WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2014 THULHIJA 14, 1435 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Firecracker, Morocco mulls Kobane Phelps toy gun-free legal pot ‘about to fall’ suspended for Eid in growing, as fighting 6 months after Kuwait3 breaking7 taboo kills13 hundreds DUI19 arrest KPI cancels investment Max 38º Min 26º in refinery, mulls sale High Tide 11:40 & 23:50 Kuwait buys stake in Canadian shale project Low Tide 05:33 & 18:01 40 PAGES NO: 16306 150 FILS LONDON/AMSTERDAM: Kuwait Petroleum International has cancelled a planned $1.4 billion investment in its 88,000 barrel per day (bpd) Rotterdam refinery and may sell it, a spokesman said, as Europe’s refiners struggle with overcapacity and global competi- tion. “Now we have to look at all other options,” spokesman Jan Maarten van der Steen said on Monday, adding that the company was talking to banks includ- ing HSBC about managing a possible sale. Converting the Europoort refinery to a storage terminal or closing it entirely are possibilities, he said, although adding that closure was “not the option anyone wants”. “It’s also our intention to keep all personnel on board,” he said. “We are working on a new collective labour agreement.” Van der Steen said the company hoped to make a preliminary decision by spring 2015, though emphasis- ing that talks were in early stages. Industry sources said the refinery would have a hard time finding a buyer, giv- en its small size and competitive position relative to much larger refineries in the Rotterdam oil hub and elsewhere in the region. A union source said that con- verting the plant into a terminal would cut the staff to about 80 from around 350. The refinery has been up for sale before, including an abortive 2007 deal in which Lukoil was the rumoured buyer. The aborted investment, which the company had dubbed “Project Orange”, would have added a 38,000 bpd hydrocracker, a new vacuum unit and several stor- age tanks. Separately, Chevron Corp said on Monday it would sell a 30 percent stake in its Canadian oil shale holdings to Kuwait’s state-owned oil company for $1.5 billion. The deal with Kuwait Foreign Petroleum Exploration Co helps Chevron reduce production risk and gives it more capital to increase drilling in Alberta’s Duvernay shale formation, one of North America’s largest shale deposits. The deal, valued at about $15,000 per acre, boosts land valuations in the region and should help increase drilling, a step that will likely reduce produc- tion costs to about $12 million per well, down from KUWAIT: A fire at an open-air storage yard for scrap metal, plastic materials and garbage containers among other inflammable items was brought under control about $15 million to $20 million currently, analysts at after it broke out early yesterday in Amghara, said a fire department official. The fire covered about 3,000 sq m of the storagerd ya which has a total size of 5,000 sq investment bank Tudor Pickering Holt said in a note to m, said Brig Khalid Al-Mekrad, a deputy director of the Kuwait Fire Service Directorate, in a statement to KUNA. Only material damage occurred, he said, noting that clients. gusts up to 40 km/hour fanned the flames quicker than expected. — By Hanan Al-Saadoun Continued on Page 13 News in brief Hajj selfies spark controversy

MINA, Saudi Arabia: Raising his arm, said with a smile. Hotel attacker split Yousef Ali hugs his elderly father in front of The increasingly popular phenome- UAE sisters’ skulls one of Islam’s holiest sites as they grin for a non has sparked controversy among LONDON: An attacker crept into a hotel room and hit three selfie - a craze that hit this year’s hajj. But more conservative Muslims, however, Emirati sisters holidaying in London so hard with a claw ham- not everyone is happy about young pil- with some taking to Twitter to criticise mer that their skulls splintered, a court heard yesterday. Philip grims from around the world constantly pilgrims who take selfies. “When we went Spence, 32, has admitted committing grievous bodily harm snapping “selfies”, photographs taken of for umra in the mid-90s, Dad nearly had against the sisters at the four-star Cumberland Hotel in central one’s self, as they carry out the rites of hajj his camera confiscated to shouts of London on April 6. However he denies three charges of attempted murder and one of conspiracy to commit aggravat- which are the high point of a Muslim’s spir- ‘haram!’ Now, #HajjSelfie is A Thing. What ed burglary and his trial on those counts began yesterday at itual life. From tawaf - circling the holy a world,” wrote one tweeter. Another user London’s Southwark Crown Court. Sisters Ohoud, Khulood Kaaba in Makkah - to prayers atop Mount named Kahwaaa wrote: “It’s a time to con- and Fatima Al-Najjar, from the United Arab Emirates, were Mercy in Arafat, and stoning of the “devil” nect to Allah and purify my soul. #hajj- sharing adjoining rooms in the hotel. The “sustained and in Mina, the key stages of hajj have all selfies selfies shouldn’t be taken.” vicious” attack left all three unconscious, prosecutor Simon been recorded on cameras and smart- But others said the issue was being phones for posterity, and for instant shar- blown out of proportion. “People creating Mayo told jurors. Shuji Nakamura Isamu Akasaki Hiroshi Amano ing through social media. a huge issue about #hajjselfies. If photos Hajj is the one of the world’s largest are allowed during hajj then what is GSK probing graft religious gatherings. It has attracted over wrong with selfies?,” asked Abdul Mufeez allegations in UAE LED lamp wins Nobel two million believers this year. “As this is Shaheed. Nothing at all, says Ali’s father LONDON: Drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline, which was my first pilgrimage, it is important for me Mohammed Ali, 65. “A person taking such slapped with a record $489 million fine for corruption in for Japanese trio to document all the events taking place pictures is documenting a rare event”, a China last month, said yesterday it was looking into alle- around me,” Ali, 24, told AFP, snapping a once-in-a-lifetime experience for many gations of corruption in the United Arab Emirates. picture of himself with a green sign read- Muslims, he said, wearing a traditional Britain’s biggest pharmaceuticals group confirmed the STOCKHOLM: Three Japanese-born To recreate the white light of the Sun, ing “Big Jamarah”, which refers to a wall white robe. “This is a symbolic place rep- investigation following allegations of improper payments researchers yesterday won the Nobel Prize red, green and blue need to be mixed. Red set out in a whistleblower’s email sent to its top manage- for Physics for inventing the LED lamp, a and green diodes had been around for a where Muslims ritually stone Satan. resenting history,” Mohammed Ali added, ment on Monday. The company is already investigating boon in the fight against global warming long time, but devising a blue LED was the “Wherever I go, I take pictures, especially pointing to the three sites which pilgrims alleged bribery in a number of Middle East countries, and aiding people in poverty. The trio are Holy Grail - and achieving it took three since nowadays we have these little cam- began stoning on Saturday at the start of including Lebanon, Jordan, Syria and Iraq, as well as Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji long decades. The breakthrough came in eras... that offer a full view of the area,” the the Eid al-Adha feast of sacrifice, which is Poland. The anonymous author of the email - purportedly Nakamura, who has since become a US the 1990s when the three researchers, bearded Kuwaiti, casually dressed in celebrated by Muslims worldwide. a GSK sales manager in the Gulf state - claimed that the national. “This year’s Nobel Laureates are after dogged work, coaxed bright blue sweatpants and a pair of trendy sandals, Continued on Page 13 British company made direct payments to healthcare pro- rewarded for having invented a new ener- beams from lab semiconductors. “They fessionals, hospitals, clinics and pharmacies to secure gy-efficient and environment-friendly succeeded where everyone else had business. This included payments for educational meet- light source - the blue light-emitting diode failed,” the jury declared. “With the advent ings - regardless of whether or not they took place - as (LED),” the jury said. “Their inventions were of LED lamps we now have more long-last- well as schemes to pay customers for taking prescription revolutionary,” it said. “Incandescent light ing and more efficient alternatives to older drugs by giving them bonus over-the-counter products, bulbs lit the 20th century. The 21st century light sources.” the author said. will be lit by LED lamps.” Continued on Page 13

UK lifts immunity of Bahraini prince LONDON: A British judge yesterday said Bahrain’s Prince Affleck defends Muslims Nasser bin Hamad Al-Khalifa did not have legal immunity from WASHINGTON: Hollywood A-lister Ben who claimed that 20 percent of the prosecution following a review requested by a Bahraini tor- ture survivor. “It’s a victory for the people of Bahrain,” Sayed Al- Affleck has delivered a spirited defense world’s Muslims are either jihadists or Wadaei, director of advocacy at the Bahrain Institute for Rights of Muslims worldwide on a TV talk Islamists, according to “a bunch of poll and Democracy campaign group, told AFP after the hearing. show hosted by a fellow liberal with lit- results”. “The day of accountability has come for Bahrain,” he said. A tle time for the Islamic faith. Affleck, Oscar-winner Affleck recoiled at the lawyer for the anonymous survivor, Sue Willman, said she well known for his progressive views, broad-brush portrayal of the world’s expected a meeting with the police’s war crimes unit “in the was promoting his latest film “Gone second-biggest faith. “So you’re saying next few weeks” to discuss taking the investigation further. Girl” on HBO’s “Real Time with Bill that Islamophobia is not a real thing,” The survivor was referred to in court only as “FF”. Activists Maher” when the conversation turned snapped the actor, who tackled the want the British police to investigate allegations that the towards Islam. “Islam at the moment is 1979-81 Iran hostage crisis in his 2012 prince was involved in torturing political prisoners. The deci- the mother lode of bad ideas,” said fel- political-thriller “Argo”. KUWAIT: Pilgrims are greeted by relatives at the airport after their return from sion has no immediate effect on the prince, who is not being low guest Sam Harris, a philosopher Continued on Page 13 prosecuted and considers Britain a home-from-home. the hajj yesterday. — Photo by Fouad Al-Shaikh WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2014 LOCAL

KUWAIT: HH the Amir arrives at the Grand Mosque to HH the Amir is greeted by HH the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah HH Sheikh Sabah is greeted by Interior Minister Sheikh Mohammad Al-Khalid Al- perform the Eid prayer. — KUNA before leaving to Oman. Sabah Amir congratulates Saudi King on conclusion of Hajj

KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al- Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah sent a cable to Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz on Monday congrat- ulating him over the conclusion of this year’s suc- The first victims of IS are Muslims: Mogherini cessful Hajj season. In his cable, HH the Amir lauded the Saudi BRUSSELS: The EU High Representative Cooperation Council countries is planes “was such a powerful message I to get one after that.” King and government’s efforts to provide pilgrims designate Federica Mogherini has extremely important. And it is some- think culturally that could develop a dif- She warned that unless the EU and UN with the best care, accommodation and health described IS as a “major global threat to thing that we should value as it gives an ferent framework for the Gulf countries step up efforts to stabilize Libya “it could services. He also hailed the establishment of new all of us” and called on regional countries opportunity to change the whole to relate to the region,” she said. be next in line” to fall to radical groups. pilgrims service centers which made pilgrimage to play a leading role to confront the dynamics on the regional level,” she said. “It’s a huge crisis, but it is a huge Mogherini said she supports Palestine’s easier for pilgrims. HH the Amir wished the Saudi terrorist group. “It is certainly not simple. We have seen opportunity for different regional pow- Hamas-Fatah unity government and not- Kingdom and people progress and welfare under the wise leadership of Saudi King Abdullah bin “The first victims of IS are Muslims. It how complex it is because people have ers and actors to start working together,” ed the EU could put “political pressure” Abdulaziz. proclaims itself a state while actually competing and different interests. There she said. Mogherini said she represented by using financial “incentives and disin- HH Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah had destroying the state concept. They use is a lot of work to be done in reconciling the outgoing EU High Representative centives” on Palestine and Israel to get headed to the State’s Grand Mosque on the first religion against other religions which different interests. The fact that these Catherine Ashton at a recent EU-GCC back to talks. She said that the core of EU day of Eid Al-Adha Saturday to perform the Eid has no base neither in Islam or in any countries are participating in the coali- meeting “and we talked precisely about efforts should be directed to the Middle prayers. HH the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al- other religions,” said Mogherini in a tion does illustrate that they are aware if how we could revive our partnership East and the Mediterranean region. Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Deputy Chief of the three-hour hearing at the European the fact that this is a problem that they economically and politically.” On the Ukrainian crisis she under- National Guard Sheikh Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Parliament’s foreign affairs committee need to face up as a regional group and Replying to a question by the MEPs lined that there is “no military solution Al-Sabah, Sheikh Nasser Al-Mohammad Al- Monday night. “My evaluation of the this is an important realization too,” she she said Iran “could play a constructive to the conflict” and said the EU should Ahmad Al-Sabah, Acting Prime Minister and involvement of the Gulf countries in the said. and could play a destructive role in the focus on helping Ukrainian president Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Sabah Al- coalition is a participation in a coalition “It is not Iraq. It is not a clash of civi- region.” “That’s why I think it is right to Petro Poroshenko to make peace. Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, Minister of the Amiri and not a military coalition because lizations or culture or religions either,” engage Iran and try to see if it can “Russia might not be a partner at the Diwan Sheikh Nasser Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, there are countries involved in the coali- stressed Mogherini who has studied instead of being a spoiler could be part moment, but it’s still a country with Acting Speaker of the National Assembly Yaqoub Al-Sane, and senior state officials were also pres- tion which are not participating in any of Islam and politics and also served in the of the solution,” she said. She added that strategic importance in world affairs, so ent at the Mosque. the military operation,” said Mogherini Middle East desk of the Italian foreign either we get an agreement before I guess we’ll need to deeply reassess HH the Amir received Eid greetings after the who is the current Italian foreign minis- ministry. She noted that the picture of a November 24 with Iran on the nuclear our relations over the next five years,” prayer, before leaving along with Sheikh Mishal ter. “I think the participation of the Gulf pilot from the UAE flying one of the issue,” or it will be extremely complicated she said. —KUNA to Oman on a private visit. — KUNA WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2014 LOCAL In Brief Board membership Increased benefits Multistory parking

By A Saleh KUWAIT: The Civil Service Commission informed KUWAIT: The Central Tenders Committee state departments about changes introduced to the approved a Ministry of Education request to KUWAIT: Minister of Commerce and Industry scholarships and study leaves regulations. The Abdulmohsen Al-Mudej confirmed that there are no establish a multistory parking building at the amendments include increased financial allocations, current parliament members who were appointed at Hawally Educational Directorate project in including the annual textbooks allowance (from KD boards of shareholding companies during their Salmiya. Companies interested to bid for the ten- 100 to KD 200 for people on study leaves, and from tenure in the National Assembly. The minister made der can submit their offers before November 16, his statements in response to inquiries from MP Adel KD 150 to KD 300 for people sent on paid scholar- Al-Khurafi, who asked about the practice that comes ships), as well as free travel tickets annually instead 2014. Only companies classified in Category A are in violation of article 131 of the Kuwaiti constitution. of once every two years. allowed to participate. Kuwait celebrates Eid Al-Adha Firecracker-less, toy-gun-free holiday

KUWAIT: New homes and one still under construction in Agaila’ one of newer housing projects in Kuwait. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat. Kuwait pushes to tackle housing shortage KUWAIT: Minister of State for Housing belief that securing 12,000 units per year Affairs Yasser Hassan Abul denied yester- will result in decreasing number of KUWAIT: A crowded leisure park during the Eid Al-Adha holiday. — Photo by Joseph Shagra day a press report that found way to housing seekers, thus prices of real- By Ben Garcia them,” said a municipality officer who wished families at the seaside during the first day of Eid. social media attributing to him a state- estate plots will drop. Some of the pro- stay anonymous. “The government is really seri- “We arranged this event so we could have a fam- ment that the government would offer ceeds from commercial, business, indus- KUWAIT: A campaign to totally ban firecrackers ous about this campaign because there were ily bonding. We collected money to buy food every citizen a house, over 10 years. trial and entertainment facilities that will and toy pistols paid off as witnessed by many accidents reported during past Eids. Now the and enjoy some fun parlor games,” said a Pinoy. Abul told KUNA that his Sunday be built at the residential districts will be during this Eid holiday. The first three days of Eid festivities are generally calm and no injuries They shared chicken barbeque, seafood and statement on the occasion of the Arab invested to cover some costs of con- saw fewer firecrackers if not totally firecracker- were reported,” he said. Meanwhile, expatriates plenty of special Filipino food prepared for the Housing Day, was a review of a commit- structing these residential areas. less and toy gun-less Eid in many places. Young and locals alike thronged entertainment facili- occasion. ment by the Public Authority for Some of the money, from these pro- kids enjoy playing with firecrackers and toy guns ties and malls to celebrate Eid Al-Adha. Many The Arabian Gulf Street extending from Housing Welfare (PAHW) to offer 12,000 ceeds, will be shifted to the housing (with plastic bullets), but the danger of using locals remained within the bounds of family dur- Messila to Kuwait City near the KPC building was units annually over the coming 10 years, authority budget and invested in future them caught the attention of the municipality, ing the first day of Eid as they usually dedicate also filled with holiday revelers from day one, seeking to end waiting lists that com- housing ventures, “whereby we will be which totally banned them. the first day to visit their families and loved ones. especially at night, until day three. The crowd is prise 112,000 applications. able to minimize dependence on the The ban was put in place three years back, Many families thronged malls, leisure parks, gar- expected to continue until Friday. Some fitness- The Minister urged sticking to accu- State general budget.” Minister Abul but until last year, many kids were still using fire- dens and cinemas to spend the special days with conscious expatriates were seen partying and racy regarding vital issues like housing, indicated the approach within the major crackers and toy guns to celebrate. This year their loved ones. dancing to the tunes of Zumba, while some and rejected stirring emotions through plan to “develop mechanisms and however was different. “We campaigned hard spent time walking and jogging by the seaside. “groundless” stories. He stressed, mean- resources of housing loans and render and raided stores selling illegal objects, so you Outdoor events People were also enjoying football, basketball, while, that the government is commit- them compatible with requirements of have seen the effect. If you see stores selling fire- Expatriates enjoyed outdoor events, like a volleyball, kite flying and biking. “The weather at ted to solving the housing problem with executing the future plan,” also noting crackers, please inform us and we’ll be happy to group of private nurses from the Philippines night was cool, so we’ll be staying here by the “transparency and clarity.” desire to enhance cooperation between send a team from the municipality to confiscate who were spotted with their colleagues and seaside till the morning,” a reveler said. Abul had stated in his initiation state- the private and private sectors for exe- ment that the PAHW is committed to cuting such ventures. Furthermore, he implementation of a “road map,” stipu- indicated that the authorities would lating distribution of 12,000 residential seek to offer apartment houses and resi- units to citizens within the coming 10 dential areas, friendly to the environ- Minister, Japanese business years. He explained that 21,000 houses, ment. according to the abovementioned plan, “We all, the workers in the housing will be built in Al-Metlaa, 40,000 in Saad field, will spare no effort for implement- leaders discuss development Al-Abdullah South City, 35,000 in Al- ing this plan that will contribute to real- Khairan, 52,000 in Nawaf Al-Ahmad City izing social security and development and 52,000 in Al-Sabriyah. stability for all segments of the society,” Relevant authorities have signed con- he pledged, also noting in this respect Kuwait seeks experts’ help to execute projects tracts for construction of buildings and necessity of cooperation among the TOKYO: Visiting Kuwaiti Minister of State for Offset obligations apply to military contracts also essential. utilities as part of Jaber Al-Ahmad City, governmental departments, the Development and Planning Affairs and Minister of a value equal to or above KWD 3 million and Showing satisfaction with the Kuwait-Japan Sabah Al-Ahmad City, Al-Sulaibikhat National Assembly, under guidance of of Social Affairs and Labor Hind Al-Subaih civil contracts of a value equal to or above KWD friendly ties, the minister expressed readiness to Southwest City, Minister Abul revealed, His Highness the Amir and His Highness exchanged views with Japanese business lead- 10 million. Foreign suppliers must invest 35 per- further promote bilateral cooperative relations, adding that a contract had been inked the Crown Prince. ers on cooperation in Kuwait’s development cent of the contract value in an approved offset revealing that the two countries are set to sign for designing Al-Metlaa City. Kuwait has secured housing for plan. At a seminar in Tokyo organized by the business venture. The participants in the one- two Memorandums of Cooperation during her A sufficient number of land plots has more than 100,000 Kuwaiti families Japan Business Federation (Keidanren) under day seminar included representatives from current visit here. The Kuwaiti side also showed been specialized for building nearly since 1956, the minister said, however the title of “Upcoming Kuwait Second Mid- major Japanese enterprises, including Yasushi their willingness utilizing Japan’s expertise to 200,000 residential units, he said, also he acknowledged that the huge invest- Range National Development Plan,” Subaih high- Kimura, Vice-President of the Japan Business help redevelop the Gulf country. alluding in this respect to endorsement ments in the sector remained short of lighted keenness by the Kuwaiti leadership on Federation, who is also Chairman of Japan’s top The 2015-2020 Kuwait Development Plan, of amendments to the housing law, due the faster population growth, estimat- improving the business environment and refinery JX Holdings Inc. The seminar was also announced in August, will include the construc- to cooperation between executive and ed at four percent per year, one of the encouraging foreign direct investment through attended by Kuwaiti Ambassador to Japan tion of a metro project and a rail project linking legislative authorities. highest in the world. “This means num- an ambitious national development plan for Abdulrahman Al-Otaibi, Secretary-General of the the five partners of the Gulf Cooperation Council This strategy will tackle a lot of issues ber of Kuwaiti nationals will reach 1.5 2015-2020. Kuwaiti Supreme Council for Planning and (GCC) — Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman and that have aggravated the housing prob- million in 2020 and 2 million in 2030,” “The development plan aims at strengthen- Development Hashim Al-Rifai. the United Arab Emirates. lem, the minister said, explaining his he forecast. —KUNA ing the role of investment in the growth and Among other projects are construction of a diversification of the economy and stimulating Japanese experts new terminal at Kuwait International Airport, a the private sector to play a greater role, especial- Minister Al-Subaih met Japanese lawmakers a media city and 50,000 housing units, further development of power generation and Al Zour refinery, as well as expansion of the sewage net- work and a solid waste treatment facility. The Japanese companies are involved in a clean fuels project at the Mina Al Ahmadi refinery and a renewable energy project. For her part, Chairwoman of the Japanese side of the Japan-Kuwait Parliamentary Friendship League Yuriko Koike underlined Japan’s advanced metro network and sophisti- cated computerized traffic system, in addition to experiences in environmental projects.

