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A DRAFT law regulating the
purchase and consumption
of alcohol in Cambodia will,
if passed, set the countrys
legal drinking age at 21 years
old, according to officials
involved with the legislation,
which many see as a tool to
fight excessive youth drink-
ing and drunk driving.
Cambodia is one of only a
handful of countries in the
world that has no legal limit
for drinking or buying beer,
wine or spirits, according to
the US-based International
Center for Alcohol Policies,
or ICAP, a nonprofit research
group that works with the
beverage industry and pub-
lic health organisations.
Other countries lacking
similar laws and included in
ICAPs data last updated in
August of 2013 were Sierra
Leone, Bangladesh, Guinea-
Bissau and Comoros, a
nation of islands off the west
coast of Africa. Of the ASEAN
countries listed in the run-
down, Indonesia, Laos, the
Philippines, Singapore, Thai-
land, Brunei and Vietnam all
have laws on the books.
The age we advocate for is
21 year[s] old for legal alcohol
drinking, Yel Daravuth, a
national professional officer
with the World Health Organ-
ization, said in an email.
Daravuth, who works in
the areas of tobacco, sub-
stance abuse and mental
health, added that the law is
supported by the Council of
Jurists, the Economic and
Social Council, or ECOSOC,
and the Ministry of Health,
which is leading the charge.
Now, we have a draft law
Draft law
to address
underage
drinking
Sen David and Kevin Ponniah
T
HE Ministry of Labour
has issued a prakas urg-
ing employers to follow
existing regulations in
the Labour Law that limit foreign
workers to 10 per cent of the total
workforce at any one company.
It has warned that failure to
stay within this limit or to
obtain special permission to
exceed it where skilled foreign
workers are necessary because
of a lack of Cambodians with
matching skills will see busi-
nesses punished.
The warning is just the latest
move as part of a government
push to regulate foreign labour
ahead of ASEAN integration in
2015. In July, the ministries of
labour and interior announced
their intention to begin enforc-
ing laws requiring foreign
workers and expatriates to hold
work permits. The government
is also carrying out a census of
Labours 10 per cent rule
Ministry to enforce law limiting foreign workers as integration looms
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WORLD NEWS
National
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THE PHNOM PENH POST SEPTEMBER 5, 2014
Taing Vida
MORE than 100 tuk-tuk driv-
ers ended four days of protests
outside Aeon Mall in Phnom
Penh yesterday after agreeing
to join a union that has exclu-
sive rights to operate there.
Kong Sophal, a representa-
tive of 115 protesters, said they
would join the Cambodia for
Confederation Development
Association (CCDA) a union
that rose to prominence in
2012 when its members rallied
in support of the imprison-
ment of activist Yorm Bopha.
CCDA has exclusive access
to Aeon, and protesters, many
of whom say they worked in
the area before the mall was
built, had complained of hav-
ing no access to customers.
We decided to become a
member of this association,
because they have the licence
and contract with the market,
Sophal said.
Sok Thol, AEONs security
chief, said the mall was willing
to consider a new union.
But Sophal said that reg-
istering one had proved too
time-consuming.
Mall tuk-tuk tiff solved
Mom Kunthear
A 23-YEAR-OLD man sus-
pected of participating in the
gang rape of a 17-year-old
girl was arrested this week in
Thbong Khmum province,
while his six alleged accom-
plices remain at large, ofcials
said yesterday.
Ouk Pov, Kroch Chhmar dis-
trict deputy police chief, told
the Post that the victim was at
the provincial hospital with
her mother on Monday when
she left alone to go to a bath-
room outside the premises
and bumped into the seven
suspects, who were drinking
alcohol nearby.
They forcefully raped
her and detained her for
one night, Pov said, adding
that it was the rst alleged
case of rape seen in Kroch
Chhmar district.
According to Pov, follow-
ing a complaint from hospi-
tal staff, police on Tuesday
found the victim and the sev-
en suspects at a location near
the hospital.
We saved the girl and ar-
rested one man, 23-year-old
Thoeun Thy. The other six
escaped. But we are seeking
to arrest and punish them,
and we know their identities,
Pov said.
He added that police of-
cers also found ve condoms
at the scene.
Pov said that, following his
arrest, Thy had claimed that
the victim and one of the sus-
pects knew each other and
had made an appointment
to meet.
But, he added, the victim
claimed that she did not know
any of the suspects.
I concluded that the girl
was really raped, and we ar-
rested the suspect to punish
him through the law because
the victim is still under age,
he said, adding that her health
was in good condition.
Thy was charged yesterday
at Thbong Khmum Provin-
cial Court with rape with
aggravating circumstances
and sent to the provincial
prison while the investig-
ation continued.
Kroch Chhmar district po-
lice were cooperating with
other nearby district police
units in the province to track
down the remaining suspects,
Pov said.
According to a United Na-
tions report released last
year, one in ve Cambodian
men have committed rape,
but more than 44 per cent of
them have never faced any le-
gal consequences.
One gang-rape suspect
caught, six still at large
Disputes aired in committee
Pech Sotheary

C
IVIL society representatives
yesterday met with the Na-
tional Assemblys human rights
commission, which reiterated
promises of a speedy resolution of the
nearly decade-old dispute between vil-
lagers in Kampong Chhnangs Lorpeang
village and the politically connected
KDC International, those involved in the
meeting said.
Ny Chakrya of rights group Adhoc said
that his organisation, along with the
rights group Licadho, had presented doc-
uments regarding the dispute to the com-
mission, which had, in turned, promised
speedy action, just days after it promised
village representatives that their dispute
would be resolved within a week.
We all agreed unanimously to nd a
resolution and justice for the people . . .
and we will also nd justice for the com-
pany, Chakrya said, calling the commis-
sions cooperation with civil society a his-
toric step that he hoped to see repeated.
Am Sam Ath, a technical supervisor
for Licadho, said they had also asked the
committee to release villagers arrested
when authorities forcibly dispersed a
peaceful march to Phnom Penh.
If the representatives are in prison, the
resolution wont go smoothly, he said.
The commissions director, Cambodia
National Rescue Party lawmaker Eng
Chhai Eang, said the body would act as a
mediator between the villagers and KDC,
which is owned by Chea Kheng, wife of
Minister of Mines and Energy Suy Sem.
We do not know how to solve it yet,
but we will put our efforts into solving it
as soon as possible, he said.
Meanwhile, 10 civil society and com-
munity representatives met yesterday
with the assemblys environmental com-
mission to call for the protection of Koh
Kong provinces Areng Valley, which is
threatened by a massive dam project.
Commission president Pol Ham, also
a CNRP lawmaker, said the commission
would review the request, and if the proj-
ect was indeed found to have a negative
effect, it would summon government of-
cials to clarify, or even visit the site itself.
Political analyst Kem Ley, however, said
that parliamentary commissions hold lit-
tle real power when it comes to inuenc-
ing outcomes like those sought by yester-
days petitioners. The real power, he said,
lies in the hands of committees stacked
with government appointees. Given that,
he added, the CNRP should be honest
about what it can actually achieve.
The CNRP promised a lot to the peo-
ple after entering the NA, but I see that
the power is in the hands of the [Cambo-
dian Peoples Party]. ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY
STUART WHITE
Villagers attempt to stop a bulldozer from clearing land in Kampong Chhnang during a land
dispute with KDC International in July. HENG CHVIOAN
National
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THE PHNOM PENH POST SEPTEMBER 5, 2014
Donors called on to pressure
govt after unionists charged
China donates to logging ght
Sean Teehan
AN INFLUENTIAL rights group is urging donors
to Cambodia to apply pressure on the govern-
ment concerning the case of six labour union
leaders accused of playing an active role in vio-
lent demonstrations earlier this year.
In an open letter posted on its website on
Wednesday, Human Rights Watch (HRW) says
donors should tell the government to end efforts
to prosecute leaders of unions behind a nation-
wide garment strike over wages that lasted from
late December to early January. Soldiers shot
dead at least five people during a demonstration
on January 3, as protesters set fires and threw
Molotov cocktails at authorities.
The six union leaders face charges of inten-
tional violence.
Cambodian authorities are pursuing trumped-
up charges against labor activists in an apparent
attempt to get them to abandon demands for
better pay and conditions, HRW Asia director
Brad Adams says in the statement. This is just
the latest government effort to scare activists and
the political opposition into dropping plans to
use protests to advance their causes.
The statement names those to be called for
questioning as union presidents Pav Sina, Ath
Thorn, Chea Mony, Rong Chhun, Morn Nhim
and Yang Sophorn. A Phnom Penh Municipal
Court clerk on Wednesday confirmed all
but Nhim.
The Garment Manufacturers Association in
Cambodia (GMAC), representing more than 170
factories in the case, filed the suit in January.
With unions, the government and GMAC going
through the process of setting next years mini-
mum wage, Thorn, president of the Coalition of
Cambodian Apparel Workers Democratic Union,
said he thinks the summons coinciding with the
wage negotiations is an intentional distraction.
They are trying to use the court against us,
Thorn said.
GMAC secretary-general Ken Loo dismissed
the notion of political motivations and said
GMAC lawyers were looking into whether HRWs
call for pressuring the government amounts
to obstruction.
Its quite stupid for HRW to be saying this,
Loo said. Theyre trying to get donors to pressure
the government to drop the case is that interfer-
ing with a case? Thats a chargeable offence.
Alice Cuddy
CHINA, a country credited with
fuelling Cambodias lucrative
illegal logging trade, this week
donated thousands of dollars
worth of equipment to help
protect the Kingdoms forests.
Hang Suntra, deputy director
of the Ministry of Agriculture,
Forestry and Fisheries Forest
Industry and International
Cooperation Department, said
that China on Tuesday donated
equipment ranging from fire-
fighting vehicles to computers.
The new equipment will help
to save Cambodias forests from
disaster, Suntra said.
The commitment comes
from high-level discussions
[between Cambodian and Chi-
nese officials]. The commit-
ment means they give support
for our forests, he added.
But while Chinas donation
has been hailed as a sign of
support in the fight against
deforestation, the country is
also alleged to be one of the
biggest drivers behind the
destruction of Cambodias
most precious timber.
In a report released earlier
this year by the Environmental
Investigation Agency, Chinas
demand for faux antique furni-
ture was credited with fuelling
the logging of endangered
Siamese rosewood to the
brink of extinction across the
Mekong region.
The report says Chinas desire
for luxury Ming and Qing
dynasty reproductions and art-
work, known as hongmu, has
left a bloody trail of death,
violence and corruption in
its wake.
An official at the Chinese
Embassy who declined to be
named refused to answer a
reporters questions about the
donations or Chinas involve-
ment in the logging trade.
I think its not necessary to
tell you, he said.
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
A 53-YEAR-OLD English teach-
er from Australia was charged
yesterday by Phnom Penh
Municipal Court with commit-
ting an indecent act against a
minor under 15 and possessing
child pornography.
This case now has been
transferred to the investigating
judge for further investigation
and decision, deputy prosecu-
tor Seang Sok said yesterday.
Colonel Eang Chanlon, chief
of the Juvenile Protection Pro-
gram of the Ministry of Interiors
Anti-Human Trafficking and
Juvenile Protection Depart-
ment, said Australian George
Moussallie was arrested in a
police raid on his residence in
Daun Penh district on August
31 that reportedly found him in
his room with two young boys.
Police rescued two young
boys under 11 years old from
his room, Chanlon said, noting
that the boys said Moussallie
had sexually abused them.
Police also seized a laptop
containing many images of
child pornography, he added.
Moussallie and his lawyers
declined to answer reporters
questions at the court.
Australian
teacher on
sex charges
No good grades? No problem
Charles Rollet
and Mom Kunthear

I
N THE wake of abysmally
low test results for high
school seniors, some pri-
vate universities are at-
tempting to ensure at least
some of the vast majority of
students who didnt pass still
enrol, while others are offering
associate degrees to bypass
the national examination sys-
tem altogether.
A crackdown on rampant
cheating during the nal-year
exams lowered the pass rate
for the nationwide examina-
tions from 87 per cent in 2013
to only 25.7 per cent this year.
We knew the number [of
students who passed] was go-
ing to be low, but not that low,
said Chris Campbell, admis-
sions director at the American
University of Phnom Penh
(AUPP). What we were seeing
when we saw the results was
that there were some really
good candidates who didnt
pass the exam, so we didnt
want them to miss out.
This prompted the universi-
ty to offer those who failed the
rst round of examinations
a chance to get in and pay
tuition by attending AUPPs
English preparatory program.
Those who do so will be con-
sidered AUPP students but can
only be formally admitted to
AUPP if they pass retests in Oc-
tober, read an announcement.
AUPP has also responded to
the low test results by expand-
ing a scholarship scheme for
A students to those who re-
ceived Bs as well, since only 11
students nationwide received
a top mark this year.
We thought there are still
exceptional students who got
Bs, said Campbell.
Other private universities
are apparently not concerned
about the exam results at all,
saying they will simply shift
to having more students enrol
in two-year associate-degree
programs, which do not re-
quire a high school diploma.
In Vireakchey, a lecturer at
Build Bright University, said
the institution wasnt worried
about enrolment.
We welcome all students,
whether they passed or failed,
to study in our university,
Vireakchey said.
We are not concerned
about the incoming numbers
of bachelors degree students,
because those who failed will
come to study in greater num-
bers for an associates degree.
So this is not a big problem.
But there are concerns that
enrolling such students may
dilute student quality.
Rong Chhun, president of
the Cambodia Independent
Teachers Association, said al-
lowing such students to obtain
university degrees would ren-
der the purpose of the exami-
nation reforms useless.
As I see it, most [private]
universities are more inter-
ested in doing business than
focusing on the quality of their
education offered.
Students who receive an as-
sociate degree can transfer
into a bachelors program by
taking supplementary courses,
with no pesky national exami-
nation required.
Still, some private universi-
ties, such as CamEd Business
School, which does not offer
associates degrees, said they
would not be tweaking admis-
sions policies.
Im very happy about the
reforms, which will improve
studying skills, said CamEds
rector, Casey Barnett, adding
that admitting those with-
out a high school diploma to
any level of higher education
seems to kind of defeat the
whole purpose, doesnt it?
Students sit at tables in front of an enrolment ofce at a university in Phnom Penh yesterday. Some universi-
ties are looking to new strategies to enrol failing students in classes to bolster numbers. ELI MEIXLER
National
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THE PHNOM PENH POST SEPTEMBER 5, 2014
Man sees red, takes red
wine glass to victim
IN ONE of our more refined
stabbings of late, a capital man
was attacked with a wine glass
on Wednesday. Police said the
victim made the crucial error of
attempting to woo the sus-
pects paramour while drinking
at a Chamkarmon district bar.
