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Wednesday, October 28, 2015
Volume 62 Issue 76
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Angry China
Shadows US
Warship in
S China Sea
reuters
washington/beijing - a U.s. navy
guided-missile destroyer sailed close
to China’s man-made islands in the
disputed south China sea yesterday, drawing an angry rebuke from
beijing, which said it warned and
followed the U.s. vessel.
the patrol by the Uss Lassen was
the most significant U.s. challenge
yet to the 12-nautical-mile territorial
limits China asserts around the islands in the spratly archipelago and
could ratchet up tension in one of
the world’s busiest shipping lanes.
one U.s. defense official said the
Uss Lassen sailed within 12 nautical miles of subi Reef. a second defense official said the mission, which
lasted a few hours, included Mischief Reef and would be the first in
a series of freedom-of-navigation exercises aimed at testing China’s territorial claims.
China’s Foreign Ministry said the
“relevant authorities” monitored,
followed and warned the Uss Lassen as it “illegally” entered waters
near islands and reefs in the spratlys without the Chinese government’s permission.
“China will resolutely respond to
any country’s deliberate provocations,” the ministry said in a statement that gave no details on precisely where the U.s. ship sailed.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu
Kang later told a daily briefing that
if the U.s. continued to “create tensions in the region,” China might
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Meas say
Troops from Royal Cambodian Armed Forces Brigade 42 protest against deputy opposition leader Kem Sokha
in Oddar Meanchey province on Monday, holding a sign that reads: 'We firmly oppose Kem Sokha and Sam
Rainsy. Please get them out of the Assembly.'
Army Joins Call for Kem Sokha to Step Down
By Mech dara
alex WilleMynS
and
the caMbodIa daIly
as observers accused the CPP
of orchestrating Monday’s savage
beating of two opposition lawmakers, images emerged yesterday of a
senior military commander rallying
troops to support calls to oust Kem
sokha as the national assembly’s
vice president.
CnRP lawmakers nhay Chamroeun and Kong saphea were
dragged from their cars while leav-
ing the assembly and stomped on
by men attending a pro-CPP protest
demanding that Mr. sokha, the
deputy leader of the opposition, resign his parliamentary position.
the protest was promoted by
Prime Minister hun sen during a
sunday evening speech, but CPP
officials have denied the beatings
were sanctioned despite claims that
police posted outside the assembly
watched on as they were carried out.
Yesterday, pro-government media outlets published photographs
of soldiers along the thai-Cambodian border rallying on Monday
with signs saying “Kem sokha is an
inciter” and “Kem sokha is a bad
person who creates never-ending
problems.”
the photos accompanied a letter
from Royal Cambodian armed
Forces (RCaF) deputy commander
Kun Kim—a figure close to Mr.
hun sen since the late 1970s who
has advised him officially since
1997—calling for Mr. sokha to be
Continued on page 2
Lasting Scars of Forced Marriage Under KR
By GeorGe WriGht
and o uch S ony
the caMbodIa daIly
Civil Servants Deny Defamatory
Posts on Senator's Sex Life
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in 1978, after three grueling
years toiling in a village in Kompong Chhnang province under the
control of the Khmer Rouge, Ung
Phuon was returning from an assigned trip to catch fish when he
was told by a local official that he
was to be married.
“when i came back from fishing
they told me, ‘You, comrade, go to
prepare yourself for marriage,’” said
មានដំណឹងបែែសមែួលជាភាសាខ្មែរនៅខាងក្នុង
Mr. Phuon, now 68, during an interview last week.
Knowing nothing about his brideto-be, Mr. Phuon was brought to a
house and ordered to sit on a bench
across from a line of black-clad
young women.
“when i walked, the tears were
coming down because i had no
parents beside me and i did not understand why i was being forced to
marry,” he said.
barely able to discern the face of
his new wife in the dimly lit room,
The Daily Newspaper of Record Since 1993
Mr. Phuon and five other couples
pledged their allegiance to each other and angkar—the organization,
as Pol Pot’s central government was
called—before being handed a traditional sticky-rice-and-bean dessert
and sent to their new living quarters.
he had seen his new bride around
the village before, but they had
hardly exchanged more than a few
words.
Despite understanding the regime’s expectations for newlyweds
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and also
A Good Reason Not to Pig Out
los angeles tIMes
the world health organization
has confirmed some dietary advice
that’s unlikely to go down easy: bacon, hot dogs and other processed
meats can increase your risk of cancer. not only that, fresh cuts of red
meat probably cause cancer too.
Doctors have long warned that
steak and sausages can be hazardous to your health. but the new assessment from the who’s interna-
Army...
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removed.
“we, the soldiers working at the
Cambodia-thailand border battlefield, respectfully ask samdech
heng samrin, the national assembly president, and all lawmakers to
remove Mr. Kem sokha as the vice
president of the national assembly,”
general Kim wrote.
“we have all kept an eye on the
serious national political situation
and have seen the venomous actions of Kem sokha, the deputy
president of the national assembly,
who has made deceitful propaganda
[and] incitement...that could result
in civil war,” he added.
gen. Kim concluded that Mr. sokha must be ousted “for the sake of
national security and [so] people can
live in prosperity.”
Yim Phanna, deputy commander
of RCaF’s Military Region 4, which
covers the border provinces of oddar Meanchey and Preah vihear,
confirmed that soldiers there were
rallied as part of a general protest
against Mr. sokha.
“with the recent making of petitions to demand samdech heng
samrin remove Kem sokha for
causing trouble...troops were all
over the place on the Cambodianthai border,” Major general Phanna said.
“they demand his removal because he always wants to make the
country have war,” he added.
Koul Panha, director of the Committee for Free and Fair elections,
said yesterday that such a campaign
violated both the Constitution and
strict prohibitions on showing partisanship in laws governing the
armed forces.
“the military’s role is very important in protecting a democratic
process composed of many political parties competing together, so
it must be independent and noncontinued froM paGe
tional agency for Research on Cancer officially classifies processed
meats as “carcinogenic to humans,”
putting them in the same category
as asbestos, tobacco smoke and
formaldehyde.
a group of 22 scientists came to
that conclusion after evaluating more
than 800 studies from countries—
and cuisines—around the world.
the results were published Monday in the journal Lancet oncology.
partisan, and not show itself requesting on behalf of any political
parties,” Mr. Panha said.
“the military has no role blaming
members of parliament or the opposition. if [lawmakers] are blocked
from expression, we have no liberal
democracy,” he added.
although the CPP has denied organizing the anti-Kem sokha protest during which the two CnRP
lawmakers were beaten, opposition
leader sam Rainsy released a statement late Monday night describing
the attack as an example of Mr.
hun sen’s “fascist methods.”
“this morning’s acts of violence
in Phnom Penh are clearly reprisals
from the ruling party for the antihun sen demonstration held [on
sunday] afternoon in Paris, which
infuriated Cambodia’s strongman,”
Mr. Rainsy wrote in the statement
issued from europe.
“hun sen warned his detractors
that if Cambodian opposition supporters were to effectively hold their
planned demonstrations against him
while he is in Paris, then hun sen’s
supporters would attack and create
trouble for sam Rainsy’s supporters
in Cambodia,” the opposition leader
wrote. “that was done!”
Mr. sokha, who is in thailand
visiting the injured lawmakers, himself decried the assaults in a Facebook post, noting that the protesters
also pelted stones at his house for
six hours in the afternoon as his wife
sat inside and police ignored phone
calls for help.
“this is a lack of responsibility of
the authorities and the government,
who have a duty to protect public
safety without discrimination,” Mr.
sokha wrote.
“i ask authorities to find the perpetrators and investigate those behind
the violence to face punishment...to
avoid people losing faith in the justice system and government.”
Monday’s protest was organized
by a pro-CPP youth group that earlier this year swore its allegiance to
correction: in the october 27 article “school Director transferred after
$30K scandal,” Pich sophoan was incorrectly identified as a secretary of
state at the education Ministry. Mr. sophoan holds that position at the
Labor Ministry.
wednesday, october 28, 2015
newsmakers
n new YoRK - adele’s first music video in four years smashed records at
entertainment platform vevo.com, delivering more than 27 million views
in the first 24 hours after its release last week. vevo said on Monday that
the british singer’s “hello” video, which debuted exclusively on its site
on Friday, dethroned taylor SWift’s “bad blood” video, which was seen
more than 20 million times in the first 24 hours after its release in May.
“hello” is the first single from a new november album, “25,” to be released
by adele, who took a four-year break after her “21” hit album won six
grammy awards and sold more than 30 million copies worldwide. Figures
for early downloads of the heartfelt ballad are not expected to be available
until next week. billboard.com quoted music industry sources as saying
that “hello” sold about 450,000 in its first two days on sale, and could top
the billboard hot 100 singles charts next week. (Reuters)
Mr. hun sen at an event on Phnom
Penh’s riverside. the group has denied responsibility for the violence,
claiming that its protest ended an
hour before the attacks.
a group of local ngos, including
rights groups adhoc and Licadho—
who routinely send staff to protests,
including at the national assembly
on Monday—released a joint statement noting that many of those at
the protests were police and officials
in plain clothes.
“observers identified a number of
plain-clothed para-police, also known
as security guards, and police officers among the crowd, which also
included CPP youth members and
public officials,” the statement said.
“over the last few years, we have
seen countless peaceful protests violently dispersed in the capital by
disproportionate deployment of
state security forces—who were
nowhere to be seen as two lawmakers were assaulted yesterday,” the
statement continued.
interior Ministry spokesman
Khieu sopheak said yesterday that
police had not intentionally allowed
the two lawmakers to be beaten at
the national assembly’s front gate,
saying that the event had caused
trouble for authorities.
“the authorities are not stupid
like that. it has already created difficulties for the authorities when
the lawmakers suffered and got injured, and it made our authorities
concerned,” general sopheak said.
“the authorities were happy when
Mr. sokha was safe.”
gen. sopheak said that a committee would be formed to investigate
the assault on the lawmakers.
“this morning, [interior Minister sar Kheng] decided to create a
committee to investigate in order
to arrest the perpetrators to send
them to the court and punish them,”
he said.
“the committee will be led by
his excellency general em sam
an, an interior Ministry secretary
of state, and seven other expert officials,” he added. “all are police, including a deputy municipal police
chief, department directors [and] a
deputy national Police chief.”
Yet human Rights watch (hRw)
cast doubt on the chances of the
committee finding the assailants,
noting that Monday’s beatings of the
CnRP lawmakers followed a pattern
of CPP reactions to opponents.
“a repeated pattern during deployment of reaction forces has
been for some elements to act in a
particularly violent manner, while
others stop at verbal abuse and
threats,” hRw wrote in a statement.
“another part of the reaction force
formula, again documented by the
Un and others, is for the CPP to pretend to investigate reaction force violence, but only in order to cover up
its own involvement,” it added.
“Using a mob to attack opposition
members of parliament sends a
chilling signal to Cambodians that a
new wave of political violence can be
unleashed anytime and anywhere.”
International Brief -----Congo Republic Votes to Allow 3rd Presidential Term
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bRazzaviLLe, Republic of Congo - voters in Congo Republic have overwhem-
ingly backed a change in the constitution that will allow President Denis
sassou nguesso to run for a third consecutive term, the results of a referendum showed yesterday. sassou nguesso has ruled the oil-producing nation for 31 of the last 36 years and the constitutional change makes it possible
for the 71-year-old to win a further five-year mandate at an election due next
year. More than 92 percent of voters in sunday’s referendum supported
the change and turnout stood at 72 percent of the more than 1.8 million
registered voters, according to figures from the electoral commission. More
than 1.2 million people voted in favor of the change, while around 102,000
rejected it, the commission said. the turnout figure was immediately disputed by the opposition, which had called for a boycott of the referendum.
sassou nguesso is the latest african president to try to prolong his grip on
power by changing the constitution. (Reuters)
wednesday, october 28, 2015
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No Fake License Plates Found France Signs Off on $115M in
At Military Police Headquarters Loans and Extradition Treaty
B y A un P heAP
the cambodia daily
The first two days of a new
crackdown on the improper use
of military license plates have focused on vehicles parked at the
National Military Police Headquarters in Phnom Penh, a spokesman said yesterday.
National Military Police spokesman Eng Hy explained that 10
military police officers had been
assigned to check all cars driving
into the headquarters in Dangkao
district to make sure that their
blue-and-red Royal Cambodian
Armed Forces (RCAF) license
plates were genuine.
“We posted a working group at
the entrance of the military police
headquarters and stopped officials using vehicles and motorbikes
bearing military license plates...but
we have not found anyone using
fake military license plates,” he
said yesterday.
Yesterday Mr. Hy was still waiting to hear back from the results
of similar inspections happening
at provincial military police headquarters throughout the country.
“We gave orders to all commanders of provincial military police
to check for fake military license
plates in their units, but up to now,
I have not yet received information
from them,” he said.
The officers also looked at all
cars entering the military police
compound to see if they had tinted
windows—which were ordered off
the roads in 1997 by Prime Minister Hun Sen, although the ban is
rarely enforced—but failed to discover any lawbreakers, Mr. Hy said.
However, he said that his team
had “educated” some officials who
arrived at the military police headquarters riding motorcycles without a helmet, which is illegal.
On Sunday Mr. Hy said that
military police would begin to inspect vehicles across Phnom Penh
on Monday to look for fake or improperly used RCAF plates. Technically, members of the military are
not supposed to use military plates
on their personal vehicles, although
the practice is widespread.
But as of yesterday, these checks
had not yet begun.
“We have not yet started to
check and inspect the vehicles on
the road because we have not yet
received orders from the upper
level,” Mr. Hy explained.
B y K uch n Aren
the cambodia daily
About $115 million worth of concessional loans to Cambodia and a
mutual extradition treaty were approved during a meeting between
Prime Minister Hun Sen and
French President Francois Hollande in Paris on Monday, according
to Mr. Hun Sen’s Facebook page.
In a meeting at the Elysee Palace just hours after two opposition
lawmakers were beaten in front of
the National Assembly in Phnom
Penh, Mr. Hollande greeted Mr.
Hun Sen to discuss the deals.
“French President Francois Hollande will encourage French investors to Cambodia in particular
to make investments in aviation,
clean water and urban trains,” Mr.
Hun Sen wrote, adding that Mr.
Hollande plans to visit Phnom
Penh in the near future.
In a separate post regarding a
meeting with French Foreign
Minister Laurent Fabius and other
Cambodian and French officials to
sign the six documents, the prime
minister noted that France has
donated $406 million euros (about
$450 million) since 1993.
Of the additional concessional
loans totaling 104 million euros
(about $115 million) announced
in the post, Mr. Hun Sen said that
11 million euros were for tourism
training schools to be built in
Phnom Penh and Sihanoukville.
A sum of 14 million euros will
also go toward “education,” it said,
while 70 million euros will be provided to construct electricity transmission lines in Kompong Cham,
Kratie and Koh Kong provinces.
Ang Vong Vathana, Cambodia’s
justice minister, also met with his
French counterpart, Christiane Taubira, at the Elysee Palace to ink a
deal obliging both countries to
extradite criminals indicted in each
other’s jurisdictions.
Along with many other opposition figures, CNRP President
Sam Rainsy has over the past 20
years made frequent use of his
French passport to flee Cambodia
to avoid convictions widely seen
as politically motivated.
Mr. Rainsy, who Mr. Hun Sen
threatened to imprison as recently as Sunday night, could not be
reached for comment, but said
last year he believed the CNRP is
so strong now that he would not
flee the country in the future.
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Civil Servants Deny Defamatory Posts on Senator’s Sex Life
B y K huon n arim
The CamboDia Daily
A suspended Interior Ministry official and a military officer went on
trial at the Phnom Penh Municipal
Court yesterday over Facebook
posts with claims about the sex life
of a senator that are allegedly defamatory and have already led to
the conviction of two people.
Pheng Vannak, who was suspended from his post at the internal security department’s anticybercrime bureau pending the
trial and an investigation into a separate death threat he allegedly
made, is accused of defaming CPP
Senator Keo Maly, who he wrote
was the mistress of a married military general.
Also on the dock yesterday was
Hang Borey, identified by the court
only as a “senior” member of the
Royal Cambodian Armed Forces
(RCAF), who is also accused of defaming Ms. Maly.
The senator successfully sued Information Ministry official Prum
San and Mam Manut, the wife of
the general with whom she was
said to be having the affair, over the
same claims, with the court ordering them to pay fines and damages amounting to $3,750 each on
Monday.
Siv Channa/The Cambodia Daily
Suspended Interior Ministry official Pheng Vannak arrives at the Phnom
Penh Municipal Court yesterday ahead of his defamation trial.
In a tense hearing yesterday, Mr.
Vannak sparred with deputy prosecutor Hing Bunthan and denied
that he had defamed Ms. Maly, reasoning that while he had posted a
status update using his Facebook
account, it was regarding news of
the legal action taken by Ms. Maly,
and not an act of slander.
“I wrote it as a news article quoting the [post] of Mr. Prum San,”
Mr. Vannak said.
Mr. Bunthan then reminded Mr.
Vannak that he is a law enforce-
ment official and told him that his
post was a breach of Ms. Maly’s
privacy.
“I don’t want to answer this
prosecutor anymore,” Mr. Vannak
responded.
“If you don’t want to give answers, then don’t have people filing
complaints against you,” the prosecutor said.
Under questioning, Ms. Borey,
the RCAF officer, said that her
Facebook account had been
hacked at the time she is alleged to
have made a post saying that Ms.
Maly and Seak Socheat, the military general, were having casual
sex.
“I did not commit bad acts against
Keo Maly,” she said. “My account
was hacked in July and August.”
The prosecutor, however, dismissed those claims.
“Although both have denied
what they are charged with, considering their activities and evidence
on Facebook the prosecutor concludes that it really is public defamation,” Mr. Bunthan said.
In his closing statement, Theng
Meng Y, a lawyer for Ms. Maly,
said that Ms. Borey had changed
her story since being questioned
ahead of the hearing.
“In front of the prosecutor, Hang
Borey already accepted that she
said that [Ms. Maly] was having
casual sex with His Excellency
Seak Socheat,” he said.
Mr. Meng Y said that his client
had dropped her compensation
demands from $500,000 to $50,000
from Mr. Vannak and $550,000 to
$100,000 from Ms. Borey.
“My client doesn’t want money,
she only wants justice,” he said.
Presiding Judge Top Chhun
Heng said that a verdict would be
handed down on November 2.
VN Rubber Firm Stripped of Certification Due to ‘Illegal’ Actions
B y Z somBor P eter
The CamboDia Daily
A state-owned Vietnamese rubber company has been kicked out
of the Forest Stewardship Council
(FSC), a U.S.-based group that certifies firms for sustainable forest
management, over rampant illegal
logging and human rights abuses
on its Cambodian rubber plantations, the group said in a statement
yesterday.
The board of directors of the
FSC voted to expel Vietnam Rubber Group (VRG) in August after a
five-month investigation into its
Cambodian operations that was
triggered by a complaint from U.K.
environmental rights group Global
Witness. VRG will officially lose its
certification for its Vietnamese plantations in three months; its Cambodian operations were never
certified.
In a statement released yesterday announcing the decision, the
council accuses VRG’s Cambodian
operations—which comprise some
100,000 hectares of plantations
across several provinces—of illegal
logging, conspiring with authorities
to mistreat villagers and destroying high-value habitat.
A report by the council’s Impartial Complaints Panel, also re-
leased yesterday, says the plantations leveled forest land that still
had significant public value, failed
to consult with local communities
and ignored their property
claims, mishandled environmental impact assessments, and contracted logging companies that
did not pay the proper taxes to
the government.
“All of these could be considered
as illegal actions,” the report says.
“In addition, we have information
showing that VRG occupied land
to which it was not entitled by encroaching severely on river corridors and possibly by extending
outside its boundaries.
“Evidence suggests that VRG
also allowed illegal loggers to use
the land over which it has control
to be used for the housing of illegal loggers and the transport of illegal timber. The panel considers
that these occurrences constitute
clear and convincing evidence that
VRG was involved in illegal activities in Cambodia.”
The report says the panel also
corroborated accusations from
local communities that the plantations had cut down thousands of
their resin trees with little or no
compensation and used authorities
to intimidate them, including, in
one case, laying siege to a village in
Kompong Thom province for two
months, preventing food and medicine from getting in.
Staff at VRG’s Phnom Penh office directed all questions to country manager Leng Rithy, who
could not be reached. A request for
comment sent to VRG’s headquarters in Ho Chi Minh City went
unanswered.
In its own statement, Global
Witness welcomed the council’s
decision.
“The FSC investigation provides
further evidence that VRG has destroyed some of Southeast Asia’s
most important remaining forests,
with indigenous communities
forcibly displaced in the process,
and is forcibly taking land from its
rightful owners and destroying
livelihoods—with untold and irreversible effects,” Patrick Alley, one
of the group’s founding directors,
said in the statement. “The FSC
has done the right thing by dropping them from its certification
scheme. Now VRG needs to urgently take action to address the
damage it has caused.”
