Kevin Ponniah

IT’S day seven of the FIFA World Cup, and the night staff at Phnom Penh’s popular Score Sports Bar

and Grill are looking a bit sleep-deprived.

Some can’t help themselves yawning behind the bar as they wait for beer towers to fill.

As hundreds of rowdy patrons, a disproportionate number dressed in the bright orange of the Dutch national team, pack into the bar for the Australia

versus the Netherlands clash, the small team of bartenders and wait staff are perpetu- ally scrambling.

“We are open 24 hours and when you come here, I welcome you,” a female waitress wearing an American-style black-and-

white-striped referee shirt says mechanically with a half-tired smile before rushing off to serve another customer.

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AFTER being ordered to appear in front of National Assembly lawmakers yester-day over concerns of illegal logging at a hydropower dam site, Mines and Energy Minister Suy Sem instead used his time to talk up the benefits of the project to Cambodia’s development.

Sem was summoned to answer questions about the controversial Lower Sesan II dam in Stung Treng prov-ince after former provincial governor turned CPP law-maker Loy Sophat expressed concerns over claims of ille-gal logging in May.

But those questions remained unanswered yes-terday after Sem faced an assembly wholly comprising fellow Cambodian People’s Party lawmakers – who agreed with him that the Lower Sesan II was part of the solution to Cambodia’s electricity shortages.

“It’s not my duty to respond to questions about illegal logging,” Sem told reporters after the closed-door ses-sion yesterday, referring such allegations to the Min-istry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, which could not be reached.

Sophat, who last May voiced worries about illegal logging outside the dam’s reservoir area, said yester-day that he had not pushed the issue in parliament.

“I did address concerns about illegal logging, and I’m still concerned about illegal logging in this area,

Martin Chulov andSpencer Ackerman

A SPokESMAN for Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has said the leader won’t stand down as a con-dition of US airstrikes against Sunni militants who have made a strong advance across the country.

Iraq’s foreign minister, Hoshyar Zebari, on Wednesday made a public call on al-Arabiya televi-sion for the US to launch strikes, but Barack obama has received mounting calls from senior US politi-cians to persuade Maliki, a Shia Muslim who has pur-sued sectarian policies, to step down over what they see as failed leadership in the face of an insurgency.

Dianne Feinstein, the chair of the Senate Intelli-gence Committee, told a hearing on Wednesday that Maliki’s government “has got to go if you want any reconciliation”, and Repub-lican John McCain called for the use of US air power but also urged obama to “make very clear to Maliki that his time is up”.

The White House has not called for Maliki to go, but spokesman Jay Carney said that whether Iraq was led by Maliki or a successor, “we will aggressively attempt to impress upon that leader the absolute necessity of rejecting sec-tarian governance”.

US Secretary of State John kerry said that Wash- ington was focused on the people of Iraq, not

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Cash shop ‘locks up’ workerKim Sarom

THe owner of a former Wing Cash Xpress money transfer out-let in Ratanakkiri

province’s Banlung town was arrested on Wednesday for al-legedly locking an employee in a room for three days over suspicions that she had stolen a substantial sum of money, police said yesterday.

Deputy anti-human traf-ficking police commissioner Keo Davy said 23-year-old vic-tim Mann Chenda had been rescued on Wednesday after police broke down the door to the room where she was being held. Suspect Sok Kunthea, 34, is expected to be sent to court for charges today.

“It is a real crime, as we res-cued the victim in a locked room at the house,” Davy said. “So the perpetrator has to be punished based on the law.”

According to Davy, police received a complaint from the victim’s mother, saying that her daughter had been tied hand and foot and detained in a room since Monday.

The mother told police that Kunthea was attempting to ransom her daughter, who she believed had stolen some $5,000, part of a larger sum of $40,000 that the owner had

previously lost. Davy add-ed that when police raided the room, the victim wasn’t tied, and that the court will also investigate the missing money.

Wing CeO Anthony Per-kins emphasised yesterday that Kunthea’s outlet had ceased to be affiliated with Wing earlier this year after it

was found to have been over-charging customers. Wing, a mobile payment and money transfer company, handled $1.5 billion in transactions last year, mostly remittances being sent between people inside Cambodia.

“We regret to learn of the re-ported theft from Sok Kunthea, owner of the Kun Thea Money

exchange and Internet Shop in Banlung, Ratanakiri,” Per-kins said in an email.

“However, to clarify, this shop was terminated by Wing for overcharging customers outside the Wing price list, and ceased to operate as an authorised Wing Cash Xpress since April 28, 2014.” ADDITIONAL

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but the minister’s answer was acceptable, because the forest is not his responsibility,” he said.

During the session, Sem told ruling party lawmakers that 797 families would be affected by the hydropower dam in Srekor, Kbal Romea and Phluk communes, but would all be compensated with five hectares of land and company-funded housing.

“So far, the company has compensated 12 families with a package of cash,” he said.

Allegations of illegal logging outside the Lower Sesan II dam area have hounded the project since construction began in november.

The 420-megawatt dam is a joint venture between Cambo-dian tycoon Kith Meng’s Royal Group and Hydrolancang In-ternational, a subsidiary of state-owned China Huaneng Group, which formed Hydro-power Lower Sesan II Co Ltd in november 2012.

Logging concessions owned by Royal Group subsidiary Ang & Associates were suspended on October 16, following allega-tions of illegal logging in a com-munity forest.

A Post report in February re-vealed that despite the govern-ment ordering an investigation into the allegations, one was never launched.

Opposition lawmaker Son Chhay yesterday called any line of questioning about the prog-ress of the dam project in par-liament “illegitimate” due to the absence of Cambodia national Rescue Party lawmakers, who continue to boycott the 55 seats they won at last july’s election.

“CPP lawmakers today won’t dare to ask [Suy Sem] the hard questions,” he said.

“We [the CnRP] have never supported the Sesan II project. The construction firm has been unclear about how or when lo-cals will be compensated, and the government has continu-ously ignored reports of illegal logging and how devastating the environmental impact will be.

But prominent ruling party lawmaker Cheam Yeap said the

any complaints the opposition had were its own fault for re-maining outside the assembly.

“Today’s session was a mes-sage to our opponents,” Yeap said. “[Sem] took responsibility in front of the prime minister and national Assembly in de-fence of the ruling party.”

Away from the parliament, villagers set to be affected by the dam remain concerned.

According to Seak Mekong, the commune chief in a part of Stung Treng’s Sesan district that will be flooded by the dam’s res-ervoir, community members have been told little and con-tinue to wait for compensation.

“The compensation has only appeared in document [form], and relocation to the new site has not started,” Mekong said.

Conservation groups yester-day called for thorough inves-tigations into illegal logging and further assessment of the project’s potential negative impacts.

“Rather than just listening to the Ministry of Mines and en-ergy – who has been promot-ing the project – it’s important they hear the concerns of the affected communities and call in scientific experts to fully un-derstand the project's severe impacts," Ame Trandem, Inter-national Rivers’ Southeast Asia program director, said.

“The impacts the dam will have on the Mekong’s fish and the livelihoods of tens of thousands of people will un-dermine the country’s devel-opment efforts.”

Any “real” conversation about the $816 million project must involve a discussion about the accountability of all parties in-volved in the project, Meach Mean, coordinator of the 3S Riv-ers Protection network, said.

“This [questioning] is just like a show trial where the govern-ment can pretend they are con-cerned about legal compliance or about how the dam site will impact water quality or if there is logging outside of the reser-voir area,” Mean said.

“The voices of those be-ing affected will not really be heard.”

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Staff at Wing Cash Xpress process transactions in Phnom Penh this year. The owner of a shop that Wing cut from its roster in Ratanakkiri has been arrested after detaining a staff member for three days. VIREAK MAI

Chhay Channyda and Laignee Barron

FOLLOWING an exodus of more than 200,000 Cambodian work-ers from Thailand in the past two weeks, the junta has urged Cambodia to expedite planned border offices that will facilitate legal labour migration.

Responding to that request, Cambodia announced yester-day that the first “one-stop serv-ice office” would open at Banteay Meanchey’s Poipet Internation-al Checkpoint in July.

The office will assist migrant workers with the large amount of paperwork required by both countries, ideally streamlin-ing the process and enticing workers to go abroad solely through legal channels.

“At first it will be just a trial . . . Our purpose will be to help ille-gal migrant workers become legal workers,” Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training director-general Seng Sakada said at a labour migration work-shop in the capital yesterday.

He added that if the Poipet office is successful, additional offices will open in Koh Kong and Pailin.

“The important thing is not to prevent migration but to cre-ate a national policy and find appropriate measures to pro-tect labourers,” Sakada said.

Countless Cambodians travel

to Thailand every year for sea-sonal work, usually without the proper legal documents. An esti-mated 400,000-500,000 Cambo-dians of both legal and undocu-mented status contribute to Thailand’s unskilled workforce.

The Thai junta staunchly insists that despite trainloads and truckloads of Cambodian workers still fleeing across the border, it has no policy to crack down on its foreign workforce and has since implored work-ers to return as businesses complain of labour shortages.

Economists and rights moni-tors yesterday gave a tentative welcome to the border office initiative as an effective solution

to the influx of returned, and now unemployed, workers.

“The formal way for workers to work in Thailand should be as cheap and fast as possible,” said Chan Sophal, president of the Cambodian Economic Association, going as far as to suggest that passports should be offered free of charge.

But others still offered a word of caution.

“We would be really con-cerned about corruption that’s already a problem among immigration and customs offi-cials on both sides,” said Moe-un Tola, labour coordinator at the Community Legal Educa-tion Center.

Cambodian migrant workers wait at the border in Poipet to be transported back to their home province on the weekend. VIREAK MAI

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Scuba diving boss drowns in sea: police

PREAH Sihanouk provincial police on Tuesday found the body

of a South African scuba diving business owner who drowned in waters off Koh Rong island.

Kol Phallin, deputy police chief in Preah Sihanouk, yes-terday announced the death of Rowland Darryl Holmes, 57, who owned and worked as an instructor at Freedom Dive Center – a diving destination that includes guest bungalows.

The department ruled out foul play in the death, Phallin said yesterday, asserting the fact that Holmes was intoxicated while swimming most likely contributed to his drowning.

“After a technical official examined his body, it was determined that he was drunk when he went swimming,” Phallin said. “There’s no suspi-cion of murder.”

Holmes’s body was taken to Calmette Hospital in Phnom Penh by representatives of the United States Embassy.

In a death notice on the website for Independent Newspapers – a South African newspaper group – Holmes’s children say goodbye.

“May you be in peace! We love you! You will never be forgotten,” says the notice, published in South African newspaper the Cape Times on Tuesday. SEn DAVID

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Driver in court over boy’s deathKim Sarom

A POIPET resident is due in court today after military police arrested him over the fatal hit-and-run of a 10-year-old boy in Stung Treng province.

According to authorities, the suspect, Chan Changch-hing, 30, was driving a Range Rover from Preah Vihear to Stung Treng when Ouch Orn tried to cross the street in Veal Denh village.

The boy was hit and killed instantly, and Changchhing sped off, police said.

“Militar y and militar y police chased him for us after people reported the incident to them,” said Nav Vanny, director of traffic police in Stung Treng province.

Changchhing was appre-hended 30 kilometres from the scene after authorities set up a roadblock.

Vanny said Changchhing denied being involved but that authorities decided to send him to court based on witness reports and evidence.

Drivers often flee the scene of accidents to avoid prosecu-tion, while others fear the vio-lence of mob justice.

Hit-and-runs incidents accounted for about 42 per cent of all fatal crashes between 2007 and 2012, according to data from Handicap Interna-tional, which works on road safety issues.

Release our relatives: evicteesMay Titthara

THE families of four people from Pailin province’s Krinh village who have been incar-

cerated since March for alleg-edly living on state land are call-ing for their release.

Fifty-year-old Nheb Nharn said that he and his wife, Om Som Ath, had lived on the land in Stung Trang com-mune since 2000 and that her detainment at Pailin prison was unjustified.

“I appeal to the authorities to release my wife. We have never occupied the lands of other people,” he said.

According to Nharn, authori-ties accuse 19 families of living on an economic land conces-sion and in early March gave them a 15-day deadline to move off of the land or face arrest.

But, he said, the govern-ment has turned a blind eye to former governor Y Chhean and his wife Ban Sreymom, a parliamentary lawmaker, who are converting what is apparently state land into cassava fields.

