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FEARING the Thai military junta,
more than 166,000 Cambodian work-
ers have spilled across the Poipet
international checkpoint over the past
two weeks, overwhelming aid officials
and straining relations between the
two countries.
Officially, the Thai Foreign Ministry
blames rumours, especially about
shootings and military perpetrated vio-
lence against workers, for scaring main-
ly undocumented Cambodian migrants
from the country.
The [government] does not have any
policy to accelerate arrests and crack-
downs of foreign workers, General
Prayuth Chan-ocha said in an official
order on Monday.
[The] regularisation . . . at the cur-
rent moment is controlling foreign
workers, by ordering employers and
entrepreneurs . . . to prepare lists of for-
eign workers under their employment
for further inspections, reads an unof-
ficial translation of the statement made
public yesterday.
But analysts say that harsher state-
ments previously delivered reveal the
junta is using illegal migrants as a
scapegoat to distract from a flagging
economy and to further assert
its authority.
By cracking down on so-called irreg-
ular or undocumented Cambodian
migrant workers, the military junta
could be seen to be in control and, at
least on the surface, attempting to
improve Thailands social and econom-
ic problems, said Kevin Mcgahan, a
political science professor at the
National University of Singapore.
Prayuths order on Monday came less
than a week after an army spokesman
threatened all illegal foreign workers
with arrest and deportation, and spelled
the situation out in distinctly xenopho-
bic terms.
We see illegal workers as a threat,
Phak Seangly
Battambang province
I
T WAS difficult enough for
Savoeurn Dimang when, until a
month ago, he was one of just
three teachers running the local
primary school in Kors Kralor districts
Samrong Leu village.
But now, with one teacher having
left for South Korea and the other
bowing out for health reasons, the
32-year-old has been left to single-
handedly teach four classes across six
grades. In all, he is responsible for the
education of 124 students.
It is very difficult for me. But I do
not know how to deal with this situa-
tion. I want this problem to be solved,
he says.
His wife told the Post that Dimang
is almost going crazy, rushing from
classroom to classroom and trying to
manage all the students by himself.
Though Dimangs situation is extreme,
a lack of teachers in Cambodias pri-
mary schools is common. In 2012, there
was only one teacher per 48.5 primary
school students nationwide, the
16th-highest ratio among all coun-
tries monitored by UNESCO globally.
Low salaries are to blame, said
Rong Chhun, president of the Cam-
bodian Independent Teachers Asso-
ciation, with rural areas dispropor-
tionately affected.
It is a matter of low salary [and
location]. Teachers in remote areas
cannot support their living and dont
want to work in those places, he said
Solo act taking its toll
Lone teacher face of bigger issue
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migrants as
scapegoat,
analysts say
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Lone teacher face of bigger issue
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yesterday. In general, the remote ar-
eas are in serious need of teachers, but
the towns are abundant because teach-
ers pay bribes to teach at an easy place
[to live].
Dimang says the community is in the
middle of a local search to nd someone
who can be contracted as a teacher to help
ease his burden.
But no one wants to teach here, because
teachers on contract only get 140,000 riel
($35) a month.
Deep in the heart of the countryside, the
school has combined multiple grades for
years due to a lack of teachers, but parents
say the situation is now so bad they are
worried their children will be illiterate.
Since the Khmer New Year, our children
have only studied for between six and seven
days. There is no teacher, because he alone
has to teach up to six classes, a village of-
cial who requested anonymity said.
There have not been enough teachers in
this village for 10 years.
The community, however, do not blame
Dimang for their childrens plight.
He alone is responsible for six classes.
How does this happen? said a 52-year-old
parent, who also did not want to be named.
Our children are illiterate . . . They will
be jobless when they grow up. Before, they
could go to Thailand to work, but now
Thailand is arresting and returning Cam-
bodian workers, so where will our children
go for a job? the parent said, referring to
the mass exodus of Cambodians eeing
the military junta.
Kakada, 13, a grade four student at the
school, admits he is learning little with the
current arrangement.
In a week, we only study for three days.
We cant read, and the teacher has to teach
many classes one by one, he told the Post
as he returned home from shing in a near-
by pond with two classmates.
When he goes to another class, we just
sit and learn by ourselves.
Village chief Un Veth said he has con-
tacted World Vision International which
helped renovate the school in 2012 and
the provincial education department
about the problem, but that no resolution
has been forthcoming.
The lack of teachers is the biggest chal-
lenge we are facing in my village, he said.
Hou Bunthoeun, operations head for
World Vision in Battambang, said that local
authorities and his team have been looking
for a new teacher.
Ngy Seth, director of the provincial Edu-
cation Department, said he was not aware
of the issue but would investigate.
When we are lacking teachers in remote
areas, we always employ any villagers who
have enough ability to teach, he said.
A number of ofcials at the Ministry of
Education could not be reached for com-
ment. ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY KEVIN PONNIAH
The entrance to Samrong Leu villages primary school on the weekend in Battambang province
where Savoeurn Dimang is responsible for teaching more than 100 students. VIREAK MAI
Mom Kunthear
W
ORKERS at a
garment factory
that closed with-
out warning last
week received payment yes-
terday for nearly a month and
a half of work, but some are
still waiting for bonuses owed
to them.
More than 400 workers lined
up at the Canadia Industrial
Park gates, behind which their
now-defunct employer Hong
Kong Yu Feng factory used to
operate, to collect salaries.
The owner of the Canadia
Bank paid about $100,000 in
workers wages, said Seang
Sambath, the president of the
Workers Friendship Union
Federation (WFUF). We will
discuss benets and bonuses
owed to the workers on June
19, then decide when they can
receive these benets.
It was unclear yesterday
whether Hong Kong Yu Feng
has declared bankruptcy.
A secretary for Canadia Bank
board chairman Pung Kheav
Se conrmed that the bank,
which has no ties to the indus-
trial park, paid the salaries.
We dont want [workers] to
make chaos in the industrial
park, said the secretary, who
asked the Post not to use her
name. She said Kheav Se is
overseas and could not an-
swer questions. The boss of
the factory . . . just ran away,
and we cannot contact him.
Canadia Industrial Park of-
cials could not be reached.
In a meeting held before
payments were doled out, it
was decided a working group
comprising WFUF, the indus-
trial park and Ministry of La-
bour representatives will look
over documents regarding
benets owed to workers then
send a gure they deem t to
the industrial parks owner,
according to a report of the
meeting by Krouch Sophary of
the Labour Ministry.
A representative of the in-
dustrial park promised to hold
on to sewing machines and
other items that could be liqui-
dated in the interim, Sopharys
report says.
The money came right on
time for Heng Srey Khouch,
whose $200 salary arrived as
her rent was due. Although
happy to receive it, Khouch
said she wont budge until all
money owed to her is paid.
I will remain jobless until
I receive all benets [owed],
Srey Khouch said. ADDITIONAL RE-
PORTING BY SEAN TEEHAN
Bank pays out after
factory boss ees
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
CONSERVATIONISTS Flora
and Fauna International will
send a team to Pursat province
today to investigate a mans
claim that he was attacked by
a tiger.
Ngem Nget, a 51-year-old
farmer in Phnom Kravanh
districts Santre commune, re-
ported that while foraging in
the Cardamom Mountains on
Sunday, a tiger attacked him,
leaving him with wounds to
his head, arms and legs. His
nephew chased the animal
away with a machete, he said.
The report from the victim
and local authorities . . . of a ti-
ger attacking a man calls for an
investigation to be launched
immediately, Flora and Fau-
na country director Tuy Serei-
vathana said yesterday.
The last image of a tiger in
Cambodia was caught in 2007
by a Flora and Fauna-installed
camera in Mondulkiri province.
The last physical evidence of a
tiger here was found in 2010.
Based on the description
and location of the alleged ti-
ger sighting, Sereivathana yes-
terday said he believes a differ-
ent animal attacked Nget.
Tiger claim to be probed
National
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Stuart White
THE minister of economy and
nance has announced his
intention to increase govern-
ment revenue by half a per
cent of GDP through improved
collection practices, citing the
need to manage debt and
reduce reliance on foreign
nancing, state news outlet
AKP reported yesterday.
According to AKP, Finance
Minister Aun Porn Moniroth
said last week that the min-
istry would make gains by
shoring up its administration,
but ofcials from the ministry
and the General Department
of Taxation (GDT) declined to
comment on the details of the
plan yesterday.
An April report from the
Asian Development Bank said
that the administrative weak-
nesses of the GDT made it one
of Asias least effective revenue
collection agencies.
Preap Kol, executive director
of Transparency International
Cambodia, said in an email
yesterday that the new push
had the potential to generate
substantial revenue but would
have to contend with a culture
of corrupt practice among
tax collectors.
Our general observation is
that tax or custom ofcers are
usually wealthier than other
ofcials in a shorter period of
time, although their govern-
ment salary scale is not that
much different, he added.
If applied to 2013 GDP es-
timates, the goal would have
added about $78 million to
government coffers, a bump
of less than 5 per cent of last
years total revenue. According
to opposition lawmaker-elect
Son Chhay, that amount would
be meaningless, barely keep-
ing up with ination.
The government has to
[take] the revenue collection
from the current 10 per cent [of
GDP] to at least 18 per cent,
he added, estimating that cor-
ruption and inefciency alone
sapped about 6 per cent.
More optimistic, however,
was independent economist
Kang Chandararot, who al-
lowed that the amount was
small but achievable, and
could be scaled up later.
And despite issues regarding
transparency and reluctance
among both businesses and in-
dividuals to disclose incomes,
bolstering domestic revenue
would be especially important
when ASEAN economic inte-
gration in 2015 reduces import
tariffs, he added.
Finance minister to
tackle tax collection
Homeless went to Prey Speu
Sen David and Alice Cuddy
W
ITH a number of homeless,
beggars and street sellers
who were rounded up in
caged vans last week still
unaccounted for, several of those targeted
by the street sweep claimed yesterday that
they had been held in Phnom Penhs no-
torious Prey Speu social affairs centre.
Homeless people on the capitals river-
side gave the Post separate accounts of
being hauled into a van and driven to Prey
Speu a training centre that has faced al-
legations of abuse where meals were
meagre and conditions uncomfortable.
Authorities strongly denied the claims.
Forty-ve-year-old Ouk Savern, who has
lived on the streets for the past 25 years,
recalled being driven in a caged van to Por
Sen Chey district and into Prey Speu.
I escaped because I could not live there.
The meals were small, and I am too old to
train to do something new, she said.
The walls at Prey Speu are low enough
to climb over, as demonstrated in January
2012 when a group of women and chil-
dren from Borei Keila escaped after being
detained during a protest.
Savern said that since last weeks round-
up, the streets had been much quieter.
Some of my friends havent come back,
because theyre scared and some might
have stayed [at Prey Speu].
Oy Eng, a 63-year-old beggar, claimed
that she was also taken to Prey Speu.
The authorities couldnt nd a suit-
able place for us, so they took us there,
she said.
An 8-year-old boy also said he was taken
to Prey Speu but returned to the streets
days later.
Am Sam Ath, technical supervisor at Li-
cadho, said he would not be surprised if
authorities had used the centre.
Generally, NGOs have a policy to accept
orphan children to live and stay there, but
[not] homeless adults. We saw that some
of the homeless people rounded up last
week were older, so they would have been
sent back to the Social Affairs Department,
and the department would have found a
place for them [that might have been] Prey
Speu, he said.
But Son Sophal, a director of the Social
Affairs Department, said all 38 people
rounded up were sent to Pour un Sourire
dEnfant (PSE).
There are now more than 30 people at
PSE, he said, adding that since 2012, Prey
Speu had only taken in the mentally ill.
City Hall spokesman Long Dimanche
also said that all of those rounded up were
sent to PSE, adding that the initiative
had not been suspended but that its rst
phase had been completed.
However, Ouk Sovan, PSEs deputy pro-
gram director, said the NGO was providing
help, including education and free meals,
to just 13 children from the initiative.
Sovan said PSE would meet City Hall
on Friday to discuss an alternative to last
weeks roundups.
A beggar receives money from a pedestrian for the use of his scales near the Royal Palace in
Phnom Penhs Daun Penh district yesterday. HENG CHIVOAN
In brief
Four people arrested in
fatal beating, poisoning
THREE men and a woman
from Kampong Cham accused
of brutally murdering a man
after beating and then forcing
him to ingest poison were
arrested on Sunday, a police
officer said. The suspects,
Soeun Nan, 34; Soeun Mean,
24; Dim Pream, 27; and
Pchong Soeung, 54, are all
from Memot district, according
to Chan Thol, a district crime
chief. Police cannot conclude
if the victim was forced to
drink poison, but the victim
vomited poison and doctors
also say he was poisoned,
Thol said. He added that all
four suspects are being held at
Tbong Khmum district police
station. Authorities said
yesterday that the victim was
allegedly involved in an
altercation involving the
demarcation of his rubber
plantation when a fight broke
out that led to his death on
June 15. KIM SAROM
Life terms upheld for
two Thai drug mules
THE Court of Appeal yesterday
upheld the life sentences of
two Thai drug mules, but
reduced one of their fines so
that both now have to pay 60
million riel ($15,000).
According to presiding judge
Oum Sarith, defendants
Pinwjansod Utsatee, 22, and
her accomplice Hollaus
Nanthiya, 28, were indeed
guilty of smuggling nearly 5
kilograms of
methamphetamine into
Cambodia from Ghana in
August 2012. Pinwjansod was
arrested at Phnom Penh
International Airport when
officials found the drugs
stuffed in a small bag in her
suitcase, and Hollaus was
arrested later at a guesthouse
when police learned that she
intended to receive the drugs.
KIM SAROM
Kratie villagers bring
land dispute to Hun Sen
MORE than 20 villagers
representing nearly 200 ethnic
Phnong families in Kratie
provinces Chet Borey district
came to Phnom Penh
yesterday to seek Prime
Minister Hun Sens
intervention against
Vietnamese agribusiness
concessionaire Dotisaigon-
Benhwoeuk (SBK), which they
accuse of encroaching on their
land. Village representative
Laonh Nhorn said that,
starting on April 28, the
company began destroying
families crops and forestland.
We prevented them, [but] they
threatened to shoot and jail us.
If the forest is lost, it will be
difficult, because it is our
traditional preserved forest,
rotating farmland and high
ground when it floods, he
said. Chhum Sovannra, who
villagers identified as a
company representative,
declined to comment. Chan
Soveth from rights group
Adhoc said the government
should ensure indigenous
communities receive adequate
compensation, rather than
simply threats and court
cases. MAY TITTHARA
National
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Day off for
Sihanouk
ceremony
Mom Kunthear
TO MARK the remains of King
Father Norodom Sihanouk
being interred at the Royal Pal-
aces Silver Pagoda during a
three-day ceremony, July
11 will be a national holiday
this year.
According to a directive
from Prime Minister Hun Sen
dated June 12 and obtained by
the Post yesterday, the cere-
mony will take place on July
10, 11 and 12.
All state radio stations along
with private television net-
works will suspend broadcasts
on July 11, it says.
Businesses and public build-
ings operating on some major
roads including Sihanouk,
Norodom and Sothearos boul-
evards are expected to suspend
operations on July 11 to help
ease traffic.
The ceremony will involve a
street procession from the
northern exit of the Royal Pal-
ace to the Silver Pagoda, Min-
ister of Information Khieu
Kanharith announced in May.
The King Father died in Bei-
jing on October 15, 2012, at
age 89.
Better protection entertained
Sean Teehan
W
ORKERS in an
industry where
obnoxious, drunk
customers and
12-hour shifts are common
could gain legal safeguards if
a subdecree brought before a
Ministry of Labour commit-
tee yesterday passes into law.
The set of prakases for enter-
tainment workers which
appeared before the Labour
Advisory Committee (LAC) but
was not signed would legally
protect them from exploitative
practices such as sexual harass-
ment and forced overtime work
without additional pay.
We find that its a good start,
that it will bring more attention
of the Ministry of Labour to
have more responsibility
[towards entertainment work-
ers], said Sar Mora, president
of the Cambodian Food and
Service Workers Federation.
