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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2017 MUHARRAM 8, 1439 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Kurds vote ‘yes’ Nepal names Ousted Thai World’s number in independent 3-year-old as PM sentenced one powers into referendum6 ‘living goddess’6 in absentia9 Wuhan14 quarters Oil Minister warned over Min 25º Max 43º appointment of foreigner High Tide 03:40 & 18:14 Low Tide Tabtabai calls for raising lawmakers’ salaries 11:14 & 22:59 32 PAGES NO: 17341 150 FILS
By B Izzak
KUWAIT: Deputy Speaker MP Essa Al-Kandari yesterday warned Oil Minister Essam Al- Marzouk that the appointment of a foreigner as the Chief Executive Officer of Equate Petrochemicals will represent a political embarrassment for the minister. Kandari said the minister ignored demands by MPs and warnings by oil experts against the appoint- ment and its potential negative impact on the oil sector as a whole. He also said that it was strange to appoint the CEO from DOW Chemical which had neg- ative dealings with Kuwait after winning bil- lions of dollars in fines paid from public funds. The lawmaker said that the measure will put the Oil Minister in political confrontation with MPs. Kandari wondered how the appointment was made despite recommendations and demands by the private sector represented in KUWAIT: Deputy Speaker MP Essa Al-Kandari chats with other MPs in this file photo. Deputy the company that a citizen must be appointed Speaker yesterday warned Oil Minister Essam Al-Marzouk that the appointment of a for- in the post and which rejected the appoint- eigner as the Chief Executive Officer of Equate Petrochemicals will represent a political ment of a foreigner. embarrassment for the minister. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat The lawmaker said that the decision was the appointment of a foreign executive and key petrochemicals projects. But Dow wrong because Equate manages an impor- called for appointing a citizen in the sensitive received a fine exceeding $2 billion after KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah tant national resource and it was much better post but the Oil Minister said the appoint- Kuwait unilaterally pulled out of a large $17 returned home yesterday after concluding a visit to the United States where to appoint a citizen to lead the company ment was part of the joint venture deal with billion joint venture. The fine was imposed fol- he held official talks with US President Donald Trump. — KUNA because they are more efficient than foreign- Dow Chemical which has been a partner to lowing a lengthy arbitration. ers. A number of MPs have already criticized the state-owned Kuwait Petrochemicals Co in Continued on Page 11
Etihad pilot dies UAE tax to double energy drink, tobacco prices
DUBAI: An Etihad Airways pilot passed away DUBAI: Tobacco and energy drink prices Saudi Arabia and the United Arab onboard a flight from Abu Dhabi to the Dutch capi- are set to double in the United Arab Emirates - have been hit hard by a slump tal Amsterdam, the airline said yesterday. “The pilot Emirates, which is imposing steep excise in oil revenues, which make up the bulk was incapacitated shortly taxes to help ease a budget shortfall of their national income. after takeoff and a safety caused by low oil prices. Khaled Al-Bustani, Saudi Arabia, which is forecast to post call was made before the Director General of the newly established a large budget deficit in 2017 for the aircraft was safely diverted UAE Federal Tax Authority, said yesterday fourth year in a row, has already started to Kuwait International that the 100-percent tax would be intro- imposing the excise tax, besides levying Airport,” a statement by duced from October 1. Prices of other heavy residency fees for expatriates’ the company noted. “Upon types of soft drinks will increase by 50 per- dependents. The kingdom, as well as landing in Kuwait, a med- cent, Bustani told a press conference. UAE and Qatar, announced it would start ical team tended to the ail- He declined to say how much the UAE collecting VAT of five percent at the ing pilot but he was pro- will raise from the tax. The decision beginning of next year on most products nounced dead shortly stems from agreements reached by the and services. Other members have not after,” the statement revealed. The airline added six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council to given a specific date. The GCC states, that it was “deeply saddened by the loss”, extending raise the prices of those products, then which pump around 17 million barrels DUBAI: A handout image shows a two-seater ‘hover taxi’ flying in a ‘concept’ flight its heartfelt condolences to the family of the late impose a long-awaited value-added tax per day of crude oil, have seen their rev- in Dubai. Dubai has edged closer to its goal of launching a pioneering hover-taxi pilot. — KUNA (VAT) from the start of next year. The GCC enues plummet since the collapse of oil service, as a prototype two-seater driverless aircraft. — AFP states - Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, prices in mid-2014. — AFP End to women’s driving ban to save Saudis billions of dollars
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s decision to end a of payments but reducing incomes in driving ban for women is likely to save their home countries. King Salman Qatar and FIFA families billions of dollars, boost indus- ordered on Tuesday that women be tries from car sales to insurance, and allowed to drive cars, ending the reli- urged to protect reassure investors that the kingdom’s giously inspired ban that made it hard for push to diversify its economy beyond oil many women to work and forced many migrant workers is on track. It should also encourage Saudi families to employ at least one driv- more women into the workforce and er to transport female members. DUBAI: World Cup 2022 host Qatar must urgently raise productivity in the economy, The decree promises to change the introduce laws to protect the lives of up to 800,000 although analysts expect the initial boost lifestyle of millions. About 10 million migrant construction laborers working in scorching to growth to be modest. women over the age of 20, including for- temperatures, Human Rights Watch said yesterday. But hundreds of thousands of male eigners, live in Saudi Arabia; nearly 1.4 The New York-based organization also called on the chauffeurs who drive women around, million foreigners work as household Gulf state to investigate workers’ deaths and make TAMMUN: Palestinian demonstrators clash with Israeli security forces following a protest most from south Asia and the Philippines, drivers, earning roughly $500 a month in those findings public. “The Qatari authorities’ failure against the expropriation of Palestinian land in the village of Tamun yesterday. — AFP risk losing their jobs. That means they will addition to being provided with accom- to put in place the most basic protection from the no longer send money back to their fami- modation and food. heat, their decision to ignore recommendations that lies, strengthening Saudi Arabia’s balance Continued on Page 11 Diplomatic blow to Israel they investigate worker deaths, and their refusal to release data on these deaths, constitutes a willful Interpol approves Palestine membership abdication of responsibility,” said report author Nicholas McGeehan. JERUSALEM: Interpol voted yesterday to possible because of the principled posi- He also called on football’s world governing admit the State of Palestine as a member tion of the majority of Interpol members,” body, FIFA, national associations and World Cup over Israeli objections at the international Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad Al- sponsors to demand further protection from heat police organization’s general assembly in Maliki said in a statement. Interpol said and humidity for Qatar’s workers. McGeehan added: Beijing. Dealt a diplomatic blow, Israel said membership applications by the State of “They should also be demanding answers to two Interpol, which is dedicated to fostering Palestine and the Solomon Islands were simple questions-how many workers have died cross-border cooperation against crime approved at its annual general assembly since 2012 and how they have died?” Qatar has and terrorism, had made the world a more by more than the required two-thirds introduced laws to stop people working outside dangerous place by letting the Palestinians majority of votes. The organization now between 11:30 am and 3:00 pm annually from June in. Israel had argued that Palestine is not a has 192 members. 15 to August 31, when temperatures can reach state and that it is ineligible to join. Under A Palestinian bid to join last year, at an around 50 degrees Celsius (122 degrees Fahrenheit). interim Israeli-Palestinian peace deals, a Interpol conference in Indonesia, was But HRW says these measures do not go far enough. Palestinian Authority was granted limited foiled by what Israel said was its diplomat- “Limiting work temperatures to safe tempera- self-rule in the occupied West Bank and the ic campaign against it. In 2012, the UN tures-not set by a clock or calendar-is well within the Gaza Strip. General Assembly upgraded the capacity of the Qatari government and will help pro- Shortly before the vote in the Chinese Palestinian Authority’s observer status at tect hundreds of thousands of workers,” said Sarah capital, the Israeli Foreign Ministry said the United Nations to “non-member state” Leah Whitson. RIYADH: A Saudi woman disembarks from a car outside a mall in the Saudi capital Israel’s efforts to delay the ballot until next from “entity”, like the Vatican. Continued on Page 11 Riyadh yesterday. — AFP year had failed. “This victory was made Continued on Page 11 LOCAL THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2017
Local spotlight Congratulations my sisters!
By Muna Al-Fuzai
ongratulations to all Saudi women and salute to King Salman of Saudi Arabia who took a courageous and historic decision to support the long standing Cdemand of Saudi women to drive cars in their own country. The decision matches with the vision of Saudi 2030 and will be implemented from June 2018. The royal decree will implement the provisions of traffic regulations, including the issuance of driving licenses for men and women alike. A truly historic, yet not surprising decision given all the changes taking place in Saudi Arabia right now. The long- standing driving ban was seen globally as a symbol of repression of women in the ultra-conservative country. Not anymore. The decision, which risks riling religious con- servatives, is part of powerful Crown Prince Mohammed KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah is His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah is received at the Bin Salman’s reform drive aimed at adapting to a post-oil received at the airport by National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem upon his airport by Acting Prime Minister First Deputy Premier and Foreign Minister Sheikh era and adapting more social and economic new rules. arrival to Kuwait. — Amiri Diwan photos Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah. The reaction and attitude of some conservative clerics are predictable not only in Saudi Arabia but anywhere in the world because these men do not see women as inde- pendent human beings with rights and duties, but merely Amir congratulates followers of men. They have yet to realize that we are equal and deserve equal human rights. I am so happy that the Saudi king took this decision and he is indeed a very brave and forward thinking man. It is not an easy thing to promote change in a place like Saudi Arabia. But I believe his trust and Crown Prince Merkel on reelection Mohammed bin Salman’s vision and support for women’s rights brought this dream to reality. For many years, conservatives groups had fought KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad United States where he held official talks with US Interior Sheikh Khaled Al-Jarrah Al-Sabah, Deputy against this change and even justified the ban - which has Al-Jaber Al-Sabah sent yesterday a cable of congratula- President Donald Trump. Premier and Finance Minister Anas Al-Saleh, Minister of no religious or legal support - by claiming that driving tions to German Chancellor Angela Merkel on the Upon arrival, His Highness the Amir was received at State for Cabinet Affairs and Acting Minister of could harm a women’s ovaries! Christian Democratic Union/Christian Social Union the airport by His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Information Sheikh Mohammad Al-Abdullah Al-Mubarak Under the country’s guardianship system, the male (CDU/CSU) win in Germany’s parliamentary election. Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, National Assembly Al-Sabah, senior state officials and high-ranking officers family member - normally the father, husband or brother - His Highness the Amir wished the German Chancellor Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem, Sheikh Jaber Al-Abdullah of the Army, Police, National Guard, Police and Kuwait Fire must grant permission for a woman’s study, travel and oth- continued success, affirming that Kuwait will seek all Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Sheikh Faisal Al-Saud Al-Mohammad Service Directorate (KFSD). er activities. But let us hope that along with this decree for means to bolster relations with Germany. His Highness Al-Sabah, His Highness Sheikh Nasser Mohammad Al- His Highness the Amir’s accompanying delegation driving, other more flexible laws will grant women in Saudi the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al- Ahmad Al-Sabah, Minister of Amiri Diwan Affairs Sheikh comprised of Director of His Highness the Amir’s Office Arabia greater independence in the near future. Sabah and His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Nasser Sabah Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah, Acting Prime Minister Ahmad Fahad Al-Fahad, Advisor at the Amiri Diwan What’s happening now in Saudi Arabia reminds me of Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah also sent similar cables. First Deputy Premier and Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Affairs Mohammad Abdullah Abulhasan, President of the when the late Amir of Kuwait Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmed Al- His Highness the Amir, accompanied by Deputy Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, Deputy Premier and Amiri Diwan for Honorary Missions and Protocols Sheikh Jaber Al-Sabah granted Kuwaiti women the right to vote in Chairman of National Guard Sheikh Meshal Al-Ahmad Al- Minister of Defense Sheikh Mohammad Khaled Al-Hamad Khaled Al-Abdullah Al-Sabah Al-Nasser Al-Sabah, and 2006. There was huge resistance and opposition to Jaber Al-Sabah, and the accompanying delegation had Al-Sabah, Deputy Minister of Amiri Diwan Affairs Sheikh President of the Media and Cultural Affairs at the Amiri women’s suffrage in Kuwait, with many conservative men returned home yesterday after concluding a visit to the Ali Jarrah Al-Sabah, Deputy Premier and Minister of Diwan Yusif Hamad Al-Roumi. — KUNA claiming that women were not ready for the responsibility or that it was unnecessary. But women’s rights are human rights and necessary for moving the entire Gulf region into a prosperous and peaceful future for us all.
KUWAIT: Kuwait’s Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) and the UK’s Civil Aviation Authority sign the agreement. — KUNA Kuwait, UK sign agreement on civil aviation cooperation
KUWAIT: Kuwait’s Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) and the UK’s Civil Aviation Authority signed a mem- orandum of understanding on boosting cooperation and KUWAIT: His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah KUWAIT: Kuwait’s Acting Prime Minister First Deputy Premier and Foreign services in civil aviation field. The agreement will bring the meets with Minister of Oil as well as Minister of Electricity and Water Essam Al- Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah meets with New two authorities closer to develop their services in the field, Marzouq. — KUNA Zealander politician Murray McCully. — KUNA British Secretary of State for Transport Chris Grayling said yesterday. The UK is eager to boost cooperation with Kuwait in aviation, he added. Crown Prince FM meets New DGCA’s Director General Yousif Al-Fozan said meanwhile that the memorandum includes sharing experience in tech- Zealand politician nical support and follow international rules in the field. The receives Oil Minister British authority will organize training courses and seminars on civil aviation in Kuwait, he added. Fozan also noted that KUWAIT: Kuwait’s Acting Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Khaled CAA would be in charge of monitoring, evaluating and KUWAIT: His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah Al-Hamad Al-Sabah held talks yesterday with visiting New Zealander politician received at Bayan Palace yesterday Minister of Oil as well as Minister of Electricity and developing Kuwait’s aviation work scheme in terms of inter- Murray McCully. McCully, a former foreign minister, has been invited to the country national laws and measures. Fozan and CAA’s International Water Essam Al-Marzouq. His Highness also received Acting Prime Minister and Foreign to give a lecture in Kuwait’s Saud Al-Nasser Al-Sabah Diplomatic Institute today. The Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister Director Ben Alcott had signed the agreement with the pres- encounter between the two officials also brought together a number of senior ence of DGCA’s Chairman of the Board Sheikh Salman Sabah of Defense Sheikh Mohammad Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, as well as Deputy Prime Kuwaiti diplomats. — KUNA Minister and Minister of Interior Sheikh Khaled Al-Jarrah Al-Sabah. — KUNA Al-Salem Al-Humoud Al-Sabah and Grayling. — KUNA
BERN, Switzerland: Kuwaiti MPs meet with their Swiss counterparts in Bern, Switzerland yesterday. — KUNA Kuwaiti lawmakers visit Switzerland to bolster ties
BERN, Switzerland: A number of Swiss parlia- attracting larger numbers of Kuwaitis to visit experience in the field. Moreover, the meeting ment members expressed their eagerness to Switzerland through providing a number of discussed providing facilitations for Kuwaiti boost relations with Kuwait on all levels. The two touristic facilitations, she added. researchers to join Swiss universities, he said. countries’ parliaments share strong ties that MP Thomas Aeschi said his country aims to The number of Kuwaiti tourists in could lead to further cooperation in investment, develop economic and investment cooperation Switzerland is increasing year by year, reaching education, scientific research, and culture, they with Kuwait and the GCC states under the terms 31,000 last summer. Anezi also hoped said during their meeting with the sixth Kuwaiti of the free trade agreement signed between the Switzerland would take part in Kuwaiti develop- parliamentary friendship delegation yesterday. GCC and the European Free Trade Association mental projects, adding that Kuwait guarantees Swiss MP Christa Markwalder said she is look- (EFTA). He also hoped Kuwait would play a role protection of foreign investments. The Kuwaiti ing forward to her upcoming visit to Kuwait’s in enabling Switzerland to deal with the Gulf delegation was on an official visit to Switzerland KUWAIT: Movenpick Hotel Kuwait’s Marketing and Communications National Assembly, to learn more about the par- countries under this agreement. which concluded yesterday. The group includes Manager Zeina Nimer visited Kuwait Times yesterday to present a cake in liamentary experience in Kuwait. Meanwhile, head of the Kuwaiti delegation MP Askar Al-Anezi, MP Al-Humaidi Al-Subaie, celebration of the newspaper’s 56th anniversary. — Photo by Joseph Shagra She noted that she strongly supports boost- MP Askar Al-Anezi said the meeting with Swiss MP Muhammad Al-Huwaila and MP Hamoud Al- ing tourism between the two sides. This includes MPs allowed the group to benefit from the Swiss Khudair. — KUNA THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2017 LOCAL
KUWAIT: The funeral of First Lieutenant Ahmad Al-Dousari, the son of the Interior Ministry’s Undersecretary Lieutenant General Mahmoud Al-Dousari took place yesterday at Al-Sulaibikhat Cemetery. Interior Ministry officials and personnel, government officials and public figures attended the funeral. — Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat TV hacking network busted in Salmiya By A Saleh suspend the cabinet’s decision made on August 1, 2016 to increase the fuel prices KUWAIT: OSN cable TV network, the leading effective from September 1, 2016. However, network in the Middle East, hailed Kuwait the Court of Appeals later overturned the ver- security authorities’ efforts which resulted in dict on grounds that the cabinet’s decision arresting three people for hacking. Kuwait’s was fully constitutional and was made Criminal Investigations Department (CID) had according to its liabilities in running and man- recently announced arresting three Indian aging the state’s natural resources. hackers who had been operating an illegal TV broadcast network in Salmiya, where detec- Generating electricity tives found dozens of illegal decoders for Dish Coal is still the largest material used to TV network of Indi and OSN. The suspects generate electricity with over 339 percent of used their network to illegally broadcast the the world’s production, according to the channels to over 10,000 subscribers in an area International Energy Agency (IEA)’s 2015 key of 15 square meters. It took police detectives statistics about the sources of electricity in the and Ministry of Utilities officials six months to world. IEA report also showed that natural gas investigate the matter after receiving reports came second in generating electricity with 23 from OSN’s content protection team. “I con- percent of the world’s energy followed by gratulate Kuwaiti authorities for the success- water and dams with 16 percent, nuclear ful arrest of the hackers and busting this ille- reactors with 10.6 percent, renewable gal network that had cost us millions of dol- resources with seven percent and oil with lars in losses,” said OSN’s Chief Legal Officer four percent. Statistics also showed that the Sophie Moloney. According to CID estimates, total world production of electricity was the culprits, who are currently facing charges 24,225 terawatts per hour, of which China of money laundering and abuse of Kuwait’s produced around one quarter, or 5,844 ter- telecommunications infrastructure, were awatts per hour, followed by the United making around KD 70,000 a month from their States which produced 4,297 terawatts per illegal services. hour (18 percent), India which produced 1,383 terawatts per hour (5.7 percent) then Fuel prices Russia which produced 1,066 terawatts per The court of cassation is scheduled to pass hour. The report also showed that the Middle its final sentence today in a case filed to undo East only produced 4.3 percent of electricity, the government’s decision to increase fuel which is equivalent to Japan’s production, prices, said informed sources. The and that Kuwait was ranked fourth in terms of Comprehensive Court had initially decided to using oil in generating electricity. No injuries in factory fire
By Hanan Al-Saadoun ed in the paint furnace. Firemen from Sabhan and Mubarak Al-Kabeer hazardous KUWAIT: A fire was reported yesterday material fire stations dealt with the fire and morning inside a wood factory in evacuation. The fire was put out success- Industrial Sabhan. The fire reportedly start- fully and no injuries were reported. MPs, assembly defend ‘exceptional’ salary for some lawmakers
By B Izzak Opposition MP Jamaan Al-Harbash, one of the beneficiaries, acknowledged he had been KUWAIT: The issue revealed in the local press receiving the additional salary even since he that a number of MPs were receiving a “sec- was a member in a previous assembly. ond exceptional” salary by the government Harbash said the measure is fair since law- has taken parliamentary circles by a storm makers are forced to resign from their job with lawmakers strongly defending them- after becoming members of parliament and if selves. Secretary general of the national they were receiving only the assembly salary, assembly Allam Al-Kundari issued an official they would be without any pay if the assem- statement saying the so-called exceptional bly is dissolved. salary was being given in accordance with the He said the previous salaries of a number retirement laws and has no suspicion. of MPs are larger than their pay by the assem- Kundari said the salary is nothing new as it bly and it is unfair if they are not compensat- was introduced in 1992 to a number of MPs ed. Harbash said that receiving the additional who were forced to resign their jobs after win- pay remains optional, adding that the salary ning seats in the national assembly. It had of Kuwaiti lawmakers remain lower than min- nothing to do with a deal between the gov- isters, judges and oil workers although MPs ernment and the concerned lawmakers. monitor all of these categories. The lawmaker He said the payment is given in accor- said that receiving a second pay equal to the dance with article 80 of the pensions law to salary before becoming MP is not a problem MPs who had not received any pensions and the problem is dishonesty and becoming before becoming members in the assembly. a messenger for ministers to receive millions The measure aimed at achieving equality in bank deposits. MP Ahmad Al-Fadhl called between those lawmakers and others who on the newspaper to write an apology for were receiving pensions besides their salaries accusing the lawmakers of receiving bribes. from the assembly, Kundari said. MP Abdulwahab Al-Babtain, also one of The issue was uncovered by Al-Qabas the beneficiaries, sent a question on the issue newspaper yesterday which described the to State Minister for Cabinet Affairs Sheikh measure as a deal between the government Mohammad Al-Abdullah Al-Sabah about the and the concerned lawmakers. The newspa- issue and whether it is within the law or not. per cited the names of 20 lawmakers who He said if the answer is that it is illegal, he will were receiving the additional pay. return all the additional funds he was paid. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2017 LOCAL Combat the rising number Retail sector essential factor in economic of cardiovascular disease growth despite competition KUWAIT: The cooperative sector in markets have affected the selling and Kuwait uniquely characterizes the eco- buying operations in the market, saying World Heart Day falls Friday nomic and social aspects of the state and that hypermarkets have come up with is a key factor in shaping the economic new commodities not available at ordi- KUWAIT: Today, cardiovascular disease (CVD) is responsible for claiming 17.5 million lives a year, structure of the country, especially in nary cooperative societies. terms of retail sales and consumer goods, Shammari said that parallel markets and by 2030 this is expected to rise to 23 million. despite the competition of hypermarkets. offer consumer goods at prices lower Globally, 1 in 10 people aged 30-70 die prema- Kuwait’s retail sector has grown by an than those of cooperative societies, which turely from CVD, including heart disease and average of about 10 percent in the past encouraged many cooperative societies stroke, but the good news is that at least 80 per- five years despite the spread of parallel to discount their goods in order to attract cent of these premature deaths could be avoid- markets and the launch of world- consumers and not lose their traditional ed or postponed. renowned brands in the field, competing customers. He added that parallel mar- Tomorrow Sabah Al-Ahmad Cardiac Center to enter the local market to gain a share kets have a greater diversity in goods (SACC), Al-Amiri Hospital, Kuwait along with of this growth. The financial report of the compared to cooperative societies, espe- World Heart Federation (WHF) is urging the contribution and capital data, sales and cially foreign goods. Moreover, they have entire residents of Kuwait to take action by shar- profits of cooperative societies for the more freedom and flexibility in the direct ing heart healthy tips and attending iconic illu- year 2016 showed that the total sales of contracting process compared with the mination events. We can all ‘share the power’ these coop-socities amounted to 990 mil- cooperatives. Shammari attributed the and inspire our families, friends and communi- lion Kuwaiti dinars (about $3.2 billion) reason for the apparent disparity in prices ties around the world to make the small lifestyle compared to 850 million dinars (about between cooperative societies in various changes that can make a powerful difference to Department and Senior Consultant Cardiologist, How healthy is my body weight? $2.7 billion) in the previous year, an areas to “non-application of the laws in heart health. SACC, Al-Amiri hospital, Kuwait said: “World Keep your body mass index between 18.5 to 24.9. increase of 13 percent. force by the Federation of Cooperative During this occasion, Professor David Wood, Heart Day takes place on 29 September every Societies and absence of the role of con- Cardiologist and President of the World Heart year. The theme of this year is share the power - How many minutes spared for my daily exercise? Fierce competition cerned authorities in controlling prices.” Federation said: “We cannot underestimate the we along with WHF want everyone around the Daily do minimum 30 minutes brisk walking. On the impact of hypermarkets on global importance of good heart health - 31 per- world to inspire each other to lead better, cooperative societies, a number of spe- Advantages cent of all deaths worldwide are from CVD. longer, more heart healthy lives. In Kuwait we My Blood Pressure? cialists and citizens were interviewed on Omar Al-Mayaan, a consumer, said World Heart Day is our chance to bring people have more expats and awareness programs After your 30th birthday keep monitoring your the fierce competition between the two that parallel markets offer many advan- together to tackle the world’s biggest killer and should be focused in a multidimensional way so blood pressure periodically. sectors, Dr Nayef Al-Shammari, professor tages compared to cooperative societies urge more people across the globe to improve that it will help both citizens and expats. We Created and led by the World Heart of economics at the Faculty of in terms of offering coupons that give their heart health. The power to change is in our have noticed that CVD events are more common Federation (WHF), World Heart Day aims to com- Administrative Sciences at Kuwait discounts on certain purchases, adding hands. Making lifestyle changes such as eating in expats compared to Kuwaitis. We are plan- bat the rising number of people with cardiovas- University said the competitiveness of that the cooperative societies rely more more fruit and vegetables, keeping active and ning for a hand to hand program with the gov- cular disease (CVD), the world’s biggest killer, by any commodity or service market on the shareholders, which gives better stopping smoking can save millions of lives.” ernment to fight against this rising number of raising awareness and promoting the impor- depends on the availability of a sufficient advantage to the markets and an oppor- Dr Mohammed Al-Jarallah, Senior Consultant cardiovascular events. Al-Amiri hospital started a tance of living a heart-healthy lifestyle. To mark number of commercial units through tunity to attract more consumers. Cardiologist, Director and head of the depart- new initiative named “I Care Campaign” for World Heart Day 2017, illumination events are which they can influence the size of sup- He explained that parallel markets ment of Cardiology, SACC, Al-Amiri hospital, another 3 years. SACC is actively involved in this being held at iconic venues across the world. ply in the market.” He pointed out that also give more offers and reductions in Kuwait said: World Heart Day was founded in and theme of this campaign is to give assurance The iconic venues turning red for World Heart the aim of the cooperative societies in the prices of consumer goods as well as 2000 to inform people around the globe that to the people that we the cardiologist and Day 2017 include: Kuwait is to activate the economy, specif- many new products compared to cooper- heart disease and stroke are the world’s leading health care providers are there always for taking Table Mountain in South Africa ically in the retail markets, by enhancing ative societies. He said that parallel mar- causes of death, claiming 17.5 million lives each care of your heart. It increases the awareness of Cape Wheel, V&A Waterfront in Cape Town, the concept of individual contribution, kets are more flexible in attracting and year. “Along with WHF, Sabah Al-Ahmad Cardiac our obligations as health advocates besides South Africa with participation in the administrative exhibiting new and diverse foreign prod- Center, Al-Amiri Hospital, Kuwait planning for being medical experts. Since 2013 SACC is regu- decision of the elected board of directors ucts compared to cooperatives, which various campaigning programs for raising Jet d’Eau in Geneva, Switzerland larly conducting World Heart Day campaigns Angel del la Reforma in Mexico City, Mexico besides a government supervisory role. still showcase traditional products. awareness and encouraging individuals, families, He expressed his belief that the spread and workshops and it has become a fixture. Auckland Sky Tower in New Zealand Meanwhile, Aseel Al-Fahad expressed communities and government to take action of parallel markets in the country and her belief that the cooperative societies Dr Rajesh Rajan, Cardiologist, SACC, Al-Amiri Presidential Jetty and Dhiragu Tower in and help us to achieve our goal of a 25 percent their entry as a competitor to cooperative seek to provide all the goods needed by hospital, Kuwait said: Always try to be active Maldives reduction in premature deaths from CVD by mentally and physically. “Always ask few simple societies is necessary to create a competi- the consumers and are eager to reduce Lakeview in Bucharest, Romania 2025.”Awareness should start from the grass root questions to yourself.” tive market with diverse products, quality their high prices. She pointed to the Sheraton Grand Doha in Qatar level ie, from schools, colleges etc. A country’s How healthy is my diet? A heart healthy diet and competitive prices. He added that importance of the role of cooperatives in 1. Avala Tower in Belgrade, Serbia prosperity purely depends on the health of the should include low fat, low cholesterol and the relationship of coops with traditional the provision of local goods and products Singapore Flyer, Helix Bridge, Maybank Tower residents. Healthcare staffs should be properly low salt foods. consumers began to decline during the and their encouragement of the national and Marina Square trained to deliver the heart healthy messages on 2. How healthy is my habits? Stop smoking, past 10 years, “with the significant emer- product, in addition to their role in sup- a day to day basis. avoid alcohol and avoid sedentary life style. Menara Kuala Lumpur, KL Tower in Malaysia gence of these markets in most of the porting Kuwaiti youth for their small and Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt Dr Raja Dashti, Chairman of Medicine 3. Know your numbers. country’s areas.” He noted that the hyper- medium projects. —KUNA Third Kuwait Oil, Gas Show and Conference shapes future of energy
KUWAIT: As the oil and gas business begins to Kuwait, Organization of the Petroleum Exporting complex uncertainties, which is how we selected By attending this year’s show, delegates may 21 technical sessions. More than 200 companies rebound, the third Society of Petroleum Countries (OPEC), and Kuwait Petroleum this year’s theme,” said Nizar Al-Adsani, CEO, participate in four panel sessions with topics from 20+ countries will be in attendance at the Engineers Kuwait Oil and Gas Show and Corporation (KPC). Kuwait Petroleum Corporation, and Conference ranging from diversification along the supply parallel exhibition that takes place from 16-18 Conference (KOGS) is poised to be the single Organized by the Society of Petroleum Chairperson. “Global demand growth will be chain to upstream innovation and challenges. October 2017. The 14,000 sqm international show- biggest gathering of the oil and gas industry ever Engineers (SPE) and UBM AEM, this year’s event- entirely generated by developing nations, while The event also features 7 special sessions, 4 tech- case features flagship participation from NOCs and seen in Kuwait. The combined conference and themed “Shaping the Energy Future: Integration greater energy efficiency from technological nical special sessions, a ministerial panel, and an IOCs, state-of-the-art equipment, machinery, tech- exhibition will take place from 15-18 October and Diversification”-will bring together industry developments will keep global demand in check. executive plenary session. nological advancements and innovative services in 2017 in Kuwait under the patronage of His leaders, experts, stakeholders, and oil and gas pro- Staying informed of market developments is nec- The call for papers received an excellent the oil, gas, refining and petrochemical sectors. Highness Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al- fessionals from different sectors of the industry, to essary to drive long-term strategic decisions. The response with 628 paper proposals being submit- Over 5,000 attendees are expected to attend KOGS Sabah, Prime Minister of the State of Kuwait, and discuss the latest trends, challenges, and techno- delegates who attend KOGS will gain knowledge ted from 153 companies across 36 countries. 143 2017 and exchange technical and business expert- is supported by the Ministry of Oil, State of logical advances. “The future of energy is rife with to keep them ahead of the competition.” papers have been selected for presentation across ise in a highly focused B2B environment. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2017 From the Arabic press
