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Three Men
Arrested for
Lawmaker
Assaults
By Alex Willemyns
And m ech d ArA
the cambodia daily
Three of the men at a pro-CPP
protest who beat CNRP lawmakers
Nhay Chamroeun and Kong Saphea
last week as they tried to leave the
National Assembly turned themselves in yesterday, Interior Ministry
spokesman Khieu Sopheak said.
A statement released by General
Sopheak last night said that the three
men—Chay Sarith, 33; Mao Hoeun,
34; and Suth Vanny, 45—handed
themselves in at about 4:30 p.m. to
officials on the government’s committee investigating the assaults.
Reached by telephone, Gen. Sopheak said the men were the same
ones who can be seen kicking and
stomping on the lawmakers in videos of the October 26 protest, and
that further arrests were unlikely.
“These are the culprits who directly attacked them. The others were
just around them shouting,” Gen. Sopheak explained, adding he did not
believe someone else had organized
the attacks on the lawmakers.
“They were led by themselves,”
he said. “They came to report themselves to the authorities and the next
step is they will receive their punishment according to the law. We will
send them to the court tomorrow.”
Gen. Sopheak said he could not
comment further on the details of the
trio’s arrest or their motives for assaulting the two CNRP lawmakers,
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Reuters
Belgian priest Philippe Goosse, left, blesses bloodhound dogs during a religious ceremony for animals outside
the Basilica of St Peter and Paul in Saint-Hubert, Belgium, yesterday. Hundreds of animals get blessed during
the celebration of Saint Hubert, the patron saint of hunters, organizers said.
PM Calls for Enforcement of Baby Formula Ban
By mATT BlomBerg
And k huon n Arim
the cambodia daily
Prime Minister Hun Sen has
called for stronger enforcement of
regulations on the promotion and
sale of baby formula, linking a decrease in the number of women
who breast-feed to an increase in
unlawful and misleading advertising that misrepresents milk substitutes and deceives new mothers.
A statement released by the premier ahead of National Nutrition
Day, which falls on Friday and will
focus on the importance of breastfeeding, instructs health workers,
clinics, and formula companies—
many of which are flagrantly violating a government ban on promoting
baby formula—to adhere to the law.
Mr. Hun Sen pointed to a Ministry
of Planning study that found the rate
of breast-feeding among children
younger than 6 months had fallen
from 73.5 percent in 2010 to 65 percent in 2014.
“There are a number of factors
that may have contributed to this:
lack of knowledge, lack of family
support, migrating for employment,
short maternity leave, and an increase in advertisements for formula
milk as a replacement for breast
milk, which cause confusion among
the people,” he said in the statement.
“I appeal to all involved parties
working on maternal and child health
care and nutrition to...monitor and
control advertisements of milk substitutes that cause this confusion.”
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Condo Boom Driven by Expat Demand, Faith
By PrAk chAn Thul
ArAdhAnA ArAvindAn
And
ReuteRs
PHNOM PeNH/SINGAPORe - High-rise
CNRP Lawmakers Return to
Capital After Turbulent Week
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apartments are springing up across
Phnom Penh, part of a property
boom led by expat demand, while
developers are also betting the
country’s growing middle class will
shed a traditional distaste for “living
on top of each other.”
As once red-hot property markets
like Singapore lose steam, frontier
markets such as Cambodia are gain-
មានដំណឹងបែែសមែួលជាភាសាខ្មែរនៅខាងក្នុង
ing more attention from investors,
and that is helping make the construction and real estate industries
the country’s most dynamic engine
of growth.
Developers such as Singapore’s
Oxley Holdings and Teho International are embarking on high-rise
upmarket condominiums complete
with swimming pools, gymnasiums
and river views. Japan’s Creed Group
as well as Taiwanese and South Korean firms have jumped into the
market, while local developers are
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also building, albeit mostly low-rise
apartments.
A lack of condominiums in prime
Phnom Penh areas for expats has
led to high rental yields for investors.
But some experts worry supply
could outstrip demand in a few years
unless the country’s middle class
moves away from a traditional preference for houses with land.
With an economy of only $16.7
billion, Cambodia could be very
slow in shifting to high-rise living
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and also
Lawmaker Has a Stray-nge Idea
ReuteRs
JeRuSALeM - Claws were out on Mon-
day after an Israeli Cabinet minister
proposed sending stray dogs and
cats to another country as an alternative to government-funded efforts
to sterilize them.
“use the budget to transfer stray
dogs and/or cats of one gender to
a foreign nation that will agree to accept them,” Agriculture Minister uri
Ariel suggested in a leaked letter to
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as he was not a member of the eightman investigation committee.
Opposition leader Sam Rainsy,
who has accused Prime Minister
Hun Sen and the CPP of orchestrating the attacks on the lawmakers in
retribution for protests that met him
overseas, said after his return from
France last night he still wanted a
broader investigation.
“It would be premature for me to
make any comment because I want
to ask people who know and who
have been following this closely,
and then I can make appropriate
comments,” Mr. Rainsy said.
“This is just one clue. It’s an indication. I still call for a broad investigative looking into all aspects.”
Asked whether that meant looking into who had organized the
three men in their attack on the
lawmakers, which occurred while
police looked on, Mr. Rainsy said:
“I said ‘all aspects.’”
Mr. Rainsy and the CNRP have
asked for a more inclusive inquiry
into the assaults, with members of
the opposition, civil society and the
u.N. allowed to participate in or
oversee the official investigation.
Despite these calls for an inclusive
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a Cabinet colleague.
The proposal, which a spokesman
for Ariel said had been rejected, was
roundly criticized by animal rights
activists and opposition politicians.
Zahava Galon, head of the opposition left-wing Meretz party, wrote
on Facebook that Ariel’s idea ran
contrary to “basic morality”—and
she quipped that it was time to find
a country prepared to grant the
minister shelter instead.
inquiry, the Interior Ministry announced a day after the attack that
two members of the CPP’s central
committee would lead its eight-man
investigative team.
Both Interior Ministry Secretary
of State em Sam An, the inquiry
committee’s chairman, and Deputy
National Police Commissioner
Chhay Sinarith, his deputy, sit on
the CPP central committee—while
Lieutenant General Sinarith also sits
on the ruling party’s new propaganda and education committee.
each of the six other officials are
also CPP members, including two
deputy chiefs of the Phnom Penh
municipal police, whose forces have
been accused both of standing idly
by as the lawmakers were beaten
and of joining the protest in civilian
clothes.
The u.N.’s high commissioner
for human rights last week stressed
that the inquiry into last week’s beatings had to be independent.
Wan-Hea Lee, the country representative of the u.N. Office of High
Commissioner for Human Rights
(OHCHR), said yesterday that the
government should reconsider
the composition of its committee
if it cannot adequately explain its
independence.
In an email, Ms. Lee reiterated
the OHCHR statement last week
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n jusTin BieBer’s legal load just got a bit lighter: A judge reportedly took
him off formal probation Monday in connection with the misdemeanor
vandalism case better known as “That time the Biebs egged his neighbor’s house.” A Los Angeles Superior Court judge “showed real satisfaction” with the 21-year-old’s follow-through on a July 2014 sentence, TMZ
reported Monday. In July 2014, Bieber was sentenced to two years’ probation, 12 hours of anger-management classes and 40 hours of community service after pleading no contest to a misdemeanor charge that could
have been classified as a felony because of the dollar amount—$20,000—
of the damage done in January 2014 to his Calabasas neighbor’s home.
In addition to performing community service, Bieber paid nearly $90,000
in restitution, fines and fees related to the egging incident—not a problem
when you’re worth an estimated $80 million. (LAT)
that the probe’s credibility “rests
on its independence, impartiality,
thoroughness and promptness.”
“In this regard, the Government
would benefit from explaining the
independence and impartiality of
the investigative team, or else reconsidering its composition so as
to enhance its credibility,” Ms. Lee
said.
“OHCHR is ready to contribute
if it is deemed that it could play a
helpful role,” she added.
In an interview at the Interior Ministry earlier yesterday, Gen. Sopheak
said Ms. Lee’s suggestion that the
u.N.’s human rights office or others could participate in the inquiry
would be an unusual usurpation of
Cambodia’s sovereignty.
“How many countries has the
u.N. OHCHR done this in?” he
asked. “Cambodian law has sovereignty...and does not require the participation of any NGOs besides this
committee that has been created.”
Gen. Sopheak said that Mr. Sam
An and Lt. Gen. Sinarith would not
let politics get in the way of finding
out the full story of who was behind
the attack on the lawmakers at the
pro-CPP protest last week.
“They are in the party, and they
carry out their roles within the
party—but for state work, they carry
out their state work normally, because they receive their salary from
the nation,” Gen. Sopheak said.
“We want to be praised by local
and international quarters, so we
need to work hard to arrest the perpetrators,” he added. “If we cannot
arrest the perpetrators, we will lose
our honor.”
International Briefs -----At Least 30 Die, Dozens Injured in Nepal Bus Accident
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KATHMANDu, Nepal - At least 30 passengers died and dozens more were in-
jured after a passenger bus lost control and skidded off a mountainous road
in central Nepal yesterday, officials said. The bus, traveling north from Kathmandu to Rasuwa district, fell some 200 meters down a road at Grang village
in the district at around noon, said Shiv Ram Gelal, chief district officer of
Rasuwa. “The injured have been taken to nearby hospitals. The death toll
could rise because several of them are critical,” Gelal told reporters. He confirmed that a number of the dead had died in the course of treatment after
the incident. Suman Khatri, a police officer in the district, said the road section from which the bus fell is narrow and was hit by a recent landslide.
“Rescue work is still going on,” Khatri said. It is unclear how many people
were traveling on the bus. Due to a severe fuel shortage resulting from a
blockade by India beginning in September, buses have been packed with
passengers, with many traveling on their roofs. (Kyodo)
Rare Cyclone Slams Into Yemen’s Southern Coastline
BeIRuT - Heavy flooding from a rare tropical cyclone appeared to inundate
siv channa/the cambodia daily
Laszlo Kover, Hungary's National Assembly speaker, walks past an
honor guard with National Assembly President Heng Samrin during a
ceremony in Phnom Penh yesterday marking the start of his six-day visit
to Cambodia.
parts of southern Yemen yesterday, bringing what aid workers and residents fear will be yet more misery to a country already mired in war and
humanitarian crisis. Images posted on social media purport to show parts
of the coastal city of Mukalla overwhelmed with floodwaters that ripped
past buildings, submerged vehicles and raised fears of casualties and worsening shortages of food, water and medical supplies. The powerful storm,
named Chapala, was downgraded to a Category 1 cyclone by the time it
slammed into Yemen’s southeastern coastline early yesterday. But meteorologists say the torrential downpours will bring several years’ worth of
rain in just a day or two to the usually parched Arabian Peninsula country.
There were no immediate reports of deaths yesterday in what has been
described as the first hurricane-force storm to strike the country since
record-keeping started. Aid workers express concern about mudslides and
acute shortages of food and water in affected areas of the desperately poor
nation—which has little or no capacity to handle such events. (WP)
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CNRP Lawmakers Return to Capital After Turbulent Week
B y M ech D ara
a lex W illeMyns
anD
The CamboDia Daily
A few hundred CNRP supporters welcomed opposition leaders
Sam Rainsy and Kem Sokha back
to Cambodia last night after a week
of political turmoil in which two
lawmakers were beaten by progovernment thugs and Mr. Sokha
was ousted from his parliamentary
leadership position.
Arriving at the Phnom Penh International Airport just before 8
p.m., Mr. Rainsy, who has been in
Europe, and Mr. Sokha, who went
to Bangkok last week to visit the
injured lawmakers, arrived together and stressed the need for a return to peace.
“We come here to reinforce and
strengthen the culture of dialogue
because we believe there is no
choice beside discussing things
with each other in the spirit of respect,” Mr. Rainsy said, referring to
the detente between the CPP and
CNRP that is meant to replace political violence with civil discourse.
“It is proper and professional to
independently investigate in order
to find the perpetrators and people
who are behind the perpetrators,
who caused injury for the two
CNRP lawmakers,” Mr. Rainsy
Siv Channa/The Cambodia Daily
Opposition leaders Sam Rainsy, middle, and Kem Sokha speak to
reporters at the Phnom Penh International Airport last night.
said.
The opposition leader avoided
the question of whether he will
apologize to Mr. Hun Sen for calling last week’s lawmaker assaults
an example of the premier’s “fascist
methods,” which the CPP has said
is necessary for the culture of dialogue to continue.
“From day to day, there are incidents and there is sometimes tension and small accusations against
each other, and it must not make
culture of dialogue decrease or
come into conflict, it must encourage us to find peaceful solutions,”
he said.
Mr. Rainsy would not be drawn
on a question about what he
thought the CPP’s motives were in
removing Mr. Sokha as the Assembly’s first vice president last Friday, referring the question to the
CPP.
During the Assembly session
last week, senior CPP lawmaker
Cheam Yeap said that Mr. Sokha
was a force of chaos in the country.
“Whenever he goes somewhere
he creates chaos, which affects the
peace, and that’s prohibited by the
1993 Constitution.” Mr. Yeap said
of Mr. Sokha. “He’s always saying
something that causes disputes between the two parties.”
Mr. Sokha did not speak during
the impromptu press conference
outside the airport last night, and
the pair soon departed to their waiting cars to join the motorcade of
supporters on the road to return to
their homes.
Before arriving in Phnom Penh,
the opposition leaders went together to visit Nhay Chamroeun and
Kong Saphea, the CNRP lawmakers who were dragged out of their
cars as they were leaving the Assembly and beaten by men attending a protest against Mr. Sokha.
The pair are in a hospital in
Bangkok and both have received
surgery for broken bones and
other injuries they received at the
hands of the pro-CPP thugs.
Three men turned themselves in
to the committee investigating the
attacks yesterday, according to Interior Ministry spokesman Khieu
Sopheak, who said he did not expect more arrests to be made because the men said they carried out
the attacks on their own.
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WomanConfessestoHiringHit After Detainee Deaths, Ministry
MantoMurderaMoneylender To Discuss the Fate of Prey Speu
B y B en S oKhean
the cambodia daily
A woman in Kratie province who
was arrested on Monday night confessed yesterday to hiring a hit man
to murder a moneylender after another suspect told police he committed the crime at her request,
police said.
Hin Pheap, 61, was murdered at
her home by an intruder who
drove a metal pole through her
chest early on Monday morning in
Sambor district’s Kbal Damrei
commune.
On Monday afternoon, Loek
Chanveasna, 27, was arrested and
confessed to the murder during
questioning, but claimed that Sun
Rany, 47, had paid him $500 to carry out the crime, according to
police.
Deputy provincial police chief
Oum Phy said that although Ms.
Rany initially denied the allegation,
she confessed yesterday to hiring
Mr. Chanveasna to kill Hin Pheap
because the moneylender had
been hassling her to repay her debt
of $3,500.
“Ms. Sun Rany confessed that
she was angry with the victim, who
often came to demand the money
and interest,” he said, adding that
the victim had threatened to file a
complaint against Ms. Rany with
the provincial court.
“She hired [Mr. Chanveasna]
and paid him $500 to find any people who dare to kill the victim and
said she would pay more upon
completion,” he said, adding that
Mr. Chanveasna paid a third man
$450 to carry out the crime.
When the unidentified man left
town without following through
with the murder, Mr. Chanveasna
felt he had no choice but to kill Hin
Pheap himself, according to police.
“[Mr. Chanveasna] hired a man
who was recently released from
prison to kill the victim,” Mr. Phy
said. “[Mr. Chanveasna] said he
killed the victim because [Ms.
Rany] had paid him and he could
not pay her back.”
Police initially arrested Mr. Chanveasna after Hin Pheap’s daughter
said she recognized a bloodied
shirt that police found in his home,
according to Mr. Phy.
Huot Lim Heang, chief of the
provincial police’s serious crimes
bureau, said both suspects would
be sent to court today and charged
with premeditated murder.
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the cambodia daily
The Social Affairs Ministry will
convene a meeting this week to discuss the fate of the notorious Pur
Senchey Vocational Training Center, after a human rights group released a statement yesterday calling for its closure following the
deaths of two detainees there last
month.
In the past month, a mentally ill
man drowned in a small pond on
the premises of the Pur Senchey
center, commonly called Prey
Speu, while another woman being
held there died of unknown causes,
according to a statement released
by Licadho.
“The well-documented systemic
abuse and criminal negligence that
takes place within the Prey Speu
center is directly responsible for the
deaths of three people within the
past eleven months, and yet it remains open,” Am Sam Ath, technical coordinator for Licadho, is quoted as saying in the statement.
“When detainees get sick, the
center does not have doctors or
hospital equipment to treat them,”
Mr. Sam Ath said by telephone.
“The center does not have trucks to
bring them to the hospital when
they get seriously ill.”
Toch Channy, a spokesman for
the Social Affairs Ministry, said the
ministry would hold a meeting on
Thursday to discuss the situation of
homeless people in the city, and the
Prey Speu center in particular.
“The ministry will hold a meeting
about homeless people, including
the Prey Speu center problem too,”
Mr. Channy said.
“At the meeting on November 5,
I will push to work fast on this problem and the government will de-
cide whether this center is a vocational training center or the temporary center for homeless people.”
Despite its name, the Pur Senchey Vocational Training Center
does not offer job training, and is often used as a place to keep vagrants
and mentally ill people after “street
sweeps” of Phnom Penh. Workers
at the center have long been accused of committing sexual and
physical abuse against detainees.
Sebastien Marot, executive director of the NGO Friends International, which works to help reintegrate children detained at the center, said that the latest deaths appeared to be accidental, but that an
urgent review of the center was in
order nonetheless.
“From a report we have from
people released from the center,
the two deaths seemed to be accidental in nature,” Mr. Marot said,
adding that without a proper investigation, the veracity of those claims
could not be verified.
“The center should not operate
the way it operates today,” he said.
“It should be entirely reviewed
and if they don’t review it, then it
shouldn’t be operational as it
stands.”
Sok Sokun, director of the
Phnom Penh health department,
said he sent a team of about four to
five doctors to treat people staying
at the center last week after the
deaths occurred.
“Last Friday, we treated 130 people who were staying there,” Mr.
Sokun said, adding that he had no
information about the two deaths.
Van Ngat, acting director of the
Pur Senchey center, could not be
reached.