Major obstacle Koike, former Japanese Environmental Minister, also pointed out that Kuwait’s offset program has been a major obstacle preventing investment by Japanese and other foreign com- panies in Kuwait, expressing hope for the abol- NBK shares Eid ishment of the offset program to ensure a better business environment for Japanese companies in the Gulf country. In response, Subaih said the moments with children TOKYO: Minister Al-Subaih (center) with two Japanese officials at the sidelines of the semi- offset program is not applied to the infrastruc- nar.— KUNA ture projects in the 2015-2020 Development KUWAIT: National Bank of Kuwait’s (NBK) compassion and support for those in Plan. She also reiterated Japan’s gratitude to family paid a visit to NBK Hospital at need, including sick children. NBK’s com- ly investments that yield positive inflows to the day earlier, and the two sides shared the view Kuwait for its fullest support in the wake of the Sabah Medical district to share Eid Al mitment to shoulder its corporate social Kuwaiti economy,” the minister said in her that their countries should strengthen coopera- 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake. Following the speech at the seminar. tion on Kuwait’s new development plan. twin disasters, Kuwait donated 5 million barrels Adha happy moments with children suf- responsibility was the basic motive that The five-year plan copes with the vision of His During the meeting with Japanese members of crude oil to Japan, equivalent to some USD fering from permanent and incurable ail- led NBK to build its children hospital at Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al- of the Kuwait-Japan Parliamentary Friendship 500 million, to support its reconstruction work. ments. Sabah Medical district many years ago,” Jaber Al-Sabah to transform Kuwait into a finan- League meeting in Tokyo, Subaih sought Japan In addition, Kuwait contributed USD 3 million to NBK Public Relations Officer, Talal Al Al Turki added. cial and commercial hub, Al-Subaih said. She to send experts for the smooth execution of the the heavily-damaged marine science museum Turki said that NBK staff have always The visit to the hospital was emotion- also underlined that the Cabinet decided in July Kuwait Development Plan for 2015-2020, which and USD 2 million to Japan Red Cross Society for devoted a considerable part of their time al and overwhelming for both the chil- to suspend the offset program in order to attract was recently submitted to parliament. the reconstruction projects such as the procure- to comfort the children and present dren and NBK staff. more overseas companies to benefit from state “Japan had already sent experts to Kuwait for ment of new coaches for the tsunami-hit railway. them with felicitations and gifts as part NBK’s visits to hospitals and care cen- contracts. three weeks when we drew up the development Speaking to Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) and of NBK’s corporate social responsibility ters reflect the Bank’s high sense of duty The Japanese side has repeatedly expressed plan. I hope your country will also send us Kuwait TV after the meeting, Subaih said the program. and responsibility towards all those in concern that Kuwait’s offset program has been a experts in the execution phase of the plan. Kuwaiti side is expecting wider cooperation “Sharing the happy moments of Eid Al need from different sectors of society. It major obstacle preventing investment in Kuwait, Furthermore, we expect Japan’s assistance for from the Japanese side and receiving experts for Adha and other similar occasions with is a well rooted tradition that has been urging the abolishment of the offset program to the drafting of the future development plan,” the the success of the upcoming development plan, children is our pleasure. We are proud carried out by NBK each year in its efforts ensure a better business environment for minister said, adding that cooperation between in which the private sector are expected to play that NBK devotes such attention to sup- to continuously have an active role in the Japanese companies in the Gulf country. chambers of commerce of the two countries is a bigger role. —KUNA porting Kuwait society and providing Kuwait society. LOCAL WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2014 Crime ‘Illegal basements’ blamed Report Ex-con held for ‘armed’ robberies for most building fires By Hanan Al-Saadoun Material stored unsafely after obtaining license KUWAIT: Hawally detectives arrested a citizen, who is an ex-convict, for armed robberies after he threatened a cop with a pistol-shaped lighter. Detectives placed the suspect By Nawara Fattahova highest in building fires. “Hawally and a case against him and he deals with the too, which is a shortage of parking. under close surveillance and he was arrested while driving Farwaniya governorates have the highest court,” stressed Hussein. According to law, any building that has a stolen SUV. He also had 6 stolen license plates, sharp KUWAIT: The majority of buildings where number of fires, followed by the Fahaheel The Municipality is in charge of dealing more than 9 floors has to have a basement objects, phones and ready-to-use hashish and shabu. The fires break out violate safety and security area. These are the most crowded areas with violations in buildings. According to for parking. But if it is less than 9 floors, suspect confessed to committing 20 misdemeanors and 10 measures. “We face great problems extin- and buildings there have violating base- Isak Al-Sarraf, a municipality inspector, then it’s up to the landlord if he wants to felonies. He is being interrogated. guishing fires in buildings if dangerous ments. In residential areas, houses don’t renting the basement of any investment or build a basement,” added Sarraf. The materials are stored in the basement. This rent their basements,” he pointed out. residential building is strictly forbidden by inspectors of the municipality don’t usually especially happens when the owner of a Such violations are committed after the law. “The owner is only allowed to store go on inspections without a complaint, he residential building rents the basement to owner obtains the license from the Fire personal objects or materials related to the said. “We usually act based on a complaint commercial entities to store dangerous Department. “The owner rents the base- building or its tenants. It’s not allowed to from a tenant claiming that the basement materials such as chemicals, paints, wood ment to traders to store dangerous materi- rent it for commercial purposes to store is rented for business or other purposes and others. I assume about 90 percent of als after he obtains the license. Our depart- dangerous materials in it,” he explained. than parking,” he concluded. the fires are due to such violations,” Maj ment has formed an inspection committee “If the building is a commercial one of People can report such violations on the Abdullah Hussein, Acting PR Director of the whose inspectors check buildings random- offices and shops, then he is allowed to do emergency hotline 139, or emergency Fire Department, told Kuwait Times. ly. If we find any violation, we issue a warn- so. The violation of renting the basement number of Hawally governorate 1855550 Investment and commercial areas rank ing, and if the owner doesn’t heed it, we file for storing materials causes other problem or Farwaniya governorate 1855551.

The ex-convict with the contrabands.

No injuries in fires A fire broke out in Sulaibiya agricultural area, prompt- ing Ardhiya, Sulaibikhat and technical backup fire cen- ters to respond. The fire was spread over 1,200 sq m. The blaze was contained and kept from spreading to other farms. Meanwhile, Farwaniya firemen put out a fire that broke out in fiberglass water tanks. No injuries were reported. Sheikh Mohammad Al-Sabah gives instructions at the Jaber Causeway project. Sheikh Mohammad Al-Sabah greets border security field commanders. Drug offenders arrested Kuwait border guards Jahra police sent three drug users to narcotics authorities following a chase. A security source said a routine patrol spotted a car behind the Saad Al-Abdallah Co-op trans- former, and when police approached it, the driver attempt- ed to escape. A hot pursuit followed and the car was first line of defense stopped. There were three persons inside, who seemed scared. When the vehicle was searched, 23 white tablets KUWAIT: Border guards are the first line of defense for Security Media Department, Sheikh Mohammad Al-Khaled At the various border posts Sheikh Mohammad Al- were found along with shabu envelopes and drug para- Kuwait and the safety valve against any attempts to tamp- inspected work at project of Mubarak Al-Kabeer, on a heli- Khaled visited, he was briefed by the field commanders on phernalia. One person among the arrestees had been er with security, Deputy Prime Minister and Interior copter, accompanied by MOI Undersecretary General the mechanism of work there and the implementation of involved in three previous felonies along with other civil Minister Sheikh Mohammad Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah Sulaiman Al-Fahad. He expressed satisfaction over the the set plans to protect the country’s borders. cases. said on Monday. stages that have been so far accomplished of the project Interior Ministry’s Assistant Undersecretary for Border Sheikh Mohammad Al-Khaled, also Acting Minister of and urged commitment to the schedule of the remaining Security Affairs, Major General Sheikh Mohammad Al- Awqaf and Islamic Affairs and Acting Defense Minister, phases. Sheikh Mohammad Al-Khaled conveyed to the Yousef Al-Sabah, stressed that the Kuwaiti land borders are made the statement during a tour that covered Mubarak members of the Kuwaiti Border Guard Eid Al-Adha greet- “completely safe” thanks to the efforts by the borders Al-Kabeer Port project, the Jaber Causeway and Al-Abdali ings by His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al- guards who use the latest technology in the field. He Sector which includes the centers of Um-Qasr, Um Naqa, Jaber Al-Sabah, His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh added that the major mission of the Kuwaiti Border Guard Al-Azmia, Al-Mazare and Al-Abdali. Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and His Highness the is to protect the country’s land, air and sea borders against According to a press release by the Interior Ministry Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah. any potential violations or infiltration attempts.— KUNA

Hashish found with the drug offenders

Four deaths reported An expat, thought to be Indian, drowned, and the death was reported by a Vietnamese national. Meanwhile, an Egyptian told police about the death of his infant daughter at home. In the meantime, a Jordanian born in 1959 died in his Nugra home, while in Mangaf, the door of a Sri Lankan’s flat was broken after foul odor emanated from there, and it was deter- mined that he had died four days earlier.