Al-Rai Al-Jarida Crime Freedom Report of silence Syrian beggars to be deported By Dr Khalid Al-Saleh KUWAIT: Farwaniya police arrested 21 Syrian beggars rab nations have innovations that the in Rai. The detainees were sent to the proper authori- world does not know about. The Arab ties for further action in preparation for their deporta- reformist Al-Kawakibi, author of the book tion out of the country. Police patrols noticed several A beggars disturbing people and shop owners near the ‘Nature of Tyranny and Downfall of Enslavement,’ markets area in Rai. Back up patrols were called in and who was born in Aleppo in 1855, spent his life as the 21 were rounded up and taken to Andalus police a reformist and promoted the nations’ develop- station, according to the police report. ment and prosperity. He also worked against tyranny, called for liberties, being part of deci- sion making and resisting tyrant regimes, which Death sentence upheld is something that the Ottoman Sultan was angry The Appeals Court upheld a Court of First about during that period which witnessed the Instance ruling which sentenced a Kuwaiti woman downfall of the caliphate rule. to death for killing her friend in Sabah Al-Salem Yet, Al-Kawakibi was not arrested nor did he over personal disputes. The crime took place last disappear. It is said that he died of poison, March, when the suspect stabbed the victim after though there is no evidence to that. He fought they met to settle old scores. The suspect said that backwardness for the sake of reform following she bought a knife before going to her friend’s the saying of the Prophet (PBUH): “Whoever sees house. Once at the house, the two engaged in an an act of vice should change it with his own argument which escalated into a fight that saw hands.” When Al-Kawakibi died, he was eulo- the suspect stab the victim. The woman had gized by Hafez Ibrahim without fear of imprison- claimed that her friend was behind the destruc- ment or political persecution. tion of her family. The Ottoman rule was over, and then came the foreign one, and colonialism which blocked Defamation all attempts to change, forcing reformists to Zain, Soroptimist International Lawyer of Health Ministry’s Assistant Undersecretary move with their words and raise their voices for Mohamoud Abdelhadi pressed defamation charges the sake of freedom. They wrote books, distrib- Club Kuwait to hold Charbel against citizen Adel Al-Zawawi, and accused him of uted leaflets and led the people while shouting ‘passing judgments ahead of court decisions.’ for the sake of freedom, following the example Abdelhadi accused Zawawi of posting remarks on his of hadith about change. Concert to raise awareness on Palliative Care Twitter account on September 9, 2017, in which he Then came the phase of national rule in both said: “How does the health minister keep silent towards of its military and civil forms, so the cloud of KUWAIT: Zain, the leading telecommunications com- Palliative care teams are usually multidisciplinary this futility? The monster of health ministry.” Abdelhadi oppression was cast over us, and reformists pany in Kuwait, announces it is partnering in nature as they consist of doctors, nurses, psychol- charged Zawawi of insult, saying that the tweet sent to were held accountable for words they said. Soroptimist International Club Kuwait to support a ogists and may also include social workers, regis- the defendant’s nearly 500 followers contained lies Some of them were executed, others tortured gala musical event featuring renowned Oud musi- tered dieticians and pharmacists. All members of a spread against the plaintiff. by all means. Many reformists kept silent and cian, Charbel Rouhana, to be held at Sheikh Jaber Al- palliative care team work together to coordinate the held to the weakest of belief, also as the rest of Ahmad Cultural Centre in Kuwait on 11 October, care and support provided to both the patient and Three hurt in crash the abovementioned hadith said “and who 2017. The ‘Night of Enchanting Music’ is being organ- their families. could not, then in his heart and this is the weak- Three people, including two police officers and ized in cooperation with and in support of Credited with creating a new method of playing a drug addict, were injured in an accident reported est of belief.” Soroptimist International Club Kuwait and SANAD the Oud, Charbel Rouhana is a Lebanese national recently near Roudha. Paramedics and firefighters We are going through a phase, in our Arab charitable organizations, with the aim to raise aware- who received his Diploma in Oud Performance in rushed to the scene after an accident was reported World, that the hadith did not mention, as ness of the importance of palliative care and home 1986, and a Masters in Musicology in 1987 from the involving a car and a police patrol vehicle. The car’s reformists are being held accountable for being hospice for the terminally ill. Faculty of Music, USEK University, Lebanon. He has driver was taken to Mubarak Hospital where doc- silent. If you stopped your hands so not to Over the years, Zain Kuwait has continuously performed alongside numerous Arab artist, both in tors suspected that he was under the influence. of protest, and held your tongue so you do not championed worthwhile causes, such as its annual and outside of Lebanon such as Fairuz, Majida Al drvgs Policemen found nine envelopes containing speak, and your eyes do not express the feelings Breast Cancer awareness campaign, building and Roumi, Julia Boutros and Marcel Khalife. Charbel is a drugs inside the man’s wrecked car. of anger and kept silent, then you are consid- equipping the Zain ENT Hospital, and this latest gala recipient of numerous awards including the ered an opponent, and you may be imprisoned event is set to be no different. Japanese Hirayama Award in 1990 and the Murex or exiled, as silence became a tool of opposition. Soroptimist International focuses on action and Award in 2000. From 2002-2006, he taught Oud at Swindling We are living in a time that demands for the awareness in five main areas affecting the lives of his alma mater and the National Music Conservatory A citizen swindled a GCC national out of KD 25,000 freedom of silence. The freedom of silence that females globally through a network of members and in Lebanon and has released over ten albums, tour- when he convinced him to enter with him as a partner in a project, then disappeared after receiving the cash. The vic- history did not include in its books. Did I tell you international memberships. These areas extend to: ing extensively around the world. To acquire tickets not about the Arab nation’s innovations that Economic Empowerment; Education and Learning; tim went to the police station and complained against the for this momentous concert on October 11, please swindler. Police are investigating. humanity did not know? Environment; Food Security and Health and Ending visit: www.jacc-kw.com. —Translated from the Arabic press —Translated by Kuwait Times Violence Against Women. With respect to palliative care, Soroptimist focuses on raising education and health awareness issues among females, given the caregiving role is often carried out by women, either Annahar within the family structure, or within the nursing profession. Soroptimist International Club Kuwait applauds Kuwait’s SANAD’s efforts to provide comprehensive home- based hospice care free-of-charge to terminally ill dream islands patients in Lebanon while preserving their dignity and enhancing the quality of their lives. The organi- By Mohammad Al-Fadhli zation delivers these support services to patients regardless of nationality, religion, political affiliation, t is a dream that has been long awaited that gender, diagnosis or ability to pay. Commenting on we start making use of our deserted islands this initiative, Waleed Al-Khashti, Zain Kuwait’s Ithat had been left without any investment or Corporate Communications and Relations Director activity except for the Mubarak Port. The total said, “Our efforts are worthless should we not serve area of Kuwait’s islands surpasses that of coun- the communities we operate in, and the support of tries with considerable economic powers, and this concert is another example of Zain’s outlook on where everything is invested. Let us at least being a partner in activities that benefit society at dream about the two largest islands; Boubyan large. Charbel Rouhana is an incredible artist, whom and Failaka. we are sure many people will be looking forward to 1- Boubyan’s area is 890 square kilometers, hearing in concert, and we commend Soroptimist that is five percent of Kuwait’s total area. It is International and SANAD for both doing outstanding larger than Singapore which is only 719 square jobs in helping many needy people across the kilometers, or Bahrain which is only 765 square region.” Dr Stacey Al-Ghawas, President of Soroptimist kilometers and yet, it has not been taken advan- International Club Kuwait said, “We are honored to tage of. Just imagine if we use it the way be working with Zain and SANAD to increase aware- Singapore did with its land and turned it into an ness of Palliative Care in Kuwait and the region. We international commercial and industrial hub. We hope that Charbel Rouhana’s beautiful Oud concert do have all the potential but all we need is the offers an opportunity to increase support for the decision to do so. Kuwaiti institutions that provide this vital care: Kuwait Palliative Care Center and Bayt Abdullah.” Palliative care is an approach that aims to improve These could be mere the quality of life of patients facing terminal illnesses and their families. It focuses on the prevention and dreams but some relief from suffering through early identification and assessment and treatment of pain and other prob- countries have lems, physical, psychosocial and spiritual. already beaten us to them and achieved remarkable success
2- Failaka Island has been deserted ever since the Iraqi Invasion. It has a long history and was mentioned in Greek books. It covers an area of 43 square kilometers. It was known as Icarus. Just imagine if this deserted island became a center for international universities or hospitals or even an international recreational center that can attract the world’s tycoon companies spe- cialized in recreation and international resorts. Citizens do wish that such dreams can be achieved in order to stop depending on oil, increase national income and reduce the bur- dens on the state’s budget. These could be mere dreams but some coun- tries have already beaten us to them and achieved remarkable success. We have studied good management and achievements in the university and I see that nothing can stop Kuwait from turning these islands into role models and our dreams into tangible reality. — Translated by Kuwait Times THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2017 UK Labour mobilizes to push Ousted Thai PM Yingluck in absentia sentenced to 5 years Corbyn into power Page 9 Page 8
IRBIL: A Kurdish flag hangs in the Irbil International Airport, in Iraq. — AFP Massive ‘yes’ vote in Kurd referendum 92.73 percent of voters backing statehood
IRBIL: Iraq’s Kurds announced a massive “yes” vote the vote, not just from Baghdad but also from “to delimit the border (between Kurdistan and minority and on Tuesday President Recep Tayyip postpone the referendum in favor of negotiations for independence yesterday following a referen- Ankara, with Turkey threatening a range of meas- Iraq), nor to impose it de facto.” Erdogan warned that Iraq’s Kurds risked sparking with Baghdad. Iran, which also has a large dum that has incensed Baghdad and sparked ures including cutting off key export routes for the an “ethnic war”. “If Barzani and the Kurdistan Kurdish minority, condemned the vote as well international concern. Official results showed region. An overwhelming “yes” vote had been Airlines cancel flights Regional Government do not go back on this mis- and on Sunday stopped all flights from its territo- 92.73 percent of voters backing statehood in widely expected. Pursuing a long-cherished Baghdad has steadily pushed back against the take as soon as possible, they will go down in his- ry to and from Iraqi Kurdistan. Analysts say that Monday’s non-binding referendum, which Iraq’s dream of statehood, the Kurds went ahead with vote. Lawmakers yesterday passed a resolution tory with the shame of having dragged the region despite their threats, Baghdad, Ankara and central government rejected as illegal. Turnout was the referendum in defiance of widespread objec- calling on Abadi to “take all necessary measures to into an ethnic and sectarian war,” he said. Erdogan Tehran are proceeding cautiously in reacting to put at 72.61 percent. Longtime Iraqi Kurd leader tions, including from the United Nations and maintain Iraq’s unity” including by deploying secu- had earlier warned that Turkey would shut its bor- the vote, wary of sparking a serious confrontation Massud Barzani said the vote would not lead to an United States. rity forces to disputed areas. der with Iraqi Kurdistan and threatened to block oil with the Kurds that would further destabilize an immediate declaration of independence and It has raised fears of unrest and the possibili- The resolution also called for the closure of bor- exports from the region through Turkey. Erdogan already volatile region. should instead open the door to negotiations. ty of a military confrontation involving the der posts with Turkey and Iran that are outside even suggested the possibility of a cross-border Closing their borders with Iraqi Kurdistan But Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi told Kurds, who are key allies in internationally central government control. Abadi said Tuesday incursion similar to the one Turkey carried out would also hurt Turkey, which exports more than lawmakers yesterday there was no question of backed offensives against the jihadists of the he would ban all international flights to and from against IS and Kurdish fighters in Syria. Monday’s $8 billion worth of goods every year to the region, using its results as the basis for talks. “The referen- Islamic State group. In a televised address late Kurdistan in three days unless airports in its main vote took place across the three northern and Iran, which exports about $6 billion. Left with- dum must be annulled and dialogue initiated in on Tuesday, Barzani had urged Abadi “not to cities Arbil and Sulaimaniyah were placed under provinces of autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan-Arbil, out a state of their own when the borders of the the framework of the constitution. We will never close the door to dialogue because it is dialogue his government’s control. Lebanon’s Middle East Sulaimaniyah and Dohuk-and in disputed border Middle East were redrawn after World War I, the hold talks based on the results of the referendum,” that will solve problems”. Airlines and EgyptAir both said yesterday they zones such as the oil-rich province of Kirkuk. Kurds see themselves as the world’s largest state- Abadi said. “We will impose Iraqi law in the entire “We assure the international community of our would halt flights to Arbil this week at the request Opponents have accused Barzani of seeking less people. The non-Arab ethnic group of region of Kurdistan under the constitution,” he said. willingness to engage in dialogue with Baghdad,” of Baghdad. Turkey fears the vote will stoke the to empower himself through the vote, and said between 25 and 35 million is spread across Iraq, Pressure has been mounting on the Kurds since he said, insisting the referendum was not meant separatist ambitions of its own sizeable Kurdish he should have accepted a UN-backed plan to Iran, Turkey and Syria. — AFP Russian women seek daughters who joined IS Nepal names 3-year-old as new MOSCOW: Three years ago, Petimat Atagayeva’s regions of Chechnya, Dagestan and Ingushetia ostensibly for a family holiday. “I was happy for bastion in Iraq. “She was pregnant with two daughter Zalina secretly left Russia for Syria, tak- in Russia’s North Caucasus, spoke to AFP in a them,” said her mother Zhanet Erezhebova, her small children. She was crying, she was asking ‘living goddess’ ing her 10-month-old baby boy with her, to join hotel, on a trip to the Russian capital organized voice trembling with emotion. for my forgiveness.” Their contact became less the Islamic State group. Since then, her mother by Chechnya’s rights ombudsman. The stories “But a month later, I received a text message and less frequent as Iraqi troops advanced KATHMANDU: A three-year-old girl has been named the has led an agonizing search, desperate for any they tell are eerily similar: their well-educated from an unfamiliar number: ‘Mum, I can’t come against the jihadists. Her daughter’s last mes- new Kumari of Nepal’s capital Kathmandu after her pred- trace of her daughter and grandchild. “She was a daughters, some of whom had just left school, home’,” she said. “I tried to contact her husband, sage came in November last year: “Mum, our ecessor retired when she reached puberty, continuing an beautiful and intelligent young woman. She was secretly went to join husbands in Iraq or Syria to ask him to give me back my daughter, to ask situation is difficult. If you don’t get any more ancient tradition that sees young girls worshipped as “liv- the best of the family. How could she have done where they lived for years with the jihadists him why, but he didn’t want to talk to me,” said news from me, please find and save my chil- ing goddesses”. Trishna Shakya will be anointed as the this?” Atagayeva told AFP in Moscow, where she and brought up children before disappearing Erezhebova, who has come to Moscow with dren.”“Since then I have been searching for new Kumari in a ceremony today, when she will be taken and several other women whose daughters had without trace as IS retreated. Another missing the other women in search of help. A few them, but I haven’t found them,” said the elder- from her family home to live in a palace in Kathmandu’s joined IS were meeting officials. woman, Zyarat, a young English teacher at a months later, her daughter told her that her ly woman, weeping. ancient Durbar Square where she will be cared for by spe- The women, who mostly come from the school in Dagestan went to Turkey in 2015, husband had been killed in Mosul, then the IS cially appointed caretakers. ‘Wait and hope’ She was selected from among four candidates, A Chechen woman, who gave her name Uddhav Man Karmacharya, a Hindu priest who attends to only as Patimat, said she had managed to visit the Kumari, told AFP on Tuesday. “She will take her place her daughter and grandchildren in Manbij in on the Kumari’s throne after we perform prayers and Syria in 2015 when it was an IS hub. “Their situ- tantric rituals,” Karmacharya said. Once she is anointed a ation was precarious. They didn’t have electrici- living goddess, Shakya-who, like her predecessors, ty or hot water,” she said. “I begged her to come belongs to the Newar community indigenous to the back with me to Russia, but she said her hus- Kathmandu valley — will only be allowed to leave her band would never let her leave-that it was new home 13 times a year on special feast days. She will pointless. “She hadn’t wanted to come to Syria be paraded through Kathmandu in ceremonial dress and but she was obliged to follow her husband, as elaborate makeup to be worshipped. is the tradition. She was 19.” In April, Patimat’s When outside, the Kumari-who is considered an daughter told her that her husband was dead, embodiment of the Hindu goddess Taleju-is carried then there was no more word from her. because her feet are not allowed to touch the ground. “All we can do is wait and hope,” she said. Selection criteria for aspiring Kumaris is strict and Aza Khayurina from Ingushetia had never trav- includes a number of specific physical attributes such as elled abroad before. But in 2015 when her an unblemished body, a chest like a lion and thighs like a daughter told her she was in Iraq, she immedi- deer. Even if a girl fulfils all the physical requirements, she ately took a bus to Istanbul, hoping to get some must then prove her bravery by not crying at the sight of news. “She wasn’t allowed to go out of the a sacrificed buffalo. The Newar tradition blends elements house without her husband, but he was sent on of Hinduism and Buddhism, with the most important exercises. Three days later, they told her he was Kumaris representing each of the three former royal king- dead. She was pregnant,” Khayurina said. doms of the Kathmandu Valley: Kathmandu, Patan and Khayurina later went seven times to Turkey, Bhaktapur. The practice was historically closely linked to hoping to get her daughter back using people the royal family, but has continued despite the end of smugglers, who all turned out to be swindlers. Nepal’s Hindu monarchy in 2008. The tradition has drawn In her last message, her daughter told her she criticism from child rights activists who say the Kumaris had lost 70 percent of her vision. “She sent me are denied a childhood and their isolation from society MOSCOW: Women from the majority-Muslim regions in the Caucasus, who have lost touch with their daughters who left to join a photo. She had lost so much weight, it was hinders their education and development. — AFP the Islamic State militant group, gather by photographs of their relatives seen on a bed at a hotel room. — AFP horrible. — AFP INTERNATIONAL THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2017 Defeated Republican sends shockwaves in US Senate WASHINGTON: Donald Trump’s pick in the election-eve campaign appearance with Alabama Republican Senate runoff crashed to Strange. Trump was hoping to win a loyalist in defeat Tuesday against a populist former Strange, 64, who has openly backed his agen- judge, likely sending shockwaves through da. But Trump’s conservative base has sig- establishment in the Washington and denting naled for months that it is not beholden to the president’s influence over his restless Republican leaders in Washington, and they political base. Perhaps sensing that, Trump could even break with the president in the quickly swung behind the winner, former Alabama race. Alabama state chief justice Roy Moore, calling Trump hedged his bets last Friday, sug- him to offer congratulations. “Sounds like a gesting in a campaign appearance in really great guy who ran a fantastic race. He Alabama that he “might have made a mistake” will help to #MAGA!” Trump tweeted early in endorsing Strange over Moore. “If his yesterday, referring to his “Make America opponent wins, I’m going to be here cam- Great Again” catchphrase. paigning like hell for him” in the general elec- The result, though, is an embarrassing set- tion, Trump said. Moore had threatened to back for Trump that highlights the deep divi- upend the Republican Party should he win sions within his party and raises questions the race, and branded his opponent an about its future direction as the GOP heads “establishment lackey” to Senate Majority toward mid-term elections in 2018. It also sig- Leader Mitch McConnell. nals that many in the grassroots conservative He is a fierce enemy of McConnell, accus- movement that helped propel Trump to the ing him of rejecting conservative efforts to White House are still fighting against the par- pull the agenda further to the right. A political ty leadership and its grip on Washington poli- action committee affiliated with McConnell tics during a turbulent period in which pumped several million dollars into support Republicans have struggled to deliver on key for Strange, prompting scorn from Bannon. campaign promises like health care reform. “You’re going to see it state after state after With all 67 counties reporting, Moore led state, people that follow the model of judge incumbent Luther Strange by 54.9 percent to Moore, that do not need to raise money from 45.1 percent. Strange was appointed to the the elites, from the crony capitalists, from the US Senate earlier this year to fill the seat fat cats in Washington, DC, New York City, vacated by Jeff Sessions, whom Trump Silicon Valley,” he told Moore supporters at a picked to be his attorney general. Moore victory rally in Alabama. hailed his win as a “conservative victory” for Moore is the more Trump-like of the candi- his state. “Because of you, tonight, the estab- dates: opinionated, unconcerned about CATANO: At nightfall a man tries to clean the yard next to his house damaged by Hurricane Maria. (INSET) Sen Marco Rubio takes questions lishment has been DEFEATED in Alabama!” he whom he may offend and desperate to upend from reporters about the relief effort in Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria, September 26, 2017 at the US Capitol. — AFP photos posted on Twitter. the elite system that rules the US capital. “For Moore now becomes the heavy favorite in whatever reason, God has put me in this elec- Alabama’s special election to be held in tion at this time, and all the nation is watch- Trump promises visit, aid to December against Democratic nominee ing” the Alabama race, Moore said Monday Doug Jones. Trump offered his own congratu- night in his final campaign rally before the pri- lations to Moore, urging him in a tweet to mary election. Bannon, who campaigned with “WIN in Dec!” And several of Trump’s past pro- Moore on Monday, joined in the Washington storm-ravaged Puerto Rico Strange Twitter posts disappeared, according bashing, accusing party elites of thinking to a project documenting the president’s Alabama voters are nothing but “a pack of deleted tweets by the news site ProPublica. morons.” Alabama has not elected a Democrat 3.4 million people virtually without electrical power While Trump may be shifting his support to to the Senate in a quarter century, so Moore is outsider Moore, the race in Alabama, in the expected to become Alabama’s next senator. WASHINGTON: Suddenly, just about all Rico earlier this month, said that next Tuesday Tuesday stood in sharp contrast to his focus on heart of the Deep South, was the latest political The 70-year-old was twice suspended President Donald Trump can talk about is Puerto was the earliest he could get there without dis- other matters between Maria’s landfall Sept 20 battleground over the direction that the from the Alabama Supreme Court for refusing Rico. After not mentioning the hurricane-devas- rupting recovery efforts. His public focus in and Monday, including his fight with the NFL Republican leadership is taking the party in to issue marriage licenses to same-sex cou- tated island for days, Trump on Tuesday pushed recent days on other matters, particularly his over football players protesting during the Washington. The race was the stage for a proxy ples and fighting against orders to remove a back aggressively and repeatedly against criti- extended commentary on NFL players who National Anthem. The president has tweeted war of sorts between Trump and his recently 10 Commandments monument from the cism that he had failed to quickly grasp the mag- kneel during the National Anthem, generated about the NFL more than two dozen times since ousted White House chief strategist Steve court house. His defiance made him a local nitude of Maria’s destruction or give the US com- criticism that he was giving Puerto Rico short Friday. By Monday, Democrats, Republicans and Bannon, who backed Moore. hero to many, and that anti-establishment monwealth the top-priority treatment he had shrift after devoting considerable public atten- Rossello were emphasizing that Puerto Ricans streak was on display Monday, when Moore, bestowed on Texas, Louisiana and Florida after tion to storm damage in Texas and Florida. are Americans, too. ‘Campaigning like hell’ wearing a cowboy hat and vest, pulled a small previous storms. Rep Nydia Velazquez, D-NY, said she had Trump was intent on showing he’d gotten the Former vice presidential nominee Sarah pistol from his pocket and brandished it Trump announced that he would visit Puerto been concerned that Trump’s continued tweets message - but still wasn’t ready to set aside the Palin has also stumped for Moore, while cur- briefly before the crowd to show his support Rico and the US Virgin Islands next week. He also about NFL players showed he didn’t grasp the NFL issue entirely. “We are totally focused on rent Vice President Mike Pence made a futile for gun rights. —AFP sent out a tweet about Puerto Rico’s needs. He severity of the crisis. She warned that if he didn’t that,” Trump said Tuesday of the growing crisis talked about Puerto Rico during a meeting on start taking it seriously, “this is going to be your on the US island. “But at the same time, it doesn’t tax cuts. He raised the subject at a Rose Garden Katrina,” referring to criticism of President take me long to put out a wrong and maybe news conference with the prime minister of George W Bush following the slow federal we’ll get it right. I think it’s a very important Spain. And he attended a hurricane briefing. He response to Hurricane Katrina in 2005. And it thing for the NFL to not allow people to kneel called a meeting of agency heads tasked with wasn’t just Democrats. during the playing of our National Anthem.” helping Puerto Rico recover, and sent top offi- “The crisis for these Americans needs more Even as Trump insisted he has plenty of time cials out to the White House driveway to talk to attention - and more urgency from the executive to prioritize both issues - “All I do is work,” he said reporters. FEMA Administrator Brock Long deliv- branch,” tweeted Republican Sen. Ben Sasse of Tuesday - criticism lingered. Particularly galling ered specifics: 16 Navy and Coast Guard ships in Nebraska, a frequent Trump critic. Florida GOP to Trump’s critics were his first tweets since last the waters around Puerto Rico and 10 more on Sen Marco Rubio concurred, tweeting about San Wednesday when he urged people on the island the way. Juan, “MUST get power crews in ASAP.” “We have to stay safe as Maria came ashore. In a trio of Throughout, Trump stressed that Puerto a fundamental obligation to Puerto Rico to tweets on Monday night, he suggested that Rico’s governor had praised the federal respond to a hurricane there the way we would Puerto Rico was suffering in part because it had response, characterizing Ricardo Rossello as “so anywhere in the country. #HurricaneMaria,” incurred “billions of dollars” in debt to “Wall Street thankful of the job we’re doing.” Six days after Rubio tweeted Tuesday. and the banks which, sadly, must be dealt with.” Maria struck the island, conditions in Puerto Rico For any president, there’s much to be gained “Texas & Florida are doing great but Puerto remain dire, with 3.4 million people virtually politically from ably handling the government’s Rico, which was already suffering from broken without electrical power and short of food and response to natural disasters, and Trump is no infrastructure & massive debt, is in deep trou- water. Flights off the island are infrequent, com- exception. His approval ratings in the most ble.” Still, he promised, “Food, water and medical munications are spotty and roads are clogged recent Gallup tracking poll ticked up, to 39 per- are top priorities - and doing well.” Rep Joe with debris. Officials said electrical power may cent, after his trips to survey damage from Crowley, D-NY, said it was “absolutely ridiculous” not be fully restored for more than a month. Hurricanes Harvey and Irma in Texas and Florida. for Trump to mention Puerto Rico’s debt “when people are suffering and dying. Here’s a presi- MONTGOMERY: Republican candidate for the US Senate in Alabama, Roy Moore (R) Recovery efforts Sharp contrast dent who’s used bankruptcy throughout his greets supporters at an election-night rally. —AFP Trump, who had proposed visiting Puerto But Trump’s fixation on Puerto Rico on entire career.” —AP Will a new Mexico arise from quake’s rubble? Iranians swarm MEXICO CITY: An earthquake releases energy that has streets to mourn accumulated for years between the Earth’s tectonic plates. The one that struck Mexico last week could also beheaded soldier release energy of a different kind: a transformative new grassroots political and social movement. BEIRUT: Thousands of people took to the streets of No sooner had the ground stopped shaking last Tehran yesterday to bury a soldier whose beheading by Tuesday than Mexicans from all walks of life sprang into Islamic State has come to symbolize the righteousness action. Human chains formed to excavate the rubble of of Iran’s military involvement in Syria. In what has buildings that collapsed with people inside. Volunteers become an iconic image on Iranian media, 25-year-old flooded the disaster zone to bring food, water and every Revolutionary Guard Mohsen Hojaji is shown looking imaginable supply. Impromptu clinics sprouted on the calmly into camera after his capture as he is led away streets offering free medical care, legal advice, psycholog- by an insurgent with blood on his face, holding a knife. ical counseling and more. The photograph was posted by Islamic State. Faced with a tragedy that battered the city and Even Iranians critical of their government’s military claimed more than 300 lives, Mexico put its best foot intervention in Syria to help President Bashar Al-Assad forward, responding with an explosion of civic action. have taken to social media to express their admiration The nation’s new heroes are the ordinary citizens who for Hojaji, who was killed last month. The Revolutionary helped save lives in the aftermath, such as the man in a Guards, Iran’s most powerful military force who also wheelchair photographed helping remove rubble from oversee an economic empire worth billions of dollars, a collapsed building with his bare hands-a picture that were intially quiet about their role in Syria. But in went viral. recent years, as casualties have mounted, they have “If only our politicians could be more like you,” a radio been more outspoken about their engagement, fram- host told him during an interview Tuesday. The quake ing it as an existential struggle against the Sunni showed the latent power of ordinary citizens in a country Muslim extremists of Islamic State who see Shiites, the at a loss to deal with its chronic problems of violent crime majority of Iran’s population, as apostates. and political corruption. “The earthquake woke us up Guards killed in Syria and Iraq are touted as protec- from our lethargy and showed us that in just 50 seconds tors of Shiite holy sites and labeled “defenders of the we can become another country,” said actor Eugenio Derbez in a message to the country. “Not the Mexico of shrine” on websites linked to the Guards. Supreme corrupt politicians, not the Mexico of people who kill, leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei prayed over Hojaji’s cof- steal, rob, lie. The Mexico of people who take to the street fin and met with his family yesterday, state media and risk their lives to save others.” reported. Large crowds carrying red flags, symbolizing martyrdom, and pictures of Hojaji processed to the National pride funeral in Tehran, pictures on state TV showed. Newfound national pride has been visible in the Parliament speaker Ali Larijani and former president Mexican flags on cars, balconies and rescuers’ helmets. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad were among the dignitaries “You can do it-you’re Mexican!” said a poster rooting on who attended, state media said. rescuers at one collapse site. Mexicans have a history of “Look at what a stir the martyrdom of this youth has rising up stronger from the rubble of earthquakes. After a created in the country,” Khamenei said, according to his 1985 quake that ironically struck on the same day, website. Hojaji’s funeral comes only three days before September 19, ordinary Mexicans rallied to rescue sur- Ashura, one of the most important religious events for vivors from the ruins and fill the void left by an over- Shiites and a traditional period of mourning which whelmed government. commemorates the death of Imam Hussein, the grand- Many political analysts say that moment was the son of the Prophet Mohammed. beginning of Mexican civil society. Newly organized and The Guards recovered Hojaji’s body through a deal empowered, Mexicans began demanding more democ- between Islamic State, the Syrian army and Lebanese racy from their single-party state, eventually ousting the Shiite group Hezbollah. More than 300 IS fighters and Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) in 2000 after 71 about 300 family members were allowed to evacuate years in power. The latest disaster could herald a new Syria’s western border with Lebanon under the cease- metaphorical earthquake in Mexican politics and socie- fire agreement. On June 7, Islamic State claimed an ty. “The 7.1-magnitude earthquake reminded a large and attack on Tehran’s parliament and the mausoleum of marvelous majority that the future of our country is in Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the founder of the its hands,” wrote columnist Yuriria Sierra in the newspa- Islamic Republic, killing 18 people. —Reuters per Excelsior. —AFP THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2017 INTERNATIONAL
EU unveil plans to take 50,000 refugees from Africa, Mideast
BRUSSELS: The EU unveiled plans yesterday to two years”. The EU has already resettled 23,000 peo- Italy and Greece to other EU countries, under com- also be able to exceptionally prolong controls if the take at least 50,000 refugees directly from Africa, ple from refugee camps in countries outside the EU pulsory quotas. The latter scheme, which ended same threat persists,” the European Commission, the Middle East and Turkey to discourage migrant under the scheme, particularly Turkey and Jordan, yesterday, saw just 29,000 people out of a planned the executive arm of the EU, said in a statement. boats from making the risky Mediterranean cross- which were overwhelmed with people fleeing the 160,000 shared out around EU states to ease the Avramopoulos however said this should be a “last ing. The proposal involves admitting refugees to war in Syria. pressure on the overstretched Greek and Italian resort”, and that keeping the Schengen area open European Union countries over the next two years Resettlement would continue from those areas authorities. for travel should be a priority. Several countries under the bloc’s resettlement program, which was but there would be “increased focus” on North including France and Germany have called for the introduced during the migration crisis that hit the Africa and the Horn of Africa-particularly Libya, Schengen controls extended extension after a series of terror attacks. France continent in 2015. Egypt, Niger, Sudan, Chad and Ethiopia, the com- Brussels separately released plans yesterday to reinstated the checks after the November 2015 “We need to open real alternatives to taking per- mission said. “This will contribute to further stabiliz- allow countries in the passport-free Schengen area Paris attacks. Border checks introduced by ilous irregular journeys,” European Union Migration ing migration flows along the Central to reintroduce border controls for security reasons Germany, Denmark, Austria, Sweden and Norway in Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos told a news Mediterranean route,” which mainly involves peo- for up to three years. Countries in the 26-country May 2016 to deal with a huge influx of migrants conference in Brussels. The European Commission ple making the dangerous crossing from Libya to Schengen travel area can currently reintroduce into Europe from Syria and North Africa are set to said in a statement that it was “recommending a Italy, it said. frontier checks for six months for security reasons, expire in November. The reintroduction of so many new EU resettlement scheme to bring at least The resettlement program is different from the and two years if that is combined with a threat to checks raised concerns about the collapse of the 50,000 of the most vulnerable persons in need of EU’s controversial refugee quotas, which involved borders such as Europe’s migration crisis. Schengen zone, seen by many in Europe as a sym- international protection to Europe over the next moving asylum-seekers who had already reached “Under today’s proposals, member states will bol of unity and freedom. — AFP
Anti-migrant, revisionist: Germany’s hard-right AfD
