Cia, mossad

teamed up for
2008 killing

djokovic downs
murray again
in Melbourne

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Protests
return
to Hong
Kong

Blacklist
fears for
aviation
authority

Dennis Chong
Eddie Morton

CAMBODIAs aviation
industry regulator, which
approved three airlines for
operations in the past six
months and says more are
on the way, is at risk of being
blacklisted by the international safety authority.
The Australian-based
Centre for Aviation (CAPA)
on Friday published the
second part of a Cambodian
aviation sector analysis.
CAPAs chief analyst and
author of the report,
Brendan Sobie, said Cambodias State Secretariat of
Civil Aviation (SSCA) is currently being audited by the
International Civil Aviation
Organization (ICAO).
An outcome from the
audit is expected in two
months. The existing and
potential future airlines are
worried the audit could
result in Cambodia being
placed on ICAOs blacklist,
Sobies analysis reads.
The reason for the concern, Sobie says, are Cambodias lax regulations on
foreign airline ownership,
which provide an easy alternative for start-up airlines
targeting the high-growth
Chinese market to attain
Airline Operations Certificates (AOC).
Cambodia for some time
has been viewed as a backdoor option for getting an
AOC, Sobies analysis
says.
As it is much more difficult to start an airline in
China, establishing a Cambodian airline to pursue the
China-Cambodia market
represents a far more attractive solution.
According to the Singapore-based aviation analyst, Chinese authorities
have begun to monitor
Cambodias growing airline
sector, while the SSCA is
also looking to tighten its
AOC approval regulations.
ICAOs Universal Safety
Oversight Audit Programme (USOAP) assesses
each countrys aviation legislation and regulation,
Continued page 8

Thousands of pro-democracy protesters took to

the streets of Hong Kong yesterday for the first time since
mass demonstrations shut
down parts of the city for
more than two months.
A sea of yellow umbrellas
the symbol of the campaign
moved slowly through central Hong Kong with crowds
shouting for true universal
suffrage.
But numbers were well
below expectations with
13,000 attending, according
to organisers just over a
quarter of the 50,000 they
had hoped for.
Todays protest wasnt a
small one. It was smaller than
we expected, but its wrong
to say Hong Kongers have
given in to fake democracy,
said organiser Daisy Chan.
Police said up to 8,800 people had joined the march, a
fraction of the tens of thousands who gathered at the
peak of the protests. Authorities have made no concessions to activists demands
and tensions remain high in
the semi-autonomous Chinese territory.
Police warned ahead of the
rally that demonstrators were
likely to once again try to
occupy some of Hong Kongs
main roads, which were
cleared of tents in December.
But by late afternoon, the

Thousands of people participate in a

demonstration march for democracy in
Hong Kong yesterday. AFP

world page 14

Five Montagnards arrested

Twenty-seven others remain in hiding, while 16 apply for asylum
Phak Seangly and Alice Cuddy

IVE Christian Montagnard asylum seekers,

including two children
and an infant, were arrested and detained yesterday
after police and soldiers raided
the forest in Ratanakkiri province where they have been hid-

ing for the past two weeks.

Chhay Thy, provincial coordinator for local rights group
Adhoc, said the Montagnards
a mother and father, their
two young sons, and 9-monthold daughter were arrested
at about 4:30pm in OYadav
district.
Police and soldiers held and

handcuffed the mother and

father in the forest and transported them on two trucks
along the road adjacent to the
Vietnamese border, Thy said.
Four men the family was in
hiding with managed to escape, according to ethnic Jarai villagers in the area. Police
were still searching for them

yesterday evening, and one

of the two trucks was parked
nearby ready for their arrest,
the villagers said.
The Montagnards, or Degar,
are indigenous peoples from
Vietnams central highlands.
Dozens have fled to Cambodia
in recent months, citing alleged persecution.

A Jarai villager, speaking on

condition of anonymity, said
the father called him from police custody.
He called me for help because he was arrested. I didnt
know what to do because I was
far away, the villager said. If
Continued page 4

THE PHNOM PENH POST february 2, 2015

National

Teen accused of arson

over anti-ghost action

Russians
used fake
currency,
police say

Mom Kunthear

Khouth Sophak Chakrya

TWO Russian men stand

accused of circulating counterfeit currency after they allegedly tried to pay for food with
suspect bills, according to
police, who say this isnt the
first time.
Aleksei Nesterenko, 34, and
Baydakov Denis, 30, were arrested on Saturday after buying
food at a market in Mittapheap
district in Preah Sihanouk province, said Provincial Anti-Economic Crime Director Chov
Meng.
Nesterenko and Denis were
first caught with counterfeit
bills on January 12, Meng said,
but police decided not to arrest
them in favour of procuring a
signed contract stating that they
would not distribute the money. They were suspected again
of using the currency on Friday,
but only after a shop owner
complained to police on Saturday about receiving fake money
for goods, the men were arrested and found in possession of
$240 in counterfeit cash.
The first case was not forwarded to the court, but the
authorities just advised them
and had them sign a contract
promising not to repeat the
crime, Meng said. However,
they used fake money to buy
food and fruit from poor people
in Preah Sihanouk province on
January 31.
Both suspects are being held
in the provincial prison, awaiting trial.
The arrest of the Russian suspects coincided with that of Sos
Vy, 35, whom police accuse of
spending counterfeit money at
the Ampor Voan Prek Chomlak
Pagoda complex in Kratie provinces Chhlong district.
When arrested, Vy was in possession of $320 in fake $20 notes,
Chhlong district police chief
Duong Sothy said yesterday.

Prime Minister Hun Sen (centre) leaves Koh Pichs City Hall surrounded by party members last night after
the conclusion of a two and a half day Cambodian Peoples Party congress. hoNG MENEA

CPP leadership sees

influx of new blood
Vong Sokheng and Meas Sokchea

HE ruling Cambodian
Peoples Party has
added 306 new members to its central committee in a bid to revitalise the
party ahead of pivotal elections
in three years.
The new additions, announced yesterday, include
more than a dozen children
of top party figures, including
Prime Minister Hun Sens sons
Hun Manet and Hun Manit,
and Say Sam Al, son of CPP secretary-general and acting Senate president Say Chhom.
Weve expanded new generations, but weve also kept
the old generation, whove got
a long [history of] experience,
said party spokesman Khieu
Kanharith, speaking at the final
day of the three-day national
congress. We dont make a gap
between the new and the old.
With commune and national
elections set for 2017 and 2018,
respectively, the CPP is desperately working to reform in the

face of surging opposition, driven largely by younger voters.

The influx, the first significant expansion since 2005,
more than doubles the CPPs
powerful central decision-making body to 545 and raises the
number of members under 50
years old to 70.
However the 34-member
standing committee, or politburo, has remained untouched.
Theyre trying to attract
youth votes by injecting new
blood and breathing fresh air
into the party, political analyst
Chea Vannath said.
But their success depends on
providing social justice, working to improve social equality
and addressing the needs of everyone, not just the party.
Discontent at its decades in
power saw the CPP lose 22 seats
in 2013 and face massive opposition-led street protests.
Kanharith said questions
about Hun Sens leadership,
raised at the congress, were
swatted away by the premier,
who insisted the top priority

should be strengthening the

party.
Prime Minister Hun Sen has
demanded all officials of the
CPP at all levels to show ... that
the CPP has the ability and capacity to perform their work in
accordance with the demands
of the people, Kanharith said.
Hun Sen also asked officials
at the congress to stop asking
the whereabouts of CPP president Chea Sim, who is currently
receiving medical treatment in
Vietnam.
Meanwhile, in another signal
of CPPs generational shift, Sok
Sokan, the son of Deputy Prime
Minister Sok An, has been proposed as a candidate to replace
lawmaker So Khun, one of eight
representatives of Takeo province, who died late last month.
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arsonist in Oddar Meanchey
provinces Anlong Veng district was arrested on Thursday
night after allegedly burning
down four unoccupied houses
out of fear that ghosts would
come to inhabit them, police
said yesterday.
District police chief Houth
Sari said yesterday that the
suspect, 15, was believed to
have mental health issues,
and had been released from
police custody.
The village security officials arrested him when he
was burning the fourth house
and sent him to the commune
police officials for questioning, Sari said. He said he
burned the houses down because ghosts would come to
live in them.
Vong Chan, Anlong Veng
commune police chief, said

yesterday that the boys mother had assured police officials

that she would not allow her
son to burn any more houses,
and had agreed to compensate the homeowners.
The owners of three houses left to work in Thailand,
and the other house belongs
to a military police official ...
who just built it and was preparing to come to live in it,
Chan said.
The first house he burned
on January 28, and the other
three houses he burned on
the 29 at night, he added.
The boys mother said
that she will bring her son for
treatment with an organisation because she is worried
her son will do the same thing
again.
Authorities shared her concern, Chan said, and security
guards have been distributed
around the village to prevent
any further conflagrations.

Massive round-up of
alleged dealer, users
Kim Sarom

A 21-YEAR-OLD man was

charged with drug dealing yesterday in Banteay Meancheys
Sisophon town after a raid
that also saw 18 alleged users
rounded up and sent to the
provincial drug rehabilitation
centre, police said.
The suspect, Uk Pros, and
the 18 others were arrested at
the train station in Sisophon
town. Pros was sent to the
provincial court, according
to Phin Sindet, director of the
Anti-Drug Office.
The court has charged the
man, the drug dealer, because
he bought and distributed the
drugs, and the rest are the drug
consumers and I concluded
that they have to be sent to the
drug rehabilitation centre of

the [provincial] Department

of Social Affairs, he said.
Sindet added that an elderly woman suspected of
being an active drug distributor in the area was also
targeted in the raid, but she
managed to escape from her
home in Sisophon before
police arrived.
The woman has several
sons in prison for drug trafficking, Sindet said, and without steady income, she took
up the trade herself. She had
also been arrested and imprisoned a few times, according to Sindet.
In the raid, police detained
a total of 22 people not
counting Pros but four were
released after authorities determined that they were not
involved.

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Virus advancing in Roka: experts

Taing Vida, Sarah Taguiam
and Laignee Barron

S THE massive HIV

outbreak in Battambangs Roka commune continues to
expand with new positive cases, many living with the infection are in rapid decline since
the outbreak was first detected
in early December, according
to health experts.
The situation is getting
much worse from before,
NCHADS deputy director Dr Ly
Penh Sun said. There are some
patients who have really weakened immune systems and are
becoming much more susceptible to diseases.
Due in part to the villagers
deteriorating status and a high
number of co-infections with
other diseases, the WHO and
NCHADS believe the outbreak
attributed to injections from an
unlicensed doctor began long
before it was detected.
Because there are varying
degrees of immunity among
the HIV-positive patients, the
impression we get is that this
infection has been spreading
way before early December,
said the WHOs HIV team leader Dr Masami Fujita.
The WHO is currently performing more sophisticated
examinations to determine
when the virus began its
spread.
Over the past two weeks, two
HIV-positive villagers from

Community members wait for their names to be called outside of a medical clinic in Battambangs Sangke
district as a doctor hands out result sheets from HIV tests in December. HENG CHIVOAN

Roka commune a baby girl

and an elderly woman both
died in the hospital, according
to their relatives and officials.
The 73-year-old woman was
found to have a co-infection
with tuberculosis, the leading
cause of death worldwide for
people living with HIV.
The 6-month-old infant was
diagnosed with a severe respiratory infection that led to the
collapse of her lungs, according to her mother, who is also
HIV-positive.
We started taking anti-retroviral treatments [ARTs] ... but
my daughter could not stand
the treatment so she was kept
in the provincial hospital for a

week then transferred to Kantha Bopha Hopsital in Siem

Reap ... and after three days
she passed away, mother Chan
Cheoub said.
HIV-positive people have
really weakened immune systems that are more sensitive to
other diseases, Fujita said.
Roka commune deputy chief
Soeum Chhom estimated that
nearly a third of those who have
been diagnosed as HIV-positive
are now in critical condition, a
figure disputed by the government health authorities.
These people have other
physical ailments such as tuberculosis and lung, liver, and
heart diseases, said Chhom,

who along with his wife also

tested positive for HIV.
Despite a rising severity in the
cases, the government is providing free ARTs only to those
whose HIV has progressed to
kill a large number of white
CD4 lymphocyte blood cells. A
healthy person has a range of
600 to 1,200 CD4 cells.
Once they have a CD4
count of 350 or below then
they become eligible for
treatment, said Penh Sun
of NCHADS. This is our national standard. If they have
higher CD4 count they are
still healthy and dont need
treatment, said Penh Sun.
According to the WHO, how-

ever, the international standard

for administering treatment
is a 500 CD4 count to stop the
virus from progressing to more
lethal stages.
But the point may be moot, as
many countries are doing away
with CD4 counts altogether in
favour of stopping the diseases
progression earlier.
As of Friday, 234 people have
been declared HIV-positive in
the commune, but only 179
people 28 of them children
are receiving ARTs, NCHADS
said. Around 40 per cent of the
HIV-positive villagers, NCHADS
added, are not currently eligible
for treatment.
The national program has
also stopped giving treatment
to elderly patients who cannot
bear the side effects.
This is uncommon as normal protocol dictates that elderly people need extra attention during ARTs unless they
have very severe complications, Fujita said.
Perhaps even more urgent
than medication, NGOs working in Roka say, is food and financial support for villagers.
The nonhealth aspects of
the disease, the economics of
day-to-day needs, are not being
addressed, said Oum Sopheap,
of the NGO KHANA, adding
that more than half of those in
the commune earned under a
$1 a day before the outbreak.
Whole families are sick and
dont have any ability to earn
money now, he said.

National
Teen held
for rape of
6-year-old
Mom Kunthear

A 16-YEAR-OLD boy was

charged on Saturday for allegedly raping a 6-year-old girl in
Takeos Borei Chulsar district.
The boy was brought in for
questioning on Saturday after
police were tipped off by villagers and the NGO World Vision
about the incident, according
to Borei Chulsar district policeman Khem Sophal.
The 16-year-old reportedly
admitted to raping the girl, who
lives in a neighbouring house,
on Wednesday and luring her
to his house, Sophal added.
This is the first time that the
suspect raped the girl, Sophal
said. [She] often goes to take
the tamarinds at the suspects
house, but on the day of the
incident, the boys parents were
not home.
The girls family did not file a
complaint to police, but officers got wind of the case and
arrested the boy after the confession and receiving confirmation of the rape from one of
Takeos referral hospitals.
The boy was also sent to court
and charged on Saturday, said
Soun Phun, Takeo provincial
deputy police chief, whos in
charge of penal crime.
The court has charged him
with raping a minor and hes
being detained for further
investigation, Phun said.

THE PHNOM PENH POST february 2, 2015

National
5 refugees
arrested

Timber found
in sanctuary

Continued from page 1

they are sent back to Vietnam,

things will be difficult. It is not
good.
Wan-Hea Lee, country representative of the United
Nations Office of the High
Commissioner for Human
Rights (OHCHR), also condemned the arrests.
We are very concerned
about them and about the
situation of all the Montagnards in hiding. We continue
to try to liaise with the Ministry of Interior to address these
issues, she said.
Lee added that the delays in
dealing with the situation,
even when the law is very clear
in this case, highlight once
again major governance problems in Cambodia and why
rule-based reform to guarantee due process is so important.
The UNs refugee agency did
not respond to requests for
comment.
Twenty-seven Montagnards
remained in hiding in the
province yesterday evening.
Sixteen others are currently
in Phnom Penh applying for
asylum.
Thy, of Adhoc, said deporting any of the Montagnards
before allowing them to apply
for asylum would violate the
1951 Refugee Convention.
Sending them back immediately without any reason is
a grave human rights abuse,

Phak Seangly

M
A family of ethnic Montagnards that was arrested by authorities poses for a photo in Ratanakkiri province
last month after fleeing across the border from Vietnam to escape persecution. ADHOC

he went on to say.
Multiple officials refused to
answer questions yesterday
about the arrests and whether
the detainees had been
deported.
Provincial police chief
Nguon Koeurn said he was

er Im Sam Ath said last night

that police chief Chuob Vananrak was leading a group of
officers into the forest, but he
said he could not confirm that
they were searching for the
Montagnards.
Interior Ministry officials

Delays in dealing with the

situation ... highlight once
again major governance
problems in Cambodia
too tired to answer questions, while National Police
spokesman General Keat Thavarith said he was not aware of
the arrests before hanging up
the phone.
OYadav district police offic-

could not be reached.

Meanwhile, ethnic Jarai
villagers who have been supplying the asylum seekers
with food, water and medical
supplies said yesterday that
they were also concerned

for their own safety.

We are helpers and we are
also worried because we hear
they are looking for us too,
one said.
Analyst Ou Virak said that
he expected more arrests to
follow.
The more the Montagnards
cross, the more the government will take a hard stance,
he said, explaining that the
governments policy is not to
welcome asylum seekers from
China and Vietnam.
He added that it is more the
exception than the rule for
asylum seekers to be offered
assistance in Cambodia, and
called on the international
community to step up and do
more to protect the Montagnards.

ORE than 100

cubic metres of
luxury
timber
were found inside
the Lumphat Wildlife Sanctuary near a Vietnamese-owned
economic land concession on
Saturday in Ratanakkiri province, according to Adhoc and
a local resident, who suspect
the timber was taken out of the
protected area.
A representative of the
company has denied any involvement.
Nearly 1,000 cut pieces of
timber were found strewn in
the sanctuarys forest close
to land owned by Hang Anh
Lumphat company in Lumphat district, a company that
had been feuding with local
ethnic Lao residents.
That timber was messily left
in a long line [measuring] about
1 kilometre. They were logged
in Lumphat Sanctuary and
taken out, said Dy Samey, a
40-year-old villager in the area.
Those are illegal timber since
there is no seal on them. I feel
sorry because since the time of
our ancestors, there have been
loads of luxury timber, but now
they logged them all. Please
help to solve this.
Chhay Thy, Ratanakkiri provincial coordinator for rights
group Adhoc, said that each

piece of wood was about 4 to

5 metres long, and up to half a
metre in diameter.
According to the estimate,
that timber is about 100 cubic
metres [in total] and the owner
is not known. We have intervened to ask the experts and
authorities for the inspection,
Thy said.
The discovery comes a day
after 100 people from Thmey
village in Lumphat district protested against the company,
whom they accuse of clearing
private farmland. The protest
appears to have put a temporary stop to clearing in the area.
Chang Vangvoeng, a representative of Hang Anh Lumphat, said the companys presence benefited the community.
We are helping them to have
a road and electricity, he said,
adding that the company had
already agreed to leave them
1,000 hectares of land. As for the
wood, Vangvoeng said Hang
Anh Lumphat has no business
dealings in timber, only rubber.
Kong Srun, Lumphat district
governor, was not aware of the
luxury timber haul but he urged
those who were to report it to
authorities, stressing that the
affected area is under the control of environmental officials.
Chou Sophak, head of the
Ratanakkiri provincial forestry
department, was unavailable
for comment yesterday.