Thief caught A Jordanian man was caught by passersby and handed to Major General Abdullah Al-Mahanna gives instructions at the traffic control room. Major General Mahmoud Al-Dosari greets special task forces. police when he attempted to rob a grocer in Nurgra. The man remains in custody pending further action. ‘Close cooperation to enhance traffic’ Rapists at large In Ishbiliya, a citizen accused three juveniles of raping his son, while an Egyptian man in Khaitan told police Interior, Defense officials conduct tours that a middle school student raped his 13-year-old son. He claimed that the accused sedated his son KUWAIT: A senior Interior Ministry official recently Mahmoud Al-Dosari urged all security personnel to before the act. emphasized close cooperation with the Ministry of enhance their efforts to ensure the stability of the state Municipality and Urban Planning and the Kuwait and safety of people. Municipality for developing the best solutions to “Security is the cornerstone of stable, and dignified Search for attackers increase road capacity and streamline traffic. life for all people living on Kuwait’s soil,” Dosari said dur- Crime Three unidentified persons attacked an Indian expat and During an inspection tour in the traffic sector, the ing his tour of the premises of the Ministry’s special task Report escaped. The attackers wanted to take the victim’s phone. force sector. The three also threatened a Kuwaiti who attempted to stop Interior Ministry Assistant Undersecretary for Traffic Man breaks ex’s nose the attack. The car the suspects used was found and it had Affairs Major General Abdullah Al-Mahanna lauded He called on all departments, leaders and personnel a wallet containing an Interior Ministry ID, a civil ID, a Saudi efforts by the General Department of Traffic adopting of the special forces to do all in power to upgrade their over child custody ID, drugs, liquor and sharp objects. The car was found to be modern traffic systems for a comprehensive develop- skills and boost their readiness to face the growing reported stolen. ment of performance, the ministry’s security media security challenges. Dosari lauded special task forces’ KUWAIT: A woman accused her estranged ex-husband of department said in a statement. role in securing the safety of all people living in Kuwait. beating her and breaking her nose because of disputes Mahanna appreciated the efforts to monitor roads over child custody, then escaped. The woman was taken by Pedestrian killed and end traffic jams during the Eid Al-Adha days. The Army units her neighbor to Adan Hospital, while bleeding from the An unidentified Asian woman was killed in an appar- Planning Affairs and Traffic Research department is In the meantime, Kuwaiti Army Deputy Chief of Staff nose. Police went to the hospital and she told them that ent hit-and-run in Waha. Police said a Kuwaiti man who working hard to reach solutions to the traffic issue as a Lieutenant General Mohammad Khaled Al-Khuder her divorced husband stormed the house and beat her lives in Oyoun came to the police station and told whole, Mahanna said, urging rapid handling of simple made a tour to a host of units, expressing congratula- before escaping. Detectives are working on the case. them he was the one who hit her. accidents that hinder traffic. tions on the occasion of Eid Al-Adha started today. Lt During the tour, the senior official reviewed systems Gen Al-Khuder visited the Kuwait 26th Al-Soor Drug trafficker, client arrested Break in and theft related to streamlining citizens’ and residents’ services Mechanized Brigade where he was received by senior A citizen told police that while he was on a family visit Hawally detectives arrested a citizen and a bedoon with 5 with the various bodies of the ministry, the statement officials, Moral Guidance Directorate and Public in Sulaibkhat, someone broke the side window of his kg of hashish. A security source said the bedoon was con- noted. He also inspected the operations room of the Relations said in a statement. car and stole KD 1,700. Criminal evidence lifted finger- vinced to sell some hashish and he confessed getting it Traffic Department. Al-Khuder extending his congratulations to the prints and detectives are working on the case. from a citizen, who was also arrested. Both were sent to the Mahanna conveyed greetings by Deputy Prime Brigade personnel on Eid Al-Adha. He commended the prosecution. Minister and Minister of Interior and Acting Minister of efforts exerted by the brigade’s personnel to upgrade Awqaf and Islamic Affairs and Acting Minister of readiness to defend the soils of dear homeland. Asthma patient dead Smuggling plot foiled Defense Sheikh Mohammad Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al- He stressed that the visit comes upon the directives The body of a 15-year-old boy was recovered by the coroner Nuwaiseeb customs officers sent two citizens to the Sabah to members of the traffic sector on the occasion of Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense after being discovered by his brother, who called police. The narcotics authorities for attempting to smuggle in of Eid Al-Adha. Sheikh Khaled Al-Jarrah Al-Sabah. deceased suffered from asthma, and may have suffocated. liquor and drugs. Customs officers found in the car For his part, Assistant Director of the General Lt Gen Al-Khuder visited an Army Land Force unit at coming from Saudi Arabia 3 bottles of liquor and 25 Department of Traffic for Planning Affairs and Traffic Boubyan Island and was briefed on tasks of the unit, Aggressive ‘tomboy’ beer bottles. Meanwhile, a citizen coming from Iran Research Maj Gen Saleh Al-Najem, stressed that traffic lauding efforts by all personnel who have watchful A Kuwaiti woman was attacked by “tomboy” in front of a was caught with 900 illicit tablets. safety is a collective responsibility that has to be han- eyes on the homeland over the whole year. At the end Salmiya cafe, and the victim gave police the number of sus- dled as a whole with full transparency for reaching the of the tour, Deputy Army Chief of Staff also visited Air pect’s car license plate. A security source said that a woman Unlicensed butchers arrested aspired results and overcome traffic problems. Defense Forces in Failaka Island, where he was submitted a medical report stating some injuries. She said that Police arrested 66 expatriates who worked as butchers, and received by top officials. Al-Khuder lauded the efforts after she parked her car in front of a cafe in Salmiya, she was they will be sent to the deportation department for violat- Special forces of the armed forces nationwide, saying he is proud to surprised by a tomboy asking her to leave the parking spot ing the iqama law and working for others other than their because she parks her car there. When the victim refused, the Meanwhile, the Interior Ministry’s Assistant witness the army’s readiness to fight for the sake of the suspect pulled her out of the car and beat her up. — Al-Rai sponsors. Undersecretary for Special Forces Affairs Major General country. — KUNA WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2014 LOCAL In Brief Tender delayed Water station Road maintenance

By A Saleh KUWAIT: The Ministry of Electricity and Water is KUWAIT: The Ministry of Public Works prepares to set to meet Sunday morning with companies launch full maintenance works at the Sixth Ring KUWAIT: The Ministry of Electricity and Water which expressed interest to enter a tender to Road before the end of the year through the pri- postponed the date on which companies can build a water station in Abdaly. Submitting ten- vate sector. Companies interested can submit start submitting tenders for the prepaid system ders started on September 28, 2013 while their offers until November 16, 2014. A meeting meters project, and set the new date on October November 16, 2014 is set as the last day to for- will be held at the ministry’s building Sunday with 28, 2014. Several delays for the tender’s date has ward tenders. Inquiries and reservations can be interested companies to discuss the tender’s pushed back the process which was originally submitted until October 22, 2014. terms and conditions. supposed to be finalized last year.

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KUWAIT: Yachts docked at the Marina Crescent’s harbor in Salmiya. Yacht and boat cruises are popular leisure time activities during holidays in Kuwait. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat Zain welcomes students at headquarters

KUWAIT: Zain, the leading telecommunications company in It was the utmost pleasure for Zain to host the student del- Kuwait, welcomed a student delegation of high school stu- egation, which was impressed by Zain’s professional yet dents from the Kuwait National English School in its main friendly working environment. The students toured many of headquarters in Shuwaikh. The initiative comes in line with the company’s departments and learnt about Zain’s economic, the company’s partnership with INJAZ, the initiative that aims social, and technical aspects, as well as about ways in which to develop Kuwait’s youth business skills. the company looks to distinguish itself in the local market. In a press statement, Zain mentioned that the visit includ- Zain’s active corporate social responsibility strategy prima- ed a tour throughout the company’s many departments and rily focuses on the wellbeing of the entire nation, most divisions, in which Zain employees explained and discussed notably the youth and educational sectors. For this reason, the the key elements of each department’s roles. The visit also company has maintained its support of numerous initiatives, included discussions on the telecom industry in general, as like INJAZ, that add to the investment in student and educa- well as on the Kuwaiti telecom market. tional initiatives in Kuwait.