BERLIN: The Alternative for Germany (AfD) 93 freshly-baked lawmakers gathered this claims to be a force of “patriots” but some of week in a modernist concrete-and-steel its new lawmakers have shocked with xeno- annex building to the glass-domed phobic and revisionist comments and have Reichstag that is still pockmarked from been linked to far-right groups. The AfD is Word War II battles. the first hard-right nationalist party to enter Lawmaker number 94 stayed away- the German Bundestag in large numbers in Frauke Petry, the former face of the AfD, had the post-World War II era, an epochal event theatrically walked out of a party press con- that stunned most Germans. ference the day before to protest against its Since the party’s breakthrough in bitter infighting and radicalization. Co- Sunday’s vote, the country has been scruti- Leader Beatrix von Storch, picking up her nizing the biographies of the often little- new parliamentary ID card, said it was time known newcomers, elected on a platform of for the party to “get to work”. Asked whether rejecting migrants, Muslims and Chancellor the AfD, with slogans like “Bikinis not Angela Merkel. Among them are police offi- Burkas”, is far-right, she replied: “We want to cers, prosecutors and judges, academics and cap refugee numbers, we are against business leaders, soldiers and scientists, a Islamisation, we want to preserve our cul- one-time radio host, an undertaker and a ture, we want to protect our borders. “We former fighter-pilot. are for the classic family unit, we don’t want A disproportionate number are from a United States of Europe, but a Europe of Germany’s ex-communist and poorer east, fatherlands. I think these are perfectly nor- where the AfD was the number one party mal topics.” for male voters and won outright in the state of Saxony. The AfD rails against “traitor” ‘Guilt cult’ Merkel as public enemy number one, for The MPs include at least 13 with ultra- BRIGHTON: Britain’s main opposition Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn waves to delegates after delivering a speech on the final day of the opening German borders to an “invasion” of right views, 30 “nationalist-conservatives”, Labour Party Conference. — AFP more than one million migrants since 2015. and 18 comparative “moderates”, according Some MPs have links to PEGIDA, short for to a count by Die Zeit weekly, which said the Patriots Against the Islamisation of the allegiances of others were unclear. Among Occident, a street movement that emerged the new MPs is Leif-Erik Holm, 47, a former UK Labour mobilizes to in the Saxony state capital of Dresden. Other radio host who has claimed Germany is lawmakers have reported links to shadowy being turned “into a caliphate”, and who ran fraternities, football hooligans, Russian ultra- against Merkel in her Baltic Coast electorate. nationalists and the nativist Identitarian Merkel lost a lot of votes, he said, but push Corbyn into power Movement, which is being watched by the “beating her would have been the icing on BfV domestic security service. the cake”. Some members are veterans of One has reportedly driven a car with the AfD’s founding days in 2013, when it Momentum have opened up the party “AH1818” on its number plates, the railed mainly against eurozone bailouts to Tagesspiegel daily wrote-neo-Nazi code for crisis-hit Greece. Others call for tougher law BRIGHTON: In a former church, 40-odd activists political movement born out of the campaign to ty defied predictions of a landslide defeat. In Adolf Hitler’s initials, followed by the num- and order, traditional “family values” and are learning how to become effective frontline sweep Corbyn, 68, to the party leadership. some opinion polls, Labour are now ahead of the ber of those letters in the alphabet, listed fighting against what they consider a left- troops in the battle to sweep Labour opposition “Momentum have opened up the party so people Conservatives. “The election has changed politics twice. And Jens Maier, a judge in Dresden, leaning establishment spreading its lies via a leader Jeremy Corbyn into power. “The next don’t have to be political animals before they in this country,” Corbyn said in a recent interview has drawn fire for voicing a degree of under- complicit media. campaign is already going on,” said 19-year-old become activists,” said Justine Cooper, 55. with The Guardian newspaper. standing for Norwegian mass murderer On the far right, leaders have shocked Connor Hodgson-Brunniche, a student at York Anders Breivik, reportedly saying that he with taboo-breaking comments that chal- University, who came down especially from ‘Peaceful revolution’ Risk of over-confidence had acted “out of desperation” over multicul- lenge Germany’s culture of atonement over northern England to the south coast resort of Initially accused of being a cadre of Trotskyists, Even some on the right are not ruling out the turalism when he killed 77 people in 2011. World War II and the Holocaust. One is co- Brighton, where Labour is hosting its annual Momentum have quickly gained a lot of influence left’s chances of coming to power. It could come leader Alexander Gauland, 75, a defector conference. within the Labour Party. They have more than to pass if the government cannot overcome its ‘Europe of fatherlands’ from Merkel’s conservative bloc, who has The trainees are taking their task seriously, 23,000 members and 150 local branches. They divisions on Brexit, said former foreign secretary Still giddy from the election, which made urged Germans to be proud of their veter- even though the next general election does not notably convinced delegates to keep Brexit off and Conservative ex-leader William Hague. The the AfD Germany’s third strongest party, its ans from two world wars. — AFP have to be held until 2022, following a June snap the list of topics set for debates and votes on the Economist magazine considers Corbyn as poll in which Prime Minister Theresa May’s gov- Brighton conference floor. “It’s a peaceful revolu- “Britain’s most likely next prime minister”. erning centre-right Conservatives lost their tion,” said Jamie Driscoll, a Momentum training Professor Fielding said it was “more than possi- majority but remained the largest party in parlia- coordinator. A short distance from the church, in ble” that Corbyn would end up in power if there ment. Those on the course are learning how to a meeting room, activists discuss politics while was another general election within the next 12 deliver positive messages, speak effectively in others take part in a workshop to come up with months. But there is a risk of over-confidence. front of the media, make the best use of social rallying slogans or buy red badges sporting leftist “We forget that he lost the general election and media and draw in new recruits. messages. “Our job now is to be working every the conduct (of the campaign) on the Tory side Following the June vote, which saw left-of- day to campaign against the Tories... until we was so poor it’s hard to believe that could be centre Labour take seats off the Conservatives, win,” via meetings, social media and door-knock- repeated,” said Iain Begg, a professorial research the campaign is out to “take the momentum that ing, said Cameron Ball, a TWT spokesman. fellow at the London School of Economics univer- we got during the election... and expand it to be Steven Fielding, a professor of political history sity’s European Institute. able to reach even more people,” said Hodgson- at Nottingham University, described Momentum “Britain is ultimately quite a conservative Brunniche. The political-science student joined as “a very efficient Corbyn fan club”. Corbyn’s re- country,” he added. Corbyn is particularly popular Labour in 2015, when veteran leftist Corbyn sur- election as Labour leader in 2016 — when the with students and young graduates, but they are prisingly swept to power on a wave of newly vast majority of his MPs lost confidence in his heavily concentrated in urban parliamentary signed-up supporters. leadership-was in no small part down to seats and university cities, Fielding said. Corbyn Around 100 debates, lectures, workshops or Momentum’s enthusiastic campaigning. Now needs to reach out to older and more traditional musical events, often packed out, are part of the Corbyn, who can claim to have tripled Labour’s Labour supporters in areas that backed Britain political and cultural festival titled “The World membership to 570,000 in two years, seems leaving the European Union in order to win Transformed”, taking part on the Brighton confer- secure in his post following the June general elec- enough seats to overtake the Conservatives, ence fringe. TWT is organized by Momentum, the tion, when his campaign focused on anti-austeri- Fielding added. — AFP
How Spain-Catalonia standoff has evolved? KALYNIVKA: This photo taken on September 27, 2017 near Kalynivka shows explo- sions at a military munitions depot. — AFP MADRID: From courtroom battles to noisy street obeys a court order. Spanish police have so far on health, education, social services and the pay- demonstrations, a confrontation between the arrested a dozen officials in Catalonia on suspi- ment of civil servants. Also, every invoice paid by central government in Madrid and independence cion of aiding and abetting the vote, triggering Catalan authorities, including for non-essential Ukraine arms depot movements in the wealthy northeastern Catalonia large street protests. services, must go to Madrid for rubber-stamping region has been gripping Spain for weeks. The before it is paid. conflict is due to come to a head Sunday when Follow the money A new system demands weekly public spend- ‘sabotage’ blasts Catalonia intends to hold a regional ballot on Spain’s central authorities have taken over ing reports from Catalan authorities, whereas whether to break away from the rest of Spain, control of virtually all Catalonia’s regional public Spain’s other autonomous regions report monthly. KALYNIVKA: Ukrainian authorities evacu- resident who agreed to identify herself despite government efforts to prevent the vote. spending. The aim: to ensure that no tax revenue Tightening the screw, Finance Minister Cristobal ated more than 30,000 people yesterday only as Antonina told AFP. “Some homes Here is a look at how the standoff has evolved: is diverted to pay for the referendum. The Spanish Montoro imposed credit restrictions on Catalonia, from the central Vinnytsia region after a had their windows and doors completely government has snatched away from the Catalan blocking its government’s access to vital debt huge arms depot caught fire and set off blown out,” she said. President Petro Courtroom combat government the administration of its spending funding on international markets. — AFP explosions in what prosecutors said was a Poroshenko underscored the seriousness After Catalan separatists in the region’s parlia- possible act of “sabotage”. It was the sec- of the situation by telling his top military ment passed a law on Sept. 6 to hold a referen- ond major incident affecting a large brass and Prime Minister Volodymyr dum on independence, Spain’s national govern- Ukrainian weapons storage site this year. Groysman to report to him directly after ment said it was illegal and complained to the Kiev blamed a deadly fire in March on visiting the site. Constitutional Court. That court ordered the bal- Moscow and its Russian-backed insurgents “This is the arsenal of the Ukrainian lot put on ice while its judges deliberate on its fighting Ukrainian forces in the war- army, and I think it was no accident that it legality. They have not ruled yet. Previous efforts wrecked east-a charge both sides denied. was destroyed,” Groysman said in televised in Catalonia to vote on independence have fallen The pro-Western former Soviet republic’s remarks from the scene. The military gener- foul of the Spanish Constitution, which refers in military prosecutor’s office said it was al staff later issued a statement saying an Article 2 to “the indissoluble unity of the Spanish opening an investigation into possible initial inspection showed that “around 70 nation, the common and indivisible homeland of “sabotage at a military facility”. percent of the storage facilities were not all Spaniards.” Immediate reports mentioned no fatali- damaged by the fire.” The army’s high com- As independence supporters defied the ties and only two minor injuries from the mand wrote on Facebook that the fire Constitutional Court’s decision and continued to blasts at a facility the Ukrainian military broke out at around 10pm (1900 GMT) prepare the ballot, the state prosecutor in said stored some 83,000 tons of munitions. Tuesday. Catalonia filed two lawsuits: one against mem- Military general staff spokesman Vladyslav Police spokesman Yaroslav Trakalo told bers of the Catalan parliament for disobedience Seleznyov told AFP that the arms depot the Pravda news outlet the flames caused and abuse of power, and another against mem- was “one of the country’s largest”. An AFP artillery shells at the facility to explode one bers of the Catalan regional government, includ- reporter said explosions in the town of after the other. The national police said ing regional president Carles Puigdemont, for dis- Kalynivka in the Vinnytsia region located more than 30,000 people had been evacu- obedience, abuse of power and embezzlement. some 175 kilometers southwest of Kiev ated from areas immediately surrounding The latter charge carries jail time. could be heard every five to 10 minutes the storage facility. “In addition, 180 Also, the Constitution’s Article 155 allows the BARCELONA: A demonstrator wrapped in a Spanish flag with FC Barcelona football team’s and that streets of the town of 20,000 were patients were evacuated from Vinnytsia government to suspend, totally or partially, badges takes part in a protest against independence in front of Catalunya Radio head- nearly deserted. area hospitals,” Ukraine’s emergency min- Catalonia’s self-government if the region dis- quarters. — AFP “People suffered heavy damage,” a local istry said. — AFP THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2017 INTERNATIONAL Malaysian gets dressing down for wearing shorts
KUALA LUMPUR: A Malaysian man has been repri- to play futsal, five-a-side football typically played on Mohamad Fadzuli Mohamad Zain, deputy direc- failed to turn up. Opposition lawmaker manded by Islamic authorities for “indecent dress- an indoor pitch. But religious enforcement officers tor of the Kelantan state religious enforcement unit, Mohammad Hatta Ramli criticized the sanction ing” after he was caught wearing shorts in public spotted the 30-year-old and handed him a notice confirmed Khairul had been pulled aside for wear- imposed in the state ruled by the Pan-Malaysian on the way to a football match, officials and reports saying that he had breached Islamic regulations dic- ing shorts in the city of Kota Baru. “On (Monday) 11 Islamic Party as “simply ludicrous”. “This is a mis- said yesterday. The case in Kelantan, a state ruled tating that Muslims should not wear revealing attire. people including Khairul were given summonses guided action,” he told AFP, adding it would “open by an influential Islamist party, sparked widespread “It came as a shock to me when a religious depart- for indecent dressing,” he told AFP. Among the oth- the floodgates to all sorts of enforcement”. Multi- anger, and is the latest example of what critics ment enforcement officer gave me a notice saying I ers reprimanded were four women whose outfits ethnic Malaysia, which is home to substantial eth- describe as creeping conservatism in the mostly have flouted the Shariah Criminal Enactment for were deemed to be too tight, he said. nic Chinese and Indian minorities, has seen a tra- Muslim country. exposing my knees,” he was quoted as saying by the Mohamad Fadzuli said Khairul had been ditionally tolerant brand of Islam eroded due to Wan Khairul Hayyee Wali had stopped off to buy Star newspaper. “Seriously, they can’t expect me to ordered to attend a counseling session and would the growing influence of Muslim politicians and a burger from a street-side stall as he drove Monday wear a sarong to play futsal,” he added. have to pay a fine of 1,000 ringgit ($240) if he hardliners. — AFP Ousted Thai PM Yingluck sentenced in absentia to 5 years for negligence Likely end to the political career of popular leader
BANGKOK: Thailand’s top court yesterday sen- tenced ousted premier Yingluck Shinawatra in absentia to five years in prison for criminal neg- ligence, a verdict that likely ends the political career of a popular leader who fled the junta- run kingdom last month. Yingluck’s administra- tion was toppled in a 2014 coup and she was later put on trial for failing to stop corruption and losses in her government’s rice subsidy scheme, which the court said cost the country billions of dollars. She pleaded innocent and accused the ruling junta of a political witch-hunt. But the Supreme Court in Bangkok deemed her guilty, saying she failed to stop graft and losses in the rice pro- KABUL: Afghan President Ashraf Ghani (C) speaks next to US Defense Secretary Jim gram. “The court has sentenced her to five years Mattis (R) and NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg (L) during a press conference at the in prison and the court also unanimously agreed Presidential Palace. — AFP that the sentence will not be suspended,” a judge said. Mattis and NATO chief renew The verdict, which makes Yingluck’s return to the kingdom increasingly unlikely, said the commitment to Afghanistan leader was aware of corrupt deals made by members of her administration but did nothing to stop them. She “should have designated rea- KABUL: US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis of more than $1 trillion. October marks the and NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg renewed 16th anniversary of the start of the war. sonable and effective regulations that could their commitment to Afghanistan yester- America is pressing NATO partners to concretely prevent loss from the beginning of day, as insurgents fired rockets that killed increase their own troop levels in the coun- the program,” the verdict said, adding that the one person and wounded four in Kabul. try to help Afghan forces get the upper policy cost Thailand nearly $10 billion in losses. Mattis is the first member of US President hand in the grinding battle against the After attending dozens of hearings in a trial BANGKOK: A supporter of Thai former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra holds a fan outside Donald Trump’s cabinet to visit the country Taleban and Islamic State. that lasted more than one year, Yingluck failed the Supreme Court. — AP since Trump pledged to stay the course in The resurgent Taleban have promised to to turn up for a ruling originally scheduled for America’s longest war. In a sign of the turn Afghanistan into a “graveyard” for for- August 25 — a day of high drama that left the coups to repeatedly knock their governments clock surveillance of the former leader during nation’s continuing insecurity a volley of eign forces and have been mounting dead- kingdom dumbfounded. The 50-year-old, who from power. Repeated rounds of rival protests the course of the trial. Analysts say Yingluck rockets landed on a house near Kabul inter- ly attacks as they maintain their grip on still has the right to appeal, has not appeared in have ensued, often spilling into bloodshed. most likely cut a deal with the military leaders, national airport hours after Mattis flew in, large swathes of the country. On allega- public since pulling the vanishing act. Her once Analysts say the latest coup, followed by who would have been eager to see off a popular the interior ministry said. tions that Iran and Russia are actively prop- active social media accounts have also gone Yingluck’s trial, was part of the ruling junta’s politician poised to become a martyr for the One person died and four others were ping up the Taleban, Mattis said it would silent. But there are widespread reports she effort to expunge her clan from politics for good. kingdom’s moribund democracy movement. wounded-all from the same family-in the be “extremely unwise if they think they can joined her billionaire brother Thaksin, a former The guilty verdict may not rub out the “By getting Yingluck out of Thailand, the mili- assault claimed by the Taleban, which said somehow support terrorism in another prime minister ousted in a 2006 coup, in Dubai. Shinawatras’ influence altogether but it spells tary gets rid of a potential thorn in their side on social media the missiles had been country and not have it come back to Thaksin has kept a home in the city since he too “the end of Yingluck’s political career,” said who could become a martyr if jailed, or a power- aimed at Mattis’s plane. The Islamic State’s haunt them”. fled Thailand in 2008 to avoid jail for a corrup- Thitinan Pongsudhirak, a politics expert at ful politician again if she is not,” said Paul local Khorasan province affiliate also tion conviction. Chulalongkorn University. It also sends a warn- Chambers, an expert on Thai politics. On the eve claimed responsibility, as security forces Slapdash training ing sign to would-be successors who might try of the verdict junta chief Prayut Chan-O-Cha were locked in a stand-off with the attack- Under Trump’s plan, the US is sending Coups and court rulings and challenge the dominance of the military declared his “spies” had informed him of ers. The unannounced high-level visit came more than 3,000 additional troops to The Shinawatra siblings lie at the centre of a and its allies in Bangkok’s traditional aristocracy. Yingluck’s whereabouts, but said he would not as Afghanistan’s beleaguered security Afghanistan, on top of the 11,000 already political battle that has gnawed at Thailand for “This is the first time that a Thai prime minister is reveal her location until after the judgment was forces struggle to beat back the Taleban, on the ground, to train and advise the more than a decade. The clan first emerged on sentenced to jail for a policy from an election delivered. The generals have promised an even- which has been on the offensive since the country’s security forces. NATO allies have the political scene in 2001 when Thaksin took campaign,” said Thitinan, calling it “a tough and tual return to democracy but the date for elec- withdrawal of US-led NATO combat troops around 5,000 troops deployed around the office and secured the loyalty of the rural poor tricky standard for future Thai prime ministers”. tions keeps slipping, as they extend their clamp- at the end of 2014. country. Critics have questioned what the with groundbreaking welfare schemes. down on dissent. Even if a poll is eventually held, Mattis, along with Stoltenberg, was to extra US soldiers can accomplish that pre- Shinawatra-backed parties have dominated Where is Yingluck? it will be organized under a new junta-drafted hold talks with President Ashraf Ghani and vious forces-who numbered some electoral politics ever since, inflaming Bangkok’s Thailand’s junta leaders deny having any pri- charter that significantly curbs the power of other top officials to discuss the US-led 100,000 at the height of the fighting-were military-allied elite. or knowledge of Yingluck’s plan to escape. But elected politicians and enshrines the military’s NATO “train and assist” mission-designed to unable to do. Unable to beat the Shinawatras at the polls, many inside the kingdom are unconvinced, giv- oversight of any future government for the next strengthen Afghanistan’s military so it can Earlier this year Ghani ordered a near- their rivals have turned to court rulings and en the junta’s tight security net and round-the- 20 years. — AFP defend the country on its own. At a joint doubling of the country’s Special news conference with Ghani at the presi- Operations Command — the elite fight- dential palace Mattis and Stoltenberg ing force spearheading Afghanistan’s war pledged the support of US and NATO allies against insurgents-from 17,000 as part of to the Afghan conflict, and expressed a four-year plan that also aims to determination to stop the country becom- strengthen Afghanistan’s air force. While ing a safe haven for terrorists. Afghan authorities have welcomed The foreign assistance would give Trump’s open-ended commitment to Afghan forces a “compelling battlefield increase US troop numbers, they know it advantage over anything the Taleban will take time to improve the fighting stands to mass against” it, Mattis told abilities of their own forces. reporters. “We will not abandon Afghanistan’s soldiers have been severely Afghanistan to a merciless enemy trying to demoralized and weakened by huge casual- kill its way to power.” Stoltenberg said: ties, desertions and corruption. Earlier this “The more stable Afghanistan is the more week US watchdog agency SIGAR criticized safe we will be,” adding that more than 15 US efforts to train Afghanistan’s security NATO members had agreed to send addi- forces, saying they were being hampered tional troops. by slapdash instruction, shoddy oversight US generals have for months been and failures in governance. Mattis flew to describing the situation in Afghanistan as a Kabul from New Delhi where he met his stalemate, despite years of support for Indian counterpart Nirmala Sitharaman, Afghan partners, continued help from a who made it clear that India would not NATO coalition and an overall cost in fight- deploy troops to Afghanistan as part of ing and reconstruction to the United States Trump’s strategy. — AFP Indonesia diverts tourists as Bali volcano rumbles
KARANGASEM: Indonesian authorities es have been prepared to evacuate are on standby to divert flights destined tourists. Virgin Australia said it would be for the holiday island of Bali as increasing- making an extra fuel stop in Darwin for MAUNGDAW: Hindu people cry near the dead bodies of their family members in Yebawkya village. — AFP ly frequent tremors from a rumbling vol- some of its flights between Australia and cano stoke fears an eruption could be Bali in case it is forced to turn back. imminent. Mount Agung, 75 kilometers Singapore Airlines said customers travel- Slaughtered Hindus a testament from the tourist hub of Kuta, has been ling between September 23 and October 2 shaking since August, threatening to could rebook flights or ask for a refund. erupt for the first time in more than 50 to brutality of Myanmar conflict years and causing more than 96,000 peo- Eruption jitters ple to flee their homes. Officials announced the highest possi- YE BAW KYA: Myanmar authorities displayed yes- The latest violence in Rakhine state erupted on killing the Hindus saying they never kill civilians. “The number of evacuees is expected to ble alert level on Friday due to the increas- terday the bodies of Hindu villagers they say were Aug. 25, when Rohingya Muslim insurgents continue to rise,” Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, ing volcanic activity, and told people to killed by Muslim insurgents, victims of a surge of attacked 30 police posts and an army camp, killing Masked men spokesman for the national disaster mitiga- stay at least nine kilometers away from the violence in someone else’s fight now playing their about 12 people. Hours later, insurgents of the Exactly why Myanmar’s tiny Hindu minority in tion agency, said in a statement. Bali crater. They are still stressing the island is part in a propaganda war. Authorities found 45 Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) came to Rakhine state got caught up in the bloodshed is attracts millions of foreign visitors every generally safe, but there are signs the vol- Hindu villagers in mass graves in the north of the Hindu village of Ye Baw Kya, gathered up not clear, and different people have given differ- year to its palm-fringed beaches and an cano is starting to give tourists the jitters. I Rakhine state this week, and the news has domi- about 100 people, marched them away through ent accounts at different times. Some villagers eruption would be a blow to its tourism- Komang Nik Suantara, owner of the Amed nated Myanmar’s media coverage of a new round their fields and killed them with knives, the gov- have said the insurgents suspected Hindus of dependent economy. The airport in Bali’s Beach Resort on Bali’s east coast, said busi- of violence in old strife between the state’s ernment says. being on the side of the government and acting capital Denpasar has not been affected, ness had collapsed since the alert level Buddhists and Muslims. The military response to the insurgent attacks as government spies. In late August, Reuters but several countries including Australia was raised. “Amed is safe from the lava but The military yesterday flew a group of has driven 480,000 Rohingya refugees to reporters in Bangladesh interviewed a group of and Singapore have issued advisories still the economy is very down, no cus- reporters from the city of Yangon to see the bod- Bangladesh and drawn UN accusations of ethnic Hindu women from the village who said their warning travelers to exercise caution. tomer, everyone cancelled,” he said. ies laid out on the grass, and to hear from those cleansing by the army with the help of Buddhist male loved ones were killed by Rakhine Buddhists. In case of an eruption, Indonesia plans German tourist Christoph Lange, who is who found them after information about the mas- vigilantes. Myanmar denies that, saying its forces However, three of the same women told to divert flights headed for Bali to ten other staying in Amed, said that despite fre- sacre filtered back from Hindus who have sought are fighting ruthless terrorists. For the govern- Reuters this week that Muslims who brought airports, including on nearby Lombok and quent tremors he felt “pretty safe”. “We’ve refuge from the violence in Bangladesh. “We fol- ment, the proof of the insurgents’ brutality is plain them to Bangladesh had ordered them to say it the capital Jakarta. “The planes will be got like 20, 30, 40 shakes where you could lowed the paths based on the information we got to see, lying in rows by the mass graves just out- was Buddhist vigilantes who had done the killing. diverted to their nearest location or where feel the earth shaking,” Lange, 30, told AFP. from the other side,” police officer Okkar Ko told side the village of Ye Baw Kya. “This is terrorism,” The three - who individually recounted closely they originally took off from,” said transport “While we were diving we had quite a few. reporters at the scene. “We found where the soil Minister for Social Welfare, Relief and matching stories - said that on Aug 25, they and minister Budi Karya Sumadi. Airlines are Under water you can hear it, it’s pretty wasn’t normal and then when we dug up the Resettlement, Win Myat Aye, who visited the site about 100 other Hindus were marched by masked watching the situation closely and 100 bus- loud actually.” — AFP ground, the smell came out.” on Tuesday, told Reuters. The ARSA has denied men to the area of the mass graves. — Reuters THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2017 ANALYSIS
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Focus Saudi king lifts ban on women driving but what about the other rights?
audi King Salman has ordered that women be allowed to drive, ending a restriction seen by Srights activists as an emblem of the Islamic king- dom’s repression of women. Here is a look at some of the biggest outstanding women’s rights issues in Saudi Arabia:
Guardianship system Women must have a male guardian’s approval for decisions in fields including marriage, travel, applying for a passport and even medical treatment and employment in some cases. Many aspects of the guardianship system are not codified in law but stem from informal practice. The Saudi ambassador to the United States has said women will not need permis- sion from a guardian to get a driving license nor to have a guardian in the car. Earlier this year King Repeal of women driving ban tests Saudi reform drive Salman issued an order allowing women to benefit By Anuj Chopra 2030” reform plan. Men and women also without significant unrest being trig- potent threat. Many Saudis on social from services such as education and healthcare with- danced in the streets to drums and gered is likely to have made the Saudi media, irked by the mixing of genders on out the consent of a male guardian. Rights groups say this is being implemented only on an ad hoc basis. audi Arabia’s historic lifting of a ban thumping electronic music, in scenes leadership more confident that it can national day, derisively compared the on women driving will be a litmus that were a stunning anomaly in a coun- make (social) change without much in country to “Las Vegas”. “Patriotism does Legal proceedings Stest for its king-in-waiting, who has try known for its tight gender segrega- the way of opposition.” Prince not mean sin” became a widely used Women may testify in court, but in some cases sought to sideline the kingdom’s arch- tion and austere vision of Islam. Mohammed is set to be the first millenni- hashtag, while some called for the reli- their testimony is considered worth only half that of a conservatives as he accelerates reforms, This gambit to loosen social restric- al to occupy the throne, in a country gious police, whose powers have been man. The kingdom has removed requirements that a analysts say. The kingdom will issue driv- tions in the ultra-conservative society where half the population is under 25, curtailed in recent years, to restore moral woman bring a male relative to identify them in court. ing licenses to women from next June, in was made possible partly by the latest when he takes over from his 81-year-old order. The government has sought to Saudi Arabia licensed the first female attorneys to the most striking reform yet credited to crackdown, which was seen as a show of father King Salman. “I think Prince downplay their influence, saying that practice law in 2013, with the right to represent Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, force by Prince Mohammed, experts say. Mohammed is ideologically committed most senior clerics in the kingdom “agree clients and to own and run their own law firms. It has despite the risk of a backlash from hard- Jamal Khashoggi, a prominent Saudi to taking the Saudi state in a new direc- that Islam does not ban women from improved women’s access to government services in liners. But after his recent crackdown on journalist and former government advi- tion: less austere, more nationalist,” said driving”. But aside from religious hardlin- recent years, enabling women to secure their own dissenters, including prominent clerics sor who went into exile in the United Kristin Diwan, from the Arab Gulf States ers, women also face opposition from a identity cards and issuing divorced and widowed with huge followings, experts say the States, described a new Saudi era of Institute in Washington. conservative society that is unaccus- women family cards, which identify familial relation- prince may face only a muted opposition. “fear, intimidation, arrests and public Unlike previous rulers, he has shown a tomed-or fundamentally opposed-to ships and are needed for bureaucratic processes, “The lifting of a ban... will likely serve shaming” in an article published in The willingness to tackle entrenched Saudi women drivers. according to Human Rights Watch. as a litmus test for Crown Prince Washington Post. taboos, and is seen as catering to the Under the country’s guardianship sys- Mohammed bin Salman’s ability to intro- aspirations of youth with an array of tem, a male family member-normally the Public dress code duce economic and social reforms ‘Assertion of power’ entertainment options and promoting father, husband or brother-must grant Women are required to dress modestly, but there is despite conservative opposition,” said Those arrests were not directly related more women in the workforce. “Women permission for a woman’s study, travel no specific written dress code and compliance varies James Dorsey, a fellow at Singapore’s S to the driving ban, but apparently to an should obviously have had the right to and other activities. It was unclear in different regions and different situations. In prac- Rajaratnam School of International ongoing crisis with Gulf rival Qatar, said drive a long time ago-the fact that this whether women would require their tice, most Saudi women are expected to wear the Studies. “If last week’s national day cele- Jane Kinninmont from London-based decision was so long in coming shows guardian’s permission to apply for a driv- long, dark abaya robe and a headscarf. Dress is moni- brations in which women were allowed Chatham House. “But the arrests repre- just how much has changed in Saudi ing license. “If by June next year women tored by religious police and women have been to enter stadiums in anything to go by, sented an assertion of power over the Arabia with Prince Mohammed now in Saudi Arabia are driving the streets detained and released for immodest clothing. The the opposition is likely to be limited to independent, politically influential clerics wielding executive authority,” said Perry without fear of arrest, then this will be a requirements do not tend to apply to foreign women. protests on social media.” and sent a message that Prince Cammack, a fellow at the Carnegie cause for celebration,” said Philip Luther, On Saturday, women were allowed for Mohammed does not see himself as Endowment for International Peace. from Amnesty International. “But it is just Segregation the first time into a sports stadium to beholden to them as partners in govern- one step. We also need to see a whole Unrelated Saudi men and women are not sup- mark national day, a move that chimes ment,” Kinninmont told AFP. ‘Discriminatory practices’ range of discriminatory laws and prac- posed to mix, meaning that they are separated into with the Prince Mohammed’s “Vision “The fact that they have been arrested But hardliners could still emerge as a tices swept away.”— AFP male and family sections in restaurants or entertain- ment venues or in sex-segregated areas at confer- ences. In a business environment women can find themselves in areas where they have little or no Thailand’s Yingluck: From first female PM to fugitive access to senior officials and policymakers, who are mainly male. The strict segregation policies act as a hailand’s first female premier Yingluck Shinawatra disincentive to employers wanting to hire women. followed her brother to the apex of the kingdom’s Businesses and government agencies in Saudi Arabia Tpolitical scene and will now depart it in a similar are segregated, with the exception of oil giant Saudi fashion: condemned to self-exile after a court handed Aramco and some foreign companies. Saudi Arabia her a five-year sentence in absentia. Assailed by allowed women into the national stadium for the first protests, a coup and now a prison sentence, Yingluck is time this week as it launched celebrations to mark the the latest member of the Shinawatra clan to fall victim 87th anniversary of its founding. to an army-backed establishment that loathes her fami- ly. After a lengthy trial under junta rule, Bangkok’s Housing Supreme Court yesterday convicted Yingluck of negli- There is no formal bar on women buying or rent- gence over a rice subsidy policy that was riddled with ing property but it can be difficult for women to do so graft and cost the state billions of dollars. without a male relative, according to rights groups. But the former premier was a no-show, having pulled a dramatic Houdini act one month earlier when she Employment slipped out of the kingdom ahead of the scheduled ver- The Saudi government wants to encourage female dict. Yingluck has yet to emerge publicly but sources say participation in the workforce. Authorities have she joined her brother Thaksin Shinawatra in Dubai, removed restrictions on women’s work in the labor where the fellow ex-premier has kept a home since he code and ended formal requirements for women to fled his own corruption conviction in 2008. obtain a guardian’s permission to work, but some The jail sentence makes it highly unlikely Yingluck employers still demand this and are not penalized for will ever return home, spelling the end of a tumultuous doing so. Saudi women have been moving into roles six-year innings that saw her rise from political novice to previously reserved for men such as retail, air traffic premier. Propelled to power in July 2011 by her family’s control and emergency call centers. But the vast electoral base in the poor north and northeast, Yingluck majority of chief executives and senior government was pilloried as a political lightweight armed with little officials are male and all-male workplaces can lack more than a winning smile and a hotline to her elder basic facilities like ladies’ restrooms. brother-who once referred to her as his “clone”. Sports But she stepped out of his shadow, displaying a Conservative clerics have repeatedly said women unexpected resilience as protesters besieged her home who do physical exercise are immodest, even when and opponents clobbered her with a raft of court cases. they are not in public or seen by men. But Saudi public “I think that she learned very fast and adapted herself schools will begin offering physical education for girls very well... she is very determined to do her duty,” in this academic year, the education ministry Chaturon Chaisang, a veteran politician and former cabi- announced in July, and the advisory Shura Council has net minister in her toppled government, said before the BANGKOK: File photo shows deposed former Thai premier Yingluck Shinawatra speaking briefly to the media opened the door to licensing women’s gyms. The king- court ruling. “But she might not have understood what upon on her arrival at the Supreme Court for a trial in Bangkok. Thailand’s top court yesterday sentenced ousted dom sent two female athletes to the Olympics for the was going to happen to her... that she would become premier Yingluck Shinawatra in absentia to five years in prison for criminal negligence. —AFP the victim of a political game.” first time in 2012, and four to the 2016 games.— Reuters an army coup in 2006, which opened a seemingly long protests marked by violence that left dozens dead unbridgeable chasm between his supporters and ene- and hundreds wounded. Yingluck became the focus of Tears and smiles mies. Yingluck’s premiership was scuttled in 2014 by a caustic-and often explicitly sexist-tirades by protest The former businesswoman drew hordes of support- court ruling over a technicality. leaders. But the mother-of-one refused to joust with her ers whenever she toured her electoral heartlands, taking All articles appearing on these pages are Weeks later the army shunted aside the rest of her detractors and held off on a violent crackdown. endless selfies and being showered with red roses. Her the personal opinion of the writers. Kuwait administration. For her first two years in office, the out- She took a leaf out of Thaksin’s playbook, launching campaigning strategy-dubbed fighting with smiles-and look seemed very different. The photogenic former busi- lavish welfare schemes aimed at the rural poor, includ- Times takes no responsibility for views her propensity to shed tears in public forged an image nesswoman charmed many of her critics and for a peri- ing the rice subsidy program. The bungled scheme was expressed therein. Kuwait Times invites far removed from that of the stern junta generals who od maintained the peace across Thailand’s bitter politi- a lightning rod for anger among protesters and also ousted her from office in a 2014 coup. In private she cal divide. She reached out to the military and worked became her ultimate undoing after the court deemed readers to voice their opinions. Please send wielded authority among her party and entourage, in a to appease political opponents within Thailand’s her guilty of failing to stop corruption. Yingluck, who submissions via email to: opinion@kuwait- country where deference is expected towards wealth Bangkok-based establishment, which loathes Thaksin graduated in political science before earning a master’s and power. Her weakness was her elder brother Thaksin, and wants to curb the Shinawatras’ 13-year influence on degree in business administration in the United States, times.net or via snail mail to PO Box 1301 whose deep networks hoisted her to power despite his Thai politics. spent much of her career working in her brother’s Safat, Kuwait. The editor reserves the right long absence from Thailand. But the shaky truce collapsed in November 2013 after empire. Rising from trainee status, she eventually The billionaire telecoms tycoon has lived in self- a failed bid to pass an amnesty bill which would have became president of the mobile telephone unit of Shin to edit any submission as necessary. imposed exile since 2008 to avoid jail in Thailand for cor- enabled Thaksin’s return. The move outraged govern- Corp., the telecoms giant founded by Thaksin that was ruption convictions. He was ousted as prime minister by ment opponents who flooded the streets for months- at the centre of a tax scandal in 2006.—AFP NEWS THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2017 Dome of light to delight Louvre Abu Dhabi visitors PARIS: Sunshine and starlight will dance over visitors to metrical shapes - on eight layers of cladding within the the Louvre Abu Dhabi Museum when it opens in dome - to produce openings for sunlight to peek inside November, filtering through a huge dome that appears and fall in ever-changing patterns throughout the muse- to hover over land and sea. The aery dome, held aloft um. “It is the apparition of these spots (of light) that gives with four massive but invisible structures, has an earthly a consciousness of time, of the passage of time, of eterni- weight of 7,500 tons - 200 tons more than the iron struc- ty,” Nouvel said at a recent meeting with the Anglo- ture of the Eiffel Tower. It is a defining feature of the new American Press Association in Paris. museum on Saadiyat Island, a salty flood plain of the The dome, which measures 180 meters in diameter, Persian Gulf, which sits half in the water, half on land. also creates a micro-climate that helps protect visitors Jean Nouvel, the renowned French architect behind and art works from the blazing sun, along with the stone the project, said he wanted to build the museum “in rela- floor and vistas of water. Nouvel said he was aware of tion to the country it’s in,” using innovative techniques to reports on the mistreatment of immigrant workers in capture the sands, the sea, the horizons of the “enormous Abu Dhabi, including those working on the museum site, sky” and the culture of Abu Dhabi, which serves as capital and that he personally checked the workers’ living condi- of the United Arab Emirates. “I’m a contextual architect ... tions and equipment. buildings should know where they are,” Nouvel said as he A 2015 report by Human Rights Watch said hundreds showed off the final mock-up in the Paris atelier where on Saadiyat Island were deported or lost visas for going the project was born. on strike. Abu Dhabi authorities said one museum Nouvel was visibly proud of the engineering and worker was killed in a 2015 accident, while another died artistic feats behind the museum which, with its 55 last year of “natural causes.” Nouvel said he saw workers’ buildings scattered around the dome, was built to living quarters. “For me, it was somewhat better condi- resemble an Arab village. With the Louvre name on the tions than what I find working in other countries,” Abu Dhabi museum, the outcome had to be grand - Nouvel said. “We saw no problems. That’s certain.” The even though the Louvre Museum makes clear this is Nov 11 opening is about five years late. Nouvel and his neither a branch nor an annex. Instead, it is a joint ven- associate, Hala Warde, attributed the delay to the Arab ture between the governments of the United Arab Spring democracy revolts, when all construction in the Emirates and France, with the UAE paying the Louvre for region was halted and work on the museum took a use of its name for 30 years. more than 18-month rest. Art works from the Louvre and other French museums However, Abu Dhabi’s strapped finances after bailing will make up half the collection of 600 works distributed out Dubai proved a financial squeeze, along with plum- over some 6,400 square meters in galleries around the meting oil prices. Work on the planned Guggenheim site. But it is what Nouvel calls the “rain of light” from the museum down the coast remains at a standstill. Asked if dome that is the focal point of his creation. The splashes they worry about what will happen in 2037 - when the of light are designed to skip about the museum interior, contract ends and the Louvre name could disappear - changing shape and place as the sun rises and sets. Warde joked: “Our museum (design) is built for 100 years.” Inspired by the sunlight glinting through palm trees Nouvel took it further, noting the museum will furnish an and shadows cast by fronds, Nouvel’s architectural and education for the young and art for all. “It’s like a cathe- ABU DHABI: A model of Abu Dhabi branch of the Louvre museum by French architect Jean Nouvel is on display engineering team devised a system of interlocking geo- dral in our era.” — AP as part of a sample collection at the museum. — AP
