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THE Iraqi security forces should not get in the way of the political transition, the UN warned yesterday after the president named an alternative to Nuri al-Maliki as prime minister.

“The country is in your hands,” President Fuad Masum told Haidar al-Abadi after accepting his nomina-tion by parliament’s Shiite bloc, in a move immediately welcomed by the US.

Washington had warned Maliki against stirring trou-ble after the two-term pre-mier gave a defiant midnight television address suggest-ing that he was ready to fight for his job to the very end.

Moments before the speech, special forces, sol-diers and police deployed across Baghdad, especially around the Green Zone dis-trict housing the country’s

Chhay Channyda

FOR grade 12 students hop-ing divine intervention would resuscitate their chances of passing this year’s national exam, their salva-tion arrived yesterday as their concerned prime min-ister announced he would hold a nationwide retest rather than let under- performing pupils fail.

Just two days into exam grading, Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday predicted dire results and called on the Kingdom’s less-studious grade 12 pupils to get back to their books and prepare for a second shot.

“The number of those who will pass won’t be high,” Hun Sen predicted during a grad-uation speech at Norton Uni-versity. “However, we have to settle the matter, and we will not allow the failed students to lose their chances.”

The premier said the gov-ernment was willing to undertake an expensive, sec-ond national testing round – the first cost $4 million – because the students had not been prepared for such a “strict reform year”, in which cheating, bribery and other previously rampant irregu-larities were not allowed.

“Please work hard, this is not a chance to copy the answers or copy from one another. We are willing to spend more money, but the students have to be real learners,” he said.

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Iraq PM refuses to step down

Failing scores see PM step in

Phak Seangly and Alice Cuddy

MYSTERY and con-fusion now sur-round what was alleged to be an

organ-trafficking ring operating

out of a military-run hospital in Phnom Penh after officials claimed yesterday that it was simply a Chinese program train-ing Cambodian doctors in transplant techniques.

According to a document

from the Municipal Anti-Hu-man Trafficking and Juvenile Protection Office obtained by the Post on Sunday – which offi-cials said yesterday was not meant for the media and “could not be trusted” – eight people,

including medical professionals and two generals from the Min-istry of Defence, were detained on Saturday on suspicion of trafficking human organs.

The document says the group – all eight of whom have now

been released – stood accused of “human trafficking with intent and being the accom-plices of human trafficking with intent”, and that a victim had

Organ trafficking deniedPolice insist two-month investigation uncovered only benign training

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More criticismfor refugee dealDaniel Pye

CRItICs of the aus-tralian government’s plan to send refugees to Cambodia came

out in force yesterday to con-demn the proposed scheme, as officials in both countries remained silent on reports that a deal will be struck in the coming days.

the Cambodian Human Rights action Committee (CHRaC) – a coalition of 21 lo-cal rights groups – called for the release of information on the deal and for both governments to reconsider the agreement.

“It is clear that this deal con-travenes the Refugee Conven-tion as there is no way the aus-tralian government can ensure once these refugees reach Cam-bodia that they will be afforded any of the fundamental human rights protection that are taken for granted in australia,” it said in a statement.

the statement came in re-sponse to a Post article yes-terday that quoted a senior government official as saying that australia’s Minister for Im-migration and Border Protec-tion scott Morrison was due to

arrive in Cambodia “in the up-coming days”.

Numerous officials at the ministries of Foreign affairs and Interior could not be reached. a spokesman for Mor-rison declined to comment on the minister’s travel plans, add-ing that discussions over the deal were “ongoing”.

Morrison last visited the country in april to discuss the refugee deal with Interior Minister sar Kheng following a meeting between foreign ministers Julie Bishop and Hor Namhong in February, when the proposal was first tabled.

the australian greens Party yesterday said it wanted oppo-sition Labor and senate cross-benchers to block the deal, which requires approval from parliament.

“there is no way that tony abbott can ensure the safety of children that his govern-ment dumps in Cambodia,” the greens’ immigration spokes-woman, senator sarah Hanson-Young, told the Post. “there are still no details on the conditions that families will be dumped into and no information on the size of the bribe australia is pay-ing to make this all happen.”

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been called to give evidence.among those named as suspects were

the director of Preah Ket Mealea Hospital, 54-year-old Lieutenant general Ly sovan, and the hospital’s deputy director, 58-year-old Major general Keo Davuth

But in a news conference yesterday at the Municipal anti-Human trafficking and Juve-nile Protection Office, Phnom Penh deputy police chief Prum sothor said no one had filed an official complaint against the group and those questioned had “voluntarily” agreed to be. Despite their “voluntary” sta-tus, members of the group were seen enter-ing the court in handcuffs.

sothor said a “Facebook complaint” had prompted a two-month-long investigation, culminating in the eight being called in for questioning. He declined to reveal details of what was discovered over the two-month period before questioning because, he said, “it relates to our investigation techniques”.

sothor said the investigation revealed that “there are kidney transplants [happening at the hospital], but the surgical operation is to develop scientific techniques and was vol-untary. [there was] no punishment, forcing or cheating [involved].”

He said sovan, the hospital’s director, had been working with Chinese doctors since the beginning of the year to develop transplant techniques so that Cambodians in need of the surgery would not have to take costly trips abroad in future.

sothor said multiple transplants had taken place at the hospital, all of which involved only Vietnamese donors and patients.

a statement released by the Phnom Penh

Municipal Court last night reiterated sothor’s statements.

“the operation is not the crime of human organ [trafficking] as some media reported,” it says, adding that Chinese experts were merely training Cambodian military police doctors.

But sothor said it was possible that money changed hands between the organ buyer and seller.

“they agreed with each other [to do this]. We have no idea if money was exchanged or how much,” he said, adding that it might have been a case of “you do me a favour, I do

you a favour”.Meas Chan Pisith, deputy prosecutor, and

hospital officials could not be reached for comment yesterday.

sok sam Oeun, executive director of the Cambodian Defenders Project, said that while he could not comment on this specific case, the alleged involvement of high-ranking officials makes legal action more difficult.

“I think that especially in our society, if the rank is higher, the police [are more] careful before making any decision … [and] it is very hard to find witnesses” willing to testify, he said.

Two people are escorted through the grounds of the Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday morning on their way to being questioned. photo SUppLIED

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Police say official had luxury logsSen David

aN IMMIgRatION official at the Ministry of Interior’s office in Ratanakkiri province was arrested yesterday, accused of illegal logging, district police said.

O’Yadav police chief sok Min said provincial court prosecu-tor Liv sreng led military and police officials on a car chase that ended with the arrest of the official, Kong sovan Chen-da, and two others.

the car that the three had been travelling in was found to have 36 pieces of luxury timber weighing a combined 355 kilo-grams, Min alleged.

“He [sovan Chenda] attempt-ed to transport the timber across to Vietnam, but we arrested him immediately and his two drivers,” he said.

the car, a Lexus, and the luxury wood in question were taken to the local Forestry administration office, Min added.

Chhay thy, a provincial coor-dinator for rights-group adhoc, said authorities should con-tinue to fight against a problem decimating Cambodia’s remaining forest areas.

Flooding’s deadly toll risesPech Sothearyand Khouth Sophak Chakrya

tHE death toll from le-thal floods has climbed to 27, with more than 10,000 families across

12 provinces evacuated from their homes to escape rising floodwaters, according to a re-port from the National Com-mittee for Disaster Manage-ment (NCDM).

the report, released yester-day, also shows that almost 90,000 hectares of crops have been inundated and more than 50,000 houses damaged by floodwater.

Keo Vy, NCDM cabinet chief, said the financial cost of the devastation is still not known.

“We do not know the total cost of the damages yet, be-cause it is not yet time. the ex-perts will summarise the dam-ages within five or six days,” Vy said.

the Ministry of Water Re-sources and Meteorology is-sued a notice yesterday stating that the floods were caused by heavy rains in the Mekong River basin as well as thailand and Laos.

the rainwater flooded parts of the Mekong and stung sen rivers, causing floods in prov-

inces bordering the mighty wa-terways.

the waters have receded in the northeastern provinces of stung treng and Kratie, but floods will keep affecting prov-inces along the tonle sap and lower parts of the Mekong, the notice says.

Because water is still flowing into these low areas, the south-ern provinces of Prey Veng,

Kandal, and takeo may flood within seven days. Water levels in Kampong thom province are expected to go over emer-gency levels, the notice reads, with floods potentially lasting seven to ten days.

Kandal province has pre-pared hundreds of provincial and local authorities to inter-vene in flood-affected areas, and will send food and other

resources to help affected resi-dents, said Kandal governor Phay Bunchoeun.

“Police, military police and the local authorities are ready for action, and we are collect-ing information about affected people in Lvea Em and Kien svay districts to deliver sup-plies to them,” he said.

Fears of disease are rising as members of evacuated families

continue to huddle in safe relo-cation hills

Dr Char Meng Chou, director of the Ministry of Health’s anti-malaria centre, has appealed to the relocated families to be aware of the risk of diarrhea, malaria and dengue.

Conditions among the safe hills, which lack toilets and ba-sic plumbing, could easily lead to disease, he said.

“to prevent these problems, the flood victims should ad-here to a strict policy of only

eating and drinking clean food and water, and live in a clean manner,” Meng Chou said.

People returning to their vil-lages once floods recede are also at risk, as stagnant pools of leftover floodwater create ideal conditions for mosquitoes to breed, spreading dengue and malaria.

“Flood victims must wear long-sleeved shirts and trou-sers at night, and sleep under mosquito nets. If they get a high temperature, they must quickly see the nearest doctor,” Chou said.

Two men work in a flooded field to build a levee to protect their cucumber crop from surging waters in Prek Takov village in Kandal yesterday. HENG CHIVOAN

The experts will summarise the

damages within five or six days

Hundreds protestLand grab feared after posts appear

FIVE hundred villagers in Preah Vihear province protested yesterday out-

side the office of FP Malaysia Plantation Company, which they say is attempting to take their land.

Rith Sothon, a village re-presentative in Preah Vihear’s Kulen district, said the villa-gers filed a complaint after the company placed posts on the villagers’ land.

“This is our ancient land. We have lived and planted here for many years. Recently, the company put up posts to divide our land by nearly 400 hectares,” he said.

FP Malaysia could not be reached yesterday.

Another villager, Khoun Sarith, said the company’s actions were “unacceptable”.

“This is not empty land. The land has villagers living and planting on it. They did not dis-cuss compensation,” he said.

Lor Chan, provincial coordi-nator for rights group Adhoc, called on authorities to prove the firm has a concession to develop the land. “The autho-rities must investigate [this firm],” he said. SEn DaviD

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troops to join uN’s CaR effortCharles Rollet

CaMBODIa will send a detach-ment of 216 peacekeepers to the united Nations stabilisation mission in the Central african Republic (MINusCa), the Information Ministry has said.

the Kingdom already sent a delivery of tanks, trucks and other materiel there on Friday.

“after the arrival of the sup-plies in the Central african Republic, we will be sending 216 peacekeeping forces, nine of them female, to the country to be part of the mission there,” said sem sovanny, director-general of the National Centre for Peacekeeping Forces, Mine and Explosive Remnants of War Clearance.

according to the uN, MINus-Ca was established in april “with the protection of civilians as its utmost priority” as violent conflict between CaR’s Chris-tians and Muslims wore on.

Cambodian peacekeepers are also stationed in Mali, where they help with demining and airport maintenance.

Recently, however, two died of food poisoning and another two were injured after driving over a landmine.

Krom protests back in forcePech Sotheary

HuNDREDs of protesters de-scended on the Vietnamese Embassy yesterday to again ask for a public apology from

a spokesman who said in June that the former Kampuchea Krom provinces had belonged to Vietnam long before being of-ficially handed over by the French in 1949.

they had given the embassy a two-week deadline to respond to petitions handed late last month to the Foreign Ministry, which was in turn meant to deliver them to the Vietnamese, but had received no re-ply, organisers said.

the demonstration was the largest of several planned protests in the capital yesterday, though villagers from Kratie’s snuol district who had planned to march on Prime Minister Hun sen’s house to ask for a resolution to a long-standing land dispute delayed their plans and joined the Kampuchea Krom march instead.

separately, villagers affected by an on-going asian Development Bank-funded project to rehabilitate the country’s rail-ways protested outside the aDB yester-day morning. they asked for the disclo-sure of plans detailing what will happen to families who live in the vicinity of the railway but not close enough to have al-ready been resettled.

Beginning at Freedom Park, where mul-tiple public gatherings have been violently suppressed this year, the Kampuchea Krom protest marched to the foreign ministry and numerous asEaN member states’ embassies yesterday morning be-

fore finally ending at the Vietnamese Em-bassy in the afternoon.

While previous protests over the issue have turned violent, police blocked roads around the embassy and tolerated the demonstration.

thach setha, executive director of the Kampuchea Krom Community Organisa-tion and an opposition party official, said demonstrators were upset that Vietnam was ignoring their calls for an apology.

“the Foreign affairs Ministry of Vietnam did not reply, so it means that Vietnam is looking down on Cambodia since Vietnam

could not even accept a petition,” he said.setha warned that demonstrations

would continue if no apology was forth-coming and that his group would also call for a boycott of Vietnamese products.

Long Visalo, a secretary of state at Cam-bodia’s Foreign affairs Ministry, received more petitions on behalf of the govern-ment yesterday that he promised to again forward to the Vietnamese Embassy.

trung Van thong, the embassy spokes-man who made the comments in ques-tion, could not be reached. aDDiTiOnaL RE-

PORTinG BY KEvin POnniaH

Buddhist monks lead a Khmer Krom march through the streets of Phnom Penh yesterday, calling for a public apology from a Vietnamese Embassy spokesman. viREaK Mai

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Meas Sokchea

PRIME Minister Hun sen yes-terday mocked diehard oppo-sition party supporters whom he said had devoted them-selves and their livelihoods to the Cambodia National Res-cue Party during its 10-month boycott of parliament, only to now be left abandoned and “in poverty” after the CNRP de-cided to take its seats.

speaking to Norton univer-sity students during a gradu-ation ceremony on Koh Pich, the premier first told the crowd that he was glad a political deal signed between the two par-ties on July 22 had brought an end to a year of deadlock.

He then took aim at opposi-tion backers, who he said had single-mindedly followed the CNRP – instead of thinking about their families or jobs – during months of post-elec-tion protests.

“In the end, politicians are politicians. In the end, [the CNRP] joined the parliament while all of you are now out-side selling cows, selling buf-faloes, selling chicken and sell-ing ducks,” Hun sen said.

“Politicians are like a short boat [that can change direc-tion easily]. a decision of the

[CNRP’s] people’s congress was that the will of the people banned [the party] from join-ing parliament. But suddenly the will of the people [changed] to support [the CNRP] joining and struggling in parliament.”

those who had not joined the opposition’s lengthy but ultimately unsuccessful cru-sade to reject the 2013 election and hold a fresh poll, Hun sen intimated, were better off now than those who had.

“People who were not ab-sorbed [with the CNRP], they are not poor [now] because they thought about their rice pot as well,” he said.

Opposition supporters both here and abroad have expressed disappointment in aspects of the deal that ended the political impasse. But CNRP spokesman Yim so-vann yesterday dismissed the premier’s words, saying that the Cambodian people will be able to see through such a transparent attempt to “incite” the public to turn against the opposition party.

“Khmer citizens have access to information to follow politi-cians and have the common sense to decide [on their own] to select leaders and take part in political affairs,” he said.

