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The Gender Report Card: Where

our leaders are still fallingPage 6

Older people more

literate than younger

generation: SurveyPage 2

Soromon scores twice

to help Wairarapamaintain lead

Page 15

Lenakel council fnalising

town's zone planningPage 3

Life of hard labour' in

North Korean campPage 8

Page 5

France warns againstillegal fshing nearMatthew and Hunter

The VanuaTu GoVernmenT

is acing another diplomatic chal-

lenge rom France on the right o

Matthew and Hunter as France

has warned the Ministry o Foreign

Aairs that illegal fshing on water

near the two islands is illegal and

could disturb the riendly relation-

ship between the two countries.

On a diplomatic note on the

April 20, 2011, the French Embassy

in Port Vila has written to the min-

istry o oreign aairs to condemn

activities o illegal fshing near the

two islands and stated that ongo-

ing illegal ishing activities will

have serious consequences in the

uture.

On December 27, 2010 , French

maritime authority spotted a fshing

boat by the name o YUH CHANG

N01 or YJSJ7 fshing between Ane-

ityum and the two islands o Mat-thew and Hunter.

Acc ord in g to the Fr en ch

authorities, the location where

the fshing vessel was spotted was

directly illegal as it was fshing in

the exclusive economic zone o

New Caledonia.

The fshing vessel is registered

under Vanuatu Tuna Fishing Com-

pany and its operation in this part

o the country is legal prior to the

latest maritime zone Act passed

by Vanuatu parliament last year

2010.

“According to the Vanuatu Mari-

time Zone Act, passed by Vanuatu’s

parliament last year, all registered

ishing vessels licensed by theDepartment o Fisheries are author-

ised to fsh in Vanuatu waters and

in that law, Matthew and Hunt-

er are part o Vanuatu so ishing

activities can go as ar as Matthew

and Hunter,” explained Director or

Fisheries, Moses Amos.

o To Pge 6

By Godwin LigoPrime minisTer serGe Vohor Told

senior government ofcials yesterday

morning that he cannot sit back and

watch the current economic situation

deteriorate urther, thereore drastic

measures must be taken now to improve

the country’s economic perormance.

The Prime Minister made the state-

ment during the oicial opening o aone-day retreat by over 100 senior gov-

ernment ofcials rom all government

ministries and departments at the Le

Lagoon Hotel yesterday morning.

Vohor said the very purpose o the

one-day retreat is to review the current

overall economic situation and second-

ly to involve every government senior

ofcials to come up with short and long

term economic solutions or the coun-

try.

“I championed the National Com-

prehensive Program (CRP) when I was

Prime Minister in 1997.

“Vanuatu was in bleak economic situ-

ation at the time and it was through the

CRP that the country experienced eco-

nomic turn around and improvements,”PM Vohor reminded government policy

makers.

“Today we are at the verge o losing

our Least Developed Country (LDC) sta-

tus which I can describe as ‘Vanuatu’s

graduation is a defnite phenomenon’

with a number o implications.

“In particular the country could lose

concessional access to fnancial terms

and conditions to loans,” Prime Minis-

ter Vohor voiced with concern.

PM Vohor said the country is now ac-

ing a structural problem stating reasons

as; (1) the country continues to develop

but without increase in revenue which

he said the Ministry o Finance can con-

irm; (2) that ater 30 years share in

agriculture GDP which is the mainstay Vanuatu’s economy has not improved

at all.

He also touched on the eight Millen-

nium Development Goals (MDGs) which

he said many countries in the region will

not reach the goals by 2015 according to

reports available.

o To Pge 2

Vohor looks at new economic roadmapSenior government ofcials at the one-day retreat at Le Lagon hotel in Port Vila.

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[ 2 ] vanuatu Daily Post | Thursday May 5, 2011

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By Thompson MarangoA ccord ing to b r i e f

presentations rom survey team

leaders o a recent literacy sur-

vey in Shea Province the nal

report may reveal some shock-

ing results about literacy in the

province.

Older people who have

passed through the education-al system o the colonial era

are ound to be more literate

than the younger generation

although the younger people

have reached a much higher

level o education.

I the inalised report o

the survey, which is current-

ly being analysed gives out the

same inormation, then this

should sent out a clear message

to the education and provin-

cial authorities because Sheais the host to the capital there-

ore poorer results are expected

rom the outer provinces.

There are people who still

think education is only or boys

which may be a main reason or

the gender gap in schools espe-

cially in the rural areas.

The survey was conduct-

ed by Vanuatu Education Poli-

cy Advocacy Coalition (VEPAC)

in 25 villages in Eate and the

outer Islands. Ater the analysing o the

inormation collected rom

the survey the report will

be presented to the Minis-

try o Education and other

stakeholders.

Similar surveys will also be

conducted in the other provinc-

es to get a clear picture o the

literacy statutes o the country

as a whole.

VEPAC is a NGO that sup-

ports and contributes to theMinistry o Education to achieve

a sustainable and quality educa-

tion in Vanuatu inline with Edu-

cation For All (EFA) goals.

The VEPAC operates with

support rom the Asia and South

Paciic Associations o Basic

and Adult Education (ASPBAE)

which aims to create networks

between NGOs, CSOs, ormal

and non-ormal organisations

to assist the national education

sector to achieve equitable andquality education.

Early this week saw brie

presentations about the sur-

vey beore they were present-

ed with credibility certiicates

rom a 1-week training work-

shop that they attended beore

contacting the survey.

VEPAC acts as a mediator

between the Ministry o Edu-

cation and the general pub-

lic to disseminate inormation

between the two parties. They can be contacted at the Bou-

ganville House, 2nd loor on

24331.

Older people more literate than younger generation: Survey

P A c i f i c r e n o w n e d

carvers rom the MSG coun-

tries o Vanuatu, Fiji and the

Solomon Islands are attending

a week “art in residence” in

the Loyalty Islands o Kanaky/

New Caledonia in commem-

oration o late Kanak Lead-

er Yeiwene Yeiwene who hails

rom the island o Mare.

Hosted by the Yeiwene Yei-

wene Cultural Centre under

the auspices o the Cultur-

al Aairs Department o the

Loyalty Islands Province, the

Festival Ci Roiko is an initia-

tive to bring together carvers

rom all over Kanaky/NC and

other parts o Melanesia to

exchange urther their art and

techniques in carving.

Philemon Jemmys rom

Vanuatu, Paul Liga rom Fiji

and Norman Haikiu rom the

Solomon Islands, all well-

known artists in the Region

will join other Kanak carvers

on the island o Mare to chisel

ve tall sculptures represent-

ing the ve Melanesian coun-

tries. These poles were erected

at the Yeiwene Yeiwene Cul-

tural Centre on yesterday in

commemoration o his sudden

death along with Kanak Lead-

er and FLNKS President late

Jean Marie Tjibaou in 1989.

Since last week, the island

o Mare in the Loyalty Islands

is revisiting the good mem-

ories o the last Melanesian

Arts Festival hosting yet again

artists rom Melanesia and

developing urther exchanges

among Melanesian countries

and peoples.

This initiative by the Loy-

alty Island Province o Kana-

ky/New Caledonia to invite

MSG artists to a local estival

is an example, o a cultural

cooperation activity amongst

MSG members which the

Memorandum o Agreement

on Cultural Cooperation

with in MSG tri es to oster

and is currently being ine-

tuned by Member Countries

since the Leaders Summit in

Suva Fiji last month.

MSG artists participate in “art in

residence” festival in New Caledonia

YesterdAY’s heAdline About

Westpac support through a

presentation o cheque went

to the Vanuatu Women’s Cen-

tre (VWC) and not Vanuatu

National Council o Women

(VNCW)

Westpac displayed its sup-port or International Women’s

Day, which celebrated its 100th

anniversary on Tuesday 8 March

2011, by selling purple ribbons

at its Port Vila branch through-

out March.

The ribbons were on sale or

100 Vatu with all proceeds being

donated to the Vanuatu Wom-

en’s Centre.

A total o 713 ribbons were

sold in the Westpac branch

throughout March. A cheque or71,300 Vatu was presented to the

Vanuatu Women’s Centre on Fri-

day 29 April 2011. The presen-

tation took place at the Vanuatu

Women’s Centre oce.

Westpac presented chequeto VWC, not VNCW

o From Front Page

While calling on all gov-

ernment oicials to contribute

towards what he called the new

economic initiatives, Prime Min-

ister Vohor underlined what he

believes are basic economic ben-

ets or the people o Vanuatu.He said his government will con-

tinue to ocus on land develop-

ment which is the basis o the

livelihood in Vanuatu.