Diplomatic blow to Israel End to women’s driving ban to save Saudis... Continued from Page 1 Benjamin Netanyahu to condemn the attack. Continued from Page 1 which is already struggling because of low oil prices. Some Israeli media commentators have voiced concern Malik said that overall, the reform might add only a few The step fell short of full UN membership, but it had that as an Interpol member, Palestine could ask the organi- The ban may not be lifted until next June, and tenths of a percentage point to economic growth in important legal implications in enabling the zation to issue a “Red Notice”, an alert to police worldwide because of conservative traditions, it may take years the next few years. But she added that the ultimate Palestinians to join the International Criminal Court and to locate and provisionally arrest an individual, pending rather than months for women to become a major pres- impact could be larger, because it would remove an other world bodies. extradition. But the procedure does not appear to pose ence on the roads in some areas. impediment for women to work, making the economy “By admitting ‘Palestine’, which praises terrorists of the serious legal problems for Israelis such as government offi- But families’ disposable incomes are likely to rise as more productive. past and refuses to condemn those of today, Interpol cials and military officers whom pro-Palestinian groups they lay off their chauffeurs. Saudi economic news serv- Reforms launched by Crown Prince Mohammed bin makes the world less safe,” Michael Oren, Israel’s deputy have sought to have arrested by local authorities as sus- ice Maaal estimated the drivers now collectively earn Salman last year aim to increase women’s participation in minister for diplomacy, wrote on Twitter. He spoke a day pected war criminals during overseas visits. A red notice is about $8.8 billion annually. “The removal of the need for the workforce to 30 percent by 2030 from 22 percent. after a Palestinian shot dead three Israeli guards in the not an international arrest warrant, and on its website a family driver - even when women don’t work - will Letting women drive could eventually raise pressure to Israeli-occupied West Bank and Palestinian President Interpol notes that it cannot compel any member country help boost real income for mid- and lower-income fami- remove other obstacles to their employment, such as a Mahmoud Abbas ignored a call by Israeli Prime Minister to detain an individual named in one. — Reuters lies,” said Monica Malik, chief economist at Abu Dhabi male guardianship system. “Any economic change will like- Commercial Bank. ly be gradual with the weak underlying growth environ- The drivers have been sending much of their pay ment, but the social impact and positive sentiment over back to their home countries, and their departure will the transformation plan will be substantial,” Malik said. reduce this outflow, leaving more foreign reserves avail- Khalid Alkhudair, chief executive of Glowork, an Qatar and FIFA urged to protect migrant... able to defend the Saudi currency from pressure caused employment agency serving women, said there were Continued from Page 1 ers can mandate a climate-based work ban, then the by low oil prices. Saudi Arabia posted a current account about 400,000 to 450,000 job opportunities open for Qatar government can follow its lead,” added Whitson. gap of $27.6 billion last year. However, energy consul- women in the retail industry, but many could not afford Temperatures in Qatar are currently in the high 30s However it called for much greater transparency by tancy FGE estimated a 10 percent increase in Saudi driv- to hire drivers to take them to work. “This law will assist Celsius and humidity levels are above 50 percent. The Doha on the vexed issue of worker deaths. ing activity due to women would add 60,000 barrels per in the mobility of hundreds of thousands of women. HRW says medical research suggests heat stress is a It said figures were last made available in 2012. Out day to domestic gasoline demand. Although it is the The main obstacle we face is transportation, so this is a genuine risk to those working outside, and it has called of the 520 deaths then for workers from Bangladesh, world’s biggest crude oil exporter, Saudi Arabia is a net fantastic move.” gasoline importer. Public transport is undeveloped in many areas of for greater flexibility by Qatari authorities. India and Nepal, 385, or 74 percent, were “neither Malik said there could be a short, one-off boost to Saudi Arabia and while the government has been seek- In rare praise for Qatar’s World Cup organizers, it said explained nor investigated”. The HRW said there had Saudi car sales in coming months, as women buy vehi- ing to change this, building metro rail systems in major the government should follow the example of compul- been 10 deaths reported by World Cup organizers cles before a scheduled imposition of value-added tax cities such as Riyadh, many women are reluctant to trav- sory work-to-rest ratios introduced for the 12,000 help- between October 2015 and July 2017, eight classified as in January 2018. In many cases, however, women would el alone in public. One of the biggest benefits of the ing build venues for 2022. “If Qatar’s World Cup organiz- “non-work related”. — AFP not need to buy as they could use vehicles relinquished announcement may be to strengthen the confidence of by departed chauffeurs. The share prices of companies foreign and local investors that Prince Mohammed is selling auto insurance rose yesterday, while car servic- willing and able to push through far-reaching reforms Oil Minister warned over appointment... ing company Saudi Automotive gained 1.6 percent and of the economy. car rental and leasing company United International In recent months, the weakness of the economy has Continued from Page 1 the salaries of lawmakers because of their wages are not Transportation, which operates under the name Budget prompted the government to delay or even reverse enough. Tabtabai’s comments come after a controversy Saudi Arabia, jumped 4.0 percent. “We certainly expect some reforms - a fresh round of fuel price rises has In the meantime, the Oil Ministry has informed five erupted over allegations that about 20 lawmakers, volumes to increase, in terms of short-term rentals, but been put on hold, for example. But Riyadh’s decision to prominent oil executives that their contracts will not be some of them opposition, have been receiving an addi- it’s definitely too early to put a number on that,” said override social conservatives by lifting the driving ban renewed because they have completed their service tional salary from the government, raising suspicion Anil Mathews Abraham, regional manager for Budget. suggests reform momentum remains strong. “The duration or have reached the age of 60. Under the pen- about their finances. The Assembly explained that the determination to reform is clear, as a new Saudi Arabia sion rules, employees who have worked for 35 years - or additional salary was in line with the law and was being Employment is being constructed right in front of our eyes,” said have reached 60 years will be retired. paid to MPs who had never received any retirement An exodus of drivers to their home countries could John Sfakianakis, director of Riyadh-based Gulf MP Waleed Al-Tabtabai called yesterday for raising benefits before winning seats in the Assembly. mean an immediate hit to Saudi domestic demand, Research Centre. — Reuters THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2017 SPORTS
Varane extends Real FA announce full-time Totti thanks fans for Madrid deal to 2022 English women’s top flight support in new life
MADRID: Raphael Varane joined a host of his Real Madrid teammates in LONDON: The English Football Association announced a major ROME: AS Roma legend Francesco Totti yesterday thanked his fans for recent weeks by signing a five-year contract extension to 2022 yesterday. revamp of women’s football yesterday, with a top tier of 14 full-time their support in his post-playing career as he celebrated his 41st birth- “Real Madrid C. F. and Varane have agreed to extend the player’s contract, teams planned for the start of next season in order to boost standards. day four months after retiring. Totti retired after 24 years with Roma at which will see him remain at the club until 30 June 2022,” the Spanish The current Women’s Super League was set up in 2011 and a second the end of last season, swapping his jersey for a directorís giants said in a statement. Marcelo, Isco and Dani Carvajal have also tier, Super League Two, was added in 2014. There are 10 teams in each suit, and has also started a coaching diploma. ‘It’s been extended their deals to 2022 over the past fortnight, but several are still part-time. Following a review of the structure, the a year since I decided to open my social media account,’ whilst Karim Benzema signed on till 2021 as Real reward FA now wants to make a clear distinction between full-time and part- Totti wrote on Facebook. ‘I wanted to be near my fans, key members of the squad that became the first side to time teams in order to raise standards and boost the popularity of feel your affection, make my voice heard and tell you retain the Champions League trophy in June. A new con- women’s football. Below the new top flight will be a national league of things about myself. ‘It went much better than I tract for coach Zinedine Zidane is also imminent with the up to 12 semi-professional sides, with the current FA Women’s Premier expected: you have filled me with messages and con- Frenchman repeatedly stating his deal is “done”, although League sitting beneath that in tiers three and four as regional compe- veyed your emotions to me. ‘I’ve seen your love first no official announcement has yet been made. Then in a titions featuring promotion and relegation. The revamp comes at a hand and youíre helping me face this new stage of previous role as a club adviser, Zidane played a key role in time of uncertainty at the top of the sport after England Women’s my life.’ Roma travel to Qarabag in Azerbaijan bringing Varane to Madrid as an 18-year-old back in 2011 manager Mark Sampson was sacked last week for “inappropriate and yesterday in Champions League action after a from Lens. —AFP unacceptable behaviour” in a previous role as a club manager. —AFP goalless draw against Atleticio Madrid. —AFP
JERSEY CITY: Members of the US Team pose for a photo prior to practice rounds for the Presidents Cup at Liberty JERSEY CITY: Members of the International Team pose for a photo prior to practice rounds for the Presidents Cup National Golf Club yesterday in Jersey City, New Jersey. — AFP at Liberty National Golf Club yesterday in Jersey City, New Jersey. — AFP
GOLF Mickelson brings wealth of experience to Presidents Cup
JERSEY CITY: As Phil Mickelson prepped for since as the USA racked up nine wins and a tie said he discussed it with his assistant captains said. “He’s great with understanding what it’s Scott, who will be making his eighth his 12th straight Presidents Cup appearance with just one defeat to the Internationals. and other players, who were all in favor of like being on the team, pairings, how guys Presidents Cup appearance for the this week, US teammate Justin Thomas could Combined with his Ryder Cup appearances “Lefty”. Mickelson hasn’t won a tournament can match up, how they’re performing out Internationals. “You’re just seeing more and only marvel. “I was one (year old) when he against Europe, Mickelson will be representing since his 2013 British Open triumph at there ... he’s definitely a guy that guys look to more young guys really performing high and played his first one, which is really crazy to the United States for a 23rd straight time. He’s Muirfield. But he tied for sixth at the Dell as well as all of our captains.” less guys over 40 able to maintain golf at the think,” the 24-year-old Thomas, the newly won 23 President’s Cup matches with 16 Technologies Championship, second event in Mickelson’s experience could be especially top level,” Scott added. “It doesn’t mean that crowned FedEx Cup champion who figures to defeats and 12 draws. He has a chance this the US PGA Tour’s FedEx Cup playoffs, and his valuable in a US team that features six rookies. you can’t win big tournaments past 40, but to be one of the stars of the show in his week to pass Tiger Woods’ record of 24 wealth of experience with the nerve-wracking Thomas and fellow 24-year-old Jordan Spieth stay at the top week in, week out, it seemingly Presidents Cup debut at Liberty National Golf Presidents Cup match wins. “It’s one of the team match play format is invaluable. are reckoned to be the players most likely to is getting tougher. A record like that may nev- Club, said on Tuesday. things I’m most proud of, to continue to be a carry the US standard into the future in team er be touched.” The United States will be out to continue part of this,” five-time major winner Mickelson ‘A LOT OF WISDOM’ competition. But they’ll face an uphill battle Mickelson isn’t so sure. “I think that it will be what’s become a lopsided rivalry against the said. “One of the things I cherish the most are “Phil brings a lot of wisdom,” said team- matching Mickelson’s record for appearances. done,” he said, “because there’s so many talent- International team in the biennial match play these events. mate Rickie Fowler, who like Thomas has a “I think it’s going to become harder and ed players that I believe will have the longevi- competition. Mickelson played in the event’s This year Mickelson needed a captain’s pick hard time taking in Mickelson’s span of sus- harder for players to play at the top level for ty. “But right now, it’s something I’m really debut in 1994 and has been a fixture ever by Steve Stricker to join the squad. Stricker tained excellence. “He’s just good,” Fowler long periods of time,” said Australian Adam proud of.” — AFP
MOTOR RACING Hamilton, loving life, seeks last hurrah in Malaysia
KUALA LUMPUR: Lewis Hamilton says he is “lov- ing” his world championship battle with Sebastian Vettel so much that he has banished any thoughts of retirement as he heads into Sunday’s last-ever Malaysian Grand Prix. At Sepang a year ago Hamilton thought the world was against him, spouting conspiracy the- ories when his Mercedes engine exploded while leading, which handed a 23-point championship cushion to team-mate and eventual champion Nico Rosberg. It left the three-time world cham- pion at such a low ebb that there were rumours he could retire. But a rejuvenated Hamilton this season broke Michael Schumacher’s record for career pole positions, and even spoke about attempting to match the German great’s record 91 race victories after his 60th win-and third in a row-in Singapore. “I definitely have thought about (retirement),” the Mercedes driver admit- ted on a British TV chat show at the weekend. “But then we’re in the heat of this battle right now and I’m loving it more than ever. It’s the greatest feeling ever so I’m going to keep going NEW YORK: Lorena Ochoa speaks on stage as she is inducted into the 2017 World KUALA LUMPUR: Mercedes’ British driver Lewis Hamilton (L) holds an unidentified infant dur- for as long as I can and see what I can do.” Golf Hall Of Fame on Tuesday in New York City. — AFP ing a meet the fans session in Kuala Lumpur yesterday, ahead of the Malaysia Grand Prix. The Hamilton’s calamitous luck of last season has Malaysia Grand Prix will take place on October 1. — AFP turned full circle, epitomised by his win in Love, Woosnam, Ochoa, Mallon Singapore 10 days ago after pole-sitter Vettel’s “It just goes to show you never know what executive of the government-owned circuit, told Ferrari was shunted by Max Verstappen and can happen.” One certainty is that the drivers will AFP. The government, he said, was forking out enter World Golf Hall of Fame team-mate Kimi Raikkonen on a rain-sodden not return next year to experience the heat, $67 million annually to stage the race. “Two first lap. Hamilton, who started fifth on the grid, humidity and unpredictable weather of steamy numbers we looked at, spectators going to the avoided the carnage and emerged victorious to Sepang that have made the race a classic since it track and TV ratings,” said Razali. NEW YORK: Two-time US Ryder Cup cap- “Now I feel the luckiest woman in the extend his championship lead over Vettel from joined the calendar in 1999. “At the end of the day, hosting Formula One tain Davis Love, hailing golf as a game world.” Wales’ Woosnam, introduced by three to 28 points with six races to go, starting is about promoting the country as a global desti- that “has improved my life in every way, South African great Gary Player as a “wee with Malaysia’s swansong. CHEQUERED FLAG FOR SEPANG nation and if the numbers are not there, the was inducted into the World Golf Hall of giant” recalled his 14-year-old self telling In April Prime Minister Najib Razak investment is not justified.” There will be one Fame on Tuesday alongside Ian a member at his club in Wales that he WOLFF WARNING announced this year’s race would be the last. new face in the pit lane as young French GP2 Woosnam, Lorena Ochoa and Meg wanted to be a professional golfer. But Mercedes chief Toto Wolff warned The vast stands at the Sepang circuit, which can champion Pierre Gasly, 21, will make his Formula Mallon. “He tapped me on the head and said, Hamilton to stay focused as the championship is accommodate 120,000, drew just 45,000 in 2016 One debut with Toro Rosso after replacing Daniil The four players were welcomed to ‘Well, if you want to try to achieve all far from over. “We will need to be on top of our and TV ratings were poor. “Last year, the num- Kvyat, who has managed just four points this the hall along with the late British golf that, you’re going to have to grow a lit- game at every track to maintain our lead,” said bers were really bad,” Razlan Razali, the chief season.—AFP writer Henry Longhurst in a ceremony in tle,’” Woosnam said. “I did grow a little - Wolff. “The last race was a strong reminder that New York City held in conjunction with about four inches,” added Woosnam, sport always has the power to surprise. We have this week’s Presidents Cup. Love, who whose small stature was no impediment been on the receiving end of those bad memo- won his lone major at the 1997 PGA in a career that included a 1991 Masters ries before.” Ferrari team principal Maurizio Poulter on the up after career slump Championship, was introduced to the title and a 50 weeks atop the world rank- Arrivabene vowed to keep the pressure on game by his father, a respected teaching ings. “Woosie” was a European Tour Order Mercedes. “Singapore doesn’t mean the battle is NEWCASTLE: Ian Poulter is on the verge of on major medical exemptions. breaking back into golf’s elite top 50 just Poulter showed his delight by finishing pro who died in a plane crash just as of Merit winner and a two-time over,” he said. “Just that it has become more diffi- months after slumping to 207th in the world second at the Players Championship in May Love was establishing himself among the European Player of the Year. A five-time cult.” Vettel will look to strike back on a track where alongside Schumacher he has the best and losing his PGA Tour card. Poulter will to effectively secure his 2018 Tour card after professional ranks. He held his grand- Ryder Cup winner in eight appearances contest this week’s British Masters in the just one event. “At one stage before New daughter in his arms as he called the as a player, he captained the victorious record of any driver, with four victories. Hamilton’s lone Malaysian success came in 2014. northeastern English city of Newcastle ranked Orleans we were speaking about damage lim- induction “the greatest honor of my life”. European side in 2006. Mallon, whose 18 A year ago Red Bull, who this week announced 55th in the world and in a much better frame itation and where could I play and what I was LPGA titles included four majors, recalled Love was 51 when he won his most Aston Martin as title sponsor from 2018, benefit- of mind than when he was in the doldrums going to do,” he said. “Am I right for invita- recent US PGA Tour title two years ago. the support of a large family and her ten- ed from Hamilton’s meltdown as they completed earlier this year. The Englishman lost his play- tions? And I was reassessing my whole life.” Mexico’s Ochoa opted to retire in 2010 nis champion mother’s encouragement. a one-two and they have been getting steadily ing status on the US PGA Tour after missing “So, I first had a very short window to reevalu- when she was 28 and still ranked num- And she remembered her own youthful stronger. the cut at the Texas Open in April because he ate my golfing life and then real quickly from ber one in the world. She recalled her single-mindedness, which drove her to Daniel Ricciardo 12 months ago shared a had earned insufficient prize money. It was having no playing schedule to realising I had husband, Andres Conseca, taking her to practice hitting balls against the wall of “shoey”-champagne from his driving boot-with the 10th and final event of his major medical a full playing schedule. “It was chaotic. It was the World Golf Hall of Fame in Florida her Detroit home. “My mind was filled Max Verstappen after his surprise win. But a exemption, granted after he missed a big stressful and it had been a really, bizarre five 10 years ago-and predicting they’d with dreams of being a professional ath- group of over-exuberant Aussie fans were arrest- chunk of last season with arthritis in his right months and the most bizarre of my career.” return with their family to see her lete,” Mallon said. “That young girl stands ed for celebrating by stripping down to their foot. But to his immense relief, tour officials Poulter was getting abuse on social enshrined there. in front of you tonight humble but burst- underwear, a huge no-no in conservative said just a week later that Poulter would keep media and also having to deal with “And it came true,” said Ochoa, whose ing with pride about being inducted into Malaysia. “My victory last year was definitely his card after a recalibration of the FedEx Cup increased media scrutiny over the prospect 21 career victories include two majors. the World Golf Hall of Fame.” — AFP unexpected,” said Ricciardo this week. playoff points structure for players competing of losing his tour card.—AFP THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2017 SPORTS Knights ready to battle as latest expansion team
LAS VEGAS: The Vegas Golden Knights not easy starting a team from scratch Stanley Cup in five, and win the Stanley EXPANSION DRAFT with the Lethbridge Hurricanes, Wong have molded a rag-tag bunch of experi- but they have done a good job in a short Cup in six,” Foley said at the opening of The team was compiled through a scored the Knights first pre-season goal enced veterans and promising picks period of time. the Knights new practice facility. “I stand one-off expansion draft which allowed against the Vancouver Canucks then from two drafts into the NHL’s first The key to success will be developing by my words. My people believe it too.” Vegas to select one player from all 30 added two more and an assist for a expansion team in 17 years. And while young players and getting leadership The Knights are already off to a strong NHL teams. That draft netted them dynamic four-point night in his NHL pre- wins might be in short supply at times in from the veterans. “It is unlikely we are start as they have a 3-2 record in the pre- Canadian Olympic gold medallist and season debut. their debut season, the Knights are not going to win the Stanley Cup with sim- season. Coach Gerard Gallant said his three-time Stanley Cup winning goal- “He played 12 minutes. Must have going to roll over and play dead for their ply the expansion draft but we are going job is get the most out the players he tender Marc-Andre Fleury. been bad coaching because he probably opponents either, says general manager to be an entertaining team and we are has available each night and not look They also took part in the 2017 should have played more with four George McPhee. going to be effective,” McPhee told AFP. too far down the road. expansion draft, selecting Portland points,” Gallant joked the morning after “We are not interested in being any- “Lots of people have a five-year plan but “Coaches don’t have five-year plans,” Winterhawks forward Cody Glass with the game. “To score that first goal was one’s doormat,” McPhee said. On it changes every day. Our philosophy is said Gallant, who guided the Florida their first pick. McPhee also swung a few something special,” said Wong, who was Tuesday, the Knights played their first to be as good as we can as quickly as Panthers last season before being fired deals with others teams and looked for one of eight players assigned to the ever home game at the new T-Mobile possible.” That feeling is echoed by in November. “They hired me to win free agents to sign. Knights’ Chicago Wolves farm team on Arena on the strip, losing 3-2 in overtime American business tycoon Bill Foley, hockey games. My job isn’t to go get a “The coaches and management did a Tuesday. “I have no expectations just go to the Los Angeles Kings in an exhibition who heads a consortium that paid the high draft pick. My job is to go out there great job putting together this group of into every practice and game trying to game. They are Las Vegas’s first major $500 million expansion fee. Foley says it and try to win every day.” Foley’s group guys,” said defenceman Jason Garrison, get better,” he said. professional sports team and the NHL’s won’t take long to make the Knights a was awarded the expansion team in of White Rock, Canada. Rookie forward The Knights begin the regular season first expansion team since 2000, when contender and insists they will win the June 2016, after a season-ticket drive a Tyler Wong, 21, is typical of the diamond on October 6 in Dallas and their first reg- Columbus and Minnesota increased the Stanley Cup in six years. year earlier that garnered 5,000 clients in in the rough that McPhee is trying to ular season home game will be October number of teams to 30. McPhee says it is “Playoffs in three, make a run for the the first 48 hours. find. Fresh off his final season of junior 10 against Phoenix. — AFP
LOS ANGELES: Chase Utley #26 of the Los Angeles Dodgers slides safely at home as Luis Torrens #21 of the San Diego Padres can’t control the throw during the third inning of a game at Dodger Stadium on Tuesday in Los Angeles, California. — AFP
BASEBALL Minnesota closes in on playoff berth
CLEVELAND: Brian Dozier’s three-run homer Assured no worse than a wild-card berth, the season and stayed 1 1/2 games ahead of to play in the race for the league’s best the sixth inning, and Philadelphia spoiled in the eighth inning pushed Minnesota to the Yankees closed within three games of AL Milwaukee. Nolan Arenado hit a two-run record. The Indians own the tiebreaker, hav- Bryce Harper’s return from a knee injury. With brink of a playoff berth as the Twins rallied for East-leading Boston with five remaining. homer in the fifth for Colorado. Anderson (6- ing won the season series. Astros left-hander the loss, Washington locked itself into the an 8-6 victory over Cleveland on Tuesday. The Tampa Bay (76-81) was eliminated from play- 6) allowed four hits and walked none. Miami Dallas Keuchel (14-5) struck out eight while second seed in the NL playoffs behind the Indians lost for just the third time in 32 off contention and missed the postseason for starter Jose Urena (14-7) yielded six runs over pitching six effective innings. Rangers ace Dodgers. The Nationals will host the NL games. Dozier connected for his 33rd homer the fourth straight year. Blake Snell (4-7) got five innings. The right-hander allowed a total Cole Hamels (11-5) was charged with six runs Central champion in a Division Series begin- against Bryan Shaw (4-6) as the Twins low- the loss. of six runs in four previous starts this month. in three-plus innings. ning Oct. 6 at Nationals Park. Thompson (3-2) ered their magic number for clinching a play- was charged with a run in five-plus innings. off berth to one. Edwin Encarnacion hit his DODGERS 9, PADRES 2 ANGELS 9, WHITE SOX 3 CARDINALS 8, CUBS 7 Hector Neris struck out the side in the ninth 38th homer and drove in four runs for the Adrian Gonzalez hit his third home run of Mike Trout hit his 31st homer, Albert Pujols Tommy Pham and Randal Grichuk home- for his 25th save. Harper played for the first Indians, whose 29-3 mark over 32 games is an injury-plagued season and Los Angeles joined Alex Rodriguez as the only players with red, and the Cardinals denied the Cubs a time since hyperextending and bruising his the best in the majors since the 1947 New beat San Diego to clinch home-field advan- 100 RBIs in 14 seasons, and the fading Angels chance at clinching the NL Central title. Matt left knee on Aug. 12. He was 0 for 2 with a York Yankees accomplished the feat. Taylor tage throughout the National League play- won on the road. Los Angeles remained five Carpenter and Jedd Gyorko also connected walk before being lifted in the fifth inning. Rogers (7-3), one of a club-record 10 pitchers offs. Yasmani Grandal and Corey Seager each games behind Minnesota for the final AL wild for St. Louis, which is 2 1/2 games back in the Washington left-hander Gio Gonzalez (15-8) used by Twins manager Paul Molitor, got two had a three-run homer for the NL West cham- card with five to play. Trout, Brandon Phillips race for the second NL wild card. Zach Duke allowed three runs in five innings. outs in the seventh and Matt Belisle worked pions, who improved to 101-57. They’ll open and Luis Valbuena homered off Chris Volstad (1-1) got the win and Juan Nicasio earned his the ninth for his eighth save. a best-of-five Division Series at home Oct. 6 (1-1) during a six-run second inning. Parker fifth save. Jason Heyward hit a three-run MARINERS 6, ATHLETICS 3 against the winner of the NL wild-card game, Bridwell (9-3) improved to 5-0 in nine road homer for Chicago, and Ben Zobrist also went Danny Valencia hit a three-run homer YANKEES 6, RAYS 1 hosted by Arizona. The Diamondbacks’ oppo- starts. Jose Abreu had three hits for Chicago, deep. Jake Arrieta (14-10) was charged with against his former team and fellow ex- Aaron Hicks robbed Wilson Ramos of a nent has not been determined yet. Alex including his 32nd and 33rd homers. three earned runs in three innings. The Cubs Oakland slugger Yonder Alonso added a two- first-inning grand slam in the outfielder’s Wood (16-3) allowed two runs in six innings (88-69) still lead the division by five games run shot for Oakland. Khris Davis matched his return from the disabled list, and the Yankees for Los Angeles. Dinelson Lamet (7-8) gave up BLUE JAYS 9, RED SOX 4 over second-place Milwaukee. career high from last season with his 42nd clinched home-field advantage if they end up four runs and walked six over five innings. Red Sox ace Chris Sale matched a career homer, a two-run shot in the sixth to put in the AL wild-card game next week. Tampa worst by giving up four home runs in a play- BREWERS 7, REDS 6 Oakland ahead before Valencia’s 15th of the Bay’s first three batters reached against rook- ROCKIES 6, MARLINS 0 off tuneup, including a pair to Josh Domingo Santana hit a three-run homer in year in the seventh off Daniel Mengden (2 -2). ie Jordan Montgomery (9-7), and Hicks Trevor Story hit a three-run homer and Donaldson. Teoscar Hernandez hit one of his Milwaukee’s four-run first, and the Brewers Emilio Pagan (2-3) pitched 1 2/3 innings in leaped at the 385-foot sign in right-center to Tyler Anderson pitched seven superb innings, two homers off Sale, and Kendrys Morales held on for the win. Milwaukee remained 1 relief of James Paxton for the win, then Edwin get his glove above the wall. He squeezed the helping Colorado maintain its slim lead for had the other against the left-hander. Sale 1/2 games behind Colorado for the second Diaz closed it out for his 33rd save. webbing tight, preventing the ball from pop- the second NL wild card. The Rockies notched (17-8) allowed five runs in five innings and NL wild card. Josh Hader (2-3) earned the win, ping out and limiting Ramos to a sacrifice fly. their first win over the Marlins in five tries this surrendered multiple homers for the third and Corey Knebel worked the ninth for his METS 4, BRAVES 3 time in five starts. J.A. Happ (10-11) struck out 38th save. Scott Schebler, Zack Cozart and Travis Taijeron hit a game-ending RBI sin- nine while pitching seven strong innings for Jesse Winker homered for last-place gle in the ninth, sending the Mets to the win. MLB Results/Standings the last-place Blue Jays. He was charged with Cincinnati, which has dropped seven in a row. New York was stymied by R.A. Dickey much of one run and four hits. Rookie Deck McGuire (0-1) allowed four the night and trailed 3-0 in the seventh LA Dodgers 9, San Diego 2; Seattle 6, Oakland 3; Arizona 11, San Francisco 4; Colorado 6, Miami 0; St. Louis 8, earned runs in three innings. before Kevin Plawecki hit a two-run homer Chicago Cubs 7; Kansas City 2, Detroit 1; LA Angels 9, Chicago White Sox 3; Houston 14, Texas 3; Milwaukee 7, PIRATES 10, ORIOLES 1 off the 42-year-old knuckleballer. Asdrubal Cincinnati 6; NY Mets 4, Atlanta 3; Minnesota 8, Cleveland 6; Toronto 9, Boston 4; Pittsburgh 10, Baltimore 1; NY Andrew McCutchen hit his first career DIAMONDBACKS 11, GIANTS 4 Cabrera tied it with a sacrifice fly in the Yankees 6, Tampa Bay 1; Philadelphia 4, Washington 1. grand slam and drove in eight runs, powering J.D. Martinez hit a grand slam and drove in eighth. Jeurys Familia (2-2) pitched a score- American League National League Pittsburgh to the victory. McCutchen raised a six runs, leading Arizona and its lineup of reg- less inning for the win. Dickey, who won the Eastern Division Eastern Division fist in triumph as he rounded the bases after ulars over San Francisco. Martinez continued NL Cy Young Award with the Mets in 2012, W L PCT GB Washington 95 62 .605 - connecting against Kevin Gausman (11-11) in his torrid September in which he has 15 allowed five hits in 6 2/3 innings. A.J. Minter Boston 91 66 .580 - Miami 74 83 .471 21 the second inning. He also hit an RBI double home runs, 35 RBIs and seven doubles with a (0-1) got the loss. NY Yankees 88 69 .561 3 Atlanta 71 86 .452 24 in the first, singled in the fifth and belted a .414 batting average. He has 28 homers since Tampa Bay 76 81 .484 15 NY Mets 68 90 .430 27.5 Toronto 75 83 .475 16.5 three-run homer in the seventh. McCutchen’s the Diamondbacks acquired him from ROYALS 2, TIGERS 1 Philadelphia 63 95 .399 32.5 eight RBIs were one off the franchise record Detroit, tied with Miami slugger Giancarlo Jason Vargas moved into a tie for the Baltimore 75 83 .475 16.5 Central Division Central Division and the most by a Pirate since Jason Bay in Stanton for most in the majors since July 19. major league lead with his 18th victory, lead- Chicago Cubs 88 69 .561 - Cleveland 98 59 .624 - 2004. Trevor Williams (7-9) pitched six innings The six RBIs tied a career high, and Martinez’s ing the Royals over the struggling Tigers. Milwaukee 83 74 .529 5 Minnesota 83 74 .529 15 St. Louis 82 75 .522 6 of one-run ball and rookie Steven Brault fin- total of 103 RBIs on the season is a career Vargas (18-10) went six innings to match Kansas City 77 80 .490 21 ished the five-hitter for his first career save. best. Arizona starter Robbie Ray (15-5) had Cleveland’s Corey Kluber and the Dodgers’ Chicago White Sox 64 93 .408 34 Pittsburgh 72 85 .459 16 Cincinnati 66 91 .420 22 more than enough support, though he gave Clayton Kershaw for most wins in the majors. Detroit 62 95 .395 36 ASTROS 14, RANGERS 3 up Tim Federowicz’s two-run homer in the He gave up a run and five hits. The Tigers Western Division Western Division Houston 97 60 .618 - LA Dodgers 101 57 .639 - Carlos Correa, Brian McCann and Cameron fifth. Giants starter Matt Moore (6-15) have dropped eight straight to fall to 4-21 in LA Angels 78 79 .497 19 Arizona 91 67 .576 10 Maybin each drove in three runs, and couldn’t make it out of the second inning. September. Anibal Sanchez (3-6) took the Seattle 77 81 .487 20.5 Colorado 85 73 .538 16 Houston clinched no worse than the second- loss, allowing two runs and seven hits in six Texas 76 81 .484 21 San Diego 70 88 .443 31 best record in the American League. Houston PHILLIES 4, NATIONALS 1 innings. Mike Minor worked the ninth for his Oakland 72 85 .459 25 San Francisco 62 96 .392 39 (97-60) trails Cleveland by one game with five Jake Thompson pitched four-hit ball into third save in five chances. — AP THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2017 SPORTS