CNRP faithful wasted their time, PM claims

No bail yet for CNRP youthKevin Ponniah

HOPEs that three jailed Cambodia National Rescue Party youth activ-

ists would be released on bail yesterday proved overly opti-mistic, with the appeal Court judge not yet even receiving the bail request.

top CNRP leaders have made overtures to the ruling party in hopes of securing the releases of Kheun Chumreuon, san Kim Heng and Neang sok-hun, all of whom were arrest-ed on august 2 in connection to a July protest that turned violent. all three were denied bail by Phnom Penh Munici-pal Court on thursday.

On saturday, opposition leader sam Rainsy said a deci-sion could be made early this week, and CNRP spokesman Yim sovann said yesterday that leaders from both sides had been “working on that”.

But Ket Khy, a CNRP lawyer, said appeal Court president You Bunleng, who could not be reached, had only said a decision would be made in the next 15 days.

“He said he will send the case to judge seng sivutha to open a hearing but not for the public,” Khy said.

sivutha said yesterday eve-ning that he had “heard” of the appeal, but he had not yet received a bail request.

Rights groups have argued the arrests are politically mo-tivated, and designed to push the CNRP to compromise as details related to election re-form are hammered out. a working group meeting on the subject was held yesterday.

However, the government

has rejected that accusation.CNRP deputy leader Kem

sokha, and lawmakers Mu sochua and Keo Phirum – who were arrested on charges in connection to the same pro-test but later released – were also summonsed to court yes-terday for questioning.

the three sent their lawyers on their behalf, sochua said, adding that her lawyer had told judge Keo Mony he was

“dealing with members of par-liament, and the procedure [he was] using is not correct”.

“so he said OK, I’m not go-ing to call her [for question-ing] again,” she added.

Mony declined to comment.Meanwhile, senators from

the CPP and the CNRP agreed yesterday to share power in the senate for the first time. AD-

DITIONAL REPORTING BY CHEANG SOKHA,

MEAS SOKCHEA AND VONG SOKHENG

Opposition leader Sam Rainsy (right) talks to CNRP youth leader Neang Sokhoun last week at Prey Sar prison after he was detained earlier this month. PHOTO SUPPLIED

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yesterday was unable to provide figures for how many students had so far failed, but exam markers told the Post that in some classes, just a handful of students achieved a passing score.

“Each class I corrected the answers for, only three or four students passed,” said a Khmer literature exam marker who graded results for a school in the capital.

Minister of Education Hang Chuon Nar-on said a retest would be held at the end of September, after results from the initial testing round were finalised on August 29 and 30. “The prime minister asked the ministry to check the possibility of the exam,” he said. “We had this second test during the ’60s and ’70s.”

If about 80 per cent of the pupils score high enough, there is no need to retest, he said, adding that the second round, like the first, would also include independent monitors from the Anti-Corruption Unit to look out for and prevent cheating.

Students who fail the second round will have to repeat their grade.

Preap Kol, executive director of Trans-parency International, called the re-exam-ination announcement “quite funny”.

“It gives the message that the recent reform efforts by the Ministry of Education and the ACU to prevent bribery and cor-ruption were not well thought out,” he said, adding that it was akin to the govern-ment building a new road without first considering drainage needs.

San Chey, coordinator at the education

NGO ANSA-EAP, suggested the lowest scor-ers should not be allowed another shot.

But students who knew they performed abysmally welcomed the chance. “This year, we were not allowed to cheat or bribe proctors, so everyone could not finish filling out their paper,” said Chet Tharin*, 18.

Teachers yesterday suggested the pre-mier’s intervention might have been moti-vated less by sympathy for poor testers than the students assumed.

“I think the private colleges would com-plain to him a lot if most students failed,” said Suon Thea*, a teacher.

“Then, they would not have enough stu-dents to attend their colleges.” ADDITIONAL

REPORTING BY LAIGNEE BARRON

*Names changed to protect identity

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Victims claim suspect shot them both in backA DANCE-FLOOR shouting match turned into a street-side shooting for two unlucky men in Phnom Penh’s Por Sen Chey district on Sunday. As is so often the case, one of the vic-tims had stepped on the shoe of a local ne’er-do-well at the dis-co, prompting an argument. When apologies were not forth-coming, the suspect followed them home and shot both men in their backs. They survived and provided authorities with a description of the suspect. Police are still looking for him. KOh SANTEPhEAP Good Samaritan knifed trying to quell rumbleA WOULD-BE mediator found herself an unwitting victim when she tried to intervene in a fight between two neighbours in Kandal province’s Khsach Kan-dal district on Sunday. Accord-ing to police, the woman had attempted to stop a fight between two people when one of the combatants mistook her for his adversary’s wife. Grab-bing a knife, he stabbed her in the back, seriously injuring her. The man fled the scene, and police are on the lookout for the suspect. KAmPUChEA ThmEY

Chase target slips away by slipping into a riverAN ALLEGED phone-snatching in Phnom Penh’s Daun Penh district on Sunday landed one man in hot water and another in the Tonle Sap. According to police, the two suspects were walking through a traffic jam on the capital’s riverside when they snatched the phone of a for-eigner sitting in a stalled tuk-tuk. Nearby police gave chase, catching one of the men, but lost the other when he leapt into the river. DEUm AmPIL

Three men take down jewellery shop, escapeAN EARLY morning jewel heist in Takeo’s Tram Kak district left a shopkeeper shaken and silent on Sunday. According to police, just as the victim was opening her shop, three men wearing motorcycle helmets burst in, told the woman – at gunpoint – to keep quiet, and grabbed as much jewellery and money as they could, then fled the scene. Police said that they still did not know the amount stolen because the victim hadn’t made a report, presumably because she was too afraid. DEUm AmPIL

Another moto owner loses ride to ‘friends’TWO Kandal town men were arrested after allegedly pulling the oldest trick in the book on Saturday. Police said the two suspects met the victim at a drink shop and proceeded to get the poor sap soused. When they later asked if they could borrow his moto to go home, he gladly agreed. After a day passed with no sign of the men or the moto, however, the victim grew suspicious and called police. The two suspects were spotted by police trying to sell the moto, and were promptly arrested. DEUm AmPIL

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poliCebloTTerKerry urges

balance for energy and resourceslaignee barron

AT A summit in Myanmar over the weekend, US Secretary of State John Kerry appealed to Mekong Basin countries to meet growing energy demands without compromising region-al food security or depleting natural resources.

“We all know that the short-term economic gains, no mat-ter how promising they are, cannot come at the expense of the long-term economic stabil-ity and ecosystem of the river,” Kerry said at the ASEAN Minis-terial Meeting.

Kerry and the foreign minis-ters of Cambodia, Laos, Myan-mar, Thailand and Vietnam announced a new working group tasked with developing concrete recommendations for sustainable development along the shared waterway.

Consisting of government officials and nongovernmental academics, the 10-member Eminent and Expert Persons Group is slated to hold its inau-gural meeting in December after consultations with US State Department counsellor Tom Shannon. Lawyer Sok Siphana was appointed to rep-resent Cambodia. He could not be reached.

Kerry’s appeal comes amid intensifying regional hydropow-er debates, with 12 projects pro-posed or in development along the Mekong mainstream: 10 in Laos and two in Cambodia.

In June, Laos yielded to pres-sure from the other Lower Mekong countries and agreed to submit its second large-scale hydropower project to further regional consultation as long as it was allowed to continue construction. Meanwhile, its first hydropower dam, the Xay-aburi, has led to a lawsuit in Thailand, where most of its power would be sent.

Negotiations near in bus rowMom Kunthear

FORMER bus drivers protested for eight hours outside Phnom Penh Sorya Transpor-

tation Company in the capital’s Daun Penh district yesterday before agreeing to sit for nego-tiations tomorrow, according to a union representative.

Prit Souoth, a legal officer at the Cambodia Labour Con-federation, said that while the 17 protesters, who are former drivers sacked by the com-pany in April, hoped to resolve the situation, past dealings with the company had created an atmosphere of doubt.

“We had many negotiations with the company, but we did not get any result [so far] and we do not really trust the company anymore because the company often makes an excuse for finishing the dis-pute,” Souoth said.

The labour fight began in April, when the drivers were sacked for attempting to form a union. The protesters filed suit with Phnom Penh Munici-pal Court, which referred the case to the Arbitration Council, which in turn ruled in the fa-

vour of the employees, calling on Sorya to reinstate 15 of them and pay two others lost wages.

Claiming there were not jobs available for the drivers, the company ignored the ruling.

Protesters said that while they planned to negotiate on Wednesday, they would come

back today to demonstrate.Sambath Vorn, president of

the newly conceived union at the heart of the fracas, said yesterday that the authorities did not crack down on protest-ers, but the company played loud music to drown out their voices and to “disturb” them.

The music got louder when he tried to read out the demands.

Sorya Transportation gen-eral manager Chan Sophanna said the company had always been open to continue talks and that the former drivers had the right to keep protest-ing if they wished.

Former employees of Phnom Penh Sorya Transportation Company protest at a bus station in the capital yesterday, demanding they be reinstated. PhA LINA

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China signs 100K-tonne rice import agreementChan Muyhong

tHE Chinese government-run China National Cereals, Oils and Foodstuffs Corporation (COFCO) will today formally agree to import 100,000 tonnes of rice from Cambodia, local officials say.

Representatives from COFCO and green trade Co, a Cambo-dian government-owned agri-culture firm, today met in Beijing to sign the agreement, which takes effect this month and is valid for one year.

“Cambodia and China have long been trade partners and the fact that Cambodia is a reli-able supplier has built trust for this deal,” Ken Ratha, spokes-person of the Ministry of Com-merce said.

But trust between the two nations might not be the only reason for today’s deal, accord-ing to David Van, president of local rice producing firm, Boost Riche Cambodia.

“the south China sea dispute lately may have also played indi-rectly a part in China wanting to diversify its rice import base as imports from Vietnam hit a sub-stantial figure. China imported over 66 per cent of its total rice imports from Vietnam in 2013, while only 1 per cent came from Cambodia,” Van said.

government data show that China imported 7,700 tonnes of Cambodian milled rice in the first six months of year.

Chevron to sell off its Block aHor Kimsay and Daniel de Carteret

siNgapOREaN-listED oil and gas firm KrisEn-ergy has agreed to buy out Chevron’s stake in

an offshore site in the gulf of thailand for $65 million, ac-cording to a statement from KrisEnergy.

KrisEnergy, which already holds a 25 per cent share in the 4,709-square-kilometre site known as Block a, will acquire Chevron Cambodia’s 30 per cent holding, an announcement on the singapore exchange issued yesterday says.

“Chevron, with its experience in the gulf of thailand, has done some tremendous work in Block a and we hope that with the KrisEnergy entity now holding operator ship, we will be able to steer the apsara de-velopment plans forward to first production as quickly and cost effectively as possible,” Richard lorentz, director of business development for KrisEnergy, said in the statement.

Other joint venture partners MOECO Cambodia and gs En-ergy Corporation have report-edly approved the deal, accord-ing to KrisEnergy. However, the Cambodian government has yet to agree to the conditions.

Contacted yesterday, Meng saktheara, secretary of state at the Ministry of Mines and En-ergy, said the ministry had not yet received a formal request from the companies, but he was confident the deal would go through.

“We will examine this and if we find that it can affect the government’s advantage, we will reject this selling and buy-ing of the share,” sakthera said.

“However, in general, it should not be having any [neg-ative] impact because they are all international companies,” he added.

Chevron declared in 2010 that oil reserves in Block a

were economically viable. However, negotiations with the government have delayed the long-anticipated project, which could greatly reduce Cambodia’s dependency on energy imports.

steve glick, former Chevron Cambodia country manager, told the Post in 2011 that more than $160 million had been spent assessing the commercial

viability of the offshore site, re-ferred to as Block a.

according to the KrisEnergy statement, Chevron’s share of the site was valued using both exploration costs already in-curred by the company and the potential of the oil field.

a Chevron spokesman con-firmed that an in principle deal had been reached.

“Chevron is pleased to have

been involved in the develop-ment of the Cambodian oil and gas industry, and are proud of having made new oil discoveries in Block a over the last 12 years,” Chevron spokesman alex Yel-land said yesterday in an email.

KrisEnergy expects to yield 10,000 barrells of oil per day from Block a when it is opera-tional, according to yesterday’s statement.

Customers refuel at a Chevron-owned Caltex petrol station yesterday in Duan Penh district. Chevron Cambodia’s 30 per cent Block A stake is to be acquired by a Singaporean oil and gas firm. ELI MEIXLER

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us BuYOut firm tPg Capital offered a$3.4 billion (us$3.2 billion) for treasury Wine Es-tates Ltd, according to a person familiar with the matter, match-ing a takeover bid by KKR & Co and Rhone Capital Llc.

a global private equity firm made a nonbinding, a$5.20 cash per-share offer for the maker of Penfolds grange and asked that its identity be kept confidential, treasury Wine said. the unidentified bidder is tPg, the person said, ask-ing not to be named.

By matching KKR’s offer, tPg can study the finances of the world’s second-largest listed winemaker in detail without committing to a purchase. CEO Mike Clarke has prom-ised to revitalise treasury Wine by spending more on market-ing and selling off winery and packaging plants, amid over-supply problems in the us and a government austerity drive that’s curbed sales in China.

“a deal will probably get done once you have this much interest in the business,” Craig Young, who helps manage about a$24 billion as a portfo-lio manager at tyndall Invest-ment Management Ltd in syd-ney, said by phone.

the offer looks high and may be cut, as with the ongoing take-over of australian baker good-man Fielder Ltd, said Young, who doesn’t hold treasury Wine shares. “You can offer anything

to get your foot in the door, but from our perspective it’s dif-ficult to see how you could get that value out of it.”

treasury Wine shares rose 3.9 per cent to a$5.33 at the close in sydney. that’s the highest level in more than a year, and above tPg’s indicative, condi-tional offer price. the identity of the bidder was reported ear-lier yesterday by the Australian Financial Review, citing un-identified people.

KKR made an initial a$4.70 per share offer for the wine-maker in april and raised its bid on august 4.

tPg, the private equity firm run by David Bonderman, previously controlled treasury Wine’s largest unit by sales, af-ter buying it from Nestle sa in the 1990s. along with Napa-based wine investment firm silverado Partners, it bought the Beringer business from the swiss consumer goods compa-ny for us$350 million in 1996. It was later sold to Foster’s group Ltd in 2000 for a$2.56 billion in debt and equity.

“Private equity believes a$5.20 a share is fair value,” Evan Lucas, a market strategist at Melbourne-based Ig Ltd, said. “the management and board wouldn’t let go without a considerable premium to fair value. treasury Wine share-holders can get a little excited and hope for a bidding war to eventuate.” bloomberg

HONg Kong’s economic growth slowed in the second quarter as tourist spending on jewellery and watches plunged, underlining the city’s reliance on Chinese visitors.

Expansion from a year ago was weaker than in the first three months, with a bigger slowdown seen in growth from the previous quarter, Hong Kong Financial secretary John tsang wrote on sunday on his government blog. He didn’t provide numbers, which will be released on august 15.

Retail sales in Hong Kong have fallen for five straight months through June, as China’s economic expansion moderated and the country’s anti-corruption campaign trimmed visitors’ spending on luxury items. tsang, who in February said the economy may grow by 3 per cent to 4 per cent this year, reiterated that he will cut the forecast.

“the pattern of visitors’ con-sumption changed and aver-age spending dropped signifi-cantly in the second quarter,” tsang wrote. Business invest-ments have also dropped, while the unemployment rate has increased, he said.

Hong Kong’s economy prob-ably grew 2.4 per cent in the

april-June period from a year earlier, based on the median estimate of 14 analysts sur-veyed by Bloomberg News, after the first quarter’s 2.5 per cent pace.

Expansion in the second quarter from the January-March period was projected to pick up to 0.4 per cent from 0.2 per cent, based on the median estimate of eight economists.