THE PHNOM PENH POST february 2, 2015

National
Permit penalty

New fine in
works for
workers

TARTING on April 1, the

government will charge
$5 a day for every day
that a staff member of a company in Cambodia is without
a work permit, according to a
senior immigration official.
After the census campaign, we will implement
the procedures of fine for
immigrants who stay beyond
the visa, who do not have a
work permit, and who do not
have a passport, Ouk Hay
Seila, head of investigations
and procedure at the General
Department of Immigration,
said yesterday, referring to
a census that started last
year and is in the process of
wrapping up. Starting from
the 1st of April, [for] one day
we fine $5.
The census is part of an overall tightening of labour laws
that were loosely enforced in
the past.
For those seeking permits
now, the government has
been charging back fines
of about $80 for every year
worked in Cambodia without
correct documentation.
Its unclear if the $5 fine
will replace the backdated
fee.
The government has collected hundreds of thousands of
dollars in financial penalties
since the census began in
August. TAING VIDA

Bridge closing for inspection

Sen David

HE
CambodianJapanese Friendship
Bridge also known
as the Chroy Changvar Bridge will be closed until
Friday starting today, to allow
a team of Japanese experts to
examine damage to support
columns discovered last year,
the city announced.
We would like to announce
to all residents [and] passengers to know that the Chroy
Changvar Bridge will be closed
temporarily for crossing starting from 2 February for Japanese experts to examine the
details of the bridges damage,
the announcement letter said.
The bridge will be reopened
when the examination is complete, and a starting date for any
necessary repairs has not yet
been set, according to the city.
Phnom Penh resident Chan
Van, 30, said that she had just
found out about the closure,
and that while it was sure to
result in significant delays,
she had no choice but to abide
by the order.
We will obey the authorities announcement. [But] the
bridge will have a traffic jam due
to them closing it, she said.
However, the recently completed
Cambodian-Chinese
Friendship Bridge, which runs
parallel to the Japanese one,
will remain open, and police insisted yesterday that measures
were being put in place to ensure the smooth flow of traffic.

KR refugee
convicted
of tax fraud
in the US
Laignee Barron

Traffic passes over Phnom Penhs Chroy Changvar Bridge yesterday afternoon. Phnom Penh authorities have
announced that the bridge will be closed for five days so that damaged areas can be inspected. ELI MEIXLER

We are ready to [manage]

traffic to avoid traffic jams to
make it easy for passengers,
said a traffic police officer as-

its central span was destroyed

during Cambodias decadeslong civil war. While that segment was replaced in the

We will obey the authorities

announcement. [But] the
bridge will have a traffic jam
due to them closing it
signed to the bridge, who declined to be named.
The Cambodian-Japanese
Friendship Bridge was first
constructed in the 1960s, but

1990s with funds and expert

assistance from the Japanese
government, the bridges approach segments are holdovers
from the original structure.

The bridge has been closed

to vehicles weighing more
than 3 tonnes since the middle of last year, shortly after
cracks were discovered in the
eastern approach segment. In
the meantime, temporary pylons were added in the affected area to provide additional
support.
Prime Minister Hun Sen first
sought Japans help in renovating the structure in a meeting
with Japanese Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Minister Akihiro Ohta last
year.

A KHMER Rouge refugee living

in America faces a seven-and-ahalf year prison sentence for a
tax fraud scheme, even though
she has been diagnosed with
Alzheimers Disease, court
records show.
Margaret Mathes, 67, one of
her daughters and two of her
sons-in-law were convicted after
pleading guilty last August to
running an off-the-books
scheme. By paying workers in
cash from 20 different bank
accounts, the family hid more
than $25 million of paid wages
from US tax collectors, or more
than 12 times the reported figure, press releases from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and
US Attorneys Office show.
The family operated a temporary employment agency in
Lowell, Massachusetts where
their under-the-table payroll
ploy defrauded the Internal Revenue Service between 2004 and
2012. The family was also convicted of underpaying insurance
premiums.
Ahead of this weeks sentencing, the prosecutor requested a
48-month imprisonment followed by three years of supervised release in light of Mathess
old age and recent diagnosis of
Alzheimers.

THE PHNOM PENH POST february 2, 2015

National

Bailed out

Mother, child
are released
from custody

MOTHER and her

8-month-old daughter
held in prison for allegations of illegal land clearing
were released on bail by Preah
Vihear Provincial Court due to
health concerns for the two.
Lem Sokhem, 45, and her
husband, Sorn Vuthy, 46,
were arrested on January 13,
after Preah Vihears provincial
Forestry Administration lodged
a court complaint against the
couple for allegedly clearing
state land, where they lived
illegally, deputy prosecutor Ly
Lon said yesterday.
The court released Sokhem
and her daughter, because
Sokhem suffers from an
undisclosed illness, for which
she requires regular injections,
and her daughter is suffering
from measles, Lon said. Vuthy
remains in provincial prison,
because the court fears he
could interfere with the courts
investigation. The temporary
release of Sokhem and her
daughter was welcomed by rights group Adhoc, which is still
lobbying for Vuthys release.
We ask the Court of Appeal
prosecutor to help free
[Sokhems] husband, said
Lor Chan, a provincial Adhoc
coordinator.
Adhoc considers the arrests
a violation of human rights,
which could have a chilling
effect on activists. PECH SOTHEARY

Stripping shutterbugs deported

Sen David

Deum Ampil

Do-gooders with violent

streak help theft victim

Three French nationals walk through the halls of Siem Reap Provincial Court on Saturday where they were
sentenced for their involvement in nude portraits at the Banteay Kdei temple. photo SUPPLIED

not fully understand the impact of their actions until after they had taken the nude
photos, she added.

After their Thursday indiscretion, the men posted

a video online apologising,
saying they did not under-

surfaced online, with a watermark for WANIMAL, a Chinese photo-sharing website.

Those photos, which were
seen on a WANIMAL account
which includes photos of
nude women posing with exotic backgrounds, were also
decried by Apsara Authority
officials as disrespectful to
Khmer culture.
Siem Reap tourism police
officer Soung Seng Kim yesterday underscored the departments position that taking
nude photos at sacred sites
runs contrary to the law and
cultural respect.

Immediately after temple

guard officials found them
naked for photos ... they
admitted to the act
This is an illegal action; immediately after temple guard
officials found them naked for
photos in Banteay Kdei temple, they admitted to the act,
Sun Kerya said.

stand the gravity of the cultural faux pas.

The deportations came
about a week after photos of
partially clothed women posing at Banteay Kdei temple

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Cops form search party

after gangsters attack

POLICE are on the lookout for

a gang of hoodlums after they
picked a fight with one of their
own on Friday in Kratie town.
According to authorities, four
gangsters threw trash at a
police officer who had bedded
down for the night on the sidewalk. He woke up and told
them to stop but they refused
and took things a step further
by striking a blow to the officers head. He contacted his
fellow lawmen, and a posse is
searching for the assailants.

HREE French nationals who posed nude

at a sacred Siem Reap
temple were flown
out of Cambodia yesterday
after a judge ordered their
deportation.
Siem Reap provincial judge
Kuy Soa on Saturday handed
down six-month suspended
prison sentences and ordered the deportation of three
French nationals who posed
nude for photographs at Banteay Kdei temple.
Defendants Vincent Henri,
20, Rodoiphe Fourgeot, 21,
and Alexander Andre Raymond, 22, must also each pay
1 million riel ($250) as part of
the sentence. He convicted
the trio of trafficking in pornographic images.
Siem Reap court has decided to sentence them six
months [suspended], fined
them 1 million riel, and banned
them from Cambodian territory for four years, Soa said in
an interview yesterday.
The three men were flown
out of the Kingdom for France
via Siem Reap International
Airport at about 2am yesterday, said Chao Sun Kerya,
spokeswoman for the Apsara
Authority, which oversees
Siem Reaps temples.
A guard caught Henri,
Fourgeot and Raymond in
the act on Thursday, Sun
Kerya said. All confessed to
the crime, but said they did

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SEVERAL good-but-violent
Samaritans foiled an attempted bag snatching in Sihanoukville on Saturday through
the use of brute force. According to police, while the victim
was crossing the road, two
men rode by and snatched her
bag, leaving her slightly
injured. Others on the same
road came to the rescue by
pushing the alleged thieves
bike over before throwing
down a beating. The victim
was sent to hospital, the suspects were sent to court, and
peace reigned on the sunny
streets of Sihanoukville. Kampuchea Thmey

Police: P Vihear woman

brought meth from Laos
POLICE in Preah Vihear province arrested a woman who
allegedly was trafficking
methamphetamine on Saturday. Nem Say, 48, is due in
court today, after she allegedly
brought drugs from Laos to
Cambodia for sale, police said.
Say was arrested by border
police, when she crossed into
Cambodia, where she lives in
Preah Vihears Chheb district,
police said. PHNOM PENH POST

Fake tech guy geeks

out with stolen laptop

IMPERSONATING a computer
repairman didnt go so well for
one 21-year-old in Phnom
Penhs Chamkarmon district
on Saturday. Police say a
woman brought her laptop to
a shop at a local market, but
at the time of her arrival, the
owner was indisposed. The
suspect appeared in his place,
allegedly pretending to have
the know-how and to be
employed by the shop. He took
the computer, but when the
ruse was discovered, police
took after him and he was
sent to court. KOH SANTEPHEAP

Vigilante mob schools

thief, turns over to cops

ANOTHER petty theft was

thwarted by a helpful mob.
Banteay Meancheys Poipet
town police said that a suspect
tried to rob a victims motorbike while he was in a shop
buying medicine on Wednesday. The owner saw the crime
in action and yelled for help.
Nearby residents came out of
their houses and passengers
on motorbikes temporarily
diverted their routes, all with
the end of goal of beating the
daylights out of the suspect,
who was sent him to court.
Deum Ampil

Translated by Sen David

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Aus firm buys Poipet casino

Chan Muyhong

USTRALIAN-listed
firm Donaco International, which currently has operations
in Vietnam, has confirmed it is
entering Cambodias alreadycrowded casino and gaming
industry.
The company announced
on Friday that it had entered
into an acquisition agreement
to purchase the Star Vegas Resort and Club casino in Cambodias Poipet town in Bantey
Meanchey for $360 million.
The acquisition is expected to
be finalised in April.
The acquisition is subject to
completion of due diligence
and customary conditions,
the statement added.
Shareholders will receive
substantial benefits from the
increase size and scale of the
company and the diversification of our revenue streams,
Joey Lim, managing director
and CEO of Donaco International, was quoted saying.
This transformational acquisition is the culmination
of many months of work, and
is a major step forward in our
expansion strategy.
Star Vegas Resort consists of
109 gaming tables and 1264
electronic gaming machines.
Gross gaming revenue for the
casino declined more than 50
per cent between 2012 and
2014, from $103 million to $45
million while visitor numbers
also fell 45 per cent.
Donaco International operates a boutique casino in
northern Vietnam, on the bor-

Traffic passes through the international checkpoint in Poipet town on the boarder of Cambodia and Thailand last year. An Australian company has
announced it will acquire a Poipet Casino for $360 million as part of is expansion in the Asia Pacific region. VIREAK MAI

der with Chinas Yunnan province as part of a joint venture

with the government of Vietnam. The Aristo International
Hotel, which was launched in
May 2014, has recently been
expanded to include a fivestar resort complex with 428
hotel rooms.
Ros Phirun, deputy director
of the Ministry of Finances
Industry Department, said he

was yet to receive official notification of the Star Vegas Resort and Club acquisition.
When asked if he thought
the casinos revenue and
player decline in Thai gamblers crossing the border to
play at Cambodias casinos
was the reason for the Star
Vegas Resort sale, Phirun
said it was unlikely.
It is common. The sellers

[Star Vegas] will want to sell

their business if the acquisition results in profit for them,
he said.
Cambodia has a total of 59
casinos, the majority of which
are located on either the Thai
or Vietnam border.
Ho Vandy, Co-chair of the
Tourism Working Group,
said that Vietnamese, Thai,
Chinese and Korean tourists

were the main tourism markets driving the over-crowded industry.

Vandy added that while casinos have proven to be a lucrative driver of tourism revenue
for the Kingdom, the industry
remains under regulated.
More casinos are a good
thing for the tourism industry,
but it needs to be well-regulated, he said.

EU, US
seek fresh
start in
trade talks
US NEGOTIATORS travelled to
EU headquarters in Brussels
today to jumpstart talks on the
worlds biggest-ever free trade
deal, which after nearly two
years remains bogged down by
public opposition.
The future of the Transatlantic
Trade and Investment Pact
(TTIP) is in doubt in the face of
bitter opposition by activists
and mixed signals from key governments, including Europes
biggest economy Germany.
This is the dirtiest trade deal
in Europes history, a new video
posted by the anti-TTIP group
Corporate Europe said.
Particularly controversial
is a plan to let companies
have legal disputes with governments heard by supranational tribunals, which campaigners say would undermine
national sovereignty and
favour corporations.
The historic drive to create a
market of 850 million people,
linking the 28-nation European
Union and the United States,
began 20 months ago and on
the eve of the eighth round of
talks many believe the process
is at a make-or-break stage.
The four days of talks are the
first since the new European
Commission led by Jean-Claude
Juncker took office in November, with the outspoken Swede
Cecilia Malmstroem charged to
salvage the talks as the new
trade commissioner. AFP

THE PHNOM PENH POST february 2, 2015

Business
Blacklist concerns for
the aviation authority
Continued from page 1

personnel licensing activities, aircraft operations and

airworthiness, air navigation
services, accident and serious
incident investigations.
Cambodias latest USOAP results, taken in May 2014, show
all criteria to be well below the
international standard with
both air navigation services
and accident investigations
almost 40 per cent below the
international safety standard.
ICAOs blacklist refers to
the nations that record the
worst in USOAP safety oversight scores.
Moeung Sathya, director and
projects coordinator at the SSCAs Department of Planning,
Strategy and Policy denied
that a new ICAO audit was
underway or that the national
regulator was at risk of being
labelled blacklisted.
There was the audit last year,
and we do not expect another
until later this year, Sathya
said, declining to provide details of the past audit results.
No, it is not true because
the SSCA has issued the AOC
according to its own standards
and those are according to international regulations. So it is
simply not true that there is a
risk of being blacklisted.
Cambodias local aviation
sector is quickly becoming
crowded after the SSCA in
2014 approved Bassaka Air,

Bayon Air and Apsara Air for

AOC licences during the final
quarter of last year.
All three airlines had intentions of expanding routes to
the booming China-Cambodia tourism market, which
has grown five-fold since 2009
from 10,000 Chinese visitors
to the Kingdom, to more than
52,000 last year.
However, Chinas tight foreign airline service regulations
and even tighter competition
with existing airlines have so
far kept Bassaka and Bayon
from establishing international flights. Apsara last month
ceased all operations and has
yet to relaunch.
Cambodias
questionable
regulatory environment combined with the now-crowded
local market prompted a caution from CAPAs Brendan Sobie to would-be airline startups to reconsider their plans.
Cambodian authorities have
said there are another three
start-ups seeking to launch
services, the report said.
All three seem to be reassessing the market, a sensible move
as the Cambodian airline sector is now relatively crowded ...
there will also almost certainly
be some adjustments to Cambodias dynamic airline sector.
Among these will be the nature
of national regulatory activity.
Bayon, Bassaka and Apsara
did not return requests for
comment.

Indias new labour laws

look to spur investment
A

S WORKERS gathered at the gate

waving red flags and shouting
slogans, factory owner Rajendra
Kumar Poddar found himself
caught between the employees demands
and the reality of running a business under Indias restrictive labour laws. He
couldnt afford to pay the inflated wages,
but he couldnt fire the employees, either,
because of a maze of regulations requiring
companies to seek government permission before firing 100 or more employees.
That would have been a hugely cumbersome process under our labour laws,
said Poddar, 60, director of Mayur Leather
Products. Instead, he split the factory into
two sites to stay under the 100-worker limit, which allowed him to fire people.
In November, Rajasthan became Indias first state to alter the archaic system
of overlapping laws that have led more
than 98 per cent of businesses in India
to deliberately avoid expanding beyond
nine employees to skirt labour regulations. Small entrepreneurs such as Poddar said the laws, make it nearly impossible to fire workers or close a business.
The changes in Rajasthan, including raising the threshold for unionising
and allowing more flexibility in laying off
workers, have been supported in the national government headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. But the changes also
have been criticised, particularly by labour
unions, which argue that they dramatically erode workers rights.
The World Bank said in a 2014 report
that India a country where more than 82

Rajasthans labour laws will benefit job growth, but not workers rights, according to labour
rights activists and trade unions. AFP

per cent of workers labour in the informal

sector remains one of the worlds most
rigid labour markets.
Hoping to change that, Modi is pushing a Make in India plan to increase the
countrys manufacturing base, which accounts for just 16 per cent of the nations
economic output. The government wants
to raise that to 25 per cent by creating 100
million jobs by 2022.
In October, Modis government simplified 16 of the 44 national labour laws and
created a single portal for reporting to
multiple departments. Under the reforms,
companies in Rajasthan can lay off up to 300

workers without government permission,

up from 100. Trade union representation
can be introduced only with at least 30 per
cent of a companys workers, up from 15 per
cent. And a strict factories law will now apply
only to sites that employ 20 or more workers,
instead of the previous 10.
These laws were a big pain for the industry. Small businesses were saddled
with the heavy burden of compliance and
reporting and multiple inspections. A big
disincentive to hire more, said Chandrajit
Banerjee, director general of the Confederation of Indian Industry in New Delhi.
THE WASHINGTON POST

PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Contact: KPMG
Paul Huynh
Ofce of the Chairman
Tel: +84 (8) 3821 9266,
ext 8114
paulhuynh@kpmg.com.vn

Date 23 January 2015

KPMG acquires business of Premier Consulting in Cambodia

KPMG Cambodia Limitedhas acquired the Phnom Penh based Audit, Tax and Advisory business of Premier Consulting (Cambodia) Limited. The
combined business will employ almost 200 professionals, providing services to the corporate, NGO and Government sectors in Cambodia.
In announcing the transaction, Warrick Cleine, Chairman of KPMG in Vietnam and Cambodia, highlighted KPMGs condence in Cambodias business environment, especially in light of the AEC 2015. KPMG works with the leading companies in South East Asia through our ofces in every
major city in the ASEAN region. The integration of the Premier Consulting team in Phnom Penh enhances our ability to serve clients in one of South
East Asias most dynamic economies.
This deal is a powerful demonstration of KPMGs expanding strength and commitment to serving our clients in Vietnam and Cambodia. Adding Premiers team to KPMG signicantly enhances the service offerings we will be able to provide our clients of all sizes and at every stage of the business
life cycle.
KPMG in Cambodia will continue to be led by Senior Partner, Michael Gordon, along with existing Partners Nge Huy and Lim Chew Teng. Premiers
James Roberts will join KPMG as a Partner, and Dary So will join as a Director, leading the rms newly established Business Services group.
We are excited to join KPMGs efforts to continually grow capabilities and resources in the local market. Having acess to the KPMG network, will
bolster our ability to provide clients in this region with an unparalleled level of service, commented Mr. Roberts.
KPMG celebrated 20 years of successful business in Vietnam and Cambodia in 2014. The transaction became effective from 1 January 2015. Financial terms are not disclosed.
-ENDSAbout KPMG in Vietnam and Cambodia
KPMG in Vietnam and Cambodia is one of the leading professional services rms, with over 1000 staff working from our ofces in Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi and
Phnom Penh. We work with our colleagues across Asia and around the world to provide Audit, Tax and Advisory services.