This is also to remind
employers, especially in this
sector . . . to follow the Cambo-
dian labour law.
Ministry of Labour spokes-
man Heng Sour yesterday
declined to comment, saying he
was out of the country.
Workers covered in the sub-
decree include alcohol promot-
ers, employees in beer gardens,
karaoke bars, resorts and mas-
sage parlours, as well as those
in other professions.
Employees in the industry are
often pressured to drink, smoke
and engage their customers in
a provocative manner in order
to earn tips, which supplements
their meagre incomes, said
Moeun Tola, head of the labour
program at the Community
Legal Education Center.
The more they depend on
the tips, the more they try to be
close, try to be friendly with the
customer, and the more they
are faced with sexual harass-
ment, he said.
The draft legislations section
on forced work prohibits forc-
ing employees to ingest any
kind of substance or abort a
pregnancy. Another clearly for-
bids any form of violence or
sexual harassment.
In addition, the law would
define a workweek in the
industry as 48 hours, requir-
ing compensation for extra
hours worked, said Ath Thorn,
an LAC member.
The right of workers would
include no forced labour, no
discrimination against [any]
worker, Thorn said. A follow-
up meeting has not been
announced. ADDITIONAL REPORTING
BY MOM KUNTHEAR
A promoter serves patrons beer at a restaurant in Phnom Penh. A subdecree submitted to the Ministry of
Labour aims to protect entertainment workers against forced overtime and sexual harassment. HENG CHIVOAN
Junta using migrants as scapegoats: analysts
Continued from page 1
because there [are] a lot of them and
no clear measures to handle them,
which could lead to social problems,
spokesman Sirichan Ngathong said
last Wednesday.
Ou Virak, chairman of the Cambodian
Center for Human Rights, believes the
junta is using the deportations to push
a message of nationalistic politics.
[The military government is] finding
a shared external enemy to divert atten-
tion from the polarised nature of Thai
politics, he said.
But if the nationalistic rhetoric is to
blame for the Cambodian workers mass
exodus, it hasnt caused a universal
response among all migrant workers.
Burmese migrant communities are
also experiencing raids every day, but
we have so far not received news on Bur-
mese migrants leaving on the scale
experienced by Cambodian migrants,
said Reiko Harima, regional coordinator
for the Mekong Migration Network.
While the reasons for the discrepancy
between migrant groups is not obvious,
suggested rationales include the socio-
political situation each community would
face upon returning home, as well as cul-
tural susceptibility to fear of arrests.
Many of [the Cambodian] migrant
workers will be the children of Khmer
Rouge soldiers and, or victims, said GDM
Wijers, an expert in migration studies. A
medical team working with the witnesses
of the Khmer Rouge tribunal has brought
forward again how traumatised first-
generation survivors can transfer their
fears, inadvertently, to the second gen-
eration. This could make the Cambodian
workers more susceptible to panic in fear
of violence by the Thai regime.
The Thai juntas less-than-warm recep-
tion of Cambodian migrant workers
specifically could in part stem from
diplomatic repercussion of Hun Sens
strong ties with ousted Prime Minister
Thaksin Shinawatra.
Thailand sees the migrant workers as
a security concern, they [are from] a
country that has openly supported
Thaksin and the red shirts, said Kem
Ley, an independent analyst.
Such dangerous politics arent
expected to benefit either country in
the long run, he added.
Thai businesses are already reporting
feeling pinched by a shortage of cheap
labour, and even the junta acknowl-
edged that the policy was hurting
works, business entities and the over-
all national economic system.
Cambodia, which stands to lose sev-
eral million dollars in remittances because
of the returned labourers, had until yes-
terday stayed temperate in its response.
I think the current Thai junta leader
must be responsible for the problems
happening, including the loss of lives,
said Minister of Interior Sar Kheng, refer-
ring to traffic accidents that have killed
10 Cambodians en route to the border.
For now, Cambodian Foreign Minis-
try spokesman Koy Kuong vows that
relations between the countries have
not deteriorated over the sudden shock
of more than a hundred thousand
unemployed Cambodians streaming
back into the country, but political
analyst Kevin Hewison warned that
the situation is a ready fuse.
I fear that another border dispute
could easily be manufactured by the
military junta, and that this could play
into its current emphasis on nationalism
as a way to unite Thais, he said. This
is a potentially dangerous situation.
Watch the border. ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY
CHHAY CHANNYDA
Cambodian police help migrant workers disembark from a truck that transported them from Thailand across the border to the town of
Poipet in Banteay Meanchey province on the weekend. VIREAK MAI
I think the current Thai junta
leader must be responsible for
the problems happening
National
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Meas Sokchea

T
HE opposition party is
standing strong on key
demands it says stand
between it and joining
the National Assembly, Cam-
bodia National Rescue Party
deputy president Kem Sokha
said yesterday.
Speaking to reporters after
returning from a ve-day trip to
New Zealand, Sokha said that,
in addition to election reform,
the opposition also wanted to
see more equitable coverage
from state broadcaster TVK.
We are not only asking for
a [CNRP] TV licence, but for
everyone to have widespread
[coverage], he said.
Last week, Prime Minister
Hun Sen publicly agreed to
grant a TV licence to an oppo-
sition-aligned operator.
The CNRP also revealed last
week that it had made a deal
with the ruling Cambodian
Peoples Party that would see
it take a number of key parlia-
mentary positions, including
the deputy presidency, when it
joins the assembly.
But Sokha yesterday stressed
that changes to parliaments
internal rules that would see
the opposition recognised as a
shadow government were also
a necessary concession.
Prum Sokha, head of the
CPPs working group for ne-
gotiations, said yesterday that
state broadcasters did not
serve any political party.
When the election cam-
paign comes around, [TVK]
gives equitable airtime [to all
parties]. During normal times,
[we] use [TVK] to broadcast
the governments activities for
all. It is not for any party.
He added that there were al-
ready suitable checks and bal-
ances in parliament, and that
the oppositions new positions
would only reinforce that.
Fact nding
Subedi told
no problems
before poll
U
N RIGHTS envoy Surya
Subedi met with Na-
tional Election Com-
mittee chairman Im Suosdey
yesterday morning to discuss
election reform as part of a
10-day fact-finding mission
that began on Sunday.
According to NEC secre-
tary-general Tep Nytha, the
pair discussed how election
reform was progressing and
how recommendations offe-
red by Subedi on past visits
had been implemented.
However, [some] elec-
tion reform [can only be]
conducted after the election
law is changed, and it is not
the NECs duty to change the
election laws, Nytha said.
He added that Suosdey had
informed Subedi that the NEC
had not encountered serious
electoral issues before natio-
nal elections in July last year
but had faced post-election
political problems instigated
by the opposition party, which
challenged the results.
Subedi met with Labour Mi-
nister Ith Sam Heng on Monday
and is scheduled to meet with
private sector representatives
today. KHOUTHSOPHAKCHAKRYA
Shoeshine gets shiner
over alleged thievery
A 17-YEAR-OLD shoeshine
was beaten badly by residents
in the capitals Prampi Makara
district yesterday after alleg-
edly breaking into a house and
leaving with a cellphone,
police said. The teen snuck
into the house at night
through the roof but the owner
awoke and shouted for help.
Neighbours punched, kicked
and slapped the teen until he
was unconscious, and the
phone was returned. Police
said the suspect eventually
told them that his low income
drove him to commit the
crime. KOH SANTEPHEAP
Drowsy, hastily roused
man never forgets a face
IN ANOTHER alleged break-in,
two teens were arrested in Por
Sen Chey district on Monday
after the homeowner recog-
nised them after the fact.
According to police, three sus-
pects snuck into the 42-year-
old victims house. As seems
to be the case in these scenar-
ios, he awoke, switched on the
lights and caught a glimpse of
the suspects as they escaped,
police said. The morning after,
he allegedly spotted two of
them and told police, who sent
them to court. Police contin-
ued to look for the last sus-
pect. KOH SANTEPHEAP
Drunk john loses dignity,
also loses cellphone
POLICE say a sex worker
became a pickpocket artist on
Monday night in the capitals
Daun Penh district. The
30-year-old woman suppos-
edly lifted the cellphone of a
drunken customer and hand-
ed it off to someone else while
haggling over a price for the
evening. The john told police
that the alleged theft occurred
when the woman leaned in to
hug him. Police arrested the
sex worker but apparently let
the man walk. KOH SANTEPHEAP

Man invites neighbour
for dinner, light beating
A 45-YEAR-OLD farmer was
arrested on Monday in Kandal
provinces Muk Kampoul dis-
trict for allegedly punching his
neighbour after an argument.
Police said the victim had
invited the man over for dinner.
They ate, talked and con-
sumed a litre of wine. Accord-
ing to police, the farmer then
accused his host of looking
down on him. They argued and
the conviviality ended with
three punches to the victims
forehead and a trip to the hos-
pital, police said. Afterwards,
police arrested the farmer and
sent him to court. NOKORWAT
Drunks ultimatum: cut
the chatter or get cut
POLICE say two drinking part-
ners in Kandal provinces Koh
Thom district engaged in a
brawl at an engagement party
on Monday night. With the
beer flowing heavily, the sus-
pect, 25, allegedly lashed out
at his 45-year-old acquaint-
ance with a glass for talking
too much. He was cut on the
cheek and sent to the hospi-
tal. Police said the suspect
escaped. NOKORWAT
Translated by Phak Seangly
POLICE
BLOTTER
National
6
EMBASSY OF THE UNITED STATES
OF AMERICA
Immigration Visa (IV) Assistant
TheU.S. Embassy in PhnomPenh is seeking an individual for
theImmigration Visa (IV) Assistant position for theConsular
Affairs Ofce.
The incumbent serves in the Immigration Visa (IV) Unit
under the Consular Ofcer in charge of the team and the
Visa Supervisor, performing the full range of IV services for
Cambodian IV cases. The jobholder also serves on a rotational
basis with the Non-Immigrant Visa (NIV) Unit for the full
range of NIV case processing. S/hereceives visa applications
and supporting documents, prescreens cases, advises
ofcers on Cambodia cultural and social issues, processes
applications, deals with correspondence and explains the visa
process to members of the public and provides interpretation
for American ofcers when needed.
Salary: Theannual salary rangefor this position is
USD9,216 14,286.
Required Qualications
Completion of High School is required. 1.
Two years of progressively responsible experience 2.
involving the application of complex regulatory
material, along with experience in public contact is
required.
Level IV (Fluent) Speaking/Reading/Writing English 3.
and Khmer are required. Language prociency will
betested.
Must have general ofce management practices and 4.
basic computer skills.
Ability to deal with customers with patience and tact 5.
and to work under pressure.
Application Procedure
The application deadline is June26, 2014. Interested candidates
must submit applications by email to RecruitmentPHP@state.
gov using the Universal Application for Employment as a
Locally Employed Staff or Family Member (DS-174) form.
The application form and complete details on this position
can be found at http://cambodia.usembassy.gov/employment_
opportunities.html.
Note: All Ordinarily Resident (OR) applicants must have
the required work and/or residency permits to be eligible for
consideration.
CNRP wants
fair coverage
Deputy opposition leader Kem Sokha talks to the media after arriving
at Phnom Penh International Airport yesterday. VIREAK MAI
Authorities destroy villagers homes
Sen David
MORE than 50 houses in Mondulkiris Sre
Preah commune were destroyed or dam-
aged this week by authorities, residents
said yesterday.
Saron Soneng, 40, said that on Monday,
authorities, who accuse the residents of
illegally occupying a state conservation
area, burned down her home and 4 hec-
tares of cassava.
We are Cambodian too . . . the authori-
ties should allow us to live and stay in our
homes. Now we have nowhere to go but a
pagoda, she said.
Resident Puy Hor, 48, said he had returned
to his damaged home.
The authorities must pay us for the
damage to our house and farm, he said.
Sok Ratha, coordinator for rights group
Adhoc, said damaging homes would not
help resolve the dispute.
It affects human rights when the author-
ities damage a residents house without a
suitable solution, he said.
But Sin Van Vuth, Keo Seima district gov-
ernor, said authorities had no choice.
We [will] force them to move. If they had
come to complete the proper documents
at the provincial hall, the authorities might
have found them a social land concession
to live on. But they did not complete the
application, he said.
7 THE PHNOM PENH POST JUNE 18, 2014
Business
Derailed: Thai cutbacks freeze high-speed train plans
Wichit Chantanusornsiri
THAILANDS infrastructure develop-
ment budget will be trimmed by the
transport strategy committee to 2.4
trillion baht from the 3 trillion baht
previously proposed, as high-speed
train projects appear certain to be
put on ice.
At the same time, three electric train
lines in Greater Bangkok, motorways
and a dual-track railway are set to pro-
ceed during the 2015 fiscal year.
The proposal will on Thursday be
forwarded to Prajin Jantong, head of
the National Council for Peace and
Orders economic team, for delibera-
tion, said Chula Sukmanop, director-
general of the Office of Transport and
Traffic Policy and Planning.
He was speaking after a meeting with
agencies including the Public Debt
Management Office and the Budget
Bureau about project funding.
The investment period for the
megaprojects will run from next year
to 2021.
Chula said the three electric train
lines are the Orange Line from the
Thailand Cultural Centre to Min Buri,
the Pink Line from Kaerai to Min Buri
and the Yellow Line from Lat Phrao to
Samut Prakan.
The 2.4-trillion-baht investment
plan will involve infrastructure devel-
opment and water management
projects, railways, aviation, roads and
electric trains.
The latest investment plan appears
to be higher than the 2-trillion-baht
infrastructure plan initiated by the
Pheu Thai Party-led government,
because it also adds water and avia-
tion to the mix.
However, the high-speed train
projects expected to cost 800 billion
baht will not be included in the mas-
sive investment plan.
Chatchawan Boonjaroenkit, direc-
tor-general of the Highways Depart-
ment, said his agency had requested
a 30-billion-baht investment budget
for next fiscal year.
The department has asked for 100
billion baht through 2021.
Road repairs, for Mittraphap and
Phetkasem roads in particular, are
priorities for the department, he
said, adding that it had requested 20
billion baht to fix Phetkasem Road,
with the route between Chumphon
and Nakhon Ratchasima provinces
badly damaged.
Another urgent investment is
expanding to four-lane roads the
routes between Tak town and Mae Sot
at a cost of 2.8 billion baht; and
between Prachin Buris Kabin Buri
district and Korats Pak Thong Chai
district at a cost of 3-4 billion baht.
Both projects will take a few years to
complete.
He said that roads along the banks
of the Chao Phraya river are under a
feasibility study.
The four-lane road, which may run
from Nonthaburis Pak Kret district to
the mouth of the river, could also help
to prevent floods in the capital, as the
project would include building higher
flood levees in addition to easing traf-
fic congestion. BANGKOK POST
Acleda sets
aside $39M
for branch
expansion
May Kunmakara
ACLEDA Bank has reinvested
$39 million of profits back into
its operations instead of paying
out dividends to shareholders,
an announcement on its web-
site states.
It is the 11th time Alceda has
opted to increase registered
capital, with the latest top-up
taking the banks total capital
to more than $225 million,
according to the statement.
Acleda CEO In Channy is
quoted in the statement as say-
ing that the capital increase will
fund the opening of an addi-
tional 21 branches by the end
of the year.
So Phonnary, Acleda execu-
tive vice president and chief
operating officer, said the deci-
sion to inject the profits, which
equals more than 50 per cent
of the firms $77 million record-
ed at the end of 2013, was
agreed to by all major com-
pany shareholders.
Acleda also is aiming to
increase its presence in Myan-
mar by building on its microfi-
nance business there, Phon-
nary added.
Acleda is applying to the rep-
resentative office in Myanmar
for a commercial banking
licence. We expect to get the
licence this year, she said.
Acleda is 51 per cent owned
by Cambodian interests. The
remaining 49 per cent is owned
by the World Banks Interna-
tional Finance Corporation,
Dutch-owned banking firm
Tridos, Hong Kong-based JSH
Asia Holding Limited, COFI-
BRED a subsidiary of France-
based company BRED Banque
Populaire, and Japanese finan-
cial conglomerate Orix.