Enraged, the suspect
eschewed the standard bro-
ken-bottle approach, attacking
the man instead with a broken
wine glass. The damage done,
the suspect grabbed his girl-
friend and vanished into the
night. The victim was sent to
hospital and police are now
looking to make an arrest. KAM-
PUCHEATHMEY
Ambushed phone fixer
couldnt call for help
SURROUNDED by phones but
with no time to call police, a
local phone repairman had lit-
tle chance when surrounded by
four thieves on Wednesday.
Police said the 27-year-old was
working late at his Por Sen
Chey district kiosk when the
quartet, their identities con-
cealed by helmets, approached
and brandished a gun. Alone
and with few options, he wisely
gave up his moto, though no
word on any swiped phones. He
filed a complaint to police, but
with no description of their fac-
es, arrests face long odds. KOH
SANTEPHEAP
Next act in court after
man caught in the act
A PHNOM Penh-to-Kampong
Chhnang town drug run was
foiled thanks to a little police
cooperation on Tuesday. Police
said that suspicious capital
cops had put out an all-points
bulletin on the 54-year-old,
who they believed was en route
to a drug deal. Sure enough,
when Kampong Chhnang
police spotted him and pulled
him over, he was holding.
Police have sent him to court.
DEUMAMPIL
Romance over after
crooks crash the date
A CANOODLING couple in
Siem Reap had their night end-
ed on a decidedly unromantic
note on Wednesday when they
were attacked by two robbers.
Police said the couple had gone
for a romantic walk near Ang-
kor Wat and were sitting in a
pleasant garden when the duo
struck them from behind,
knocking them senseless just
long enough to relieve them of
their phones, money and jewel-
lery. When police arrived short-
ly thereafter, the suspects were
long gone, though victims were
able to relate detailed descrip-
tions. KOHSANTEPHEAP
When a loan becomes
theft, prison beckons
A 30-YEAR-OLD car thief didnt
enjoy his new ride all that long
on Wednesday. Police said the
suspect had borrowed the
vehicle from a man in Mon-
dulkiri province, then simply
took off. He made it as far as
Kampong Cham town before
police, who had been tipped off
back in Mondulkiri, made the
arrest. Hell get a chance to
explain himself in court. KAM-
PUCHEATHMEY
Translated by Sen David
POLICE
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Ministry to enforce 10 per cent law
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immigrants. Cambodians are particularly
wary of illegal Vietnamese immigrants
believed to constitute the majority of ille-
gal foreign workers and 10 have been
deported from Ratanakkiri province since
the census began.
According to an August 20 prakas from
Labour Minister Ith Sam Heng obtained
yesterday, companies must abide by set
limits for different categories of foreign
employees, which can total 10 per cent.
Foreign office workers can amount to
no more than 3 per cent of the total work-
force, skilled or specialised workers are
capped at 6 per cent, and unskilled work-
ers at 1 per cent.
According to the Labour Law, companies
violating these regulations without obtain-
ing a waiver are liable to a fine of sixty-one
to ninety days of base daily wage or to
imprisonment of six days to one month.
While these laws have been on the books
for years, Labour Ministry spokesman
Heng Sour said, many businesses con-
tinue to violate them, and the prakas would
help in limiting the number of foreign
employees in order to promote our nation-
al employees. It is also part of our work
to more strongly [enforce] foreign workers
holding work permits, he said.
But we are not cruel. We will make excep-
tions if investors need foreign employees to
improve their work and their production
needs, such as experts, technicians, profes-
sionals, etc. We ask them to send a letter to
the Ministry of Labour explaining why they
need these employees, so we can check that
there are no Cambodian workers who have
the expertise required for the job.
Sour said that in many industries, Cam-
bodians made up the vast majority of
workers but that supervisors or techni-
cians were usually foreigners. He added
that many Chinese-funded hydropower
dam sites hired both Chinese labourers
and supervisors.
Sour said that, officially, firms had report-
ed about 8,000 foreign workers in total.
According to Sandra DAmico, vice pres-
ident of the Cambodian Federation of
Employers and Business Associations
(CAMFEBA), which represents more than
2,000 businesses, most enterprises are
already in compliance with the quotas.
DAmico added that the recent prakas was
definitely not a surprise but admitted that
CAMFEBA had been receiving more inquir-
ies about labour regulations since the gov-
ernment announced stricter enforcement.
If there are areas where we think they
are not 100 per cent compliant, we support
our members to make sure they are fully
compliant, she said.
Matthew Rendall, a senior partner at law
firm Sok Siphana & Associates, said that the
10 per cent quota on foreign labour had
always been enforced, but that its just a
matter [of firms] applying for a waiver.
He added, however, that it would be very
rare for foreign companies in Cambodia
to exceed the limits, given the much high-
er cost of hiring foreign employees and
that a companys workforce includes
everyone from cleaners to drivers.
But applying the 6 per cent quota to skilled
workers in the construction sector, tradi-
tionally the domain of Vietnamese skilled
labourers, could be an issue, he said.
Sok Kin, vice president of the Building
and Wood Workers Trade Union Federation
of Cambodia (BWTUC), said that Vietnam-
ese workers outnumbered Cambodian
workers in the construction sector.
Construction workers erect scaffolding in
Phnom Penh in July. HONG MENEA
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but we have not yet issued
it, said Hok Khiev, director
of the department of legisla-
tion at the ministry. Khiev de-
clined to comment on when
the law would make its way
to the National Assembly, or
what other measures would
be in it. He also declined to
talk about why the law was
needed. When the law is is-
sued, I can say.
But health and road fatality
statistics offer some clues.
While in most parts of the
world, drinking levels have re-
mained stable, they are on the
rise in the Western Pacic and
Southeast Asia, and Cambodia
is no exception.
Cambodians aged 15 and up
drank an average of 5.5 litres
of pure alcohol per capita
from 2008 to 2010, compared
to the 4.6 litres they swigged
from 2003 to 2005, according
to a World Health Organiza-
tion report released in May.
The consumption gures
were lower than the global av-
erage of 6.2 litres, but higher
when accounting for the fact
that consumption among
Cambodian men was several
litres more than that attrib-
uted to women.
Advocates for legislation
to make Cambodias streets
and national roads safer
for pedestrians and drivers
also support the age limit.
To legally drive a motor-
bike, there are age require-
ments depending on the
engines size, and blood al-
cohol content levels are set at
a standard ceiling of 0.05g/dl
for commercial and regular
drivers, and young or novice
drivers. But with no law pro-
hibiting sales or consump-
tion of alcohol, the exist-
ing rules are weakened.
Its also related to road
safety, because drunk driving
is one of the leading causes
[of crashes], said Ear Chari-
ya, an independent road
safety consultant. He noted
that in 2013 16 per cent of
road deaths were caused by
drunk driving.
Chariya, however, expressed
doubts that the law would be
able to pass. For one thing, tax
revenues are gained from al-
cohol sales.
Still, he hoped it would.
I believe there are a lot of
kids enjoying alcohol. Kids use
alcohol from the age of 10, he
said, citing a survey from the
Ministry of Health.
Little information has
been released about the
coming changes, so its dif-
ficult to say how they will be
received by the general pub-
lic or alcohol sellers, who
rarely ask for ID or for a cus-
tomers age.
Representatives of two of
the largest beer makers in the
country Khmer Brewery,
which makes Cambodia beer,
and Cambrew Ltd, which
produces Angkor and other
brands could not be reached
for comment yesterday.
A 46-year-old alcohol seller
in Phnom Penh who declined
to be named said yesterday
that she hadnt heard of the
draft law, but that she wel-
comed it.
Most of my beer buyers are
in the ages between 17 and
18. Sometimes, they buy and
drink by themselves; some-
times they buy for friends or
families, she said.
She added that having a
law is a good idea, but getting
drinkers to follow it is a prob-
lem in itself.
I support the proposed law,
but I think people do not prac-
tise it easily. The teens will still
drink beer, she said. ADDITIONAL
REPORTING BY PHAK SEANGLY
Draft law to address
underage drinking
A view of Phnom Penhs White Building on Sothearos Boulevard earlier this week. PHA LINA
Audit necessary before
demolition, NGOs say
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
and Sean Teehan

A
GROUP of nine
NGOs has called for
a full independent
building audit safety
assessment of the capitals
iconic White Building, amid
fears it is slated for demolition.
The results of this assess-
ment should inform a public
consultation with the White
Building residents and civil so-
ciety regarding a development
plan for the site, a statement
released yesterday said.
The NGOs said the state-
ment was in response to a local
media report in which Phnom
Penh Municipal Governor Pa
Socheatvong was quoted as
saying that the time had come
to condemn the building and
knock it down.
Socheatvong could not be
reached yesterday, but City
Hall spokesman Long Diman-
che denied such plans existed,
while saying the building was a
danger to residents.
Considering the age of the
building and the fact that its
condemned and can collapse
someday, we have informed
residents of the danger in liv-
ing there, he said. However,
City Hall has no current plans
to force people out or demol-
ish the building.
Dimanche added that City
Hall was encouraging residents
to move from their homes be-
cause the building was unsafe.
Ofcials have given White
Building occupants some of
whom rent their apartments
and others who own the op-
tion of moving to an apartment
built by the Overseas Cambo-
dia Investment Corporation
(OCIC) in the capitals Chroy
Changva district, he said.
The decaying and dilapidated
building was designed by Lu
Bun Hap as part of a project
overseen by famed architect Van
Molyvann during the 1960s.
The building as a whole has
no owner, said Ee Sarom, act-
ing director of land rights group
Sahmakum Teang Tnaut (STT).
Different people or companies
own each unit.
Residents on Wednesday ex-
pressed anxiety about the ru-
mours, saying they would only
leave on their own terms.
Those of us living here agreed
with each other that we will not
move to another place since
this place has provided us with
happiness and safety for about
30 years, Eng Kry, 70, said.
Chhean Vesna, 36, said that
for her to move, the city would
have to meet her price, which
is at least $10,000.
The money would have to
be paid before I signed any-
thing.
In brief
Krom rally approved
CITY Hall yesterday approved a
request from Khmer Krom
activists to hold a public forum
on Saturday in Freedom Park.
Thach Setha, president of the
Khmer Kampuchea Krom
Community, said the forum
would focus on the citizenship of
ethnic Vietnamese Cambodians
and the history of the former
Kampuchea Krom provinces.
We will [then] hold a big
demonstration from the 1st to
the 5th of October, Setha said.
CHHAY CHANNYDA
Shooter scare at market

A 54-YEAR-OLD man was
arrested in Oddar Meanchey
province yesterday after
climbing onto the roof of a
market and opening fire, said By
Pengnguon, Trapaing Prasat
district police chief. Suspect
Pharn Than, armed with an
AK-47 rifle, sent frightened
buyers and sellers running from
the building, but was later
coaxed down and arrested by
police. Authorities are seeking
intervention from mental
health professionals, he said.
KHOUTH SOPHAK CHAKRYA
Hor Kimsay
A
LACK of innovation
has contributed to
Cambodia drop-
ping seven spots on
the World Economic Forums
2014-15 Global Competitive-
ness Report (GCR), which was
released on Wednesday.
The Kingdom ranked 95th
out of 144 countries, down from
88th in the previous report, ac-
cording to the GCR. Apart from
Myanmar, Cambodia was the
lowest ranked country in the
region, with Singapore, Malay-
sia, Thailand and Indonesia all
in the top 50.
The annual study takes into
account scores from 12 sepa-
rate areas, including infra-
structure, health and primary
education, nancial market
development, business so-
phistication, and innovation.
Labour market efciency,
which takes into account la-
bour relations as well as pay
and productivity, among
other measures, was the
only area of competitiveness
for Cambodia ranked inside
the top 80 countries, with a
standing of 29th. Innovation
and business sophistication
were classed as the countrys
least attractive areas, ranking
116th and 111th respectively.
However, not everyone
agreed with the assessment.
I dont think we are less
competitive, it is just because
we did the survey at not a right
time, In Channy, president
and CEO of Acleda Bank, said,
referring to the WEFs data col-
lection period, which came
during Cambodias political
deadlock and labour market
demonstrations.
If the survey was done now,
I think Cambodia would be
ranked higher because in reali-
ty our investment environment
and competitiveness is strong,
even stronger than some of our
neighbouring countries.
In addition to the overall
ranking, the WEF cited cor-
ruption, access to nancing
and inadequate supply of in-
frastructure as key barriers to
doing business.
Despite Cambodias labour
market efciency holding a
better standing than other ar-
eas, Van Sou Ieng, president of
the Cambodian Federation of
Employers and Business Asso-
ciation (CAMFEBA), said that
the countrys high density of
labour unions was among key
factors impacting Cambodias
business climate.
We can see an improve-
ment in anti-corruption, we
have seen some improvement
in nancial markets, and we
can see the improvements in
public services, he said. But
we do not see improvements
in the justice system. We have
seen even less with labour rela-
tions and the number of labour
unions, which cause strikes
and do not obey the laws.
Despite the fall in the rank-
ings, Hiroshi Suzuki, chief
economist at Business Re-
search Institute for Cambodia,
said the WEFs report would
have a limited impact on the
investors views of Cambodia.
So far, Cambodia has enjoyed
good performance in attracting
foreign direct investment by
having lower labour costs. That
said, reform and improving the
quality of human resources in
Cambodia is essential for the
continuous growth and com-
petitiveness of the economy in
future, he said.
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Forum says that improved infrastructure and transport would enhance Cambodias competitiveness. HONG MENEA
Competition ranking slips
Cambodia
set to take
second go
at rice bid
Chan Muyhong
DESPITE failing in its latest
attempt to win the Philippine
governments rice import bid,
Cambodia will once again throw
its hat into the ring when the
offer is reissued, industry repre-
sentatives said yesterday.
The Philippines National
Food Authority (NFA) in August
set up a bidding process, open
to all countries, for the import
of 500,000 tonnes of rice to
the country.
The NFA set a budget of
$456.60 per tonne, but no one
was able to meet that target,
with bids ranging from $460 to
$496.75 per tonne, according to
reports. The Philippine govern-
ment is set to reopen the bid-
ding, keen to replenish rice
stocks after severe weather
damaged local crops and drove
up domestic prices.
Thon Virak, director of state-
owned rice exporter Green
Trade, told the Post yesterday
that Cambodia would again go
after a slice of the NFA con-
tract, with an offer to supply
100,000 tonnes of the staple.
We will do what we can. But,
we cannot lose money just
because we want to get the
bid, he said.
Virak could not reveal the
price per tonne that Cambodia
was willing to offer, as it was a
competitive bidding process,
but acknowledged it would be
tough for Cambodia to win a
piece of the contract.
India, Australia set to
ink uranium agreement
AUSTRALIAN Prime Minister
Tony Abbott said yesterday that
India offered an abundance of
opportunities, on the first day of
a visit during which he is
expected to sign a long-awaited
uranium deal with the energy-
starved nation. Abbott is
expected to sign the deal to sell
uranium to India when he meets
Indias new Prime Minister
Narendra Modi, a fellow
conservative, in Delhi on Friday.