One of VRG’s plantations in
Mondolkiri province, Binh Phuoc
1, has been fighting with locals
since being granted a 5,000-
hectare concession four years ago.
Nhan Mao, a local farmer, said
the plantation had stolen more
than 1,000 hectares of land from
some 200 local families, who say
they have been farming the land
for generations.
“We have never received a solution since we lost our farms in
2012 because the authorities always protect the company,” he
said. “About a month ago, authorities came to the villagers and
warned them that they would be
arrested if they dared to protest
against the company.”
VRG’s loss of certification with
the council does not come with
any penalties. But Global Witness
campaigner Ali Hines said it could
end up hitting the company in the
pocketbook.
“The FSC is the world’s leading
certification body for the forestry
industry, and by giving its stamp of
approval to companies it offers a
level of assurance to both consumers and investors,” she said by
email.
“Whilst we can’t predict what
impact the FSC’s decision will have
on VRG’s business, it does signify
that VRG is a high-risk company.”
(Additional reporting by Aun
Pheap)
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Victim Testimony Continues in Telecom Cambodia Suspends 2
Battambang HIV-Outbreak Trial More Employees in Graft Probe
B y K hy S ovuthy
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bATTAMbANg CITy - The trial of an
unlicensed medic accused of infecting more than 270 people with HIV
continued yesterday, with 22 infected villagers providing testimony
during the fourth day of hearings at
the battambang Provincial Court.
yem Chrin, 56, stands charged
with aggravated murder, intentionally transmitting HIV and operating
without a medical license for his
role in an HIV epidemic that hit
Sangke district’s Roka commune
late last year. Ten HIV-infected villagers, mostly elderly people, have
since died.
Sangke district councilor Mok
Saruon, 61, who testified yesterday,
told the court that he was “90 percent” sure Mr. Chrin, who is his
neighbor, was responsible for his
infection.
Echoing testimony from victims
last week, Mr. Saruon said Mr.
Chrin was the only doctor he
could recall providing him with
treatment.
“I was friendly with yem Chrin. I
had been asking for treatment from
him for a long time already,” Mr.
Saruon said outside of the courtroom following his testimony.
Asked if he had ever seen Mr.
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Chrin reuse syringes between
treatments—which authorities assert is the cause of the outbreak—
Mr. Saruon said he had never bothered to check.
“I never looked to see if he reused needles or syringes because I
believed he was a good doctor.”
Contacted after the hearing, Mr.
Chrin’s lawyer, Em Sovann, admitted to the possibility that his client
hadn’t always followed proper medical procedure, but insisted the witnesses’ testimony failed to prove
the charges laid against the unlicensed medic.
“My client had no intention to infect the people with HIV, but maybe he did not always update his
treatment based on modern standards,” he said.
Mr. Chrin’s 60-year-old sister-inlaw, Lay Thorn, required medical
attention yesterday after she fainted
while exiting the court building during the lunch break.
After regaining consciousness,
Ms. Thorn said she had felt “weak”
after seeing her brother-in-law driven away in a prison truck.
“I got excited because I feel so
bad for my brother because he is a
good person.... He always helped
the Roka villagers recover from
their illnesses.”
National Briefs ------
Man on Trial for Murder Over Internet Cafe Stabbing
A man suspected of stabbing to death the owner of an Internet cafe in
Phnom Penh’s Sen Sok district last year maintained his innocence during a
second day of hearings in his trial at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday. Addressing the court through tears, Dang Sopheak, 22, asked for a
thorough investigation. “I ask the court to continue investigating this case
before making judgement or sentencing me,” he said. Mr. Sopheak is
charged with murder for allegedly stabbing Lim Chhung Kim, 23, at the Internet cafe she ran out of her home in Toek Thla commune. Lim Chhung
Kim’s brother, Lim Hong Tak, told the court that on September 29 last
year, he heard screaming coming from the loft in their house and when he
opened the door, Mr. Sopheak used a taser to shock him. Mr. Hong Tak
then called out for his older brother, who managed to detain Mr. Sopheak
until police arrived. Presiding Judge Chhe Vioak will issue a verdict on
November 2. (Ouch Sony)
Man Questioned After Burning Down School Building
A man who burned down an unused school building in Pursat province
while drunk on Sunday was questioned by the provincial court yesterday,
police said. Moeun Kosal, 25, was arrested by Phnom Kravanh district police on Monday morning after he told police he drunkenly burned down
O’Priel primary school in Samraong commune on Sunday evening, said
district police chief Vorng Savet. Mr. Kosal said he feared for the safety of
the children who played in the abandoned school and decided to burn it
down to prevent them from getting injured in the event that the roof on the
nearly 30-year-old building collapsed, according to Mr. Savet. “Mr. Kosal
confessed to police that he drank too much and lost control,” Mr. Savet
said. “[He] told me that he burned the school because he was afraid the
roof or some part of the wood on the roof would fall on the kids,” he said,
adding that if Mr. Kosal had a valid concern for the safety of the children, he
should have contacted relevant authorities. Mr. Kosal was questioned yesterday by the provincial prosecutor and is scheduled to go before an investigating judge for further questioning today, Mr. Savet said. (Buth Kimsay)
B y S eK o dom
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Telecom Cambodia has suspended two more employees in an ongoing investigation into the alleged
embezzlement of at least $230,000
from the state-owned firm, a firm
spokesman said yesterday.
Sem Sam Ang, the firm’s director
of debt and income, was suspended in September, following a strike
by staff who accused Mr. Sam Ang
of pocketing payments made to the
firm by Internet provider NeocomISP since 2012. Another employee
accused of wrongdoing, deputy finance director Khem Teng Soeun,
was also suspended.
yesterday, Telecom Cambodia
spokesman Sorn Vy said two more
employees were suspended without pay on October 20.
“Now we have announced the
suspension of four people in total,
because the inspection investigators want to check whether or not
they really stole money,” he said.
“We are not accusing them of
embezzling yet because the inspectors have not finished their analysis
and they have not said whether
more money has been lost.”
An October 20 statement from
Telecom Cambodia identified the
two newly suspended officials as
Som bouphallary, the firm’s deputy
director of debt and income, and
Nay Sam Kol, the finance director.
It added that all four must come
to the office every day to assist with
the investigation.
Telecommunications Ministry
spokesman Hun Saroeun said the
ministry had yet to determine
whether the four acted together.
“The inspectors didn’t give me a
lot of details, but they found two more
people involved in embezzling from
Telecom Cambodia. I don’t know if
they did it all together,” he said.
Neither Ms. bouphallary nor
Mr. Sam Kol could be reached for
comment.
After his suspension in September, Mr. Sam Ang denied the allegations against him. He said NeocomISP paid its accounts by both
check and cash and that he received some of the cash payments
directly and passed them on to the
finance department without properly documenting the transactions.
Mr. Teng Souen also denied the
accusations, claiming that he never
received any such payments from
Mr. Sam Ang.
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Truck Drivers Center to Reopen After Child Abuse Reports
Surround
Officials Over
Tax Dispute
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and
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A team of customs officials was
confronted by a group of angry
truck drivers in Kandal province’s
Takhmao City yesterday after it
stopped two trucks that had not
paid import or road tax on their
vehicles, one of the officials said.
National Road 2 was blocked
for more than two hours after
some 30 truckers responded to a
call from their colleagues and surrounded the government team of
about 15 people, said Moung
Dara, chief of customs and excise
at the Chrey Thom International
Checkpoint on the border with
Vietnam. He said the team finally
allowed the two drivers to leave
after telling them to pay the tax
they owed by January 31.
“After we stopped the two
trucks, the drivers called their colleagues to intervene and block
the road,” Mr. Dara said. “These
men claimed that they would call
hundreds more to come here.”
According to the customs chief,
the right-hand drive trucks, most
of them transporting sand, rocks
and dirt, used their vehicles to
block the road and then surrounded the customs officials at a
nearby service station. He said
military police were deployed to
the scene but stood by as the two
sides shouted at each other.
Mr. Dara said that his team negotiated with the drivers—all of
whom are required to pay a onetime road tax and import tax for
bringing their vehicle into the
country—and defused the situation by offering the January deadline, even though the drivers had
been given warnings since August. He said the amount of tax
owed varied by driver.
The drivers are also required to
have their trucks modified so that
the steering wheel is on the left.
“We did not fine them yet. We
are just educating them so that
they know the procedure,” Mr.
Dara said.
The customs chief said the
drivers agreed to pay the tax by
the new deadline but asked that
they not have to move their steering wheels, a request that would
be passed on to the “upper level.”
A church-run care center for
children in Kratie province where
police say three girls were sexually assaulted by the director’s husband is set to reopen within days
under the same management,
church officials said yesterday.
The pentecostal Four Square
Church in Chhlong district’s
Chhlong commune, run by Nav
Saihou, 32, serves as a care center
for about 10 children, who stay at
the church between classes at a
nearby school and sleep there
overnight.
According to provincial police,
Ms. Saihou left her husband, Nor
Thy, 37, in charge of the church
while she traveled to Sambor district for training in early September. During her absence, Mr. Thy
molested and attempted to rape
three girls aged between 10 and
12, police said.
Mr. Thy is wanted for arrest and
remains on the run.
Four Square Cambodia administrator Pow Naret said the church
in Chhlong commune would reopen no later than November 1,
with Ms. Saihou as director until
the church can find her a new
position.
“We plan to move her to anoth-
er church, because she no longer
has a good name in this area,” Mr.
Naret said, adding that he did not
believe it was necessary to fire her
because her husband committed
the alleged abuse without her
knowledge.
The U.S.-based International
Church of the Four Square Gospel operates 99 institutions it refers
to as “church orphan homes”
throughout Cambodia. The director of Four Square Cambodia, Ted
Olbrich, said in a 2010 interview
with Georgetown University’s
Berkley Center for Religion, Peace
and World Affairs that the church
avoided sexual threats to children
by putting older women in charge
of them.
“We don’t have all the problems
with pedophilia that secular NGOs
or even other churches have because we have a bunch of grannies
taking care of them,” Mr. Olbrich
said.
Mr. Naret admitted yesterday
that the church knew that Mr.
Thy had been involved in caring
for children at the center his wife
was running, but that going forward, children at the Four Square
homes would only be left with female employees.
“The solution we have is in the
future we will keep one women in
the church at all times, not leave a
man with the kids,” Mr. Naret
said.
Although Four Square’s churches
double as child care centers, many
of them are not registered as such
with the Ministry of Social Affairs.
Oum Sophannara, director of
child welfare for the Social Affairs
Ministry, said that he was aware of
the case in Chhlong commune
but that because the church was
not officially an orphanage he was
under no obligation to inspect it.
“We do not inspect communitybased centers. Police investigate
those cases and the police are
working on this,” he said.
“There are a lot of problems with
no proper care, and [community
care centers] not meeting standards,” Mr. Sophannara added. He
said a meeting is scheduled for
next month between provincial social affairs officials and provincial
cults and religion officials to determine who is responsible for overseeing the centers.
Provincial social affairs director
To Dong said he had already investigated the alleged abuse but
could not take punitive action because the church is registered with
the Ministry of Cults and Religion.
“Whether or not the church will
keep operating or close down will
depend on [the meeting] next
month,” he said.
Grade 5 Testing Aims to Cut Learning Gaps
B y J anelle R etka
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Cambodia will join three other
regional countries in carrying out
standardized testing for grade five
students as part of a pilot program
that aims to improve primary
school education in Asean, officials
said this week.
In the Unicef-backed project,
launched at a workshop in Phnom
Penh on Monday, Cambodia, Brunei, Burma and Laos will each
have grade five students sit the
Southeast Asia Primary Learning
Metrics assessment, said Lauranne Beernaert, Southeast Asian
Ministers of Education Organization project coordinator.
“The main goal of the metrics is
to improve education, as a very
broad goal,” she said “The results
will allow each country to see
where the kids are compared to
other countries. But especially to
know what they could eventually
work on, on a policy level.”
Ministry of Education spokesman Ros Salin said on Monday
that the test will help the government improve the national curricu-
lum, teacher training and policies.
“After implemented testing, we
will get good feedback from the results and we will discuss at an international level, again, whether Cambodia, Laos, Brunei and [Burma]
have common challenges or points
we need to attend to,” he said.
The test will have reading, writing
and mathematics and will be rolled
out to select Grade five students in
Cambodia starting next year, according to the Education Ministry.
But Erika Boak, Unicef Cambodia’s chief of education, emphasized that the goal of the test is not
to compare countries.
“[T]he purpose of the assessment initiative...is to understand
the factors affecting children’s
learning achievements and enabling policy makers, and crucially
teachers, to take corrective actions
to reduce disparities between children,” she said by email yesterday.
If the initial tests provide useful
results, the program will be expanded to more countries where it
will be repeated once every three to
five years, she said.
According to Mr. Salin, the min-
istry has not determined how
many Cambodian students would
take the first test, but he said the
pilot sample would accurately represent the country’s demographics and offer an indicator of where
Cambodia stands compared to
other countries in the region.
“We should have common framework, common tools, everything in
common,” Mr. Salin said of Asean.
“[The assessment] is in line with the
educational reform in the ministry.”
However, Kurt Bredenberg,
senior technical adviser for NGO
Kampuchean Action for Primary
Education, said the project might
not be beneficial.
“I’m trying to think how they
would implement such a thing, because different countries are starting off at such different points,”
Mr. Bredenberg said.
“To have a similar standard for
Singapore and Malaysia, it could
be very dispiriting for a country
like Cambodia,” he added. “There
are many problems in Cambodia.
I’m just afraid that such a metric
would be a distraction from the
real problems.”
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B y g eorge W right
the CamboDia Daily
Testimony on the alleged genocide of ethnic Vietnamese during
the Khmer Rouge regime began at
the Extraordinary Chambers in
the Courts of Cambodia yesterday,
with a witness recounting a massacre of Vietnamese adults and
children at a pagoda in Siem Reap
province in 1978.
Sien Sung, 55, who was based in
Chi Kreng district during the regime, described seeing ethnic Vietnamese being killed and thrown
into pits at the Wat Khsach pagoda
as he returned home from a rice
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to consummate their marriages—
he had seen couples “disappear”
for not “getting on well”—Mr.
Phuon and his new wife, Mam
Yet, did not have sex on their first
night together.
“I did not touch her and I wanted to keep our purity because I
thought I might not stay alive and
she would become a widow,” he
said, adding that it did not take
long before cadre began questioning him.
“They investigated us and
asked, ‘How was your consummation?’ I told them there was no
problem and we were happy. I told
my wife to say the same thing,”
Mr. Phuon said.
Forced marriage, and rape in
the context of such marriages, is
the focus of a new book entitled
“Like Ghost Changes Body,”
which was released by the Transcultural Psychosocial Organization Cambodia last week.
The book, which features eight
case studies of Cambodians
forced to marry during the Khmer
Rouge regime, contains disturbing
recollections, not only of abrupt
mass marriage ceremonies, but of
the surveillance and pressure newlyweds were subjected to afterward as the government encouraged couples to produce the next
generation to serve its agrarian
revolution.
After being forced to marry a
man far older than herself, one 53year-old woman tells of how, despite managing to deflect his initial advances, local Khmer Rouge
guards, or “chhlob,” physically restrained her while her husband
attacked her.
“The guards said it had been almost a week and we still had not
slept together, so that night we
continUed from Page
field one evening.
“At that time I was walking back
from my mobile unit and it was
about 200 meters away. I was on a
road next to the pagoda. I heard
the voices from the pagoda, so I
actually had a secret look at what
was happening inside the pagoda,”
Mr. Sung said.
Although it was dark, a kerosene lantern illuminated 10 to 12
Khmer Rouge soldiers drinking
alcohol and systematically killing
people who admitted to being ethnic Vietnamese, the witness said.
“The victims were interviewed
[about] whether they were Chihad to have sex. I did not agree. I
said I did not care if I was killed,”
she says in the book.
“There were two guards, both
women, and one of them is still
alive today. They tied my legs and
arms to the bed and then they
moved away to let my husband approach me. And that f—ing husband raped me,” she said.
In another interview, a 57-yearold Cham Muslim woman explains how the fear of death at the
hands of local cadre resulted in
her giving up her virginity to her
new spouse.
“We discussed together that
night and agreed between us [to
have sexual relations] because
the cadres had threatened us, saying that if we didn’t get along that
night, they would take us to be
killed,” she said. “My husband
said: ‘If we don’t get along, we will
be killed as the chhlob are spying
on us now.’”
The topic of forced marriage
will come under scrutiny at the
Khmer Rouge tribunal next year,
when prosecutors will attempt to
prove that the Communist Party
of Kampuchea (CPK) implemented a nationwide policy that forced
nese or Vietnamese,” Mr. Sung
said. “For those who said they
were Vietnamese, they were killed
at the pit,” he said.
Mr. Sung said he hid for about
an hour while watching adults being beaten to death with bamboo
poles and children thrown into pits.
“After the children arrived at the
killing site, some...were thrown up
into the air and when they fell
down into the pit they fainted and
collapsed and perhaps they died
afterward,” he said.
Though anyone who admitted
to being Vietnamese was killed, a
small number of Chinese people
were released and sent back to
their villages on an oxcart, he said.
Mr. Sung is the first witness to
testify regarding the treatment of
ethnic Vietnamese in the second
phase of Case 002—in which
Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan
are being tried for a slew of
crimes, including the genocide of
ethnic Vietnamese and Cham
Muslims. The prosecution is seeking to prove that the Vietnamese
were specifically targeted with the
intent to wipe out the ethnic group
in Cambodia.
Mr. Sung will continue his testimony today.
“I did not touch her and I wanted to keep our purity
because I thought I might not stay alive and she would
become a widow.”
—Ung PhUon
people to marry and have sexual
relations in order to increase the
number of able workers.
“During the Khmer Rouge regime, many thousands of Cambodians were forced to marry under
threat of re-education, imprisonment or death. To ensure a sufficient workforce, the CPK systematically monitored the newlyweds
to confirm that they consummated the marriages,” William Smith,
international deputy co-prosecutor
at the tribunal, wrote in an email
on Friday.
“The forced unions and traumatic conjugal relations that followed frequently left victims with
permanent physical and/or psychological damage, and they
were often forced to endure these
associations not just once but
over an extended period of time,”
he said.
DC-Cam
Young men and women attend a wedding ceremony during Democratic
Kampuchea.
Theresa de Langis, a researcher on sexual violence who edited
the new book, said the effects of
forced marriages on victims have
been deep and far-reaching.
“The trauma of having lost the
opportunity to make a central life
choice is mentioned in most interviews. The loss of human dignity
and being treated as animals,
‘cows’ and ‘dogs’ put out to breed,”
Ms. de Langis said.
“Faced with social stigma,
[women] were often left to raise
children on their own and many
were unable or unwilling to marry
again. One interview describes the
pain of being excluded in some
cultural rituals because women
who are divorced or widowed are
considered ‘bad luck.’” she said.
Despite the prying eyes of the
local soldiers, Mr. Phuon and Ms.
Yet managed to avoid having sexual relations until the Vietnamese
forces overthrew the Pol Pot regime. Separating briefly, the couple then decided to stick together. It was only then, after they had
chosen each other of their own
free will, that they consummated
their marriage.
However, Mr. Phuon said the
consequences could have been
different.
“If we didn’t accept this marriage, they would have moved us
far away from our place and nobody knew where that would be,”
he said. “No one dared to argue
with these marriages. Of 100 couples [in the cooperative], 100
agreed.”
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Philippines Says It Has ‘No Capacity’ to Resettle Asylum Seekers
ReuteRs
- President Benigno aquino yesterday said the Philippines
had “no capacity” to permanently
relocate asylum seekers now being held in australian detention
camps on remote, impoverished
south Pacific islands.
Hundreds of boat people seeking asylum in australia have been
placed in detention camps on Manus island in Papua new guinea
and on the tiny island of nauru.
“We would want to assist but
there are limitations as to how far
ManiLa
we can assist,” aquino told reporters, saying his government was
“challenged to meet the needs of
its own people right now.”
Canberra and Manila have held
talks about resettling some of the
refugees in the Philippines after a
similar deal with Cambodia struggled to get off the ground.
Human rights groups criticized
the aquino government for entering into talks with australia when
thousands of Filipinos displaced
by Typhoon Haiyan in 2013 were
still without homes.
“and this proposed agreement
is not one of a transitory nature, it’s
not one of just being a transit point
but actually relocating these people here,” aquino said. “and we
are not in a capacity at this point
of time to afford permanent residency to these people.”
australia had offered $150 million spread over five years in exchange for permanent relocation
of some refugees. a similar deal
was struck with Cambodia, but to
date only four asylum seekers have
been resettled.
since 2012, people on boats attempting to reach australia have
been turned back or taken to camps
in nauru, where there have been
reports of assaults and systemic
child abuse, or Papua new guinea, where Canberra has set up
processing centers.