“We think the sharp dete-rioration in retail sales is likely to weigh heavily on headline gDP,” with the economy ex-panding less than 2 per cent in the second quarter from a year ago, Christiaan tuntono, a Hong Kong-based analyst with Credit suisse group ag, wrote in a note yesterday.

tuntono cut his 2014 eco-nomic growth forecast for Hong Kong to 2.2 per cent from 3 per cent.

Retail sales in June fell 6.9 per cent to HK$37.1 billion (us$4.8 billion) from a year ago, with spending on jewellery and watches down 28.2 per cent, the government said July 31.

LVMH Moet Hennessy Lou-is Vuitton sa, the world’s larg-est luxury-goods company, said last month that business in the city has slowed mark-edly. bloomberg

tPg offers $3.2B for treasury Wine, matching KKR bid

Jewellery sales, tourist numbers fall as Hong Kong’s growth slows

Following a Chinese investigation into wrongdoing by a host of foreign businesses, Chinese authorities are punishing carmaker Audi for violating anti-monopoly laws. Audi has said that it will accept the punishment. bloomberg

audi to accept China penaltyg

ERMaN luxury car brand audi will ac-cept punishment from Chinese au-

thorities for breaching anti-monopoly laws in the world’s largest auto market, the car-maker said yesterday.

an investigation by Chi-nese authorities found that an audi dealer network had “violated national anti-mo-nopoly laws”, the brand’s China arm said in a released statement, adding the audi joint venture involved had “closely cooperated with the investigation and will accept a penalty”.

China has launched inves-tigations into alleged wrong-doings by a host of foreign firms in multiple different fields, among them phar-maceuticals, technology and baby milk.

the statement came after China’s National Develop-ment and Reform Commis-

sion (NDRC), which polices violations of “anti-monopoly” law, said it had been investi-gating the auto sector – dom-inated by foreign companies and their joint ventures – for more than two years.

Last week it pledged to punish audi, and Chrysler of the us, now part of Italy’s Fiat group, without stating what penalties they would receive.

China considers using a dominant market position to set prices as a form of monopoly. Violators’ “illegal gains” can be confiscated, and they can be fined up to 10 percent of their sales rev-enue in the previous year.

audi is owned by the ger-man car firm Volkswagen, which set up a joint venture with Chinese auto giant FaW to manufacture audis and other models.

“Management processes in the sales and dealership structure are getting im-

proved to prevent similar incidents in the future,” the audi China statement sent to aFP added.

It did not explicitly state that audi acknowledged any wrongdoing.

However, it did add: “audi and FaW-Volkswagen attach great importance that all ap-plicable antitrust and com-petition laws are adhered to.”

China has become critically important to foreign carmak-ers, given the size of the mar-ket and weak sales elsewhere in the world.

China’s full-year auto sales hit 21.98 million vehicles last year, when a recovery in Japa-nese brands offset the impact of slowing economic growth.

the inquiry into carmark-ers comes as the state ad-ministration for Industry and Commerce (saIC), which also enforces the anti-monopoly law, investigates us software giant Microsoft for allegedly

operating a monopoly.In another chill for us

technology firms, state me-dia have said China is plan-ning to announce chip maker Qualcomm has monopoly status in the mobile phone chip market.

Foreign pharmaceutical companies including Brit-ain’s glaxosmithKline (gsK) have also been the target of wide-ranging investigations.

Others businesses, such as apple and starbucks, mean-while, have sometimes re-ceived unfavourable cover-age in China’s state media over issues regarding service and pricing.

the moves have prompted fears from investors that overseas companies are be-ing especially targeted, but China said saturday that its anti-monopoly law does not discriminate between do-mestic and overseas compa-nies. afp

McDonald’s, Yum to reveal supplierssHaNgHaI has ordered McDonald’s Corp and other foreign restaurant chains to disclose their product sourc-es as the city seeks to regain consumer trust after a food scare sparked safety concerns in the country.

Yum! Brands Inc, Burger King Worldwide Inc, Carl’s Jr, Papa John’s International Inc and ting Hsin International group’s Dicos were among companies asked to post supplier informa-tion on their website by the shanghai Municipal Food and Drug administration, accord-ing to a posting on the city’s official microblog.

shanghai authorities required greater transparency after they ordered an investigation last month into a food supplier accused of selling expired meat, and as scandals such as fox meat sold as mutton have

rocked the city in the last two years, raising fears of unsafe products in the country.

On July 20, a local television station aired an undercover

report showing workers at shanghai Husi Food Co, a unit of aurora, Illinois-based OsI group Llc, had been repackag-ing and giving chicken and beef

that exceeded its sell-by dates another year. that prompted their customers such as McDonald’s and Yum’s KFC and Pizza Hut chains to pull products from the supplier, leading to a shortage of Big Macs and some other items in their restaurants.

Eateries are now asked to put up information such as sup-plier names, ingredients used in its products, and the results of food production checks on their official websites so they can be “put under consumer scrutiny”, according to the august 9 posting.

McDonald’s has started restoring its full menu in some cities in China and some of its Beijing outlets will only get the full range of burgers this week due to logistical delays, the fast-food chain said in a state-ment yesterday. bloomberg

Shanghai authorities have ordered McDonald’s and other fast-food chains to reveal the suppliers of their products. bloomberg

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Palm oil heavyweights battle for Papua New guniea

thailand at risk of being left behind in asEaN 4g race

a BattLE between two of the world’s palm oil heavyweights for an opportunity to expand their empires into Papua New guinea has produced an unex-pected winner in Malaysia, but the PNg government may yet have the final say.

Malaysia’s sime Darby Bhd, the world’s second-biggest palm oil producer, edged out third-ranked Felda global Ven-tures Bhd (FgV) for the right to negotiate with Kuala Lumpur-based Kulim Bhd to buy its 49 per cent equity stake in New Britain Palm Oil Ltd (NBPOL).

the decision was a setback for FgV, which badly wanted to expand beyond Malaysia and Indonesia, and saw great poten-tial in the yields from the NBPOL properties in Papua

New guinea. FgV has been looking for opportunities ever since it listed on Bursa Malaysia in 2012, when it raised $3.3 bil-lion in the world’s third-largest IPO that year.

“We were surprised that sime Darby emerged as the winner, given that FgV had been aggres-sively courting Kulim and the Papua New guinea [PNg] authorities,” ta securities wrote in a research note.

NBPOL is listed on the Lon-don stock Exchange and also in Port Moresby, the capital of PNg. Kulim, headquartered in Johor, holds the largest equity stake in the company at 49 per cent. Kulim first invested in NBPOL in 1996 when it was a small plantation company with 18,000 hectares of oil

palm. today its landbank totals 134,611 hectares, of which 79,884 are in Papua New guinea (PNg) and the solo-mon Islands.

the remaining 30,183 hec-tares are reserved and unde-veloped land. a sustainable palm oil producer, the com-pany also has 12 palm oil mills, and one refinery each in PNg and Liverpool.

NBPOL is also the largest sugar and beef producer in PNg with 7,700 hectares of sug-arcane plantations and 9,200 hectares of grazing land, as well as a seed production and palm breeding facility.

analysts are particularly excited about the sale because the plantations offer higher yields per acre than many in

the region and would be a good addition to the portfolio of any company. analysts believe sime Darby was chosen because it stands a better chance of win-ning PNg government approv-al. Kulim does not want anoth-er rejection.

sime Darby is indeed an international player, with palm oil estates in Malaysia, Indone-sia and Liberia. It is the world’s largest producer of sustainable palm oil, with 82 per cent of its output deemed sustainable.

However, success is not assured since the PNg govern-ment has just introduced new rules preventing takeovers that are deemed not to be in the national interest, according to alliance DBs Research.

the PNg Code also requires

that any party acquiring more than a 20 per cent stake in a company must make a tender offer to all shareholders for the remaining shares. NBPOL also must appoint an independent adviser to the shareholders to review the merits of the sime Darby deal.

CIMB Research believes the 49 per cent stake will cost sime Darby about 2 billion ringgit ($625 million). But since it will have to comply with PNg take-over rules and launch a general offer on both the exchanges on which NBPOL is listed, the whole deal could end up cost-ing the Malaysian company between 4.9 billion and 5.8 bil-lion ringgit.

ta securities says that based on NBPOL’s market price in

London of 519 pence ($0.87) per share, the group is valued at £778.7 million or 4.2 billion ringgit. this works out to approximately 52,000 ringgit per hectare under cultivation.

If indeed it manages to get all the required approvals, then it would be in an enviable posi-tion given the acreage size increase and yields.

CIMB Research believes its total planted acreage will increase by 15 per cent to 607,218 hectares. sime Darby will also get to expand its cus-tomer base in Britain and another refinery in Liverpool. It already has eight refineries: three in Malaysia, one each in singapore, thailand, Vietnam, the Netherlands and south africa. bangkok post

tHaILaND faces the threat of fierce competition from other asEaN countries if a fourth-generation (4g) spectrum auc-tion fails to take place next year, says an internet trade group.

Myanmar is the only country in the 10-member bloc that does not have 4g commercial service. true Move provides 4g commercial service in thailand on a limited scale.

Mobile operators in Cambo-dia have been offering 4g commercial service in every

province since 2012 – when thai operators were only beginning to roll out 3g net-works after receiving licences from the National Broadcast-ing and telecommunications Commission (NBtC).

srisakdi Charmonman, pres-ident of the thailand Internet association, said the lack of 4g service notwithstanding, Myan-mar was speeding up many infrastructure projects such as construction of 3g wireless broadband networks.

“given surging demand for telecom services in Myanmar due to the influx of more foreign direct investment into the country, Myanmar could bypass 3g for 4g technology develop-ment,” he said at a forum on creating business opportunities with 4g in asEaN.

according to researcher gsMa Intelligence, more than 264 operators provide 4g serv-ice in 101 countries, with the figures expected to rise to 500 in 128 countries by 2017. south

Korea and Japan provide the fastest 4g wireless broadband in the world.

gsMa Intelligence sees 4g access reaching 64 per cent of the global population by 2020.

srisakdi said the one-year delay of the 4g spectrum auc-tion could have a severe impact on thailand’s economic growth, as 4g network expan-sion would stimulate invest-ment and boost other telecom-related businesses.

Four-g wireless broadband

boasts up to seven times the speed of 3g internet and could enhance development of other sectors such as medicine, edu-cation and e-government.

Mr srisakdi said thailand had more than 100 million mobile subscribers, with over 50 mil-lion still using 2g service.

Col settapong Malisuwan, the NBtC’s telecom committee chairman, has said thailand is ready for 4g service, as wit-nessed by the jump in mobile data traffic in the first quarter

of this year. He said the com-mittee believed 4g could gener-ate hundreds of billions of baht for telecom-related industries and the overall economy.

the big three mobile operators – aIs, DtaC and true Move – invested 70 billion baht ($2.18 billion) in network expansion in the first year after the 3g auction in 2012. three-g also stimulated the local smartphone market with sales reaching 60 billion baht this year, up 30 per cent from last year. bangkok post

OsIM International Ltd, asia’s largest maker of massage chairs, said it’s in talks to ex-pand its international fran-chise with stores in turkey and Russia. Osim’s chief ex-ecutive officer Ron sim said he hopes to reach a deal by the end of the year.

the turkey and Russia agree-ments will complement fast-growing economies including China, which sim said is it’s top market with almost half of its 578 stores worldwide. Osim is planning to add 20 to 30 new outlets each year while closing underpeforming ones, he said.

“the worldwide market is getting bigger and bigger for us,” sim said.

the expansion into turkey would give the singapore-based company access to a country where economic growth has averaged 5.5 per-cent since 2002. Russia is grap-pling with a $2 trillion econo-my that has nearly stalled as foreign capital continues to flow out, making the impact of Western sanctions noticeable for Russian citizens.

Osim’s key markets also in-clude Hong Kong, taiwan, singapore and Malaysia. the shares have climbed 18 per cent this year, compared with the 3.8 per cent gain in the singapore benchmark straits times Index. bloomberg

turkey and Russia next for Osim’s expansion

sharholders offered airline exitM

aLaYsIa’s na-tional carrier, kept afloat with billions from the

government in the past six years, got yet another lifeline after two high-profile jet di-sasters this year left its image in tatters.

Malaysian airline system Bhd (Mas) minority share-holders have been offered an exit after sovereign wealth fund Khazanah Nasional Bhd said it would pay 1.38 billion ringgit ($429 million) to take the carrier private. this is a first step and more painful measures may be needed to turn around the airline with a “comprehensive and holis-tic” restructuring plan, Prime Minister Najib Razak said on august 8.

shareholders “should accept the offer”, said Daniel Wong, an analyst at Hong Leong Invest-ment Bank Bhd in Kuala Lum-pur, as he predicted a “bleak” future for the carrier.

“You’re getting an exit point at a premium price, you’re still making a profit. Why not? unless you are thinking that Mas can turn around within the next two years.”

taking Malaysia airlines private is an initial step in re-pairing the image of the car-rier after two accidents this year – one over ukraine and another where investigators are still looking for wreckage after five months – claimed the lives of 537 people. Najib

and his government came under criticism for their han-dling of Flight 370’s disap-pearance and restoring the reputation is essential to lure back passengers amid com-petition with budget airlines.

Khazanah’s offer to buy the 30.6 per cent stake it doesn’t already own in the subang, Malaysia-based company at 27 sen per share ($0.08) is 12.5 per cent higher than the stock’s august 7 closing price. the shares, which were suspended on august 8, rose 8.3 per cent

to 26 sen as of 9:39am local time, paring this year’s decline to 16 per cent.

the airline has been bailed out before. In 2002, the gov-ernment tightened its grip on the carrier under an asset reor-ganisation plan that gave it 69 per cent of the company. the airline called for rights-share offerings in september 2007, February 2010 and May 2013, requiring Khazanah to cough up 4.8 billion ringgit to main-tain its stake.

Flight 17 was shot down in

ukraine in July, four months after a jet en route to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur vanished. the plane that disappeared in March put the carrier under global scrutiny and prompted boycotts in China, whose na-tionals accounted for most of the passengers. there is no trace of the plane in what has become the longest search for a missing jet in modern avia-tion history.

Before the disasters, Malay-sia airlines had racked up 4.13 billion ringgit in losses over

the previous three years. the carrier will probably lose more than 1 billion ringgit in 2014, according to analyst estimates compiled by Bloomberg.

Malaysia airlines’ board said it will take Khazanah’s pro-posal to shareholders in an ex-traordinary general meeting. Details of the restructuring plan will be announced before the end of august, Najib said.

Investors shouldn’t expect a better offer from Khazanah, said Mohshin aziz, an analyst at Malayan Banking Bhd in Kuala Lumpur. When the air-line reports its second-quarter performance, financial results will be “awful, perhaps the worst in its history”, he said in an august 8 note.

“When that happens, it will definitely spook everyone and evaporate any hope for a re-vised offer,” Mohshin said. the company may report earnings later this month.

the airline missed its target to be profitable last year on higher fuel, maintenance and financing costs. Its net loss in the three months ended March 31 widened to 443.4 million ringgit from 278.8 mil-lion ringgit a year earlier. Rev-enue rose 1.8 per cent to 3.6 billion ringgit.

Malaysia airlines had more than 19,500 employees at the end of 2013. the restructur-ing needs the support of man-agement, employees, unions, creditors and vendors, Najib said. bloomberg

Flags fly at half-mast at Malaysia Airlines headquarters in Subang, Malaysia, on July 20. Minority shareholders are being offered an exit by sovereign wealth fund Khazanah Nasional. bloomberg

LEADING economies are show-ing steady growth overall, though Britain is doing particu-larly well and Japan and Ger-many are showing signs of slow-ing, the OECD said yesterday.

