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Corruption
Czar’s Sons
Appointed as
Assistants
By khy sOvuthy
And Z sOmBOr P eter
the cambodia daily
Two sons of anti-Corruption Unit
(aCU) Chairman Om Yentieng
have been appointed as assistants
to the government graft-fighting
body, sparking accusations of nepotism within the very institution meant
to stamp out such practices.
a royal decree signed by King
norodom Sihamoni on Saturday
names Yentieng Puthira and Yentieng Puthirith as two of eighteen
new assistants assigned to the aCU,
with ranks equal to undersecretary
and secretary of state, respectively,
effective immediately.
The appointments were requested by Prime Minister Hun Sen, who
on Friday also signed off on a separate sub-decree assigning six lowerranking assistants to the unit.
Mr. Yentieng declined to speak
with a reporter yesterday, and
aCU spokesman Keo Remy could
not be reached. nov Ra, an official
in the prime minister’s cabinet,
referred a request for comment
back to the aCU.
Top Sam, the chairman of the national anti-Corruption Council, which
oversees the aCU, would not discuss the appointment of Mr. Yentieng’s sons but defended the appointment of assistants in general.
“Please look at all the units. it is
not only the anti-Corruption Unit that
makes appointments. Other units
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A man works at a dried up pond in the drought-hit Kandal province yesterday. (Story page 5)
Philippine Militants Behead Canadian Captive
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KananaSKiS,
alberta/Manila - Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau condemned on Monday the
execution of a Canadian hostage
by abu Sayyaf militants in the Philippines, calling it “an act of coldblooded murder.”
John Ridsdel, 68, a former mining
executive, was captured by islamist
militants along with three other people in September 2015 while on vacation on a Philippine island.
The Philippine army said a sev-
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meeting.
“The government of Canada is
committed to working with the government of the Philippines and international partners to pursue those
responsible for this heinous act,” he
added.
Trudeau declined to respond
when asked whether the Canadian
government had tried to negotiate
with the captors or pay a ransom,
or whether it was trying to secure
the release of the other Canadian
Continued on page 2
Amid Sokha Probe, Maimed Starlet Speaks Out
By Alex Willemyns
And s ek O dOm
Police Attempt to Stop
Screening of Banned Film
ered head was found on a remote
island late on Monday, around five
hours after the expiry of a ransom
deadline set by militants who had
threatened to execute one of four
captives.
“Canada condemns without reservation the brutality of the hostagetakers and this unnecessary death.
This was an act of cold-blooded murder, and responsibility rests squarely
with the terrorist group who took
him hostage,” Trudeau told reporters on the sidelines of a Cabinet
Feeding rice porridge to her
young niece outside Phnom Penh’s
Olympic Market in 1999, Tat Marina, then the 15-year-old mistress
of CPP official Svay Sitha, was
dragged to the ground by the official’s wife, who then poured a liter
of flesh-eating nitric acid on her.
The savage act of revenge carried
out in broad daylight left Ms. Marina’s lips burned to blisters; the skin
មានដំណឹងបែែសមែួលជាភាសាខ្មែរនៅខាងក្នុង
on her face, neck, back, chest and
wrists melted. Doctors had to remove her ears, and the music video
star could not talk for months after.
Police never executed an arrest
warrant for the wife, Khoun Sophal,
and Mr. Sitha—who in 2009
claimed to have been a victim in the
case—was later promoted from undersecretary of state at the Council
of Ministers to secretary of state,
where he remains today.
Such undisguised impunity stands
in stark contrast to the recent in-
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quiry into deputy opposition leader
Kem Sokha’s alleged extramarital
affairs, with anti-terrorism police investigating, an opposition official arrested and the case already in the
courts.
The attentiveness by authorities
in Mr. Sokha’s case has not passed
unnoticed by Ms. Marina, who said
in a message on Monday night that
she wished authorities had carried
out such a thorough investigations
into the attack that left 40 percent
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Dentist Terrifies Elderly French
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a Dutchman dubbed the “horror
dentist” by French media was sentenced to eight years in jail yesterday for mutilating patients’ mouths
and defrauding state social security
services.
The verdict was delivered by a
court in nevers, in central France,
where local media relayed gory
tales, some from old-aged pensioners who spoke of having as many
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make appointments, too,” he said,
before hanging up on a reporter.
CPP spokesman Sok Eysan said
it was only natural for the ruling
party to appoint the children of its
own members.
“it is normal,” Mr. Eysan said of
the appointment of Mr. Yentieng’s
sons.
“The CPP is the ruling party and
has never appointed the children of
the CnRP,” he said. “The CPP must
appoint the youth of the CPP because we cannot appoint the youth
of another party.”
The spokesman’s comments
amount to an admission of political
discrimination. But he denied any
hint of nepotism and rejected the
suggestion that the appointments
might sully the aCU’s image.
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being held, Robert Hall.
“Obviously there was talk of money involved, but not by the government of Canada or by the government of norway, but certainly by the
families attempting to do what they
could to free the four,” said Bob
Rae, a former federal politician and
longtime friend of Ridsdel.
“But it’s been an awful process,
just horrendous,” he told Canadian
television.
in a statement, Ridsdel’s family
said they were devastated that his
life had been “cut tragically short
by this senseless act of violence despite us doing everything within
our power to bring him home.”
Ridsdel, Hall and the other
captives —a norwegian man and a
Filipino woman—had appealed in a
March video for their families and
governments to secure their release.
Residents found the head in the
center of Jolo town. an army spokesman said two men on a motorcycle
were seen dropping a plastic bag
containing the severed head.
as eight teeth pulled out in one sitting, infections and bills in the tens
of thousands of dollars.
“This is a massive relief. We must
be very careful from now on when
we get practitioners from abroad,”
said nicole Martin, the head of a
group of patients who took legal action against Mark Van nierop, who
had fled to Canada to escape prosecution but was extradited back to
France to face trial.
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NEWSMAKERS
n The music of Prince soared to the top of the weekly U.S. Billboard
200 album chart on Monday after the singer’s sudden death last week,
as mourning fans rushed to remember the artist’s legacy through his
music. nielsen Music said Monday it had tracked 2.3 million song sales
and more than 579,000 album sales from Prince’s catalog in the three
days following the news of his unexpected death at age 57 at his Minnesota estate on Thursday. album sales were led by “The Very Best of
Prince,” a 2001 compilation of the R&B artist’s hits including “Purple
Rain” and “Kiss,” which sold more than 250,000 copies in the three
days. The compilation topped the Billboard 200 album chart, which
measures weekly music sales. On the Digital Songs chart, “Purple
Rain” led five Prince songs in the top 10, which measures sales of online
song downloads. (Reuters)
“it is not nepotism,” he said. “it
can only be nepotism if the people
who are appointed have no knowledge. But [Mr. Yentieng’s sons]
have the ability to do the work.”
The royal decree appointing Mr.
Yentieng’s scions to his own unit
does not describe their qualifications for the jobs or what aspects
of corruption they will be advising
their father on.
The brothers have apparently
been riding on their father’s coattails for years.
according to a 2009 U.S. State
Department cable released by the
anti-secrecy organization Wikileaks,
Mr. Puthira and Mr. Puthirith, ranking officers in the Royal Cambodian armed Forces, are both department directors for the national
Counter-Terrorism Committee. The
same cable names Mr. Yentieng as
a deputy director of the committee’s
secretariat.
San Chey, country director for
the affiliated network for Social
accountability, a good governance
advocacy group, said their latest appointments would certainly damage the aCU’s image, especially
amid a shakeup of the prime minister’s cabinet.
“it is not a good picture for the
anti-Corruption Unit now while the
other ministries are under reform
and while [Mr. Yentieng] gives advice to the other ministries,” he said.
“it is a kind of nepotism.”
Mr. Chey said the appointments
also had to be considered against
the backdrop of a high-profile aCU
investigation into CnRP Vice President Kem Sokha that looks to many
like a politically motivated attack on
the opposition.
“The public may decrease their
trust in the aCU,” he said of the appointments. “Especially now that
they are investigating the vice pres-
ident of the CnRP, the public is
looking purposefully into the aCU;
they are looking at it very carefully.”
Kem ley, whose Khmer for
Khmer network advocates for a
more democratic and transparent
government, said the aCU had a
moral obligation, if not a legal duty,
to be more open about the qualifications of its staff.
He said the appointment of Mr.
Yentieng’s sons would only deepen an already entrenched impression of nepotism and corruption
within the CPP and of a government in which familial connections
trump formal qualifications.
“Even if they are highly qualified,
they cannot find a job if they do not
have the right bloodline,” he said.
“This has become the culture of
nepotism, and the family institutions have been hardening within
the current mandate. it is one kind
of corruption.”
a Philippine army spokesman
said al-Qaida-linked abu Sayyaf militants had threatened to behead one
of the four captives on Monday if the
$6.4 million ransom for each of them
was not paid by 3 p.m. local time.
The initial demand was $2 million
each for the detainees, who were taken hostage at an upscale resort on
Samal island on September 21.
Ridsdel’s former employer described him as gregarious, adventurous and warm.
“We are in profound shock, disbelief and sorrow to have lost our former colleague and close friend,”
Calgary-based mining company TVi
Pacific said in an emailed statement.
abu Sayyaf is a small but brutal
militant group known for beheading, kidnapping, bombing and extortion in the south of the mainly
Catholic country, where it is fighting
for an independent islamic nation.
abu Sayyaf militants decapitated
a hostage from Malaysia in november last year on the same day that
the country’s prime minister arrived
in Manila for an international summit. Philippine President Benigno
aquino ordered troops to intensify
action against the militants.
However, the Philippine military
is finding it difficult to weaken the
group, whose name translates as
“Bearer of the Sword” and is based
in the southern island of Jolo.
The group has made tens of millions of dollars from ransom money
since it was formed in the 1990s, security experts have said, channelling
it into guns, grenade launchers,
high-powered boats and modern
equipment.
Despite the group’s professed
religious purpose, its militants often seem more motivated by the
money they stand to make from
kidnappings and piracy.
neighboring indonesia said last
week after 14 tugboat crew were
kidnapped that piracy on a shipping route along its sea border
with the Philippines could reach
Somalian levels and warned commercial vessels to avoid the area.
Sidney Jones, a Jakarta-based
counterterrorism expert, said that
while there are links between abu
Sayyaf Group and islamic State
group-backed entities in indonesia,
the faction behind the beheading
appeared to be in it for the money.
“This ransom business has been
hugely successful for abu Sayyaf
...it’s gotten them lots of money and
freedom to operate,” she said.
The Philippines rarely publicizes
payments of ransom, but it is widely believed no captives are released
without them. Security experts say
brokers, messengers and go-betweens are involved at multiple levels, some taking substantial cuts.
Payments are euphemistically called
“board and lodgings.”
a German couple seized on their
yacht in the region in 2014 was released after $5.3 million was paid,
and in 2000, the libyan government,
acting as an intermediary, handed
over $10 million to free 10 European
and Middle Eastern tourists.
Security analyst Rommel Banlaoi said executing Westerners
raised abu Sayyaf’s profile and the
potential sums involved would encourage other rebel groups to play
supportive roles in the business.
“The beheading of John Ridsdel
has just increased aSG’s leverage,”
he said, using an acronym for the
group. “The risks for other captives
have become higher as aSG just
demonstrated that...it was not bluffing when imposing deadlines.”
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Rights Group Says Anti-Corruption Unit’s Claims Baseless
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Adhoc president Thun Saray
yesterday defended his rights
group’s pro-bono legal representation of the alleged mistress of deputy opposition leader Kem Sokha,
who last week rescinded her denials of the affair and accused Adhoc
staff of convincing her to lie.
Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU)
Chairman Om Yentieng has summoned five of Adhoc’s rights
workers, a U.N. official, an election administrator and a women’s
rights advocate for questioning
this week over Khom Chandaraty’s claim they urged her to lie
about the affair.
Ms. Chandaraty, a 25-year-old
hairdresser, made the accusation in
a public letter last week after rescinding her denials on April 19
while being questioned for charges
of prostitution and false testimony
leveled by anti-terrorism police,
who are investigating the affair. Mr.
Saray called a press conference
yesterday to combat the claims.
“I want to ask all of you journalists. When she came to meet us
and was scared—telling her true
story and asking us to help her and
protect her honor—if you were us,
who have 25 years’ experience on
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Adhoc president Thun Saray speaks during a press conference at the
organization's headquarters in Phnom Penh yesterday.
such affairs, what would you do?”
Mr. Saray asked.
“If we did not accept her complaint or told her to go back home,
we would have no virtue, and
many people would have criticized
our group,” he said.
Mr. Saray played a portion of
Adhoc’s initial interviews with Ms.
Chandaraty from last month, showing her detailing her story to Adhoc staff, including denials that
she had an affair with Mr. Sokha.
The Adhoc president said his
group’s lawyers had given Ms.
Chandaraty a total of $204 to support her during questioning by authorities, per standard procedure
when they take on a case, and then
questioned why the national antigraft body was investigating.
“We just provided her with legal advisers based on what she
told us,” Mr. Saray said.
“What we understand is that
the ACU investigates people who
steal state money, but for us, we
did not take any state money, so
why is the ACU summoning us
like this?” he said.
Mr. Yentieng declined to comment on Mr. Saray’s remarks.
Following the press conference,
Adhoc’s deputy head of monitoring, Yi Soksan, who has also been
summoned by the ACU, said the
organization routinely accepted
whoever came asking for help.
“In principle, when people come
to file complaints with us at Adhoc,
we usually accept, whether it’s landgrabbing, a human rights case,
human trafficking or rape,” he said,
adding that something was amiss.
“I think if Srey Mom’s case was a
normal case, the ACU and the government would not be involved.”
The other three summoned for
questioning over the alleged affair
include Thida Khus, head of women’s rights NGO Silika; Ny Chakrya, National Election Committee
deputy secretary-general and a former senior Adhoc official; and Sally Soen, who works at the U.N.’s
local human rights office.
Mr. Yentieng on Sunday arrested an opposition commune chief
who he says promised Ms. Chandaraty’s family $500 to deny the
affair. The corruption czar has
threatened to make more arrests
in the case if necessary.
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Two Charged Hun Sen Says Peace Trumps Free Expression
For Beheading
‘Sorcerer’
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B y B uth K imSay
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Two women who police say have
admitted to beheading a family
member thought to have practiced
black magic were provisionally
charged with murder at the Kompong Speu Provincial Court yesterday, but some local officials questioned the manner in which their
confessions had been obtained.
The headless body of mango
farmer Soa Siv, 62, was found on
his plantation in Phnom Sruoch district’s Chambak commune on Friday, according to police. His daughter-in-law Mao Channy, 33, and her
aunt Em Sun, 58, were arrested
over the murder earlier this week.
Police say the pair confessed to
killing Soa Siv because he used
black magic to cause the death of
Ms. Channy’s father a decade ago.
Yesterday, they were sent to the
Kompong Speu court for further
questioning, according to deputy
provincial police chief Som Sak.
“The prosecutor finished questioning the two suspects and provisionally charged them with premeditated murder,” Mr. Sak said,
adding that the charge would be
confirmed by an investigating judge
today.
But friends and neighbors of the
women—including local officials
—say police coerced the women
into confessing, and yesterday petitioned the Phnom Sruoch governor for their release.
“This morning, the commune
chief, the village chief and about
10 other villagers went to the district governor to demand the release of the two suspects,” said
district police chief Say Bunthorn.
“Those people believe those two
ladies are not the murderers,” Mr.
Bunthorn said, adding that he had
recorded their confessions and
would play them for any locals
who wished to hear.
Commune chief Chey Hin confirmed that he was among those
who did not trust the provincial
police’s version of events and said
both women had alibis.
“While the crime happened, both
ladies were busy. One was picking
cashew nuts and the other one was
cooking a meal for her children at
home,” Mr. Hin said, adding that
police likely extracted their confessions using devious methods.
“Police always threaten people
to get them to confess when they
are questioning them,” he said.
A day after the ruling party filed
a defamation complaint against
one of the country’s most prominent political commentators,
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday defended limitations on freedom of speech as being necessary for peace and stability.
“Some people can only talk
about democracy—talk about human rights,” the prime minister
said during a speech at the inauguration of a highway in Banteay
Meanchey province.
“But they don’t think about the
right to live...about the right to
have peace,” he added.
It’s a familiar topic for the premier, who, when accused of human rights violations and other
abuses, often invokes the peace he
claims to have brought to Cambodia after taking control of the country more than 30 years ago.
“There has to be the role of
peacekeeping first,” he said. “If
the war begins, the mouth is completely closed.”
On Monday, the CPP filed a
criminal complaint with the Phnom
Penh Municipal Court against political analyst Ou Virak over allegedly defamatory comments published
by Radio Free Asia (RFA) over the
weekend.
Mr. Virak suggested in an interview with RFA that the relentless pursuit of deputy opposition
leader Kem Sokha over his alleged extramarital affairs would
backfire on the government.
“The activeness of the CPP in
subduing its political competitor
in such way will make it lose a lot
of popularity, and some officials in
this party are also not fond of this
tactic,” he is quoted as saying.
Yesterday, Mr. Virak said he
could not comment on Mr. Hun
Sen’s speech because he had not
heard it, but dismissed the notion
that free expression had a negative impact on stability.
“On the contrary, in fact,” he
said. “If you look at the nations that
really respect the right of citizens
to actively engage in the democratic process, those are the most stable countries in the world.”
Government spokesman Phay
Siphan said, however, that critics
such as Mr. Virak had to be kept
in check because the population
was accustomed to a single ruler
—and simply not ready to embrace political plurality.
“We have only one king, not
two.... Ou Virak won’t understand
that,” he said.
“The opposition means the
enemy in Cambodia,” he added.
Mr. Siphan said that while Mr.
Hun Sen’s speech was not aimed
at Mr. Virak, the analyst’s views
had the potential to “incite” members of society.
“Misleading to incite the people
against the government is not
allowed,” he said.
Over the past two days, Mr.
Virak—who holds both Cambodian and American citizenship—has
enjoyed an outpouring of support
on social media, as well as from
rights groups and various foreign
delegations, including the U.S. and
French missions to Phnom Penh,
which shared photographs of the
analyst meeting with diplomats.
U.S. Embassy spokesman Jay
Raman said in an email yesterday
that the embassy was “monitoring the situation closely.”
Police Attempt to Stop Screening of Banned Film
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Police showed up to a secret
screening of a banned documentary about slain environmental
activist Chut Wutty in Phnom
Penh last night, but the film had
ended by the time they moved to
shut it down, organizers said.
Several dozen students, monks
and activists crammed onto the
covered rooftop of the Solidarity
House in Sen Sok district—which
serves as the headquarters of the
Cambodian Youth Network (CYN)
and the Coalition of Cambodian
Farmers Community—at about 5
p.m. for a clandestine screening of
“I am Chut Wutty.”
Before the film began, director
Fran Lambrick, Chut Wutty’s son
Cheuy Oudom Reaksmey and activist monk But Buntenh paid homage to the environmental campaigner on the fourth anniversary
of his death and criticized the Culture Ministry’s decision to ban the
film about his life.
Chut Wutty was shot dead on
April 26, 2012, during an argument with military police while investigating illegal logging in Koh
Kong province. An official investigation concluded that military police officer In Ratana killed the activist before being accidentally
shot by another officer, who was
eventually exonerated.
“If the showing of the documentary affects the honor [of the
government] because they did
not ask permission from the ministry,” But Buntenh said, “when
Chut Wutty was killed, where
was the ministry?”
After the speeches had finished,
the lights were dimmed and the
film was projected onto an outdoor wall.
But about halfway through the
hourlong film, some 20 district police officers and local officials entered the building and began ask-
ing questions about the screening,
said CYN deputy director Sar
Mory.
When efforts to persuade the
police to allow the screening failed,
the officers climbed the stairs to
the rooftop to shut it down, according to Mr. Mory, but by then the
film had already ended.
“They said we did not inform
them in advance and we did not
ask permission from authorities.
They said, ‘If something happens
who will take responsibility?’” he
said.
Police and district officials declined to comment.
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Cheuy Oudom Reaksmey speaks at a screening of 'I am Chut Wutty'
in Phnom Penh yesterday.
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Hun Sen Challenges His Opponents to Solve Water Crisis
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Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday challenged political parties
“old and new” to demonstrate
their commitment to the plight of
families suffering from the effects
of the ongoing drought.
The premier was speaking at
the inauguration of National Highway 56, which links Banteay Meanchey province with neighboring Oddar Meanchey province in
an area that has been among the
worst hit by what has been
described as the most severe
drought in decades.
“On behalf of the government, I
am unveiling a campaign to provide water for the people,” Mr.
Hun Sen told the audience, stressing that despite the ongoing natural disaster, he had not declared a
state of emergency.
The prime minister gave scant
details of how the campaign would
address the water shortage, but he
used the opportunity to challenge
competing political parties to show
their commitment to the people by
helping in the relief efforts.
“We will wait to see if any political parties come to help people by
solving the water problem,” he
said. “Do they want to take votes
in 2017 or 2018, or do they want to
help solve the water crisis? Let us
wait and see.”
“So you created a party for
what? If you can’t solve the water
problem, what you have promised
is an empty promise,” he continued, noting that the ruling party
had already proven its commitment to dealing with the issue.