Rice piles up as exports slow
Hor Kimsay

L
AGGING demand
from foreign buyers
has led Cambodian
rice being stockpiled
at the countrys mills, accord-
ing to the head of the coun-
trys peak rice body.
Sok Puthyvuth, president
of the Cambodia Rice Fed-
eration (CRF), said that with
exporters receiving fewer or-
ders, the countrys larger rice
millers have been able to sell
only 20 per cent of stock pro-
duced during the most recent
harvest season.
[Orders] have fallen sharp-
ly in recent times. Exports
this year are proving very dif-
cult for our members, he
said, adding that this time
last year, at least 70 per cent
of stock had been sold by the
bigger companies for export.
Puthyvuth said the slump
in Cambodian rice orders was
due to deated prices in Viet-
nam and in Thailand, where a
recent rice surplus selloff saw
12.8 million tonnes equal to
about a third of the worlds
total export market ood
the market from January.
Cambodian rice currently
trades at $440 per tonne.
Meanwhile, rice in Thai-
land and Vietnam is selling
for $385 per tonne and $405
per tonne respectively.
With the next harvest sea-
son due to begin in just three
months, Lim Bun Heng,
chairman of rice export rm
Loran Group, said that mill-
ers had been pressuring his
company to nd buyers for
Cambodian grain.
They are concerned and
are asking us to nd a way to
export the rice stocks as soon
as possible, he said.
Most of them borrow
money from banks to buy the
rice from the farmers in the
rst place, so they need to
start repayment.
In addition, the informal
export of raw paddy, which is
often traded over the border,
has also slowed, making col-
lection easier for local millers.
However, as demand for
exports of Cambodian milled
rice weakens, a bottleneck
is resulting, which itself re-
sults in increasing stockpiles,
Heng added.
A rice mill owner, who
asked not to be named for
fear of damaging his busi-
nesss reputation, said that he
had more than 2,000 tonnes
of rice waiting for a buyer in
Battambang province.
The mill owner added that
he had accrued over $400,000
worth of bank loans to buy
the rice off local farmers in
the hope of selling it on to ex-
porters for overseas markets.
To pay back the bank only,
I am forced to sell the paddy
off at a lower price than what
I bought it for, he said.
Independent agricultural
analyst Srey Chanthy said
Cambodia must lower both
paddy and milled rice prices to
maintain sustainable competi-
tion with regional producers.
Our rice quality is already
good, so what we need to do is
focus on price, he said.
Workers plant a new crop of rice in Kampong Chams Batheay district late last year. Only 20 per cent of rice produced during the past harvest season has been sold. HONG MENEA
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the remaining funds will be used to pay
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Labourers work on a new building in
the Thai capital. BANGKOK POST
Business
8
Unusual setup
Alibaba lifts
veil on inner
workings
C
HINESE Internet giant Ali-
baba, the worlds largest
online retailer, on Monday
disclosed details of its unusual
partnership management
ahead of its US stock offering.
The ling with the Securi-
ties and Exchange Commission
names for the rst time all 27
partners who steer the rm,
which is often described as a Chi-
nese version of Amazon or eBay.
We believe that our partner-
ship approach has helped us to
better manage our business,
with the peer nature of the part-
nership enabling senior manag-
ers to collaborate and override
bureaucracy and hierarchy, the
document said.
Unlike dual-class ownership
structures that employ a high-
vote class of shares to concen-
trate control in a few founders,
our approach is designed to em-
body the vision of a large group
of management partners.
The board will include four
independent directors includ-
ing Michael Evans, a former
high-ranking Goldman Sachs
executive, and Jerry Yang, one of
the co-founders of Yahoo.
The listing is expected to raise
about $15 billion. AFP
FDI drops, China says
dispute not to blame
F
OREIGN direct invest-
ment into China fell 6.7
per cent year-on-year
to $8.6 billion in May,
the government said yesterday,
denying that a row with Viet-
nam was behind a slump in in-
vestment from Southeast Asia.
For the rst ve months of
the year, FDI which excludes
investment in nancial sec-
tors was up 1.6 per cent at
$48.91 billion, the Commerce
Ministry said in a statement.
In April, FDI was $8.7 billion.
Investment from major
countries and regions into
China generally maintained
a stable growth momentum,
the ministry said.
Over the January-May peri-
od, investment from the Euro-
pean Union dropped 22.1 per
cent to $2.58 billion, with that
from Association of Southeast
Asian Nations (ASEAN) coun-
tries falling 22.3 per cent to
$2.54 billion.
Funding from Japan
Chinas fth-biggest inves-
tor plunged 42.2 per cent,
the ministry said. China has
multiple territorial disputes
with its neighbours, and ten-
sions with Vietnam are at a
peak after Beijing deployed
an oil rig in disputed waters
but ministry spokesman Shen
Danyang denied the row was
responsible for the fall in ASE-
AN investment.
The statistics were based on
specic projects and the com-
parison base also mattered, he
told reporters.
Generally Chinas coopera-
tion with ASEAN has not been
affected by the current situ-
ation, ministry spokesman
Shen Danyang said.
Beijing is also currently em-
broiled in a dispute with Tokyo
over islands in the East China
Sea and Shen added: The
continued strains in China-
Japan political relations will
make the environment for bi-
lateral economic cooperation
deteriorate and may cause
economic and trade relations
to regress and affect compa-
nies will to cooperate.
The responsibility is not
Chinas, he added.
Chinas top investors in the
ve-month period were Hong
Kong, Taiwan, Singapore,
South Korea and Japan, the
ministry said.
Investment from South Ko-
rea and Britain jumped 87.9
per cent and 62.2 per cent re-
spectively, while that from the
United States dropped 9.3 per
cent, the ministry said, with-
out providing values.
Foreign investment into
China rebounded in 2013 to
$117.59 billion, though slow-
ing growth in the worlds sec-
ond-largest economy could
suppress inows this year.
Chinas economy expanded
7.7 per cent in 2013, the same
as 2012 the worst pace since
7.6 per cent in 1999. Beijings
ofcial growth target for this
year is 7.5 per cent.
It grew 7.4 per cent in the
rst three months of 2014, the
worst pace since a similar 7.4
per cent expansion in the third
quarter of 2012.
The Commerce Ministry
also announced that Chinas
overseas investment in non--
nancial sectors in the rst ve
months fell 10.2 per cent year-
on-year to $30.81 billion.
Investment to the United
States rose 144 per cent year-
on-year to $2.03 billion, and
that to the ASEAN countries
increased 4.2 per cent to $1.9
billion, it said. AFP
A front-page newspaper advertisement featuring an image of Nelson
Mandela in Hong Kong yesterday. The South African consulate in Hong
Kong told the online travel agency Zuji to immediately pull the ad, say-
ing that it was an infringement of copyright held by the Nelson Mandela
Foundation. A consulate ofcial said Zuji had agreed to pull the ad, and
that no further action would be taken. AFP
Its not fair use
Markets
9
Business
Chan Muyhong
THE Cambodian government
has budgeted $3.5 million for
tourism-related advertising
and promotions in 2014, Min-
ister of Tourism Thong Khon
said yesterday.
This year the budget has
reached $3.5 million dollars,
half of the total budget for
the ministry as we will host
PATA Travel Mart 2014, he
said, referring to Septembers
three-day tourism trade fair
organised by the Pacic Asian
Tourism Association.
Khon said $800,000 will be
spent on broadcasting adver-
tisements on US-based global
television network CNN. The
remaining funds will be spent
on public events and tourism
related exhibitions inside and
outside of the country.
It used to cost us only
$700,000, but this year CNN re-
quest a $100,000 raise. We still
have the spot broadcasted as it
is a very important tool to at-
tract tourists, he said.
Cambodia began broadcast-
ing tourism advertisements
on CNN in 2011. The Tourism
Ministrys annual spending
has increased 10 per cent every
year since the advertising be-
gan, Khon said.
Ho Vandy, co-chair of the
Government-Private Sec-
tor Working Group on Tour-
ism, welcomed the increased
spending.
I think the budget is very
small. We need more money
to advertise, to boost the tour-
ism sector. At the same time,
however, the money has to be
used in a transparent way too,
he said.
Vandy added that private -ec-
tor tourism rms alone spend
upwards of $2 million every
year on promoting Cambodia.
Thourn Sinan, chairman of
the PATA Cambodia chapter,
said Cambodia was still behind
neighbouring countries in tour-
ism advertising campaigns.
The budget is very small
compared to other countries
in the region such as Thailand
and Malaysia where their ad-
verts target specic countries
not just globally, he said.
We should target countries
such as China and India direct-
ly, he added
Sinan said Cambodia should
start using social media, which
is a much cheaper and effec-
tive means of advertising.
Last year, Cambodia attract-
ed 4.2 million foreign tourists,
generating more than $2.5 bil-
lion for the tourism sector.
Ad spending sees hike
in budget for tourism
Vietnam must diversify trade
Nguyen Dieu Tu Uyen

F
OR more than eight
years, Luong Thi Kim
Oanh bought cases of
thread from China for
her garment factory in Ha-
noi. Last month, rattled by an
anti-China riot in her country,
she placed her rst order from
South Korea.
I used to buy 90 per cent of
my thread from China, said
Oanh, 52, who employs about
200 people at Viet Hung Gar-
ments & Embroidery. Shift-
ing sourcing may cost us
more, but we need to think
of it now, or it may be too late.
You never know how things
may turn out.
Oanh fears a further disrup-
tion in trade after last months
violent protests following Chi-
nas placement of an oil rig in
disputed waters. The unrest
halted production at foreign-
owned factories and caused
Chinese workers to ee. While
China is the nations larg-
est trading partner, Vietnam
must reduce its dependence
and develop a contingency
plan to cope with any hic-
cups and turbulence, Viet-
nam Chamber of Commerce
and Industry Chairman Vu
Tien Loc said this month.
More Vietnamese businesses
may have to consider alterna-
tives as the country prepares
to le a legal suit challenging
Chinas claims to the disputed
waters. Prime Minister Nguyen
Tan Dung said in an interview
last month that his adminis-
tration had prepared evidence
and was ready for legal action.
It will force Vietnams busi-
nesses to look into other mar-
kets where the political risk
is absent, and thats a good
thing, said Chua Hak Bin,
a Singapore-based regional
economist at Bank of America
Corp. Its always good to di-
versify, anyway. You dont want
to rely too much on another
country, especially where po-
litical tensions are escalating.
The Vietnam Textile and Ap-
parel Association has asked
its more than 1,000 members
including Oanh to consider
alternative supply sources to
China, according to Deputy
General Secretary Nguyen Van
Tuan, even as bilateral trade
between the two countries
rose 84 per cent to $50.2 bil-
lion last year from $27.3 bil-
lion in 2010, according to gov-
ernment data.
Forty-two per cent of im-
ports from China were tele-
phone components, elec-
tronic spare parts, and fabric
and leather for garments and
footwear, with tools and ma-
chinery making up 18 per
cent. BLOOMBERG
A banner that reads We love Vietnam, protect your bowl of rice hangs in front of a vandalised Mega Step
Electronics (Vietnam) Co factory following the anti-China protests. BLOOMBERG
Business
10
IMF slashes
US growth
prediction
THE International Monetary
Fund has slashed its forecast
for the United States and call
on policy makers to keep
interest rates low and to raise
the minimum wage to
strengthen growth.
The global crisis lender said
in its annual report on the US
economy the country will like-
ly grow only 2 per cent this year,
compared with the previous 2.8
per cent estimate, blaming
mainly the unexpected con-
traction in the first quarter.
It also said that the Federal
Reserve should not expect the
economy to get back to full
employment before the end of
2017, and that it could afford
to hold its key interest rate at
the zero level past the middle
of next year.
Labour markets are weaker
than is implied by the headline
unemployment number, the
fund said, citing the low work-
force participation rate and
stagnant wages.
The IMF said the US govern-
ment could afford to take short-
term measures to strengthen
growth and jobs, despite the
ongoing large fiscal deficit
and huge government debt
burden. AFP
GM recalls 3.4M more cars
G
ENERAL Motors on
Monday recalled 3.4
million cars in North
America to x an ig-
nition problem that can cause
the car to lose power and that
has been linked to injuries.
The bulk of the 2000 to 2014
model-year cars 3.2 million
are in the United States, the
largest US automaker said.
GM said that the ignition
switch may move out of the
run position if the key is
carrying extra weight and is
jarred, such as when the car
hits a pothole or crosses rail-
road tracks.
Switching out of the run
position affects power steering
and power braking and could
cause air bags not to deploy in
a crash. GM said it knows of
eight crashes and six injuries
related to this recall.
The company said that the
recall stems from its review
of safety issues following its
recall in February of 2.6 mil-
lion Chevrolet Cobalts and
other small cars for ignition
switch problems.
The cars covered in the new-
est recall are Buick Lacrosses,
Chevrolet Impalas, Cadillac
Devilles, Cadillac DTS, Buick
Lucernes, Buick Regals and
Chevy Monte Carlos.
Until the rework or replace-
ment is completed, owners
of the recalled cars are urged
to remove additional weight
from their key chains and drive
with only the ignition key,
GM said. GM also announced
ve other recalls for a total of
165,770 vehicles for a variety
of problems, including with
power steering.
The company said it knew of
no crashes or injuries related
to four of the conditions, but
injury data was unclear for a
problem that could cause the
rollover sensor to uninten-
tionally deploy the roof rail
air bags, which happened on
15 occasions
GM said it would take a
charge of about $700 million
for recall repairs in the second
quarter, including the $400
million provision it previ-
ously announced. That brings
to $2.0 billion the amount set
aside for recall costs in the rst
half of the year.
The automaker is under
congressional and, report-
edly, Justice Department in-
vestigation over why it failed
to act on the Cobalt ignition
switch problem until this Feb-
ruary despite knowing about
it for more than 11 years.
That problem has been tied
to dozens of accidents and at
least 13 deaths, according to
GM. Outside analysts have
said the death toll could be
much higher. AFP
Demonstrators hold signs in front of General Motors headquarters in Detroit earlier this week to protest the
handling of an ignition switch defect and delayed recall linked to a least 13 deaths. BLOOMBERG

Argentina will avoid
debt default: president
PRESIDENT Cristina Kirchner
said on Monday there would be
no default in payment of
Argentinas debt, after a US
Supreme Court ruling piled
pressure on the countrys
finances. Kirchner also lashed
out at efforts at extortion in the
wake of the court ruling, which
turned back Argentinas appeals
against paying at least $1.3
billion to hedge fund investors in
its defaulted bonds. Argentina
has shown a more than clear
will to pay, but there is a
difference between negotiation
and extortion, Kirchner said in
a televised address. Admitting
the US ruling was worrisome,
Kirchner said the ruling was
against the interest of 92 per
cent of the bondholders. AFP
British inflation lowest
in more than four years
BRITAINS 12-month inflation
slowed to 1.5 per cent in May,
which was the lowest level for
four and a half years, official
data showed on Monday.
Although Britain is not in the
eurozone, the unusually low
trend for 12-month inflation
shadows even lower inflation in
the 18-member single
currency area. There is now
talk that the Bank of England,
may have to raise rates to slow
down overheating, mainly in
the property market. AFP
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Nine holes and a hovercraft
Nadja Brandt

F
LORIDAS Woodmont Coun-
try Club, which once boasted
1,200 members, has been hit
hard in the past decade as
hurricanes and then the recession
kept golfers away. Now the clubs
owner is adding conference space,
stores, restaurants, a spa and a hotel
as part of a planned revival.
About $100 million will be spent
on the revamp of the property
in Tamarac, about 23 kilometers
northwest of Fort Lauderdale, owner
Mark Schmidt said. After years of
negotiations with local authorities,
he expects to receive approval this
month for the planned Woodmont
improvements.
While tennis courts and swimming
pools have long had a place at golf
clubs, a growing number of course
owners are embracing mixed-use real
estate, a concept more often used in
urban developments to hedge risk
and diversify returns. Property in-
vestors are adding everything from
medical facilities to hovercraft op-
erations to increase revenue.