Sreymom denied the allega-tions. “I have no ambition to grab state land, and if those lands were given to me for free, I still would not take them, because state lands are state lands,” she said.

Nharn said authorities told him that his wife and the three other inmates – Om Som Ol, Pich Sothea and Suot Mak – would be released if they

relinquished their land.“For my wife’s freedom, we

agreed to thumbprint [a docu-

ment] to give [away] 5 hectares of land . . . but my wife has not been released yet,” he said.

Om Sopheap also claimed to

have signed away land for the release of his sister, Som Ol.

“Because her 4-year-old

child always cries for his mother, I decided to thumb-print [the document] to give the land to [the state], but still

they did not release her.”Yi Soksan, a senior investi-

gator with rights group Ad-hoc, said that the authorities should formally give the land to the villagers.

“It is not difficult, because those lands belonged to the state; the state can give it to the villagers who do not have land.”

A woman holds her child earlier this week outside their house in Pailin province’s Krinh village, where locals have allegedly been detained for refusing to vacate the area. photo SupplIED

‘One-stop office’ to help migrants at Thai border

Police end Prey Lang event

Workers take strike to ministry

Sen David

POLICE in Kampong Thom province shut down a forest protection training session yesterday, citing fears that it was encouraging residents to protest against logging in Prey Lang, activists and residents have said.

Sar Mory, a deputy of the Cambodian Youth Network (CYN), said that his group organised the session to teach 30 residents about ways of pro-tecting the depleting Prey Lang forest and about their legal rights to the area.

“We taught them about ways to protect Prey Lang, because they are the people who live and depend on [the forest], so they really do not want to lose it because of logging,” Mory explained.

According to Mory, the training was cut short when five policemen arrived and ordered the group to end the session and for him to report to the Sandan district gover-nor. He said he refused the second order.

“The authorities seem to be scared when the residents have knowledge to protest . . . against logging,” he said.

Earlier this month, a public forum organised by the Prey Lang Community Network in Preah Vihear province’s Chey Sen district was cancelled after provincial authorities banned the meeting.

Twenty-eight-year-old Sok Channa, who attended yester-day’s session, said that resi-dents rely on advocacy and training from NGOs to assist their anti-logging efforts.

“We used to patrol and crack down on loggers by ourselves. We need training about the law so we can [find legal ways to protest against logging],” she said.

Oung San, Sandan commune police chief, said authorities should have been told about the training beforehand.

“Police did not say the train-ing is illegal, but [CYN] must inform local authorities first . . . We have a right to know, too,” he said.

But Mory disagreed. “We do not need to inform

the authorities first, because we have a right to offer train-ing,” he said.

Last week, activists working in Prey Lang forest accused military and police officers of being behind two illegal timber hauls they intercepted.

Mom Kunthear

MORE than 300 workers from a garment fac-tory in Phnom Penh’s Russey Keo district took their protest to the Ministry of Labour yester-day, marching there to demand government intervention.

The demonstrators, who were representing about 800 workers at Wincam Corporation who began striking 10 days earlier, demanded eight conditions, including an additional 2,000 riel for every hour of overtime and one day off for preg-nant women to receive prenatal care, said Ou

Sokheng, president of the Confederation of union for Cambodia Corporation.

“The workers [who are not unionised] asked my union to help them find a resolution to their demands, and today they decided to walk to the ministry,” Sokheng said.

A Wincam Corporation administrator said fac-tory officials are negotiating with relevant officials to resolve the situation.

A hectic scene also arose at the Harta Packaging factory in the capital’s Por Sen Chey district, where about 200 workers who have been on strike since January burned tyres outside.

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Continued from page 1 in the capital, Score is staying open 24/7 for the World Cup and will screen every game of the tournament.

“We work every night until the games finish,” a male bar-tender says, referring to his 14-hour shift, which stretches through three matches that, thanks to the extreme time difference between Cambodia and Brazil, kick off at 11pm, 2am and 5am.

“We are tired, but our boss promised to give us extra pay-ment. But we do not know how much yet,” another barman later told the Post.

Score is paying its staff “very well” in extra wages during the World Cup for the long nights they are working, according to manager François Lamon-tagne, who says he is also of-fering a bonus and a free trip to Sihanoukville at the end of the tournament.

But some bars and beer gar-dens catering to the Kingdom’s football fans may be breaching the labour law by failing to pay extra wages for the night-shift work, a union that represents service workers said.

“The problem is that the em-ployers do not pay staff work-ing during night shifts in ac-cordance with the labour law,” Sar Mora, president of the Cambodian Food and Service Workers’ Federation, said.

The law, he said, stipulates that workers should be paid 30 per cent extra for night work, defined as taking place be-tween 10pm and 5am.

Under the formula, some-one making $20 during a day shift should earn $26 for the equivalent night shift.

Many venues showing all the games have added new shifts to remain open at all hours during the tournament, Mora continued, but are failing to obey the night-time wage and other penalty rates.

General overtime hours should see workers paid a 50 per cent increase on their base salary, while overtime that oc-curs at night should see work-ers paid double.

“If you work more than eight hours per day, it must be con-sidered overtime,” Moeun Tola, labour program head at the Community Legal Educa-tion Center, said.

Harold Unland, owner of

the Sundance Inn and Saloon, which is also open 24 hours during the tournament, said that he was paying double time to overtime workers, be-cause it was “what the staff had asked for”.

But for the new 11pm-7am shift, the bar wasn’t doling out extra pay, because it was the same amount of hours as a normal shift, he said.

The benefits to his bot-tom line of staying open at all hours don’t appear to be great thus far.

“We’ve usually got a lot of people for the 11pm game. For the second game [at 2am], we have maybe only 10 people, and maybe only one person for the last game, apart from dur-ing the England-Italy match. We stay open just in case and because we said we would be open.”

A supervisor at Paddy Rice Irish Sports Bar, on the river-side, also said the venue was not paying extra wages to those working the night shift for the tournament, because it didn’t involve any extra hours being worked compared to a normal shift.

“Lots of people come to watch the games, but when there are no customers [late at night], the staff can take a rest or sit down. It’s not as busy as other places,” he said.

But while venues by and large aren’t abiding by the let-ter of the law, many are find-

ing other ways to compensate their workers.

“What we’re doing is giv-ing a bonus at the end of the month, which I imagine will be around $40 to $50” on top of a standard salary of be-tween $100 and $150 a month, said Eden Thomas of Eden’s Bar, which is open all night for the tournament.

“We pay workers as much as we possibly can . . . what the unions don’t seem to un-derstand is that the wages are linked to [astronomical] rents,” he said.

His staff seems to be con-tent with the arrangement and say they are excited by the general buzz surrounding the tournament.

“I like all of it. We get more customers. It only happens once every four years. It’s a beautiful time, and I’m very happy,” a waitress said. ADDI-

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Hungry thief served a beating by angry victimA DESPERATE 20-year-old was arrested early yesterday for allegedly breaking into a restaurant in Phnom Penh’s Prampi Makara district. According to police, the man snuck into the restaurant, waking the owner in the proc-ess. When the suspect ran for his life, the restaurateur gave chase, throwing kicks and punches along the way. Police apprehended the suspect, who confessed, saying he was driv-en to steal because of a lack of money for food. KOH SANTEPHEAP

Vigilante justice sees a culprit get just desertsA CAPITAL thief was given a taste of a Phnom Penh mob’s fury after he allegedly stabbed a shopkeeper during a robbery in Prampi Makara on Wednes-day. Police said the man entered the shop, threatening the owner with a knife. When the owner called for help, the suspect stabbed him and fled, but not faster than a posse of neighbours who gave him a serious beating. Police inter-vened, the victim was sent to hospital, and the suspect was sent to court. KOH SANTEPHEAP

Quarrelsome diners knife fellow customerA RESTAURANT rivalry result-ed in serious injuries for a man in Phnom Penh’s Tuol Kork district on Wednesday. According to police, the victim and friends were at a restau-rant when they got into an argument with a group at a neighbouring table. The angry diners left, but laid in wait out-side, attacking the victim with a cleaver as he left. The sus-pects fled on motos and are still at large. KOH SANTEPHEAP

Moto thief runs out of steam before escapingA HAPLESS alleged thief in Kandal’s Sa’ang district walked right into the hands of police after the moto he attempted to steal ran out of gas on Wednesday. According to police, a woman had gone to look for firewood in the for-est, parking her moto about 100 metres away. She looked up just in time to see a man making off with her bike. Unfortunately for the thief, however, the bike ran out of gas and sputtered to a stop just outside the forest, making it that much easier for police to nab him. NOKORWAT

One man finds solace in money after being jiltedA MAN in Kampot’s Kampong Trach district was arrested for adopting a strange and ulti-mately unsuccessful courtship tactic on Tuesday. Police said the man broke into the home of a sleeping widow he knew, stealing $50 from under her bed. He then waited for her to awake and tried to persuade her to marry him, pocketing the cash after being rebuffed. The police were called and the man reportedly confessed, say-ing he had been in love with the woman, and only decided to keep the money because she turned him down. NOKORWAT

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A bartender at a sports bar in Phnom Penh prepares drinks as punters wait for a World Cup game to start early on Wednesday morning. SCOTT HOWES

Working on the World Cup clock

Kevin Ponniah

OnCE every four years, when the FIFA World Cup rolls around, business surveys and studies are inevitably released telling us that all those hours spent watching football, think-ing about football and talking about football have a tangible effect on the global economy.

During the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, for example, sales data and intelligence firm InsideView estimated that the tournament would cost the UK economy $7.36 billion in productivity losses.

Closer to home, the Malay-sian Employers Federation found that more than 55 per cent of businesses had dealt with “high absenteeism or productivity loss” during the past two tournaments. Media reports suggest more of the same this year.

But despite the fact that games will be shown at ex-treme hours in Cambodia, employers here say they ex-pect that workers will still turn up to work on time and get the job done.

“I have no concern it’s af-fecting productivity. It’s creat-ing excitement and generally football in Cambodia is not

as hyped [up] as in Malaysia, for example,” Smart Axiata CEO Thomas Hundt said. “So far it’s positive energy instead of negative.”

According to Acleda execu-tive vice president and group chief operations officer So Phonnary, the bank has never had any problems with work-ers being less productive dur-ing the World Cup.

“According to our corporate culture, our staff are commit-ted and they manage their time. If it’s a holiday or a week-end they may go to bed late, but for weekdays, I don’t think my staff will do this.”

Chan Sophal, president of the Cambodian Economic Associa-tion, said that, despite not hav-ing any data, he would specu-late that the tournament has little impact on productivity.

“My guess is that it’s not that significant in Cambodia. Only a handful of people would be affected.”

Pascal Tadin, executive as-sistant manager at the Sofitel Phokeethra hotel in Phnom Penh, said that while he had noticed “enthusiasm and chat-ter” about the Cup among ho-tel staff, “we have not seen any negative impact regarding our staff’s professionalism”.

Will the World Cup hurt productivity?

This week in biz

Garment factory lists on the stock exchangeGarment manufacturer Grand twins International on monday became the first privately owned company to list on the Cambodia Stock exchange. after a five month IPO process hampered by delays and scepticism, the firm listed on the local bourse at $2.41 per share.

Ly Yong Phat eyes new television station plansPrOmInent tycoon and ruling party Senator Ly Yong Phat has set his sights on the media landscape, announc-ing on Friday plans to set up a television station. the entry of an LYP channel, proposed as part of a joint venture with unnamed media companies from France and thailand, would make it the 11th commercial tV station in Cambodia.

Mfone pays up wage debt to ex-workersmOre than 1,000 former mfone staff members received the remaining 30 per cent of their unpaid wages on monday. the failed teleco went bankrupt in February last year leaving behind a total wage bill of $4.4 million. a company official said the wage bill had now been entirely paid off and that they were now waiting on debtors to pay up an estimated $690,000 in owed funds.

Phnom Penh offices rise most in region: report OFFICe space rental prices in Phnom Penh are the fastest-growing in the entire asia Pacific region according to Knight Frank report published earlier this month shows. the June 3 quarterly report shows that monthly prime office rent prices in the capital reached more than $27 per square metre in the first quarter, up 18 per cent compared with the same period last year.