On Friday, Mr. Hun Sen took to
Facebook to urge citizens to conserve water as the government
sent out trucks to help those worst
affected.
Given the severity of the crisis,
he said yesterday, provincial governors should remain in their
provinces until the drought was
over.
Mr. Hun Sen said he had asked
the Ministry of Finance to provide
funding to the National Committee for Disaster Management to
address the crisis. Nhim Vanda,
first vice president of the committee, said his officials had so far distributed $125,000 and were waiting for more money.
Gian Pietro Bordignon, country
director for the World Food Program, this week described the
drought conditions as “moderate”
in most eastern and western
provinces—based on the most re-
cent data, from April 13—but said
Koh Kong and Pursat were facing
“extreme drought conditions.”
Mr. Bordignon noted that despite the heatwave and drought,
rice prices had not changed, and
that “impacts on crop production
appear minimal at this time.”
He said predictions about this
year’s rainy season, however,
were not encouraging.
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“The timing in the onset of the
next rainy season is not clear, but
data from Ministry of Water Resources and Meteorology and Regional Integrated Multi-Hazard
Early Warning System indicate
that precipitation will likely be lower than normal from May to August,” he said in an email.
(Additional reporting by Peter
Ford)
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Bangladeshi Bar Owner Charged With Trafficking
A Bangladeshi bar owner was provisionally charged by the Phnom
Penh Municipal Court yesterday for allegedly attempting to traffic nine of
his countrymen to Malaysia, according to officials, who said the nine had
been sent home on flights paid for by the suspect. Alom Manirul, 37, who
owns the Euro Bar in central Phnom Penh, was arrested on Saturday
during a raid on his establishment, where police also found eight
Bangladeshi men he was allegedly holding captive in order to extort
money from their families. Police say they were tipped off by a ninth
Bangladeshi victim who had escaped from the bar two days earlier. Uk
Heisela, chief of investigations at the Interior Ministry’s immigration department, said Mr. Manirul was provisionally charged with illegal detention and human trafficking at the municipal court yesterday and would
be questioned by an investigating judge today. The deputy prosecutor
who laid the provisional charges, Srey Makny, could not be reached. Major General Heisela said the nine men allegedly set to be trafficked were
put on a 7:30 p.m. flight to Bangladesh via Thailand at Mr. Manirul’s expense. According to immigration police, the nine paid Mr. Manirul
$4,500 each to smuggle them to Malaysia, where they had hoped to find
work. (Saing Soenthrith)
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Date Set for Rainsy’s
Latest Defamation Trial
Opposition leader Sam Rainsy,
who is living in France to avoid prison time, will be tried over allegations of defaming National Assembly President Heng Samrin starting July 28, the Phnom Penh Municipal Court has announced. Mr.
Rainsy decided not to return to the
country while traveling abroad in
November after the court released
a warrant for his arrest over an old
conviction for defaming former Foreign Minister Hor Namhong. In a
statement dated April 22, deputy
prosecutor Vong Bunvisoth said
Mr. Rainsy could ask a lawyer to
defend him against charges that
he defamed Mr. Samrin by falsely
claiming in a Facebook post that the
post-Khmer Rouge government
led by the Assembly president had
sentenced then-Prince Norodom
Sihanouk to death. Mr. Rainsy has
noted that he did not make any specific accusations against Mr. Samrin, adding that the socialist regime
effectively killed the monarchy.
Neither Mr. Rainsy nor spokesmen
for the CNRP could be reached yesterday. Mr. Rainsy is also facing
charges of being an accomplice to
forgery and incitement over a post
to his Facebook page featuring
comments by imprisoned opposition Senator Hong Sok Hour.
(Khy Sovuthy)
Timber Smuggler Flees
Into Ratanakkiri Forest
Armed authorities in Ratanakkiri province yesterday intercepted a pickup truck headed for the Vietnamese border with a valuable
load of illegally logged timber but
were unable to apprehend the driver, an official said. Local military
police and Forestry Administration
officers stopped the Toyota Tundra on National Road 78—a notorious timber smuggling route—
after hearing that it was being loaded in Banlung City earlier in the
day, according to O’Chum district
military police commander Vorn
Thean. Mr. Thean said a total of
1.8 cubic meters of luxury-grade
Thnong wood was recovered from
the truck but that the five or six officers at the scene were unable to
apprehend its driver. “The driver
got out of the car and ran into a nearby forest,” he said. The district commander said the truck was stopped
in O’Chum’s Kalay commune and
that the timber was likely destined
for sale across the border, where
vast amounts of wood from Ratanakkiri’s once verdant forests have
disappeared. (Aun Pheap)
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S-21 Interrogator Tells of Torture of Prisoners
B y P eter F ord
the cambodia daily
There were clear rules governing the behavior of guards at
Phnom Penh’s S-21 prison, as well
as how and when prisoners could
be tortured, former interrogator
Lach Mean told the Khmer Rouge
tribunal yesterday.
Testifying at the court for a second day, Mr. Mean said that while
torture was used in all but one interrogation that he could remember, the use of such techniques required permission from a squad
leader.
“After a decision was made to
torture that particular prisoner, for
example, it meant that I was allowed to torture that prisoner during that interrogation,” he said.
Inmates were either beaten with
tree branches or electrocuted via
wires attached to their ears, Mr.
Mean said, adding that the strength
of the charge was decided by an interrogator operating a dynamo.
However, when shown two paintings by former S-21 detainee Van
Nath—whose murals adorn the
walls of what is now the Tuol Sleng
Genocide Museum—depicting
prisoners hanging upside down
from a pole and being dunked into
a tub of water, Mr. Mean insisted
that such techniques were not employed at the security center.
“I must respond that I never saw
such torture and never used such
forms of torture at all,” he said.
While the shortest interrogation
he conducted lasted one week, Mr.
Mean said, most lasted about 10
days, with prisoners facing three
daily interrogation sessions, lasting a total of 12 hours.
“When the prisoner could no
longer give any other answer, that
was the conclusion of the interrogation,” he said.
Mr. Mean also described the
highly structured nature of work
assignments at S-21, explaining
that each guard had been assigned
specific areas to patrol. He said
interrogations had taken place
away from other guards and prisoners, in buildings 50 meters outside the main gates of the converted high school.
“They never allowed guards or
staff to see the interrogation in
the compound as the interrogation was confidential. So guards
or any staff would not be allowed
to see or hear the interrogation as
it was unfolding,” he said.
Guards were also answerable
to a set of moral codes, including
instructions not to commit rape,
Mr. Mean said.
“We at S-21 were strictly prohibited from committing any moral
offence, or we would be treated as
an enemy,” he said. “That was the
clear instruction from the upperlevel cadre at S-21.”
While special precautions were
taken during the interrogation of
female prisoners, Mr. Mean said
he remembered two cases of rape
in his time at S-21.
In the first case, he said, a messenger who raped a prisoner after
her interrogation later tried to com-
mit suicide but failed to do so and
disappeared after his arrest. In the
second, a medic who raped a patient was transferred to the nearby
Prey Sar detention center to farm
rice for several months.
He also recalled a female prisoner who had committed suicide.
“She [dis]embowled herself,
that is, she cut open her abdomen
with a razor,” he said. “She had
been sent to the center for detention after she had an affair with a
man and gotten pregnant.”
'Red Dwarf' by Cedric Delannoy
Photographs Put ‘Psychedelic’ Spin on City Markets
As the name of the exhibition indicates, “Psar Idyllic” is about
markets. A collection of composite images created by avid amateur
photographer Cedric Delannoy, it attempts to capture the noise, colors and commotion that assault shoppers who venture into one of
Phnom Penh’s aging emporiums. Each piece is comprised of four
identical photographs taken inside the markets by the 34-year-old
Belgian agricultural engineer during his many strolls through the
city. When Mr. Delannoy first began looking at his photos, he felt
they did not evoke the “effervescence of all manners of objects [that
often made] vendors seem to dissolve...into their own products.” To
render that feeling, he positioned four together to create a kaleidoscopic—or “psychedelic”—effect reminiscent of artwork from the
1960s. Mr. Delannoy moved to Cambodia in late 2011 to work on a
E.U.-funded food security project for indigenous communities in
Ratanakkiri province. His exhibition opens at The Plantation hotel in
Phnom Penh at 6:30 p.m. today. (Michelle Vachon)
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of her body scarred.
“I still can’t get real justice. Cambodia’s judicial system is a joke,”
she said from Massachusetts,
where she received years of reconstructive surgery and now
works at a department store’s returns desk.
“Cambodia’s judicial system
serves only their favorite party. If
they weren’t serving their favorite
party, I would have justice,” Ms.
Marina said.
“I’m not a political person, but I
like for things to be equal. I want to
see people treat others as equals.
Doesn’t matter where they come
from,” she said, adding that such
equality simply did not exist in
Cambodia.
“For example, in the cases of the
rich and the poor, the rich will always win no matter what! If they
couldn’t find anything guilty about
you, they will find the way to make
you surrender,” Ms. Marina said.
“They don’t care if people live or die.
It’s all about money and power.”
In contrast to the recent extensive
investigations into Mr. Sokha and
his alleged mistress, who until last
week had denied the affair, authorities investigating Ms. Marina’s case
after the December 1999 attack
seemed less keen to prosecute.
Police at the time acknowledged a car seized at the scene
was returned to Mr. Sitha’s family
—“following orders from the top”
—even as they immediately identified Ms. Sophal as the prime suspect and issued the arrest warrant
that would never be acted on.
Rights groups for years bemoaned the impunity as Ms. Sophal
and Mr. Sitha continued their lives
without any consequences. Then a
Cambodia Daily article in November 2011 led the Council of Ministers to publicly release a court conviction for Ms. Sophal.
Ms. Sophal, it said, had in fact
been convicted in April 2001 over
the acid attack and handed a suspended one-year prison term,
which police had apparently been
unaware of for the previous decade as they fended off claims of
impunity.
Mr. Sitha’s wife never faced a
day in jail for the attack on Ms.
Marina.
Contacted yesterday, Tith Sothea, spokesman for the Council
of Ministers’ Press and Quick Reaction Unit, headed by Mr. Sitha,
said Ms. Sophal’s conviction scuppered any allegations of impunity.
“The court already implemented their procedures and handed
down punishment. Did you just
wake up?” Mr. Sothea said. “The
case is already finished, so why
keep digging it up and making
problems?”
The spokesman rebuked suggestions that the different intensity with which the two cases were
pursued was curious.
“How can I compare a case already punished many years ago to
the present case?” Mr. Sothea said,
adding that Mr. Sokha’s alleged
sexual transgressions were rightfully being attacked by the state.
“Kem Sokha is a leader of the
opposition politicians competing
with the prime minister, so every
action he takes must be correct
and moral. For personal issues,
when his partner reveals their
love, it affects the public. How can
he make people trust him?”
Mr. Sothea said Mr. Sitha was
overseas so would not be available
to comment.
Ms. Marina’s is not the only case
where a senior CPP official has
been embroiled in claims of an
extra-marital affair that, unlike Mr.
Sokha’s, ended in brutality and then
went untouched by authorities.
Six months before Ms. Marina
was beaten and doused in acid, fellow music video star Piseth Pilika
was shot to death in broad daylight
outside Phnom Penh’s O’Russey
Market while out walking with her
young niece.
The French weekly magazine
Tat Marina
L’Express published lengthy articles accusing Prime Minister Hun
Sen’s wife, Bun Rany, of ordering
the hit due to an affair the star was
allegedly having with her husband.
Piseth Pilika’s sister released
online scans of bank deposits for
$50,000 and $100,000 alongside diary entries claiming that the money had come from Mr. Hun Sen—
and that the starlet had been repeatedly warned that Ms. Rany
might try to kill her.
The first lady’s alleged role in
the case was never investigated,
and no one has ever been held to
account for the star’s murder.
Om Yentieng, who today chairs
the Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU),
was at the time Mr. Hun Sen’s adviser and released written defenses
denying the claims leveled against
Ms. Rany. Mr. Yentieng and the
ACU are now leading the detailed
investigation of Mr. Sokha’s apparent affairs, ostensibly due to
concerns about where he got the
money to allegedly promise to
buy property for mistresses.
Mr. Yentieng declined to comment yesterday when asked about
the Piseth Pilika case and claims
that money was deposited in her
bank account by Mr. Hun Sen,
whose official monthly salary
would likely have precluded him
from such largesse.
“I don’t have time to talk,” Mr.
Yentieng said, adding sardonically: “I am afraid of you, Daily.”
In a 2003 attack, popular singer
Touch Sreynich was shot in the
face and neck, leaving her paralyzed from the neck down at the
age of 24. Her mother was shot
dead trying to save her. Ms. Sreynich now lives in California. Four
years later, 23-year-old singer Pov
Panhapich was shot in the neck and
paralyzed. No one has ever been
brought to justice for either attack,
though rumors of jealous wives and
high-profile husbands have shadowed both cases to this day.
Interior Ministry spokesman
Khieu Sopheak said yesterday that
suggestions Mr. Sokha’s alleged
affair was being pursued more
aggressively than the violence
against Ms. Panhapich, Ms. Sreynich and Ms. Marina were wrong.
“The investigations are not different, it just depends how much attention people pay to them,” he explained. “In the Kem Sokha case,
the reason that most of the people
pay attention to the case is because
he’s a high-ranking official.”
“We are still searching for the
suspects, but we haven’t found
them yet. We never closed the investigations into those cases,” he
added. “If you know who did it,
OK, tell us and we will take action.”
“We don’t have a magic eye to
find suspects.”
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Gay Couple Wins Thai Court Burma Monk Leader Jailed on
Battle Over Surrogacy Baby Charge of Illegal Immigration
REUTERS
BangKoK-
a gay couple from the
U.S. won an appeal yesterday for
parental rights over a baby born
through a Thai surrogate mother
in a high-profile case that came to
light before Thailand banned commercial surrogacy last year.
The law came into effect in July
in a bid to end “rent-a-womb” tourism in Thailand following a series
of high-profile surrogacy cases
involving foreigners, including accusations in 2014 that an australian couple had abandoned their
Down syndrome baby with his
Thai birth mother.
Before that, Thailand had been
a popular destination for foreigners seeking surrogacy services, in
part because of lower prices but
also because of the country’s lax
legislation.
american gordon Lake and
his Spanish husband, Manuel
Santos, had a baby named Carmen through a Thai mother before the Thai ban on commercial
surrogacy came into effect.
Then a bitter battled ensued
when surrogate mother Patidta
Kusolsand refused to cede parental rights to the couple, leaving
them trapped in Thailand with
Carmen.
Manuel, speaking to reporters
outside a Bangkok family court
after the verdict, said the couple
would take Carmen to Spain first
to meet her family there.
“This nightmare is going to
end soon,” Santos said through
tears. “Carmen will be with us in
our home.”
Kusolsand had said that she
did not know the couple was gay
when she agreed to the surrogacy and that she refused to cede
parental rights when she found
out because she was unsure
about the couple’s abilities as
parents.
Lake and Santos have another
child—their son alvaro—who
was also born through surrogacy
in India three years ago. The pair
have said they chose Thailand for
their second child because regulations in India had changed.
Santos said he could not confirm when the pair would leave
Thailand with their two children.
REUTERS
- a Burma court yesterday sentenced a former monk and
leader of the 2007 anti-junta uprising to six months of hard labor on
immigration charges, a member
of his defense team said, but he
was likely to be released soon
because of time already served.
The sentence came amid widespread excitement following the release and dropping of charges
against more than 100 political prisoners since aung San Suu Kyi’s
national League for Democracy
took power earlier this month.
nyi nyi Lwin, better known as
gambira, was arrested in January
for illegally entering Burma from
neighboring Thailand. He has
been held without bail since his
arrest at a prison in Mandalay,
Burma’s second-largest city.
Myo Min Zaw, assistant defense
lawyer, said the Mandalay court
sentenced gambira to six months
in jail of hard labor, but that he
would be released soon.
“Since my client has already
served several months in jail during the trial, he has only a month
rangoon
or two to serve. So we’re not going
to appeal against the verdict,” Myo
Min Zaw said.
gambira was freed from prison
during a 2012 general amnesty, a
year after the junta handed power
to a semi-civilian government, following 49 years of direct rule.
Since his release, gambira has
divided his time between Burma
and Thailand, but Burmese authorities have rearrested him several times in what his family and
rights groups have described as
continued harassment for his criticism of the government.
In 2007, gambira emerged as a
leading figure in a mass protest
over living conditions and the oppressive rule of then-dictator Than
Shwe that was dubbed the Saffron
revolution. The government
cracked down on the protest,
opening fire on protesters and
sweeping up those who took part.
gambira’s prison term of 63
years for his role in the protest
turned him into one of Burma’s
most prominent political prisoners.
Members of his family were also
arrested.
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Philippines’ Maverick Duterte Causing Election Shake-Up
REUTERS
As mayor of the Philippine city
of Davao, Rodrigo Duterte has
secretly rented a taxi and cruised
crime-infested streets with a pistol by his side, hoping robbers
would target him.
He has joined armed police
raids on drug dens, negotiated in
hostage incidents and advocated
vigilante killings, making him a
hero in a once lawless town he has
run for 22 years.
Duterte is known in the Philippines as “the punisher,” an uncompromising provincial tough
guy, whose profanity-packed
speeches and death threats to
drug gangs are now resonating
far beyond Davao ahead of the
May 9 presidential election.
A late entry into the race for the
presidency, Duterte is now on the
cusp of victory, surging in popularity after his promises to wipe
out crime within six months.
Even the mere mention of crime
gets him worked up.
“I will not let drugs and criminality destroy my country, I simply cannot accept that,” Duterte said last
week, surrounded by fans.
“If everyone sits on their ass,
we’ll let criminals have their way,”
he said. “We have to stop f—ing
our people.”
Duterte’s crime-busting platform
has tapped into concerns that growing drug usage among Filipinos
has caused crime to skyrocket. Reported crimes in the Philippines
soared five-fold from nearly 218,000
in 2012 to 1,161,000 in 2014, according to official data. Roughly half of
those were serious crimes.
Duterte is stretching his lead in
opinion polls and eclipsing traditional candidates Vice President
Jejomar Binay and Manuel Roxas,
whom outgoing President Benigno Aquino backs. Two surveys
this week put Duterte between 7
and 12 percentage points ahead of
his nearest rival.
The former prosecutor is indifferent to the 1,424 suspicious murders since 1998 documented in
Davao by rights groups, which say
“Davao death squads” operate with
impunity on his watch. “Duterte
Harry,” as he is known, denies ordering extrajudicial killings, but he
doesn’t condemn them.
“You talk about summary killings? I’m sorry, bad guys were
killed. But what about the people
who were abused? Who takes
care of them?” he said.
Duterte, 71, was in hot water recently over a remark about an Aus-
tralian missionary killed in a 1989
Davao prison riot. He said inmates
had lined up to rape her and as
mayor, he should have been first.
He is a self-confessed womanizer who lives modestly and typically dresses in jeans, polo shirts and
loafers. He doesn’t own a suit and
said he has no plans to wear one
as president.
Those who work with him tell
the same stories of an unpredictable, hot-headed maverick who is
charitable, but brutally strict.
Duterte banned smoking in Davao and threatened to kill a restaurant customer who refused to
put out his cigarette. He made him
eat it.
He has pulled over traffic violators and made them run laps
around a park and has forced
land-grabbers with forged documents to eat them and tell him
they tasted delicious.
Live on air, Duterte cursed angrily and read out names of criminals,
some of whom wound up dead
days later. Many left town. Pressured by regulators, ABS-CBN had
to pre-record his program and
bleep out expletives that averaged
30-40 per show.
Critics scoff at his plan to take
his crime-busting model nation-
wide. Those who know him say
it’s not impossible.
“He’s instilled fear among criminals,” said one senior Davao policeman. “If his subordinates obey
him, then it’ll be easy.”
Former congressman Jesus Dureza grew up with Duterte and offers a perspective that belies the
mayor’s thuggish image.
Dureza describes him as an accomplished lawyer who studies
economic research papers, follows foreign affairs and regularly
consults his policy teams.
“He’s much deeper than what
he wants people to see,” Dureza
said. “He comes across as rough
and simple, shoot from the hip,
but he wants to keep it that way.”
He doubts Duterte ordered extrajudicial killings but said it was
not in his interests to distance himself from them.
“He cashes in on that image,”
he said. “The hits aren’t Duterte.”
But not everyone is convinced.
Clarita Alia, 62, lost four teenage
sons in Davao street killings between 2001 and 2007 and blames
vigilantes she is certain Duterte
has links to.
“When I see posters of him, I
see the devil,” she said. “I pray he
won’t win.”
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Japan Eyes Foreign Workers, Challenges Immigration Taboo
ReuteRs
- Desperately seeking an
antidote to a rapidly aging population, Japanese policymakers are
exploring ways to bring in more
foreign workers without calling it
an “immigration policy.”
Immigration is a touchy subject
in a land where conservatives
prize cultural homogeneity and
politicians fear losing votes from
workers worried about losing jobs.
But a tight labor market and
ever-shrinking workforce are
making Japanese Prime Minister
Shinzo Abe’s policy team and lawmakers consider the politically
controversial option.
Signaling the shift, leading
members of a ruling Liberal Democratic Party panel yesterday proposed expanding the types of jobs
open to foreign workers and doubling their numbers from current
levels of close to 1 million.