(Additional reporting by Meghan
Tribe)
National Brief -----Gov’t Says Only One Refugee From Nauru Coming
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Immigration department director Sok Phal said yesterday that
Cambodia will be taking in only one of the two refugees who volunteered to
resettle here during a delegation’s visit to Australia’s refugee center on the
South Pacific island of Nauru in late September, but did not explain why.
“There is one refugee and he will come this week or next week. First there
were two volunteers, but now there is only one,” he said. Interior Minister
Sar Kheng announced the pending arrival of two more refugees from
Nauru on October 1, on top of the first four that arrived in June as part of a
controversial resettlement deal Cambodia signed with Australia last year.
The Cambodian delegation that visited Nauru in September was supposed
to meet with a new group of four refugees that Australia claimed had volunteered, but Cambodia at the time said those four had changed their minds.
As for the group that arrived in June, General Phal said yesterday that they
were still looking for work. “We have received information that they have
not gotten jobs yet, so they are still getting donations to support themselves
from Australia,” he said. Neither Australia nor the International
Organization for Migration, which is assisting with the resettlements, will
discuss details about the refugees. (Mech Dara)
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Smugglers From Laos Caught Officer Avoids Rape Charge by
With Large Crystal Meth Haul Claiming Love for 14-Year-Old
B y S aing S oenthrith
the cambodia daily
Police in Ratanakkiri province
seized 1 kg and 1,400 pills of methamphetamine during sting operations on two traffickers on Sunday
and Monday who were suspected
of smuggling in the drugs from
Laos.
Provincial police chief Nuon
Koeun said Sit Vy, 38, a Laotian citizen, was arrested on Monday afternoon with approximately 1 kg of
crystal methamphetamine and
Souna Lak was detained the previous day with a haul of 1,400 pills.
He said the two men were arrested by undercover anti-drug police
officers posing as buyers following
investigations into drugs crossing
Cambodia’s porous northern border with Laos.
“We arrested one Laotian citizen
and confiscated 1 kg of crystal
meth in Veun Sai district’s Pakalan
commune, and another man was
arrested in Pong commune,” Brigadier General Koeun said.
“This case was a crackdown by
our provincial anti-drug police, who
spent over two months investigating after we heard the smugglers
were trafficking the drug into Ratanakkiri province from Laos
across Stung Treng,” he added.
Brig. Gen. Koeun said it was the
biggest drug bust in the northeastern province this year.
“This is the first time we confiscated 1 kg of crystal meth this year.
Last year there was one time we
confiscated 1 kg of crystal meth,
too, which was also smuggled from
Laos,” he said.
Mr. Vy was in police custody and
would be sent to the provincial
court today, while Mr. Lak was
charged with drug trafficking on
Monday and sent to provisional
detention, he said.
Mom Vanda, deputy prosecutor
at the provincial court, confirmed
that Mr. Lak had been charged,
adding that he had both Cambodian and Lao citizenship and
made regular trips between the two
countries.
The Interior Ministry’s anti-drug
trafficking department announced
last month that it had seized more
than 87 kg of hard drugs and 1.5
tons of marijuana in the first nine
months of 2015, a sharp increase
compared to the same period last
year.
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the cambodia daily
The Preah Vihear Provincial
Court on Monday charged a
commune police officer who had
intercourse with a 14-year-old girl
with the lesser crime of sex with a
minor instead of rape because
investigators said the sex was
consensual.
Sen Sokin, 30, a staff sergeant
at the Sdao commune police station in Sangkum Thmei district,
was accused of raping the teenager by the girl’s brother, said deputy provincial police chief Keo
Chamroeun. But during police
questioning, he said, both Mr.
Sokin and the girl said the sex
was consensual, leading to the
lesser charge.
“We arrested him on Monday
based on the complaint made by
the brother of the girl, who accused
him of raping his sister,” Mr.
Chamroeun said. “The plaintiff said
[Mr. Sokin] raped the girl three
times during September and
October.”
“Following questioning of the
suspect and victim, they said they
agreed together,” he said.
Under the criminal code, the
rape of a minor carries a prison sentence of seven to 15 years. Sex with
a minor under the age of 15, a separate crime under the Human Trafficking and Sexual Exploitation
Law, carries a prison sentence of
five to 10 years.
Khat Hun, chief of the provincial
police’s minor crimes bureau, said
the police officer received the lesser charge because he said that he
loved the girl.
“The suspect admitted to having sex with the girl, but he said
he did not force her because he
loves the girl,” Mr. Hun said.
“I think this case is not a rape
case because they love each other
and it happened one or two
months ago,” he said, “but he is
still at fault because he had sex
with a minor.”
Mr. Hun said Mr. Sokin was
handed to Investigating Judge
Veng Muoyky, who charged him
with having sexual intercourse
with a minor under 15 years old,
and placed him in provisional detention at the provincial prison.
The judge could not be reached
for comment.
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Briefing
Migrant Workers’ Bodies
Returned From Thailand
The bodies of two Cambodian
migrant workers who died on Sunday in Thailand when the pickup
truck they were traveling to work
in overturned were handed over to
their relatives in Poipet City on
Monday night, immigration police
at the Poipet International Checkpoint said yesterday. Seung Orm,
50, from Kompong Thom province, and Thai Saroeurth, 36, from
Battambang province, were both
employed as construction workers
in Thailand, said Sem Makara, deputy immigration police chief at the
checkpoint. “They died in a traffic
accident as they were traveling to
work,” he said. At about 6 a.m. on
Sunday, 36 workers were in the
back of a pickup truck in Prachinburi province when one of the
truck’s tires burst, causing the vehicle to overturn, said Soum Chankea, Banteay Meanchey provincial
coordinator for rights group
Adhoc, adding that an unknown
number of workers were injured.
Asked for comment, a spokesman
for the Foreign Affairs Ministry
said he had not yet received a report about the accident. (Saing
Soenthrith)
Extortion Charge
Proposed for Journalists
A deputy prosecutor at the Kompong Thom Provincial Court yesterday recommended charges of
extortion for 11 people—eight who
claimed to be journalists and three
who said they were environmental
NGO directors—who were arrested on Sunday for allegedly demanding money from truck drivers
transporting wood. Say Nora, the
deputy prosecutor, said that 15
complaint letters recently filed
against the group were included in
the evidence. “We questioned the
suspects this morning. Some of
them confessed that they committed extortion and some denied it.
But what is important is that the 15
victims pointed fingers at the faces
of the 11 people and said they really
had stopped their trucks and extorted money from them,” Mr. Nora
said. The case, he added, had been
handed to Investigating Judge
Chok Nguon, who will decide
whether and how to charge the
suspects. Each member of the
group could face between two and
five years in jail and fines ranging
from 4 million riel ($1,000) to 10
million riel ($2,500) if found guilty.
Mr. Nguon could not be reached
for comment. (Aun Pheap)
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Phnom Penh Begins Upgrading Street Signs
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The Phnom Penh municipal
government has started a twomonth project to replace and add a
few hundred street signs across
the city with what officials say are
superior models, starting with Norodom Boulevard and going as far
south as the Ministry of Interior.
Phnom Penh deputy governor
Khuong Sreng said yesterday that
City Hall planned to replace the
current signs in stages in an effort
to improve the capital’s aesthetics
and to help tourists navigate.
“If we don’t do it, some will ask
why we don’t do something. And
when we do it, they still oppose it,”
he said, when asked whether the
project was necessary. He declined to say how much the work
would cost.
City Hall spokesman Long Dimanche, who said he did not know
the cost of the project, explained
that the first phase would involve
replacing existing signs and the
second phase would be installing
additional ones.
“In some places the poles were
damaged and in some places
Peter Ford/The Cambodia Daily
Workers install a new street sign on Norodom Boulevard in Phnom
Penh yesterday.
there are not enough,” he said.
Hun Rina, chief technician for
CamDeg, the company making
and installing the signs, said the
firm began replacing signs on Norodom on October 28. According
to the current plan, he said, a total
of 250 signs will be installed by the
end of December along the central streets of Kampuchea Krom,
Preah Sihanouk, Preah Moni-
vong, Mao Tse Toung, Preah Norodom and Preah Sisowath.
“The new pole is thicker and
bigger with Khmer styling,” he
said. “When we are driving at
night, the signs have reflective material so we can see the letters.”
Mr. Rina said he did not know the
cost of the project, either.
(Additional reporting by Peter
Ford)
Commission to Investigate ‘Shrinking’ Beaches
B y K uch n aren
The CamboDia Daily
The chairman of the National
Assembly’s culture and tourism
commission said yesterday that he
will summon Tourism Minister
Thong Khon for questioning over
claims that public beaches are being taken over for private use.
CNRP lawmaker Yem Ponhearith, who heads the commission,
said he will summon the minister
for questioning on November 19 to
ask him about the “shrinking” of
public beaches.
“We’ve noticed that our public
beaches are getting smaller and
smaller and some beaches have become private,” Mr. Ponhearith said.
The opposition lawmaker said
the commission heard the complaints from locals during its recent work trips to the coast.
“We need to know whether or
not tourist developments consider
local people, who own the country
and deserve to benefit from it,” he
said. “[This problem] will also affect the national tourism sector.”
Mr. Ponhearith said the most serious cases of beach cordoning
were in Preah Sihanouk province,
but he did not elaborate on what
exactly was preventing the public
from accessing the areas.
Asked how the commission will
determine which private entities
are responsible for the alleged encroachment, Mr. Ponhearith said
it was Mr. Khon’s responsibility to
provide an explanation.
“We will not go too deep on this
matter, but what we want is for the
government to thoroughly protect
public beaches for the benefit of
the general population,” he said.
“It’s too early to say something
critical now because we need to
meet with the tourism minister
for...an explanation first.”
Neither Mr. Khon nor ministry
spokesman Tith Chantha could be
reached for comment yesterday.
Mr. Ponhearith said he would
also summon the ministers of education, religion and culture—
sectors all under his commission’s purview—for questioning
by the end of the year.
The CNRP lawmaker has led a
campaign this year to protect the
“national identity” of culture and
tourism in Cambodia, leading an
expedition to Bokor Mountain in
Kampot province in February to investigate reports that shrines in the
jungle had become pilgrimage
sites for Vietnamese tourists.
National Brief -----China Rewards Immigration Police With Computers
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Three days after 168 Chinese nationals were arrested by immigration police for running an Internet scam from Sihanoukville extorting money from
people in their home country, the Chinese Embassy yesterday donated 100
computers to the Interior Ministry’s immigration department. Sok Phal,
chief of the department, said in a speech thanking Ambassador Bu Jianguo
for the computers that they would be useful in helping police ensure that
Chinese nationals comply with Cambodian law. “First, this will help investors and tourists, secondly it will help Chinese investors and migrant
workers comply with the law,” he said. “Thirdly, it will help the department
deal with bad people.” Ms. Bu said it was an honor to make the donation.
“All these computers are given with deep emotion from the Chinese
Embassy to Cambodia’s immigration department,” she said through a
translator. “We are happy after having seen the leadership of His
Excellency Sok Phal...in working hard to cooperate actively with the Chinese side to crack down on crime across countries and arresting suspects
in Cambodia.” (Mech Dara)
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NatioNal
Formula...
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Visits by reporters to Phnom
Penh’s private clinics, pharmacies
and baby-goods stores over the
past two weeks showed that subdecree 133, which outlaws the promotion of breast milk substitutes
for children younger than 2 years,
is being routinely ignored.
Staff at some clinics say representatives of formula companies
leave free samples to be passed on
to mothers and that staff members
oblige despite knowing the potential negative health implications.
Some employees also say they
have been given gifts, including
overseas trips, in exchange for
pushing certain brands.
In May, World Vision International and Helen Keller International released a report based on
observations made at 66 outlets
selling baby formula, not including
hospitals and clinics, in six provinces outside Phnom Penh. The
findings show that none of the 110
products for sale “fully complied”
with advertising and promotional
regulations laid out in the government’s sub-decree.
The report, titled “Promotions
and Labeling Violations of Baby
Formula Companies,” notes that
continued from page
32 percent of Cambodian children
are stunted, and emphasizes the
importance of health in the first
two years of life, the same age for
which breast milk substitutes are
intended.
“The high rate of stunting is
particularly concerning, given that
it is primarily caused by a lack of
nutrients during the first 1,000
days of life—from conception to
24 months of age,” it says.
The report concludes that “Violations of [sub-decree 133] are severe
and require immediate actions.”
In an email yesterday, Suong
Soksophea, a senior campaign
manager at World Vision, said that
health care workers and staff at
outlets that sell formula were generally unaware of the sub-decree,
and that marketing of the products
had “increased significantly” in
recent years.
The formula companies, she
said, “host many workshops/
events that attract parents and introduce them to their products,”
and use marketing tactics that
“can potentially mislead users.”
According to Ms. Soksophea, in
the time since the report was released, the Ministry of Health subsequently created a committee to
oversee the enforcement of subdecree 133, arranged workshops
to inform the private sector of
their obligations, and then sent
out formal warnings to all groups
involved in the industry.
Or Vandin, director general of
the ministry’s technical department, said yesterday that subdecree 133 is strictly enforced and
asked a reporter to provide any
evidence to the contrary.
“If companies are not compliant with the sub-decree, we will
follow the law,” she said, declining to elaborate on any possible
punishments.
New mothers spoken to over
the past two weeks have given a
variety of reasons for deciding to
rear their offspring on baby formula. Two of the most prominent
were that they were not naturally
producing enough milk and that
the baby rejected breast milk after
having tried formula.
Sophie Goyet, a midwife who
specializes in obstetrics and epidemiology, yesterday offered an explanation of how those particular
complaints are both linked and misinformed. Babies will reject the
breast after trying the bottle, she
said, simply because breast-feeding
requires a technique that is learned
and sucking from a bottle is much
easier.
“That is why, before the baby has
learned to latch on to the breast,
artificial nipples should be avoided
so the baby does not become accustomed to using incorrect sucking patterns,” Dr. Goyet said.
“Offering formula milk or baby
bottles to mother just after delivery is really, really bad and should
be avoided in most of, if not all,
circumstances.”
Some new mothers have also
said that despite the ban on in-clinic
promotions, they were offered free
formula from health workers alongside advice regarding the importance of breast milk—a contradictory practice confirmed by staff at
two clinics.
In an email yesterday, Arnaut
Laillou, a nutrition specialist at Unicef Cambodia, said that through aggressive marketing and increased
availability, breast milk substitutes
had “dislodged breastfeeding as
the desirable method for feeding
infants” among Cambodians.
Potential profitability in an everexpanding market, he said, leads
formula representatives to twist
the truth and “persuade doctors”
to give newborns a first taste of formula milk, after which they may
never return to the breast.
“It seems that hospitals are an
effective entry point for companies,” Mr. Laillou said. “New mothers trust health professionals and
tend to stick with brands used in
hospitals.”
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Election Brings Hope, Fear for Burma Refugees Stuck in Limbo
reuters
mae SoT,
Thailand - For refugees
from Burma living in camps just
across the border in Thailand, a
landmark election in their homeland triggers mixed emotions—
hope that a hated government will
be defeated, and fear of the uncertain future such an upheaval
might bring.
ko Chit, 45, who lives in mae la
refugee camp, the largest of the
nine camps that are home to
around 110,000 people, is typical of
those who spoke to reporters.
He wants opposition leader
aung San Suu kyi’s National
league for Democracy to win the
November 8 poll, the country’s first
free and fair election in a generation, but worries that could result in
being sent back to Burma when it
remains unsafe.
“The situation is not yet stable
and we cannot go back because of
fighting and persecution,” ko Chit
said. “If there is no non-governmental organization to support us there,
it would be better to stay in the
camp.”
For many who spoke to reporters, the looming fear is that an
NlD win will prompt Thailand to
declare it is now safe for them to go
back and shutter the camps.
Some residents have been living
in the camps for 30 years. Nearly 80
percent are ethnic karen from eastern Burma who fled armed conflict
and often persecution at the hands
reuters
Supporters sit as a candidate gives a speech during a Union Solidarity
and Development Party campaign rally at Hmawbi township, Rangoon
division, in Burma yesterday.
of the Burmese army during decades of military rule.
Trusting the Burmese government does not come easily. a
quasi-civilian administration now
holds power after the junta stepped
aside in 2011, ushering in a period
of reform, but most senior figures
in the ruling union Solidarity and
Development party are former
generals.
under the constitution, the military will hold 25 percent of seats in
parliament regardless of the outcome. It will also retain control of
all portfolios related to national
security.
The Burmese government was
not immediately available for
comment.
None of those in the camps will
be able to vote. more important to
them, in any case, is a Nationwide
Ceasefire agreement signed between Burma’s government and
eight armed ethnic groups last
month.
“If the refugees are to return, an
end to fighting, the withdrawal of
troops and security of land tenure
are just some of the conditions they
need—something no party can
guarantee, at least not in the near
future,” said Sally Thompson, executive director at The Border Consortium, which coordinates activi-
ties in the camps.
For the refugees, returning is not
an option, at least for now.
“We are afraid. We have no land
to go back to. The army is still in
many villages,” said oo Say Ha, 66,
who lives in mae la camp.
Thailand has no timeframe for
the refugees’ return, Sansern
kaewkamnerd, Thai government
spokesman, told reporters.
“We will not interfere with myanmar’s election. Whatever the outcome, if there is peace, we will encourage people to return.”
Thailand has not signed a 1951
Geneva Convention relating to the
Status of refugees, nor does it have
a specific law on refugees. With the
opening up of Burma, the Thai government has promoted the return
of refugees as a realistic option.
Just months after taking power
in a 2014 coup, the Thai junta said it
would send home refugees living
in the camps, a move rights groups
said would create chaos.
General Ner Dah mya, head of
the karen National Defense organization, a military wing of the
karen National union that largely
controls karen state, said he did
not believe the cease-fire agreement his group has joined will hold.
“If the refugees are deep inside
myanmar and something happens,
it won’t be easy for them to move
out again,” he told reporters.
“There is a fine line between life
and death.”
US, Japan to Push South China Sea Issue at Asean Defense Talks
reuters
- The u.S. and Japan are pushing to get concerns
about the South China Sea included in a statement to be issued after
regional defense talks in malaysia
despite Chinese objections to any
mention of the disputed waterway,
officials said.
a senior u.S. defense official
said Beijing had made clear as
early as February that it didn’t
want the South China Sea discussed at the meeting between
asean defense ministers and
their counterparts from across
the asia-pacific in kuala lumpur
today.