The eurozone as a whole, and France, are on a stable growth path, the latest OECD data showed, contrasting with several recent indicators sug-gesting that France is lagging in the 18-member single-cur-rency zone.

The Organisation for Eco-nomic Co-operation and Development, grouping 34

advanced democracies, said that its index of leading indica-tors for “the United States and Canada also continue to point to stable growth momentum”.

This was also the case for Britain, a member of the EU but not of the eurozone, “where growth momentum remains above-trend rates”, the OECD’s monthly index showed.

There were signs of a blip in Japanese growth, but this “probably reflects one-off fac-tors”, the OECD said.

The figures for Germany, the leading eurozone country, sug-

gested that growth was losing its vigour, whereas in Italy the data continues to indicate a positive growth momentum.

The OECD index is regarded as a reliable pointer to turning points in economic activity relative to trends.

The outlook for France and for Italy will be welcome in those two countries, in France because recent data has been discouraging and in Italy because the economy was shown last week to have slipped unexpectedly back into reces-sion. afp

Swedish firm to invest $1.6B in wind farmSWEDISH energy group Vattenfall and Munich City Utilities announced yesterday a massive wind-farm investment off the German North Sea coast. The wind farm, named Sandbank and located close to Danish territorial waters, will include 72 turbines and will cost 11 billion kronor ($1.6 billion). The project is intended to generate an estimated 1.4 terawatt-hours of electricity annually which is capable of supplying 400,000 homes with power. afp

S Africa lender placed into administrationSOUTH africa’s central bank stepped in to rescue embattled lender african Bank Investments Limited on Sunday after it said it needed 8.5 billion rand ($800 million) to continue operating. The bank has been put into administration – and will receive a 10 billion rand capital injection and protection for creditors, Reserve Bank governor Gill Marcus said. Lenders including Barclays africa, firstRand and fund administrator the public Investment Corporation have agreed to underwrite the capital raising, Marcus went on to say. afp

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EDF Energy shuts reactors in Britain as safety precautionEDF Energy, the British unit of French giant EDF, said yesterday it had decided to shut down four nuclear reactors at two plants in northern Eng-land as a precaution.

EDF Energy said that it was shutting down two reactors at each of the Heysham and Hartlepool nuclear plants for at least about eight weeks.

It follows a defect at one of the four reactors, which has kept it out of action since June. The decision to shut down an additional three reac-tors was described as a “conservative decision” in a statement issued by EDF Energy.

It comes as Britain’s government is placing nuclear power at the heart of its low-carbon energy policy, in stark contrast to Europe’s big-gest economy Germany, which vowed to phase it out in the wake of Japan’s 2011 Fukushima disaster. Last year, Britain signed a £16 billion deal with EDF to build two reactors at Hinkley Point C, southwestern England, to help meet the country’s future energy needs.

Also involved in the contract are French group Areva – the world’s leading nuclear pow-er company – and Chinese nuclear firms CGN and CNNC.

EDF Energy meanwhile said in a statement yesterday that its Heysham 1 Reactor 1 “remains

shut down while work continues to character-ise the nature of the defect” detected earlier this year.

“Although routine inspections of other boiler spines have not previously indicated any simi-lar defects, EDF Energy has taken the conserv-ative decision to shut down Heysham 1 Reactor 2 and Hartlepool Reactors 1 and 2 that are of similar design,” it said.

“Until the results of the further inspections are known it is not possible to advise exact return to service dates for these four reactors, however, an initial estimate is that these investigations will take around eight weeks,” the statement added.

In a separate statement, British energy group Centrica said the shutdowns announced yes-terday would impact its own earnings this year owing to its 20-per cent interest in EDF Energy’s existing nuclear operations.

“On this basis, the resulting reduction in output from the affected nuclear power stations is cur-rently estimated to reduce Centrica’s earnings per share in 2014 by around 0.3 pence per share,” it said. Centrica’s share price was little changed following the announcement, with the company trading down 0.06 per cent at 307.7 pence in London. afp

Lost Russia sales hit Germany

MWL Apparate Bau Gmbh, based in the eastern Ger-man town of

Grimma, has relied on strong ties with Russia to bolster business. Today, those links don’t mean much.

The maker of equipment such as pressure vessels and hot water tanks for the chemical and petrochemical industries has seen a “sig-nificant” decline in orders in the last six months due to the crisis, sales chief Reinhard Weber said. The company has annual revenue of about €20 million ($27 million).

“There are two contracts from Russia we didn’t get and we think that’s for po-litical reasons,” Weber said. “They’re afraid of sanctions being extended – that they will make an order and that we won’t be able to fulfill it because of political decisions in Germany or Europe.”

MWL is one of many busi-nesses in Germany’s Mittel-stand, the thousands of small- and medium-sized companies that form the backbone of Europe’s largest economy, that are already getting pinched as Russian customers put off purchases. With the crisis now intensifying through deeper

European Union and US sanc-tions and retaliatory measures from Russia banning EU and US food imports, they’re pre-paring for an even bigger hit.

Take Amandus Kahl Gmbh. The maker of food process-ing and recycling machinery near Hamburg had expected to bring in about €10 million in revenue this year from Russian sales.

Sales to the country “have pretty much evaporated be-cause our clients can’t get fi-nancing”, Rochus Mecke, a Kahl’s sales director, said in an

interview. “We still get inqui-ries, but it’s only inquiries.”

Even before the confronta-tion deepened with the July 17 downing of MH17 over territory held by pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine, German business was being impacted. Factory orders in June dropped the most in more than two and a half years.

With the escalating mea-sures from both sides, ex-ecutives are bracing for the situation to worsen. German business sentiment fell for a third straight month in July to

the lowest since October, ac-cording to the Munich-based Ifo institute.

The Mittelstand, which ac-counts for 52 per cent of Ger-many’s economic output, is made up of businesses that generally have a focused product offering and more regional sales. That means those reliant on Russia are less able to shift output to other areas of the world in the way global companies can.

EU sanctions announced last month restrict the export to Russia of equipment to modernise the oil industry and forbid the sale of machinery, electronics and other civilian products with potential mili-tary uses. New arms contracts with Russia are also not al-lowed. Russia responded with import bans on an array of food stuffs from the US and Europe, including fish, beef, pork, fruit, vegetables and dairy.

While most attention has been focused on the impact to big companies in industries such as finance and defence, the deeper pain will be felt by these small businesses in Ger-many, which is Russia’s big-gest EU trading partner. Their health is critical to Europe’s biggest economy and so Eu-rope as a whole. BLOOMBERG

Hachette fights back in row over price fixing HACHETTE Book Group has defended itself against accusa-tions of pushing up prices for e-books amid a dispute with online retail giant Amazon.

“Hachette sets prices for our books entirely on our own, not in collusion with anyone,” the American head of the publish-ing group, Michael Pietsch, wrote in a letter to readers.

The letter will be sent to any-one who emails Pietsch, Hachette said, after Pietsch’s email address was published by Amazon, in a bid to pres-sure the company over the price battle.

In his letter, the Hachette chief swung back at Amazon.

“This dispute started because Amazon is seeking a lot more profit and even more market share, at the expense of authors, bricks and mortar bookstores, and ourselves,” he argued.

Amazon says it wants to set a $9.99 price for most e-books, compared to $12.99 to $19.99 currently, arguing the lack of printing, stocking and shipping costs for e-books should make them less expensive. afp

A pig farm in Lohne. Small- and medium-sized businesses in Germany are feeling the pinch of political tension with Russia. BLOOMBERG

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Iron giants turn to cattle farmingR

Io tinto group is the world’s second-largest ex-porter of iron ore. It’s also one of Western australia’s

biggest cattle ranchers, with room for 25,000 head to graze on land spanning an area larger than Mon-dulkiri province.

global demand is surging, driven in large part by China’s expanding appetite for beef. at the same time, prices for iron ore are projected to slip. that’s making cattle more at-tractive to australian mining com-panies, a complementary business that generates revenue from land that otherwise would be idle.

Hancock Prospecting, the mining company owned by australia’s rich-est woman, and andrew Forrest, the billionaire founder of Fortescue Metals, the world’s fourth-biggest iron ore exporter, are also moving into the cattle industry.

“the trouble with iron ore is you have to dig it out and move it by truck, but the great thing about cat-tle is they walk there for you,” aus-tralian agriculture Minister Barna-by Joyce said in a phone interview. For mining companies, “it’s just the movement of another commodity”.

Purchases of australian food and agriculture assets have had the strongest first half in at least 12 years, with more than 20 deals an-nounced this year worth at least $2.6 billion, according to data com-piled by Bloomberg.

they include Forrest’s May acqui-sition of Harvey Beef, Western aus-tralia’s only licensed beef exporter to China, and Hancock’s purchase of a 50 per cent share last month in

two cattle stations, or ranches, in Western australia’s West Kimberley.

Joyce expects to see more such deals by mining companies: “they are key people with the right exper-tise to make this work.”

Forrest, who once farmed al-pacas and grew up on his family’s Minderoo ranch, this year founded the australia sino Hundred Year agricultural and Food safety Part-nership to facilitate discussions between australian suppliers and Chinese consumers.

He held talks with Chinese Pre-mier Li Keqiang in april to discuss the bilateral agricultural partner-ship. the world’s most populous nation is so desperate for good beef

that Forrest told Bloomberg News in May he would be taking steak sam-ples in his luggage on his next trip.

australia, the world’s third-largest beef exporter, saw beef and veal ex-ports to China surge 76 per cent in fiscal 2014, according to the austra-lian Bureau of agricultural and Re-source Economics and sciences.

China is already the biggest con-sumer of meat and may double beef imports by 2018 as the country’s in-creasing wealth drives changes in consumers’ diets, Rabobank Inter-national said in December.

Rio has six ranches in the Pilbara that cover more than 1.5 million hectares of land, to allow access for exploration, infrastructure devel-

opment, water management and future mining and production, ac-cording to its website.

“We are conscious of an opportu-nity in relation to agriculture,” Lon-don-based Rio’s chief executive offi-cer sam Walsh said in Perth on July 23. With australia’s vast expanses of land, there’s huge opportunity, he said. the company began leas-ing some of its land in 1966 and may consider expanding its holdings.

australia’s benchmark Eastern Young Cattle Indicator has gained 14 percent this year after two years of declines, making this a good time to move into beef, said Paul Deane, senior agriculture analyst at austra-lia and New Zealand Banking.

“You’re are buying at the bottom of the cycle and that’s attractive,” Deane said.

In the us, cattle futures are up 26 per cent in the past year in Chicago and set for a sixth annual gain as in-creases in consumer spending in the nation help the economy rebound. Prices rose to a record last month as slaughter numbers declined.

Iron ore prices are expected to fall to $96 a metric ton in 2018, from a forecast of $102.50 in the current quarter, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

Mining companies in austra-lia have long been associated with farming and have often bought properties outright to ease access for exploration and mining access. Many mines share the same name as the stations where they’re locat-ed, including Rio’s Hamersley Mine and Fortescue’s Christmas Creek operation. bloomberg

With demand for beef surging and prices for iron ore slipping, Australian mining companies are raising cattle on land that otherwise would be idle. bloomberg

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World

strongman wins landmark turkey pollP

RIME Minister Recep tayyip Erdogan yesterday prepared for the challenge of leading turkey as a strongman presi-

dent after winning an election in the first round albeit by a narrower-than-expected margin.

He vowed to build a “new turkey” and reconcile a divided country in a triumphant midnight speech before tens of thousands of supporters in ankara, after taking almost 52 per-cent of the vote in sunday’s poll.

as premier since 2003, Erdogan has sought to modernise turkey and take a more assertive position on the global stage but is seen by many as increasingly authoritarian.

Now the country’s first ever directly elected president, the Islamic-rooted leader will be inaugurated on au-gust 28 and could serve two five-year terms, staying in power until 2024.

Outgoing president abdullah gul said yesterday he would return to the ruling Justice and Development Party (aKP) after he hands over the post.

attention will now turn to who becomes the next prime minister to take the ruling Islamic-rooted aKP into 2015 legislative elections.

as Erdogan prepares to beef up the powers of the president – which in re-cent years has been a largely ceremo-nial role – he may have to tread more carefully after a victory that was weak-er than expected by his strategists.

“It will have implications for the way he approaches the new presi-dency, it would have to be more cau-tious,” ali Carkoglu, professor at Koc university in Istanbul, said.

Erdogan is seeking a more us-style executive presidency but this will prove tricky within the limits of the current constitution, and the aKP has vowed to seek a new basic law after the 2015 polls.

Debt ratings agency Fitch said the result “does little to ameliorate the po-litical risk” to turkey’s credit profile.

sunday’s poll was the first di-rect presidential election in turk-ish history – previously the head

of state was chosen by parliament – and Erdogan has pledged to be a “people’s president”.

“the turkish people wrote history yesterday,” declared the pro-Erdogan daily sabah, with a picture of Erdogan delivering a speech from the balcony of aKP headquarters in ankara with his hand clasped to his heart.

Erdogan won 51.74 per cent of the vote, the main opposition chal-lenger Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu 38.46 per cent and Kurdish candidate se-lahattin Demirtas 9.80 per cent, ac-cording to results based on a near total vote count.

the aKP’s top executive committee was meeting yesterday on a new party leader and premier, though a decision will not be made for several days.

the Cumhuriyet daily said Erdo-gan’s failure to win more than 55 per cent had shifted the thinking within the aKP about the new premier.

there were now growing voices for gul – seen as a moderate and concil-iatory figure – to take the post.

the other option is Foreign Minister ahmet Davutoglu, an influential fig-ure but an Erdogan loyalist who would be likely to do his master’s bidding.

turnout was 73.68 per cent, a fig-ure that would be considered high in many countries but was sharply down on the 89 per cent recorded in turkey’s local elections in March.

Leaders of the secular opposition – which backed Ihsanoglu – expressed frustration that many of their voters had stayed at home.

In his victory speech, Erdogan sought to promote a message of rec-onciliation after a sometimes bitter campaign. “today we are closing an era and taking the first step for a new era,” he said.

OsCE observers said there has been a “distinct advantage” in the cam-paign for Erdogan, whose advertising dominated television and billboards.

“the challenges we have noted, particularly the imbalanced media coverage, must be overcome to fully live up to the democratic aspirations

of the people,” said Vilija aleknaite-abramikiene, special coordinator of the mission.

During his first term as president, Erdogan will mark being in power longer than Mustafa Kemal ataturk, who founded the modern turkish state in 1923 and is still hailed as the national hero.

Many secular turks bitterly ac-cuse Erdogan of squandering atat-urk’s legacy with a gradual move to Islamise the country and impose one-man rule. their anger erupted in deadly 2013 protests sparked by plans to build a shopping mall on the site of gezi Park in central Istanbul.

there was no reported unrest on election night.

after winning, Erdogan called on opponents who label him a “dictator” to question themselves instead of criticising him. “We may have differ-ent political views, different lifestyles, sects, values, ethnic roots . . . but we are all sons of this country . . . each of us are the owner of this state.” afp

Protests, looting in st Louis after cops kill black teenPROtEstERs clashed with police and looted stores in a suburb of the us city of st Louis after an officer shot dead an unarmed black teen, local media reported yesterday.

Police armed with clubs hurled tear gas and deployed officers with dogs to curb the violence that erupted late on sunday in Ferguson, in the Midwest-ern state of Missouri, reports said.

But local law enforcement officers were quickly overwhelmed and had to urgently call for backup from nearby

communities, according to KsDK tV 5. Video posted by the St Louis Post-Dispatch showed a gas station conven-ience store plundered and set on fire.

Looters also raided a Walmart and several other smaller stores, and set fires elsewhere, the paper reported.

the violence broke out after large crowds of mostly black protesters gath-ered on sunday for a vigil at the spot where police shot and killed 18-year-old Michael Brown a day earlier.