From the late 1970s until late
1980s, the Philippines helped provide transit to thousands of Vietnamese, Laotians and Cambodians who escaped by boat to seek
permanent homes in the U.s. and
elsewhere in the West.
Indonesia Gov’t Considers National Emergency Over Forest Fires
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- indonesia is considering
declaring a national emergency
over fires that have been smoldering across the archipelago for
weeks, sending haze drifting
across much of southeast asia, the
vice president said yesterday.
The government will intensify efforts to contain the fires that have
caused pollution levels across the
region to spike to unhealthy level,
and forced school closures and
flight cancellations, Vice President
Jusuf Kalla said.
“The problem is too big,” Kalla
said in an interview in Jakarta.
“We are now considering,” he
said, referring to a declaration of
an emergency, adding that thousands of troops would be deployed
JaKarTa
to help combat the fires.
President Joko Widodo is expected to make a decision on the
emergency after returning from
the U.s., Kalla said.
Kalla’s comments come just a
day after Widodo announced he
would cut short his first official
trip to the U.s. to fly directly to the
haze-affected areas.
“He will be more focused on
domestic problems,” Kalla said of
the president’s decision to cancel
his visit to silicon Valley, where
he was expected to discuss investment deals with apple and google executives.
The fires, often deliberately set
by plantation companies and smallholders, have been burning for
weeks in the forests and carbon-
rich peat lands of sumatra and
Kalimantan islands.
recently, they have spread to
places like Papua as the El nino
weather phenomenon exacerbates
the dry season and hampers firefighting efforts.
an aide to the vice president,
Wijayanto samirin, said elevating
the crisis to national emergency
status would allow the government
to speed up procurement processes
for much-needed foreign firefighting equipment.
But he added there were concerns that businesses could use
the government action to declare
force majeure on deals in sectors
ranging from palm oil to banking.
Kalla said about 40 million indonesians in five provinces had
been affected by the haze. The national disaster agency said late on
Monday that haze was starting to
spread south toward Java island,
where over half the country’s population lives.
indonesia has also deployed
warships to evacuate infants and
other vulnerable residents of hazehit areas, a minister said last week.
The evacuations will be a last
resort, said Coordinating security
Minister Luhut Pandjaitan, if authorities are unable to provide care
for those suffering from respiratory diseases.
The last time the country declared a national emergency was
when the indian ocean tsunami
killed more than 100,000 people
in 2004.
Indonesia’s Mudflow Disaster Site Gets Makeover as Tourist Spot
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sidoargo,
indonesia - Plodding
around a vast field of mud that sits
on top of a dozen submerged villages, tourists snap photographs
of a volcano that is still spewing
sludge nearly a decade after it
erupted in one of the strangest
disasters on record.
a short distance away, a woman
surveys stone sculptures of halfburied people and monuments
commemorating the 2006 catastrophe that displaced tens of thousands of villagers and transformed
a landscape stretching across hundreds of hectares at the eastern
end of indonesia’s Java island. reports at the time put the death toll
at around a dozen.
disaster tourism has become
more common in indonesia, where
visitors are drawn to sites of earthquakes, floods and volcanic eruptions to witness the aftermath of
catastrophes or simply do some
soul-searching.
“i had watched a lot of the news
on television, but i didn’t expect
that seeing it with my own eyes
could give such a different impression,” said tourist Wisnu Titik Kartiani at sidoarjo’s mudflow disaster site. “if this is called tourism, i
suppose this is tragic tourism.”
Her guide, sumono, was one of
the villagers who now ferry tourists
on their motorcycles or sell videos
of the disaster that took away their
livelihoods as factory workers.
“We are grateful for any work
we can get,” he said.
at its peak, mud was spewing
at a rate of around 150,000 cubic
meters a day from the volcano at
sidoarjo, which many believed
was triggered when PT Lapindo
Brantas, a company linked to the
powerful Bakrie family, was drilling for oil and gas.
The Bakries denied wrongdoing and said it was due to natural
causes.
The government had agreed to
foot part of the compensation costs
and, to date, around 90 percent of
the victims had received payments,
said Wahyu sutopo, an official at
the sidoarjo Mudflow Mitigation
agency.
While some may consider the
chapter closed, others are keen to
preserve the disaster as part of
indonesia’s history.
among the statues that have
sprung up at the site is a giant effigy of aburizal Bakrie, patriarch of
the Bakrie family, which stands
near a stone tomb etched with the
words “let this nation not forget.”
Reuters
A man takes a picture of his family near stone sculptures of half-buried
people at the Lapindo mud field in Sidoarjo, Indonesia, earlier this month.
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Leaving China? Books, Maps and DVDs May Be Confiscated
B y J ulie M akinen
los angeles times
An odd thing happened when
movers came to box up Ruth
Kirchner’s furnishings as she was
preparing to return to berlin after
a decade in China. The chief packer made a beeline for the german
journalist’s globe to see whether it
was politically correct.
“Where’s Taiwan?” he asked,
checking whether the island—
which has de facto independence
but which China’s communist
leaders regard as a breakaway
province—was rendered in a different color than the mainland.
next he demanded: “Where are
the Diaoyu islands?” referring to
uninhabited specks of land long
administered by japan but claimed
by China.
“i said, ‘Oh, come on, man, the
Diaoyu islands are too insignificant
to be shown on a globe,’” Kirchner
recalled of the summer incident.
Finally, the packer picked up a
road atlas of britain and asked
where Taiwan was. “i said, ‘That’s
a road map of england; there is no
Taiwan in there!’” Kirchner said.
Satisfied, the packers completed
the job; Kirchner flew back to
europe.
Creative Commons
A newsstand is seen in Kunming, Yunnan province, China.
“i didn’t really think about it
much; i thought he was just a bit
strange,” she said.
Weeks later, though, Kirchner’s
moving company called to say that
customs authorities inspecting her
shipment found a book that included an objectionable Taiwan map.
Kirchner had to sign a form saying
she was “voluntarily” abandoning
the book—“The Opium War,” by
julia Lovell—even though she had
bought it in beijing. (The title re-
cently has been taken off shelves in
the city because of the map issue,
booksellers say.)
“i sort of laugh about it, but i find
it rather sad that they get so
worked up about something so insignificant,” said Kirchner, adding
that the controversy resulted in a
monthlong delay for her entire
shipment. “For one thing, i was
taking things out of China, not in.
And i brought lots of stuff in [that
was presumably more sensitive]
and they never seemed to care.”
in the last year, China has significantly stepped up border controls
to prevent the import of banned
materials, particularly Chineselanguage books published in freespeech havens such as Hong Kong
and Taiwan. but less well-known
are efforts by Chinese authorities to
confiscate books, maps, globes,
DVDs and any printed material
they deem objectionable from people departing the mainland.
The extent of the effort remains
unclear, but interviews with multiple moving companies in beijing
and more than a dozen foreigners
who have left beijing since 2013
indicate the practice has intensified.
The confiscations suggest a growing sensitivity toward any printed or
audiovisual material that bears
even the slightest whiff of deviation
from the party line on territorial
issues.
“Regimes that are anxious about
their legitimacy fetishize the signs
of legitimacy,” said Tim brook, a
professor of Chinese history at the
University of british Columbia. So
one of the signs of legitimacy is a
map—there you are one color,
your borders are all drawn properly
and you look like a proper state.”
Reuters
Around 200 new recruits of the Chinese People's Liberation Army take
part in a training exercise in Heihe, China, last week.
West Forceing a ‘Color Revolution’: Chinese Army
beijing - enemy forces in the West are trying to “falsify” the history of
China’s ruling Communist Party and its military and force a “color revolution” on troops who are too susceptible to outside influences, the military’s official newspaper said yesterday. President Xi jinping has repeatedly reminded the military to be loyal to the party, as he also steps up efforts to fight graft in the army and modernize forces that are projecting
power across the disputed waters of the east and South China Seas,
though it has not fought a war in decades. in a front-page commentary,
the official People’s Liberation Army Daily said that unnamed enemies
in the West were trying to undermine the military. “Hostile Western
forces are sparing no effort to belittle our fine traditions, denigrating our
heroes and falsifying our party’s and military’s history,” it said, without
giving details. They are “trying in vain to push a ‘colour revolution’ to get
us to change our stripes,” the newspaper added, referring to popular uprisings that occurred in former Soviet states like Ukraine. (Reuters)
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Indian Utopian Sect Under Scrutiny for Stoking Intolerance
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ponda,
India - The arrest of a
member of India’s Sanatan Sanstha sect following the murder of a
well-known atheist has prompted
renewed calls from some politicians to ban the Hindu group, as
concerns grow the country’s tradition of religious tolerance is being
eroded.
opening the doors of its Goa
headquarters to foreign journalists
for the first time this month, Sanatan Sanstha told reporters it had
nothing to do with the February
murder of Govind pansare, and its
mission was opposed to violence
in all forms.
Instead, its members are preparing for the advent of a divine Hindu
kingdom in India within eight
years.
“The aim is to prepare people for
a divine kingdom, or Ram Rajya,
by 2023,” said durgesh Shankar
Samant, a founding member of the
group that believes India’s secular
democracy has failed. “Right now
an awakening is going on.”
The movement, which claims
thousands of followers and produces newspapers, books and websites, is one of a number of newlypopular Hindu groups.
Reuters
A general view of Sananta Sanstha ashram near Ponda in the western
state of Goa, India
Emboldened by the return to
power of the mainstream Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata party, the
groups have taken up causes with
renewed vigor, including the protection from slaughter of cows they
consider to be sacred.
In recent weeks, three Muslims
were killed for allegedly killing
cows; one of the murders sparked
violent protests in the Muslimmajority region of Kashmir.
and in attacks reminiscent of a
spate of killings of secular bloggers
in neighboring Bangladesh, pansare was one of three prominent
Indian atheists to have been slain,
two this year. He was known for
attacking discrimination, caste politics and religious fundamentalism.
president pranab Mukherjee, an
apolitical figurehead, has publicly
voiced concerns that multi-faith India, dominated by Hindus but with
sizeable minorities, including
around 180 million Muslims, is be-
coming less tolerant.
prime Minister narendra Modi
has spoken against the lynching by
a Hindu mob of a man near delhi
and called for peace between Hindus and Muslims.
But critics said the BJp leader’s
response was too slow at a time
when religious polarization could
favor his party as it fights an important state election.
at the Sanstha’s retreat, a white
building overlooking a lush valley,
volunteers known as “seekers”
work on a suite of publications.
The content produced by volunteers in Goa, mostly young women,
covers everything from the length
of hair and style of clothes to best
capture cosmic vibrations, to black
energy emitted by Western birthday cakes.
after the 2013 murder of narendra dabholkar, an atheist who
founded a group of self-styled rationalists, its daily newspaper published an article calling his death a
“blessing from God.”
“Life and death are a matter of
fate. Every person gets the result of
his actions,” the paper wrote.
neither Sanatan Sanstha nor any
of its members have been implicated in the murder.
The Cambodia daily
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wednesday, octobeR 28, 2015
InternatIonal
Afghanistan and Pakistan Search for Earthquake Survivors
B y S haShaNk B eNgali
los angeles times
- Thousands of afghans
and Pakistanis awoke yesterday
to the devastation of a magnitude
7.5 earthquake that officials said
had killed more than 300 people
and destroyed more than 6,000
houses in the two countries.
Rescue teams were struggling to
reach the epicenter of the disaster
in afghanistan’s remote northeastern badakhshan province. in all, 14
afghan provinces suffered damage
in monday afternoon’s quake,
which was centered 254 km northeast of Kabul.
Nearly 230 people were killed in
Pakistan, 184 in the northern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa,
where thousands slept outdoors in
temperatures that hovered near the
freezing mark. a series of aftershocks struck the area following
the temblor, raising fears of further
damage.
Pakistani troops worked to clear
landslides along the high-altitude
Karakoram Highway and other
major roads, which helped speed
the delivery of emergency relief
supplies.
a Pakistani C-130 cargo plane
carried seven tons of supplies, including 2,500 ready-to-eat meals
and 1,000 tents, to the district of
Chitral, the Pakistani town closest
to the epicenter, said major General asim bajwa, spokesman for
mumbai
Reuters
A man clears rubble after Monday's earthquake in Fayzabad, Afghanistan, yesterday.
the Pakistani armed forces. Thousands more meals and supplies
were sent by road to the hard-hit
district of Dir, where a relief camp
was being set up for quake victims.
Pakistani surveillance aircraft
were still surveying the damage
across the affected region, which
includes some of the most inacces-
sible parts of the Hindu Kush
mountains. Officials feared the
death toll could rise as relief workers reach remote areas.
in afghanistan, disaster management officials said 76 people had
been killed, slightly reducing an
earlier estimate. another 268 people were wounded and 4,000 houses
were damaged, said abdullah abdullah, chief executive of the
afghan government.
The monday afternoon earthquake, one of the largest in the
region in the past decade, was felt
in parts of Central asia and as far
south as the indian capital, New
Delhi.
Film Helps Bring a Disabled Indian Woman Home From Pakistan
B y P arth M.N.
los angeles times
mumbai - almost 15 years after she
unwittingly strayed across the border into Pakistan as a girl, a deafand-mute woman monday was
brought back to india, where officials were trying to reunite her
with her family.
The 23-year-old woman, whose
name has been given only as Geeta, was greeted in New Delhi by
Pakistani officials, who facilitated
her return to india in a case that
has received widespread attention
in the rival countries.
Geeta’s story was obscure until
earlier this year, when a blockbuster indian film, “bajrangi bhaijaan,” featured the mirror-image
storyline of a mute Pakistani girl
who unknowingly crossed into india, where she was cared for and
ultimately brought home by a lovable simpleton played by megastar
Salman Khan.
The feel-good story—which has
grossed nearly $100 million world-
Reuters
Geeta gestures as she arrives in New Delhi on Monday.
wide, making it one of the biggest
indian hits of all time—temporarily
warmed feelings between india
and Pakistan. it also rekindled interest in Geeta’s story, which became
fodder for newspaper columns and
talk shows.
arriving on a Pakistan interna-
tional airlines flight from Karachi,
Geeta was accompanied by five
staff members with the Edhi Foundation, the nonprofit group that provided her shelter for 15 years.
“Our daughter Geeta is back in
india,” indian External affairs minister Sushma Swaraj said. Swaraj
thanked the charity group, whose
members were being treated as
state guests.
“We are very grateful that the
foundation helped her keep her traditions alive,” Swaraj said, adding
that Geeta did not eat meat, which
is considered anathema by devout
Hindus, while she was in Pakistan.
according to reports, Geeta
strayed into Pakistan at age 7 or 8,
when she was found by police in
the city of Lahore. She stayed in a
series of shelters, eventually landing at Edhi, one of Pakistan’s biggest charitable organizations.
Geeta’s arrival in india came with
an unexpected twist. indian officials
said she had recognized her family
from a photograph, but after she
reached New Delhi, she refused to
recognize that family, whose surname is mahato, Swaraj said.
“Geeta has said that she is not
married as claimed by the mahato
family,” Swaraj told a news conference. “She says the mahato family
is not hers.”