“Domestically, there is a big allergy. As a politician, one must be
aware of that,” said takeshi Noda, an adviser to the LDP panel.
Unlike the U.S., where Republican presidential candidate Donald trump has made immigration
an election issue, Japan has little
history of immigration. But that
tokyo
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A man walks past a barber store in Tokyo on Friday.
makes ethnic and cultural diversity seem more of a threat in Japan
than it may seem elsewhere.
And while Japan is not caught
up in the mass migration crisis afflicting Europe, the controversies
in other regions do color the way
Japanese think about immigration.
LDP lawmakers floated immigration proposals almost a decade
ago, but those came to naught.
Since then, however, labor shortages have worsened and demographic forecasts have become
more dire.
An economic uptick since Abe
took office in December 2012, rebuilding after the 2011 tsunami
and a construction boom ahead
of the 2020 tokyo olympics have
pushed labor demand to its highest in 24 years.
that has helped boost foreign
worker numbers by 40 percent
since 2013, with Chinese accounting for more than one-third followed by Vietnamese, Filipinos
and Brazilians.
But visa conditions largely barring unskilled workers mean foreigners still make up only about
1.4 percent of the workforce,
compared with the 5 percent or
more found—according to IMF
estimates—in most advanced
economies.
So far, measures to attract more
foreign workers have focused on
easing entry for highly skilled professionals and expanding a “trainee” system that was designed to
share technology with developing
countries, but which critics say
has become a backdoor source of
cheap labor.
this time, the LDP panel leaders’ proposal went further, suggesting foreigners be accepted in
other sectors facing shortages,
such as nursing and farming—
initially for five years with visa renewal possible.
they also proposed creating a
framework whereby the number
of foreign workers would be doubled from around 908,000 currently, and the term “unskilled
labor” would be abandoned.
In a sign of the sensitivities,
however—especially ahead of a
July upper house election—panel
chief yoshio kimura stressed the
proposal should not be misconstrued as an “immigration policy”
and said steps were needed to offset any negative impact on jobs
and public safety.
After a heated debate in which
one lawmaker said the plan would
“leave Japan in tatters,” members
agreed to let the panel organizers
decide whether to make any revisions to the proposal.
But experts say changes are
afoot regardless of the semantics.
“the government insists it is
not adopting an immigration policy, but whatever the word, faced
with a shrinking population, it is
changing its former stance and
has begun to move toward a real
immigration policy,” said Hidenori Sakanaka, a former tokyo
Immigration Bureau chief.
two Cabinet members have already advocated adopting an immigration policy, as have some
LDP panel members.
“the fundamental problem of
the Japanese economy is that the
potential growth rate is low,” LDP
panel adviser Seiichiro Murakami
said. “to raise that, big structural
reforms including...immigration
policy are necessary.”
the influential Nikkei Business
weekly has dubbed a foreign
worker-driven growth strategy
“imin-omics,” a pun on the premier’s “Abenomics” revival plan
and “imin,” the Japanese word for
immigrants.
Abe, however, has made drawing more women and elderly into
the workforce while boosting the
birth rate his priorities, and publicly the government rules out any
“immigration policy.”
Still, Abe’s right-hand man,
Chief Cabinet Secretary yoshihide Suga, said debate on more
foreign workers lay ahead.
“We are seeking to mobilize
the power of women and the elderly as much as possible, but at
the same time we recognize that
the acceptance of foreigners is a
major issue,” Suga said.
He said the future debate would
also consider the longer-term issue of permanent residence for
less-skilled foreigners, but added
caution was needed.
Conservatives are likely to resist major change. For example,
an ex-labor minister commenting
at the LDP panel earlier on a proposal to let in foreign beauticians
said the idea was fine, as long as
their customers were foreign, too.
But hairdresser Mitsuo Igarashi, who has four barber chairs in
his downtown tokyo barbershop
but only himself to clip and shave,
wants to hire other barbers and
doesn’t care where they come
from. “We’ve got to let in more foreigners,” Igarashi said.
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N Korea Readying Another
Intermediate Missile Launch
reuters
- north Korea appears to
be preparing a test-launch of an
intermediate-range ballistic missile, South Korea’s Yonhap news
agency said yesterday, after what
the U.S. described as the “fiery,
catastrophic” failure of the first
attempt.
earlier this month, the north
failed to launch what was likely a
Musudan missile, with a range of
more than 3,000 km, meaning it
could, if launched successfully,
hit japan and also theoretically
put the U.S. territory of guam
within range.
The Musudan missile, which
can be fired from a mobile launcher, is not known to have been successfully flight-tested.
north Korea tested its fourth
nuclear bomb on january 6 and
launched a long-range rocket on
February 7, both in defiance of
U.n. resolutions. on Saturday,
the north tested of a submarinelaunched ballistic missile.
“There are indications that the
north may fire a Musudan missile
that it launched and failed on Kim
il Sung’s birthday on April 15,”
Yonhap quoted an unnamed government official as saying. Kim il
Sung is the north’s founder.
north and South Korea remain
technically at war after their 195053 conflict ended in a truce, rather
than a treaty. The north, whose
lone major ally is neighboring China, routinely threatens to destroy
South Korea and the U.S.
The April 15 failure was seen as
an embarrassing blow for current
leader Kim jong Un, Kim il Sung’s
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grandson, who has claimed several advances in weapons technology in recent months and is widely
expected to conduct a fifth nuclear
test soon.
South Korean Defense Ministry spokesman Moon Sang-gyun
declined to confirm the Yonhap
report but said the north’s military would likely spend some
time trying to fix the problem following the failed launch.
experts see north Korea’s Musudan test as part of an effort to
develop an intercontinental ballistic missile that can reach the mainland U.S.
north Korea said its fourth nuclear test in january was a hydrogen bomb, although that claim
has been disputed by foreign governments and experts given the
relatively small size of the blast.
north Korea said its submarinelaunched ballistic missile test on
Saturday was a “great success” that
provided “one more means for
powerful nuclear attack.”
South Korea yesterday described the test, which sent a missile traveling about 30 km, as a
partial success.
The U.S. and South Korea began talks on possible deployment
of a new missile-defense system,
the Terminal High Altitude Area
Defense, after the latest north
Korea nuclear and rocket tests.
expanded U.n. sanctions aimed
at starving north Korea of funds
for its nuclear weapons program
were approved in a unanimous Security Council vote in early March
on a resolution drafted by the U.S.
and China.
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Disabled Rights Lawyer Under House Arrest in China
beijing - Chinese authorities have placed a disabled rights lawyer under
house arrest and prevented a group of foreign diplomats from visiting
her, she said on Monday, ratcheting up pressure weeks after the U.S.
State Department gave her a bravery award. ni Yulan, known for defending people evicted from their homes to make way for development,
had been held under house arrest for 12 days, she said. Authorities prevented ni from traveling late last month to receive the State Department’s international Women of Courage Award, which the department
says is given to female advocates of human rights, justice and gender
equality. beijing police could not be reached for comment. China’s Foreign Ministry has said exit-entry authorities acted in accordance with
Chinese law in the case. Five foreign diplomats, including those from
the e.U., germany, Canada, France and Switzerland, had sought to see
ni at her home and deliver food over the weekend but were prevented
from entering, she said. Diplomats with knowledge of the situation confirmed the group was turned away. “Plainclothes officers did not allow
them to come into my home,” ni said by text message. A diplomat with
knowledge of the situation confirmed the group was denied access by
plainclothes police. (Reuters)
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ថ្ង្​ពុធ​ទី២៧​ខ្​ម្ស​ឆ្ន្ំ២០១៦
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បក្ខពក
ួ និយមទាក់ទាញការចាប់
អារម្មណកែ
៍
យ
ែ កូនលោក ឱម
យុិនទៀង តែូវបានតែងតាំង
ឃី សុវឌ
ុ ឍ្ ី និង Zsombor Peter
ខែមបូឌា ដែលី
កូន​បស​
ែុ ពរី​ នក់​របស់​លោក​ឱម​យុនទៀ
ិ
ង
បែធាន​អង្គភព​បែឆាំង​អំពើ ​ពុករលួយ​​(ACU)​​​
តែវ
ូ ​បន​តែង​តំង​ជា​ឧបការី​នែ​សប
្ថែ ន
័ ​បយ
ែ ទ
ុ ​្ធ
បែឆាង
ំ ​អព
ំ ើ ​ពក
ុ ​រលួយ​របស់​រដ្ឋ​មយ
ួ ​នែះ ​​​ជា​
ហែ ត​ប
ុ ង្ក​ឲយែ ​មន​ការ​ចោទ​បកា
ែ ន់​ថា​មន​បក្ខ​
ពួ ក ​និ យ ម​ក្នុ ង ​ស្ថែ ប័ ន ​ដែ ល​មន​បំ ណ ង​ទ ប់ ​
ស្កត
ែ ​កា
់ រ​​អនុវត្ត​បែប​នែះ​។
ពែះរជកែត
ឹ យែ ​ឡាយ​ពែះហស្ត​ដោយ​ពែះ​
មហាកែសតែ​ នរោត្តម​ សីហមុនី​ ​កាលពី​ថ្ងែ​
សៅរ៍​ ​បែកាស​​តែង​តំង​លោក​ យុិនទៀង
ពុទរ
្ធិ ​៉ែ និង​លោក​យុន
ិ ទៀង​ពុទរ
្ធិ ទ
ិ ​្ធ ជា​ឧបការី​
ក្នុង ​ចំ ណោម​​ឧ បការី ​ថ្មី ​ៗ ចំ នួ ន ​១ ៨​រូ ប ​របស់​​
ACU មន​ឋានៈ​ស​អ
្មើ នុរដ្ឋលែខា​ធិការ​និង​
រដ្ឋលែខាធិការ​ដែល​មន​បស
ែ ទ
ិ ភ
្ធ ព​ភម
្លែ ៗ។
ស៊ីវ ចាន់ណា
លោក​​ធន​សរាយ​ប្ធាន​​សមាគម​​សិទ្ធិ​មនុស្ស​អាដហុក​ថ្ល្ង​អំឡុង​សន្និសីទ​សរព័ត៌​មាន​​នៅ​ទី​ស្ន្ក់​ការ​​កណ្ត្ល​
របស់​សមាគម​​កង
្នុ ​រាជ​​ធានីភ​ព
្នំ ្ញ​កាល​​ព​ម
ី ស្ ល
ិ មិញ។
អាដហុក៖ ការអះអាងរបស់អង្គភាពបែឆាង
ំ អំពើពក
ុ រលួយមិនសមហែតសម
ុ
ផល
ប្ន សុខហ៊ន
្
ខែមបូឌា ដែលី
កាល ពី ​មែ សិ ល មិ ញ ​លោក ​ធ ន ​សរយ​​
ការ​តែង​តំង​នែះ​​តវ​
ែូ ​បន​​សឡើ
្នើ
ង​​ដោយ​​
បែ ធានសមគម​អាដហុ ក ​បន​និ យាយ​ការ​
ពី​ថ​ស
្ងែ ក
ុ ​ក
ែ ​ប
៏ ន​ចុះ​ហត្ថលែខា​លើ​អនុកត
ែឹ យែ ​
របស់​សមគម​​សទ
ិ ​ម
្ធិ នុសសែ ​របស់​លោកឲែយ​ស​ែី
លោក​នយក​រដ្ឋមន្ត​ែី ហ៊ន
ុ ​សែ ន​​ដែល​កាល​
ដោយ​ឡែ ក​មួ យ ​បែ កាស​​តែ ង​តង
ំ ​ឧ បការី ​
ឋានៈ ​ទាប ​ជាង ​ចំ នួ ន ​បែំ មួ យ ​រូ ប ​ស មែែ ប់ ​
អង្គភព​នែះ​។​
លោក​ ឱម​ យុន
ិ ទៀង​ បន​បដិសែធ​មន
ិ ​
និ យាយ​ជាមួ យ ​អ្ន ក ​យ ក​ព័ ត៌ មន​​ទែ កាលពី ​
មែសល
ិ មិញ​ហើ យ​លោក​កែ វ​រ៉ម
ែ ​ី អ្នក​នពា
ំ កែយ​
អង្គភព​បឆា
ែ ង
ំ ​អព
ំ ើ ​ពក
ុ រលួយ​មន
ិ ​អាច​ទាក់​
ទង​ស​កា
ុំ រ​បភ
ំ ​ប
្លឺ ន​ឡើយ។​លោក​នៅ​​រ៉​ែ ​ជា​
មន្តែី​មួយ​រូប​នៅ​ខុទ្ទកាល័យ​នយក​រដ្ឋមន្តែី​
នង​​អព
ំ ​ទ
ី ន
ំ ក់​ទន
ំ ង​សហា
្នែ
​នោះ​​ហើ យ​បន​
ចោទ​បែ កាន់ ​បុ គ្គ លិ ក ​ស មគម​​អាដហុ ក ​ថា​
បន​បញ្ចុះបញ្ចល
ូ ​នង​ឲយែ ​នយា
ិ
យ​កហ
ុ ក។
លោក​ ឱម​ យុន
ិ ទៀង​ បែធានអង្គភព​
ពារ​​ការ​តំ ណាង​ផ្លូ វ ​ចែ បាប់ ​ដោយ​ឥ ត​គិ ត ​ថ្លែ ​
បែ ឆាង
ំ ​អំ ពើ ​ពុ ក រលួ យ ​( ACU )​​បន​កោះ​
កំណាន់​ដែ ល​​ចោទ​​ថា​ជា​​របស់​លោក​​កឹម​សុខា​​​
បែែំ នក់ ​មន្តែី ​អ ង្គ ការ​ស ហបែ ជាជាតិ ​ម្នែ ក់
អនុបធា
ែ ន​គណបកែស​បឆា
ែ ង
ំ ​និង​ដែ ល​កាល​​
ពី​សប្ដហ
ែ ​ម
៍ ន
ុ ​បន​កែ ប​កា
ែ រ​បដិ​សែ ធ​របស់​
ហៅ​បុ គ្គ លិ ក ​ស មគម​សិ ទ្ធិ ​ម នុ សែ ស ​អាដហុ ក​
មន្តែី ​គែ ប់ ​គែ ង ​ការ​បោះ​ឆ្នែ ត ម្នែ ក់ ​និ ង ​អ្ន ក​
តស៊​ម
ូ តិ​សទ
ិ ស
្ធិ
​ម
្តែី ក
្នែ ​ម
់ ក​សក​សរ
ួ ​នៅ​សប្ដហ
ែ ​៍
តទៅទំព័បន្ទាប់
លោក ហ៊ន
ុ សែន លើកឡើងថា សន្តភា
ិ ពបែសើរជាងសែរភា
ី ពនែការបញ្ចញ
ែ មតិ
taylor o'Connell និង កង សុធា
ខែមបូឌា ដែលី
មួ យ ​ថ្ងែ ​ប ន្ទែ ប់ ​ពី ​គ ណបកែ ស ​កាន់ ​អំ ណាច​​
ភព​នែ ​ការ​​បញ្ចញ​
ែ ​មតិ​​ថា​ជា​​ភព​​ច​ប
ំ​ ច់​​សមែប់​
ែ ​
សន្តភ
ិ ព​នង
ិ ​សរ
្ថិ ភព​។
លោ​​ក​នយក​​រដ្ឋ​មន្ត​ប
ែី ន​​មន​​បស
ែ
សន៍​
បន​បង្វរ
ែ ​សណ
ំ
ើ ​ស​កា
ុំ រ​ឆយ
្លើ ​បភ
ំ ​ត
្លឺ ឡ
ែ ប់​ទៅ​
បន​​ដាក់​ពាកែយ​ប្តឹង​អ្នក​អត្ថែធិបែបាយ​​ម្នែក់​ក្នុង​
អំឡង
ុ ​ពែល​ថង
្លែ ​សន
ុ រ្ទ កថា​​នៅ​កង
្នុ ​ពធ
ិ ​ស
ី ម្ពធ
ែ ​
លោក​ តុប​ សំ​ បែធាន​​កែុម​បែឹកែសា​ជាតិ​
ធ្លែ​បំផុត​នៅ​កម្ពុជា​ពី​បទ​​បរិហារ​​កែ រ្តិ៍​នោះ​​
ខែ ត​ប
្ត ន្ទយ
ែ ​មន​​ជយ
័ ​ថា​ "អ្នក​ខ្លះ​នយា
ិ
យ​​បន​​
អង្គភព​បឆា
ែ ង
ំ ​អព
ំ ើ ​ពក
ុ រលួយវិញ​។
បែឆាង
ំ ​អព
ំ ើ ​ពក
ុ រលួយ​ដែល​គប
ែ គ
់ ង
ែ ​ពល
ី
ើ​
អង្គភព​បឆា
ែ ង
ំ ​អព
ំ ើ ​ពក
ុ រលួយ​មិន​បន​​វែក​
ចំណោម​​អក
្ន ​អត្ថធ
ែ ប
ិ បា
ែ យ​​នយោបយ​​ដល
៏
ែ ច​
ដាក់ ​ឲែ យ ​បែើ បែ ស់ ​ផ្លូ វ ​ជាតិ មួ យ ​ខែ សែ ​នៅ​ក្នុ ង​
កាល​​ព​ម
ី សែ ល
ិ មិញ​លោក​​នយក​​រដ្ឋ​មន្ត​ែី ហ៊ន
ុ ​ ​ តែម​
ឹ ​បែជា​ធិបតែ យែយ​​និយាយ​​បន​​ព​ស
ី​ ិទ្ធ​ម
ិ នុសែស​​
សែ ន​​​បន​​និយាយ​ការ​​ពារ​​ការ​​រឹត​តែបិត​សែ រី​
ក៏​បន
៉ុ ​្តែ គែ ​អត់​បន​​គត
ិ ​ព​ស
ី ទ
ិ ​រ
្ធិ ស់​រន​​មន​​ជវ
ី ត
ិ
តទៅទំព័បន្ទាប់
តទៅទំព័១៦
កាសែតបែចាំថ្ងែដ៏លែបីលែបាញតាំងពីឆ្នែំ១៩៩៣
ខែមបូឌា ដែលី
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ថ្ងៃ​ពុធ​ទី២៧​ខៃ​មៃសា​ឆ្នៃំ២០១៦
ព័ត៌មានជាតិ
អាដហុក៖ ការអះអាង...
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នេ ះ ពាក់​ពន
័ ​កា
្ធ រ​អះអាង​របស់​នង​​ខុម​ចាន់​
តរ៉ទី​ដេ ល​​ថា​ពក
ួ គេ ​បន​បញ្ចុះ​បញ្ចល
ូ ​ឲយេ ​នង​​
និយាយ​​កហ
ុ ក​អព
ំ ​ទ
ី ន
ំ ក់​ទន
ំ ង​សហា
្នេ
​នេះ​។
​នង​ ចាន់តរ៉ទ
េ ​ី អាយុ​២៥​ឆ​្នេំ ជ​អក
្ន ​ធ​្វើ
សក់​បន​ចោទ​បកា
េ ន់នៅ​កង
្នុ ​លខ
ិ ត
ិ ​ចហ
ំ ​មយ
ួ ​
សម្ភស
េ ន៍​ដប
ំ ង
ូ ​របស់​អង្គការ​អាដហុក​ជមួយ​
ដេ រ ​នោះ​បន ​មន ​បេ សស ន៍ ​ថា​ស មគ ម​​
ពី​ការ​​រៀ បរប់​លម្អិត​នូវ​រឿ ង​រ៉េវ​របស់​នង​​
ផ្នក
េ ​ចបា
េ ប់​។
នង​​ចាន់តរ៉ទ
េ ​ី កាលពី​ខេ​មន
ុ ​ដោយ​​បង្ហញ
េ ​
បេេប់​បុគ្គលិក​សមគម​អាដហុក​រួម​ទាង
ំ ​ការ​
បដិ សេ ធ​​ថា​នង​មិ ន ​ដេ ល​មន​ទំ នក់ ​ទំ ន ង
ស្នហា
េ
​ជមួយ​លោក​កឹម​សុខ​ផងដេ រ​។
បេ ធាន ​ស មគ ម ​អាដ ហុ ក ​រូ ប ​នេះ ​បន​
កាល ​ពី ​ស ប្ដេ ហ៍ ​មុ ន ​ប ន្ទេ ប់ ពី ​បន ​និ យាយ​
មន​បស
េ សន៍​ថា​មេ ធាវី​របស់​សមគម​លោក​​
១៩​ខេ ​មេស​ខណៈ​ពេល​តវ
េូ ​បន​សក​​សរ
ួ ​
ចាន់តរ៉ទ
េ ​ី ដើ មបេ ​ជ
ី យ
ួ ​នង​អឡ
ំ ង
ុ ​ការ​សកសួរ​
កេ បេេ​ការ​បដិសេ ធ​របស់​នង​កាលពី​ថ្ងេទី​
ពាក់ ព័ ន្ធ ​ការ​ចោទ​បេ កាន់ ​ពី ប ទ​ពេ សេ យាចារ
និង​ការ​ផល
្ដ ​ស
់ ក្ខ​ក
ី ម្ម​មន
ិ ​ពត
ិ ​ដោយ​នគរ​បល​
បេឆំង​ភេ រវកម្ម​ដេ ល​​កព
ំ ង
ុ ​សប
ុើ ​អង្កត
េ ​ពី ​
ទំនក់​ទន
ំ ​ង​សហា
្នេ
​នេះ​។
លោក​ធន​សរយ​បន​​ធ​ស
្វើ ន្នស
ិ ទ
ី ​សរ​​
ព័ ត៌ មន​កាលពី ​មេ សិ ល មិ ញ ដើ មេ បី ត ប​​ត ​នឹ ង​
ការអះអាង​នេះ​។
លោក​​ ធន​ សរយ​ បន​អះអាង​ថា​ "​ខ​្ញុំ
ចង់​សរ
ួ ​លោក​អក
្ន ​សរព័តម
៌ ន​​ទាង
ំ ​អស់​គ។
្នេ
នៅ​ពេ ល​នង​មកជួប​យើ ង​នង​ភយ
័ ​ណាស់​
បន​ផ្ដ ល់ ​បេ ក់ ចំ នួ ន ​២ ០៤​ដុ ល្លេ រ ​ដ ល់ ​នង​
របស់​អាជ្ញធ
េ រ​ហើ យ​បន្ទប
េ ​ម
់ ក​​បន​ចោទសួរ​
ថា​តើ ​ហេ តុ ​អ្វី ​បន​ជ​ស្ថេ ប័ ន ​បេ ឆង
ំ ​អំ ពើ ​
ពុករលួយ​សប
ុើ ​អង្កត
េ ​ករណី​នេះទៅ​វញ
ិ ​។
យើ ង​មន
ិ ទទួល​យក​បណ្តង
ឹ ​របស់​នង​ឬ​បប
េ ​់
នង​ឲយេ ​តឡ
េ ប់​ទៅ​ផ្ទះវិញ​យើ ង​គន
្មេ ​គណ
ុ
ធម៌​
ហើ យ​មនុសសេ ​គប
េ គ
់ ​ន
្នេ ង
ឹ ​រិះគន់សមគម​របស់​
យើ ង"។
លោក​ធន​សរយ​បនចាក់​ផក
្នេ ​នេបទ​​
លោក ហ៊ន
ុ សែន លើកឡើង...