Details of Brown’s death differ. a wit-

ness identified as Dorian Johnson told KMOV News 4 that he was walking with Brown when a police officer con-fronted them and drew his weapon.

the officer shot Brown, who “turned around and put his hands in the air”, Johnson said. “He started to get down and the officer still approached with his weapon drawn and fired several more shots.”

st Louis County Police Chief Jon Bel-mar, however, said Brown was killed after physically assaulting a police

officer and struggling to get his gun.Belmar did not say whether the

officer was white, but the Post-Dis-patch said the incident brings to light the tension between the mostly white local police force and the african-american community.

Brown’s grief-stricken mother, Les-ley Mcspadden, said that her son had just graduated from high school and had planned to attend college.

“Do you know how hard it was for me to get him to stay in school and

graduate? You know how many black men graduate? Not many,” she told tV station KMOV. “Because you bring them down to this type of level, where they feel like they don’t got nothing to live for anyway.”

Brown’s family has hired attorney Benjamin Crump to represent them.

Crump is the lawyer who represent-ed the family of trayvon Martin, the black teen shot and killed in Florida by george Zimmerman, a neighbourhood watchman, in February 2012. afp

Newly elected Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan stands on a balcony to give his victory speech in Ankara on Sunday, while supporters in Istanbul celebrate his presidential election win. afp

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Right or wong?

Kiwi MP in hot water for ‘racist’ joke

A HIGH-PROFILE New Zealand lawmaker was accused of racism yes-

terday after making what he called a “joke” at the expense of Asians as he railed against Chinese investment in the country’s farming sector.

New Zealand First Party leader Winston Peters told his campaign launch in Auckland on Sunday that he wanted to tighten restrictions on foreign ownership, telling the audience: “As they say in Beijing, two Wongs don’t make a white.”

The comment was labelled “disappointing and shameful” by Race Relations Commis-sioner Susan Devoy, while the ACT Party accused Peters of inciting hatred against Chinese ahead of a general election on September 20.

Peters, who has warned of New Zealand becoming an “Asian colony”, said his critics lacked a sense of humour and claimed he was told the joke by a Chinese man in Beijing.

“The reality is a Chinese guy thought it was a joke, he told me that and I thought it was funny, so did my col-leagues,” he said. “There’s nothing racist about it.” afp

Back home, Yingluck hits the supermarketafTER arriving home on Sunday night, former Thai prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra went shopping at a hypermarket near her home late yesterday morning. Shoppers took the opportunity to snap photos of the former premier in her first public appearance since returning from a trip to Europe and the US. Yingluck told reporters that she would not need to report to the junta’s National Council for peace and Order as she had returned to Thailand by the date earlier approved. She admitted that some people might have questioned whether she would return, but the trip was primarliy for her to spend time with her son before his school term began. baNgkOk pOST

Cleric announces march to topple Pakistan gov’ta pOpULIST pakistani cleric on Sunday announced a march on Islamabad to overthrow the government, hours after being charged with murder for the death of a policeman allegedly injured in clashes with his supporters. Tahir-ul-Qadri said he will take to the streets on the same day that opposition leader Imran khan will hold a rally in the capital aiming to force the government to step down and hold a fresh election. both protest rallies will be held on Thursday when pakistan celebrates its independence day. Qadri, who commands tens of thousands of followers, returned to pakistan in June to lead what he terms a “peaceful revolution”, claiming the country’s political system only benefits the elite. afp

at LEast 10 people died and dozens were injured as ty-phoon Halong hurtled across the Japanese archipelago on the weekend, reports said yesterday, with heavy rain still lashing the country’s north.

the storm moved over the sea of Japan (East sea) and lurched towards Russia’s far east coast yesterday, after sweeping across Japan’s largest and most populous island of Honshu.

a total of 96 people were injured, public broadcaster

NHK reported. the Nikkei newspaper said that 10 deaths were linked to the storm, with two others missing.

among the dead was an Ira-nian man, the Nikkei said.

In Osaka, Halong forced the cancellation of a major fireworks event on saturday after the storm washed away 21 launching boats, about half of them carrying unused pyro-technics.

they were later found stuck down river. afp

aN austRaLIaN couple at the centre of a thai surrogate scan-dal have denied they deliber-ately abandoned their baby son because he had Down’s syndrome and said they would fight to get him back.

David Farnell, 56, a convicted child sex offender and the bio-logical father of the boy, gam-my, told Channel Nine he and his wife, Wendy, had “wanted to bring him with us”.

It was their first interview since sparking global con-troversy after leaving the boy in thailand with his 21-year-old thai surrogate mother Pattaramon Chanbua and taking only his healthy twin

sister Pipah back home.“We never said you [Pattara-

mon] can have this baby, no matter what,” an emotional David Farnell said.

the couple claimed Pat-taramon wanted to keep the girl and said they left thailand without gammy because “we were getting scared that we would lose her too and we had to try and get her out”.

the Farnells, from Bunbury south of Perth, Western aus-tralia, previously claimed they were told gammy had a con-genital heart condition but not Down’s syndrome, and left him because doctors said he would not survive. afp

Japan typhoon kills 10

‘We want gammy back’China clamps down harder on rights activists, ‘rumours’

us peaceful sea plan stokes tensions: Beijing

a CHINEsE court yesterday upheld lengthy prison sen-tences handed to three anti-corruption activists, their law-yer said, cementing a crackdown on a burgeoning civil rights movement.

Liu Ping, Wei Zhongping and Li sihua were charged with dis-rupting public order last year for taking photos of themselves holding banners that urged gov-ernment officials to disclose their assets to curb corruption.

under President Xi Jinping, China’s ruling Communist Par-ty has repeatedly vowed to com-bat rampant graft in the face of public anger over the issue. But the party has cracked down on activists pursuing the same goals, seeing independently organised groups as a challenge to its tight grip on power.

an intermediate court in Xinyu, in the central province of Jiangxi, upheld the six-and-a-half-year jail sentences handed to Liu and Wei, and a three-year sentence given to Li, their lawyer, si Weijiang, said.

China has this year jailed about 10 members of the New Citizens Movement, a loose group with members who held peaceful protests in Beijing and other cities last year calling for

officials to disclose their assets.a founder of the movement,

legal scholar Xu Zhiyong, was jailed for four years in January. group members have said the wave of arrests, which began last year, has severely curbed their activities.

also yesterday, state media said a man had been detained on suspicion of making up rumours that the Chinese mili-tary had killed thousands of people in Xinjiang, home to the Muslim uighur minority.

the 22-year-old uighur uploaded an article onto over-seas websites about the alleged killings in shache county, or

Yarkand in the uighur language, the Xinjiang government web portal tianshan reported.

His message had been “detect-ed and used by hostile overseas forces including the World uyghur Congress” and “caused vicious impact”, it added.

Police found hundreds of text, audio and video files of “violent terrorist” materials in his lap-top, the report said, adding he was “capable of making explo-sive devices”.

access to information in Xin-jiang is strictly controlled by the authorities and reports can often not be independently verified. afp

BEIJINg on sunday accused the us of deliberately stoking tensions in the south China sea as it rejected Wash-ington’s proposal for a freeze on pro-vocative actions in the region.

the remarks by Foreign Minister Wang Yi came at an asEaN Regional Forum (aRF) overshadowed by disputes over the strategically significant sea.

Beijing claims it almost in its entirety, putting it at odds with countries includ-ing the Philippines and Vietnam, and there have been several tense encoun-

ters in the area over recent months.us secretary of state John Kerry

appeared at the forum to push for a mul-tilateral pact to end all actions that risk further inflaming regional sensitivities.

But Wang said: “some countries out-side the region are restless, and stir up tensions . . . Might their intention be to create chaos in the region?

“China and asEaN are totally able to safeguard well the peace and stability of south China sea.”

His comments, posted on the foreign

ministry’s website yesterday, were aimed squarely at the us, state-run media said. China’s official Xinhua news agency headlined its report on his com-ments: China rebuffs US ‘freeze’ pro-posal on South China Sea.

It said Wang repeated China’s long-standing rejection of multilateral talks over the sea, saying that “relevant dis-putes should be addressed by countries directly concerned”.

In a commentary, Xinhua described Washington’s proposal as “counterpro-

ductive”, adding: “It is simply an uncon-structive idea.

“By stoking the flames, Washington is further emboldening countries like the Philippines and Vietnam to take a hard-line stance against China,” it said.

“It is a painful reality that uncle sam has left too many places in chaos after it stepped in, as what people are wit-nessing now in Iraq, syria and Libya,” it added.

“the south China sea should not be the next one.” afp

Life stirs as fresh truce beginsAdel Zaanoun

IsRaEL and Hamas yes-terday stuck to a 72-hour ceasefire in gaza as Egyp-tian mediators launched

fresh talks with negotiators aimed at securing a perma-nent cessation of hostilities.

Quiet returned to the en-clave from midnight, the fruit of days of Egyptian-brokered mediation to stem violence that has killed 1,939 Palestin-ians and 67 on the Israeli side since July 8.

More than 12 hours into the truce, there were no reports of violations on either side and signs of life emerged on the streets of the war-torn coastal enclave, home to 1.8 million Palestinians.

shops and businesses opened their doors and out-side a uN-run school, a clutch of cars and donkey carts wait-ed to take some refugees back to homes they had fled during the fighting.

“We want to go back to see what happened to our house,” said Hikmat atta, 58, who piled his family into a small cart to visit the home they left in the northern town of Beit Lahiya in the first days of the war.

But with the second truce in a week still in its early stages, he was not taking any chanc-es. “We’re just going back for the day, at night we’ll come back here,” he said.

Palestinian emergency ser-vices said that a 1-month-old baby girl died yesterday of in-juries sustained during the of-fensive in the gaza strip.

In Cairo, Egyptian intelli-gence mediators threw them-selves back into shuttle di-plomacy that unravelled after rocket attacks breached the most previous 72-hour truce on Friday.

they spent yesterday locked in talks with the Palestinian delegation and were to relay their demands to Israeli nego-tiators, who returned to Cairo

three days after abandoning the talks when Palestinian rocket attacks resumed on southern Israel.

Egypt has urged the war-ring sides to use the new lull to reach “a comprehensive and permanent ceasefire”, af-ter efforts to extend a similar truce last week collapsed into

a firestorm of violence. Israel insists that the security of mil-lions of its citizens subject to constant fear from Palestinian rocket attacks be guaranteed.

Hamas, the de facto power in gaza, has conditioned its acceptance of any permanent agreement on Israel lifting its eight-year blockade on gaza.

“In the case of Israeli pro-crastination or continued ag-gression, Hamas is ready with other Palestinian factions to resist on the ground and polit-ically,” its exiled leader Khaled Meshaal said in Doha.

James Rawley, the top uN humanitarian official for the Palestinian territories, said Is-rael’s security concerns must be addressed but warned that without ending the blockade another conflict was likely.

“Not only will we see very little in the way of reconstruc-tion, but I am afraid that the conditions are in place for us to have another round of vio-lence,” he said.

Palestinian delegates in Cai-ro said they would be happy for Palestinian President Mahmud abbas’s Palestinian authority to take over the reconstruction of gaza and execute any agree-ment reached in Cairo.

Hamas had refused to ex-tend the last 72-hour lull when it expired on Friday. afp

Activist lawyers (from left) Liu Ping, Wei Zhongping and Li Sihua have had their prison sentences upheld by a Chinese court. phOTOS SUppLIEd

A Palestinian girl carries items she collected from the rubble of her house yesterday, during a 72-hour ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. afp

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key institutions. It had become clear in recent weeks that Maliki had lost support from Washington. gradually, all his other erstwhile allies followed: Iran, the shiite clergy and even his own Dawa party.

several of the capital’s main thor-oughfares and bridges were closed to traffic and yesterday morning unu-sual numbers of security personnel, uniformed and plain-clothed, remained deployed across the city.

His television address, in which he vowed to sue Masum for failing to

choose him as prime minister, had dispelled any hope he would step down gracefully.

Yesterday afternoon, even as the president shook hands with abadi, Maliki sent his supporters to protest on Baghdad’s main square.

abadi was something of a dark horse in the months-long political wrangling over who should be nominated for prime minister after the april elec-tions. the coalition headed by Maliki, who has been prime minister since 2006, won the vote comfortably but his increasingly sectarian policies were seen as partly responsible for the vio-

lence that has gripped Iraq recently.a shiite politician considered close

to Maliki, abadi was born in Baghdad in 1952 and returned from British exile in 2003 when us-led forces toppled saddam Hussein.

as the long-running political dead-lock was broken, there was no letup in the violence that wracked Iraq since sunni extremist militants launched an offensive on June 9.

Islamic state (Is) jihadist fighters wrested control of the town of Jalaw-lab from Kurdish peshmerga troops, who have been stretched thin along a 1,000-kilometre front.

they have struggled to defend their own autonomous region from jihad-ist attacks and France asked yester-day for a Europe-wide mobilisation to provide the Kurdish peshmerga with much-needed weapons and ammunition.

Meanwhile, officials in Washington said the us was exploring options to evacuate thousands of civilians trapped on a mountain in northern Iraq by Is militants after four nights of humanitarian relief airdrops.

at least half of the 40,000 people besieged by jihadists on Mount sinjar had escaped by sunday night, aided

by Kurdish rebels who crossed from syria to rescue them. But proposals for a mission to save the remaining thousands of Yazidi people under-score the limits of the airdrops, ordered last week by Barack Obama.

“We’re reviewing options for remov-ing the remaining civilians off the mountain,” deputy us national secu-rity adviser Ben Rhodes said late on sunday.

“Kurdish forces are helping, and we’re talking to the [united Nations] and other international partners about how to bring them to a safe space.” afp/the guardian

Iraqi president names new PM, but Maliki won’t go

Kiev demands surrenderu

KRaINE’s military has demanded that pro-Russian rebels surrender, dismiss-

ing their offer of a ceasefire, as ukrainian forces verged on re-taking the city of Donetsk.

“If there is an initiative, it should be implemented by practical means, not only with words – by raising white flags and putting down weapons,” andriy Lysenko, a spokesman for the country’s military, told reporters in Kiev. “In that case no one will shoot at them.”

ukraine is trying to dislodge separatists from strongholds in Donetsk and Luhansk as Russia raises the pressure on its neigh-bour to halt the campaign and allow immediate assistance.

as ukraine wrestled with

Russia over a military standoff, lawmakers in Kiev prepared for a vote today on a sanctions bill that could block the transit of Russian oil and gas supplies to Europe. the cabinet has ap-proved the measure.

ukraine no longer receives gas from Russia, though it acts as a conduit for its neighbour’s European shipments, and a ban could be “complete or par-tial”, Prime Minister arseniy Yatsenuyuk said last week. It also may ban Russian planes from its airspace and cut de-fence-industry cooperation.

If new sanctions against Russia are approved, “we will retaliate”, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.

as the army pushed towards Donetsk, ukraine’s military

reported more desertions among militants, and said the town of Panteleymonivka was cleared of rebels.

government troops cut off the regions of Donetsk and Luhansk from one another, threatening resupply routes. Insurgents dug in near the town of Illovaysk, armed with tanks, grad missiles and ar-moured vehicles, and the mili-tary is preparing to storm the area, according to the military.

More than 100 inmates broke out of a jail in the area yester-day, when shells rained down on a high-security prison in the besieged rebel stronghold, local authorities said.

Mortar blasts rocked the correctional facility in a west-ern district of the city on sun-

day evening, hitting the living areas, administrative head-quarters and an electrical sub-station, the city council said in a statement.

the bombardment sparked a mass jail break that saw scores of detainees flee the prison.