India and Australia kick-started
negotiations on uranium sales
in 2012 after Canberra lifted a
long-standing ban on exporting
the valuable ore to Delhi to meet
its ambitious nuclear energy
program. AFP
China to need 6,000 new
planes by 2033: Boeing
CHINA will need more than
6,000 new aircraft over the next
20 years, US manufacturer
Boeing forecast yesterday.
Flight demand in the worlds
most populous country and
second-largest economy is
increasing and diversifying,
Boeing said Chinese new
aircraft demand will reach
6,020 planes worth $870 billion
during the 2014-2033 period, it
said, compared to last years
20-year demand forecast of
5,580 planes. Boeing said that
6,930 passenger aircraft will be
plying Chinas skies in 2033,
three times more than now. AFP
Markets
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China paper in
extortion ring
C
HINESE police have
detained eight peo-
ple including the edi-
tor of a well-known
business newspapers website
for blackmailing dozens of list-
ed companies over coverage,
state media said yesterday.
Those held in the huge ex-
tortion case include the editor
and deputy editor of the 21st
Century Business Heralds site
and employees of two pub-
lic relations rms, the ofcial
Xinhua news agency said.
The national business
newspaper is part of the Nan-
fang Media Group, which is
owned by the Guangdong
provincial government, and
is well respected among -
nancial professionals.
Website staff colluded with
others to demand payments
for positive news from listed
rms and prominent compa-
nies, while publishing mali-
cious attacks on those who
refused to cooperate, the re-
port stated. The suspects also
forced rms to place adverts or
sign cooperation agreements
for high fees, it said.
In July, authorities detained
a prominent nancial news
anchor for state broadcaster
China Central Television, Rui
Chenggang, for setting up a
public relations company to
take payments for the type and
duration of coverage he could
deliver, according to media re-
ports. In another recent case,
an ofcial of online shopping
giant Alibaba claimed last
month that the IT Times Week-
ly magazine and its website
had published malicious re-
ports about the company, try-
ing to coerce it into a business
relationship.
The 21st Century Business
Herald website which has
ofces in Guangzhou, Shen-
zhen, Beijing and Shanghai
conrmed in a statement that
several employees were tak-
en away by police on Wednes-
day, but gave no details.
The two public relations
rms involved in the case are
Shanghai-based Roya Invest-
ment Services and Shenzhen-
based Nukirin, which special-
ise in nancial-related issues.
A Roya representative said
the company was assist-
ing the police investigation.
Shanghai police could not be
reached for comment. AFP
Watch
out for
a device
war
A Samsung Gear S
smartwatch is dis-
played ahead of the
IFA tech fair in Berlin
on Wednesday, and
an artists conception
of Apples yet to be
unveiled iWatch. As
hype builds over the
launch of the Apple
product, set for Tues-
day, Samsung pulled
out all the stops to
push its own new
Galaxy Gear S smart-
watch at a special
event two days before
the IFA ofcially
opens its doors. AFP/
MARTIN HAJEK
THE Anti-Corruption Unit last week
began a process of engaging local busi-
nesses to produce a set of guidelines to
help them to deal with corruption, yet
businesses say they have little option
but to engage in corrupt activities in
order to get their work done. Execu-
tive Director of Transparency Interna-
tional Cambodia Preap Kol sat down
with the Posts May Kunmakara to
talk about corruption and the busi-
ness environment in Cambodia.
How would you characterise the cur-
rent situation for business and cor-
ruption in Cambodia?
Local businesses in Cambodia in
general are involved in some form of
corruption, but I believe that most
of them are actually pressured to be
so. The majority of them are in fact
strongly against corruption.
It is said that if local companies dont
pay local authorities, particularly
customs and taxation ofcials, their
business will not be able to run. How
can this be avoided?
It is unfortunately true to a large ex-
tent in the current context. But with-
out being pressured to pay bribes or
extra fees local companies can actu-
ally be much healthier in the long
run. Given that corrupt practices in
Cambodia have been pervasive for
so long, most of the local companies
have accepted such practices as a
way life and a way of doing business
in Cambodia.
But given the recent progress and
developments in anti-corruption ef-
forts in Cambodia, local companies
need to change the way they think
and act. Thats why they need sup-
port from the governments Anti-
Corruption Unit to give them the
condence they need, and thats why
TI Cambodia also has a role to play
in promoting integrity in the busi-
ness world.
How prevalent are the business links
in Cambodia with high-ranking of-
cials?
There is widespread evidence
that businesses or rms operating
in Cambodia have links to high-
ranking ofcials, following a deeply
entrenched patronage system and
a widespread logic of clientelism.
These companies usually have more
competitive advantages and are
generally protected by the authori-
ties. But there are also many foreign
companies that have been running
a business successfully in Cambodia
without having such links to high-
ranking ofcials. Generally, SMEs
are more vulnerable to corruption
because they have less leverage to
challenge the corrupt ofcials who
demand bribes or extra fees.
The Anti-Corruption Unit is prepar-
ing a set of guidelines for business
to help stamp out corruption. How do
you see this playing out?
This government initiative is a
good starting point and is helpful
to business communities. The chal-
lenge now is how to ensure private
companies opt in and make use of
these guidelines effectively. Since
this is quite new to the business com-
munity, it will take sometime before
companies embrace the idea.
The opposition party is very vocal
about corruption in Cambodia. Will
their increased presence in parlia-
ment mean improvements in anti-
corruption efforts?
The opposition partys voice in par-
liament and their leadership in some
parliamentary commissions, espe-
cially the newly established commis-
sion on investigation and anti-cor-
ruption, will enable them to challenge
the government and anti-corruption
authorities to do more. However, their
oversight function will have limited
effect. They also have limited power,
so it is unrealistic to expect too much
from the opposition party.
This interview has been edited for
length and clarity.
9
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Business

This week in biz
Hun Sen blames business
for culture of corruption
PRIME Minister Hun Sen on
Wednesday defended his government,
saying its reputation for corruption is
undeserved, laying blame on the
private sector. Speaking at the Eighth
Regional Conference of Anti-
Corruption Intiative for Asia and the
Pacific in Phnom Penh, Hun Sen
conceded that corruption can occur
within government ranks when it
comes to public spending, but when
business is involved, he pointed the
finger squarely at the private sector.
Do not forget that the private sector
is the one who pays bribes. If the
private sector does not bribe, where
does the official get the money from?
he said.
Loan growth in the Kingdom
predicted to take off
CAMBODIANS are forecast to borrow
more than double the amount they
are borrowing today from micro-
finance and commercial banking
institutions by the year 2020,
according to the latest outlook from
the Credit Bureau of Cambodia (CBC).
According to the bureaus ndings,
presented on Tuesday, consumer
credit and outstanding loan
balances are set to increase 147 per
cent in the next six years from $5.7
billion to $14 billion in 2020. CBS
also predicts that micro-nance
and banking customers in total are
set to increase from 1.9 million to
3.3 million by 2020.
TI Cambodia: promoting integrity
Preap Kol, executive director of Transparency International Cambodia, talks to the
Post from his ofce in Phnom Penh yesterday. SRENG MENG SRUN
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Exciting opportunity on Australian Aid funded project
Excellent remuneration and conditions
Provincial location (to be determined)
URS has been appointed as the Implementing Service Provider for this Australian Aid funded
program.
The Cambodia Community J ustice Assistance Partnership (CCJ AP) continues the support that
Australia has provided over the past 16 years in the criminal justice sector in Cambodia; the
assistance has moved from being donor-driven and institutionally focussed to an increasingly
community oriented and locally owned and administered program of support to provide communities
with equitable access to justice.
The aim of CCJ APis to provide safer communities for women, youth and children through less
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A minimum of 5 years experience in a leadership role on a multidisciplinary team in a
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Strategy.
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Senior Provincial Program Adviser
Too big to fail
US Fed tells
big banks to
up reserves
T
HE US Federal Reserve
moved on Wednesday
to require top banks to
hold more super-safe assets to
reduce the possibility of a liquidity
squeeze like that which devas-
tated the industry in 2008.
Under new capital rules, the
largest US banks will have to keep
a higher level of very liquid assets
to be able to withstand a crisis
situation like that of six years ago,
when the government was forced
to prop up cash-squeezed major
banks and let hundreds of smaller
institutions fail.
But the new rule could have
an impact on bank earnings,
because they will have a smaller
portion of their assets available
for more lucrative lending and
investment activities.
The stringent minimum liquid-
ity coverage ratio will be applied
to banks with $250 billion or more
in assets, with a lower ratio set
for those with more than $50 bil-
lion in assets.
The toughest ratio will apply
to the 15 largest US banks, and
another 17 will come under a less
stringent ratio. In all, the rules
would force the banks to set aside
$2.5 trillion as high quality liquid
assets. AFP
ECB cuts rates to fresh lows
Simon Morgan

T
HE European Central
Bank surprised nan-
cial markets yesterday
by paring back its key
interest rates to new all-time
lows to ward off deation, and
it also cut growth forecasts.
The news sent the euro
down by more than a cent
against the dollar to the lowest
level in 13 months.
The head of the ECB, Ma-
rio Draghi, also said at a later
press conference that the
bank would launch a program
to purchase asset-backed
securities, a major policy de-
velopment that the markets
had expected.
The bank would launch fur-
ther measures if needed to
ward off the threat of ination,
he assured, while also reveal-
ing that the bank had cut its
eurozone growth forecasts for
this year and next.
Against a background of
growing concern that the
single-currency area is on the
verge of a dangerous spiral
of falling prices, the ECB cut
its central re renancing
rate to 0.05 per cent from 0.15
per cent.
It also lowered the deposit
rate to minus 0.2 per cent
from minus 0.1 per cent and
trimmed its marginal lending
rate to 0.3 per cent from 0.4 per
cent, it said in a statement.
Few analysts had expect-
ed any further rate cuts this
month, arguing that, with eu-
rozone borrowing costs already
at record lows, a cut would not
prove particularly effective.
Many observers had ex-
pected the ECB to embark on
a policy of what is known as
quantitative easing or QE, a
radical policy already used by
other central banks such as the
US Federal Reserve of buying
securities on a big scale to in-
ject cash into the economy. But
they said it might opt for a nar-
rower scheme of asset-backed
securities (ABS) purchases.
The pressure has increased
on the ECB to act after euro-
zone ination slowed to just
0.3 per cent in August from 0.4
per cent the previous month.
The latest data puts ination
worryingly below the central
banks target of just under 2
per cent and brings the single
currency area perilously close
to deation.
This is a climate of falling
prices which can cause busi-
nesses and consumers to de-
lay purchases, further reduc-
ing demand and prices and
pushing up unemployment.
But there is resistance to
QE because it would entail
the ECB buying up sovereign
bonds, which many critics
including the German central
bank view as monetary -
nancing, or printing money to
pay a countrys debt.
And the ECB is expressly for-
bidden from doing that.
ECB watchers felt the addi-
tional rate cuts were therefore
a way for the central bank to
duck a program of QE for now.
It looks like a stop-gap
ahead of more powerful stim-
ulus measures to be unveiled
in the coming months, said
Capital Economics economist
Jonathan Loynes.
But these moves are no
substitute for the much more
powerful policy action which
looks increasingly necessary
to prevent a renewed reces-
sion, the expert continued.
He therefore expected
Draghi to drop some heavy
hints of further action . . . An
ABS purchase program still
appears to be at the top of
the list, but Draghi will also
keep the door wide open to a
full-scale quantitative easing
program. AFP
European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi speaks during a news conference to announce the banks interest
rate decision in Frankfurt yesterday. In a surprise move, the ECB cut rates to all-time lows. BLOOMBERG
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Construction equipment
Item Unit Base Average (%)
Rice 1 R/Kg 2800 2780 -0.71 %
Rice 2 R/Kg 2200 2280 3.64 %
Paddy R/Kg 1800 1840 2.22 %
Peanuts R/Kg 8000 8100 1.25 %
Maize 2 R/Kg 2000 2080 4.00 %
Cashew nut R/Kg 4000 4220 5.50 %
Pepper R/Kg 40000 24000 -40.00 %
Beef R/Kg 33000 33600 1.82 %
Pork R/Kg 17000 18200 7.06 %
Mud Fish R/Kg 12000 12400 3.33 %
Chicken R/Kg 18000 20800 15.56 %
Duck R/Kg 13000 13100 0.77 %
Item Unit Base Average (%)
Steel 12 R/Kg 3000 3100 3.33 %
Cement R/Sac 19000 19500 2.63 %
Food -Cereals -Vegetables - Fruits
Cambodian commodities
(Base rate taken on January 1, 2012)
COMMODITY UNITS PRICE CHANGE %CHANGE TIME(ET)
Crude Oil (WTI) USD/bbl. 94.91 -0.63 -0.66% 4:44:29
Crude Oil (Brent) USD/bbl. 102.11 -0.66 -0.64% 4:45:11
NYMEX Natural Gas USD/MMBtu 3.86 0.01 0.23% 4:44:44
RBOBGasoline USd/gal. 260.98 -1.02 -0.39% 4:44:49
NYMEX Heating Oil USd/gal. 285.44 -1.14 -0.40% 4:44:00
ICEGasoil USD/MT 866.75 1 0.12% 4:44:51
COMMODITY UNITS PRICE CHANGE %CHANGE TIME(ET)
CBOT Rough Rice USD/cwt 12.53 0.01 0.04% 3:45:00
CME Lumber USD/tbf 347.8 -0.2 -0.06% 18:40:27
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Aasha Khosa
U
NTIL this month, women
in the remote village of
Katra Saadatgunj waited
until the cover of nightfall
for the simple act of using the toilet.
With no traditional toilets in this vil-
lage of some 5,500 people in Uttar
Pradesh state in the northern part of
India, women were forced to relieve
themselves in the surrounding fields.
The darkness provided a shield from
prying eyes, but it was also a source of
alarm for many women. These fears
were realised in May, when two teen-
age girls who had ventured out at night
to use the toilet were found raped and
murdered, in a case that made inter-
national headlines.
But now, social activists say the
tragedy is also an opportunity to
change the lives of millions of women
across India.
This week, a national nongovern-
mental organisation completed the
installation of 108 toilets in the village.
For 80-year-old Siadevi, the new pink
and blue toilet cubicle standing in the
middle of her courtyard is more than
a convenience it represents a new-
found sense of security for the women
of her household.
Before the toilet was installed, Sia-
devi says she would wake up in the
middle of the night to accompany
each of her four daughters and a
daughter-in-law to relieve themselves
in what she calls the open skies toilet
surrounding the village.
I am feeling happy and safer now,
Siadevi, who uses one name, said in
an interview.
The toilets were installed by Sulabh
International, a New Delhi-based
NGO focused on sanitation issues
among Indias poor. The groups
founder, Bindeshwar Pathak, unveiled
the toilets in a ceremony before local
officials and villagers.