តមកពីទំព័រ១៣
សិទ​ទ
្ធិ ទួល​បន​សន្តភា
ិ ពនោះ​ទេ​"។
វា​​ជ​បេ ធាន ​ប ទ ​សេ ដៀ ង ​គ្នេ ​ស មេេ ប់ ​
លោក​​នយក​​រ ដ្ឋ ​ម ន្តេី ​ដេ ល​​តេ ង​​តេ ​លើ ក​​
ឡើ ង​ព​ស
ី ន្តភា
ិ ព​​ដេល​លោក​​អះ​​អាង​​ថា​បន​​
នំ​មក​​ជូន​បេទេ ស​​កម្ពុជ​បន្ទេប់​ពី​គេប់​គេង​
ប៉ុ ណ្ណេះ ​។ ​គ្មេ ន ​ហេ តុ ​ផ ល​ណា​ដេ ល​យើ ង​
ណេ ន​ន
ំ ង​ឲយេ ​ផល
្ដ ​ស
់ ក្ខក
ី ម្ម​មន
ិ ​ពត
ិ ​ផយ
្ទុ ​នង
ឹ ​អ​្វី
ដេ ល​នង​បន​រយ
៉េ ​រប
៉េ ​ប
់
ប
េ ​យ
់
ើ ង​ឡើយ​"។
លោក​បន​មន​បេ សសន៍ ​ថា​"អ្វី ​ដេ ល​
លួច​បក
េ ​ជ
់ តិ​ ប៉ន
ុ ​ស
្តេ មេប
េ ​យ
់
ើ ង​ យើ ង​មន
ិ ​
តេ បើ ​ចាប់ ​ផ្តើ ម ​មន​​ស ង្គេ ម ​ហើ យ​​គឺ ​ចុ ក​
មត់​ជត
ិ ​ហើយ​"។
ករណី​របស់​សេម
ី ​ុំ គឺ​ជ​ករណី​ធម្មត​ACU និង​
រដ្ឋភ
េ ប
ិ ល​នង
ឹ ​មន
ិ ​លក
ូ ​ដេ​ឡើយ"​។​​
មនុសេស​បី​នក់​ទៀ ត​ដេ ល​តេូវ​បន​កោះ​
មន ​លោក សេី ​ធី ត​ឃឹះ ​បេ ធាន ​អ ង្គ ការ​
សិទស
្ធិ
​្តេី លោក​នី​ ចរិយា​អគ្គលេខធិការ​រង​​
គណៈ កម្មេ ធិ ការ​ជតិ ​រៀ បចំ ​ការ​បោះ​ឆ្នេ ត
(គ.ជ.ប.)​និង​ជ​អតីត​មន្ត​ជ
េី ន់ខ
​ ស
្ព ស
់ មគម​​
អាដហុក​និង​លោក​​ សុន
ឺ ​សលី​ ដេ ល​បមេ​ើ
ការ​នៅ​ការិ យា​ល័ យ ​សិ ទ្ធិ ​ម នុ សេ ស ​ក្នុ ង ​សេុ ក​
របស់​អង្គការ​សហ​បជ
េ ជតិ​។
កាលពី​ថអា
្ងេ ទិតយេ ​ លោក​ ឱម​ យុន
ិ ទៀង
៥០០​ដល
ុ
រ
្លេ ​ដល់​គស
េួ
រ​នង​ ចាន់តរ៉ទ
េ ​ី ​ឲយេ ​
អំព​កា
ី រ​លើក​ឡើង​របស់​លោក​ ធន​ សរយ
ឡើ យ។​
បន្ទប
េ ​ព
់ ​ស
ី ន្នស
ិ ទ
ី ​សរព័តម
៌ ន​ លោក​ យី
សុខសន្ត​​អនុបធា
េ ន​ផក
្នេ ​ឃម
្លេំ ើ ល​នៅ​សម​​
គម​​អាដហុក​ដេ ល​ក​ត
៏ វ
េូ ​បន​​ACU កោះ ​ហៅ​
កាល​​ពី​ថ្ងេ​ច័ន្ទ​គណបកេស​បេជ​ជន​​កម្ពជ
ុ ​
បន ​ដក់ ​ពាកេ យ ​ប ណ្តឹ ង ​ពេ ហ្ម ទ ណ្ឌ ​ទៅ​កាន់ ​
សល​​ដប
ំ ង
ូ ​រជធានីភពេ
្នំ ញ​​បង​
្តឹ ​លោក​ ​អ​៊ូ ​វរី ៈ ​
អ្ន ក ​វិ ភាគ​​ន យោបយ​​ពី ​ប ទ​​ធ្វើ ការ​អះ អាង​​
ដេ លលោក​​នយា
ិ
យ​ថា​​បន​សនេយា​ផល
្ដ ​ប
់
ក
េ ​់
និ យាយ ​ប ដិ សេ ធ អំ ​ពី ​ទំ នក់ ​ទំ ន ង ​ស្នេ ហា​
នោះ​ ​ហើយ​លោក​​បន​គរ
ំ ម​​ចាប់​ខន
្លួ ​មនុសសេ ​
ជចេន
ើ ​ទៀត​​ពាក់​ពន
័ ​ក
្ធ រណី​នេះ​​បស
េ ន
ិ ​បើ​
ចាំបច់​៕
សរុន​
នឹង​កាត់តេ ធ្វ​ឲ
ើ យេ ​បត់​បង់​បជ
េ ​បយ
េិ ​ភាព​​ខង
្លេំ ​
ហើ យ​មន្ត​នៅ
េី
​កង
្នុ ​គណបកេស​នេះមួយ​ចន
ំ ន
ួ ​ក​៏
មិន​ពេញ​ចត
ិ ​ច
្ត ពោ
ំ
ះ​​យន្តការ​នេះដេ រ​"។
កាល​​ព​ម
ី​ េសិលមិញ​លោក​អ៊​វីរៈ
ូ
​បន​​និយាយ ​
បរិ ហារ​​កេ រ្តិ៍ ​ជសធារណៈ ​តម​​វិ ទេ យុ ​អាសុី ​
ថា​លោក​​មិន​អាច​​ធ្វើ​អត្ថេធិបេបាយ​​លើ ​សុន្ទរ​
លោក​អ៊​ូ វីរៈ​បន​​លើកឡើ ង​នៅ​កង
្នុ ​កច
ិ ​្ច
លោក​​​មិន​បន​​ឮ​ប៉ុន្តេ​បន​​ចេន​ចោល​​ការ​​
សេ រ​(
ី RFA)​​កាល​​ព​ច
ី ង
ុ ​សប្តហ
េ ​។
៍ ​
លោក​កឹម​សុខ​អនុបធា
េ ន​​គណបកេស​បឆ
េ ង
ំ ​
ឃើ ញ​​តួ នទី ​រ កេ សា​ស ន្តិ ភាព​​មុ ន ​គេ ​ប ង្អ ស់ ​។​
លោក​បន​បន្ថម
េ ​ថា​"​ខ​គ
្ញុំ ត
ិ ​ថា​បេសន
ិ ​បើ​
យុន
ិ ទៀង​បន​បដិសេ ធ​មន
ិ ​ធ​អ
្វើ ត្ថធ
េ ​ប
ិ បា
េ យ​​
នៅ​ពេល​ទាក់​ទង​​តមទូរស័ព​្ទ លោក​ឱម
ការ ​រំ លោភ​​បំ ពាន​​សិ ទ្ធិ ​ម នុ សេ ស ​និ ង ​មន​ការ​​
លោក​​បន​​មន​​បស
េ
សន៍​ថា​"តេវ
ូ ​មើល​
ឬ​ករណី​ចាប់​រលោ
ំ
ភ​ឡើយ"​។
បន ​ចាប់ ​ខ្លួ ន ​មេ ឃុំ ​គ ណ ប កេ ស ​បេ ឆំង ​ម្នេ ក់ ​
សម្ភេ ស ​មួ យ ​ជមួ យ ​វិ ទេ យុ ​អាសុី ​សេ រី ​ថា​​​ការ​​
រំលោភ ​បពា
ំ ន​​ផសេ េ ង​ៗ​នោះ​​។
ករណី​រលោ
ំ
ភ​សទ
ិ ​ម
្ធិ នុសសេ ​ករណី​ជញ
ួ ដូរ​មនុសសេ ​​​
ជ​​ACUកោះ ​ហៅ​យើង​ដូច​នេះ​ទៅ​វិញ​?”​​។​
បេទេស​អស់​រយៈ​​ពេល​ជង​​៣០​​ឆ​ក
្នេំ ន្លង​មក​​
នេ ះ​នៅ​​ពេល​តវ
េូ បន​ចោទ​បកា
េ ន់​ថា​មន​
តេ ង​តេ ​ទទួល​យក​មិន​ថា​ករណី​ចាប់​យក​ដី
សីលការ​​ ជ​អង្គការ​មន
ិ ​មេន​រដ្ឋភ
េ ប
ិ ល​ផក
្នេ ​
បន​លច
ួ ​បក
េ ​ជ
់ តិ​ឡើយ​ ដូច្នេះ​ហេត​អ
ុ ​ប
្វី ន​
លោក​បន​មន​បស
េ
សន៍​ថា​"​បស
េ ន
ិ ​បើ​
ជមួ យ ​យើ ង​នៅ​ស មគម​​អាដហុ ក ​យើ ង​​
តម​អ​ដ
្វី េ ល​នង​បនរ៉យ
េ ​រប
៉េ ​ប
់
ប
េ ​យ
់
ើ ង​តេ​
អស់​លោក​ជ​យើ ង​ដេ ល​មន​បទ​ពសោ
ិ
ធន៍​
ដូច​មច
្ដេ ​?"។
ពេ ល​មន​បជ
េ ពលរដ្ឋ​មក​ដក់​ពាកេយ​បណ្តង
ឹ ​
ហៅ​មក​សកសួរ​ពាក់​ពន
័ ​ក
្ធ រណី​នេះ​ដេរ​ រួម​
ដោយ​បប
េ ​ព
់ ​រ
ី ឿងពិត​របស់​ខន
្លួ ​ហើ យ​ស​ឲ
ុំ យេ ​
២៥​ឆ​ព
្នេំ ​រ
ី ឿង​នោះ​វញ
ិ ​តើ ​អស់​លោក​នង
ឹ ​ធ​្វើ
លោក​បន​ថង
្លេ ​ថា​"​ជ​គោលការណ៍​នៅ​
លោក​ ធន​ សរយ​ បន​ថង
្លេ ​ថា​ "​យើង​
គេន
េ ​ត
់ េ ​ផល
្ដ ទ
់ ​ប
ី ក
េឹ សា
េ ​ផក
្នេ ​ចបា
េ ប់​ដល់​នង​ផក
្អេ ​
យើ ង​យល់​គ​ថា
ឺ ​ ACU សុប
ើ អង្កត
េ ​អក
្ន ​ដេល​
យើ ង​ជួយ​ការ​ពារ​កិត្តិយស​នង​​បេសិនបើ ​
ទទួល​យក​នរ​​ណា​កដោ
៏
យ​ដេល​មក​ស​ជ
ុំ ន
ំ យ
ួ ​
ពេយាយាម​ចាត់វធា
ិ ន​ការ​​ឥត​​ឈប់​ឈរ​​មក​​លើ​
ពាក់​ពន
័ ​រ
្ធ ឿង​​សហាយ​​សន
្ម ​រ
់ បស់​លោក​​នង
ឹ ​ធ​្វើ
កថារបស់​លោក​ហ៊ន
ុ ​សេ ន​បន​​ទេ​ពីពេះ​
យល់​ឃើ ញ​​ដេ ល​​ថា​ការ​​បញ្ចញ
េ ​មតិ​ដោយ​​
សេ រី​មន​​ផល​​ប៉ះ​ពាល់អវិជម
្ជ ន​​ដល់​សរ
្ថិ ភាព​​
នោះ ​។
លោក​​បន​​ថង
្លេ ​ថា​"តម​​ពត
ិ ​ទៅ​វា​ផយ
្ទុ ​ទៅ​
ឲេយ​​មន​ផល​ប៉ះពាល់​​អវិជ្ជមន​​ដល់​​រដ្ឋភិបល​
េ
​។
វិញ​ទេ។​បេសន
ិ ​បើ​យើង​ងក​​មើល​បទ
េ េ ស​​​
ដេ ល​​គណបកេស​បេជ​ជនកម្ពុជរវល់​គិត​គូរ​
នៅ​​កង
្នុ ​ដណ
ំ
ើ រ​ការ​បជ
េ ​ធប
ិ តេ យយេ ​បេទេស​
លោក​​តវ
េូ ​បន​​ដក​​សង
េ ​ស
់ ដ
ំ ​ម
ី ក​​ថា​ ​"ការ​​
បំបត់​គ​ប
ូ ជ
េ េ ង​នយោបយ​​តម​របៀប​​នេះ ​
ដេ ល​​គោរព​​សិ ទ្ធិ ​បេ ជ​ព ល​​រ ដ្ឋ ​ពិ ត ​បេ ក ដ​​​
តទៅទំព័រ១៥
ថ្ងៃ​ពុធ​ទី២៧​ខៃ​មៃសា​ឆ្នៃំ២០១៦
ខែមបូឌា ដែលី
១៥
ព័ត៌មានជាតិ
លោកនាយករដ្ឋមន្តែី ហ៊ន
ុ សែ ន ចែ ញការតតាំងនយោបាយនៅពែ លបែទែសជួបវិបត្តគែ
ិ
ែះរាំងស្ងត
ួ
ឃួន ណារីម
ខែមបូឌា ដែលី
កល​​ពី​មេសិល​មិញ​លោក​​នយក​​រដ្ឋ​មន្តេី​​
ហ៊ន
ុ ​សេ ន​បន​​តតាំង​ជមួយ​គណបកេស​នយោ​
បយ​ "ចាស់​ និង​ថ"​
្មី ឲេយ​បង្ហញ​
េ ​អព
ំ ​ក
ី រ​​បជ្ញ
្តេ ​ច
េ ត
ិ ​្ត​
របស់​ខន
្លួ ​ចពោ
ំ
ះ​បជ
េ ពល​រដ្ឋ​ជចេន
ើ ​គស
េួ
រ​​
លោក​​បន​​ថង
្លេ ​ថា​"យើ ង​នង
ឹ ​រង់​ចា​ម
ំ ើ ល​
គណៈ កម្មធិករ​
េ
​នេះ​បន​ថង​
្លេ ថា​"រហូត​មក​ទល់​​
ជន​​ដោះ​​សយ
េ ​ទក
ឹ ​សមេប
េ ​ប
់ ជ
េ ​ពល​​រដ្ឋ​ចាំ​
បេក
េ អ
់ ស់​១២៥.០០០​​ដល
ុ
រ
្លេ ​ហើ យ​​ហើ យ​​
តើ ​បកេស​នយោបយ​​ណា​ខ្លះ​ចេញ​​មខ
ុ ​ជយ
ួ ​បជ
េ ​
មើ ល​​ តើ ​គត់​ចា​ម
ំ​ ើ ល​​សន្លក​
ឹ ​ឆត​
្នេ ​២០១៧​ ​ឬ​
២០១៨​ឬ​​គត់​ជយ
ួ ​ដោះ​​សយ
េ ​ទក
ឹ ​ចាំ​មើល​
ពេ ល​នេះ​មន្ត​រ
េី បស់​លោក​​បន​​ចេក​ចាយ​ទឹក​
យើង​កំពុង​រង់​ចាំ​ទឹក​បេក់​បន្ថម
េ ​ទៀត។
លោក​​Gian Pietro Bordignon នយក​​បចា
េ ​ំ
អាហ្នង
ឹ ​បង​​បន
្អូ ​បជ
េ ​ពល​​រដ្ឋ​រង់​ចា​ម
ំ ើ ល​"។
បេទេស​​នេកម្ម​វធ
ិ ​ស
ី
បេ ៀ ង​​អាហារ​​ពភ
ិ ព​​លោក​​
ដេ លកំពង
ុ ​តេ​បន្ត​នេះ​។
លោក​​ឯង​​ធ​ប
្វើ កេស​ហង
្នឹ ​ដើ មេប​អ
ី ​?
ី ​បើ ក​​គន
េ ​់
រាំង​សត
្ងួ ​ថា​"មធេយម"​នៅ​​កង
្នុ ​ខេត​ភ
្ត គ​ខង​​កើត​
សម្ពធ
េ ​ផវ
្លូ ​ជតិ​លេ ខ​៥៦​​ដេ ល​​តភ្ជប
េ ​ខ
់ េ ត្ត​
ផង​​អ៊ច
ី ង
ឹ ​លោក​​ឯង​​សនេយា​ទាង
ំ ​បន
៉ុ ន
្មេ ​គឺ​គន
េ ​់
បន​​ថ​ៗ
្មី ​បផ
ំ ត
ុ ​ពថ
ី ​ទ
្ងេ ​១
ី ៣​​ខេ ​មេស​ប៉ន
ុ ​​្តេ ​លើក​​
ថា​គណបកេស​កន់​អំណាច​​បន​​បង្ហេញ​ពី​ករ​​
បេឈម​"ស្ថន
េ ភព​​គេះ​រាង
ំ ​សត
្ងួ ​ខង
្លេំ ​បផ
ំ ត
ុ "​​។
ដេ ល​ទទួលរង​ផល​ប៉ះពាល់​នេ​គេះ​រាំង​​សត​
្ងួ ​
លោក​​នយក​​រ ដ្ឋ ​ម ន្តេី ​បន​​ថ្លេ ង ​នៅ​ពិ ធី ​
បន្ទេ យ ​មន​​ជ័ យ ​ជមួ យ ​ខេ ត្ត ​ឧ ត្ត រ ​មន​​ជ័ យ​
ជប់​គ​ក
្នេ ង
្នុ ​តប
ំ ន់​ដេល​សត
្ថិ ​កង
្នុ ​ចណោ
ំ
ម​​ខេត​្ត
ដេ ល​រង​ប៉ះពាល់​ធ្ងន់​ធ្ងរ​បំផុត​ដោយ​​គេះ​
រាំង​សត
្ងួ ​ចេើន​ទសវតេសរ៍​មក​​ហើយ​។
លោក​ ហ៊ន
ុ ​ សេ ន​ បន​​ថង
្លេ ​ទៅ​កន់​អក
្ន ​
លោក​​បន​​ប ន្ត ​ថា​"អ៊ី ចឹ ង ​បន​​សេ ចក្តី ​ថា​​
តេ ​ជយ
ួ ​ដោះ ​សយ
េ ​ទក
ឹ ​ លោក​​ឯង​​មន
ិ ​ធ​ប
្វើ ន​​
តេ ​ជ​ករ​​សនេយា​ខយេ ល់​ទេ"​ ដោយ​​គស
ូ ​បញ្ជក
េ ​់
ប្តជ
េ ​ច
្ញេ ត
ិ ​រ
្ត បស់ខន
្លួ ​រច
ួ ​ហើយ​ចពោ
ំ
​ះ ​ករ​​ដោះ​​
សេយ
េ ​បញ្ហ​ន
េ េ ះ​។
លោក​​នយក​​រដ្ឋ​​មន្ត​ប
េី ន​​លើក​ឡើ​ង​លម្អត​
ិ ​
អំព​វ
ី ធ
ិ ​ដ
ី េ ល​យទ
ុ ន
្ធ ករ​​តវ
េូ ​ដោះ ​សយ
េ ​កង្វះ​
បំផត
ុ ​។​​លោក​​បន​​លក
ើ ឡើង​ក​លពី​មសេ ល
ិ ​
មិ ​ញ​ថា​ដោយសរ​​ភព​​ធ្ងន់​ធ្ងរ​នេ ​វិបត្តិ​នេះ ​
ទាំង ​នោះ​​គឺ ជ​បេ ទេ ស​​ដេ ល​​មន​​ស្ថិ រ ភព​​
បំផត
ុ ​កង
្នុ ​លោក​​"។
ទោះ​​ជ​យង
៉េ ​ណា​លោក​ផេ ​សុផ
ី ន​​​អក
្ន ​
នំពាកេយ​រដ្ឋភ
េ ប
ិ ល​​បន​​លើក​ឡើង​ថា​ អ្នក​រិះ​
គន់​ដូច​ជ​លោក​អ៊ូ​វីរៈ ​​​តេូវ​តេ ​ដក់​ឲេយ​ស្ថិត​
កេម
េ ​ករ​​គប
េ ​គ
់ ង
េ ​ពេេះ​បជ
េ ​ពល​​រដ្ឋ​ស​៊េំ
ទៅ​​នង
ឹ ​អក
្ន ​គប
េ គ
់ ង
េ ​តេ ​មយ
ួ ​ហើ យ​មន
ិ ​បន​​
តេៀ ម ​ខ្លួ ន ​ទ ទួ ល ​យ ក ​ន យោបយ ​សេ រី ​
ពហុបកេស​ទេ​។
លោក​បន​លើ ក​ឡើ ង​នៅក្នង
ុ ​អម
ីុ ល
៉េ ថា
ពី​កស
េ ង
ួ ​ធន​​ធាន​​ទក
ឹ ​និង​ឧតុនយ
ិ ម​​និង​បព
េ ន
័ ​្ធ
គេង​​គេះ​មហន្តរាយ​​ដើ មេបី​​ដោះ ​សយ​
េ ​បញ្ហ​េ
តមកពីទំព័រ១៤
ន​​ឆ​ន
្នេំ េ ះ​មន
ិ ​បន​​ជរ
ំ ញ
ុ ​ទក
ឹ ​ចត
ិ ​ទ
្ត េ ​។​
លោក​​ហ៊ន
ុ ​សេ ន​បន​​មន​​បស
េ
សន៍​ថា
ខ្លន
ួ ​រហូត​ដល់​ចប់​គេះ​រាង
ំ ​សត
្ងួ ​។
បង្ហញ
េ ​ព​ក
ី រ​​បជ
្តេ ​ច
្ញេ ត
ិ ​រ
្ត បស់​ខន
្លួ ​ចពោ
ំ
​ះ ​បជ
េ ​
លោក ហ៊ន
ុ សែន លើកឡើង...