េខមបូឌា​ េដលី
រាល់ដំណឹងទាំងអស់គ្មែនការភ័យខ្លែច ឬ លម្អៀង
ថ្ងែពុធ​ទី២៨​ខែតុលា​ឆ្នែំ២០១៥
The Cambodia daily
១៣
កង​​ទព
័ ​ចល
ូ ​រម
ួ ​អពា
ំ វ​នាវ​​ឲយា ​
លោក​កឹ ម ​សុ ខា​ចុះ ​ចា ញ​ពី ​
តំណាងជា​​អនុបធា
ា ន​រដ្ឋសភា​
ម៉ច
ិ ដារ៉ា និង Alex Willemyns
ខាមបូឌា​ដាលី
ខណៈ ​បណ្ដ​អ
្ ្នក​សង្កត​
្ ការណ៍​​ចោទ​ប្កាន់​​
ថា​គណបក្ស​បជា
្ ជន​កម្ពជា
ុ ​ គឺជា​អក
្ន ​រៀបចំ​
ឲ្យ​មន​ការ​វាយ​ដយ
ំ​ ង​
៉្ សហាវ​ពផ្ស្
្
​ទៅ​លើ​
តំណង​រាស្ត​គ
្ ណបក្ស​បឆា
្ ង
ំ ​ពរ
ី ​រប
ូ ​កាល​​ព​ី
ថ្ង្ ​ច័ ន្ទ ​​ស្ ប ​ត
់ ្ ​ប្ ក​ធ្ល្ យ ​រូ ប ​ភាព​​កាលពី ​
ម្សល
ិ មិញ​ដ្ ល​បង្ហញ
្ ​ព​ស
ី កម្មភាព​​ម្​បញ្ជ​្
ការ​យោធ​ជាន់​ខ្ពស់​មួយ​រូប​​ក្ណ្ឌ​កង​ទ័ព​​ដើម្បី​​
គាំទ​កា
្ រ​អពា
ំ វ​នវ​​ទម្លក
្ ​លោ
់
ក​ កឹម​ សុខា
ច្ ញ​ព​ត
ី ណ
ំ
្ ង​អនុបធ
្ ន​រដ្ឋសភា​។
​លោក​ញ៉យ​ចំរើន​និង​លោក​គង់​ សភា
ដ្ ល​ជា​តណ
ំ
ង​រាស្ត​គ
្ ណបក្ស​សង្គ្ះ​ជាតិ​
ត្វ
ូ ​បាន​​កម
្ុ ​បរុ ស​​ដ្ ល​ចល
ូ ​រម
ួ ​បាតុកម្ម​គាំទ្​
គណបក្ស​ប្ជាជន​កម្ពុជា​ដើ ម្បី​ទាម​ទារ​​ឲ្យ​
លោក​កឹម​សុខា​អនុបធ
្ ន​គណបក្ស​បឆា
្ ង
ំ ​
សីុវចាន់ណា
​លោក​ផែង​វណ្ណៈ​មន្តក
ែី ស
ែ ង
ួ ​មហាផ្ទ​ដ
ែ ល
ែ ​តវែូ ​បាន​​ពយែ រួ ​មខ
ុ ​តណ
ំ
ង
ែ ​បាន​​ទៅដល់​សាលា​​ដប
ំ ង
ូ ​រាជ​​ធានីភព
្នំ ញ
ែ ​កាល​​
ពីមែសិលមិញ​មុន​ពែល​ការ​​បើក​សវនាការ​​ជំនុំ​ជមែះ​រឿង​​ក្តី​ពីបទ​​បរិហារកែរ្តិ៍។
មន្ត​ប
ាី ដិសាធ​ករ​​ចោទ​​បក
ា ន់ពប
ី ទ​បរិហារការ​ទា
្តិ៍ ក់ទន
ិ ​ករបង្ហាះសរតាម​​ហស
្វា ប៊ក
ុ
ឃួន ណារីម
ខាមបូឌា​ដាលី
មន្ត្ី​ក្សួង​មហាផ្ទ្​ដ្ ល​​ត្ូវ​បាន​​ព្យួរ​
ពី ប ទ​​ប រិ ហារ​​ក្ រ្តិ៍ ​និ ង ​ដ្ ល​​ធ្វើ ​ឲ្ យ ​មន​​ការ​​
ផ្តនទោ
្ទ្
ស​​មនុសស្ ​ពរ
ី ​នក់​រច
ួ ​ហើយ​។​
លោក​ផ្ ង​វណ្ណៈ ​ដ្ ល​​ត្ូ វ ​បាន​​ព្ យួ រ​​​​​
ចុះ​ច្ញពី​តំណ្ ង​របស់​លោក​នៅ​រដ្ឋសភា​ទាញ​​
មុខ​តណ
ំ
្ ង​ម​យ
ួ ​រប
ូ ​និង​មន្តយោ
្ី
ធ​​មក
្ន្ ​បា
់ ន​​
មុខ​តណ
ំ
្ ង​​របស់​ខន
្លួ ​នៅ​ការិយល័យ​បឆា
្ ំង ​
ខណៈ​ព្ល​ពក
ួ ​លោក​ចាក​ច្ញពី​រដ្ឋសភា។​
រាជធនីភព
្នំ ្ ញកាល​​ព​ម
ី ស្ ល
ិ មិញ​ពាក់​ពន
័ ​កា
្ធ រ​​
សុខ​ផ្ទ្​ក្នុង​ដោយ​​រង់​ចា​កា
ំ រ​​បើ ក​​សវនការ​​
ទម្លក
្ ​ព
់ ​រ
ី ថយន្ត​របស់​ពក
ួ ​លោក​​ និង​ជាន់​ធក់
បាតុកម្ម​ន្ះ ​តវ
្ូ ​បាន​ជរ
ំ ញ
ុ ​ដោយ​លោក​
នយក​រដ្ឋមន្ត​្ី ហ៊ន
ុ ​ស្ ន​អំឡង
ុ ​ព្ល​ថង
្ល្ ​
សុន្ទរកថា​​កាលពី​ល្ង្ច​ថ្ង្​អាទិត្យ​ប៉ុន្ត្​មន្ត្ី​
គណបក្ស​ប្ជាជន​កម្ពុជា​​​បាន​បដិស្ ធ​ថា​​
ការ​​វាយ​ដ​ន
ំ​ ្ ះ​​មិន​​តវ​
្ូ បាន​អនុញ្ញត​
្ ​ឲ្យ​ប្ព្ត្ត​
ឹ ​
ឡើ យ​​ទោះ ​បីជា​មន​ការ​អះ អាង​ថា​នគរ​បាល​​
ដ្ ល​ឈរ​ជើ ង​នៅ​ខាង​ក្​រដ្ឋសភា​​ឈរ​
មើ ល​​​ខណៈ​​តណ
ំ
ង​រាស្ត​ទា
្ ង
ំ ​ពរ
ី ​រប
ូ ​តវ
្ូ ​គ្​
ទាញ​ទម្លក
្ ​ច
់ ្ ញ​ព​រ
ី ថ​យន្ត​ក​។
្តី
ប ន្ត ​ស វ នការ ​ជំ នុំ ជ ម្ះ ​នៅ​សល​​ដំ បូ ង​​
បង្ហ្ះ​សរ​​អះ​​អាង​​តាម​​ហស
្វ្ ​បក
៊ុ ​ អំពជ
ី វ
ី ត
ិ ​
ផ្លូ វ ​ភ្ ទ​​រ បស់ ​ស មជិ ក ​ព្ឹ ទ្ធ ​ស ភា​​មួ យ រូ ប​
ជាការអះ អាង​​ដ្ ល​​ត្ូ វ ​បាន​​ចោទ​​ប្ កាន់ ​
ដច់ ​ដោយ​​ឡ្ ក​​មួ យ ​ទៀ តនោះ​​​ត្ូ វ ​បាន​​
ចោទ​​ប្ កាន់ ​ពី ប ទ​​ប រិ ហារ​​ក្ រ្តិ៍ ​លោក​​ស្ី ​​
រក​មន
ិ ​ឃើញ​សក
្លា ​លាខ​ខ.ម​ក្លង
ា ​កយ
្លា ​នៅ​បញ្ជក
ា រ​ដន
្ឋា ​កង​រាជ​អាវុធ​ហត្ថ​ផ​ប
្ទា ទ
ា ា ស​
អូន ភាព
ខាមបូឌា​ដាលី
ធនី​ភព
្នំ ្ ញ។
លោក​អ្ ង​ហុ​ី ​អក
្ន ​នពា
ំ ក្យ​កង​រាជអាវុធ​
អ្នកនំពាក្យ​មក
្ន្ ​បា
់ ន​នយ
ិ
យ​កាល​ព​ម
ី ស្ ល
ិ ​
ហត្ថ​លើ ​ផ​ប
្ទ្ ទ
្ ្ ស​បាន​ពន្យល់​ថា​មន្ត​ក
្ី ង​
ជា​ថទៅ
្មី
​លើ ​ការ​ប​ប
្ើ
ស
្ ​ស
់
ក
្ល្ ​ល្ ខ​​យោធ​​
ទៅ​​ពិនិត្យ​មើ ល​រថយន្ត​ទាង
ំ ​អស់​ដ្ ល​បើ ក​​
មិញ​ថា​រយៈព្ ល​ពរ
ី ​ថ​ដ
្ង្ ប
ំ ង
ូ ​ន្​ការ​បង្កប
្ ​
ទាហាន​​តាម​ប ណ្ដ្ យ ​ព្ំ ដ្ ន​ក ម្ពុ ជា-ថ្ ​
មិ ន ​ត្ឹ ម ​ត្ូ វ ​បាន​ផ្ដ្ ត ​ទៅ​លើ ​យន​យ ន្ត ​
ក្ ណ្ឌ ​កាលពី ​ថ្ង្ ​ច័ ន្ទ ​​ជាមួ យ ​នឹ ង ​ប ដ​ដ្ ល​
និង​ការ​​សើុប​អង្កត
្ ​លើ​ករណី​គរា
ំ ម​​សម្លប
្ ​់
តទៅទំព័រ១៦
កាលពី​មស្ ល
ិ មិញ​​បណ្ដ​ស
្
ប
្ថ្ ន
័ ​ផស្ ព្វ​ផសា
្ យ​​
ដ្ ល​គាទ
ំ ្​រដ្ឋ្ភិបាល​​បាន​ចុះ​ផ្សាយ​​រូប​ថត​
បទ​​ល្មើ ស ​ប ច្ច្ ក ​ទ្ ស​​ន្ ​នយកដ្ឋ្ ន ​ស ន្តិ ​
ជាច្ន
ើ ​គ្ឿង​ដ្ល​ចត​នៅ​ទប
ី ញ្ជកា
្ រដ្ឋន
្ ​
សរស្ រ​ថា​ "​កម
ឹ ​ សុខា​ ជា​ជន​ញុះញង់"​ និង​​​​​​ កង​រាជអាវុ ធ ​ហ ត្ថ ​លើ ​ផ្ទ្ ​ប្ ទ្ ស​ក្នុ ង ​រាជ​​
រាជ​អាវុ ធ ​ហ ត្ថ ​១ ០​រូ ប ​ត្ូ វ ​បាន​ចាត់ ​តាង
ំ ​ឲ្ យ​
ចូ ល ​ក្នុ ង ​ទី ប ញ្ជ្ ​ការដ្ឋ្ ន នៅ​ក្នុ ង ​ខ ណ្ឌ ​ដ ង្ក្
ដើ មប្ ​ធ
ី ​ឲ
្វើ យ្ ​បក
្ ដ​ថា​ ស្លក
្ ​ល្ខ​ ខ.ម​ ​ពណ៌​
ខៀវ​នង
ិ ​កហ
្ មរបស់​យន​យន្តទា
​ ង
ំ ​នោះ​​ជា​
តទៅទំព័រ១៦
ាប់​
ព័រ១៤
ព័របន្ទ
តទៅទំ
តទៅទំ
កាសែតបែចាំថ្ងែដ៏លែបីលែបាញតាំងពីឆ្នែំ១៩៩៣
១៤
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ថ្ងៃពុធទី២៨ខៃតុលាឆ្នៃំ២០១៥
ព័ត៌មានជាតិ
កង​​ទ័ព​ចូល​រួម​អំពាវ​នាវ​​...
តមកពីទំព័រ ១៣
“កឹម សុខ ជមនុស្សអាក្ក់ដ្លបង្កបញ្ហ្
មិនច្ ះចប់"។
រូបថតទំងន្ ះមនអមដោយញត្តស្ន
ិ
សុ
ើ ំ
មួយច្បាប់ពីលោក គន់ គីម អគ្គម្ បញ្ជកា
្ ររង
បក្ ស នយោបយ ជច្ើ ន ប្ កួ ត ប្ ជ្ ង គ្ន្
ទទួលខុសត្វ
ូ ចំពោះ អំពើហិងសា
្ ន្ ះ ដោយ
បក្ខពក
ួ ហើ យមិនត្វ
ូ បង្ហញ
្ ថាខ្លន
ួ ឯងស្នើ
មុនផ្ទុះអំពើហិងសា
្ ន្ ះ។
ដូច្ន្ះយោធាត្វ
ូ ត្ ឯករជ្យ និងមិនប្កាន់
សុជួ
ំ សមុខឲ្យគណបក្សនយោបយណមួយ
ក្ម
ុ រួមមនទំងអង្គការសិទមនុ
្ធិ
សស្ អាដហុក
ូ បនបិទសិទ្ធិ
បើ ពួកគត់ [តំណងរស្ត]្ ត្វ
របស់ខ្លន
ួ ទៅកាន់កន្លង
្ បតុកម្មននរួមទំង
សភា ឬគណបក្សប្ឆង
ំ នះ ទ្ ។ ប្សន
ិ
មិនឲ្យបញ្ចញ
្ មតិ នះ យើ ងគ្មន
្ លទ្ធប
ិ ជ
្
ទសវត្សរ៍ឆ្ន្ំ១៩៧០ ដ្ លបនផ្ដល់ប្ឹក្សា
ទោះ បីជគណបក្សប្ជជនកម្ពជ
ុ
បន
ធិត្យយ្ ស្ រន
ី យ
ិ មឡើ យ"។
ដល់ លោក ជផ្លូវ ការ ចាប់ ពី ឆ្ន្ំ ១៩៩៧ មក
បដិស្ធថាខ្លន
ួ មិនបនរៀបចំបតុកម្មប្ឆង
ំ
ពីតំណ្ង។
តំ ណង រស្តគណបក្
្
សសង្គ្ះជតិពីររូប
ដោយអំពាវនវឲ្យដកលោក កឹម សុខ ច្ ញ
លោក គន់ គីម បនសរស្ រថា "យើ ងខ្ញុំ
ទំង អស់ គ្ន្ ជទហន ដ្ ល កំ ពុ ង បំ ព្ ញ
ភារកិចនៅ
្ច
សមរភូមព្
ិ ដ
ំ ្ នកម្ពជ
ុ -ថ្ សូម
គោរពស្នើសុំសម្ដ្ច ហ្ង សំរិន ប្ធាន
រដ្ឋសភា និងតំណងរស្តទំ
្ ងអស់ដកលោក
កឹម សុខ ច្ ញពីអនុបធា
្ នរដ្ឋសភា។ យើ ង
អង្គការមិនម្ នរដ្ឋភ
្ ប
ិ លក្នង
ុ ស្ក
ុ មួយ
ឡើ យ។ យោធាគ្មន
្ តួនទីបន្ទស
្ សមជិក
ន្ កងយោធពលខ្ មរភូមន
ិ ្ទ និងជមនុសស្
ជំនត
ិ របស់លោក ហ៊ន
ុ ស្ ន ចាប់តាំងពីចុង
អះ អាងថា បតុកម្មរបស់ខ្លន
ួ បនបញ្ចប់១ម៉ង
្
លោក កឹម សុខ ដ្លអំឡុងព្លនះ
ត្ូវគ្វយដំក៏ដោយ ក៏លោក សម រង្សុី
ប្ ធាន គណបក្ ស ប្ ឆង
ំ បន ច្ ញ ស្ ចក្ដី
ថ្ល្ ង ការណ៍ មួ យ កាល ពី យប់ ថ្ង្ ច័ ន្ទ ដោយ
ចាត់ ទុ ក ការ វយ ប្ ហរ ន្ ះ ជគំ រូ ន្ " វិ ធី
សស្តហ្វ
្
ស
្ ស
ុី " របស់លោក ហ៊ន
ុ ស្ ន។
លោក សម រង្សុី បនសរស្ រក្នង
ុ ស្ ចក្ដី
និងអង្គការលីកាដូ ដ្ លត្ ងត្ បញ្ជន
ូ បុគ្គលិក
នៅរដ្ឋសភាកាលពីថ្ងច័
្ នផង
្ទ
នះ បនច្ ញ
ស្ ចក្ដថ្ល
ី ង
្ ការណ៍រួមមួយដោយគូសបញ្ជក
្ ់
ថា មនុសស្ ជច្ន
ើ ក្នង
ុ ចំណមអ្នកដ្ លចូល
រួមបតុកម្មគឺជនគរបល និងមន្តស្ល
្ី
ៀកពាក់
សុវ
ី ល
ិ ។ស្ ចក្ដថ្ល
ី ង
្ ការណ៍ន្ ះមនខ្លម
ឹ សរ
បន្តថា "បណ្ដអ្ន
្ កសង្កត
្ ការណ៍បនកំណត់
អត្តសញ្ញណ
្
នគរបលស្លៀកពាក់សុវ
ី ល
ិ មួយ
ចំនន
ួ ដ្ លគ្ ស្គល
្ ថា
់ ជសន្តស
ិ ខ
ុ និងមន្ត្ី
នគរបលនៅក្នុងក្ុមមនុស្សដ្ លរួមទំង
សមជិកយុវជន និងមន្ត្ីសធារណៈ របស់
គណបក្សប្ជជនកម្ពជ
ុ ផងដ្ រ"។
ស្ ច ក្តី ថ្ល្ ង ការ ណ៍ ន្ ះ មន ខ្លឹ ម សរ
ខ្ញទំ
ុំ ងអស់គ្នបន
្
តាមដនយ៉ង
្ យកចិតទុ
្ត ក
ថ្ល្ងការណ៍ច្ ញពីអឺរ៉ុបដ្ លមនខ្លឹមសរ
ដូច្ន្ះថា "អ្នកអង្ក្តការណ៍កំណត់ថា នគរ
ប្ ទ្ ស និ ង បន មើ ល ឃើ ញ សកម្មភាព ដ៏
ន្ ះ គឺជការឆ្លើយតបពីសំណក់គណបក្ស
ជកងសន្តស
ិ ខ
ុ ដ្ រនះ និងមន្តនគ
្ី
របល
ដក់បំផត
ុ អំពសភាព
ី
ការណ៍នយោបយរបស់
ពិសពុលរបស់លោក កឹម សុខ អនុបធា
្ ន
រដ្ឋ ស ភាដ្ ល កំ ពុ ង ធ្វើ ការ ឃោសនបោក
ើ ងសា
្ នៅភ្នព
ំ ញ
្ ព្ក
ឹ មិញ
ដូច្ន្ះថា “អំពហិ
កាន់ អំ ណច ទៅនឹ ង បតុ ក ម្ម ប្ ឆង
ំ លោក
្
តយ្ ] នៅ
ហ៊ន
ុ ស្ ន កាលពីរសៀល [ថ្ងអាទិ
ប្ស
្ ់ ញុះញង់អុចអាលដ្ លឈានទៅរក
ទីកង
្ុ ប៉រស
ី ដ្ លធ្វឲ្
ើ យបុរសខ្លង
្ំ នៅកម្ពជ
ុ
លោកបនបញ្ចបថា
់
ត្វ
ូ ត្ ទម្លក
្ លោក
់
ព្មនថា បើ ក្ម
ុ ប្ឆង
ំ ធ្វបតុ
ើ
កម្មប្ឆង
ំ
សង្គម
្ សុវ
ី ល
ិ "។
កឹម សុខ ច្ញពីតំណ្ង "ដើម្បីសន្តិសុខ
ជតិ និងដើ ម្បីឲ្យប្ជពលរដ្ឋអាចរស់នៅ
ដោយភាពសម្បរ
ូ សប្បាយ"។
លោក យឹម ផាន់ណ ម្បញ្ជ្ការរង
មនកំហង
ឹ យ៉ង
្ ខ្លង
្ំ ។ លោក ហ៊ន
ុ ស្ ន បន
លោកបនបន្ថម
្ ថា "ដោយមនញត្តធ្វ
ិ ើ
សម្ដ្ច ហ្ង សំរិន ដកលោក កឹម សុខ
ច្ ញពីតំណ្ងចំពោះ ការបង្កបញ្ហ្ កងទ័ព
រណៈ ផងដ្ រ"។
ស្ ចក្តថ្ល
ី ង
្ ការណ៍ន្ ះ មនខ្លម
ឹ សរបន្ត
ត្ូ វ បន បំ ប្ ក នៅក្នុ ង រជធានី ដោយ ការ
លោក កឹម សុខ ដ្ លកំពង
ុ ស្ថត
ិ នៅក្នង
ុ
ប្ហរន្ ះតាមរយៈ សរបង្ហ្ះលើ ហ្វស
្
ឡើ ងកាលពីព្ លថ្មៗ
ី ន្ ះ ដើ ម្បទម
ី
ទរឲ្យ
គណបក្ ស ប្ ជជន កម្ពុ ជ និ ង មន្ត្ី សធា
រង្សុី វិញនៅប្ទ្សកម្ពជ
ុ ។ ដូចថាម្ ន!"។
ធ្វបតុ
ើ
កម្មប្ឆង
ំ អ្នកគំទរបស់
្
លោក សម
ឧត្ដរមនជ័យ និងខ្ តព្
្ត ះវិហរ បនបញ្ជក
្ ់
ទូទៅមួយប្ឆង
ំ នឹងលោក កឹម សុខ។
នះ ដ្ ល ក៏ រួ ម មន ទំង សមជិ ក យុ វ ជន
ថា "ក្នុងរយៈ ព្ ល ពី រ បី ឆ្ន្ំចុ ងក្្ យ ន្ ះ
ប្ទ្ សថ្ ដើ មប្ សួ
ី រសុខទុកតំ
្ខ ណងរស្ត្
ថា ទហនត្វ
ូ បនក្ ណជ
្ឌ ផ្នក
្ ន្ ការតវ៉្
មួយចំនន
ួ ស្ថត
ិ ក្នង
ុ ចំណមក្ម
ុ មនុសស្ ទំង
លោកនៅទីក្ុងប៉្រីស អ្នកគំទ្លោកនឹង
យោធភូមភា
ិ គ៤ន្ កងយោធពលខ្ មរភូមន
ិ ្ទ
ដ្ លគ្បដណ្ដបខ្
់ ត្តជប់ព្ដ
ំ ្ នដូចជខ្ ត្ត
បលប៉្រ៉្ស្លៀកពាក់សុីវិល ដ្ លក៏ហៅថា
ដ្ ល រង របួ ស បន ថ្ក្ ល ទោស ការ វយ
ប៊ក
ុ ដោយគូសបញ្ជក
្ ថា
់
ក្ម
ុ បតុករក៏បន
គប់ដុថ
ំ ទៅ
្ម
លើ ផ្ទះរបស់លោកអស់រយៈ ព្ ល
យើ ងបនឃើ ញការតវ៉អហិ
្
ងសា
្ រប់មិនអស់
ប្អំ
ើ ពើហិងសា
្ ពីសណ
ំ
ក់កងសន្តស
ិ ខ
ុ រដ្ឋភិ
្