The students at Zain’s headquarters. Sheikha applauds Baku forum

KUWAIT: Having attended recently the Baku International She also condoned the notion of an international humani- Humanitarian Forum in Azerbaijan, President of the Kuwaiti tarian construct that would be based on international law in Society for the Ideal Family Sheikha Fariha Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber an environment conducive to justice, peace, and human dig- Al-Sabah applauded the forum’s taking up of human develop- nity for all. She furthermore stressed the imperative to eradi- ment issues, in particular those pertaining to empowerment cate conflicts, discrimination and extremism anywhere they of women and protection of children. are found. The forum is an annual event of famous representatives of Sheikha Fariha was officially invited to attend the forum by political scientific and cultural elite of the world community the Azeri minister of foreign affairs. On the sidelines of the including famous statesmen, Nobel Prize’s winners in the vari- forum, she visited a major orphanage in Baku where she made ous fields of science and leaders of influential international monetary donations to it in the name of Kuwaiti children. organizations whose aim is holding dialogues, discussions She also met with Hijran Huseynova, the Minister for and exchange of views on a wide range of global issues in the Family, Women and Children’s Affairs of Azerbaijan, which is a interest of all humanity. governmental agency within the Cabinet of Azerbaijan in Sheikha Fariha, in a speech at the forum (held Oct 2-3) charge of regulation of activities for the protection of the called for, among other things, the promotion of dialogue, tol- rights of women and children and overseeing activities of erance, and human rights among peoples of the earth. She non-governmental organizations involved in family issues in spoke to KUNA yesterday about her participation in the forum Azerbaijan. The two officials discussed the agency’s coopera- in the city of Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan. tion with the Kuwaiti Society for the Ideal Family. — KUNA

BAKU: Sheikha Fariha Al-Sabah (center) speaks at the forum. — KUNA WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2014 LOCAL

Local Spotlight kuwait digest What do War against IS you expect?!

By Ali Mahmoud Khajah By Muna Al-Fuzai

t would be illogical for a parent to want his/her child to marvel at music while they refuse to buy him/her a Imusical instrument. The same applies for wanting a child to grow up into a computer engineer while parents ban computers at their homes. It is one of life’s norms to [email protected] provide proper means to reach targeted ends. If you want your son to become a distinguished footballer, you have to physically and mentally prepare him to achieve hile the global coalition is functioning actively that goal, and if you want your child to grow into a form- to destroy IS as part of its war against terror ative artist, you will have to provide all the needed means Wand protecting its interests, GCC governments and tools for him or her to do so. In such cases, a parent are occupied with precautionary measures against IS. will have done his/her role in terms of guidance, leaving There seems to be an increase in tension and passion in acceptance and efficiency to the child himself. favor of IS here in Kuwait and some parts of this region Similarly, these goals, or any others, will not be as well. This is no surprise. If the law is not enforced achieved if parents provide two antipodes - for instance a here, we most probably would witness some heads cut parent provides one or two hours for sport while allow- in the streets and this is the simple truth. ing longer hours for eating, relaxation and laziness, or Now I wonder how safe are we for now and whether provides a talented kid with painting tools while at the destroying IS will end the war against terror for good? same time provides books that degrade art! Kuwait with its majority population of expatriates has Here in Kuwait, and in fact in all regional countries, we the right to worry and take all steps to ensure nothing more or less resemble them in terms of wishing and can affect its internal security. I agree 100 percent. I may wanting. Each country wishes to take the lead in science, not agree with many things the Kuwaiti government sports, arts, culture and other fields. Sometimes they, does, but on this I couldn’t agree more. including Kuwait, even provide some of the means need- Al-Watan Recently the MoI held a meeting with its key staff ed to reach such ends and goals by providing facilities and suddenly the news of this meeting was all over such as soccer fields, theatres, institutes, colleges and social media! Tweets were made if something wrong others with the hope that parents (states in this case) happened and the public needs to know about it! achieve their dreams of the success of their children (the kuwait digest Here in Kuwait, we share a border with Iraq, so I people). Nonetheless, the success achieved is very limit- understand public concern. But not everyone here ed, which calls for a big question mark! thinks the same as I do. Luis Suarez, a US expatriate and The state may actually provide due care and nurture Turmoil years and....the future private businessman, insists that Kuwait is a safe haven. some fields, yet its major attention is focused on one sin- Mr Suarez has been living in Kuwait for more than ten gle field - religion - that is dominated nowadays by peo- years now. He thinks exaggerating an issue is the way ple who reject change and development out of fear of By Sami AL-Nisf the media sells its products! He finds the media treats falling into committing religious taboos. The result is nor- the security issue in the Gulf region with far too much mally daily shots of science provided by the state while hyperbole. “I feel completely safe here and have noth- those people make counter-shots prohibiting thinking, n Monday, May 10, 2011, seven months prior are being re-mapped and turning from bad to worse. ing to worry about. I feel the GCC is safer than many skepticism and research. Daily art shots are being met to the Tunisian uprising, I wrote an article in Our countries are being threatened with other places, even those thousands of miles away from with ones full of accusations of non-believing, immorality OAl-Anbaa under the title of “2011, Most Balkanization projects, terror, wars and assassina- IS,” he said. and shamelessness. The same applies for all non-religious Dangerous Year for Arabs” in which I mentioned that tions that are being moved from their historical While Mr Suarez sees no direct security threat by IS, fields. the ‘Game of Nations’ would be regionally at its peak home in Europe, apparently, to a permanent one in another Kuwaiti voice sees the opposite and expressed This means that even though the state provides all in that year and that its severity would surpass all the our region! concern over the future of Iraqis and the reasons requirements of success in various fields, the state itself disasters Arabs went through in 1948, 1967, 1975, One may easily find out that nothing Arabs could behind the existence of IS. Osama Al-Shaheen, a has also paved the way to reversing this by supporting Kuwaiti lawyer and political activist, spoke openly anti-change and development powers that reject change 1990 and 2001 together. I also stressed that taking be proud of happened in 2011. There were no real about the issue of IS. He made a valid opinion, saying and fight whoever seeks it. This will eventually lead into part in the game would not be optional - that every- revolutions like the French and the Bolshevik ones in there are many questions in the minds of the Arab citi- what was summarized by Kuwait University media pro- body would play it and that the winners would be terms of their mental, political and economic zens about IS and its sudden appearance on the Iraqi fessor Dr Fatima Al-Salem a few days ago in a survey pub- those who would play it through and be able to impacts on the societies were they took place. What scene. lished in Al-Qabas that showed that over 40 percent of afford the losses it results in! happened is even much less that the effect of the He clearly expressed his rejection of all criminal the surveyed specimen supported IS and thought they Now, when everything has become clear, when military coups that were described as ‘revolutions’ in offenses by IS, but he also hinted that these crimes were not terrorists and that 10 percent supported it gen- the smoke has dispersed and when wishful thinking the 1950s and 1960s, turning constitutional demo- should not be used as an excuse by the US or Iran to erally all the way. This is the natural result of what region- fight for the right of the peoples in Iraq and Syria to al states have been committing against their peoples - is over, what happened in 2011 proved to be worse cratic monarchies that followed liberal approaches in have freedom and self-determination, arguing that it they force them towards one basic direction and expect than all our previous disasters and setbacks altogeth- politics and economy into communist dictatorships “does not sound louder than the sound of the battle”, results that oppose that very direction, which will never er; those were mainly military defeats that could be with guided economies! and the only voice allowed now is the voice of the fight happen! wiped out with a single victory like what happens in The Middle East will never go back to how it was against terrorism. He added that the official rhetoric by — Translated by Kuwait Times from Al-Jarida all wars. Those disasters unified us whereas 2011 before 2011 and as I said in that article, we are the the Americans and Iranians lacks precise definition of divided fellow-citizens in many Arab countries that only nation that is ‘developing’ from bad to worse this terrorism! that could end up worse than the most terrifying sce- Mr Al-Shaheen analyzed the reasons behind the appearance of groups like IS, saying that ignorance is narios. That is why I was not as optimistic as the mas- behind the spread of extremism and militancy, and that sive crowds in 2011 and I am still not optimistic depriving people from the right to have political repre- about what is yet to happen. I only see a fireball that sentation and lack of economic and political reform led is bouncing around in the region with the greatest to the existence of radicalism. fear that it reaches oil resources to start a larger fire, I listened to these two gentlemen and many others. which will not work, God willing, because the Gulf My conclusion and belief is that the war against terror- will remain strong! ists will have to continue. No other choice, even if no — Translated by Kuwait Times from Al-Anbaa guarantee is made that IS would be the last chapter in this war.

kuwait digest American strikes expand in Syria

By Emma Beals

merican air strikes in Syria have prompted a places across the country, something not seen since wave of protest across the country as the US the early days of the revolution in 2011. Since then, Abroadens its mandate from targeting Islamic nearly 200,000 people have been killed and millions State (IS) targets to other groups within the country. have fled Syria. At the same time, there is no sign of strikes against Protestors reclaimed revolutionary slogans, replac- the Syrian government. ing ‘Bashar’ with ‘America’ as they wielded signs and Over the last two weeks American strikes have hit changed “down with America’. Even Kafranbel, the targets in Aleppo and Idlib provinces that the US say town famed for its colourful protest posters, mostly are part of a terror network with plans to conduct addressed to western audiences, has come out in attacks on American soil. The almost unknown support of the Nusra Front. Korasan group, affiliated with the popular Al-Qa’ida- Targeting the Islamic state without focusing on linked Nusra Front group was targeted in the first the Al-Qaeda-linked group was always going to be a round of strikes and since then additional Nusra hard sell to the US congress as the ‘war on terror’ has Front affiliates have been added to the list. focused on the threat posed by the jihadist move- “These countries have done a despicable act that ment for many years. However, on the ground in will put them on the list of those targeted by jihadist Syria, the Nusra Front has broad popular support and forces all over the world,” a Nusra Front spokesman provides some of the best equipped and most disci- said. “It’s not a war against the Nusra Front, it’s a war plined fighters against both the government and the against Islam.” He was referring to air strikes against Islamic State. Targeting them weakens the rebel Nusra Front targets, some of which are said by local movement and the increasing civilian casualties in residents to have killed civilians, including women areas where there is no IS presence has angered local and children in areas with any IS presence. people and moderate rebels groups alike. A strike in Kafr Deryan, in Idlib province recently that killed at least two men, two women, and five Frustration children has prompted Human Right Watch to call for Moderate rebel brigades, some of whom have an investigation. received American weapons, have turned against “The US government should investigate possible their former allies after the strikes. The Harakat unlawful strikes that killed civilians, publicly report Hazzm brigade, which was reported to have received on them, and commit to appropriate redress meas- US TOW missiles, spoke out against intervention. ures in case of wrongdoing,” Nadim Houry, the Even the Syrian Kurdish brigade, the YPG, have deputy Middle East and North Africa director said. expressed their annoyance that the strikes have not targeted IS positions around besieged Kobane with Coalition motives enough force to prevent the city falling to the group. For most Syrians the broadening of the US man- IS has consolidated its frontline positions in the date, combined with the lack of action against the region with fighters and military hardware moved government of Bashar Al -Assad, who has been from areas targeted by strikes, in order to prevent responsible for tens of thousands more civilian casu- losses. alties than IS, has aroused suspicion about the Syrian analysts say the US-led intervention came motives of the coalition of countries who have too long after it was needed and without coordina- pledged to fight the extremist Islamist group. tion with those on the ground. They say any impact “This means this is war against Islam, not ISIS,” Abu the American air strikes are having on the Islamic Yusuf, a moderate Muslim from Aleppo and support- State are being heavily countered by the damage er of the Liwa al-Tahwid bridgade said. their doing to morale and support elsewhere in the Two weeks ago, protests in Syria took place in 40 country. — The Media Line WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2014