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THE PHNOM PENH POST february 2, 2015

Business
Vietnams shrimp king
woos foreign investors
Minh Phu Seafood Corp,
which sells black tiger shrimp
to Costco and Wal-Mart, will
seek to sell half of itself to foreign strategic investors to help
fund overseas expansion.
Vietnams largest seafood
exporter aims to complete the
stake sales this year after it gets
approval to delist from the Ho
Chi Minh City Stock Exchange
this quarter, CEO Le Van Quang
said. The company forecasts
net income will jump 55 per
cent to 1.416 trillion dong ($66
million) this year, with sales
reaching $1 billion.
Were looking for strategic
foreign investors to help maximise our advantages and potential as our goal is to become
a global shrimp company by
2020, Quang, dubbed the king
of shrimp by local media, said.
Vietnam is considering proposals to raise the foreignownership limits of listed companies. Vietnamese companies
are in need of foreign strategic
investors for capital and expertise to expand internationally.
Under current rules, foreign
investors can hold a maximum
49 per cent of a listed companys stakes. A draft measure
proposes that foreign investors
be allowed to make unlimited investments in nonvoting
shares of public companies.
If we stay on the Ho Chi
Minh Stock Exchange, we cant
raise enough target capital,
said Quang.
Minh Phu gained 0.9 per cent
to 110,000 dong a share in Ho
Chi Minh City trading on Friday. Its share price rose more
than four-fold last year as the
company bought back shares,
giving it a market capitalisation of 7.5 trillion dong.
A dozen foreign investors
from the United States, Japan
and Canada have expressed interest in the stake sales, Quang
said. Mitsui & Co Ltd holds a 31
per cent stake in the Mekong
delta-based subsidiary.
Minh Phu will choose one or
two partners this year, Quang

said. France-based Artemiss

Red River Holding owns a 9.47
per cent stake and Vietnam Investment Fund holds 7.38 per
cent, said Quang. The company failed to secure a partnership deal with CP Group, Thailands largest shrimp exporter,
in 2012, he said.
Quang said he and his family
want to drop their stake holdings to no less than 35 per cent
from 79 per cent currently.
Minh Phus sales and profit
will grow 15 per cent to 20 per
cent annually over the next five
years, Quang said. The company has helped propel Vietnam
to become one of the fastestgrowing seafood exporters in
the world, with the national
industrys shipments rising 18
per cent to $7.9 billion in 2014.
Shrimp prices hit a record
last year due to a lack of global
supply when diseases affected
shrimp from Thailand, said
Dinh Duc Minh, senior analyst at Saigon Securities Inc. If
Thailand resolves shrimp diseases and the supply increases
again, the shrimp prices will
drop, Minh said. In that case,
Minh Phu and other shrimp
companies in Vietnam cant
earn profits as high as in 2014.
The companys exports to
more than 60 countries jumped
41 per cent to $730 million last
year, Quang said. The US is its
largest market.
Quang said that his company plans to build shrimp
processing companies and
distribution units in India,
Indonesia and the Philippines
in the next five years. The
company, which runs a distribution unit in California,
plans to build a 40,000-tonne
shrimp processing plant in Ca
Mau province this year and
another with the same capacity in Hau Giang province in
the next three years.
My goal is to produce
shrimp for everyones meal,
said Quang, Shrimp isnt food
only for the rich any more.
bloomberg

As of February 02, 2015

Cambodian Public Bank

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Myanmar coffee scene fuelled

by a middle-class caffeine high

ehind a wooden
counter in downtown Yangons Coffee Club, the unmistakable hiss of a barista
steaming milk briefly drowns
out a funky soundtrack
piped through a store filled
with students glued to their
smartphones.
In any other Asian capital it
would be a ubiquitous sight.
But in Yangon, this is something new.
Long absent from the regions booming cafe culture,
Myanmars commercial capital is now witnessing a surge
in swish coffee bars providing an alternative to the treacly instant coffee served by
thousands of street carts.
It is a trend that points both
to the changing tastes of
Myanmars emerging middle
class but also the widening
gap between them and the
nations poor.
Nyi Nyi Tun, a doctor, is
typical of the newly aspirant
customers relishing consumer goods that were either far
beyond their reach or simply
unavailable under Myanmars brutal and economically incompetent military
dictatorship.
I came here to read, he
said, sipping an americano
and perusing the internet
on a tablet.
With friends, a streetside
tea shop is better. But if you
want to be somewhere alone
and quiet, then this kind of
coffee shop is good.
To escape the noisy onslaught of Yangons increasingly vehicle-clogged streets,
Nyi Nyi Tun is willing to fork
out as much as $2 ten times
what a traditional Myanmar
coffee made from pre-mixed
sachets and condensed milk
costs at roadside stalls.

Exponential growth
In the last few years since
the end of outright military
rule in 2011, around two
dozen speciality coffee shops
have opened up in Yangon
alone.
You will witness exponential growth of the coffee
industry in the next three
years, predicts Ye Naing
Wynn, managing director
of the Nervin Cafe chain
Myanmars oldest which
now boasts five outlets including in Mandalay and the
capital Naypyidaw.
A country like Myanmar
has newly opened up. People
have been closed up for so
many years. The natural human reaction is they want to

This picture taken on January 27, 2015 shows customers enjoying their drinks at a coffee shop in downtown
Yangon, one of around two dozen speciality coffee shops that have opened up in Myanmars biggest city in the
last few years since the end of outright military rule in 2011. afp

experience new things, he

went on to say.
Initially it was the large
influx of expats and tourists
that helped foster Yangons
nascent coffee scene. But
owners say locals now make
up the majority of drinkers.
Thats my target audience
going forward to be honest ... because any food and

The economic potential of

Myanmars growing middle
class is not lost on international companies who are
currently scrambling to access one of Asias last untapped markets.
In 2013, Starbucks CEO
Howard Schultz hinted during a trip to Thailand that he
was eyeing Myanmar while

[New customers are] not quite

sure what a cappuccino is
but theyve seen it [on] the TV,
theyve seen it online
beverage business that relies
70 per cent on locals ought to
do well in the long run, says
Thura Ko Ko, who returned to
Myanmar from overseas four
years ago and opened The
Coffee Club above another
of his businesses a mobile
phone shop.
It helps, he adds, that
speciality coffee is seen as
something aspirational and
trendy.

Out of reach
Sometimes I sit in and
I overhear some new local
customers try and theyre
not quite sure what a cappuccino is but theyve seen
it [on] the TV, theyve seen
it online and thats been a
big influence in lifestyle as
well. Everything from Korean
soaps to films, he says.

Carlsberg is also hoping to

break into the beer market
an area that is currently monopolised by the countrys
military.
Management consulting
giant McKinsey believes up
to a quarter of Myanmars
population could be living in
large cities by 2030 up from
13 per cent in 2010 while
the economy, if managed
properly, could quadruple
from $45 billion in 2010 to
$200 billion by 2030.
The size of the urban middle class is expected to double over the next decade, with
annual double-digit growth
in middle class incomes over
the next five years, says Rajiv Biswas, Asia-Pacific chief
economist at IHS.
This will generate very rapid growth in urban consumer

demand for retail goods, including consumer durables

such as autos, motorcycles,
refrigerators and air conditioners, consumer electronics such as mobile telephones
and tablets, and basic consumer goods such as food
and beverages, he adds.

Caution
But Sean Turnell, an expert on Myanmars economy
at Macquarie University in
Australia, warns against overhyping the potential of the
middle class in a country
where the vast majority of its
60 million population are the
rural poor.
Serious
consumption
usually starts for people
with disposable incomes
above around $5,000. There
would be few in Myanmar
with this sort of spending
power, he says.
However, much buzz is
created by the opening of the
next hip coffee joint, for people like Ko Phyo, who runs
a photography shop in Yangon, a latte will likely remain
far outside his budget.
Its too expensive for ordinary people, the 33-year-old
says while sipping a sweet
brew in one of Yangons
many traditional, cheaper
teashops.
Its 10 times more expensive in those places. Only
the middle classes can afford
that. afp

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World
B Haram
launches
new attack
on key city
BOKO Haram fighters yesterday launched a fresh attempt to
take over the strategically crucial northeastern Nigerian city
of Maiduguri, a brazen attack
on a state capital just two weeks
before national elections.
Four residents told AFP that
yesterdays fighting began at
roughly 3am local time with
loud explosions and gunfire, as
the Islamists tried to enter the
city from the south. After heavy
fighting in the Mulai area just
three kilometres south of the
city, troops backed by vigilantes repelled the attack, but the
militants then began a separate assault to the east and gun
battles were ongoing, multiple
witnesses said.
The Islamist rebels tried
to capture Maiduguri just a
week ago, but were repelled
by troops. The military was
not immediately available to
comment on the latest raid.
The whole city is in fear,
said resident Adam Krenuwa.
People are afraid of what will
happen if Boko Haram defeats
the security forces.
Losing control of Maiduguri, capital of Borno state,
would be an enormous defeat
for the security forces, whose
handling of the six-year Islamist uprising has been fiercely
criticised. The citys fall would
also likely spark a humanitarian disaster. Its population is
believed to have swelled above
two million in recent weeks as
residents from other parts of
Borno have been forced to flee
to the city to seek refuge from
Boko Haram violence. afp

Jordan vows to do everything to

rescue pilot as IS executes Goto
J

ORDON vowed yesterday

to do all it could to save an
airman held by the Islamic
State group after the jihadists
killed a Japanese journalist
they had been holding.
Safi Kassasbeh, the father
of pilot Maaz al-Kassasbeh,
denounced the killing of Kenji
Goto and told AFP the Jordanian government is responsible for his sons fate.
Maaz is our son and a son
of the military, and the government is responsible for him,
said Safi Kassasbeh, who in
previous days had urged authorities to seek his release at
any price.
A spokesman for the government Mohammed al-Momeni
pledged that Jordan would do
everything it can to save the
life and secure the release of
Kassasbeh, who was captured
by IS after his plane crashed in
Syria in December.
IS has been demanding the
release of a convicted Iraqi jihadist on death row in Jordan
in exchange for Kassasbehs
life, a demand the government has expressed readiness
to accept provided it is given
proof he is still alive.
All state organisations have
been mobilised to secure the
proof of life that we require so
that he can be freed and returned to his home, Momeni
told the official Petra news
agency.
He condemned the jihadists murder of Goto after days
of intensive efforts through
intermediaries to save him.
We spared no effort, in coordination with the Japanese
government, to save his life,

Jordans government spokesman Mohammed al-Momeni speaks to the media after a parliamentary government closed door meeting in Amman on Friday. Jordan demanded proof that a pilot threatened with execution by the Islamic State group was alive. AFP

Momeni said.
Goto was the second Japanese hostage in a week to be
executed by the jihadists in
what they have said is punishment for Tokyos pledge of
$200 million in aid to countries affected by their bloody
seizure of swathes of Iraq and
Syria last year.
Last week, IS claimed responsibility for the beheading
of Haruna Yukawa after the expiry of a 72-hour ultimatum.
The jihadist IS wants freed
Sajida al-Rishawi was sentenced to death for her role in
the 2005 bombings of three

Amman hotels by Al-Qaeda in

Iraq which killed 60 people.
Her husband was one of the
three suicide bombers and the
court found that she would
have been a fourth but for the
failure of her detonator.
Safi Kassasbeh said his family feels with (Gotos) family
and his country.
Jordan is among a number
of Arab and Western countries
that have joined a US-led air
campaign against IS.
After the F-16 jet of First
Lieutenant Maaz al-Kassasbeh crashed while on a mission against the jihadists over

northern Syria, his father had

urged IS to consider him a
guest and cause him no
harm.
Separately, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe yesterday
denounced as heinous and
despicable the apparent beheading of a second Japanese
hostage by the Islamic State
group, as global leaders denounced the jihadists.
IS claimed in a video released online on Saturday
that it had killed 47-yearold Kenji Goto, but made no
mention of a captured Jordanian pilot it had also threat-

ened to kill.
Goto, a respected war correspondent, is seen in an
orange outfit similar to
those worn by Guantanamo
Bay inmates kneeling next
to a standing masked man
dressed head-to-toe in black
with his face covered.
The man, who speaks with
a British accent, appears to
be the same IS militant who
has featured in previous execution videos. He directly
addresses Abe, saying the
killing was the result of reckless decisions by the Japanese government a possible
reference to aid money that
Tokyo gave to help refugees
fleeing IS-controlled areas
in Syria and Iraq and would
mark the beginning of a
nightmare for Japan.
The brief video, whose
content has not been verified, ends with the image of a
body and a decapitated head
on top of it. After an extensive review, we believe its
highly probable the video
is authentic, government
spokesman Yoshihide Suga
told reporters.
Japans premier, who appeared on the verge of tears,
pledged not to back down
and said his government
would increase humanitarian aid to the Middle East.
I am extremely angry
about these heinous and despicable terrorist acts. We
will never forgive terrorists,
he told a crush of reporters at
his office. We will cooperate
with the international community to make them atone
for their crimes. afp

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World

CIA, Mossad teamed up to kill senior H

Adam Goldman and Ellen Nakashima

N FEBRUARY 12, 2008,

Imad Mughniyah, Hezbollahs international operations chief, walked on a
quiet nighttime street in Damascus
after dinner at a nearby restaurant.
Not far away, a team of CIA spotters
in the Syrian capital was tracking his
movements.
As Mughniyah approached a
parked SUV, a bomb planted in a
spare tire on the back of the vehicle
exploded, sending a burst of shrapnel across a tight radius. He was
killed instantly.
The device was triggered remotely
from Tel Aviv by agents with Mossad,
the Israeli foreign intelligence service, who were in communication
with the operatives on the ground
in Damascus. The way it was set up,
the US could object and call it off, but
it could not execute, said a former
US intelligence official.
The United States helped build the
bomb, the former official said, and
tested it repeatedly at a CIA facility in
North Carolina to ensure the potential blast area was contained.
The extraordinarily close cooperation between the US and Israeli intelligence services suggested the importance of the target a man who
over the years had been implicated
in some of Hezbollahs most spectacular terrorist attacks, including those
against the US Embassy in Beirut and
the Israeli Embassy in Argentina.
The United States has never acknowledged participation in the
killing of Mughniyah, which Hezbollah blamed on Israel. Until now,

there has been little detail about the

joint operation by the CIA and Mossad to kill him, how the car bombing
was planned or the exact US role.
With the exception of the 2011 killing of Osama bin Laden, the mission
marked one of the most high-risk covert actions by the United States in
recent years.
US involvement in the killing,
which was confirmed by five former US intelligence officials, also
pushed American legal boundaries.
Mughniyah was targeted in a country where the United States was not
at war. Moreover, he was killed in a
car bombing, a technique that some
legal scholars see as a violation of international laws that proscribe killing by perfidy using treacherous
means to kill or wound an enemy.
It is a killing method used by terrorists and gangsters, said Mary Ellen OConnell, a professor of international law at the University of Notre
Dame. It violates one of the oldest
battlefield rules.
Former US officials, all of whom
spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the operation, asserted
that Mughniyah, although based in
Syria, was directly connected to the
arming and training of Shiite militias
in Iraq that were targeting US forces.
There was little debate inside the
Bush administration over the use of
a car bomb instead of other means.
The authority to kill Mughniyah
required a presidential finding by
president George W Bush. The attorney general, the director of national
intelligence, the national security adviser and the Office of Legal Counsel
at the Justice Department all signed

Mourners carry the coffin of assassinated commander Imad Mughniyah during his funeral in Beirut, Lebanon, on February 14,
2008. Mughniyah, hunted by Israel and the United States for two decades, was killed by a car bomb in 2008. the washington post

off on the operation, one former intelligence official said.

The former official said getting
the authority to kill Mughniyah was
a rigorous and tedious process.
What we had to show was he was
a continuing threat to Americans,
the official said, noting that Mughniyah had a long history of targeting
Americans dating back to his role in
planning the 1983 bombing of the US
Embassy in Beirut.