“a riot started in the facil-ity and 106 people escaped their place of detention,” the statement said, adding that three convicts were seriously wounded by the shelling.

By yesterday morning some had been returned to the fa-cility, with a prison official saying that 40 inmates were still missing and thought to be hiding in buildings around the prison.

an aFP correspondent at the scene found the prison gates

open and rebel gunmen could be seen patrolling the area.

a growing number of civilian casualties have been reported

as artillery bombardments have hit hospitals and homes around the beleaguered city. bloomberg/afp

Ukrainian servicemen sit in a WWII Soviet tank captured from pro-Russia militants at in Donetsk on the weekend. afp

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What a diveA diver jumps from the 22-metre-high Ura e Shenjte bridge during a high-diving competition near the town of Gjakova, Kosovo, on Sunday. Some 27 divers took the plunge into the Drini i Bardhe River. AFP

Monster temblor in Chile set off antarctic ‘icequakes’a gIaNt earthquake that struck Chile in 2010 also unleashed minor “icequakes” in antarctica nearly 4,700 kilometres to the south, scientists say.

sensors recorded small trem-ors in West antarctica within six hours of the Chilean shock, pro-viding the first evidence that the world’s greatest ice sheet can be affected by distant but powerful quakes, they said.

twelve of the 42 monitoring stations that are dotted across the vast region showed “clear evidence” of a spike in high-frequency seismic signals, the team reported in the journal Nature Geoscience.

the signals tallied with signs of ice fractures near the sur-face, they added.

the February 27, 2010, quake, which occurred just off the

coast of Chile’s Maule region, measured 8.8 in magnitude, making it one of the largest ever recorded. It killed more than 500 people and inflicted $30 billion in damage.

the main shock from the event triggered microquakes as far afield as North america, as the passing shock wave caused shallow faults to slip in tecton-ically active regions.

geologists have long won-dered how the ice sheets in greenland and antarctica – whose underlying rock is con-sidered seismically peaceful – would respond to gigantic but distant quakes.

until a few years ago, there were no means to explore the idea. But some useful tools have now become available thanks to the deployment of a

small network of sensors near and on top of the sheets.

the best bet is that the trem-ors came from movement within the ice sheet itself, and not from any fault in the bed-rock below, said Zhigang Peng at the georgia Institute of tech-nology in atlanta.

“While we are not 100 per cent sure, we think that those seismic signals come from ice cracking within the ice sheet, likely very close to the surface,” he said.

Put together, the data show that these vast slabs of ice can be sensitive to large, distant quakes, said the paper.

One intriguing question is the impact on features in the ice sheet – whether a big dis-tant quake can help to rip open a crevasse or accelerate glacier flow. AFP

Neil Sands

tHE rusting hulks of tanks and field artillery are a common sight in the jungles of Peleliu,

but the fighting that scarred the Pacific island in World War II also left a more dangerous legacy – unexploded bombs.

a Japanese airfield made the 10-kilometre-long island a prized asset during the con-flict, with the americans deter-mined to seize it at any cost.

the island – about an hour’s boat ride from the Palau capi-tal Koror – underwent months of aerial and naval bombard-ment before us marines launched an amphibious invasion in september 1944 that was expected to take just three days. Instead, the assault dragged on for almost three months and became one of the bloodiest encounters in the allied “island hopping” campaign, claiming about 13,000 Japanese and 3,000 american lives.

On the island today, remind-ers of the war are everywhere – the wreckage of a Japanese Zero fighter rests against a tree with vines growing out of the cockpit and a us landing craft looms beside the road, a white star still faintly visible beneath layers of corrosion.

Down the road from the main jetty is the “1,000-man cave”, a maze of tunnels that served as an underground Japanese field hospital – one of 608 fortifications the de-fenders carved out of the rug-ged limestone terrain in a bid to repel the americans.

steve Ballinger, co-founder of British charity Cleared ground Demining, says 600 pieces of ordnance were removed from that cave alone in order for it to be declared safe.

Prior to it being cleared, tourists had visited the cave virtually daily, unaware they were sightseeing amid live land mines, hand grenades and mortars, not to mention human remains, which were repatriated to Japan.

“It’s crazy really, the scale of contamination,” Ballinger said, explaining that World War II-era ordnance had a 30 per cent failure rate and the live shells and mines in Peleliu were simply left in place until the cleanup began.

there were also huge weap-ons stockpiles in the honey-

comb of Japanese caves. af-ter the battle, the americans simply dumped enemy bodies and ordnance into 30-metre deep sinkholes that pit the jungle floor.

Cleared ground started the clean up in 2009 and since then has removed 32,000 items of live ordnance in Peleliu.

Fellow co-founder Cassan-dra McKeown said they did a survey of all houses on the island when the work began and found 26 per cent of prop-erties were contaminated with live ordnance.

“they had them in the back-yard, they had live grenades in

the school as part of a history project,” she said.

“they were using them as doorstops, old ladies were us-ing them to hammer nuts on, not realising they were dan-gerous. this one lady had one right next to a barbecue.”

Cleared ground has trained a team of 25 Palauans to help

dispose of the dangerous items and boasts a 100 per cent safety record, with no un-planned detonations during its demining work.

But Ballinger said practically everyone in Palau knew some-one who had been killed by WWII ordnance, though acci-dents had become rarer since the late 1970s, when the gov-ernment outlawed dynamite fishing, which could set off nearby ordnance.

He said many Palauans mis-takenly believed the bombs were not dangerous because they had not detonated in 70 years, but their age actually

increased the problem.“they are getting old, they

are deteriorating,” he said.He said that the presence of

so many explosives also hin-dered development on Pele-liu because it made creating infrastructure such as roads and pipelines a hazardous ex-ercise. as a result, only about 400 people live on the island, even though it has world-class diving and abundant war rel-ics for history buffs.

andy Johns, who like Ball-inger is a former bomb dis-posal expert with the British military, said the only place he had seen a greater concentra-tion of ordnance was in Ku-wait after the first gulf War.

“there’s no jungle in Kuwait though, it’s nice and sandy, not like this,” he said.

Peleliu’s jungle is so thick, and the cave network so ex-tensive, that a group of Japa-nese went into hiding after the battle and staged guerilla attacks before finally surren-dering in april 1947.

adding an extra element of danger to an already haz-ardous job, saltwater croco-diles lurk in the mangroves where Japanese mines are of-ten found. AFP

BRItIsH people trust Wikipedia more than the m a i n s t r e a m media, the site’s founder Jimmy Wales said on sun-day at the close of a three-day conference of the Wikimedia move-mentin London.

a Yougov poll of almost 2,000 British adults found 64 per cent trust the authors of Wikipedia entries to tell the truth “a great deal” or “a fair amount”.

this compared to 61 per cent who trusted BBC news journal-ists, 45 per cent who trusted journalists on broadsheets such as the Times and the Guardian, and 13 per cent for journalists on tabloids such as the Sun.

“British people trust Wikipe-dia more than the news,” Wales told the conference, to cheers from the audience.

“the things that’s really impressive here is the BBC has an excellent repu-tation . . . and we’re trusted slightly

more than the BBC. that’s a little scary.

But it’s something we have accomplished.”

Wales acknowledged that the site – which relies on the public for its contributions and cor-rections – was “flawed” but said that people “turn to us for reli-able, solid information . . . We do a decent job of it.”

the survey revealed, how-ever that the traditional Ency-clopaedia Britannica is viewed as the most reliable source of information by far, trusted by 83 per cent of respondents.

“I’m not going to rest until they trust us more than they ever trusted Encyclopaedia Bri-tannica,” Wales said. AFP

Brits trust ‘Wiki over mainstream media’

NEaNDERtHaLs snacked on pigeons that they toasted on open fires, according to researchers, adding to the menu of foods known to be eaten by our closest ancient relatives.

Leftovers of Nean-derthal feasts were found in sediments that built up over millennia in a cave on the east face of gibraltar, where genera-tions of Neanderthals sheltered for nearly 100,000 years.

Workers there unearthed a haul of pigeon bones and found that some bore tooth marks, cuts from stone tools or signs of charring, perhaps created when the meat was left to cook on the glowing embers of a fire.

Most of the tell-tale marks were on pigeon wing and leg bones where much of the meat was to be had. some of the thicker bones had tiny punc-

ture marks from smaller, needle-like bones, which can happen when chicken wings are twisted apart to get at

the meat.the findings add to a

growing body of evidence that Neanderthals had more on their minds at dinner time than large mammals. those living in the caves of gibraltar left behind butchered bones from seals and dolphins, and even had shucks for prising open shellfish.

“the picture that is emerging is that Neanderthals had a diverse larder outside their cave window and they were exploiting all these things,” said Clive Finlayson, who took part in the study. In June, MIt researchers reported evidence from 50,000-year-old Neander-thal poo that those living in southern spain ate plants too. THE GUARDIAN

Pigeons on the barbie: Cavemen’s diverse diet

WWII’s explosive legacy

About 455 kilograms of explosives left over from the Second World War are detonated in Palau. AFP

they were using [live grenades] as doorstops, old ladies were using them to

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Mental health condi-tions are rapidly taking centre stage in the glo-bal burden of disease,

especially in low- and middle-in-come countries. Currently, mental and substance-use disorders are the leading cause of disability world-wide, and the World Health Organi-zation estimates that by 2030, depression will be the leading contributor to the global burden of disease.

adolescence is regarded as a healthy period of a person’s life com-pared with other ages, but we often overlook the associated risks of those going through this stage. the contribution of mental disorders to the nonfatal burden of disease rises sharply throughout adolescence and is the largest contributor to the bur-den of disease in young people aged 10-24 years (45 per cent), ahead of unintentional injuries (12 per cent) and infectious and parasitic diseas-es (10 per cent).

Cambodia is a country where a large proportion of the population is under the age of 25. Young people, especially those who are poor, vul-nerable or marginalised, including young gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Cambodians, are par-ticularly affected and afflicted by mental health conditions and lack access to services and support.

substance abuse, suicide, stress, depression and anxiety are some of the consequences Cambodian youth experience as a result of being exposed to a combination of risk fac-tors, including poverty, unemploy-ment, inadequate youth services, violence, self-stigma and discrimi-nation, especially against women as well as individuals based on their health status (such as HIV-positive), profession or sexual orientation.

the Royal university of Phnom Penh conducted the first-ever large-scale mental health survey in 2011, through which Cambodia’s suicide rate was found to be 42.5 per 100,000 people, a much higher rate than the worldwide average of 16. Rates of anxiety, depression and post-trau-matic stress disorder were also found to be high. the study showed that women were predominantly affected by mental health disorders, but it also recognised that adolescent mental health was ignored here.

to draw attention to the impor-tance of acknowledging young peo-ple’s mental health as a crucial part in their development, the united nations in Cambodia is organising a panel discussion with national experts for International Youth Day. Young people, including those who are marginalised, will be given the opportunity to interact with experts and share their concerns.

the united nations recognises that risk factors for mental health problems are well established and include childhood abuse and neglect, exposure to violence, pover-ty, social exclusion, stigma and dis-crimination, and educational disad-vantage. unassisted mental health problems among teens are linked with unemployment, substance abuse, risk-taking behaviours, crime, poor sexual and reproductive health, and self-harm, all of which increase the risk of premature death.

Mental health conditions among youth carry high social and econom-ic costs, as they often develop into more disabling conditions later in life. the stigma directed towards young people with mental health

conditions and the human rights vio-lations to which they are subjected amplify the adverse consequences.

there is an urgent need to improve access to quality treatment and care by trained psychiatrists and psy-chologists for those with mental health conditions, including young people. a leitner Center report stat-ed that in 2010 there were only 35 trained psychiatrists and 45 trained psychiatric nurses to provide servic-es for the country’s entire popula-tion. Often those with mental health conditions are left alone or cared for by family or community members who have little knowledge or under-standing of mental health, which results in harmful treatments such as “tying up”, stigmatisation, neglect and abuse.

Improving mental health literacy and awareness is vital to reducing the stigma and discrimination asso-ciated with mental health condi-tions and increasing the utilisation of mental health services. at a national level, there is a need for greater data and reporting on ado-lescent health, including mental health, and a need for the inclusion

of adolescent health information in global health initiatives. a more holistic approach to addressing Cambodia’s mental health crisis, including prevention, especially as it affects youth, must be taken.

Cambodia has already made some progress towards ensuring that men-tal health problems, including those of young people, are addressed. the Mental Health and substance Mis-use strategic Plan 2011-2015, the establishment of the Department of Mental Health and substance abuse in the Ministry of Health, and the important work of the transcultural Psychosocial Organization and other ngOs are important steps; however, mental health remains critically neglected. More efforts and resourc-es are required to provide an effec-tive response for young people grow-ing up in Cambodia. a greater understanding of and attention to mental health are also important for how we plan for the post-2015 devel-opment agenda.

CommentClaire Van der Vaeren

The young and the mentally ill: awareness needed

Mental health patients wait to see a doctor at a hospital in Phnom Penh. AfP

Claire Van der Vaeren is the United Nations’ resident coordinator for Cambodia.

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LifestyleLifestyleLove in the time of touristsD

ating is never easy but finding the per-fect partner when you live in a tiny vil-

lage in the Vietnamese moun-tains is almost impossible. the solution? a love market.

For generations, young peo-ple from the patchwork of eth-nic minority groups in north-ern Vietnam have gone to the town of sapa on a saturday night to find a spouse.

“it was so exciting. i wanted to see if i would meet any nice girls,” traditional Hmong mu-sician giang a Vang, 50, said of his first visit to the love market three decades ago.

One girl in particular stood out from the crowd.

“When i saw her for the first time i was playing my violin. i asked her if she liked it, if she liked me,” he said.

Fortunately, his affections were returned. For the next few weeks, he came back to the market to meet his sweetheart Vang thi Xo and play music together as part of a Hmong courtship ritual – him on a tra-ditional violin and she playing a leaf. the Hmong play a leaf – usually a banana leaf – by curl-ing it up and positioning it in the mouth so it vibrates when blown to make a loud, high pitched sound.

the pair soon married and have been together ever since.

“i was a very lucky man to meet her in the market, but i think she was lucky to meet me too!” Vang said.

in recent years, sapa has become a tourist destination, with foreign and Vietnamese visitors flocking to the pictur-esque town. sapa is the main attraction of Lao Cai province, which received 1.2 million tourists in 2013, up from just 360,000 in 2003, according to official figures.

While this influx has brought a measure of prosperity and development, it also has nega-tively affected customs and traditions, Vang thi Xo said.

“the love market is very spe-cial for me as it was how i could meet a good husband like him,” she said. “now i don’t like it, as people are playing music just for fun, for the tourists to get money, and we are losing part of our culture.”

as more young people at-tend schools or work in sapa for tourism they do not re-ally need the love market or ar-ranged marriages, which were also once traditional in the area, said musician Vang.

“they might meet a boy-friend or girlfriend in the vil-lage or in town. they choose for themselves,” he said. “i want my children to find their own husband and wife – it is better that way.”

sapa is only reachable from the capital Hanoi either by an overnight train or a long drive. But its remoteness has not de-terred tourists.

“so many Vietnamese tour-ists came and gave money to [ethnic minority] couples who were playing music to each other at the love market,” said Ly thi My, 54, a Hmong woman who met her husband there.

“now people just perform – they aren’t doing it for real,” she said sadly.

But it is not just tourism that has transformed the lo-cal tribes’ traditions. Mobile phones and the internet have also played a part, My said.

“Before, the boy would whis-tle outside the girl’s house and she would come and play a leaf to show she was interested,” she said, describing Hmong court-ship rituals. “now they have mobile phones!” she said. “it is too easy. it was a nice challenge to find love before. i would pre-fer to go back 20 years.”

