All the News Without Fear or Favor The Cambodia daily Volume 64 Issue 57 Tuesday, May 24, 2016 2,000 riel/50 cents Private Clinic Shuttered After Man’s Death By Buth kimSay and Janelle retka ThE cambodIa daIly The Ministry of health yesterday ordered the closure of a large pri- vate medical clinic in Phnom Penh’s Tuol Kok district, one day af- ter the sudden death of a man who received treatment there, accord- ing to a government statement and the man’s wife. The clinic, Khim Rany Clinic and Maternity in Boeng Kak i com- mune, was ordered to shut down be- cause it “had caused many prob- lems in the past and never obeyed its contract to open the clinic or obeyed the advice of the Ministry of health,” according to a statement signed yesterday by health Minis- ter Mam Bunheng. The statement did not elaborate on how the clinic had erred in the Reuters past or why it was being shut down. US President Barack Obama attends a press conference with Vietnam's President Tran Dai Quang at the however, the move came amid Presidential Palace Compound in Hanoi yesterday. widespread local media coverage of the death of a 28-year-old patient, Lim Taokong, who was rushed to Obama Declares End to Vietnam Arms Ban Calmette hospital when he became REUTERS ter in relations between two coun- The decision to lift the arms short of breath after being given an hanoi - The U.S. announced an tries that were at war four decades trade ban, which followed intense injection for back pain at the clinic. end to its embargo on sales of ago. debate within the obama adminis- The man’s wife, Sok Rath Mony, lethal arms to Vietnam yesterday, obama, the third U.S. president tration, suggested such concerns said he went to the clinic with lower a historic step that draws a line un- to visit Vietnam since diplomatic outweighed arguments that Viet- back pain and a headache on Sun- der the two countries’ old enmity relations were restored in 1995, nam had not done enough to im- day and was given an injection by a and underscores their shared con- has made a strategic “rebalance” prove its human rights record and doctor there. about 20 minutes lat- cerns about Beijing’s growing mil- toward asia a centerpiece of his Washington would lose leverage er he began sweating profusely and itary clout. foreign policy. for reforms. struggling to breathe and was sent The move came during U.S. Vietnam, a neighbor of China, is obama said at a joint news con- in an ambulance to Calmette hospi- President Barack obama’s first a key part of that strategy amid ference with Vietnamese Presi- tal, where he was pronounced dead visit to hanoi, which his welcom- worries about Beijing’s assertive- dent Tran Dai Quang that disputes on arrival. ing hosts described as the arrival ness and sovereignty claims to 80 in the South China Sea should be Ms. Rath Mony said that her of a warm spring and a new chap- percent of the South China Sea. Continued on page 2 Continued on page 6 Vigil Dispersed as Third ‘Black Monday’ Ends By Ben Sokhean of about 30 activists as they began a came to destroy our ceremony,” said and GeorGe WriGht ceremony calling for the release of Tep Vanny, a prominent land rights ThE cambodIa daIly four officers for local rights group activist and a leader in the Boeng it wasn’t until the sun set on the adhoc and an election official jailed Kak community. third “Black Monday” yesterday for their alleged role in bribing a “i think they seriously violated that activists calling for the release woman involved in a sex scandal. our rights, and we think the hu- of a group of jailed human rights of- in a video of the incident, Daun man rights situation in Cambodia ficers again scuffled with state se- Penh district guards can be seen now is zero,” she said. curity guards, after the guards de- tearing apart banners and tossing Deputy municipal governor scended on a candlelight vigil be- away lotus flowers and candles as Khuong Sreng declined to com- Phsar Kandal Vendors ing held in Phnom Penh’s Boeng they break up the vigil. ment on the altercation, while City Worried By Construction Talks Kak neighborhood. “We rallied to mourn human hall spokesman Mean Chanyada Page 3 at about 6 p.m., dozens of securi- rights in our community this eve - could not be reached. cambodiadaily.com ty guards descended upon a group ning, but dozens of security guards Continued on page 2 មានដំណឹងបែែសមែួលជាភាសាខ្មែរនៅខាងក្នុង The Daily Newspaper of Record Since 1993 2 The Cambodia daily TUESday, may 24, 2016 ANd AlSo NEWSMAKERS Cast All Your Potholes on Him n LonDon - hollywood actress anGelina Jolie is to join the London having given up hope of local gov- for rain,” so can we ask for divine in- School of Economics as a visiting professor on a new master’s course ernment fixing