There has long been suspicion

about US involvement in the killing of Mughniyah. In The Good Spy,
a book about longtime CIA officer
Robert Ames, author Kai Bird cites
one former intelligence official as
saying the operation was primarily
controlled by Langley and it was a
CIA black-ops team that carried out
the assassination.
The CIA declined to comment.
We have nothing to add at this

time, said Mark Regev, chief spokesman for the prime minister of Israel.
The operation in Damascus highlighted a philosophical evolution
within the American intelligence
services that followed the September
11, 2001, attacks. Before then, the US
government often took a dim view
of Israeli assassination operations,
highlighted by its condemnation
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World

Hezbollah leader in car bomb

Continued from page 12

of Israels botched attempt in 1997 to

poison the leader of Hamas, Khaled
Meshal, in Amman, Jordan.
The Mughniyah killing, carried
out more than a decade later, suggested such American hesitation
had faded as the CIA stretched its lethal reach well beyond defined war
zones and the ungoverned spaces of
Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia, where
the agency or the military have deployed drones against al-Qaeda and
its allies.
A former US official said the Bush
administration relied on a theory of national self-defense to kill
Mughniyah, claiming he was a lawful target because he was actively
plotting against the United States
or its forces in Iraq, making him a
continued and imminent threat
who could not be captured. Such a
legal rationale would have allowed
the CIA to avoid violating the 1981
blanket ban on assassinations in
Executive Order 12333.
Its fairly clear that the government has at least some authority to
use lethal force in self-defense even
outside the context of ongoing armed
conflict, said Stephen Vladeck, a
professor of law at American University. The million-dollar question is
whether the facts actually support a
determination that such force was
necessary and appropriate.
The CIA and Mossad worked together to monitor Mughniyah in
Damascus for months prior to the
killing and to determine where the
bomb should be planted, according
to the former officials. In the leadup

to the operation, US intelligence officials had assured lawmakers in a

classified briefing that there would
be no collateral damage, former officials said.
At the time of his death, Mughniyah
had been implicated in the killing of
hundreds of Americans, stretching
back to the embassy bombing in
Beirut that killed 63 people. Hezbollah, supported by Iran, was involved
in a long-running shadow war with
Israel and its principal backer, the
United States.
The embassy bombing placed
Hezbollah squarely in the sights of
the CIA, a focus that, in some respects, foreshadowed the targeting
of Mughniyah. Former agency officials said Mughniyah was involved
in the 1984 kidnapping and torture
of the CIAs station chief in Lebanon,
William F Buckley.
Mughniyah was indicted in US
federal court in the 1985 hijacking of
TWA Flight 847 shortly after it took
off from Athens. Mughniyah was
placed on the FBIs Most Wanted
Terrorists list with a $5 million reward offered for information leading
to his arrest and conviction.
For the Israelis, among numerous
attacks, he was involved in the 1992
suicide bombing of the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires that killed four
Israeli civilians and 25 Argentinians,
and the 1994 attack on a Jewish community centre that killed 85 people.
The Bush administration regarded Hezbollah Mughniyah, in particular as a threat to the United
States. Beginning in 2003, Hezbollah, with the assistance of Iran, began to train and arm Shiite militant

groups in Iraq, which later began

attacking coalition forces, according to Matthew Levitt, who is director of the Washington Institutes
Stein Program on Counterterrorism and Intelligence.
The Hezbollah-trained militias proved to be a deadly enemy,
wounding or killing hundreds of
American troops. As the situation
in Iraq deteriorated and coalition
casualties spiked in 2006, the United States decided it had to stanch
the losses. The Bush administration issued orders to kill or capture Iranian operatives targeting
American troops and attempting to
destabilise Iraq. It also approved a
list of operations directed at Hezbollah, officials said.
There was an open licence to
find, fix and finish Mughniyah and
anybody affiliated with him, said
a former US official who served in
Baghdad.
US officials had explored ways
to capture or kill Mughniyah for
years. Those scenarios gained new
urgency in the years after the September 11 attacks, when the Bush
administration turned to the CIA
and the US militarys elite Joint
Special Operations Command for
stepped-up plans to stop major terrorist operatives.
It is not clear when the CIA first
realised Mughniyah was living in
Damascus, but his whereabouts
were known for at least a year before
he was killed. One of the former US
intelligence officials said that the Israelis were first to approach the CIA
about a joint operation to kill him in
Damascus. The agency had a well-

established clandestine
infrastructure in Damascus that the Israelis could
utilise.
Officials said the Israelis
wanted to pull the trigger as payback. It was
revenge, another former
official said. The Americans didnt care as long as
Mughniyah was dead, the
official said.
Amos Yadlin, the former
head of Israeli military intelligence until 2010, said
Mughniyah was positioned
right under the groups
leader Hassan Nasrallah.
He was the commander
and chief of all military and
terror operations, Yadlin
said. He was the agent of
the Iranians.
Once Mughniyah was
located in Damascus, the
intelligence agencies began building
a pattern of life profile, looking at
his routine for vulnerabilities. Mossad officials suggested occasional
walks in the evening, when Mughniyah was unescorted, presented
an opportunity. CIA officers with
extensive undercover experience secured a safe house in a building near
his apartment.
Planning for the operation was
exhaustive. The bomb had to be repeatedly tested and reconfigured to
minimise the blast area. When the
bomb was eventually used to target
Mughniyah was detonated, officials
estimated the kill zone extended
approximately 6 metres. There was
no collateral damage.

None. Not any, an official said.

Facial recognition technology, another former official said, was used
to confirm Mughniyahs identity before the bomb went off.
After the attack, Hezbollah leader
Nasrallah blamed Israel for the killing and swore revenge. In a statement in 2008 after Mughniyahs
death, the office of then Israeli Prime
Minister Ehud Olmerts denied any
involvement.
The US State Department issued a
statement that the world was a better place without Mughniyah.
Inside the intelligence community, a former official recalled, It
wasnt jubilation. We did what we
had to. The washington post

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World
Al-Jazeera
reporter
deported
by Egypt
AUSTRALIAN journalist Peter
Greste boarded a plane to Larnaca in Cyprus yesterday after
Egypt ordered his deportation
following months of imprisonment, an airport official said.
The Al-Jazeera English
reporter, arrested in Cairo in
December 2013, is expected
to then travel to his home
country.
There is a presidential decision to deport Peter Greste to
Australia, an official said.
Greste had been sentenced
to seven years in prison along
with a fellow Al-Jazeera reporter, C a n ad i a n-Eg y pt i a n
Mohamed Fahmy, for allegedly aiding the blacklisted
Muslim Brotherhood group.
Their Egyptian Al-Jazeera colleague Baher Mohamed was
also sentenced to 10 years.
There was no immediate
indication of whether Fahmy
and Mohamed would be
released as well.
Greste and Fahmy are eligible for deportation under a
recent law enacted by President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi allowing the deportation of foreigners to stand trial or serve their
sentences in their home countries. There is no prospect that
they would face trials in their
home countries. AFP

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Yellow umbrellas return to HK

Continued from page 1

march remained peaceful, with no sign

that the crowds including many people
carrying yellow balloons planned to
take back the streets.
We dont have a plan [to reoccupy]. If
others want to do it, they will have to do
it themselves, student leader Alex Chow
told AFP.
Despite the disappointing turnout,
there was a sense of determination
among demonstrators.
We just want to express our frustration with the government in Hong Kong,
said protester Ronnie Chan, who is in his
40s and works in sales and marketing.
We understand there is very little we
can do, but if we dont speak out nothing
will change.
The pro-democracy rallies drew about
100,000 at their height and saw intermittent violent clashes with police, but public support faded as the weeks dragged
by.

Pressure on
Abbott after
shock poll

Tired of politics
China has promised Hong Kongers
the right for the first time to vote for
their next chief executive in 2017. But
it ruled that nominees must be vetted
by a pro-Beijing committee, a proposal which has been heavily criticised by
activists.
The founders of the pro-democracy
movement including Benny Tai, along
with teenage activist Joshua Wong and
other student leaders, urged residents
to keep fighting as they joined Sundays
rally.
If we dont dream, we dont have hope.
We should persist then we will succeed,
said Tai.
Wong warned against accepting universal suffrage within the restrictions of

Beleaguered leader

Demonstrators march for democracy in Hong Kong yesterday afternoon.

Beijings framework. I hope people understand that if we take that now, it will
be forever, he said.
But political analyst Sonny Lo said
residents were exhausted from protests
over political reform. At this moment,
members of the public are tired of politics. The democrats have to strategise
very carefully, said Lo, head of the social sciences department at the Hong
Kong Institute of Education.
Hong Kongs government is urging the
public to support Beijings electoral plan,
which needs the backing of two-thirds of
the citys legislature to be passed.

AFP

Lam Woon-kwong, convenor of the Executive Council or cabinet, warned campaigners to accept Beijings offer. You
cant threaten the central authorities,
he told a radio program yesterday.
If we can have consensus to have
universal suffrage in 2017 first and
democratise further later, it would be a
more pragmatic approach.
But for some protesters, backing down
is not an option.
Im just doing my bit. Some people
may have compromised, but I definitely
will not, said one father of two who gave
his name as Alvin. AFP

USTRALIAN Prime

Minister Tony Abbott

said yesterday his
government had lessons to
learn from a state election
rout in Queensland, amid
growing leadership questions
after his unpopular move to
knight Britains Prince Philip.
Rumours of challenges to
Abbotts position as prime
minister have emerged
over the past week after the
knighthood decision.
The demise of the LiberalNational coalition in Queensland elections held on Saturday
has piled further pressure on
him. But in one of the most
startling turnarounds in the
nations political history, the
opposition Labor Party written
off after the last election appeared close to returning to
power in the northeastern state
as vote-counting continued.
There are obviously lessons
in the election result last night
and were determined to learn
them, Abbott said.
Abbotts government has
seen its support plunge in
opinion polls, coming under
fire for its attempts to push
through widespread spending cuts to rein in a growing
budget deficit. Support has
dropped to 43 per cent from
53.5 per cent when they won
the 2013 election. AFP

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World

Indonesian govt failing to protect

religious minorities: rights group
I
ndonesias new president, Joko Widodo, must
prioritise
addressing
religious intolerance by
pursuing and prosecuting
perpetrators, a rights watchdog is urging.
In a report launched on
Friday, New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW)
contends that the Indonesian government has failed
to protect religious minorities in the Muslim-majority
country. This has effectively
given a free pass to people
who persecute minorities,
according to Phelim Kine,
HRWs deputy director in
Asia.
There has been a steady
increase in violent incidents against religious minorities, including persecution against Ahmadiyya
and Shia Muslims, as well as
some Christian communities, Kine said.
The government has absolutely failed to protect these
people, to arrest perpetrators, and to ensure that it
doesnt happen again, Kine
told ucanews.com on Friday,
following a press conference to launch the Indonesia
chapter of HRWs yearly report on global rights.

The
Indonesia
report
quotes statistics from the Jakarta-based Setara Institute,
which counted 230 attacks
on religious minorities in
2013 and 107 cases through
November 2014. In almost all
the documented cases, the
alleged perpetrators came
from the majority Sunni Islam community.
For example, the congregations of two prominent
churches in West Java province continue to worship
in private homes because
they have been unable to obtain basic building permits
for churches in their areas.
This continued through the
year, even though Indonesias Supreme Court had ordered local officials to issue
the permits.
So theres discrimination,
intolerance and violence.
And thats a complete failure
by the government to address it, Kine said, adding
that the main factor of such a
failure was the absolute unwillingness of former president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to confront Islamic
fundamentalists.
Kine urged the countrys
new president, Joko Widodo,
who took office in October

Christians attend the mass service at a flooded church in Bandung, in western Java island, on December 25,
2014. Ahmadiyya and Shia Muslims, as well as some Christian communities, have seen a steady increase in
violent incidents committed against them, mainly by the majority Sunni Muslim community. AFP

2014, to turn the page on the

previous governments policies and to prioritise addressing religious intolerance.
That starts with making
sure that those who victimise religious minorities pay a
price, that they are arrested
and prosecuted, he said.
Because right now, they get

away with it.

He also suggested that
Widodo should look at religious
intolerance
and
violence as a threat to the
countrys stability. If you
want Indonesia to develop
economically and socially,
you want to have stability,
which means you dont want

to have Islamist militants

victimising large communities of Ahmadiyya, Shia and
Christians, Kine said.
You want to bring those
negative violent forces under your heel and make sure
everyone knows that this is a
country of rule of law. Currently, for religious minori-

ties, the law is of no use.

Andreas Harsono, HRWs
Indonesia researcher, said
the governments apparent
lack of understanding of the
law has contributed to its
failure to protect religious
minorities.
He cited the case of GKI
Taman Yasmin, one of the
West Java churches whose
congregants have been unable to obtain a local building permit.
The government knows
that theres already been a
Supreme Court decision, but
they neglect it, Harsono said.
National Police spokesman
Rikwanto, who uses only one
name, said it is the job of the
police to ensure peace in local communities. However,
he said, cases involving religion can be complicated by
conflicting interests.
If the root cause can be
resolved, the police can work
properly, he said.
Rikwanto pointed out
that members of the fundamentalist group Islamic
Defenders Front, or FPI,
are currently on trial for
their alleged roles in recent
violent protests against the
protestant governor of Jakarta. ucanews.com

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World

Snakes are 70 million years

older than thought: study

new look at four fossils has

revealed that snakes earliest known ancestor lived
as many as 70 million years
earlier than thought, scientists announced last week.
Until now, the fossil record had
suggested snakes slithered onto the
scene in the Upper Cretaceous period, about 94-100 million years ago.
But an international team of researchers reported in the journal Nature Communications that serpents
actually have a much longer lineage.
[E]volution within the group
called snakes is much more complex than previously thought, Michael Caldwell, a professor at the
University of Alberta in Canada, said
in a press release.
Reanalysing fossils in museum collections, the scientists found the oldest among them belonged to the earliest identifiable snake, which lived
between 143 and 167 million years
ago. Its skull has key features that have
continued to appear among snakes
ever since, even through millions of
years of species diversification.
The granddaddy is a critter
dubbed Eophis underwoodi, after
Garth Underwood, an expert at Britains Natural History Museum, who
wrote an important reference work
on snakes in the 1960s. Its fragmentary remains were found at a cement
quarry in Oxfordshire.
E underwoodi lived in the Middle Jurassic period, during the final stage of an important event
in Earths geological history the

breakup of the Pangaea supercontinent into two components called

Gondwana and Laurasia.
It, and the three other ancient fossils, suggest that snakes by this time
had already differentiated from their
lizard cousins, the study says.
The big giveaway is the skull,
which remains almost unchanged
among snakes to this day.
Though E underwoodi still had

limbs, its cranium and dental features

closely resembled todays snakes.
Snakes lost their limbs gradually
under evolutionary pressure as they
adapted to niche habitats.
Caldwell and his team are hoping
for other fossil finds to show whether
there were even older snakes. They
would also like to fill a knowledge
gap of tens of million years the discovery has opened. afp

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Pillaged artefacts seized

in European crackdown
Over 2,200 looted artefacts, many
from ancient Egypt, were seized as
part of a Europe-wide crackdown
that also snared 35 suspected traffickers, Europol announced on
Wednesday.
Among the most valuable of
the recovered cultural items was
a majestic bust of Egyptian goddess Sekhmet worth an estimated
100,000 ($113,000), said Spanish
police Captain Javier Morales, an
expert in historic objects.
The Egyptian treasures were
recovered as part of an operation
launched in 14 countries to prevent
the further looting, theft and illicit
trafficking of cultural artefacts.
The 36 stolen items Spanish police showed to the press, which
included a statue of the goddess
Isis and a vase covered in hieroglyphics, were alone worth up to
300,000
Agents discovered those artefacts hidden in cheap vases during an inspection of a shipping
container from Alexandria, Egypt,
at the Port of Valencia on Spains
Mediterranean coast.
Some of the objects were likely
looted from the burial site Saqqara
and ruins near Mit Rahina in
Egypt, police said.
Discovery of the container
led agents to arrest Spaniards
and Egyptians, who now face a
range of charges including trafficking historic objects, money
laundering and belonging to a
criminal group.
Among the 14 European countries taking part in the week-long

crackdown in November were

France, Britain and Germany.
As part of the operation, police
inspected thousands of antique
and art dealers, auction houses
and second-hand outlets. Checks
were stepped up at airports, borders
and ports.
Last week the Italian government announced police had seized
more than 5,000 ancient artefacts
in a record 45 million haul after
dismantling a Swiss-Italian trafficking ring. afp

An Italian military police officer stands

guard by an ancient pot, displayed
as part of the largest quantity of
archeological finds recovered by Italys
cultural and heritage protection unit at
the National Roman Museum in Rome
late last month. AFP

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The psychology of a sports fan

Opinion
Eric Simons

wo weeks ago, a man who

earns his living by chasing
other men in pursuit of a
leather prolate spheroid
handed a team staffer a football that
felt soft. The staffer reported this
unusual occurrence to his supervisor,
who reported it to his supervisor,
who reported it to his supervisor, and
then all hell broke loose. Ever since,
the US has been held in thrall to the
spectacle of sports fans debating the
ideal gas law.
The scandal has acquired its own
name, DeflateGate, and lets be real:
You have an opinion on this matter,
and I have an opinion on this matter,
and people who hate prolate spheroids and listen only to public radio
have an opinion on this matter. The
intensity of the reaction to whatever
the New England Patriots did to their
footballs has been proportionally
ludicrous.
Nonetheless, two weeks of footballdeflation conspiracy theories is a fitting capstone for an NFL season
defined by responses to controversy.
For six months weve watched fans
rally through scandal to support their
teams. Baltimore fans backed Ray Rice
after he beat his future wife on video,
Washington fans defended the teams
offensive name, and football fans
rationalised the head trauma that
players endure. Obviously, this is not
exclusive to the NFL I enjoyed the
way Dutch soccer fans embraced the
diver Arjen Robben, who drew a World
Cup game-winning penalty kick
against Mexico by falling theatrically
after, er, minimal contact or even to
sports. The home team gets a kneejerk defence, no matter the evidence
against it and other teams get
schadenfreude when the ball deflates
the other way.
This is not, however, evidence of
cognitive failure. Actually, were all
acting quite reasonably.
A sports team, based on dozens of
interviews and research articles I surveyed for my book The Secret Lives of
Sports Fans, is an expansion of a fans
sense of self. It is not an obnoxious
affectation when an invested fan uses
the word we; its a literal confusion
in the brain about what is me and
what is the team. In all kinds of
unconscious ways, a fan mirrors the
feelings, actions and even hormones
of the players. Self-esteem rides on
the outcome of the game and the
image of the franchise.
There are benefits to this: not just
self-esteem but pride, identity,
belonging. There is also a downside:
You are quite biased toward yourself

Darrelle Revis of the New England Patriots celebrates with fans after defeating the Indianapolis Colts in the AFC Championship Game at Gillette Stadium on January 18. afp

and your in-group. And if your relationship with a sports team makes
your brain think that the sports team
is you, and you are me, and we are all
together, then it also applies a lot of
those biases to the actions of the
team. When the team is accused of
skullduggery with the ball pump, its
the fans instinct to explain and
rationalise.
A famous study in perceptual bias
actually comes from football. A
researcher studying a 1951 football
game between Dartmouth and Princeton noticed that fans simply could
not agree on what had happened. The
game had been rough, they generally
concurred. (Star players from both
teams left the game with injuries.) But
was it fair? And who started the rough
stuff? It depended on which team you
liked. Even when fans watched film
of the game later on, they drew no
closer to consensus. In They Saw a
Game: A Case Study, psychology professors Albert Hastorf and Hadley
Cantril laid out a Rashomon theory of
history in the Journal of Abnormal
and Social Psychology: no one can
perceive anything accurately through
the fog of the gridiron.
Sports fans see things that way for
the same reasons partisans do in
political, cultural and scientific controversies: Thats how people behave.
We are consistent in the way we weigh
evidence and assign blame, whether
we are considering Bill Belichick,
Barack Obama or climate change,
according to my research.
One of the first to notice this was
Henri Tajfel, a Polish-born British
psychologist who had survived a Nazi

prisoner-of-war camp in World War II

and lost most of his family in the Holocaust. In the 1960s, Tajfel started a
series of experiments on the monotonous similarity of discrimination.
He brought a number of schoolboys
into his lab in Bristol, England, to see
just how arbitrarily he could divide
them before they started treating
each other horribly.
The answer was: trivially. Boys
divided by the simplest thing Tajfel
could come up with a false assignation of whether they had overestimated or underestimated the
number of dots on a screen still
mistreated out-group members, even
though there was no real reason to,
and even at the apparent expense of
individual interest. Given small
amounts of money to dispense, they
disproportionately rewarded members of their own group at the
expense of the others. The reasonable
courses, Tajfel wrote, would have
been either to maximise the amount
everyone took home (since, after all,
the boys all knew one another) or to
choose the fairest option. Introduce
even those arbitrary groups, though,
and fairness vanished.
And sports fan bases are not trivially
sorted groups. Athletic teams offer not
just a connection with the players and
fellow fans, but also with regional pride,
family relationships, colour preferences,
aesthetic tastes and even moral standards. Teams or players can assume religious, ethnic or political identities
such as Tim Tebows overt Christianity
or FC Barcelonas traditional ties to Catalan autonomy further ensnaring the
loyalties of their fans.