“We’ve been very clear along
with many other like-minded
countries that South China Sea
language should be included but
there are members who feel differently,” said the u.S. defense official, adding China was the main
obstacle.
a draft of the concluding statement being prepared by host
malaysia makes no mention of
kuala lumpur
the South China Sea, said a separate source familiar with the discussions, focusing instead on terrorism and regional security
cooperation.
Today’s gathering brings together the 10 defense ministers
from asean along with ministers
from countries such as the u.S.,
Japan, China, India and australia.
The meeting, first held in 2006, is
a platform to promote regional
peace and stability.
It is taking place a week after a
u.S. warship challenged territorial
limits around one of Beijing’s manmade islands in the Spratly archipelago with a so-called freedom-ofnavigation patrol.
That prompted China’s naval
chief to warn his u.S. counterpart
in a video teleconference that a
minor incident could spark war in
the South China Sea if the u.S. did
not stop its “provocative acts.”
The source familiar with the
talks in kuala lumpur said Japan
had requested malaysia “improve”
the draft and make note of the
South China Sea.
China claims most of the South
China Sea, through which more
than $5 trillion in global trade
passes every year. Vietnam, malaysia, Brunei, the philippines and
Taiwan have rival claims.
asean meetings routinely become a venue for countries
such as the philippines and Vietnam to argue for a stronger
stance against China’s territorial
ambitions.
Countries like Cambodia are
pro-China while malaysia has
sought to steer a more neutral
path, even though it’s a claimant
and only last month its armed
forces chief called China’s
island-building an “unwarranted
provocation.”
In his opening remarks to a separate meeting of asean defense ministers yesterday, malaysian Defense minister Hishammuddin
Hussein made no mention of the
South China Sea.
at a news conference after the
meeting, Hishammuddin alluded
to the waterway, saying he hoped
countries outside asean would not
increase tension.
“If the sides cannot find an amicable solution on the way forward,
the patrolling and presence of vessels from China or the u.S. raises
concerns for us asean countries,”
he said.
China says its seven man-made
islands in the Spratlys will have
mostly civilian purposes as well as
undefined defense uses.
The u.S. Navy plans to conduct
patrols within 12 nautical miles of
the islands about twice a quarter to
remind China and other countries
about u.S. rights under international law, another u.S. defense official
said on monday.
“That’s the right amount to
make it regular but not a constant
poke in the eye,” the official said.
Speaking in Beijing, the commander of u.S. forces in the pacific, admiral Harry Harris, said
u.S. freedom-of-navigation operations should not be viewed as a
threat.
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North Korean Defector Uses Propaganda to Mock Its Rulers
B y S teven B orowiec
los angeles times
seoul - sun Mu spreads paper
painted with the names Kim il
sung and Kim jong il over the concrete floor of an art gallery. He lays
the broad sheet at the gallery’s
entrance so that to view his work,
visitors must step on the names of
north Korea’s late leaders, spreading dirt from their shoes into
names the artist spent much of his
career glorifying.
it is a brief scene in “i Am sun
Mu,” a recent documentary about
the north Korean defector artist,
and in it, sun Mu shows no sign of
trepidation. Yet he says he still has
mixed feelings about disparaging
the leaders he was raised to think
of as gods.
sun Mu trained as an artist in
north Korea, where he painted
propaganda posters that glorified
the country’s ruling dynasty. He
fled in 1998 to escape famine
and since then has used the
same artistic style he learned in
his homeland to lampoon those
leaders.
After fleeing north Korea, he
studied at Hongik university in
seoul, one of south Korea’s top art
schools. There he learned more
contemporary methods and theory
that he has fused with his north
Korean style.
At first glance, his works look
like twisted takes of the propaganda images he produced in north
Korea. sun Mu says that in north
Korea, only a few official artists
are permitted to draw the country’s leaders, and that irreverent
depictions would lead to severe
punishment.
He has drawn many caricatures
of the north’s ruling dynasty. instead of looking stately, they appear
smug and overweight, often juxtaposed with symbols of Western
decadence. in one painting, Kim
jong il grins while posing in
a Creamsicle-colored Adidas
jumpsuit.
like other examples of state propaganda, sun Mu’s works often feature images of children; one depicts
a pudgy-cheeked young girl scowling as she sips Coca-Cola through a
straw.
it’s the irony of using the same
techniques to lambaste the dictators that gives sun Mu’s work its
power.
“by using the same visual language but...inverting its message,
he fundamentally unhinges the
propaganda message. because he
knows so well how the propaganda
works, he can deploy the same
tools to show how sinister its message is,” Koen De Ceuster, an expert on north Korean art at leiden
university in the netherlands,
wrote in an email.
“There is an unusual, unsettling
emotional depth in the best of his
works which make them more
than just comments on north Korea but lift them to existential statements,” De Ceuster said.
sun Mu’s studio on the outskirts of seoul is in a converted
house. He earns a living from his
art and has exhibited in several
countries, including the u.s., norway and germany, unusual feats
for a north Korean defector artist.
because of the small pool of interest in the themes they tend to
explore, few north Korean artists
have broken into south Korea’s
art market. Collectors who take
interest in their work tend to already have some professional or
personal interest in north Korea.
“north Korean refugees have a
limited market into which they can
sell their ideologically centered art,
and propaganda doesn’t go down
well with collectors or audiences
from south Korea,” said Keith
Howard, a professor of Korean
studies at the university of london’s school of oriental and African studies.
Despite having achieved success
as an artist and reached a level of
material comfort he could never
have achieved in north Korea, sun
Mu still struggles with the pain of
separation from his parents and
other relatives he left behind.
Reuters
Couples prepare to have their photos taken on the Bund in Shanghai
yesterday.
Regional Brief -----Chinese Gov’t to Accelerate Armed Forces Reform
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beijing - China’s ruling Communist Party will seek to build the capability to
win an “informationized war” by 2020 as part of accelerated reform of the
armed forces, state media reported yesterday. China will make significant
progress toward realizing “mechanization and informatization” by 2020,
and build a system capable of “winning an informationized war and effectively fulfilling the mandated mission of building modern military strength
with Chinese characteristics,” the Xinhua news Agency reported. The
reform pledge was contained in a communique issued nearly a week after
the Party’s Central Committee held a high-level policy meeting to set a
13th Five-Year Plan. Xinhua released parts of the document via its
microblog. China will advance “rule of law” over the armed forces, Xinhua
said, and reach reform goals by 2020. (Reuters)
South Korea to Publish History Textbooks in Bid ‘to Correct Bias’
reuters
- The south Korean government yesterday said it would publish history textbooks for use in
schools from 2017, taking a step
necessary to strip current teaching
of its “ideological bias.”
The move to stop use of textbooks written by private-sector
scholars and issued by private publishers capped weeks of debate
about whether it was democratic
for the government to dictate how
the country’s turbulent modern history is taught.
it also fueled suspicion about
south Korean President Park
geun-hye’s motive in adopting the
policy, amid sharply divided views
of the leadership of her father, Park
Chung-hee.
Park, who took power in a miliseoul
tary coup in 1961 and ruled until his
assassination in 1979, is credited
with building modern and industrial south Korea, but at the expense of democracy.
Many private textbooks now
used by middle and high schools
try to glorify archrival north Korea
by discrediting the achievements of
the capitalistic south, Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-ahn said
“We can no longer allow the use
of distorted and biased history textbooks to teach our precious children,” he told a news conference.
“We have to fix the way history
textbooks are published so we can
make a correct textbook.”
As an example of distortion, he
cited the blame some textbooks
place on major ally the u.s. for a
2010 attack on a south Korean
navy ship, the Cheonan. others do
not mention the attack at all,
Hwang said.
south Korea says the north
was responsible for the attack,
although Pyongyang denies any
role. The neighbors remain technically at war after their 1950 to
1953 conflict ended in a truce, not
a treaty.
existing government curbs,
such as a process of approval for
private textbooks, were futile,
Hwang said, because many teachers were ideologically left-leaning,
while publishers often flouted orders to correct inaccuracies.
last week, Park defended government publication as necessary
to spur pride in the country’s
achievements.
but her critics called the move a
setback for democracy, saying it
proved the government’s intent to
stifle diverse views of history and
gloss over south Korea’s painful
struggle to attain democracy.
“A state-issued history textbook will not only beautify dictatorship, but is itself dictatorship,”
said Moon jae-in, the leader of
the opposition new Politics Alliance for Democracy.
A similar system operated during Park’s father’s tenure, alongside
the one currently in north Korea,
he added.
but Hwang rejected as “impossible” the idea that a state-issued textbook was a bid to glorify dictatorship in the modern south.
“This society is mature enough
to have no forgiveness for that,” he
added.
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CALL FOR MEMBERSHIP
The Country Coordinating Committee (CCC) is a national multi-sectoral body founded in 2003 for coordinating the Global Fund supported activities. The major roles are
to mobilize multi-sectoral stakeholders to prepare and submit Concept Notes to Global Fund that are aligned with national strategies and health and community system
strengthening priorities; nominate Principal Recipients who are responsible for implementing the grant and selection Sub-Recipients who will be involved in the
implementation of the project, should the Concept Note be approved; and oversee the financial and programmatic implementation of activities financed by the Global
Fund Grants.
While participation on the CCC is voluntary and unpaid, CCC members are a critical component of the Global Fund architecture in Cambodia and will have the following
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To attend and participate in CCC retreats, standing committees, and/or ad hoc committees;
To regularly report on CCC proceedings to organizations and individuals from the sector represented by the member;
To participate in reviewing performance of grants, such as through PRTRTs, field visits, or summary results;
In January 2016, a new CCC will be convened for a two year term (2016-2017). The CCC is composed of 21 members divided among the constituencies as follows:
No.
Constituency
# of Reps
1
Government of Cambodia
6
2
Non-Government Organization
3
3
Community Sector
6
5
Academic/Education Sector
1
4
6
Private Sector
1
Multilateral/Bilateral Partners
4
Total
21
Composition
2 Representatives from MoH
1 NAA
1 Representative from CDC/MoEF
1 MoWA
1 Representative from MoI/MoEYS
1 Member of NGO Health Network (Local)
1 Member of HIV/AIDS NGO Network
1 International NGO
3 People Living with the diseases (1HIV/AIDS, 1TB, 1Malaria)
2 Person representing key affected populations (EW/MSM/TG/IDU)
1 Faith Based Organization
1 Private Sector
1 Public Academic Institution
2 Multilateral Agencies
2 Bilateral Agencies
The Government of Cambodia representatives will be appointed. The other constituencies represented on the CCC shall elect the number of members that is specified
above through an open and transparent election process, as well as identify an alternate for each member from the same constituency. Note: Current CCC members are
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Organization or individuals interested in serving on the CCC should submit their name, contact information, and brief statement of interest (no more than 2 paragraphs)
to their CCC Membership Coordinator by 20 November 2015. Contact information for the CCC Membership Coordinators is listed below.
Constituency
1
Non-Government
Organization
2
Community
Sector
Membership Coordinator
Member of National Health NGO and International NGO.
Dr. Sin Somuny, Executive Director, MEDiCAM
Member of National HIV/AIDS NGO network.
Mr. Tim Vora, Executive Director, HACC.
Persons living with the disease (HIV/AIDS):
Mr. Sorn Sotheariddh, National Coordinator.
Persons living with the diseases (Cured TB Patients):
Ms. Jacqueline Chen HuiJie, Country, Director, OperationASHA
MEDiCAM Office: #6H, St. 592, Sangkat Boeungkak II,
Khan Toulkok, Phnom Penh. Tel: 023 880 292/012 932 214
HACC Office: #08, St. 490, Sangkat Pshar Deumtkov,
Khan Chamkarmon, Phnom Penh. Tel: 012 872 642 |23 217 964
CPN+ Office: #84, St. 606, BoeungKak II, TuolKork, Phnom Penh
Tel: 023 880 072
Operation ASHA Office: #27B4, St. 313, BoeungKak 2,
Khan Toul Kork, Phnom Penh. Tel: 092 168 681/096 2051024
Persons representing key affected populations:
Entertainment worker/MSM/TG/IDU.
Mr. Taing Phoeuk, Director of Kasang/FoNPAM.
Kasang/FoNPAM Office: #98, St. 59BT, Sangkat Boeung Tompun,
Khan Meanchey, Phnom Penh.
Tel: 085 56 55 51
Persons living with the diseases (Malaria Patients):
Mr. Daniel P. Dimick, Country Director, Health Poverty Action, (HPA)
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4
5
Private Sector
Academic/
Education Sector
Multilateral/
Bilateral Partners
Address
Faith-Based Organization:
Mr. PrumThoeun, Executive Director,
Salvation Center Cambodia, (SCC)
Cambodian Chamber of Commerce (CCC):
NeakOknha Kith Meng, President, CCC
Public Academic Institution:
Prof. ChheaChhorvann, Director,
National Institute of Public Health, NIPH
Bilateral Agencies:
Ms. Tiphaine Ferry, French Embassy.
Multilateral Agencies:
Ms. Claire Van der Vaeren, UN Resident Coordinator, Cambodia
HPA Office: #46, St. 103, Sangkat Pshar Deumtkov,
Khan Chamkarmon, Phnom Penh. Tel: 023 214 363/023 215 192
SCC Office:
#12Eo, Street 79BT, Sangkat Boeung Tompun, Phnom Penh
Cambodian Chamber of Commerce Office: # 7D, Confederation
de la Russie Blvd (110), 1st Floor, Room A, 12156 Phnom Penh.
NIPH Office:
#2, Blvd Kim Yi Sung, BoeungKak II, Khan ToulKok, Phnom Penh
French Embassy Office:
#1 boulevard Monivong, Phnom Penh
UNDP Office: #53, Pasteur Street, Boeung Keng Kang I,
P.O. Box 877, Phnom Penh
Further information is available from the CCC Secretariat:
Dr. Chiv Bunthy, Secretariat Manager
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Kerry Reassures Afghanistan’s
Neighbors Over Border Security
ReuteRs
dUShAnBe,
Tajikistan - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry sought
yesterday to reassure the rulers
of Tajikistan and Turkmenistan
that washington remained committed to Central Asia’s security,
even though it is withdrawing troops
from neighboring Afghanistan.
Both countries fear the spread
of islamist militancy, and U.S. officials worry that government crackdowns will backfire and bring greater instability.
Kerry met Tajik President imomali Rakhmon in dushanbe and
was due to meet Turkmen President Kurbanguly Berdymukhamedov in Ashgabat later yesterday.
“i emphasized the United States’
commitment to work with Tajikistan and other countries...to
strengthen border security,” Kerry
said after the talks with Rakhmon.
The two visits come on the last
day of Kerry’s tour of Central Asia.
he made stops in all five of the region’s former Soviet republics, in
an effort to show that washington
intends to stay engaged as Russia,
fresh from forays into Ukraine and
Syria, reasserts itself.
U.S. officials hope Central Asian
leaders will see U.S. President Barack Obama’s recent decision to
slow the pace of U.S. withdrawal
from Afghanistan as proof that
washington is not abandoning
them.
At the same time, Kerry emphasized in the Kazakh capital, Astana,
on Monday that Central Asian governments must not use fears of extremism as an excuse to crack
down on dissent or as a “license to
use violence indiscriminately.” either would only radicalize more
people, he said.
U.S. officials are especially concerned about Tajikistan. during
the summer, Rakhmon’s government banned the only official islamist political party in Central Asia.
Kerry’s trip to Central Asia followed warnings from Russian officials about the danger of islamist
militants infiltrating the region
from Afghanistan, accompanied
by hints Moscow will respond by
beefing up its military presence.
Though Russian officials say they
are driven only by concern about
militants, not geopolitical rivalry,
their heightened attention risks fueling U.S. suspicions that Moscow is
trying to rebuild its old empire.
Reuters
Police escort driver Shiv Kumar Yadav, third right, who is accused of a
rape, outside a court in New Delhi in 2014.
Uber Driver Gets Life Sentence
For Rape of Passenger in India
ReuteRs
new delhi - An indian court yester-
day jailed a driver of U.S.-based ridehailing company Uber for life for
raping a passenger, in a case that
highlighted the dangers faced by
women from violent sex crimes.
driver Shiv Kumar Yadav received the maximum sentence after he was found guilty last month
of the rape, kidnapping and criminal intimidation of the woman,
who had hailed a ride home from
a party in delhi last december.
Yadav got his job with Uber with
fake references, enabling him to
hide his criminal record. The firm
was banned in delhi as a result
and has only recently regained the
right to operate after tightening
driver checks.
The case revived memories of
the horrific rape and murder on a
moving bus of a young physiotherapist in delhi in 2012, which became the subject of a BBC documentary that was banned by the
indian government this year.
The authorities fast-tracked Yadav’s trial to meet the public’s demand for swift justice.
The victim, a woman working
for an international consulting
firm, fell asleep on the way home.
Yadav then drove to a secluded
place and raped her.
Yadav’s lawyer, d.K. Mishra,
said he would appeal against the
sentence in a higher court.
The passenger also sued Uber
in a U.S. federal court in January,
but later withdrew her suit.
indian authorities face sustained
criticism for not doing enough to
address a weak system of law enforcement and policing that leaves
women vulnerable to sex crimes.
Politicians often blame rape
victims for the crime committed
against them in comments that reflect entrenched patriarchal attitudes in india.
in 2014, 36,735 rapes were committed and nearly 338,000 crimes
against women were reported, according to data from india’s national Crime Records Bureau.
last month, the federal government released guidelines to regulate online taxi companies, saying
they should do stringent security
checks and not contract anyone
convicted of a “cognizable offense”
under india’s criminal laws.