បល ដ្ ល ត្ូ វ បន ដក់ ពង្្ យ មិ ន សម
ហ្ តផល
ុ
និងដ្ លមិនឃើ ញវត្តមនឡើ យ
ព្ ល តំ ណង រស្ត្ ពី រ រូ ប ត្ូ វ បន វយ ដំ
កាលពីម្សល
ិ មិញ"។
លោក ខៀវ សុភគ
័ អ្នកនំពាក្យក្សង
ួ
៦ម៉ង
្ ផងដ្ រនៅព្ លរសៀ លនះ ខណៈ
មហផ្ទបន
្
លើ កឡើ ងកាលពីមស្ ល
ិ មិញថា
បលមិនបនអើ ពើ នឹងការទូរស័ពសុ
្ទ ជំ
ំ នយ
ួ ។
រស្តទំង
្
ពីរនក់ន្ ះ ត្វ
ូ គ្ វយដំនៅខ្លង
្
ភរិយរបស់លោកអង្គយ
ុ ក្នង
ុ ផ្ទះ ហើ យនគរ
លោកបនសរស្ រថា "ន្ ះ គឺជភាពខ្វះ
នគរបលគ្ម្នច្ តនបណ្ដ្យឲ្យតំណង
ទ្វរ្ មុខរដ្ឋសភាឡើ យ ដោយនិយយថា ហ្ តុ
មននៅពាសព្ ញព្ដ្
ំ នកម្ពជ-ថ្
ុ
។ ពួកគ្
ការទទួលខុសត្ូវរបស់សមត្ថកិច្ច និងរជ
សរត្ គត់ត្ ងត្ ចង់ធ្វើឲ្យប្ទ្ សមន
សធារណៈ ដោយមិនរី សអើ ងនិនកា
្ន្ រ។ ខ្ញុំ
ថា "អាជ្ញធ
្ រមិនឆ្កត
ួ អ៊ច
ី ង
ឹ ទ្ ។ វធ្វឲ្
ើ យមន
និងសុប
ើ អង្កត
្ រកជននៅពីកយ
្ ខ្នង និង
ទំងន្ ះរងការវយដំ និងរងរបួស ហើ យវ
ទម ទរ ឲ្ យ ដក គត់ ច្ ញពី តំ ណ្ ង ដោយ
សង្គម
្ "។
លោក គល់ បញ្ញ្ នយកគណៈកម្មធ
្ កា
ិ រ
ដើ មប្ ការ
ី
បោះ ឆ្នត
្ ដោយស្ រី និងយុតធ
្តិ ម៌
(ខុមហ្វ្ល) មនប្សសន៍កាលពីម្សិល
មិញថា យុទ្ធនការប្ បន្ ះរំលោភបំពានទំង
រដ្ឋធម្មនុញ្ញ និងការហមប្្មដច់ខតលើ
រដ្ឋ្ ភិបលដ្ លមនតួនទីការពារសុវត្ថភា
ិ ព
សំណម
ូ ពរឲ្យសមត្ថកិច្ចស្វ្ងរកជនដ្ ដល់
ពាក់ព័នអំ
្ធ ពើហិងសា
្ ន្ ះមកផ្ដនទោ
្ទ្
សដើ មប្ ី
ចៀសវងកុឲ្
ំ យប្ជពលរដ្ឋកាន់ត្ អស់ជំនឿ
លើ ប្ពន
័ យុ
្ធ តធ
្តិ ម៌ និងរជរដ្ឋភ
្ ប
ិ ល"។
បតុ ក ម្ម កាលពី ថ្ង្ ច័ ន្ទ ត្ូ វ បន រៀ បចំ
ការណ៍េនះ បង្កបញ្ហដល់
្
អាជ្ញធរ
្ ទៅវិញទ្ ។
ឧត្តមស្ នីយ៍ ខៀ វ សុភគ
័ មនប្សសន៍
ការលំបកដល់អាជ្ញធ
្ រ ព្ លតំណងរស្ត្
ធ្វឲ្
ើ យអាជ្ញធ
្ ររបស់យើ ងព្យ
ួ បរម្ភទៅវិញ
ទ្ ។ អាជ្ញធ
្ រសប្បាយចិត្ត ព្ លលោក កឹម
សុខ មនសុវត្ថភា
ិ ព"។
ឧត្ត ម ស្ នី យ៍ រូ ប ន្ ះ បន លើ ក ឡើ ង
ការបង្ហញ
្ ពីការប្កាន់បក្ខពួកក្នង
ុ ច្បាប់គ្ប់
ឡើ ងដោយក្ម
ុ យុវជនគំទគណបក្
្
សប្ជ
ទៀ ត ថា គ្ បន បង្កើ ត គណៈ កម្ម ការ មួ យ
លោកលើ កឡើ ងទៀ តថា "តួនទីរបស់
ស្ម្ះស្មគ
័ នឹ
្ ងលោក ហ៊ន
ុ ស្ ន ក្នង
ុ ពិធមួ
ី យ
រស្តទំ
្ ងពីរនក់ន្ ះ។
គ្ងកងកម្លង
្ំ ប្ដប់អាវុធ។
យោធាមនសរៈ សំខន់ណស់ក្នង
ុ ការការពារ
ដំណើ រការប្ជធិបត្ យ្យដ្ លមនគណ
ជនកម្ពជ
ុ ដ្ លកាលពីដើ មឆ្នន្
្ំ ះបនស្បថ
នៅមត់ទន្ល្ (មុខព្ះបរមរជវំង) ក្នង
ុ រជ
ធានីភ្នព
ំ ្ ញ។ ក្ម
ុ ន្ ះបនច្ន
្ ចោលការ
ដើ មប្ សើ
ី
ុ បអង្កត
្ ករណីវយដំលើ តំណង
លោកបនថ្លង
្ ថា "ព្ក
ឹ មិញន្ ះ [លោក
តទៅទំព័រ១៥
ខែមបូឌា​ ដែលី
ថ្ងៃអង្គៃរទី២៧ខៃតុលាឆ្នៃំ២០១៥
១៥
ព័ត៌មានជាតិ
មណ្ឌល​ថែទាក
ំ មា
ុ រ​នង
ឹ ​បើក​ឡើង​វញ
ិ ​​​ទោះ​មាន​ការ​ចោទបែកាន់ព​កា
ី រ​រលោ
ំ
ភ​បពា
ំ ន​កមា
ុ រ​
ប៊ត
ុ គឹមសាយ និង Taylor o'Connell
ខែមបូឌា​ដែលី
បុ គ្គ លិ ក ពេះ វិ ហារបាននិ យាយកាលពី មេសិលមិញថាមណ្ឌលថេ ទាំកុមរដេ លគេប់
គេងដោយពេះវហា
ិ
រគស
េិ ស
្ត
សនកង
្នុ ខេត្ត
កេចេះទដ
ី េ លនគរបាលលើកឡើ ងថាក្មង
េ សេី បី នក់ តេូ វ បានប្ដី រ បស់ បេ ធានម ណ្ឌ ល
ពីពេះអក
្ន សល
េី
េ ងមនកេរឈ
្តិ៍
្មេះលនៅ
្អ
ក្នង
ុ តំបន់នេះទៀ តហើយ"។លោកបានបន្ថម
េ
ថា លោកមន
ិ ជឿថា វាចាបា
ំ ច់តវ
េូ បណ្ដញ
េ គេប់ពេ លទាង
ំ អស់ដោយមិនទុកឲេយបុរស
នៅជាមួយកង
្មេ ៗឡើយ"។
បើ ទោះ ជាពេះវិហារទាំងអស់របស់ពេះ
អ្ន ក សេី ចេ ញ ទេ ពី ពេេះ ប្ដី អ្ន ក សេី បាន
វិហារដណ
ំ
ង
ឹ ទាង
ំ បន
ួ ជាមណ្ឌលថេ ទាក
ំ ម
ុ រ
មិនបានដង
ឹ ឡើយ។
បានចុះបញ្ជជា
ី មួយកស
េ ង
ួ សង្គមកច
ិ ដ
្ច េ រ។
បេពត
េឹ កា
្ត ររលោ
ំ
ភបំពាននេះដោយអក
្ន សេី
ពេះវិហារFour Square Gospel អន្តរជាតិ
ក៏ដោយក៏ភាគចន
េើ នេពេះវិហារទាំងនះ មិន
លោក អ៊ុំ សុ ផន់ ណរ៉េ បេ ធាន នយ ក
នេ ះ រំលោភបំពានផ្លូវភេ ទនះគេេងនឹង
ដេ លមនមល
ូ ដ្ឋន
េ នៅអាមេ រក
ិ បើកដណ
ំ
ើ រ
ដ្ឋន
េ សខ
ុ ម
ុ លភាពកម
ុ រនេកស
េ ង
ួ សង្គមកច
ិ ្ច
មុ ខ នេះ កេេ ម ការ គេ ប់ គេ ង រ ប ស់ អ្ន ក
នៅរ បស់ កុ មរកំ ពេ ក្នុ ង ពេះ វិ ហារ"ទូ ទាង
ំ ក្នង
ុ ឃឆ
ុំ ង
្លូ នេះប៉ន
ុ ថា
្តេ ដោយសរពេះវិហារ បើ កឡើ ងវិញក្នុងរយៈ ពេ លប៉ុន្មេនថ្ងេខាង
គេបគ
់ ង
េ ដដេ ល។
ពេះវិហារដណ
ំ
ង
ឹ ទាង
ំ បន
ួ (Four Square
ិ កង
្នុ ឃឆ
ុំ ង
្លូ សេក
ុ ឆង
្លូ ដេ លគប
េ ់
Churc) ស្ថត
ការ៩៩កន្លង
េ ដេ លសដៅ
ំ
ដល់"កន្លង
េ សក
្នេ ់
បេទេសកម្ពជា
ុ ។លោកថេ ដអុលបេជ
៊ី (Ted
ំ
ង
ឹ ទាំង៤នៅ
Olbrich)បេធានពេះវិហារដណ
កម្ពជា
ុ បាននយា
ិ
យកង
្នុ បទសម្ភស
េ នកា
៍ លពីឆ្នេំ
បានមនបស
េ សន៍ថាលោកបានដង
ឹ ពក
ី រណី
នេ ះ មិ ន មេ នជាម ណ្ឌ ល កុ មរកំ ពេ ផ្លូ វ ការ
លោកមន
ិ មនកាតព្វកច
ិ ព
្ច ន
ិ ត
ិ យេ មើលឡើយ។
លោកបានថង
្លេ ថា"យើងមន
ិ ពន
ិ ត
ិ យេ មើល
២ ០ ១ ០ ជាមួ យ ម ណ្ឌ ល B e r k l e y រ ប ស់ មណ្ឌលដេលមនមល
ូ ដ្ឋន
េ នៅកង
្នុ សហគមន៍
ដេ លដេ កស្នេ ក់ នៅពេះ វិ ហារនេះ ច ន្លេះ
សសនសន្តភា
ិ ពនិងកច
ិ កា
្ច រពភ
ិ ពលោកថា
ហើ យនគរបាលកំពុងធកា
្វើ រលើករណីនេះ"។
យោងតាមនគរបាលខេ ត្តបានឲេយដឹងថា
កំហេងផវ
្លូ ភេទទៅលើកម
ុ រដោយការដក់
បញ្ហេជាចេើនដេ លគ្មេនការថេ ទាំតេឹមតេូវ
ពួកគេ ។
មិ ន បាន ឆ្លើ យ ត ប តាម ស្ដ ង់ ដរ ឡើ យ ។
គេងដោយអក
្ន សេី ណវ សេ ហូ អាយុ៣២
ឆ្នេំ ជាមណ្ឌលថេ ទាក
ំ ម
ុ របហ
េ
េ ល១០នក់
ពេ លរៀនសត
ូ នៅ
េ
សលាកបេ េ រនះ។
អ្នកសេី សេ ហូ បានទក
ុ ឲយេ បរ
្ដី បស់ខន
្លួ ឈ្មេះ
ញ៉ ធី អាយុ ៣ ៧ឆ្នេំ មើ លការខុ ស តេូ វ ពេះ វិហារនះ ខណៈ ដេលអ្នកសេធ
ី ដ
្វើ ំណើ រទៅ
សកលវិ ទេ យាល័ យ G e o r g e t o w n សមេេ ប់ ពេះ វិ ហារ នេះ បាន ប ញ្ចៀ ស ការ គំ រម
ស្តេី វ័ យ ចំ ណស់ ឲេ យ មើ លការខុ ស តេូ វ លើ លោកអុលបេជ
៊ី បានថង
្លេ ថា"យើងទាង
ំ សេុ ក ស មេ បូ រ ដើ មេ បី ធ្វើ ការប ណ្ដុះ ប ណ្តេ ល
អ ស់ គ្នេ មិ ន មន ប ញ្ហេ ជាមួ យ ជ ន រំ លោភ
មិននៅលោកធីបានបៀតបៀននិងបន
៉ុ បង
៉ ឬពេះ វិ ហារផេ សេ ងៗ ទៀ តមននះឡើ យ
កាលពីដើមខេកញ្ញ។
េ អំឡង
ុ ពេលលោកសេី
រំ លោភក្មេ ង សេី បី នក់ អាយុ ច ន្លេះ ១ ០ឆ្នេំ ដល់១២ឆ។
្នេំ លោកធីដេ លគេកព
ំ ង
ុ តាមរក
ចាប់ខន
្លួ កំពង
ុ រត់គេចខន
្លួ នៅឡើយ។
លោកពៅណរ៉េ ត អ្ន ក គេ ប់ គេ ង ពេះ
វិ ហារ ដំ ណឹ ង ទាង
ំ បួ ន នៅក ម្ពុ ជាបាន មន
បេសសន៍ថាពេះវិហារសត
្ថិ កង
្នុ ឃឆ
ុំ ង
្លូ នេះ នឹងបើកឡើងវញ
ិ មន
ិ ហស
ួ ពថ
ី ទ
្ងេ ១
ី ខេ វច
ិ កា
្ឆិ ឡើ យដោយអក
្ន សេី សេ ហូ ជាបធា
េ នរហូត
ដល់ពេះវិហារអាចរកតួនទីថឲ
្មី េយអ្នកសេបាន
ី
។
លោក ណរ៉ត
េ បានថង
្លេ ថា "យើងមន
គមេេ ង ផ្លេ ស់ អ្ន ក សេី ទៅពេះ វិ ហារផេ សេ ង
កង​​ទ័ព​ចូល​រួម​អំពាវ​នាវ​​...
តមកពីទំព័រ ១៤
សខេ ងរដ្ឋមន្តក
េី ស
េ ង
ួ មហាផ្ទ]េ បានសមេច
េ បង្កត
ើ គណៈកម្មការមយ
ួ ដើ មបេ ស
ី
ើ ុ បអង្កត
េ ក្នុ ង គោលបំ ណ ងតាមចាប់ ខ្លួ ន អ្ន ក បេ ពេឹ ត្ត ដើ មេបីបញ្ជន
ូ ទៅឲេយតុលាការដក់ទោសទណ្ឌ"។
លោកបន្ថេមថា"គណៈ កម្មការនេះ នឹង
បំពានកម
ុ រដេលអង្គការមន
ិ មេនរដ្ឋភ
េ បា
ិ ល
ពីពេះយើ ងមនសវ
្តេី យ
័ ចណ
ំ
ស់ជាចន
េើ នក់មើលថេពក
ួ គេ "។
កាលពីមសេ ល
ិ មិញ លោក ណរ៉ត
េ បាន
ទទួលសល
្គេ ថា
់ ពេះវិហារបានដង
ឹ ថា លោក
ធីបានចល
ូ រួមមើលថេកម
ុ រនៅមណ្ឌលនេះ
ដេ លបេ ព ន្ធ រ បស់ គត់ គេ ប់ គេ ង ប៉ុ ន្តេ ថា
កុមរនៅពេះវិហារដំណឹងទាង
ំ បួននឹងតេូវ
ទុកឲយេ នៅជាមួយបគ
ុ ល
្គ ក
ិ ជាសប
្តេី ណ
៉ុ
្ណេះ។
លោក ណរ៉ត
េ បានថង
្លេ ថា "ដណ
ំ
ះ
សេយ
េ ដេលយើងមនគឺថានៅពេលអនគត
យើ ងនង
ឹ ទក
ុ ឲយេ សម
្តេី ក
្នេ នៅ
់
ចាព
ំ េះវិហារនេះ
បេជនៅ
ុំ
ខេកយ
េ រវាងមន្តម
េី ន្ទរ
ី សង្គមកច
ិ ្ច
ខេ ត្ត និងមន្តម
េី ន្ទរ
ី ធម្មការ និងសសនខេត្ត
ដើ មបេ ក
ី ណ
ំ
ត់ថានរណទទួលខស
ុ តវ
េូ កង
្នុ ការ
ពិនត
ិ យេ មើលមណ្ឌលទាង
ំ នេះ”។
លោកតូដុងបេធានមន្ទរ
ី សង្គមកច
ិ ខ
្ច េ ត្ត
បានមនបស
េ សន៍ថាលោកបានសប
ុើ អង្កត
េ រួចហើ យពីការរំលោភបំពាននេះ ប៉ុន្តេមិន
អាចចាត់វធា
ិ នការដក់ទោសទណ្ឌបានឡើ យ
ពី ពេះ ពេះ វិ ហារនេះ បានចុះ ប ញ្ជី ជាមួ យ
កេសង
ួ ធម្មការនិងសសន។
លោកបានលើ កឡើ ងថា"មិនថាពេះវិហារ
នេ ះនង
ឹ នៅតេបើកដណ
ំ
ើ រការឬកប
៏ ទ
ិ នះ
ឡើ យ គឺ អាសេ័ យ លើ [ ការ បេ ជុំ ] នៅខេ កេយ
េ "៕សរុន
ទៀ ត ដោយ អ ង្គ ការ ស ហ បេ ជាជាតិ និ ង
គូសបញ្ជក
េ ថា
់ ការវាយដកា
ំ លពថ
ី ច
្ងេ ន
័ ្ទ លើ តំណងរស្តគ
េ ណបកេសសង្គេះជាតិយកគរ
ំ ូ
តាមការប ញ្ចេ ញ បេ តិ ក ម្ម រ បស់ គ ណបកេ ស
បេជាជនកម្ពជា
ុ លើកម
េុ បេឆង
ំ ។
អង្គការនេះបានសរសេ រកង
្នុ សេចក្តថ
ី ង
្លេ ការបអ
េើ ព
ំ ើ ហង
ិ សា
េ ខណៈ អក
្ន ផសេ េ ងៗទៀត
និងអគ្គសង
្ន ការរងនគរបាលជាតិមយ
ួ រប
ូ "។
លោកបានថ្លេ ង ថានឹ ង មនការរៀ បចំ កិ ច្ច តាមរកអក
្ន បង្កការវាយដន
ំ
ះឡើ យដោយ
ជាជឿ ជាក់ លើ គ ណៈ ក ម្ម ការ នេះ ក្នុ ង ការ
បេព
េំ រ
ី រប
ូ ផេសេងទៀត។អ្នកទាង
ំ អស់សទ
ុ ត
្ធ េ នគរបាលរជធានីមយ
ួ រប
ូ បធា
េ ននយកដន
្ឋេ ហើ យ[ មណ្ឌ ល ថេ ទាំស ហគមន៍ ទាង
ំ នេ ះ ]
បន្ថម
េ ដច
ូ ្នេះថា "ផ្នក
េ ផសេ េ ងមយ
ួ ទៀតនេរប
ូ ការណ៍របស់ខ្លួនថា"គំរូដដេ លៗអំឡុងការ
ជានគរបាលដេ លរម
ួ មនដច
ូ ជាសង
្ន ការរង
លោកសុផន់ណរ៉េ បានបន្ថម
េ ថា"មន
ប៉ន
ុ ្តេ អង្គការឃម
្លេំ ើ លសទ
ិ ម
្ធិ នុសសេ មន
ិ សវ
ូ ដឹកនដោ
ំ យឯកឧត្តមឧត្តមសេនីយ៍ឯមសំអាន
រដ្ឋលេ ខាធិការកេសួងមហាផ្ទេ និងមន្តជ
េី ំនញ
ឡើ យ។នគរបាលសបអង្ក
ុើ
ត
េ ករណីទាំងនះ ដក់ពងេយ
េ កងកម្លង
េំ បត
េ ក
ិ ម្មគឺដក់ឲយេ មន
ដក់ ឲេ យ បេើ ពាកេ យ រំ លោភបំ ពាននិ ង ធ្វើ ការ
គំរមកហ
ំ
េ ង"។
សេ ច ក្តី ថ្លេ ង ការ ណ៍ នេះ មន ខ្លឹ ម សរ
មន្តកងកម្លេំងបេតិកម្មដេ លកត់តេទុកម្តង
បណ្តេអង្គការផេសេ ងៗនះគឺសមេេប់គណ
បកេសបេជាជនកម្ពុជាធ្វើពុតជាសើុ បអង្កេត
លើ ការ បេើ អំ ពើ ហិ ងេ សារ ប ស់ ក ង ក ម្លេំ ង
បេ តិ ក ម្ម ប៉ុ ន្តេ គេេ ន់ តេ ដើ មេ បី បិ ទ បាង
ំ ការ
ជាប់ ពាក់ ព័ ន្ធ រ បស់ ខ្លួ ន ប៉ុ ណ្ណេះ ។ ការបេើ បេស
េ ក
់ ម
េុ មនុសសេ ទៅវាយបហា
េ
រលើសម
ជិកសភាមកពគ
ី ណបកេសបឆ
េ ង
ំ បញ្ជន
ូ សញ្ញេ
បំ ភ័ យ ដ ល់ ព លរ ដ្ឋ ខ្មេ រ ថារលកថ្មី នេ អំ ពើ ហិងេសាផ្នេកនយោបាយអាចកើ តឡើ ងគេប់
ពេ លនិងគប
េ ទ
់ ក
ី ន្លង
េ ទាង
ំ អស់៕
សុខម
ុ និងស៊យ
ុ ឈាង
ខាមបូឌា​ ដាលី
១៦
ថ្ងៃអង្គៃរទី២៧ខៃតុលាឆ្នៃំ២០១៥
ព័ត៌មានជាតិ
មន្ត​ប
ាី ដិសាធ​ការ​​ចោទ​​..