“The people o Vanuatu must

turn back to land because it is

the basis o our very livelihood

and emphasis must be given to

cattle, poultry, goats arming and

piggery and vegetable arming.

“We must aim to produce su-

icient local ood to satisy the

local demand,” he said.

He said one o the govern-

ment priorities is to provide ree

secondary education or the stu-

dents in the country while at the

same time improve inrastruc-

ture sector throughout the coun-

try and increase export.

The Prime Minister said his

government also places impor-

tance on ni-Vanuatu people

becoming more business-mindedleading to raising more individu-

als becoming successul in dier-

ent business undertakings.

“The purpose o this gath-

ering thereore is to allow

everyone to share dierent

challenges they ace everyday

in their various ministries and

departments and to dialogue

together with the purpose o

arriving at new economic pol-

icy initiatives that we all can

drive orward to beneit the

people o Vanuatu ,” the Prime

Minister emphasised in his o-

cial opening remarks.

Vohor looks at neweconomic roadmap



L o c a l N e w s

vanuatu Daily Post | Thursday May 5, 2011 [ 3 ]

By Thompson Marango“VAnuAtu is considered to

be one o the countries most at

risk to the adverse consequenc-

es o climate change.”

Minister or Agriculture and

Fisheries, Eta Rory made the

statement Friday last week beore ocially announcing the

opening o the High Level Joint

Sector Consultation on Vanuatu’s

National Climate Change Adap-

tation Strategy.

Minister Rory said Vanuatu

and most o its regional neigh-

bors are identiied in the most

at risk category which requires

strategies to brace against the

adverse consequences that cli-

mate change has already been

bringing about.

Stressing the importance o

having such adaptation strategy,

she said Vanuatu needs to be bet-

ter prepared or the changing cli-

mate while taking into accountthe need o the people, as well

as other changes related to the

environment, the economy, and

society.

“This understanding is the

result o over two decades o

assessments and other studies to

determine the potential impacts

o climate change, the resulting

vulnerabilities, their resilience

to climate change, and possible

and prioritized adaptation inter-

ventions,” Rory said.

She said the growing realisa-

tion o the seriousness o climate

change is now providing increas-

ing motivation or a greater

assessment eort, as well as or

the identiication implementa-

tion o eective responses.

According to recent reports,

there are evidences that climate

change and its eects are more

rapidly than had been anticipat-

ed previously. Thereore the con-

sequences are now considered

more substantial and ar reach-

ing, economically, socially and

environmentally.

“There is need or addition-

al eort, national and locally, to

address climate change,” said theminister.

She said National Climate

Change Adaptation Strategy is

an opportunity to demonstrate

that the people and the gov-

ernment o Vanuatu are strong-

ly committed to, and actively

involved in, a nation-wide ongo-

ing process o building and sus-

taining a healthy, resilient and

prosperous nation.

“Addressing climate change

requires meaningul changes to

policies, regulations and institu-

tions in order to support actions

at all levels, including those by

government, non-government

organizations, communities,and amilies, the private sector,

and individuals,” said the agri-

culture minister.

Preparing and implement-

ing the National Climate Change

Adaptation Strategy will provide

the opportunity or all people o

Vanuatu to understand the exist-

ing and expected climate changes

in Vanuatu, the resultant impacts

and risks to land-based activities

and resources, and appropriate

actions they can take in order to

address and mitigate these risks.

“Successul implementa-

tion o the Strategy will ensure

that Vanuatu can cope well with

the anticipated impacts o cli-

mate change by reducing the

vulnerability o its people and

environmental, social and eco-

nomic resources and systems

and enhancing their adaptive

captivities.”

Vanuatu among countries most

at risk to climate change

By Letty Kaltonga

while thelenAkel “blAckmAntown”on Tanna is awaiting a court decision over

land ownership in the area, this has not

stopped the Lenakel Municipal Council to

work on its zoning plan.

This zoning plan is being designed with

the close collaboration o the Taea Provin-

cial Council.

This small but vibrant municipality, as

conirmed by its Lord Mayor Reginald

Tangap, has a land policy that is quite

dierent rom Luganville and Port Vila.

Unlike Vanuatu’s big towns that oper-

ate on public land, Lenakel land is under

customary ownership.

This is a unique eature o this town

not only or Vanuatu but the rest o the

world.

The municipality benets through the various businesses established in its area.

As its name implies, the town is 100

percent run by ni-Vanuatu rom retail and

wholesale shops to uel stations, butcher-

ies, bakeries, takeaways, computer training

school, public transports that include bus

service, restaurants, and guest houses.

There is no one o Asian or Caucasian

origin operating a business within the

vicinity o this town.

With activities taking place in the munic-

ipality, the town council has drated this

zoning plan to ensure a more organised

town in the uture where residential and

industrial areas are distinguishable.

The one main economic eature o this

town is its market every Mondays, Wednes-

days and Fridays. These are the three days

that bring people all around Tanna to

“Blackman Town”.

Tuesdays and Thursdays are total peace-

ul days in the municipality, unless a vessel

berths at the whar.

Lenakel also hosts other services such as

National Bank, Post Oce, Hospital, and

shipping services.

Mayor Tangap said the council is cur-

rently running services including cleaning

up o the area. The council is also working

closely with land owners outside the area

or a space to be its dumpsite.

“The public in Lanekel is advised that

water supply planning has already start-

ed.

“We are just waiting or the public works

and rural water supply to give us green

light to begin work. This water supply

service will be provided to ull West Tanna,

including Lenakel Town,” the mayor said.

The present Lenakel Town Municipality

Council commenced in 2008 appointed by

the minister but just started working eec-

tively in 2010 and the term o the current

council will end in June 2012.

Those on the island who wish to give

development news can contact the Port

Vila Oce on 23111 or Leslyn Richard on

Tanna on 7780104.

Lenakel council nalisingtown’s zoning plan

By Len GaraemAn inA PAkete who

claims to be the “President

o VNCW” has joined Jenny

Ligo (ormer Chie Executive

Ocers o VNCW) to criticise

VNCW Administer Maryanne

Bani or organising a consti-

tutional review workshop on April 25 and the election o

the new Council to represent

the women o Port Vila on

April 26 say ing she did not

have the authority to call the

meetings.

She also blamed the now

President o Port Vila Town

Council o Women, Lily Hang-

hangkon or allegedly helping

to organise the meetings.

It was an allegation which

Hanghangkon had distanced

hersel rom at the start o

the meeting on April 26 as

she was overheard as saying

that she was present only as

an “observer”.However the Administra-

tor said Lily Hanghangkon

became the President o Port

Vila Town Council o Women

because she has over a 1,000

women rom dierent walks

o lie to support her while

her critics have nobody on

their side.

Pakete also accused the

Ad mi ni st ra to r o a ls el y

claiming that she was man-

dated by the court to hold

the meetings saying only the

President has the power to

call any such meetings.

She also repeated Jenny Ligo’s claim that the election

was not representative o the

women o Port Vila but only

a small group o women. She

claimed that she and previous

President Lesline Malsungai

have the power to “occupy

the position o President o

the Organisation until a new

election is held”. “As Nation-

al President I am not going

to tolerate what mislead-

ing inormation is being ed

to the media concerning the

VNCW”, Pakete said.

She claimed the posts o

President o the PVTCW and

her Council are still valid untilsuch time she calls a meeting

to elect a new council.

She challenged the Admin-

istrator to produce a court

order to prove that she was

legally appointed to organise

the meetings.

In reply, the Administra-

tor cautioned Manina Pakete

and Jenny Ligo and anyone

else with a mind to hang

their dirty linen in public to

address their concerns in the

National Conerence in July.

She said Jenny Ligo can-

not use the word “null and

void” to cri ticise the recentelection o the PVTCW

because she has no legal

mandate whi le Manina

Pakete’s and Lesline Mal-

sungai’s terms o Presidents

o VNCW had both expired.

“Supreme Court Civil Case

No.52 o 2011 ruled in my

avour against the Govern-

ment that tried with sim-

ilar tactics to remove me

rom my post o Adminis-

trator o VNCW because the

court recognised that I was

perorming my duties in line

with the VNCW Constitution.

Order 3 states and I quote,

‘The First deendants (ormer Administrators Arthur Faer-

ua and Dorosday Kenneth)

by themselves, their agents

and representatives be here-

by restrained rom dealing in

any way with the aairs and

unctions o the First Claim-

ant (VNCW)”, the Adminis-

trator said.

The Administrator said

she was legally recognised

by the Supreme Court as the

Admin istra tor and she has

been working hard to keep

the VNCW Oces open daily

and as the Administrator, it

is her duty to call the meet-ings because these are nor-

mal administrative duties.