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ែ ​លើ​ករ​​អង្កត
ែ ​តម​​កន្លង
ែ ​លក់​មសៅ
ែ ​ទក
ឹ ​
ថា​អតែែ ​នែ ​ករ​​បំ បៅ​ទារក​​កែ ម ​អាយុ ​៦​
ខែ ត​ច
្ត ន
ំ ន
ួ ​៦​ក​រា
ែ ជធនីភព
្នំ ែ ញ​ដោយ​​មន
ិ ​
ដោះ​​គោ​កន
ូ ​កង
្មែ ​នោះ​​ឲយែ ​គោរ​​ព​តម​​ចបា
ែ ប់​។
សិកែសា​របស់​កែសួង​ផែ ន​​ករ​​ដែ ល​​រក​​ឃើ ញ​​
ខែ ​ដោយ​​ទក
ឹ ​ដោះ​​បន​​ធក
្លែ ​ច
់ ុះ​ព​៧
ី ៣​​,៥ភាគ​​
រយ​​នៅ​កង
្នុ ​ឆ​២
្នែំ ០១០​​ មក​​នៅ​តម
ែឹ ​៦៥​​ភាគ​​
រយ​​កង
្នុ ​ឆ​២
្នែំ ០១៤។
លោក​​បន​​មន​​បស
ែ
សន៍​នៅ​កង
្នុ ​សែចក្ត​ី
ថ្លង
ែ ​ករណ៍​នែះ​ថា​"មន​​កត្ត​ម
ែ យ
ួ ​ចន
ំ ន
ួ ​ដែល​
ធ្វ​ឲ
ើ យែ ​មនករ​ធក
្លែ ច
់ ុះ​ដច
ូ ្នែះ​ គឺ​ដច
ូ ​ជា​ ករខ្វះ​
ចំ ណះ ​ដឹ ង ​ករ​​ខ្វះ ​ករ​​គទ
ំ ែ ​ពី ​កែុ ម ​គែួ សរ​​
ួ ​ដោយ​​
national​បន​​ចែ ញ​របយករណ៍​មយ
សូ ម ​អំ ពាវ ​នវ ​ដ ល់ ​ភាគី ​ពាក់ ​ព័ ន្ធ ​ទាង
ំ ​អ ស់ ​
ដែ ល​​ធ្វើ ​ករ​​ផ្នែ ក ​គពា
ំ រ​​សុ ខ ភាព​​មត​និ ង​
នែ ះ​បង្ហញ
ែ ​ថា​ក្នង
ុ ​ចណោ
ំ
ម​​ផលិត​ផល​​១១០​​
បែភែ ទ​​គន
្មែ ​ផលិត​ផល​​ណា​មយ
ួ ​"អនុវត្ត​ឲយែ ​
បន​​ពែ ញ​​លែ ញ"​តម​​ចែ បាប់ ​ស្តី ​ពី ករ​​ផែ ស ព្វ ​
ផែសាយ​​ដូច​ដែ ល​​មន​​នៅ​ក្នុង​អនុកែឹតែយ​របស់​
រដ្ឋភ
ែ ប
ិ ល​​ឡើយ​។
របយករណ៍​េនះ​​ដែល​មន​​ចណ
ំ
ង​​ជើង​
ករណ៍​នែះ ​មក​​កែសួង​សុខាភិបល​​កែយ​
ពិនត
ិ យែ ករ​​អនុវត្ត​អនុកត
ែឹ យែ ​លែ ខ​១៣៣​​នែះ ​
និង​បន​​រៀប​​ច​ស
ំ ក
ិ ស
្ខែ
លា​​ដើ មបែ ​ជ
ី ន
ួ ​ដណ
ំ
ង
ឹ ​
ដល់​វស
ិ យ
័ ​ឯកជន​​ឲយែ ​សស
្គែ ​ព
់ ​ក
ី តព្វកច
ិ ​រ
្ច បស់​
ខ្លន
ួ ​ហើ យ​​បន្ទប
ែ ​ម
់ ក​​ទៀ ត​​បន​​ផ​ស
្ញើ រ​​ពម
ែ ន​​
ជា​​ផ្លូវ​ករ​​ដល់​ភាគី​ពាក់​ព័ន្ធ​ទាង
ំ ​អស់​នៅ​ក្នុង​
ឧសែសាហកម្ម​នែះ​។
លោក​​សែី ​ឱ​វ៉ែ ន់ ​ឌី ន ​អគ្គនយក​​នែ ​អ គ្គ​
នយក​​ដន​
្ឋែ ​បច្ចក​
ែ ​ទែស​​នៅ​កែសួង​​សុខាភិ​​បល​​
ភាគ​​រ យ​​មន​​ស ភាព​​កែិ ន ​ហើ យ​​បន​​ផ្តែ ត​
លែ ខ​​១៣៣​​តវ​
ែូ ​បន​​អនុវត្ត​​យង​
៉ែ ​តឹង​​រង​​
ឹុ ​ហើយ​​​
លើ ​សរៈ ​សខា
ំ ន់​នែ ​សខ
ុ ភាព​​របស់កម
ុ រ​នៅ​
ក្នង​
ុ ​រយៈ ​ពែ ល​​២​ឆ​ដ
្នែំ ំបូង​​ជា​​ពែ ល​​ដែ ល​​អាហារ​​
ជំនស
ួ ​ឲយែ ​ទក
ឹ ​ដោះ​​កព
ំ ង
ុ ​វយ​​លក
ុ ​។
បន​​លើ ក​​ឡើ ង​​កល​​ព​ម
ី សែ ល
ិ មិញ​ថា​​​អនុកត
ែឹ យែ ​
បនស្ន​ឲ
ើ យែ ​អក
្ន ​យក​​ពត
័ ​ម
៌ ន​​មក
្នែ ​ផ
់ ល
្ត ​ភ
់ ស
័ ត
្តុ ង​​
បែសន
ិ បើ មនករ​​នយ
ិ
យ​​ផយ
្ទុ ​ព​ន
ី ែ ះ​។
ដោយ​បដិសែធ​មន
ិ ​បប
ែ ព
់ ​ក
ី រ​​ដែល​អាច​​
របយករណ៍​នែះ ​មន​​ខ្លឹម​សរ​​ដូច្នែះ​ថា
មនករ​ដក់​ទោស​​ទណ្ឌ​ណា​មយ
ួ ​នោះ ​លោក​​
បញ្ហ​គ
ែ រ
ួ ​ឲយែ ​ពយ
ែួ ​បរម្ភ​ដែល​បង្ក​ឡើង​ដោយ​​
មិន​អនុវត្ត​តម​​អនុកត
ែឹ យែ ​នែះ​ទែ​យើ ង​នង
ឹ ​ធ​្វើ
"សភាព​​កែិន​ដែ ល​​មន​​អតែែ​ខ្ពស់​នែះ ​គឺជា​
ដោះ​​ដែ ល​ធ​ឲ
្វើ យែ ​មន​​ករយល់​ចឡ
ែ ​ន
ំ ែ ះ​"។
កង្វះ​អាហារូបត្ថម្ភ​​អំឡុង​​រយៈ ​ពែល​​១.០០០​​ថ​្ងែ
ករ​​ចុះ​ទៅ​ពន
ិ ត
ិ យែ ​តម​​គន
្លី ក
ិ ​ឯកជន​ ឱសថ​​
យោ​​តម​​លោកសែ​ី សួង​សុខសោភា​​​បន​​
សញ្ញែ​របស់​កែុមហ៊ុន​លក់​មែសៅ​ទឹក​ដោះ​​គោ​
ទារក​ និង​អាហារូបត្ថម​្ភ មែ ត​ឃ
្តែ
​ម
្លែំ ើ ល​និង​
គែប​គ
់ ង
ែ ​ករ​​ផសែ ព្វ​ផសា
ែ យ​​អាហារ​​ជន
ំ ស
ួ ​ឲយែ ​ទក
ឹ ​
បែ​ប
ើ
ស
ែ ​ម
់ ន​​ករ​​យល់​ចឡ
ែ ​"ំ ។
មក​​បន​​បង្កត
ើ ​គណៈ កម្មករ​​មយ
ួ ​ដើ មែប​ត
ី ត
ែួ ​
កូន​កង
្មែ "​បន​​គស
ូ ​បញ្ជក
ែ ​ថា
់ ​កុមរ​​កម្ពជា
ុ ​៣២​​
លោក​​បន​​មន​​បែ សសន៍ ​ប ន្ថែ ម ​ថា​"ខ្ញុំ ​
បែើ ​យុ ទ្ធ សស្តែ ​ទី ផែ សារ​​ដែ ល​​អាច​​ធ្វើ ​ឲែ យ ​អ្ន ក​
រាប់​បញ្ចល
ូ ​មន្ទរ
ី ​ពែទយែ ​និង​គន
្លី ក
ិ ​ ។​ករ​​សក
ិ សា
ែ ​
និង​ករ​​កើន​ឡើង​នែ​ករ​​ផសែ ព្វ​ផសា
ែ យ​​អព
ំ ​ម
ី សៅ
ែ ​
យល់​ចឡ
ែ ​ក
ំ ង
្នុ ​ចណោ
ំ
ម​​បជា
ែ ​ពល​​រដ្ឋ"។
អារម្ម ណ៍ ​លើ ​ផ លិ ត ​ផ ល​​ពួ ក ​គែ ​ហើ យ​​បន​​
ឲែយដ​ង
​ឹ ​ទៀត​​ថា​ ចាប់​តង
ំ ​ព​ព
ី ែ ល​ចែញ​របយ​
ថា​"ករ​​ផសែ ព្វ​ផសា
ែ យ​និង​ករ​​រលោ
ំ
ភ​​បពា
ំ ន​​សក
្លែ ​
ទឹ ក ​ដោះ​​គោ​កូ ន ​ក្មែ ង ​ដែ ល​ធ្វើ ​ឲែ យ ​មន​​ករ​​
សិ ក្ខែ សលា​​ជា​ចែើ ន ​ដែ ល ​ទាក់ ទាញ ​ឪ ពុ ក​​
ដោះ​​គោ​កូ ន ​ក្មែ ង ​ចំ នួ ន ​៦ ៦កន្លែ ង ​នៅ​ក្នុ ង​
ករ​​ធ​ច
្វើ ណា
ំ
ក​​សក
ែុ ​ដើមបែ ​រ
ី ក​​ករ​​ងរ​​ធ​្វើ ករ​​
ឈប់ ​ស មែែ ក ​លំ ហែ ​មតុ ភាព​​រ យៈ ​ពែ ល​​ខ្លី ​
លោក ​សែី ​បន ​មន ​បែ សស ន៍ ​ថា​​​កែុ ម​​
ំ ង
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ុ រ​​”។​​
ដំបង
ូ ​[២៤ខែ ដប
សែ​ប
ី ន​​លើ កឡើ ង​ថា​"បែសន
ិ ​បើ ​កម
ែុ ហ៊ន
ុ ​
តម​​ចបា
ែ ប់​"។​​​
ស្តែី​ទើ ប​​សមែែល​កូន​ជាលើ កដំូង​ដែ ល​​
របយករណ៍​នែះ ​បន​​សន្និដ្ឋែន​ថា​"ករ​​
តែវ
ូ ​បន​​សក​​សរ
ួ ​កល​​ព​ព
ី រ
ី ​សប្តហ
ែ ​ម
៍ ន
ុ ​ បន​​
ដែ ល​ចាត់​ទក
ុ ​ករ​​ផសែ ព្វ​ផសា
ែ យ​​អាហារ​​ជន
ំ ស
ួ ​ឲយែ ​
វ​​ធ្ង ន់ ​ធ្ង រ ​ណាស់ ​ហើ យ​​វ​ត មែូ វ ​ឲែ យ ​មន​​ករ​​
ចិញម
្ចឹ ​កន
ូ ​របស់​ខន
្លួ ​ដោយ​​ប​ម
ែើ សៅ
ែ ​ទក
ឹ ​ដោះ​​
ខុស​ចបា
ែ ប់​នោះ​​ជា​​នច
ិ ​ក
្ច ល​​ពម
ុំ ន​​ករ​​អនុវត្ត​
នៅក្នុ ង ​អីុ ម៉ែ ល ​មួ យ ​កល​​ពី ​មែ សិ ល មិ ញ​​​
ស្ថន
ែ ​និង​កន្លង
ែ ​លក់​សម្ភរ
ែ ​ទារក​​នៅ​កង
្នុ ​រាជ​​
ធនី​ភព
្នំ ែ ញ​បង្ហញ
ែ ​ថា​អនុកត
ែឹ យែ ​លែខ​១៣៣​​
ទឹក​ដោះ​​សមែប
ែ ​ក
់ ង
្មែ ​ៗ​អាយុ​កម
ែ ​ពរ
ី ​ឆ​ថា
្នែំ
ែឹ យែ ​លែខ​១៣៣] គឺ​
រំលោភ​​បពា
ំ ន​​លើ​[អនុកត
ចាត់​វធ
ិ នករ​​ជា​បន្ទន
ែ ​"់ ។
តម​​នោះ​​ទែ​។
លោក សែី ​សួ ង ​សុ ខ ​សោភា​​​អ្ន ក ​គែ ប់ ​គែ ង​​
និ យយ​​ថា​តំ ណាង​​កែុ ម ​ហ៊ុ ន ​ល ក់ ​មែ សៅ​ទឹ ក​
អង្គ ករ​Wo r l d Vi s i o n បន​​លើ ក​​ឡើ ​ង ថា​​​
បុ គ្គ លិ ក ​នៅ​តម ​គ្លី និ ក ​មួ យ ​ចំ នួ ន ​បន​​
ដោះ​​គោ​កន
ូ ​កង
្មែ ​បន​​យក​​មសៅ
ែ ​ទក
ឹ ​ដោះ​​គោ​
កូន​កង
្មែ ​មក​​ទក
ុ ​សមែប
ែ ​ច
់ ែ ក​ដល់​ស​ទ
្តែី ើ ​បស​​
មែល
ែ ​កន
ូ ​ដោយ​​ឥត​​គត
ិ ​ថ​្លែ ហើ យ​ថា​បុគល
្គ ក
ិ ​
គ្លន
ី ក
ិ ​បន​​យល​ព
​់ ម
ែ ​ធ​ត
្វើ ម​​ទោះ​​ប​ជា
ី ​ដង
ឹ ​ថា
វ​​អាច ​ផ្ត ល់ ​ផ ល ​ប៉ះ ពាល់ ​អ វិ ជ្ជ មន ​ដ ល់ ​
សុខភាព​​ទារក​​ក​ដោ
៏
យ​​។​បុគល
្គ ក
ិ ​មយ
ួ ​ចន
ំ ន
ួ ​ក​៏
ជាន់​ខ្ពស់​ទទួល​បន្ទុក​ផ្នែក​ធ្វើ​យុទ្ធនករ​​នៅ​
បុ គ្គ លិ ក ​សុ ខាភិ បល​និ ង ​បុ គ្គ លិ ក ​ប មែើ ​ករ​
ផ្តល​ហ
់
ែ តផ
ុ ល​​ផសែ ែ ង​ៗ​គ​ច
្នែ ពោ
ំ
ះ​​ករ​​សមែច
ែ ​
គោ​​កន
ូ ​កង
្មែ ​។​កត្តធ
ែ ៗ
ំ ​ចន
ំ ន
ួ ​ពរ
ី ​គឺ​ថា​ពួក​គត់​
គ្មែ ន ​ទឹ ក ​ដោះ​​គែ ប់ ​គែ ន់ ​និ ង ​ទារក​​មិ ន ​ពែ ម​
បៅ​​ដោះ​​ប ន្ទែ ប់ ​ពី ​បន ​សក ​សែ ប ង ​បៅ​ទឹ ក​​
ដោះ​​គោ​រច
ួ ​។
លោក សែី ​សូ ហ្វី ​ហ្គែ យ៉ែ ត ​( S o p h i e
Goyet )​ជា​​ឆ្មប​ម្នែក់​ជំនញ​​ខាង​​សមែែល​កូន​
តម​​កន្លង
ែ ​លក់​មសៅ
ែ ​ទក
ឹ ​ដោះ​​គោ​កន
ូ ​កង
្មែ ​ជា​
និង​រោគ​​រាតតែបាត​​បន​​ផល
្ត ​ក
់ រ​​ពនែយល់​កល​​ព​ី
ហើ យ​ថា​ករ​​ធ​ទ
្វើ ផ
ី សា
ែ រ​​ផសែ ព្វ​ផសា
ែ យ​​ផលិត​ផល​​
ពាក់​ពន
័ ​ន
្ធ ង
ឹ ​កត្ត​ធ
ែ ៗ
ំ ​ទាង
ំ ​ពរ
ី ​នែះ​ និង​ករ​​ផល
្ត ​់
ទូ ទៅ​មិ ន ​បន​​ដឹ ង ​អំ ពី ​អ នុ កែឹ តែ យ ​នែះ ​ឡើ យ​​​
បែ ប​​នែះ​​"មន​​ករ​​កើ ន​​ឡើ ង​​គួរ​​ឲែយ​​កត់​​សម្គល់​
ែ ​"​
នៅ​​កង
្នុ ​រយៈ​​ពែល​បន
៉ុ ន
្មែ ​ឆ​ថ
្នែំ ​ៗ
្មី ​នែះ​។
មែសល
ិ មិញ​ថា​មូលហែ ត​ទា
ុ ង
ំ ​អស់​នោះ​​គ​ជា
ឺ ប់​
ព័ត​ម
៌ ន​​មន
ិ ​ពត
ិ ​។​ លោកសែ​ប
ី ន​​លើក​ឡើង​
តទៅទំព័រ១៥
ខេមបូឌា​ ដេលី
ថ្ងៃពុធទី៤ខៃវិច្ឆិកាឆ្នៃំ២០១៥
១៥
ព័ត៌មានជាតិ
មេ ដក
ឹ ​នាគ
ំ ណបកេស​បឆា
េ ង
ំ ...