In an interview, Pathak told ucanews.
com that the lack of toilets in villages
such as Katra Saadatgunj makes it
easier for perpetrators to commit rape
against women who wait until night-
fall to defecate.
This has a huge impact on womens
freedom, he said.
Mays brutal killings, he says, should
serve as a wake-up call in a country
where, according to UNICEF, 594 mil-
lion people almost half the popula-
tion practises open defecation. The
investigation into the deaths of the two
girls remains unresolved. Local police
initially arrested five men suspected
of rape and murder.
But they have yet to lay charges
against the men, raising the possibil-
ity that they may soon be released on
bail. At the girls home at the end of a
narrow dirt lane, the family now has
access to a new toilet provided by
Sulabh. But Ramkali, the girls grand-
mother, says it can never make up for
their loss.
We have got toilets now, but what
use are these to us after my girls are
gone? she says. UCANEWS.COM
Toilets, better sanitation to
help curb Indias rape crisis
A Mumbai slum resident uses a toilet that opens into the water below as children
swim nearby. AFP
BY THE NUMBERS
2.6 billion the number of
people, 72 per cent of whom live
in Asia, that do not have access
to improved sanitation.
23 - percentage of the
population in Asia and the Pacific
that still defecate in open areas.
4-8 - percentage of all disease
burdens in Africa and developing
countries in Southeast Asia
attributable to these unsafe
water and sanitation.
$9 billion a year estimated
annual losses of the Southeast
Asian countries of Cambodia,
Indonesia, Laos, Philippines and
Vietnam due to poor sanitation.
SOURCE: INDIA SANITATIONPORTAL
12 THE PHNOM PENH POST SEPTEMBER 5, 2014
World
Immigrants
try to storm
Calais ferry
to England
CALAIS Mayor Natacha Bou-
chart threatened to shut down
the French port as around 100
migrants tried to storm their
way onto a ferry to England on
Wednesday.
The mayor said Britain was
not doing enough to deter hun-
dreds of migrants turning up in
the town in the hope of getting
across the English Channel.
Ramps to the ferries had to
be raised to stop the migrants
boarding the ships after 85
overwhelmed security staff. A
second attempt to force anoth-
er entry into the port failed, as
150 migrants gathered around
the entrances to the dock.
Around 100 migrants suc-
ceeded in entering the port,
port officials confirmed, who
said the ramps were closed for
between 10 and 15 minutes
while police rounded the
migrants up.
Ferry companies confirmed
the huge intrusion. P&O, who
had a ferry at the quayside at
the time, said that it closed all
its ships doors, and that this
sort of situation was not usual
at the port, which has been a
flashpoint for illegal immigra-
tion for more than a decade.
The mayor told reporters that
she could take the decision to
block the port after meeting
French Interior Minister Ber-
nard Cazeneuve in Paris on
Tuesday. It would be illegal,
Bouchart admitted, but today
I want to make a strong gesture
towards the British.
The mayor took issue with
British immigration policy
which, she complained, is
considered as an Eldorado
by immigrants who have again
flooded into the northern port
over the summer.
Police said they are now
between 1,200 and 1,300
migrants in the town, mostly
from East Africa, and there
have been a number of
confrontations around the port
in August.
Bouchart reproached Lon-
don for demanding security be
boosted at Calais without pay-
ing enough towards the $13
million annual cost.
Bouchart said she had not
discussed the possibility of
blocking the port with the inte-
rior minister, aware that he
could not back such a measure.
But I told him that I hoped he
would have some strong nego-
tiations with the British.
Cazeneuve, who was in Lon-
don last Friday, had called on
the British to help finance
security at the port, a ministe-
rial source said.
Bouchart and Cazeneuve
also agreed on opening a day
centre for immigrants in Calais
and a night shelter for women
and children. Most are from
Eritrea or Somalia and are hop-
ing to reach the UK rather than
seek asylum in France. AFP
NATO summit opens as
US and Britain rally allies
A
NATO summit billed as the
most important since the
Cold War got under way yes-
terday with calls to stand up
to Russia over Ukraine and confront
Islamic State extremists.
The Ukraine crisis tops the agenda
but the 28 leaders must also tackle
new threats posed by Islamic State in
Iraq and Syria, and oversee a problem-
atic withdrawal from Afghanistan.
To the east, Russia is attacking
Ukraine, NATO secretary general
Anders Fogh Rasmussen said as he
arrived for the two-day meeting held
amid heavy security in Newport in
Britain.
To the southeast we see the rise of
a terrorist organisation, the so-called
Islamic State, Rasmussen said, add-
ing: We will take important steps to
counter these threats.
US President Barack Obama and
British Prime Minister David Cameron
warned their allies not to shirk the
challenge.
Vowing to confront Islamist radi-
cals in Iraq and Syria, they said they
would not be cowed following the
beheading of two US journalists. They
were equally trenchant over Ukraine.
Russia has ripped up the rulebook
[with] . . . its illegal annexation of
Crimea and its troops on Ukrainian
soil threatening and undermining a
sovereign nation state, they said in a
joint editorial in the (London) Times.
In response, they said NATO set
up in 1949 to defend Western Europe
against the Soviet Union should sup-
port Ukraines right to choose its own
future and build a persistent pres-
ence in Eastern Europe to reassure
nervous allies.
In Ukraine meanwhile, Kiev report-
ed continued active combat opera-
tions in the east, with more than 100
militants killed, while in Donetsk,
the centre of pro-Russian rebel resis-
tance, local authorities said the situa-
tion was tense after heavy shelling.
But reporters said the situation on
the ground looked quieter than in re-
cent days including in the rebel hub
of Donetsk and the city of Ilovaysk
which has been surrounded by pro-
Russian rebels.
In a clear effort to seize the initiative
and the headlines, Russian President
Vladimir Putin unveiled a peace plan
on Wednesday which he said would
produce a ceasere tomorrow, the
same day the European Union is ex-
pected to announce additional eco-
nomic sanctions against Moscow.
Ukrainian President Petro Porosh-
enko said a ceasere plan aimed at
ending the conict in the east of the
country would be signed today.
[Today] in Minsk a document will
be signed providing for the gradual
introduction of the Ukrainian peace
plan, he said on the sidelines of the
NATO summit yesterday. It is very
important that the rst element pro-
vides for a ceasere.
Representatives of Kiev, Moscow,
the separatist rebels and the pan-
European security group the OSCE
are due to meet in the Belarussian
capital today.
Rasmussen, however, was sceptical
about the proposal.
Let me stress we welcome all ef-
forts to nd a peaceful solution . . .
[but] what counts is what is actually
happening on the ground, he said.
We continue to call on Russia to
pull back its troops from Ukrainian
borders, stop the ow of weapons and
ghters into Ukraine, stop the sup-
port for armed militants in Ukraine
and engage in a constructive political
process. That would be a genuine ef-
fort to facilitate a peaceful solution,
he said.
A new rapid response force to be ap-
proved at the summit will mean there
will be a more visible NATO presence
in the East for as long as required, he
said earlier this week.
Crucially, the new force will be ro-
tated through eastern Europe, not
based there permanently, to remain
in compliance with a key clause in
the 1997 NATO-Russia Founding Act
which dened Europes post-Cold
War borders and prohibited the use of
force to change them.
On that count, NATO says Russias
March annexation of Crimea territory
is in clear violation of the Founding
Act, stoking speculation the treaty
could be revoked.
NATO offered Ukraine member-
ship in 2008, when Russia went to war
against another former Soviet state,
Georgia, but in 2010 the then pro-
Moscow president Viktor Yanukovych
opted for a non-bloc policy.
Ukraines Prime Minister Arseniy
Yatsenyuk has said, however, he will
ask parliament to endorse a member-
ship bid, a move bitterly opposed by
Russia which resents NATOs pres-
ence in the former Soviet states of
eastern Europe.
This is an obvious attempt to derail
efforts to start a dialogue on ensuring
national security [in Ukraine], Rus-
sian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov
said of his comments in Russian news
agency reports yesterday.
The Ukraine crisis is putting the alli-
ance under other strains. On Wednes-
day, a French diplomatic source said
that Paris had suspended delivery of
the rst of two warships to Russia in
response to pressure from its allies
who believe the sale sends completely
the wrong signal to Moscow. AFP
NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen (right) sits alongside British Prime Minister David Cameron (second right), US
President Barack Obama (second left) and British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond on the rst day of the NATO 2014 summit
yesterday; inset, demonstrators march against the summit in Newport, the town in Wales hosting the event. AFP
SOTLOFF FAMILY CHALLENGES JIHADIST KILLERS ON ISLAM
T
HE family of murdered US journalist
Steven Sotloff have paid a moving
tribute to his gentle soul, as a friend
challenged his jihadist killers to debate
the teachings of Islam.
Barak Barfi, speaking on Wednesday
for the Sotloff family in their first
comment since his beheading was
shown on a video released by the radical
group Islamic State, remembered him as
a thoughtful man who enjoyed simple
pleasures and was fascinated by the
Middle East.
The Middle East scholar switched to
Arabic at the end of his statement and in
forceful language addressed himself
directly to IS leader Abu Bakr
al-Baghdadi.
I also have a message to Abu Bakr.
Woe to you! You said Ramadan is a
month of mercy. Where is your mercy?,
Barfi said.God does not like aggressors.
I am ready to debate with you. Abu
Bakr, I come with kind preachings; I have
no sword in my hand and I am ready for
your response.
More angry language came
Wednesday from US Vice President Joe
Biden, who said the United States would
be relentless in its fight against IS after its
beheading of Sotloff and fellow American
journalist James Foley.
They should know we will follow them
to the gates of hell until they are brought
to justice. Because hell is where they will
reside. Hell is where they will reside,
Biden said in a speech, shaking his fist,
his face red with anger.
Sotloff had been drawn to reporting
from the worlds conflict zones because
he was unable to turn his back on the
suffering pervading the world, Barfi
said. Sotloffs father briefly appeared
holding a photo of his son, declining to
speak to media.
Barfi said the reporter was attracted to
Syria through a fascination with the Arab
world. He was no war junkie, he did not
want to be a modern-day Lawrence of
Arabia: he merely wanted to give voice to
those who had none, Barfi said.
From the Libyan doctor who struggled
with psychological services to children
ravaged by war to the Syrian plumber
who risked his life by crossing regime
lines to purchase medicine, their story
was Steves story. He ultimately
sacrificed his life to bring their story to
the world, added Barfi, insisting that
Sotloff was no hero. AFP
Russia has ripped up the
rulebook with its illegal
annexation of Crimea and its
troops on Ukrainian soil
THE PHNOM PENH POST SEPTEMBER 5, 2014
World
13
A FRINGE Philippine politi-
cian with a reputation for bi-
zarre protests was arrested on
Wednesday over his suspect-
ed involvement in a foiled
anti-Chinese bomb plot, au-
thorities said.
Elly Velez Pamatong, who
was declared a nuisance can-
didate and disqualied from
running for president in 2004,
was arrested after Justice Sec-
retary Leila de Lima said in-
vestigators were looking into
the possibility he was behind
the failed bombings.
I can conrm the NBI [Na-
tional Bureau of Investigation]
is looking into the possible
involvement of Pamatong,
de Lima told reporters.
She said Pamatong himself
admitted he knew the three
men arrested on Monday after
the NBI found a van with im-
provised explosives at Manilas
main international airport.
The three were reportedly
planning a series of attacks
against the Chinese Embassy
and businesses owned by
ethnic Chinese tycoons.
Shortly after de Limas state-
ments, NBI director Virgilio
Mendez said that Pamatong
had been arrested at the Ma-
nila airport upon arrival from
the southern Philippines.
He was arrested based on
a warrant issued in 2013
over a 2004 incident where
Pamatongs followers scat-
tered spikes on Manilas main
thoroughfare, puncturing the
tyres of passing vehicles to
protest his disqualication as
a presidential candidate.
Asked if they would use the
arrest to question him about
the bomb plot, Mendez said
it was part of their investiga-
tive intelligence technique.
Pamatong has previously
headed a group seeking US
statehood for the Philippines
and in 2008 led a suit against
Pope Benedict XVI accusing
him of human rights viola-
tions. He has also taken part
in anti-Chinese protests.
Justice Secretary de Lima
warned we may laugh at these
details but . . . we should not
belittle [the perpetrators].
What if they succeeded and
caused harm? The fact that
they contemplated such ac-
tivities is more than enough to
put us on guard, she added.
President Benigno Aquinos
spokesman Herminio Colo-
ma said the government had
assured China that it would
make all efforts to safeguard
their nationals despite the
new threat. AFP
Fringe politician held
over Manila bomb plot
Al-Qaeda launches S Asia branch
A
L-QAEDA launched
a new branch to
wage jihad in
South Asia as it
sought yesterday to invigorate
its waning Islamist extremist
movement, but experts said
it would struggle to gain trac-
tion with Indias Muslims.
Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-
Zawahiri said the new opera-
tion would take the ght to
Myanmar, Bangladesh and
India, which has a large but
traditionally moderate Mus-
lim population.
The group once attracted ji-
hadists from around the world
to training camps on the Af-
ghan-Pakistan border, but has
seen its inuence eclipsed by
the Islamic State jihadist group
ghting in Iraq and Syria.
India said it had asked se-
curity agencies to study the
Zawahiri announcement,
which experts said appeared
to be a reaction to ISs grow-
ing dominance.
This is just a publicity stunt;
it shows their desperation be-
cause IS is now showing that
they are the real threat in the
world right now, said Ajit Ku-
mar Singh, research fellow at
the New Delhi-based Institute
of Conict Management. Its
a ght for supremacy between
al-Qaeda and the IS.
In a video statement on
Wednesday, Zawahiri singled
out Assam, Gujarat and Kash-
mir Indian regions with large
Muslim populations along
with Bangladesh and Myan-
mar as territories the new or-
ganisation would target.
This entity was not estab-
lished today but is the fruit
of a blessed effort of more
than two years to gather the
mujahideen in the Indian
sub-continent into a single
entity, he said.
Kashmir, Indias only Mus-
lim-majority state, has a long
history of violence between
separatists and security
forces. But Kashmiri sepa-
ratists said al-Qaeda had no
role to play in their struggle
against Indian rule of the
disputed territory.
[Al-Qaeda] have no scope
here. Kashmir is a local po-
litical dispute and al-Qaeda
has nothing to do with it,
Ayaz Akbar, spokesman for
separatist leader Syed Ali
Geelani said.
Millions of Muslims ed In-
dia for what is now Pakistan in
1947 when the two countries
were separated at indepen-
dence, and tensions persist
between those who remain
and the Hindu majority.
Indian Muslims have also
been the victims of violence
led by Hindu extremists.
Hundreds died during the
2002 Gujarat riots, at a time
when Indias now Prime Min-
ister Narendra Modi was chief
minister of the state.