Rival captains Sarfraz, Chandimal look for new beginning
ABU DHABI: Rival captains Sarfraz the first time in Tests, is confident that one-day and Twenty20 international. order and I am confident that Ali, Shafiq Chandimal believes Sri Lanka hves Ahmed and Dinesh Chandimal hope his team will avail the first opportuni- “This is my first opportunity as cap- and Babar Azam will be up to the task to the talent to improve after being the recent two-match Test series ty. “Obviously, you have two great tain in Tests, so I will be up for that chal- complement the batting,” said Ahmed, thrashed 3-0 at home by India last between Pakistan and Sri Lanka will players who were playing consistently lenge and my players are also up to that who also has three Test hundreds. month. “From that last series we learnt a give them a new beginning. Pakistan but you have to move on,” said Ahmed and are very excited at this prospect.” Ahmed said his team will not lot, especially we have done more work want to turn the page after the retire- yesterday. Pakistan will use experienced batsman underestimate the opponents. “Their on our fitness and fielding. All we need ment of their two greats Younis Khan “We have to remember the disci- Azhar Ali on number three after he team looks good,” said Ahmed of Sri to win is one game and everything will and Misbah-ul-Haq while Sri Lanka will plines (of Younis and Misbah) and what- opened the innings in the last 12 lanka. “They have (Lahiru) Thirimanne fall into place,” said Chandimal, whose look to lift their recent poor showing in ever they told us should be implement- months and will promote Asad Shafiq and Kushal Silva back so both the team has lost seven of their last nine the longer format. ed on the field and start afresh,” said from six to four. teams are young and I think it will be a Tests, including one against Ahmed, who will lead Pakistan for Ahmed, who has already led Pakistan in “We have strengthened our middle good series.” Bangladesh.—AFP Bangladesh face in-form South African batsmen POTCHEFSTROOM: History and the form left-arm spinner Keshav Maharaj took just of South Africa’s leading batsmen are one wicket in 39 overs. Only Morne Morkel against Bangladesh in the first Test starting enjoyed some success, taking five wickets today at Senwes Park in northwestern uni- across two innings. versity town Potchefstroom. Bangladesh In the absence of leading all-rounder have lost all four previous Tests in South Shakib Al Hasan, who was granted a break Africa by an innings, despite winning the from Test cricket, Bangladesh will look to toss on all four occasions. their two most experienced remaining In their favour, though, is improved form players, captain Mushfiqur Rahim and since their previous tour in 2008/09 and a opener Tamim Iqbal, to provide substance Potchefstroom pitch less likely to help to their batting. Tamim played a minimal South Africa’s formidable fast bowlers than role in the warm-up match because of a other surfaces in the host country. thigh muscle strain but has been passed fit Although it has generally favoured bats- for Potchefstroom. Shakib has also been a men, there was surprising assistance for mainstay of Bangladesh’s bowling attack, slow bowlers in a Twenty20 tournament which looks short of experience without earlier this month, a repeat of which would him. Only slow left-armer Taijul Islam, with suit Bangladesh’s spin-strong attack. 54, has taken more than 50 Test wickets. Even so, the odds seemed loaded in Two young bowlers, left-arm fast bowler South Africa’s favour. Bangladesh did not Mustafizur Rahman, 22, and off-spinner suggest themselves as world-beaters in a Mehidy Hasan, 19, are likely to be key fig- low-key draw against a largely inexperi- ures for the tourists. enced Invitation team in Benoni near Johannesburg last week, while South Squads Africa’s top batsmen were feasting in four- South Africa: Faf du Plessis (capt), Dean day franchise matches. Elgar, Aiden Markram, Hashim Amla, Temba Hashim Amla, Dean Elgar, Theunis de Bavuma, Quinton de Kock (wkt), Theunis de Bruyn and new cap Aiden Markram all Bruyn, Keshav Maharaj, Kagiso Rabada, scored centuries, captain Faf du Plessis Morne Morkel, Duanne Olivier, Wayne made 96 and Quinton de Kock hit a half- Parnell, Andile Phehlukwayo Coach: Ottis century. Temba Bavuma was the exception, Gibson (WIS) making 25 and 0. South Africa’s Test stars Bangladesh: Mushfiqur Rahim (capt/wkt), were playing domestic first-class cricket at Tamim Iqbal, Soumya Sarkar, Imrul Kayes, the insistence of new head coach, former Sabbir Rahman, Mahmudullah, Mominul West Indies player Ottis Gibson, some for Haque, Liton Das (wkt), Mehidy Hasan, WUHAN: Garbine Muguruza of Spain celebrates after winning against Magda Linette of Poland during their third round women’s singles match at the first time in several seasons. Taijul Islam, Mustafizur Rahman, Rubel the WTA Wuhan Open tennis tournament in Wuhan, in China’s central Hubei province yesterday. — AFP The form of the batsmen was encourag- Hossain, Shafiul Islam, Taskin Ahmed, ing after they struggled in a low-scoring Subashis Roy Coach: Chandika series defeat in England this year. South Hathurusingha (SRI) TENNIS Africa’s frontline bowlers were less success- Umpires: Chris Gaffaney (NZL), Bruce ful, however. Fast bowler Kagiso Rabada Oxenford (AUS) failed to take a wicket in 38 overs, Duanne TV umpire: Kumar Dharmasena (SRI) Olivier took three in the first innings and Match referee: Ranjan Madugalle (SRI). Muguruza advances none in 31 overs in the second innings and —AFP
CRICKET to q-finals at Wuhan
Stokes picked by England WUHAN: Top-ranked Garbine Muguruza advance, beating eight-seeded Monica Puig of serve in the 10th game to advance on her fourth advanced to the quarterfinals at the Wuhan Puerto Ricco 6-2, 3-6, 6-3. Up a double break, match point. Open, beating Magda Linette of Poland 6-2, 1-6, Ostapenko served for the match at 5-1 but Puig “I didn’t do much wrong in that first set, but for Ashes despite arrest 6-4 yesterday. The Spaniard went up an early wasn’t ready to go home. Helped by seven dou- came up short, so credit to her,” Barty said. “But I break in the third-round match against No. 83 ble faults in Ostapenko’s last two service games, played pretty well over the last two sets.” LONDON: Ben Stokes was included yester- claim for a place in England’s fragile middle Linette and the Wimbledon champion needed Puig came close to a comeback in the decider. Sixteenth-seeded Elena Vesnina lost in day in England’s 16-man squad for the order. There was no place in the squad for just a half-hour to win the first set. Australian Ashleigh Barty continued her straight sets to qualifier Maria Sakkari of Greece Ashes series in Australia, two days after the batsmen Tom Westley and Alex Hales, and Linette fought back in the second set, win- strong form, beating her second consecutive 7-6 (6), 7-5. Sakkari beat fourth-seeded Caroline allrounder was arrested on suspicion of bowlers Mark Wood and Toby Roland- ning five straight games against top-seeded top-20 player with a 4-6, 6-0, 6-4 win over ninth- Wozniacki en route to the quarterfinals. causing actual bodily harm in a late-night Jones. England, which won the most recent Muguruza before play was stopped briefly to seeded Agnieszka Radwanska. In hot and humid Ekaterina Makarova of Russia also made it to incident. Ashes series in 2015 on home soil, will play close the roof for rain. Muguruza managed to conditions, Barty broke Radwanska’s service six the quarters, beating compatriot Daria Stokes, who has suffered a broken finger three tour matches before the test series. get one game on the board before Linette sent times to advance to the quarterfinals against Kasatkina 6-4, 6-4. It’s been a tough tourna- on his right hand, remains under investiga- “A tour of Australia is the ultimate test the match to a decider. third-seeded Karolina Pliskova, who beat China’s ment for seeded and featured players. On tion after being released by police. His role for our squad,” national selector James “I know she is a very good player,” Muguruza Wang Qiang 6-2, 6-1. The 21-year-old Barty beat Tuesday, second-seeded Simona Halep and No. as vice-captain is subject to a formal disci- Whitaker said. “We have provided (captain) said. “She had a very good moment in the sec- fifth-seeded Johanna Konta in the second round. 4-seeded Caroline Wozniacki lost their second- plinary process being undertaken by the Joe Root and (coach) Trevor Bayliss with a ond set but that didn’t disturb me to just keep The Australian broke Radwanska’s serve in the round matches. Former No. 1 Angelique Kerber, England and Wales Cricket Board. well-balanced squad with options in all going,” said Muguruza. Muguruza faces French deciding set to take a 4-2 lead. She set up game US Open champion Sloane Stephens - beaten Asked if any legal issues could impact areas. “After a successful summer, having Open Champion Jelena Ostapenko in the quar- point in the eighth game with a backhand drop by Wang - and runner-up Madison Keys lost in on Stokes’ availability for the tour, which won the test series against South Africa terfinals. Ostapenko also needed three sets to shot after a 20-shot rally to lead 5-3, then held the first round. —AP starts on Nov. 4, ECB director of cricket and West Indies, there is real competition Andrew Strauss said: “His selection, on this for places.” Strauss said the incident involv- side, is based on what we are in control of ing Stokes will lead to a reassessment of and what we know at this stage.” how England’s players will be treated FIGURE SKATING Strauss said the results of a scan under- regarding their free time on tour. taken on Tuesday showed Stokes has a “My instinct, and Trevor Bayliss’ instinct, “minor fracture” of a finger on his right is to treat people like adults and give quite World junior champ Zhou set hand and the player will undergo more a lot of responsibility to players on and off Tests. “The early indications are that he’ll be the field,” said Strauss, a former England fit for all of the Ashes test matches,” Strauss captain. “He believes, and I think we’ve for cheers in China debut said. The first of five Tests starts Nov. 23 in seen that, that that sort of attitude bears Brisbane. great dividends on the pitch in terms of Stokes has been left out of England’s how they go about their business but also PARK CITY: World junior figure skating cham- living my dream now.” Making a quick transi- team for the one-day international against creates a harmonious environment which pion Vincent Zhou makes his senior Grand tion to the elite competition level is crucial to West Indies yesterday in the wake of the enables performance. Prix debut in five weeks in Beijing, where he that dream. “I know I have a ton of stuff to incident on early Monday, which took place “That philosophy is a sound one. starts making his case for a Winter Olympic learn, a ton of experiences to have,” Zhou said. in Bristol after an ODI there. Three Obviously when things like this happen, debut at Pyeongchang. “China and France are going to be a great uncapped players - paceman Craig you have to take a step back and go, ‘Are The Chinese-American makes his top-level learning experience. I feel like I can win these Overton, legspinner Mason Crane and we doing everything right?’” debut just nine days after his 17th birthday at things, but I know it’s going to take a lot of wicketkeeper Ben Foakes - were called up England squad: Joe Root (captain), the Cup of China on November 3 and com- hard work and I’m looking forward to these to the squad that flies to Australia on Oct. Moeen Ali, James Anderson, Jonny pete again two weeks later at a stop in experiences.” The US Olympic trials are in 28. James Vince returned for the first time Bairstow, Jake Ball, Gary Ballance, Stuart Grenoble, France. January, but a panel selects qualifiers after the since August 2016 and fellow batsman Broad, Alastair Cook, Mason Crane, Ben Zhou already has a fan club waiting to meet. “All I can do is skate my best and hope I Gary Ballance is back after fracturing a fin- Foakes, Dawid Malan, Craig Overton, Ben applaud him in China, with his mother, Fay Ge, can find my way onto the team,” Zhou said. ger in a test against South Africa in July, Stokes, Mark Stoneman, James Vince, Chris giving them another chance to stake a Woakes. — AP helping stir excitement from her son’s online Zhou landed his first quad salchow at age 14 followers. “They are organizing a cheering and three others at 15. “It has (taken a toll on section for me. My mom is involved in some my body) but at this level, it’s important to fan groups for me,” Zhou said Tuesday. “My mitigate those things,” he said. mom told me that a lot of people from China Zhou says landing a quad in the last third will be cheering for me. of his program is the toughest feat. “Imagine “And my grandparents will be there. There’s trying to do a quad near the end of an 800- going to be a lot of extra pressure for me to meter sprint,” he said. “That’s what it’s like.” deal with.” Zhou isn’t shy about admitting he is nervous every time he takes the ice, but he WORTHY END NEEDS TOUGH TREK says he’s ready for the mental challenge. The son of computer software engineers “It takes a lot of mental strength to be able who immigrated to California in the 1990s has to manage those things,” Zhou said. “Despite an older sister who went to MIT university. my age, I think I’m well prepared. My team has Zhou finished high school this year in an given me great mental strength.” Zhou, run- online program and is pondering business nerup to Chinese-American pal Nathan Chen school, but wants to stay near his Colorado in last year’s US championships, won the training base. “I was the youngest one in my world junior crown in March at Taiwan, the class and learning on my own,” he said. best free skate scores of his career lifting him “Learning by myself was very difficult and cost from fifth after the short program. And he me a lot of sleep. I’m glad I made it through. could wind up back in Beijing for the 2022 “The destination isn’t worth it if the jour- Winter Olympics, although he says: “I can’t ney isn’t difficult.” Pyeongchang is his destina- imagine what that’s going to be like.” “If I stay tion, but blocking his path is Chen, who Zhou healthy and keep progressing, I hope I’ll be said could unleash seven quads if he wants, a PARK CITY: Figure Skater Vincent Zhou poses LONDON: This file photo taken on September 08, 2017 shows England’s Ben Stokes one of the top skaters going into those fact Zhou doesn’t see as intimidating. for a portrait during the Team USA Media appealing unsuccessfully for the wicket of West Indies’ Shai Hope during the sec- Olympics,” Zhou said. “Thinking about the number of quads some- Summit ahead of the PyeongChang 2018 ond day of the third international Test match between England and West Indies at “But I haven’t thought too much about one else can do isn’t going to change the Olympic Winter Games on Tuesday in Park Lords cricket ground in London. —AFP that. For now, I’m concentrating on 2018. I’m number of quads I can do,” Zhou said. —AFP City, Utah. —AFP THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2017 SPORTS Roma grind out 2-1 win at battling Qarabag
BAKU: Roma ended its poor away “We should have finished it off in the the visitors a seventh minute lead underside of the bar on its way in. Eusebio Di Francesco brought on record in the Champions League with a first half, instead we conceded the goal when goalkeeper Ibrahim Sehic poor- It was Dzeko’s sixth goal in his past experienced midfielder Daniele De labored 2-1 victory at Qarabag yester- and we suffered. But at the end we got ly punched a corner straight at four matches. However, Roma paid the Rossi in an attempt to gain more con- day. Kostas Manolas and Edin Dzeko the three points.” Lorenzo Pellegrini, who volleyed it in price for its complacency when trol of the match. gave Roma a comfortable 2-0 lead Though Roma had only won one of for Manolas’ diving header. Maxime Gonalons was caught in pos- The home side almost snatched an inside the opening quarter of an hour, its past 13 matches on its travels in Roma doubled its advantage eight session by Dino Ndlovu who sent in a equalizer in the final minute but but Pedro Henrique reduced the deficit the competition, beating Basel in minutes later with a well-worked move through ball for Henrique to blast into Ndlovu headed just past the left post. in the 28th minute with Qarabag’s first 2009, it was hopeful of ending that that ended with Stephan El Shaarawy the back of the net. Atletico Madrid, which drew 0-0 at ever goal in the Champions League. run against Qarabag, which had been flicking a cross into the area. Dzeko Qarabag dominated possession in Roma in the opening round, hosts “In this match it was more important humiliated 6 -0 at Chelsea in the chested the ball down before lifting it the second half but never really Chelsea later in the other Group C to win than to play well,” Dzeko said. opening round. Qarabag duly gifted above Sehic - with his shot clipping the threatened, although Roma coach match. —AP
Higuain lifts Juventus to win over Olympiakos
TURIN: Gonzalo Higuain got Juventus’s life for the hosts late in the first half. Silvio Champions League campaign off the mark Proto did well in goal in place of Greek coming on a substitute to lift last year’s international Stefanos Kapino, banished finalists to a 2-0 Group D win over after the AEK defeat. Olympiakos yesterday. Massimiliano And the Belgian kept the visitors net Allegri’s side needed to reignite their unbreached faced with a dangerous European campaign after falling 3-0 to Juventus onslaught in the last 15 minutes Barcelona in Spain two weeks ago. And of the first half. Juventus star Paulo Dybala Higuain hit back after being dropped by failed to add to his tally of 12 goals this sea- Allegri by opening the scoring after 69 min- son, sending a couple of free-kicks into the utes and having a hand in Mario wall. The hosts missed two quickfire Mandzukic’s second on 80 minutes at the chances on 34 minutes when Juan Allianz Arena. Cuadrado crossed to Mandzukic but his Juventus are now third in Group D header was flicked over by Proto, who then which is led by unbeaten Barcelona but dived to keep out Stefano Sturaro’s header behind Sporting Lisbon-who lost 1-0 at off the ensuing corner. Olympiakos were home to the Spanish side-on goal differ- very dangerous on the counter but ence. For Olympiakos a second defeat after Gianluigi Buffon had his first save on 41 their opener to Sporting leaves them rock minutes from a Felipe Pardo angled shot. bottom. Juventus had a double chance to break the Olympiakos coach Takis Lemonis was deadlock just before half-time when Proto parachuted in two days ago for his fourth again dived to stop Dybala, and spell after Albanian Besnik Hasi was sacked Olympiakos narrowly avoided an own goal after a derby collapse to AEK. But despite when Alex Sandro’s cross from the left was the turmoil within their squad Olympiakos accidentally deflected off the post by Bjorn proved more than a more than a match Engels. early for the hosts in Turin. Higuain proved decisive when he came Bosnian midfielder Miralem Pjanic on after an hour in northern Italy. Sandro pulled out in the warm-up for Juventus crossed to to the Argentine whose first with Higuain dropped for the second game effort was blocked, but his second beat in a row, moving Mandzukic to the centre- Proto for his third goal of the season. forward role, before the Argentine came on Higuain also had a hand in the second goal for the last 30 minutes. Olympiakos pinned when the Argentine played in Dybala back the six-time successive Serie A cham- before the Olympiakos defence knocked pions initially before the game sprung to the ball into Mandzukic’s path. —AFP LISBON: Barcelona’s Uruguayan forward Luis Suarez (L) kicks the ball during the UEFA Champions League Group D football match Sporting CP vs FC Barcelona at the Jose Alvalade stadium in Lisbon yesterday. — AFP Unlucky Coates gifts Barca win at Sporting
LISBON: Sebastian Coates scored an unfortu- one goal away from 100 in European competi- yellow card. Dutch international Bas Dost, who nate second-half own goal to gift Barcelona a 1- tion, was largely subdued during a quiet first scored a league-best 34 goals last campaign, 0 victory away to Sporting Lisbon in the half in the Portuguese capital, with Cristiano replace Doumbia, but Barca broke the deadlock Champions League yesterday. The Uruguayan Piccini flashing narrowly over for Sporting on 15 early into the second half as a Messi set-piece centre-back unwittingly deflected a Lionel Messi minutes. ricocheted about the Sporting six-yard box free-kick into his own net on 49 minutes to hand Sergi Roberto slipped in Luis Suarez as Barca before trickling beyond Patricio. the Spaniards a second successive win to start finally threatened just before the half hour, but The Argentine’s curling delivery in from the Group D. the Uruguayan was denied by Rui Patricio with right brushed two Sporting heads with Suarez The five-time European champions head the the Portugal goalkeeper then holding well from then nodding the ball against Coates who could section with a maximum six points, ahead of a Messi header. only watch in horror as it dribbled over the line. both Sporting and Juventus on three, with Sporting’s Marco Acuna tested Marc-Andre Suarez unleashed a snapshot straight at Patricio Olympiakos yet to pick up a point. Ernesto ter Stegen with a low drive, but Messi gradually as Barca searched for a second, but the visitors Valverde’s Barca have proved unstoppable in La grew in influence as the interval approached. He were grateful to Ter Stegen as the Germany Liga so far, winning their opening six matches to weaved his way through the home defence on international thwarted Bruno Fernandes’ TURIN: Juventus’ midfielder from Italy Stefano Sturaro (C) fights for the ball with pull seven points clear of defending champions 43 minutes only to find an old foe, ex-Real attempt for an equaliser. Olympiacos’ Nigerian Defender Emmanuel Emenike (R) during the UEFA Champion’s Real Madrid while vanquishing Juve in their first Madrid full-back Fabio Coentrao, slide across Former Tottenham Hotspur midfielder League Group D football match Juventus vs Olympiacos yesterday at the Juventus group game in Europe. superbly to block his goal-bound effort. Paulinho went close to notching his third goal in stadium in Turin. — AFP Messi drew level with former long-serving Sporting lost striker Seydou Doumbia to four games late on when Patricio repelled the Barca captain Carles Puyol by making his 593rd injury prior to the break, the Ivorian seemingly Brazilian, but Barca stretched their unbeaten run appearance for the club-trailing only Andres hurting himself following a theatrical fall on the against Portuguese clubs to 15 matches dating Iniesta (637) and Xavi (767). But the Argentine, edge of the Barca penalty area that earned him a back to 1987. — AFP Celtic overcome away anxiety to beat Anderlecht Birthday boy Oberlin lifts BRUSSELS: Scottish Champions Celtic After 37 minutes in which neither enjoyed a rare away victory in their 3-0 team managed a single shot on goal, win over an uninspiring Anderlecht in Celtic flawlessly executed a counter Basel to beat Benfica 5-0 their Champions League clash in from their own half to gain the lead, Brussels yesterday, staking their claim with Leigh Griffiths converting calmly. on the third spot in Group B. Five minutes into the second half, BASEL: Young forward Dimitri Oberlin used a pion. Though losing at Man United was no sur- ed this year by the club’s new ownership - react- Ahead of the match, Celtic, Scottish Celtic scored again when a cross by special occasion to inspire Basel to a stunning 5- prise, Basel languishes in fourth place in its ing with evident relief to the early lead. Coach champions for the past six seasons, Patrick Roberts came off Anderlecht 0 win over Benfica in the Champions League home league. Raphael Wicky, in his first season of senior man- had only won once in 30 away matches defender Kara Mbodji into the net, yesterday. On his 20th birthday, the Cameroon- Television cameras caught sporting director agement at any club, punched the air wildly at in the Champions League. Having before Scott Sinclair made it 3-0 with a born Oberlin scored twice, had one assist and Marco Streller - a former Basel forward appoint- each goal. — AP thumping shot in the final seconds. been thumped 5-0 at home by Paris also earned a penalty as Basel defied a lackluster Anderlecht, who sacked manager Rene start to the season. Saint Germain in their opening match, Weiler this month after a disappointing Celtic are third behind Bayern Munich Benfica played with 10 men for the last half run in the Belgian league, are last in hour after midfielder Andre Almeida was sent off on goal difference after the German the group, having also lost their open- side’s 3-0 loss to Paris St Germain. for jumping into a two-footed tackle that ing match against Bayern. —Reuters appeared vengeful when losing the ball. Still, the Benfica defense had already been shredded by slick Basel counterattacks. The visitors were shambolic when substitute Blas Riveros com- pleted the scoring in the 76th minute, seconds after Basel hit each post with back-to-back shots. Basel is second in Group A behind Manchester United, which won 4-1 at CSKA Moscow to follow its 3-0 home win over the Swiss two weeks ago. Oberlin set the tone as the driving force for two first-half goals that finished end-to-end moves he started from Basel’s penal- ty area. In the second minute, Oberlin surged in two different phases of an attack that saw him draw goalkeeper Julio Cesar out of position and tee up defender Michael Lang to fire in a low shot. Basel’s second goal in the 20th started when Oberlin headed clear Benfica’s corner from his own goalmouth and took off sprinting upfield. He collected Renato Steffen’s pass near the Benfica area and slipped a shot past Julio Cesar, Brazil’s ‘keeper at the 2014 World Cup. It was quite a start for the Switzerland youth international making his first Champions League start on loan from Austrian title-holder Salzburg. Oberlin was fouled for the penalty kick that Ricky van Wolfswinkel converted in the 60th, and again scored easily past Julio Cesar in the BRUSSELS: RSC Anderlecht’s Pieter Gerkens (R) and Adrien Trebel (C) fight for the ball 69th after slack Benfica passing in defense. Basel’s new management team began the with Scott Brown of Celtic FC (L) during the UEFA Champions League Group B foot- BASEL: Benfica’s defender Andre Almeida (L) and Basel’s Italian defender Raoul Petretta fight game under pressure from a poor start to the ball match Anderlecht vs Celtic at The Constant Vanden Stock Stadium in Brussels for the ball during the UEFA Champions League Group A football match between FC Basel season for the eight-time defending Swiss cham- yesterday. — AFP 1893 and Benfica at St Jakob-Park Stadium in Basel yesterday. — AFP Hamilton, loving Muguruza life, seeks last advances hurrah in Malaysia to quarter-finals 12 at Wuhan14 Open THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2017
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MOSCOW: CSKA Moscow’s defender from Russia Sergey Ignashevich (L) and Manchester United’s midfielder from Spain Ander Herrera vie for the ball during the UEFA Champions League Group A football match between PFC CSKA Moscow and Manchester United FC in Moscow yesterday. — AFP Lukaku, Martial lead Man Utd in CSKA rout
MOSCOW: Romelu Lukaku and Anthony Martial put channel released Martial on the left and he checked CSKA Moscow to the sword as Manchester United took inside before crossing to the back post, where Lukaku control of Champions League Group A with a ruthless 4-1 leapt to direct a strong header past Igor Akinfeev. win yesterday. Lukaku scored twice at Moscow’s VEB After Akinfeev thwarted Mkhitaryan with his legs, Cavani, Neymar on target Arena, taking his United tally to 10 goals in nine games, Martial made it 2-0 from the penalty spot in the 18th with Martial setting him up twice and netting a penalty minute following a foul on Mkhitaryan by Georgi before Henrikh Mkhitaryan completed victory. Schennikov. Nine minutes later it was 3-0 as Vasili as PSG outclass Bayern It was United’s first away win in the competition since Berezutksi made a hash of clearing Martial’s low cross and November 2013 and with Basel thrashing Benfica in the Lukaku turned the ball home. PARIS: Edinson Cavani and Neymar both scored as Paris Mbappe and those two combined for the second goal in other group game, it left Jose Mourinho’s side three The frustration for CSKA coach Viktor Goncharenko Saint-Germain claimed a convincing 3-0 victory over a dis- the 31st minute, Mbappe again teeing up Cavani for a points clear at the top of the pool. was that his side manged to procure several sights of goal appointing Bayern Munich in their heavyweight Champions superb first-time finish high into the net and his 10th After grinding out a 1-0 win at Southampton on at the other end, only to find David de Gea an imperme- League clash in the French capital yesterday. PSG got off to goal this season. Saturday, United were back to their fluid best in the able barrier. The United goalkeeper produced an excel- a dream start as their other Brazilian summer signing Bayern were stunned, and a combination of the ‘MCN’ Russian capital, the pace and movement of new strike lent one-handed save to thwart Alan Dzagoev at 1-0 and Dani Alves gave them the lead inside 90 seconds at the then almost brought a third, with Neymar laying off partners Lukaku and Martial causing CSKA headaches all tipped a powerful shot from Fedor Chalov over the ball at Parc des Princes and they never looked back. Mbappe’s pass for Cavani, whose effort was saved. night. Having beaten Benfica in their opening game, 2-0, as well as fielding attempts from Vitinho and Cavani’s sweeping first-time strike just after the half- Things did get worse for the visitors in the second CSKA were brought back to earth with a bump, although Dzagoev. hour mark made it 2-0 before Neymar completed the half and they conceded again in the 63rd minute, with substitute Konstantin Kuchaev gave their fans something Akinfeev denied Lukaku his hat-trick early in the sec- scoring in the second half as Bayern went down to their Neymar poking home from inside the six-yard box as to cheer with a 90th-minute consolation goal. While the ond half before more slipshod defending gifted United heaviest defeat since losing to Barcelona by the same Martinez failed to clear following good play by hosts had their moments, the encounter rather made a their fourth. Veteran centre-back Sergei Ignashevich gift- score in the semi-finals of this competition in May 2015. Mbappe. That was Neymar’s sixth goal for PSG and the mockery of United manager Mourinho’s eve-of-match ed the ball straight to Ander Herrera, whose through ball The result leaves the French club top of Group B with the 18th in total from the ‘MCN’, with the promise of many claim that this was the strongest CSKA team he had ever released Martial. maximum six points from two games, eight goals scored more to come. — AFP encountered. Missing Paul Pogba, Marouane Fellaini and The Frenchman’s effort was parried by Akinfeev, but and none conceded. They are on course to win the sec- Michael Carrick through injury, Mourinho set United out Mkhitaryan followed in to slot the rebound into the tion-Bayern are level on three points with Celtic, who in an unfamiliar 3-4-1-2 system, but the visitors took no net. Akinfeev has now gone 45 games without a clean won at Anderlecht. time to find their mark. sheet in the competition proper, although his saves For PSG this was a chance to measure themselves Paired in a new-look front two, Lukaku and Martial from substitutes Jesse Lingard and Matteo Darmian, against one of the continent’s traditional powers in their clicked instantly, combining to put United ahead in the allied to Kuchaev’s late effort, spared CSKA further biggest European match since their humiliating exit in fourth minute. Lukaku’s fine pass down the inside-left embarrassment. — AFP Barcelona last season. In that regard the evening was a resounding success for Unai Emery’s team, although the German club were some way short of their usual standards. The match also Batshuayi hands Chelsea saw Cavani and Neymar feature together for the first time since their disagreement over who should take a penalty in a league game against Lyon 10 days previously. deserved win at Atletico This time there were no such disputes, and both men could celebrate contributing to the final outcome. Bayern MADRID: Michy Batshuayi struck a dramatic winner attention after he completed his prolonged return to have been among the critics of PSG’s spending policy with the last kick of the game as Chelsea inflicted Atletico from Chelsea on Tuesday. after a summer which saw them notably spend a world- Atletico Madrid’s first defeat at their new Wanda Despite the Brazilian-born striker’s refusal to train record 222 million euros ($264 million) to sign Neymar Metropolitano home yesterday with a hugely impres- with the Premier League champions this season it was from Barcelona. sive 2-1 victory. all smiles as he greeted plenty of his former teammates The Brazilian is reportedly being paid more than three Substitute Batshuayi’s late intervention was just in the tunnel before kick-off. However, Chelsea haven’t million euros a month in Paris, and Bayern supporters rewards for a dominant Chelsea display despite falling missed Costa so far this season as his replacement had that in mind as they unfurled a pointed banner prior behind to Antoine Griezmann’s penalty five minutes Morata has now scored seven goals in as many games. to kick-off. Complaining about match tickets costing 75 before half-time. Former Real Madrid striker Alvaro Morata, though, hadn’t scored in six previous appear- euros, it read: “We are not Neymar. Ticket prices must be reasonable.” Morata came back to haunt Atletico on his return to the ances against Atletico for Juventus and Real and passed Spanish capital by nodding home Eden Hazard’s tempt- up a series of early chances as Chelsea dominated. ALVES WITH OPENER ing cross on the hour mark. Twice the Spanish international pulled shots wide after It would have been easier to swallow paying that And Batshuayi finished off a patient team move excellent build-up play from the outstanding Hazard. price if their team had won, but they fell behind in the deep into stoppage time by turning home Marcos Hazard was starting for only the second time this second minute and never recovered. Neymar was Alonso’s cross at the near post. Victory ensured season after breaking his ankle in June, but showed no allowed to cut in from the left before picking out Alves, Chelsea take a commanding lead at the top of Group C signs of rust early on as he smacked a shot from outside who arrived unmarked in the area to take a touch and with six points from their opening two games ahead of the box off the post. Morata then finally forced Jan finish past Sven Ulreich, standing in for the injured Roma, who moved onto four with a 2-1 win at Oblak into a save as the Slovenian tipped his looping Manuel Neuer in the Bayern goal. Azerbaijani Champions League newcomers Qarabag header over for a corner. Javi Martinez came closest to equalising for Carlo earlier in the day. Chelsea’s control forced Atletico boss Diego Simeone Ancelotti’s side with a half-volley from the edge of the PARIS: Paris Saint-Germain's Brazilian forward Atletico, by contrast, are in trouble after taking just into a tactical reshuffle as he switched from his favoured area that was tipped over by Alphonse Areola, but the Neymar runs with the ball during the UEFA one point from their opening two games. The presence 4-4-2 to 4-3-3 and was rewarded as the hosts stemmed hosts were able to soak up the pressure and hit on the Champions League football match between Paris of Diego Costa dominated much of the pre-match the Chelsea tide. — AFP break. Cavani shot just wide after being fed by Kylian Saint-Germain and Bayern Munich yesterday— AFP Britain’s easyJet aims for electric short-haul flights Page 19
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PARIS: French Minister of State, attached to the Minister of Economy and Finance Benjamin Griveaux arrives to attend a hearing by the committee on finance, economy and budgetary control at the Palais Bourbon, the seat of the French National Assembly, in Paris yesterday. — AFP Macron govt cuts wealth taxes in budget Tricky budget shows business-friendly face of govt