បន្តវបាបធម៌ស
ន្ទន។
សន្នស
ិ ទ
ី កាសា តនៅខាងកអា
ា កាសយាន
ដល់ជមួយគ្នា ហើ យបនសង្កតធ
់ ន
្ង ព
់ ត
ី មាវ
ូ ទៅមួ យ ថ្ងា មនឧ បា ប ត្តិ ហា តុ មនភពតាន
ហើ យភ្លម
ា នោះពក
ួ លោកបនដើរឆ្ពាះទៅ
ស្ងបស
់
ត
្ងា វ
់ ញ
ិ ។
គ្នប
ា ន្តច
ិ បន្តច
ួ មិនតាវ
ូ ធឲ
្វើ ាយវបាបធម៌សន្ទននា ះ
តមកពីទំព័រ ១៣
ការកង
្នុ ការធឲ
្វើ យា សន
្ថា ការណ៍វល
ិ ទៅរកភព
ដោយសំដៅដល់ទំនក់ទំនងរវាងគណ
បកាសបជ
ា ជនកម្ពជ
ុ និងគណបកាសសង្គាះ
ជតិដាលមននយ
័ ថាដើមាបជ
ី ន
ំ ស
ួ អព
ំ ើ ហង
ិ សា
ា លោកបនមនបាសសន៍ថា"ពីមួយថ្ងា
តឹងម្តងម្កាលមនការចោទបាកាន់ប៉ះទង្គិច
ចុះថយឬមនជម្លាះទា ។ផ្ទយ
ុ ទៅវិញគត
ឺ វ
ាូ ជំរញ
ុ ឲយា យើងរកដណោ
ំ
ះសាយ
ា ដោយសន្តិ
ដ្ឋន
ា អន្តរជតិភព
្នំ ា ញឡើយកាលពីយប់មញ
ិ
រថយន្តដា លរង់ចាដ
ំ ើ មបា ច
ី ល
ូ រួមជមួយកបា ន
ួ យានយន្ត រ បស់ កាុ ម អ្ន ក គទ
ំ ា តាមផ្លូ វ ទៅ
កានគ
់ ា ហដ្ឋន
ា របស់លោកទាង
ំ ពីរ។
មុនពាលមកដល់រាជធានីភព
្នំ ា ញមាដក
ឹ
វិធ"ី ។
នំគ ណ ប កា ស បា ឆំង ទាង
ំ ពី រ បន ទៅសួ រ
បនមនបា សសន៍ ថា"យើ ងច ង់ រ កា សានិ ង
ដា លសរ
ួ ថាតើ លោកគិតថាអ្វដ
ី ា លជមូល
សភតំណាងរាស្តាគណបកាសសង្គាះជតិ
ថាគ្មា ន ជ មាើ ស អ្វី កា ពី ការជ ជា កគ្នា ក្នុ ង
ដកលោកកឹមសុខាចា ញពីអនុបាធានទី១
នយោបយជមួ យ ការស ន្ទ ននោះលោក
ពងាង
ឹ វបាបធម៌សន្ទនពីពាះយើងជឿជក់
ស្មា រ តី គោរពគ្នា ទៅវិ ញ ទៅមកឲា យ ត ម្លា គ្នា
ទៅវិញទៅមកឡើ យ"។
លោកសមរងាសុី បនថង
្លា ថា"តវ
ាូ សប
ុើ លោកសមរងា សុី បនគា ចវា សសំ ណួ រ
ហា តរ
ុ បស់គណបកាសបជ
ា ជនកម្ពជ
ុ កង
្នុ ការ
រដ្ឋសភកាលពីថ្ងាសុកាសប្តាហ៍មុនដោយ
បង្វរា សណ
ំ រួ ទៅគណបកាសបជ
ា ជនកម្ពជ
ុ ។
អំឡង
ុ សម័យបជ
ា រុំ ដ្ឋសភកាលពីសប្ដហ
ា ៍
សុខទុកលោ
្ខ
ក ញ៉យ ចំរីន និងលោក គង់
ដា លតវ
ាូ បនទាញចា ញពីរថយន្តរបស់ខន
្លួ ខណៈពួកលោកចាកចាញពីរដ្ឋសភ ហើ យ
តាូវបនវាយដំដោយកាុមបុរសដា លចូល
រួមបតុកម្មបឆ
ា ង
ំ លោកកឹមសុខា។
លោកទាង
ំ ពីរកព
ំ ង
ុ សមាក
ា ពយា
ា បលនៅ
អង្កត
ា ឲយា បនតម
ាឹ តាវ
ូ សុប
ើ អង្កត
ា តាមវជ
ិ ្ជា
មុន លោក ជម យៀប សមជិកសភជន់
មន្ទរ
ី ពាទយា កង
្នុ កង
ាុ បងកកហើ យទទួលការ
មុខជនដា ដល់និងជននៅពីកាយជនដា
បាសសន៍ថាលោកកឹមសុខាជកម្លង
ាំ បង្ក
ដា លលោកទាង
ំ ពីរទទួលរងដោយសរស្នា
ជីវៈ សុប
ើ អង្កត
ា របៀបឯករាជាយ ដើ មបា វ
ី ា ក
ដល់ ដា លបនប ង្ក ស្នា ម រ បួ ស ដល់ តំ ណាង
រាស្តព
ា រ
ី រូបមកពីគណបកាសសង្គាះជតិ"។
ខ្ព ស់ គ ណ ប កា ស បា ជជ ន ក ម្ពុ ជបន មន
ភពចលាចលនៅកង
្នុ បទ
ា ា ស។
លោកជមយៀបបននយា
ិ
យពលោ
ី
ក
វះ កាត់ ការបក់ ឆ្អឹ ង និ ង រ បួ ស ផា សា ងទៀ ត
ដា កម
ាុ គទ
ំ គ
ា ណបកាសបជ
ា ជនកម្ពជ
ុ ។
យោង តាម លោក ខៀ វ សុ ភ័ គ អ្ន ក នំ
មា ដឹ ក នំគ ណបកា ស បា ឆង
ំ រូ ប នា ះ បន
កឹម សុខា ថា "នៅពាលណាគត់ទៅកន្លង
ា ពាកាយកាសួងមហផ្ទាដា លបនលើ កឡើ ង
សូមទោសលោកហ៊ន
ុ សា នចំពោះការចាត់
ឲាយប៉ះពាល់ដល់ភពស្ងប់ស្ងាត់និងតាូវបន
បន្ថាមទៀ តពីពាះពួកគា និយាយថាពួក
គា ចវា សសំណួរដា លសួរថាតើ លោកនឹង
ទុកការវាយដំតំណាងរាស្តាកាលពីសប្តាហ៍
មុនថាជគរំ ន
ូ ា "របៀ បហស
្វា ស
ុី "របស់លោក
នយករដ្ឋមន្តាីឬអត់នោះដា លគណបកាស
បាជជនកម្ពជ
ុ លើ កឡើ ងថាចាំបច់សមាប
ា ់
នាយក​​រដ្ឋ​មន្តអ
េី ពា
ំ វ​​នាវ​​...
ណាក៏ដោយគត់បង្កភពចលាចលដាលធ្វើ
ហមឃាត់ដោ
យរដ្ឋធម្មនុញ្ញឆ្នាំ១៩៩៣។
គត់តា ងតា និយាយពីអ្វីៗដា លបង្កឲាយមន
ជម្លាះរវាងគណបកាសទាង
ំ ពរ
ី "។
លោក កឹម សុខា មិនបននយា
ិ
យអឡ
ំ ង
ុ ថាលោករំ ពឹ ង ថានឹ ង មិ ន មនការចាប់ ខ្លួ ន
គា បនបព
ា ត
ាឹ ទ
្ត ង្វន
ើ ា ះ ដោយខន
្លួ ឯងនោះ
បនឲយា ដង
ឹ ថា កាលពីមសា ល
ិ មិញ បុរសបន
ី ក់
បនបគ
ា ល់ខន
្លួ ឲយា គណៈកម្មការដាលធកា
្វើ រ
សុប
ើ ង្កត
ា ការវាយដន
ំ ា ះ៕ សរុន
ចាន
ើ បាសន
ិ បើមន
ិ បនទាង
ំ អស់"។
ដោយទក
ឹ ដោះជវធ
ិ ស
ី
ស្តដ
ា ា លបជ
ា ជន
ថាទារកនង
ឹ មន
ិ ពម
ា បៅដោះ ឡើ យបន្ទប
ា ់
ចំនន
ួ ក៏បននយា
ិ
យផងដារថាទោះបជ
ី មន
លោកបនលើ កឡើ ងទៀ តថាការដា លអាច
ដោះម្តាយ វាត មាូវ ឲា យ មនការរៀ នបៅរី ឯ
មនការផល
្ត ម
់ សៅ
ា ទក
ឹ ដោះ គោកន
ូ កង
្មា ដោយ
តមកពីទំព័រ ១៤
ពីសកលបា ងបៅទក
ឹ ដោះគោ ពាាះការបៅ
ការបៅទឹកដោះគោវិញវាងាយសាួលជង
ឆ្ងយ
ា ណាស់។
លោកសប
ាី នមនបស
ា
សន៍ថា "ហា តុ
ដូច្នាះហើ យមុនពា លទារករៀ នបៅដោះ
ស្តទ
ាី ើ បសមាល
ា កន
ូ ជលើ កដំបង
ូ មយ
ួ បមាា ម បិ ទ នៅតាមគ្លីនិ ក ក៏ ដោយក៏ នៅតា ឥតគិតថ្លាពីបុគ្គលិកសុខាភិបលអមជមួយ
ការណា នំពាក់ ព័ ន្ធ នឹ ង សរៈ សំ ខាន់ នា ទឹ ក
ដោះមយ
្តា ។
នៅក្នុ ង អីុ ម៉ា ល មួ យ កាលពី មា សិ ល មិ ញ
ខ្មរ
ា តាងតា យកមកអនុវត្តពាលចញ
ិ ម
្ចឹ កន
ូ ។
ទទួលបនផលចណ
ំ
ា ញដោយសរការពងាក
ី ទីផសា
ា របនធឲ
្វើ យា តណា
ំ
ងកម
ាុ ហ៊ន
ុ លក់មសៅ
ា ទឹកដោះ គោកន
ូ កង
្មា ធ្វកា
ើ រផសា ព្វផសា
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ចាកពកា
ី រពត
ិ ហើ យ"បញ្ចុះបញ្ចល
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ឲាយផល
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់ ក
ឹ ដោះគោភម
្លា ទៅដល់ទារកដាល
ទើ បតានង
ឹ កើតហើ យបន្ទប
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់ កា
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គួរចៀសវាងកឲ
ុំ យា ទារកបៅកបា
ា លដោះសប
ិ បា លោកអាណូតឡា លូ (Arnaut Laillou)អ្នក
បៅតាមបាបមន
ិ តម
ាឹ តវ
ាូ "។
Cambodia បនលើកឡើងថាដោយសរការ
ដ៏មនបាសិទ្ធភពសមាាប់កាុមហ៊ុន។ស្តាី
សាួ ល ក្នុ ង ការរ កទិ ញ មា សៅទឹ ក ដោះគោកូ ន
ជក់ លើ បុ គ្គ លិ ក សុ ខាភិ បលហើ យក៏ ជឿ និមិត្ត ហា តុដូច្នាះទារកវាមិនទម្លប
ា ់កង
្នុ ការ
ជំនញខាងអាហរូបត្ថមនៅ
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អង្គការ Unicef
លោកសាី បនប ន្ថា ម ថា"ការផ្ត ល់ មា សៅ
ធ្វើទីផាសារមិនតាឹមតាូវនិងការកាន់តា ងាយ
សមាល
ា កន
ូ ជលើ កដំបង
ូ គឺវាពត
ិ ជអាកាក់
ក្មង
ា នោះ អាហរជន
ំ ស
ួ ឲាយទក
ឹ ដោះបនធ្វើ
ទឹកដោះគោឬដបទឹកដោះគោឲាយស្តាីទើ ប
ណាស់ ហើ យគួ រ តា ចៀ សវាងឲា យ បនភគ
ឲា យ មនការបោះប ង់ ចោលទ ម្លា ប់ បំ បៅកូ ន
មកទារកលាងបៅដោះមយ
្តា ហើយ។
លោកថង
្លា ថា"មន្ទរ
ី ពាទយា ទន
ំ ងជកន្លង
ា ដា លទើបនង
ឹ សមាល
ា កន
ូ ជលើ កដំបង
ូ ជឿ
ជក់ លើ យី ហោទឹ ក ដោះគោដា ល បាើ ុ ឈាង
បាស់
ា នៅកង
្នុ មន្ទរ
ី ពាទាយដារ"៕ស៊យ
១៦
ខេមបូឌា​ ដេលី
ថ្ងៃពុធទី៤ខៃវិច្ឆិកាឆ្នៃំ២០១៥
ព័ត៌មានជាតិ
បុរស​បី​នាក់​តេូវ​បាន​​...
តមកពីទំព័រ ១៣
ខ្លន
ួ ឯង។ ពួកគេ បនសរភពនៅចពោ
ំ
ះមខ
ុ សមត្ថកិច្ចហើ យជំហានបន្ទេប់គឺពួកគេ នឹង
អង្គការសង្គមសវ
ុី ល
ិ និងអង្គការសហបជា
េ បនលើកឡើងកាលពីសប្ដហ
េ ម
៍ ន
ុ ថាភពគរ
ួ ការសប
ុើ អង្កត
េ ផវ
្លូ ការនេះ។
លើ ភពឯករាជេយភពមន
ិ លម្អៀងភពហត
្ម ់
ជាតិតវ
េូ បនអនុញត
្ញេ ឲយេ ចល
ូ រម
ួ ឬតត
េួ ពន
ិ ត
ិ យេ ទោះបី ជាមនការអំ ពាវនវឲេ យ មនការ
ទទួលការផ្ដន្ទេទោសតមចេបាប់។យើ ងនឹង
សុប
ើ អង្កតដេ
េ
លមនការចូលរួមពាក់ព័ន្ធចន
េើ លោកលើកឡើងបន្តថាលោកមិនអាចធ្វើ
ថ្ងប
េ ន្ទប
េ ព
់ កា
ី រវយបហា
េ
រនោះថាសមជិក
បញ្ជន
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ួ គេ ទៅតលា
ុ
ការនៅថស
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អត្ថធ
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េ យបន្ថម
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ិ សេ ចក្ដី
លម្អត
ិ នេការចាប់ខន
្លួ បរ
ុ សទាង
ំ បន
ី ក់នេះឬ
មូលហេ តុដេ លពក
ួ គេ វយបហា
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រតណ
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ង
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បេ បនេះកក៏
្ដី កេសួងមហាផ្ទប
េ នបេកាសមួយ
ពីររប
ូ នេគណៈកម្មធ
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ិ រកណ្ដល
េ របស់គណ
បកេសបេជាជនកម្ពជា
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ី ប
ូ របស់ខន
្លួ ។
លោកឯមសំអានរដ្ឋលេខាធិការកស
េ ង
ួ ឲេយជឿ ទុកចិត្តនេការសបអង្ក
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ត
េ នេះ"ពឹងផក
្អេ ចត់និងការធឡ
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ើ ងភម
្លេ ៗរបស់វ
។ក្នង
៊ នយ
័ នេ ះរដ្ឋភ
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ិ លនង
ឹ ទទួលបនអត្ថបយោ
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ជន៍
ពីការបកសយ
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ំ ភ
ី ពឯករាជ និងភពមន
ិ លម្អៀងរបស់កម
េុ សប
ុើ អង្កត
េ នេះ បើ មន
ិ ដូច្នេះទេ គួរពចា
ិ រណសមសភពរបស់វ
ឡើ ងវញ
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ួ ឲយេ ជឿទុកចត
ិ ្ត
ួចជាសេច
របស់វ។ OHCHR តេៀមខ្លួនរ
ដើ មបេ រ
ី ម
ួ ចណ
ំ
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ិ មេ នជាសមជិកគណៈ កម្មការសប
ុើ មហាផ្ទេ ដេ លជាបធា
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ុើ លោកសមរងេស៊ី បេធានគណបកេសបឆា
េ ង
ំ រងនគរបលជាតិ ដេ លជាអនុបធា
េ នរបស់
កាលពីមសេ ល
ិ មិញលោកខៀវសុភគ
័ បនមន
កណ្ដល
េ របស់គណបកេសបេជាជនកម្ពជា
៊ ហើ យ
វ៉ន
េ ហៀលីដេ លថាការិយល័យសទ
ិ ម
្ធិ នុសសេ អង្កត
េ ដេលមនសមជិកបប
េំ រ
ី ប
ូ ។
ដេ លបនចទបកា
េ ន់លោកនយករដ្ឋមន្តេី
ហ៊ន
ុ សេ ន និងគណបកេសបជា
េ ជនកម្ពជា
៊ ថា
ជាអក
្ន រៀបចំការវយបហា
េ
រតណ
ំ
ងរាស្តេ
ទាំងនេះដើមបេ ស
ី ងសក
ឹ ចពោ
ំ
ះបតុកម្មដេល
បនស្វេ គ មន៍ លោកនៅប រទេ ស បនមន
បេ សសន៍ ប ន្ទេ ប់ ពី វិ ល តេ ឡ ប់ ពី បេ ទេ ស
អង្កត
េ នេះនិងលោកឆេ សុណរិទ្ធអគ្គ
ី
ស្នងការ
លោកសុ ទ្ធ តេ ស្ថិ ត ក្ន៊ ង ជួ រ គ ណៈ កម្មេ ធិ ការ
ទន្ទម
ឹ នេះឧត្ដមសេនយ
ី ឯ
៍ កឆេ សុណ
ី
រិទ្ធ ក៏
ស្ថិ ត ក្ន៊ ង ជួ រ គ ណៈ កម្ម ការឃោសនអ ប់ រំ ថ្មី របស់គណបកេសកាន់អណ
ំ
ចដេរ។
មន្តប
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ម
េំ យ
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ក្នង
៊ បទសម្ភស
េ មយ
ួ នៅឯកេសង
ួ មហាផ្ទេ
បេសសន៍ថាការលើកឡើងរបស់លោកសេី របស់អង្គការសហបេជាជាតិឬអ្នកផេសេ ងទៀ ត
អាចចល
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ួ កង
្ន៊ ការសប
ុើ អង្កត
េ នេះបនគឺជា
ការរលោ
ំ
ភអធិបតេ យយេ របស់កម្ពជា
៊ ។
លោកចទសួរថា"តើនៅក
្ន៊ងបេទេស
បរាំងវិញកាលពីយប់មញ
ិ ថាលោកនៅតេ
របស់គណបកេសបេជាជនកម្ពជា
៊ ដេរក្នង
៊ នោះ រួម
ប៉ន
ុ ន
្មេ ហើយដេលOHCHR របស់អង្គការសហ
លោកបនធ្វើការក ត់ ស ម្គេល់ ថា"ពេ ល
កងកម្លង
េំ របស់ខន
្លួ រងការចទបកា
េ ន់ថាបន
មនអធិបតេ យយេ ហើ យមន
ិ តវ
េូ ការការចល
ូ ចង់បនការសុើបអង្កត
េ ទូលំទូលាយ។
នេ ះ វឆាប់រហ័សពេ កហើ យសមេេប់ខ្ញ៊ំធ្វើ
អត្ថធ
េ ប
ិ បា
េ យពីពេះខច
្ញ៊ំ ង់សកសរ
ួ អក
្ន ដង
ឹ រឿ ងនិងអ្នកដេលបនតមដនរឿ ងនេះជាប់
ហើ យពេលនោះទើបខអា
្ញ៊ំ ចធអ
្វើ ត្ថធ
េ ប
ិ បា
េ យ
មនទាំងស្នងការរងរាជធានីភពេ
្នំ ញពីររូបដេ ល
ឈរមើលធព
្វើ េងើ យខណៈ តំណងរាស្តទា
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េូ បនវយដំ និងបនចល
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៊ សម្លៀកបពា
ំ ក់ពាក់សវ
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ិ ផងដេរ។
កាលពីសប្ដហ
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៍ ន
ុ ឧត្ដមសង
្ន ការអង្គការ
បេជាជាតិបនធរ
្វើ ឿ ងនេះ?ចេបាប់របស់កម្ពជា
៊ រួមរបស់អង្គការមន
ិ មេនរដ្ឋភ
េ ប
ិ លណមយ
ួ ឡើ យកេត
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េូ បន
បង្កត
ើ ឡើងនេះ។
លោកថង
្លេ ថាលោកឯមសំអាននិងឧត្ដម
បនតម
េឹ តវ
េូ ។នេ ះគន
េ ត
់ េ ជាតមេយ
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ួ សហបេជាជាតិទទួលបន្ទក
៊ សទ
ិ ម
្ធិ នុសសេ បន
សេ នយ
ី ឯ
៍ កឆេ សុណ
ី
រិទ្ធ នឹងមន
ិ បណ្ដយ
េ ឲេយមនការសប
ុើ អង្កត
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ូ ទ
ំ លា
ូ
យ ដោយ
កាលពីសប្ដហ
េ ម
៍ ន
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wednesday, november 4, 2015
The Cambodia daily
InternatIonal
Syrians Living in Damascus
Express Surprising Optimism
B y P atrick M c D onnell
los angeles times
Amid the din of Hamidiya market, Isahak Kraymeen took a break
from slinging cups of tamarind
juice from a magic lantern-style
brass cooler to reflect on the future
of his wounded homeland.