For Ly thi Do, 52, of the Black Hmong tribe, the love

market has become “a joke”.“Before all the tourists, when

i was young, when we still used to grow opium and pan gold in the rivers, the market was just for locals,” she said. “now it’s a business. Everyone comes to make money and sell trinkets.”

sapa has long been a tour-ist destination. When Vietnam was a French colony, the hill-top town was a popular retreat, although the colonial-era villas were mostly burned down by Chinese troops during a 1979 border war.

“tourism has been here for 100 years. it’s somewhat dis-respectful to say tourism has changed the ethnic minori-ties’ culture,” said Chris Car-novale, a tourism instructor at Canada’s Capilano university. “the Hmong culture is very strong. if they want to change, they change. there are still true Hmong love markets – but

i’m not telling you when and where,” he said.

But even at the original love market in sapa, amid the throngs of camera-touting Vietnamese and foreign tour-ists, some locals still come looking for a relationship.

Ha ngasu, 26, a farmer, has been to the love market several times to look for a wife.

“My parents met at the love market, so i’ve come here as well,” he said as he sat next to his date for the evening, giang thi si, 16.

the pair – who had seen each other in their village but never spoken – spent the evening at the love market chatting and enjoying the live music – now amplified and on a stage pur-pose-built by local authorities for tourism.

“i like being with him here,” said si. “i’m not sure it is love but i do like him a bit.” afp

Happy, healthy days preserved with 3D figuresa grOWing number of people are buying 3D models of themselves cre-ated with 3D printers to commemo-rate important events or preserve a record of their appearance.

Couples have ordered the figures to commemorate important life events such as marriage.

Middle-aged and elderly people have sought 3D figures to use in place of memorial photos after their deaths, and there are also a large number of cancer patients who have wanted to preserve an image of themselves before losing their hair.

“unlike photos, [the 3D figures] can convey a person’s aura three-dimen-sionally, and people can hold them in their hands,” a spokesperson for a 3D figure maker said. “We believe the uses for such figures will continue to expand.”

ruri suzuki, 65, in sumida Ward, tokyo, said she thought, “i want to leave something for my husband to remember me by” when she saw a leaflet for a 3D figure maker. it was promotional material for the aoyama 3D salon, in tokyo.

suzuki ordered a 3D figure of herself standing. she paid about ¥60,000 ($587) for the 20-centimeter-tall statue.

suzuki has suffered from diabetes for 10 years, and has almost lost sight in her right eye due to complications from the disease.

“My life could end at any time. i want my husband to use the figure like a memorial photo of me,” suzuki said. “i had the figure made to express my gratitude to him.”

ikeo Yamauchi, a 54-year-old com-pany employee, who lives with his

87-year-old mother, ordered figures of his mother and himself last month from the aoyama 3D salon. “Consid-ering our advanced age, i wanted to leave a memento of the two of us.”

the company opened a studio for producing 3D figures last year. it pro-duces figures made of plaster, scan-ning a client’s body for about 10 min-utes to collect data.

the studio has received more than 3,000 orders. Customers included a woman in her 60s who wanted to pre-serve an image of herself before she lost her hair due to cancer treatments she was to receive. there was also a doctor suffering from cancer who came with his wife to record a tangible image of himself in good health.

Mitsuhiro ishizaki, 47, ordered 3D figures of images of himself and his eldest son, Kotaro, 12, last autumn.

“Before my son becomes inde-pendent from me, i wanted to pre-serve a tangible record of our family ties,” he said.

salon spokesperson Christina Miya-jima, 35, said, “so far, about 60 per cent of orders have been for com-memorating life events like marriages, pregnancy and enrollment in school. But recently, more people are buying figures to use in place of memorial photos after they die. Orders for this purpose are increasing, approaching 20 per cent of the total.”

Office 24 studio, a company based in shinjuku Ward, tokyo, began pro-duction of 3D figures in October last year, and has produced more than 160 figures. Orders have come from French and Danish tourists travelling in Japan, a company spokesperson said. The Yomiuri Shimbun

Traditional Hmong musician Giang A Vang and his wife, Vang Thi Xo, perform a song in the northwestern town of Sapa. afp

A growing number of people are buying 3D-printed figures of themselves to commemo-rate important events. The Yomiuri Shimbun

Help!

Abbey Road crossing may get warden

The pedestrian crossing on London’s Abbey Road immortalised by The

Beatles could soon have its own dedicated traffic warden to ensure the safety of the fans who flock there, media reported on Saturday.

The local authority is considering employing a “lollipop lady” – a warden holding a stop sign that re-sembles a sweet on the end of a stick – to help regulate the flow of cars past the landmark.

Fans often block traffic as they stand on the black and white zebra crossing outside Abbey Road Studios to re-create the Fab Four’s famous pose on the cover of the 1969 album Abbey Road.

“It’s a residential area and it’s not geared to receiving thousands and thousands of people,” Lindsey hall, a member of Westminster Council, said.

She said large buses often parked near the crossing in defiance of parking regula-tions, “causing total chaos to traffic and causing danger to people trying to get their photograph”.

“Obviously we don’t want to be spoilsports, we are really proud of our musical heritage,” hall said.

“I’ve set things in motion to have a lollipop lady or man there . . . It would be good to have somebody there perma-nently.” afp

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PG 930 Daily 13:20 14:30 PG 939 Daily 11:20 12:30

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PHNOM PENH - GUANGZHOU GUANGZHOU - PHNOM PENH

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8M 401 1.3.6 11:45 12:30

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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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KE 688 Daily 23:15 06:10 KE 687 Daily 18:30 22:15

OZ 738 Daily 23:40 07:10 OZ 737 Daily 19:20 22:40

SIEM REAP - KUALA LUMPUR KUALA LUMPUR - SIEM REAP

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CI - China Airlines PG - Bangkok Airways 5 Friday

CZ - China Southern QR - Qatar Airways 6 Saturday

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5J 258 2.4.7 22:30 02:11 5J 257 2.4.7 19:45 21:30

SIEM REAP - SINGAPORE SINGAPORE - SIEM REAP

MI 633 1, 6, 7 16:35 22:15 MI 633 1, 6, 7 14:35 15:45

MI 622 2.4 10:40 15:20 MI 622 2.4 08:40 09:50

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MI 615 7 12:45 16:05 MI 636 3, 2 13:55 17:40

MI 636 3, 2 18:30 21:35 MI 630 5 07:55 11:35

MI 617 5 18:35 21:55 MI 618 5 16:35 17:45

3K 598 .2....7 15:35 18:40 3K 597 .2....7 13:45 14:50

3K 598 ...4... 15:35 18:30 3K 597 ...4... 13:45 14:50

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

PREAH SIHANOUK - SIEM REAP SIEM REAP - PREAH SIHANOUK

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

Passengers can dine on a salad of local vegetables and Kyoto beef on Kitakinki Tango Railway’s Tango Kuromatsu train. The Yomiuri Shimbun

Riding, dining on Japanese gourmet tains

‘gouRmet sight-seeing trains” that run on local lines across Ja-

pan are a hot trend, allowing passengers to go sightseeing while dining on authentic lo-cal dishes.

as many of them operate only on weekends or limited schedules, seats are some-times very difficult to reserve. the concept of dining leisure-ly while enjoying the scenery seen from a train window, which has broad appeal, has contributed to a recovery in the declining number of riders on local trains.

shikoku Railway Co began operating the Iyonada mo-nogatari sightseeing train in July. on weekends and na-tional holidays, the train trav-els mainly around the coastal area of ehime prefecture. the two-car train with a capacity of 50 passengers.

on its inaugural day, family passengers boarded the train at matsuyama station.

“this line hasn’t been prof-itable, so I hope many people will ride the train and enjoy the splendid landscape along the railway track,” said JR shikoku president masafumi Izumi at the inauguration ceremony.

Dishes served on the train include a salad using locally grown lettuce and tomatoes, breaded fried uchiko pork fea-turing a local pork brand and red sea bream, which came from nearby seto Inland sea.

“I’m looking forward to try-ing the dishes made with lo-cal ingredients,” said masako Yoneda, 50, a piano teacher in Yufu. “I like the train’s old-fashioned decor.”

In may, Kitakinki tango Railway Co began operating the tango Kuromatsu train, another gourmet sightseeing train that plies the 54 kilome-tres between ama no Hashi-date station in Kyoto prefec-ture and toyooka station in Hyogo prefecture.

Passengers can dine on a salad of locally grown vegeta-

bles and roasted Kyoto beef, among other specialties. the food is partially prepared at regional gourmet inns.

the Kuromatsu train comes in three types – trains that specialise in lunches, sweets or locally brewed sake, which are offered mainly on week-ends. although the cost runs from ¥4,000 to ¥10,000 ($40-$98) per passenger, including train fare.

shinano Railway, which op-erates in Karuizawa, started operations of their Rokumon train in July, serving local spe-cialty gourmet ham and wines made at wineries along the railway line.

ohmi Railway Corp, which operates in eastern shiga pre-fecture, is running the ohmi Biaden-Hoshizora Nama Biru go (ohmi beer train-starry sky draft beer) train until august 30. Passengers are served fro-zen beer.

the tsudoi train operated by Kintetsu Corp is equipped with seats facing windows. Ise ebi lobster soup and other local dishes are served at the counter on board.

Isumi Railway’s Restaurant Kiha train operating in Chiba prefecture serves Italian dish-es, curry and sashimi.

showa Retoro Biru de Den-sha (showa retro beer and train), operated by Keihan electric Railway Co, travels in shiga prefecture and serves a bottomless mug of beer.

a few trains operate on local railway lines, making it pos-sible to run trains at slower speeds so passengers can enjoy leisurely dining. many such routes are located in ar-eas rich with nature, a boon for attracting tourists.

“Local railway lines have been shifting from a means of transportation to a sight-seeing attraction,” said Yoko Hayano, a research fellow of Japan tourism marketing Co. “gourmet sightseeing trains are a good way to get people interested in areas along the lines.” The Yomiuri Shimbun

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DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES(See above)3:50pm

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Tacos @ Concina Cartel

Prints @ Chinese House

+++Bokator @ Afighter Gym

Curated by Eriya Miura and Balazs Maar, this exhibition will showcase the best works of Cambodia’s top 10 fashion photographers. Some of the photographs will be available for sale.

Meta House, #37 Sothearos Boulevard. 6:30pm

Bokator Morodok Khmer teaches the ancient Cambodian style of martial art that involves kicking, punching and hitting with various parts of the body.Drop in fee $10.

Afighter Gym, #64 Street 135. 7pm

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Sport Sepak takraw players bring home regu gold Cambodia’s national sepak takraw team returned home yesterday afternoon from last week’s 29th King’s Cup in bangkok, where they grabbed gold in the men’s team regu category of the division 2 competition. The squad – comprising players Ream Phirom, Chin sovanarith, Cheat Khemara and two other substitutes – took the second tier title with 2-0 victories over Taiwan, sri Lanka and bangaldesh to mark an improvement on last year’s results when they only won medals in division 3. sepak Takraw Federation of Cambodia general secretary Chhoun Leng, who was also head of the delegation to Thailand, told the Post that despite claiming medals at an international tournament, the team members would not be eligible for cash prizes from the government decree on sporting success. “[Nevertheless] we are really proud that we bring such a precious victory back home, not empty hands,” added Chhoun Leng. YEUN PoNLoK,

TRaNsLaTEd bY CHENG sERYRiTH

Hosea Gear returns to New Zealand rugbyFoRmER all blacks wing Hosea Gear announced yesterday he was returning to super 15 rugby with the Waikato Chiefs, making him eligible to join New Zealand’s World Cup defence in England next year. Gear, 30, signed with French club Toulouse last year, and after finishing the season there moved to Japanese side Honda. The Chiefs said he will join the Hamilton-based team in February 2015 after completing his commitments with Honda. aFP

Lee tops Park in LPGA playoff in MichigansoUTH Korea’s Lee mi-rim birdied the second playoff hole to beat former world number one Park in-bee on sunday, winning her first LPGa title in the inaugural meijer Classic. “i was nervous 100 per cent,” Lee said. “because it was my first time in a playoff in LPGa, so i’m really nervous, but it was very fun.” Lee had four birdies and two bogeys in her round at blythefield Country Club in belmont, michigan. aFP

Lochte edges Phelps in encouraging 200m duelmiCHaEL Phelps departed the Us swimming Championships without a title after a runner-up finish to Ryan Lochte in the 200m medley on sunday, but with renewed resolve to return to the pinnacle of the sport. The top two swimmers in the history of the event shrugged off indifferent results earlier in the meet to deliver an exciting battle, Lochte charging to a wire-to-wire victory in 1min 56.50sec, second-fastest time in the world this year. “definitely better than where i was at the beginning of the meet,” said a delighted Phelps. aFP

Motor headsCambodia’s Touch Thach (centre) races among other riders during the Special Stage 1 of the 2014 Asia Cross Country Rally between Pattaya and Sa Kaeo in Thailand on Saturday. Thach’s compatriot Koun Phandara finished third in a field of 18. The Cambodian rider negotiated the tough terrain with gusto to pick up a special bonus for his effort. Meanwhile, Cambodia’s first ever four-wheel participants, led by Ho Sitthikun in a Toyota Thundra, finished last in the opening round of the car competition. The 2,200km rally, extended from Siem Reap to Phnom Penh this year, has six special stages. After a circuit within Thailand, 22 car drivers and 18 motorcyclists will enter Cambodian territory today through the Poipet border crossing. The final stretch will be from Siem Reap to Battambang and then on to Kampong Speu via Pursat. The rallyists will then head to Phnom Penh for the closing ceremony and prize distribution on Friday. WoRds bY H s maNJUNaTH, PHoTo sUPPLiEd

Frank Maloney, the man be-hind Britain’s former world heavyweight champion Len-nox Lewis’s march to the top, is undergoing a sex change and living as a woman called kellie, she told the sunday Mirror.

the 61-year-old English-woman – who stood for elec-tion to be London mayor for the ukIP Party in 2004 – has been married twice and has two daughters, but she told the newspaper she had always felt she was a woman.

“I was born in the wrong body and I have always known I was a woman,” said kellie, who as Frank Maloney en-gineered Lewis’s 1993 world heavyweight title victory.

“I can’t keep living in the shadows. that is why I am doing what I am today. Living with the burden any longer would have killed me.

“What was wrong at birth is now being medically cor-rected. I have a female brain. I knew I was different from the minute I could compare my-self to other children.

“I wasn’t in the right body. I was jealous of girls.”

Maloney, who once had aspirations to be a roman Catholic priest but grew dis-illusioned when he started studying to become one, said

she had not felt it possible to reveal her secret desire to those involved in boxing.

“I thought maybe I can earn enough money that one day I can disappear and live a new life completely away as a fe-male and no one would ever bother me,” said Maloney, who ended his involvement in boxing last October.

“Once you come out of sport you are soon forgotten and that was what I was hoping would happen to me.”

Lewis, now 48, issued a state-ment on Facebook in which he expressed his support for his former manager.

“I was just as shocked as anyone at the news about my former promoter and my ini-tial thought was that it was a wind-up,” said Lewis.

“the great thing about life, and boxing, is that, day to day, you never know what to ex-pect. this world we live in isn’t always cut and dried or black and white, and coming from the boxing fraternity, I can only imagine what a difficult deci-sion this must be for kellie.

“However having taken some time to read kellie’s statements, I understand bet-ter what she, and others in similar situations are going through.” aFP

Lewis’s male mentor reveals sex change

stars look to reboundt

HE world number one pair of novak Djokovic and serena Williams aim to bounce back

this week at the Cincinnati Masters, the last major tune-up before the us Open.

Djokovic was stung by a third-round hammering by France’s Jo-Wilfried tsonga, who got past the serb in less than an hour en route to taking the atP Masters title in toron-to on sunday.