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KETAMA: Photo shows a view of swaths of cannabis near the village of Ketama, northern Morocco. (Inset) A worker inspect the crystalline resin powder “extracted hash” by fire in his hand in the Village of Bni Ahmed in the Ketama Abdelghaya valley, northern Morocco. — AP Morocco mulls ‘legal pot’, breaking taboo A radical idea for a Muslim nation KETTAMA: In the rugged Rif mountains, are currently in detention and another 30,000 are tion,” Bensaid told The Associated Press. “It’s a win- Abdelkhalek Benabdallah strode among towering wanted by authorities. Clutching his wide- win, for the state, because there is tax, for the citi- marijuana plants, checking the buds for the telltale brimmed straw hat, one deeply lined farmer zens, because they are in an illegal situation, and for spots of white that indicate they are ready for har- described how he learned he was wanted by police the sick, who get their medicine.” Bensaid’s party is vest. Much of the crop had been picked and left to when he went to renew his national ID card in a backed in its effort by Morocco’s oldest political par- dry on the roofs of stone-and-wood huts that dot the nearby town. ty, the Istiqlal or Independence Party. The two have valley, the heart of Morocco’s pot-growing region. presented a draft law to both the upper and lower Benabdallah says he openly grows the crop, while Growing pot houses of parliament. It is unclear, however, if the understanding the risk: “We are regularly subject to Since then, he has not left his mountainside vil- draft is on the schedule to be debated when parlia- blackmail by the gendarmes,” he said as he scythed lage and relies on family members to pick up sup- ment re-opens this month. through stalks and wrapped them into a bundle. plies. “I am scared to even go to the doctor,” he said, The laws have received some high-profile back- Morocco’s marijuana farmers live in a strange asking that his name not be used for fear of arrest. “I ing, including the ministers of health and higher limbo in which the brilliant green fields are left don’t even have the national identity card and I’m education, who have supported the idea of using alone, while the growers themselves face constant stuck in the village.” Despite fear of arrest, many marijuana for scientific research. However, the police harassment. A new draft law may bring some locals have no choice but to grow pot. The valley’s Islamist-led government and the powerful palace reprieve: It aims to legalize marijuana growing for rocky soil is poor and the only crop that seems to have remained silent, with few wanting to break a medical and industrial uses, a radical idea for a thrive is marijuana, which was legal to grow under deep-rooted taboo against illegal drugs. While not Muslim nation. It could alleviate poverty and social royal mandate in certain regions of the Rif until specifically banned in Islam, marijuana’s effects are unrest, but the proposal faces stiff opposition in this 1974, when the government passed a blanket ban likened by most imams to alcohol, which is banned conservative country, as well as the suspicions of on the cultivation and consumption of all drugs. by the religion. Mustapha Khalfi, Morocco’s govern- farmers themselves, who think politicians can do The marijuana ban was passed just as European ment spokesman and communications minister, nothing help them. visitors to the marijuana growing regions taught refused to discuss the draft law, pointing only to the farmers to produce hashish for export to feed government efforts to combat drug smuggling and Re-examining drug policies rising demand across the Mediterranean. The ban reduce the amount of land under cultivation. Morocco is joining many other countries in the also brought Morocco in line with the 1961 UN con- Members of the Islamist Party for Justice and world, as well as some US states, in re-examining vention against drugs it had signed. The security- Development have accused those behind the law of drug policies and looking to some degree of legal- centered approach to the problem has failed, merely looking to boost their standing in the Rif ization. Morocco’s situation is unusual, however, in argued Mehdi Bensaid, a lawmaker with the opposi- Valley region ahead of key local elections next year. that Islamic traditions create deep taboos against tion Party of Authenticity and Modernity that was “These people are not just trying to get votes from drugs, despite the centuries-old tradition of grow- founded by a close associate of the king. the poor peasants in these regions, but are also ing marijuana in the north. There are some 80,000 The party’s draft law would keep pot consump- looking for the sympathy and money from the drug families in the northern Rif mountains of Morocco tion - widespread among young Moroccans in parts barons ahead of the 2015 elections,” said Abdelaziz who make their living from growing pot, according of the country - illegal, but legalize production. Aftati, a leading member of the Islamist party. to UN estimates; the region supplies nearly all of Under the legislation, the entire crop would go to a Europe’s hashish and is the world’s top supplier state agency that would use it to produce new Suspicion grows along with Afghanistan. cannabis-based medications that have been devel- The growers themselves express suspicion The World Customs Authority reported that in oped to aid cancer and multiple sclerosis patients, about the plans concocted by politicians in Rabat. 2013, 65 percent of hashish seized at customs and eventually for industrial uses such as textiles, Farmers worry that legalization would mean a fall in worldwide came from Morocco. Estimates vary paper and fiberboard as well. Under the UN drug the already low price for their crop and competition wildly for how much the business is worth but conventions, marijuana can be legally be grown for from wealthy estates with vast acreage and the lat- legalization would certainly provide a substantial industrial and medical uses. est agricultural technology. “If legalization hap- boost to farmers and to Morocco’s anemic econo- Factories would be set up in the region to pened for all of Morocco, we could never compete my, which is forecast to grow by just 2.5 percent this process the plant and provide jobs. The state-driven with the other farmers that have lots of land and year. For now, the profits go to the buyers and industry would prevent cannabis from being turned the price of cannabis wouldn’t be any different than smugglers who pay the farmers little for their crop into hash and going to the smugglers. Bensaid that of carrots - we’d make nothing,” said local and reap huge profits in Europe - where consump- added that he has already been contacted by activist Mohammed Benabdallah. tion in places like Amsterdam’s famed coffee shops European and American pharmaceutical companies More than any other region in Morocco, the wild has been decriminalized. The trade has brought lit- interested in investing in the venture if the law Rif mountains have seen little government invest- tle wealth to the region, with farmers saying a kilo- passes. It is not clear, however, if there is sufficient ment, in no small part due to a history of rebellions gram of kif, as the plant is known locally, sells for $8 demand for medical purposes to meet the vast sup- and the marijuana cultivation itself. The locals are and they make an average of just $3,000 to $4,000 a ply coming from Morocco’s fields. And UN conven- mostly Berbers, North Africa’s original inhabitants, year. tions would prevent the state-sanctioned crop to rather than Arabs. In the 1920s, the region threw off They say they are completely neglected by the be sold abroad for recreational purposes. Spanish rule and declared an independent republic state - except for its police force. Growers say that that was subdued only after years of attacks by neighbors with scores to settle file anonymous Economic savior French and Spanish soldiers. The Rif revolted again complaints with authorities resulting in a visit from Still, Bensaid sees legalization as a potential eco- in 1958, soon after Morocco’s independence. In the the paramilitary gendarmes, confiscation of the nomic savior. “If Morocco has a crop that could pro- aftermath, it was left poor and undeveloped with crop and months or years in prison - unless a bribe duce these medicines that could be sold today in bad roads and few schools and hospitals. Locals say can be paid. Nourredine Mediane, a lawmaker from the US, Canada and France, it is an employment the police don’t dare to destroy all the marijuana the region, said some 15,000 people from the area opportunity for citizens living in a miserable situa- fields for fear of provoking another uprising. —AFP WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2014 INTERNATIONAL Speculations mount over N Korea’s Kim