“I have hope now that a new sun
will soon rise to cover all the destruction,” declared the juice man,
decked out in a red fez and ballooned pants, a throwback to a time
when tourists thronged the storied
souk and posed for snapshots with
the Ottoman-era-like figure.
Across Old Damascus, in the
labyrinthine alleys of the Bab
Touma district, Juman Edilbi said
he sensed rising confidence
among fellow residents of the
Syrian capital.
“Each day I get the feeling more
and more that people think the
worst is behind us,” said Edilbi, a
bespectacled university student.
Shoppers thronged the famed
covered market, stopping at stalls
selling everything from women’s
clothing to copper ornaments to
handmade Arabic-style ice cream.
From the outside, the news from
civil-war stricken Syria appears
devoid of hope, a dismal loop of
executions, bombardments, bedraggled refugees on the move
and hyped diplomatic initiatives
that seem to go nowhere.
In Damascus, however, interviews with residents suggest a tentative sense of optimism, even as
the war drags through its fifth
year. Rising prices and power cuts
remain the norm, rebels still hold
sway in nearby suburbs and uncertainty about the future has become a fact of life.
Still, the mood seems cautiously
upbeat in the capital, even compared with a visit just four months
ago.
Russia’s monthlong intervention
on behalf of the government of
President Bashar al-Assad has lifted
the spirits of many government
supporters in the area, Assad’s base
of power and home to an estimated
5 million people. The capital remains under tight government control. Since the Russian aerial campaign began on September 30, loyalist forces have gone on the offensive outside Damascus and to the
north, winning back territory.
Even many Syrians opposed to
more than 40 years of Assad family
rule view the current government
as a bulwark against the Islamist
militants who have come to dominate the armed opposition.
On Sunday, insurgents in Duma,
a rebel stronghold northeast of Damascus, posted video of street
scenes featuring caged hostages,
identified as members of Assad’s
Alawite sect. The rebels said the
captives were being deployed on
the streets as human shields
against punishing government and
Russian airstrikes that, the opposition said, had killed hundreds of
civilians—an allegation denied by
Moscow.
“If you want to bomb us and we
die, they’ll die like us,” says an
apparent rebel fighter in the video,
referring to the Alawite hostages.
Although opposition activists
condemn Russia’s intervention,
pro-government residents are
thrilled that a major power has publicly taken their side against a formidable array of adversaries, including the U.S. and its partners, who
do not want Assad to remain in
power. Syria’s other major ally, Iran,
has also stepped up military aid.
“The Russians came to help us
as a friend, and we appreciate it, but
we must still depend on ourselves
and our God—and we will fight to
the end,” vowed one plainclothes
security man in a black leather jacket Monday at a checkpoint. “If need
be I will fight with this alone,” he
added, holding aloft his walkietalkie, as uniformed troops with
AK-47s nodded in agreement.
Last week’s declarations at an
international conference in Vienna
backing the maintenance of Syria’s
state institutions and the country’s
“secular character” also appear to
have quelled anxieties. A persistent
fear in the capital is that Syria will
suffer the kind of catastrophic collapse into anarchy seen after the
U.S.-backed toppling of authoritarian governments in Iraq and Libya.
The administration of U.S. President Barack Obama has said it
does not want the Syrian state to
fall apart.
In Damascus’ upper-middleclass Dumar district, children from
a ruling-party scout group were
raising Syrian flags and singing
patriotic slogans during a school
gathering on Monday.
“There is less fear now, people
are coming out to more activities,”
said Juliette Hasan, 37, the mother
of two boys in the ceremony.
“We stayed in Syria and I’m
happy we did. I think all of those
who left will come to regret it.”
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Vatican Arrests 2 Advisers Over Alleged Leaked Documents
B y A nthony F AiolA
the washington post
The arrest of two vatican insiders on suspicion of leaking damaging internal documents signaled
the return on Monday of an unwelcome guest at the Holy See’s ancient gates: scandal.
Lucio angel vallejo Balda, a 54year-old senior vatican bureaucrat,
and Francesca Chaouqui, a 33-yearold italian public relations maven
known in some circles as “the
pope’s lobbyist,” were taken into
custody over the weekend.
The arrests came as the vatican,
which denounced their actions as a
“grave betrayal” of Pope Francis’
trust, braced for the release of two
books this week based on leaks
that the Holy See appeared to link
to the two suspects.
The books—which reportedly
contain fresh revelations about corruption and mismanagement in the
vatican and about challenges to
Francis’ push for internal reform —
include one by italian journalist
Gianluigi nuzzi. nuzzi’s 2012 book
on a “vatileaks” scandal rocked the
papacy of Benedict Xvi by detailing
behind-the-scenes power struggles
revealed in documents stolen by
Pope Benedict’s butler. nuzzi’s
new book, according to his italian
publisher, is like a “crime novel”
and even quotes from recordings
Reuters
Pope Francis celebrates Mass on All Saints' Day in Rome on Sunday.
of Francis chastising his “top
brass.”
at a time when the pontiff is
grappling with deep divisions
among his hierarchy over the direction of his papacy, the surprise
weekend detentions could further
expose the internal rifts between
his ideological allies and factions
that oppose his efforts to reform
the church. They could also signal
a new phase for a vatican that has
generally basked in the glow of
good press under Francis and may
now need to revert to damage-control mode again.
On Monday, the publishers of
both books said they would stick to
their Thursday release dates despite the vatican’s suggestion that it
may pursue legal action.
“We haven’t snatched anything
from anyone,” said Lorenzo Fazio,
editorial director of Chiarelettere,
nuzzi’s italian publisher. “This is
the third book by nuzzi on the
vatican, and he’s always based his
work on incontrovertible documents. now he’s...sharing truths
that cannot do anything but good.”
International Briefs -----Russian Airline Sees No Pilot Error in Egypt Crash
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- The Russian airline whose jet crashed in egypt, killing all on
board, said on Monday the disaster could not have been caused by a technical fault or human error. The crash, in egypt’s Sinai Peninsula on Saturday, could only have been the result of some other “technical or physical
action” which caused it to break up in the air and plummet to the ground,
said alexander Smirnov, deputy general director of the airline, Kogalymavia. He did not specify what that action might have been, saying it was
up to the official investigation to determine. He said there had been no
emergency call from the pilots during the flight, which took off from the
egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh bound for the Russian city of St.
Petersburg. Several aviation experts questioned whether the airline had
enough information so early in the investigation, without the benefit of a
readout from “black box” flight recorders, to say what may or may not have
caused the crash. (Reuters)
MOSCOW
Reuters
Protesters hold a banner during an anti-migrant rally at the Spielfeld
border crossing with Slovenia, in Austria last week.
Austria Drafts Law to Deter Most Afghan Migrants
vienna - austria’s Cabinet proposed a bill yesterday to deter afghan
migrants from coming to the country located along a major migration
route across europe and facing record numbers of asylum requests this
year. The move follows the German interior minister’s call for afghans,
who make up a large proportion of the hundreds of thousands of migrants seeking refuge in europe, to stay in their home country. austria’s
new law would force most afghans to wait for three years, rather than
one year under current rules, to bring their families to austria as well as
to prove they have an independent source of income, health insurance
and a flat. “This is a political decision. Making family reunification rules
stricter mainly affects afghans,” interior Minister Johanna Mikl-Leitner
told ORF radio. (Reuters)
Austrian MP to Be Dismissed After Anti-Semitic Post
vienna - austria’s far-right Freedom Party (FPO) said on Monday it would
dismiss a member of its parliamentary group for an anti-Semitic exchange
on Facebook unless she abandoned her seat and left the party voluntarily.
The FPO, which several polls suggest is the most popular in austria, has
gained support with anti-immigrant messages during europe’s worst
refugee crisis in decades, and has called for a border fence to be built
around the country. But the remark on Facebook last week, in which lawmaker Susanne Winter expressed support for an anti-Semitic comment,
had crossed a “red line,” her party said in a statement. Winter, a lawmaker
since 2008, on Friday posted a link to an article in the German newsmagazine Der Spiegel. another user responded to the posting with a comment that included the phrase, “The Zionist money-Jews worldwide are the
problem,” according to austrian media. Winter replied: “You take the
words out of my mouth :-) There is a lot i am not allowed to write. That is
why i am all the more pleased by brave, independent people!” (Reuters)
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InternatIonal
‘Kirchnerismo’Cleaves Argentina Ahead of Fierce Runoff
ReuteRs
TigRE,
argentina - Twelve years
ago, laboratory owner Luis azpeitia placed his faith in a little
known center-left provincial governor, Nestor Kirchner, to lead argentina out of a devastating economic collapse. Now, as the late
Kirchner’s wife Cristina Fernandez
leaves power, azpeitia finds himself reluctantly embracing a conservative presidential challenger.
azpeitia’s shift illustrates how the
couple’s brand of leftist populism—
known as Kirchnerismo—has alienated swaths of voters with its
state controls on the economy and
confrontational style.
“People are fed up with Kirchnerismo,” lamented the 62-yearold azpeitia. “There are too many
taxes, you can’t borrow money,
imports are restricted. You try and
get by but it gets more and more
difficult.”
“i’m not right-wing, but i don’t
want to be against the rest of the
world,” he added, referring to argentina’s fractious relations with
Western powers, from Washington
to London, under Fernandez.
it’s been a long slide down for argentina, an expansive country that
counted among the world’s richest
a century ago. The land that drew
immigrants from around the world
has stumbled from one economic
crisis to another in past decades,
while leaders who stand firm on
workers’ rights over big business
do battle with supporters of open
markets in search of sustainable
growth.
Fernandez’s own mix of economic nationalism, expansive welfare system and trade and currency controls has likely polarized society even more and led to an unexpectedly competitive presidential runoff in three weeks.
it pits Daniel Scioli, the candidate of Fernandez’s ruling Front
for Victory party who promised
continuity with some gradual reform, against center-right rival
mauricio macri, who advocates
sweeping pro-market reforms and
had a surprisingly strong showing
in the first round on October 25.
Scioli supporters fear macri
would be beholden to profit-hungry
corporations and dismantle Fernandez’s social welfare programs,
even though he promises not to.
“macri says there’s no poverty,
but he would ruin us,” said 24-
Reuters
The El Faro cargo ship is shown in this undated handout photo in
Jacksonville, Florida.
Wreckage of US Cargo Ship Found Near Bahamas
miami - a large ship found in deep waters off the Bahamas is the lost
freighter El Faro that sank with 33 crew members in a hurricane last
month, U.S. authorities said on monday. The wreckage, in an upright
position and intact on the ocean floor, was initially detected by a U.S.
Navy salvage team over the weekend at a depth of nearly 5 km. it was
found in the vicinity of El Faro’s last known location off Crooked island
in the southeastern Bahamas, the U.S. National Transportation Safety
Board said. The Navy salvage tug apache subsequently deployed a
deep ocean remotely operated submersible, CURV-21, equipped with a
camera to confirm the identity of the ship, officials said. a salvage team
will now seek to retrieve the ship’s voyage data recorder—similar to an
airplane’s black box—which could contain vital clues for the NTSB-led
investigation into what sank the El Faro. The 241-meter cargo ship, disappeared on October 1 on a regular weekly run between Florida and
Puerto Rico after the captain reported losing propulsion and taking on
water. (Reuters)
Reuters
Daniel Scioli, presidential candidate for the ruling party in Argentina, at
an indoor football match in Buenos Aires on Saturday
year-old alejandra gonzales. “Before Kirchnerismo arrived, we had
nothing. Nobody helped you.”
Between them, Scioli and macri
picked up almost three in every
four of the 25 million votes cast. in
a distant third place was Sergio
massa, the centrist candidate who
pitched himself as a middle way.
azpeitia’s first ballot went to
massa. But with the 43-year-old
lawmaker, whose constituency is
azpeitia’s hometown of Tigre just
north of the capital, out of the race
now, he said voting for the more
pro-business of the remaining candidates was a no-brainer.
“i have companies asking me to
open another laboratory. But with
this government, you can’t take the
risk of investing because there is no
economic security,” azpeitia said.
argentina’s next president will inherit a host of economic woes:
weak growth is underpinned by unsustainable public spending, inflation is in double digits, the peso is
overvalued and the central bank is
precariously low on dollar reserves.
as the commodities boom that
fueled an explosive recovery from
2003 to 2007 petered out, Fernandez has not been able to match her
husband’s economic success. But
she is nevertheless widely adored
by argentina’s lower classes for expanding social welfare programs,
spending heavily on energy and
transport subsidies and defending
of workers’ rights.
Scioli and macri share some
common ground. Both prefer negotiation over confrontation and
both promise to lure big investors
and restore access to global debt
markets to finance infrastructure.
Where they diverge sharply is
on the pace and depth of reforms
to open up the economy.
The candidates’ mounting at-
tacks on each other look set to
transform the rather dull campaign ahead of the first ballot into a
bruising brawl.
Scioli is portraying macri as a
threat to political stability and a
throwback to the neoliberal policies of the 1990s that preceded the
2001 to 2002 depression.
a new pro-Scioli slogan has begun appearing on walls: “Fatherland or macri.” it echoes the popular “Fatherland or Vultures” catchphrase that has resonated with
many argentines in the country’s
fight with U.S. hedge funds over
repayment of debt in default.
macri fires back that Scioli
stands for continuity of populist policies that have driven up inflation
and strangled investment. Scioli
promised on Saturday to increase
retiree pensions if he wins.
Some, like azpeitia, blame Fernandez’s handouts for breeding a
culture of dependency that the
country can ill afford. Others cherish Fernandez for her welfare largesse and will vote Scioli in the
second round on November 22.
“She looks after you! She’s been
good to us,” exclaimed Sara Baccarezza, 60, while sipping traditional mate tea in a downtrodden
neighborhood outside Tigre.
Baccarezza is among the estimated 40 percent of the population
that receives a pension, salary or
welfare from the government.
She receives her late husband’s
pension and a caregiver allowance
for her handicapped 24-year-old
son, although she quietly admits
he is not too severely impaired.
Baccarezza would have voted for
Fernandez had she been allowed
by the constitution to run for a third
straight term in office. instead, her
vote in the runoff is firmly with
Scioli.
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Boko Haram Ghosts Still Haunt ‘Liberated’ Areas in Nigeria
reuters
mubi, Nigeria - Life seems to be re-
turning to normal in this northern
Nigerian town a year after the
army expelled the islamist fighters
of boko Haram—shops bustle
with customers and vendors hawk
their wares in the potholed streets.
Nigerian President muhammadu buhari has vowed to crush
boko Haram by December and
the army has recaptured much of
the territory the jihadis seized in
their six-year-old campaign to
carve out an islamic state in Nigeria’s remote northeast.
but a recent surge of suicide
bombings and hit-and-run attacks
makes residents doubt there is
any end in sight to an insurgency
that has killed thousands and displaced 2.1 million. boko Haram
has killed more than 1,000 people
since buhari was elected in may
on a promise to crush the group.
“We are afraid that they might
come back,” said Abubakar idi, 60,
a farmer who fled with his two
wives and 16 children when boko
Haram captured mubi in October
last year.
“Anybody who has seen such a
terrible thing must be afraid,” he
said, sitting in front of his single-
story house and recalling how
boko Haram fighters fired volleys
of gunshots at random as they
took over the town.
The insurgency is the biggest
security challenge facing Africa’s
top oil producer, already grappling
with a severe economic crisis due
to a plunge in oil revenues.
Like thousands of other residents, idi returned to mubi, which
lies close to the border with Cameroon, when the army started a
counteroffensive which has accelerated in recent months.
Signs of fighting can still be seen,
despite the buzz in the main market.
banks remain closed, having been
robbed by boko Haram, while electricity is almost nonexistent.
Schools have reopened in the
town but many are still shut in the
countryside as the jihadis burned
the buildings and killed the teachers. boko Haram, whose name
means Western education is sinful,
abhors secular learning.
Diplomats say the army’s performance has improved since buhari took office pledging to “fix”
Nigeria’s legendary corruption
and mismanagement.
The former military ruler has
appointed a new army leadership
and moved its anti-boko Haram
command center to borno state,
where the jihadis started their
revolt.