ថា​ទោះ​​ជយ៉ង
េ ​ណា​ករ​​ពយា
េ ករ​​អព
ំ ​រី ដូវ​វសេសា​
"ករ​​កណ
ំ
ត់ពេ ល​ករ​ចាប់​ផម
្តើ ​នេ ​រដូវ​វសេសា​
លោក​​បន​​ស​ឲ
្នើ យេ ​កស
េ ង
ួ ​សេដក
្ឋ ច
ិ ​្ច និង​ហរ
ិ ញ្ញ​
ពល​​រដ្ឋ​ដោយ​​ករ​ជយ
ួ ​នៅ​កង
្នុ ​សន
្ថេ ​ភពនេ ះ​។
"ផល​​ប៉​ះ​ពាល់​លើ ​ផលិត​ផល​​ដំណា​ទ
ំ ំនង​​ជ​
អភិបល​​ខេត​ទា
្ត ង
ំ ​អស់​តវ
េូ ​សត
្ថិ ​កង
្នុ ​ខេត​រ្ត បស់​
ទឹក​ ប៉ន
ុ ​្តេ លោក​​បន​​យក​​ឱកស​​នោះ​​តតាំង​
ជមួ យ ​គ ណបកេ ស ​ន យោបយ​​ដ ទេ ​ទៀ ត​​ឲេ យ​
ស្ងត
ួ ​ក​ដោ
៏
យ​ក៏​លោក​ Bordignon បន​​បញ្ជក
េ ​់
មន​​តច
ិ ​តច
ួ ​នៅ​ពេល​នេះ"​​។​លោក​​បន​​ថង
្លេ ​
រថយន្ត​ដក
ឹ ទឹក​ជ​យ
ួ ​អក
្ន ​ដេល​រង​ផល​ប៉ះ​ពាល់​
អំព​ស
ី
ន
្ថេ ​ភព​​គអា
េ សន្ន​ដេរ​។
បើ ទោះ​​ជ​ជប
ួ ​រលក​​កម្ត​េ និង​គេះ​រាង
ំ ​
រដ្ឋ​សនេសស
ំ ច
ំ េ ទក
ឹ ​ខណៈ​​រដ្ឋភ
េ ប
ិ ល​​បន​​បញ្ជន
ូ ​
បេជ​ពល​​រដ្ឋ​ប​ប
េើ
ស
េ ​"់ ​ដោយលោក​​សង្កត​់
បន្ត​កើត​មន​​ក​ដោ
៏
យ​​ក៏​លោក​​មន
ិ ​បន​​បក
េ ស​​
ឡើ ង​ថា​ ខេ ត្ត​​កោះ ​កង
ុ ​ និង​ខេត្ត​​ពោធិ៍​សត់​
ថា​តម្ល​អ
េ ង្ករ​មន
ិ ​បន​​ផស
្លេ ​ប
់ រ
្តូ ​ដេរ​ ហើ យ​ថា
បង្ហេះ​សរ​​តាម​​ហស
្វេ ប៊ក
ុ ​ជរំ ញ
ុ ​ឲយេ ​បជ
េ ​ពល​​
ធ្ងន​ថា
់ ​ បើ ​ទោះ​​ជ​គេះ​មហន្តរាយ​​ធម្មជតិ​
និង​ភគ​​ខង​​លច
ិ ​ផ្អក
េ ​តាម​​ទន
ិ យ
្ន័ ​ដេល​ទទួល​
កល​​ព​ថ
ី ​ស
្ងេ ក
ុ ​េ លោក​​ ហ៊ន
ុ ​ សេ ន​ បន​​
ចូល​រួម​ថា​"តាង​​នម​​រដ្ឋភ
េ ិបល​​ខ្ញ​ស
ុំ ូម​ដក់​
ចេ ញ​​នូ វ ​យុ ទ្ធ នករ​​ចេ ក​​ចាយ​​ទឹ ក ​ស មេេ ប់ ​
នៅ​​សប្តហ
េ ​ន
៍ េ ះ​បន​​ចាត់​ទក
ុ ​សន
្ថេ ភព​​គេះ​
វត្ថ​ផ
ុ ល
្ត ​ម
់ ល
ូ ​នធ
ិ ​ដ
ិ ល់​គណៈកម្មធ
េ ក
ិ រ​​ជតិ​គេប់​​
នេ ះ​​។​លោក​​ញម
ឹ ​វណ្ណដ​​អនុបធា
េ ន​​ទ​១
ី ​នេ​
លោក​​បន​​លើក​ឡើង​ថា​"យើ ង​មន​​ពេះ​
មហាកេសតេ​តេ​មយ
ួ ​គត់​មិន​មេន​មន​​ព​រ
ី នោះ​​
ទេ ​។ ​លោក​អ៊ូ ​វី រៈ ​មិ ន ​យ ល់ ​អំ ពី ​ប ញ្ហេ ​នេះ ​
ឡើ យ​​។​​គណបកេស​បឆ
េ ំង​​មន​​នយ
័ ​ថា​សតេវ
ូ ​
នៅ​​កម្ពជ
ុ ​"។
លោក​ផេ ​ សុផ
ី ន​បន​​លើក​ឡើង​ទៀត​​
ឆ្នកេ
េំ
យ
េ ​មន
ិ ​ចបា
េ ស់​លស់​ទេ​ប៉ន
ុ ​​
្តេ ​តាម​​ទន
ិ យ​
្ន័ ​
រំលក
ឹ ​ជមុន​បចា
េ ​ត
ំ ប
ំ ន់​បង្ហញ
េ ​ថា​ ករ​​ពយា
េ ករ​​
ទំនង​​ជ​ទាប​​ជង​​ធម្មតា​ព​ខ
ី េ ​ឧសភ​​ដល់​ខេ ​
សីហា៕​សរុន​
(រាយករណ៍​បន្ថម
េ ​ដោយ​Peter Ford)
ខុស​ទៅ​ញុះ​ញង់​ពល​​រដ្ឋ​ឲយេ ​បឆ
េ ំង​​រដ្ឋភ
េ ​ប
ិ ល​​​​
គឺ​មន
ិ ​អនុញត
្ញេ ​ឡើយ​"។
ទោះ ​ជ​យង​
៉េ ​ណា​លោក​សុខ​ឥសន​អ្ន​​ក​
នំ​ពាកេយ​គណបកេស​បជ
េ ជន​​កម្ពជ
ុ ​ដេ ល​​ដក់​
ពាកេយ​បង
្តឹ ​លោក​អ៊​ូ វីរៈ​ជំនស
ួ ​មខ
ុ ​ឲយេ ​គណបកេស​
នេ ះ​បន​​នយ
ិ
យ​​ផយ
្ទុ ​ព​ជ
ី ហ
ំ រ​​របស់​លោក​​​ផេ​​
ថា​ ​ខណៈ​​សន
ុ រ
្ទ ក​​ថា​របស់​លោក​ ​ហន
៊ុ ​ ​សេន​ ​ សុី ផន​​ស្តី ​អំ ពី ​សេ រី ព ហុ ប កេ ស ​ដោយ​​លើ ក​​
គ្មន​
េ ​គោល​​ដៅ​លើ​លោក​​អ៊​វីរៈ
ូ
​នោះ ​ទសេសនៈ ​​​
របស់ ​អ្ន ក ​វិ ភគ​​អាចក្លេ យ ​ជ​ករ​" ញុះ ញង់ ​"
ពល​​រដ្ឋ​នៅ​ក្នង
ុ ​សង្គម​។
លោក​​បន​​មន​​បេសសន៍​ថា​"ករ​​យល់​
ឡើ ង​ថា​"បេទេស​របស់​យើង​ទទួល​យក​​លទិ​្ធ
បេជធិបតេ យយេ ​សេរ​ព
ី ហុ​បកេស​"។
លោក​​មន​​បស
េ
សន៍​ថា​"បេសន
ិ ​បើ​កើត​
តទៅទំព័រ១៦
១៦
ខែមបូឌា​ ដែលី
ថ្ងៃ​ពុធ​ទី២៧​ខៃ​មៃសា​ឆ្នៃំ២០១៦
ព័ត៌មានជាតិ
បក្ខពក
ួ ​នយ
ិ ម​​ទាក់​ទាញ​​​...
តមកពីទំព័រ១៣
ញែ ក​អព
ំ ​ក
ី រ​តែង​តង
ំ ​កន
ូ ​បស
ែុ ​របស់​លោក
ឱម​យុន
ិ ទៀ ង​ទែ ​ប៉ន
ុ ​បា
្តែ ន​​នយ
ិ យ​​ករ​ពារ​​ថា​
វា​​ជាករ​តែ ង​តង
ំ ​ជំនួយ​ករ​​ទូទៅ​។​លោក​​
បាន​​មន​​បស
ែ
សន៍​មន
ុ ​ពែ ល​ផច
្តែ ​ទ
់ រ
ូ ស័ព​ថា
្ទ ​​
"សូម​កឡ
ែ
ែ ក​មើ ល​គប
ែ ​អ
់ ង្គ​ភាព​​ទង
ំ ​អស់។​​
មិនមែ ន​​មន​​តែ​អង្គ​​ភាព​​បែឆំងអំពើ ​ពុក​​រលួយ​​
ទែ ដែ ល​​ធ្វើ ​ករ​​តែ ង​​តង
ំ ​អង្គ ​ភាព​​ផែ សែ ងៗ​​
​ពែះ រជកែឹ តែ យ ​តែ ង​តង
ំ ​កូ ន ​បែុ ស ​រ បស់ ​
នែ ះ​ក​ត
៏ វ
ែូ ​បាន​​ចាត់​ទក
ុ ​ថា​ផយ
្ទុ ​គ​ស
្នែ
ឡ
ែ ះ​​ផង​​
សមែបត្ត​រ
ិ បស់​ពក
ួ គែ សមែប
ែ ​ម
់ ខ
ុ ​តណ
ំ
ែ ង​ឬ​​ថា​
បែឆង
ំ ​អំពើ ​ពុករលួយ​ដែ ល​ទទួល​បាន​ករ​
លោក​ឱម​យុន
ិ ទៀ ង​​​មន
ិ ​បាន​​ពណ៌ន​ព​ល
ី ក្ខណ​
តើ ​ពក
ួ គែ ​មន​​ទសែសនៈ​​អស
្វី ព
្តី ​អ
ី ព
ំ ើ ​ពក
ុ ​រលួយ​
សមែែប់​ផ្ដល់​យោបល់​ដល់​ឪពុក​របស់​ខ្លួន។
បង​ប្អូ ន ​ទង
ំ ​ពី រ ​នក់ ​នែះ ​ទំ ន ង​ជា​ទ ទួ ល ​បាន​​
ជោគ​ជយ
័ ​ដោយ​សរ​​ឥទ្ធព
ិ ល​របស់​ឪពុក​ខន
្លួ ​
ក្នង
ុ ​រយៈ​​ពែល​រប់​ឆ​ម
្នែំ ក​​នែះ។
យោង​តម​សរ​ទរូ លែ ខ​សម្ងត
ែ ឆ
់ ​២
្នែំ ០០៩​​​
ដែ រ​​ទៅ​នឹ ង ​ករ​សុើ ប អង្កែ ត ​រ បស់ ​អ ង្គ ​ភាព​​
ចាប់​អារម្មណ​ខ
៍ ង
្លែំ ​លើ​លោក​ កឹម​ សុខ​ អនុ​
បែធាន​គណបកែស​សង្គែះ​ជាតិ​ ដែ ល​​មជែឈ​ដន​
្ឋែ ​
ជា​​ចន
ែើ ​មើ ល​​ឃើ ញ​​ថា​វា​ជា​ករ​​វាយ​បហា
ែ
រ​​
ខង​​នយោបាយ​​ទៅ​លើ​គណបកែស​បឆ
ែ ង
ំ ។
លោក​មន​បែសសន៍​អំពី​​ករ​តែង​តំង​​នែះ​
ែ
ែ លជា​​បន្ថយ​ករ​​ជឿ ​
ថា​“សធារណជន​​បហ
ទៀត​​ក​ត
៏ ែ ង​តង
ំ ​ដែរ"។
មួយ​​របស់​កែសួង​ករ​បរទែ ស​សហរដ្ឋ​អាមែ រិក​​
ទុក​ចត
ិ ​រ
្ត បស់​ខន
្លួ ​លើ​អង្គ​ភាព​បឆ
ែ ង
ំ ​អព
ំ ើ ​ពក
ុ ​
បែជា​ជន​កម្ពជា
ុ ​ ​មន​បស
ែ
សន៍​ថា​ ​វា​ធម្មត​
ុិ
ង​​​
(WikiLeaks)​បាន​ឲែយ​ដឹង​ថា​លោក​ឱម​​យនទៀ
សម្លង
ឹ ​មើ ល​អង្គ​ភាព​បឆ
ែ ង
ំ ​អព
ំ ើ ​ពក
ុ ​រលួយ​
លោក​សុខ​ឥសន​អ្នក​នពា
ំ កែយ​គណបកែស​
ទែ ដែល​គណបកែស​កន់​អណ
ំ
ច​តែង​តង
ំ ​កន
ូ ​
របស់​សមជិក​ខ្លួន​។​លោក​​បាន​​លើ ក​​ឡើ ង​​
អំពី​ករ​​តែ ង​​តង
ំ ​កូន​បែុស​របស់​លោក​ឱម​​
យុន
ិ ទៀង​ថា​"វា​ជា​រឿង​​ធម្មត​ទែ។​គណ​បកែស​
បែជាជន​​ជា​គណបកែស​កន់​អណ
ំ
ច​​ហើ យ​មន
ិ ​
ដែ លទៅ​​តែង​តំង​​កូន​របស់​គណបកែស​សង្គែះ​
ជាតិ​ទែ ។​គណបកែស​បជា
ែ ជន​​បក
ែ ដ​​ជា​តវ
ែូ ​
តែ ​តែង​តង
ំ ​យវ
ុ ជន​របស់​គណបកែស​បជា
ែ ​ជន​​
ដែ ល ​អ ង្គ ភាព​​បែ ឆំង ​ករ​ស ម្ងែ ត់ វើ គី លី ក​
ពុទ្ធិរ៉ែ​ និង​ យុិនទៀង​ ពុទ្ធិរិទ្ធ​ ដែល​ជាមន្តែី​
ជាន់ ​ខ្ព ស់ ​ក្នុ ង ​ជួ រ ​ក ង​យោធពល​ខែ មរភូ មិ ន្ទ ​
សរ​ទរ
ូ លែ ខ​សម្ងត
ែ ​ដ
់ ដែ ល​​បញ្ជក
ែ ​ថា
់ ​លោក
ថា​អង្គភាព​បឆ
ែ ង
ំ ​អព
ំ ើ ​ពក
ុ រលួយ​មន​កតព្វ​
នែ ​គណៈ កម្មែធិករ​ជាតិ​បែឆង
ំ ​ភែ រវកម្ម​។
ឱម​យុន
ិ ទៀង​គឺ​អនុបធា
ែ ន​​លែខធិក​រដ្ឋន
ែ ​
របស់​គណៈកម្មធ
ែ ក
ិ រ​នែះ។
លោក​ សន​ ជ័យ​ នយក​បចា
ែ ​ប
ំ ទ
ែ ែ ស​
ករ​អត្ថធ
ែ ប
ិ បា
ែ យ​របស់​អក
្ន ​នពា
ំ កែយ​រប
ូ ​នែះ​
មន​បែសសន៍​​ថា​ករ​តែងតំង​​ចុង​កយ​
ែ នែះ​​
នយោបាយ​។​ប៉ន
ុ ​លោ
្តែ
ក​​បានបដិសែ ធ​រល់​
ករ​​ពែ ល យ​ពាកែ យ ​អំ ពី ​ប ក្ខពួ ក ​និ យ ម​ហើ យ​
បាន​ចន
ែ ​ចោល​​ករ​លើក​ឡើង​ថា​ ​ករ​តែង​
តំង​នែះ​បហ
ែ
ែ ល​ជា​ធ​ឲ
្វើ យែ ​ប៉ះពាល់​ដល់​មខ
ុ ​
លោក​កែ ម​ឡី​ ដែ ល​បណ្តញ
ែ ​ខរ
្មែ ​ដើមបែ ​ី
ខ្មរែ ​របស់​លោក​តស៊​ម
ូ តិ​ដើមបែ ​ឲ
ី យែ ​មន​​អភិបាល​​
នែ ​អង្គ​ករ​​បណ្តែញគណ​នែ យែយភាព​សង្គម​​
គឺ​ស​ន
្មើ ង
ឹ ​ករ​ទទួល​សល
្គែ ​ក
់ រ​រើ ស​អើ ង​ខង​
ពួកគែ កព
ំ ង
ុ ​សម្លង
ឹ ​មើល​យង
៉ែ ​បង
ែុ ​បយ
ែ ត
័ ”្ន ។
សុ ទ្ធ តែ មន​​តំ ណែ ង​​ជា​បែ ធាន​នយកដ្ឋែ ន​
ពីពែះ​យើង​មន
ិ ​អាច​តែង​តង
ំ ​យវ
ុ ជន​របស់​
គណបកែស​ផសែ ែ ង​ទែ"។​
រលួយ។​ជាពិសែ ស​ពែល​នែះ​សធា​រណជន​​កំពុង​​
កិច្ច​​បែជាធិបតែ យែយ​និង​តម្លភាព​
ែ
​មន​បែស​សន៍​​
កិច​ខ
្ច ង​​សល
ី ធម៌​​បស
ែ ន
ិ ​បើ​មន
ិ ​មែន​ជា​កតព្វ​
កិច​ផ
្ច វ
្លូ ​ចបា
ែ ប់​​កង
្នុ ​ករ​បើក​ទលា
ូ
យ​បន្ថម
ែ ​ទៀត​
អំព​ល
ី ក្ខណ​សមែបត្ត​រ
ិ បស់​មន្ត​ខ
ែី ន
្លួ ​។​
លោក​ថង​
្លែ ថា​ករ​តែង​តង​
ំែ កូន​បស​
ែុ របស់​​
ដែ ល​​តស៊ូមតិដើ មែបី​ឱែយមន​អភិបាលកិច្ចល្អ​
លោក​ ឱម​ យុិនទៀង​ ​នឹង​ធ្វើ​ឲែយ​មជែឈដ្ឋែន​
បែែកដ​ជា​ធ្វើ​ឱែយ​ប៉ះ​ពាល់​ដល់​មុខ​មត់​របស់​
និង​អព
ំ ើ ​ពក
ុ រលួយ​នៅ​កង
្នុ ​ជរ
ួ ​គណបកែស​បជា
ែ ​
អង្គ​ភាព​បែឆង
ំ ​អំពើ ​ពុករលួយ​ជា​ពិសែ ស​​
អំឡង
ុ ​ពែ ល​​រុះរើ គណៈ រដ្ឋ​មន្ត​រ
ែី បស់​លោក​
នយក​រដ្ឋ​មន្ត។
ែី
លោក​​បាន​​បន្ត​​ទៀ ត​​ថា​"វាមិនមែ នជារូប​ភាព​​
ទូទៅ​យល់​កន់​តែ​ចបា
ែ ស់​ថា​​​មន​​បក្ខពក
ួ ​នយ
ិ ម
ជន​ក ម្ពុ ជា​និ ង ​ទ សែ ស នៈ ​លើ ​រ ដ្ឋែ ភិ បាល​​មួ យ​
ដែ ល​​កង
្នុ ​នោះ ​ទន
ំ ក់​ទន
ំ ង​គស
ែួ រ​​ជយ
ួ ​ឲយែ ​មន​​
លក្ខណសមែបត្ត​គ
ិ ប
ែ ​គ
់
ន
ែ ​ផ
់ វ
្លូ ​ករ​។
លោក​​មន​​បស
ែ សន៍​ទៀត​​ថា​"​ទោះ​ប​ជា
ី ​
មត់​របស់​អង្គភាព​បឆ
ែ ង
ំ ​អព
ំ ើ ​ពក
ុ រលួយ​។​
ល្អ​ទែសមែប
ែ ​អ
់ ង្គភាព​បឆ
ែ ង
ំ ​អព
ំ ើ ​ពក
ុ រលួយ​
ពួ ក គែ ​មន​ល ក្ខ ណ ​ស មែ ប ត្តិ ​ខ្ព ស់ ​ក៏ ដោយ​​ក៏ ​
និយម​​ទែ ។​បក្ខពក
ួ ​នយ
ិ ម​ទល់​តែ ​អក
្ន ​ដែ ល​​
កែម​
ែ ​ករ​​ធ​ក
្វើ ំណែ ទមែង់​និង​​ខ​ណៈ ​ពែល​​គត់​​​
គែ ​មន
ិ ​ជាប់​ខសែ ែ លោហិតទែ ​នោះ​។​​​កត្ត​ន
ែ ែ ះ​
លោក​​បាន​ថង
្លែ ​ថា​ "​វា​មន
ិ ​មែន​ជា​បក្ខ​ពក
ួ ​
ទទួល​បាន​ករ​តែង​តំង​គន​
្មែ ចំណែ ះ​ដឹង។​ប៉ន្ត
ុ ​ែ
នៅ​​ពែល​​នែះ​ខណៈ ​កែសួងផែសែ ងៗទៀ ត​​សត​
្ថិ ​
[លោក​ឱម​យុនទៀ
ិ
ង] ផ្តល់​ដំបូន្មន​
ែ ដល់​​កែសួង​​
ួ ​នយ
ិ ម​មយ
ួ ​បភ
ែ ែ ទ”។
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The CAMBODIA DAILY
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The Cambodia daily
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wednesday, apRil 27, 2016
InternatIonal
Spain on Cusp of New Election Pending Last-Ditch Talks
ReuteRs
- Spanish political leaders
were to meet Spanish King Felipe
yesterday for a final round of talks
to resolve a 4-month-old political
stalemate, but with a successful
outcome unlikely the stage could
be set for a new election.