“VNCW has already moved

beyond issues and is work-

ing towards reinstating the

legal authority o the VNCW

by holding workshops and

meetings throughout the

country ahead o the orth-

coming National Conerence

in July”, he said.

“Come to the Nation-

al Conerence this July to

express yourselves”.

Meanwhile Daily Post

wishes to advise all its read-

ers that we will not carry

any more articles on thedierences rom dierent

women leaders concern ing

the VNCW. Anyone wishing

to express hersel regard-

ing the state o aairs o the

Organisation is encouraged

to do so in the National Con-

erence in July.

Women leaders argue over VNCW

Like mother like sonThere’s nothing like dedicating your own child to theLord and this is exactly what Freshwind Minister Lolette

Worwor is doing, praying over their new born daughter

while her husband Elton Worwor listens on. It is not clear

what their frst born son is doing but he seems to be

praying along with his mother while on the let, Elder

Wince Garae is using his atherly touch to calm another

new born who is being dedicated too.



By Len GaraeVNCW ADMINISTRATOR

Maryanne Bani has said there

is no need for logic any more

motion of no confidence;

instead the Government

should use the remaining

months to assess the trail of

destruction former Govern-

ments have caused through

constant motions of no confi-

dence and see if it can pick up

the pieces where possible in

preparation for the next gen-

eral election next year.

She said voters do not elect

13 Ministers but 52 Members

of Parliament to help them todevelop their communities

through service delivery and

yet for the last three years, MPs

seemed to have turned their

backs on their voters while

they pushed and pulled to stay

in power for personal gain.

She made the statement

when she heard that the Oppo-

sition Group has appealed

against the ruling of its urgent

constitutional application

which the Chief Justice ruled

on in favour of the newly elect-

ed Vohor-led Government.

She said voters trust and

love their MPs which is why

they elect them to power. “Inmy opinion, the 52 MPs have

a duty to return that trust and

love by way of listening to

their voters and doing all they

can to fulfill the promises they

make on the political cam-

paign trail,” she said.

With the reported astro-

nomical amounts of money

that is used to pay out one

cabinet and its employees

when it is voted out of Gov-

ernment, the VNCW Adminis-

trator said far too much

money is wasted in last

minute political blunder.

“Considering that the nation-al population is less than

250,000, the country would

be better off financially if it

had six Ministers in six

Provinces and three Ministers

in three Municipalities”, she

suggested.

On the celebration of

Labour Day on May 1, she

said while it is a global holi-

day, “There is nothing for

which to celebrate in Vanuatu

because the Government has

done nothing to honour those

mothers who toil for long

hours for a Vt26,000 which is

the minimum wage,” shesaid.

“This is far too small to use

to pay the bills, school fees,

food and transport and this is

what the MPs should be deal-

ing with in parliament to

help their voters”.

S i s t a s T o k o k

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preperesen blong go long

eleksen nex manis be ol poli-tikol pati ol i still strakol

blong faenem ol woman

blong oli save kontes anda

long ol politikol pati blong

olgeta.

Hem i wan big ajivmen

sins 1980 after independens

mo hem i tekem yumi about

31 years blong mekem ol

krae mo vois blong ol woman

hem i bin ansa.

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kamaot long sam long ol

major pati hem i soem se olpolitikol pati oli stap

invaetem mo woman blong

kontes long 2011, May kam-

ing eleksen anda long ol pati

blong olgeta be fulap long ol

woman oli no ready yet .

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faev dei Genda and eleksen

woksop we I kondakted anda

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bin tekem ples long last yia

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tarian tru long patnaship

wetem Vanuatu Governmentmo ol woman blo UN.

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talem tu se plante taem long

ol konferens ,trening and

miting ol woman oli blemem

ol politikol pati blo ol man

from oli no givim opportu-

nity or Janis long woman

blong kontes long ol elections

blong givim tu janis long olge-

ta from woman tu hem i gat

raet, blong save go insaed

long nasonal palamen , ol

provinsol mo ol minisipolkaonsel blong voisem aot ol

konsen blong olgeta olsem ol

woman Vanuatu .

Mbae hem i very interest-

ing blong yumi faenemaot

hamas woman nao mbae oli

gat karej blong ol i save

kontes long May,2011,

Luganville Minisipol Eleksen.

Lugainville i nidim mowoman insaed lo politik

POEM

FAMILY UNITY

Dad comes home from work

Sons and daughter competing

To get the first kiss from him

All he does is scold them out of his way

Mum in the kitchen expects a smile

In return of the smile that she gives

All she receives is a frown face

What's so wrong with dad

He's showing no love for the family

Oh…. Dad where's the vow you made

To love your family forever.-

Mum and Dad

Your kids need a balance of love and caring

No use receiving hugs and praises from mum And none from you dad

All you do is scold at the children

And beat mother for nothing

Oh ……dad you're scattering the family

Which results in break up of Marriage

So ………..so Mums and Dads of Vanuatu

Its time you co-operate and work together

To reunite the scattered family

And make it a happy family

With both Parents,Loving,Tender,Caring and Kind.

Bani says MPs duty-bound to

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ktink long global issue blong “Cli-

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mo long world.

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hem nao isatp contribute long “Car-

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talem se samting ia hemi stap pollu-

tim God created klin atmosphere mo

environment. Ating I gat hundreds

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industrial activities and so on…. Be

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stap tede.

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from wanem nao Papa God hemi bin

punishim earth lo taem blong Noah

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hemi senem fire I bonem Sodom mo

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fasin we yumi liv long wol ia tede.

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long world blong yumi se God hemi

cursem Vanuatu mo world mo stap

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long hem. Spos no, Climate Change

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long humanity mo I kam long Vanu-

atu se world blong yumi tede igat

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mas tekem Climate Change Impact

seriously olsem hemi beginning

blong wan process blong “End of

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long hem.

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blong mani we World hemi stap

givim blong usum blong adresem

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vanuatu Daily Post | Thursday May 05 , 2011 [ 7 ]

Today in

history May 5

1809

Mary Kies o SouthKillingly, Conn., becamethe frst woman to begranted a patent. Thepatent was or therights to a technique orweaving straw with silk and thread.1821

Napoleon Bonapartedied on the island o St.Helena.1891

Carnegie Hall (thenknown as Music Hall)opened in New York City.Peter Tchaikovsky was theguest conductor.1925

John Scopes wasarrested in Tennessee orteaching Darwinism.1961

Alan Shepard became thefrst American in space.1981

Bobby Sands o the IrishRepublican Army died ina prison hospital on the66th day o his hunger

strike.2004

Pablo Picasso’s “Boywith a Pipe” became themost expensive paintingever sold.

Solution to your Sudoku puzzle

New Zealand

Tonga

Pacifc

Fiji

PNG

Fiji will be admitted as a

member o the Non-Aligned

Movement (NAM) at the endo the month.

The NAM is a group o

states that consider them-

selves not aligned ormally

with or against any majo r

power block.

The Minister or For-

eign Aairs Ratu Inoke

Kubuabola says joining

NAM would help reocusFiji ’s relationships away

rom its traditional trading

partners Aust ralia and New

Zealand.

Ratu Inoke says more talks

are expected to take place

between Fiji and member

countries o the NAM.

Ratu Inoke says the open-

ing o Fiji ’s Indonesianembassy last month would

also allow Suva to pursue its

‘Look North’ policy through

direct engagement with the

ASEAN countries.

Radio Australia

Fiji admitted to Non-Aligned Movement

an independent investigation

has ound the Papua New

Guinea Prime Minister and

National Executive Council

may have been wrong tosuspend the ormer police

commissioner Gari Baki.

The newspaper , The

National, says the contents

o the report will be embar-

rassing to the Prime Min-

ister, Sir Michael Somare,

and the government which

suspended Mr Baki, claim-

ing that he misled cabinet

in asking or more thanour mi l l ion US dol lars

or operations in the LNG

project area.

The committee’s report

says it was unable to ind

any evidence to conclu-

s ively uphold the al le-

gation that Mr Baki had

del iberately mis led the

NEC.

I t s ays there was no writ ten record o Mr Baki ’s

ve rba l b rie ing to cabi net,

and the NEC should not

allow verbal submissions.

—RNZI

baki dismissal in PNg deemed unfair

the tongan government

expects to start exporting

copra to Fiji or the frst time

by August.

It is inalising a trade

agreement with the Fiji inter-

im government.Tonga’s deputy prime min-

ister, Samiu Vaipulu, who’s

leading the negotiations, says

it’s a orerunner to deals with

Samoa and later the region-

al arrangement, the Paciic

Islands Countries Trade

Agreement, or PICTA.