Residents say buhari’s anticorruption drive has had an effect
as army commanders are now less
inclined to steal resources intended for the security forces, though it
remains to be seen how long this
trend will last.
better cooperation with neighboring Chad has helped the Nigerian government to regain several villages, although a longplanned regional cross-border
force is still not operational.
Residents say the soldiers no
longer run away when boko Haram arrive in their pickup trucks.
“The difference is that back then if
there was a report of an attack we
all ran with the security men,” said
55-year-old mohamed Joda, who
makes a living repairing bicycles
in mubi.
“but now they respond to reports of an attack proactively,” he
said. “The level of security is better
than what it was.”
boko Haram, which never responds to the media except to deliver jihadi videos to local journalists,
is trying to set up a state based on
islamic law. in march it pledged allegiance to the islamic State group,
which controls much of Syria and
iraq.
The army is securing mubi and
the main road to the Adamawa state
capital Yola, 200 km to the south,
with patrols, tanks and checkpoints.
Every 10 km, motorists must wait
until called forward by a soldier asking where they plan to go.
but in rural areas the army is
spread more thinly, allowing boko
Haram to move around at will. Villagers living along the mubi-Yola
road stay close to their houses for
fear of the jihadis.
“i can no longer go hunting because i might run into them in the
forest and get killed, so we have to
resort to farming,” said murtala
maxwell, who lives in Gombi village south of mubi.
He still stays close to home “so
in case we see them coming, we
can quickly get together and defend ourselves or run for safety,”
he said while playing a board
game with two friends.
A security expert said the army
is getting help from South African
mercenaries to navigate in the vast
Sambisa forest, boko Haram’s
main hideout in the northeast.
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Central Bank Garment Exports Still ‘Solid’ Amid Raises: ILO
Encourages
Interbank
Market
B y z soMBor P eter
the cambodia daily
B y K ang s othear
the cambodia daily
Over two years after launching
Negotiable Certificates of Deposit
(NCDs), a security meant to encourage interbank lending and reduce the role of the state in the financial sector, the National Bank
of Cambodia (NBC) announced
new measures to catapult the effort on Friday. In late 2013, in a bid to reduce the
amount of surplus funds deposited
with the NBC, it began issuing
NCDs, which can be sold by cashstrapped banks to banks with high
liquidity, who can then cash them
in with interest upon maturity.
In order to encourage movement in the still-stagnant interbank
market, the NBC announced in a
statement on Friday that the minimum investment to start an NCD
would be drastically lowered and
fixed-term deposits with the staterun bank would no longer be offered as of November 1.
“By closing the fixed deposits
(but allow existing ones to reach
maturity), we expect to see more
investment into NCD,” NBC
Director-General Chea Serey said
in an email yesterday. “But at the
same time we need to make NCD
more convenient in term of maturity and face value.”
To do so, the central bank has
lowered the minimum cost of creating both riel and U.S. dollar denominated NCDs by 90 percent, to
200 million riel and $50,000, respectively, according to the statement.
So Phonnary, executive vice
president at Acleda Bank, said the
move would increase activity in
an interbank market that is currently “not so active.”
“Now, banks that have a small
amount of money can also use
[NCDs],” she said.
Hiroshi Suzuki, chief economist
at Business Research Institute for
Cambodia, said the changes by
the NBC would likely facilitate a
more robust banking industry. “This is very necessary for much
more effective and efficient financial sector,” he said via email. “NCD
is one of the most important tool
for this objective.”
Cambodia’s garment industry
continued to perform “solidly”
through the first half of the year, allaying fears that recent minimum
wage increases would cripple one
of the country’s main economic
engines, according to the latest figures released by the International
Labor Organization (ILO).
According to its latest industry
bulletin, drawing on data from the
Ministry of Commerce, garment
exports over the first half of the
year hit $3 billion, growing 12.7 percent over the same period last year.
That’s even better than the 10.2
percent year-on-year growth the
industry saw in the first half of
2014, despite an unusually high
28 percent hike in the minimum
wage for garment workers that
took effect this past January.
Another raise, from $128 to $140
per month, will take effect this
coming January. Though the ILO
declined to speculate on exactly
what impact the new raise would
have, it said Cambodia’s garment
industry—“the backbone of the
country’s economy”—has been
weathering recent raises well.
“There were fears in the past
that minimum wage rises would
cause the industry to falter,” ILO
country director Maurizio Bussi
said in a statement accompanying
the latest figures.
“The data shows that the sector
continued to perform quite well—
Cambodia’s market share of garment and footwear exports has
continued to rise in recent years.
Of course, this positive experience
from the past minimum wage increases does not guarantee that future increases will necessarily be
as benign for the industry,” he said.
Drawing on U.N. trade data, the
ILO said Cambodia’s share of garment exports among all developing countries has steadily gone up
over the past decade, from 1.1 percent in 2005 to 1.8 percent last year.
The Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia (GMAC),
which represents all the industry’s
exporting factories, has warned
against the sharp raises to the minimum wage in recent years, predicting a major slowdown—even
contraction—ahead of each one.
In October, just before the Labor Ministry set the new minimum wage at $140—a year-onyear rise of 9 percent—GMAC
said the factories could only afford a 3 to 4 percent raise next
year, and that multiple factories
had already had to close because
of the last wage hike.
But according to the data the
ILO pulled from the Commerce
Ministry, only one factory closed
during the first half of the year,
compared with seven that closed
over the same period in 2014.
At the same time, 30 new factories opened during the first six
months of this year, an additional
$152 million worth of investments
in the industry were approved, and
an extra 42,000 jobs were created.
“Of course, this positive
experience from the past
minimum wage increases
does not guarantee that
future increases will
necessarily be as benign
for the industry.”
—Maurizio Bussi,
iLo country director
Though all three areas grew at
a slower rate than they did in 2014,
Matthew Cowgill, a regional technical adviser for the ILO on labor
standards, said they were still growing at a “decent pace.”
“You’re right that some measures did not grow as fast in the
first half of 2015 as they had in
some previous years,” he said by
email, “but growth has still been
solid. For example, employment
was 10.2 percent higher in the
first half of 2015 than it had been
in the first half of 2014.”
Thai Gov’t Approves $365M for Rubber Farmers
ReuteRs
- Thailand’s Cabinet yesterday approved measures worth
$365 million to help rubber farmers
and support falling prices, the director of a state rubber agency said.
Growing unhappiness among
farmers hit by weak commodity
prices and higher living costs, combined with an economy in the doldrums, has led the military government to rethink a pledge to wean
farmers off the costly schemes of
previous administrations.
The government said it would
pay a direct subsidy of $42.22 per
0.17 hectares for up to 2.4 hectares
per household, Weerasak kwanmuang, director of the Rubber Authority of Thailand, told reporters.
Weerasak said the government
would take loans from the stateowned Bank of Agriculture and
Agricultural Cooperatives and start
paying farmers in December.
The direct subsidy is higher than
BANGkOk
a request made last week from 16
rubber farmer groups for payment
of $35.11 per 0.17 hectares.
Around 850,000 families are expected to receive the handout in
the world’s top producer and exporter of the commodity.
Documents outlining the new
rubber measures were issued yesterday by the government, which
took power after a bloodless coup
last year. The measures will cover
production, education and living
expenses for rubber tappers.
“I’m pleased, to an extent. I realize that this is just a temporary
measure and it is not sustainable,”
Soontorn Rakrong, a spokesman
for 16 rubber groups in southern
Thailand, told reporters. “This is a
first-aid measure.”
Last week, Soonthorn had asked
the government to pay a direct subsidy to rubber farmers.
The military government had
slashed rural subsidies, saying it
wanted to wean farmers, who make
up a large proportion of Thailand’s
population of 67 million, off expensive schemes used by previous civilian administrations.
Thailand’s benchmark unsmoked
rubber sheet, which farmers sell
to factories, was quoted at $1.07
per kg yesterday.
Thai RSS3 rubber was quoted
at $1.23 per kg, its lowest since
the grade dropped to $1 per kg in
December 2008, according to the
Singapore Commodity Exchange.
The aid for rubber farmers follows cabinet approval last week
for measures worth about $1 billion to help rice farmers.
Some said the effort would not
be adequate to take the sting out
of falling prices, however.
“These measures aren’t enough,”
said northeastern rubber farmer
Samai Sribang, 58. “I would rather see the government help raise
rubber prices nationwide.”
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Activision Blizzard Acquires ‘Candy Crush’ Maker King Digital
B y P aresh D ave
Los angeLes times
Video game giant Activision
Blizzard Inc. announced Monday
night an agreement to buy mobile gaming company King Digital Entertainment for $5.9 billion.
The acquisition significantly
raises Santa Monica, Californiabased Activision Blizzard’s stature
in the fast-growing mobile gaming
industry, which is expected to
reach worldwide revenue of $45
billion in 2018 at 15 percent annual
growth, according to investment
bank Digi-Capital.
The “Call of Duty” and “World of
Warcraft” maker is getting the No.
4 mobile game company by app
revenue, as of September data from
tracking firm AppAnnie. King’s two
hits, “Candy Crush Saga” and “Candy Crush Soda Saga,” were among
the six most-downloaded game
apps across the world in September, the firm said. The puzzle games
involve matching virtual candies
on a jumbled grid to score points.
The games are free, but players
may purchase special features to
help them along.
Founded in 2003 as a gaming
website, King’s chief rivals now
include Asian technology companies Tencent and Mixi as well as
Finland-based “Clash of Clans”
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as its urban middle class, while
growing, remains small.
“Unless there is a strong takeup by local families, there could
well be an oversupply,” said Marc
Townsend, managing director for
real estate services firm CBRE in
Cambodia and Vietnam.
Property consultants note that
most buyers of condominiums,
even locals, are purchasing them
for investment purposes—keen
to rent them out and believing their
value will appreciate over the next
few years.
They also estimate that foreigners account for 60 to 70 percent of
condominium sales in Cambodia,
spurred on in part by the relaxing
of restrictions on foreign home
ownership in 2010, though some
limitations remain in place.
“While most buyers are foreigners, the trend will change towards
Cambodians. But it may take 10
to 20 years,” said Kim Heang, chief
executive of Khmer Real Estate.
For the time being, the influx
of foreigners over the past few
developer Supercell.
Acquiring King’s more than 474
million players pushes Activision
past 500 million players who turn
on a game at least once a month, a
“bigger [user base] than anything
beside YouTube and Facebook and
one of the very few entertainment
networks of that scale,” said Activision Blizzard chief executive Bobby Kotick.
King, whose games are popular mostly with women, also
brings a new audience to maleand-hardcore-gamer-dominated
Activision Blizzard.
“We now have male and female
gamers, spanning 196 countries,
casual and hardcore,” Kotick said.
“We love the idea of adding millions of females to our audience.”
Activision Blizzard has been
a force in console and computer
games but hadn’t moved as aggressively into smartphone and tablet
games as some rivals and upstarts.
Still, it’s found a hit in mobile card
game “Hearthstone” and generated strong digital revenue elsewhere.
Shares of Activision are up more
than 70 percent this year, a top performer on Wall Street.
Discussions about a possible
deal began in April, though Kotick
said King executives were reluctant to lose independence and had
no reason to sell.
“But when they saw what the
combined network would do, to
be able to reach audiences around
the world, I think they found there
would be more opportunity to express themselves creatively and
commercially,” Kotick said.
But analysts have wondered
whether King can generate sales
off new games fast enough to make
up falling revenue from existing
titles, and large shareholders could
have been antsy to pocket gains
while they could.
“King was unlikely to replicate
the massive success of ‘Candy
Crush Saga’ at its peak, so the merger provides the best case scenario
for investors,” said Patrick Walker,
vice president of insights at video
gameindustry consultancy EEDAR.
Activision Blizzard plans to use
$3.6 billion in cash stored offshore
and a $2.3 billion bank loan to pay
$18 per share for King. That’s a discount over the $22.50 share price
that the Dublin-based company offered when it went public in March
2014. Shares of King closed at
$15.54 in Monday’s trading on the
New York Stock Exchange, valuing the company at $4.8 billion.
“Activision Blizzard’s cash offer
is attractive given the balance of
future opportunities, risks and com-
petitive forces confronting King’s
business,” Gerhard Florin, chairman of King’s board of directors,
said in a prepared statement.
King reported $155 million in adjusted profit in the second quarter
on $500 million in adjusted revenue,
down 18 percent and 16 percent, respectively, from the same period a
year ago. Kotick said after reviewing what games are in the works,
he’s confident that there’s “nothing
but great future opportunity.”
Activision, which on Monday
night reported $990 million in
third quarter sales, said the addition will bolster revenue next year
by 30 percent. King, which has
1,600 employees, will become a
stand-alone operating division,
alongside Activision Publishing,
Blizzard Entertainment and a newly announced but yet-to-be named
sports division. King co-founder
Riccardo Zacconi will remain its
CEO.
Kotick said each group will be
encouraged to tap one another’s
expertise in different business
models and seize opportunities to
cross-promote games or bring
game franchises to new mediums.
The deal, which is subject to approval by King’s shareholders and
regulators, is expected to close by
spring.
years as multinational companies
open offices is feeding demand.
That helped the construction and
real estate industries contribute
more to gross domestic product
than the garment and footwear
sector last year, according to the
World Bank.
Prime residential land prices in
the capital jumped 14.1 percent in
the first half of this year, the biggest rise among 13 Asian cities in
a Knight Frank research report.
CBRE estimates there are 48
condominium projects, both finished and under construction, in
Phnom Penh, where total condominium stock is set to jump to
19,745 units by the end of 2018, a
13-fold increase over levels seen
last year.
Some of the most high-profile
projects are being built by Oxley
and Cambodian developer Worldbridge Land. These include The
Peak, a 55-story mixed-use development with two residential towers
and a Shangri-la hotel, which is due
for completion in 2020. It follows the
45-story The Bridge, whose residential units are almost fully sold—
with Cambodians, Singaporeans
and Taiwanese the top buyers.
Due to current limited stock,
gross rental yields for Phnom
Penh’s condominiums located in
prime areas are among the highest in the region—10 percent versus 4 to 6 percent in Bangkok and
Singapore’s 2 to 3 percent, CBRE
data shows.
But while $300,000 for a threebedroom apartment may be cheap
enough to attract potential investors like businessman Steven Chan,
an attendee at an Oxley property
launch event in Singapore, for many
ordinary Cambodians, those sums
are out of reach.
“People like us don’t like to live in
apartments like this,” said 31-year
old Hak Hab, a cook who lives in
the neighborhood of a 16-story condominium block but whose wooden home borders a sewage canal.
“These apartments are only for
the very rich.”
Pring samrang/Reuters
Laborers work at a construction site of The Bridge in central Phnom
Penh last month.
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Business
F&N Says No Formal Approach to Buy Vietnam’s Vinamilk Stake
ReuteRs
hanoi/bangkok
- Shares in Vinamilk, Vietnam’s biggest listed firm,
hit a lifetime high yesterday after
local media said drinks maker
Fraser and neave Ltd. plans to buy
the state’s 45 percent stake in a $4
billion deal.
Vinamilk’s shares rose 5 percent to a record intraday high of
$5.52 following a report in The
Saigon Times, which cited an unidentified chief executive of a foreign fund represented on Vina-
milk’s board.
The government has instructed its State Capital investment Corporation to sell out of Vinamilk,
a firm 11.03 percent owned by F&n
subsidiary F&n Dairy investment.
“F&n has not submitted any
offer letter to Vinamilk or the SCiC
with regard to any possible offer
to purchase SCiC’s stake,” F&n
said in a statement.
Representatives of Vinamilk, or
Vietnam Dairy Products JSC, were
not available for comment.
Vinamilk has a market value of
$6.3 billion, so a $4 billion purchase
would surpass SCiC’s $2.8 billion
stake.
an F&n offer would be the latest move by Thai tycoon Charoen
Sirivadhanabhakdi to expand in
Vietnam and tap strong economic
and retail growth in a country of
90 million people.
Charoen, ranked Thailand’s
second-richest man by Forbes
magazine, controls 88 percent of
F&n through Thai Charoen Corp.
group and his flagship Thai beverages PCL. TCC subsidiaries
have shares in a top hanoi hotel
and own more than 100 Vietnamese convenience stores.
increased interest in Vinamilk
has long been anticipated, buoyed
by new laws allowing 100 percent
foreign shareholdings in many
equities. but would-be investors
are awaiting clarity on which firms
can be wholly foreign owned.
cambodia securities exchange
Tuesday, November 3, 2015
Index
CSX
Stock
PPWSA
Grand Twins
Value
399.94
Change
+4.39
Open
395.55
High
399.94
Low
390.3
Volume
1,900
Value
5,000
4,360
Change
+40
+80
Open
5,000
4,100
High
5,000
4,360
Low
5,000
4,080
Volume
6
1,894
foreign exchange
¥/US$ ..........................120.877
£/US$ ............................0.6497
AU$/US$........................1.3942
HK$/US$ .......................7.7501
SwissF/US$ ...................0.9897
Source: L y H our E xcHangE
Sing$/US$ .....................1.7145
Euro/US$ ......................0.9108
SKoreaW/US$ .............1,134.17
ThaiB
//US$ .......................35.53
Riel/US$ ..........................4,060
local gold
LOCaL gOLd Type (O’ruSSeI markeT)
Reuters
An employee loads products onto shelves at a Vinamilk shop in Hanoi.
Source: L y H our E xcHangE
buyINg
SeLLINg
Canadia ($/damlung)..................1,365................1,375
Kilo ($/damlung) ........................1,365................1,375
99% ($/damlung) .......................1,345................1,355
97% ($/damlung) .......................1,305................1,315
26.67 damlung are
equal to 1 kg
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spo r t s
Integrity of Curling Hangs in the Balance Over a New Broom
By Ma r i s s a Pa y n e
t h e w a s h in g t o n po s t
Curling—that Olympic sport
where players vigorously sweep
brooms to guide heavy stones
down the ice—may be having its
aluminum bat moment.
Just as the Major League Baseball never allowed metal bats due
to fears that advanced equipment
could trump human ability, the
World Curling Federation, the
sport’s governing body, is now
being forced to actually address
similar concerns about a new
broom head. There’s just one major difference: The movement to
regulate the new broom head is
coming from the bottom up and
not the top down. It’s the curlers,
not league executives, who have
had to goad the WCF to act.