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A worker sits in front of sacks of rice stored in a warehouse at the O Karnkaset rice mill in Thailand’s Suphan Buri province in February. bLOOmberG

Coup rattles Thai rice industryR

ICe prices in Thai-land, the world’s second-biggest ex-porter, will probably

extend their gains because of shipping delays as migrant workers flee after the military coup, the Thai Rice exporters Association said.

As many as 70 per cent of the workers involved in load-ing grain at warehouses and moving it to vessels have left the country, Chookiat Oph-aswongse, the association’s honorary president, said by phone from Bangkok on Wednesday. That could delay deliveries by as much as three weeks, he said.

Thailand is set to account for 22 per cent of global rice exports this year, uS Depart-ment of Agriculture data show. More than 200,000 workers from neighbouring countries fled Thailand since the military seized power on May 22 amid fears of a crack-

down on illegal labour, ac-cording to the International Organization for Migration.

The military denies order-ing such a move. Thai rice prices have increased to a three-month high.

“We’re now facing problems of severe labour shortages and tight supplies, which will boost prices in the short term,” Chookiat said, predicting that rates may increase by as much as $20 in the next two months. Thai 5 per cent broken white rice, an Asian benchmark, climbed for a third week on Wednesday, adding 1.5 per cent to $398 a tonne.

A supply shortage after the military halted sales from state stockpiles is also bolstering rates, Chookiat said. The army stopped sales and curbed movement of grain to review the quality and quantity of reserves built up through a state buying program started in 2011. Inventories rose to 14

million tonnes from 5.6 mil-lion tonnes three years ago, uSDA data show.

Ample stockpiles in Thai-land and competition from Vietnam will curb gains, said Kiattisak Kanlayasirivat, a Bangkok-based director at Ascend Commodities Sa, which trades about 500,000 tonnes of rice annually.

“As prices rise, demand for Thai origin slows. Buyers will seek cheaper sources like Vietnam.”

While prices for 5 per cent broken white rice increased for the past three weeks, they have declined 9 per cent this year because of excess sup-plies in Thailand and India.

“Only about 500 tonnes of rice a day can be loaded now, compared with 2,000-3,000 tonnes normally,” Kiat-tisak said, referring to grain bought from Thai exporters for shipment to Africa. “I’ve never seen such slow loading

before. The shipment could be delayed by a month.”

The national Council for Peace and Order, as the junta is known, aims to solve the problem of illegal workers, Air Chief Marshal Prajin jun-tonneg, the head of economic affairs, said on june 17.

The council expects mi-grant labour will return to Thailand because of high de-mand, he said.

Workers load bags from warehouses onto lighters and onto vessels at ports, said Sermsak Kuonsongtum, direc-tor of Chaiyaporn Group, an exporter, and association vice president.

The loading rate is about 300 tonnes a day now compared with 1,500 tonnes normally, Sermsak said by phone from Bangkok.

The country has a migrant worker population of 2.23 million, including 1.82 mil-lion people who entered the

country illegally, according to the Department of em-ployment. Of the total, 1.74 million are from Myanmar, 395,000 from Cambodia and 96,000 from Laos.

elsewhere on Wednesday, The meeting between Gen-eral Chatchai Sarikalya, dep-uty head of economic affairs for the national Council for Peace and Order, and repre-sentatives from rice millers, farmers, exporters and rel-evant state agencies agreed on guidelines to help farmers cope with production costs.

Within the guidelines, ven-dors of chemical fertiliser, in-secticide, rice seeds, rice har-vesters and land owners who rent their farmland agreed to cut their product prices.

General Chatchai insisted the measures will not include cash or other forms of subsi-dies, but rather focus on how to lower farmers’ production costs. aFP / bLOOmberG

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Business

Chan Muyhong

Chinese firm huaxin Ce-ment Co has purchased a 40 per cent stake in Cambodia Cement Chakrey Ting Factory Co, a cement-making factory currently under construction in Kampot province.

huaxin’s $24 million in-vestment Cambodia Cement lifted the local factory’s work-ing capital to $60 million, up from $32 million, according to company representatives.

Ouk Bunseng, deputy man-ager of Cambodia Cement, said yesterday the deal would help to expedite the factory’s construction and pay back debts to the Bank of China.

“The total investment for the factory’s buildin is $100 million. We received $32 mil-lion from the shareholders and the other $67 million has been funded by Bank of Chi-na,” said Bunseng.

Cambodia Cement, which is reportedly 98 per cent com-plete and promises to produce more than 3,200 tonnes of the building material every day, is slated to commence opera-tions in August.

“We will be the biggest ce-ment producer in Cambodia,” Bunseng said.

According to industry web-site, www.globalcement.com, demand for cement in Cam-bodia reached 2.5 million tonnes in 2010 with that figure said to be increasing at about 10 per cent annually.

The latest available govern-ment data shows Cambodia imported more than 816,000 tonnes of cement from Thai-land, Vietnam and China dur-ing 2011. During the first six months of 2012, the Kingdom imported more than half that amount, 587,000 tonnes.

Cheng Kheng, chairman of real estate firm Cambodia Properties Ltd, called on fu-ture cement producer to en-sure high quality standards to meet growing demand.

“it is good for the con-struction sector if there is a reliable local cement pro-ducer because we are seeing an increase in the amount of high rise buildings being built, which places huge de-mand for cement imports,” he said. ADDITIONAL REPORTING

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Chinese firm acquires large stake in Kampot $100m cement factory

soma teams up for $50M millHor Kimsay

CAMBODiAn rice ex-porter soma Group is partnering with Thai agricultural firm

CP intertrade, in a $50 million rice mill in Kampong speu province, the companies an-nounced yesterday.

Construction of the mill is nearly 60 per cent complete and will be fully operational within the first quarter of 2015, with the capacity to produce up to 300,000 tonnes per year, sok Puthyvuth, chief executive offi-cer of sOMA Group, said.

Puthyvuth, who is also the president of the newly formed Cambodia Rice Federation (CRF), said soma was partner-ing with CP intertrade in order to leverage the Thai firms expe-rience with operating the tech-nology destined for the rice mill, as well as to help open up new markets for Cambodian rice.

“CP already has a big market, so we will place our exports into their channel’s,” he said, adding that the venture will increase volumes to existing markets like China and eu, while ac-tively seeking new destinations for local rice.

The company did not indi-cate either party’s stake in the joint venture, but according to

Puthyvuth, CP holds a majority share in the deal.

Prasit Damrongchietanon, vice chairman of CP Trading Group, said the new factory was equipped the with close to $20 million worth of the latest rice-production technology from japan and the us.

“[Cambodia] still has very high potential to increase [pro-

duction], maybe more than double from what we currently can do. so, the [priority] is how we can quickly bring the right technology to fit the industry’s needs,” he said.

David Van, acting secretary- general of CRF, told the Post that the size of the investment alone will make the new ven-ture a major player in Cam-

bodia’s rice industry. however, there were still challenges for the sector to overcome on it’s way to the governments target of 1 million tones exported by 2015, Van added.

“if the price is smooth like last year, we can export more, but if it fluctuates like it is cur-rently, [the goal] will be difficult to achieve,” he said.

Sok Puthyvuth talks during a signing ceremony between Soma Group and CP Intertrade regarding a ricemilling and refining project yesterday at the Hotel Sofitel Phnom Penh. HENG CHIVOAN

9THE PHNOM PENH POST june 20, 2014

BusinessSlow start for GTI as public firmEddie Morton

Grand Twins International (GTI) ended trading yesterday with a slight decline.

The newly listed company was changing hands at 9,480 riel ($2.36) per share at the 1pm close, down from 9,640 riel ($2.40) at the morn-ing’s opening.

douglas Clayton, CeO of investment firm Leopard Cap-ital, said GTI’s slow start may be linked to volatility in the sec-tor. Clayton pointed to Hong Kong-owned garment factory Yu Feng, which suddenly closed its doors and went out of busi-ness last week.

“[GTI] sounds like a progres-sive company, just in the wrong sector to serve as the CSX stal-wart,“ Clayton said.

GTI is just the second com-pany to list on the local bourse, following state-owed Phnom Penh Water Supply authority’s listing in 2012.

The garment maker is the first ever private company to go public in Cambodia.

GTI shares fell almost 5 per cent on the firm’s first day of trading on Monday after launch-ing at $2.41 per share.

EARLIER this week, garment manufacturer Grand Twins International became just the second company to list on the Cambodia Securities Exchange (CSX) in its three-year history. After numerous delays and scepticism from local and international in-vestors, the firm successfully completed the IPO process and commenced trading at $2.41 per share on Monday. CEO Liao Chung-te spoke with the Post’s Eddie Morton about the five-month leadup to Monday’s listing.

Why did GTI go public? Was it for the $20 million of increased capital or an effort to promote the company and the sector?

It’s our honour to be the first [private] IPO company. We were not only seeking the increase in capital but also recognition from the public. GTI had to build up its repu-tation and develop strong foundations in Cambodia to get to where it is and, with the garment industry continuing to expand yearly, hopefully

the public can see and appre-ciate this.

Can you guarantee complete transparency now that the firm has gone public?

absolutely, we can guaran-tee complete transparency to the public. This is the only way to gain trust from the public. That said, it might take a while to build this trust. But we will work hard and have more communica-tion with the public, espe-cially with the media.

What were the most difficult aspects of attracting investors to buy into GTI?

Cambodia does not have sufficient laws allowing foreign banking firms to purchase in-terests in local companies. The lack of these custodian laws has been the major con-cern of most of our investors. and some of the foreign inves-tors were not familiar with the Cambodia market so we had to spend a lot of time to ex-plain it to them.

GTI has a reputation as one of Cambodia’s better-run gar-ment factories. Was it always that way?

It took time to build up such a

reputation at GTI. We’ve been in Cambodia for almost 20 years and we have helped Cambo-dia’s government in economic development relating to the garment sector since the be-ginning. also, with guaranteed orders from adidas, we are able to improve our working envi-ronment. This, admittedly, isn’t easy for other garment facto-ries to catch up with.

Was GTI impacted by the strikes at the beginning of the year?

We were only impacted by

outside forces threatening our workers to stop work in or-der to facilitate their national strike plan. This caused us to shut down the operation for two days in order to guarantee our workers’ safety. although all our workers were willing to work, they were not able to. We arranged overtime to catch up the two days’ lost capacity. We have a strike record of zero.

In your opinion, would further sector-wide wage rises endan-ger the industry’s longevity?

even though the wages have

risen to $100 per month, it is still relatively low compared with China and neighbour-ing Southeast asia coun-tries. Meanwhile, Cambodia also has the advantage of a 0 per cent import custom du-ties for european countries, so that makes the industry’s current and future prospects more promising.

Sceptics say the wage dis-pute and a dependence on off-shore demand to fuel production make the indus-try too volatile for a promis-ing share offering. What do you think?

To GTI, it is not volatile at all. What we worry about is how to expand and hire enough work-ers at the fastest pace to fulfill all our customers’ demand. as the global economy recovers, we had huge order increases from our existing customers and had lots of inquiries from new customers.

There are several firms waiting to be listed and some are garment companies. But yes, it would be good to have a financial firm be listed as well.

This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

after IPO comes trust building

Grand Twins International CEO Liao Chung-te talks to the Post in the company’s factory in Por Sen Chey district last week. DANIEL QUINLAN

Empty seats

As freebies go, so too do investors

SOME of Japan’s best-known companies are seeing attendance

plummet at their shareholder meetings, but it’s not World Cup fever keeping investors away – it’s a lack of gifts.

Sony, Japan Airlines and fast-food chain Yoshinoya are among firms that have dum-ped the long-standing tradition of coughing up freebies for shareholders at annual meets.

In fact, some investors have been known to grab their gifts – ranging from food coupons to movie tickets – and leave be-fore execs open their mouths.

Sony’s conference in Tokyo yesterday drew fewer than half the record 10,693 inves-tors at last year’s meet. The firm had notified investors there would be no free gifts this summer, saying the move was aimed at being fair to those who could not attend, while acknowledging cost- cutting as an additional factor.

Turnout at Yoshinoya’s meet fell by about two-thirds this year – no coincidence, per-haps, that this is the first time it hasn’t given out coupons for its beef-on-rice bowls. afp

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Business

Amazon sets smartphone FireRob Lever

AMAZOn on Wednes-day unveiled its Fire smartphone, a high-end handset boasting

“breakthrough technologies” in a move aimed at challeng-ing market leaders Apple and Samsung.