But the problem is that if
your support base is shrinking
in the Middle East, Afghani-
stan and Pakistan these
were al-Qaeda strongholds
if al-Qaeda is losing there,
you cant hope that al-Qaeda
will get some new recruits in
India or Burma.
Muslims are a minority in
Myanmar, and the stateless
Rohingya have complained
of persecution by the Bud-
dhist majority, but the coun-
try has not seen violence
linked to hardline interpre-
tations of Islam.
Bangladesh has only lim-
ited history of involvement
with Islamist causes abroad,
although local militant
groups that count Afghan-
trained jihadists among
their members have carried
out a series of attacks in the
country since 1999.
Bangladeshi authorities
said they were looking into
the video. AFP
Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri launched a new branch of the global
Islamist extremist movement on Wednesday. AFP
A
TALIBAN attack on a gov-
ernment compound in Af-
ghanistan yesterday killed 13
security personnel and left at
least 60 other people wounded when a
truck bomb triggered hours of ghting,
ofcials said.
About 20 insurgents armed with ma-
chine guns and grenade launchers were
also killed during the assault on the in-
telligence agency base in Ghazni prov-
ince, one of the most volatile regions of
Afghanistan.
The attack underlined growing inse-
curity in the country, which is beset by
a political crisis over disputed election
results at the same time as US-led NATO
combat troops are winding down their
war against the Taliban.
The Islamist group claimed responsi-
bility for the attack, in which the truck
blast at the compound entrance sent
broken glass raining down on civilians
in the city before police and soldiers
fought with the attackers.
After a three-hour gun battle, the se-
curity forces killed
all 19 attack-
ers, Assadullah
Ensa, deputy
police chief of
Ghazni, said.
Thirteen se-
curity personnel
two NDS [Na-
tional Directorate


of Security] agents, three police and
eight quick reaction forces were killed
in the attack.
The truck bomb was very strong, it
broke windows of houses and shops
around the building.
About 60 people, including many
civilians, were treated at Ghazni hos-
pital, Dr Memat, who only uses one
name, said.
He said that 15 people were in a critical
condition.
The disputed election has embold-
ened the Taliban, with fresh offensives
launched in the south and east, while
several provinces close to the capital Ka-
bul have suffered worsening unrest.
The two rival presidential candidates,
Ashraf Ghani and Abdullah Abdullah,
both claim they won the fraud-tainted
election in June.
NATO leaders met in Britain yesterday,
with discussions due to be held on future
support and funding for Afghanistans
security forces after all foreign combat
troops withdraw by December. AFP
Gone nuts
Reward out for
Grand Canyon
squirrel kicker
A
NIMAL rights group
PETA has increased its
reward for information
leading to the conviction of a
man filmed kicking a squirrel
into the Grand Canyon.
In addition to the $15,000
bounty it offered last month,
PETA on Wednesday added
a free vacation to the Grand
Canyon, including air fare and
lodging for two, in its bid to
identify the culprit seen in a vi-
deo that went viral on YouTube.
It showed the man luring a
squirrel with food to the edge
of what appeared to be the
Canyons South Rim, and then
with a flick of his foot, flinging
the animal into the abyss.
In the video, the man is
shirtless, wearing black shorts
and a straw hat. A witness who
videotaped the scene said the
man was speaking in French.
A second man with a camera
is wearing boxer shorts.
PETA said it and its Euro-
pean affiliates were sweete-
ning the reward in the hope of
reaching visitors returning
from overseas who may have
missed the story, or are just
now hearing about someones
trip to the US. AFP
US to probe police in
Ferguson, Missouri
THE US Justice Department is
to launch a civil rights
investigation into the Missouri
police department involved in
the shooting of an unarmed
black teenager, the Washington
Post reported on Wednesday.
Attorney General Eric Holders
agency would probe police in
Ferguson for evidence of a
pattern of civil rights violations
by the department, the Post
reported citing two unnamed
federal law enforcement
officials. It would be carried out
by the Civil Rights Division and
follow a process similar to that
used to investigate other police
departments, the Post cited the
officials as saying. AFP
British parents reunited

with their ill son in Spain
THE British parents jailed after
taking their critically ill son
Ashya King from hospital
enjoyed a reunion with him at
his bedside in Spain on
Wednesday but were barred
from taking formal custody of
him for now. Brett King, 51, and
his wife Neghemeh, 45, saw
their 5-year-old son for the first
time since the lifting of an
extradition order against them.
Officials warned the parents
must wait for a custody ruling to
know if they can take him away
from the hospital to seek the
alternative treatment they
wanted for his brain tumour. AFP
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An Afghan policeman inspects a government compound following a suicide attack in Ghazni
yesterday. AFP
Thirteen killed in Taliban attack
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Thousands evicted for new Suez Canal
Patrick Kingsley
T
HOUSANDS of Egyptians
have been evicted from
their homes without com-
pensation to make way for
a bypass to the Suez Canal, one of
the worlds most important trade
routes. The inhabitants of two vil-
lages in the path of the proposed
bypass say that 1,500 homes have
already been destroyed, with a total
of 5,000 under threat.
The 45-mile bypass, dubbed the
new Suez Canal by the Egyptian
government, will allow two-way traf-
c for a section of the canals 120-
mile length, creating room for more
ships, and potentially more revenue
for the cash-strapped country.
Announced last month, the proj-
ect is hailed inside Egypt as the so-
lution to the countrys dire economy
and unemployment crises, particu-
larly for the communities that line
the canal. But the villagers of Abtal
and Qantara, a few hundred metres
east of the existing channel, say they
are the bypasss rst victims.
A week ago, Ibrahim el-Sayed, a
25-year-old farmer with three small
children, was evicted from his home
by the army, which is supervising
the project. The family is now living
in a makeshift hut.
We asked them: where should
we go? This is our home, at least
compensate us, said Sayed. But
they responded that the army does
not compensate anyone. We told
them that wed have to live in the
street but they answered that this
is not our problem.
Asked by the Guardian for a com-
ment, an army spokesman said he
would look into the matter before
issuing a response. Soldiers told
evicted villagers they had no right to
live on the land as it technically had
always belonged to the army. Some
of those who argued back were ar-
rested, including Sayeds brother.
But villagers say it was the rst
time anyone had said they should
leave since they settled in the area
30 years ago, following the peace
deal that saw Israel return the Sinai
peninsula to Egypt. If we are invad-
ers, why did they leave us in this
place for 30 years? asked Sayed.
Why didnt they claim their right to
the land before?
The villagers are in an unenvi-
able situation homeless if they
stay silent, and labelled unpatriotic
if they speak out against a project
and a military institution that are
deeply entwined with Egypts na-
tional identity.
In a telling statement, Sherine al-
Haddad, the villagers lawyer, criti-
cised their treatment, but avoided
blaming the army: Its the army who
is taking the action against those
people, but its not their fault its
the fault of the Suez Canal authority
which gave the army maps saying
that the area is an empty one.
The evictions are the latest of sev-
eral developments that suggest the
bypass was not planned as rigor-
ously as it should have been.
The government says the project
will triple the canals revenues, lead-
ing local newspapers to call it the
project of the century and compare
it to Egypts surprise attack on Israel
in 1973 one of the proudest mo-
ments in modern Egyptian history.
But international shipping ana-
lysts say it is not yet clear if the
canal will have the nancial
impact that its makers desire.
Neil Davidson, a senior analyst
at Drewry, a maritime research
consultancy, said the level of use
of the canal is pri- marily driven
by macro-
e c o n o mi c
trade factors
on a global basis
ie well beyond
Egypt.
It remains to be
seen how much
Egypt will charge
ships to use the bypass,
and how efciently it
will deal with them as
they pass through two
factors that will deter-
mine the popularity of
the new channel.
Irrigation experts
also warn that the bypass is being
built far too close to the original ca-
nal, and the new building site has
begun to ll with groundwater. This
excess water needs to be drained at
the unexpected cost of over $1 bil-
lion a day, according to Haitham
Mamdouh, the head of irrigation,
engineering and hydraulics at Alex-
andria University.
Mamdouh stressed the projects
positive economic impact, in partic-
ular the work it has given to 50 Egyp-
tian construction companies. Youre
decreasing unemployment, and the
money the companies are earn-
ing is now circulating in the
Egyptian economy.
But he warned that the
whole project had been
rushed, and may yet have
several unforeseen side-
effects. According
to international
engineering stan-
dards, you need
to make an engi-
neering study,
an economic
study, an en-
v i r o nme nt
study and
those studies
should take
one year. But
the project
has been de-
clared without
them. THE GUARDIAN
A tanker sails through the Suez Canal near the port city of Ismailia in Egypt. AFP
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HE recent Phnom Penh Post
article reporting that the
Ministry of Information is
working on a pilot program
to regulate online content and
correct immoral wording on the
internet (Making a play on words,
September 3) is extremely worrying,
especially with regards to the con-
sequences that such a program
would be likely to have on freedom
of expression.
The internets importance in Cam-
bodia as an alternative space for the
public and especially for youth to
access and share information can-
not be understated. The countrys
newspapers and television and radio
stations are almost all controlled by
the ruling party or by those with
links to the ruling party. Thus, the
internet is increasingly becoming a
resource for those who seek more
varied information.
And it is more than just a place
where one can seek and share infor-
mation. The internet and in par-
ticular social media is increasingly
becoming a space where social move-
ments and activism are being fos-
tered. More and more young people
are turning to social media and blogs
to express themselves and to join
communities of like-minded people.
The internet is also crucial for NGOs
and civil society to share information
about human rights abuses, to build
public awareness around these issues
and to mobilise supporters, both here
in Cambodia and abroad.
The fact that the government is now
citing China and Syria as examples is
a clear indication that the govern-
ment is seeking ways to further clamp
down on one of the few remaining
spaces for free expression in Cambo-
dia. In Freedom Houses 2014 Free-
dom of the Press rankings, China was
ranked 183rd out of 197 countries and
Syria 189th; in comparison, Cambo-
dia was ranked 147th. Freedom
Houses 2013 Freedom of the Net
rankings put China third last and
Syria fourth last. These are the coun-
tries in whose footsteps the Cambo-
dian government is walking.
The governments moves to pass
new laws, such as the draft Cyber-
crimes Law and Telecommunications
Law, will almost certainly increase
the ruling partys control over the
management of internet infrastruc-
ture and services. These draft laws
are unambiguous: content that is
critical of the ruling party and of the
government will be censored.
Moreover, the fact that this pilot
program is being introduced at the
ministerial level as opposed to
being passed as law, subject to review
and debate at the National Assembly
is yet another worrying develop-
ment and an example of a growing
trend in Cambodia. The intention
of the government is clear: to block
anything that it sees as harmful
to them.
Without clear guidelines and an
independent body to oversee this
new pilot program, there is a very
good chance that censorship will be
widespread and used against all who
disagree with the government and
people in power. This so-called
initiative to censor certain words
without an independent body to
oversee the implementation in a
transparent manner will only further
jeopardise the fundamental rights of
freedom of expression and access to
information.
Until recently, the government had
been relatively supportive of online
spaces and infrastructure that would
enable citizens to interact in demo-
cratic ways. These recent moves
both legislative and ministerial are
a step backwards.
The government now has the option
of showing the Cambodian public
and the international community
that it wants to continue on the right
path which would be to continue
embracing the internet as a way to
empower its citizens or veering
from that path and being seen as an
authoritarian state no different from
the likes of China and Syria.
The shadow of authoritarianism
People browse the internet at a cafe near Wat Phnom earlier this week. The Ministry of Information is in the early stages of implementing a pilot program to manage immoral
internet content in the Kingdom. HONG MENEA
Comment
Chak Sopheap
Chak Sopheap is the executive director of
the Cambodian Center for Human Rights.
China and Syria are the countries in
whose footsteps the Cambodian
government is walking
W
ATER-STARVED
South Asian na-
tions have de-
vised their own
answer to the Ice Bucket Chal-
lenge taking the social media
world by storm, instead lling
buckets with rice and other
supplies for the needy.
Since June, thousands of
people worldwide have doused
themselves with a bucket of
icy water, then posted a video
recording of the stunt online
and challenged others to do the
same or pledge a donation.
The Ice Bucket Challenge
aims to raise awareness about
ALS, a condition of the nervous
system also known as Lou Geh-
rigs disease. However, in India,
a 38-year-old woman decided
to transform the #IceBucketCh-
allenge into the #RiceBucketCh-
allenge, encouraging people to
donate a bucket or bowl of rice
to someone in need.
The idea occurred to me
when I saw the Ice Bucket
Challenge on Facebook, said
Manju Latha Kalanidhi, who
works for oryza.com, a website
focused on rice research. You
feed someone hungry and you
arent wasting water, Kalanidhi,
whose campaign has attracted
138,000 contributors since it
was launched last Friday, said.
In Nepal, a #FillTheBucket
challenge has launched, asking
people to load up buckets with
food and medical supplies to
help families displaced by re-
cent ooding and landslides.
We received about 25 buck-
ets today and a local school is
bringing 100 tomorrow, said
Sunny Manandhar, whose
Kathmandu clothing store
Curves is serving as a collec-
tion centre.
At least 250 people have died
and over 14,000 families have
been displaced in Nepal after
torrential monsoon rains trig-
gered landslides and ooding,
devastating entire villages and
leaving thousands homeless.
Contributor Binayak Basnyat,
24, told AFP that although the
ALS challenge is viral world-
wide . . . this makes more sense
for Nepal. AFP
Thinking caps
ACROSS
1 Plaster strips
6 Persuade
10 Fit to perform
14 Birthplace of a hurricane
15 Kind of gum in food preparation
16 Data transfer rate unit
17 Good thing to have in the brain
20 Baby sitter?
21 Cornmeal cake
22 Disgust
23 FoxTrot cartoonist Bill
25 Cat in boots?
26 Michener genre
28 Bellyaches
32 Manuals are created for them
34 Easily maneuverable, as a ship
35 Jay Zs music
38 Fuse box replacers
42 Is inflicted with
43 Potential dilemma solver
44 Low-class joints
45 Smear-sheet topic
48 Like a clean room
49 Lunch meat shop
51 Cargo stower
53 Pinball place
55 Edible seaweed
56 Pension starter?
59 Cold cereal its not
62 Metalware for trays
63 Race on a strip
64 Narrow lane between buildings
65 Malamutes attachment
66 New Haven campus
67 Charlotte ___ (dessert)
DOWN
1 Nessie habitat, supposedly
2 Muscle malady
3 Junior misses
4 Thigh of a hog
5 Make malicious remarks
6 Kampalas country
7 Be king
8 Chat and then some
9 Pitching coaches concerns
(Abbr.)