“We’re all just kind of at the point
where we say, ‘Hold on. At what
point should technology be the
determining factor and at what
point should the athletes be the
determining factor?’” two-time defending men’s national Canadian
champion Nolan Thiessen told
reporters.
Creative Commons
Curler Jinbo Wang of China delivers a stone.
At the center of the controversy
is the swatch of fabric affixed to the
outside of the curling broom. In
place of a smooth fabric head that
has become the norm in the past
two decades, the new technology
uses a fabric that feels rough to the
touch. Known as “directional fabric,” curlers claim these broom
heads are making curling stones
do things on the ice that seem so
unnatural they could negate athleti-
cism and other skills.
The object of curling is to land
more of your team’s stones closer
to the center target than your opponent. The mental skills and accuracy come into play when the stone is
slid or “thrown” down the ice.
Brawniness applies when it’s time
to sweep, which, when done well,
can help maneuver or curl the
stone around another to put it into
position. The new technology,
however, is negating these skills.
The new broom head makes it easier for curlers, regardless of their fitness level, to sweep a path in the
ice that could correct a bad throw.
More than 40 men’s and women’s elite world teans have signed
what’s being deemed a “gentlemen’s agreement” not to use the
new brooms in competition—
including Olympic qualifying
events—while the WCF mulls its
official position. But in a year when
endless talk about deflated footballs
in the National Football League
may have caused the public to view
athletes as willing to do anything to
gain a competitive advantage, curling outsiders are quick to point out
this arrangement seems fragile at
best. All it takes is one team using
the new technology to throw off
the whole agreement. Curlers say
they’re not all that worried that a
rogue team will try to break the
pact, though.
The WCF said its decision will
take into account its own testing of
the broom heads, as well as that of
the sport’s stakeholders, including
curling equipment manufacturers.
For Thai MMA Champion, Age
And Money Don’t Cap Success
r eu t er s
Reuters
Cleveland Cavaliers forward LeBron James dunks against the
Philadelphia 76ers in Philadelphia on Monday.
James Becomes Youngest to Hit 25,000-Point Mark
After becoming the youngest player in National Basketball Association history to surpass 25,000 career points on Monday, LeBron
James sat in the locker room in the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia
with his feet in an ice bucket, an ice bag on each knee and another ice
bag on his back. No matter the aches and pains for the Cleveland
Cavaliers forward, the 13-year veteran makes it look easy. Needing 21
points at the start of the road game against the Philadelphia 76ers to
reach the milestone, James scored 22 while collecting 11 assists and
nine rebounds in Cleveland’s 107-100 victory. He surpassed the mark
when he dunked a lob from guard Matthew Dellavedova with 8:07
remaining and left the game for good shortly after that. At 30 years and
307 days, James surpassed Kobe Bryant (31 years, 351 days) as the
youngest to achieve the milestone. James, who is 20th on the all-time
scoring list, could not immediately put the mark in perspective. “It’s pretty cool,” he said. “I haven’t had an opportunity to categorize the list of
things I’ve done.” James did say that it was great to reach the mark in a
victory while playing with a group of teammates he enjoys and, he
added, “in a building that loves the game of basketball.” (Reuters)
The first time Dejdamrong Sor
Amnuaysirichoke fought, he was
paid just $2. It doesn’t sound like
much, but to a 10-year-old boy
growing up in rural Thailand, it
felt like a fortune. As a ONE
Championship mixed martial arts
title holder, his fight purses can
now be measured by the tens of
thousands of dollars. It has been
a remarkable journey for the
37-year-old.
In Muay Thai, a fighter is generally thought to be staring retirement in the face once they reach
the age of 30. Dejdamrong probably thought his fighting days
were well behind him when he
accepted an offer to come and
coach at Evolve MMA in Singapore midway through 2013.
As a veteran of over 300 fights
who had won titles in two divisions at Lumpinee Stadium, his
services as a trainer are highly
sought after. Dejdamrong traveled to Singapore with the intention of sharing the knowledge he
had acquired after decades of
Muay Thai, but fate would conspire to give his fighting career a
new lease of life.
After some time in Singapore,
the Trang native noticed Evolve
MMA’s Brazilian Jiujitsu black
belts instructing students in the
art of grappling and submission
fighting. Dejdamrong was intrigued and asked if he could participate in a class.
Within four months of taking
his first BJJ class, he was stepping inside the cage to compete
in MMA. At the age of 35, Dejdamrong was a late start but he
was determined to make up for
lost time.
BJJ “is very different from
Muay Thai but there are some
similarities,” Dejdamrong said. “I
think I am lucky because I was
learning from BJJ black belts
every day at Evolve MMA, they
have so much experience and
when your coaches are so
skilled, it is easy to learn quickly.”
Dejdamrong would go on to
win his first four fights competing in ONE Championship’s 57
kg division; remarkably, he won
two of them by submission. In
the space of a few months, the
Thai had gone from being a complete novice on the ground to
establishing himself as a mixed
martial artist with no obvious
weaknesses.
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OpiniOn
In Japan, Too Many Restrictions on Students’ Political Speech
editorial
I
the asahi shimbun
n response to the scheduled
lowering of the voting age to
18 from 20, the Japanese education ministry has issued a notice
about a partial lifting of the ban on
political activities by high school
students.
Political activity is a right based
on freedom of expression, which
is guaranteed by the constitution.
Schools should act on the basic
principle of respecting students’
freedom to discuss politics and engage in political activities.
The former Education Ministry
imposed tight restrictions on political activities by high school students. In 1969, it issued a notice
saying the state and society were
requesting that students refrain
from political activity.
The move came against the
backdrop of growing and increasingly radical political activism at
high schools. Student activists who
were engaged in the movements
against Japan’s security treaty with
the U.S. or the Second Indochina
War took radical actions, such as
blockading schools.
In contrast, the Education
Ministry’s latest notice encourages high school students to “get
actively involved in the development of the nation and society.”
This is the first major change
in the government’s policy concerning the issue in about half a
century.
newspaper’s article on the government’s nuclear power policy, for
instance, may be blocked.
If schools strongly interfere or
rein in political activities by students,
however, there will be no change in
Excessive restrictions on political activities by high school students would only deprive
them of precious opportunities to grow into politically mature citizens.
Many high school students
have already taken part in such political activities, such as attending
meetings on national security legislation or staging demonstrations
against the legislation.
The ministry’s move to review
its policy concerning political activities by high school students came
too late.
But the new notice includes too
many bans and restrictions. It prohibits political activities within
schools in principle.
The ministry has decided to allow students to engage in political
activities only after school or outside school on holidays.
The notice calls on schools to
restrict or prohibit activities that
hamper schoolwork.
The ministry has also banned
political activities at student councils or during club and other extracurricular activities.
This raises the possibility that a
student council’s move to issue a
peace declaration or a school
It is difficult to clearly define
political activities in the first
place. The ministry’s definition is
“acts conducted for the purpose
of supporting or opposing specific political parties or other political organizations.”
But meetings and study sessions
could be subject to the ban, depending on how they are interpreted.
Instead of encouraging high
school students to think and talk
about politics and society, the ministry’s new policy could rather produce a contrary result.
The notice would be meaningless if it is designed as a “list of
don’ts” to impose restrictions on
political activities by high school
students.
It would probably be better if
the ministry simply repeals the old
notice.
The question is, how will schools
deal with this matter?
Schools are required by the
Fundamental Law of Education to
be politically neutral.
the tradition where schools have
been insulated from politics.
There is no culture of serious
political debate at Japanese high
schools of today.
Schools are not places closed to
society. We are eager to see teachers pay serious attention to what
students say and encourage their
political activities.
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Study Says Bacon a Carcinogen, But What Is the Absolute Risk?
B y K arin K lein
T
los angeles times
hat sounded big, didn’t it?
An 18 percent greater risk
of colorectal cancer from
daily consumption of about 56
grams of processed meat?
For many people, what that
sounds like is, “Wow, I’ve got an
18 percent chance of getting this
cancer if I eat this meat, on top of
whatever my risk was before it.”
But that’s not what the figure
means. This isn’t to diminish the
World Health Organization’s recent categorizing of bacon and
other processed meats as carcinogens. That assessment is based on
a strong body of science. The added risk from daily doses of sausage
and deli meat is significant from a
public health perspective.
It certainly makes a case for not
overdoing it on the bacon, sausage
and similar meat products.
But we journalists have generally done a poor job of explaining in
these kinds of stories—the re-
ports on how one habit increases
risk by 20 percent, while another
reduces risk by 15 percent—the
difference between relative risk
and absolute risk. The chances
might be higher, but where the
public is often left in the dark is:
Higher than what?
The average risk for Americans
of getting colorectal cancer is 5
percent. That includes people who
are at higher risk because of genetic propensity or gender. (Men
are slightly more likely to get it.)
For that matter, it also includes
people who indulge in processed
meats and those who don’t. But
for now, let’s assume we’re talking
about 5 percent for those who eat
relatively little or none of the problematic meats.
An 18 percent increase in that
risk means the risk rises from 5
percent to just under 6 percent.
That’s the absolute risk. The 18
percent is called the relative risk
—how much more (or less) likely
one group is to get a disease than
another.
Both numbers are important,
and yet the public rarely hears
both of them.
We’re likely to fret terribly at the
news that children who receive multiple CT scans are three times more
likely to get leukemia or brain cancer at some point. But as a science
blog for a U.K. cancer organization
put it, the risk of that child getting
such a cancer is so miniscule—a
tiny fraction of 1 percent—that the
increased risk would amount to one
additional case of each kind of cancer in 10,000 children.
Compare that with lung cancer,
which afflicts nearly 7.5 percent of
American men over their lifetimes
(the risk for women is slightly
smaller). But smoking increases
the risk by at least 1,500 percent
(it’s a bigger risk factor for
women), compared with the 18
percent higher risk of colorectal
cancer through daily processedmeat consumption. But even a
small increased risk factor for
something as common as heart
disease, which is responsible for a
fourth of all deaths each year in
the U.S., would make a big difference in lives saved.
In other words, both numbers,
the relative risk and absolute risk,
matter. It’s something to keep in
mind when a study or an advertisement comes along. A pill or
supplement might cut the
chances of getting a certain ailment by half—but if there was
very little chance of getting that ailment in the first place, is it really
worthwhile? And are the chances
of a side effect from that product
perhaps bigger than the chances
that it would do us any good?
Colorectal cancer isn’t some rare
ailment. It’s one of the most common forms of cancer in the U.S.
And an 18 percent higher risk isn’t
nothing. The numbers are worth
paying attention to, but they’re also
worth putting in perspective, in part
by providing information to the
public about absolute risk.
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OpInIOn
Why the West Should Worry About Turkey’s Election Results
By Pe t e r Ma r i n o
T
REu TERS
urkish President Recep
Tayyip Erdogan appears
to have beaten down his
opponents and returned his
Islamist-rooted Justice and Development Party (AK Party) to a
fourth term of single-party rule
over the country. In doing so, he
has cemented his own alreadyfirm control over the country, and
is a large step closer to becoming
the most influential figure in Turkish politics since Ataturk himself.
The consequences of the AK Party’s victory are likely to be enormous, for Turkey, the region and
possibly for Europe, Russia and the
U.S. as well.
After Sunday’s parliamentary
election, it is now possible that the
secular Turkish republic—as it has
been established since 1923 —will
eventually become something unrecognizable to its founders. In his
early years in power, Erdogan and
his AK Party were hailed by Western governments as pragmatic
reformers, and proof that political
Islam could be democratic and pluralistic. Turkey was moving closer
to serious consideration for European Union membership, opening
up to foreign investment and growing economically.
But since the 2008 financial crisis, and especially since the 2013
Gezi Park protests in Istanbul, during which Erdogan cracked down
on perceived opponents in full
view of the world, he has become
increasingly autocratic. Indeed,
Erdogan called for Sunday’s elections after the AK Party failed to
gain the majority of votes in June
elections and Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu was unable to
form a coalition with the three opposition parties in parliament.
Many Turkey analysts believe that
Erdogan had no intention of letting the talks succeed in the first
place, and may have pressured
Davutoglu to allow them to fail.
Erdogan’s unwillingness to accept a legitimate, democratic election result, and his desire to politicize an office that is nominally
nonpartisan—the presidency—
are just two of many signs that he
is tightening his grip on power.
Sunday’s results will likely
make Erdogan more autocratic,
as the former prime minister has
been vocal about his desire to convert the parliamentary republic
into one headed by a president,
which, conveniently for him, is the
office he already holds. And while
the results don’t give the AK Party
sufficient power to amend the constitution on its own, Erdogan’s
party has a history of following his
orders regardless of what the constitution says.
Erdogan’s relationship with the
liberal and secular Turkish Kurds,
damaged by his divisive rhetoric
and political tactics, is likely to deteriorate further under the new
AK Party government. Indeed, it
was because of the Kurds’ success
in the June elections that Erdogan’s AK Party was denied a ma-
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jority, compelling him to call for
Sunday’s election.
On Sunday, the Kurds were
successful enough that they
denied Erdogan his longed-for
supermajority. And Erdogan is
unlikely to forget. The possibility
that the Kurds and the Turkish
government will resume conflict
in the Kurdish regions is no
longer that far-fetched.
All of this, of course, comes
amid a rapidly worsening security
situation in Turkey’s backyard,
much of which involves Kurds in
Iraq and Syria. Additional instability in this already very unstable region worries Europe and the U.S.,
as well as other Middle Eastern
countries.
But the same instability that
troubles these countries also prevents them from being able to do
much about Turkey’s commitment to democracy in the near
term. Turkey’s location, combined
with its NATO membership,
makes it an indispensable partner
in dealing with Russian activity in
the region, the Islamic State group,
the Syrian civil war and the unfolding migrant crisis. Dealing with
Erdogan is now, for his Western
partners, much like holding a wolf
by the ears: risky, but the alternative seems much worse.
Sunday’s results don’t end the
political and social divides that
threaten Turkey. They merely reset the stage for continued struggle: the AK Party against the secular cosmopolitan elite; Erdogan
against the Kurds; I.S. against Turkey and the region; and Europe,
the U.S. and even Russia standing
by nervously, assessing the potential impact on their regional interests. Erdogan has the means, motive and opportunity to exploit this
moment of authority, and his
recent political behavior suggests
he will.
Peter Marino is an international
politics analyst, specializing in
Northeast Asian affairs and international political economy. He currently produces and hosts the global
politics Web series Globalogues.
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The Nazca Lines of Peru Make for a Perfect Family Adventure
B y H ilary M ac G reGor
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nazca, Peru - You look at the massive collection of lengthy grooves
and geoglyphs in the bone-dry
desert of southern Peru, and you
know immediately they are one of
the great unsolved mysteries of
this Earth.
Why are they here? What message are these 300 geometric figures and 70 plant and animal images supposed to convey? What
prompted the nazca people to create them by removing stones from
the darkened desert floor to reveal
lighter-colored soil beneath?
For many people, they’re a puzzle. For me, they represented an
adventure that had long beckoned.
Together with my sons, Theo, 12,
and Benji, 10, and my husband,
Jonathan, we headed south in June
to explore the nazca Lines, a riddle
whose origins date back more than
2,000 years.
Peruvian archaeologist Toribio
Mejia Xesspe brought the lines to
the world’s attention in 1927 when
he spotted them during a hike in
the nearby hills.
But it was not until 1939, when a
team of researchers flew over the
desert, that anyone recognized that
some of the lines formed the
shapes of animals.
There is a condor, a hummingbird, a monkey, a dog, a spider and
a lizard, among others. Mathematicians, archaeologists, scientists,
hippies, con men, dreamers and
tourists have been drawn here, creating a cottage industry of nazca
Line theorists.
Maria Reiche, a German mathematician who spent her life fighting
to preserve the lines, thought they
were an astronomical calendar.
Some archaeologists think they
were created by a cult that begged
the gods to bring water to this arid
region, which receives only about
an hour of rain a year.
There are anthropologists who
believe they were used as huge
running tracks for part of a ritual.
and Swiss author Erich von Daniken believes that the lines were
messages to aliens and that the
desert was a giant extraterrestrial
airport.
a tower on the Pan-american
Highway north of nazca offers a
sketchy view of the lizard, tree and
frog, but the only way to see the figures clearly is from the air.
There have been flights over the
lines since 1978; as the lines became more popular, the number of
flyovers proliferated. In 2008, a
crash occurred and five French
tourists were killed. In 2010, two
planes crashed in 12 months, killing 13 people.
now there are eight airlines and
two pilots per plane. Engines in the
planes must be replaced every
1,000 hours. Every flight does the
same prescribed 30-minute route
for the same price: $80. The planes
depart from Maria Reiche neuman
airport outside nazca at least six
minutes apart at staggered altitudes. There have been no accidents in the last five years. I
thought the flight was safe enough
to take my family.
We flew into Lima, Peru, and set
off from there. nazca is an eighthour bus ride from Lima—and
there is no way around it. Many upscale Lima hotels offer marathon
one-day trips that start at 3 a.m. and
return late the same day. You can
also hire a taxi to take you to nazca
for about $500 round trip.
We decided to make our nazca
adventure part of a larger trip, adding archaeological sites and a visit
to a desert oasis. We bought the
best seats on the luxury bus and
settled in for the ride.
From the air, the nazca Lines
are magnificent and powerful. We
rose early for our flyover of the
nazca Lines, waiting our turn at the
tiny airport, really just a landing
strip in the desert.
Each flight carries four to six
people, plus two pilots, so the ride is
hot and tight. The inside of our
plane felt smaller than our Volvo
station wagon.
at first, the lines were hard to
see; they are less distinct than in
the airbrushed postcards sold in
every store in town.
The whale, first on the circuit,
and the oldest at an estimated 2,500
years, was the hardest to make out.
The pilot banked the plane to the
right to allow a glimpse and photos,
then to the left, so passengers on
the other side of the plane had a
clear view.
Some of the subtle designs were
bright and clear, others so faint I
missed them completely. There
were no do-overs.
Still, to see these ancient figures
in the sand—even if you are hot
and slightly nauseated—is unforgettable. They are so magnificent,
and you stand in awe of those who
made them. You know they are
messages from people of the past,
but what were they trying to say?
as you fly over them, you feel
their insistence, their power.
It haunts me still.