Amazon founder jeff Bezos launched the device, Ama-zon’s first phone of its own, which has a 4.7-inch display, a high-definition camera and Amazon’s free help service.

The phone also ties in to Amazon’s vast array of other offerings, serving as a plat-form for digital content such as books, films and music and connecting users to the firm’s cloud storage.

“Fire Phone puts everything you love about Amazon in the palm of your hand – instant access to Amazon’s vast con-tent ecosystem,” Bezos said.

The handset has what Bezos called a “dynamic” display that shows images in three dimen-sions, and a scanner which recognises products for sale and a variety of other objects such as artworks.

Amazon described these features as “two new break-through technologies that

allow you to see and inter-act with the world through a whole new lens”.

The so-called “dynamic per-spective” uses a sensor system “to respond to the way you hold, view, and move Fire, enabling experiences not pos-sible on other smartphones”, Amazon said.

Another feature, dubbed “Firefly”, recognises things in the real world such as web and email addresses, phone numbers, bar codes and mil-lions of products “and lets you take action in seconds” to buy a product or create a music playlist, for example.

Contrary to some specula-tion, Amazon is not shaking up the pricing model for the smartphone market – selling the device to uS customers through AT&T at $200 with a contract, starting july 25.

Analysts had mixed reac-tions, saying Amazon did not offer a compelling reason for consumers to switch, but could appeal to its loyal customers.

“There are people who know and love all things about Ama-zon, and that’s the low-hang-ing fruit,” Ramon Llamas, mo-bile analyst at IDC said.

“This is an uphill challenge to get people to give up their

current smartphones and switch to this one.”

IbisWorld telecom analyst Sarah Kahn said the Fire is “not different enough” and doesn’t offer a big financial induce-ment for consumers to switch.

But she noted that “Ama-zon’s goal is always to get you

one click closer to purchasing, so this integrates completely with that strategy”.

Ian Freed, Amazon’s vice president for the Fire, said the product comes with a year-long Prime video-streaming subscription, unlimited cloud photo storage and twice as

many gigabytes inside the phone than a similarly priced iPhone or Galaxy S. But that doesn’t change the fact the faster-growing market is the nonpremium segment. The av-erage price of smartphones fell 10 per cent year-on-year in the first quarter. afp/bloomberg

not much to Like after 30 minute Facebook outageFACEBOOK returned to service yesterday after a major outage hit both its website and mobile apps across the globe for about 30 minutes.

“Earlier this morning, we experienced an issue that pre-vented some users from post-ing to Facebook for a brief period of time. We resolved the issue quickly, and we are now back to 100 per cent,” the com-pany said, but didn’t explain what caused the outage.

Visitors to Facebook’s homepage saw an error mes-sage reading: “Sorry, something went wrong. We’re working on getting this fixed as soon as we can.” The site couldn’t be accessed in Cambodia as well as in cities including Tokyo, johannesburg, London, Paris, new Delhi, Amsterdam, Mos-cow and Taipei.

Facebook’s mobile app was also appeared affected, with status updates and messages

not loading during the outage.Facebook, which had 1.28

billion monthly active users and 1.01 billion monthly mobile active users in March, is one of the world’s most-ac-cessed web services.

The outage prevents users accessing the social network leading many to decamp to other services like Google+ and Twitter. news of the outage spurred the #Facebookdown hashtag to be referenced on Twitter more than 49,000 times within an hour.

Some wondered whether productivity could pick up in the time Facebook was down.

The outage was long enough

that brands started to capital-ise on it.

Still, most seemed to make light of the situation.

The restoration of access, of course, didn’t extend to China. bloomberg/the guardian

Amazon.com’s first smartphone, the Fire, is displayed at its launch event in Seattle yesterday. afp

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IRREGuLARITIES amounting to more than $5 billion have been found at China’s sovereign wealth fund and two large state-owned banks, according to the state auditor, offering a glimpse into the opaque management of government-controlled firms.

China Investment Corporation (CIC), Bank of China and Agricultural Development Bank of China violated regulations in areas including asset selling, loan issuance and fraudulent invoicing, according to the national Audit Office (nAO). “The audit found CIC breached rules on overseas investment and risk control, domestic subsidiaries operation and financial manage-ment,” the nAO said in a statement.

The fund’s “financial management was rela-tively weak”, it said in the document.

CIC was established in 2007 to pursue higher returns from part of the country’s foreign exchange reserves, the world’s largest, and had assets of more than $575 billion at the end of 2012. One of its subsidiaries sold stakes in a securities firm in 2011 at their original purchase price, losing 1.26 billion yuan ($202 million) on their market value at the time, the nAO said in the statement.

Another CIC subsidiary made unauthorised investments in property developments totalling more than 8.2 billion yuan by March last year, the nAO said.

CIC vowed Thursday to address the problems. China’s state-owned companies generally oper-ate in a secretive manner and reports on their losses have been rare. afp

Auditor finds $5B in China irregularities

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Anthony Effinger, Zeke Faux and Katherine Burton

THe Milken Institute likes to keep up with the newest new thing, so it was no surprise that its April conference in

Los Angeles included a panel on investing in marijuana.

The moderator, Mike “Zappy” Zapolin, a trainee at Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc when junk-bond king Michael Milken reigned there, spent several minutes talking about Zappy Inc, a company he’s formed to prof-it from cannabis. Another member of the panel, Craig ellins, showed an infomercial for the hydroponic pot-growing chambers developed by his new company, GrowBlox Sciences Inc.

Todd Denkin described how Digi Path Inc plans to train people to work in pot dispensaries and become the new baristas of weed.

The three men – half the panel – share a pot pedigree: They all worked at GrowLife Inc, a money-losing com-pany in Woodland Hills, California, backed in 2011 by a much more pri-vate man. His name is David Weiner, and he’s had a hand in financing at least five penny-stock companies like GrowLife since 2004.

With GrowLife, Weiner joined an investor frenzy for any product relat-ed to marijuana. The sale and use of pot is now approved for medical pur-poses in 22 states and the District of Columbia and is legal for recreation-al sales in Colorado and Washington state. That has entrepreneurs and investors seeing green – both kinds.

“We’re talking about a $50 billion-$100 billion industry that’s just start-ing,” Zapolin said.

There are currently at least 130 pub-lic companies that claim to be in the marijuana business, and most of them are so-called penny stocks, defined by the SeC as stocks trading for less than $5 a share.

They often trade in the risky and potentially lucrative over-the-counter market. Brendan Kennedy, chief executive officer of Privateer Hold-ings, a firm that invests in the mari-juana industry, says he shuns the public companies.

“They’re full of shenanigans and charlatans,” Kennedy says. “Most of them will revert to zero.”

Hemp investors are undaunted. On some days, cannabis-related stocks account for 15 per cent or more of all penny-stock trading, according to OTC Markets Group Inc, which runs the trading venue once known as the pink sheets. Since September 2012, the market capi-talisation of those stocks has soared from $500 million to more than $7 billion as of May 30.

Asked whether Weiner had a stake in a half dozen other marijuana-re-lated companies, including Vape, Zappy and GrowBlox, Anthony Glass-man, Weiner’s lawyer, said that his client would not answer questions about his private finances.

The uS Securities and exchange

Commission, which last year formed a special task force to fight what it calls microcap fraud, has taken an interest in the burgeoning public pot companies. In May, the SeC, without naming any companies, warned investors to be wary, not greedy.

“Fraudsters often exploit the latest innovation, technology, product or growth industry – in this case, mari-juana – to lure investors with the promise of high returns,” the SeC said in a statement.

The SeC has suspended trading in eight public marijuana companies this year.

GrowLife shares soared 1,206 per cent in the 12 months ended on March 17, when they peaked at 77.7 cents, lifted by a mania for all things cannabis and by a steady stream of press releases extolling the company. On the day of the high, for example, GrowLife touted a research partner-ship with Vape, its neighbour.

unlike Weiner, who prefers to stay in the background, ellins, Denkin and Zapolin plug their companies by attending events such as the pres-tigious Milken conference. Another panellist at the pot session, Sue Rusche, CeO of national Families in Action, an Atlanta group that strives to keep drugs away from kids, says that when the men took the stage, “they all said this was a great day for the industry”.

Zapolin and ellins put out press releases of their attendance, and both made pitches for their new marijuana companies, keeping the great marijuana stock promotion machine rolling. BLOOMBERG

Hot stocks blowing smoke?

this growlife store in santa rosa, California is one of seven growLife outlets located in the United states. BLOOMBERG

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Maliki. Maliki’s spokesman, Zuhair al-nahar, said yester-day that the West should im-mediately support the Iraqi government’s military opera-tion against IsIs rather than demand a change of govern-ment. He insisted Maliki had “never used sectarian tactics”.

Obama is said to still be weighing military options, and us officials for days have quietly signalled that a deci-sion is not imminent.

General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the joint Chiefs of staff, confirmed that the us had received the request for air strikes but said that the fluid state of the Iraqi battle-field had left the us with incomplete intelligence, a factor that made an air cam-paign more difficult.

Fighting continued in Iraq yesterday as militants of the Islamic state of Iraq and the Levant (IsIs) raised their black banners at Iraq’s larg-est oil refinery. A witness said militants were manning checkpoints around the Baiji facility and that a huge fire in one of its tankers was raging. A security official in Baghdad said government forces were still inside the complex.

Witnesses at the Baiji refin-ery – between the cities of Mo-sul and Tikrit, both seized by IsIs last week – said insurgents broke through the perimeter of the site early on Wednesday and were within sight of ad-ministration buildings.

Their advance comes de-spite fierce resistance from Iraqi troops stationed at the refinery. There were reports foreign security contractors

had been sent to Baiji to pro-tect what is one of Iraq’s most important strategic assets.

Losing control of Baiji would be a critical blow to Iraqi forces still reeling from the capitulation of close to 50,000 troops last week, many of whom have since been re-placed by militias raised from the country’s majority shia population.

In Iraq, the spectre of full-blown sectarian war hangs heavily over those trying to decide how to deal with the crisis, with nationalistic aims often subsumed by sect loy-alties. Many shia volunteers heading to battle zones in-cluding Tal Afar say they see the insurgents more as a threat to their sect than to Iraq itself.

Battle lines for the de-fence of Baghdad have been drawn 40 miles to the north of the capital, near the city of Baquba, which remained a scene of intense clashes on Wednesday as jihadists again tried to enter the city centre. Their efforts to seize Baquba’s prison have so far been re-buffed, with irregular militias rushed from Baghdad prov-ing pivotal in the fighting.

Maliki pledged that Tal Afar would be retaken by yes-terday, and fighting late on Wednesday appeared to be tipping the battle in favour of Iraqi forces. However, a fear remains that nothing decisive can be achieved without in-ternational intervention.

“If we got us drones to hit Baiji, and jets to bomb IsIs elsewhere, we could slow them down,” said a senior Iraqi MP. “Without them we can do nothing. Without them we can’t win.” The guardian

Pressure mounting on Iraq’s prime minister Malaysian rescuers scour

sea in search for missing 35M

ALAysIAn au-thorities were yesterday sear-ching for 35 peo-

ple missing at sea following two boat accidents at a time when many illegal migrant workers head home to Indo-nesia for the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan.

In the latest reported inci-dent, nine people were miss-ing off western Malaysia after a boat believed to be bound for the Indonesian island of sumatra sank, said Mo-hamad Hambali yaakup, an official with the Malay-sian Maritime enforcement Agency (MMeA).

A passing vessel, MMeA boats and a helicopter res-cued 18 people yesterday, he said. Three of them were hos-pitalised, while the rest are in MMeA’s custody.

Another maritime official, Hamid Mohamad Amin, said interviews with survivors re-vealed the boat sank amid strong winds near the dis-trict of sepang, south Kuala Lumpur, early on Wednesday – and not early yesterday as originally reported.

The accident came to light as authorities expanded a search for survivors of an-other boat – also bound for sumatra – that sank just up the coast near Port Klang, the country’s main sea port, with 97 Indonesians aboard, also early on Wednesday.

nine bodies have been found after that accident, while 26 remain missing, though officials believe some

of them made it to land – it sank near the Malaysian shore – and fled the area to avoid being apprehended.

Officials said they were still investigating the accidents, but both boats sank in rough seas and were overloaded – with the first one carrying more than three times its capacity.