If we mapped the brain of a sports

fan as he looked at his favourite team
or player, says Arthur Aron, a psychologist who has studied interpersonal
relationships for decades, we would
expect to find a response similar to
the one he has when he looks at a picture of his spouse. Neuroscientists
such as UCLAs Marco Iacoboni say
that the brains mirror neurons
underlie fandom by putting fans
brains in sync with the brains of their
teams players. Endocrinologists have
shown repeatedly that fans hormonal
responses (particularly in men) can
mirror the responses of the players
who are competing. Put it all together
and its no surprise to find, as Arizona
State psychology and marketing professor Robert Cialdini first did in the
1970s, that the use of the royal we
increases after wins and decreases
after losses as fans bask in reflected
glory or cut off reflected failure.
Sports may have no cosmic significance, in other words, but to their followers, they matter. As such, its
entirely rational for a fan to defend his
or her identity against outside attack.
It is rational to seek an extra level of
proof in allegations that might harm
you. It is rational (if intellectually dishonest) to forgive or explain the
behaviour of in-group members.
Maybe a better question is: If thats
what youre up against every time
you make an evidence-based argument, what do you need to do to
change a biased, rationally self-interested persons mind? Can we learn
anything from sports that might help
mediate the seemingly intractable
political and cultural problems of
modern America?
Perhaps we can learn that everyone has a price. Fans are an illustration of the way invested people
might demand a higher standard of
evidence, or a different presentation of the evidence, than other
people would. But maybe they are
also a reminder that evidence and
context matter. There was genuine
outrage, even among Baltimore
fans, about Ray Rice. The number
of people who think Redskins is
an acceptable name has dropped
slowly but surely for two decades.
It is frustrating, and occasionally
infuriating, to watch the glacial
pace of change. But change comes
nonetheless.
DeflateGate is the most ridiculous,
least important of all of these issues,
so we may have to take our comfort
from a lesser place: A lot more sports
fans now know about the ideal gas
law. the washington post
Eric Simons is the San Francisco-based
author of The Secret Lives of Sports
Fans: The Science of Sports Obsession.

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Lifestyle
Artistss canine art gets
unleashed for sick kids
T

he story of this simple gift of art therapy

in Georgetown begins in Long Beach,
California, in 1970. Painting
is dead. William Wegman, a
lapsed painter who has decided to call himself a conceptual
artist, is working in photography and video. Reluctantly, he
keeps a promise he made to
his wife to get a dog. Wegman
does not want a dog. He didnt
have time for a dog.
The ad in the paper says:
Weimaraners, $35.
Man Ray the dog, named after Man Ray the dadaist, makes
mischief in the studio. As if he
wants to be on camera.
Hey ...
He was very calm and
happy when I would think of
things for him to do, Wegman says, finishing the story
Thursday morning for a small
group of children and adults in
the pediatric oncology clinic
of the Georgetown Lombardi
Comprehensive Cancer Center. Theres a chair; put me
on the chair, Wegman says,
adopting the late Man Rays
point of view. Put something
on my head. I can do that!
Now the walls of the Lombardi atrium are covered
with Weimaraners. They fit
right in. Nothing like a Weimaraner balancing a rubber
shark on its nose, posing in a
firefighter suit, sailing a boat,
lounging in a robe, dressed in
overalls and holding a pack
of tomato seeds to take your
mind somewhere else.
When visitors ask for the
kids clinic, they may be in-

structed to turn right at the

dog in the wedding gown,
says Julia Langley, director of
the centres arts and humanities program. A former cancer
patient here, Langley says it
can be a place of anxiety and
fear and, too often, grief, and
that art needs to be where
the people in distress are.
An exhibit of 27 dog portraits, called William Wegman:
Out of the Box, is open through
March 15 at the centre, which
is part of MedStar Georgetown
University Hospital.
It makes me happy to see
them here, Wegman says to
Aziza Shad, chief of pediatric
hematology-oncology.
When
you
work
in
pediatric oncology, you can
have a busy day, sometimes
a sad day, Shad tells him.
The dog art can really lighten
you up.
At 71, the artist does not
carry himself like the ironic
prankster you might expect
from his work. He looks like
a dog guy whos just been out
walking the pup tousled
gray hair, jeans and sweater,
New Balance sneakers coming untied.
The childrens clinic is
brightly decorated to look like
a town square. Wegman is to
read his latest childrens book
Flo & Wendell Explore then
lead a dog-puppet-making
workshop.
The adults parents, doctors, art therapists know they
are in the presence of an art
star. Man Ray showed Wegman the way, and before long,
the artist was dreaming up

Above, photographer and artist William Wegman reads his latest

childrens book Flo & Wendell Explore at the pediatric oncology clinic of
the Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center in Washington. Right, Walker is among the Wegman works on exhibit at the cancer
centre. the washington post and William WEgman

elaborate costumed scenarios in which to pose Man Ray,

Fay Ray and their successors.
The dogs starred in gallery
exhibits, magazine spreads,
short films, childrens books,
note cards and Sesame Street
shorts.
The Smithsonian American Art Museum gave Wegman a retrospective (including his rich non-dog work) in
2006, aptly titled Funney/
Strange.
Back when I was in art
school, we studied you, says
Tracy Councill, who provides art therapy at the clinic
through her nonprofit Tracys
Kids. She remembers being
mesmerised by Wegmans
breakthrough 1975 video,
Dog Duet, which consists entirely of two dogs with tense
stares moving their heads

in tandem from side to side,

up and down, in response to
the whims of a god-like old
tennis ball that reveals itself
at the end.
You did? Wegman says.
The children being treated
for various types of cancer
and blood disorders had not
heard of Wegman. But they
know what they like.
Maya Nader, 4, listens intently to Flo & Wendell Explore. At home, Maya, an
outpatient with acute lymphoblastic leukemia, likes to
act out the story with her 10year-old brother, Mateo, says
their mother, Marcela Nader.
Thats our escape art
and reading, Marcela Nader
explains.
At
the
puppet-making
table, the children paste
colourful bodies and hats to

go with the dog faces.

Im making a ballerina,
Maya says.
Sisters Charlotte and Isabel
Hay work side by side.
I made a preppie puppet,
says Charlotte, 18. She is being treated for acute promyelocytic leukemia we still
dont know how to pronounce
it. Isabel, 15, visits every day.
Edgar Peter Mutta, 23, the
upper age of patients in the
clinic, is healthy enough after months of treatment for
chronic myeloid leukemia to
return to his native Tanzania.
Hes bringing a copy of Flo &
Wendell Explore to the children back home.
Wegman no longer thinks
painting is dead. A number
of years ago, he took it up
again. In his books, he uses
watercolours to fill in the
scenes and the dogs bodies,
which are topped by their
photographed heads.
The Weimaraners seem
timeless. It has something to

do with the ambiguous gray

of their coats, the deadpan
dignity of their countenances,
those sceptically raised eyebrows.
They wear expressions that
appear impervious to the ridiculousness, or the tragedy,
of their surroundings.
Wegman has owned and
worked with 10 Weimaraners
since 1970. Three remain.
He splits his time between
Manhattan and Maine, and
when in New York he bikes the
dogs, holding leashes while he
rides. More than once youths
have called out, The Sesame
Street dogs!
They sleep in our bed, he
says. The furniture is meant
for them. We tend to sit on the
corners of things. They really
rule us.
One of the three is 14, the
other two, the models for Flo
and Wendell, are 3 and 2.
These might be the last two
young dogs I get, he says.
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PHNOM PENH - GUANGZHOU

SIEM REAP - HONG KONG

16:30

08:15

10:00

DOHA - PHNOM PENH ( Via HCMC)

KA 249

12:10

15:45

KA 248

09:25

11:10

QR 964

KA 249

11:15

15:00

KA 248

07:55

09:30

CZ 323

Daily
Daily

16:30
01:00

23:30
15:05

GUANGZHOU - PHNOM PENH

11:35

13:30

21:30

23:30

09:40

13:00

PHNOM PENH - HANOI

HANOI - PHNOM PENH

17:30

20:35

VN 841

Daily

PHNOM PENH - HO CHI MINH CITY

HO CHI MINH CITY - PHNOM PENH

QR 965

Daily

16:30

17:30

QR 964

Daily

14:05

15:05

VN 841

Daily

14:00

14:45

VN 920

Daily

15:50

16:30

VN 3856

Daily

19:20

20:05

VN 3857

Daily

18:00

18:45

PHNOM PENH - HONG KONG

22:25

KA 206

4.6

16:00

17:40

INCHEON - PHNOM PENH

KE 690

Daily

23:40

06:40

KE 689

Daily

18:30

22:20

OZ 740

Daily

23:50

06:50

OZ 739

Daily

19:10

22:50

PHNOM PENH - KUALA LUMPUR

KUALA LUMPUR - PHNOM PENH

AK 1473

Daily

08:35

11:20

AK 1474

Daily

15:15

16:00

MH 755

Daily

11:10

14:00

MH 754

Daily

09:30

10:20

MH 763

Daily

17:10

20:00

MH 762

Daily

3:20

4:10

PHNOM PENH- PARIS

PHNOM PENH - PARIS

20:05

06:05

AF 273

23:05

FM 833

PHNOM PENH - SHANGHAI

19:50

20:05

06:05

SHANGHAI - PHNOM PENH

PHNOM PENH - SINGAPORE

2.3.4.5.7 19:30

22:40

SINGAPORE - PHNOM PENH

MI 601

Daily

09:35 12:55

MI 602

Daily

07:40

08:35

MI 607

Daily

18:10

21:10

MI 608

Daily

16:20

17:15

3K 594

1234..7

15:25

18:20

3K 593

Daily

13:30

14:40

3K 594

....56.

15:25

18:10

2817

1.3

16:40

19:40

2816

1.3

15:00

15:50

2817

2.4.5

09:10

12:00

2816

2.4.5

07:20

08:10

2817

14:50

17:50

2816

13:00

14:00

2817

13:20

16:10

2816

11:30

12:30

PHNOM PENH -TAIPEI

CI 862

Daily

10:50

15:20

CI 861

Daily

07:30

09:50

BR 266

Daily

12:45

17:05

BR 265

Daily

09:10

11:35

PHNOM PENH - VIENTIANE

VIENTIANE - PHNOM PENH

VN 840

Daily

17:30

18:50

VN 841

Daily

11:30

13:00

QV 920

Daily

17:50

19:10

QV 921

Daily

11:45

13:15

08:20

10:45

PHNOM PENH - YANGON

YANGON - SIEM REAP

14:55

8M 401

1.3.6

AIRLINES CODE
KA - Dragon Air

1 Monday

5J - CEBU Airways.

MH - Malaysia Airlines

2 Tuesday

AK - Air Asia

MI - SilkAir

3 Wednesday

BR - EVA Airways

OZ - Asiana Airlines

4 Thursday

CI - China Airlines

PG - Bangkok Airways

5 Friday

CZ - China Southern

QR - Qatar Airways

6 Saturday

FD - Thai Air Asia

QV - Lao Airlines

7 Sunday

FM - Shanghai Air

SQ - Singapore Airlines

K6- Cambodia Angkor Air

TG - Thai Airways | VN - Vietnam Airlines

This flight schedule information is updated about once a month. Further information,
please contact direct to airline or a travel agent for flight schedule information.

AIRLINES

Air Asia (AK)

Room T6, PP International
Airport. Tel: 023 6666 555
Fax: 023 890 071
www.airasia.com

Cambodia Angkor Air (K6)

PP Office, #206A, Preah
Norodom Blvd, Tonle Bassac
+855 23 6666 786, 788, 789,
+855 23 21 25 64
Fax:+855 23-22 41 64
www.cambodiaangkorair.com
E: helpdesk@angkor-air.com

SIEM REAP - PHNOM PENH

11:45

12:30

SIEM REAP - BANGKOK

BANGKOK - SIEM REAP

Flighs

Days

Dep

Arrival

Flighs

Days

Dep

Arrival

K6 700

Daily

12:50

2:00

K6 701

Daily

02:55

04:05

PG 924

Daily

09:45

11:00

PG 903

Daily

08:00

09:10

PG 906

Daily

12:20

13:35

PG 905

Daily

10:35

11:45

PG 914

Daily

15:50

17:00

PG 913

Daily

14:05

15:15

PG 908

Daily

19:05

20:10

PG 907

Daily

17:20

18:15

PG 910

Daily

20:30

21:45

PG 909

Daily

18:45

19:55

SIEM REAP - GUANGZHOU

GUANGZHOU - SIEM REAP

CZ 3054

2.4.5.6.7

11:30

15:05

CZ 3053

.2.4567

08:45

10:30

CZ 3064

1.3.5.6.7

18:20

22:10

CZ 3063

1.3.567

15:30

17:20

SIEM REAP -HANOI

HANOI - SIEM REAP

K6 850

Daily

06:50

08:30

K6 851

Daily

19:30

21:15

VN 868

1.2.3.5.6

12:40

15:35

VN 843

Daily

15:25

17:10

VN 842

Daily

18:05

19:45

VN 845

Daily

17:05

18:50

Qatar Airways (New address)

Vattanac Capital Tower, Level7,
No.66, Preah Monivong Blvd,
Sangkat wat Phnom, Khan Daun
Penh. PP, P: (023) 96 38 00.
E: pnhres@kh.qatarairways.com

LINE
RCL
(12calls/moth)

MAERSK / MCC
(4 calls/moth)

COTS
(2 calls/month)

Daily

13:30

14:40

VN 827

Daily

11:35

12:35

Daily

17:45

18:45

VN 3821

Daily

15:55

16:55

VN 828

Daily

18:20

19:20

VN 829

Daily

16:20

17:40

VN 3822

Daily

21:35

22:35

VN 3823

Daily

19:45

20:45

SIEM REAP - INCHEON

INCHEON - SIEM REAP

KE 688

Daily

23:15

06:10

KE 687

Daily

18:30

22:15

OZ 738

Daily

23:40

07:10

OZ 737

Daily

19:20

22:40

SIEM REAP - KUALA LUMPUR

KUALA LUMPUR - SIEM REAP

AK 281

Daily

08:35

11:35

AK 280

Daily

06:50

07:50

MH 765

3.5.7

14:15

17:25

MH 764

3.5.7

12:10

13:15

19:45

21:30

SIEM REAP - MANILA

2.4.7

MANILA - SIEM REAP

22:30

02:11

SIEM REAP - SINGAPORE

5J 257

2.4.7

SINGAPORE - SIEM REAP

MI 615

12:05

15:25

MI 616

10:05

MI 617

1.5

18:55

22:10

MI 618

1.5

16:50

11:10
18:05

MI 619

2.4.5

10:40

14:15

MI 620

2.4.5

08:40

09:50

MI 633

6.7

16:35

22:15

MI 633

6.7

14:35

15:45

1 Call/week

SIN-SHV-SGZ-SIN

1 Th, 08:00 - 20:00

1 Call/week

SGN-SHV-LZP-SGN
- HKG-OSA-TYO-KOB
- BUS-SGH-YAT-SGN
- SIN-SHV-TPP-SIN
HCM-SHV-LZP-HCMNBO-SGH-OSA-KOBBUS-SGH-HGK-CHM
SIN-SHV-SIN

20:00

VN 3820

3 Fri, 20:00 - Sat 23:59

1 call/week

19:30

18:20

VN 826

HKG-SHV-SGZ-HKG
(HPH-TXGKEL)