តមកពីទំព័រ ១៣
កា រ​ទ
្តិ៍ ា ​។
លោក ​ផា ង ​វ ណ្ណៈ ​បាន ​និ យយ ​ថ​" ខ្ញុំ ​
កា វ​ម៉ល
ា ​ី សមជិក​ពទ
ាឹ ​ស
្ធ ភា​​មក​​ព​គ
ី ណបកាស​
សរសា រ​វា​ជ​​អត្ថបទ​​ពត
័ ​ម
៌ ន​​ដក​​សង
ា ​ច
់ ា ញ​
គឺជ​សាីកំណាន់​របស់​ឧត្តម​សា នីយ៍​យោធ​​
បន្ទប
ា ​ម
់ ក​​លោក​​ហីង
ុ ​ប៊ន
ុ ​ថន​បាន​​កន
ាើ ​រឮ
ំ ក​​
អ្ន ក ​ដា ល​ក៏ ​នៅក្នុ ង ​កា ច ក​​សាះ ​កល​​ព ​ី
ហើ យ​​បាន​​បាប់​លោក​​ថ​ករ​​បង្ហាះ​របស់​
បាជជនកម្ពជ
ុ ​ដា ល​លោក​​បាន​​ស​រសា រ​ថ​
រៀបករ​​រច
ួ ​ហើយមួយ
ួ ​រប
ូ ​។​
មាសល
ិ មិញ​ផង​​ដារ​ គឺ​ឈ្មាះ​ ហងាស​ បូរ​ី ដា ល​
តុ លករ​​បា ប់ ​អ ត្ត ​ស ញ្ញា ណ ​តាឹ ម ​តា ​ថ​ជ​​
សមជិក​"ជន់​ខស
្ព ​"់ ​នា ​កង​​យោធពល​​ខា មរ​​
ពី ​[ ករ ​ប ង្ហាះ ​] រ ប ស់ ​លោក ​ពាំ ​​​សន " ។​​​
លោកថ​​លោក​​ជ​មន្ត​អ
ាី នុវត្ត​ចបា
ា ប់​មយ
ួ រូប​
លោក​ ហីង
ុ ​ ប៊ន
ុ ​ថន​ បាន​​មន​​បស
ា
សន៍​
ថ​​"ទោះ ​ប​ជ
ី ​អក
្ន ​ទាំង​​ពរី ​បាន​​បដិសា ធ​​ចពោ
ំ
ះ
អ្វ​ដ
ី ា ល​​ពក
ួ ​គត់​តវ
ាូ ​បាន​​ចោទ​​បក
ា ន់​ក​ដោ
៏
យ​​
តា ​យោង​​តាម​​សកម្មភាព​​របស់​ពួក​គត់​និង​
ភ័ ស្តុ​តាង​​តាម​​ហ្វាស ​បុ៊ ក ​ពាះ រជអាជ្ញា​ស ន្និ​
ដ្ឋន​
ា ​ថ​វា​​ពិត​​ជ​ករ​​បរិហារ​​ការ្ត​ជ
ិ៍ ​សធរណៈ ​"។
នៅ​​កង​
្នុ ​សាចក្ត​ប
ី ញ្ចប់​​របស់​​ខន​
្លួ ​លោក​​​ថាង​​​
លោក ​រំ លោភ ​បំ ពាន ​ភាព ​ឯ ក ជ ន ​រ ប ស់ ​
ម៉ងអី
ា
​មា
ុ
ធវី​​របស់​​លោក​​ស​កា
ាី
វ​ម៉លី​​
ា ​បាន​​
លោក​ ផា ង​ វណ្ណៈ​ បានឆ្លយ
ើ ​តប​​ថ​ "ខ្ញ​ុំ
បាា​រឿ ង​​រ៉ាវ​របស់​ខន
្លួ ​តាំង​ពី​ពា ល​​តាវ
ូ ​បាន​​
លោកសា​ី កា វ​ម៉ល
ា ។
ី
លើ ក​ឡើង​ថ​ លោក​​ស​ាី ហងាស​ បូរ​ី បាន​​កា​
ភូ មិ ន្ទ ​ហើ យ​ក៏ ​តាូ វ ​បាន​​ចោទ​​បា កន់ ​ពី ​ប ទ​​
មិន​ចង់​ឆយ
្លើ ​តប​​នង
ឹ ​ពាះរជអាជ្ញ​រា ប
ូ ​នាះ​បន្ត​
សមជិក​ពទ
ាឹ ​ស
្ធ ភា​​រប
ូ ​នាះ​ធប
្លា ​ទ
់ ទួល​បាន​​
ឆ្លយ
ើ តបវិញ​ថ​"បាសន
ិ ​បើ​អក
្ន ​មន
ិ ​ចង​​ឆ
់ យ
្លើ ​
មុខ​ពាះរជ​​អាជ្ញ​ា លោក​​ស​ាី ហងាស​ បូរ​ី បាន​​
ប្តង
ឹ ​ទា​"។
ា ​ី ] មន​​
បាននិយយ​​ថ​[ លោក​​ស​ាី កា វ​ម៉ល
បរិហារ​​ការ​លោ
្តិ៍
កសា​ី កា វ​ម៉ល
ា ​ី ដា រ​។
ជោគ​​ជ័ យ ​រួ ច មកហើ យ​ក្នុ ង ​ករ​​ប្តឹ ង ​លោក​​​
ពា​ំ សន​​ មន្តក
ាី ស
ា ង
ួ ​ពត
័ ម
៌ ន​​ និង​អក
្ន ​ស​ាី
មុ​ំ ម៉ន
ា ត
ុ ​ ភរិយ​របស់​ឧត្តម​សានយ
ី ​រ
៍ ប
ូ ​នាះ​
ទៀ ត​​ឡើ យ​​" ។​ពាះ រជអាជ្ញា ​រូ ប នា ះ ​បាន​​
តប​​នង
ឹ ​ពាះរជ​​អាជ្ញ​ា អ្នក​មន
ិ ​ចា​បា
ំ ច់​មន​​គា ​
ដា ល​ជ​មន្ត​ក
ាី ង​​យោធពល​​ខាមរភូមន
ិ ​្ទ បាន​​
ចំនន
ួ ​៣.៧៥០​​ដល
ុ
រ
្លា ​កល​​ព​ថ
ី ​ច
្ងា ន
័ ​។
្ទ
សា​ត
ី វ
ាូ ​គា​ហា៊ក​ ពា ល​ដាល​លោក​​ស​ត
ាី វ
ាូ ​
អំ ឡុ ង ​ពា ល​​បើ ក​​ស វនករ​​ដ៏ ​តាន​​តឹ ង​
កល ​ពី មា សិ ល មិ ញ ​លោក ​ផា ង ​វ ណ្ណៈ ​បាន​​
ឈ្លាះ​បក
ា ា ក​ជ​មយ
ួ ​ពាះរជអាជ្ញ​រ
ា ង​ហីង
ុ ​
លោក​​បាន​​មន​​បស
ា
សន៍​ថ​"នៅ​​ចពោ
ំ
ះ​
យល់ពម
ា ​ទទួល​យក​​រច
ួ ​ហើយ​ថ​ លោក​​ស​ាី
អំឡង
ុ ​ករ​​សក​​សរ
ួ ​លោក​​ស​ាី ហងាស​ បូរ​ី ​ សហាយ​​ស្មន់​​ជមួយ​​ឯក​​ឧត្តម​សៀ ក​សុជតិ"​​។
ពាក់ ​ព័ ន្ធ ​ករ​​អះ អាង​​ដូ ច ​គ្នា ​ដោយ​​តុ លករ​​
បាន​​បង្គប
ា ​ឲ
់ យា ​ពក
ួ ​គត​់​បង់​បក
ា ​ព
់ ន
ិ យ
័ ក្នង
ុ ​មក
្នា ​ៗ
់ ​
សក​​សរួ ​មន
ុ ​ពាល​បើក​សវនករ​​ទៅ​ទៀត​​។
លោក​ថា ង​ម៉ង
ា អី​ុ បានលើ ក​ឡើង​ទៀត​​
លើ ក​ឡើ ង​ថ​គណនី​ហស
្វា ប៊ក
ុ ​របស់​លោក​​
ថ​កូន​ក​រ
្តី បស់​លោក​​បាន​​បន្ធរ
ូ ​បន្ថយ​ករ​​ទារ​​
បាន​​ចោទ​​បាកន់​​ថ​បាន​​បង្ហាះ​សរ​​ថ​​​លោក​​
តាម
ឹ ​៥០.០០០ដុលរ
្លា ​ព​លោ
ី
ក​ ផា ង​ ​វណ្ណៈ​ ​
សា​ី កា វ​ ម៉ល
ា ​ី និង​លោក​ សៀក​ សុជតិ​
ដា ល​ជ​ឧត្តម​សានយ
ី យោ
៍
ធ​​មន​​សហាយ​​
សំណង​​ជង
ំ ​ច
ឺ ត
ិ ​ព
្ត ​៥
ី ០០.០០០ដុលរ
្លា ​មក​​នៅ​
និ ង ​ពី ​៥ ៥ ០ . ០ ០ ០ ដុ ល្លា រ ​ម ក ​នៅ​តាឹ ម​​
១០០.០០០ដុលរ
្លា ​ព​លោ
ី
ក​​ស​ាី ហងាស​បូរ​ី ។
លោក​​បាន​​មន​​បស
ា
សន៍​បន្ថម
ា ​ថ​ "កូន​
ប៊ុ ន ​ថ ន​ហើ យ​​បាន​​ប ដិ សា ធ​​ថ​លោក​​មិ ន​
ស្មន​ន
់ ង
ឹ ​គ​។
្នា
ដោយ​​ពនាយល់​ហាត​ផ
ុ ល​​ថ​ពា ល​ដាល​លោក​​
បាពត
ាឹ ​ទ
្ត​ ង្វ​អា
ើ កាក​ល
់
ើ ​លោក​​ស​ាី ​កាវ​ ​មលី
៉ា ​
លោក​​គឺ ​វា​មន​​ពាក់ ​ព័ ន្ធ ​នឹ ង ​ព័ ត៌ ​មន​​នា ​ករ​​
កក្កដ​និង​ខា​សហា
ី
"។
តុប​ឈុន​ហាង​បាន​​លើក​ឡើង​ថ​តុលករ​​
បានចាន
ា ​ចោល​​ករ​​អះអាង​​ទាង
ំ ​នោះ​​។
៊ុ ឈាង​​
វិចក
្ឆិ ៕​ស
​ យ
បាន​​បរិហារ​​ការ​្តិ៍ លោក​​ស​ាី កា វ​ម៉ល
ា ​ី ឡើ យ​
ធ្វើ​ករបង្ហាះ ​សរ​នៅ​លើ ​ហ្វាស ​ប៊ុ ក ​រ បស់ ​
ចាត់ ​វិ ធន ករ ​ផ្លូ វ ​ចា បាប់ ដោយ ​លោក ​សាី ​
កា វ​ ម៉ល
ា ​ី ហើ យ​វា​មន
ិ ​មាន​ជ​ទង្វ​ប
ើ រិហារ​​
រក​មន
ិ ​ឃើញ​សក
្លា ​លាខ​ខ.ម​...
តមកពីទំព័រ ១៣
ស្លក
ា ​លាខ​ពត
ិ ​ឬយ៉ង
ា ​ណា។
​លោក​បាន​លើ កឡើ ង​​កលពី​មាសិល​មិញ​
ថ​"​យើង​បាន​ដក់​​កម​
ាុ ករ​ងរ​ឱាយ​បាចាំ​ករ​នៅ​
លោក ​សាី ​បាន ​និ យយ ​ថ​" ខ្ញុំ ​មិ ន ​បាន​​
ក្តី ​រ បស់ ​ខ្ញុំ ​មិ ន ​ច ង់ ​បាន​​បា ក់ ​ទា ​គត់ ​ច ង់ ​បាន​​
ទា ។​ គណនី​របស់​ខ​ត
្ញុំ វ
ាូ ​គា​ហា៊ក​ កល​​ពខ
ី ា​
ចៅ​​កា ម ​បា ធន​​កាុ ម ​បាឹ កា សា​ជំ នុំ ​ជ មាះ ​​​
ទោះជ​​យង
៉ា ​ណា​ ពាះរជអាជ្ញ​រ
ា ប
ូ នា ះ​
អាវុ ធ ​ហ ត្ថ ​ដោយ ​ជិះ ម៉ូ តូ ​មិ ន ​បាន ​ពាក់ ​មួ ក​
រហូត​មក​ទល់​ពាល​នាះ​ខ្ញ​ម
ុំ ន
ិ ​ទាន់​ទទួល​បាន​
កលពី​ថ​អា
្ងា ទិតយា ​ លោក​អា ង​ហុ​ី បាន​ថង
្លា ​
ក្លា ង ​ក្លា យ ​នៅ​ក្នុ ង ​អ ង្គ ភាព​រ បស់ ​ខ្លួ ន ​ប៉ុ ន្តា ​
ព័តម
៌ ន​ព​ព
ី ក
ួ គា ​នៅ​ឡើយ​ទា"។
លោក​ អា ង​ ហុ​ី បាន​ថង
្លា ​ថ​ ​មន្ត​ទា
ាី ង
ំ ​
នោះ​ក៏ បាន​​កា ឡា កមើ ល​រ ថយន្ត ​ទាង
ំ ​អ ស់ ​
រថយន្ត​និង​មត
៉ូ ​ដ
ូ ា ល​មន​សក
្លា ​លា ខ​យោធ​
ដើ មា បី ​រ ក​ឲា យ ​ឃើ ញ​ថ​តើ ​រ ថយន្ត ​ទាង
ំ ​នោះ​​
ប៉ន
ុ ​យ
្តា
ើ ង​រក​មន
ិ ​ឃើ ញ​នរ​ណា​មក
្នា ​ដ
់ ា ល​ប​ាើ
បាស
ា ​ស
់
ក
្លា ​លាខ​យោធ​កង
្លា ​កយ
្លា ​ឡើយ​"។
កលពី​មសា ល
ិ មិញ​លោក​អា ង​ហុ​ី ​កព
ំ ង
ុ ​រង់​
ចាំ​ទ ទួ ល ​ព័ ត៌ មន​​ពី ​ល ទ្ធ ផ ល​​នា ​ករ​​ពិ និ តា យ​
មើ ល​សាដៀ ង​គ​ដ
្នា ា ល​​ធ​ឡ
្វើ ើ ង​នៅ​ទីបញ្ជករ
ា
ដ្ឋាន ​ក ង​រជអាវុ ធ ​ហ ត្ថ​ខា ត្ត​ទូ ទាង
ំ ​បា ទា ស​
នៅ​ឡើយ។
លោក​បាន​ថង
្លា ​ថ​ "​យើង​បាន​​ដក់​បញ្ជ​ា
ទៅ​ដល់​មា ​បញ្ជក
ា រ​កង​រជអាវុធ​ហត្ថ​ខា ត្ត​
នឹ ង ​បា កស ​សល ​កា ម ​នៅ​ថ្ងា ​ទី ​២ ​ខា ​
ទាំង​អស់​ឲាយ​ពិនិតាយ​មើ ល​ស្លាក​លា ខ​យោធ​
ចាក​ចូល​ទី​បញ្ជាករដ្ឋាន​កង​រជអាវុធ​ហត្ថ​
នា ះ ​ហើ យ​ឃាត់​មន្តាី​ណា​ដា ល​​បាើ​បាស់​
តាម
ឹ ​តា​យត
ុ ធ
្តិ ម៌​បណ
៉ុ
្ណាះ"។
ដា ល​បើ ក​ចូល​បរិវា ណ​កង​រជអាវុធ​ហត្ថ​
សុវត្ថភា
ិ ព​​ដា ល​ជករ​​ខស
ុ ​ចបា
ា ប់។
ថ​កង​រជអាវុ ធ ​ហ ត្ថ ​នឹ ង ​ចាប់ ​ផ្ដើ ម ​ពិ និ តា យ​
យន​យន្ត​ទាង
ំ ​អស់​ទទា
ូ ង
ំ ​រជធនី​ភព
្នំ ា ញ​នៅ​
ថ្ង​ច
ា ន
័ ​្ទ ដើ មបា ​រ
ី ក​​មើល​សក
្លា ​លាខ​ ខ.ម​ ក្លង
ា ​
ក្លយ
ា ​​ឬ​ប​ប
ាើ
ស
ា ​ម
់ ន
ិ ​បាន​តម
ាឹ ​តវ
ាូ ​។​
តាម ​ល ក្ខ ណៈ ​ប ច្ចា ក ទា ស ​​ស មជិ ក​
មន​បទ
ិ ​សក
្ទី គ័រ​ខ​ល
្មា
ើ ​កញ្ចក​ប
់ ង្អច
ួ ​ទា​ ដា ល​
យោធ​​មិ ន ​តាូ វ ​បាើ ​ស្លា ក ​លា ខ​យោធ​​លើ ​
បញ្ជម
ា ន
ិ ​ឲយា ​បើក​បរ​នៅ​លើ​ដង​ផវ
្លូ ​កលពី​ឆ​្នាំ
អនុវត្ត​នាះ​មន​ករ​រក
ី ​រល​ដល​កដោ
៏
យ​។
តាវ
ូ ​បាន​លោក​នយក​រដ្ឋមន្ត​ាី ហ៊ន
ុ ​ សា ន
១៩៩៧​បើ ​ទោះ​ជ​ប មាា ម ​នាះ ​តាូ វ ​បាន​​
យន ​យ ន្ត ​ផ្ទា ល់ ​ខ្លួ ន ​ឡើ យ ​បើ ​ទោះ​ជ​ករ​
ប៉ុ ន្តា ​គិ ត ​តាឹ ម ​ថ្ងា ​អ ង្គា រ ​ករ​តាួ ត ​ពិ និ តា យ​
អនុវត្ត​ដោយ​កមា​កដោ
៏
យ​​បន
៉ុ រ្តា កមិន​ឃើញ​
ទាំង ​នាះ ​មិ ន ​ទាន់ ​ចាប់ ​ផ្ដើ ម ​នៅ​ឡើ យ​ទា ។
ទោះ​ជ​យ៉ា ង ​ណា​លោក ​បាន ​ថ្លា ង ​ថ
បាន​ចាប់​ផម
្ដើ ​តត
ាួ ​ពន
ិ ត
ិ យា ​មើល​យន​យន្ត​នៅ​
មនអ្នក​រលោ
ំ
ភ​ចបា
ា ប់ឡើយ​។
កាម
ុ ​របស់​លោក​​ "បាន​អប់រ​"ំ ​ មន្ត​ម
ាី យ
ួ ​ចន
ំ ន
ួ ​
ដា ល​បាន​ម ក​ដ ល់ ​ទី ប ញ្ជា ករដ្ឋា ន ​ក ង​រជ​​
លោក​អា ង​ហុ​ី បាន​ពនាយល់​ថ“យើ ង​មន
ិ ​ទាន់​
តាម​ដង​ផវ
្លូ ​នៅ​ឡើ យ​ទា ​ពីពាះ​យើ ង​មិន​
ទាន់​ទទួល​បាន​បទបញ្ជ​ព
ា ​ថ
ី ក
្នា ​ល
់
ើ ​"៕ សរុន
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2015
The CAMBODIA DAILY
KINGDOM OF CAMBODIA
Nation Religion King
R
MINISTRY OF PUBLIC WORKS
AND TRANSPORT
No: …………………
Date
Budget
IFB No
Contract No. and Title
Invitation for Bids
Deadline for Bid Submission
:
:
:
:
28 October 2015
National Budget of Cambodia
NCB1-RW03
NCB1-RW03 : Strengthening of Track
on the Southern Line
: 30 November 2015 at 14:00 hours
(local time)
1. The Kingdom of Cambodia has allocated funds from the National
Budget towards the cost of the Rehabilitation of the Railway in
Cambodia and it intends to apply part of the proceeds of this budget
for payments under the Contract No. NCB1-RW03: Strengthening of
Track on the Southern Line.
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Aid Group Says Yemen Hospital
Struck by Saudi-Led Airstrikes
reuters
- a Yemeni hospital run by
medical aid group Medecins sans
Frontieres was hit by a saudi-led
airstrike, the group said yesterday,
the latest bombing of a civilian target in the seven-month air campaign in Yemen.
“MsF facility in saada Yemen
was hit by several airstrikes last
night with patients and staff inside
the facility,” the group said in a
tweet yesterday.
Yemen’s state news agency saba, run the iran-allied Houthi group
that is the coalition’s enemy, quoted
the Heedan hospital director saying
that several people were injured in
the attack.
“the air raids resulted in the destruction of the entire hospital with
all that was inside—devices and
medical supplies—and the moderate wounding of several people,”
dubai
dr. ali Mughli said.
saudi arabia and other Gulf arab
countries intevened in a civil war in
Yemen in late March, but seven
months of air attacks to restore the
saudi-based Yemeni government
to power have yet to loosen the
Houthis’ grip over the capital sanaa.
Human rights groups have expressed concern at the mounting
deaths caused by the aerial bombing and ground fighting raging
across the impoverished country.
More than 5,600 people have
died in the conflict and shuttle diplomacy by a u.n. envoy has yet to
win a political solution or slow the
pace of combat.
it is the second time this month
that an MsF facility has been hit in
a war zone. its hospital in the afghan city of Kunduz was bombed
by u.s. forces on october 3 and
about 30 people were killed.
Yemen Truce Hindered by Rebels: Saudi Aid Official
united nations - saudi arabia would like to see a cease-fire in Yemen to
allow for the delivery of humanitarian aid, but it does not trust the Houthi
rebels to abide by such a truce, the head of a saudi center that coordinates
humanitarian assistance for Yemen said on Monday. “From our previous
experience the cease-fire was not acknowledged and it was violated,” abdullah al-Rabeeah, general supervisor of the five-month-old King salman
Humanitarian aid and Relief Center, told reporters. “if there is a cease-fire it
has to be a realistic cease-fire.” the u.n. says more than 21 million people
in Yemen need help—about 80 percent of the population. (Reuters)
Reuters
Members of Turkish police special forces take part in a security
operation in Diyarbakir, Turkey, on Monday.