Masri, a survivor from the second accident who like many Indonesians only has one name, said the boat’s en-gine stopped suddenly about an hour and a half into the journey and water started seeping in.

“The passengers panicked

because many couldn’t swim. The sudden movement on-board caused the boat to tip over,” said the chicken seller, 36, who held on to an empty fuel plastic container for about 28 hours until he was rescued.

Large numbers of Indone-sians – many of them illegal migrants – return home an-nually from Malaysia for Ra-madan, which this year begins around the end of june and will culminate in late july with eid al-Fitr, Islam’s biggest fes-tival. Both Malaysia and Indo-nesia are Muslim-majority.

jumah, another survivor from the accident off sepang, said he had wanted to return

to sumatra after working ille-gally on a construction site in the capital Kuala Lumpur for three months.

“I felt I was going to die. The sea was very rough. I prayed and held on to the boat,” the 68-year-old said after disem-barking from a rescue vessel together with others looking tired, sunburned and hungry.

yesterday, divers were de-ployed, more vessels brought in and the search zone for the first sinking expanded along the coast in hope of finding more survivors, said Moham-ad Hambali. The 62 survivors of the first mishap have been detained by authorities. aFP

Malaysian search and rescue teams carry out a search operation near the area where a boat carrying Indonesian illegal migrants sank in seas off western Banting yesterday. aFP

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‘nazi guard’ arrested for war crimes An 89-yeAr-old has been arrested and denied bail in the uS for alleged war crimes as a teenage nazi guard at Ausch-witz. johann Breyer, a retired machinist born in Czechoslo-vakia to a uS mother, admits joining the Waffen SS at the age of 17 but denies being a guard at the concentration camp in German-occupied Poland.

He emigrated to the uS after World War II and is married with children and grandchil-dren. But German authorities in 2012 opened an inquiry on the suspicion that he was an accessory in the killings of hun-dreds of thousands of jews in 1944 as an Auschwitz guard.

uS media quoted court docu-ments saying Breyer has been charged on 158 counts of aiding and abetting nazi atrocities.

His lawyer dennis Boyle insists he was only in a field artillery unit of the Waffen SS and deserted weeks later after serving in the vicinity of Ausch-witz, but not as a guard.

“He was as much a victim of the nazis as anyone else. He did not volunteer to be in the SS, he did not want to be in the SS, he deserted from the SS,” Boyle said. AFP

Trailers trashedA US soldier investigates the scene of a suicide attack at the Afghan-Pakistan border crossing in Torkham, Nangarhar province yesterday. Three Taliban suicide attackers set ablaze 37 NATO military vehicles in Afghanistan yesterday, local officials said, though the coalition confirmed only that several vehicles were damaged. Also in Afghanistan, about 100 supporters of Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdul-lah demonstrated in Kabul yesterday against alleged election fraud in the first public protest of a growing political crisis. Abdullah boycotted the vote count on Wednesday, saying he was the victim of ‘blatant fraud’ in the run-off election to choose a successor to President Hamid Karzai in Afghanistan’s first democratic transfer of power. His announcement threw the election into doubt as Afghan officials and international diplomats scrambled to keep the process on track ahead of preliminary results due out on July 2. AFP

Man convicted of kidnapping daughter’s killer

A 76-yeAr-old French-man was convicted on Wednesday of having kidnapped

a German doctor who had killed his daughter, but he avoided jail time as the court handed down a suspended sentence.

The court in the eastern French border town of Mul-house gave Andre Bamberski a suspended one-year sen-tence for having abducted dieter Krombach in Germany and brought him to France to face trial.

Krombach was found bound and gagged in 2009 near the courthouse in Mul-house after Bamberski hired a kidnap team who snatched the former doctor from his home in the southern Ger-man town of Scheidegg.

Bamberski said he was “a bit disappointed” by the ruling, believing he should have been acquitted because he had a “moral compulsion” to act. He said he did not plan to appeal.

Krombach was convicted in 2011 over the death of Bam-berski’s 14-year-old daughter Kalinka – who was living at the German’s home with her mother and younger brother – in 1982.

Germany cleared Krom-bach of her death and refused to extradite him. But Bamber-ski was convinced of his guilt, especially after Krombach was convicted of drugging and raping a 16-year-old pa-tient in 1997.

France’s top court in April confirmed Krombach’s con-viction for “deliberate vio-lence leading to involuntary death” and his 15-year prison sentence.

The two men who carried out the kidnapping – Anton Krasniqi of Kosovo and Geor-gian Kacha Bablovani – were also found guilty and each sentenced to a year in prison.

Krombach, 79, did not travel from prison in Paris to attend the trial for health rea-sons. AFP

Mum’s the word

Sexist jeers in debate on mothering

Sexist shouts from go-verning party members repeatedly interrupted

a tokyo assembly woman during a debate about how to support child-rearing women in a country facing a popula-tion crisis.

Ayaka shiomura, 35, was questioning senior figures in the city administration on plans to help current and fu-ture mothers when the abuse erupted from seats occupied by members of Prime Minister shinzo Abe’s Liberal Demo-cratic Party (LDP).

shouts of “Why don’t you get married?” and “Are you not able to have a baby?” could be heard as she spoke, said fellow assembly member shun Oto-kita, of shiomura’s opposition Your Party.

shiomura continued, despite being reduced to tears during the debate on Wednesday, her colleague added.

Japan has one of the lowest rates of female workforce participation in the developed world and most economists agree it badly needs to boost the number of working wo-men. AFP

Several held as Vietnam breaks up China rallyVietnamese authorities broke up a small anti-China protest in Hanoi and detained several people yesterday, activists said, a day after high-level talks over an oil rig in disputed waters ended in deadlock. around a dozen activists briefly waved banners and shouted “Chinese oil rig get out of Vietnam!” and “silence is cowardice” – a dig at Hanoi’s handling of the dispute – before police forced them to disperse. around seven activists were detained by police, according to reports posted on activist blogs. the police did not confirm the detentions. aFP

S Korea to hold live-fire drill near disputed isletssoutH Korean military said yesterday that it would hold a rare live-fire drill near islets also claimed by Japan in a move likely to further raise diplomatic tensions with tokyo. the navy plans to hold the exercise near the seoul-controlled chain of islets, called Dokdo by the south and takeshima by Japan, today, the Defence ministry said. seoul’s navy and coastguard have for years staged joint exercises near Dokdo but those did not involve live-fire drills. Friday’s naval drill is not part of the biannual exercises. aFP

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Chinese anti-graft trio get jailT

hree Chinese anti-corruption activists were sentenced to up to six and a half

years in prison yesterday, a lawyer said, the latest in their grassroots movement to be jailed despite an official drive against graft.

A court in the central prov-ince of jiangxi sentenced Liu Ping and Wei Zhongping to six and a half years and Li Si-hua to three years, Li’s lawyer Zhou Ze said.

The three had taken pho-tos of themselves last year holding banners urging gov-ernment officials to disclose their assets as a curb against corruption.

Liu and Wei were found guilty of disrupting public or-der, “using evil religion to sab-otage law enforcement” and “picking fights and provoking trouble”, while Li was convict-ed only of the final charge.

Zhou said it was up to the three to choose whether to appeal but added: “Does it matter? The ruling in an ap-peal is already decided.”

Liu and Wei’s six and a half year sentences are the lon-gest handed down to mem-bers of their new Citizens Movement so far.

China’s courts are con-

trolled by the ruling Commu-nist Party and have a near-perfect conviction rate.

“From the beginning we knew this was a political case, so we had prepared ourselves psychologically,” Liu Ping’s daughter Liao Minyue said.

“I was not allowed into the court to hear the verdict, and there were a lot of police out-side,” she said, adding that she felt “very upset” about the outcome.

under President Xi jinping, who ascended to the top of the party in late 2012, China

has cracked down on dissent including prosecuting around a dozen of the new Citizens.

Participants in the loose and moderate group held small periodic protests and focused on issues such as corruption, migrant rights and education.

Party leaders have also vowed to root out rampant official corruption, but fear that organised popular movements could challenge their control.

A founder of the new Citi-zens Movement, lawyer Xu Zhiyong, was sentenced to

four years’ jail in April. numer-ous other Beijing-based par-ticipants have also received prison terms of several years for disrupting public order.

Meanwhile, a street outside China’s embassy in Washing-ton moved a step closer to being renamed after jailed democracy campaigner Liu Xiaobo on Wednesday, despite angry warnings from Beijing.

The head of the uS capital’s council introduced a resolu-tion to give the city’s blessing to calls by lawmakers and ac-tivists to re-christen the street after the nobel laureate in the hope of freeing him.

But Phil Mendelson’s reso-lution said that the federal and not the local government had jurisdiction over Interna-tional Place, where China and several other nations have built embassies.

he called for a vote by the uS Congress, where the pro-posal enjoys support across party lines.

The resolution, which would still come up for a vote by the city council, credited a 1984 decision to rename the street outside the Soviet em-bassy after Andrei Sakharov with helping to win freedom of movement for the then-confined dissident. aFP

Chinese anti-corruption activists Liu Ping and Wei Zhongping were sentenced to six and a half years in prison yesterday. aFP

Turkey sentences 1980 coup leaders to lifeA Turkish court on Wednesday handed life sentences to two generals behind a 1980 military takeover, the bloodiest in Turkey’s coup-ridden history. kenan Evren, 96, and Tahsin sahinkaya, 89, were found guilty of setting the stage for a military intervention, ousting the civilian government by force and committing acts against the forces of the state. The ruling sparked cheers and applause from the public gallery, who chanted: “This is just the beginning, the coup authors will pay the price”. The generals seized power on september 12, 1980, and kept power until 1983, but were only brought to trial in 2012. AFP

Iran nuke talks ‘tough’ rAcing against the clock, nuclear talks between iran and six world powers appeared tough going yesterday with both sides warning of major differences as they tried to draft an accord. But beyond agreeing a title for the accord, iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said that “fundamental differences” were dividing the two sides. A Western diplomat said that iran was refusing to budge on most issues and that drafting language in the text on the “complex issues” had not begun. AFP

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The persecuted seeking refuge in ChinaTom Hancock

Fleeing discrimina-tion, persecution and violence, members of a Muslim sect have

abandoned their homes in Pakistan to find an unlikely refuge in China.

“every day i heard the sound of guns,” said a 37-year-old surnamed Saeed of his former home lahore, Pakistan’s second city. “We prayed every day, because we felt something could happen to us at any time.”

He is one of hundreds of people who have sought asy-lum in China in recent years, often from conflict and vio-lence-stricken countries in-cluding iraq and Somalia.

The government tolerates their presence but provides almost no support, while hu-man rights groups have for years condemned Beijing for deporting tens of thousands of asylum seekers who enter it to escape oppression in north Korea and Myanmar.

Around 35 of the almost 500 un-registered asylum seek-ers and refugees currently in China are Ahmadi Muslims – a sect which believes their 19th century founder ghu-lam Ahmad to be a prophet,

and that jesus Christ died aged 120 in Srinagar, in indi-an-ruled Kashmir.

They are among the most persecuted minorities in Paki-stan – a constitutional islamic republic which bans them from calling themselves Mus-lims or going on the Hajj pil-grimage to Mecca.

in 2010 militants stormed two Ahmadi prayer halls, kill-ing 82 worshippers in gun and grenade attacks, before target-ing a hospital where victims were being treated.

Ahmadi mosques and graveyards are regularly des-ecrated. even high-achieving Ahmadis have been shunned, including physics professor Abdus Salam, Pakistan’s only nobel laureate.

China signed up to the un’s refugee protocol in 1982, but does not have any mechanism to assess their claims, leaving it to the un High Commissioner for Ref-ugees (unHCR).

But the communist state is regularly condemned by the

uS State Department for its restrictions on religious free-dom, which analysts say are key elements of the tensions it faces in Buddhist-majority Tibet and mainly Muslim Xinjiang.

But Saeed, who arrived four years ago, said: “From a security point of view, China is good. There is almost no terrorism compared to Paki-stan, where there is killing and persecution of minorities every day,” he said in a rented apartment in Sanhe, a city outside Beijing where clumps of high-rise apartment blocks overshadow restaurants of-fering donkey meat burgers. Two of his cousins were killed in the 2010 attack, he added.

The Ahmadi refugees in Sanhe said they paid middle-men up to $3,000 each for Chinese visas – more than twice the average yearly in-come in Pakistan.