Political parties have been unable to form a new government
since an inconclusive election last
december, and with less than a
week until a deadline to agree on
a prime minister, yesterday’s talks
were to be the last chance to broker some form of coalition.
after consultations with smaller forces on monday, King Felipe
was expected yesterday to meet
with leaders of the four main parties in his third attempt to unblock the situation, culminating in
a session with caretaker Prime
minister mariano rajoy of the
center-right People’s Party.
most leaders have already recognized they lack the support
from rivals to secure a parliamentary majority, making it unlikely a
last-minute candidate would
emerge to try and lead a viable
pact between parties.
madrid
“The feeling everyone has is
that there will be no surprises,” alberto Garzon, leader of the former
communist party izquierda Unida
(United Left) told a news conference on monday after meeting
the king.
Felipe was keen to see the process through and try to seek a consensus, politicians involved in
monday’s talks said, though they
added that the monarch had already asked parties to keep the
costs of campaigns down if there
were another ballot.
The rise of new forces such as
anti-austerity Podemos (We Can)
and centrist Ciudadanos (Citizens)
after a deep economic crisis meant
all parties fell short of a parliamentary majority in december, in the
most fragmented result in decades.
The PP won the most votes
and 123 seats in the the 350-seat
lower house of parliament, while
the Socialists took 90, Podemos
69 and Ciudadanos 40.
The parties’ failure to anoint a
prime minister by may 2—after a
Socialist pact with Ciudadanos
was rejected in parliament in early
march—will automatically trigger
Reuters
Spain's King Felipe waits for the arrival of the Basque Nationalist
Party deputy during a third round of talks with political parties at
Zarzuela Palace in Madrid on Monday.
a repeat election, likely to be held
on June 26. But parties are running out of time to even hold the
necessary parliamentary votes,
bringing the process to a head.
Opinion polls have so far shown
a new election would do little to
resolve the deadlock, while politicians such as Garzon said they
were concerned about a rise in abstention among frustrated voters.
many leaders have already entered a pre-campaign mode, blaming each other for the impasse
that could start taking its toll on
the economy more noticeably if
Spain remains without a government for many more months, according to analysts.
“i’m ready to fight for Spain
once again,” rajoy told PP supporters at a rally on Sunday.
Containment Near Complete 30 Years After Chernobyl Disaster
B y A ndrew r oth
the washington post
Kiev, Ukraine - an international effort to seal the destroyed remains
of the nuclear reactor that exploded in Ukraine 30 years ago is finally
close to completion, and remarkably, considering the political revolution and armed conflict that have
rocked the country since 2014, it’s
close to being on schedule.
The completion of the New
Safe Confinement, often called the
“arch,” could contain the radiation
from mankind’s worst nuclear catastrophe for a century, according
to the european Bank for reconstruction and development, which
has led the project. But it will also
mark a handover to Ukraine’s
fractious and underfunded authorities, who are expected to tackle
future waste management at their
own expense.
That may not reassure Nadiya
makyrevych. For three decades,
she has been living with the consequences of Chernobyl explosion.
She can recall that morning in late
april 1986, and the small signs that
something was wrong in the workers’ town where she lived: the
tinny, metallic taste in her mouth.
The way her 6-month-old daughter
slept so deeply after breast-feeding.
But there were no sirens then
in Pripyat, no hint of the magnitude of the nuclear catastrophe
playing out just kilos away. Soviet
authorities did not immediately
report the botched experiment at
a reactor in Chernobyl’s nuclear
power plant, which released a
radioactive cloud over eastern
europe larger than that of the
2011 disaster in Fukushima,
Japan. Ukraine is still coping with
the effects today.
“By the time we were evacuated, we had been exposed for 36
hours,” makyrevych said in Kiev
last week, her speech interrupted
by a hacking cough. “my entire
family has been affected by this.
We are all sick. my daughter, my
son, my husband and me.”
makyrevych, who requires regular medical treatment, complained of a monthly handout of
just $60 from the Ukrainian government—and that hasn’t always
been on time.
Now the authorities in Kiev will
have to shoulder the burden.
The international project will
seal both the wrecked reactor
No. 4 and the temporary protective “sarcophagus” installed in
1986 inside the New Safe Confinement. resembling a massive
hangar, the 360-foot-tall building’s
two sides will wheel into place
next year and, once sealed, robotic cranes inside will disassemble
the destroyed reactor and manage the disposal of a lava-like
mass filled with uranium.
Ukraine in the past two years
has been rocked by a proeuropean political revolution, the
annexation of Crimea by russia
and a grinding war in eastern
Ukraine that has left more than
9,100 people dead. inflation and
austerity measures have made
life harder for average Ukrainians, and the parliament has been
paralyzed by infighting.
But located far from the front
lines and backed by about $1.5
billion in funding, much of it from
the eBrd, european Commission and U.S., the project has
largely been insulated from the
political chaos taking place in
Kiev, 97 km to the south.
vince Novak, the eBrd head
of nuclear safety, said in an interview that disruptions to the project because of political turmoil in
Ukraine were “minimal.” When
former president viktor Yanukovych fled the country after mass
protests in Kiev in 2014, U.S. contractors halted work for only a
few weeks, he said. French contractors didn’t stop at all.
The project has required care-
ful coordination between the various administrative bureaucracies
responsible for Chernobyl in
Ukraine: the head of the decommissioned plant, the administrator
for the exclusion zone around the
plant, the ministry of ecology and
Natural resources, and, “where
the politics comes in,” Novak said,
the ministry of Finance and parliament, which approve funding.
asked whether a recent Cabinet reshuffle would affect progress, he laughed.
“i have lost count of how many
ministers in charge of this i have
worked with...a dozen and a half,
including four in the last two
years?” he said on the sidelines of
a recent forum at Kiev’s National
Technical University. “One of the
roles that the bank plays here is
making sure that all the players
that you need are kind of rowing
in the same direction.”
That role is quickly coming to a
close, as the eBrd plans to complete the containment structure in
November. Once it is operational
in 2017, the bank says, the “involvement of the international
community is not envisaged.”
“it will be for Ukraine to develop a national strategy for nuclear
waste for the next decades,” the
eBrd said in a statement.
The CAMBODIA DAILY
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 2016
Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
Agriculture Services Programme for Innovation,
Resilience and Extension (ASPIRE)
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REQUEST FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST
Country of Assignment: Kingdom of Cambodia
Name of Project:
Agriculture Services Programme for Innovation,
Resilience and Extension (ASPIRE)
Loan and Grant No:
IFAD Loan No. 2000000744 and ASAP TRUST
Grant No. 2000000743
Assignment Title:
Audit Firm
Procurement Method:
Quality-and-Cost-Based Selection (QCBS)
with the Quality to Cost Ratio of 70:30
Assignment Cost:
USD 40,000.00
Reference No.:
QCBS-001-2016/MAFF/ASPIRE
1. The Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) has received a bulk of the financing
is provided by IFAD in the form of a loan (USD 26.1 million) and a grant
(USD 15 million supported by ASAP). Government funding is estimated at
USD 11.4 million. Total programme costs are around USD 525 million
(excluded contribution from USAID and beneficiaries) over a seven-year
implementation period and covering five provinces, 30 districts and 180
communes in the first step.
2. Part of the proceeds of the loan and grant will be used for the engagement
of a reputed audit firm to do the Audit of the Programme Financial Statement,
Accompanying Statement of Expenditures (SOE), Special Account (SA) and
Designated Account (DA) of the ASPIRE Executing Agency and Implanting
Agencies in Phnom Penh and provinces.
3. The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF) is the Executing
Agencies (EA) for the ASPIRE Programme. The implementing agencies are
the Supreme National Economic Council (SNEC) and National Committee for
Sub-National Democratic Development Secretariat (NCDD-S).
4. The ASPIRE now invites reputable audit firms from IFAD’s member countries
to provide auditing services for the ASPIRE Programme offices in Phnom Penh
and Sub-Programme offices in the provinces of Kampong Chhnang, Pursat,
Battambang, Kratie and Preah Vihear.
5. The ASPIRE SECRETARIAT based in MAFF will provide the audit firm with all
necessary documentations to perform the assignment properly; in particular,
the following information will be provided before the beginning of the
assignment:
•
•
•
•
•
Financing agreement;
Annual progress report;
Programme implementation manual;
Organizational charts along with names and titles of senior managers;
Names,title and qualification of officers responsible for financial management,
accounting;
• Description of information technology facilities and computer systems in
use;
• Copies of the minutes of negotiations,the programme designed documents,
the annual work plan and budget, and the Letter to the Borrower; and
• Access to provision of office facilities, printer, and photocopier etc.
6. An audit firm will be selected in accordance with the Quality-and-CostBased Selection (QCBS) and a quality to cost ratio of 70:30 will be applied
in evaluating the proposals as specified in procedures set out in the IFAD
Procurement Handbook Version September 2010 and in consistency with the
RGC Procurement Manual (PM) for Externally Financed Project in Cambodia
Updated Version May 2012.
7. Expressions of interest (EOI) will enable The Royal Government of Cambodia
(RGC) to shortlist eligible audit firms indicating their interest in providing the
services. Interested audit firms must provide information indicating that they
are qualified to perform the services in responding to TOR (brochures,
description of similar assignments, experience in similar conditions, availability
of appropriate skills among staff, etc.). The firms may associate to enhance
their qualifications.
8. Further information or the TOR can be obtained during the office hours from
8:00am to 5:00pm from the address given below.
9. Interested firms are requested to submit or send Expressions of Interest (EOI)
to the address below (in person, or by mail) by date: May 27, 2016 and
Cambodia Local Time: 5:30PM.
Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Agriculture Services
Programme for Innovation, Resilience and Extension (ASPIRE),
ASPIRE Secretariat, 3rd Floor of the Administrative Department,
#200, Preah Norodom Bvld, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
Attention to Mr. Nak Rotha, Procurement Officer,
Phone: (855)12 200 880,
E-mail: [email protected]
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Invitation For Bid
Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries wishes to purchase
Laboratory Equipment for New Microbiology Laboratory at RUA
(IFB No. NCB/002/2016)
1. The Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC),has received a loan from the Asian Development
Bank (ADB) towards the cost of the Trade Facilitation: Improved Sanitary and
Phytosanitary (ISPH) Handling in Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) Trade Project
and it intends to apply part of the proceeds of this ADB Loan No. 2873-CAM (SF) to
payments under the Contract the Supply of Laboratory Equipment for New
Microbiology Laboratory at RUA (IFB No. NCB/002/2016).
2. The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries now invites sealed bids from eligible
and qualified bidders for the Supply of Laboratory Equipment for New Microbiology
Laboratory at RUA (IFB No. NCB/002/2016) for the Trade Facilitation: Improved Sanitary
and Phytosanitary (ISPH) Handling in Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) Trade Project
at the Office of the Project Management Unit, 2nd Floor of the General Inspectorate
Building, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, #200, Preah Norodom Blvd,
Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
3. Procurement will be conducted through National Competitive Bidding (NCB)
Procedures as specified in the RGC Procurement Manual dated May 2012 and under the
laws and regulations governing public procurement within the Kingdom of Cambodia.
4. This invitation is open to all eligible bidders from eligible source countries as described
in the Bidding Document.
5. Interested eligible bidders may obtain further information from the Project Management
Unit and inspect the Bidding Documents at the address given under point 11 below
during official government working hours from 8.00 AM to12.00 AM and 2.00 PM to
5.00 PM.
6. Qualification requirements include:
(a) copies of original documents defining the constitution or legal status, place of
registration, and principal place of business evidencing legal status in an eligible
source country as defined in GCC Sub-Clause 6.1
In the case of a Bidder offering to supply goods under the contract which the Bidder
did not manufacture or otherwise produce, the Bidder has been duly authorized by
the goods’ Manufacturer or producer to supply the goods in Cambodia;
(b) The Bidder shall furnish documentary evidence that its meets the following
experience and financial requirements:
(1) that the Bidder has satisfactorily completed at least two contracts for supply of
similar goods in the preceding three years of not less than 50% of the bid price
in each contract.
(2) that the Manufacturer of the offered goods, if a different entity from the Bidder,
has experience of at least 3 years in the manufacturing of similar goods.
(3) that the Bidder has availability of liquid assets through either: (format (i) and (ii))
a. access to a line of credit or cash in bank account of an amount at least 50%
of the bid price, net of other contractual commitments;
(a) OR
b. credit terms with vendors specifically for the goods to be supplied under
the contract, and valid for at least 6 months after the deadline date for
submission of bids specified in ITB Clause 21.
(c) Sub-contractors’ qualifications shall not be taken into account in establishing the
Bidder’s qualifications to perform the contract.
(d) that, in the case of a Bidder not doing business within Cambodia, the Bidder is or will
be (if awarded the contract) represented by an Agent in Cambodia equipped
and able to carry out the Supplier’s maintenance, repair, and spare parts stocking
obligations prescribed in the Conditions of Contract and/or Technical Specifications;
(e) authority to seek references from the Bidder’s bankers and
(f) that the Bidder meets any additional qualification criteria listed in BDS.
7. A complete set of Bidding Documents in English language may be purchased by
interested bidders on the submission of a written Application to the address given below
and upon payment of a non-refundable fee $50 in US Dollars or its equivalent in
Cambodian Riel being 202,150 Riels.The method of payment will be by cashier’s check.
The Bidding Documents will be sent by airmail for delivery outside of Cambodia and by
courier for local delivery or may be collected in person at the discretion of the bidder.
Other than payment of the non-refundable fee specified above, there shall be no other
conditions for purchase of the bidding documents. In case of any difficulty in purchase
of the bidding documents, interested parties may contact in writing Mr. Prak Thaveak
Amida, Deputy Secretary General, Project Manager, ISPH, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry
and Fisheries, 200, Preah Norodom Blvd, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Phone No: 017 227746
Email: [email protected]. And also send a copy of the communication
to: Mr. Yen Sothea, Deputy Chief, Multilateral Cooperation Division, Department of
Cooperation and Debt Management, Ministry of Economy and Finance, New Building
2nd Floor, Street 92, Sangkat Wat Phnom, Khan Daun Penh, Cambodia, Phone: 023 724
664; Fax: 023 427 798; Email: [email protected] And Ms. Linling Ding, Principle
Trade Specialist, ADB, SEPF, Manila, Philippines, Email Address: [email protected] And
Samiuela T. Tukuafu, Country Director, ADB Cambodia Resident Mission, No. 29,
Suramarit Boulevard (St. 268) Sangkat Chaktomuk, Khan Daun Penh, Phnom Penh,
Cambodia, Telephone: +855 23 215805, 215806, 216417, Fax: +855 23 215807, Email:
[email protected] Please note that the PMU shall bear no responsibility for loss of
documents or for late delivery.
8. Bids must be delivered to the address given below at or before 3:00PM on 26 May 2016
late bids will be rejected. Bids will be opened in the presence of the Bidders' representatives
and the project's beneficiaries from the concerned local community who choose
to attend shall be allowed to be present in person at the address given below at
3:00PM on 26 May 2016.
9. All bids shall be accompanied by a Bid Securing Declaration as described in the
Instructions to Bidders.
10. The Royal Government of Cambodia and/or the ADB will respectively declare a firm
ineligible either indefinitely or for a stated period of time, to be awarded a contract
financed by the Royal Government of Cambodia and/or ADB respectively, if it at any time
determines that the bidder has engaged in corrupt or fraudulent, coercive, collusive or
obstructive practices in competing for or in executing a contract.
11. The address referred to above is Trade Facilitation: Improved Sanitary and Phytosanitary
(ISPH) Handling in Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) Trade Project at the Office of
the Project Management Unit, 2rd Floor, General Inspectorate Building, Ministry of
Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, #200, Preah Norodom Blvd, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
Attention: Mr. Sea Visalrath, Procurement Officer, Cell Phone: (+855) 12 77 88 93,
Email: address: [email protected] or [email protected]
The Cambodia daily
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wednesdAy, ApRiL 27, 2016
InternatIonal
Obama Explains US Elections to Concerned Foreign Leaders
B y M ichael M eMoli
Los AngeLes times
The U.S. presidency is sometimes called the most powerful job
in the world. And perhaps in this
election, more than most, many
outside the U.S. would like a say in
its outcome.
Concern about Donald Trump’s
campaign rhetoric, and its apparent resonance among large swaths
of the U.S. public, has become a
regular feature of U.S. President
Barack obama’s interactions with
foreign counterparts and trailed
him as he embarked on something
of a farewell tour of europe starting Friday.
“It’s fascinating the degree to
which the single most important
question I’m asked these days
from other world leaders is,
‘what’s going on with your elections?’” obama told interviewer
Charlie rose this week, calling the
drama of the republican race “the
tip of a broader iceberg of dysfunction that we’ve seen.”
white House aides at times
seem weary of questions about the
extent to which the campaign is
figuring in to obama’s conversations with foreign leaders. But obama and Vice President Joe Biden
Reuters
US President Barack Obama walks alongside world leaders from the
UK, France, Germany and Italy in Hanover, Germany, on Monday.
often have acknowledged the frequency of the inquiries, sometimes
in jest. Toasting Canadian Prime
Minister Justin Trudeau at a state
dinner, obama credited Canadians who “have, so far, rejected the
idea of building a wall to keep out
your southern neighbors.”
A more immediate campaign
has dominated voters’ attention in
the U.k.—the June referendum
over whether the country should
remain part of the e.U.—but U.S.
politics are also front of mind. After the new york primary this
week, the anchor of the BBC’s
evening news program dissected
the latest delegate counts with
precision.
At a news conference Friday after obama met with British Prime
Minister David Cameron, a U.S.
reporter asked Cameron whether
he might want to advise American
voters what to do when it comes to
Trump.
“That was so predictable!” obama admonished. Cameron deflected the question but acknowledged he has commented before.
In December, after Trump called
for a ban on Muslim immigration
to the U.S., Cameron said his remarks “were divisive, stupid and
wrong.”