He says they have an

arrangement with major Fiji

frm, Punja and Sons, to buy the copra and revitalise the

local industry.

“Copra has been one o the

main exports rom Tonga in

[previous] years, however

lately we didn’t go through

that much, so the arrange-

ment I have done now with

Punja’s in Fiji is that there

won ’t be anymore bou ght

or anything here, they’ll buy direct rom the armers so

that the price will be good.”

—RNZI

Tonga readies for copra exports to Fiji

Solomonsexperts say people in the

Paciic may have to make

adjustments to their diets

as more extreme weather

impacts on traditional crops.

Scientists rom around

the Paciic will be learn-

ing about assessing climate

change and its impact on

agriculture during a work-

shop in Fiji over the nextthree weeks.

Roger Eduardo Rivero

Vega, a world renowned agro-

meteorologist rom Cuba, is

one o the lead trainers.

He says scientists could

recommend certain types o

crops that are more robust

in warmer climates.

“Introducing new varieties

o crops more adaptive to the

new climate conditions is one

o the most important options

that we have at our disposal.

That could lead to modifca-

tion in our eeding habits,

maybe we should be learning

to eat new oods that are nottraditional.”

The workshop is being

run by the United Nations

Development Programme

Paciic Centre along with

other regional agencies.

—RNZI

Pacic diets may changebecause of climate change

emergency services in

Auck land hav e spe nt the

night responding to scores o

calls or help rom household-

ers aected by yesterday’s

aternoon’s deadly tornado.

Police say the twister

ripped through the north o

New Zealand’s biggest city,

killing one person and injur-

ing more than a dozen.

Bu i l d i n g i n s p e c to r s

assessed the damage to

homes and businesses rom

the tornado which cut

through the north shore sub-

urb o Albany, ripping a roo

o part o a major shopping

complex.

Firemen and civil deence

crews helped to secure roos,

and clear downed trees.

Police Inspector Gary

Davey says one person died

on the way to hospital but

that many injuries have

been relatively minor in the

ace o such a storm.

Radio Australia

NZ emergency crew spent night

helping tornado affected people

the chair oF the solomon

Islands Truth and Recon-

ciliation Commission says a

hearing or ormer Malaitan

militants was valuable despite

their reluctance to speak

about their actions during theethnic tensions.

Chairman Father Sam

Ata says 19 ormer combat -

ants told the hearing they

had retaliated ater negotia-

tions to compensate them or

the death and destruction

brought by the Guadalcanal

Revolutionary Army ailed.

Father Ata says while

the ex-militants rom the

Malaita Eagle Force apolo-

gised or their actions, they

were cautious about speak-ing about them or ear o

prosecution.

But he says their actions

are already well-known to

Solomon Islanders and there

was still value in t he hear-

ing.

“Disclosing the truth is

one aspect o the process but

also coming beore the soci-

ety and saying sorry is also

another aspect o this healing

process.”

Father Ata says a hearingor Guadalcanal militants

will be held next week and

it’s hoped the two sides can

be brought together in the

uture.

—RNZI

Solomons Truth Commission valuesMalaitans’ testimony



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Wo r l d N ew s

INFOCUSN. Korea

Australia

Libyan rebels say government troops hitby NATO strike

Rebels in the Libyan city o Misrata say NATO jets

have hit government troops who have surrounded the cityor nearly two months. Misrata’s port is an important

supply route or aid, but it’s been out o use or nearly aweek ater recent targeting by pro-Gadda troops.NATO has been orced to search or mines which they

believe were planted around the port by the government

troops. The head o the International Red Cross inBenghazi, Simon Brooks says he’s worried about the

humanitarian situation in in the city: “We must haveaccess as soon as possible and you know the law o

armed confict is very clear about the access which

civilian populations must have humanitarian assistanceand the act that’s not happening is a deep concern to

us,” he said.Radio Australia

US President’s approval up since binLaden death

The US President Barack Obama is enjoying a bump in

opinion polls ollowing the death o Osama bin Laden.The Pew Research Centre ound that 56 per cent orespondents approve o Mr Obama’s job perormance, up

nine points on last month. However, analysts say binLaden’s death does not guarantee Mr Obama’s

re-election in 2012, as pessimism about the economy

persists.Radio Australia

South Korean police raid Google ofces

South Korean police have raided the oces o theinternet search company, Google, on suspicion it illegally

collected data rom users. Police say they believe thecompany collected inormation about users’ location

without proper consent, via their mobile phones. They’ve

seized hard drives and other equipment rom thecompany’s headquarters in Seoul. It ollows news reports

that US regulators are considering their own probe intoGoogle’s activities.

Radio Australia

Sony fears hackers accessed extra 25million accounts

The Japanese electronics and entertainment giant,

Sony, says hackers may have accessed 25 million morecustomer accounts than it had previously thought. It says

the accounts related to its online entertainment network.

The additional security breach was discovered as Sonyinvestigated how hackers got into the online network or

its Playstation console. Now the company saysinormation about nearly 25 million people who play

games over the internet on personal computers may have

been compromised too. It includes their names, adressesand passwords. More than 12,000 credit card numbers

have also been exposed, as well as the records o nearly

11,000 nancial transactions.Radio Australia

Hundreds protest in Pakistan over binLaden's death

Hundreds o people have taken to the streets in the

southwestern city o Quetta in Pakistan to denounceAmerica, burn US fags and pay homage to Al-Qaeda

leader, Osama bin Laden. The protest comes as the USState Department issues a global travel alert to its

citizens warning there could be an outbreak o anti-

American violence, ollowing the killing o Bin Laden. TheAFP newsagency reports the Pakistani Taliban has

promised to avenge his death and attack "American andPakistani governments and their security orces". "Now

Pakistani rulers, president Zardari and the army will be

our rst targets," Ehsanullah Ehsan, a spokesman or

Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), or Taliban Movement oPakistan, said rom an undisclosed location. "America willbe our second target." Pakistan has already tightened

security across major cities, diplomatic installations and

around the site o the killing in Abbottabad. The UnitedStates has closed its embassy and three consulates in

Pakistan to the public until urther notice.Radio Australia

Life of hard labour’ in

North Korean campIn the lIvIng room of my

apartment in Seoul, Kang

Cheol-hwan pores over satel-

lite photographs o the place he

once lived.

Known as labour camp

number 15, in Yodok, North

Korea, it is perhaps one o the

world’s most secret places.

“It was a lie o hard

labour,” he says. “Thirty per

cent o new prisoners would

die. And we were so malnour-

ished, we would eat rats and

earthworms to survive.”

Cheol-hwan lived in Yodok

or a decade - paying the priceor “political crimes” commit-

ted by his amily.

Amnesty International says

there are signs the number o

people being sent to North

Korea’s political prison camps

is growing, and that the new

satellite maps show the system

is thriving.

Torture reports

Cheol-hwan traces the

outline o the camp on the

map with his nger - snaking

through North Korea’s moun-

tainous countryside.

New rows o buildings have

appeared in one section o the

camp. They are not there in

photographs rom a decade

ago.

“This is the guards’ block,”

he points out. “And it’s grown.

I assume it’s because they

need a bigger security pres-

ence now.”

I ask him where he lived and

he points to a row o box-like

houses a ew hundred metres

rom the guard block, a single

road leading in and out.

Reports rom inside the

camps are scarce. But many o

those who do speak out tell hor-

ric stories o torture, starvation

and summary executions.

The new Amnesty report

details accounts o water-board-ing, sleep deprivation, bamboo

pieces placed under the nger-

nails and imprisonment - some-

times or months on end - inside

a 4t (1.22m) by 4t cell.

Cheol-hwan remembers the

prison block inside his camp,

where the troublesome inmates

were kept. It was where torture

and beatings took place, he

says.

‘No return’

News is already iltering

through the North Korean com-

munity here in Seoul o a wider

crackdown taking place back

home.

There is talk o listening

posts, border ences and a sharp

rise in public executions.

Kang Cheol-ho runs a church

or North Korean deectors. He

gets new arrivals every month

and says the reports just get

worse.

“I’m getting more and more

dire testimonies all the time,”

he said. “That the clampdown

is worse, the ood situation is

more severe and the authorities

are making it clear, i you try

and escape the country, you’ll

never get another chance.

“Nowadays, you’ll be sent to

one o these camps rom which

you may never return.”

But reports like these pose a

problem or South Korea: decid-

ing what to do about them.

The country has been erce-

ly divided between those who

believe it should tackle the

North head-on about its humanrights record, and those who say

that simply makes confict more

likely, and risks everything the

South has built.

Now though, there may be a

sign that both sides are soten-

ing - at least in private.