I dont think a single golf-course
operator, unless you own a place like
Pebble Beach, can make money,
said Schmidt, who bought Wood-
mont for about $3 million in 2004
and has seen membership dwindle
to 230. The cost of insurance, op-
erations and maintenance is far too
great. Multisourcing and redevelop-
ing to include hospitality and other
uses is the only way to go.
After a prior redevelopment plan
was rejected by the municipal gov-
ernment, Schmidt is now cutting the
golf course to 27 holes from 36. He
and his partners plan to construct
152 single-family residences, a new
clubhouse and swimming pool, 14
tennis courts, shops and 465 square
metres of meeting rooms, plus a po-
tential mid-scale hotel operated by a
company such as Marriott Interna-
tional Inc or Hilton Worldwide Hold-
ings Inc.
Golf-course owners facing a
dropoff in traditional revenue from
player fees are trying to generate
demand from younger users and
cater to families, said Lesley Deutch,
a Boca Raton, Florida-based senior
vice president at John Burns Real
Estate Consulting. Adding amenities
such as athletic facilities creates a
broader audience, she said.
The recession caused a rethink-
ing of the value proposition for golf-
course owners, said Steven Ekovich,
vice president of investments at Mar-
cus & Millichap Incs National Golf &
Resort Properties Group. Because
of the millennial generation and
Generation X and Y, you have all
these varied interests. So you have
to offer more things.
At Windy Knoll Golf Club in Spring-
eld, Ohio, owner Nick Tiller and his
cousin Pete Duffey, the propertys
managing director, added hover-
crafts last year to take people across
the golf course and from tee to green.
The idea was inspired by a product
that was built for Oakley Inc and
two-time Masters Tournament win-
ner Bubba Watson, who is sponsored
by the company.
Tiller and Duffey also expanded
banquet facilities, used to attract
weddings and other events, and
added a new full-service, year-
round restaurant.
The duo, rst-time golf-course op-
erators, bought the property out of
receivership in May 2012 for about
$1.4 million and are spending $1 mil-
lion on improvements.
The hovercrafts are not really vi-
able for everyday use because they
are kind of hard to control weve
already had a few minor accidents
but its garnered great interest from a
wide audience, and its a way to pro-
mote our golf course, Duffey said.
If all of these investments start to
cash-ow well for us, we denitely
are in the market to add other op-
portunities to create demand and to
generate additional revenues.
The course is close to breaking
even and probably will be protable
by next year because of all the addi-
tions weve made, Duffey said.
Homes at Woodmont will go for
$300,000 to $600,000. Under the cur-
rent plan, residents will be required
to join the golf club. Schmidt said
residential development may sell
out within three years, if not sooner,
given strong interest from potential
buyers. He then expects member-
ship to more than double.
The days of just having a golf
course and an 8,000-square-foot club
house are past, Schmidt said. My
staff did a lot to market and explain
to the community what benets our
extensive redevelopment of the club
would have. Now, nally, I feel the re-
covery is under way. BLOOMBERG
Homes at Woodmont Country Club will be going for between $300,000 to $600,000
when construction on residential property at the club is nished. BLOOMBERG
World
Inmarsat:
370 search
not looking
in hotspot
At least 15 dead as Kenyan Islamists strike again
Obama sends US troops to Iraq
Pangolin haul
Prashant Rao

F
IGHTING erupted at the
northern approaches to Bagh-
dad yesterday as Iraq accused
Saudi Arabia of backing mili-
tants who have seized swathes of its
territory in an offensive the UN says
threatens its very existence.
Washington deployed 275 military
personnel to protect its embassy in
Baghdad, the rst time it has sent
troops to Iraq since withdrawing forc-
es at the end of 2011 after a bloody and
costly intervention launched in 2003.
It was also considering air strikes
against the militants, who are led by
the jihadist Islamic State of Iraq and
Syria (ISIS) but also include loyalists
of now-executed Sunni Arab dictator
Saddam Hussein. Since the insur-
gents launched their lightning assault
on June 9, they have captured Mosul,
a city of two million people, and a big
chunk of mainly Sunni Arab territory
stretching south towards the capital.
The offensive has displaced hun-
dreds of thousands of people and
sent jitters through world oil markets
as the militants have advanced ever
nearer Baghdad leaving the Shia-led
government in disarray.
Yesterday the militants briey held
parts of the city of Baquba, just 60 ki-
lometres (40 miles) from the capital,
ofcials said.
They also took control of most of Tal
Afar, a strategic Shia-majority town be-
tween Mosul and the border with Syria
where ISIS also has ghters engaged in
that countrys three-year-old civil war.
The overnight attack on Baquba,
which was pushed back by security
forces but left 44 prisoners dead at a
police station, marked the closest that
ghting has come to the capital.
The jihadists, ever ready to stir
up sectarian tensions, have vowed
to march on Baghdad and the Shia
shrine city of Karbala to its south.
In Tal Afar, militants controlled most
of the town but pockets of resistance
remained. Soldiers, police and armed
residents held on to parts of its air-
port, the deputy head of the provin-
cial council, Nureddin Qabalan, said.
Further south, the police and army
abandoned the Iraqi side of a key
crossing on the border with Syria,
ofcers said.
Syrian rebel groups opposed to ISIS,
who already controlled the other side
of the Al-Qaim crossing, advanced
across the border to take over.
The Iraqi army already abandoned
the Rabia border crossing further
north to Kurdish forces last week.
The swift advance of the militants
has sparked international alarm, with
UN envoy to Baghdad Nickolay Mlad-
enov warning that Iraqs territorial in-
tegrity was at stake.
Right now, its life-threatening for
Iraq but it poses a serious danger to
the region, Mladenov said. Iraq fac-
es the biggest threat to its sovereignty
and territorial integrity in years.
The violence has stoked regional ten-
sions, with Iraq accusing neighbouring
Saudi Arabia yesterday of siding with
terrorism and of being responsible for
nancing the militants.
The comments came a day after the
Sunni kingdom blamed sectarian
policies by Iraqs Shia-led government
for triggering the unrest.
The prime minister of Iraqs autono-
mous Kurdish region told the BBC it
would be almost impossible for the
country to return to how it was before
the offensive, and called for Sunni Ar-
abs to be granted an autonomous re-
gion of their own.
Alarmed by the collapse of much
of the security forces in the face of
the militant advance, foreign govern-
ments have begun pulling out diplo-
matic staff from the capital.
US President Barack Obama an-
nounced that around 275 military
personnel equipped for combat
were being deployed in Iraq to help
protect the embassy in Baghdad and
assist US nationals. AFP
AT LEAST 15 people have
been killed in a new attack
near Kenyas coast, ofcials
said yesterday, just 24 hours
after Somalias al-Shabaab
rebels massacred close to 50
people in the same area.
The al-Qaeda-linked Isla-
mist group said its ghters
carried out the latest attack
on a village, and that its com-
mando unit had managed to
return to base unhindered af-
ter two nights of carnage.
We carried out another at-
tack last night. We killed 20
people, mainly police and
Kenyan wildlife wardens. The
commandos have been go-
ing to several places looking
for military personnel, She-
baabs military spokesman
Abdulaziz Abu Musab said.
The commandos have
fullled their duties and re-
turned peacefully to their
base, he added, without say-
ing if the attackers were still
inside Kenya or had driven
back across the Somali bor-
der, around 100 kilometres
(60 miles) to the north.
Police conrmed that the
gunmen, apparently part of
the same group that mas-
sacred nearly 50 people in
the town of Mpeketoni over-
night on Sunday, attacked
the village of Poromoko, also
situated in Lamu county, late
on Monday.
Kenyan police spokes-
woman Zipporah Mboroki
conrmed the new attack
which came as top ofcials
were ying in to the area to
coordinate security opera-
tions and security sources
said there were 15 dead.
Sunday nights assault on
Mpeketoni, near the coastal
island and popular tourist
resort of Lamu, was the worst
attack on Kenyan soil since
last Septembers siege of the
Westgate shopping mall in
the capital Nairobi, in which
67 people were killed.
Witnesses described how
the militants drove into the
predominantly Christian
town on Sunday night, at-
tacked a police station and
then hotels and homes. The
gunmen also singled out
non-Muslims for execution,
sparing Muslim men as well
as women and children.
They arrived and asked
people to get out. They
asked them to lie down, and
then they shot them one by
one, right in the head, one
after another, said David
Waweru, who was watching
a World Cup match in a cafe
but managed to hide behind
a house when the Mpeketoni
attack started.
Kenyan troops crossed into
southern Somalia in 2011 to
ght al-Shabaab, later join-
ing the now 22,000-strong
African Union force bat-
tling the militants and sup-
porting the war-torn Horn
of Africa nations interna-
tionally backed but fragile
government.
Several fundamentalist
clerics have also been mur-
dered in Kenyas port city of
Mombasa in recent years,
with rights groups accusing
the Kenyan government of
carrying out extra-judicial
killings.
Al-Shabaab also declared
Kenya a war zone and
warned tourists and foreign-
ers to stay out of the country,
once a top beach and safari
destination but now facing a
sharp drop in tourism reve-
nue due to political tensions,
rising violent crime and the
wave of shootings and bomb-
ings blamed on al-Shabaab.
Foreigners with any regard
for their safety and security
should stay away from Kenya
or suffer the bitter conse-
quences of their folly, al-Sha-
baab said in a statement on
Monday. AFP
THE search for Flight MH370
is yet to target the most likely
crash site after being distracted
by what are now believed
to be bogus signals, British
company Inmarsat claimed
yesterday.
Inmarsats scientists told
the BBCs Horizon program
that they had calculated the
planes most likely ight path
and a hotspot in the south-
ern Indian Ocean in which it
most likely came down.
The ight lost contact on
March 8 en route from Kuala
Lumpur to Beijing with a total
of 239 passengers and crew
on board. Hourly pings sent
by the plane were received by
Inmarsats spacecraft, lead-
ing scientists to calculate its
likely path.
Australian vessel Ocean
Shield was dispatched to in-
vestigate, but before reach-
ing the likely site it began to
detect a signal that it believed
was coming from the planes
black box, Inmarsat said.
Two months were spent
searching 850 square kilome-
tres (330 square miles) of sea
bed northwest of Perth, but
the source of the pings was
not found and a submersible
robot found no evidence of
the airliner.
It was by no means an un-
realistic location but it was
further to the northeast than
our area of highest probabil-
ity, Chris Ashton at Inmarsat
told Horizon.
Experts from the satel-
lite rm modelled the most
likely ight path using the
hourly pings and assuming
a speed and heading con-
sistent with the plane being
own by autopilot.
We can identify a path that
matches exactly with all those
frequency measurements and
with the timing measurements
and lands on the nal arc at
a particular location, which
then gives us a sort of a hotspot
area on the nal arc where we
believe the most likely area is,
Ashton explained.
Australias Joint Agency
Coordination Centre (JACC),
established to manage the
search, said the four acous-
tic pings picked up by the
black box detector attached
to Ocean Shield had to be
pursued at the time.
The Australian Transport
Safety Bureau said experts
were still working to dene
the area to be scoured in the
next phase of the search,
which will plunge ocean
depths of up to 6,000 feet.
This is highly complex
work that requires signicant
collaborative effort with in-
ternational specialists. The
revised search zone is expect-
ed to be available in the com-
ing weeks. AFP
Seized pangolin scales are displayed (left) in
Hong Kong on Monday; (above) rescued pangolin
is released in the forest by government wildlife
and conservation ofcers in Karo district located
in North Sumatra province on July 31, 2012. Hong
Kong customs ofcials have seized $2 million
worth of scales from the endangered pangolin,
or scaly anteater, authorities said yesterday, in
their biggest such haul in ve years. Ofcials
intercepted two shipments bound for Southeast
Asia containing three tonnes of pangolin scales
from Africa around the end of last month.
Pangolin scales are prized as an ingredient in
traditional Chinese medicine while the rare
anteaters tough, scaly skin is also used in
fashion accessories in Asia. AFP
FAMILIES of asylum seekers
killed in a shipwreck off Aus-
tralias Christmas Island in
2010 are suing the govern-
ment, arguing it breached its
duty of care in a move Can-
berra yesterday blasted as
shameful.
Fifty people died when a
rickety shing boat crowded
with nearly 100 Iraqi, Kurd-
ish and Iranian asylum seek-
ers was dashed against jag-
ged rocks in dangerous seas
at the remote Indian Ocean
outpost.
Human rights lawyer George
Newhouse has launched legal
action in the New South Wales
state Supreme Court on be-
half of eight families, claim-
ing the government failed to
maintain a proper lookout.
The terried group on board
drifted for about an hour after
losing engine power and only
one man managed to leap
to safety before the surging
waves smashed the vessel
apart on the rocks. Fifty peo-
ple died and 42 were rescued
by the Navy and customs and
border protection ofcials.
Immigration Minister Scott
Morrison defended the ac-
tions of the government at
the time, which was a Labor
administration. The conser-
vatives are now in power.
Frankly, I think this is a
shameful and offensive claim
to be making, he said. This
is like someone who has been
saved from a re suing the
remen, he added.
The Refugee Action Coali-
tion claimed Morrison did
not know what he was talking
about. It seems that the min-
ister is not actually familiar
with the legal case. The fami-
lies are not suing the Navy
or their rescuers on the day,
said spokesman Ian Rintoul.
What the legal case is high-
lighting is the negligence of
the Commonwealth and the
complete lack of preparation
or adequate rescue facilities
or equipment on Christmas
Island that could have avoid-
ed the tragedy.
If the minister was really
concerned with safety of life
at sea he would welcome the
court case. AFP
World
13
Employment Opportunity
Research Ofcer 2 years with possible extension
Phnom Penh with travel to provinces
BBC Media Action is the BBCs international development charity. We believe
in the power of media and communication to help reduce poverty and support
people in understanding their rights. Our aim is to inform, connect and
empower people around the world.
Overall Purpose of Job: To work primary on delivery of qualitative research
study to inform the strategy, content and quality of BBC Media Actions
media development and development communications projects, under the
supervision of the Senior Research Ofcer (SRO).
Main Duties
Designing Research Methodology - Work with Senior Research
Ofcer to design and draft research instruments, particularly those
used for qualitative work. Input and help draft research design
sampling and logistics.
Conducting eldwork Recruit, train, coordinate and quality
control eldwork, including research administration and organization
of eldwork with support from SRO. Moderate focus groups and
conduct in-depth interviews. Continually looking at ways to improve
data collection both feeding into research design, moderation and
analysis of data.
Analysis and reporting Conduct analysis of qualitative data,
prepare reports and present key ndings. These will then be
nalized by the Research Manager.
Presenting Findings - Create PowerPoint presentations and write
reports in English. Present ndings to production teams and
project management.
Required Knowledge, Skills and Experience
Bachelor degree in a related eld.
Knowledge of qualitative research methodology.
Experience in conducting focus groups and in-depth interviews in
urban and rural settings.
Excellent written and verbal English.
Experience of writing precise and clear reports and brieng
documents in English.
Excellent presentation and communication skills.
Experience in administrative work and/or coordinating logistics of
research eldwork.
Ability to meet tight deadlines.
Has an enquiring mind and shows initiative.
Good interpersonal, communication and organisational skills, able
to work well as part of a team
Good IT skills, including MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
Desirable skills and experience, but not required,
Experience conducting research with young people in Cambodia
Experience in media research
Ability to work closely with a production teamin applying research
ndings to media outputs.
An understanding of, or enthusiasmto learn about,
communication strategies, development issues
Interested applicants should submit a CV with an introduction letter detailing
skills and outlining what they can bring to the job. Please do not submit
certicates at this stage. Send to: BBC Media Action, #296 (4
th
-7
th
oor) Street
271, Phnom Penh, (PO Box 155). Or email careers@kh.bbcmediaaction.
org. Tel: 023 997 435.
Only short-listed candidates will be called to attend an interview.
Closing Date: 23
rd
June 2014. The BBC is an equal opportunities employer.