Once in China, Saeed said, “You have to do everything for yourself.” He lives off overseas family donations and added: “i don’t expect anything from the Chinese.”

new arrivals receive no benefits unless the un grants them refugee status after a gruelling 18-month series of tests and even then China

refuses to integrate them, de-nying them the right to work while they wait for accep-tance from a third country, often for years.

“in this kind of a situation, you can’t enjoy life much,” Saeed said.

But teenager laiba Ahmad, who arrived around two years ago with her mother and sev-eral siblings, had no doubts, even though she does not have enough Chinese to at-tend school.

“i am happy here compared with Pakistan,” she said. “Pakistan was dangerous. We could not go outside without our brothers and fathers, if you are a woman especially.”

Yasir Chaudry, 24, a former air-conditioning engineer who left his wife in Pakistan, shares a crumbling apart-ment with two other refugees who rise in the late afternoon and fill their days surfing the internet, watching DVDs or throwing around a fris-bee held together with black masking tape.

“All i have time to do is think, so i think about bad things, like how my fam-ily is not together,” he said. “i didn’t want to leave my coun-try. These problems all come into my mind.” AFP

Pakistani refugee Waheed (centre) and asylum seeker Hameed wait for a bus in Sanhe, in China’s Hebei province, last Friday. AFP

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We remember anniver-saries that mark the important events of our era: September 11 (not

only the 2001 Twin Towers attack but also the 1973 military coup against Allende in Chile), D-Day, etc. maybe another date should be added to this list: june 19.

most of us like to take a stroll during the day to get a breath of fresh air. There must be a good reason for those who cannot do it – maybe they have a job that prevents it (miners, submariners), or a strange illness that makes exposure to sunlight a deadly danger. even prisoners get their daily hour’s walk in fresh air.

Yesterday marked two years since julian Assange was deprived of this right: he is permanently confined to the apartment that houses the ecua-dorian embassy in London. Were he to step out of the apartment, he would be arrested immediately. What did Assange do to deserve this? In a way, one can understand the authori-ties: Assange and his whistle-blowing colleagues are often accused of being traitors, but they are something much worse (in the eyes of the authorities).

Assange designated himself a “spy for the people”. “Spying for the peo-ple” is not a simple betrayal (which would instead mean acting as a dou-ble agent, selling our secrets to the enemy); it is something much more radical. It undermines the very prin-ciple of spying, the principle of secrecy, since its goal is to make secrets public. People who help WikiLeaks are no longer whistle-blowers who denounce the illegal practices of private companies (banks, and tobacco and oil compa-nies) to the public authorities; they denounce to the wider public these public authorities themselves.

We didn’t really learn anything from WikiLeaks we didn’t already presume to be true – but it is one thing to know it in general and another to get concrete data. It is a little bit like knowing that one’s sexu-al partner is playing around. One can accept the abstract knowledge of it, but pain arises when one learns the steamy details, when one gets pic-tures of what they were doing.

When confronted with such facts, should every decent uS citizen not feel deeply ashamed? until now, the attitude of the average citizen was hypocritical disavowal: we preferred to ignore the dirty job done by secret agencies. From now on, we can’t pre-tend we don’t know.

It is not enough to see WikiLeaks as an anti-American phenomenon.

States like China and russia are much more oppressive than the uS. just imagine what would have happened to someone like Chelsea (formerly bradley) manning in a Chinese court. In all probability, there would be no public trial; she would just disappear.

The uS doesn’t treat prisoners as brutally – because of its technological priority, it simply does not need the

openly brutal approach (which it is more than ready to apply when need-ed). but this is why the uS is an even more dangerous threat to our free-dom than China: its measures of con-trol are not perceived as such, while Chinese brutality is openly displayed.

In a country such as China, the lim-itations of freedom are clear to every-one, with no illusions about it. In the uS, however, formal freedoms are guaranteed, so that most individuals experience their lives as free and are not even aware of the extent to which they are controlled by state mecha-nisms. Whistle-blowers do something much more important than stating the obvious by way of denouncing the openly oppressive regimes: they render public the unfreedom that

underlies the very situation in which we experience ourselves as free.

back in may 2002, it was reported that scientists at new York university had attached a computer chip able to transmit elementary signals directly to a rat’s brain – enabling sci-entists to control the rat’s move-ments by means of a steering mech-anism, as used in a remote-a

controlled toy car. For the first time, the free will of a living animal was taken over by an external machine.

How did the unfortunate rat experi-ence its movements, which were effectively decided from outside? Was it totally unaware that its movements were being steered? maybe therein lies the difference between Chinese citizens and free citizens of Western, liberal countries: the Chinese human rats are at least aware they are con-trolled, while we are the stupid rats strolling around unaware of how our movements are monitored.

Is WikiLeaks pursuing an impossi-ble dream? Definitely not, and the proof is that the world has already changed since its revelations.

not only have we learned a lot

about the illegal activities of the uS and other great powers. not only have the WikiLeaks revelations put secret services on the defensive and set in motion legislative acts to bet-ter control them. WikiLeaks has achieved much more: millions of ordinary people have become aware of the society in which they live. Something that until now we silently tolerated as unproblematic is ren-dered problematic.

This is why Assange has been accused of causing so much harm. Yet there is no violence in what WikiLeaks is doing. We all know the classic scene from cartoons: the character reaches a precipice but goes on running, ignoring the fact that there is no ground underfoot; they start to fall only when they look down and notice the abyss. What WikiLeaks is doing is just reminding those in power to look down.

The reaction of all too many peo-ple, brainwashed by the media, to WikiLeaks’ revelations could best be summed up by the memorable lines of the final song from Altman’s film Nashville: “You may say I ain’t free, but it don’t worry me.” WikiLeaks does make us worry. And, unfortu-nately, many people don’t like that. THE GUARDiAN

CommentSlavoj Žižek

The illusion of freedom

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange speaks to the media outside the Ecuadorian Embassy in London in August 2012. AFP

Slavoj Žižek is international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities.

Julian Assange has been accused of causing so much harm. Yet there is no

violence in what WikiLeaks is doing

The jagged form of the Shard, Western europe’s tallest build-ing, is set to compete

with the piscene curves of the London Olympics swim-ming pool and the ambitious and geometrically comfort-ing Library of Birmingham for the title of best British ar-chitecture for 2014. All three structures have been selected on the longlist for the Stirling prize, the £20,000 annual gong awarded by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA).

The choice pits Renzo Pia-no, the Italian designer of the 87-storey tower by London Bridge, against Zaha hadid, whose Aquatics Centre on the Olympic Park in east Lon-don became the architectural star of the 2012 Games, and Patrick Arends, whose library design won him the emerg-ing architect award from RIBA West Midlands.

Genoa-based Piano start-ed his career working with Richard Rogers on the Pom-pidou Centre in Paris. hadid has previously won the prize twice, for an academy school in south London and an art gallery in Rome. Despite the Aquatics Centre opening for business two years ago, had-id had entered it now because it reopened to the public this February without its tem-porary seating “wings” that somewhat spoiled her flow-ing design.

Users have described pad-dling under its swooping roof “like swimming in a spaceship”.

Piano’s Qatar-owned tower has become a new city land-mark, dividing opinion be-tween those who see it as a striking emblem of the capi-tal’s 21st-century confidence and those who consider it a totem of London’s sell-out to international capital.

Also on the longlist of 56 national and european award winners announced by RIBA on Wednesday is the rede-velopment of King’s Cross station by John McAslan and Partners. Among the mu-seums and galleries are the ship-shaped Mary Rose Mu-seum by two-time Stirling winners Wilkinson eyre Ar-chitects, and the Seizure Gal-lery at the Yorkshire sculpture

park, designed by Adam Khan Architects for the Arts Council.

Despite the presence of the Shard, the longlist shows how during the economic slump, architects have relied on public-sector clients for the opportunity to innovate. The RIBA judges pointed to the “big and bold Brent civic centre and the creation of an elegant new public square and cafe in Great Yarmouth, both by hopkins Architects; the delightful and tactile new everyman theatre in Liver-pool by haworth Tompkins and an exciting new crisply-designed youth centre in Lewisham by young archi-tects RCKA”.

“These buildings show the

challenges that can be over-come with pure architectural creativity,” said RIBA president Stephen hodder, himself the first-ever winner of the Stirling prize in 1996. “In the case of the LSe’s student centre, a ver-tical labyrinth was created to deal with a constricted London site. At the TNG youth centre in Lewisham, the architect helped find funding to enable the building to happen; and with the Mary Rose Museum in Portsmouth, the design team resolved the most complex brief: strict atmospheric con-ditions on a historic site. It is evident that each building on this year’s list has been a labour of love but worth every penny and effort.” the guardian

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Thursday’s solutionThursday’s solution

Stirling prize list pits Shard against Birmingham library

The Library of Birmingham is among 56 buildings in the UK vying for the prestigious Stirling prize. aFP

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FBI keeps glossary of web slang

The internet is full of bewildering neologisms, which anyone would

struggle to understand. So the US FBI compiled a glossary of internet slang.

The glossary, which has 83 pages and contains 3,000 words, was recently made public through a Freedom of Information request by the group MuckRock, which pos-ted the PDF, called “Twitter shorthand,’’ online. Despite its name, this isn’t just Twitter slang: As the FBI explains in the introduction, it’s a primer on shorthand used across the internet, including in “instant messages, Facebook and Myspace’’. As if that Myspace reference wasn’t proof enough that the FBI’s a tad out of touch, it then promises the list will prove useful both pro-fessionally and “for keeping up with your children and/or grandchildren’.’

So is the glossary itself actually good? Obviously, FBI operatives need to understand internet slang – the inter-net is, increasingly, where crime goes down these days. But then we get things like ALOTBSOL (“always look on the bright side of life’’) and AMOG (“alpha male of group’’) within the first 10 entries.

ALOTBSOL has, for the record, been tweeted fewer than 500 times. AMOG has been tweeted far more often, but usually in Spanish . . . as a misspelling, it seems, of “amor’’ and “amigo.’’ the

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In brief

Walking Dead producer warns of risks of piracythe executive producer of the Walking dead has warned that rampant piracy is pushing the tV and film industry “to the precipice”, and called on google to do more to tackle illegal websites. gale ann hurd said that if consumers want to continue to see shows such as Walking dead and hBO’s game of thrones – which have broken viewing records while also topping the global chart of most-pirated tV shows – then more needs to be done to crack down on piracy. “the truth is you wouldn’t imagine stealing someone’s car [or] a piece of art they have created,” she said. the guardian

Newsnight’s Paxman in final edition farewellBritain’S most feared television interviewer, notorious for once asking a minister the same question 12 times, presented his final edition of the BBC’s flagship current affairs show on Wednesday. Jeremy Paxman’s combative, accusatory style on newsnight – he often greets poor answers with a disapproving raised eyebrow – has seen him clash with every-one from former prime minister tony Blair to comedian russell Brand. Paxman signed off his final show by threatening to follow in the footsteps of the famously deranged news anchor from 1976 film network, who told viewers to “go to your windows. Open them and stick your head out and yell - ‘i’m as mad as hell and i’m not gonna take this anymore!’” But given he was in england, Paxman said it would be more appropriate simply to wish that newsnight regulars continue to enjoy the show. aFP

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ANTARCTIC scien-tists warned on Wednesday that a surge in tourists vis-

iting the frozen continent was threatening its fragile envi-ronment and called for better protection.

Tourist numbers have ex-ploded from less than 5,000 in 1990 to about 40,000 a year, according to industry figures, and most people go to the fragmented ice-free areas that make up less than 1 per cent of Antarctica.

A growing number of re-search facilities are also be-ing constructed, along with associated roads, fuel depots and runways, in the tiny ice-free zones.

It is these areas that con-tain most of the continent’s wildlife and plants, yet they are among the planet’s least-protected, said a study led by the Australian government-funded National Environ-mental Research Program (NERP) and the Australian Antarctic Division.

“Many people think that Antarctica is well protected from threats to its biodiver-sity because it’s isolated and no one lives there,” said Jus-tine Shaw from the NERP in the study published in the journal PLoS Biology.

“However, we show that there are threats to Antarctic biodiversity. Most of Antarc-tica is covered in ice, with less than 1 per cent permanently ice-free,” Shaw continued.

“Only 1.5 per cent of this ice-free area belongs to Ant-arctic Specially Protected Areas under the Antarctic Treaty System, yet ice-free land is where the majority of biodiversity occurs.”