Won Jae-chun has just been

asked by the government to

set up a new archive centre to

document human rights abuses

in North Korea.

Ten years ago, he says, it

would have caused one hell o

a row. Now, there seems to be a

new consensus emerging.“In the old days, it was either

carrot or stick - but now it’s car-

rot and stick,” he explains. “Now

it’s talking about human rights

but at the same time helping

North Korea.

“People have reached a gen-

eral consensus that we will try

every means possible under the

sun, and one way or another

North Korea will change.”

One reason or the change,

he believes, is the growing inor-

mation stream fowing rom the

North. There are 20,000 deec-

tors here in the South nowThis is something that makes

North Korea nervous. About the

messages they are bringing out,

perhaps, but also about the ones

they are sending home.

—BBC

Sydney haS been named

the world’s second best destina-

tion by the world’s biggest trav-

el website, TripAdvisor.

Australia’s largest city came

in at No.2 on TripAdvisor’s

annual Travellers’ ChoiceDestination awards, behind

Cape Town in South Arica.

Award winners were deter-

mined based on a combination

o travelers’ avorite places and

overall destination populari-

ty. TripAdvisor said more than

one million travellers contrib-

uted to the awards.

“Tourism is vital to the

Australi an economy so it’s

encouraging to see Sydney

at number two in the global

table, outshining signiicant

tourism hotspots such as Paris,New York and London,” said

TripAdvisor’s Emma O’Boyle

Aus tra lia domina ted its

region, the South Paciic in

the awards, with Sydney com-

ing in at No.1, Melbourne,

Perth, Byron Bay and Cairns

taking out numbers 3 t0 6

respectively.

2011 Travelers’ Choice World

Destinations:

1. Cape Town, South Arica

2. Sydney, Australia

3. Machu Picchu, Peru

4. Paris, France5. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

6. New York City, United

States

7. Rome, Italy

8. London, United Kingdom

9. Barcelona, Spain

10. Hong Kong, China

Top 10 South Pacifc destinations:

1. Sydney, Australia

2. Queenstown, New

Zealand

3. Melbourne, Australia

4. Perth, Australia

5. Byron Bay, Australia

6. Cairns, Australia7. Auckland, New Zealand

8. Milord Sound, New

Zealand

9 . P a p e e t e , F r e n c h

Polynesia

10. Christchurch, New

Zealand

—theage.com.au

Sydney named world’s second-best destination


Satellite image of Yodok prison camp taken on 7 April 2011

(Image: Amnesty International/Digital Globe)

Kang Cheol-hwan says new images of the camp he lived in show that it has grown



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ISI ‘embarrassed’ by bin

Laden intelligence failure

Australia

Syria

Pakistan

UK

P a k i s t a n ’ s m a i n

intelligence agency, the ISI,

says it is extremely embar-

rassed by its intelligence ail-

ures, as more details emerge

about the killing o the Al

Qaeda leader Osama bin

Laden by American orces.

Pakistan’s government

and its intelligence service

have been under pressure to

explain how the most wanted

man on the planet was able

to live undetected or ive

year s a stone ’s t hrow rom

the country’s most prestig-

ious military academy.

Bin Laden spent the pastve to six years in the sprawl-

ing compound in Abbottabad,

an afuent community, home

to many retired military and

intelligence gures, and just

60 kilometres rom the capi-

tal Islamabad.

Asked why they had not

checked out a building so

close to a major military acil-

ity, an ISI ocial said that the

compound had actually been

raided when the house was

under construction in 2003,

but since then the house had

not been on their radar.

According to the o icial,

there were 17 or 18 people

in the compound at the time

o the attack.

The Americans troops took

away Osama Bin Laden’s

body and another person,

still alive, possibly one o his

sons.

Four bodies were let in

the compound, thought to be

o another son, two brothers

and a guard.

Those who survived the

attack included a wie, a

daughter and eight to nine

other children.

Bin Laden’s 12 or 13 year

old daughter conrmed that

her ather had been shot, say-

ing she saw it happen.

Both current Pakistani

president Asi Ali Zardari

and ormer president Pervez

Musharra have been quick to

deny their country did not do

enough to track down the Al

Qaeda leader.

“Although the events o

Sunday were not a joint oper-

ation, a decade o coopera-

tion and partnership between

the Un i ted Sta tes and

Pakistan led up to the elim-

ination o Osama bin Laden

as a continuing threat to the

civilised world,” Mr Zardari

wrote in an opinion piece or

the Washington Post.

The president provided

no detailed explanation on

how bin Laden managed to

live in Abbottabad or years

undetected, but criticised US

press coverage suggesting

that Pakistan “lacked vitali-

ty” in pursuing terrorists.

“He was not anywhere we

had anticipated he would

be, but now he is gone,” he

wrote.

But pressure is mounting

on the Pakistani government,

with US coun ter- ter rori sm

chie John Brennan saying it

is “inconceivable” bin Laden

could have lived in such a

conspicuous compound so

close to Islamabad without

a support network inside the

country.

An d the ch ai rm an o

the US Senate Homeland

Security Committee, Senator

Joe Lieberman, has promised

tough questions about the

US ally when oicials come

beore the Senate this week.

The ranking Republican

Member o the Committee,

Susan Collins, agrees.

“It’s very diicult or me

to understand how this huge

compound could be built in

a city just an hour north o

the capital o Pakistan, in a

city that contained military

insulations, including the

Pakistani Military Academy

and that it did not arouse

tremendous suspicious,” she

said.

Former Australian deence

minister Joel Fitzgibbon says

the Federal Government

needs to know i Pakistan

was complicit in harbouring

bin Laden, in order to under-

stand the prospects or suc-

cess in Aghanistan.

“We need to be reassured

i our troops are going to con-

tinue to put their lives on the

line in Aghanistan that one

o our key partners, Pakistan,

is going to be absolutely com-

mitted to the project,” he

said.

—BBC/ABC/AFP

a new rePort has found

heart disease remains the

leading cause o death in

Australi a, desp ite a r ise in

dementia and Alzheimer’sdisease.

The Bureau o Statistics

study ound it accounted

or around 16 per cent o all

deaths in 2009.

The bureau ound the mor-

tality rate rom heart disease

has decreased over the last

decade.

S t a t i s t i c i a n A n n e ke

Schmider says they also

ound lung cancer accounts

or the most cancer related

deaths.

The Bureau also recorded

an increase in dementia and

Alzheimer’s-r elat ed deaths

over the last decade.S t a t i s t i c i a n A n n e ke

Schmider says dementia

and Alzheimer’s accounted

or close to 6 per cent o all

deaths in 2009.

“There’s been an increase

in dementia and Alzheimer’s

disease, or death-related

dementia and Alzheimer’s

disease,” she said.

“These accounted or

almost 6 per cent o deaths

in 2009 and that’s been anincrease across the last ten

years . And th is i s the third

leading cause o death or

emales.”

Ms Schmider says with an

ageing population it is inev-

itable their prevalence will

increase.

“There’s still some way o

I suppose the leading cause o

death, which is heart disease,

but they have increased,” she

said.

“There are a couple o

underlying reasons or this.

One o course is that we have

an aging population, the sec-

ond though is that we havehad some coding improve-

ments over time.

“So this is probably infu-

enced the number o deaths

which are being counted as

dementia and alzheimers at

the moment as well.”

—Radio Australia

Heart disease still leadingcause of death in Australia

f i v e me n h a v e b e e n

arrested close to a British

nuclear plant under anti-

terrorism legislation, police

said.

The men were detained

ater a stop check on a vehi-

cle at the Sellaield nuclear

acility in West Cumbria on

Monday.

The ive, all aged in their

20s and rom London, were

arrested under the Terrorism

Ac t, a po li ce Th ey we re

held in police custody over-

night beore being taken toManchester on Tuesday.

An invest igat ion is now

under way by the North West

Counter Terrorism Unit.

Both the location and tim-

ing o the incident will cause

concern.

The arrests came outside

Sellaeld, which handles high-

ly dangerous nuclear mate-

rial, and were made within

hours o the news breaking

that Osama bin Laden had

been killed. —AFP/PA

Five arrested near UK nuclear site under anti-terrorism laws

syrian security forces

have surrounded the coastal

city o Baniyas, activists say,

days ater tanks and troops

took control o Deraa in the

south.

Soldiers have blocked

the northern and southern

entrances to the city, and

the government has armed

its supporters in nearby vil-

lages, the activists say.

The number o arrests

around the country has risen

to 1,000, they add.

The International Red

Cross has appealed or

access to the injured and

ar res ted , e spec ia l l y in

Deraa.

