare of the of Pailin province. tional budget. soldier’s families.” tween two samsung affiliates, which Why, then, does the govern- The government says the in- “It doesn’t mean that people Continued on page 2 ment continue to pour an ever- creases are necessary to pay for retire and you pay them nothing,” cambodiadaily.com increasing amount of money into ever-increasing pension and salary Continued on page 2 មានដំណឹងបែែសមែួលជាភាសាខ្មែរនៅខាងក្នុង The Daily Newspaper of Record Since 1993 2 The Cambodia daily thursday, noVember 24, 2016 ANd AlSo NEWSMAKERS Kazakhstan’s Capital Punishment nMovie star Brad Pitt will not face any charges stemming from an in- reuters since 1989. cident on a private plane in which he was reported to have lost his tem- per in front of one or more of his children, an FBI spokeswoman said Kazakhstan’s parliament called last week, Kazakhstan’s central on Tuesday. Pitt, 52, earlier this month was cleared by the los Angeles yesterday for the capital city to be re- bank said the portrait of the former County Department of Children and Family services for the incident on named after President Nursultan steelworker and communist appa- september 14. His wife, the actress angelina Jolie, filed for divorce five Nazarbayev, a week ahead of a na- ratchik would appear on a bank days later. “In response to allegations made following a flight...carrying tional holiday dedicated to the 76- note for the first time. Mr. Brad Pitt and his children, the FBI has conducted a review...and will year-old leader who has the power Astana simply means “capital” not pursue further investigation,” said laura eimiller, a spokeswoman to accept or reject the proposal. in Kazakh and was given to the city for the FBI’s los Angeles field office. “No charges have been filed,” she The unanimous vote in favor of in 1998 shortly after the govern- said. Jolie, 41, filed for divorce from Pitt, her husband of two years and renaming Astana adds to the grow- ment relocated there from Almaty, ing personality cult around Nazar - romantic partner since 2005, citing irreconcilable differences and seek- the country’s biggest city and com- ing full physical custody of their children, aged 8 to 15. (Reuters) bayev who has run the country mercial hub. ment officer at south Korea’s pen- The scandal has pulled in almost samsung’s deepening involve- Samsung... sion service from 2013 until earlier all of the country’s biggest and best- ment in the scandal comes after a this year; he was a key proponent of known conglomerates, which do- difficult stretch for south Korea’s Continued from Page 1 the samsung merger last year. nated large sums of money to two most powerful conglomerate. sam- strengthened the grip of vice chair- Hong didn’t immediately respond foundations alleged to have been sung electronics last month ac- man and third-generation heir lee to a request for comment. controlled by Choi, according to knowledged losses of more than $5 Jae-yong on smartphone maker The investigation is part of a data compiled by corporate-gover- billion after pulling the plug on the samsung electronics, the crown widening scandal involving south nance research firm Chaebul.com Galaxy Note 7 after widespread re- jewel of the business empire. Korean President Park Geun-hye based on records filed with south ports of the premium smartphone It is unclear if the raids were and a close associate, who prose- Korea’s National Tax service. Pros- overheating. linked to that merger. spokespeo- cutors say used her influence to ex- ecutors say they have summoned The fiasco was an embarrass- ple for samsung, the NPs and the tort money from corporations like the heads of Hyundai Group, lG ment for a company that prides itself prosecutors’ office all confirmed the samsung, Hyundai Group and and sK Group for questioning. on its engineering prow ess, and has raids, but declined to elaborate on lG. The unfolding affair has led to Yesterday’s raids aren’t the first eroded consumer confidence in the the reason for the document seiz - the indictment of the president’s prosecutors have carried out on brand. ures. south Korea’s Yonhap News confidante, Choi soon-sil. samsung. In recent weeks, prose- last year’s merger, between Agency said that yesteday’s raids In addition, prosecutors have cutors seized documents from samsung’s de facto holding com- were to investigate last year’s merg- formally accused Park of aiding in samsung’s Gangnam offices and pany Cheil Industries and sam- er of the samsung companies. her friend’s scheme—making her from an advertising affiliate. They sung C&T, was fiercely contested Also included in the raid yester- the first south Korean president to have questioned several top exec- by u.s. hedge fund elliott Manage- day, Yonhap said, was the office of face a criminal investigation while utives at samsung and its affiliates, ment, which argued that the deal Hong Wan-sun, the chief invest- in office. including lee. was unfair to small shareholders. Chambers, a professor of interna- artillery—is in line with the kind of soft loans or outright gifts in a col- Military... tional relations at Chiang Mai uni- force that would be useful in light laboration that also included train- versity in Thailand, who focuses on border skirmishes, according to ing, logistics coordination and oth- Continued from Page 1 civil-military relations in the region. Carl Thayer, a southeast Asia ex- er technical support, he said. he added. “Though one may think that pert at the Australian Defense With one of the smallest defense Financing the military and po- 2011 marked the final year of ma- Force Academy in Canberra. budgets in the region, Mr. Grevatt lice regularly consumed half of the jor tensions with Thailand, the “Cambodia would be able to said it made sense that Cambodia national budget in the 1990s as the budget for defense and interior surge to a particular area,” he said.