Employment Opportunity
Research Assistant 2 years with possible extension
Phnom Penh with travel to provinces
BBC Media Action is the BBCs international development charity. We believe
in the power of media and communication to help reduce poverty and support
people in understanding their rights. Our aimis to inform, connect and empower
people around the world.
Overall Purpose of Job: To work primarily on audience research, and informing
and measuring the impact of BBC Media Actions programming in Cambodia.
Main Duties
Assist the SRO in all aspects of research activities as required,
including research administration and organization of eldwork.
Assist in the design of research instruments such as questionnaires
and discussion guides.
Monitoring and control the quality of eldwork/data collection by
research agencies and freelancers.
Assist in moderating focus groups and conducting depth interviews
as required, and continually look for ways to improve data collection,
research design, moderation and analysis of data.
Work closely with SRO and other members of the research teamin
analysis of qualitative and/or quantitative data.
Assist the SRO and other members of the research teamin
disseminating key ndings and strategic recommendations in English
to the end users of research (internal/external).
Assist in reviewing the latest trends and developments in research
methodologies related to behaviour change, impact assessment and
communications research, and evaluate their suitability to the Media
Actions Research and Learning work.
Required Knowledge, Skills and Experience
Completed university degree or university student in nal year of studies.
Good interpersonal, communication and organisational skills, able to
work well as part of a team
Good spoken and written English language skills, and excellent in Khmer.
Experience in administrative work and/or co-ordinating logistics of
research eldwork.
Experience in assisting with or conducting qualitative research eldwork
Computer literate, be familiar with Microsoft Word, Excel, Internet/
E-mail.
Knowledge of focus group research methodology.
Qualitative data entry skills.
Ability to meet tight deadlines.
Desirable, but not required,
Extensive experience moderating focus groups or conducting community
assessments/participatory research.
Experience conducting qualitative analysis
Experience conducting research with young people in Cambodia
Experience researching social capital or social cohesion (eitherthrough
academic research or primary eldwork)
Experience in media research
Experience designing research materials
Experience of English to Khmer translation.
Strong presentation skills and report writing skills (in English).
Interested applicants should submit a CV with an introduction letter detailing
skills and outlining what they can bring to the job. Please do not submit
certicates at this stage. Send to: BBC Media Action, #296 (4
th
-7
th
oor) Street
271, Phnom Penh, (PO Box 155). Or email careers@kh.bbcmediaaction.
org. Tel: 023 997 435.
Only short-listed candidates will be called to attend an interview. Closing
Date: 23
rd
June 2014. The BBC is an equal opportunities employer.
A Channel 7 screen grab released on December 15, 2010 shows a
refugee boat being smashed against rocks on Christmas Island. AFP
Asylum seekers to sue
Australia over tragedy
Japan kills 30 whales in new hunt
J
APAN has slaughtered
30 minke whales off its
coast, in the rst hunt
since the UNs top court
ordered Tokyo to stop killing
the animals in the Antarctic,
the government said.
The Japanese whaling eet
that left the northeastern
shing town of Ayukawa
in April completed its mis-
sion last week, the Fisheries
Agency said.
It was the rst campaign
since the International Court
of Justice (ICJ) said in March
that Japans annual expedi-
tion to the Southern Ocean
was a commercial activity
masquerading as research.
The hunt, which takes
place in spring and autumn
in coastal waters and in the
northwestern Pacic is also
classied as research whal-
ing, but was not at issue in the
ICJ case, which only addressed
the Southern Ocean hunt.
Whalers killed 16 male and
14 female mammals, with an
average length of about six
metres, the agency said.
Japan has hunted whales
under a loophole in the 1986
global moratorium that al-
lows lethal research on the
mammals, but has made no
secret of the fact that their
meat ends up in restaurants
and sh markets.
Tokyo called off the 2014-
15 season for its Antarctic
hunt, and said it would rede-
sign the controversial whal-
ing mission in a bid to make
it more scientic.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe
sparked fury in anti-whaling
nations earlier this month
when he told parliament he
would boost his efforts to-
wards restarting commer-
cial whaling.
Anti-whaling activists and
nations, including Australia
and New Zealand, had hoped
that Tokyo would use the cov-
er afforded by the ICJ ruling
to extricate itself from a hard-
ened position that whaling is
an integral part of the culture
and must be defended.
Critics point out that while
whale meat was once an im-
portant source of protein, few
Japanese now eat it, despite
government subsidies.
However, a recent poll by
a major national newspaper
found a majority of those
questioned supported Japans
right to hunt the mammals.
Observers say the tac-
tics of anti-hunt groups like
Sea Shepherd, whose boats
have harassed whalers in the
Southern Ocean, has galva-
nised support among the
population, where demands
for an end to the mission are
sometimes painted as cultur-
al imperialism. AFP

Fukushima struggling
to build ice wall plug
THE operator of Japans
battered Fukushima nuclear
power plant yesterday said it
was having trouble with the
early stages of an ice wall being
built under broken reactors to
contain radioactive water. Tokyo
Electric Power (TEPCO) has
begun digging the trenches for a
huge network of pipes under the
plant through which it intends to
pass refrigerant. This will freeze
the soil and form a physical
barrier that is intended to
prevent clean groundwater
flowing down mountainsides
from mixing with contaminated
water underneath the leaking
reactors. We have yet to form
the ice stopper because we
cant make the temperature low
enough to freeze water, a
TEPCO spokesman said. AFP
N Korea cruise missile

launch fuels concerns
NORTH Korea appears to have
acquired a sea-based copy of a
Russian cruise missile, the
latest step in an effort to
enhance its maritime strike
capability, a US think-tank said
yesterday. A state propaganda
film provides a very brief
glimpse of the missile being
launched from a naval vessel.
Arms control expert Jeffrey
Lewis said the missile would
mark a new and potentially
destabilising addition to North
Koreas military arsenal. AFP
This le picture taken on April 26, 2014 shows crew members of a whaling ship checking a harpoon gun
before departure at Ayukawa port in Ishinomaki City, northern Japan. AFP
US backs
Myanmar
poll reform
MYANMARS opposition yes-
terday welcomed a US call for
voters to have a free choice on
the next president, amid efforts
to change rules barring Aung
San Suu Kyi from standing.
The US State Department
urged reforms to ensure Myan-
mars people could freely
choose their president. Suu
Kyis opposition NLD is widely
expected to win the majority
of seats in next years poll, if
the vote is free and fair.
Myanmars president is cho-
sen by parliament and Suu Kyi
has indicated that she would
like to stand. But the former
political prisoner is ineligible
under the 2008 constitution,
which prohibits anyone
whose spouse or children are
overseas citizens from lead-
ing the country.
Many suspect the clause was
added to exclude Suu Kyi. She
was married to a now-de-
ceased British academic and
their two sons are British.
The State Department said it
would continue its discussions
with the Myanmar government
and key stakeholders as they
work to develop their final rec-
ommendations on constitu-
tional changes. AFP
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EGYPTS prosecutor general
on Monday ordered the re-
lease of Al-Jazeera journal-
ist Abdullah Elshamy, who
has been on hunger strike for
nearly ve months, state me-
dia reported.
Al-Jazeera swiftly issued a
statement calling for the re-
lease of three other staff on
trial in a separate case.
The court in that trial said
it would issue its verdict on
June 23 against the three
journalists accused of aiding
the blacklisted Muslim Broth-
erhood of ousted president
Mohamed Morsi.
Elshamy, who works for the
main Arabic-language chan-
nel of the Qatar-based net-
work, was arrested on August
14 last year when police dis-
persed protest camps in Cairo
set up by supporters of Morsi.
Prosecutor general Hesham
Barakat ordered the release of
13 defendants . . . among them
Abdullah Elshamy, a corre-
spondent with Qatari channel
Al-Jazeera, due to their health
conditions, the ofcial MENA
news agency reported.
Elshamys family said in
May that he had shed 40 ki-
lograms since he began the
hunger strike.
Our request to release
Abdullah was accepted by
the prosecutor general, the
journalists lawyer Shaaban
Saeed said. He will be out of
Torah prison once we nish
the release procedures [yes-
terday] morning.
Elshamy, who has yet to
face trial, has been on hunger
strike since January 21 to pro-
test his detention, according
to his family.
The decision to free
Elshamy reiterates what Al-
Jazeera had previously said:
that Elshamy was profession-
ally carrying out his duty as a
journalist, the Qatari broad-
caster said.
The military-installed au-
thorities have been incensed
by Al-Jazeeras coverage of
their crackdown on Morsi
supporters, in which more
than 1,400 have been killed
in street clashes and at least
15,000 jailed.
Earlier on Monday, an Egyp-
tian court set June 23 as the
date for its verdict in the trial
of Australian Peter Greste and
two other reporters working
for Al-Jazeera English.
They are among 20 accused
in a trial that has triggered in-
ternational outrage and fears
of growing media restrictions
in Egypt. AFP
Egypt orders Jazeera
journalist to be freed
Shock over Roma boy attack
A
GRUESOME vigi-
lante assault on a
Roma teenager who
is now ghting for
his life has shocked France,
with President Francois Hol-
lande dubbing the savage
beating an unspeakable and
unjustiable act.
Accused of robbery, the 16-
year-old was dragged into a
basement in a town north of
Paris on Friday, brutally beaten
by a dozen residents of a hous-
ing estate and left unconscious
in a supermarket trolley where
he was later discovered.
News of the attack in
Pierrette-sur-Seine only
came to the fore on Mon-
day, sparking widespread
condemnation among the
public, rights groups and the
countrys leaders.
In a statement issued by the
presidency, Hollande asked
that everything be done to
nd those responsible for this
attack and Prime Minister
Manuel Valls also hit out at the
perpetrators of the assault.
The teenager, who lived with
his family and other Roma in
a squalid camp sprung up
around an abandoned house,
was accused of breaking into
an apartment in the estate
just hours earlier.
A group of several people
came to nd him and take
him away by force, a police
source said on Monday, add-
ing that the boy was then
locked in a basement where
he was beaten.
Another source close to the
case said about a dozen peo-
ple took part in the attack.
It was the boys mother who
alerted police that her son
had been kidnapped. A judi-
cial source, also requesting
anonymity, said the boys life
is in danger. He is in a coma.
Michel Fourcade, the mayor
of Pierrette-sur-Seine, said
the boy had been questioned
by police several times this
month in connection with
a string of robberies in the
housing project.
This had fuelled anger to-
wards the Roma, an ethnic
minority also known as Gyp-
sies, whose presence in illegal
camps on the fringes of towns
and cities has often spurred
controversy in France where
they are accused of being be-
hind a rise in petty crime.
Ion Vardu, who lives next
to the Roma camp in Pierre-
tte-sur-Seine, said some 200
members of the traditionally
nomadic community had ar-
rived three weeks ago.
On Monday the camp lay
abandoned, rubbish, cloth-
ing and mattresses strewn in
the garden after the Romas
rapid departure following the
attack on the teenager. They
left immediately, said Vardu.
Roma have long been dis-
criminated against across Eu-
rope. They were killed in their
hundreds of thousands by the
Nazis during World War II, and
even now rights organisations
have warned of a spike in vio-
lence against Roma commu-
nities in Europe.
Frances SOS Racisme said
the attack was the obvious
result of nauseating tensions
faced by our fellow citizens.
We expect a radical change
in discourse and an extremely
clear denunciation of the vio-
lence they are facing, said
Benjamin Abtan, head of the
European Grassroots Anti-
racist Movement.
An April report by Amnesty
International slammed Eu-
ropean countries for not do-
ing enough to protect their
Roma communities, singling
out several nations including
France. AFP
Members of a Roma family collect plastic and aluminum waste from
rubbish bins in Albania on June 11. AFP
15
World
ALL ve legally recognised
nuclear-weapons states
China, France, Russia, Britain
and the US are deploying
new nuclear weapon delivery
systems or have announced
programs to do so, according
to an authoritative study.
India and Pakistan are also
developing systems capable
of delivering nuclear weapons
and are expanding capacities
to produce ssile material for
military purposes.
These are the conclusions
of the latest annual survey by
the Stockholm International
Peace Research Institute (SI-
PRI), which says nine states
the US, Russia, the UK, France,
China, India, Pakistan, Israel
and North Korea possess a
total of approximately 4,000
operational nuclear weapons.
A decrease in the overall
number of nuclear weapons is
due mainly to Russia and the
US which together account
for more than 93 per cent of
all nuclear weapons further
reducing their inventories un-
der the terms of the New Start
treaty, the report says.
Once again this year, the
nuclear weapon-possessing
states took little action to in-
dicate a genuine willingness
to work towards complete
dismantlement of their nu-
clear arsenals. The long-term
modernisation programs un-
der way in these states sug-
gest their views that nuclear
weapons will remain deeply
embedded elements of their
strategic calculus, said SIPRI
researchers Shannon Kile and
Phillip Patton Schell.
The US plans to spend
up to $350 billion over the
next decade on modernising
and maintaining its nuclear
forces, including designing a
replacement for its existing
Trident submarines begin-
ning in 2031, the study says.
This would have implications
for Britains future nuclear
weapons program.
Russia is building a new
class of nuclear missile sub-
marines and replacing all its
Soviet-era intercontinental
ballistic missiles with mobile,
multiple-warhead versions of
the existing SS-27 system.
China is expanding its con-
ventional ballistic missile
program and has deployed
dual-capable medium and
short-range ballistic missiles.
Mixing conventional and
nuclear missiles poses a criti-
cal risk of mistaken escalation
of a conict, as an adversary
would not be able to deter-
mine whether the missile
red was armed with a con-
ventional or nuclear warhead,
SIPRI warns. THE GUARDIAN
Total nuclear warheads in
2014: Russia 8,000; US 7,300;
France 300; China 250; UK 225
(160 deployed); Pakistan 100-
120; India 90-110; Israel 80
North Korea 6-8; Total 16,300
(SIPRI)
Nuclear arsenals being
modernised, study says
Kerry issues
urgent call to
save oceans
Jo Biddle
U
S SECRETARY of
State John Kerry
sounded the alarm
on Monday on
the perils facing the worlds
oceans, calling for a global
strategy to save the planets
life-giving seas.
Lets develop a plan to
combat over-shing, climate
change and pollution, Kerry
urged as he opened a two-day
conference in Washington
bringing together world lead-
ers, scientists and captains
of industry.
We as human beings share
nothing so completely as
the ocean that covers nearly
three-quarters of our planet,
the top US diplomat said.
Heads of government and
state as well as ministers from
some 80 countries gathered
with researchers and experts
from the shing, plastics and
farming industries at the State
Department.
US President Barack Obama
was expected to make a sig-
nicant announcement about
US conservation efforts dur-
ing a video address yesterday.
Setting the example on the
rst day, President Anote Tong
of the low-lying Pacic nation
of Kiribati announced that de-
spite concerns about the eco-
nomic fallout, all commercial
shing would be banned from
January 2015 in the Phoenix
Islands protected area.
Addressing the challenges
of climate change calls for
very serious commitment
and sacrice, Tong said.
The projected loss of reve-
nue weighed very signicant-
ly in our consideration, but in
the nal analysis we made the
decision to persist with effec-
tive sustainable strategies,
he said to loud applause.
Environmentalists say the
Phoenix Islands, one of the
worlds largest marine-pro-
tected areas rich in ocean life,
provide shelter for such spe-
cies as tunas and turtles, as
well as reef shes and sharks.
Kerry, long a passionate de-
fender of the environment,
warned there were already
500 dead zones around the
world where marine life can
no longer be sustained.
A third of the worlds sh
stocks are also overexploit-
ed and nearly all the rest are
being shed at or near their
absolute maximum sustain-
able level.
If things continue without
check, a signicant chunk
of marine life may die out
because it can no longer live
. . . in the oceans water, Kerry
said, warning of the risk of
breaking entire ecosystems.
No one should mistake that
the protection of our oceans
is a vital security issue, Kerry
insisted. But he maintained
that todays ad-hoc approach
. . . with each nation pursuing
its own independent policy,
simply will not sufce. That is
not how the ocean works.