The uproar over Trump’s proposed immigration ban was but
one that attracted notice beyond
U.S. borders. Foreign diplomats
have been spotted on the campaign trail, scouting out early primary states and attending debates
and campaigns to document other
potential thorny policy pronouncements for dispatches back home.
The British Parliament has debated whether to allow Trump to
enter the country. A December
survey conducted by Ipsos-MorI
found that 74 percent of British
adults had an unfavorable view of
the billionaire. only 56 percent
viewed Hillary Clinton favorably.
For obama, sharing the curiosity and concern of foreign leaders
over the state of the campaign
could be a useful political device
for a president who would prefer a
fellow Democrat succeed him.
But the uncertainty over what
course his successor might take
also could have immediate consequences for obama’s ability to
conduct foreign policy.
UN to Deliver Food to 250K
Affected by Ecuador’s Quake
ReuteRs
new york - The U.n. will distribute
food to more than a quarter of a
million people who survived ecuador’s devastating 7.8-magnitude
earthquake but are growing hungry in its aftermath, the organization said on Monday.
The sweeping aid operation was
being rolled out as the scale of the
disaster was coming into sharper
focus more than a week after the
April 16 quake ravaged the country’s Pacific coast.
About one in every 30 ecuadorians, or half a million people, were
in need of food assistance after the
quake disrupted their livelihoods,
the U.n. world Food Program
said in a statement.
The program was gearing up to
assist the 260,000 most needy
among them, including children,
people living in shelters and those
hospitalized.
The situation on the ground remained grim, spokesman Alejandro Chicheri said.
“There are a lot of people on
roads asking for help,” he said.
The death toll in the small South
American country passed 650 on
Monday.
The emergency aid will build
on efforts by the government and
scores of foreign aid workers who
are also distributing food, water
and medicine in the quake zone.
The world Food Program has
estimated the cost of its three-month
operation at $34 million, a sum that
will need to come from public and
private donors, Chicheri said.
President rafael Correa announced on Saturday eight days
of national mourning for the victims of the quake.
He said last week the quake inflicted $2 billion to $3 billion of
damage to the oil-dependent economy and could knock 2 to 3 percentage points off growth.
The April 16 earthquake was
the worst the country has ever experienced in its history.
The country’s private banking
association said on Saturday that
its member banks would defer
payments on credit cards, loans
and mortgages for clients in the
quake zone for three months, to
help reconstruction efforts.
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InternatIonal
Saudi Prince Unveils Plan to
Break Free of ‘Oil Addiction’
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riyadh, Saudi arabia - The power-
ful young prince overseeing Saudi
arabia’s economy unveiled ambitious plans on Monday aimed at
ending the kingdom’s “addiction”
to oil and transforming it into a
global investment power.
The plans included changes
that would alter the social structure of the ultra-conservative Muslim kingdom by pushing for women to have a bigger economic role
and by offering improved status to
resident expatriates.
“We will not allow our country
ever to be at the mercy of commodity price volatility or external
markets,” Prince Mohammed
said at his first news conference
with international journalists, who
were invited to a riyadh palace for
the event. “We have developed a
case of oil addiction in Saudi arabia,” he had earlier told al-arabiya
television news channel.
his “Vision 2030” envisaged
raising non-oil revenue to $160 billion by 2020 and then to $267 billion by 2030, up from $43.6 billion
last year. But the plan gave few de-
tails on how this would be implemented, something that has bedevilled previous reforms.
Since the 31-year-old prince was
appointed to oversee Saudi longterm planning through the Council of Economic and development
affairs, riyadh’s focus on reform
has grown far more urgent and far
more acute. Prince Mohammed
has enjoyed a dizzyingly rapid rise
since his father became king 15
months ago, from being little
known outside the ruling al Saud
family to become the driving force
of Saudi plans to prepare for a future after oil.
in his rare press conference, he
presented himself as a modernizing leader who seeks to shake
Saudi arabia out of its economic
slumber and its reputation for
opacity and rigid bureaucracy,
showing an interest in topics including education, the public role
of women, and football.
Under his plans, Saudi arabia
would produce or assemble half of
its defense equipment to create
jobs, he said, and riyadh would
make foreign investment easier.
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International Briefs -----Turkey Needs Religious Constitution, Speaker Says
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iSTanBUl - Overwhelmingly Muslim Turkey needs a religious constitution, and the precept of secularism should be dropped from the country’s
new charter, parliament’s speaker said, marking a potential rupture with
the modern republic’s founding principles. The ruling development and
Justice Party, which has roots in political islam, is pushing to replace the
existing constitution, which dates back to the period after a 1980 military
coup. Critics fear a new charter could concentrate too much power in the
hands of President recep Tayyip Erdogan, who wants an executive presidency to replace the current parliamentary system. The government
has pledged that European standards on human rights will form the basis of the new text. (Reuters)
Burundi General Killed in Growing Wave of Violence
nairOBi - Burundi’s President Pierre nkurunziza has condemned the
killing of a senior army officer, who was shot along with his wife and
bodyguard in an attack that also wounded their child in the central
african nation’s expanding wave of deadly violence. Brigadier general
athanase Kararuza, who was a military adviser in the office of the vice
president, was dropping his child at a school in a neighborhood of the
capital Bujumbura on Monday when his car was attacked by rocket and
gun fire, army spokesman Gaspard Baratuza told reporters. Tit-for-tat attacks between nkurunziza’s security forces and his opponents have escalated since april 2015 when he announced a disputed bid for a third
term as president and won re-election in July. The U.n. says more than
400 people have been killed and over 250,000 have fled. (Reuters)
Egyptian Forces Disperse Small Protests Against Sisi
CairO - Egyptian security forces fired tear gas and arrested scores of people to disperse small protests against President abdel Fattah al-Sisi on
Monday, deterring what activists had hoped would be large demonstrations, witnesses and security sources said. Earlier this month, thousands
angered by Sisi’s decision to hand over two islands to Saudi arabia called
for his government to fall in the largest demonstration since the former
army general took office in 2014. (Reuters)
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InternatIonal
Bangladeshi Gay Activist Working for US Embassy Killed
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dhAKA, Bangladesh - Suspected is-
lamist militants hacked to death a
leading Bangladeshi gay rights activist employed by the U.S. embassy and a friend in an apartment
in Bangladesh’s capital on Monday, police said.
The killings took place two days
after a university professor was
slain in similar fashion on Saturday in an attack claimed by the islamic State militant group.
Five or six assailants went to the
apartment of Xulhaz Mannan, 35,
an editor of Rupban, Bangladesh’s
first magazine for gay, bisexual and
transgender people, and attacked
him and a friend with sharp weapons, dhaka city police spokesman
Maruf hossain Sordar said.
They entered the apartment disguised as couriers, he said, quoting witnesses.
The assailants also wounded a
security guard. witnesses said the
attackers shouted “Allahu Akbar”
(“God is greatest)” as they fled the
scene.
Mannan was employed by the
U.S. embassy, working for the
U.S. Agency for international development, the State department
in washington said.
State department spokesman
John Kirby said the U.S. was “outraged” by the “barbaric attack.” he
called Mannan “a beloved member of our embassy family and a
courageous advocate for lGBTi
rights—human rights, actually.”
“lGBTi” stands for lesbian, gay,
bisexual and intersex.
A spokesman for the white
house’s national Security Council, ned Price, said the U.S. strongly urged the Bangladeshi government to ensure the perpetrators
were brought to justice.
Other attacks took place in the
country on Monday, but it was not
immediately clear whether those
assaults were carried out by islamist militants.
Two men on a motorcycle shot
dead a former prison guard in
front of Kashimpur jail, on the outskirts of dhaka, said Khandakar
Rezaul hasan, chief of the local police station.
A teacher was hacked to death
in the southwestern district of Kustia, police said.
The Muslim-majority nation of
160 million people has seen a
surge in violent attacks over the
past few months in which liberal
activists, members of minority
Muslim sects and other religious
groups have been targeted.
Five secular bloggers and a publisher have been hacked to death in
Bangladesh since February 2015.
A group affiliated with al-Qaida
claimed responsibility for the killing of a liberal Bangladeshi blogger this month.
i.S. has also claimed responsibility for the killings of two foreigners and attacks on mosques
and Christian priests in Bangla-
desh since September.
The government has denied
that i.S. or al-Qaida groups have a
presence in the country and said
homegrown islamist radicals are
behind the attacks.
At least five militants have been
killed in shootouts since november as security forces have stepped
up a crackdown on islamist militants looking to establish a Muslim
state based on shariah, or islamic
religious law.
International Brief -----India, Pakistan Diplomats Meet After Long Hiatus
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new delhi - The top diplomats of india and Pakistan met yesterday for
talks after a hiatus of several months following a militant attack on an indian air base, in what the Pakistani side called a useful and wide-ranging
exchange of views. The low-key meeting between the foreign secretaries,
on the sidelines of a regional conference in new delhi, seeks to restore a
dialogue that was derailed by the raid in January on the Pathankot air base
that killed seven military personnel. “The meeting provided a useful opportunity to exchange views on recent developments,” Pakistan’s high
Commission in new delhi said in a statement. it added that “all outstanding issues,” including a dispute between the two countries over the divided territory of Kashmir, were discussed at the meeting between india’s
Subrahmanyam Jaishankar and his Pakistani counterpart Aizaz Ahmed
Chaudhry. Relations remain fraught between the two nuclear-armed
neighbors, which have fought two of their three wars over Kashmir since
independence in 1947. A bone of contention has been whether to include
Kashmir in the agenda for peace talks. india had accused Pakistan-based
militants of carrying out the Pathankot attack. (Reuters)
business
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Briefing
Mitsubishi Used Improper
Fuel Tests Since 1991
TOKyO - Mitsubishi Motors corp.
said yesterday it has been using
improper fuel-economy testing
methods for certain cars in Japan
since 1991. Separately, related to
certain minicars sold in Japan, it
said it submitted data that it obtained through calculations instead of conducting actual tests as
required by law, according to its
yesterday statement. The carmaker admitted last week that it manipulated some fuel-economy data
for four types of minicars that it
makes in Japan. Two of those vehicles were supplied to nissan Motor co. and were sold under the
nissan brand. (WSJ)
1MDB Confirms It
Defaulted on $1.75B Bond
- Troubled Malaysian
state investment fund 1Malaysia
Development bhd. confirmed yesterday that it had defaulted on a
$1.75 billion bond issue, triggering
cross-defaults on two other Islamic
notes totaling $1.9 billion. In a statement, 1MDb said there were no
cross-defaults on another $1.75 billion bond and a $3 billion bond. On
Monday, the International Petroleum Investment corp., an abu Dhabi fund that guaranteed 1MDb debt,
said it would pay interest on the
$1.75 billion bond but only after it
was declared in default. Interest of
$50 million on that bond was due
Monday. Malaysia’s ringgit slipped
0.7 percent against the U.S. dollar
yesterday after 1MDb said it defaulted on the interest payment. In
recent months, traders have been
little-concerned by the saga, expecting it to blow over and for a default
to be avoided. (WSJ)
HOnG KOnG
Thai Bank to Help Small
Businesses With Rate Cut
banGKOK - Thailand’s secondlargest lender, Krung Thai bank,
will cut its minimum retail rate and
overdraft rate by 0.255 percentage
points today in a bid to help small
business and retail clients, the
bank said in a statement. The rate
cut, which will bring the monthly
recurring revenue down to 7.62
percent annually, is in addition to
a recent cut in minimum lending
rate on april 6, the bank said. The
move came after similar rate cuts
announced by three major banks
late last week. (Reuters)
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France Wins $39B Australian Submarine Deal
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The wall sTReeT jouRnal
canberra,
australia—australia
selected French military shipbuilder DcnS Group to build a $38.6
billion submarine fleet, adding to
an asia-Pacific arms race driven in
part by china’s assertiveness in the
South china Sea.
The Shortfin barracuda design
—offering stealth technology developed for French nuclear submarines—was chosen after a
lengthy evaluation against rivals
from Germany and Japan. The decision, announced by australia’s
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull
yesterday, ended Japanese hopes
of winning its first major arms deal
since relaxing a post-World War
II export ban.
“This is securing the future of
australia’s navy,” Turnbull said in
adelaide, where the fleet of 12 submarines will be built and where job
security has become a hot-button
issue ahead of an expected July 2
federal election.
australia’s submarine selection
has been closely followed in Washington amid jostling with china
over territorial claims in the east
and South china Seas. australia is
a close U.S. ally in a region that will
hold half the world’s submarines
and advanced combat aircraft within the next two decades.
australia’s government in February released a strategic blueprint
that mapped out a $150 billion
military modernization centered
on the navy.
australia’s conventional submarine fleet complements U.S. vessels by offering a long-range conventional alternative to U.S. nuclear
submarines, which are able to loiter quietly and gather intelligence,
strategic analysts and naval experts
say. Major U.S. defense companies
raytheon co. and Lockheed Martin corp. are also competing to fit
australia’s submarines with systems similar to those used to control U.S. nuclear vessels.
People familiar with the selection process said France had made
an unexpectedly bold offer to australian defense chiefs last year at a
time when Japan was widely considered the front-runner. DcnS
said its design would use a topsecret stealth technology known
as pump-jet propulsion, which is
used by only a handful of nations
—including the U.S. and U.K.—
with nuclear submarines.
Pump-jet propulsion reduces un-
Reuters
A Shortfin Barracuda Block 1A, designed by DCNS specifically for the
Royal Australian Navy, is seen in this illustration picture released by
France's DCNS yesterday.
derwater noise and is highly prized
by military powers because it makes
submarines harder to locate and
destroy. russia also uses pump-jet
propulsion on its new borey-class
nuclear submarines, while china
is working on similar technology.
rear adm. Greg Sammut, the
head of australia’s sub-selection
panel, was surprised that France
was willing to offer technology considered to be among its strategic
“crown jewels,” the sources said.
DcnS, which is 64 percent-owned
by the French state and 35 percentowned by defense contractor Thales Sa, also promised not to sell
cutting-edge technology to australia’s rivals.
France had viewed the contract
in largely strategic terms due to its
territorial interests in the South Pacific, as well as worries about china’s
increasing influence in the region
and in South china Sea routes carrying $5 trillion in trade. France has
armed forces in the Indian Ocean,
as well as the Pacific islands of new
caledonia and French Polynesia,
straddling australian interests.
“Hats off to the Franco-australian
partnership. France advances,
France wins,” said French Prime
Minister Manuel Valls in a message posted on social media.
australia’s decision represents a
significant blow for Japan, which
had hoped the deal would underpin
closer military ties with australia.
Defense industry officials believe the Japanese bid stumbled
on worries about Tokyo’s ability
to build vessels overseas after a
decades-long absence from the
global weapons markets. also, Japan’s Soryu-class submarines lacked
the range expected of France’s
Shortfin barracuda vessels, limiting their reach into asia.
The australian contract was by
far the largest Japan has sought
since Prime Minister Shinzo abe
eased a ban on the export of military
hardware in april 2014, and was
seen as a test case for how Japan
could reposition itself in the region
as abe seeks to use the weapons
trade to help build ties with neighbors also wary of china’s power.
Security analyst Sam roggeveen said china would likely view
australia’s decision with relief given its traditional rivalry with Japan,
though beijing should also reflect
on australia’s strategic thinking.
“australia is still doubling the
size of its submarine fleet from 6 to
12,” said roggeveen, from the Lowy
Institute security think tank. “That is
still a substantial statement of australia’s strategic anxieties, which
inevitably center around china’s
long-term intentions.”
“I don’t think australia didn’t
choose Japan out of deference to
china,” said Japanese Defense Minister Gen nakatani. “Mr. Turnbull
cited as a reason for their selection
of the French bid its proposal to
produce locally and create jobs in
australia. That may have been a
factor behind the australian decision,” he said.
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd.,
which makes Japan’s Soryu-class
submarine in partnership with Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd., said
australia’s decision was “deeply regrettable.” Germany’s ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems GmbH,
which also bid unsuccessfully, said
it respected the outcome.
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Business
Thai Hard Disk Drive Exporters See Silver Lining in Cloud
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- after more than two
years of riding high on growing demand for cloud data storage, thailand’s hard disk drive exporters are
bracing for a fall from grace.
thai hDD exports in March
rose 28 percent from a year earlier, extending a run of double-digit
percentage growth and lifting
first-quarter exports to $1.65 billion, according to official data. the
rise has been a rare bright spot in
thai tech manufacturing, beset by
cheaper competition from China.
But as the global boom in mobile
devices cranks up, electronics makers are diverting demand away
from old-school disk drives for servers and personal computers, seeking flash memory chip supplies
instead. as well as fearing lower
prices for their ageing tech, thai
shippers now worry more advanced
suppliers in countries like Malaysia
will snap up business.
“it’s worrying that others are
shifting to more advanced technology and letting us make hDDs,” said
nopporn thepsithar, chairman of
the thai national shippers’ Council.
“PCs will be gone in the future, so
Bangkok
hard drives will be a short-term
thing. with disruptive technologies,
i see no place for hDDs.”
the world’s second-largest maker of hDDs after China, thailand’s
exports of the hardware have so
far recovered well from paralysis
that accompanied political turmoil
in 2014. But the $26 billion global
hDD industry is set to shrink 3
percent this year, according to research firm gartner, as demand
for solid state drives using hightech flash memory chips grows.
there’s no suggestion of any
sudden slowdown among thai
hDD makers, but gloomy longerterm forecasts are a concern for a
country where exports are worth
about two-thirds of the country’s
economic output, and electronics
were the biggest contributor last
year. while hDD exports motored
on in the first three months of this
year, electronics exports overall
dropped 4.2 percent with computer parts down 10.9 percent.
Rival electronics producer Malaysia has an edge over thailand
because ssD suppliers have based
their manufacturing operations
there, said Visnu Limwibul, chair-
man of the thai Electrical, Electronics, telecommunication and
allied industries Club.
“smartphones and anything related to the internet will grow rapidly,” Visnu said. “But we rarely
have them here. Makers of ssDs
are in Malaysia.”
Currency Tailwind
the surge in thai hDD exports
has also been attributable in part
to the baht’s weakness, making
exports more cost competitive and
prolonging the attractiveness of
making hDDs in the country.
the baht has fallen around 6.4
percent to the U.s. dollar since the
end of 2014, while the Chinese yuan
dropped 4.7 percent and the Japanese yen gained 7.5 percent during the same period.
Emboldened by the thai hDD
sector’s robust performance, U.s.
data storage firm seagate technology Plc. said in February last
year it would invest $436 million
in the country over the next five
years to expand capacity. seagate
declined to comment on future
prospects for this article.
hard drive makers in thailand
have also begun a shift to producing higher margin devices, moving away from low-margin PC
components, according to somkiat triratpan, head of the Commerce Ministry’s trade policy and
strategy office.
“it’s good to see them quickly
adapting,” he said.
But while the ministry is confident production and exports by
thai hDD manufacturers will
remain strong for now, it’s calling
on firms to produce solid-state hybrid drives—combining old and
new technology—that can meet
users’ demand for both speed and
high storage capacity.
as time passes, the need for
change will become more evident, if
industry research proves accurate.
while for enterprise server hDD
is expected to grow at 11 percent
this year, shipments for desktops
will shrink 13 percent, according
to Cross Research.
Meanwhile, hDD prices overall are expected to be $0.04 to
$0.045 per gigabyte of memory
this year, consultancy iDC said,
while ssDs will fetch closer to
$0.40 per gigabyte.
US Approves Charter’s Time Warner Cable Buy With Conditions
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washington - the U.s. Justice De-
partment on Monday gave antitrust approval to Charter Communications inc.’s proposed purchase of time warner Cable inc.
and Bright house networks, which
would create the second-largest
U.s. broadband provider and thirdlargest video provider.
the Justice Department’s approval carried conditions designed
to protect competition, coming at
a time when the pay television industry faces stagnation due to new
competition from over-the-web rivals like netflix and hulu.
the Federal Communications
Commission must also approve
the deal, and the agency’s chairman on Monday said he, too, was
prepared to put conditions on the
merger aimed at promoting broadband competition.
the Justice Department said
that as part of its approval, Charter
agreed to refrain from telling its
content providers that they cannot
also sell shows online.
“Continued growth of oVDs [online video] promises to deliver more
competitive choices and a greater
ability for consumers to customize
their consumption of video content
to their individual viewing preferences and budgets,” the Justice Department said in a court filing. “the
emergence of oVDs threatens to
upend the competitive landscape.”
at the FCC, chairman tom
wheeler said he circulated an order
seeking approval of the merger
with conditions that “will directly
benefit consumers by bringing and
protecting competition to the video
marketplace and increasing broadband deployment.”
wheeler said if approved, the
conditions would require Charter to
extend high speed internet access
to another two million customers
within five years—with one million
served by a broadband competitor.
additionally, Charter would not
be permitted to charge usage-based
prices or impose data caps and
would be prohibited from charging interconnection fees, including to online video providers, which
deliver large volumes of internet
traffic to broadband customers. he
said the agreement would “demonstrate the viability of one broadband
provider overbuilding another.”
it was not immediately clear
when the FCC would decide.
Both sets of conditions would be
in place for seven years; Charter
had sought three.
Charter has valued the deal at
$56.7 billion for time warner Cable, excluding debt, and $10.4 billion for Bright house networks.