Raid by Turkish Police Nabs 30 IS Militant Suspects
istanbul - turkish police detained about 30 people yesterday in a raid
against suspected islamic state group militants in the central city of
Konya, dogan news agency reported. the sweep comes a day after
police launched a series of operations against i.s., including a raid on
more than a dozen houses in the southeastern city of diyarbakir. seven
militants were killed and 12 more were captured in that operation.
turkish authorities have extended operations into suspected i.s. cells
after a double suicide bombing in ankara that killed more than 100 people, the worst attack of its kind in turkey’s modern history, was blamed
on the militant group. last week, turkish President Recep tayyip
erdogan said syrian intelligence and Kurdish militants, not only i.s.,
were behind the attack on a rally of pro-Kurdish activists and civic
groups. (Reuters)
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InternatIonal
Passenger Burden as Ukraine, Russia Sever Ties in the Skies B y A ndrew r oth
the washington post
MoScow - before the war in south-
east ukraine, alexander Martynov, 37, could hop in his car and
drive five hours across the ukrainian border to Krasnodar, russia,
where he keeps warehouses
stocked with produce for local
supermarkets.
but as the conflict between
russia and ukraine persisted over
the past year and a half, Martynov’s commute became more
complicated.
when the city where he lives,
Donetsk, was seized by pro-russia
separatists in april 2014, he fled to
the ukrainian capital, Kiev. From
there, the businessman said, he
could catch a flight to Krasnodar
with a short layover in Moscow.
on Sunday, ukraine and russia
cut direct air travel in tit-for-tat actions that are expected to affect
680,000 passengers each year,
most of them ukrainian. The flight
ban drives yet another wedge between two countries with centuries
of historical and familial ties.
Passengers aboard the last
flights from Moscow to Kiev on Saturday were particularly angry at
moves that would likely have little
political impact but cause massive
headaches for travelers who shuttle
between the two countries.
when ukraine’s boryspil airport, the country’s main air hub,
opened during the Soviet era, the
only destination available was
russia. as of Sunday, flights were
going everywhere except russia.
“it is total nonsense,” said a furious Martynov, heavyset and bald,
in Moscow on Saturday. During an
interview in the passport line, he
described himself as a “ukrainian
patriot” but said that he wanted normalized relations with russia.
“ask anyone here. we are all
Reuters
Passengers wait for their flight at the departure area of Boryspil
International Airport as an airplane from Ukraine International Airlines is
seen in the background outside Kiev on Saturday.
hostages of the politicians,” he said.
Kiev announced the ban on
flights in late September as part of
a package of sanctions imposed
on russia for its annexation of
crimea in March 2014 and its subsequent steps to take control of
the peninsula.
in response, russia announced it
would likely block ukrainian flights
starting on the same day.
alexei Makarkin, a Moscowbased political analyst, said ukraine
was doing all it could to cut itself off
from russia.
“Tension on the front lines is reduced,” he said in a telephone interview, referring to a lull in fighting
between russia-backed separatists
and government troops in recent
months in ukraine’s southeast.
“but the psychological tension is
stronger than ever.”
last-minute negotiations between the russian and ukrainian
governments last week failed to
break the stalemate over the airline flights. The ban took effect
early Sunday, striking at businessmen, families visiting their rela-
tives, the occasional tourist and
transit passengers.
For many passengers, the decision in Kiev to ban russian airlines
came as a shock.
“Strategically you would have
expected it a year ago, not now,”
said oksana Timchenko, a lawyer
from odessa, ukraine, dressed in a
sable-fur coat, diamond earrings
and leather boots with stiletto heels
on Saturday.
She was taking ukraine international airlines’ penultimate flight
from Moscow after visiting family,
she said, but would often fly
through russia en route to Miami
and new York.
“Turkey’s going to make a lot of
money,” she said, explaining she
would likely schedule her future
flights through istanbul.
She called the flight ban “window dressing” by the ukrainian
government, which she said was
more interested in brinksmanship
with russia than in tackling corruption and other domestic problems.
oleg Panteleyev, head of the
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russian aviation information
agency aviaPort, said that the airline ban would affect an average
of 680,000 travelers between
ukraine and russia each year.
Panteleyev said that the ratio of
ukrainian to russian passengers
on the flights was at least 2-to-1,
or even 3-to-1.
according to russia’s Federal
aviation agency, more than
800,000 people have flown between
russia and ukraine in the first
eight months of 2015. The agency
does not release statistics by nationality of the passengers.
Maya lomidze, the executive
director of russia’s association of
Tour operators, said that tourism
travel from russia to ukraine
dropped steeply after the February 2014 revolution that ousted
ukraine’s pro-russia government.
Most of the passengers traveling
on Saturday were visiting relatives.
Many ukrainians have family in
russia because people moved
freely between the two countries
when they were part of the Soviet
union.
on Saturday, Sergey Turumsubayev, a 31-year-old mechanic
from boryspil, ukraine, was returning home from his grandparents’
home in Moscow.
“i’m not for either side,” he said.
“i’m happy to say i’m apolitical.”
Turumsubayev’s family offers a
good example of the interconnectedness under the Soviet union.
His father, a Soviet military officer, was deployed from russia to
boryspil and married a woman
who grew up in the town. Turumsubayev’s paternal grandparents
live in Moscow. others relatives
live in Saratov and belgorod, cities
in russia. another of his grandfathers is from Kazakhstan, another
former Soviet republic.
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Slovenia to Use Security Firms to Help With Migrants
ljubljana/rigonce,
Reuters
Pope Francis kisses a baby during a special audience with the Roman
Sinti community at the Vatican on Monday. Pope Francis condemned
xenophobia and discrimination against Europe's 'gypsies.'
Slovenia - Slovenia plans to call in private security
firms to help manage the flow of thousands of migrants passing through
the country toward northern europe, a senior official said on Monday.
bostjan Sefic, Slovenian state secretary at the interior Ministry, said some
50 to 60 private security officers will help police where needed. More than
76,000 migrants have arrived in Slovenia from croatia in the past 10 days.
over 9,000 migrants were still in Slovenia on Monday, hoping to be able to
reach austria by the end of the day, while many more were on their way to
Slovenia from croatia and Serbia. The emergency measure was announced as Slovenian Prime Minister Miro cerar called the migrant crisis
the biggest challenge to the european union in its history. “if a joint solution is not found, it will start breaking up,” he told a news conference. also
on Monday, about 2,000 migrants waited in a muddy field in rogonce, on
the border with croatia, for Slovenian buses to take them to a nearby
migrant camp to be registered and allowed to proceed northward. “all of
my nearest and dearest have left Syria and my family is doing the same. it
is not safe there anymore,” said bashir, 20, a film student from a Syrian
town of raqqa. (Reuters)
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conclude it had to “increase and
strengthen the building up of our
relevant abilities.”
Lu did not elaborate, except to
say he hoped it did not come to that,
but his comments suggested China
could further boost its military presence in the South China Sea.
“China hopes to use peaceful
means to resolve all the disputes,
but if China has to make a response
then the timing, method and tempo
of the response will be made in accordance with China’s wishes and
needs.”
The second U.S. defense official
said additional patrols would follow
in coming weeks and could be conducted around features that Vietnam and the Philippines have built
up in the Spratlys.
“This is something that will be a
regular occurrence, not a one-off
event,” said the official. “It’s not
something that’s unique to China.”
White House spokesman Josh
Earnest referred questions on any
specific operations to the Pentagon
but said the U.S. had made clear to
China the importance of free flow of
commerce in the South China Sea.
The U.S. Navy last went within 12
nautical miles of Chinese-claimed
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territory in the Spratlys in 2012.
China claims most of the South
China Sea, through which more
than $5 trillion of world trade passes
every year. Vietnam, Malaysia,
Brunei, the Philippines and Taiwan
have rival claims.
The Philippines, a vocal critic of
China’s activities in the South China Sea, welcomed the U.S. action.
“The American passage through
these contentious waters is meant
precisely to say that there are norms
as to what freedom-of-navigation entails and they intend to exercise so
there is no de facto changing of the
reality on the ground,” President
Benigno Aquino said.
risk of escalation
The decision to go ahead with
the patrol follows months of deliberation and it risk upsetting already
strained ties with China.
“By using a guided-missile destroyer, rather than smaller vessels...
they are sending a strong message,”
said Ian Storey, a South China Sea
expert at Singapore’s Institute of
South East Asian Studies.
“They have also said, significantly, that there will be more patrols—
so it really now is up to China how it
will respond.”
Some experts have said China
would likely resist attempts to make
such U.S. actions routine. China’s
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The US Navy guided-missile destroyer USS Lassen sails in the Pacific
Ocean in a November 2009 photo provided by the US Navy.
navy could for example try to block
or attempt to surround U.S. vessels,
they said, risking an escalation.
Zhu Feng, executive director of
the China Center for Collaborative
Studies of the South China Sea at
Nanjing University, said he expected
Beijing to limit its response as it ultimately did not want confrontation.
“Both sides will be quite verbal
but real actions, I hope, will show
signs of exercising restraint,” Zhu
said.
Both Subi and Mischief Reefs
were submerged at high tide before
China began a dredging project to
turn them into islands in 2014.
Under the U.N. Convention on
the Law of the Sea, 12-nautical-mile
limits cannot be set around manmade islands built on previously
submerged reefs.
Washington worries that China
has built up its outposts with the aim
of extending its military reach in the
South China Sea. China says they
will have mainly civilian uses as well
as undefined defense purposes.
The patrol comes just weeks
ahead of a series of Asia-Pacific summits U.S. President Barack Obama
and Chinese President Xi Jinping
are expected to attend in the second
half of November.
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Mozambique Gas Projects Raise Risk of Resource ‘Curse’
reuters
PEMba,
Mozambique - Carlos
Candido has been fishing in Mozambican waters for three decades, unaware until recently of
huge gas deposits beneath the
ocean floor. Now that gas wealth
is about to be released, Candido
wishes it had never been found.
Up the coast from where he
lives in northern Mozambique,
thousands of people face resettlement to make way for planned gas
projects in an area where money is
already starting to flow, bringing
unwanted consequences such as a
rise in prostitution.
Mozambique, one of the world’s
poorest countries, discovered the
reserves off its coast between 2010
and 2013, offering an opportunity
to transform the former Portuguese colony, which was ravaged
by a 16-year civil war that ended in
1992.
Last week, the government said
U.S. energy company anadarko
and Italy’s Eni would make final
investment decisions on planned
liquefied natural gas, or LNg,
developments in the first quarter
of next year. this would launch
projects that could bring more
than $30 billion in investment and
reuters
A traditional fishing boat sails in front of the skyline of Maputo,
Mozambique, earlier this year.
make Mozambique one of the
world’s top three LNg exporters.
Yet recent signs of reckless government spending and an uptick
in political violence have raised
concerns that Mozambique could
be the latest african country to suffer the resource “curse,” in which
an influx of petro-dollars suffocates
the rest of the economy, encourages corruption and stirs unrest.
Candido himself is unlikely to
be resettled but doubts his com-
munity will benefit.
“We know change is coming,”
the 62-year-old told reporters as he
dragged his catch up a palmfringed beach in Pemba, a small
fishing town where clusters of bamboo huts have been dwarfed by gas
company offices and new hotels.
“but I don’t see it getting better for
us. the government made big
promises but all I see is rich for-
eigners and happy politicians.”
President Filipe Nyusi won an
election last year on promises to
use money collected from energy
and mining to diversify the economy and provide work for the poor.
the LNg projects themselves
will create 15,000 jobs plus another
200,000 indirectly, Standard bank
forecasts.
but with many of these shortterm positions and 350,000 Mozambicans joining the job market
every year, they won’t solve mass
poverty.
Further up the coast from Pemba, there are plans for a vast 180square-km development around
anadarko’s LNg plant, including
an airstrip, golf course and shopping malls.
thousands of mostly farmers
and fishermen will be resettled.
Civil society groups are concerned
about people being forcibly removed from their homes and losing livelihoods.
People in african countries rich
in resources tend to be less literate,
have shorter life expectancies,
higher rates of malnutrition and suffer more from domestic violence.
ELN Rebels Kill 12 Colombian
Troops Hauling Election Votes
reuters
- Colombia’s secondlargest rebel group, the National
Liberation army (ELN), killed 12
members of the security forces in
the central province of boyaca on
Monday, the government said, as
the troops transported votes from
the country’s regional elections.
the ELN attacked the soldiers
with explosives and shots in
mountainous guican municipality,
in an area belonging to the Uwa indigenous group, Defense Minister
Luis Carlos Villegas told reporters.
the 11 soldiers and one police
officer who were killed were transporting votes from Sunday’s gubernatorial and mayoral elections.
three soldiers were injured.
two soldiers, a police patrolman,
two election officials and one member of the Uwa tribe remain missing, the Defense Ministry said.
the 2,000-strong ELN is smaller than the country’s more famous
rebel group, the Revolutionary
armed Forces of Colombia, or
FaRC, which has been in peace
talks with the government for
three years.
the ELN, founded by radical
priests inspired by the Cuban rev-
bogota
olution, has been engaged in
closed-door talks with the government to draw up terms for a formal peace process. the preliminary negotiations were kept under
wraps for months and first revealed in June 2014.
“this shows that the ELN has
not understood that this is the time
for peace and not for war,” President Juan Manuel Santos said.
“If the ELN think that these acts
will win them political space or
strengthen them in an eventual negotiation, they are completely
wrong,” he said, adding that he
had ordered the military to intensify its efforts against the rebels.
the group has battled a dozen
governments since it was founded
in 1964 and has continued kidnapping and attacks on infrastructure
even amid the exploratory talks.
the ELN has sought peace before, holding negotiations in Cuba
and Venezuela. Experts say there
was a lack of will on both sides for
a final peace plan.
Colombia’s five decades of conflict between leftist rebels, rightwing paramilitaries and government troops has killed more than
220,000 people.
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Briefing
Panasonic to Sell Solar
Battery in SE Asia, Africa
tokyo - Panasonic Corp. will start
selling a solar power storage system in november for people living
with limited or no access to electricity at all in southeast asia and africa, company officials said yesterday. the “eneloop solar storage” is
equipped with a 15-watt solar panel
and a nickel-metal hydride battery
unit that can be fully charged in five
hours on a sunny day. the battery
can provide lighting for a maximum 24 hours on one charge. the
power storage system will go on
sale in seven countries—Burma,
the Philippines, Vietnam, indonesia,
thailand, Ethiopia and tanzania—
with a market price of around $150
for a model with two LED lamps
and around $170 for three, the officials said. according to data by the
international Energy agency, an
estimated 1.3 billion people are living without electricity around the
globe. (Kyodo)
Hundreds of Sake Bottles
To Winter in Mountains
hundreds of bottles of sake are
set to winter at thousands of meters above sea level in the northern Japanese alps in a chilling
process to give the rice wine a
mild and smooth flavor. the most
recent batch was taken up 3,026meter-high Mount norikuradake,
which straddles gifu and nagano
prefectures, on Monday. they will
be stored at temperatures far
below minus 20 degrees Celsius in
a new mountain peak cabin—
rebuilt in 2015 for the first time in
about 80 years—at an altitude of
2,996 meters. “we’re eager to find
out what this year’s sake will taste
like after wintering in the new
cabin,” said hiroki arisu, the 30year-old president of the Funasaka
shuzo brewery based in takayama, gifu prefecture. the “ettoshu,” or wintered sake, has been
produced under the name “yuki
no hitone” since 2011 in collaboration with the mountain cabin.
Bottles of unrefined “junmai ginjo”
premium sake were taken up the
mountain on three separate days
starting on october 20. service
vehicles took around 300 bottles
of raw sake to 2,800 meters—the
maximum altitude they can go.
Cabin employees carried the bottles
the remaining 196 meters in batches of 24 at a time. (Asahi Shimbun)
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Wal-Mart Seeks to Test Drones for Delivery
ReuteRs
- wal-Mart stores inc. applied Monday to U.s. regulators for
permission to test drones for home
delivery, curbside pickup and
checking warehouse inventories, a
sign it plans to go head to head
with amazon in using drones to fill
and deliver online orders.
the world’s largest retailer by
revenue has for several months
been conducting indoor tests of
small unmanned aircraft systems
—the term regulators use for
drones—and is now seeking for
the first time to test the machines
outdoors. it plans to use drones
manufactured by China’s sZ DJi
technology Co. Ltd.
in addition to having drones
take inventory of trailers outside its
warehouses and perform other
tasks aimed at making its distribution system more efficient, walMart is asking the U.s. Federal
aviation administration for permission to research drone use in “deliveries to customers at walmart facilities, as well as to consumer
homes,” according to a copy of the
application reviewed by reporters.
the move comes as amazon.com inc., google and other
companies test drones in the expectation that the Faa will soon
establish rules for their widespread commercial use. Faa Deputy administrator Michael whitaker said in June that the agency
expected to finalize regulations
within the next 12 months, faster
than previously planned. Commercial drone use is currently illegal, though companies can apply
for exemptions.
the Faa will review wal-Mart’s
ChiCago
Reuters
A drone created by the company DJI flies during the 4th Intergalactic
Meeting of Phantom's Pilots in Paris last year.
petition to determine whether it is
similar enough to earlier successful applications to be fast-tracked,
or whether it would set a precedent for exemptions, requiring
regulators to conduct a detailed
risk analysis and seek public comment, agency spokesman Les
Dorr said. the Faa normally aims
to respond to such petitions in 120
days. amazon has said it would be
ready to begin delivering packages to customers via drones as
soon as federal rules allow.
wal-Mart spokesman Dan toporek said the company would move
quickly to deploy drones depending
on its tests and regulations.
“Drones have a lot of potential
to further connect our vast network of stores, distribution centers, fulfillment centers and transportation fleet,” he said. “there is a
wal-Mart within [8 km] of 70 percent of the U.s. population, which
creates some unique and interesting possibilities for serving customers with drones.”
Finding ways to more efficiently
warehouse, transport and deliver
goods to customers has taken on
new importance for wal-Mart,
which this month projected a surprise decline in earnings next year
as it copes with costs to increase
wages, beat back price competition and boost online sales.
in the Faa application, walMart said it wanted to test drones
for taking stock of trailers and
other items in the parking lot of a
warehouse using electronic tagging and other methods. a walMart distribution center could
have hundreds of trailers waiting in
its yard, and a drone could potentially be used to quickly account for
what each one is holding.
the retailer also wants to test
drones for its grocery pickup service.
President Says Indonesia Intends to Join TPP
ReuteRs
washington - indonesian President
Joko widodo, speaking after a
meeting with U.s. President Barack
obama on Monday, said his country intends to join the trans-Pacific
Partnership trade deal the U.s. has
forged with 11 other nations.
“we are the largest economy in
southeast asia,” widodo said
through a translator. “and indonesia intends to join the tPP.”
U.s. trade Representative
Michael Froman said the U.s.
would keep sharing information
about the tPP, which will set common standards on issues ranging
from workers’ rights to intellectual
property protection.
“as we have said from the beginning, tPP is intended to be an
open platform to which other
countries who are able and willing
to meet the standards can potentially accede,” he said at a business
summit hosted by the U.s. Chamber of Commerce.
More broadly, indonesia had
work to do on cutting red tape, addressing barriers such as local
content and local packaging requirements, eliminating import
and export restrictions and protecting intellectual property rights,
Froman said.
President widodo finalized
more than $20 billion worth of
U.s. deals during his trip, including a $500 million infrastructure
investment from Coca-Cola and
up to $1 billion from general Electric for indonesia’s energy and
health care sectors, according to
the indonesian Embassy in washington. Both deals were for a fiveyear period.
indonesia’s state oil firm Pertamina, and Corpus Christie Liquefaction, a subsidiary of Cheniere Energy, also finalized a shale gas deal
valued at $13 billion.
widodo and obama also discussed climate change, maritime security and forest fires in indonesia.
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Business
A China Twist: Malls Are Closing While Consumption Is Rising
ReuteRs
shanghai/hong kong
- The Di
Mei shopping center in downtown
shanghai is a surprisingly depressing place to shop.
The underground mall is located
in one of the most shopping-mad
cities in China, and yet it is run
down and starved of customers.
“sometimes i cannot sell even
one dress in a day,” said dress
shop owner Ms Xu, who rents a
space in Di Mei.
Rising vacancy rates and plummeting rents are increasingly
common in Chinese malls and department stores, despite official
data showing a sharp rebound in
retail sales that helped the world’s
second-largest economy beat expectations in the third quarter.
The answer to that apparent
contradiction lies in the rising
competition from online shopping
and government purchases possibly boosting retail statistics. add
poorly managed properties into
the equation and the empty malls
aren’t much of a surprise.
More importantly, the struggles
of Chinese brick-and-mortar retailers amplify a policy conundrum;
these malls, built to reap gains
from rising consumption, are instead adding to China’s corporate
debt problem, currently at 160 percent of gDP—twice as high as the
U.s.
Less foot traffic means the cash
flow of mall owners and developers
is getting squeezed—a potential
hazard for an economy growing at
its slowest pace in decades.
Di Mei’s owners are trying to refurbish, but it’s unclear whether it
will pay off and others are just closing down. The sunlight store in
Beijing, for example, is located in
another prime pedestrian hub, but
it closed its blinds this month, with
manager ni guifang telling reporters they are seeking greener
pastures online.
“The sales were just ok, but
the overall sales were on the
downward trend,” ni said.
Major listed mall operators are
also feeling the pain. Dalian Wanda, a big property developer, said
in January it would close or restructure 30 of its retail venues and
in august said that more adjustments were underway.
Malaysia-based Parkson, which
operates more than 70 department stores in China, closed sev-
Reuters
A woman rides an escalator at a shopping mall in Beijing last month.
eral of its stores in northern China
last year following a 58 percent
drop in China net profit in 2013.