SEOUL: North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un, who has official comment from the defense ministry. Kim’s party department in charge of South Korea-related ment, the only word from the North had been a not been seen in public for more than a month, is absence from the public eye has triggered specula- affairs, and his reported comment was the first by a media report that Kim was in some “discomfort”. Kim’s believed to be staying outside Pyongyang, South tion of a debilitating illness and even rumors of a coup senior official on Kim Jong-Un’s wellbeing. No expla- failure to attend a rare second session of the North’s Korea’s defense chief said yesterday. “As far as I know, in Pyongyang. His unexplained absence loomed large nation was provided for why Kim has dropped from rubber stamp parliament last month ramped up (Kim) is staying at a certain place north of over a surprise visit on Saturday by a trio of his top public view since he was last seen attending a music speculation that he was seriously ill or injured. It is by Pyongyang,” Defense Minister Han Min-Koo said officials and close aides to South Korea. concert with his wife on September 3. Before Kim no means unprecedented for a North Korean leader when lawmakers visited his office for a regular parlia- South Korean Unification Minister Ryoo Kihl-Jae, dropped out of sight, footage shown on state TV had to drop out of the public eye for a while, but it is more mentary inspection of military affairs, without elabo- who held talks with the delegation, said on Sunday shown him walking with a pronounced limp. noticeable with Kim, who has maintained a particu- rating on Kim’s whereabouts. that one member, Kim Yang-Gon, had insisted the Kim, believed to be 30 or 31, is a heavy smoker larly pervasive media presence. A key indicator will “I have received reliable information from our young leader had no medical issues. “There is nothing and has noticeably gained weight since taking over come on Friday when the North celebrates the defense intelligence headquarters,” Han was quoted wrong with the health of Secretary Kim,” Ryoo quoted as paramount leader following the death of his father anniversary of the founding of the ruling Workers’ as saying by the Yonhap news agency. There was no Kim Yang-Gon as saying. Kim Yang-Gon heads a ruling Kim Jong-Il in 2011. Prior to Kim Yang-Gon’s com- Party. — AFP Israel anti-rocket hit ‘Iron Dome’ a slow sell abroad Client list limited to countries with diplomatic ties CARMIEL: Normally, an advanced new weapon bating short-range rocket and missile threats by as a natural next step. “Rafael invested a great system with a battle-proven success rate of 90 per- non-state actors,” said Avnish Patel of the Royal many millions of shekels in developing this sys- cent would have global defense procurement United Services Institute (RUSI), who runs the tem,” Druker, a senior member of the Iron Dome agencies on the phone in minutes. But Israel’s Iron British think-tank’s annual ballistic missile defense project, told Reuters. “It could not afford to have Dome rocket interceptor is yet to prove a hit with conference. So far the system - its effectiveness done this without selling abroad.” buyers abroad. In terms of operational achieve- against Palestinian rocket fire demonstrated ment, tested on the Gaza, Lebanese and Egyptian beyond doubt since 2011 - has been bought by Mortars, not rockets Sinai fronts, Iron Dome is unrivalled in the arms just one foreign country. Its identity is being kept Iron Dome was rushed through development market. However its uniqueness - developed for a secret by both sides. after northern Israel was heavily shelled by particular threat in a particular place - also limits Iron Dome’s manufacturer, state-owned Rafael Hezbollah guerillas in the 2006 Lebanon War. its appeal to countries dealing with more conven- Advanced Defense Systems Ltd., would have been The Israelis were banking on its export tional military adversaries. content to keep it on home turf and avoid the risk prospects from early on, says one person who was And Israel further curbs its potential client pool of classified technology leaks, said Yosi Druker, present when the system aced its first live trial, in by not selling to countries with which it has no vice president of the company. But with exports a 2009, and told Reuters that two officers from a for- NAIROBI: Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta (left) and First Lady Margaret Kenyatta diplomatic ties - ruling out Gulf Arabs who, given critical prop for Israel’s embattled defense budget eign country that regularly buys Israeli defense seen at JKIA airport in Nairobi before departing to the Hague yesterday. — AFP their standoff with Iran, are looking into missile - the country sells abroad about 80 percent of the products were among observers at the desert test defense. “It is arguable that Iron Dome is tailored weaponry it develops, earning $6.5 billion a year - range. Another country closely involved with the to deal with the specific Israeli challenge of com- finding foreign customers for Iron Dome was seen project, the United States, provided a substantial Kenyan president heads outlay to enable Israel to deploy the system - more than $1 billion - but declined to buy it for its own forces in Afghanistan and Iraq. to International Court Among the Pentagon’s misgivings was the $100,000 price of Iron Dome radar-guided inter- NAIROBI: Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta into ethnic conflict, for which Kenyatta and ceptor missiles and their perceived unsuitability headed to The Hague yesterday for a landmark Deputy President William Ruto were charged for insurgents’ low-trajectory mortars, said Riki appearance before the International Criminal with crimes against humanity. Both reject the Ellison, president of the US Missile Defense Court where he faces charges of crimes charges. Advocacy Alliance. “The Iron Dome does not do against humanity. Kenyatta, who will become On Monday Kenyatta told parliament he mortar protection that close, and the cost of the first sitting president to appear before the had taken the “unprecedented” move to tem- engagement is not applicable,” said Ellison. Israelis chamber, temporarily handed power to his porarily hand over power to Ruto-whose trial are also mindful of the mortar threat, having lost deputy to “protect the sovereignty” of the east at the ICC has already begun. “Let it not be said 15 soldiers and civilians to such salvoes in the July- African country before taking a regular flight that I am attending... as the president of August Gaza war, while rockets from Gaza killed as a “private” citizen to Amsterdam. He waved Kenya,” he told a special session of parliament two people. Rafael is now developing Iron Beam, a to supporters at the airport in Nairobi in a rela- as several lawmakers stamped their feet in system that would use lasers to incinerate mortar tively low-key early morning departure-which support. “My conscience is clear, has been clear included checking in alongside other travel- and will remain forever clear,” Kenyatta added. shells mid-air. ers-accompanied by a small delegation includ- Kenya’s newspapers backed his decision to Yet Druker insists Iron Dome’s anti-mortar ing his wife and daughter, as well as six MPs travel to the ICC, pointing out that to defy capabilities are sound, but were underused in the and three ministers, an AFP reporter said. international orders could have resulted in recent war was because it was often deployed far He is due to attend a “status conference” repercussions for the whole country. “He saw from Gaza’s border. The price of its interceptor mis- hearing today at The Hague-based ICC, after the sense in abiding by the resolution of the siles could be cut by eventual mass-production prosecutors asked for an indefinite delay until trial judges, because doing anything to the and joint manufacturing deals with US firm Nairobi handed over documents they believe contrary would have been disastrous for him Raytheon Co. But the roughly $50 million price tag could clinch their case. Kenyatta, 52, faces five and the country,” the Daily Nation’s editorial for an Iron Dome battery - radar, command room counts at the ICC over his alleged role in mas- read yesterday. “By choosing to play along, the and two missile launchers - is unlikely to drop sig- terminding post-election violence in 2007 and president has demonstrated that he has noth- JERUSALEM: Palestinians from Gaza city pose for a photo outside the Dome of the Rock during nificantly. “From the outset, we built this with an 2008 that left 1,200 people dead and 600,000 ing to hide,” The Standard newspaper stated. their visit to the Al-Aqsa mosque compound, Islam’s third holiest site, in the old city of extreme view of design-to-cost. There wasn’t one displaced. The Kenyan leader has appeared at The African Union had previously called for the Jerusalem. Israeli authorities relaxed restrictions for the Muslim holiday of Eid Al-Adha and screw that we incorporated without first checking the ICC before, but not since he was elected ICC cases to be withdrawn and transferred to allowed Palestinian pilgrims to cross into Israel from Gaza to pray at the Al-Aqsa mosque com- if there was a cheaper version available,” Druker president in March 2013. Bitter memories are Kenyan courts, accusing the ICC of targeting pound. — AFP said. — Reuters still fresh from 2007, when elections escalated Africans. — AFP

YANGON: Female prisoners get off from a truck as they were released from Insein prison yesterday in Yangon, Myanmar. — AP Myanmar frees 3,000 prisoners YANGON: Myanmar began releasing hundreds of prisoners of draconian junta-era laws restricting dissent. But campaign- including a political detainee and former military intelligence ers say dozens of people have been arrested under more figures-on “humanitarian” grounds, officials said yesterday, in recent legislation, mainly for protesting without permission, the latest large-scale amnesty in the once pariah nation. The while several journalists have been jailed this year in trials that reformist regime, which is in the process of preparing to host a have drawn international concern. Many former political pris- landmark November meeting of international and regional oners have also suffered repeated arrest for continuing their leaders, has granted a series of amnesties as part of dramatic activities. reforms since the end of outright military rule in 2011. Ye Aung said eight former military intelligence figures were President Thein Sein pardoned some 3,073 people, includ- among those freed yesterday. Arrested in a 2004 purge on the ing 58 foreign nationals, citing “stability of the state, the rule of department as part of the overthrow of former spy chief- law” and “humanitarian” grounds, according to a Facebook turned-prime minister Khin Nyunt in a junta power struggle, post Tuesday by Information Minister Ye Htut. One prisoner the former officials were thought to be serving sentences of held on political grounds was among those freed, according to up to 100 years. Among those freed was Brigadier General Ye Aung, a representative of the Former Political Prisoners Thein Swe. His son, well known media businessman Sonny Support Group, which is working closely with the government Swe, announced the release on social media, saying “Having a on negotiating the release of remaining dissidents. top day with great news. I’m heading to Myingyan to pick up “We only can confirm the release of one political prisoner my dad”. Dozens of former military intelligence staff, who are from Myitkyina prison. He was sentenced to five years impris- not generally considered to be political detainees, are thought onment under the Explosives Act in 2013,” said Ye Aung, esti- still to be behind bars. mating that some 75 political prisoners remain behind bars. Khin Nyunt himself was released from house arrest in 2012 “Releasing the prisoners is good. We welcome it. But we want and has since opened an art gallery in Yangon. Arbitrary the government to release more. Politically, it is meaningless imprisonment was a hallmark of nearly half a century under a without the release of many political prisoners.” Before junta that denied the existence of political prisoners, even as it Myanmar’s reforms, rights groups accused the country of imposed harsh punishments on rights activists, journalists, wrongfully imprisoning about 2,000 political detainees. Most lawyers and performers. Some activists have expressed cau- have since been pardoned in sweeping amnesties that cam- tion at the government’s high profile amnesties, particularly paigners have said were often linked to high profile visits by large-scale releases of ordinary detainees. “The release of many international figures. criminals could harm stability. We have to question the gov- In December the country declared that there were no more ernment on what they are thinking with the release,” former political prisoners after freeing inmates arrested under a host political prisoner Toe Kyaw Hlaing said. — AFP WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2014 INTERNATIONAL Divided Haiti prepares farewell for ‘Baby Doc’