PARIS: French President Emmanuel Macron’s exception”, not just the richest, saying cuts to credibility with European leaders as he pushes ures from the right-wing will have a brutal and three percent of GDP. It is already set to go down business-friendly government unveiled its first household tax-due to be scrapped for 80 per- for ambitious EU reforms. Some 16 billion violent effect on worsening inequality,” former to 2.9 percent this year-the first time it will have annual budget yesterday, fending off criticism cent of families by 2020 — would boost the euros of spending cuts are included in the Socialist economy minister Michel Sapin told met the three-percent target in a decade-but that its tax cuts favor the very wealthiest. purchasing power of millions. “We wanted to budget-social security alone is due to shed 5.5 Paris Match magazine on Tuesday. Corporation Macron wants to trim it further to 2.6 percent in Ministers insisted the 2018 budget would ben- protect the least well-off, to protect the most billion-though these targets, too, are lower tax is set to go down to 25 percent by 2022 — 2018. The EU’s economy commissioner Pierre efit both rich and poor after criticism from left- vulnerable,” he added, with ministers pointing than originally planned. The budget puts a down from 33 percent currently. Moscovici welcomed the belt-tightening. “The wing opponents about the slashing of a tax on to measures to help low-paid workers and freeze on major infrastructure projects, while average deficit in the eurozone is not 3.0 per- financial investments which raised 3.5 billion more support for those caring for disabled nearly 1,600 civil service jobs will be axed. Deficit down cent, it’s 1.4 percent,” he told France 2 televi- euros ($4 billion) last year. children. High-paid finance workers will On Tuesday, Macron set out his vision for far- sion. “If you want to be an example to Europe, Left-leaning newspaper Liberation ran the notably face lower taxes on their salaries as ‘Worsening inequality’ reaching EU reforms, urging his European part- you have to lead by example at home.” front-page headline “Hero to the rich” along- the government eyes a lucrative slice of Opponents on the left have called Macron’s ners-particularly Germany-to go further in link- Despite the cuts, several ministries won a side a picture of Macron, a former investment London’s banking industry, with multi-nation- wealth tax reforms a sop for the rich, while he ing their economies, governments and armies. boost to their budget-notably defense, where banker who came to power in May promising als shifting business away from Britain ahead insists he needs to encourage investors to The 39-year-old sees it as crucial to show that spending has been a sore point with the mili- to make it easier to do business in France. “We of Brexit. In total, France plans some seven bil- fund companies in France as he seeks to lower France can lead by example by getting its pub- tary in recent years. The head of the armed want to create wealth before redistributing it,” lion euros ($8.2 billion) in tax cuts, lower than a 9.5 percent unemployment rate. Under the lic finances in order after a decade of running forces sensationally resigned his post this sum- Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire told a press the 10 billion initially planned. changes-a long-time demand of business large deficits due to high public spending. mer in a blazing row with Macron over cuts to conference. Macron faces a tricky balancing act as he groups-gains on financial investments will be France’s economy is currently growing at defense spending introduced in an interim He defended the budget as one which seeks to lower taxes while also slashing the taxed at a flat rate of 30 percent, rather than around 1.7 percent, but it remains one of the few budget for 2017, passed shortly after he was would “benefit all French people without deficit-something he sees as key to earning under a progressive regime. “These tax meas- countries with a deficit above the EU-mandated elected. — AFP IMF: ‘Surface healing’ masks stagnant wages, inflation Switzerland is world’s most competitive WASHINGTON: Worker pay in rich countries has stagnated as gains are the main driver of inflation. “Core inflation in because they cannot find a full-time job-jumped in advanced employers shift to part-time and temporary labor while advanced economies is thus unlikely to recover in a sustained economies. The rate in the United States rose to 1.3 percent economy: WEF unions declined, helping generate persistently weak inflation, manner before labor market tightening spurs higher wage from 0.8 percent, in Britain it gained 1.5 points to 3.9 percent, according to new IMF research released yesterday. inflation,” the report said. and in France it soared 2.5 percent to 7.8 percent of the labor GENEVA: Switzerland is the world’s most competitive econ- The findings go to the center of the debate in key central Also in the last several years, involuntary part-time employ- force. “Policymakers may therefore need to enhance efforts to omy for a ninth straight year, the Geneva-based World banks over how fast to remove the stimulus put in place amid ment-in which employees work fewer than 30 hours per work address the vulnerabilities that part-time workers face.” — AFP Economic Forum said yesterday. Since suffering a rare blip the Great Recession, since low unemployment rates have not in 2008, when it was nudged into second place by the led to higher inflation as in a normal economic recovery. United States, the Swiss economy has maintained an effi- “Recent labor market developments in advanced cient but unshakeable grip on the top spot in the WEF annual ranking . economies point to a possible disconnect between unem- WEF economist Thierry Geiger said Switzerland had a ployment and wages,” the International Monetary Fund econ- virtuous circle of infrastructure, institutions and education, omists found in their report. Crunching data from across 29 but at the heart of its success was the way it created and advanced economies between 2000 and 2016, the IMF study used talent. “That is really the secret of Switzerland, this found median unemployment rates fell steadily since 2013 ability to innovate, supported by a whole range of enabling even as labor force participation rates increased. factors,” he said. However, after almost a decade at the top, But that decline in joblessness may represent only a kind of Switzerland is at risk from complacency and populism. The “surface healing,” the authors said. The jobs recovery since the ageing population could undermine the innovation miracle 2008 crash appeared to coincide with fundamental changes in by shutting the door to foreign talent in one of the referen- company-worker relationships, with employers across the dums that make Swiss law, he said. developed world increasingly relying on part-time positions “We see a proliferation of such referendums on every- and short-term contracts-while employees’ ability to bargain thing, some of them are kind of dangerous, they could real- for higher pay eroded. ly endanger and jeopardize Switzerland’s prosperity,” Geiger said. The World Economic Forum, the same organization True ‘slack’ in labor markets that runs the Davos meeting of global powerbrokers each As a result of the changes, central banks should re-think January, bases its rankings on a dozen drivers of competi- “the true degree of slack” in labor markets as they begin to tiveness and a survey of business leaders. “Global competi- withdraw stimulus and raise interest rates, the IMF said. US tiveness will be more and more defined by the innovative capacity of a country,” Klaus Schwab, WEF founder and economists have been dumbfounded by the enduring weak- executive chairman, said in a statement. ness of inflation in the current recovery, which has stayed Besides Switzerland, the top 10 remained the same as a below the Federal Reserve’s target for five years despite year ago, although there was some shuffling of the order. unemployment rates falling to near historic lows. The United States climbed over Singapore into second The Fed this year has raised interest rates twice, downplay- place, and Hong Kong jumped three places to sixth, ing the low inflation as the result of transitory factors. But US leapfrogging Japan in ninth spot. Britain slipped one place Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen in a speech Tuesday con- to eighth. It has not yet dropped in the rankings because of ceded policymakers might have “misjudged” the strength of its Brexit negotiations with the European Union but it is labor markets and the forces driving inflation. The IMF report expected to do so, the WEF said. China inched up one place showed that starting in 2009, wage growth has slowed steadi- to 27th, well ahead of 38th-ranked Russia and India, which ly and temporary labor contracts have become more com- NEW DELHI: Models hold the newly launched ASUS notebooks during a promotional event in New Delhi yesterday. The was in 40th position. — Reuters mon. Because wages are the main cost of production, wage Taiwanese manufacturer Asus unveiled its two new notebooks Vivobook S15 and ASUS Zenbook UX430 yesterday. —AFP THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2017 BUSINESS
Oil cuts weigh on UAE’s growth in 2017
NBK ECONOMIC REPORT
KUWAIT: Economic growth in the UAE is expected been no new sovereign debt issued since. The back of a slight pick-up in oil export receipts and to moderate further in 2017, before seeing a pick- UAE is in the process of finalizing a federal debt as non-oil export growth gathers pace. We fore- up in 2018 as the non-oil sector gathers momen- law, which will allow the federal government to see the current account surplus edging up from tum and offsets continued weaknesses in the oil issue bonds as well. a six-year low of 3.2 percent of GDP in 2016 to sector. We see GDP growth moderating from 3.0 Yields on debts maturing in 2021 for Dubai 3.4 percent in 2017 and 3.7 percent in 2018. percent in 2016 to 2.2 percent in 2017, and now and Abu Dhabi have remained fairly low and Non-oil export growth remains susceptible to a expect growth in 2018 of 2.6 percent. The latter is steady, relative to their GCC peers, on the back stronger dirham. below our previous projection with the extension of stable economic conditions. Indeed, the main Until recently, the stronger dollar led to an in oil production cuts continuing to weigh on credit default swaps (CDS’s), which are typically appreciation in the dirham’s real effective growth. good bellwethers of a sovereign’s level of risk, exchange rate, increasing the cost of exports and In May, OPEC and a group of non-OPEC nations remain close to multi-year lows. As of end of making it a more expensive place to visit and agreed to extend a six-month supply cut that was August, the CDS on five-year Dubai and Abu invest in. Trade with Asian markets was most scheduled to end in June of 2017, to at least the end Dhabi government debt stood at 122 and 55 affected by the stronger dirham, as their curren- of the first quarter of 2018, in an effort to support oil basis points (bps), respectively. cies weakened against a stronger US dollar. prices. The UAE’s level of compliance has lagged Overview and outlook Tourism, however, was less affected, given that a CA surplus majority of tourists are from the GCC, and so was behind its GCC peers. But state-owned oil company ● Growth to remain moderate at 2-3% in 2017/18 amid weak oil prices and oil produc- Adnoc, the 12th largest oil producer globally, The surplus in the current account balance is investment in real estate, which depends far more tion cuts. But non-oil GDP growth continues to be supported by gains in the tourism and recently announced that it will cut crude shipments projected to marginally expand in 2017, on the on UAE nationals. by 10 percent starting in October. In this setting, real construction sectors. growth in the oil sector is poised to be negative in ● Inflation has been mild thus far in 2017, but is expected to face renewed pressure 2017, before improving slightly in 2018. from new taxes and higher oil prices. VAT - expected from January 2018 - could add some In contrast, non-oil activity is slated to recover, 2% to inflation next year. albeit gradually, in 2017 and over the following ● The fiscal balance will remain in modest deficit in 2017 and 2018 at 2-3% of GDP on year, as the tourism and construction sectors (key the back of still-weak oil revenues and some easing in the pace of fiscal consolidation. contributors to non-oil GDP growth) gather further ● Credit growth has slowed to multi-year lows on tighter lending standards, rising ground, especially in the run-up to the Expo 2020 interest rates and weaker demand from government-linked firms and consumers. But event in Dubai. The non-oil economy is also deposit growth continues to pick up, helping an otherwise subdued liquidity climate. expected to be supported by a potential stabiliza- tion and eventual recovery in sales prices in the residential real estate sector. Real non-oil growth is have declined (but remain the highest in the segment up, housing inflation gathers pace and set to rise from an estimated 2.7 percent in 2016, MENA region), demand for hotel rooms continues amid tax hikes planned for selected consumer to 3.3 percent and 3.7 percent in 2017 and 2018, to hold. Occupancy rates among hotels in Dubai goods in October. In 2018, inflation is expected to respectively. averaged 83 percent in the first half of 2017 (the climb further, especially on the back of a planned The latest data on the UAE’s Markit Purchasing highest in the MENA region). Construction activity 5 percent value-added tax (VAT) on selected com- Managers’ Index (PMI), a good gauge of non-oil continues to be supported by preparations for the panies. Scheduled for the beginning of 2018, it is sector growth, also point to a steady recovery in Expo 2020 event. At the start of 2017, Dubai Expo expected to add 2 percent to inflation next year. non-oil sector activity. 2020 announced that 47 construction contracts The headline PMI rose to an over two-year high worth $3 billion would be awarded in 2017. Fiscal balance to remain in small of 57.3 in August mainly as new orders and output Projects include the construction of buildings, deficit in 2017 and 2018 remained robust, thanks to an ongoing improve- metro expansions, roads and bridges. One of the The fiscal balance will remain in manageable ment in domestic conditions. This has more than key contracts awarded this year was the $600 mil- deficit in 2017 and 2018 amid weak oil revenues offset the ongoing softness in new export orders. lion deal with Al-Futtaim Carillion for the site’s and an easing in fiscal consolidation, as Dubai’s Despite generally positive economic performance, three thematic districts. The construction sector is government gradually ramps up spending on there are a number of downside risks to the out- also set to benefit from plans to foster the UAE’s construction projects in the run-up to the Expo look. A prolonged low oil price environment has Vision 2021 and long-term strategy to establish a 2020 event. We foresee a deficit of 3.1 percent ramifications for non-oil growth, and a renewed post-oil “knowledge economy” via the “UAE and 2.0 percent of GDP in 2017 and 2018, dip in oil prices could see the government intensi- Strategy for the Future” blueprint. The strategy aims respectively. Nonetheless, fiscal adjustment and fy its fiscal consolidation program. Furthermore, to bolster the nation’s non-oil economy and reform is proceeding, with the establishment of Dollar holds on to monthly gain higher interest rates in the US - further hikes are enhance economic diversification. the Federal Tax Authority (FTA), subsidy cuts and expected through 2018 - will filter through to the introduction of fees and taxes on selected Downward pressures on Dubai’s domestic rates, potentially tightening liquidity goods and services. According to official reports, NBK Treasury Group Newsletter residential property prices re-emerge conditions and affecting investment spending. Abu Dhabi has cut back or delayed spending on After a period of stabilization in 2016 and in KUWAIT: The US dollar has held on to its danger of not halting a recovery through hasty Additional downside risks may arise if the Qatar a number of projects designated as low-priority. early 2017, following almost two years of decline monthly high supported by rate hike expecta- monetary-policy decision making.” And he crisis escalates or remains unresolved. Although Efforts have also been made to rely more heavily amid tighter regulations, higher housing supply tions in December. Fed Chair Janet Yellen said warned that any change of monetary policies Qatar is not a major contributor to the UAE’s trade on the private sector for implementation of and risk aversion, downward pressures on Dubai’s the Fed needs to continue gradual rate hikes will maintain “the degree of monetary support and tourism sectors, the diplomatic tensions some projects. impact investor sentiment. Another, but less likely residential property prices appear to have re- despite broad uncertainty about the path of that the euro-area economy still needs to com- In a bid to raise more public revenues, in risk, is a potential disruption to natural gas supply emerged in 2Q17. According to Asteco’s quarterly inflation in her speech yesterday. Yellen’s plete its transition to a new balanced growth August the newly established FTA published a through the Dolphin pipeline, the main energy link indices, prices of apartments and villas in 2Q17 remarks attempted to resolve a debate that trajectory characterized by sustained condi- law on an excise tax. The tax will be levied on between the UAE and Qatar. The pipeline supplies were down by 4.2 percent y/y and 3.3 percent y/y, has split members of the central bank among tions of price stability.” Nonetheless, Draghi still selected goods - tobacco, energy drinks and soft about a third of the UAE’s natural gas, but with respectively. The declines in prices and the contin- those worried that inflation may not be at the sounded upbeat and noted that “economic drinks - from the beginning of October. With the Abu Dhabi’s government holding a 51 percent ued fall in the value of real estate transactions level needed for a hike. In addition, the interest expansion is now firm and broad-based across excise tax set at 100 percent on tobacco and rate hike probability for the December meet- stake in the pipeline and foreign entities holding were attributed to increased housing supply and euro area countries and sectors.” energy drinks and 50 percent on fizzy drinks, it is ing jumped to 70 percent after Yellen’s speech. the remainder, the likelihood of the supply being to a shift in demand towards the more affordable EUR/USD broke important support of 1.1820 expected to raise around $2 billion (0.5 percent ● On the data front, new home sales came at disrupted is fairly low. housing sector. now trading around 1.1775. Short and Medium of GDP) in annual fiscal revenue. 560K versus the forecasted 585K, a second term outlook remains bearish. Further decline is Overall non-oil economy is being Inflation pressure Furthermore, the UAE will be one of the first straight decline in purchases of new US expected and next big support is 1.1665 which supported by steady gains in Dubai Consumer price inflation has so far trended GCC nations to implement a VAT. The tax will be homes and combined with downward revi- needs to break to resume a medium term The ongoing steady recovery in the UAE’s non- downwards in 2017 against a backdrop of soft imposed on UAE companies from January with sions for prior months, showed a declining downtrend move. On the upside a break of oil economy is largely being driven by improve- food inflation and slowing housing inflation annual revenues greater than $1 million. At 5 market as results begin to be clouded by the 1.1915 would turn the pair to neutral outlook. ments in Dubai’s hospitality and construction sec- (which weighs heavily in the index). Latest figures percent, the VAT is expected to generate around fallout from Hurricanes Harvey and Irma. USDJPY is pushing higher. However, medium tors. The number of passengers passing through showed inflation easing from 2.0 percent y/y in $5 billion in tax revenues or 1 percent of GDP. ● In Europe, ECB President Mario Draghi spoke term outlook is neutral. For a clear direction, Dubai International Airport stood near a record June to 1.2 percent y/y in July. We expect CPI infla- To avoid relying solely on foreign reserves to to the European Parliament’s committee on need a break of 112.85 to confirm the uptrend. high in 2Q17, at 21 million. According to Ernst & tion to edge higher in the near-to-medium term finance the country’s public deficit, Abu Dhabi economic affairs in Brussels yesterday. Draghi On the downside, a break below 111.20 would Young’s latest MENA Hotel Benchmark Survey, and average close to 2.5 percent for the year, as issued $5 billion in sovereign bonds in April emphasized the need to be “sensitive to the turn the outlook to negative. even as average daily room rates at hotels in Dubai higher oil prices push inflation in the transport 2016, its first issuance since 2009. But there has EXCHANGE RATES
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LONDON: The Bank of England under Governor Mark in July 2015 Carney once again sought to prepare Carney has made a habit of signalling higher interest Britain for higher rates, saying the decision would rates without delivering them. probably come into “sharper relief” around the turn of Most economists polled by Reuters last week said the year. But wage growth again disappointed and they thought the BoE will soon follow through on global oil prices tumbled, pushing inflation briefly Carney’s most recent signal that a first rate hike since below zero. By the turn of the year, there was little 2007 is nearing, probably at its meeting in November. pressure on policymakers to make a decision on rates. Below is a summary of the BoE’s efforts to provide clari- ty on interest rates since Carney became governor in Brexit speed limit July 2013. After Britain voted in June 2016 to leave the European Union, the BoE cut rates to a new record low Forward guidance of 0.25 percent as part of a “sledgehammer” package Days after Carney took over, the BoE surprised mar- to help the economy. kets by issuing a statement saying it was in no rush to The central bank said it expected to provide more raise rates - a break with its style under former gover- stimulus, but a post-Brexit vote downturn - never mind nor Mervyn King who said it was wise never to pre- the recession that many economists had predicted - commit to a path for borrowing costs. A month later, did not immediately happen. Carney launched the BoE’s version of forward guid- That changed in 2017 as Britain’s economy suffered ance in an attempt to reduce uncertainty about the the slowest start to any year since 2012. Carney outlook for rates as Britain’s economy struggled to warned of “twists and turns” on the road to Brexit and build momentum. most economists polled by Reuters predicted the BoE The BoE said it would not consider raising rates would hold rates until at least 2019. But earlier this from record low levels until Britain’s unemployment month, the BoE again surprised investors by saying it rate fell to 7.0 percent, something it thought would was likely to raise rates “over the coming months” if the take three years. But the economy grew faster than economy and price pressures kept growing. expected and it took just six months for the jobless LONDON: Co-leader of the Green Party, Jonathan Bartley speaks at a protest against the gig economy Carney said Brexit was likely to hurt productivity, rate to fall to 7.0 percent, forcing Carney back to the in central London yesterday. — AFP reducing the “speed limit” on how fast the economy drawing board. Half of economists polled by Reuters in also took it as a sign that it was determined to keep price in a rate hike by the end of 2014. The U-turn can grow without pushing up inflation. He also said early 2014 said the BoE’s handling of forward guidance rates on hold for at least a year. Carney also said any attracted critics and one lawmaker likened Carney to years of rock-bottom rates appeared to be coming to had hurt its credibility. future rate hikes would be “gradual and limited” - a an “unreliable boyfriend”. an end as the world economy picked up. Thirty-one In February 2014, the BoE revamped its guidance. phrase that the BoE continues to use. But falling inflation and sluggish pay growth quick- of 50 economists polled by Reuters last week said Instead of focusing on the jobless rate, it would look at Just a few months later, Carney shocked financial ly tempered expectations for a hike. By early 2015, the the BoE would hike rates to 0.5 percent on Nov. 2. 18 measures of spare capacity in Britain’s economy, markets by warning that a rate hike “could happen BoE stopped mentioning “forward guidance” in its But three-quarters of them said now was not the including business surveys. While economists said this sooner than markets currently expect”, citing Britain’s quarterly economic updates. time to raise rates, suggesting the BoE is risking a made it harder to guess the BoE’s next moves, they strong economic recovery. Markets scrambled to fully Britain’s economy continued to grow strongly and policy mistake. — Reuters Britain’s easyJet aims for electric short-haul flights
Airline ties up with Wright Electric on battery-powered plane
LONDON: British budget airline easyJet could be flying electric passenger jets on short-haul routes within a decade in a push to cut plane pollution, the company said yesterday. The airline said in March it would partner with US startup Wright Electric to develop electric passenger jets and is aiming for planes with a range of up to 335 miles (540 km), which could fly about 20 percent of easyJet’s routes. EasyJet said its support for electric planes was part of a broader strategy to reduce carbon and nitrous oxide emissions in the aviation sector, fol- MIAMI: This April 25, 2017, photo shows Harley-Davidson motorcycles on display in lowing the lead taken by the rail and automotive the showroom at a dealership in Miami. The Commerce Department released its industries. August report on durable goods yesterday. — AP “For the first time, our industry can envisage a future which isn’t wholly reliant on jet fuel and its nel in 2015, but it expects hybrid fuel systems to tal markets day being held at Gatwick. While US sees strong durable harmful CO2 and NOX emissions,” CEO Carolyn come in first for commercial jets - until the batteries easyJet was not providing any trading updates, McCall said in a statement. needed for electric-only planes become lighter. analysts at broker Goodbody said, “despite this, we The airline is already targeting a 10 percent cut in EasyJet also said it was partnering with French still think the market will be pleasantly surprised by goods sales in August emissions per passenger per kilometer by 2022 by company Safran to trial a zero-emissions taxiing details behind the group’s ancillary revenue using more fuel-efficient jets, such as the new Airbus system for its aircraft, while electric tugs will be streams and innovation on this front”. WASHINGTON: US manufacturers booked orders, which spiked in June and tanked in A320neo. The airline has two so far and 98 are on introduced at Gatwick. Peter Duffy, easyJet’s chief One such move to boost revenues is a trial of strong sales of big-ticket durable goods in July, rebounded again in August, surging order for delivery by August 2022. Fuel is one of the commercial officer, told reporters at London’s inflight entertainment, which will be introduced on August, with orders for aircraft, computers, 44.8 percent. biggest costs for airlines and they have been invest- Gatwick airport that new technologies could five aircraft in easyJet’s Swiss operations in autumn. autos and communications equipment all But excluding the transportation sector, ing in ways to reduce the amount they use, includ- “entirely remove the use of carbon fuels and noise Rather than seat-back screens, the system will rising, according to government data which sees big swings from month to ing by buying new aircraft with more fuel-efficient from all our airport operations”. allow customers to watch TV shows on their own released yesterday. The increase was more month, August orders were up only 0.2 per- engines. Airlines such as Lufthansa, Air France-KLM British Airways said this week it was now using devices, a model used by others including than double what analysts were expecting cent from the prior month, the second and Virgin Atlantic have also been researching alter- remote-controlled electric tugs to push its short- Lufthansa’s Eurowings. EasyJet said the service but not enough to reverse a steep decline straight monthly increase. Excluding the native fuels. Airbus has been developing electric haul aircraft away from departure gates. Investors would earn the airline extra revenue, despite being in July driven by volatile aircraft sales. defense sector, orders rose a strong 2.2 per- planes and flew its two-seater E-Fan across the chan- and analysts were also focused on an easyJet capi- free for the customer to use. — Reuters Sales of defense aircraft and other cent. 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Capital goods orders not including will be present at the Avenues Mall, one of the most to participate in Al-Hassad draws under general cent, the Commerce Department reported. aircraft, key to the all-important oil sector, popular shopping destinations in Kuwait, Dome 1 terms and conditions.” from 28th-30th September 2017. Through its Al- The Bank added: “Our employees will be at the So far this year, orders are up five per- rose 0.9 percent, slowing after July’s 1.1 Hassad booth, which offers surprises and activities AUB Al-Hassad event at Avenues to communicate cent over the same period of 2016. Aircraft percent gain. — AFP related to Al-Hassad Islamic Account, Avenues visi- with visitors and inform them about the latest serv- tors will be invited to participate in an enjoyable ices and banking products offered by AUB.” The Bank game designed to give a large number of them the with Al-Hassad Islamic Account. 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Workers caught in crosshairs of Boeing-Bombardier battle BELFAST: Yards from what is left of the giant when the Titanic set sail as the largest ocean- Belfast shipyard that built the Titanic, the liner a century ago. After the slow collapse of remaining jewel in Northern Ireland’s industrial British shipbuilding and the bloody three- crown - a cutting-edge Bombardier wing facto- decade conflict between Irish nationalists ry - is under threat from a far-off trade war. who wanted Northern Ireland to unite with The United States on Tuesday imposed a Ireland and unionists who wanted it to remain preliminary 220 percent duty on Bombardier’s British, only a handful of small industrial man- HONG KONG: US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross poses before a round table brief- CSeries next-generation passenger jet after ufacturers remain. ing in Hong Kong yesterday. Ross said he was optimistic over talks between presi- rival Boeing complained of unfair subsidies, The plant - which Bombardier bought from dent Donald Trump and Chinese president Xi Jinping in November as they seek to dealing a major blow to the Canadian compa- Short Brothers, the world’s oldest planemaker, reduce a trade deficit. — AFP ny’s flagship project. The dispute has ramifica- in 1989 - has been a pillar of Belfast’s economy tions far beyond the docklands and liveli- for decades, putting locals through multi-year hoods of Bombardier’s 4,200 workers in apprenticeships. Thousands more jobs across IS threat cools outsourcing Belfast, with US President Donald Trump’s rela- Northern Ireland depend on supplying the tions with Canada, British Prime Minister plant. “You can’t overstate the significance of boom in Philippines: Industry Theresa May’s parliamentary majority and Bombardier to our regional economy,” said prospects for a British post-Brexit trade deal local parliamentarian Gavin Robinson. “It’s the MANILA: Prolonged fighting by Filipino mili- the outsourcing industry, fell 31.3 percent with Washington also at stake. largest high-tech manufacturer in Northern tants supporting the Islamic State group has from a year earlier in the three months to “This will be a hammer blow if this stops in Ireland. But it’s the main part of our aero- put the brakes on the Philippines’ $10 billion June, government data show. “There is an ele- any way the CSeries program, because the space, defence and security industry as well.” outsourcing industry, one of its key growth ment of (wait and see) still,” Untal told CSeries is the future of Belfast,” said Davy Around 1,000 of the plant’s employees drivers, industry leaders said yesterday. reporters, though there were now signs that Thompson, who represents the plant’s workers work on carbon fiber wings for the CSeries More than 900 people have been killed in new players were coming in. for the Unite trade union. He described the using a fabrication method perfected in the city of Marawi, where pro-IS militants The outsourcing industry includes call decision as “unbelievable.” The fate of the Belfast, which allows Bombardier to go from have defied a months-long US-backed mili- centers and offices that carry out such func- workers, he fears, is being whirled about in a raw material to finished wing on one site. “It’s tary campaign to flush them out, while the tions for overseas companies like accounting, geopolitical storm. “We’re hoping Belfast won’t the only plant in the world where the details southern third of the country has been medical and legal transcription, software be collateral damage,” he said. The Commerce are made on the same site that they are placed under martial law to contain the vio- design, animation and even architecture. It Department penalty against Bombardier will assembled,” engineer Mark Braniff told Reuters lence. Although the lucrative outsourcing has become a major pillar of growth of the only take effect if the US International Trade in the vast hall that houses the assembly line, industry is largely based in the northern and Philippine economy, bringing in $23 billion in Commission (ITC) rules in Boeing’s favor in a as a worker nearby checked an upright wing central regions, the bloody conflict has revenues last year and employing 1.15 million final decision expected in 2018. for imperfections. unnerved many potential investors, said offi- people according to industry officials. Boeing, the world’s largest aerospace com- “The likes of Airbus and Boeing would fly cials of the Information Technology and When the Marawi violence broke out in pany, says it is upholding trade rules and is parts in from 1,000 miles away and screw them Business Process Association of the May, the industry was bracing for the fallout not trying to damage the CSeries. together.” The new system allows Bombardier Philippines (IBPAP). “In the early part of the of the protectionist threats issued by US technicians to quickly and cheaply shape a year, we had a lot of ‘wait-and-see’ attitude for President Donald Trump, who has vowed to Pillar of the economy flexible carbon fabric before infusing it with the most part,” said IBPAP president Rey Untal. bring back jobs outsourced abroad, Untal The Bombardier plant is by far the most resin, rather than using a pre-made material. Approved investments in the information said. “Then suddenly we had to deal with that important manufacturer left in Belfast, which The finished wings are sailed from Belfast har- technology services sector, which includes (Marawi) also. —AFP was one of the world’s great industrial cities bor for assembly in Canada. — Reuters BUSINESS THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2017 Large tech shares slide as US stocks retreat
NEW YORK: Wall Street stocks rose yesterday in “What is apt to be missing from today’s tax the euro and the pound, after further hawkish Yesterday, the euro was down 0.5 per- New York. After a round of selling in early anticipation of the unveiling of President Donald plan introduction is how it gets paid for without comments from US Federal Reserve Chair Janet cent at $1.1734 while the pound fell 0.5 per- Tokyo trade, bargain hunters came in to Trump’s long-awaited tax cut plan later in the day. increasing the deficit,” said Briefing.com analyst Yellen. In Europe, the FTSE 100 index of leading cent to $1.3396. “While this doesn’t mark a provide support for the market, Okasan Investors have been salivating for months over Patrick O’Hare. “That could be a potential buzz British shares was up 0.4 percent at 7,312 while change in the message delivered last week, Online Securities said in a commentary. “In the prospects of lower corporate taxes, which kill, but for now, the market is relishing the Germany’s DAX rose 0.5 percent to 12,664. The it does reinforce the view that tightening the afternoon session, investors’ wait-and- would boost profits of blue-chip companies and notion of a tax reform plan of some kind getting CAC 40 in France was 0.2 percent higher at 5,278. will continue despite inflation running see attitude became more pronounced, as other businesses considerably. Wall Street is also done soon.” US stocks were poised for a solid opening too below target and currently showing little they waited for the release of the US tax a fan of a cut in the personal taxes, another Trump Big technology companies were strong, with with Dow futures and the broader S&P 500 sign of improving,” said Craig Erlam, senior reform proposal,” Okasan said. Any hints priority expected to feature in the plan. About 20 Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Google-parent futures 0.2 percent higher. market analyst at OANDA. about the deal could provide clues for the minutes into trading, the Dow Jones Industrial Alphabet all climbing about one percent or The dollar has been one of the main drivers global market, analysts said. Average was up 0.3 percent at 22,354.05. The more. Dow member Nike dropped 4.1 percent across financial markets in recent days. The US Asia dismal “Officially not due to be released until broad-based S&P 500 advanced 0.3 percent to after reporting a 24 percent decline in first-quar- currency has been largely buoyed by expecta- Asian stock markets turned mostly lower tonight but prone to be comprehensively 2,501.91, while the tech-rich Nasdaq Composite ter profits to $950 million due in part to sluggish tions of further interest rate rises from the Fed. In yesterday as investors awaited the outlines leaked during our morning, the US adminis- Index gained 0.7 percent to 6,427.48. sales in North America. a speech Tuesday, Yellen indicated that it would of US tax overhaul plans by President tration and Republican leadership are slated Trump’s efforts to reform US health care policy not be prudent to leave rates on hold until infla- Donald Trump while news headlines on to jointly reveal their framework for tax have fizzled so far, raising questions about his Europe rises tion reaches 2 percent. The rise in the dollar geopolitical tensions surrounding North reform yesterday,” National Australia Bank’s ability to win tax reform. But the market was European stock markets edged higher yester- makes European goods more competitive in US Korea have quieted. Japan’s Nikkei 225 fell head of FX Strategy Ray Attrill said in a optimistic yesterday. day as the dollar continued its advance against markets. 0.3 percent to 20,267.05 and South Korea’s client note. Kospi dipped less than 0.1 percent to Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 lost 0.1 percent 2,372.57. Tokyo shares closed slightly lower to 5,664.30. But Hong Kong’s Hang Seng yesterday, with traders on the sidelines index rose 0.4 percent to 27,615.85. China’s ahead of key events including the unveiling Shanghai Composite Index was flat at of Donald Trump’s tax reforms and the 3,344.23. Stocks in Southeast Asia were release of Japanese economic data later in mixed. Benchmark US crude rose 38 cents the week. to $52.26 per barrel on New York Mercantile The bellwether Nikkei 225 index slipped Exchange. The contract slid 34 cents to fin- 0.31 percent, or 63.14 points, to close at ish at $51.88 a barrel on Tuesday. Brent 20,267.05. The broader Topix index ended crude, the standard for international oil down 0.50 percent or 8.31 points at prices, gained 27 cents to $58.19 a barrel in 1,664.43. A relatively cheaper yen offset London. It gave up 51 cents to $57.92 a bar- some of the downward pressure on the rel in London on Tuesday. The dollar rose to market, analysts said. The dollar fetched 112.66 yen from 112.23 yen. The euro fell to 112.46 yen in Tokyo, up from 112.23 yen in $1.1757 from $1.1791. — Agencies THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2017 BUSINESS
Mega sale continues on Renault Captur full option
KUWAIT: Ensuring its customers are con- a distinctly modern and functional vehicle sistently offered the best deals in Kuwait, with a turbocharged engine, the Captur Abdulmohsen Abdulaziz Al Babtain Co, comes with a lively response, sharp accel- the authorized agent of Renault in the eration, and flexibility at all speeds com- State of Kuwait urges its fans to benefit bining driving pleasure with fuel econo- from the ongoing sale on its fully- my, delivering remarkably moderate fuel equipped urban explorer. The Renault consumption and CO2 emissions. Captur Captur is still available with complete is an agile and dynamic model that is options for an exceptional price of KD equipped with a Renault R-Link system, 3,999 only. network-connected Multimedia tablet Reflecting innovation in every touch, with 7” touchscreen and voice recognition the Renault Captur draws on Renault’s to control the essential functions; Captur expertise and integrates a new level of is also backed with Cruise control, Speed design, comfort and equipment creating limiter, and a Navigation system. the perfect harmony between elegance Always keeping safety at the forefront and performance. Surrounded by stylish of all design conceptualization, Renault details, the continuous shape of the dash- Captur scores high in the passive safety board and the interior panels offer a com- crash tests carried out by the independ- fortable space. To accommodate larger ent body Euro NCAP, while Electronic capacity, there is ample interior width Stability Program keeps the vehicle under where in the rear passengers enjoy knee control in the event of a temporary loss of room of up to 21.6 cm. grip wherein the brakes act on one or The customizable Renault Captur more wheels to keep the car in check. offers original two-color paintwork that To explore the features in detail, cus- distinguishes the roof, pillars and mirror tomers are urged to visit Renault store in Motul roars into the future with casings from the rest of the body. Built as Rai & benefit from the irresistible offer. TVR as official lubricant partner Innovation, passion, technical development at highest levels
KUWAIT: An integral part of British sports car heritage, independent manufacturer TVR has produced models over the years with names such as Griffith, Chimaera and Cerbera, adding to its mythical status in British automobile man- ufacturing history. This year TVR is celebrating its 70th anniver- sary and to mark that milestone it is launching a brand-new, 5L Cosworth-enhanced V8-engined sports car. Motul’s products have been used suc- cessfully in the development process, signifi- cantly adding to the performance and quality of the engineering.