10 Calculator of old
11 Money-lenders
12 Clare and Henry
13 First abode
18 Rabbit fur
19 Watch ones mouth?
24 Wine press residue
26 Parting is ___ sweet ...
27 Worlds largest continent
29 I goofed, man
30 Taint
31 Prior to, to poets
33 Baseball squeeze
35 Some court decisions
36 Field of expertise
37 Hey, listen up!
39 McKinleys spouse
40 Fairly large shoe size
41 Cows, old-school
45 Allayed ones thirst
46 Accuse without proof
47 Volcanic spew
49 Dentists occupational hazard
50 The Sorbonne is one
52 Senegal capital
53 Does a thespians turn
54 Whirling water
55 Range extending to Kazakhstan
57 Brings to bear
58 Eyelid inflammation
60 Womens sports supporter?
61 Wintertime woe
HAM IT UP
Thursdays solution Thursdays solution
Mouse musician goes
ear-to-ear with Disney
Lifestyle
17
THE PHNOM PENH POST SEPTEMBER 5, 2014
Hell hath no fury
Hollandes
ex-wife pens
kiss-and-tell
F
RANCES former first
lady Valerie Trierweiler
is being roundly at-
tacked for her kiss-and-tell
book about her acrimonious
split with President Francois
Hollande after his affair with
an actress.
The surprise memoir,
which hit bookstands
yesterday and in which she
recounts her stormy rela-
tionship with Hollande, was
described as outrageous
by Prime Minister Manuel
Valls and a dishonour
for France by right-wing
leader Marine Le Pen,
usually a trenchant critic of
Hollande.
In the book, titled Merci
Pour ce Moment (Thank You
For The Moment), Trierwei-
ler says she tried to commit
suicide in the presidential
bedroom with an overdose
of sleeping pills after news
of Hollandes affair with
actress Julie Gayet broke in
January.
She also questioned the
Socialist credentials of Hol-
lande who famously said
he did not like the rich by
claiming that he referred to
the have-nots as the tooth-
less in private. AFP
ELECTRO musician dead-
mau5 has launched a David
v Goliath challenge to enter-
tainment giant Disney, in a
dispute over similarities be-
tween his mouse-ears logo
and the world-famous Mickey
trademark.
Lawyer up, mickey, the
Canadian artist said on
his Twitter feed,
vowing not to
be bullied
after Disney
led a legal
document op-
posing his appli-
cation to trademark
his own logo in the
United States.
He told his nearly
three million Twit-
ter followers: Disney
thinks you might confuse an
established electronic musi-
cian/performer with a cartoon
mouse. Thats how stupid they
think you are.
According to his lawyers,
Disney led a 171-page trade-
mark opposition proceeding
on Tuesday against dead-
mau5s application to trade-
mark his logo, which he made
in June last year to the US Pat-
ent and Trademark Ofce.
They contend that dead-
mau5 has been using his logo
which shows a front-facing
mouse with large circular
ears, and two large eyes for
years in the United States and
around the world, without a
problem.
The deadmau5 front-fac-
ing mau5head is a registered
trademark in
30 countries
worl dwi de
. . . Disney is
now oppos-
ing the US
ling, said law-
yer Dina LaPolt.
She added: Giv-
en that the mau5-
head and other
identifying dead-
mau5 trademarks have
been used in the US and
around the world for almost a
decade, we wonder why Dis-
ney is only now coming after
deadmau5.
Our client will not be bul-
lied by Disney and is prepared
to ght to protect his rights to
his property, she said.
Disney did not immediately
respond to requests for com-
ment or conrmation on the
trademark spat. AFP
Deadmau5 arrives for the 51st Annual Grammy Awards in 2009. AFP
Asias answer to the Ice
Bucket Challenge: rice
Chinese water portraiture
This photo taken on Wednesday shows Leng Yuting, 26, posing underwater for her wedding pictures at a
photo studio in Shanghai ahead of her wedding next year. AFP
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Rent Located in BKKI, 01-02
bedrooms, Large living room, fully
and modern furnished, modern
kitchen, nice balcony, roof top gym,
very good condition for living
Price: US$1,200-US$1,400/month
Tel: 092 23 26 23/081 23 00 00
www.towncityrealestate.com


MODERN APARTMENT FOR
Rent Located in East of Russian
Market, 01-03 bed, large living
room, fully and modern furnished,
modern kitchen, roof top pool and
gym, nice balcony, lots of light, very
good condition for living.
Price: US$850-US$1,300/month
Tel: 092 23 26 23/081 23 00 00
WESTERN APARTMENT FOR
Rent Located in BKKI, 01-02 bed-
rooms, large living room, fully and
nice furnished, western kitchen,
very big balcony, very good condi-
tion for living, big parking lot.
Price: US$800-US$1,200/month
Tel: 092 23 26 23/081 23 00 00
www.towncityrealestate.com

WESTERN ROOFTOP POOL
Apartment For Rent Located in
BKKI, 01&02&03 bed, roof top pool
& gym, open living room, fully &
modern furnished, western kitchen,
nice balcony, very safety area,
Price: $1,200-$1,800-$2,000/m
Tel: 092 23 26 23/081 23 00 00
MODER ROOFTOP POOL
Apartment For Rent Located in Tonle
Bassak area (near Independent
Monument), 01&02 bed, roof top
pool & gym, open living room, fully
&modernfurnished, modernkitchen,
Price: $1,100-$1,400 m
Tel: 092 23 26 23/081 23 00 00
EcoResort intheCardamom Mountains
Memoria Palace & Resort
015-430-014/015-430-013
[email protected]
www.memoriapalace.com
(GREAT LOCATION) LAND FOR
Boutique, Hotel, Apartment
300m from pub street (Siem Reap)
Size: 2136m
2
, Price: 234$/m
2
Only
Tel: 097 45 55 877
HOUSE FOR RENT (BUSINESS)
Location: near russian market
House size: 4m x 20m
Tel: 016 721 266/ 077 494 976
RESTAURANT FOR SALE
Location at Riverside area near
Night Market. 2 oors. Lease
$1000/M, 4 years left. Price $24,000.
Include Deposit 5000$
Contact: 070 475 230 (Eng),
: 010 66 56 92 (Kh&Eng)
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INTERNATIONAL FLIGHT SCHEDULE
FROM PHNOM PENH TO PHNOM PENH
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PHNOMPENH- BANGKOK BANGKOK- PHNOMPENH
K6 720 Daily 12:05 01:10 K6 721 Daily 02:25 03:30
PG 930 Daily 13:20 14:30 PG 939 Daily 11:20 12:30
PG 938 Daily 06:20 07:30 PG 931 Daily 08:10 09:25
PG 932 Daily 10:15 11:25 TG 580 Daily 07:55 09:05
TG 581 Daily 10:05 11:10 PG 933 Daily 13:20 14:30
PG 934 Daily 15:20 16:30 FD 606 Daily 15:00 16:20
FD 607 Daily 17:05 18:15 PG 935 Daily 17:10 18:20
PG 936 Daily 19:10 20:20 TG 584 Daily 18:25 19:40
TG 585 Daily 20:40 21:45 PG 937 Daily 21:20 22:30
PHNOMPENH- BEIJING BEIJING- PHNOMPENH
CZ 324 Daily 08:00 16:05 CZ 323 Daily 14:30 20:50
PHNOMPENH- DOHA( ViaHCMC) DOHA- PHNOMPENH( ViaHCMC)
QR 965 Daily 16:30 23:05 QR 964 Daily 01:00 15:05
PHNOMPENH- GUANGZHOU GUANGZHOU- PHNOMPENH
CZ 324 Daily 08:00 11:40 CZ 6059 2.4.7 12:00 13:45
CZ 6060 2.4.7 14:45 18:10 CZ 323 Daily 19:05 20:50
PHNOMPENH- HANOI HANOI - PHNOMPENH
VN 840 Daily 17:30 20:35 VN 841 Daily 09:40 13:00
PHNOMPENH- HOCHI MINHCITY HOCHI MINHCITY- PHNOMPENH
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
PHNOMPENH- HONGKONG HONGKONG- PHNOMPENH
KA 207 1.2.4.7 11:25 15:05 KA 208 1.2.4.6.7 08:50 10:25
KA 207 6 11:45 22:25 KA 206 3.5.7 14:30 16:05
KA 209 1 18:30 22:05 KA 206 1 15:25 17:00
KA 209 3.5.7 17:25 21:00 KA 206 2 15:50 17:25
KA 205 2 19:00 22:35 - - - -
PHNOMPENH- INCHEON INCHEON- PHNOMPENH
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
PHNOMPENH- KUALALUMPUR KUALALUMPUR- PHNOMPENH
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
PHNOMPENH- PARIS PHNOMPENH- PARIS
AF 273 2 20:05 06:05 AF 273 2 20:05 06:05
PHNOMPENH- SHANGHAI SHANGHAI - PHNOMPENH
FM 833 2.3.4.5.7 19:50 23:05 FM 833 2.3.4.5.7 19:30 22:40
PHNOMPENH- SINGAPORE SINGAPORE-PHNOMPENH
MI 601 1.3.5.6.7 09:30 12:30 MI 602 1.3.5.6.7 07:40 08:40
MI 622 2.4 12:20 15:20 MI 622 2.4 08:40 11:25
3K 594 1234..7 15:25 18:20 3K 593 Daily 13:30 14:40
3K 594 ....56. 15:25 18:10 - - - -
MI 607 Daily 18:10 21:10 MI 608 Daily 16:20 17:15
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 6 14:50 17:50 2816 6 13:00 14:00
2817 7 13:20 16:10 2816 7 11:30 12:30
PHNOMPENH-TAIPEI TAIPEI - PHNOMPENH
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
PHNOMPENH- VIENTIANE VIENTIANE- PHNOMPENH
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
PHNOMPENH- YANGON YANGON- SIEMREAP
8M 402 1.3.6 13:30 14:55 8M 401 1.3.6 08:20 10:45
SIEMREAP- PHNOMPENH
8M 401 1.3.6 11:45 12:30
SIEMREAP- BANGKOK BANGKOK- SIEMREAP
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
SIEMREAP- GUANGZHOU GUANGZHOU- SIEMREAP
CZ 3054 2.4.6 11:25 15:35 CZ 3053 2.4.6 08:45 10:30
CZ 3054 1.3.5.7 19:25 23:20 CZ 3053 1.3.5.7 16:35 18:30
SIEMREAP-HANOI HANOI - SIEMREAP
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
VN 844 Daily 19:45 21:25 VN 845 Daily 17:45 19:30
VN 800 Daily 21:00 22:40 VN 801 Daily 18:20 20:00
SIEMREAP-HOCHI MINHCITY HOCHI MINHCITY-SIEMREAP
VN 3818 Daily 11:10 12:30 VN 3809 Daily 09:15 10:35
VN 826 Daily 13:30 14:40 VN 827 Daily 11:35 12:35
VN 3820 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
SIEMREAP- INCHEON INCHEON- SIEMREAP
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
SIEMREAP- KUALALUMPUR KUALALUMPUR- SIEMREAP
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
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YANGON- PHNOMPENH PHNOM PENH - YANGON
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SIEMREAP- YANGON YANGON - SIEM REAP
#90+92+94Eo, St. 217, Sk. Orussey4, Kh. 7 Makara, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
Tel 023 881 178 | Fax 023 886 677 | www.maiair.com
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2 Thu, 14:00 - Fri 22:00 1 Call/week
HKG-SHV-SGZ-HKG
(HPH-TXGKEL)
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MEARSK (MCC)
(4 calls/moth)
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SGN-SHV-LZP-SGN
- HKG-OSA-TYO-KOB
- BUS-SGH-YAT-SGN
- SIN-SHV-TPP-SIN
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SITC (BEN LINE
(4 calls/onth)
Sun 09:00-23:00 1 Call/week
HCM-SHV-LZP-HCM-
NBO-SGH-OSA-KOB-
BUS-SGH-HGK-CHM
ITL (ACL)
(4 calls/month)
Sat 06:00 - Sun 08:00 1 Call/week SGZ-SHV-SIN-SGZ
APL
(4 calls/month)
Fri, 08:00 - Sun, 06:00 1 call/week SIN-SHV-SIN
COTS
(2 calls/month)
Irregula 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
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OSA= Osaka, Japan
SGN= Saigon, Vietnam
SGZ= Songkhla, Thailand
SHV= Sihanoukville Port Cambodia
SIN= Singapore
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TYO= Tokyo, Japan
TXG= Taichung, Taiwan
YAT= Yantian, China
YOK= Yokohama, Japan
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 Ofce, #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: [email protected]
Qatar Airways (Newaddress)
VattanacCapital Tower, Level7,
No.66, PreahMonivongBlvd,
Sangkat wat Phnom, KhanDaun
Penh. PP, P: (023) 963800.
E: [email protected]
MyanmarAirwaysInternational
#90+92+94Eo, St. 217,
Sk. Orussey4, Kh. 7 Makara,
Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
T:023 881 178 | F:023 886 677
www.maiair.com
Dragon Air (KA)
#168, Monireth, PP
Tel: 023 424 300
Fax: 023 424 304
www.dragonair.com/kh
Tiger airways
G. oor, Regency square,
Suare, Suite #68/79, St.205,
Sk Chamkarmorn, PP
Tel: (855) 95 969 888
(855) 23 5515 888/5525888
E: [email protected]


Koreanair (KE)
Room.F3-R03, Intelligent Ofce
Center, Monivong Blvd,PP
Tel: (855) 23 224 047-9
www.koreanair.com
Cebu Pacic (5J)
Phnom Penh: No. 333B
Monivong Blvd. Tel: 023 219161
SiemReap: No. 50,Sivatha Blvd.
Tel: 063 965487
E-mail: [email protected]
www.cebupacicair.com
SilkAir (MI)
Regency C,Unit 2-4, Tumnorb
Teuk, Chamkarmorn
Phnom Penh
Tel:023 988 629
www.silkair.com
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2817 - 16 Tigerairways 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
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SIEMREAP- MANILA MANILA- SIEMREAP
5J 258 2.4.7 22:30 02:11 5J 257 2.4.7 19:45 21:30
SIEMREAP- SINGAPORE SINGAPORE- SIEMREAP
MI 633 1, 6, 7 16:35 22:15 MI 633 1, 6, 7 14:35 15:45
MI 622 2.4 10:40 15:20 MI 622 2.4 08:40 09:50
MI 630 5 12:25 15:40 MI 616 7 10:40 11:50
MI 615 7 12:45 16:05 MI 636 3, 2 13:55 17:40
MI 636 3, 2 18:30 21:35 MI 630 5 07:55 11:35
MI 617 5 18:35 21:55 MI 618 5 16:35 17:45
3K 598 .2....7 15:35 18:40 3K 597 .2....7 13:45 14:50
3K 598 ...4... 15:35 18:30 3K 597 ...4... 13:45 14:50
SIEMREAP- VIENTIANE VIENTIANE- SIEMREAP
QV 522 2.4.5.7 10:05 13:00 QV 512 2.4.5.7 06:30 09:25
SIEMREAP- YANGON YANGON- SIEMREAP
8M 402 1. 5 20:15 21:25 8M 401 1. 5 17:05 19:15
PREAHSIHANOUK- SIEMREAP SIEMREAP- PREAHSIHANOUK
Flighs Days Dep Arrival Flighs Days Dep Arrival
K6 130 1-3-5 12:55 13:55 K6 131 1-3-5 11:20 12:20
Roland Lloyd Parry
H
ALF-NAKED rev-
ellers pelted each
other with toma-
toes and bathed in
red goo in Spains Tomatina,
a esta that draws thousands
each year for the worlds big-
gest food ght.