Rights groups say 560

people have been killedacross the country in pro-

tests against the repressive

rule o President Bashar

al-Assad.

The government’s position

is still that the demonstra-

tors are militant criminals

and not - as evidence rom

the ground suggests - ordi-

nary civilians calling or

political reorm.

The interior ministry set

a deadline o 15 May or

protestors who had commit-

ted “unlawul acts” to give

themselves up.

‘Armed thugs’

The government is keep-ing up eorts to try and

bring an end to ve weeks o

rebellion.

The army is occupying the

hospital. They are arresting

everyone there - the injured,

the wounded”

End Quote Deraa resident

“The Syrian authorities

sent military reinorcements

and thugs to the areas in

the city centre [including

the main market],” a young

activist rom Baniyas who

is helping to organise the

demonstrations has told the

BBC.

“The city is acing militias

rom the east and military

orces rom the south and

north sides,” he added.

The l a tes t opera t ion

comes ater Mr Assad sent

tanks and soldiers into the

southern c i ty o Deraa,

whe re the upris ing broke

out in mid-March.

On Tuesday, a resident

who led to Damasc us told

the BBC that the hospitals inDeraa have become like mil-

itary barracks.

“The army is occupy-

ing the hospital. They are

arresting everyone there -

the injured, the wounded,”

he said.

“The only hospitals people

can use now are on the out-

skirts or the smaller hospitals

in neighbouring villages.”

Mass arrestsReports rom Deraa say

hundreds o men between

the ages o 16 and 40 were

taken away by security orc-

es in house-to-house raids on

Sunday.In recent weeks, hundreds

o protesters are thought to

have been killed or injured in

Deraa, where ootage appears

to show security orces using

live ammunition against

demonstrators.

—Radio Australia

Army ‘surrounds Baniyas’days after Deraa siege

The town of Abbottabad, which houses the Pakistan military and intelligence services, also provided a

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[ 14 ] vanuatu Daily Post |Thursday, May 5 2011

FIFA’s Blatt cofidt of -lctioFIFA presIdentseppBlAtter

said he came away from the

CONCACAF congress Tuesday

confident he’ll be re-electeddespite a bid to unseat him by

Mohammed Bin Hammam of

Qatar, the Asian Football Con-

federation president.

“I’m sure at the end of the

day there will be no change in

FIFA,” Blatter said.

CONCACAF president Jack

Warner said the federation is

happy with Blatter’s leadership

but receptive to Bin Hammam’s

ideas. Bin Hammam didn’t

attend the congress because

he was unable to obtain a U.S.

visa, Warner said.

A meetin g bet ween Bin

Hammam and CONCACAF

officials was rescheduled for

May 10 in Trinidad. CON-

CACAF is soccer’s regional

governing body for North and

Central America and the Car-ibbean, and it’s considered

pivotal in the outcome of the

presidential election June 1.

The congress was closed to

the media, an unusual step for

such sessions. Afterward, Blat-

ter and Warner sat side by side

at a news conference.

“I am, I would say, a relaxed

president after the meeting,”

Blatter said. “I am more than

confident now after this con-

gress here that we are going

forward with energy and a lot

of optimism.”

Blatter has led soccer’s gov-

erning body since 1998, and

the 75-year-old Swiss seeks a

four-year term that he said will

be his last. Bin Hammam is his

lone opponent.

Warner advised Blatterbefore the congress began that

campaigning by the president

was unnecessary.

“President Blatter has been

coming here for the last 20

years,” Warner said. “If there’s

anybody we know, we know

president Blatter. Therefore,

there is nothing he can tell us

that we don’t know of him, or

what his plans are.”

FIFA has often been accused

of corruption on Blatter’s

watch, but his support in the

CONCACAF region is strong,

Warner said.

“The members of the execu-

tive committee and congress,

all of them, have said they’re

happy where they are,” Warn-

er said. “Nobody expressed

any displeasure with Mr. Blat-ter’s office. But out of fair play,

they would like to hear what

the other person has to say.”

Warner’s 35-member group

will vote as a bloc. At the FIFA

Congress in Zurich, the win-

ning candidate will need a

two-thirds majority on the first

ballot or a simple majority on

the second.

FIFA drew criticism for its

methods in choosing the two

most recently selected World

Cup sites -- Russia in 2018

and Qatar in 2022. The deci-

sions came at the same time,

with two executive committee

members barred from voting

because of corruption allega-

tions. Four other senior offi-

cials were suspended.

If re-elected, Blatter prom-ises broad reforms in the way

sites are chosen, and says he’ll

set up a watchdog committee

to supervise how FIFA works

and restore the organization’s

credibility.

Bin Hammam, 61, played

a key role in Qatar winning

the rights to the 2022 World

Cup. He has proposed sharing

FIFA’s power and jobs with its

six confederations by offering

17 extra seats on the executive

body and creating legal and

development teams at conti-

nental headquarters.

Some CONCACAF delegates

don’t know Bin Hammam well,

and his absence at the congress

cost him a chance to court sup-

port.

“How much it has hurt him,I really can’t say,” Warner said.

“If he were here, it would have

helped him a lot.”

CONCACAF delegate Fre-

derick Lunn of the Bahamas

said the group is open-minded

about Bin Hammam’s candi-

dacy.

“You have to give everyone

an opportunity in this proc-

ess,” Lunn said. “Regardless

of the outcome, to have any

sort of opposition and to hear

new ideas is good. You never

know. He may come with a

home run. It happens some-

times with the underdog.”

AP

Football

French soccer AuthorItIes

have begun an inquiry into

claims that national coach

Laurent Blanc and other

coaches secretly agreed on a

quota restricting the number

of black and Arab players in

training programs.

The investigative website

Mediapart said last week that

the aim was to limit to 30

percent the number of players

of African and North-African

descent in training academies

once they reached the age of

13. Blanc insists such a move

was never discussed.

French soccer federa-

tion technical director Fran-

cois Blaquart is suspended

pending the inquiry, which

included a transcript of a

conversation involving Blanc,

Blaquart, under-21 coach

Erick Mombaerts and under-

20 coach Francis Smerecki in

November.

In the transcript, an angry

Smerecki calls the proposal

a “discriminatory” idea thatshould never see the light

of day. He has not yet com-

mented on Mediapart’s arti-

cle.

The focus of the conver-

sation was to find a way to

limit the number of play-

ers with dual nationalities

coming through the French

yo uth te ams be fo re th en

deciding to play for their

country of origin as adults.

Al l fo ur wi ll be in te r-

viewed thi s wee k by a spe -

cial commission headed by

Patrick Braouezec, who had

already led an inquiry exam-

ining the reasons for theFrance team’s strike at last

year’s Wor ld Cup. Laurent

Davenas, president of the

federation’s ethics council

and a member of the French

sports ministry will also be

involved in the inquiry.

Blanc, on vacation in

Italy, will be interviewed

Friday or Saturday, Davenas

said.

The turmoil comes just

as Blanc was beginning to

reverse the team’s fortunes

following the World Cupdebacle. The team, under

former coach Raymond

Domenech, went on strike in

protest at Nicolas Anelka’s

exclusion and was eliminat-

ed in the group stage with-

out winning a match.

French Sports Minister

Chantal Jouanno urgently

requested that the federa-

tion open an inquiry hours

after Mediapart’s story broke

last Thursday night. Jouanno

wants it to be completed by

the end of this week.

The federation said Tues-

day the conclusions will be

discussed further at a meet-ing next week and it will not

comment until then.

Andre Merel le, a former

head of France’s national

training center at Clairefon-

taine until being released by

Blaquart in September, felt

there was a problem with the

perception of dual nationals

within French soccer’s hier-

archy.

“During my time we were

already reproached for taking

so many blacks and Arabs,”

Merelle told Mediapart. “Theargument that I was given

was, ‘We pay them, we bring

them up, and then they go

and play abroad (for another

country).”

Former France star Lilian

Thuram, Blanc’s teammate

when France won the 1998

World Cup and European

Championship two years

later, said he was shocked

when he heard race quotas

had been discussed. Former

France defenders Basile Boli

and Luc Sonor and former

France goalkeeper Bernard

Lama have also expressed

outrage.Others, like France mid-

fielder Alou Diarra and striker

Karim Benzema, have pub-

licly backed Blanc, although

both said they are upset at

the very thought of quotas

being discussed.

AP

Blanc has denied he accusains

France begins racism inquiryFIFA hAve Announced A

two-stage testing programme

for goal-line technology as

the pressure builds for the

introduction of systems to

help referees determine

whether the ball has crossed

the line.