Irregula

17:45

Daily

10:35

SIN-SHV-SGZ-SIN

1 Call/week

SGZ-SHV-SIN-SGZ

Daily

VN 801

09:15

1 Call/week

2 Thu, 14:00 - Fri 22:00

1 Call/week

VN 845

22:40

Daily

1 Wed, 08:00 - Thu 16:00

Sat 06:00 - Sun 08:00

21:25

21:00

VN 3809

FREEQUENCY ROTATION PORTS

1 Call/week

19:45

HO CHI MINH CITY - SIEM REAP

CALLING SCHEDULES

Sun 09:00-23:00

Daily

12:30

SilkAir (MI)
Regency C,Unit 2-4,Tumnorb
Teuk, Chamkarmorn
Phnom Penh
Tel:023 988 629
www.silkair.com

1 Call/week

Daily

11:10

Tiger airways
G. floor, Regency square,
Suare, Suite #68/79, St.205,
Sk Chamkarmorn, PP
Tel: (855) 95 969 888
(855) 23 5515 888/5525888
E: info@cambodiaairlines.net

2 Fri, 22:00- Sun 00:01

VN 800

Daily

Dragon Air (KA)

#168, Monireth, PP
Tel: 023 424 300
Fax: 023 424 304
www.dragonair.com/kh

Cebu Pacific (5J)

Phnom Penh: No. 333B
Monivong Blvd. Tel: 023 219161
Siem Reap: No. 50,Sivatha Blvd.
Tel: 063 965487
E-mail: cebuair@ptm-travel.com
www.cebupacificair.com

SITC (BEN LINE

(4 calls/onth)

VN 844

VN 3818

Koreanair (KE)
Room.F3-R03, Intelligent Office
Myanmar Airways International Center, Monivong Blvd,PP
Tel: (855) 23 224 047-9
#90+92+94Eo, St. 217,
www.koreanair.com
Sk. Orussey4, Kh. 7 Makara,
Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
T:023 881 178 | F:023 886 677
www.maiair.com

REGULAR SHIPPING LINES SCHEDULES

CALLING PORT ROTATION

ITL (ACL)
(4 calls/month)
APL
(4 calls/month)

SIEM REAP - HO CHI MINH CITY

COLOUR CODE

2817 - 16 Tigerairways

TAIPEI - PHNOM PENH

13:30

A woman walks past mural tourist photographs during inauguration of

the FITUR International Tourism Trade Fair in Madrid, on Friday. AFP

HONG KONG - PHNOM PENH

19:00

PHNOM PENH - INCHEON

5J 258

HONG KONG - SIEM REAP

14:50

Daily

1.3.6

19:15

1.3.7

Daily

8M 401

17:05

4.6

CZ 323

1.3.6

1. 5

KA 248

CZ 6059

8M 402

8M 401

SIEM REAP - PREAH SIHANOUK

KA 240

18:10

2.3.4.5.7

21:25

15:05

14:30

FM 833

20:15

PREAH SIHANOUK - SIEM REAP

11:15

Daily

09:25

1.3.7

CZ 6060

AF 273

06:30

KA 249

11:35

4.6

2.4.5.7

21:05

08:00

KA 209

QV 512

YANGON - SIEM REAP

17:25

Daily

Daily

13:00

4.6

CZ 324

VN 840

1. 5

10:05

KA 241

BEIJING - PHNOM PENH

08:00

8M 402

2.4.5.7

VIENTIANE - SIEM REAP

Fri, 08:00 - Sun, 06:00

2 calls/month BBK-SHV-BKK-(LZP)

34 call/month
BUS= Busan, Korea
HKG= HongKong
kao=Kaoshiung, Taiwan ROC
Kob= Kebe, Japan
KUN= Kuantan, Malaysia
LZP= Leam Chabang, Thailand
NBO= Ningbo, China
OSA= Osaka, Japan
SGN= Saigon, Vietnam

SGZ= Songkhla, Thailand

SHV= Sihanoukville Port Cambodia
SIN= Singapore
TPP= TanjungPelapas, Malaysia
TYO= Tokyo, Japan
TXG= Taichung, Taiwan
YAT= Yantian, China
YOK= Yokohama, Japan

Spain works to
lure tourists from
beaches to shops

un, sea, sand ... but

what about the shopping? Spain draws 65
million tourists a year
thanks largely to its beaches.
Now it wants them spending
on the high street.
Spain has a major image
deficit as a shopping destination, said Angela Castano
of Turespana, a body promoting Spains brand, at this
weeks Fitur world tourism
fair in Madrid.
A record 65 million foreigners visited Spain in 2014,
according to the UN World
Tourism Organisations latest figures.
Many plodded round its
old cities and sprawled on its
sunbaked shores but they
didnt spend as much in the
shops as Spanish businesses
would like.
Shopping is an essential
part of a holiday for a growing number of tourists, according to a report last year
by the Madrid-based organisation (UNWTO).
That trend is being driven
by growing hordes of visitors from emerging markets
such as China, Russia and,
in Spains case, from Latin
America.
Now Spanish companies
are working to strengthen
Spains image as a shopping
hub, not just a seaside destination where most visitors
come in summer.

Vying with Paris, London

The UNWTO ranks Spain
as the worlds third-most
popular tourist destination
after France and the United
States, and the second-biggest in terms of revenues.
But it struggles to compete
with them for shopping.
A tourist here spends 400
[$452] on average in the
shops, said Luciano Ochoa,
head of Innov Taxfree, a
company that offers dutyfree shopping to non-EU
residents visiting Spain.

Of these visitors, Chinese

visitors spend as much as
900 each in Spain, he said.
But in Paris, the average Chinese tourist spends 1,500
on a visit.
Madrid and Barcelona are
beaten by Paris for luxury
goods and posh department
stores, by Milan for fashion,
and have nothing like Londons Harrods for rich shoppers, experts say.
Spain is also penalised by
its limited flight connections
with Asia. Meanwhile the fall
of the ruble last year drove a
lot of sun-seeking Russians
to cancel their holidays.
On the upside, Spain is
home to mid-range clothes
stores such as Zara and Mango whose wares are cheaper
in Spain than abroad, said
Castano.

Playing catch-up
Many shops are open on
Sunday and late into the evening and shopkeepers are allowed to hold sales whenever
they like, she added.
In 2013, tourists spent
nearly $1.2 trillion worldwide some $230 billion
more than before the global
financial crisis hit in 2008.
Spanish shops are now
making an effort to catch up
with the tourists, said Pedro
Vargas, head of international
projects for the Forum of Renowned Spanish Brands, a
business lobby.
Spains best-known chain
department store, the Corte
Ingles, now mounts displays
in English and reimburses
sales tax to nonresidents, he
said.
It has also broadened the
range of fine foods for sale in
its delicatessen, to compete
with the likes of Selfridges
food hall in London.
The aim is to make tourists
faithful to Spanish brands,
said Vargas, so they become
trend-setters when they go
back home. afp

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Entertainment

Entertaining teen time-travel yarn

Jordan Hoffman

n Hollywood, theres
the myth of the elevator
pitch. A writer or producer corners a studio
exec in a lift and wallops
him with an idea so succinct and so perfect theyve
inked a deal before the doors
reopen. I bet Project Almanac, sold before they passed
the mezzanine. Well, Mr
Paramount Pictures, my
idea is: Chronicle meets a
time machine. Yes, Ill take a
cheque.
Chronicle, if your memory
of recent teen-centric scifi fare is rusty, was a 2012
found footage movie about
three kids who develop superhero powers. It had some
added twists, such as good
special effects, better-thanexpected
performances
from then-lesser knowns like
Dane DeHaan and Michael B
Jordan, and the slow realisation it was a supervillains
origin story. Project Almanac, which opens in Phnom
Penh today, never comes
close to reaching its poppish
zip. (Yes, I overheard myself
telling a colleague, Well, its
no Chronicle without a whiff
of irony.) But this movies
lowered stakes lend it a dab
of verisimilitude. Compared
to Cloverfield or Afflicted or
Quarantine theres a lot of
just hangin before the gimmick kicks in; it may be the
Rio Bravo of the found footage genre.
Again, we home in on three
dudes. David (Jonny Weston)
is the slightly dorky science
whiz hoping to get a schol-

arship to MIT. His bros are

Goldberg (Sam Lerner), a
lovable dope, and Adam (Allen Evangelista), whose job
is to be the lone non-white
in this picture and to have a
crush on Davids younger sister, Chris (Virginia Gardner).
Chriss purpose is to never
stop filming when David
realises hell need a really
impressive experiment to
get his university funding.
David and Chriss late father worked for the Defence

Advanced Research Projects

Agency, and wouldnt you
know theres a weird gewgaw
in the basement with some
crazy-looking
blueprints.
After putzing around, they
discover that this is a wouldbe prototype for a temporal
displacement device.
The kids are quick to buy
in, as moments earlier they
found an old videotape of
Davids seventh birthday
in which the David of today
can, for an instant, be clearly

seen in a reflection.
Determining why David
was there (just hours before
his father died, naturally) is
what the whole of Project Almanac builds towards, but
not before our group has a
good time exploiting their
creation. They win some
dough in the lottery, they
ace their tests and they pour
soda on the meanest girl in
school. This stretch revels
in the Groundhog Day/Edge
of Tomorrow fantasy of revisiting ones own reality
to get something just right.
Only this time its a group of
school pals, so theres more
high-fiving. Also: David
kinda-sorta manipulates the
timespace continuum to get
the object of his desire, Jesse
(Sofia Black-Delia), to fall in
love (and into the sack) with
him. Yes, yes, a later heart-toheart will absolve David (I
fell in love with you, not your
time machine! is the underlying sentiment), but despite
the futuristic technology,
Project Almanacs attitudes
toward women are decidedly
stuck in the past. Both Chris
and Jesse serve the principal
function of wearing as many
tank tops as possible and going whooooo! at concerts
and on waterslides. I kept
waiting for a switcheroo,
where wed learn that Jesse
was actually just as much
of an egghead as David,
but no. Shes just a prize for
him to win by tweaking the
timeline.
And as Im sure you can
imagine, one doesnt tweak
the timeline and get away
with it. After the fun of at-

tending an already-passed
Lollapalooza concert (and
knowing which acts were
sick by checking Instagram), the third act grows
heavy with hubris. Events
that arent supposed to be
put loved ones in harms
way. How will David set everything straight? You dont
need a glimpse at the future
to figure that one out.
Despite the uncomfortable
sexism and altogether predictable nature of the film,
Id be lying if I said it wasnt
modestly
entertaining.
There are headfakes toward
character development, like
David accepting the loss of
his father and building new
relationships, but thankfully the movie doesnt pour
this on too thick. And there

are winks to the audience

just when theyre necessary
references to time-travel
films and television shows
such as Looper, Doctor Who,
Bill and Teds Excellent Adventure and even the JeanClaude Van Damme vehicle
Timecop. Youll either throw
your hands up in disgust at
its brazen product placement or youll laugh. A slowmotion can of Red Bull twirls
centre of frame during the
first time-spanning vortex.
The machine itself is powered by a reconfigured Microsoft Xbox, and there are
many loving shots to remind
you of it. Considering Project Almanac was produced
by MTV Films, ones expectations must be managed.
the guardian

Actors (left to right) Sam Lerner, Virginia Gardner, Jonny Weston and
Allen Evangelista attend the premiere of Project Almanac at TCL Chinese Theatre on January 27, 2015 in Hollywood California. afp

Thinking caps
GO THE DISTANCE
ACROSS

1 Landing gear part

5 Supplemented
10 Where the coin goes
14 Hebrew month before Nisan
15 Embarrassing turnout
16 One for the books?
17 Part of an audiophiles system
20 Hawaiian paste
21 Asian sauces
22 Charlemagnes capital
23 Horseshoers workshop
25 Third canonical hour
27 Firefighters need
29 To the ___ degree
30 Write-___ (some nominees)
33 Change
36 A smattering
38 Go away, feline!
39 Unbelievable tale
42 Event in a prison movie
43 St. Louis 11
44 From this moment on
45 Not evenly divisible by two
46 Domino dot
47 Let the Sunshine In musical
49 What some crooks crack
51 Microscope parts
55 Mouse wheel function
58 Solar panel unit
60 Former figure skater
Babilonia
61 Vision problem
64 In couch-potato mode
65 You cant be serious!
66 Aardvarks entree
67 Golf platforms
68 Things to strive for
69 Flower in a pocketful?

DOWN

1 Packs down tightly

2 A way of saying things
3 More than one spoke
4 Blow it
5 Aggravates
6 Item in a roundup (Var.)
7 Performs, old-style
8 The Nanny has three of
them
9 Took off
10 Parkers need
11 Cardinal number (5th power of
10)
12 S-shaped molding
13 Gull cousin
18 On leave, for a swabbie
19 Word on a price tag
24 Burglary
26 Catch, as in a net
28 Make a jailbreak
30 Clickable image
31 DEA agent
32 Eyelid trouble
33 Spherical hairstyle
34 ___-back (easygoing)
35 Stepped heavily
37 Its symbol is an omega
38 Stems opposite
40 Not worth considering
41 Gladiators protection
46 Fast friends
48 Narrow backstreets
49 Sources of pain
50 Inverted e
52 Dictation taker, briefly
53 Bridge positions
54 Spacek of the screen
55 Huffy state
56 Throw in the towel
57 Abnormal breathing
59 Abbr. at the end of a list
62 Bit of baby talk
63 Toddlers midday event

Saturdays solution

Saturdays solution

Lifestyle

22

THE PHNOM PENH POST february 2, 2015

Sontery and Engly

Social Life Team

Galaxy Queen collection

fashion show @ Maison
Saint Tropez

Grand opening @
E&M Coffee

Song Sinara, Heng Sopanha, Om Sovannveasna

Taing Socheat, business development manager

at Atech Group, Chum Sophearith

Vey Sreymom, Ven Sidya, Leng Kimlin

Sorn Naroth, Vannak Sawata

Hok Sovatey, Hok Sivchhing

On January 29, E&M held the grand opening of its second coffee store in Phnom
Penh. E&M opened its first shop in Aeon
Mall and after gaining much support from
their customers, expanded to their second store on street 57 in BKK1. The new
shops interior is bright yellow and features stylish paintings inside, with nicely
designed chairs and tables. The opening
treated guests to coffee and bakery tastings. Photo by Hong Menea

Save the Change @ Meta

House
On Friday, young designer
Kim Monyroth, from Raffles
International College (Cambodia), showcased her new collection, Galaxy Queen,
at Maison Saint Tropez. The collection
was attractive and well received by all attending guests. The garments consisted
of mostly black and white, basic colours
which women can easily match with accessories for any event. Many guests
dressed up for the occassion and enjoyed
the fashion show and drinks, while the DJ
mixed music. Photo by Hong Menea

Over the weekend Meta House hosted Save the Change, Evolution from Students to Designers, an integrated design exhibition showcasing 11 Limkokwing University graduating students outstanding portfolio of works in professional design, including: videos,
animation, typography, graphic design, photography and more. Save the Change is Limkokwing Universitys way of recognising and celebrating the achievements of its students.
The exhibition simultaneously marked the end of their student career and the beginning
of another; for this is the last exhibition for these students as they will be graduating
shortly. From here on the students will evolve from students to professional designers.

Grand opening @ Chubcheevit Studio

Chubcheevit Studio held its grand opening in Cambodia at its Street 132 location in
Sangkat Tek La Ork 1. Chubcheevit Studio has specialised in digital photography and
computer artwork for more than 15 years, and is acknowledged widely in Thailand and
several other countries for achieving awards regarding photo advertising from many institutions, including Cannes Lions and the International ANDY Awards. As Asia is now
united through the ASEAN Economics Community, Chubcheevit decided to extend their
business with a sub-banch in Cambodia. Photo by Chhim Sreyneang

THE PHNOM PENH POST february 2, 2015

Chhim Sreyneang
Social Life Manager

Lifestyle

23

Pedros spring 2015 collection @ Diamond Island

Exhibition Center
On January 31, Pedro launched its Spring
2015 collection and celebrated its four-year
anniversary since first opening in Cambodia. Held at Diamond Island Exhibition Center, the exclusive introduction of the spring
2015 collection saw about 700 guests attend
the event. The evening included the fashion
show from Pedro and, after the show, drinks
and dancing with a DJ playing music until
the end of the night. Pedro now has four
stores in Cambodia in various locations including Sihanouk Boulevard, Aeon Mall, TK
Avenue and Siem Ream province. Photo by
Hong Menea

Rossell Hont, Sreylin and Ciaran Doyle

Var Chhoudeth and Tony Re-Al

Maybelle and Alex

Misaki Hoshi Vincent Rufo and Jamie

Buffy, Dila Nix and Tee

David Tan, Thida Sok and Heap bunden

Nith and Abbie

Rainnie and Marie

Kim Nay and Rin Raksa

Jacki, Lisa and Man

Votey, Ing and Ravy

Sherly, Chuk and KC

Sam and Bryan

Panha, Leak and Nara

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Sport
Djokovic wins Australian Open

ORLD number
one Novak Djokovic won a fifth
Australian Open
title and his eighth Grand Slam
yesterday, grinding down Andy
Murray in four sets to heap
more misery on the Scot.
Djokovic (pictured) won 7-6
(7/5), 6-7 (4/7), 6-3, 6-0 in 3hr
39min to stretch his formidable record on the Melbourne
hardcourts to winning five
from five finals in eight years.
Only Australian Roy Emerson, who was in the crowd and
handed him the trophy, has
won more Australian Opens,
with six in the 1960s.
I am so privileged and honoured and grateful to be standing here as a champion for the
fifth time and to be in the elite
group of players with Sir Roy
Emerson and Rod Laver and
all the legends of our sport,
said the Serb.
Djokovic has now beaten
Murray in three of his four Australian final losses following
earlier wins in 2011 and 2013,
although the Scot mastered
him in his two major triumphs
at the 2012 US Open and 2013
Wimbledon.
Tough luck tonight, Andy,
you are a great competitor, you
fight a lot and I want to congratulate your team and wish
you all the best for the rest of

the season, he said.

The victory means Djokovic
stays at world number one on
the next ATP rankings when
they are released on Monday,
with Murray moving to four
from his current sixth.
Unfortunately, I couldnt
quite do it tonight. But I was a
little bit closer than I was a few
months ago, and I will keep
working hard to get there,
said Murray.