Locals and visitors from as
far away as Australia, Japan
and the US crammed into
the eastern town of Bunol as
mushy tomatoes ew in every
direction in a world-famous
orgy of mush.
It was mental. Crazy. Peo-
ple jumping around, throwing
tomatoes and slipping over,
said Alex Harris, 20, from Dor-
set in England, his T-shirt torn
and chest drenched in juice.
It was awesome. Hectic,
chaotic, not for the claustro-
phobic, said Ben Brown, a
London-based Australian with
a head plastered with red pulp.
Its the most fun youll have in
an hour in your life.
One of Spains quirkiest and
best-known tourist draws, the
Tomatina was stained this year
by a row over its privatisation.
Mindful of safety and money,
the indebted local authorities
last year began charging rev-
ellers an entry fee and hired a
private company, Spaintastic,
to sell tickets.
The town hall said it had
to improve safety at the wild
festival, which before the pri-
vatisation drew 40,000 revel-
lers to the town, quadrupling
its population. Places are now
limited to 22,000.
The essence of the Toma-
tina had been lost. There was
no space and it was quite dan-
gerous, Bunols deputy mayor
Rafael Perez told AFP.
Now it is much more en-
joyable, he added. The entry
fee for the sell-out event has
enabled us to nance
the esta and make
it safer.
Re v e l -
lers drank
beer and
sangria until
trucks loaded
with 125,000
tomatoes rolled through
Bunols narrow streets and
teams on board heaped the
squishy load onto the heads of
the crowd.
The iconic food ght has
long been a draw for foreign-
ers. In Japan lots of people
want to come to the Tomatina
because its a crazy festival,
said Ayano Saito, a 25-year-old
woman from Tokyo.
This is the fourth time Ive
come to Bunol. I come every
year, yelled another Japanese
visitor, Masaki Ito, 33, his gold
jumpsuit splattered with pulp.
Locals hung great blue tar-
paulins over their shops and
houses to avoid a splattering.
The privatisation of the
lucrative event has sparked
squabbling among politicians
in the town.
Spains governing conserva-
tive Popular Party in opposi-
tion in Bunol has demanded
an investigation into whether
the process was carried out
legally by the town hall, led by
the United Left party.
We cannot look the other
way when there has been a
suspected case of corruption
in an illegal privatisation of the
festival, the PPs local spokes-
man Marcial Diaz said, alleging
there had been no public bid-
ding process for the contract.
The deputy mayor Perez
dismissed the PPs lawsuit as
a purely political move.
Giordano Mahr, 75, saw his
favourite bar in the centre of
town boarded up to shield it
from a sloshing, but he did
not mind.
This is a unique esta. We
really enjoy it. It brings a lot of
benets to the town, he said.
Like many Spanish towns
since the start of the nancial
crisis, Bunol is deep in debt 5
million ($6.6 million), according
to a study by nancial news-
paper Cinco Dias. The festival
started in 1945 when locals
brawling at a folk festival
seized to-
m a t o e s
from a grocers
stall and
let loose.
AFP
Spain relishes
tomato battle
Revellers pour tomato pulp onto a man during the annual Tomatina
festivities in the village of Bunol. AFP
Sport
THE PHNOM PENH POST SEPTEMBER 5, 2014 21
Mayweather fires back
at 50 Cent over jibe
UNBEATEN Floyd Mayweather
fired back on Wednesday at rap
music star 50 Cent over his
video taunt about the boxers
reading skills, as a title rematch
against Marcos Maidana looms.
Mayweather, 46-0 with 26
knockouts, meets Maidana,
35-4 with 31 knockouts, on
September 13 to defend his
World Boxing Council and World
Boxing Association welterweight
titles and WBC light
middleweight crown after taking
a majority decision over the
Argentine in May. But the
37-year-old American took
more verbal jabs at 50 Cent, real
name Curtis Jackson, over an
Instagram posting in which the
rapper vows to donate $750,000
to charity if Mayweather can
read one page of a Harry
Potter novel without
stumbling. Making fun of a
person because they cant
read is not funny. Its tragic,
Mayweather said. If I couldnt
read, it would make my
accomplishments that much
more impressive. The circus is
for clowns. My job is to focus
on boxing. I could [not] care
less. Mayweather posted a
photo on Twitter of two huge
recent paychecks with the
message: Read this
$72,276,000.00. God bless. AFP
Windies set to extend
dominance over Tigers
WEST Indies and Bangladesh
commence a two-Test series at
the Arnos Vale Stadium in St
Vincent today with the hosts
heavily favoured to extend their
dominance over the visitors
from the preceding limited-over
matches. The visitors may take
some heart in returning to the
scene of an historic Test
triumph over a severely
depleted Caribbean side on
their last campaign in the
region five years ago. However,
their performances in last
months one-day internationals,
where they were swept 3-0 and
were only really competitive in
the first match, hardly bodes
well for this fixture and the
following Test in St Lucia.
Usually strong in the spin
bowling department,
Bangladesh go into the brief
series without their hero from
the 2009 tour, left-arm spinning
all-rounder Shakib al Hasan,
who remains unavailable for
national duty to suspension for
disciplinary violations. AFP
Reid named the new
Australia hockey coach
GRAHAM Reid has replaced
Ric Charlesworth as coach of
the world champion Australian
mens field hockey team,
Hockey Australia (HA) said
yesterday. Reid, 50, has been
an assistant coach with the
Kookaburras since 2009 and
took joint charge of the team
at the Glasgow
Commonwealth Games in July
following Charlesworths
decision to step down.
Graham Reid was the
unanimous choice of the
coaching panel in what was a
very difficult decision, HA
chief executive Cam Vale said.
A former Kookaburra, two-
time Olympian Reid made 130
appearances for Australia
between 1984 and 1992,
ending his international career
with a silver medal at the 1992
Barcelona Olympic Games. AFP
Flyweight title contender
aims for Cambodian cheer
Dan Riley
O
NE Fighting Champion-
ships inaugural mixed mar-
tial arts event in Cambodia,
Rise of the Kindgdom, is just
a week away and anticipation is build-
ing rapidly among local ght fans at
the prospect of witnessing some of the
best cage ghting action ever seen on
home soil.
Headlining the international ght
card is a mouth-watering bout be-
tween the top two contenders in the
ONE FC yweight division, Brazils
Adriano Moraes and Geje Eustaquio of
the Philippines, with the title belt to be
claimed for the rst time by the trium-
phant combatant.
Moraes (11-1) promised a stand-
up war during an interview with the
Post last month, and his opponent Eu-
staquio also guarantees a showcase of
enthralling action.
Cambodia is a cool country, so I am
excited to ght there, the 25-year-old
Filipino told the Post.
I know that Cambodians are so
ready to cheer on every warrior show-
ing their best inside the cage.
Like many of his countrymen, Eu-
staquio came to MMA via the Chinese
martial art wushu. He currently trains
out of the fabled Team Lakay MMA
stable in Baguio City, northern Luzon.
He claims he is a complete ghter now,
after adding solid ground skills to his
impressive striking ability.
Out of the six victories registered in
his eight-ght professional MMA ca-
reer to date, Eustaquio took just one
by way of knockout with two submis-
sions and four decision wins. The past
two of these occurred in the ONE FC
cage, including the judges nod in his
ght against Kentaro Watanabe of Ja-
pan on June 14. That result saw him
granted a title shot against Moraes,
26, who is also riding a two-win streak
at ONE FC, both of which were from
submissions.
His jiu jitsu is obviously good,
so outsmarting him is the key, Eu-
staquio said of his rivals strengths.
But the Filipino has brains as well as
brawn, holding a Bachelor of Science
in Secondary Education and also now
studying a masters degree in physical
education with a thesis on weight loss.
However, Eustaquio has put his aca-
demic pursuits on hold as he attempts
to become the latest world champion
at the Singapore-based organisation.
I have suspended my thesis writing
because this ONE FC belt demands a
lot of time and preparation, he said.
I have devoted all of my time and
effort into it, physically, mentally, so-
cially and spiritually. So I feel that I am
so ready for this ght.
Tickets for Rise of the Kingdom are
on sale now at CTN TV studio during
the week and NagaWorld on the week-
end, as well at as the indoor hall of Old
Stadium on Sundays.
The entire card will be broadcast live
on local channel MyTV, while English
commentary footage will be available
on Fox Sports.
Geje Eustaquio (right) kicks fellow Filipino Eugene Toquero during their ONE FC yweight bout in Manila last December. ONEFC.COM
ARGENTINA yesterday an-
nounced two changes for
tomorrows Rugby Champi-
onship Test against the All
Blacks as they chase their rst
win in the southern hemi-
sphere competition.
Leonardo Senatore replac-
es the injured Paul Matera
to slot in at the back of the
scrum, joining veterans Juan
Martin Fernandez Lobbe and
Juan Manuel Leguizamon in a
rejigged loose trio.
In the backs, 53-Test wing
Horacio Agulla comes in for
Manuel Montero, with the
high-scoring Juan Imhoff
named to come off the bench
against the world champions
in Napier.
With wet weather forecast,
assistant coach German Fer-
nandez said their buildup
had focused on forward play
with the pack making better
decisions and hence better
cleaning out of the rucks.
Senatore, who set up Ar-
gentinas lone try against the
All Blacks in their 33-10 2011
World Cup quarternal de-
feat, said his side had to be
prepared for everything.
The try in the World Cup
is a great memory, but today
the reality is a different match
and I have to play the best
game, he said.
Argentina have narrowly lost
their opening two matches in
this years championship, go-
ing down to South Africa 6-13
away and then beaten 31-33
at home.
Defending champions New
Zealand drew their rst game
against Australia in Sydney
12-12 before crushing the
Wallabies 51-20 in Auckland a
week later. AFP
Saturdays Fixtures
N Zealand v Argentina 2:35pm
Australia v S Africa 5:05pm
Argentina change two
for All Blacks matchup
Aru conrms his class
ITALYS Fabio Aru confirmed
the huge impression he made
in this years Tour of Italy as
he won the 11th stage of the
Tour of Spain on Wednesday,
a 153.4-kilometre ride from
Pamplona.
The 24-year-old third in the
Giro moved up to seventh in
the overall standings in the
seasons last Grand Tour,
though, 2min 13sec behind
overall leader Alberto Conta-
dor of Spain.
Contadors chances of win-
ning his third Tour of Spain
title increased markedly
as Colombias Tour of Italy
champion Nairo Quintanas
campaign ended in dramatic
fashion as he broke a bone
in his right shoulder in what
was his second crash in as
many days.
For Aru though there were
only tears of joy at the end of
the gruelling stage.
Its unbelievable, said Aru,
who was winning his second
stage on a Grand Tour.
I am very pleased. It is fabu-
lous for me and for the team
who have all worked so hard
to get this to happen.
I dont think it is feasible for
me to win the overall title,
though I hope I can repeat this
stage victory.
Contador, who took over the
lead after Tuesdays stage, dis-
placing Quintana, came in
fourth in the stage itself, just
ahead of Britains 2013 Tour de
France winner Chris Froome.
Contador, winner in 2008
and 2012, holds a 20sec lead
over compatriot Alejandro Val-
verde, who was second on the
stage, while Froome is in
fourth, 1min 21sec in arrears.
I have many potential rivals
still in the hunt so I have to
look after my race and not try
and sit back and watch what
they are doing, the 31-year-
old said.
It is going to be difficult for
me to stay in the lead till the
end but I feel good and my
performance in the time trial
on Tuesday was a real confi-
dence booster, he added.
Quintanas chances of add-
ing the Tour of Spain title to
his Tour of Italy crown evapo-
rated early on the stage and
he was to undergo an opera-
tion yesterday.
Contador, who himself failed
to finish the Tour de France
after he broke his tibia in the
early stages, said he felt sorry
for Quintana.
I am sad for him because he
really prepared hard for this
race, Contador said. AFP
Italys Fabio Aru celebrates as he crosses the nish line to win the 11th
stage of the 69th edition of the Tour of Spain on Wednesday. AFP
Argentina No 8 Leonardo Sena-
tore (front) has been called up for
the teams championship match
against New Zealand. AFP
22 THE PHNOM PENH POST SEPTEMBER 5, 2014
Football
Qatar detains Britons
probing work conditions
BRITAIN said it was
investigating yesterday after
two British researchers were
reported detained in Qatar
while probing the working
conditions of migrants building
infrastructure for the 2022
football World Cup. We are
aware of reports that two
British nationals have been
detained in Qatar and we are
investigating, a spokesperson
for the British Embassy in
Doha told AFP. The Norway-
based Global Network for
Rights and Development said
on Wednesday that two British
staff Krishna Upadhyaya and
Ghimire Gundev had
disappeared in the Qatari
capital after complaining of
being followed by police. The
pair had been carrying out
follow-up research on the
working conditions of migrant
labourers in Qatar after the
authorities promised a raft of
reforms to address an
international outcry over their
working conditions as the
emirate prepares to host
footballs premier tournament.
Upadhyaya had sent a text
message to managers
complaining that they were
being harassed and followed
by Qatari police, the rights
group said. AFP
FIFA extends Nigerias
suspension deadline
FIFA on Wednesday set Nigeria
a new deadline to elect officials
to run its game, threatening
the African champions with
immediate suspension from
international competition if the
current regime did not step
down. The world governing
body said on its website that it
had decided to extend by one
week a deadline for Chris Giwa
to stand down as the head of
the NFF with his appointed
executive committee. Giwa, a
club owner, was appointed to
run Nigerian football in
controversial circumstances on
August 26 after the incumbent,
Aminu Maigari, was arrested
and held by the countrys
secret police, allegedly to stop
him attending a meeting of top
NFF officials. The ultimatum
means FIFA only recognises
Maigari as properly elected.
Giwa has said he will not step
down. AFP
Japan coach
to feel the
bite, Suarez
or no Suarez
J
APAN coach Javier Aguirre claims
the Asian champions are starting
from zero as he takes charge for
the rst time in tonights friendly
against Uruguay, but the Mexican
could quickly discover he does not
have the luxury of time.
Even without Barcelona striker
Luis Suarez, Uruguay have the street
smarts to dash any hopes Aguirre may
harbour of a honeymoon period after
taking over the Blue Samurai follow-
ing their World Cup op in Brazil.