the potholed roads in tervention in more mundane is- on women, peace and security, the school announced yesterday. The his parish of Xestoso in north west - sues such as road repair, the priest LSE said the course, which starts next year, is the first of its kind globally ern Spain, a local priest has now told journalists who had gathered and will be run by the LSE Center for Women, Peace and Security asked for help from a higher power. for the Mass. which was launched last year by Jolie and Britain’s former Foreign Sec- Luis Roldan Patino celebrated a he added that he believed a so- retary, William hague. “it is vital that we broaden the discussion on how special Mass on Sunday on the road lution from God would “be the only to advance women’s rights and end impunity for crimes that dispropor- near his parish, marking each pot- way” the road would ever get fixed tionately affect women, such as sexual violence in conflict,” Jolie, a spe- hole with a wooden cross and splash - because local authorities had been cial envoy for the UnhCR, said in a statement. “i am looking forward ing the road with holy water, the as- “blind to the situation,” leading his to teaching and to learning from the students, as well as to sharing my sociated Press reported yesterday. congregants to “feel totally aban- own experiences of working alongside governments and the United nations.” (Reuters) “Just like we can pray to the Lord doned,” according to the aP report. The sale of arms, obama said, human rights in Vietnam—and ba- slap down challenges to its monop- Vietnam... would depend on Vietnam’s human sically gotten nothing for it,” he said. oly on power. rights commitments, and would be obama said at the news confer- Though the communist parties continued from paGe 1 made on a case-by-case basis. ence that Washington would con- that run China and Vietnam officially resolved peacefully and not by human Rights Watch reacted tinue to speak out for human rights, have brotherly ties, China’s brink - whoever “throws their weight with dismay to the U.S.’ decision to including citizens’ right to organize manship over the South China Sea around.” But he insisted the arms toss away a critical lever it might through civil society. —where it has been turning remote embargo move was not linked to have had to spur political reform in obama is scheduled to meet with outcrops into islands with runways China. the Communist party-ruled state. a group of activists today. and harbors—has forced Vietnam “The decision to lift the ban was Phil Robertson, the watchdog’s Quang, who actually announced to recalibrate its defense strategy. not based on China or any other asia director, said in a statement the lifting of the U.S. embargo be- Security analysts and regional considerations. it was based on that even as obama was lifting the fore obama could do so, was until military attaches expect Vietnam’s our desire to complete what has arms embargo Vietnamese author- recently minister of public securi- initial wish list of equipment to cov- been a lengthy process of moving ities were arresting a journalist, hu- ty, which activists say harasses er the latest in surveillance radar, towards normalization with Viet- man rights activists and bloggers and arrests dissidents. intelligence and communications nam,” he said. obama later added on the street and in their houses. Dissent was once the domain of technology, allowing them better his visit to a former foe showed “in one fell swoop, President just a few in Vietnam, but while the coverage of the South China Sea “hearts can change and peace is obama has jettisoned what re- party has allowed more open criti- as well as improved integration of possible.” mained of U.S. leverage to improve cism in recent years, it is quick to its growing forces. wave of arrests and legal action said protester ngov nary, who was tum as Cambodians at home and Monday... against government critics in recent also arrested last week. abroad posted pictures of them- months. Senior government officials have selves in black clothing under the continued from paGe 1 “The Pol Pot regime killed the made various threats against the hashtag #BlackMonday. The day began in a decidedly people by hitting them with hoes black-clad protesters, calling such Maina Kiai, the U.n.’s special rap- more peaceful manner, with a lone but the present government kills demonstrations acts of “urban rebel- porteur on rights to freedom of group of activists—some arrested people through violating human lion,” pledging that any protests held peaceful assembly and of associa- during the past two Black Monday rights and land grabbing,” shout- without permission will result in le- tion, posted a picture of himself protests—gathering at about 9 a.m.