Charter said it was pleased with
both the Justice Department and
FCC’s actions. “we are confident
new Charter will be a leading competitor in the broadband and video
markets,” the company said in a
statement.
shareholders of both companies have approved the deal. the
only other outstanding approval
needed is from one last state, California. an administrative judge
has recommended the state’s public utilities commission approve the
deal, which could come as early as
May 12.
Charter, backed by billionaire
John Malone’s Liberty Media
Corp., had pursued twC as far
back as 2013. the two companies
had acrimonious exchanges in
2013 and early 2014 that ended
with time warner Cable rejecting
unsolicited approaches by Charter
and instead finding a white knight
in Comcast Corp., the no. 1 U.s.
cable services provider.
Comcast’s $45 billion bid, however, fell through a year ago, after
U.s. regulators raised concerns.
Following that, Charter and
twC resumed deal talks. in May
last year, Charter said it would buy
twC in a cash-and-stock deal in
order to compete with Comcast.
Reuters
A Time Warner Cable service technician works from a van in New York.
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BP Eyes More Spending Cuts After 80 Percent Profit Drop
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london - BP said yesterday it could
cut capital spending further after reporting an 80 percent drop in profits in the first quarter of the year,
when oil prices touched a near 13year low.
The British oil company, the first
major to report on one of the weakest quarters, lowered its 2016 spending target to $17 billion, from $1719 billion, and said the marker
could fall to $15 to $17 billion next
year if oil prices remain weak.
These cost reductions have enabled the oil producer to forecast it
can balance its books at an oil price
of $50 to $55 a barrel in 2017, it said,
down from the $60 previously eyed.
Chief executive Bob dudley said
he expected crude prices to recover toward the end of the year as
producers halt work on fields and
Reuters
BP chief executive Bob Dudley
fuel demand remains robust.
“Market fundamentals continue to suggest that the combination of robust demand and weak
supply growth will move global
oil markets closer into balance by
the end of the year,” dudley said.
dudley suffered an embarrassing shareholder revolt earlier this
month when investors rejected his
$20 million remuneration package.
Faced with the worst downturn
in the oil sector in at least three decades, BP reduced its capital spending three times in 2015 to $19 billion, slashed nearly 10 percent of its
workforce of about 80,000 and
sharply lowered costs.
BP slipped to its biggest annual
loss last year as a result of lower oil
prices—costs related to the settlement of a deadly 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill and huge writedowns.
BP’s first-quarter underlying
replacement cost profit, its definition of net income, was $532 million, down from $2.6 billion a year
earlier but beating forecasts for
a loss of $140 million, according
to consensus figures provided by
BP.
It said 2017 cash costs will be
$7 billion lower than for 2014.
BP’s current total charge for the
Gulf of Mexico oil spill has risen
to $56.4 billion after an additional
payment of $917 million in the
first quarter outside of a settlement
reached last year, it added.
BP is the first oil major to reveal
the financial impact of record-low oil
prices in the first quarter, closely followed by peers Total, Statoil and Eni
later this week and Shell on May 4.
BP’s refining and trading segment, known as downstream, once
again came to the rescue with a
quarterly profit of $1.8 billion, offsetting a $747 million loss in oil and
gas production.
Alibaba’s Ant Financial Raises $4.5B in Largest Funding Round
B y K ane W u
nancial and Chinese ride-sharing
app didi Kuaidi Joint Co., valued at
more than $25 billion, have had little trouble raising capital at growing valuations.
Since being split off from Alibaba, the financial-services operation has expanded from an onlinepayment platform to online wealthmanagement and banking. It is
planning an initial public offering
of its own to create an even bigger
behemoth. “We hope to list in both
domestic and offshore stock exchanges,” said Cyril Han, Ant Financial’s vice president, although he
didn’t give a timetable for the listing.
Ant Financial has courted powerful Chinese state-owned firms
in its outside fundraisings. In this
round, it brought in new investors
including the $740 billion sovereignwealth fund China Investment
Corp.’s CIC Capital and a subsi-
the wall stReet jouRnal
Ant Financial Services Group,
the financial-services affiliate of ecommerce giant Alibaba Group
Holding ltd., closed the world’s largest private fundraising round for
an internet firm at $4.5 billion, giving
it a roughly $60 billion valuation.
Ant Financial, which operates
Alipay, China’s biggest onlinepayments platform by transaction
volume, raised its latest funding
round from a clutch of investors including a Chinese sovereign-wealth
fund and the country’s biggest insurers, according to people familiar with the situation.
While interest in privately held
technology companies has cooled
in Silicon Valley, Chinese investors
have shown appetite to invest in the
country’s national champions in the
internet sector. Firms like Ant Ficambodia securities exchange
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diary of state-owned China Construction Bank Corp.
Some of Ant Financial’s existing shareholders, including some
of China’s biggest insurance companies, China Post Group, privateequity firm Primavera Capital Group
and China development Bank Capital, put more money into Ant Financial as part of this round.
The funding round includes a
mix of fresh capital raised by Ant
Financial and the sale of existing
shares by company insiders.
Ant Financial, which boasts
more than 450 million annual active
users, operates a number of products closely linked with Alibaba’s ecommerce and online-marketplace
businesses, including the Alipay
payments, online money-market
fund Yu’e Bao, and banking operation MYbank.
Ant Financial was split from
Alibaba Group before its record
$25 billion initial public offering in
new York in September 2014.
The fresh funds will also add
ammunition to Ant Financial’s investments into other businesses,
many of which were made together with Alibaba Group. The two
most recently invested a combined
$1.25 billion in Chinese food-delivery
app Ele.me, In early March, they
also struck a deal to buy a controlling stake in Hong Kong-listed lottery company AGTech Holdings
ltd. for $308.1 million.
Ant Financial has invested in
Postal Savings Bank of China before its planned IPo in Hong Kong
this year, cementing an alliance with
the deposit-taking and lending arm
of China’s postal service. Alibaba’s
asset-light business model depends
heavily on outside logistics services
to deliver products to customers
across China.
Although spun off from Alibaba
Group, Ant Financial’s growth and
ambitions are still largely supported
by Alibaba’s prevalent e-commerce
platforms—Taobao and Tmall.
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opinion
Dealing With Passengers’ Racism Is Sadly a Part of Flying
B y G illian B rockell
I
The WashingTon PosT
t happened during the boarding process on a flight from
Florida to New York in the fall
of 2009. I had long earlier learned
that the key to a pleasant flight was
to greet everyone as they walked
onto the plane, so I stood in the
front galley and said my hellos.
Suddenly, a middle-aged white
woman leaned uncomfortably
close to me and whispered, “There
is a man, four people behind me, in
a green shirt, who is very suspicious.” I whispered back: “Okay.
What’s he doing?”
“You’ll see,” she said, wide-eyed.
I thought two things: This woman is probably racist. And I need to
take her seriously.
As a former flight attendant for
a major carrier, I wasn’t surprised
to hear that a Southwest Airlines
passenger reported University of
California student Khairuldeen
Makhzoomi as suspicious after he
said “Inshallah” (“God willing”)
during a phone call conducted in
Arabic while boarding a flight at
Los Angeles International Airport
this month. Flight attendants are
often made to play referee when
hundreds of humans with wildly
different life experiences are
crammed into an aircraft cabin.
It’s usually simple stuff, like asking a young woman who has never seen a Hasidic Jew if she can
switch seats with her boyfriend so
she’s not touching the devout man
next to her. (She, of course, has
the right to say no.) Or moving
the man with the severe dog allergy as far away as possible from the
blind woman’s service animal. Or
asking the bachelor party to pipe
down for the umpteenth time, because not everyone is going to Las
Vegas to get drunk.
But sometimes you’re asked to
be someone’s accomplice—in their
racism, their homophobia, their
cruel joke about the larger person
seated next to them or their demand that the mother in front of
them drug her children to shut
them up. For professionals who are
supposed to be polite, it can get
awkward. The expression “Takes
all kinds!” becomes your best
friend.
This past week, Southwest released a statement saying that the
passenger who reported Makhzoomi also spoke Arabic and was
alarmed by the content of his conversation, not the language itself.
Makhzoomi says he was telling
his uncle in Baghdad about attending a speech by U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon and
made a passing reference to the
Islamic State group. The airport
police agency says Makhzoomi
made no threats and broke no
laws. It is not illegal to mention the
existence of I.S. on an aircraft.
But to me, the most shocking
thing about the whole story is that,
according to Makhzoomi, from the
time the other passenger reported
him to the time he was asked to
leave the plane, he had no interaction with the flight attendants.
Flight attendants are trained extensively in evaluating suspicious
behavior with videos, checklists,
regular exams and drills. (And
drills and drills and drills.) This infuses you with an automatic, paranoid vigilance that follows you forever and insists that you take all
threats seriously, since the cost of
being wrong is too high.
But nowhere did our training
recommend that we accept a passenger’s assessment of a situation,
and nowhere did it teach that
speaking Arabic is cause for suspicion. It’s unlikely that any airlines
do. I contacted all of the major U.S.
airlines this past week to ask about
training procedures. United Airlines, Frontier Airlines and Southwest declined to reveal any details.
A spokesman for American Airlines said the company never trains
crew members to perceive the Arabic language, Arab- or Muslimstyle clothing or a Middle Eastern
background as suspicious.
During that 2009 flight, after the
woman alerted me to the “suspicious” passenger, I thanked her
and told her I’d check it out. I
watched the man closely as he
stepped onto the plane, looking for
signs of a terrorist. Was he jittery?
Nope. Was he sweating? A little
bit, but we were in South Florida; I
was sweating, too. Was he wearing unseasonable clothing, like a
big coat in the summertime? No.
In fact, his Green Bay Packers jersey perfectly fit the season: football
season. Did he have trouble following a normal conversation?
“Hi, how’re you doing today?” I
asked.
“Fine,” he said, nodding casually.
“Going home?” I asked.
“Nope, wedding,” he said.
All right, no problems there.
A few minutes later, after he
reached his seat, I walked down
the aisle to assess the situation
again, the woman who flagged
him tracking me with her eyes.
Did he hold on tightly to a piece
of luggage? No, his roll-aboard
was in the overhead bin. Did he sit
stiffly? Nope, he was slouched in
his seat, headphones on, already
watching the game on the seatback TV. Not exactly the actions of
a person who believes he’s about
to die.
In fact, the only thing he appeared to have in common with
the 9/11 hijackers was that he
was brown. He could have been
Punjabi or Puerto Rican; I have no
idea. He could have been a Catholic, or a Sikh, or one of the many
hundreds of millions of Muslims
who have nothing to do with terrorism. I let it go and had no further discussion with the man or
the woman, other than to serve
them drinks and bid them well
when they disembarked.
I hope, and I think it’s likely,
that the man never noticed what
was happening. In other cases, airlines have ended up on the losing
ends of lawsuits. In 2006, Iraqi immigrant Raed Jarrar was forced to
change his T-shirt, which said
“We will not be silent” in English
and Arabic, before boarding a JetBlue Airways flight. JetBlue and
the Transportation Security Administration eventually paid him
$240,000 to settle a lawsuit.
Despite such incidents the flight
attendants I know, even in the relative privacy of their Facebook
feeds, talk about genuinely loving
their passengers and the work they
do to keep them safe and comfortable. But that comfort must include
filtering out passengers’ biases and
flight attendants’ own.
Heather Poole, a flight attendant and the author of “Cruising
Attitude,” puts it this way: “Flight
attendants don’t live in a bubble.
We don’t get to pick and choose
who we associate with. We rub elbows with the world.... Has a passenger ever made me nervous?
Yes. Did we kick that passenger
off? No. I just kept on eye on them.
Did anything happen during the
flight? No.”
I grew up in a wealthy, mostly
white, mostly Mormon town in the
Western U.S. Respecting God’s
will was a frequent topic of conversation among my friends. And, like
lots of future pilots and flight attendants, my favorite toy was the
globe. I’d spin and spin it, dreaming of all the different, “exotic”
places I’d go. Becoming a flight attendant made my dreams come
true. That included travel to
Muslim-majority countries, where
the frequent incantation of “God
willing” was far from exotic—it reminded me of home.
When passengers report an issue, it’s impossible to know what
their life experiences are. That’s
why it’s so important to make assessments based on training. In
this case, being polite and being
vigilant should have called for the
same thing: a conversation.
Anyone who makes a snap
judgment from the cocoon of the
galley has no business being a
flight attendant.
Comments Are Making the Internet Even Worse Than It Is
B y D aviD l at
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The WashingTon PosT
eader comments in the early days of Above the Law,
the legal news website I
founded in 2006, were a treasure
trove of information, insight and
humor. Comments were wildly
popular; some readers came specifically to read them, and some commenters became internet celebrities in their own right.
Over the years, however, our
comments changed. They had always been edgy, but the ratio of offensive to substantive shifted in favor of the offensive. Inside information about law firms and schools
gave way to inside jokes among
the “commentariat,” relevant knowledge got supplanted by non sequiturs, and basic civility (with a
touch of political incorrectness)
succumbed to abuse and insult. A
female Supreme Court justice was
called a “bull-dyke.” An Asian
American woman’s column about
civility in the legal profession provoked “me love you long time” in
response. My colleague Staci Zaretsky, who writes extensively
about gender inequality in the legal
profession, was told: “Staci, you
have plenty of assets, like that fat
milky white ass.”
So we decided to get rid of the
comments section. I know we
made the right decision
DavidLatisthefounderofAbove
theLaw,awebsitecoveringthelegal
profession.
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OpiniOn
The Next Chernobyl Catastrophe May Be a Planned Attack
B y B e n n e t t R a mBe Rg
C
REu TERS
hernobyl’s 30th anniversary on April 26 came
against the backdrop of
growing apprehension that nuclear reactors may become a terrorist target.
Serious concern arose during
the recent Islamic State group attacks in Brussels. Evidence suggested that the assailants were
considering a nuclear-related incident. The terrorists had a senior
Belgian nuclear official under surveillance, and two former nuclear
power-plant employees were reported to have joined I.S.
This may help explain why Belgian authorities rushed military
forces to protect its nuclear plants.
The scare provided a reminder
that nuclear reactors are radiological mines that terrorists could exploit. Destruction of a plant would
mark a zenith of terrorist violence.
Radioactive elements would spread
across national boundaries. It would
endanger the lives of many, while
creating economic and environmental havoc mimicking the Chernobyl or Fukushima explosions.
How concerned should the
West and other regions be? And if
the peril remains so serious, why
doesn’t the international community impose mandatory security
standards?
Actually, Washington has tried
to do just that. On June 14, 1946,
the U.S. proposed the Baruch Plan
at the U.N. It called for an International Atomic Development Authority that would maintain “managerial or ownership of all atomic
energy activities potentially dangerous to world security” and “the
power to control, inspect and license all other atomic activities.”
Had Cold War politics not intervened, reactors would likely be
safer and more secure today. Instead, the international community now faces a patchwork of national regulations. The result
leaves open a terrorist nuclear
Pandora’s Box.
Certainly, enforcement of robust security standards—including adequately manned, trained
and armed guard forces; physical
barriers to vital areas; detection,
alarm and communication systems; a careful vetting of all plant
employees to ensure against infiltration of terrorists and criminals,
along with other measures—
are but a small price to pay to avoid
yet another intentional or accidental Chernobyl or Fukushima.
Unfortunately, given inertia, we
may have to wait for the intentional Chernobyl to take place to get
action.
Consider that nuclear critics
have been concerned for decades
that reactors are likely terrorist targets and not enough is being done
to protect them. They insisted that
terrorists could breach the containment structures of nuclear
power plants using sophisticated
hand-held weapons, rocket-propelled grenades, vehicular bombs
and water-based or airborne attack. They also warned about insider sabotage of vital plant life
lines, which could release the
core’s deadly radioactive contents.
But with no serious attack so
far, complacency has set in. Bel-
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gium finally put armed guards at
its plants only after last year’s
Paris terrorist attacks. How many
other nations among the 30 with
power reactors have been equally
complacent?
But smugness has been revealed to be an embarrassment. In
2012, Greenpeace activists broke
into a Swedish nuclear installation. The environmental activists
scaled fences surrounding two
nuclear power reactors and hid
four of its party overnight on the
roof of one. In 2014, another group
of Greenpeace activists broke into
a French nuclear power plant near
the German border and hung a
large banner from the reactor
building. These stunts demonstrate there is something seriously wrong with power-plant security practices in the two countries,
and perhaps in many others.
The International Atomic Energy Agency, the World Association
of Nuclear Operators and the E.U.
all press for reactor security and
safety by offering guidelines. They
send survey teams to evaluate
plant security at the request of the
host country. But they cannot
force countries to change their security habits.
Generally, such mindsets don’t
change easily. It takes events, not
hypotheticals, to do that.
It took the 1993 truck bombing
of the World Trade Center in New
York, for example, to push the
U.S. into setting tougher standards for protecting reactors
against vehicular bombings. Then,
the 9/11 attack prompted the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to
boost defenses against ground attacks because members believed
that better airport security would
protect against a 9/11-style air attack on reactors. But even in the
U.S., which purports to apply the
security gold standard, mock attacks have repeatedly found holes
in reactor security.
International groups, if given
authority, can do some planning
to address the issue.
The plan should lay out mandatory security and safety requirements for all nuclear plants worldwide, to be administered by the International Atomic Energy Agency or other authorized body to license plant operations. Inadequate security would lead to a suspension of the plant’s operating license until fixes are made.
Unfortunately, we may have to
await an intentional Chernobyl to
take place first to galvanize this
sort of preventative action.
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travel
On the Rocks, With Ice: Utah National Parks in the Offseason
B y E lizaBEth z ach
the washington post
Among the many photos I have
from a recent vacation to Utah,
one shows me at Canyonlands
National Park, cupping my hands
around my eyes and peering into
the Island in the Sky Visitor Center. It was closed for the winter,
and I was forlorn that I could not
get a stamp in my National Parks
passbook, an obsession of mine
born this year as the park service
marks its centennial.
I say I was forlorn, and I was, but
only partly: A winter visit to the
dreamy deep-red caverns and arches that stretch across eastern Utah
had been something of a gamble.
My boyfriend, Reed, and I love hiking, but we knew that rough weather could easily ruin the vacation.
What we found, however, is what
travelers often do when they head
someplace in the offseason: smaller
crowds and cheaper airfare and accommodations. We flew into Salt
Lake City, rented a car and drove
to Moab, where we had rented a
room for four days. Yet even in this
popular town, within spitting distance of two national parks, we
found mostly silence and an intense blue sky that made the out-
sized and precipitous boulders and
ravines even more mind-blowing.
Driving on from the shuttered
visitor center, we debated which
trail to hike. Rather spontaneously,
we parked at the Shafer Canyon
Overlook, crossed the road to the
west with our hiking gear and
descended amid the brush along
the 8.8 km Neck Spring Loop,
which one of my guidebooks designates as the most secret trail in
the park. We had prepared for
chilly weather, with jackets, gloves,
caps and heavy socks, so we were
delighted to find sunny skies and
temperatures in the low teens, a
perfect day to be out there. With
our gear, we were warm enough
to take breaks along the trail to admire the views.
We had the place to ourselves
as we skirted lush carpets of cryptobiotic soil and clusters of cedar
and pinyon-juniper, along with
patches of snow and even an abandoned hitching post, a reminder
that cattle and horses had once
grazed here. Then, as we approached a canyon, I saw a meager waterfall. We walked toward it,
but came to an abrupt halt as we
glimpsed an icy curtain woven
around the base, giving off the sur-
real appearance of an earthen amphitheater. We carefully trod away
from the trail, sidestepping the
marsh and mud until we reached
the icicles. Then we slipped behind them, looking out of our private cove toward the rest of the
sunny ravine, a stellar view.
Another day, we visited Arches
National Park, which we found to
be much busier than Canyonlands.
American writer Edward Abbey
was a park ranger here, and his
journals from that time would become the book “Desert Solitaire,”
published in 1968 and eventually
adopted as a bible for adventure
travel to the area. It’s hard to imagine that the collection of sculpted
rock at Arches, which was designated a national monument in 1929
and elevated to park status in 1971,
was initially promoted as a destination for tourists who didn’t want to
exit their automobiles. In fact, it’s
possible to glimpse the more than
2,000 catalogued arches—the
greatest concentration in the world
—doing just that.
But nowadays people get out in
nature, and we still had fair weather. Before hiking, we stopped at
the visitor center to see which
trails were traversable. None were
closed, but the rangers did point to
ice and snow advisories. Reed,
who had toured Arches before, especially wanted to see the iconic
Delicate Arch, which he’d missed
on his last visit. The rangers displayed photos of a seemingly
treacherous path toward the end
of the trail, but we were still game.
At one point along the trail, we
took a slight detour to see petroglyphs depicting bighorn sheep
and horseback riders, dating to
when the Ute tribe—for which
Utah is named—roamed the region. A sign said they were created
between 1650 and 1850, but they
are well-preserved and protected
and remain sacred to Native Americans in the area.
The trail from the petroglyphs
to Delicate Arch eventually winds
through narrow rocky passages
and over creeks, until the final
cautious steps along a precipice
that then opens onto a ridge.
There, with the La Sal Mountains,
pinnacles and balancing rocks off
in the distance, the solo and soaring arch appears to teeter on the
canyon’s edge. It has been photographed so often and yet is no
less arresting when you actually
see it in person.