Japan also face Venezuela in Yoko-
hama on September 9 and are sched-
uled to play four further friendlies, in-
cluding a glamour game against Brazil
in Singapore next month, before they
open the defence of their Asian Cup
title in January.
Failure to lift the trophy in Australia
will provoke serious questions of the
Japan Football Associations decision
to splash out a record $2.5 million a
year for the rebrand former Espa-
nyol manager.
The tough-talking Aguirre has read
the riot act before a ball has been
kicked in anger, banning mobile
phones from the dinner table at Ja-
pans training camp and warning he
will not tolerate prima donnas.
Only 12 of Japans World Cup travel-
ling party survived Aguirres cull last
week when he named his rst, 23-
man squad.
Aguirre, who led Mexico to the last
16 of the 2002 and 2010 World Cups,
said deantly: I dont care if players
have been part of the Japan setup in
the past. Thats irrelevant.
Paying lip service to the J-League
makes political sense, but Japan-
based players such as Yusuke Mina-
gawa and Yoshinori Muto are unlikely
to strike terror into opponents, while
the decision to overlook free-scoring
Gamba Osaka forward Takashi Usami
raised eyebrows.
World Cup trio Makoto Hasebe,
Keisuke Honda and Yuto Nagatomo
provide stability, but Aguirre left out
playmaker Shinji Kagawa after he suf-
fered a concussion in his last game for
Manchester United before sealing his
return to Borussia Dortmund.
The absence of Suarez, eligible to
play friendlies for his country after
appealing his four-month ban for bit-
ing Giorgio Chiellini at the World Cup,
helps Japans cause, especially after
he caused havoc in last years 4-2 win
over the Japanese when he was also
serving a suspension for biting.
Talisman Honda, who tearfully
apologised to the nation for Japans
pathetic display after they were
thumped 4-1 by Colombia in their
nal World Cup game, said the mood
in the camp was positive before to-
nights game.
Its pretty upbeat, he told local
media. Spanish is a bit difcult but
we can communicate [with Aguirre]
in English. He cracks jokes and were
getting to see what kind of a person
he is.
As Mexico manager in 2009, Aguirre
was suspended for three matches for
kicking a Panama player and he has
demanded the Japanese players show
more passion and play for the shirt.
His energy has echoes of former Ja-
pan coach Philippe Troussier, whose
bulldog style helped put them on
the map by winning the Asian Cup
and then steering them to the last 16
of the 2002 World Cup.
Im building a team which will be
a force at the 2018 World Cup, in-
sisted Aguirre, although Japan have
had several false dawns, not least
with Brazilian Zicos shambolic lead-
ership at the 2006 World Cup and
Italian Alberto Zaccheronis failure
this year.
The pressure is on Aguirre to jus-
tify his hefty salary, starting with the
Asian Cup in Australia.
But as Zaccheroni painfully discov-
ered, there is a gulf in class between
the continents top competition and
the World Cup, and Aguirre can ex-
pect unusually intense scrutiny of
his opening two games. AFP
Weekend Fixtures
Friday September 5
Japan v Uruguay 5:25pm
Saturday September 6
Brazil v Colombia 8am
Sunday September 7
Chile v Mexico 9am
Monday September 8
Serbia v France 1:45am
Mexican coach Javier Aguirre has demanded Japan play with cool heads as well as their
hearts following their World Cup op. AFP
Daniel FC out to take Tiger trophy in Singapore
Dan Riley
DANIEL FC are on the brink of
a remarkable triumph in the
2014 Tiger Street Football
series, as they head into the
concluding round in Singa-
pore this weekend.
The Cambodian squad cur-
rently tops the standings by a
single point over Vietnamese
outfit Dat Vinh Tien following
their stellar performance in
the Mongolian leg held in
Ulam Bataar last weekend.
Daniel FC compatriots
Anachak Baitong, who were
the best team when the previ-
ous campaign came to Phnom
Penh last year, are also in the
hunt, just three points back in
third place. Mongolias Blue
Wolves are fourth, Singapo-
rean team Touch N Go fifth,
Latin Lovers from Australia
sixth, Singapores MNA sev-
enth and MNS of Mongolia at
the foot of the table.
An extra bonus for Singapore
fans on Sunday will be the
appearance of former Barce-
lona and Chelsea star Deco,
who will be joined by some of
his past Portugal colleagues in
taking on a special Tiger team
comprised of the best players
from the three rounds.
Daniel FCs Phon Chanudom
and Blue Wolves Turbat
Daginna were selected by
Deco in Mongolia to join
Phnom Penh picks Dani Kouch
of Daniel FC and Khong Dinh
Hung of Dat Ving Tien, with
two more places up for grabs
in Singapore.
Members of the public have
also been encouraged to sub-
mit new ideas for street foot-
ball rules via the official web-
site, www.uncagefootball.com
in an attempt to bring back
the beautiful game.
A new rule chosen by Deco
for the Mongolian tournament
was The ball cannot stay in
own half for more than 30 sec-
onds (by Ah Fai from Singa-
pore). This is added to previous
accepted rule changes such as
Straight red card for diving,
Goals from goalkeepers count
triple and teams switch from
five-a-side to three-a-side in
the second period if the scores
are tied at half time.
Portuguese football legend Deco tries a rabona trick shot during the Tiger Street Football competition in
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia last weekend. PHOTO SUPPLIED
2016 UEFA European
Championships Qualifying
Sunday September 7
Georgia v Rep of Ireland
11pm
Hungary v Northern Ireland
11pm
Denmark v Armenia 11pm
Monday September 8
Germany v Scotland 1:45am
Gibraltar v Poland 1:45am
Faroe Islands v Finland
1:45am
Greece v Romania 1:45am
Portugal v Albania 1:45am
WEEKEND FIXTURES
International Friendlies
Russia 4 Azerbaijan 0
Lithuania 1 UAE 1
Ukraine 1 Moldova 0
Latvia 2 Armenia 0
Denmark 1 Turkey 2
Czech Rep 0 USA 1
Germany 2 Argentina 4
Rep of Ireland 2 Oman 0
England 1 Norway 0
WEDNESDAYS RESULTS
23
Tennis
THE PHNOM PENH POST SEPTEMBER 5, 2014
SERENA Williams roared
back from an early decit to
defeat Flavia Pennetta 6-3,
6-2 on Wednesday and book a
US Open seminal clash with
Ekaterina Makarova.
Playing in her rst Grand
Slam quarternal of 2014,
world number one Williams
kept her bid for a third-straight
US Open title and sixth over-
all alive as she stretched her
perfect record over the 11th-
seeded Italian to 6-0.
Im just so happy to have
won, the 17-time Grand
Slam champion said, noting
that shed had a tough year
in the majors.
It feels so special to be
back in a seminal, especially
in New York.
In Makarova shell face a
rst-time Grand Slam semi-
nalist. The 17th-seeded
Russian advanced with a 6-4,
6-2 victory over former world
number one Victoria Azaren-
ka runner-up to Williams
the past two years.
Im feeling amazing -
nally Im in a seminal,
said the Russian left-hander,
who had failed in four prior
major quarternals. Its a
great feeling.
In a battle of two 32-year-
olds, Williams denied Pennet-
ta a repeat of her best Grand
Slam performance a semi-
nal run in New York last year.
But the Italian gave Wil-
liams some tense moments in
the early going, seizing a 3-0
lead with two breaks of serve
in just eight minutes.
World number one Wil-
liams responded by winning
the next six games to take the
rst frame in less than half
an hour.
Serving for the set, Williams
found herself facing double
break point after a second
double fault of the game, but
reeled off the next four points
to avert the danger.
I felt she was playing really
well, Williams said of Pen-
nettas fast start. I dont think
I was doing too much wrong.
You have to believe you
can win all the time, Penn-
etta added.
I got on the court and tried
to do what I have to do to
bring the match home, but
she was really good today.
Although Makarova is in
the nal four of a Grand Slam
for the rst time, she goes in
knowing she has beaten Wil-
liams on one of the games
biggest stages in the fourth
round of the 2012 Australian
Open. AFP
Serena storms into
US Open seminal
Nishikori ends Japans wait
K
EI Nishikori became
the rst Japanese
man for almost a cen-
tury to reach the US
Open seminals on Wednes-
day after securing an epic 3-6,
7-5, 7-6 (9/7), 6-7 (5/7), 6-4
win over Stan Wawrinka.
Nishikori, the 24-year-
old 10th seed, triumphed in
four hours and 15 minutes,
his second marathon clash af-
ter needing four hours and 19
minutes to get past Milos Ra-
onic in the previous round.
Nishikori will tomorrow
face former champion No-
vak Djokovic of Serbia, who
reached an eighth successive
US Open seminal by down-
ing Britains Andy Murray 7-6
(7/1), 6-7 (1/7), 6-2, 6-4, for a
place in Mondays champion-
ship match.
Ichiya Kumagae was the last
Japanese man to reach the
seminals of the US Champi-
onships in 1918.
Nishikori, whose match
against Raonic ended at a
record-equalling 2:26am on
Tuesday, was stunned by his
win over third-seeded Wawrin-
ka, the Australian Open cham-
pion who won the pairs two
other meetings without drop-
ping a set.
I was tight at the start but
my body was OK. I felt more
condent after the rst set,
said the 24-year-old, who will
be playing in his rst Grand
Slam seminal having made
the quarternals in Australia
in 2012.
It feels amazing. I am play-
ing well and I hope to play
at 100 percent in the semi-
nals. Nishikori stands at 1-1
against Djokovic and trails
Murray 3-0 having lost to the
Briton in the quarternals in
straight sets in Melbourne
two years ago.
Wawrinka praised the stam-
ina of Nishikori who has now
spent more than 13.5 hours
on court at the tournament.
From outside he looks re-
ally dead, but we know on the
court he can play, he said.
Physically hes there, even
at the end of the match. I still
think that I was the fresher on
the court, but he handled it
well. AFP
Kei Nishikori of Japan returns a shot to Stan Wawrinka of Switzerland during their 2014 US Open mens singles
quarternal at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York on Wednesday. AFP
24 THE PHNOM PENH POST SEPTEMBER 5, 2014
Sport
Brick slayer
Sri Lankan policemen take part in a martial arts drill display during a ceremony marking the 148th anniversary of the police department in Colombo on Wednesday. The Sri Lankan police department was established by
the British colonial rulers in 1866. AFP
Controversy cant dim the NFL
F
ROM player safety issues
over head injuries to racism
issues over a team nickname,
off-eld controversy cannot
stop the nancial juggernaut that is
the National Football League.
The worlds richest sports league,
the NFL boasts an estimated US$10
billion in annual revenues and a
combined value for its 32 teams of
$45.76 billion, according to Forbes
magazine, which last month boost-
ed the average value of an NFL club
23 per cent to $1.43 billion, the big-
gest one-year increase in 15 years.
Thank record-setting television
contracts, part of an American
football broadcast rights total that
secures half the income, a kings
ransom matched by sponsorship
deals, game-day prots that in-
clude ticket sales plus merchandise
sales and licensing rights fees.
Games have stretched beyond
traditional Sunday and Monday af-
fairs to Thursdays, avoiding com-
petition with gridiron youth games
Friday and collegiate-dominated
Saturdays where future NFL talent
is honed, and ratings remain high.
The top-rated US TV program two
of the past three years was the NFLs
Sunday night game telecast.
The NFLs 95th season opens in
the early hours of this morning
here with the defending champion
Seattle Seahawks playing host to
the Green Bay Packers.
Super Bowl commercials cost $4
million for 30 seconds but expose
110 million viewers to sales pitch
messages, many of them specially
crafted for the big game that has
become something of an American
holiday,viewing parties across the
nation becoming commonplace as
the US sporting culture has evolved
to push the NFL past baseball as the
most popular American sport.
Major League Baseball teams
average $811 million, according
to Forbes, with a dream top-20 of
European football clubs averaging
a value of $1.05 billion, eclipsing
almost every other sport league
around the globe but falling short
of the NFL, whose bottom eight
clubs the least valued 25 per cent
of teams are the only ones worth
less than that average for what US
fans call soccer.

Controversy follows NFL, too
While some controversy lingers
over such matters as the Washington
Redskins nickname being an insult
to Native Americans and NFL play-
ers being arrested for domestic vio-
lence even after a league crackdown
on such matters, team fans across
the United States and a growing
number around the world are ready
for some football, American style.
The NFL was accused of turning
a blind eye to concussion issues by
former players but settled a lawsuit
with them, an original cap of $765
million waived by the league after
concerns it would not be enough to
settle all claims.
After criticism for a two-game ban
for a domestic violence issue as too
soft a punishment, NFL commis-
sioner Roger Goodell toughened
bans for such conduct violations,
including the possibility of a life ban
for repeat offenders.
Within three days, San Francisco
defensive end Ray McDonald had
been arrested on domestic violence
charges, seemingly set to be the rst
test of the new policy.
After racist and homophobic
locker room comments were made
by teammates to harass a Miami
Dolphins lineman, there was con-
cern how the NFL might react to an
openly gay player, but Michael Sam
has a place on the Dallas Cowboys
practice squad and when ESPN re-
marked about Sams shower habits,
one of his teammates during a pre-
season stint with St. Louis defended
him on Twitter, saying, Dear ESPN,
everyone is over it but you.
Redskins owner Dan Snyder has
refused to change the teams nick-
name and the league has backed
his position, although a federal
court ruling stripping the teams
trademark for being racist could
change matters.
I stand by the Native Americans
and what they want. Thats what we
want, Redskins quarterback Robert
Grifn III said. I cant really focus on
that. Im a football player and here
to play quarterback for the Wash-
ington Redskins until someone tells
me that we have a different name.
The ruling is under appeal but if even-
tually upheld would force a name
change or cost each team income
thanks to revenue sharing. AFP
Weekend Fixtures
Friday September 5
Seattle Seahawks v
Green Bay Packers 7:30am
Monday September 8
Atlanta Falcons v
New Orleans Saints 12am
Baltimore Ravens v
Cincinnati Bengals 12am
Chicago Bears v Buffalo Bills 12am
Houston Texans v
Washington Redskins 12am
Kansas City Chiefs v
Tennessee Titans 12am
Miami Dolphins v
New England Patriots 12am
New York Jets v Oakland Raiders
12am
Philadelphia Eagles v
Jacksonville Jaguars 12am
Pittsburgh Steelers v
Cleveland Browns 12am
St Louis Rams v Minnesota Vikings
12am
Dallas Cowboys v
San Francisco 49ers 3:25am
Tampa Bay Buccaneers v
Carolina Panthers 3:25am
Denver Broncos v
Indianapolis Colts 7:30am
Running back Demitrius Bronson of the Seattle Seahawks carries the ball against line-
backer Carlos Fields of the Oakland Raiders during a preseason game on August 28. AFP