Companies will need to

demonstrate 90% accuracy

rates for their prototype sys-

tems in order to get through

the first phase and then

return a 100% success rate in

the second phase.

FIFA changed their stance

last year after Frank Lamp-

ard’s disallowed goal in the

World Cup and now accept

the need for goal-line tech-

nology - if the systems can be

show to be completely reli-

able.

Lampard was also at the

centre of the latest contro-

ver sy thi s wee kend whe n

he was awarded a goal for

Chelsea against Tottenham

despite TV pictures showing

the whole of the ball had not

crossed the line.Companies have until June

3 to register their interest

with FIFA, who will share the

costing of the testing. Each

firm can select which stadium

they would like the tests to

take place.

The tests will be divided

into three parts:

• shots from all over the

pitch into an empty net. A

100% success rate is needed

to pass phase one.

• ‘dynamic’ tests: a ball-

shooting machine will fire

shots into the goal where a

fixed wall will at first stop

the ball crossing the line, andthen be moved back inside

the goal at different distances

from the line. A 90% success

rate is needed to pass phase

one.

• ‘static’ tests: a ball

is placed on a sledge and

moved at slow motion across

the goal-line, sometimes with

the ball rotating. A 90% suc-

cess rate of this test is also

needed to pass phase one.

For each test, an immedi-

ate signal that the ball has

crossed the line must besent to a referee’s watch.

Companies that successfully

pass phase one of the proc-

ess - which will take place

between September and

December - will be subjected

to more rigorous and scien-

tific testing in a second phase

between March and June

next year.

FIFA said in a statement:

“A higher volume of tests

will be conducted to ensure

a more precise evaluation of

the fitness of a technology

and to provide a full statisti-

cal analysis.

“This will include moresimulated match scenarios as

well as other factors includ-

ing: software reliability;

transmission signal quality;

performance under changing

weather conditions as well as

on different pitch surfaces.’’

The International FA

Board, the game’s law-mak-

ing body, will be presented

with the results of the testing

at a special meeting in July

2012. Successful systems

could be in place for the the

2014 World Cup in Brazil -FIFA say the second phase

tests will be carried out in

“different lighting conditions

as per the FIFA requirements

for the 2014 FIFA World Cup

in Brazil’’.

British company Hawk-

eye is expected to be one of

the firms that apply to FIFA

- they believe their technol-

ogy is 100% accurate. They

were not part of the first tests

at FIFA headquarters in Feb-

ruary because they needed a

stadium in which to use their

systems.

All 10 comp anies t este d

in February failed, althoughthree did come close to being

100% accurate. A number of

others failed hopelessly how-

ever - including one system

that registered a goal when

the ball when two inches

above the crossbar.

ESPN

Football

FIFA unveil goal-line tech testing

Lineball: Heurelh Gmes ays dearly fr a blunder n he line as Chelsea is incrrecly

awarded a gal. (Reuers: Russell Cheyne)



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SpoRtS InBrIeFTennis

Caroline Wozniacki strolls into MadridOpen round three

Top seed Caroline Wozniacki eased through to the third

round of the Madrid Open with a 6-4 6-4 win over Serbia’s

Bojana Jovanovski. In the men’s first round Juan Martin

del Potro overcame a leg injury to beat Mikhail Youzhny6-1 3-6 6-3. Argentina’s Del Potro, who was out for eightmonths last year following wrist surgery, said he may not be

fit for his round-two tie with Marin Cilic. “I will check with

the doctor if it’s safe to play,” said Del Potro. The formerUS Open champion said the leg problem had first come to

light in Portugal last week, where he won the Estoril Open.“I started to feel it in the semi-final in Estoril last week but I

really want to play this tournament,” he said. “I will be careful

for my future - I am playing really well last week and this, butmy first goal is to play healthy.”I want to be safe this week

so I don’t want to risk my presentation in French Open.”Talking about his return to fitness after last year’s long lay-

off, Del Potro admitted even he was surprised by how well

he had fared.BBC

CriCkeT

Hashan Tillakaratne stands by match-

fixing allegationsFormer Sri Lanka captain Hashan Tillakaratne has vowed

to reveal full details of match-fixing that he alleges took place during his career. Tillakaratne and ex-team-mate

Arjuna Ranatunga claim fixing has been common in Sri

Lankan cricket since 1992. The Sri Lanka Cricket Boardcalled on the pair to substantiate the claims and queried

why they have only emerged now. Tillakaratne says he willprovide the International Cricket Council with information

“at the appropriate time. The 43-year-old added: “I made

a statement to the provincial council, I said that I stillmaintain my stand on the allegations. “After I came out with

these allegations [at the weekend] I have been getting a lotof nuisance calls, death threats, but definitely I will expose all

those who are involved in a time to come.” When asked why

he has not followed the established procedure of working withthe ICC’s anti-corruption unit, Tillakaratne replied “I will do that

in the days to come.” Several international players includingSouth Africa’s Hansie Cronje, India’s Mohammad Azharuddin

and Ajay Jadeja, and Pakistan’s Salim Malik have been found

guilty of match-fixing and served bans in the past decade,although Jadeja and Malik later had their bans quashed. Most

recently, Pakistani players Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and

Mohammad Amir were banned for five years or more afterbeing found guilty off corruption by the ICC.

AP

AThleTiCs

David Rudisha ruled out of Doha DiamondLeague meeting

World 800m record holder David Rudisha has been ruled outof the Diamond League meeting in Doha on Friday because

of a foot injury. Rudisha, 22, the 2010 World Athlete of the

Year, has been prevented from training for a week by the injury,which is not thought to be serious. “I am very disappointed

not to be able to run,” said the Kenyan, who won last year’s

Diamond Race Trophy. Rudisha’s withdrawal is a blow tothe athlete, who produced one of the finest 800m seasons

in history last year, twice breaking the world record, whichstands at one minute 41.01 seconds. As well as Rudisha, the

800m will also be deprived of double world indoor championAbubaker Kaki, who has also pulled out because of a muscle

injury. However, many of last season’s Trophy winners will be

competing in Doha.AAP

FooTbAll

Ronaldinho joy at first trophy

Just months after returning to Brazil in pursuit of silverware,Ronaldinho has described his joy at picking up the Carioca

State Championship with new side Flamengo. Ronaldinho leftAC Milan to move back to South America after criticism for his

off-field antics and laid back lifestyle. However, the Brazilian

has not had to wait long as Flamengo overcame Vasco da

Gama on penalties to win the final of the Taca Rio, the secondstage of Rio de Janeiro’s local championship. “A joy like thiscan only be compared with the World Cup title,” he told

reporters. “I went five years without being a champion, I have

only experienced joy with these fans and I hope to continue mywork here.” Flamengo’s 3-1 win (after a 0-0 draw in normal

time), saw them finish the campaign unbeaten for the first

time since 1996.SI.com

Football

Soomo scos twic to hlpWaiaapa maitai lad

MAtt Borren GoAlkeeperMatt Borren was the toast of

Trust House Wairarapa Unit-

ed after their 2-1 win over

Western Suburbs in the top-

of-the-table central football

clash at Endeavour Park on

Saturday.

Borren made several fine

saves during a first half

which ended with the two

teams level pegging at 1-1, a

score which Wairarapa Unit-

ed player-coach Adam Cowan

conceded flattered his side.

“We probably should have

been at least a couple of goalsdown but Matt was outstand-

ing, he kept us in the game,”

Cowan said.

Through most of that first

half Wairarapa United strug-

gled to get any flow into their

play and ball was turned over

regularly.

“We were poor, very poor,”

Cowan said. “We weren’t

wor king as a team, there

was no rhythm there a t all.

We were rushing things too

much”

Fortunately for Waira-

rapa United, however, thesecond half was a far dif-

ferent story.Then they lifted

their effort several notches

and the confidence notice-

ably grew as they started to

pose problems for the Wests

defence by maintaining their

structure and sticking to the

game plan.

“We talked at halftime

about being more patient,

of being more deliberate in

the way we brought the ball

forward,” Cowan said.

“We knew that i f we

played the basics well wecould pull it off, and that’s

what we did.”

Borren was clearly the

player of the match for

Wairarapa United while

Nathan Cooksley was again

impress ive on defence.

S tr i ker Seu le Soromon

scored both goals and was

the pick of the attack, along

wit h Campbell Bank s who

made an impact when he

came off the subs bench in

the second half.

Wairarapa Times Age

Boxing

th A I l A n d hAv e B e e n kicked out of the qualifying

competition for the 2012

Men’s Olympic Games after

fielding an ineligible play-

er.

The Football Association

of Thailand (FAT) revealed

that they would be appeal-

ing against the decision, which was t aken afte r sus-

pended player Suchar i t

Chanthakul was allowed to

play during the first leg of a

qualifier against Palestine in

February.