Roaring towards the future Recognized the world over for its models’ dis- tinctively sounding ‘roar’, the new TVR will be the first new model for the marque in over nine years. Another ground-breaker was the launch- ing of the car at the world-renowned Goodwood Revival event that happened on 8th September - the first time a manufacturer has done so. The new, as yet unnamed, lightweight model, will use innovative design and manufacturing techniques and features a carbon fiber construc- tion courtesy of the Gordon Murray Design com- with the very best, to deliver an outstanding ticular, is enormous, but sometimes under-esti- pany. Gordon Murray, of course, is famous for his performance car to our customers. mated by the consumer.” Recently Al-Sayer technically innovative, pioneering engineering “Motul shares our passion for racing and Group marked a new milestone achievement of Formula One cars of the past and the first excellence, with their lubricants contributing to by becoming an authorized distributor in McLaren. The V8, front-engine car will have man- the exhilarating performance of our engine Kuwait for Motul, world class lubricants with ual transmission and rear wheel drive, and will and our vehicle. During our development global presence in 160 countries. be powered by Motul’s fully synthetic 5W20 stage, we have already felt the significant ben- Technologically leading products from Motul engine oil which has been fully tested and efits of partnering with somebody who is par- lubricants will be available for customers approved by TVR. It will feature the marque’s ticularly experienced in motorsport and deliv- through ALSAYER Engineering’s wide network superior styling and be hand-crafted rather than ering to a very high standard. The contribution of five centers for tires, oils and paints as well as mass-produced. made by the lubricants to cars in general, and in authorized dealers, co-ops, garages and Burgan Bank announces winners the well-being of high performance cars in par- Auto-repair shops across the State of Kuwait. Motul and TVR: A perfect fit! of Youth Account quarterly draw Motul’s complete range will be recommend- ed to customers including gearbox oil, differen- KUWAIT: Burgan Bank recently announced KD20 in their Youth account they will get tial oil, brake fluid, coolants and windscreen the names of the three lucky winners of its one chance to enter the quarterly draw. washer. High quality, individual, cherished vehi- Youth Account Quarterly Draw. First place The Youth Account is designed for young cles need high quality, proven products; Motul winner, Rashed Mohammad Fhaid Al- customers, between the ages of 15 - 25, and TVR are the perfect fit. Haimar, took home a cash prize of KD 1,000, who seek to attain a successful future. There Arnaud Laire, Motul Managing director, while second and third place winners, Sarah is no KD limit to open an account, and no commented: “Needless to say, TVR and Motul Mahmoud Sayed Al-Mousawi and Bayader minimum balance required to maintain it. have a lot of points in common which is why Bajed Saad Al-Otaibi, each received a Furthermore, account holders will receive the partnership was natural and obvious from remarkable gift of an “unlimited access” free prepaid card and an ATM card which the very first beginning. After a few months of voucher to Grand Cinemas for one year. entitles them to discounts at selected mer- technical development, now we can’t wait to Customers transferring their Student chants along with an exclusive discount at unveil to TVR fans around the world the brand- allowances to the bank will automatically Grand Cinemas Theatres in Al-Hamra Mall new model!” be enrolled into the draw and with every and The Gate Mall. Les Edgar, Chairman of TVR Manufacturing Ltd added: “I am delighted to be able to announce our close collaboration and partner- ship with Motul, a recognized leader in high performance lubricants. In all areas of our new TVR, we were adamant about partnering only
Patrol City Cars offered Gulf Bank’s Kuwaiti salary with exclusive facilities account sales team meets KUWAIT: KFH Executive Manager - customers at The Gate Mall Cars & Leasing Aahed Al-Essa said that the operational lease product at KUWAIT: To further educate current to either receive a KD 100 cash gift KFH is offering Nissan Patrol Cars for and potential customers about its upon transferring their salaries to Gulf an unprecedented monthly rental Kuwaiti salary account offering, Gulf Bank or an interest free loan. Customers value in addition to other exclusive Bank is conducting a roadshow at two must have a minimum salary of KD 500 advantages. The product shall of the most popular shopping centers and will be able to benefit from all the include various categories to fulfill in Kuwait. The tour started earlier at The account’s features following their first customers’ needs and wishes and to Avenues Mall and now Gulf Bank repre- salary transfer to Gulf Bank. assure its readiness to present all sentatives will be available at a dedicat- Customers can also enjoy a one year that is new. ed booth at The Gate Mall between 28 - free of charge Visa or MasterCard credit Al-Essa emphasized in a press 30 September to answer all questions card, as well as a chance to apply for release that KFH extends exclusive Aahed Al-Essa and queries by customers. loan up to KD 70,000, or a consumer care and interest to customers by Laila Al-Qatami, Assistant General loan up to KD 15,000. offering and introducing the latest models at reasonable prices. Manager of Corporate Communications Existing and new customers who The service includes a variety of the most reputable trademarks at Gulf Bank, said: “Gulf Bank’s Salary transfer their salaries to Gulf Bank are iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus arrive comprising 80 models of various types of vehicles, thus giving Account is tailored for Kuwaiti cus- automatically enrolled in the quarterly customers more choices to select their cars easily. tomers, and allows them to benefit draws and have the chance to win valu- at VIVA on September 30 Al-Essa indicated that commercial business with automotive from several unique offers when they able cash prizes, including three quar- transfer their salaries to the Bank. By terly prizes of KD 25,000, in addition to KUWAIT: VIVA, Kuwait’s fastest-growing and aluminum design in three beautiful agents has taken a strategic turn. Nissan - Babtain Group is one being available at popular locations, we Kuwait’s largest salary prize of KD and most developed telecom operator, finishes - space gray, silver and a new gold - of KFH distinguished partners where purchases of the leasing will be able to talk to current and 250,000 in the big draw. yesterday announced it will offer the new made with the most durable glass ever in a product reached KD 32 million. He reiterated the company’s potential customers about Gulf Bank’s Two draws were conducted earlier generation iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus. smartphone, Retina HD displays, A11 keenness to provide KFH with the best and most favorable offers. exciting Kuwaiti Salary Account and its this year while the third one for the Postpaid customers will be able to pre- Bionic chip and is designed for the ultimate Accordingly, KFH maintains its leading position in offering the wide range of customer benefits and prize of 25,000 will be held on 6 order iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus begin- augmented experience. The world’s most latest models including (Altima - Xtrail - Pathfinder - Patrol), thus the method of opening an account.” November 2017. The big draw for the ning September 22nd, 2017 at VIVA’s offi- popular camera gets even better and wire- increasing KFH share in the operational lease market. KFH offers The Kuwaiti salary account offer largest prize of KD 250,000, is planned cial website www.viva.com.kw and all less charging brings a powerful new capa- exclusive facilities, discounts and special offers to authorities and gives new customers the opportunity to take place on 8 February 2018. VIVA’s stores, and both will be available bility to iPhone. iPhone 8 Plus features dual grand companies. beginning Saturday, September 30th, 2017 12-megapixel cameras and introduces He added that KFH aims to attract a larger category of retail at all VIVA’s stores in Kuwait as well as our Portrait mode with Portrait Lighting, bring- and corporate customers by providing the highest service quali- online VIVA e-store, which is also available ing dramatic studio lighting effects to ty and the latest modern cars for monthly rental value starting on VIVA App. iPhone, allowing customers to capture from KD 69/- per month. Prices are dependent on the car type Commenting on this occasion, stunning portraits with a shallow depth of and lease period 12 - 26 months. This activity shall contribute to Abdulrazzaq Bader Al-Essa, Director of field effect in five different lighting styles. serving KFH customers and enhancing automobile market. Corporate Communications at VIVA, said: Additionally, iPhone X, the future of the New car categories have been added lately to the leasing “VIVA is extremely delighted to provide the smartphone, will be available to pre-order product list to tally with the various categories of customers. long-awaited iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus at VIVA on October 27, 2017. iPhone X fea- Al-Essa confirmed that the leasing service at KFH has gained to our customers. He added: “We strive to tures a gorgeous all-glass and stainless tremendous trust from customers and achieved remarkable offer our customers the latest technologies steel design with a beautiful 5.8-inch Super annual growth in its market share in the automobile market. He to continuously make their communica- Retina display, A11 Bionic chip, wireless added that the development process is continuing through the tions easier and more convenient.” charging, an improved rear camera with introduction of new models of leasing vehicles. KFH has a high- iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus are a new dual optical image stabilization and Face ly trained team of employees to provide distinguished cus- generation of iPhone featuring a new glass ID, enabled by the new TrueDepth camera. tomer service. technology THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2017 Samsung scion Jay Lee set to begin appeal SEOUL: Samsung Electronics Vice in mid-October. Since Lee filed for appeal laid out its strategy submitted in hun- “implied” he was asking for the presi- straightforward case of bribery as “it can Chairman Jay Y. Lee today will begin an late last month, the appellate court is likely dreds of pages of arguments to the High dent’s help. be considered the same as she (Park) her- appeal of his five-year jail term for corrup- to try to rule by next January, as under Court. The defense is expected to ques- self receiving it.” Lee’s defense is expected tion, in a case highlighting South Korea’s Korean law, he can only be kept in deten- tion the lower court’s logic that Lee Bride definition to argue no evidence exists to back that issues with the family-run conglomerates tion a maximum of four months while the expected Park’s help in “succession opera- Another defense argument turns on assertion. that dominate the economy. court considers his appeal. Whichever side tions,” which the court defined as all whether there was in fact a bribe as Lee’s defense counsel at law firm Bae, A lower court last month convicted loses is likely to appeal again to the actions Samsung affiliates took “to defined under South Korean law, which Kim & Lee LLC declined comment. Lee the 49-year-old Lee, heir to the Samsung Supreme Court. strengthen Lee’s control of Samsung says only civil servants come under the testified during the trial he had limited Group and one of Asia’s largest technolo- Four other Samsung executives were Electronics.” statute. Lee was found guilty of providing knowledge and authority over business gy companies, of bribing former presi- also convicted in the lower court in the Lee’s defense has argued there was no financial support for former president decisions in affiliates except Samsung dent Park Geun-hye to help strengthen bribery case. such thing as “succession operations” and Park’s close friend and confidante, who Electronics and related tech affiliates, Lee’s control of the crown jewel in the actions such as a 2015 merger of two was not a civil servant. which took up about 90 percent of his conglomerate, Samsung Electronics. Park New lawyers Samsung affiliates was taken for the com- The lower court found that Samsung work. His lower court trial began after is also under trial over allegations of Lee’s legal team has added new panies’ own perceived profit. provided financial support to entities Park was impeached, but before her suc- abuse of power and bribery. At today’s lawyers for the appeal, including former The lower court ruled that while Lee backed by Park’s friend Choi Soon-sil, cessor, President Moon Jae-in, a liberal hearing, the Seoul High Court will set the Seoul Central District Court chief and new never asked for Park’s help directly, the including 7.2 billion won ($6.4 million) to critic of the conglomerates known as order of witnesses and evidence for the lead counsel Lee In-jae. fact that the merger did help cement sponsor the equestrian career of Choi’s chaebol, was elected in a special presi- appeal trial, which is expected to begin Earlier this month, the defense team Lee’s control over Samsung Electronics daughter. The court said this was a dential vote in May. —Reuters Electric car-sharing service News in brief
Ford working to integrate to be launched in Singapore autonomous cars with Lyft DETROIT: Ford is working to integrate its autonomous cars with Lyft’s ride-hailing software, so someday Ford can car- Dyson to make electric cars by 2020 ry Lyft passengers. The two companies will link their soft- ware in a partnership announced yesterday. At first SINGAPORE: An electric car-sharing service will be human-driven cars from Ford will carry Lyft passengers. launched in Singapore in December, in what the compa- The automaker plans to connect its self-driving test cars to ny behind the scheme said yesterday was a first for Lyft’s network. But they won’t carry passengers until Southeast Asia. BlueSG, a subsidiary of France’s Bollore they’re fully tested. The companies didn’t give a time Group, said that 80 cars and 30 stations where vehicles frame for integrating services. Ford says it expects the Lyft can be picked up and dropped off would be operational partnership to accelerate its self-driving car efforts. The by the end of the year. company has said it wants to develop a fully driverless The group plans to roll out 1,000 of its custom-built vehicle by 2021. In July Lyft announced it would open its Bluecars by 2020, as well as numerous stations and charg- network to other companies for self-driving car research. ing points. The affluent city-state-whose generally uncon- Lyft also has partnerships with Google’s Waymo gested roads are a contrast to many traffic-choked cities in autonomous car unit and General Motors. the region-has become a testbed for transport innovations. Last year it hosted a limited public trial of the world’s first driverless taxis. Marie Bollore, from Blue Solutions, said Delphi separates Singapore was a launchpad for the company to enter the high-tech and traditional Asian market. DETROIT: The auto parts maker Delphi plans to split “We will start in Singapore, and afterwards we will see if itself into two companies early next year. The Delphi other regions in Asia are interested,” Bollore said at the spinoff, targeted to take place before April, may launch of BlueSG’s new Asia-Pacific headquarters in become more common in the industry as companies Singapore. separate older businesses from their more advanced The service is being rolled out with the help of the technology wings. Sweden’s Autoliv also plans a split, authorities. Land Transport Authority chief technology offi- with one company making passive devices like air cer Lam Wee Shann said the initiative would “lay the foun- bags, and the other focusing on electronics that pre- dation” for a network of electric vehicle charging stations, vent crashes. One Delphi company, called Aptiv, will and support the growth of electric car use in Singapore. focus on electronic safety systems, autonomous cars Blue Solutions is the world’s biggest operator of electric and the electrical backbone of vehicles. The other will car-sharing services, with 5,000 other electric vehicles in be named Delphi Technologies and will focus on com- eight cities-including Paris and Lyon in France, Turin in Italy bustion engine parts, software controls and electric and Indianapolis in the United States. In Singapore, users vehicle components. will be able to book an electric car online or via a mobile app, and charged for the time they rent the vehicle rather than the distance travelled. SINGAPORE: This photograph taken on Tuesday shows the electric Bluecars ahead of the launch of a BlueSG office, Tesla Model 3 isn’t only There will also be an option for a daily or annual mem- a subsidiary of France’s Bollore Group, in Singapore. The electric car-sharing service will launch in Singapore in affordable EV on market bership. Slightly bigger than a Smart car, the two-door, December, in what the company behind the scheme said yesterday was a first for Southeast Asia. —AFP The Tesla Model 3 has captured the interest of both four-seater Bluecars are designed with Italian coachbuilder mainstream car buyers and electric vehicle enthusiasts Pininfarina. Nissan in March started a similar service in the company. He told journalists in London that half the invest- He warned that poor government policies to tackle air alike. The Model 3’s combination of sleek styling, long city of Yokohama south of Tokyo. ment would go into the car, the other half into the battery. pollution meant that “developed and developing cities are range and semiautonomous driving features gives the In seeking to launch his own electric car without the aid of full of smog-belching cars, lorries and buses”. Model 3 an “it” factor that’s hard to resist. But with a base Dyson venture an established partner, Dyson follows the lead of US firm “It is a problem that others are ignoring,” he said. But price of $35,000, limited availability, and many of its most James Dyson announced Tuesday he was investing Tesla, founded by business magnate Elon Musk. Dyson said he never gave up his ambition to find a solu- desirable features on the options list, the Model 3 isn’t for £2.0 billion ($2.7 billion, 2.3 billion euro) into developing But it will put him up against major players in the auto- tion. “At this moment, we finally have the opportunity to everybody. For buyers who are interested in an electric an electric car by 2020, a new venture for the British mobile industry who are making their own forays into new bring all our technologies together into a single product,” vehicle but don’t want to wait around for the Model 3, sev- inventor of the bagless vacuum cleaner. The 70-year-old technology. Asked if he intended to make a profit, he said: he wrote to staff. eral great alternatives are available now at a similar price British entrepreneur said work began two and a half years “I hope so. That’s the idea.” “Rather than filtering emissions at the exhaust pipe, point. Some have shorter ranges while others lack the lat- ago on a project which he hopes will help tackle the today we have the ability to solve it at the source.” The est driver assistance features, but if you’re interested in an scourge of air pollution. ‘Solve it at the source’ research for the new vehicle will be done in Britain, but electric car that won’t take as long to arrive, these EVs are “Dyson has begun work on a battery electric vehicle, Dyson made his name with the bagless vacuum cleaner, Dyson said he would decide in the coming months where worth a look. due to be launched by 2020,” he said in an email to but the company currently holds more than 10,000 the manufacturing would take place. employees, referring to his eponymous company. patents, and produces hair dryers, fans, heaters and light- The company employs 8,500 people — 4,000 in Britain- “The team is already over 400 strong, and we are recruit- ing. In his email to staff, he revealed this is not his first with £1.4 billion in annual turnover and has a presence in Hopes high on ing aggressively. I’m committed to investing £2 billion on attempt to enter the automotive sector. In the 1990s he 65 countries across the world. “Where we make the battery, 2018 Nissan Leaf this endeavor,” he said. Details of the project remain top developed a filter that could be fitted on car exhaust sys- we will make the car,” he said, adding: “We want to be near The Nissan Leaf was a game-changer when it secret, but he said every element would be designed by his tems, but said “nobody at the time was interested”. our suppliers, where logistically it makes sense.” —AFP debuted in 2011, so hopes are high for the redesigned 2018 model. The Leaf still doesn’t have the long-range Uber to defend business abilities of the Model 3 and Chevrolet Bolt, but its low base price gives it a level of attainability that most model at UK tribunal competitors can’t match. In addition to its new look, the 2018 Leaf boasts a larger battery pack that increas- on worker rights es maximum range from 107 miles to an estimated 150 LONDON: Uber is expected to tell a British employ- miles. A more powerful electric motor bumps output ment appeal tribunal yesterday that its drivers are self- from 107 to 147 horsepower for improved perform- employed and not workers entitled to a range of extra ance. Two new features set the Leaf apart from its benefits, less than a week after the firm was told it rivals. The first is called e-Pedal. It allows drivers to would lose its London license. bring the Leaf to a complete stop merely by lifting off The U.S. ride hailing service has faced regulatory the accelerator. It makes for a one-pedal driving expe- and legal setbacks around the world amid opposition rience that eases fatigue in heavy traffic. from traditional taxi services and concern among some regulators. It has been forced to quit several countries, such as Denmark and Hungary. Losing its license in London, one of the world’s wealthiest cities, SK Hynix to put 395bn is one of the US technology firm’s biggest setbacks so far. The London regulator cited the firm’s approach to yen in Toshiba’s reporting serious criminal offences and background checks on drivers. chip unit sale It can operate during its appeal, which could last months. Last year, two drivers successfully argued at a SEOUL: South Korean chipmaker SK Hynix Inc said yester- tribunal that Uber exerted significant control over day that it will invest 395 billion yen ($3.5 billion) toward them to provide an on-demand taxi service and had the purchase of Toshiba Corp.’s memory chip unit by a responsibilities in terms of workers’ rights. group of investors. The board at South Korea’s No. 2 semi- At the two-day appeal hearing starting yesterday conductor company approved the decision, which will Uber was to argue its drivers are self-employed and help the South Korean chipmaker advance in a segment work the same way as those at long-established local The Russians and Americans would cooperate to build the systems needed to organize scientific missions in lunar known as NAND flash memory chips. SK Hynix is part of a group led by Bain Capital Private taxi firms, according to a court document seen by orbit and to the surface of the Moon. —AFP Equity that includes several Japanese and US companies Reuters. The self-employed are entitled to only basic such as Apple, Dell, Kingston Technology and Seagate protections such as health and safety, but workers Russia, US shoot for the moon Technology. SK Hynix disclosed other details about the receive benefits such as the minimum wage, paid holi- deal, including how the US-Japan-South Korea consortium days and rest breaks. This would add to Uber’s costs with joint lunar station project will split the stake. It said SK Hynix and Bain Capital will and bureaucracy across Britain. control a combined 49.9 percent stake in Toshiba’s memory Those in a third category, called employees, receive MOSCOW: Russia and the United create a space station in lunar orbit,” the work on their craft and dock to the chip unit. Toshiba will control 40.2 percent and Hoya Corp., all those entitlements as well as other benefits such as States agreed yesterday to cooperate Russian agency said in a statement. international lunar station,” Komarov a Japanese company, 9.9 percent. statutory sick pay and maternity or paternity leave. on a NASA-led project to build the The Russians and Americans would was quoted as saying in the statement. The South Korean company plans to finance part of its “Almost all taxi and private-hire drivers have been self- first lunar space station, part of a long- cooperate to build the systems need- Russia and the United States also investment via convertible bonds worth 129 billion yen, employed for decades before our app existed,” an Uber term project to send humans to Mars. ed to organize scientific missions in discussed using Moscow’s Proton-M which could later be converted into common shares and spokesman said before yesterday’s hearing. “Uber driv- The US space agency said earlier lunar orbit and to the surface of the and Angara rockets to help create the give SK Hynix up to a 15 percent stake in Toshiba’s memory ers have more control and are totally free to choose if, this year that it was exploring a pro- Moon, the agency added. “Roscosmos infrastructure of the lunar spaceport, chip unit. —AP when and where they drive with no shifts or minimum gram called the Deep Space Gateway, and NASA have already agreed on the statement said, adding that the hours,” he said. a multi-stage project to push further standards for a docking unit of the main works were slated to begin in Trade union-led protestors were expected to into the solar system. The project future station. Taking into account the the mid-2020s. march through central London yesterday against envisages building a crew-tended country’s extensive experience in Space exploration-including joint what they deem “precarious labor” in the ‘gig econo- spaceport in lunar orbit that would developing docking units, the sta- work on the International Space my’, where people work for various employers at the serve as a “gateway to deep space and tion’s future elements will be created Station (ISS) — is one of the few areas same time without fixed contracts. Uber faces a fur- the lunar surface,” NASA has said. using Russian designs.” where international cooperation ther challenge as law firm Leigh Day said it would And yesterday the Russian space Igor Komarov, Roscosmos’s general between Russia and the US has not represent a female driver who says Uber is putting agency Roscosmos announced that a director, said no fewer than five coun- been wrecked by tensions over her and other women at risk as the driver does not cooperation agreement had been tries were building their own rockets Ukraine and Syria. The $100 billion ISS, know the passenger’s destination until they are signed at an astronauts’ congress in and systems. “To avoid future prob- which has been orbiting Earth at already in the car and that could mean travelling to a Adelaide. “The partners intend to devel- lems over technical cooperation, part about 28,000 kilometers (17,000 remote or unsafe area. —Reuters op international technical standards of the standards should be unified-for miles) per hour since 1998, is the SEOUL: In this Jan 30, 2013, file photo, a security official which will be used later, in particular to a possibility for various countries to world’s largest space project. —AFP sits inside the headquarters of SK Hynix Inc in Seoul. —AP THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2017 HEALTH & SCIENCE US healthcare bill collapses amid Republican infighting Incumbents could be at risk in 2018 elections WASHINGTON: The failure by President Donald Trump and his fellow Republicans to dismantle Obamacare has infuriated the party’s conserva- tive flank and is intensifying intra-party warfare ahead of the 2018 US congressional elections. Donors and activists upset by the collapse of the latest Senate healthcare bill said it hardened their determination to back conservative candi- dates in next year’s elections, even if that means ousting Republican incumbents. “I am fed up. I’m beyond frustrated,” said Mica Mosbacher, a Houston-based Republican fundraiser, who added she was “extremely disap- pointed in Ted Cruz,” a Republican US senator ZHENGZHOU: Photo shows an aerial view of the building of the Career and from Texas who had threatened to oppose the Entrepreneurship Comprehensive Service Base of University Graduates in latest healthcare bill because he wanted to see Zhengzhou in China’s central Henan province. China has another entry when it changes. Texas is scheduled to hold the first comes to buildings that look suspiciously like something else-a 12-storey block at a nominating primary of the midterm elections in university strongly resembling a giant toilet. — AFP March 2018. Trump vowed during the 2016 election cam- paign to scrap the 2010 Affordable Care Act, for- Is it a Chinese university... mer Democratic President Barack Obama’s signa- ture domestic achievement, which Republicans or a giant toilet? see as a costly government overreach. Democrats say it has extended health insurance SHANGHAI: China has another entry when pleted last year and has an oval annex that to millions. The latest bill to overturn Obamacare it comes to buildings that look suspiciously could be the toilet bowl attached to a larg- failed on Tuesday after three Senate WASHINGTON: US Capitol Police carry a protester out of a Senate Finance Committee hearing like something else-a 12-storey university er rectangular block which critics say looks Republicans, including moderate Susan Collins about the proposed Graham-Cassidy healthcare bill in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on block strongly resembling a giant toilet. like the cistern. and conservative Rand Paul, said they could not Capitol Hill. —AFP Architects have had a field day in China in “Before it was finished we joked that it support it. Republicans narrowly control the today or the failure to pass a repeal of the Congress’ inaction. Such criticisms could help recent years with a number of outlandish was a toilet. And now it is a real toilet build- chamber by 52-48. Affordable Care Act to give their candidacy a lit- turn next year’s elections into a referendum designs springing up across the country. ing, our university’s good name will be In November 2018, all 435 seats of the US tle bit of a push. The question is can that fuel on congressional incumbents, rather than on The latest is a building on the campus of spread far and wide,” one of its students House of Representatives and 33 seats in the today sustain itself over the long term of an elec- the president himself. “I think we are entering North China University of Water Resources joked on Weibo, China’s equivalent of Senate will be up for election. In the Senate, that tion cycle,” he said. an era of more primary challenges in general, and Electric Power at Zhengzhou in the Twitter. Another Weibo user asked light- includes 23 Democrats and eight Republicans, So far, Trump has been hedging his bets on The disappointment by activists over the central province of Henan. heartedly: “Does it make the people inside with several in both parties in fights expected to the Republican primaries. But many of his inability for Republicans to repeal Obamacare The provincial government spent 86 the building poop?” The ruling Communist be competitive. If a large number of Republicans allies are already backing conservative pri- only adds fuel to this fire,” said Craig Robinson, million yuan ($13 million) on the building, Party last year said it had had enough of are forced to defend their seats against chal- mary challengers. Trump has blasted Senate former political director of the Iowa which is for university graduates looking to “weird” buildings, such as the Beijing head- lengers from their own party in primary fights, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell over Republican Party. —Reuters start their own enterprises, the Henan quarters of China Central Television (CCTV), Democrats will seek to exploit weakened candi- Daily said. Despite the name of the univer- fondly nicknamed “The Big Underpants”. dates in the general election in their effort to sity, the building was not thought to have There was also the Beijing HQ of the wrest control of the House and Senate from been designed to resemble a toilet. But People’s Daily newspaper, which during Republicans. Energy drinks, game faces at internet users have mocked the unofficially construction bore an unfortunate resem- A shift of either chamber into Democratic named “toilet building”, which was com- blance to a giant penis. — AFP hands would make it even more difficult for Shanghai eSports ‘boot camp’ Trump to pass his agenda of tax reform, tough- ening immigration laws and rolling back SHANGHAI: Urgent cries ring out in a room thousands of spectators in stadiums, and Obamacare. Republicans have not delivered a crammed with computers and caffeine-”Kill many millions online. League of Legends, in Ghana villagers profit significant legislative win on any topic since that one!” “They’re murdering us!” as training which multi-player teams do battle in a fanta- Trump took office in January. Mosbacher said for the Flash Wolves eSports team gets into full sy world, is among the most popular games. from monkey business she was “leaning toward supporting” Cruz’s pri- swing. The Taiwanese professional gamers are The world championship final will be held in mary opponent, Stefano de Stefano, even in the last stages of preparations for the League Beijing’s 80,000-seat “Bird’s Nest” National of Legends world championships culminating Stadium. TAFI ATOME: The villagers of Tafi ‘Living together as one’ though she served as fundraiser for the incum- bent’s 2012 campaign. on November 4 in Beijing and, eyes fixed on Atome, in Ghana’s Volta Region, grew up At the sanctuary, monkeys wait in the their screens, they’ve got their game faces on. Vitamin B Whoever prevails in that fight would likely listening to tales of their spiritual links to trees, watching a group of young visitors. The “boot camp” in Shanghai, fuelled by In Shanghai, the Flash Wolves are limbering face Beto O’Rourke, a well-funded Democrat, in the 1,000 or so mona monkeys that When the bananas come out, so do the energy drinks rather than physical exertion, up with training games against other teams the general election. Texas last elected a inhabit the surrounding lush forest. But monkeys. Both tourist and monkey reflects the rising stakes in eSports, where purs- logged on from elsewhere in the city. The Democrat to the Senate in 1988. The conserva- they have also turned that reverence squeal with delight as the food is taken. es reach millions of dollars and a single poor game is their life and they “train”-which means tive group Club For Growth has already begun into revenue, by making the cheeky pri- Seventeen-year-old Melissa Fehr, from performance can derail a player’s career. playing the game-seven days a week, wearing interviewing Republican primary challengers it mates part of an eco-tourist attraction Canada who is among the visiting group, Players train up to 16 hours a day, and are con- their matching black tops, their nicknames will consider backing next year. “We’ll continue that benefits both animals and locals is just as enthusiastic about the warm wel- sidered past their best after 25. The Flash emblazoned on the back. to push for full repeal of Obamacare, and we’re alike. Francis Acquaye, the manager of come extended to them by the villagers. Wolves’ team manager, who goes by the nick- Boxes of energy drinks-higher-strength disappointed Republicans have been unable to the Tafi Atome Monkey Sanctuary and “They all say ‘welcome’ to you, which is name of 4Leaf, says it’s an ultra-competitive life imported versions, the team says are stacked deliver on their seven-year promise,” said Cultural Village, said the monkeys and really cool,” she enthused. Villagers say that can be “very cruel”. Once dismissed as the in a corner, coffee cups litter desk tops and the forest were considered sacred until they have never experienced or seen the Rachael Slobodien, a spokeswoman for Club for pursuit of teens and introverts, eSports is grow- some players pop Vitamin B tablets, a com- the 1980s, when the spread of monkeys attack. Acquaye walks through Growth. ing fast towards being a billion-dollar industry mon supplement for athletes. Another Christianity eroded traditional beliefs. the forest calling the monkeys with and has a huge fanbase, especially in Asia. eSports team in the same office building The red, brown and white monkeys, pursed lips. When they see the halved ‘Shown true colors’ Flash Wolves like Maple, Betty and warmed up with stretching exercises. Flash which are found between Ghana and bananas in his hands, they bound over. Club for Growth is not alone in its frustra- SwordArt-most gamers have colorful nick- Wolves say they welcome both male or female Cameroon, were soon hunted and trees And when people carry food on their tion over the defeat of the Obamacare repeal names-can earn up to $75,000 a year and even members and choose based on talent, but all were chopped down until the village heads, especially if it’s bananas or corn, effort. David Bozell, president of ForAmerica, a more if they win a top tournament. ESports their players happen to be young men aged became an eco-tourist attraction in 1996. they need to be wary, he said. “You need to conservative grassroots organization, said will be a medal sport at the 2022 Asian Games, between 18 and 22. One bad month or per- Now, thousands of people visit the sanc- give pieces of those to the monkeys other- incumbents who failed to line up solidly and it is pushing hard for Olympic status. But formance can see a player dropped from the tuary near the border with Togo each wise you will be carrying monkeys on the behind repeal had “shown some true colors” with the pressure on, playing games soon five-man team. Understudies wait in the year. Some stay in the village to learn load (too),” he added. For Lydia Osei, a trad- and in doing so, were inviting primary fights begins to feel a lot like work, the competitors wings, not to mention the vast pool of about rural life. The money earned has er in the village who sits on the roadside for their party’s nomination. say. “It is not as simple as people imagine: teenage gamers back home in Taiwan. helped to build a health clinic, sink bore- selling drinks and snacks, sharing food Republican Senators Jeff Flake of Arizona and ‘Wow, playing games as work, you’re so lucky,’” MMD, a former tourism major, dropped out holes and renovate school buildings. with the monkeys is a normal part of life in Dean Heller of Nevada are top targets for con- said MMD, whose real name is Yu Li-hong. of university at 19 to go pro. “At the beginning “People in the community treat the mon- Tafi Atome. “We give them food when we servative groups. Conservative Kelli Ward has “Because when you make it your profes- my family would start nagging me whenever I keys in a very friendly way just because have it. We give them banana and maize already announced her candidacy challenging sion, your attitude and the feeling of playing is was sitting in front of a computer and asking of the benefits we derive from tourism,” and other things and they are no longer Flake, and is seeking to amass support as a more different. You need to be serious about every- me why wasn’t I studying,” he says, sporting Acquaye said. “Everybody supports what afraid of us,” she said. “Even though they conservative option. Dave Tamasi, a Republican thing,” said the bespectacled 22-year-old. The yellow socks and a pair of flip-flops. “They is here. “So the monkeys are our friends, are animals and we are humans, we are liv- lobbyist and fundraiser, said he thought it was best gamers are stars in their own right, and think the more I study, the higher the degree I they are our brothers and sisters.” ing together as one.” —AFP too soon to know if the healthcare failure would top competitions play out in front of tens of get, the better. —AFP hurt Republicans. “Opponents may try to use WHAT’S ON THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2017
Theatre dynamic and thriving among expats: Playwright
By Sajeev K Peter
heatre is thriving and dynamic among the Malayali expat commu- nities in the Gulf region where the- Tatre practitioners are seen to be more committed and dedicated to the art form compared to their counterparts in India, said Thoppil Soman, a noted Malayalam playwright and director. Soman, who is the son of Malayalam theatre legend late Thoppil Bhasi, arrived in Kuwait yesterday to attend ‘Thoppil Bhasi Theatre Festival 2017’ being organized by Kerala Arts and Nataka Academy (KANA Kuwait) on Oct 29. “Theatre practitioners have a bound- en duty to protect and preserve theatre, an art-form of the masses which is cur- rently being marginalized by the onslaught of films and TV channels,” Soman said. Thoppil Soman “We had a lively theatre that had the power to directly interact with the mass- ‘Thoppil Bhasi Theatre Festival’ will es reflecting their life. The theatre of the be held tomorrow from 4.30 pm past was effervescent, poetic, and onwards at the Indian Community vibrant. However, thanks to technology School, Khaitan. The festival will witness and the emerging trends, the theatre the staging of four productions by ama- has been gradually reduced to stage teur Malayalam theatre troupes in gimmicks and spectacles”, Soman Kuwait. Ayanam Open Forum will stage added. Although efforts have been “Oru Sadacharakaala Pranayam”, Marina AAET students union recently held a special ceremony to honor some basic education college female students with outstanding performances. made to energize Malayalam theatre, it Moving Arts will present “Namenthu The ceremony was held at the college stage in Ardhiya where dean, Dr Fahad Al-Rowaished and the dean of students affairs, Dr Hussein Al- largely remains at academic levels, he Cheyyanam”, Snehalayam will perform Mukaimi honored the students and some parents. commented. “My experience is that the “Varoo Namukku Natakam Kalikkam”, P theatre practice in the expatriate com- and Kazhcha Kuwait will stage munity has been more active than in “Kazhcha” during the festival. The entry Kerala,” Soman quipped. to the festival is free.
Trendsetting 2nd summit conference On academic excellence held at ICSK
he Indian Community School Kuwait, ents and the students and urged the stake- added yet another milestone to its holders to keep the balance so as to illustrious history, when the Second achieve the long cherished dream of aca- Announcement T‘ICSK Summit Conference’, a discussion demic excellence and success. He high- forum for achieving “Academic excellence lighted in his address that “Excellence is an through quality enhancement” was held attitude” and the change in one’s attitude, from Indian on 20th September 2017 at ICSK Senior. will usher one to the threshold of astound- The prime focus of this summit was to ing achievements. bring to light the various means to attain All the members of the eminent gather- Embassy heights of excellence in the forthcoming ing actively participated in the discussion. CBSE board examinations AISSE and AISS- Principals, Vice-Principals, Heads of andhi Jayanti will be celebrated in Indian CE (Classes X &XII). Departments, Assistant Heads of Embassy on Monday, 2nd October 2017, Rajesh Nair, Principal (Amman Branch) Departments, Academic Supervisors and with one-hour cultural program from 0900 extended a warm welcome to the galaxy of Subject Coordinators shared their valuable -G 1000 hrs. Favorite Gandhi Bhajans will be sung intellectuals who attended the conference thoughts about creating academic excel- on this auspicious occasion. All Indian nationals which included the members of the Board lence at ICSK. The discussion which paved are cordially invited to participate. Please arrive of the Trustees, Principals and Vice way for vibrant, innovative and creative by 0845 hrs. Light snacks, tea/coffee will be Principals of all the branches of ICSK, the views on accomplishing academic excel- served to all. Heads of Departments, Assistant Heads of lence through quality enhancement, aim- Departments Academic Supervisors and ing at the upliftment of this prestigious Subject Coordinators. Honorary Chairman institution turned out to be a fruitful ses- of the Board of Trustees Shaikh Abdul sion involving active discussions and Rahman and Honorary Secretary A Amer healthy exchange of valuable ideas to Mohammed in their felicitation addresses enhance the quality of education at ICSK. urged each and everyone present there to Gangadhar Shirsath, Principal(Khaitan Indian Community School have excellent thoughts as “Excellent Branch) rendered vote of thanks to the thoughts transform gradually into excellent august gathering. He expressed gratitude actions and excellent actions pave way for and delight to all the attendees for their envying success”. presence and for actively participating in felicitates Dr V Binumon Senior Administrator and Principal the discussion so that ICSK can scale (Senior Branch) Dr V. Binumon presented greater heights of success. The attendees the topic of discussion and emphasized dispersed with a strong determination to grand felicitation program was held on Senior Administrator and Principal, Senior Principal category from the Honorable Vice that educational excellence through quali- passionately pursue and maintain the lega- 20th September, 2017 at ICSK Senior Branch for receiving the President’s National President, Shri M Venkaiah Naidu in a ceremony ty enhancement essentially calls for the cy of academic excellence and accomplish- Auditorium, in honor of Dr V Binumon, Teacher Award for 2016 under the CBSE held at Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi, on 5th undying support, dedication, commitment ment at ICSK to commence a joyous jour- A September 2017. The Award carries a certificate and sacrifice of four strong pillars - the ney that hopefully will bring much elation of merit, cash award and a silver medal. National management, the teaching faculty, the par- and success in the next academic year. Teacher Award is an initiative of the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India and was instituted in 1958 in honor of Former President, Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan and is given away on 5th September (Teacher’s Day) every year. The Management of ICSK gave a grand reception to Dr V Binumon for receiving this prestigious award. Sherly Dennis - Principal ICSK Junior wel- comed the gathering and the ICSK students enthralled everyone with their welcome dance and group song. Sheikh Abdul Rahman, the Hon. Chairman of ICSK, in his presidential address, complimented Dr V Binumon for his energetic and inspiring leadership, dedication for his chosen career and his ability to bring in changes with passion and diligence. He also emphasized his vision in bringing the scheme of NIOS to cater to the needs of desirous students. The Chief Guest, Sanjeev Saklani,Attache Counselor for Education, Indian Embassy Kuwait congratulated Dr V Binumon and his family and emphasized the value and importance of “Guru - Teacher” in the Indian culture. The Honorable Members of the Board of ICSK, Hon. Vice Chairman Vinukumar Nair, Hon. Secretary Amer Muhammed, Hon. Joint Secretary, Agnello Fernandes and Hon. Treasurer, S N Raju, in their speeches, extolled Dr V Binumon’s personal and professional qualities that make him truly deserving this great award. Rajesh Nair, Principal ICSK Amman, in his felicitation speech expressed his great admira- tion for Dr V Binumon, a proficient administrator, who always keeps students’ welfare close to his heart and work tirelessly to motivate them to achieve their goal. A video montage of congrat- ulatory messages from retired teachers and ex- students of ICSK brought nostalgic moments to the gathering. The Management of ICSK felicitat- ed Dr V Binumon with a memento and a gift. In uwait University’s College of Engineering & Petroleum recently held an his reply speech, Dr V Binumon thanked the enlightenment meeting for the new students at the guiding office. The meet- School Management and whole ICSK fraternity ing was organized by the students affairs deanery, the library, the students Kaffairs and the evaluation and assessment unit and was attended by assistant dean for their support and dedicated this award for ICSK. Shirsath, Principal ICSK Khaitan, proposed for students affairs professor, Khaled Al-Hazza’. the vote of thanks. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2017 TV PROGRAMS
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CROSSWORD 1721 STAR TRACK
Aries (March 21-April 19) Libra (September 23-October 22) You take time to think and study, for you have a real appreciation for the You do a lot of research and communicate with a lot of people, including creative mind. Making your mark on the world has special significance. Achievement, other companies, in order to keep up-to-date on the product that you sell or that the ambition and authority take on a greater importance. Organizing and administering company for which you work produces. This concentrated effort goes into creating a people and projects will become central to your lifestyle. Save a little time for having new job identity. You may uncover some interesting information at this time—however, lunch with a friend. Getting away from the workplace for a while will help you have much thought needs to go into whether you should disclose this information. Good renewed energy when you return. This friend may be someone that works in a neigh- practical job-related thoughts and ideas are available to you now. The ability to commu- borhood shop—lovely to have a different perspective. Through this friend you may nicate with your superiors is positive. Your timing should be perfect for just about any learn new and positive ways to view certain things in your life. Time and thought, not project you want to attempt, whether you are at work or at home. Stay on track and necessarily money, will resolve problems in a love relationship. remember, what you see is not always what is real.