Were not going to meet this
challenge unless the commu-
nity of nations comes together
around a single comprehen-
sive, global ocean strategy.
Kerry called for an ambi-
tious program to reduce
plastic trash sloshing around
in the oceans, to better un-
derstand the effects of climate
change on the acidication of
the seas, and to cut agricul-
tural nutrient run-offs.
Twelve per cent of the
worlds population depend
on the oceans for their live-
lihoods. Protecting the seas
was also essential for food
security, Kerry stressed, say-
ing some three billion people
depend on sh as a signi-
cant source of protein.
Environmentalists have al-
ready identied three areas in
US waters the remote north-
western Hawaiian islands, the
Marianas and the Pacic atolls
where existing marine parks
could be vastly expanded.
We cannot afford to put
this global challenge on hold
for another day. Its our ocean;
its our responsibility, Kerry
said. AFP
An offshore oil rig and a brown pelican are seen through trash and
debris on Seal Beach, California, in January 2010. AFP
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HEN Typhoon Haiyan
hit the Philippines in
November, I was in
Manila visiting my
mothers side of the family. We didnt
think much of it at first, because
typhoons are a regular occurrence.
About eight or nine batter the Philip-
pines every year.
But this one was different. It was
the strongest tropical cyclone to
make landfall in recorded history.
More than 6,000 people were killed.
Tacloban, in Leyte province, was
one of the hardest-hit areas. It is also
where my grandfather grew up, and is
still home to our huge extended fami-
ly. So travelling there to cover the dis-
aster for SBS World News was more
than just an assignment.
We lost one of our relatives in the
typhoon. Another survived the storm,
but passed away four days later from
pneumonia. My cousin Nani told me
the experience was like something
youd only think happens in the mov-
ies. She was bunkered down at home
with her husband and two young
sons. As the water rushed in, it
became clear they would need to
swim, clutching their 2- and 3-year-
olds, to the second floor of the house
next door.
The next day, looters ransacked the
grocery store they ran out of the front
of their house. She was terrified they
would break into their home too. It
took six days to get evacuated on an
air force plane out of Tacloban. They
had no plans to come back.
Nani and her family started a new
life in a new city. Her parents have
been trying for half a year to persuade
her to visit Tacloban again.
Last month, we both went back
there for the first time. Walking
around the city and seeing what it
looks like now, Nani spent most of the
first day in tears.
Life is slowly but surely getting back
to normal, but it is clear that there is
still so much work that needs to be
done. And the city appears nowhere
near ready for the next typhoon sea-
son, which starts around now. Some
houses have been repaired. Others
are abandoned skeletons.
Down by the water, massive cargo
ships that were washed up on the
shore havent budged. That area was
home to hundreds of squatters,
whose makeshift homes were flat-
tened in the typhoon. Those who sur-
vived have come back and built new
homes, in the shadow of the ships,
and in the path of the next storm,
seemingly unfazed by the daily
reminder of how dangerous it is to
live there.
Looking at photos of the area before
I went back, I thought they were there
because they hadnt learned their les-
son. Talking to the people, I learned
they have nowhere else to go. The
government and aid organisations are
trying to move people out of the dan-
ger zone. But seven months on, thou-
sands of families are still living in
tents. One mother told me her chil-
dren still cry whenever it rains.
One of the tent cities I visited is on
the grounds of a school. While refu-
gees are living there, the school is not
being rebuilt, and the students
havent returned to classes. Local and
federal agencies want to act strategi-
cally, so that new homes are built to
withstand many years of typhoons,
earthquakes and mudslides. But red
tape and bureaucracy is also holding
up needed construction even of
temporary shelters.
Thousands will still be living in
tents and in shacks by the water dur-
ing this years typhoon season. There
is a plan to evacuate before the
storms hit, but I struggled to find
many buildings in the city that look fit
to act as shelters.
Nani isnt the only member of my
family who felt forced to leave
Tacloban. Other cousins moved to
Manila because their offices were
destroyed in the storm. They havent
been rebuilt and their jobs no longer
exist. They all hope to come back one
day but doubt that can happen in the
near future.
People in Tacloban seem to accept
that after a disaster so huge, it will
take years before the city is back on
its feet. Theyre doing the best they
can to rebuild their own homes and
lives, and hoping that the next
typhoon just isnt as powerful as
Haiyan. THE GUARDIAN
Comment
Kathy Novak
Seven months after Haiyan
An aerial shot of Tacloban shows the extent of damage brought by Super Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines on November 10, 2013. BLOOMBERG
Kathy Novak is the host of SBS World
News Australia.
Thousands will still be living in tents and
in shacks by the water during this
years typhoon season
17
Lifestyle Lifestyle
Sherlock lives in the
public domain: court
A
US court has ruled
that Sherlock Hol-
mes is in the public
domain, reafrming
the expiration of the copy-
right once owned by the es-
tate of Scottish writer Arthur
Conan Doyle.
The ruling by the Seventh US
Circuit Court of Appeals comes
after the Doyle estate threat-
ened to sue the editor of a book
of original Holmes ction if the
author didnt pay licensing fees.
Doyles estate contacted
Leslie Klinger in 2011, when
he was about to publish an an-
thology of original ction star-
ring Holmes, A Study in Sher-
lock: Stories Inspired by the
Sherlock Holmes Canon. The
estate demanded publisher
Random House pay $5,000 in
licensing fees for the use of the
Holmes character.
Random House paid the fees,
even though Klinger thought
that the Holmes stories were
in the public domain.
As Klinger was working on
a sequel, In the Company of
Sherlock Holmes, to be pub-
lished by Pegasus Books, the
estate again threatened to sue
Klinger and the publisher if a
licensing fee wasnt paid.
If you proceed instead to
bring out [Company of Sher-
lock Holmes] unlicensed, do
not expect to see it offered
for sale by Amazon, Barnes &
Noble and similar retailers,
Doyles estate wrote.
This time, Klinger sued. He
said he wasnt infringing on
the 10 Holmes stories that re-
mained under 95-year copy-
right protection, where details
about Holmess feelings about
dogs and Dr Watsons second
marriage were revealed.
US copyright lasts for any-
where from 95 years, or the life
of the creator plus 70 years,
depending on a number of
factors. THE GUARDIAN
Cultural fabric
Archaeological textile pieces repatriated from Sweden are displayed at the Anthropology Museum in Lima on Monday. The Peruvian Ministry of Culture
exhibited the rst four pre-Hispanic textile pieces from the Paracas culture, from a total of 89 that were held for over 80 years in Sweden. AFP
Spains Crown Prince Felipe poses with his
wife, Letizia, and their two daughters, Leonor
(right) and Soa, at their home in Madrid on
May 22. AFP
Spain princess trades lifestyle for throne
WHEN Spains Princess Letizia is crowned
queen on Thursday, she will surrender
a tiny corner of privacy that has allowed
her to sneak out with friends to cafes,
plays and a string of indie rock concerts.
The elegant 41-year-old royals secre-
tive mingling with the public, often with
a few girlfriends and in nonregal attire,
has provided rich fodder to the Spanish
gossip media.
The blonde-haired former television
news presenter was snapped in jeans and
black leather jacket in April last year out-
side a Madrid concert by US alternative
rock group Eels.
A few months earlier, she joined specta-
tors at a concert by 1990s Spanish indie
group Los Planetas.
And she is apparently a big fan of Las Ve-
gas band The Killers, seeing them in Madrid
in September 2012 and again at the huge
FIB rock festival in the eastern beachside
town of Benicassim in July last year.
Following King Juan Carlos abdication
announcement on June 2, however, the
life of the taxi-drivers granddaughter is
set to be transformed.
Letizias outings really began to make
headlines last year in gossip media,
which alluded to rumoured problems in
her relationship with Prince Felipe, royal
watcher Jose Apezarena said.
The royal household let the princess
know that her repeated outings gave
the impression that something was not
right, said Apezarena, author of Felipe
and Letizia. The conquest of the throne,
published this year.
Born on September 15, 1972 into a mid-
dle-class family, Letizia Ortiz was already
in her 30s when she met Felipe, who she
married in 2004. A divorcee, she had al-
ready forged a career in television news
and had her own tastes.
She took on her new role like a real job
and applied her previous work methods,
Apezarena said.
Letizia is described by her circle as hav-
ing been responsible and a perfection-
ist since her youth, he said. AFP
ASEAN literary contest
TALENTED young writers
from Association of South-
east Asian Nations member
countries are invited to en-
ter the ASEAN Young Writers
Awards to vie for cash prizes
and royal trophies.
Held for the rst time by the
Bangkok Metropolitan Ad-
ministration in collaboration
with the SEA Write Award or-
ganising committee and Ma-
hidol Universitys Faculty of
Liberal Arts, the literary com-
petition is open to aspiring
writers aged 15-24 who bear
the nationality of any ASEAN
member country.
Each contestant is required
to come up with a short story
of no more than 3,000 words
written in English or a na-
tional language of the re-
spective Asean country.
There is no set topic for the
entries. Two qualied win-
ners one in English and
the other in the national lan-
guage will be selected from
each of the 10 ASEAN coun-
tries. They will receive a cash
prize worth $1,000 each, plus
a trophy from HRH Princess
Maha Chakri Sirindhorn.
The submission deadline is
June 30. BANGKOK POST
Health
18
Fancy the
odd wager?
Your genes
may decide
WANT to make a bet? The
answer probably lies some-
where in your genes.
Researchers say a study of
more than 200 people shows
that genetics plays a big role in
how a person acts when it comes
to betting and investing.
The genes in question affect
the role of dopamine, a chemi-
cal released in the brain that
signals pleasure and motivates
people to seek rewards.
Dopamine is already known
to play a role in social interac-
tions, but researchers at the
University of California, Berke-
ley, said their study is the first
to show how genes govern the
way dopamine functions in
the brain.
This study shows that genes
influence complex social
behaviour, in this case strategic
behaviour, said lead study
author Ming Hsu, an assistant
professor of marketing in
UC Berkeleys Haas School
of Business.
The research involved 217
National University of Singa-
pore students. Their genomes
were scanned for some 700,000
genetic variants. Researchers
then focused on certain vari-
ants within 12 genes involved
in regulating dopamine.
They studied the students
brains with MRI imaging as
they engaged in a game, in
which one person bet with an
anonymous opponent.
Those who were better at
being able to imagine their
competitors thinking and
anticipate and respond to the
actions of others had a variation
in three genes that affect how
dopamine functions in a cer-
tain part of the brain, known as
the medial prefrontal cortex.
Those who were better at
trial-and-error learning had a
variation in two genes that pri-
marily affect dopamine in the
brains striatal region.
Researchers found that the
genetic role in decision-making
was evident with a surprising
degree of consistency among
those studied. AFP
Bionic pancreas offer diabetics hope of normal life
STANLEY Baker cant remember feel-
ing quite so free in a very long time.
The 76-year-old American is one of
52 people aged 12 and older with Type
1 diabetes who for five days tested in
real-world settings a bionic pan-
creas, designed to take over the job of
providing insulin on a minute-by-
minute basis when the bodys real
organ fails.
Bakers verdict: This totally relieves
you of managing the diabetes, he
said. It was extremely liberating.
The mechanical device worn out-
side the body was designed by Edward
Damiano, a Boston University engi-
neer who has worked on the technol-
ogy since his son, now 15, was diag-
nosed with diabetes as an infant. It
kept patients at near-normal levels in
two trials and prevented dangerous
blood sugar drops better than stand-
ard therapy, according to a report yes-
terday at the American Diabetes Asso-
ciation meeting in San Francisco.
It is among the first tests of such a
system outside of a tightly controlled
setting, according to Damiano, who
said the investigators are starting a
new, larger trial in four cities today
and plan to have an improved version
of the device on the US market by the
end of 2017.
The bionic pancreas comprises five
parts connected externally to each
other and the body. It includes two
pumps attached to the abdomen to
deliver hormones, a glucose monitor
with a wire that runs just under the
skin and a computer program that
calculates proper doses in a closed-
loop system.
Adults using the device, which
checks their blood every five minutes,
roamed Boston unfettered, eating and
exercising normally, ignoring the con-
dition that typically weighs on their
day-to-day activities. Adolescents
under age 20 given the technology
were attending a diabetes summer
camp. Both groups were closely mon-
itored 24 hours a day.
Theres no current standard-of-care
therapy that could match the results
we saw, Damiano said. The results
were simultaneously published in the
New England Journal of Medicine.
About three million Americans have
Type 1 diabetes, when the pancreas
stops secreting the hormone insulin
used to convert food into energy.
Patients typically test their blood sev-
eral times a day to measure glucose
levels, then calculate the amount of
insulin they need to inject based on
their diet and exercise. High blood
sugar can lead to organ damage and
death, while too little can trigger
unconsciousness or a coma.
The device isnt being tested on peo-
ple with the more common Type 2
diabetes, which typically develops in
adults and is linked to a sedentary
lifestyle. People with Type 2 produce
insulin, though their bodies dont use
it properly.
The fact the FDA allowed testing in
52 people, including children, suggests
its advanced and safe, endocrinologist
Betul Hatipoglu said. BLOOMBERG
Elastic fantastic: Rubber-band
circumcisions join HIV battle
Emmanuel Leroux-Nega

W
ITH trousers
around his an-
kles, Justin Igalla
awaits a tight
rubber band for his foreskin,
an innovative nonsurgical
technique rolling out in sev-
eral African nations to encour-
age circumcision and cut HIV
infection rates.
The simple device two
plastic rings and an elastic
band cuts off blood supply
to the foreskin, which then
shrivels and is removed with
the band after a week.
I felt nothing, not even a
little discomfort, Igalla said
after a procedure taking just
minutes, noting there was no
blood unlike traditional cir-
cumcision where the foreskin
is sliced off by knife thus re-
ducing the risk of infection.
Igalla, a father of two, said
he opted to have his foreskin
taken off for health reasons.
Scientists have found that
male circumcision can signi-
cantly reduce the chances of
HIV infection because the fore-
skin has a higher concentra-
tion of HIV-receptors than the
rest of the penis and is prone to
tears during intercourse, pro-
viding HIV an entry point.
As well as Uganda, the device
is being used in Botswana, Ke-
nya, Mozambique, South Af-
rica, Zambia, Zimbabwe and
other sub-Saharan countries.
All have been identied by the
World Health Organization as
priority states, those where
the risk of acquiring HIV is
high and male circumcision,
and access to conventional
surgical procedures, is low.
Uganda hopes the device,
called PrePex, will persuade
adult men to be circumcised
as part of the battle against
AIDS, now resurgent in the
East African nation after years
of decline, with as many as
80,000 people dying of the dis-
ease every year.
From a peak of 18 per cent
infected in 1992, Ugandas
ABC strategy Abstinence,
Be faithful, Condom helped
slash rates to 6.4 per cent in
2005. But rates have crept back
up, to 7.2 per cent in 2012. As
many as 1.8 million people in
the country now live with HIV,
and a million children have
been orphaned after their par-
ents died of AIDS.
PrePexs makers boast that a
man can resume work and al-
most all daily activities shortly
after the procedure, with the
device designed to be placed,
worn, and removed with mini-
mal disruption, though they
should abstain from sex for six
weeks afterwards.
Doctor Barbara Nanteza,
male circumcision project
manager at Ugandas AIDS
Control Program, said trials
had shown that circumcision
reduced risk of transmission
from a woman to a man by as
much as 60 per cent.
Although some contest the
validity of these studies, WHO
and the UN AIDS program
push circumcision as an ad-
ditional prevention measure
in high-prevalence countries
where HIV transmission is
predominantly heterosexual.
The WHO says there is
compelling evidence cir-
cumcision reduces risk of
heterosexually acquired HIV
infection in men. The or-
ganisation has prequalied
PrePex, meaning the device
has been assessed and meets
international standards for ef-
cacy and safety.
And with health budgets
already overstretched, the de-
vice offers a cheaper way to
tackle the problem, Nanteza
said. If circumcision can help
reduce the cost, that could
very good for the country.