Williams fell in the semifinals of the Wta’s sister tournament in Montreal, losing to her elder sister Venus for the first time since 2009.

she’ll be eager to get back on track before heading to the us Open, which starts on august 25 and will be her last chance this year to add to her cache of 17 major titles.

Djokovic has some major repair work looming after being frustratingly crushed by tsonga. the newly married serb, who has never won a Cincinnati title despite four trips to the final, may benefit from the continuing injury absence of rafael nadal.

the 2013 Cincinnati cham-pion from spain is racing the clock to recover from a right wrist injury in time to defend his title at the year’s last grand slam.

But Djokovic acknowledged

that the loss to tsonga was a bewildering blow to the confi-dence he’d gained with a Wim-bledon title in July.

“Confidence is the hardest thing to get but easiest thing to lose,” said Djokovic, who has the added incentive in Cincinnati of having never won the title, despite four trips to the final.

“Hopefully I can go one step further this time, but I haven’t been playing as well as I want-ed in toronto,” he said. “so these couple of days I’ve put a lot of hours in on the practice court to upgrade my game and get my level of performance where it needs to be in order to have a chance to go far in the tournament.”

roger Federer, who fell to Djokovic in five sets in the Wimbledon final, was tsonga’s final victim in toronto, falling in the championship match 7-5, 7-6 (7/3).

In Cincinnati the swiss great will be returning to a tourna-ment he has won five times, most recently in 2012.

Less than a week after turn-ing 33, the swiss, second seed behind Djokovic, is playing the tennis of a man a decade younger.

“I just keep on going,” said the 17-time grand slam cham-pion, who has won titles in Dubai and Halle this year.

“Clearly I’m not here to just be here, to show up and soak it up and enjoy it and do press.

“I’m not coming for that,” Federer said. “I’m really here to try to win.”

swiss stan Wawrinka, who broke through for his first grand slam title at the austral-ian Open, is seeded third and he, too, will be seeking to rebound after exiting in toron-to in the third round.

Czech tomas Berdych is seeded fourth, ahead of Cana-dian Milos raonic and spain’s number six David Ferrer.

toronto semifinalist grigor Dimitrov is seeded seventh ahead of two-time Cincinnati winner andy Murray, who is without new coach amelie Maresmo this week as part of a pre-planned break.

“I need to stop losing match-es that I’m leading,” said Mur-ray, whose last title was his 2013 Wimbledon triumph 13 months ago.

On the women’s side, dou-ble Wimbledon winner Petra kvitova is seeded second behind Williams, with Mon-treal champion agnieszka radwanska third.

Maria sharapova, seeded fourth, and Wimbledon final-ist and fifth seed Euenie Bou-chard both have ground to make up after early exits in Montreal. aFP

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Bin Thierry signs on for two years with CrownPhnom Penh Crown released news yesterday of yet another contract extension to one of their star players, with French-born midfielder Bin Chantha Thierry agreeing to stay with the metfone C-League champions until 2016. The 23-year-old is currently training with the Cambodian national team ahead of their 2014 Suzuki Cup qualification tournament in Laos in october. “I’m extremely happy to sign for two more years and to remain in Cambodia,” Thierry was quoted as saying in Crown’s press release yesterday. “I love the club, the players, the staff and I’m very excited to stay, especially to play in the AFC Cup next year.” DAn RILEY

Coutinho form excites Liverpool boss RodgersLIvERPooL manager Brendan Rodgers has backed Philippe Coutinho to take his game to the next level after he inspired the Reds to a 4-0 win over Borussia Dortmund in their final pre-season fixture at Anfield on Sunday. Coutinho will be expected to carry much of Liverpool’s creative threat in the final third of the pitch following the record sale of Uruguay forward Luis Suarez to Barcelona. The Brazilian capped a fine individual display against Dortmund with a goal and an assist and Rodgers predicted even more from the 22-year-old playmaker as Liverpool bid to go one better than last season, when they finished runners-up in the Premier League to manchester City. AFP

Lorient shock Monaco in opening Ligue 1 upsetTwEnTY-YEAR-oLD valentin Lavigne scored with three minutes left to hand unfancied Lorient a shock 2-1 victory over monaco in the final match of the opening weekend in Ligue 1 action on Sunday. Colombian striker Radamel Falcao had appeared to salvage a point for new coach Leonardo Jardim with a controversial penalty on 78 minutes, following Ricardo Carvalho’s sending-off. But Lavigne broke clear of the defence to slot the ball past Croatian ‘keeper Danijel Subasic. Earlier, seven-time French champions Lyon began their campaign in fine style as they defeated Brittany club Rennes 2-0 at the Stade Gerland. AFP

Ramires, Fabregas fire Chelsea to Hungary winSEConD-hALf goals from Ramires and Cesc Fabregas gave Chelsea a 2-1 win at Ferencvaros in a game to mark the opening of the hungarian side’s new stadium in Budapest. Former west Brom and Fulham player Zoltan Gera had scored the first goal at the new ground on the quarter-hour mark but Jose mourinho’s side hit back after the interval. Ramires volleyed in on 50 minutes and Fabregas hit the winner with a fine individual goal 10 minutes from time. Chelsea complete their pre-season at home to Real Sociedad tonight before opening their Premier League campaign at promoted Burnley next monday. AFP

James Rodriguez set for his Real Madrid bowWoRld Cup sensation James Rodriguez is in line to make his Real Madrid debut when the European champions tackle Europa league winners sevilla in tonight’s all-spanish uEFa super Cup in Cardiff.

Madrid’s 4-1 extra-time win over city rivals atletico Madrid in lisbon in May ended their 12-year wait for a 10th Euro-pean Cup and they now look even stronger after a character-istically extravagant close-sea-son recruitment drive.

Rodriguez, toni Kroos and Keylor Navas arrived at the Bernabeu after impressing at the World Cup and all are in line to feature at the Cardiff City stadium from 1:45am Cambo-dian time.

the first glimpse of €80 mil-lion ($108 million) playmaker Rodriguez in a Madrid shirt is keenly anticipated after he daz-zled for Colombia in Brazil, scoring six goals to win the golden Boot.

With the 23-year-old former Monaco playmaker joining Cristiano Ronaldo and gareth

Bale in the spanish capital, Madrid now possess three of the four most expensive play-ers of all-time.

the trio could grace a pitch together for the first time in Cardiff, but like Kroos, who arrived from Bayern Munich after starring in germany’s World Cup triumph, Rodriguez is short of fitness and unlikely to start.

along with Costa Rican goalkeeper Navas, the pair only returned to training last week and coach Carlo ance-lotti has admitted that his players are some way short of peak condition.

“We had to give holidays to some players until august 5,” said the Italian.

“therefore, we haven’t had much time to prepare for the game. We need to try our hard-est in august to prepare the players in the best way possible for the new season.”

the super Cup is one of six trophies that Madrid could win this season, but they are still searching for their first pre-

season victory after two defeats and a draw on their tour of the united states.

one player who seems cer-tain to start is Welsh forward Bale, who was born and raised in Cardiff and went to school just 6 kilometres from tues-day’s match venue.

scorer of the decisive second goal in the Champions league final, the 25-year-old found the net twice in the us and is rel-ishing the prospect of playing in front of his home crowd.

“I knew the super Cup would be played in Cardiff a good 18 months ago,” Bale told spanish newspaper Marca.

“When I came to Real Madrid it was always a dream of mine that if we could win the Cham-pions league, we could play in Cardiff. Now that dream has come true.”

tonight’s opponents will carry special significance for Bale, for it was against sevil-la last october that he scored a brace in a 7-3 win that truly launched his Madrid career. AFP

Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti (left) and new Colombian forward James Rodriguez take part in a training session in Madrid last week. AFP

Wembley win sets tone for arsenal, says arsene Wengera

RsENal manager arsene Wenger felt his side had es-tablished a benchmark for their season after a con-

vincing 3-0 win over Premier league champions Manchester City in the Community shield.

substitute olivier giroud capped a one-sided victory with a brilliant 25-yard strike on the hour mark at Wem-bley on sunday, after first-half goals from santi Cazorla and aaron Ramsey had put arsenal in control.

arsenal’s league title bid last sea-son was fatally undermined by losses to their biggest rivals – including a 6-3 humbling at City – and Wenger is hopeful that the Fa Cup winners have now turned a corner.

“to win today gives us a positive platform to prepare,” the Frenchman told his post-game media conference.

“You want to win the game and you want to look at the quality of the per-formance as well.

“It was important for our confidence to win the game, but it was even more important to have a big part in the game with the quality.

“and that is a comfort for me to see that we can produce the kind of quality that we have produced for some long patches in the game.”

Reminded of his team’s poor record against their title rivals last season, he replied: “that’s why it was important for us today [sunday] not to lose the game.

“last year we were very consistent against the teams below the top six and not consistent against the top six teams. the year before it was the re-verse. so let’s hope that this year it will be right on both sides.”

Wenger was particularly pleased by the performances of new signings Calum Chambers, Mathieu debuchy and alexis sanchez.

He said that 19-year-old Chambers, who again played at centre-back, had been “outstanding” and described debuchy’s display as “excellent”, while he felt that sanchez had been “always a danger”.

Wenger also revealed that spanish midfielder Mikel arteta has succeed-ed thomas Vermaelen as club cap-tain following the Belgian defender’s move to Barcelona, with Per Merte-sacker named vice captain.

Vermaelen’s departure leaves arse-nal light at centre-back, with laurent Koscielny the only other established central defender on the club’s books.

But while Wenger admitted that he would like to bring in another de-fender, he added: “to find another one of [Vermaelen’s] quality will not be easy.”

the pain of defeat for City was soft-ened by the fact that they were with-out several key first-team players, including captain Vincent Kompany,

right-back Pablo Zabaleta and striker sergio aguero.

“It was not the day today to make pressure for different players. It was one game more for pre-season,” said manager Manuel Pellegrini.

“We have seven players who have just worked for five days. they were not considered for this game. We have another five players who have just worked for eight or nine days.

“It’s difficult to be ready in two weeks. aguero, Zabaleta, [Martin] demichelis, Kompany, [Bacary] sagna, Fernandino just arrived seven days ago. they start-ed working on Monday.

“they will have 15 days before we start the Premier league so we’ll see during the week which of them

are ready and which of them are not ready.

“It is always bad to lose, but we don’t need to worry.”

City open their league title defence at Newcastle united on sunday and Pel-legrini refused to confirm that England goalkeeper Joe Hart will come back into the team after new signing Willy Caballero played against arsenal.

“all the 22 players that we have in our squad must demonstrate who is number one in all the positions,” said the Chilean.

“the goalkeeper and the other posi-tions of the team are exactly the same. Joe finished last season playing very well. We’ll see next sunday which 11 starts against Newcastle.” AFP

Arsenal’s Mathieu Debuchy (left) tackles Man City’s Aleksandar Kolarov during the FA Community Shield match at Wembley Stadium. AFP

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Marquez makes it 10 wins out of 10World champion Marc Marquez became the first man in 17 years to win 10 succes-sive races as the spaniard claimed victory at the Indianapolis grand Prix on sunday.

Honda rider Marquez, 21, finished ahead of Yamaha pair, Jorge lorenzo of spain and Italian Valentino rossi.

the last man to win 10 races in a row was australian Mick doohan in 1997.

Marquez also won this race in 2013 when he was making his maiden appearance in the elite class having also triumphed at the Brickyard in Moto2 in 2011 and 2012.

seven-time MotogP world champion rossi grabbed an early lead from the span-ish pole-sitter and stayed ahead of fellow Italian, andrea dovizioso and Marquez.

Marquez moved into second place with 21 laps to go, with lorenzo third before the champion snatched the lead with 16 laps remaining.

Marquez crossed the line in 42 minutes and 07.041 seconds, followed by lorenzo, who slipped past rossi with 12 laps left.

“the start I got today was not so good,” Marquez said. “But then the track tem-perature was higher and that changed the feeling a little bit, especially with the front tyre.

“at the beginning I had some [difficult] moments, and then I said, ‘oK, we will be quiet the first ten laps behind Valentino.’

“and then when Jorge also attacked and tried to push in the front, I said ‘oK, now is the time I overtake them and I start to push.’ tenths by 10ths I opened the gap, and those two seconds were enough in the end of the race for take the victory.”

lorenzo was third last year and the win-ner in 2009.

“My pace was similar to [Marquez], but not enough to challenge him for the vic-tory,” lorenzo said.

World champion Marquez now has a

perfect 250 points with Honda teammate dani Pedrosa, who was fourth sunday, in second spot on 161.

rossi has 157 points while 2010 and 2012 champion lorenzo is on 117 points ahead of the 11th round at Brno in the Czech republic next weekend where Marquez will attempt to become the first rider to win 11 races in a row in the same season.

rossi, who was not pleased with the Indy track, reached the podium with a third-place finish with a time of 42:13.599.

“I am satisfied, because first of all, it is a good third place,” rossi said. “I led the race, I battled with Marc and Jorge. that is always a great pleasure.

“also this track is for me the worst or one of the worst. so to come back on the podium here after a season without a lot of good results is good.”

Pole-sitter Mika Kallio scored a runaway win in a restarted Moto2 race with Mav-erick Vinales and dominique aegerter joining the Finn on the podium.

Kallio triumphed in a shortened 16-lap contest, with the race cut short by a red flag due to a crash involving azlan shah, anthony West, Mattia Pasini and randy Krummenacher.

Efren Vazquez of spain zoomed past Italy’s romano Fenati in the home stretch to claim his maiden Moto3 win. AFP

Marc Marquez of Spain celebrates his victory on the podium at the end of the MotoGP Red Bull US Indianapolis Grand Prix on Sunday. AFP

McIlroy wins a dramatic shootout to take Pga titler

orY McIlroy put himself among golf’s greatest legends on sunday by win-

ning his fourth major title in dramatic fashion, capturing the Pga Championship in a shotmakers’ showdown at rain-softened Valhalla.

three weeks after win-ning the British open, the 25-year-old from Northern Ireland rallied on the back nine to take his second ma-jor victory in a row and third consecutive triumph overall in impressive fashion.

“amazing. Incredible. I’m not sure I’ll ever have another

summer like this,” McIlroy said. “I’ve got a lot of golf left to play this year, but I have to enjoy what I’ve just done.”

McIlroy fired a 3-under par 68 in the final round to fin-ish 72 holes on 16-under par 268 and edge five-time major winner Phil Mickelson by one shot with sweden’s fourth-ranked Henrik stenson and american rickie Fowler two shots adrift.

McIlroy’s hat-trick of vic-tories after the British open and a World golf Champi-onships event last week give him the longest win streak since tiger Woods completed

a run of five in a row in 2008. McIlroy became the fourth-youngest man to win his fourth major – trailing only Young tom Morris, Woods and Jack Nicklaus – and has taken four of the past 15 ma-jors contested.

“I try and put all this talk aside every time it comes up, but tiger and Jack are two of the most successful play-ers in our sport of all time,” McIlroy said.

“I’m on a nice track at the minute and I’m on a nice path. I’ve still got a long way to go, but to be in their company at this age is very special.”

McIlroy is the first man to win two majors in a row or in the same year since Ireland’s Padraig Harrington took the British open and Pga in 2008.

McIlroy took the Wanamak-er trophy, even grabbing the lid as it fell during the awards ceremony, and a $1.8 million top prize.

Fowler, the us and British open runner-up who also shared fifth at the Masters, matched Nicklaus and Woods as the only players to finish in the top five at all four majors one year, the first since Woods did it in 2005 but also the first to do so without a win. AFP

Rory McIlroy hits his second shot on the 18th hole during the final round of the 96th PGA Championship at Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Kentucky. AFP