Five of the distinct ice-free eco-regions have no protec-tion at all while all 55 of the

continent’s protected areas are close to sites of human activity.

Steven Chown, from Monash University’s School of Biologi-cal Sciences, another collabo-rator in the study, said the ice-free areas contain very simple ecosystems due to Antarctica’s low species diversity.

This makes its native wildlife and plants extremely vulnera-ble to invasion by outside spe-cies, which can be introduced by human activity.

“Antarctica has been invaded by plants and animals, mostly grasses and insects, from other continents,” he said.

“The very real current and future threats from invasions are typically located close to protected areas.

“Such threats to protected ar-eas from invasive species have been demonstrated elsewhere in the world, and we find that Antarctica is, unfortunately, no exception.”

The study said the current level of protection was “inad-equate by any measure” with Shaw saying more was needed to guard against the threat posed by the booming tourism industry.

“[We need] to protect a di-verse suite of native insects, plants and seabirds, many of which occur nowhere else in the world,” she said.

“We also need to ensure that Antarctic protected areas are not going to be impacted by human activities, such as pollution, trampling or inva-sive species.”

Antarctica is considered one of the last frontiers for adven-turous travellers.

Most travel by sea, some paying in excess of $20,000 for a luxury cabin in the peak pe-riod from November to March. There is also a healthy market for sightseeing flights. afp

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QR 965 Daily 16:30 23:05 QR 964 Daily 01:00 15:05

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PHNOM PENH - HO CHI MINH CITY HO CHI MINH CITY - PHNOM PENH

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KA 207 1.2.4.7 11:25 15:05 KA 208 1.2.4.6.7 08:50 10:25

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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

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8M 402 1.3.6 13:30 14:55 8M 401 1.3.6 08:20 10:45

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8M 401 1.3.6 11:45 12:30

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PG 910 Daily 20:30 21:55 PG 909 Daily 18:45 19:55

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CZ 3054 2.4.6 11:25 15:35 CZ 3053 2.4.6 08:45 10:30

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SIEM REAP -HANOI HANOI - SIEM REAP

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MH 765 3.5.7 14:15 17:25 MH 764 3.5.7 12:10 13:15

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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

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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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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

SIEM REAP - VIENTIANE VIENTIANE - SIEM REAP

QV 522 2.4.5.7 10:05 13:00 QV 512 2.4.5.7 06:30 09:25

SIEM REAP - YANGON YANGON - SIEM REAP

8M 402 1. 5 20:15 21:25 8M 401 1. 5 17:05 19:15

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K6 130 1-3-5 12:55 13:55 K6 131 1-3-5 11:20 12:20

Tourism surge is ‘threatening the Antarctic’

Tourists are seen in 2010 on the Antartic Peninsula. Scientists warn that surging tourism is threatening the Antaracitc’s environment. afp

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Red Bull looking for home advantage at Austrian GPRed Bull will be looking to extend their winning form and set the stage for a real title challenge to dominant Mercedes when the Grand Prix returns to Austria on Sunday after 11 years. Fresh from daniel Ricciardo’s maiden win in Canada two weeks ago, the Austrian team will have home advantage at the Red Bull Ring amid the rolling hills of southern Styria. But the 24-year-old Australian still has a large gap to close if he is to catch up with current championship leader Nico Rosberg and his team-mate Lewis Hamilton, who stand respectively at 140 and 118 points, to his 79. Sunday’s race gets underway at 7pm Cambodian time. AFP

NSW end Queensland’s Origin reign in brutal series victorySCRuM-HALF Trent Hodkinson scored the only try with nine minutes left in a brutal match to give New South Wales a 6-4 win and victory over Queensland in the State of Origin rugby league series on Wednesday. It was the Blues’ first Origin series win since 2005 and ended Queensland’s eight-year domination of the fiercely contested interstate competition. emotions ran high after NSW’s triumph in a bitterly fought second match, punctuated by running skirmishes, before a record crowd of 83,421 – the largest at the Olympic stadium since the 2000 Sydney Games. AFP

Wiggins pulls out of Tour of Switzerland after five daysBRITISH cyclist Bradley Wiggins has pulled out of the Tour of Switzerland after just five days, his last real chance to impress before the selection of this year’s Tour de France team by Sky. The 2012 Tour de France winner suffered a crash on Tuesday, receiving bruising and swelling to his right thigh which worsened overnight. Wiggins had struggled in Switzerland and was lying 99th, almost 14 minutes behind the leader Tony Martin. He said on his way to the airport that his focus now would be to recover in time to ride the British National Time-Trial Championships in Monmouthshire next Thursday. THe GuARdIAN

McIlroy to play golf for Ireland at 2016 Olympic Games in RioRORy McIlroy has ended the speculation about his 2016 Olympic allegiance by stating he will represent Ireland and not Great Britain when golf returns to the Games in Rio. McIlroy used his preview press conference for the Irish Open in Cork to make the announcement, with its timing more of a surprise than the decision itself. That said, the Northern Irishman had previously spoken of such unease that he considered not putting his name forward for selection at all. “If I had made that choice, it would have been a very selfish decision,” McIlroy said. “It would have been an easy way out for me but I thought about the good of golf.” THe GuARdIAN

Naveed Arif gets banned for life over spot fixing by ECBFORMeR Sussex bowler Naveed Arif has been banned for life from cricket after pleading guilty to six corruption offences, the england and Wales Cricket Board announced on Wednesday. Arif, a Pakistani, had previously been charged with the offences, all relating to accusations of spot fixing in a 40-over game between Sussex and Kent in August 2011. Left-arm seamer Arif, a former Pakistan A player, is now banned from taking part in any form of cricket sanctioned by the International Cricket Council, eCB or any other national cricket federation. AFP

Serbia’s Novak Djokovic returns against Britain’s Andy Murray during the men’s singles final of the 2013 Wimbledon Championships. AFP

Djokovic handed top seedW

imbleDon turned tennis upside down on Wednesday when novak Djokovic was named top

seed above world number one Rafael nadal, while defending champion Andy murray was seeded three over seven-time winner Roger Federer.

The All england Club awarded top billing to 27-year-old Djokovic, the 2011 champion and 2013 runner-up, by using its controversial grass-

court weighting system in deciding its seeds instead of sticking by the ATP world rankings.

French open champion nadal, the 2008 and 2010 Wimbledon winner, is relegated from his world number one ranking to the second seed-ing after losing in the first round in 2013 and second round 12 months earlier.

murray, who became britain’s first men’s champion since Fred Perry in

1936 when he swept past Djokovic in last year’s final, has been elevated to the third seeding despite a world ranking of five.

Federer, a shock second-round los-er to Sergei Stakhovsky in 2013 and who won the last of his seven titles in 2012, was handed the fourth seeding in line with his current ranking.

The women’s seedings follow the WTA world rankings with five-time champion Serena Williams the num-

ber one followed by China’s li na, Simona Halep of Romainia in third and Poland’s Agnieszka Radwanska taking fourth spot.

maria Sharapova, the champion at Wimbledon 10 years ago as a 17-year-old, is seeded five.

This year’s women’s event is guar-anteed a new champion after France’s marion bartoli, the shock 2013 win-ner, retired from the sport soon after her lone Grand Slam triumph. AFP

matfield to set new Springbok Test recordVeTeRAn lock Victor matfield will become South Africa’s most capped player when he captains the side tomorrow against Wales in his 112th Test match at the mbombela Stadium in nelspruit.

The 37-year-old powerhouse was named skipper of an experienced Springbok starting lineup which shows two changes from the team which beat Wales by 38-16 in Durban last week.

both changes are in the pack, where Tendai mta-warira returns at loosehead prop, with Gurthrö Steenkamp reverting to the bench, while Flip van der merwe will partner matfield in the second row in the place of bakkies botha.

The only other change to the team is amongst the backline reserves, where Wynand olivier replaces the injured johan Goosen to provide necessary mid-field cover.

Ruan Pienaar will provide backup for scrum-half and fly-half, while lwazi mvovo can cover fullback and wing.

matfield made his Test debut on june 30, 2001, against italy in Port elizabeth.

He retired after the Rugby World Cup in new Zea-land 2011 on 110 caps, but made a highly successful return to the game earlier this year.

“This is a fantastic accolade for Victor,” Springbok coach Heyneke meyer said on Wednesday.

“He has been a terrific servant of the game in South Africa and has led his country with distinction since returning to the Green and Gold.

“When he returned to the game earlier this season, he set his goals on becoming a Springbok yet again and he’s worked extremely hard to get there.

“i don’t think anyone can doubt that he deserves his place in the team and he’s also been a great interim captain, with jean de Villiers out injured.”

Japan will peak at the World Cup, says Jonesjapan coach eddie jones pledged yesterday that

the Asian champions will hit peak form at next year’s World Cup as they bid for a 10th successive win when they take on italy this weekend.

The brave blossoms stretched their record win-ning streak to nine games with a 37-29 away vic-tory over World Cup opponents the united States last weekend.

However, jones warned that italy – who have won all five of their previous meetings against the japa-nese – would be a different prospect in tomorrow’s

clash. “it will be our toughest game of the year,” the former Australia coach told reporters.

“japan’s record against italy is not impressive so it’s a fantastic opportunity to change japanese rug-by history.”

Wallabies look to march on against Les BleusThe Wallabies are chasing their best winning run

in 14 years and France a first win in Australia since 1990 in tomorrow’s third and final Test in Sydney.

Australia have already retained the Trophee des bicentenaires following contrasting victories over les bleus in brisbane (50-23) and melbourne (6-0), and are after a seventh-straight win under coach ewen mcKenzie.

The Wallabies, with their sights on wresting the bledisloe Cup off the world champion All blacks later this year, are looking for a series sweep over the French in a rare afternoon Test match at Allianz Stadium.

New Zealand make two changes for third TestThe All blacks have made just two changes for

tomorrow’s third Test against england, injecting Kieran Read and malakai Fekitoa to the starting line up as they chase a clean sweep in the series.

Coach Steve Hansen said he’d decided not to try new combinations with the series already won as he looks to develop his preferred run-on side, who were far from perfect in winning the first two Tests 20-15 and 28-27.

“Whilst we felt we improved from the first Test to the second, there are areas of our game we want to improve on and that has been the focus for us this week,” he said when naming the side yesterday.

Read’s return at the back of the scrum was expect-ed after he was cleared of the concussion issues that have sidelined him for most of the past two months while fledgling international Fekitoa earns promo-tion with Conrad Smith out injured.

it has been a rapid rise to stardom for the talented Fekitoa who has blossomed this year with the otago Highlanders after being rejected by the Auckland blues. AFP

Saturday’s FixturesArgentina v Scotland – 2:10amJapan v Italy – 12pmAustralia v France – 12pmNew Zealand v England – 2:35pmSouth Africa v Wales – 8pm

Victor Matfield will win his record-breaking 112th cap for South Africa in their Test tomorrow against Wales. AFP

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NFL

Zeke Motta (left) of the Atlanta Falcons upends Santana Moss of the Washington Red-skins after a reception at the Georgia Dome in December in Atlanta. AFP

uS patent office strips Redskins of trademarksT

he uS Patent and Trade-mark Office announced on Wednesday that it is to cancel six trademark regis-

trations belonging to the Washing-ton Redskins, ruling that the nFL team’s name is disparaging to na-tive Americans.

In a landmark decision, the of-fices’ trademark trial and appeal board found that the name cannot be trademarked under federal law, which prohibits the protection of names that “may disparage” indi-viduals or groups, or “bring them into contempt or disrepute”.

“We decide, based on the evidence properly before us, that these registra-tions must be cancelled because they were disparaging to native Ameri-cans,” the board wrote in its ruling.

Amanda Blackhorse, who brought the case against the team, called the ruling a “great victory for native Americans – and for all Americans”.

The team said on Wednesday that it would appeal the decision and insist-ed that its right to protect its trade-marks was not affected by the ruling, which would not take effect until the appeals process is complete.

Blackhorse said she hoped the ruling would nevertheless increase the pressure on the nFL team to change its name. “I hope this rul-

ing brings us a step closer to that inevitable day when the name of the Washington football team will be changed,” she said.

The controversy has intensified in the last year, even drawing in Presi-dent Obama. “If I were the owner of the team and I knew that the name of my team, even if they’ve had a storied history, was offending a size-able group of people, I’d think about changing it,” Obama told the Asso-ciated Press.