Sucharit earned the sus-

pension at the AFC Under-

19 Championships three years ago and had not yet

served the ban.

“We have been formally

informed by the AFC about

the matter,” FAT secretary

general Ong-art Korsinkha

told the Bangkok Post. “We

are appealing.”

Thailand beat Palestine5-4 on penalties to progress

and were set to face Bahrain

in the next round of region-

al qualifiers for next year’s

Olympics in London, before

the Asian Football Confed-

eration (AFC) stepped in.

ESPN

Thailand axed from Olympic qualifiers

Olympic Games

shAneMosley Feels A vIc-

tory over WBO welterweight

champion Manny Pacquiao

on Sunday (NZT) would be

his biggest ever despite a

glittering career that includes

world t itles in three weight

classes.

“That would be the best

vict ory at this time ,’’ Mos-

ley said at the MGM Grand,

the site of Saturday’s fight.

“If I fight Pacquiao and

beat him, there will prob-

ably have to be another one,

because people won’t believe

it.’’

Mosley has yet to be

knocked out during his pro-

fessional career, but his com-

ment was a clear admission

that despite a record of 46-6-1

with 39 knockouts, including

two victories over compatriot

Oscar de la Hoya, he will be

a heavy underdog against the

Filipino Pacquiao.

That reflects the fact that

the 39-year-old Mosley’s

record is a pedestrian 8-6-1

since the end of 2001 and

his last fight in Las Vegas

was a comprehensive points

defeat to fellow AmericanFloyd Mayweather one year

ago.

In that fight, Mosley rocked

Mayweather badly in the sec-

ond round but could not cap-

italise and lost every round

after. But he insisted the dif-

ference in styles between the

two makes the Mayweather

fight meaningless when eval-

uating Saturday’s fight.

“Mayweather doesn ’ tthrow a lot of punches, but

he throws them at the right

time, ’ ’ he said. “Manny

throws more punches and

he throws them at any time.

That style I believe is going to

be more suitable to me.’’

Pacquiao, 52-3-2 with 38

knockouts, who has won

world t itles in eight weight

divisions, agreed that dis-

missing Mosley’s chances wasa mistake.

“It’s unfair to him,’’ Pacqui-

ao said, adding that Mosley

has “good hand speed, good

foot speed, and of course he’s

strong. You cannot underesti-

mate Mosley’’.

Mosley pointed to his

upset victories over de la

Hoya in 2000 and 2003, and

his dominant knockout of

Mexico’s Antonio Margaritoin 2009, as evidence that he

has frequently put on his best

performances in the face of

doubt.

“A lot of the times peo-

ple count me out, I tend to

become victorious. So, maybe

it’s not a good idea to count

me out.’’

AP

Shane Mosley looks to shake up the world

RING WARRIoRS: Manny pacquia (lef) will figh Shane Msley a he MGM Grand n Sunday.



Fishing

Marlin Classic to featureAussie rugby league star

Compiled by RaymondNasseThe Grand hoTel & Casino

Vanuatu Marlin Classic VMC

that will be held on June 5-11 will feature one of Australia’sfamous ex rugby league play-ers Andrew Ettingshausenand popular 2GB Radio Australian Fishing Show pre-senter Michael Guest.

B o t h G u e s t a n dEttingshausen will be arrivingon the 3rd and 8th of Junenext month and will featurein Vanuatu’s only marlin spe-cific fishing tournament.

Andrew Ettingshausen is an Australian former rugby leaguefootballer of the 1980s, 1990sand early 2000s.

He played his first grade Australian club football forthe Cronulla-SutherlandSharks, retiring with therecord of most games at asingle club, with 328.

He is known for his decep-

tive pace, good hands andability to score tries, “ET” ashe was known, representedboth New South Wales and

the Australian Kangaroos. A f te r h i s r e t i r emen tf ro m l e a gu e i n 2 0 0 0 ,Ettingshausen went on tohost and produce his ownfishing television show titledEscape with ET.

I n F e b r u a r y 2 0 0 8 ,Ettingshausen was namedin the list of Australia’s 100Greatest Players (1908–2007) which was commis-sioned by the NRL and ARLto celebrate the code’s cen-tenary year in Australia.

Michael Guest himself isa Fishing World writer andan online video presenter.

Last year he joined thepopular Sydney 2GB Radioand now hosts Sydney’spopular 2GB radio FishingShow.

The tournament was cre-

ated to promote the sport of game fishing and conserva-tion of fisheries through thepractice of tag and release

fishing. The rules have beenpurposely designed to pro-mote the release of healthy marlin. Points are awardedbased on marlin-only caughton 30 lb, 50 lb, 80 lb and130 lb line class tackle.

Organisers of the tourna-ment have given generous-ly to create this cash prizetournament. The first yearsaw prize and calcutta pay-ments in excess of $40,000 AUD. The second year man-aged over $60,000 AUD paidout and each year since hasbeen successful.

Thi s yea r the mar l inClassic has been blessed toreceive great support fromthe local and internation-al community with scores of sponsors.

Ov e r t he l a s t s e v e r -

a l y e a r s , V a nu a t u ha squickly become a provenWorld Class marlin fishingdestination.

The VMC i s a grea topportunity to get in on thepioneering edge of one of the world’s best kept game

fishing secrets. Don’t missthe opportunity to competefor cash in the marlin rich waters of Vanuatu!

Andrew Ettingshausen

Football

F C B a r C e l o n a C a m e

through a tough exami-nation by a spirited RealMadrid CF side as a riv-eting draw secured their

place in the 28 May final atWembley – scene of theirfirst European ChampionClubs’ Cup triumph.

Josep Guardiola’s mensealed a 3-1 aggregate winafter Pedro Rodríguez’s glo-rious second-hal f open-er was cancelled out by Marcelo. It was also a nightof drama, skill and, ulti-mately, a Catalan victo-ry that means the dreamof a third UEFA ChampionsLeague title in six seasons is very much alive.

The remarkable amountof water which poured from

the skies in the hour priorto kick-off did not help thehosts push and probe at a well-drilled Madrid defence,but as the surface dried thecontest became slick.

Guardiola’s team do notscore many headed goals

minute corner was so pre-cise in its arc that only aslight misjudgement of hisunmarked jump left SergioBusquets heading into IkerCasillas’s hands, not the

Ten minutes later Barça’strickle of chances became aflood. Lionel Messi dancedacross the penal ty areaand forced Casillas to saveat full length. The mer-

song: just no one in whitek ne w t he t u ne . T w i c eMessi went close to add-ing to the two-goal cush-ion from last week’s firstleg. His chest control and

became red alert when the Ar ge nt in ia n in te rn at io n-a l dispossessed LassanaDiarra and released David Vil la: Cas ill as had to pro-

duce his best save thusfar.

The ha l f ended wi thMadrid’s exceptional, over- worked goalkee per l aunch-ing himself to the groundto keep ou t ye t anoth-er Messi effort. Withoutdo u b t , t he go a l s we recoming. The first arrived ju st ni ne mi nut es af terthe restart. Andrés Iniesta wa s the magi ca l cr ea to r,curving the ball through asea of white shirts – Xabi Al on so , Di ar ra an d Ra ul Albiol – st ra ight in to thepath of Pedro. One touch

to control , another slapof his boot to score andBarça were seemingly outof sight.

T o M a d r i d ’ s c r e d -i t the moment d id notbreak them: far from it.The visitors stuck to the

wo rked an d fi nal ly gottheir reward ten minutesafter falling behind. ÁngelDi María gained his f irstgl impse of open space,

cracked a fierce shot off Ví ctor Va ldés ’ ri gh t-ha ndpost and then showed theutmost calm to control therebound and pass inside toMarcelo.

T he B ra z i l i a n i n t e r -national edged in f ronto f h i s m a r k e r , J a v i e rMascherano, and buriedthe chance with glee. Yetthis was Barcelona’s night,capping their performance wi th Ér ic Ab id al ’s in tr o-duction late on, his f irstappearance since an oper-at ion to remove a l ivertumour – the roar almost

exceeded that of reachingWembley. They could faceManchester United FC, 2-0up against FC Schalke 04ahead of Wednesday’s sec-ond leg, in what wouldbe a repeat of the 2009showpiece.

Barcelona keep Madrid at bay to reach final

Barcelona’s forward Pedro Rodriguez (L) celebrates with teammate Barcelona’s forward David Villa (R) after scoring during the Champions

League semi-final second leg football match between Barcelona and Real Madrid at the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona on May 3, 2011.

AFP PHOTO / SIU WU

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