Murray put Djokovic under

immediate pressure with three
break points in the third game
of the opening set, played in
cool and windy conditions on
Rod Laver Arena.
But the Serb fought back
to hold after an almighty 27stroke rally and an ace.
Djokovic struck in the next
game, breaking Murray to take
an early 3-1 lead.
It was hard-fought tennis

and the Scot worked his way

back by breaking his rival on
his third break point in the
seventh game.
Djokovic jammed the thumb
of his serving hand when he
slipped chasing a low volley
and needed treatment at the
next changeover. It seemed to
bother him briefly only and he
broke the Scot a second time
before being broken back as
he served for the opening set,

taking it to a tiebreaker.
The top seed trailed 2-4 in
the tiebreaker but then rattled
off five of the next six points to
claim the opening set.
Undeterred, Murray broke
for a 2-0 lead in the second
set before Djokovic hit back
with a double break as the
Scot looked in trouble with
Djokovic stringing together 13
straight points.
The final was then interrupted by a security scare for five
minutes when political activists unfurled a banner in support of refugees. One of them
jumped on court with security
guards ringing both players as
at least four protesters were escorted out of the stadium. The
stoppage worked in Murrays
favour as he broke Djokovics
service to level the set at 4-4.
The final went to a second
tiebreak in which Murray prevailed 7-4 to level the hardfought contest.
Djokovic suffered an immediate let-down, dropping his
opening service in the third
set, but he stormed back with
a double break to edge in front
two sets to one.
Fired-up, the top seed then
split the final set wide open,
racing through the fourth set
against a spent and frustrated
Murray with a triple break to
surge to victory. afp

Merecedes impresses
as F1 campaign starts

MERCEDES began the 2015

Formula One campaign in the
dominant fashion they became
accustomed to last season as
Nico Rosberg went fastest in
the morning session in
yesterdays first day of testing
in Jerez. The German racked
up 60 laps, with a fastest time
of 1min 23:106sec, ahead of
Daniel Ricciardo in the Red
Bull and Saubers Markus
Ericcson. Sebastian Vettel was
the first man out on the track,
sending a message by
overtaking Rosberg in the pit
lane on the way out for his first
lap in the SF15-T Ferrari. But,
the four-time world champion
was nearly three seconds
down on Rosbergs time in his
nine laps. afp

Hawks thump 76ers,

19th consecutive win

AL HORFORD scored 23
points and grabbed 11
rebounds to spark the Atlanta
Hawks over Philadelphia
91-85 on Saturday for the
NBA overall leaders teamrecord 19th victory in a row.
The Hawks stretched their
lead to 21 points in the second
quarter and as large as 15
points in the third quarter
before the 76ers rallied. The
Hawks held off Philadelphia
to complete an unbeaten
January run of 17 games
while the 76ers stumbled to
10-38. afp

Evergreen Serena still hungry Maxwell steers Australian ODI

WITH her name freshly engraved
onto the Australian Open trophy,
Serena Williams feels she can play
on indefinitely and is intent on
increasing her tally of 19 Grand
Slams.
The American great, 33, scoffed
at talk of retirement after shooting down Maria Sharapova in
straight sets to win her sixth title
at Melbourne Park, becoming the
oldest woman to ever lift the trophy.
Williams has endured her
share of injury scares during a
long career, including a lifethreatening pulmonary embolism in 2011 that sidelined her
for 12 months. But she said modern medicine had helped keep
her going.
I can play as long as I like
now, Williams said after moving
to clear second on the list of alltime Open-era Slam winners
behind Steffi Graf on 22.
With technology and stuff,
players are able to play longer. It
just depends on how long I want
to play
I really dont know [how long
that will be]. I know Im having
fun, I love winning championships, I love holding trophies up
at the end of the week and more
than anything, I love to do the
work to get there.
When that stops, Ill probably
know that Ive had enough.
She said winning the opening
Slam of the season meant the
pressure was off for the rest of

team to victory against England

Serena Williams of the US poses with the Daphne Akhurst Memorial Cup
on day 14 of the 2015 Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne
yesterday. afp

2014, making the possibilities

seem endless.
The French Open?: I want to
win Roland Garros.
Wimbledon?: Hmmm, I want
to get Wimbledon, that ones
been eluding me for quite some
time and its annoying me.
A calendar Grand Slam, which
would involve defending her US
Open title?: Oh my gosh, Im not
going to answer that, throwing
her head back with laughter.
Grafs record is definitely on
her radar, but she said it still
seemed a long way off.
I would love to get to 22 I
mean 19 was very difficult to get
to. Took me 33 years to get here,

so I would love to get there. But I

have to get to 20 first, and then I
have to get to 21. Theres so many
wonderful young players coming
up, so it will be a very big task.
Williams said the level of
emerging talent meant she needed to act quickly if she wanted
more majors, although she sent
young guns such as Garbine
Muguruza, Madison Keys and
Elina Svitolina packing at Melbourne Park.
So many young players are
coming up and doing really well,
thats why I really cherish these
moments, you never know when
its going to happen again, she
said. afp

A CAREER-BEST performance by much-maligned all-rounder Glenn Maxwell inspired

Australia to a crushing win over England in
the one-day international tri-series final at the
WACA Ground yesterday.
Maxwell took the highest score of 95 to help
Australia recover from a poor start to make 278
for eight, winning by 112 runs.
He then took four wickets and a fine catch as
England crumbled in the run chase to be dismissed for just 166 in 39.1 overs.
England, who will face Australia in the World
Cup opener later this month, were never in the
hunt after returning paceman Mitchell Johnson (3-27) claimed three quick wickets to have
them 46 for four.
He made a hat-trick after removing Moeen
Ali for 26 and then England skipper Eoin Morgan, who was bowled without offering a shot
from successive balls.
Maxwell (4-46) also found himself on a hattrick after removing Jos Buttler (17) and the
hapless Chris Woakes, who had a match to forget, with successive deliveries.
After being put in to bat by Morgan, the home
side slumped for 60 for four against some good
early bowling from James Anderson.
However, a 141-run partnership between
Maxwell and local favourite Mitchell Marsh
turned the match.
Maxwell was a marginal selection in Australias World Cup squad after his indifferent
form over the past 12 months. But he showed
his value with a typically inventive innings
that combined bewildering and brilliant
strokes.
He and Marsh set a new WACA record for a
fifth-wicket stand in a one-day international,
and Maxwell looked set for his first one-day
international hundred as he passed his previ-

ous best of 93.

However, another audacious stroke brought
about his demise for 95, caught behind by Buttler after top-edging an attempted pull shot off
Stuart Broad (3-55). Maxwell hit 15 fours off 98
balls.
Marsh offered great support, displaying his
powerful strokeplay in making 60 from 68
balls, with seven fours and one six, before being run out.
The pair came together when Australia were
in trouble after the loss of Steve Smith for 40,
stumped at the second attempt by Buttler off
the bowling of Ali.
Anderson (2-38) had earlier made two precious early breakthroughs, removing openers
Aaron Finch (0) and Dave Warner (12).
Stand-in skipper George Baileys dry run
with the bat continued when he made just
two from 17 balls before popping up a catch
to James Taylor at short-leg off the bowling of
Broad.
With much attention on whether regular
captain Michael Clarke will be fit for the World
Cup, Bailey faces a battle to retain his spot in
Australias best 11, with just 235 runs at 16.78
in his last 14 ODI innings.
Australias total was boosted by a lusty unbeaten 50 -- off just 24 balls and including four
sixes -- by James Faulkner in the dying overs.
The right-hander took 22 runs off the last
four balls of the 49th over by Chris Woakes,
who went wicketless and conceded 89 runs
from his 10 overs.
Faulkner then pulled Steven Finn into the
crowd at square leg to bring up his half-century from the last ball of the innings.
However, Faulkner was forced from the field
during his third over in the England innings,
with what appeared to be a side injury. afp

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THE PHNOM PENH POST february 2, 2015

New kids Australia scale Asia summit

Talek Harris

OLD, brash Australia proved

they belong at the peak of
Asian football and gave a huge
boost to the sport in their
country after overcoming the regions
best to win the Asian Cup.
The Socceroos are newcomers in the
Asian confederation after joining in
2006, but theyve quickly reached the
summit by winning the continents
showcase tournament at just their
third attempt. Dozens of other teams
have fallen short after decades of trying, but Australia has now become the
first to unite the Asian national and
Champions League club titles.
Australias women were also crowned
Asian champions in 2010, but the countrys success has not been uniformly
welcomed, with rumblings of discontent among some regional rivals. Such
reports prompted boos when Asian
Football Confederation officials appeared at Saturdays final, but the Socceroos did their talking on their pitch.
And after a successful tournament
attended by nearly 650,000 fans, Australias gripping 2-1 extra-time win over
South Korea was a fitting finale.
Its a massive moment for Australian
football, said the teams talisman Tim
Cahill as he celebrated their historic
achievement. This is one of the biggest moments in sport for Australia.
The nations expectations were
somewhat modest at the start after the
Socceroos managed just one victory in
11 games last year, and on a chilly night
in Melbourne, Kuwaits Hussain Fadhel
rocked the hosts when he headed the
tournaments first goal. But Australia
hit back in dazzling style with Cahill,
Massimo Luongo, Mile Jedinak and

Australias captain Mile Jedinak (centre) holds up the AFC Asian Cup football trophy after
beating South Korea at Stadium Australia in Sydney on Saturday. afp

James Troisi all scoring in a 4-1 win to

get the team off to a flying start.
It was a long way from Swindon to
Sydney for Luongo, who was voted
player of the tournament after a string
of high-octane performances, capped
by a wonder goal in Saturdays final
against South Korea.
Holders Japan gave Palestine a sobering introduction to the Asian Cup,
thrashing them 4-0 in Canberra, while
fellow heavyweights South Korea and
Iran also started with wins.
UAE set tongues wagging when they
came from behind to beat Qatar 4-1,
their extravagent playmaker Omar Abdulrahman catching the eye with his
silky skills in midfield.

It quickly became a break-out tournament for the mop-haired star, who

never found the net but helped sharpshooter Ali Mabkhout finish as top
scorer in the UAEs run to third place.
China have long underachieved at
the Asian Cup but the twice runnersup enjoyed a storming start aided by
a helpful ballboy who told goalkeeper
Wang Dalei the right way to dive to save
a penalty.
The Chinese won all three group
games, but they were undone in the
quarterfinals by Cahills magical bicycle
kick, followed by a trademark header,
in a 2-0 Australia win.
Ray Wilkins and his Jordan side had
a turbulent campaign which hit a low

when striker Ahmed Hayel vomited

and lost consciousness during a doping test, forcing him to miss the next
game. It was the cue for third-choice
striker Hamza Aldaradreh to smash
four past Palestine evoking rather fanciful memories for Wilkins of Englands
Geoff Hurst at the 1966 World Cup.
Referees were in the spotlight and
organisers fined Japans Keisuke Honda and Iran coach Carlos Queiroz for
outbursts before subsequently banning questions about officiating in
press conferences. The issue reached
boiling point when controversial Australian referee Ben Williams sent off
Irans Mehrdad Pooladi for simulation
in a fiery quarterfinal which they lost to
archrivals Iraq on penalties.
Iran launched a last-ditch attempt
to stay in the tournament when they
protested in vain that Iraqs Alaa Abdulzehra had failed a drugs test last
year and was ineligible.
Defending champions Japan came
unstuck in the quarterfinals when they
were stunned by UAE, with superstars
Honda and Shinji Kagawa both missing in the penalty shootout.
Iraqs 2007 final-winner Younis Mahmoud starred with two goals and a
nerveless panenka penalty against
Iran before the Lions of Mesopotamia were tamed by South Korea in the
semifinals.
Australia scored twice in the first 15
minutes as they ended UAEs fairytale
run to reach their second straight final.
In the championship decider, Australia were headed for a 1-0 win until
Son Heung-Mins last-gasp equaliser
forced extra time, but substitute James
Troisi fired the winner on 105 minutes
to spark wild celebrations at Stadium
Australia. afp

Sport
Spurs hope
Kane keen
to remain
MAURICIO Pochettino is
hopeful that striker Harry
Kane will remain at Tottenham for a long time after
the forward reached 20 goals
for the season with a brace in
the 3-0 win over West Bromwich Albion.
Kanes double and another
sublime Christian Eriksen
free-kick helped Spurs dominate at the Hawthorns on Saturday as they moved within
two points of fourth-placed
Southampton,
who
play
Swansea on Sunday.
Kane, 21, has been widely
tipped to sign a new and
improved contract in the
coming days and, while Tottenham manager Pochettino
remained tight-lipped on
that development, he made
it clear he believes Kanes
long-term future lies at White
Hart Lane.
This is the clubs and the
players decision, he said.
This is our business but Harry wants to stay at Tottenham
and Tottenham want Harry to
stay a long time with us.
It [the brace] is good for him
and he is good for the team,
his was a great performance,
and whenever a striker scores
goals it is good for the team.
My focus is always that a
player can improve he is
young and all players need to
show that they want to improve. afp

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THE PHNOM PENH POST february 2, 2015

Football

Dig your heels in

Diego Costa
protests his
innocence

HELSEA striker Diego

Costa accepted he was no
angel but insisted he had
not done anything wrong in the
incident that led to him receiving a
three-match ban.
The 26-year-old was suspended for three games by the
Football Association, after being
found guilty of violent conduct
when it was ruled he had deliberately stamped on the ankle
of Liverpools Emre Can during
Chelseas League Cup semi-final
leg victory on Tuesday.
Costa accepted the punishment, but he insisted he did not
mean to injure Can.
As far as what happened on
Tuesday, the main thing is when I
get home I can go to sleep knowing that Ive not done anything
wrong, because I never meant
to do that and it was not on purpose, he said.
And you can clearly see that on
the video. But it is a suspension.
Obviously I feel sad because Im
not going to be able to help the
team, to play. But I have accept it
and respect it.
Im not saying Im an angel.
Im no angel. You can see that.
But every time I play I will play
the same way because thats the
way I am. afp

Pellegrini remains hopeful

Tom Williams

HELSEA
manager
Jose Mourinho kept
his thoughts to himself after his side
consolidated their position
atop the Premier League with
a 1-1 home draw against nearest rivals Manchester City.
Aggrieved by striker Diego
Costas three-game ban for
treading on Liverpools Emre
Can, Mourinho has imposed
a personal press blackout at
Stamford Bridge.
Having cancelled his weekly press conference on Friday,
he refused to speak on television either before or after Saturdays game, while in contravention of Premier League
rules, reporters attending his
post-match press conference
were greeted by the sight of
an empty blue chair.
The Portuguese appears
to be attempting to create a
siege mentality at Chelsea
and while his no-show drew
scorn from fans on social media, it is a tactic that does not
appear to have done his players any harm.
Saturdays draw, in which
City midfielder David Silva
cancelled out Loic Remys
opener, left Chelsea five points
above City, the defending
champions, with 15 matches

Despite drawing with Chelsea at Stamford Bridge on Saturday, Man City

manager Manuel Pellegrini is confident of catching the Londoners. afp

of the season remaining.

City captain Vincent Kompany claimed afterwards that
five points is nothing, but
although an eight-point lead
would have seemed insurmountable, his side still remain dependent on Chelsea
faltering.
Visiting manager Manuel
Pellegrini sent on strikers Edin
Dzeko and Stevan Jovetic, as
well as former Chelsea midfielder Frank Lampard, in the
closing stages as City went in
search of the goal that would
have taken them to within two
points of the summit.

But although the Chilean

admitted he was not happy with a point, he declared
that there was plenty of time
for his side to engineer a repeat of their surge to the title
last season.
Of course it was important
to try to close the gap, Pellegrini told reporters during
his own press conference.
We tried, but we couldnt.
We still have 45 points more
to play [for]. I said before the
game also that this was a very
important game, [but] it was
not a final.
So we have time to try to re-

cover those five points. In the

way we continue playing, the
way we did today [Saturday], I
think it will be more easy.
Silvas 45th-minute equaliser stemmed from an error by
usually unflappable Chelsea
goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois,
who came for Jesus Navass
right-wing cross and missed
the ball completely.
Sergio Agueros drilled
follow-up looked to be flying
wide of the right-hand post,
but Silva flew in to stab it
home.
Remy, deputising for the suspended Costa, had put Chelsea ahead four minutes earlier, tapping in from close range
after Branislav Ivanovics deep
cross was volleyed back across
goal by Eden Hazard.
Chelsea mustered only three
attempts at goal, the fewest
by a home team in the English top flight this season and
their lowest total in a Premier
League game since the 200304 campaign.
But although Pellegrini felt
that his side had done more
to win the game, he stopped
short of saying Chelsea had
played for a draw.
I dont know what happened with Chelsea, he said.
I think that from the first
minute, we came for the three
points. afp

Furious Genoa say refs protect higher interests

SERIE A side Genoa have accused
referees of protecting the interests of
the leagues biggest sides after a 1-1
draw with Fiorentina that again shone
the spotlight on the officials of Italys
top flight.
Days after Napoli moved up to third
place with a 2-1 victory over Genoa
thanks to two controversial goals by
Argentinian striker Gonzalo Higuain,
Genoa club president Enrico Preziosi
lashed out.
Speaking to Sky Sport after the game,
he called for a stop to the decisions
which, he suggested, promotes an established league order to the detriment of
smaller clubs like Genoa.
These refereeing errors count,
because there are interests and league
standings to respect, Preziosi said following 10-man Genoas 1-1 draw at
home to Fiorentina. In football its not
always the team that plays the best football that wins, but the subject of referee-

ing errors cant just be swept aside.