Despite mounting pressure, how-ever, Washington’s owner, Daniel Snyder, has said repeatedly that he will not drop the name. In May, the Washington’s president, Bruce Al-len, said it was “respectful” to na-tive Americans, in a letter to Senate majority leader harry Reid that was sent after dozens of senators called on nFL bosses to force a change.

under uS law, people who can demonstrate that they have been “in-jured” by a trademarked term may file a petition to have it cancelled. In 2006, a group of five native Ameri-cans, Blackhorse among them, peti-tioned the appeal board to have the Redskins’ registrations cancelled on grounds that the term is offensive.

Blackhorse said: “The team’s name is racist and derogatory. I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again – if people

wouldn’t dare call a native American a ‘redskin’ because they know it is offensive, how can an nFL football team have this name?”

A similar petition was filed in 1992, and in 1999, the appeal board ruled that the term “redskin” was dispar-aging, ordering the team’s trade-mark registrations be cancelled.

The team, however, appealed the board’s decision to the DC cir-cuit court of appeals. It ruled in fa-vour of the nFL team on technical grounds, after determining that the petitioners had waited too long af-ter turning age 18 to file their peti-tions with the board.

“The evidence in the current claim is virtually identical to the evidence a federal judge decided was insuf-ficient more than 10 years ago,” said Bob Raskopf, trademark attorney for the Washington team. “We expect the same ultimate outcome here.”

The term Redskins was used in six separate trademarks authorised between 1967 and 1990.

“We are extraordinarily gratified to have prevailed in this case,” attorney Alfred Putnam said in the statement. “The dedication and professionalism of our attorneys and the determina-tion of our clients have resulted in a milestone victory that will serve as a historic precedent.” THE GUARDIAN

Foxes to face the Toffees in Bangkok friendly next monthLeicester city, who have regained Premier League status for the first time in 10 years, will play a friendly against everton on sunday July 27 at the supachalasai stadium in Bangkok, according to a report on the club’s official website (www.lcfc.com). the exhibition match forms part of a six-day pre-season tour for Nigel Pearson’s squad, while also marking the 25th anniversary of the Foxes’ thai parent company King Power international. the clash with everton at the 30,000-seater stadium, set to kick off at 6pm, will be Leicester’s first match in thailand since October 2010, when they beat the thai national team 2-0. Leicester city vice-chairman Aiyawatt srivaddhanaprabha told www.lcfc.com: “it will be with great pride that we bring our championship-winning Leicester city squad back to thailand for a match between two Premier League clubs that i am certain will capture the imagination of our football-loving nation.” DAN riLeY

‘Sick notes’ for sale as World Cup fever grips Chinese fansthe 11-hour time difference between china and Brazil has given chinese wheeler-dealers a lucrative opportunity selling fake sick notes to football fans staying up all night to watch World cup games. A search by AFP for “Beijing” and “sick notes service” returned 49,500 results on chinese search engine Baidu yesterday, with vendors providing photocopies of hospital certificates with official stamps and doctor’s signatures in their “product catalogue”. AFP

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Crown set to keep on firingH S Manjunath

Table-TOPPInG Phnom Penh Crown are poised to strike another winning blow at the Olympic Stadium to-

morrow when they meet demotion certs albirex niigata in a winding run towards the Metfone C-league title they last captured in 2011.

Crown have opened up a five-point cushion over the chasing pack headed by boeung Ket Rubber Field, whose chances of ranging alongside the pace-makers was se-riously hurt by a loss to title holders Svay Rieng last week.

If Crown were to stick to their solid performances of the last few weeks they should safely keep their gun run going.

Meanwhile boeung Ket, who are the only ones to have beaten Crown this league season, are hell bent on recovering their poise after last week’s reverse, which saw the 2012 champions stitched up most dramatically by a team that was thought to be performing well be-low their known form in the run up to that game.

The Rubbermen, who take the pitch before the Crown game, should have no qualms in dealing with Western university, who go-ing by their current track record are highly unlikely to upset last year’s runners-up.

a sense of urgency has turned into one of desperation for naga Corp, who face a daunting task of catching up first with boueng Ket and then Crown.

at the Old Stadium tomorrow, naga are pitted against Triasia, whose steely resolve has been a source of worry for many top teams this season.

In the day’s first fixture, Ministry

of national Defence are up against Kirivong Sok Sen Chey, whose press-ing agenda at this stage is to crawl out of the demotion threat. The visi-tors from Takeo are well aware that their only chance of survival is to do better than Western in the remain-ing matches.

Two interesting match-ups will unfold at the Olympic Stadium on Sunday.

after their great escape against albirex niigata last week, when an injury time goal turned a cer-tain defeat into a face saving draw, Hun Sen Cup runners up build bright united will be hoping for a better outcome when they meet asia europe university, another of those teams whose reputation as a fighting outfit has been greatly en-hanced during the season.

Svay Rieng may consider their latest win over boeung Ket as a new set of springs in their heels, though their title hopes remain foggy to say the least.

a good performance against the national Police, however, may do some good for the defending champions’ self esteem.

The Police, meanwhile, are eye-ing a podium finish as a compli-ment to their maiden success in the Hun Sen Cup this year.

Weekend ScheduleSaturday June 21At the Old stadium MND v Kirivong SSC – 1:30pm TriAsia v Naga Corp – 3:45pm

At the Olympic stadium Boeung Ket v Western Uni – 3:30pm PP Crown v Albirex Niigata – 6pm

Sunday June 22At the Olympic stadium AEU v BBU – 3:30pm Svay Rieng v National Police – 6pm

Boeung Ket’s Keo Sokpheng (left) vies with Western University’s Men Seyha during their Metfone C-League match at the Olympic Stadium on March 2. sreNG MeNG srUN

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Spanish dethroned as Chile dazzle in BrazilS

pain’S long reign as the kings of interna-tional football came to a dramatic end at

the World Cup on Wednesday, with the defending champi-ons sent crashing out after a 2-0 defeat to Chile.

On a day when King juan Carlos tearfully sealed his ab-dication after a four-decade reign, Spain’s players were booted from their own throne in 90 minutes.

Chile’s eduardo Vargas and Charles aranguiz adminis-tered the killer blows as Spain’s trophy-laden era was brought to a shattering end at the Ma-racana Stadium.

Chile’s win sees them qualify for the last 16 from Group B along with the netherlands, who thrashed Spain 5-1 in their opening match last week.

australia, beaten 3-2 by the Dutch earlier on Wednesday, were also eliminated.

in the late Group a game, Cameroon were knocked out after slumping to a chaotic 4-0 defeat against Croatia, with the africans finishing in disarray as teammates scuf-fled with each other.

Yet the drama of the day unfolded at Rio’s Maracana Stadium, where Spainwere swept aside.

“it is a sad day for all of us,” Spain coach Vicente del Bosque said.

“We are sorry we didn’t suc-ceed but now is too early to analyse where we go from here. We were inferior to both Holland and Chile. They got the goals and gave us a moun-tain to climb.”

Spain’s early departure will send shockwaves through football after an unprecedent-ed period of success that saw them win the 2010 World Cup as well as back-to-back euro-pean Championships in 2008 and 2012.

“World failure” read an on-line headline of the el Mundo newspaper in Spain.

“Failed!” echoed Spain’s big-gest-selling sports daily Marca. “a sad farewell to the champi-ons of the world.”

Spain join italy (1950 and 2010), Brazil (1966) and France (2002) as the only holders to be knocked out in the first phase.

Del Bosque had signalled the turmoil in the Spain camp by dropping veteran midfield-er Xavi and defender Gerard pique for the Chile showdown.

But Del Bosque’s decision to retain out-of-form goalkeeper iker Casillas backfired, with the Spanish skipper at fault for Chile’s second goal, lashed home by aranguiz just before half-time.

aranguiz had earlier helped to set up Chile’s first, cutting back for Vargas to finish after a superb counterattack.

“i have not played well and neither has the team in gen-eral,” said a dejected Casillas. “now we need to be even more united and finish in the most dignified manner possible.”

The final whistle sparked

delirium inside the Maracana, where Chilean fans heavily out-numbered their Spanish coun-terparts and roared on their team relentlessly throughout. The fervour boiled over before the match, with dozens of tick-etless Chilean fans attempting to force their way into the fa-mous stadium by storming the press room.

Chile will now face Holland next Monday in what could well be a battle to avoid Brazil, who are expected to face the runners-up from Group B in the last 16.

The Dutch had earlier need-ed goals from arjen Robben and Robin van persie to fight back against australia be-fore Memphis Depay’s long-range effort settled a thrilling game at porto alegre’s Beira- Rio Stadium.

Van persie will miss the next game against Chile though after picking up a second yellow card.

and Louis van Gaal’s side were given an almighty fright

by their fired up australian opponents, who had taken a 2-1 lead through a spectacular Tim Cahill volley and a Mile je-dinak penalty.

in the last game of the day, Cameroon joined Spain and australia on the way out of Brazil after their loss to Croa-tia. Goals from ivica Olic, ivan perisic and two from Mario Mandzukic wrapped up the win for Croatia, who face Mex-ico in their final game.

Cameroon’s campaign ended on a sour note with midfielder alex Song sent off for punch-ing Mandzukic in the back in the first half. it got worse for Cameroon in the dying min-utes with defender Benoit as-sou-ekotto appearing to aim a headbutt at teammate Ben-jamin Moukandjo before the fracas was broken up.

Cameroon coach Volker Finke said afterwards: “i apol-ogise for the result, it really hurts. We had no control on the game and i didn’t like the behaviour of my team.” AFP

Spain goalkeeper and captain Iker Casillas (right) and midfielder Andres Iniesta walk off the pitch after los-ing their Group B match against Chile at the Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday. AFP

Swiss seize underdogs tag for France clashSWiTzeRLanD are trying to pile the pres-sure on France by claiming the underdog tag for the alpine neighbours’ World Cup Group e clash in Salvador tonight.

Both teams won their openers, with France topping the table after a convinc-ing 3-0 victory over Honduras, while the Swiss secured a last-gasp victory over ecuador.

Super-sub Haris Seferovic netted in the last minute of injury time to claim a 2-1 come-back victory after the Swiss had fallen behind to enner Valencia’s first- half header.

Sixth-placed Switzerland are 11 places higher than the French according to FiFa’s rankings, but insist those standings mean nothing.

“Favourites? You like that word in France, eh?,” Swiss central defender Steve von Bergen said. “it is France who are the favourites.”

Swiss assistant coach Michel pont, who celebrated his 60th birthday yesterday, said 1998 World Cup winners France have the upper hand.

pont says France coach Didier Des-

champs has united his squad after the debacle of their South africa 2010 cam-paign, when the team went on strike in support of nicolas anelka after a row with then-coach Raymond Domenech.

“us, favourites? absolutely not,” said pont, who has worked under current coach Ottmar Hitzfeld since 2008, as well as his predecessor jakub Kuhn from 2001-2008.

“Frankly, the current French team impresses me, they have found harmony.

Italy wary of tropical terroritaly look to reach the World Cup last 16

with victory over giant-killers Costa Rica tonight but the four-time champions are wary of Recife’s tropical conditions.

Tough-tackling Roma midfielder Dan-iele De Rossi has underlined Costa Rica’s likely advantage in the sweltering condi-tions in Recife, where he said italy were “dying from the heat” last year during the Confederations Cup.

Having made a blistering start to what is only their fourth World Cup campaign with a shock 3-1 win over uruguay, the “Ticos” would be forgiven for keeping the

pace high from kick-off as they go in search of another upset.

Coaches face familiar foesecuador and Honduras coaches Reinaldo

Rueda and Luis Suarez will both face their old sides as the two group outsiders look to get their first points of the World Cup when they meet in Curitiba tonight.

Rueda’s ecuador were beaten 2-1 by Swit-zerland in their opening Group e match thanks to Haris Seferovic’s stoppage-time winner. The Colombian lamented his side’s lack of killer instinct in front of goal against the Swiss, but has insisted he won’t make any changes for the game against the coun-try he led at the last World Cup.

Suarez, meanwhile, guided ecuador to their best ever showing at the World Cup when they reached the last 16 in 2006. AFP

Tonight’s Fixtures Italy v Costa Rica – 11pm Switzerland v France – 2am Honduras v Ecuador – 5am