Uganda, long praised for
its efforts in the ght against
AIDS, launched a general cir-
cumcision program in 2010,
when some 9,000 had the con-
ventional treatment.
Since then 1.2 million men
have been circumcised or
13 per cent of men over 15, in-
cluding 800,000 last year alone,
the health ministry said.
The introduction of the
PrePex device is expected to
boost numbers even further
but its still not enough, ac-
cording to Nanteza.
Though the device greatly
reduces the pain of traditional
circumcision, she conceded
the issue remained an awk-
ward one for married men.
It is difcult for them to
explain to their wife that they
want to get a circumcision to
prevent HIV infection when
they are supposed to be faith-
ful to them, Nanteza said.
Despite massive health
awareness campaigns, prob-
lems remain.
James Brian, a counsellor
with the Walter Reid Project,
said it was essential to empha-
sise that while circumcision
reduces the risk of infection, it
does not prevent it. AFP
A patient waits to be tted with a nonsurgical circumcision device called Prepex in Mukono, Uganda, last month. AFP
A medical worker points at the PrePex kits elastic band. AFP
The bionic pancreas consists of a smartphone (top) linked to a glucose monitor and
two pumps that deliver doses of insulin or glucagon every ve minutes. BLOOMBERG
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Elephants bathe at a sanctuary near Kuala Terengganu. THEMYANMARTIMES
In unnatural
nature, some
surprise gems
Nyein Ei Ei Htwe
S
EEN from the window
of the small plane, the
scattered green islands
below looked like our
own Myeik Archipelago. But
I was ying to Kuala Tereng-
ganu, southern Malaysia, an
hour out of Putrajaya.
Malaysia, which will chair
ASEAN next year, had invit-
ed participants from across
Southeast Asia to savour some
of its prime destinations.
On touching down at Kuala
Terengganu, we boarded a bus
for the Tasik Kenyir lake resort
to visit the elephant village,
deep in the forest across a sus-
pension bridge.
As local school students
looked on, chatted with us
and took photos, the ele-
phants greeted each of the 58
delegates on our tour, danc-
ing to music and kissing them
with their trunks, putting a
hat on their heads and paying
respects. We talked with the
students and watched as the
30 or so elephants bathed at
a nearby stream, attended by
their keepers. On the hour-
long walk back through the
deep green monsoon forest,
the rain began to fall, as it does
there every evening.
Bright and early next morn-
ing, we were off again, this
time to Tasik Kenyir Lake.
From a jetty we boarded mo-
tor boats, each carrying eight
passengers, on a green lake
set amid the green of forests
and distant green mountains,
for the one-hour voyage.
Abd Azher Embi, the guide
attached to my group, ex-
plained how this effect was
maintained: the government
had passed laws mandating
strict upkeep, even to the
point of ordering that twigs
be removed from the lake
surface to protect its beauty.
Guides responsible for the
lakes upkeep ensure that its
sh are regularly fed with the
correct food. Later, in the em-
erald depths of Tasik Kenyir,
we could see the sh at play.
The first stop for our little
convoy was the island Kelah
Sanctuary, which entailed
another 30-minute trek
into the forest and across
a wooden bridge (actually
concrete, but clad in timber,
the guide said).
Our guide led us on a path
across a stream led and over
a forest track to a sparkling
conuence of watercourses
alive with sh. Most were vari-
ous species of carp, of the kind
you can see sold for cooking in
Yangon wet markets, but here
free and glittering.
We visitors fed them from
the food packs we had been
given and then, when we
paddled our bare feet in the
water, they nuzzled our toes in
a natural foot massage.
Then came more trekking
across the forest oor, fol-
lowed by a welcome break for
lunch in a long, full day that
left most of us, in the return
trip in the motor boats, too
spent to chat.
In the quiet of that setting,
our silence, born of fatigue,
was somehow apt. The next
day, our busy schedule moved
us on to other places and we
left the lake. But the memory
of its beauties and the stillness
of its mood stayed with us,
and calls us back.
Lake Kenyir Resort: The 70-
acre lakefront resort within
a national park features 136
wood villas in traditional Ma-
lay style. Prices range from
$155 to $465 a night. THE MYAN-
MAR TIMES
Tasik Kenyir Lake amazes with its natural beauty. THE MYANMAR TIMES
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Thinking caps
ACROSS
1 Place to be lost
6 Perform without preparation
11 Kind of wheel
14 Rose protector
15 Japanese verse
16 Hooting hunter
17 Pawnbroker or bank
19 Bleat
20 Bill
21 Some Mideast dignitaries
23 Did a lively ballroom dance
27 Georgia on My Mind singer
29 Theyre not perfectly round
30 Get out of bed
31 Halloween haul
32 Cries shrilly
34 Refrigerator sound
37 Scouting outing
38 Past its prime, as fruit
39 Do, musically
40 Pub pintful
41 Cliffside dwelling
42 Macho fellows
43 Christmas seasons
45 Casanovas
46 Correct an announcement
48 Mineral-rich area of Poland
49 Old-time anesthetic
50 One of an Iraqi minority
51 Sorority letter
52 Climbers goal
59 Material for a whitesmith
60 Kind of message
61 Not a single person
62 Hotel amenity
63 Atlanta-based airline
64 Color of money
DOWN
1 Fast cash site
2 Even if, briefly
3 My boy
4 Before, in poetry
5 Wholl volunteer?
6 In the lead
7 Dungeonlike
8 Ceiling
9 Well-liked president?
10 Bedroom furniture
11 Rolling living quarters
12 In the know
13 Bottle material
18 Some jeans
22 Post-wedding title
23 Coffee order
24 Be of use
25 Mischievous prank
26 ___ ones time
27 Showing lack of skill
28 Cow lead-in?
32 Betters opposite
33 Ex-heavyweight champ
35 Organs males lack
36 Group for geniuses
38 Track event
39 Alpine snow field
41 More than worried
42 Pre-landing pattern
44 Adaptable truck, for short
45 Old Italian coin
46 Prefix meaning straight
47 Body of good conduct
48 Kama ___
50 Shoelace problem
53 Picked out stuff?
54 Home page address, e.g.
55 Negative conjunction
56 Nailed thing
57 Five percent of a score
58 Ballpoint, e.g.
A LOT MO
Tuesdays solution Tuesdays solution
Football
21
Svay Rieng eye return to
the upper MCL echelons
AFTER a woeful start to their
title defence this season,
reigning Metfone C-League
champions Svay Rieng will look
to break into the top four with a
victory over Asia Europe
University in todays game,
which kicks off at the Olympic
Stadium at 3:30pm. AEU, who
are currently dawdling in ninth
place in the standings following
their 3-1 loss to Naga Corp on
Sunday night, played out a
goalless stalemate last time
the two sides met. DANRILEY
Blairs son joins agents
tapping Mexican talent
FORMER UK Prime Minister
Tony Blairs second son is
among the foreigners moving
to represent Mexican football
players in what some see as an
untapped market. Nicky Blair,
28, and business partner
Gabriel Moraes, 27, run
London-based Magnitude
Sports, which according to its
website has offices in Mexico
City and Rio de Janeiro.
Mexican players such as Oribe
Peralta and Raul Jimenez, who
play for Club America in the
capital, are attracting more
interest since the nations U23
team beat Brazil to win the
2012 Olympics title, according
to Matias Bunge, an agent who
represents Mexico midfielder
Diego Reyes. BLOOMBERG
BARCELONA struck a deal to
sign big-scoring Croatia mid-
elder Ivan Rakitic from Sevil-
la on a ve-year contract, the
clubs said on Monday.
The 26-year-old, currently
on World Cup duty with the
Croatia squad in Brazil, ar-
rives at the Camp Nou after
impressing for three seasons
with Sevilla. He has done
nothing but improve there,
Barcelona said in a statement.
Sevilla captain Rakitic scored
32 goals in his three and a half
years with the club, and led
them to victory in the Europa
League title in May.
The two clubs reached an
agreement for the transfer of
Rakitic, who will sign a con-
tract with FC Barcelona for the
next ve seasons, the Cata-
lan club said. Barcelona also
agreed to send striker Denis
Suarez to Sevilla for the next
two seasons, it added.
Rakitic is the latest in a series
of big signings for Barcelona
this summer after a disap-
pointing season in which they
narrowly failed to defend their
Spanish league title.
Atletico Madrid took the La
Liga championship for the
rst time in 18 years, pushing
Barca into second place.
That drove their Argentine
manager Tata Martino to quit
after just one season.
His replacement, former
Spain and Barcelona hero
Luis Enrique, launched a big
shakeup in the squad, includ-
ing selling mideld star Cesc
Fabregas to Chelsea.
Sevilla called Rakitic one
of its best footballers of the
moment . . . with exceptional
talent, versatility and goal-
scoring ability, in a statement
announcing his departure.
As captain, Rakitic became
an undisputable leader, play-
ing and playmaking, scoring
goals like a striker and win-
ning the ball like a competi-
tive midelder.
Barcelona has also signed a
new rst-choice goalkeeper,
German international Ter
Stegen, from Bundesliga club
Borussia Moenchengladbach
on a deal worth a reported 12
million ($16 million).
Barcas Argentine star strik-
er Lionel Messi and Spanish
defender Gerard Pique each
signed new contracts.
With two players also re-
turned from spells on loan,
Ranha Alcantara and Gerard
Delofeu, the team now seeks
to restore hope to the Camp
Nou under the attack-minded
Enrique. AFP
Barcelona sign Croatia
midelder Ivan Rakitic
Mueller outguns Ronaldo
T
HOMAS Muel l er
scored a hat-trick in
Germanys 4-0 thrash-
ing of Portugal on
Monday to shatter Cristiano
Ronaldos dreams of dominat-
ing the World Cup.
Bayern Munich star Mueller
bagged the first treble of his
international career as Ger-
many, playing their 100th World
Cup game, shrugged off a trou-
bled buildup to make a flying
start to the tournament.
The United States shocked
Ghana 2-1 in the days other
Group G game, with American
captain Clint Dempsey scoring
after just 30 seconds. Iran and
Nigeria fought a goalless draw
in Group F, the first with no win-
ner at these World Cup finals.
But it was a disastrous after-
noon at Salvadors Fonte Nova
Arena for Ronaldo and Portu-
gal, who had defender Pepe
sent off for a first-half headbutt
on Mueller.
Mueller opened the score
from the penalty spot after 12
minutes. Defender Mats Hum-
mels doubled Germanys
advantage on the half-hour
mark. Mueller struck again at
the end of the first half before
tapping home a close range
effort on 78 minutes.
Its glorious to score three
goals in a game like that,
Mueller said.
That doesnt happen every
day, but I have had a good run
at World Cups and I wanted to
pick up where I left off, add-
ed Mueller, who burst onto
the international stage at the
2010 World Cup where he fin-
ished joint top-scorer with
five goals.
A wretched outing for Portu-
gal was compounded by the
sight of Real Madrid defender
Fabio Coentrao being stretch-
ered off in the second half.
US captain Dempsey scored
the fifth fastest goal in World
Cup history after just 30 sec-
onds to give the Americans a
dream start in the other group
game in Natal. Ghana equal-
ised in the 82nd minute
through a spectacular Andre
Ayew strike.
But just when Ghana looked
to have forced a draw, Ameri-
can defender John Brooks
rose high to meet a corner and
head home the winner on
86 minutes.
Elsewhere, African champi-
ons Nigeria and Iran ground
out a 0-0 stalemate in their
Group F meeting in Curitiba.
All 12 previous games had
finished with a victory, which
was the most dynamic start to
a World Cup since the 1934
tournament. AFP
Germanys Thomas Mueller (right) controls the ball as Portugals
Ricardo Costa challenges in their Group G match in Salvador. AFP
Tennis
A mixed tennis bag of emotions
H S Manjunath

T
HE Cambodian Davis
Cup squad returned
home on Monday
with a bag of mixed
emotions over their last
weeks Asia Oceania Group III
campaign in the Iranian capi-
tal of Tehran.
It is not often that the des-
tiny of a team would dramati-
cally alter with one critical
point lost in a preliminary
tie that would eventually ad-
versely affect the promotion-
al prospects. That was the un-
derlying truth in Cambodias
Mission to Iran.
The compact Group III for-
mat of playing 12 rubbers in
four days on one specic site is
more like time spent in a com-
pression chamber. Premium
is quite high on physical attri-
butes and mental toughness.
Adding to these anxieties for
the Cambodian players was
the unfamiliar red clay courts
at the pre-Iranian Revolution-
era Enghelab Sports Complex.
Yet with all the road bumps
that confronted the team,
national coach Braen Anei-
ros and non-playing captain
Tep Rithvit saw the journey
and the ultimate outcome of
retaining a Group III spot for
next year as satisfying and a
good learning experience.
The destination was excit-
ing, hospitality was excellent,
the playing surface was chal-
lenging and the competition
was as stiff as any the country
had ever faced. The outcome
could have been better, but in
the end it was satisfying, Tep
Rithvit told the Post yesterday.
In many ways it was far dif-
ferent than last years Dubai
roller-coaster but in the end
I am happy that the positives
outweighed some aspects of
our campaign that did not
work well for us.
Bun Kenny delivered what
was expected of him, [but]
Mam Panhara was nowhere
near the form he showed in
Dubai and Doha. That came as
a bit of a disappointment.
Phalkun spilled his guts out
each time he took the court
and Long Samneang had very
little part to play, but overall
the team showed great ght-
ing spirit which is a very en-
couraging sign.
Reaching the summit is
easier than staying on it. So our
objective is clearly dened and
that is once we reach the next
level we need to keep consoli-
dating the gains, he added.
We may have missed pro-
motion to Group II so narrow-
ly. It was only a matter of few
points here and there going
against us particularly in the
doubles rubber against Ma-
laysia that eventually blocked
our way up.
It is imperative that we
build a strong second line.
Tennis Cambodia will cast
its net globally to get young
and talented players who can
represent the country in the
future.
National coach Braen Anei-
ros, himself a former Pana-
manian Davis Cupper for
nearly four years, said the
key to Cambodias prepara-
tion this year was the intense
physical training the players
went through.
The second most vital com-
ponent was our decision to
spend a week practising on
clay in Bangkok. And the third
crucial factor was the team
reaching Tehran ve days be-
fore the competition and get-
ting a good feel of the show
courts he said.
The ball tended to bounce
much higher on the red clay in
Tehran than the courts we had
spent time on in Bangkok. So
those ve days of practice re-
ally helped our players.
Were the team disappointed
with their results?
Yes to an extent. Disheart-
ened, certainly no, said
coach Aneiros.
We have a competent team
that can hold its own in Group
III. We need to sharpen up our
doubles.
Captain Tep Rithivit was the
rst to be tested on the social
etiquette that Iran demanded
of its visitors. He was on court
shirtless knocking around with
one of his players when a fe-
male ofcial approached and
reminded him: This is the Is-
lamic Republic of Iran. Please
wear your shirt.
And Mam Phalkun got cu-
rious looks from passers-by
when he wandered across the
street from his hotel in shorts
to buy a few markers for the
team to autograph T-shirts.
But for both coach and cap-
tain, the scariest moment of
the trip came the day before the
competition started. Towards
the end of his practice session,
Bun Kenny went sliding on the
court to reach a drop shot and
obviously tripped over part of
a thick rubber line marking.
Cambodias singles pivot let
out such a loud scream that
the team feared the worst.
Thank the stars he was ne
and we heaved a sigh of relief,
Tep Rithivit said.
Tennis fans greet the Cambodian Davis Cup team on Monday as they arrive home from Iran. SRENG MENG SRUN
Sport
23
Volleyball tournament
plays Battambang round
THE 2014 Leo Cup of Volleyball
hit off its regional playoff round
yesterday in Battambang
province, which sees eight
squads from five provinces
Battambang, Pailin, Banteay
Meanchey, Pursat and
Kampong Chhnang battle for
the two places available in the
finals, to be held in Phnom Penh
this weekend. A draw has
bracketed Battambang Pedago-
gical Institute, Battambang
Cambodian Youth Federation,
Phnom Prek Youth and Red Lion
in Group A, while Group B
consists of Mong Russey,
Sampov Lons Youth, Banan and
Pailin Cambodian Youth
Federation. CHHORNNORN,
TRANSLATEDBY CHENGSERYRITH
Fitness course held for
badminton coaches
THE Cambodia Badminton
Federation launched a basic-
level fitness training course for
54 coaches, including nine
females, from affiliated
organisations yesterday at the
National Olympic Committee of
Cambodias headquarters.