When these decisions happen to
Genoa, theyre played down. But because
we end up drawing or losing games we
should be winning, team morale goes
out the window. There are games we
should have won recently that we didnt
because of refereeing errors.
Genoa, along with city rivals Sampdo-

These refereeing errors

count, because there are
interests and league
standings to respect
ria, were one of the form teams in the
run-up to the Christmas break, but have
yet to win in 2015.
Indeed, fans of the Ligurian coast club,
as well as the clubs directors, did not
enter the stadium until 10 minutes after
kick-off in protest at recent refereeing
decisions that went against them.
Genoa broke the deadlock on 14 min-

utes when Stefano Sturaros shot hit the

the far post and came off the back of
keeper Ciprian Tatarusanus head.
The conspiracy theorists were given
food for thought shortly after the halfhour when referee Nicola Rizzoli was
forced out after pulling up with a suspected calf strain.
He was replaced by Marco Di Bello
and took over goal-line duties instead.
Fiorentina levelled 10 minutes after
the restart when Gonzalo Rodriguez
flicked a corner past Mattia Perin at the
back post, although Fiorentina striker
Khouma Babacar looked to be in an offside position.
Genoas chances of snatching their
first win of the year were compromised
when Nicolas Burdisso was shown a
second yellow card for a foul on Matias
Fernandez, which many pundits later
claimed was harsh.
Genoa striker Diego Perotti later complained: These decisions are always

against us. Today we conceded a goal

that was offside and a red card that
shouldnt have been given.
Normally calm and composed, Genoa
coach Giampiero Gasperini lost his cool
after the game, telling Mediaset: We
had a great game and really deserved the
three points.
Its really a shame about the refereeing decisions, like the goal that was offside. Were putting in some great performances ... but enough is enough, all
this is stopping us from being much
higher up in the table.
Early this season Italian referee Gianluca Rocchi hit back at claims he
favoured Juventus in a controversial 3-2
win over Serie A rivals Roma, but admitted he could have handled the badtempered match differently.
When I referee a Juventus game, I
treat them as I would any other team. My
aim is always to officiate in the fairest
manner possible, Rocchi said. afp

Rodgers pleads for patience with returning Sturridge

Daniel Sturridge celebrates with

goalkeeper Simon Mingolet. afp

LIVERPOOL manager Brendan

Rodgers has cautioned about
placing too much expectation
on Daniel Sturridge following
his goal-scoring return to action
in a 2-0 win at home to West
Ham.
After Raheem Sterling put
Liverpool ahead, second-half
substitute Sturridge doubled
the Merseysiders lead after five
months out with thigh and calf
injuries.
Despite that absence, the
England international showed
no signs of rustiness as he produced a clinical finish to score
just 13 minutes after coming on
to the pitch at Anfield.
But Rodgers urged fans to be

patient with the 25-year-old

forward, even though Sturridge
finished off the kind of chance
Liverpools goal-shy strikers
have missed all season.
It was nice for him and hes
been out for a long time, Rodgers said. Its about managing
his game time. When hes in that
area hes shown for us over a
couple of years here that he is
lethal.
Daniel is a top-class player,
he has shown that in his career
so far. He worked very hard and
the first opportunity that came
his way he took.
It was a great first touch and
a wonderful finish. Im delighted for him. You can see it is

now just about managing his

game-time and introduction
into the team.
Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard was left out of the starting
lineup because of a slight hamstring injury.
However, the 34-year-old
midfielder is in line to make his
700th Liverpool appearance in
their FA Cup fourth-round
replay with Bolton Wanderers
on Wednesday.
And having seen Sterlings
51st-minute strike and Sturridges shot 10 minutes from
time secure victory over the
Hammers, Rodgers reckoned
his side were approaching their
best form of the campaign as

they look to compete for a

Champions League place.
The penetration and, slowly,
the performance is getting better and better, he said.
Offensively, we were bright
and the positioning of the team
was good with really good tactical discipline in the team.
And [goalkeeper] Simon
Mignolet coming and dealing
with things in the box, because
there were a lot of aerial duels
that you have got to deal with,
the team stood up to that very
well.
They pressed the game well
and got their rewards for that.
It was an outstanding performance. afp

Van Gaal happy to have

Fletcher after collapse

MANCHESTER United
manager Louis van Gaal will
welcome back Darren Fletcher
to Old Trafford if the Scotland
internationals proposed
move to West Ham collapses
before the end of the transfer
window. West Ham manager
Sam Allardyce said on
Saturday that a deal which
looked to have been on the
verge of completion 24 hours
earlier had fallen down due
to a disagreement between
the two clubs over whether
the United veteran would
make the move on loan or
permanently. I want to help
Fletcher and thats my only
concern. I am very happy as a
manager that he is coming
back. He is my third [choice]
captain but because of the
competition here he is not
playing so much. That is why I
want to help him. I dont know
what is happening there. But
on Friday the agreement was
definite and on Saturday it was
off. afp

DR Congo, Equatorial
Guinea reach semifinals
HOST Nation Equatorial
Guinea and the Democratic
Republic of Congo reached
the Africa Cup of Nations
semifinals on Saturday after
a dramatic Bata doubleheader. Former Real Madrid
winger Javier Balboa scored
from a dubiously awarded
penalty and a free-kick as
the home nation stunned
Tunisia 2-1 after extra time in
the main attraction at a
packed 35,000-seat stadium.
Earlier, DR Congo
transformed a two-goal
second-half deficit into a 4-2
triumph over Congo
Brazzaville with giant
Dieumerci Mbokani bagging
a brace. afp

weekend Results
English Premier League
On Saturday

Hull 0 Newcastle 3
Palace 0 Everton 1
Liverpool 2 West Ham 0
Man Utd 3 Leicester 1
Stoke 3 QPR 1
Sunderland 2 Burnley 0
West Brom 0 Spurs 3
Chelsea 0 Man City 0

German Bundesliga
On Saturday

Mainz 5 Paderborn 0
Schalke 1 Hannover 0
Hamburger 0 Koln 2
Freiburg 4 Frankfurt 1
Stuttgart 0
Monchengladbach 1
Leverkusen 0 Dortmund 0

On Friday

Wolfsburg 4 Bayern 1

French Ligue 1
On Saturday

Marseille 1 Evian 0
Lens 1 Bastia 1
Lorient 0 Montpellier 0
Metz 0 Nice 0
Nantes 1 Lille 1
Toulouse 1 Reims 0

On Friday

PSG 1 Rennes 0

Italian Serie A
On Saturday

Genoa 1 Fiorentina 1
Roma 1 Empoli 1

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THE PHNOM PENH POST february 2, 2015

Sport

Teen Ko breaks golf record

N
EW Zealand teen star
Lydia Ko became golfs
youngest-ever
world
number one on Saturday,
even though she only settled for a
share of second at the season-opening LPGA Coates Championship.
The South Korean-born prodigy
took the top spot at 17 years, 9
months and 7 days.
Its a big honour to be the world
number one, Ko said.
To have that honour by my name,
I cant believe it.
Ko eclipsed the age marks of
South Korean Shin Ji-yai, who was
the youngest prior womens world
number one at age 22 in 2010, and
US star Tiger Woods, who was 21
when he ascended to number one
for the first time in 1997.
Tiger Woods, hes amazing, Ko
said. I just try to have fun out there
and I just came into the ranking.
Ill just try to keep focused and not
worry about the ranking and learn
from this season.
Ko squandered a four-stroke lead
and struggled on the final holes to
help South Korean Choi Na-Yeon
capture the title on 16-under par
272 with Ko, American Jessica Korda
and South Korean Jang Ha-Na sharing second on 273.
Despite a double bogey at 17 and
a struggle just to close with a par,
Ko did just enough to overtake Park
In-Bee for the top ranking after the
South Korean shared 13th on 284.
When I heard the news I kind of
went, Really? and made a face, Ko
said. It was tough finishing with
the last two holes like that.
Ko fired a 71 Saturday while Choi

Lydia Ko hits her second shot on the 13th hole at the Coates Golf Championship final
round at the Golden Ocala Golf & Equestrian Club on Saturday in Ocala, Florida. afp

fired a 68 in the final round, staged

a day earlier than usual to avoid a
last-day conflict with American
footballs Super Bowl.
I played so well for so long, Choi
said. I was really nervous.
It was another taste of history
for Ko, who won the 2012 and 2013
LPGA Canadian Womens Open titles as an amateur, the first of those
at age 15 making her the youngest
winner in LPGA history.

Veterans Hingis-Paes
win Open mixed title
COMEBACK queen Martina
Hingis rolled back the years to
claim her first Grand Slam title
since 2006 yesterday, clinching the Australian Open mixed
doubles crown with fellow
veteran Leander Paes.
The old stagers, seeded
seven, were in their first major
outing as a pairing and drew
on all their experience to down
the third seeds, Frances Kristina Mladenovic and Canadian
Daniel Nester, 6-4, 6-3.
Hingiss win comes 20 years
after making her Melbourne
debut as a 14-year-old and
less than a year after coming
out of retirement.
Not even in my wildest
dreams would I have believed
that 20 years later Id be standing here again, said the Swiss
star, who spent 209 weeks as
the worlds number one singles player in her heyday.
Its not even like the cherry
on top, its more than that to
be there and to be able to hold
another trophy with Leander.
Its more than I could ever
dream of.
Hingis, the holder of five
Grand Slam singles titles, now
has 11 major doubles crowns
nine womens and two mixed.
Her last major success was
in the mixed doubles at Melbourne Park with Indian Mahesh Bhupathi, in 2006.
Paes, 41, has won eight mens
doubles and seven mixed doubles Grand Slams and said he
planned to aim for more, with
retirement not on his mind.

My dad, as soon as we won

I called him, he goes, OK, now
you have to focus on the next
one. I said, Dad, it hasnt even
been five minutes.
But I love the game of tennis. To play with this champion who I keep learning from
every day is a lot of fun. I look
forward to being back soon.
Hingis, 34, came out of six
years retirement last year,
partnering Italys Flavia Pennetta to make the US Open
womens doubles final.
She said she had never really
been away from the game.
I was never really completely out of the picture, away
from tennis. It was always part
of my life one way or another,
she said.
I was playing some exhibitions, then I was coaching a little bit. The coaching probably
got me more into it because I
was playing with the girls, hitting, being face-to-face to the
best players in the world.
So that felt like maybe I can
play with them.
While she has no plans to get
back into singles at this stage,
she is keen to keep playing
doubles, and is even considering the 2016 Olympics in Rio.
Right now were very far
away. Were really enjoying the
moment to be here, to have
the title, she said.
I mean, its out there, definitely [Rio]. Its something that
would be probably I mean, I
havent played Olympics since
96, so ... afp

That success prompted Ko to turn

professional and the LPGA to allow
Ko to join the tour in 2014, when she
won three titles, was named LPGA
Rookie of the Year and captured the
season-ending Tour Championship
and the season points prize for a
record $1.5 million payday last November.
Choi fights back to win
Ko began the final round with a

one-stroke lead and opened with

back-to-back birdies to seize a fourstroke lead on the field.
Choi answered the challenge and
took her first victory since 2012.
Choi birdied three holes in a row
starting at the third. While Ko birdied the par-5 fifth hole but took a
bogey at the eighth, Choi birdied
the par-5 seventh but closed her
front nine with a bogey.
Choi birdied the par-5 12th and
another birdie at the 14th put her
on 17-under, one stroke ahead of
Ko, who missed an eight-foot birdie
putt at 14 and settled for her sixth
par in a row.
Ko responded with a birdie putt
from halfway across the green at the
par-3 15th, raising her right fist in
celebration with a look of surprise
on her face after watching the ball
roll in.
When Choi missed a three-footer
for par, Ko was alone in the lead at
17-under with two holes to play.
At the 17th, Ko found a bunker and
sent her second shot into the trees,
then chipped into the fairway.
Her fourth shot rolled off the front
right edge of the green. She chipped
15 feet shy of the cup but hit a tension-packed putt for double bogey
and only fell to 15-under, one back
of leader Choi as they walked to the
par-5 18th tee.
Choi put her approach 20 feet
past the pin while Ko was in rough
left of the green, then chipped over
the green and into a bunker and
blasted out 2 feet from the cup.
Ko tapped in for history while
Choi two-putted for the triumphant victory. afp

Mayweather dampens hopes

for fight against Pacquiao

UNBEATEN fighter Floyd Mayweather

dampened talk of a possible megafight agreement with Filipino boxer
Manny Pacquiao on Saturday, a day
after the Asian stars promoter said a
deal was near. Mayweather posted a
message on his Shots account that
said in part While they continue to lie
about making the fight ... Im just
going to continue to travel and
explore the world on my private jet.
#FightNotMadeYet #Jamaica.
Pacquiao promoter Bob Arum told
the New York Post on Friday that he
was optimistic a PacquiaoMayweather deal for a May 2 fight in
Las Vegas would be completed in the
next couple of days, with only a few
final details to be settled between
rival telecasters HBO and Showtime,
the rights holders for Pacquiao and
Mayweather respectively. AFP

McIlroy victorious again

in Dubai Desert Classic

WORLD number one Rory McIlroy

matched the lowest winning score in
the history of the Dubai Desert
Classic, winning the tournament for
the second time in his career
yesterday with a final-round twounder par 70. At the Majlis course of
Emirates Golf Club, McIlroys 70 was
his worst round in the four days, but
was enough to win the 10th European
Tour title, and a 16th tournament
worldwide. It was his fourth win in his
last seven starts on the European
Tour. The other three finishes have
been second place. The victory is
expected to take McIlroy to 11.66
points on top of the world rankings,
and would extend his lead over
second-placed Henrik Stenson by
almost four average points. McIlroy
finally won by three shots over
Swedens Alexander Noren. afp

Invitation for Bids

Date

2 February 2015

Loan and
Grant No.
Title

Grant No. 0285 - CAM (EF) and Loan No. 3125 - CAM (SF)
Flood Damage Emergency Reconstruction ProjectAdditional Financing

Contract No.
and Title

IFB No. FDERP-AF-MOWRAM-CW 06A: Emergency

Reconstruction Work of TumnubKorkSrok
Irrigation System at Siem Reap Province and (Lot 1)
IFB No. FDERP-AF-MOWRAM-CW 06B: Emergency
Reconstruction Work of Tumnub 95 Irrigation
System at PreahVihear Province (Lot 2)

Deadline for
Submission
of Bids
1.
2.

3.

5.
6.

7.

9.

On or before 10:00 hours (local time) on 13th February

2015.

This Invitation for Bid follows the Specic Procurement Notice (

Invitation For Bids) for this project that appeared in the Phnom Penh
Post Newspaper on 2nd January 2015.
The Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) represented by the Ministry
of Economy and Finance has received a grant from the Government of
Australia (Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade) ((GoA (DFAT)) and
a loan from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) for the Flood Damage
Emergency Reconstruction Project-Additional Financing (FDERP-AF),
and intends to apply part of the Grant and Loan to eligible payments
under the lots as follows:
(i) Lot1: the Emergency Reconstruction Work of Tumnub Kork
Srok Irrigation System at Siem Reap Province and
(ii) Lot2: the Emergency Reconstruction Work of Tumnub 95
Irrigation System at PreahVihear Province
The Project Implementation Unit-3 of MOWRAM now invites sealed
bid from eligible and qualied biddersfor Tender as follows:
i) Lot 1: the Emergency Reconstruction Work of Tumnub Kork
Srok, Irrigation System at Siem Reap Province. The construction
period is Two hundred ten (210) days
ii) Lot 2: the Emergency Reconstruction Work of Tumnub 95

4.

8.

Irrigation System at PreahVihear Province. The construction

period is One hundred twenty (120) days.
Procurement will be conducted through National Competitive Bidding
Procedures outlined in the Procurement Manual for Externally Financed
Projects/Programs, and under the laws and regulations governing
public procurement within the Kingdom of Cambodia.
This invitation is open to all eligible bidders from eligible source
countries of ADB as described in the Bidding Document.
Interested eligible bidders may obtain further information from
MOWRAM, by contacting Mr. Huy Vantha, Project Manager or Ms.
Laing Sokim, Procurement Ofcer at the address below or by email
at: huyvantha@gmail.com, and inspect the Bidding Documents at the
address given below from Monday to Friday from 8:30 a.m to 12:00 a.m
and from 2:00 p.m to 5:00 p.m
Interested bidders attention is drawn to Sub Clause 6.3 and 6.1(g) of
the Instructions to Bidders in the Bidding Documents included: average
annual volume of construction work; construction experience of a

nature and complexity equivalent to the works; the liquid assets and/
or credit facilities; essential equipment and key personnel.
Each complete set of Bidding Documents may be purchased by interested
bidders upon submission of a written Application to the address below
and upon payment of a non refundable fee of US$70 (Seventy US
Dollars). The method of payment will be cash or cashiers check. The
Bidding Documents can be collected in person at the discretion of the
bidder. Other than payment of non refundable fee, there are no other
conditions for the purchase of the bidding documents
In case of any difculty in purchasing the bidding documents in person,
interested parties may contact in writing:
Mr. Chann Sinath, Deputy Director General for Technical
Affairs and Project Director of FDERP-AF at Ministry of Water
Resources and Meteorology, FDERP-AF Project Implementation
Unit, 2nd Floor of Department of Farmer Water User Community
(FWUC) # 364, Monivong Boulevard, PhsarDoeumThkov,
Phnom Penh, CAMBODIA Tel. (855) 23 210 280
and also senda copy of communication to:
The Director of Department of Cooperation and Debt
Management of MinistryofEconomyandFinance located at St.9
2,SangkatWatPhnom,KhanDaunPenh,PhnomPenh,Cambodia,
Tel/Fax: 855 23-428 424 and
Mr. Long VouPiseth, Senior Project Ofcer, ADB-Cambodia
Resident Mission, 29 Suramarit Blvd, St. 268, Sangkat Chaktomuk,
Khan Daun Penh, Phnom Penh, CAMBODIA, Tel: (855) 23 215
805, Fax: (855) 23 215 807 / Email: plong@adb.org

10.

Bids must be delivered to the address given below on or before 10:00

hours (local time) on 13th February 2015.Late bids will be rejected. Bids
will be opened in the presence of the bidders representatives and other
interested person who choose to attend in person at the address below
at 10:00 hours (local time) on 13th February 2015.

11. The Employer will not conduct pre-bid meeting once again, but it is
recommended that the Bidder shall be responsible for his own site visit.
12.

All bids shall be accompanied by a Bid Securing Declaration in the form

specied under Sub-clause 16.1 of Bid Data Sheet.

13.

The Government of Cambodia and the Development Partners will

respectively declare a rm ineligible either indenitely or for a stated
period of time, to be awarded a contract funded by the RGC and/or
Asian Development Bank, if at any time they determine that the rm
has engaged in corrupt or fraudulent, coercive, collusive or obstructive
practices in completing or in executing a contract.

14.

For obtaining further information and inspecting the bidding document

should contact the address referred above is:
Flood Damage Emergency Reconstruction Project- Additional
Financing
Ministry of Water Resources and Meteorology
Project Implementation Unit
2nd Floor of Department of Farmer Water Users Community (FWUC)
#364, Monivong Boulevard, Phsar Doeum Thkov, Phnom Penh,
Cambodia Tel. (855) 99 734 373 / 12 707 468
Email: huyvantha@gmail.com