“as growth in retail sales slows
because of the country’s lower
gDP growth, and in cities where
mall space is abundant, vacancy
rates have risen substantially,” said
Moody’s analyst Marie Lam in a
research note.
in its latest efforts to re-energize
the economy, China’s central bank
on Friday cut interest rates for the
sixth time in less than a year.
Tim Condon, an economist at
ing in singapore, warned that investors should not read China’s
official retail figures as exclusively
reflective of rising household consumption, noting that the data
also capture some government
purchases.
on the other hand, e-commerce
sites continue to post double-digit
growth rates, even as some moderation is evident. E-commerce
leader alibaba is expected to report
that sales growth slowed sharply in
the second quarter—albeit to
around 27 percent on-year, still a
ripping pace.
and as more Chinese graduate
to the ranks of the middle class,
places offering entertainment are
thriving. Movie ticket sales hit a
new record of nearly $300 million
during a single holiday week in october, up 60 percent year on year.
But this is little consolation for
the likes of Di Mei. and the risk is
that the frenetic pace of mall construction cascades into a bad-debt
problem for banks if shoppers fail
to match the zeal of property
developers.
China is currently the site of
more than half the world’s shopping mall construction, according
to CBRE, a real estate firm, even
though it appears that many of
these malls will not produce good
returns for their investors.
a joint report by the China Chain
store association and Deloitte
showed that by the end of this year,
the total number of China’s new
malls is projected to reach 4,000, a
jump of over 40 percent from 2011.
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spo r t s
Lleyton Hewitt
Backs Bad Boy
Nick Kyrgios
r eu t er s
MELBOuRn E - a ustralia’s new Davis
Cup captain Lleyton Hewitt has
backed the country’s bad boy of
tennis n ick Kyrgios to “control”
the image he projects and break
through for a grand slam trophy in
the next year or two.
Former world n o. 1 Hewitt was
named caretaker captain Wally
Masur’s successor yesterday and
one of his most delicate tasks will
be managing Kyrgios and his
teammate Bernard t omic, both of
whom have strained relations with
the sport’s national governing body
and the public.
Each missed Davis Cup ties this
season due to disciplinary problems and Kyrgios was given a suspended six-month ban for a lewd
remark he made to two-time grand
slam champion stan Wawrinka
during a match in Montreal.
t wo-time grand slam champion
Hewitt was also a polarizing figure
in his younger years, but age mellowed the hard-bitten campaigner
and he will bow out of his playing
career at the a ustralian Open to
warm applause in January.
“He’s got to be who he is to a
certain extent,” Hewitt told local
media of Kyrgios. “i don’t think
n ick realizes how powerful his
image can be.
“He is so good for the sport of
tennis in so many ways if he can
control it to a certain line because
he brings so many different people
to watch our great sport, and he
does it not just in a ustralia but
across the globe.
“a nd in some ways he is like a
basketball player trying to play tennis, and it’s a great image for our
game as long as he does it in the
right way, and that’s obviously
what we’re trying to put in place
with him.”
Hewitt helped the team reach
their first semifinal since 2003 this
season and his first tie in charge
will be at home against the u .s. in
March.
He is likely to need all hands on
deck if a ustralia hope to make
another run to the semifinals, so
keeping Kyrgios and t omic close
will be paramount.
“When i came on [tour] i didn’t
always have the best image out
there, either, so it’s about dealing
with that and learning from the
mistakes that you’ve made over
time,” he said.
“n ick’s, i think, really finding
himself at the moment.”
Reuters/USA TODAY
Baltimore Ravens strong safety Will Hill hits Arizona Cardinals tight end Jermaine Gresham during the first
half of their National Football League game on Monday at University of Phoenix Stadium. The Cardinals
were eventual 26-18 winners.
Refugee Athletes Can Compete at Rio Olympics
r eu t er s
t op refugee athletes with no
home country to represent will be
allowed to compete at the 2016
Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro,
international Olympic Committee
President t homas Bach said on
Monday at the u .n . General
a ssembly.
a resolution, which was supported by 180 out of the 193 u .n . member states, calls for the Olympic
t ruce to be respected from seven
days before the start of the a ugust
5 to 21 Olympic Games until seven
days after the sepember 7 to 18
Paralympic Games.
“t he Olympic Games are the
time when the values of tolerance,
solidarity and peace are brought to
life,” Bach said in a statement.
“t his is the time when the international community comes together
for peaceful competition.
“in the Olympic Village, we see
tolerance and solidarity in their
purest form. a thletes from all 206
n ational Olympic Committees live
together in harmony and without
any kind of discrimination.”
Bach’s proclamation comes as
Europe attempts to cope with a
surge in refugees fleeing war and
poverty in the Middle East, a frica
and a sia.
“a t present, none of these athletes would have the chance to participate in the Olympic Games
even if qualified from the sports
point of view because, with their
refugee status, they are left without
a home country and n ational
Olympic Committee to represent,”
Bach said.
“Having no national team to belong to, having no flag to march
behind, having no national anthem to be played, these refugee
athletes will be welcomed to the
Olympic Games with the Olympic flag and with the Olympic
anthem.
“t hey will have a home together with all the other 11,000 athletes from 206 n ational Olympic
Committees in the Olympic
Village.”
“We are trying to do another
couple of races, if i’m allowed
back,” he said, with a grin.
Ecclestone told Russian television two weeks ago, at that country’s grand prix in sochi, that “we
ought to try and beef up a little bit
in a merica. it’s hard for me. i’m not
very enthusiastic about a merica.”
He also caused a stir by expressing his admiration for Russian
President Vladimir Putin and disdain for democracy in general.
a ustin, with a purpose-built circuit, is F1’s only current race in the
u .s., but there have been many
others in what has generally been a
losing battle to win over the a merican public.
Watkins Glen international, in
upstate n ew York, held the u .s.
Grand Prix from 1961 to 1980
while F1 races have also been held
in Long Beach in California, Las
Vegas, Detroit, Dallas, Phoenix and
indianapolis.
t he financial structure of the
sport has not helped, with local promoters failing to reconcile their
need to make a profit with having
to pay hefty fees to the commercial
rights holder.
indianapolis came and went as a
venue while a proposed race in
n ew Jersey never happened despite being scheduled on the provisional 2014 calendar along with
Mexico.
Bernie Ecclestone Wants More F1 Races in US
r eu t er s
a u st in ,
t exas - Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone says he
wants more races in the u .s., despite
recently expressing a lack of enthusiasm for the country, with southern California the latest possibility.
speaking at last weekend’s title
deciding u .s. Grand Prix in a ustin,
the 84-year-old Briton told reporters
he hoped to add more u .s. venues
to a series that is already set for a
record 21 races next year.
a sked whether he would like
another race, he replied: “a nd
third. We’d like four races here.
We’d like California. a nywhere
where it doesn’t rain. a few places
have come up. southern California.
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Wednesday, ocTober 28, 2015
OpInIOn
Progress on Antibiotics in Farm Animals After Decades of Inaction
editorial
The WashingTon posT
W
ith all the gridlock in
Washington, it is gratifying when, once in a
while, a problem shows signs of
resolution beyond the Beltway.
After decades of inaction, concern about the use of antibiotics in
animal agriculture is finally gaining traction, not because of federal
regulations or congressional legislation, but because smart people
around the U.S. are listening to
consumers and thinking creatively
about new ways of doing things.
Antibiotic resistance is a serious
global problem that is growing
worse. Bacteria have emerged that
can defeat antibiotics, drugs that
have been lifesavers for more than
half a century. At fault is overuse
and misuse of antibiotics in human
health care, as well as widespread
and often indiscriminate use of the
drugs for farm animals. For decades, the agriculture industry has
used antibiotics in feed and water
to help farm animals grow faster
and larger on the same amount of
feed and to prevent disease in a
whole flock or herd.
It is entirely proper to give antibiotics to sick animals. But now
there is real movement away from
the practice of using them for
growth promotion, and the wisdom of using the drugs for prevention is being questioned.
The latest action came in a law
signed by California Governor Jerry Brown on October 10. It will impose restrictions on the use of farm
antibiotics starting in 2018. The
law says that antibiotics important
in human medicine cannot be used
for growth promotion in animals,
and it gives veterinarians an im-
portant role in decisions about
when to use them.
The law permits the use of antibiotics for prevention when there
is an “elevated risk” of disease
spreading, but it prohibits the use
of these drugs “in a regular pattern.” While this language is a bit
vague, the law will still be tighter
than federal guidelines. The U.S.
Food and Drug Administration has
asked drugmakers to remove
growth promotion, but not prevention of illness, from permitted use
of antibiotics. What’s impressive
about the California example is that
the law came about as a result of
cooperation among representatives
of public health, medicine, government, academia and agriculture.
The law also includes civil penalties for violations. It will be important to see how food producers adapt; ideally they will create
methods for animal husbandry
without antibiotics that could be
applied nationwide.
The second promising development was the announcement by
the food chain Subway that next
year it would start serving chicken
and turkey raised without antibiotics in all of its 27,000-plus outlets in
the U.S. The company pledged to
phase out antibiotic use in pork and
beef within a decade. The company
made no secret that it was responding to consumer desires, and it thus
joins several other major food producers, including Tyson Foods and
McDonald’s, in restricting antibiotic
use. The market is speaking—and
companies are listening.
Antibiotics are a vital resource.
They save lives. The point is not
to get rid of them but to protect
their effectiveness for when they
are most needed.
After Reunion for Korean Families, Time for High-Level Meeting
editorial
Korea joongang daily
T
he 20th reunion for families
separated during the 1950
to 1953 Korean War ended
on Monday with a heart-wrenching
farewell. At the three-day, two-night
reunion after a 20-month hiatus
due to tensions between South and
North Korea, 981 South Koreans
from 186 families met with their relatives in the North after six decades of painful separation. The
event has ended smoothly, and
now the two Koreas must tackle
the challenge of improving interKorean ties down the road.
The reunion was part of a dramatic six-point deal made August
25 after the North’s land mine pro-
vocations along the heavily armed
border. Among the six agreements,
both sides have carried out four of
them: North Korea expressed regrets over the land mine explosions
which maimed two South Korean
soldiers, and the North lifted its declaration of a quasi-state of war in
return for the South’s suspension of
propaganda broadcasts with loud
speakers. On top of that, both sides
held the reunion as agreed. What’s
left is a high-level meeting between
both governments and a revitalization of civilian exchanges. The highlevel meeting holds the key to energizing civilian exchanges.
In the deal, South and North
Korea agreed to hold high-level
talks either in Seoul or Pyongyang
in the near future to improve interKorean relations. The North celebrated the 70th anniversary of the
founding of the Workers’ Party
without test-firing a long-range
missile. North Korea also allowed
separated families in the South to
see their relatives in the North.
Now is the time to make a fullfledged effort to improve our relations with the North. A seniorlevel meeting is a precondition for
the fundamental resolution of the
tragic separation. At the same
time, both sides must address
such complicated issues as the
resumption of Mount Kumgang
tours; a lifting of the May 24 sanctions; the restoration of the SeoulWonsan railway; and the construc-
tion of a peace park around the
demilitarized zone.
The high-level meeting is necessary to resolve the North’s nuclear
threats, a primary obstacle to the
enhancement of inter-Korean ties.
In a joint communique by South
Korean President Park Geun-hye
and U.S. President Barack Obama
after their October 16 summit, both
leaders agreed to deal with the
nuclear issue with utmost urgency, while reaffirming their positions that they don’t pursue antiNorth policies. The senior-level
meeting can serve as a good opportunity to explain to the North
their amicable positions. The governments must hold a high-level
meeting as soon as possible.
Washington’s Plan to Register Drones Doesn’t Go Far Enough
editorial
R
The WashingTon posT
esponding to a drastic uptick in the number of unmanned aerial vehicles—
also known as drones—showing
up in places they do not belong,
the U.S. government announced
last week it will soon start requiring recreational drone owners to
register their UAVs with the federal government. That’s fine. But it is
not nearly enough.
The Federal Aviation Administration has struggled to keep a handle on the proliferation of drones
flown by amateurs. As the number
of UAVs in circulation has surged,
so has the number of potentially
dangerous encounters. Pilots flying
manned aircraft now report more
than 100 drone sightings a month.
Drones have been reported near
airports and at high altitudes meant
for larger, more regulated craft,
even though federal rules ban
them from flying within 8 km of an
airport or above 121 meters. One
even flew over the park in front of
the White House this year.
The dangers include unintentional collisions with jet engines and
intentional violations of sensitive
airspace for malicious purposes.
But under the existing system, it
is nearly impossible to track down
who is violating the rules, so taking basic safety precautions is up
to users, who may not even know
about their responsibilities.
The FAA’s registration system
might help—a bit. Registration,
which owners of new and existing
drones will have to submit to, will
enable investigators to identify the
owners of drones that crash, which
will help them enforce the regulations that too many recreational operators flout. Regulators also hope
that forcing owners to register will
improve awareness of and voluntary compliance with the rules:
Owners will know what the regulations are and feel more exposed
to scrutiny if they mess up.
Yet this is just the bare minimum
the government should do, and it
has taken far too long to get even
here. Drones should be required to
carry transponders that are difficult
to deactivate so that they can be
seen as they enter restricted airspace and so that investigators can
identify owners. They should also
be required to carry “geo-fencing”
technology that renders drones
incapable of flying where they are
not supposed to go. These sorts of
upgrades will make some UAVs
more expensive. They may also
require an act of Congress. But
they are worth the cost and effort.
Meanwhile, even as recreational
drone registration is on a fast track
for implementation, rules on commercial UAV operators have been
very slow coming, holding back a
range of tantalizing business uses
for these tools. While the amateurs
have had free rein, companies have
been highly restricted. This should
change—and quickly.
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European Union Membership Can Help UK Financial Stability
By Hu g o Di x o n
T
REu TERS
he main takeaway from
Mark Carney’s speech last
week on Britain’s European Union membership was that
it is good for economic dynamism
but creates challenges for financial stability.
The Bank of England governor’s first point is right; his second point needs qualification. Although E.U. membership creates
challenges for stability, it also gives
the U.K. opportunities to make its
economy steadier. If Britain grasps
these, the E.U. can act as a shock
absorber.
Membership of the bloc has
made the U.K. more open to trade
and more closely linked to other
E.U. economies. As a result, Britain
is more exposed to shocks coming
from across the English Channel.
But membership can also dilute
the effect of domestic shocks, as
these reverberate across the E.U.
and further afield rather than being
contained within its shores.
Britain’s exposure to E.U. problems is fairly obvious in the wake of
the still-fresh euro crisis. Given that
40 percent of U.K. exports are to the
eurozone, recession there acted as
a drag on the British economy.
There was financial contagion,
too. U.K. banks suffered losses because they lent to euro countries.
Meanwhile, eurozone banks cut
their lending to Britain as they retrenched, increasing the impact
of the credit crunch.
E.U. membership, which gives
U.K. financial firms a “passport”
to operate across the 27 other countries, is also one reason its banking industry has grown so rapidly
in the past generation. While this
has created wealth, Britain was
hit especially hard during the global financial crisis because of its
dependency on the industry.
The U.K.’s ability to share its
pain with the rest of the E.U. is less
pressing. But it is no less real.
When Britain suffers a decline
in domestic demand, its companies can find alternative sources
of business across the Channel—
softening the impact on incomes
and employment at home. The
E.U. can provide what Carney calls
a “second engine.”
Britons can also take advantage
of free movement of labor to find
work abroad. At present, E.U. citizens are coming to the U.K. because it is generating lots of jobs.
But, in the future, the tables could
be turned.
Free movement of capital helps
in a downturn, too. Because Brit-
ish savers don’t have all their eggs
in the domestic basket, the impact on their wealth and income is
cushioned.
The E.U.’s single market is not
perfect. So Britain’s ability to spread
shocks to other parts of Europe is
not as effective as, say, California’s
ability to share its pain with the rest
of the U.S. But the E.U. economy is
becoming more integrated, in part
because of initiatives such as capital
markets union, energy union and
extending the single market to the
Internet. So, if Britain stays in the
E.U., it will find it an increasingly
effective shock absorber.
E.U. membership has also
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helped make the U.K. more efficient and fleet of foot, according
to Carney, fostering dynamism.
This makes it resilient when there
is trouble.
A final factor that determines
stability is effective financial regulation. Although neither Britain
nor the E.U. did a good job in the
run-up to the credit crunch, the regime is now better. The U.K. has
had a big influence on those rules:
both via its E.U. membership and
because it has weight in global
standard-setting bodies in part because it can often bring along the
rest of the E.U. with it.
Carney pointed out that some
new E.U. regulations are not appropriate. The U.K. doesn’t always
get its way. In particular, the bankers’ bonus cap makes it harder to
claw back compensation when
things go wrong—meaning financiers may have less incentive to
take care in the first place.
The governor also argued that
closer union among eurozone
countries will require more harmonization of their financial regulations. If so, it will be important
to ensure that inappropriate rules
aren’t imposed on the U.K. Avoiding that risk is rightly one of the
government’s priorities as it seeks
to renegotiate the country’s relationship with the E.U.
On the other hand, the U.K. benefits from having a single set of
high-quality financial rules across
the E.U. This means it can have
reasonable confidence that E.U.
banks operating in Britain are
properly regulated.
If the U.K. were to quit the E.U.
and wanted its banks to operate
across the Channel, it would still
have to follow the bloc’s financial
rules. But it would have less influence on what those rules were,
increasing the risk that they were
lower quality and less suited to its
needs. It would move from being
one of the main rule-makers to
being a rule-taker.
Carney acknowledged many of
these points. But his conclusion
downplays some of the positives
of being part of the bloc. Provided
the U.K. fights to improve financial regulation and the single market’s shock-absorbing capacity,
E.U. membership will be good for
stability as well as dynamism.
Hugo Dixon is a columnist and
entrepreneur. His most recent book
is “The In/Out Question: Why Britain Should Stay in the E.U. and
Fight to Make It Better.” Hugo spent
13 years at the Financial Times.
He began his journalistic career at
the Economist.
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travel
Downsize Your Travel at Portland’s First Tiny-House Hotel
B y M elanie K aplan
The waShingTon poST
The lure of the tiny house is
huge. These small homes, less
than 18.5 square meters and often
on wheels, appeal to the minimalist,
the environmentalist and the frugalist. Certainly, living in a space smaller than some bathrooms is not for
everyone, but during the past few
years, I’ve found myself in countless
conversations with like-minded
small-dwelling enthusiasts.
Given the robust tiny-house
movement, it’s surprising that so
few of them exist legally. Although
cities don’t spend much time hunting down tiny-house dwellers, the
structures violate building code in
most U.S. jurisdictions because
they don’t meet the size requirement for permanent residences.
Leave it to progressive Portland
to introduce the first tiny-house
hotel. The Oregon city has not only
legalized accessory dwelling units
(small living quarters on the same
lot as a larger home), the city embraces and incentivizes smallerscale living. This approach helped
make it possible for Deb Delman
and Kol Peterson to open Caravan,
which they say is the first legal
commercial application of tiny
houses in the U.S.
Tammy Strobel/Creative Commons
The lofted sleeping quarters of a tiny house
“People think nothing of spending hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars building a tiny
house, but very few people have
been inside a tiny house,” Delman
said.
I planned part of my recent
cross-country drive around a stay at
Caravan, which tends to book up a
couple months out. Located in
Portland’s Alberta Arts District,
steps from a vibrant strip of indie
shops and cafes.
My beagle and I checked into a
house called Rosebud: 11 square
meters with a rocking chair on the
(tiny) porch and ladder up to a loft
sleeping space. The house was
made largely from recycled materials and lit by mason jar lights. Inside the closet was wallpaper that
looks like a bookshelf, leftover from
the “Portlandia” skit shot here.
On Alberta Street, I stopped at
Case Study, a beautiful coffee shop
built with wood and steel, for a
locally made, small-batch black tea
chai. I then convinced myself that
citywide tax-free shopping was reason enough to buy souvenirs. I
chuckled at the hypocrisy: succumbing to consumerism during a
minimalist living experiment. Between the contents of my car, shopping bags and my bike, I’d covered
most of the tiny house floor space.
After roasting s’mores with
some of the other guests—a photographer, a mother-daughter duo
who’d wanted to visit after watching “Tiny House Nation,” and a
Portland couple contemplating a
tiny house of their own—I climbed
the ladder and onto the bed. When
I sat up straight, the top of my head
grazed the ceiling. I slid under the
covers, listening to the rain outside
the tiny window, and fell asleep.
The next morning, I made tea
and oatmeal on the hot plate, showered in the tiny bathroom without
banging my elbows on the shower
walls and answered a few emails
on my laptop, standing at the kitchen counter.
Before I knew it, the clock struck
checkout time, and I regretted
booking only one night. I packed
my car, situated the beagle and
went back to the tiny house for one
last look at the place where I’d
slept, cooked, bathed, worked and
enjoyed company. Then I drove
away, a tiny house fan wanting just
a little more.