According to national coach
Prom Saravuth, the nine-day
course, which is partially
funded by the Asian Badminton
Federation and World
Badminton Federation, is being
led by Malaysian instructor
Samben Than. We will not only
learn about this sport through
theory inside the lecture hall,
but also through practice, said
Samben Than. YEUNPONLOK,
TRANSLATEDBY CHENGSERYRITH
Clippers promote Rivers,
continue to restructure
LOS Angeles Clippers coach
Doc Rivers has also become the
National Basketball Association
teams president of basketball
operations, continuing the
restructuring that began after
racist remarks by owner Donald
Sterling were made public. The
Clippers also said in a news
release on Monday that Dave
Wohl was promoted to general
manager from pro scouting
director and that Kevin
Eastman, who was an assistant
coach this past season, will
become vice president of
basketball operations. Wohl was
coach of the New Jersey Nets in
1985-88. Team president Andy
Roeser took an indefinite leave
of absence on May 6, a week
after Sterling was banned for
life from the NBA. BLOOMBERG
Third time unlucky as
Radwanska goes down
FORMER champion Agnieszka
Radwanska succumbed to a
first-round defeat for the third
year in succession at the ATP-
WTA Eastbourne International
on Monday as the top seed
was beaten 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (7/4)
by Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova.
Radwanska, winner here in
2008, failed again to gain
traction on the south coast
lawns and goes into next
weeks start of Wimbledon
well short of match practice.
Meanwhile, German fifth seed
Angelique Kerber got off to a
winning start on a chilly, dry
day at Devonshire Park, where
the usual bothersome winds
were not in evidence. The 2012
finalist beat American Alison
Riske 7-6 (8/6), 6-4. Elena
Vesnina of Russia reached the
second round, beating Chinas
Peng Shuai 6-3, 6-4. AFP
ALL Blacks pivot Aaron Cruden an-
nounced yesterday he had re-signed
with the All Blacks for another three
years, securing his services for next
years World Cup and the 2017 British
and Irish Lions tour.
The 25-year-old, who has proved
an able understudy to the ageing
Dan Carter, said he was delighted to
be staying with the All Blacks, which
have a policy of not picking players
who are not based in New Zealand.
I am thankful for the opportuni-
ties I have been given and I want to
continue giving my very best to this
great game, he said.
Cruden earned the rst of his 31
Test caps in 2010 but really came of
age a year later, when he became the
All Blacks playmaker at the World
Cup after Carter suffered a tourna-
ment-ending groin strain.
While an injury forced him off in
the nal, Cruden did enough in New
Zealands successful campaign for
him to be anointed Carters long-
term successor.
All Blacks coach Steve Hansen said
Cruden, who survived a bout of tes-
ticular cancer in 2008, offered lead-
ership and exciting skills.
Crudes is an outstanding young
talent, a great team man and leader
in our group, he said. His contri-
bution to All Blacks rugby and his
other teams has been outstanding.
Cruden is also co-captain of the
Waikato Chiefs, back-to-back de-
fending champions in the Super 15
competition.
With Carter on a sabbatical,
Cruden has faced competition for
the number 10 jersey during the
current series against England from
Wellington Hurricanes fly-half Be-
auden Barrett.
Folau staying put for now
In-demand Wallabies star Israel
Folau on Monday ruled out any
move to Europe or a switch back to
league in Australia before next years
Rugby World Cup in England.
Folau is hot property across the
two codes and comes off contract
next year, with French champions
Toulon reportedly expressing an
interest in the dual rugby interna-
tional back.
Toulon, the reigning Heineken
Cup and Top 14 champions, are one
of the wealthiest clubs in the world,
boasting a star-studded roster in-
cluding former Wallabies backs Matt
Giteau, Drew Mitchell and the newly
signed James OConnor.
But Folau, 25, said he would not
decide his future before rugbys
showpiece event, which starts in
England in September next year.
Theres a lot of options thats go-
ing to be presented when that time
comes. Ill have a look at everything
and see what I do from there, Folau
told reporters.
Im signed to the NSW Waratahs
for next year, so thats all Im thinking
about. I dont know what the future
holds. Ill assess as we get closer. But
at this stage, Im just thinking about
today. AFP
Aaron Cruden re-signs with All Blacks to 2017
Austria makes F1 comeback
F
ORMULA One racing
will get an extra whiff of
excitement and novelty
this weekend when it
returns to Austria after a dec-
adelong absence.
Home to champions like Niki
Lauda and Jochen Rindt, as
well as the dominant team in
recent seasons Red Bull Aus-
tria will once again welcome
the cream of F1 drivers at Spiel-
berg on Sunday, on a circuit
steeped in history but unfamil-
iar to many.
The last time the small alpine
country hosted a Grand Prix
was in 2003, when Ferraris
Michael Schumacher grabbed
his second consecutive win
there, ahead of Kimi Raikkonen
and Rubens Barrichello.
Raikkonen will be one of just
four drivers with race day
experience on this track Sun-
day alongside Fernando
Alonso, Felipe Massa and Jen-
son Button, who finished
fourth in 2003.
For all others, the 4.3-kilome-
tre Red Bull Ring circuit, nestled
among green hills in southern
Austria, will be a test. Although
Ive driven the circuit before,
that was more than 10 years ago
in F3 . . . so its basically like
starting from scratch for every-
one on the grid, current leader
Nico Rosberg of Mercedes said
last week. Personally, I love
that kind of challenge.
Teammate Lewis Hamilton,
who has been preparing in the
simulator, was similarly eager
to try a new track: Its always
exciting to go to a new venue,
so it should be an interesting
weekend.
Spielberg hosted its first
Grand Prix in 1964 on a bumpy
course, but it would be years
before the event returned in
1970, this time on a purpose-
built track the Oesterreichring
(Austria Ring).
The 1984 race saw the venues
sole home win so far, when Aus-
trian Niki Lauda finished first,
despite gearbox problems, on
his way to nabbing his third and
last championship title.
Dropped from the F1 circuit
in 1987, Spielberg made yet
another comeback in 1997 for
seven editions.
These included the infamous
2002 Grand Prix, when Ferrari
ordered leader Barrichello to let
his teammate Schumacher take
the victory, helping him to the
season title.
Keen to get a Grand Prix
again, Red Bull took over the
track in 2004 and redeveloped
it, also promising to inject mon-
ey into the region.
The result is a short track,
with only a few turns, but its
very challenging, said the
teams four-time champion
Sebastian Vettel.
There are also a lot of eleva-
tion changes, which makes it
interesting and fun. The fans
will have a great time.
Rival teams, however, will
have to race in the shadow of
the Austrian energy drinks
company: the stands are in the
teams colours and the track
loops around a massive steel
bull sculpture.
A turn named after Lauda
now nonexecutive chair-
man at Red Bulls rivals Mer-
cedes was also renamed, to
his dismay.
Over 220,000 spectators are
expected at Spielberg between
Friday and Sunday, with race
day alone due to draw some
95,000 people.
The event is known as much
for the party atmosphere off the
track with crowds of fans
camping in the surrounding
fields as for the action on it,
and tickets have been sold out
for months.
Local hotels have long been
fully booked and even rooms in
private homes have been fetch-
ing a good price.
Ahead of the race, Mercedes
complained about Red Bulls
organisation, saying they had
not been given accommoda-
tion close to the circuit.
But this could not distract
from the significance of this
27th Austrian Grand Prix.
Spielberg is a historic track,
like Hockenheim, Nuerbur-
gring, Spa, Monza or Silver-
stone. They belong to F1.
Theyre the DNA, the backbone
of F1, said Mercedes team
chief Toto Wolff.
I hope we will race there for
a long time. AFP
Ferrari driver Michael Schumacher of Germany steers his car on the Spielberg racetrack, during the second free practice session of the 2003 Austrian F1 Grand Prix. AFP
New Zealand player Aaron Cruden takes a
penalty kick during their match against Eng-
land at Eden Park in Auckland on June 7. AFP
Sport
Spain fears worst for Chile clash
S
TUNNED by their heroes 5-1
humiliation by the Nether-
lands, Spaniards are already
bemoaning the end of a glori-
ous era and fearing the worst in La
Rojas life-or-death World Cup clash
tonight with Chile.
Diego Maradona put the challenge
in a nutshell.
So how are Spain going to recover
from this massive blow? Spain isnt
used to letting in five goals, the
Argentine legend told Latin American
television station Telesur.
On Friday night as Spain crumbled
in the second half against the Dutch
onslaught, some supporters still held
out hope.
In 2010 we also lost the first
match, one female Spain supporter
said tentatively.
But this was not just a defeat, they
crushed us, another fan said.
After a historic triple Euro 2008, the
2010 World Cup and Euro 2012 Span-
iards are suddenly facing up to the
prospect of losing heavily, perhaps
even falling out in the group stage.
I have the impression that its the
end of an era. The cycle of victories
is over, said Javier Gomez, sports
presenter for the private television
station La Sexta.
He does not think Spain will make
it to the quarter finals.
It is the end of a footballing model,
he said, the tiki taka trademark of
Spain and Barcelona in which players
make rapid-fire short passes aimed at
frustrating the opponents by depriving
them of the ball until the moment it
ends up their net.
It is a style that is now under chal-
lenge from a faster, more physical
game, Gomez told AFP.
Against Chile they may be able to
take control because the players have
been stung. But its going to be very
difficult because Chile are a very dis-
ciplined team, relentless, very physical
on the attack, he predicted.
And even a win against Chile may
not be enough in a group B dominated
by an avalanche of Dutch goals.
Chile are going to try for a draw. I
dont think Spain will be able to score
more than two goals, fretted 21-year-
old Madrid student Yoel Plaza as he
left an official Real Madrid shop in
the Spanish capital.
Spains squad was selected with
no thought for the future, Plaza
complained. This team live a lot in
the past, in what they did in the Euro-
pean Cup and the World Cup.
There are players who werent cho-
sen and who could have been a lot
better than some in the team have
been, he said.
Aussies wont freeze: Bresciano
Australias Mark Bresciano Monday
promised the youthful Socceroos
wouldnt be overawed against the
Netherlands after a slow start in their
World Cup loss to Chile.
Bresciano said Australia probably
did switch off a bit in the opening
minutes against Chile, when they
went 2-0 down early on before even-
tually losing 3-1.
But the 34-year-old veteran said
there would be no repeat tonight,
even against an intimidating Dutch
team which floored reigning cham-
pions Spain 5-1.
I dont think so, Bresciano said,
when asked if there was a risk the
team would be overawed. For a lot
of the players, it was the first time to
play in a big tournament like this.
We did lose the [Chile] game in
that first 20 minutes. We probably did
switch off a bit and we gave the
opportunity for the Chileans to get
on top of us.
But I think this time round, weve
all experienced what its all about
and I think well be focused from the
first minute.
Cameroon, Croatia bid for rescue
Cameroon and Croatia clash in
Manaus tonight looking to put their
troubles behind them and keep alive
their hopes of making the World Cup
knockout rounds.
Having both lost their opening
match, a victory would be fundamen-
tal in staying alive in a tough Group A
including hosts Brazil and Mexico.
But a win would also allow each
side to forget off-field troubles that
have threatened to disrupt their
preparation for the Cup.
In the case of the Africans it is the
near-certain absence of talisman-
ic striker Samuel Etoo due to a
knee injury.
I am hoping the gods grant me a
miracle and that I am able to defend
my dear, beautiful country, Etoo
said in an interview with Cameroon
Radio-Television.
If this is not the case, I will always
play my role as captain and espe-
cially as the big brother to push my
young teammates to victory. AFP
Tonights Fixtures
Australia v Netherlands 11pm
Spain v Chile 2am
Cameroon v Croatia 5am
Spains Andres Iniesta (right) vies with teammate Javi Martinez during a training session in Curitiba, Brazil, on Sunday. AFP
Frustrated Cook keen to get back among the runs
ENGLAND captain Alastair
Cook will hope a return to the
scene of his last Test hundred
sees him back among the runs
after a thrilling series opener
with Sri Lanka ended in a draw
at Lords.
Cook saw England pile up 575
for nine declared in the first
innings at Lords on the back of
23-year-old Joe Roots unbeaten
200 not out and then be bailed
out second time around by a
maiden Test century from Gary
Ballance Roots 24-year-old
Yorkshire colleague.
Ballances hundred enabled
Cook to declare before Mon-
days final day and set Sri Lanka
390 to win.
However, Sri Lanka did just
enough to cling on for a draw at
201 for nine after last man
Nuwan Pradeep saw out the
final five balls of the match
from Stuart Broad.
Although Cook was heart-
ened by a new-look Englands
performance in their first Test
since the 5-0 Ashes drubbing in
Australia, the 29-year-old left-
handed opener accepted his
own form was a concern.
Scores of 17 and 28 at Lords
meant it was now 22 innings
since Cook compiled the last of
his England record 25 hundreds
130 against New Zealand at
Headingley in May last year.
However, the Leeds ground
is the venue for Fridays sec-
ond and final Test of the Sri
Lanka series.
Id love a score. Leading from
the front as a captain, you want
to score runs thats your job as
a batter, Cook said.
Root was named man-of-the-
match but the honour could
have easily gone to James
Anderson after the England
spearhead turned the game on
its head with a spell of three
wickets for one run either side
of tea on Monday.
Anderson, who finished with
impressive innings figures of
four for 25 in 19 overs on a doc-
ile pitch, was well-supported by
longtime new-ball partner
Broad (three for 43).
Come the last over, England
still needed two wickets for
victory. The first ball of that
over saw Broad have Rangana
Herath caught behind and
England thought hed won the
match when Pradeep was
given out lbw to the penulti-
mate delivery.
But the Sri Lanka No 11 called
for a review and former Aus-
tralia paceman Paul Reiffels
decision was overturned for an
inside edge. Pradeep then
nicked the last ball short of the
slips to secure a draw.
Cook insisted he had no
problems with the Decision
Review System verdict that
reprieved Pradeep.
Ive always been a big fan of
it, he said. Its to stop the
howler and unfortunately, that
one was quite a big inside
edge. Its gutting to take at that
time but as players you want
the right decision.
Apart from half-centuries by
Kaushal Silva (57) and Kumar
Sangakkara, who made 61 to
go with his first-innings 147,
Sri Lanka found runs hard to
come by on Monday.
I thought we batted poorly,
after tea especially, said Sri
Lanka captain Angelo Math-
ews, the eighth man out for 18
after having made 102 in the
first innings.
However, the all-rounder
saluted the 10th-wicket duo of
Shaminda Eranga and Pradeep,
whose combined score of
nought not out Monday told
only part of the story. I thought
it was a great effort by the last
pair, Stuart Broad running in
hard, especially with the new
ball, Mathews said.
There were suggestions that
Cook should have declared ear-
lier, although the fact England
didnt bowl at least six overs in
the match because of a slow
over rate probably hurt them
more in the end.
We were a bit behind, it
wasnt ideal, Cook admitted.
As for the declaration, he
added: The last four overs [on
Sunday] went for 40 or 50 runs.
So if youd declared [before
then] at 330 or 340 [in front] on
that wicket, 100 odd for one at
lunch, as Sri Lanka were, it
would have looked a very short
total. Give Sri Lanka some cred-
it there. They bowled well, and
made it difficult for us.
England named the same 12
for Headingley, with all-round-
er Chris Woakes, omitted at
Lords, again in the squad.
But Sri Lanka are set to make
at least one change after wicket-
keeper Prasanna Jayawardene
broke a finger, with Dinesh
Chadimal in line to take over
the gloves. AFP
England captain Alastair Cook is bowled out by Sri Lankas Nuwan
Kulasekara for 17 runs on the rst day of their Test match. AFP

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