Taurus (April 20-May 20) Scorpio (October 23-November 21)
You are very much your own boss. You are at your most practical when it You could be most persuasive with others and expressive in speech. comes to dealing and working with others. You know just what to do and can act with- People listen to what you have to say. The situation is a natural for self-expression. out haste. You are called on to make use of your natural skills during group meetings. Listening to the other person, you may be able to add to your own ideas and thoughts. You are very career-oriented and your personal reputation and honor is of the utmost A good conversation with loved ones this afternoon is fun. An outgoing and very importance. You possess a natural sense of organization and practical insight and may expressive cycle of experience has begun. Now more than ever, you want to be admired excel at managing or supervising others. So now that you know this . . . It is time to cre- and create things like poetry or music that stirs their hearts. This is child’s play; this is ate a better job for yourself by updating that resume, requesting a job change, etc. You romance; this is taking a chance. There is a yearning to broaden horizons and reach for naturally gravitate toward positions of power and authority. Your home life is full of the ultimate at this time in your life. This is your best day for love and money. This is also laughter and sweet music this evening. a high-energy day.
Gemini (May 21-June 20) Sagittarius (November 22-December 21) A friend, who may also be a co-worker, comes up with ideas today that will You are in a mood of self-enjoyment and can appreciate your own better help both of you get ahead in the work field. Your fear of taking risks can qualities. You communicate with skill and it is stimulating to be around be set aside when there is someone with whom you can share the risk taking. In both you. Your high degree of mental concentration makes you an excellent student—able to your personal and private lives you are highly organized—others seek you out for advice ACROSS 88. Distinctive and stylish elegance. excel in speaking, writing and all types of communication skills. Your ambitions go hand regarding business affairs. When you become cognizant of what you are doing and the 1. The compass point midway between east 89. Genus of beetles whose grubs feed in hand with communication and using the mind and the two should never be far apart. power you have to accomplish your goals, your thinking ability will become most posi- and southeast. mainly on roots of plants. You may see value in or feel love for an older person or someone in authority. Ask ques- tive. Rest, fun and exercise are important this afternoon. You are an excellent planner 4. A person who captures and holds people 90. The sound made by a cat (or any sound tions and take notes; this elder has seen many interesting things. This evening is a good with a real head for detail, including keeping up with your money. Good insight into per- or animals. resembling this). time to study—you have a real appreciation for science. You may find yourself enjoying sonal investments is possible today. A sense of harmony is in your home. 12. Having undesirable or negative quali- a long conversation, writing a letter, or making a special phone call. ties. DOWN 15. An American doctorate usually based on 1. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure at least 3 years graduate study and a disser- equal to about a bushel. tation. 2. Title for the former hereditary monarch of Cancer (June 21-July 22) Capricorn (December 22-January 19) Iran. 16. Markedly different from an accepted This could be a stressful day but you have the opportunity to rise above A bit of restlessness in the wee hours this morning may find you wishing norm. 3. The younger brother of Edwy who the stress. Take a moment to surrender your agenda and become centered there had been better rest. Instead of allowing your mind to control you— 17. Canadian hockey player (born 1948). became king of Northumbria when it or focused. You are able to succeed in whatever you set your mind to do at this time. learn ways to control your mind. Your birth sign shows you have an active mind and keep- 18. An ugly evil-looking old woman. renounced Edwy. 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An honorary arts degree. the time to make your move. There may be a sustained interest in communication, com- department of your library. You seem to shine when it comes to practical matters or those 35. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which 14. Worthless material that should be puters, electronics and all that is electrical. Updating or purchasing electronic equipment involving work and career. You have an easy way with superiors or those in authority and the pilot is talked down by ground control removed. may occupy your mind this afternoon. Compare prices and talk to people that are using can always get the most out of any skill or ability you have. You like work but it is impor- using precision approach radar. 21. Type genus of the Elopidae. the brand that you want to purchase in order to have a recommendation. tant to relax with a different interest this evening. 36. Of southern Europe. 23. Capital and largest city of Iraq. 38. The blood group whose red cells carry 26. 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Manila 11:00 KAC 676 Dubai 21:35 FDB 056 Dubai 10:35 KAC 155 Istanbul 22:15 SYR 341 Damascus 11:00 GFA 219 Bahrain 21:50 AAG 144 IQA 11:00 ALK 230 Colombo 22:20 JZR 561 Sohag 11:10 QTR 1082 Doha 22:05 FDK 804 Damascus 11:00 KLM 445 Bahrain 22:25 KAC 614 Bahrain 11:15 ETD 309 Abu Dhabi 22:10 SVA 513 Riyadh 11:00 THY 1401 ADB 22:25 MSC 403 Asyut 11:15 AIC 981 Chennai/Ahmedabad 22:25 GFA 214 Bahrain 11:35 UAE 860 Dubai 22:35 RBG 553 Alexandria 11:30 JZR 241 Amman 22:55 MEA 405 Beirut 11:55 KAC 383 Delhi 22:35 JZR 165 Dubai 11:50 JAI 574 Mumbai 23:00 SYR 342 Damascus 12:00 GFA 220 Bahrain 22:50 JZR 239 Amman 12:40 JZR 185 Dubai 23:00 JZR 776 Jeddah 12:00 ETD 310 Abu Dhabi 23:00 UAE 871 Dubai 12:45 MSR 2614 Cairo 23:30 WAN 435 Al Najaf 12:05 KAC 783 Jeddah 23:10 THY 766 Istanbul 12:50 FDB 071 Dubai 23:35 QTR 1075 Doha 12:10 QTR 1083 Doha 23:20 lifestyle THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2017
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Dior fuses ’60s spirit, women’s lib at Paris Fashion Week
ighty-three shows on the calendar, talent coming in dark sparkle. The ‘80s was in the air. Loose silhouettes, from over 20 countries and jet-setting celebrities tassel detailing and cuffed boots fused with high ruffle Eflocking into the French capital can only mean one necks and capes in shimmering blacks and flashes of pur- thing: It’s time for Paris Fashion Week. Here are the high- ple, pink and blue. lights of the ready-to-wear spring-summer 2018 collec- There was a distinct whiff of the TV series “Dallas” in tions Tuesday in the City of Light. some looks that incorporated big brown belts, black lacing, boots that evoked chaps, and black waistcoat-shaped tops. Dior’s sixties girl power At times, they were a little heavy-handed. But the creative Delving into the Dior archives, designer Maria Grazia climax came toward the end of the exhaustive 90-piece Chiuri came back armed with photos of sculptress Niki de show - when Vaccarello left behind the ‘80s exploration Saint Phalle - one of the few successful female artists in the and went abstract to explore shapes with an upward male-dominated 1960s’ art world and a muse for then-Dior movement. The piece de resistance: A skintight sheer black designer Marc Bohan. The inspiration of this artistic trail- lace mini-dress with a giant black ruffled disc that wrapped blazer spawned Tuesday’s Dior collection at Paris Fashion around the model’s waist artfully like an angry cloud. Week: the Sixties fused with the spirit of women’s lib. Boho denim flares, lace-up square heel boots, Breton stripes and knee-high stockings accompanied berets and long fine scarves tied with a knot. These mixed with ‘60s optical art black-and-white checks that were used effectively in kinet- ic uber-mini coat dresses. There were indeed some beauti- ful moments. Saint Phalle’s colorful sculptures were evoked in a series of color-blocked, architectural “scuba” looks in cobalt blue, black, white and yellow - shapes tight around the body in the ‘60s style. Still, it was a mixed bag at Dior, with some overly busy silhouettes - victims perhaps of Chiuri’s overly- busy archive references. Ensembles with multiple layers, sheer sections on skirts, contrasting fabrics and fastidious detailing on appliques were sometimes a little distracting.
Naomi Watts, the feminist Bianca Jagger, Eva Herzigova, Alexa Chung and Natalia Vodianova all drew plenty of photographers as they entered Dior’s show Tuesday at Rodin Museum. But it was the tardy Naomi Watts who drew the most attention in an embellished Dior lace bodice dress with semi-sheer tulle pleats. The 48-year-old actress was very on-message with Dior’s feminist vibe while talking to The Associated Press. “It’s a very good time for women, I feel. It’s about going out there and getting it,” Watts said. The star of this year’s “Twin Peaks” reboot was seated next to a copy of feminist histori- Tardy Naomi Campbell makes an Linda Nochlin’s pioneering 1971 article “Why Have first appearance since Versace There Been No Great Women Artists?” that was provided She grabbed headlines at Milan Fashion Week, model- thoughtfully by the house. ing alongside supermodels Claudia Schiffer, Cindy There has been a marked shift in celebrating feminism Crawford, Helena Christensen and Carla Bruni in Donatella since Chiuri last year became Dior’s first female designer. Versace’s eponymous show. Naomi Campbell has made her “Absolutely, it’s important to have female designers. No first public appearance since that coup - this time as a one knows the female anatomy out there more than a spectator - at Saint Laurent. Security was so tight, and the woman. It’s exciting to see Maria Grazia’s new show,” Watts schedule so unusually on-time for an evening show, that said. But Watts, who’s had a busy schedule of late with some top editors were even excluded from entering roles in the series “Gypsy” as well as the David Lynch designer Anthony Vaccarello’s collection. reboot, was also in Paris to relax. “I’m here with my friends. Campbell - who was five minutes late - was forced to We’re here to enjoy the city. Enjoy the clothes. Enjoy the watch from the distant standing area in front of the irides- whole experience,” she said. cent Eiffel Tower, dressed in a signature Saint Laurent black menswear tuxedo suit. Nonetheless, the youthful 47-year- Saint Laurent’s Eiffel tower view old enjoyed the spectacular, smoke-covered display of A smoke machine spewed out cloudy plumes across shimmer. “It’s gorgeous. It’s really stunning what he’s done,” the gargantuan metal platform above the Trocadero gar- she said, before rushing off to meet Vaccarello back stage. dens, created by Saint Laurent for its spring-summer col- Other VIP attendees, who were granted a front row seat, lection. As the Eiffel Tower glimmered in the background included Kate Moss, Lenny Kravitz, Chloe Sevigny and imposingly, and hypnotic music boomed, models filed by Courtney Love. in revealing mini-dresses, shaggy boots and lashings of
Models present creations for Christian Dior during the women’s 2018 Spring/Summer ready-to-wear collection fashion show in Paris. — AFP THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2017 lifestyle
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Models present creations for Anrealage during the women’s 2018 Spring/Summer ready-to-wear collection fashion show.
Anrealage’s straps It was an extravaganza in pastel - ruched, gathered and bound. The fashion-forward house of Tokyo designer Kunihiko Morinaga has built up a huge fan base in Japan for its intellectual designs and original use of techno-fab- rics. This was on full display Tuesday as Morinaga used strapping, in tonal or contrasting colors, to bind loose sil- houettes to the models’ body. It began with the baroque - billowing sleeves and high collars on silken fabric dresses in exaggerated proportions - and the occasional jumpsuit. They were, of course, paired with on-trend white banded sneakers. At times, crisscross strapping evoked an almost kinky, exo-skeleton restraining the body- such as in a peach, knee-length dress with a gray lattice exterior. The show was highly original.
Pink trend alert The color pink has - so far - been heralded as the color of the season. But fashion editors generally agree that Paris Fashion Week has the ultimate say in what going to be a trend, so all eyes are on the French capital’s runway collec- tions to see if this continues. On the first day of shows in Paris, pink made a moderate splash. A pink pastel ruched gown opened the collection for Anrealage with gowns that continued in pastel shades with a dash of fuchsia. And one of Dior’s nicest looks was a floor-length baby pink sheer silk gown tied at the waist with a pink bow. — AP
Models present a creation of Jacquemus fashion house as part of the Paris 2017 Spring/Summer ready-to-wear collection fashion show, on September 25, 2017 in Paris. Jacquemus’ ode to his mother It was a love story in homage to a glamorous mother. In a show brimming with joy, 27-year-old French designer Simon Porte Jacquemus dedicated his retro spring-summer 2018 collection to the style of his late mother, who died a decade ago. Her death hit while he was a teenager and spurned him on to launch his own fashion house at the ten- der age of 20. He named it Jacquemus - her maiden name. In Monday’s collection in the grand Picasso Museum, clothes exuded elegant sexual confidence and riffed on beach styles from the 1950s. A retro off-white bodice top sported large black polka dots against a surreally oversized straw sun hat with a stylish curl at one side. Indeed, decep- tively-simple curls, twists, drapes and gatherings in the fabric were ubiquitous in the thoughtful clothes, betraying a real skill in construction. With a floppy oversize cuff detail, a diaphanous skirt in pale yellow that was draped on the diagonal evoked a shirt his mother might have tied loosely around her waist. Hips were emphasized in tonal dresses that were gathered from the midriff or in loosely slung sarong-styles. Retro micro handbags looked like the playthings a child might have to emulate their mother. lifestyle THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2017
FEATURES New blood and old masters keep qipao dressmaking alive ‘If more people like the qipao, there won’t be an issue of lacking people to learn the craft’
n a quiet workshop in Taipei, three young China after communist forces seized power in 1949 His clients range from brides to businesswomen women meticulously sew and iron under the following a civil war and the dress became associ- who see the dress as elegant. Lee says there is Iwatchful eye of a master dressmaker with ated with capitalism. But the qipao gained a fol- increasing interest in traditional Asian styles, which decades of experience in creating the classic lowing in Taiwan, where defeated nationalist leader he hopes to tap into. “Those of us who have a rarer “qipao”. Lin Chin-te, 74, is among a handful of Chiang Kai-shek set up a separate government craft will be more competitive,” he adds. Neither Lin craftsmen in Taiwan who still specialize in hand after fleeing the mainland. nor Lee would reveal their prices but a master making the high-collar, figure-hugging garment Chiang’s glamorous wife Soong Mei-ling dressmaker charges from around Tw$8,000 ($260), which was once part of many women’s daily belonged to Shanghai high society and was a not including the price of fabric. wardrobes. His workshop is hung with dresses, qipao enthusiast, influencing trends in Taiwan. from elaborate long embroidered red silk qipaos to Many women wore the dress daily until the 1970s. ‘A happy heart’ shorter length versions in more wearable materials. Mass-produced, cheaper clothes eventually dented Arguably Taiwan’s most famous qipao maker, Seen as increasingly impractical and pricier than Chen Chung-hsin, 65, regularly opens up his mod- off-the-peg versions, the tailormade qipao is now est workshop to tour groups and school trips to mostly worn at weddings and special events. build enthusiasm for qipao making. Known for cre- Taiwanese “qipao” maker Lin Chin-te (center) and his students posing for photos at Lin worries dressmakers will no longer learn his ating costumes for movies including Taiwanese his studio in Taipei. skills and takes on apprentices to pass down his director Hou Hsiao-hsien’s Cannes-winning martial know-how. Hung Chu-tsu, 37, is one of Lin’s three arts epic “The Assassin”, Chen learned his skills from 30-something female pupils. “The master is very his father and inherited his shop. He says he makes patient,” she says, wearing a knee-length blue floral qipaos “with a happy heart” for his clients. “I hope qipao she made herself. “We start practicing from that more people will see the traditional tailor- the basics and learn one stitch at a time.” Hung says made qipao is different from an off-the-peg one- she thinks qipaos are beautiful and left her career mine flatters their shapes more,” says Chen. as a nurse to learn to be a dressmaker after having One of his loyal clients, Taipei marketing execu- a child. tive Yogi Ma, has set up a qipao club aimed at mak- Her plan is to open her own shop, selling hand- ing the classic dress a daily wardrobe staple once made qipaos adapted to modern life. Often smil- more, saying it can suit any figure and can be mod- ing, with braces holding up his trousers and a thim- ernized using different cuts and fabrics. “The qipao ble wedged on his middle finger, Lin says he wants Taiwanese “qipao” maker Lee Wei-fan check- is very elegant and pretty, it’s a pity that fewer to ensure his 60 years of experience do not go to ing his work at his studio. women wear them now,” says Ma, 42, who sees it as waste. “I teach my pupils as much as I can and representing the “beauty of ethnic Chinese hopefully they can strike out on their own in the women”. future,” he says. its appeal and some designers say recent growing Her Facebook-based club has over 4,000 follow- anti-China sentiment has also put off young people ers and arranges events where members wear the ‘Qipao hunk’ as they associate the dress with mainland culture. dress to take part in activities, from whisky tasting The qipao-meaning “Qi robe” — began as a However, Lee Wei-fan, 25, says there is still a fan- to flower arranging. long, loose dress worn by the Manchus or “Qi” peo- base. He studied qipao making under an old mas- She hopes that by promoting the dress she will ple who ruled China from the 17th century to the ter for five years after deciding to carve out a niche help skills like Chen’s survive. “If more people like early 1900s. Its popularity took off in 1920s in a field few of his design peers wanted to go into. the qipao, there won’t be an issue of lacking peo- Shanghai when it was modified into a fitted must- Lee opened his own business six months ago and ple to learn the craft,” she said. — AFP have, favored by actresses and intellectuals as a has built a following on social media where he Taiwanese “qipao” maker Chen Chung-hsin pointing at a movie poster for “The symbol of femininity and refinement. Also known goes under the name “Qipao Hunk”, something he Assassin” at his studio in Taipei. as “cheongsam” in Cantonese, it fell out of favor in blushes to admit was a publicity stunt.
This picture shows Taiwanese “qipao” maker Lin Chin-te (far right) working with stu- Taiwanese “qipao” maker Lee Wei-fan sewing at his studio in Taipei. This picture shows Taiwanese “qipao” maker Chen Chung- dents at his studio in Taipei. — AFP photos hsin (right) adjusting a “qipao” on a customer at his studio in Taipei. Tattoo artists need medical In ‘American Made,’ a new license: Japanese court
Japanese court yesterday fined a tattoo (but the same) Tom Cruise artist for tattooing customers without Aa medical license, the first case of its kind in a country where body art is associated here are basically two kinds of Tom Cruise rare knack for intelligently packaging A-list per- soon cheerfully smuggling enormous amounts of with gangsters. Police raided the studio of performances, and both can look pretty simi- sonas in kinetic kaleidoscopes. He did it in “Mr. & cocaine back to Arkansas for Pablo Escobar’s 29-year-old Taiki Masuda in 2015, charging Tlar on the surface. Each likes sunglasses, Mrs. Smith” with Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, in Medellin Cartel. On both sides of the law, things him with violating a law requiring anyone going fast and smiling big. He never exactly “Bourne Identity” with Matt Damon and in his last escalate quickly. Seal and his family (Sarah Wright who carries out a medical procedure to have a loosens up or slows down - the most unfathomable film with Cruise, “Edge of Tomorrow,” the time- Olsen plays his wife), can’t spend their money fast formal qualification. He received a court order thing of all in Cruise’s world. But most of Cruise’s warped science fiction that proved a movie maxim: enough. They run out of closet space and backyard to pay fines but requested a trial instead, hop- best and most interesting performances You just can’t kill Tom Cruise. In “American Made,” a holes for all the cash coming in. ing to prove that tattooing was art and not a (“Magnolia,” “Jerry Maguire,” “Collateral,” “Eyes Wide loosely true tale set in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s, The CIA’s missions grow more audacious, too. medical practice, according to the Asahi Shut”) have allowed some chink in the well-tanned Cruise plays Barry Seal, a TWA pilot whose on-the- Seal becomes the government’s clandestine Shimbun daily. armor, some hint of darkness underneath the rak- side smuggling of Cuban cigars brings him into the exporter of AK-47s to the Nicaraguan Contras, who At his trial, presiding judge Takaaki Nagase ish boyscout, some hollowness in the soul of orbit of the CIA. An officer named Shafer in turn are eventually flown back to Seal’s Arkansas said it was “reasonable” to require tattooists to America’s ageless action-movie avatar. (Domhnall Gleeson) turns up, and offers him a job base for military training. Seal greets them all with hold a medical license to prevent health risks, This picture shows a man posing for photo- an easygoing grin: “Hola, amigos!” It’s an increas- local media reported. “The tattoo artist is sen- graphs to display his “irezumi”, or Japanese ingly absurd circle of drugs, guns and money, all tenced to a 150,000-yen ($1,300) fine” a traditional tattoos, during the Sanja ostensibly for the fight against “enemies of democ- spokeswoman for the Osaka district court in Matsuri festival in Tokyo. — AFP racy.” The ironies mount, topping out with Nancy western Japan told AFP without giving fur- Reagan’s war-on-drugs plea to “say no” while her ther details. The judge also said that “bacteria 2014 survey conducted by the Kanto husband’s secret efforts to arm militants is fueling and viruses are likely to penetrate (the body) Federations of Bar Associations, nearly nine one of the most powerful drug cartels in the world. and there is a risk of causing skin problems”, out of 10 people aged between 20 and 69 according to the Nikkei business daily. said they found tattoos scary. But attitudes Cavalier decisions In Japan, tattoos are associated with appeared to be changing, with about 40 per- Like a handful of recent movies such as “War yakuza organized crime syndicates. Many cent of those in their 20s associating tattoos Dogs” and “War Machine,” “American Made” is a public institutions, such as hot springs or with art and fashion. — AFP farce of American international ambition run swimming pools, bar people who have them amok. Here are the comical on-the-ground results as a way of keeping gangsters out. It is how- of ill-considered policies from all the way up the ever unclear how many tattooists in Japan command chain. Presidents, beginning with hold a medical qualification. According to a Jimmy Carter and running up to Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton make cameos throughout “American Made.” It’s both a tribute to and a joke on American Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler experiencing opportunism that the cavalier decisions of politi- cians can so easily and so overwhelming benefit medical problem, band cancels shows (up to a point) a thrill-seeking pilot who can’t say erosmith lead singer Steven Tyler is ment did not say what medical issues no. The crescendo comes with Seal, fleeing the dealing with an “unexpected med- have affected Tyler. A spokeswoman for DEA, crash lands in a suburb and escapes on a kid’s Aical issue” that has forced the band the singer did not immediately return a This image released by Universal Pictures shows Tom Cruise as Barry Seal in a scene from, bike, all the while covered in a white powder of to cancel four shows in South America, the phone call or email. “American Made.”— AP coke. Finally, a fresh and unfamiliar method of group said in a statement on Tuesday. Tyler “I am not in a life threatening condi- escape for Cruise. “American Made,” written by Gary is expected to make a full recovery, the tion, but I need to deal with this right Cruise’s latest is the smart, zippy “American taking surveillance photos and making govern- Spinelli, has glossed up the story, of course. Seal’s band said. The band has canceled the fol- away, and get some rest and medical Made,” a movie that plays very much like your type- ment payoffs to the likes of Panama’s Manuel life wasn’t nearly so shiny as it is as played by lowing dates on their Latin American tour: care immediately in order to sustain A Tom Cruise movie before it yanks the rug out Noriega in Central America. “We’re building nations Cruise. But then again, whose is? “American Made,” Curitiba, Brazil, on Wednesday; Santiago, and maintain my future performances,” from beneath you and reveals the B-movie Cruise down there,” says Shafer, giddy. a Universal Pictures release, is rated R by the Chile, on Saturday; Rosario, Argentina, on Tyler said in a statement accompanying we’ve been missing. It’s a fiendishly perfect vehicle Seal, eyeing his own plane and eager to perma- Motion Picture Association of America for “lan- Oct. 3; and Monterrey, Mexico on Oct 7. the band’s message about the cancella- for Cruise that returns him to the cockpit, 31 years nently switch off “auto-pilot,” jumps at the chance guage throughout and some sexuality/nudity.” “Unfortunately, due to unexpected tions. Aerosmith earlier this month after “Top Gun,” and it simultaneously reminds us of and doesn’t stop giggling at his good luck. “I do Running time: 117 minutes. Three stars out of four. medical issues, lead singer Steven Tyler played shows in Rio and S„o Paulo, his preternaturally winning movie-star charisma tend to leap before I look,” he says in a video diary MPAA Definition of R: Restricted. Under 17 requires is seeking immediate care and has Brazil. Tyler in 2006 underwent vocal while subtly deconstructing it. that plays occasionally through the film. “Maybe I accompanying parent or adult guardian.-AP been advised by his doctors that he chord surgery. — Reuters should have asked a few more questions.” Blithely, cannot travel or perform at this time,” Building nations even charmingly ignorant of the dangerous and the band said in a statement. The state- Doug Liman, the film’s director, has shown a ethically questionable terrain he’s entering, Seal is lifestyle THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2017
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This photo provided by Party City shows a Halloween themed display in a front yard. This photo provided by Party City shows a Halloween themed display in a front yard. This undated photo provided by Martha Stewart Living shows an urn surrounded by some pumpkins, giving it a Halloween theme. Spooky or sweet: Choosing a theme for Halloween decorations
efore they even know whether the candy will be top- Add some drama with paper-bag lanterns: Cut Halloween notch or king-size, trick or treaters are drawn to houses shapes or words like “Boo!” into black paper bags and put Bdecked out for Halloween. “When kids are trick-or-treat- electric lights inside, Graff says. ing, that’s the first thing they see,” says Tanya Graff, style direc- tor at Martha Stewart Living magazine. “It’s fun when they see these amazing, decorated houses. It really makes it feel like Halloween. It makes your house look more inviting.” This photo provided by Party City shows a Halloween themed display on a front porch. Halloween offers the first big chance of fall to decorate - “the first big opportunity for people to really go for it,” says Graff. And you can go for it in different ways, from sophisticat- ed to playful, subtle or over the top. Halloween decorations range from traditional harvest to family-friendly to maximum spookiness, with ghosts, ghouls, skeletons and more. Any way you do it can make a big impact, and it doesn’t have to cost a chocolate-covered mint. When you’re creating a spooky scene, be sure to keep your theme consistent. “You want it to be unified,” says Barbara DeVos, category manager for Halloween decorations at the retailer Party City. “Whatever kind of theme you’re going for, you want all the lighting and all of the props to have the same kind of feeling.” And have a focal point that draws in passersby - “some kind of wow factor,” DeVos says.
Traditional harvest For a simple and subtle look, try a wreath on your front door. Take a dried grapevine wreath, add moss, and give it a creepy-crawly twist by adding black plastic bugs and snakes. Or spray-paint the wreath black and add faux black roses, Spooky and scary This undated photo This undated photo provided by Party City shows a Halloween themed display on a front Graff says. There are so many decorations to choose from, including provided by Party City porch. A seasonal harvest look is easy to get with pumpkins. skeletons, skulls, reapers, ghosts, witches, bats, crows and oth- shows a Halloween Besides the traditional jack-o’-lanterns, you can add pumpkins er critters, not to mention semblances of blood and gore. For themed display. to urns for a fall display, or turn carved pumpkins into outdoor maximum impact, accessorize with spider webbing, lights and vases for fall mums. The easiest idea, Graff says, is to place a fog machine, DeVos says. You can hang spider webbing from pumpkins up your front steps. “You could do different shapes, your roof to the ground and fill it with giant spiders crawling different colors, or ombre, starting in one color and graduat- down, she said. Add to the scene by creating a crow-filled ing down to another,” she adds. With pumpkins now available graveyard in your front yard with tombstones. “You can stick in many different hues, you can create an ombre look with bones into the dirt so it looks like someone might be coming pumpkins ranging from gray to green to white, or peach to out,” DeVos said. brown to orange. Bats, snakes and giant spiders can greet trick-or-treaters from a tree in your front yard. “You can put them onto the tree Family friendly and have them hanging down, and have webbing and cloth For a fun and family-oriented look, think about adding col- coming down and drape it all over the tree,” she said. or and smiling faces, says DeVos. “It’s having more color, like Skeletons can greet trick-or-treaters from rocking chairs or purple and orange and black tied in together, and having stools on the front porch; decorate around them with bones, friendly witches,” she says. “There is no blood or death. It’s all skulls or cauldrons.— AP about friendly pumpkins and friendly ghosts and scarecrows.” You can share a happy Halloween vibe using garlands or gel clings for the windows, DeVos says, or cute yard stakes or This undated photo provided by Party City shows a Halloween themed display in a front trick-or-treating signs. yard. Boris Charmatz, the man who wants to make you dance
oris Charmatz is out to make the world dance. Only Dancing in the shower called us pseudo intellectuals,” he recalled, “and said they to the cinema or out doing their shopping who came weeks after getting 20,000 people to dance over 10 “We go from a warm-up to a rehearsal with the public to neither wanted to do or see what my generation of artists across it and joined in. Would they do that if they had to Bhours on the tarmac of Berlin’s old Tempelhof air- create a piece, to a kind of living exhibition of dance with a like Xavier Le Roy and Jerome Bel were up to. pay?” he asked. port, the French dancer and choreographer is about to whole forest of solos” by professional dancers which people “I really believe in it being free. We often talk about repeat the trick at the vast 104 arts centre in Paris on can watch or try to copy themselves, he said. At Berlin he had Shows ‘must be free’ making things democratic and accessible, but for me being Sunday. While the American photographer Spencer Tunick everything from traditional Greco-Turkish “zeybek” dances to “But we became extremely popular in museums,” with free opens up all sorts of interesting artistic possibilities persuades people to take off their clothes for mass nude the cutting edge Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker. In Paris on Charmatz himself putting on performances in a string of too. “If you go to an opera you get your ticket in advance shots, Charmatz has similarly inspired tens of thousands to Sunday he will also take in hip-hop and Breton folk steps. major galleries, from MoMa in New York to Tate Modern in and you go as if you were going into a shrine. “If you go to shed their hang-ups about dancing. He described his “The idea is that we share the culture of choreography,” London as well as staging his acclaimed “20 Dancers for the (his show in) 104 (in Paris) where there is no stage, where “Crazy for Dance” happening as not just a “mega bash” but said Charmatz, who also heads a dance conservatory in the XX Century” in the gilded corridors and stairwells of the you have got the most professional dancers down to chil- a mass initiation into the joys and mysteries of modern western French city of Rennes, which he has turned into Paris Opera rather than on its stage. “MoMa and Tate dren, and where dance lovers and the public are at the dance classics, from Isadora Duncan to Lucinda Childs. what he calls the “Dancing Museum”. All of which has made Modern have been pioneers for the last 15 years of what a same level” there is a spark which is you don’t find else- “It’s about forming a dancing community,” he said. him into one of the rising stars of dance, a huge irony for museum could be in the 21st century. Not only a museum where, he argued. When you can attract 20,000 people to an old airport to someone who comes out of the “non-dance” movement. of objects but also of thought, movement and perform- That has not stopped Charmatz creating “normal” pieces dance “clearly you are responding to a need”, he told AFP. Non-dance was born in the mid-1990s by mixing dance ance,” he said. like “10,000 Gestures” for the Manchester International And 44-year-old Charmatz fills that need by taking his with art and video, with one-off performances often in Charmatz has been credited with bringing a new pub- Festival this summer which The Guardian described as “a audiences by the hand through great contemporary public spaces such as squares and railway stations. lic to museums, but he insists on his events being free. thrilling blizzard of movement”, which he will take to the pieces, some of his own work which can be danced by any- “I like the idea that dance is something bigger than a “It allows you to create differently. In Rennes when we Palais de Chaillot theatre in Paris next month. — AFP one, and joyous cult moves from the 1970s US television show in a theatre, that it can also be something you can do did ‘Crazy for Dance’ there we had 16,000 people” in the series “Soul Train”. on YouTube or in the shower,” Charmatz added. “They city’s main square. “There were people who were going
This file photo shows a dancer from the Paris Opera Ballet performing in the public areas This file photo shows French choreograher Boris Charmatz This file photo shows a dancer performing at the Soviet War Memorial Treptower Park in of the Palais Garnier in Paris during the “Twenty dancers for the 20th Century” conceived posing at his home in Rennes, western France. Berlin during the event “20 Dancers for the XX Century” developed by French production by French choreographer Boris Charmatz. — AFP photos “Musee de la danse” of French choreographer and dancer Boris Charmatz for the Soviet War Memorial Treptower Park. New blood and old masters keep qipao dressmaking alive
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“Pumpkins Screaming About Love Beyond Infinity” by Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama is displayed in her museum during the press preview in Tokyo yesterday. — AFP photos Japan’s ‘polka dot queen’ Kusama gets first museum
he first museum devoted to Japanese artist Yayoi large colorful paintings with meticulously replicated movement. By the time Kusama returned to Japan in Kusama opened its doors yesterday, featuring drawings of dots and eyes, and red polka dots on mirrors 1973, she was burned out and voluntarily checked into a Ttrademark colorful paintings and spotted pumpkin inside a toilet. Kusama said in a statement she wanted psychiatric ward where she has lived ever since. It was statues from the so-called “polka dot queen”. The 88- visitors to “see and feel my philosophy towards life... all not until the 1990s that Kusama was rediscovered. Her year-old, named the world’s most popular artist in 2014 my love devoted to all beloved humans through a sin- polka dots and pumpkins were a perfect fit for a highly Journalists check out products at the souvenir shop during the press pre- by the Art Newspaper, said she had accomplished her cere, lifelong endeavor towards art.” Born in 1929 in cen- commercialized art market, with collectors drawn to her view of her museum in Tokyo. “profound lifelong hope of having everyone be able to tral Japan’s Nagano prefecture, Kusama, who suffered instantly recognizable style. The exhibition opens to the see my artwork”. The first exhibition at the museum, from psychological trauma due to feuding between her public on October 1. — AFP housed in a stark white building in Tokyo’s Shinjuku dis- parents. She was already drawing dots and nets as a trict, features 45 works created between 2004 and 2017, child, based on her hallucinatory experiences. including a series entitled “My Eternal Soul”. She moved to the United States aged 28 and spent 16 True to form, it includes a sparkly pumpkin statue, years in New York at the height of the sexual liberation
Journalists watch art productions by Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama during “Starry Pumpkin” by Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama is the press preview of her museum in Tokyo. displayed in her museum during the press preview.
Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama delivers her video message during the Outside view of Yayoi Kusama museum during its press preview in Tokyo. Journalists check out products at the souvenir shop press preview of her museum in Tokyo. during the press preview of her museum in Tokyo.
NY Guggenheim museum cuts animal artworks after threats
he Guggenheim Museum in New York has decided to by hundreds of reptiles and insects. nered nearly 700,000 signatures in a bid to send the mes- “As an arts institution committed to presenting a multi- withdraw three works from a hotly anticipated exhibi- The museum will also exclude the video “Dogs That sage that “animal cruelty holds no place in art in the United plicity of voices, we are dismayed that we must withhold Ttion on modern China, after receiving “repeated Cannot Touch Each Other”. Made by Chinese artists Sun States.” After several days of sustained campaigning backed works of art.” PEN America, an organization that defends lit- threats of violence” related to the staging of live animals. Yuan and Peng Yu, the installation shows pitbull dogs by the American animal rights organization PETA, the erary and artistic expression, called the decision “a major Among the works in the exhibit “Art and China after 1989: placed opposite each other and tethered to non-motorized Guggenheim bowed to the pressure. “Although these works blow.” “That threats of violence became grounds for the can- Theater of the World”, slated to open October 6th, were treadmills, running at each other but unable to touch. “A have been exhibited in museums in Asia, Europe, and the cellation of the works represents a major blow to artistic three involving animals-sparking protests from animal Case Study of Transference” by Chinese artist Xu Bing, which United States, the Guggenheim regrets that explicit and freedom,” read a statement from its executive director rights activists. A central work that will not go on display is shows two pigs mating, will also be omitted from the show. repeated threats of violence have made our decision neces- Suzanne Nossel. — AFP “Theater of the World”, an octagonal installation inhabited A petition launched on the Change.org website gar- sary,” the museum said in a statement.