PORT-AU-PRINCE: Haiti is preparing an appropriate send-off “He was a man, he deserves a funeral. The other presidents for former dictator Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier, but con- who came after him did the same.” Around half of Haiti’s esti- troversy over his funeral arrangements has stirred simmering mated 10-million people are under 20 years old and even political tensions. The 63-year-old former strongman’s passing, some of those who are older have only dim memories of a more than a quarter-of-a-century after he fled into exile, has leader who fled in 1986. “My parents said he wasn’t such a not generated much public passion in an impoverished coun- bad president,” said 28-year-old Guerda Cesar, while Vilbin try still struggling to recover after a devastating 2010 earth- Jean-Louis, 37 and unemployed, added: “Apparently, things quake. weren’t so tough then, economically.” But Duvalier’s death has stirred Haiti’s political classes- Baby Doc ruled for 15 years before being driven into exile already at odds over the organization of long-delayed legisla- by protests, and only returned as a private citizen in 2011, a tive elections-and has dismayed victims of his brutal rule surprise move that he claimed represented a gesture of soli- searching for justice. President Michel Martelly’s government darity with his people a year after the quake killed more than is seen as sympathetic to the Duvalier camp, and the manner 100,000. His time in exile, mainly in France, was known at first in which it chooses to mark his death will set the tone during a for shameless luxury, although he was living relatively mod- difficult period in Haiti’s already tragic story. “It should be a estly in Paris just before his return. While he has been seen in national funeral, because that’s what the protocol requires, as some of Port-au-Prince’s top restaurants, he had been dis- he was a head of state,” Lucien Jura, spokesman for Martelly, creet since his return. Rights activists and victim support told AFP on Monday. groups seized upon his arrival to launch an attempt to prose- “But what we don’t yet know is whether there will be a cute him for crimes against humanity and corruption, even decision to put flags at half-staff and declare a period of managing to get him to make a single begrudging appear- national mourning,” he said, promising a decision later in the ance in court. Photo combination shows Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff (right) and of presidential candidate for the Brazilian day. Opposition figures reacted bitterly to the provisional Social Democracy Party (PSDB) Aecio Neves. — AFP plans to honor a man who took control of Haiti in 1971, after Fate of rights cases unclear the death of his father Francois “Papa Doc” Duvalier. Baby Doc But the fate of the cases against him is now no longer came to power when he was just 19, later declaring himself clear, and a legal process that many in the international com- Brazil’s Rousseff and Neves president for life. An estimated 30,000 people were killed dur- munity hoped could serve as a basis for national reconcilia- ing his reign and that of his father, as the family’s feared tion in still-wounded Haiti is in limbo. The special representa- Tonton Macoute militia targeted political opponents and act- tive in Haiti of UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, Sandra gear up for a fierce run-off ed as the enforcers for a greedy and corrupt elite. Honore, called for the process to continue, echoing declara- tions from the rights groups campaigning for an end to the Silva becomes power broker after vote flop Dictator who did ‘much harm’ country’s tradition of impunity for political crimes. “On the moral level, he has no right to a national funeral. “The return of the former president to Haiti in 2011 pre- RIO DE JANEIRO: Brazil’s leftist President Dilma Rousseff poorly run campaign and the complicated realities of He was a dictator who did much harm to the country,” said for- sented an opportunity for the country to comprehensively steeled herself Monday for a hard-fought race against Brazilian politics, where striking alliances is a must. mer political prisoner and former Port-au-Prince mayor Evans address the painful memories of its recent past through the center-right challenger Aecio Neves, who is seeking to “She was inconsistent on key issues. She couldn’t Paul. “But if it’s the law that he have one, so be it.” Duvalier sup- required processes of accountability and of reconciliation, the unite frustrated voters to beat her in a run-off. After a state clearly who she would form alliances with to guar- porters want Haiti to honor their hero’s passing. “He’s a former pursuit of which should continue,” she said. In June, Martelly dramatic campaign, the leftist incumbent won Sunday’s antee she would be able to govern, what her relation- president. He has the right to a special funeral,” retired colonel declared that Haiti would hold legislative and municipal elec- first-round poll with 42 percent of the vote to 34 percent ship would be with Congress, with the powerful PMDB Abel Jerome, a still influential former figure in the Duvalier tions on October 26 but there is little sign of practical prepa- for business favorite Neves-who nonetheless enters the party,” a massive centrist party seen as essential to doing regime, said. On the streets of Port-au-Prince ordinary Haitians rations underway, and talks between political camps have second round with strong momentum after staging an business in Brasilia, he said. Andre Perfeito, an analyst were divided over Duvalier’s legacy, but most thought it nor- failed to agree on a way forward. The vote has been delayed improbable comeback against popular environmentalist with Gradual Investments, said that after flirting for mal that a former national leader receive a state funeral. for three years and many legislators are reaching the ends of Marina Silva. As the countdown to the October 26 run-off weeks with Silva, “the electorate has shown itself to be Pierre Andre, a 40-year-old queueing with dozens of their terms. If their mandates expire without an election began, Rousseff and Neves wasted no time trading jabs conservative.”Imagining itself as wanting change, it Haitians outside the Brazilian embassy, seeking a visa, said: being held, Martelly may have to rule by decree, an uncom- over their competing visions on how to reboot the showed itself more cautious than initially thought,” he “He was a thief, who ruined the country.” But he shrugged: fortable echo of the Duvalier era. — AFP world’s seventh-largest economy, which is mired in said. — AFP recession, and address the frustrations of voters angry over corruption and poor public services. After Rousseff said Sunday that Neves, the scion of an influential political family, represented the “ghosts of the past,” the former governor hit back in a press conference Monday. “I was surprised to hear President Dilma com- ment that people had to be careful with the ghosts of the past. The truth is they are worried about the mon- sters of the present, such as high inflation, recession, cor- ruption,” he said. He said he would appoint former cen- tral bank chief Arminio Fraga as finance minister to bol- ster investor confidence. Markets reacted favorably, with Sao Paulo’s benchmark stock index closing up 4.72 per- cent.

What happened to Silva? Political analysts and Silva supporters meanwhile dis- sected the spectacular implosion of the Socialist candi- date, who just a month ago looked set to become multi- racial Brazil’s first black president. Silva, who grew up poor and illiterate in the Amazon before rising to become a respected conservation activist, senator and environment minister, upended the race when she took the place of her late running mate Eduardo Campos after his death in a plane crash on August 13. She soared in the polls, which initially picked her to beat Rousseff in a run-off. But she ultimately garnered just 21 percent of the vote. Daniel Vargas, associate professor of law at the Getulio Vargas Foundation, said Silva had been a weak candidate whose smaller Socialist party proved no match for the electoral machines of Rousseff’s Workers’ Party (PT) and Neves’s Social Democracy Party (PSDB), which between them have ruled Brazil for the past 20 years. “Marina Silva did not manage to defend herself from the attacks of rival parties and gradually that created the image of a fragile candidature a little weak on some points,” Vargas said. Andre Cesar, an analyst at consultan- cy Prospectiva, said Silva’s initial bounce in the polls had been an “emotional” voter reaction soon dispelled by a Bill Clinton, party scramble to keep Senate Democratic

CONWAY: Bill Clinton returned to Arkansas on Monday in a bid to keep the US Senate Democratic, but he is fighting a Republican wave that could claim all Deep South senators for the first time in a decade. Bubba-Clinton’s nickname harking back to his Southern roots-remains popular in his home state a full 14 years after he left the presidency. His return to the campaign trail for some of his old friends has put their candi- dacies in the spotlight in a region where the political land- scape is virtually unrecognizable from Clinton’s days as gover- nor here. “Vote your heart,” an impassioned Clinton told a few thou- sand people at the University of Central Arkansas as he stumped for his old driver Mike Ross, now running for Arkansas governor, Senator Mark Pryor who is facing a tough re-election battle, and a cast of congressional candidates Clinton has known for decades. “There is nothing that can hold us back but us,” Clinton said. But Clinton’s immense pow- ers of persuasion may not be enough to stall what experts, local politicians and even his acolytes acknowledge is a dra- matic party re-alignment in Arkansas. Democrats ruled the South for a century, but since the 1990s they have been in free-fall in a region that, despite increasing diversity, has grown more conservative. “They just voted Democratic because their father and grandfather were Democrats,” state lawmaker Ken Bragg said at Timberfest, a down-home lumberjack event in the southern Arkansas town of Sheridan. A decade ago Republicans could barely crack into local political positions. When Bragg won in 2012, he became the district’s first Republican in the Arkansas House of Representatives in 150 years.Today, Arkansas’s Senate and House have Republican majorities for the first time ever. “I think they’re realizing now that the Democratic Party real- ly doesn’t reflect the values that they have, and our Republican Party reflects more what they believe in,” Bragg said. He stressed that while Clinton deserves respect, the 2014 election is less about Clinton than Arkansas catching up with its sister Southern states in its rightward shift. “I’m not so sure he’s going to change a whole lot of votes, really.” A political thunderclap hit Arkansas in 2010, when Senate Democrat Blanche Lincoln lost to a Republican in a landslide, and it has been downhill since for Democrats. President Barack Obama and his policies are loathed throughout the South. His approval rating is in the thirties-even lower among white males. And with the south’s social conservatives furious over Obama’s historic health care reform and other policies, Republican strategists are trying to finish off Democrats in the South by tying as many Democrats to Obama as they can. — AFP INTERNATIONAL WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2014 UK’s press probes French stereotypes on Valls visit LONDON: The British press wrestled over stereotypes journalists, who reported their encounter on Twitter. on the visit, including an analysis entitled “Is France reformist talk France’s government will merely of France as a failing economy yesterday, after Prime “Just lunched with French PM Manuel Valls. Said Andy really finished?” by Kings College London political rearrange the deckchairs,” Heath wrote. “Valls ought Minister Manuel Valls travelled to London to insist his Street from John Lewis must have ‘drunk too much economy lecturer Alexandre Alfonso. “The country is to be learning lessons from John Lewis, not rudely country is open for business. Many articles focused on beer’ when slagged France as ‘finished’,” Daily often considered as a universal case of economic fail- dismissing him.” The theme of challenging stereo- the Socialist prime minister’s response to remarks Telegraph international business editor Ambrose ure, especially in the Anglo-Saxon world, described as types also made its way to the International New York made by Andy Street, the director of retailer John Evans-Pritchard wrote on Twitter. Sky News political paralyzed, arrogant, delusional and hugely uncom- Times, which is based in Paris. Its front page carried a Lewis. Street had described France as “sclerotic, hope- editor Faisal Islam took the view that “on France Valls petitive...So are the accusations true?” it asked. The profile of 36-year-old former investment banker and less and downbeat” and “finished”. He later apologized. amazingly candid, talking about two lost years of analysis examined cliches such as long lunch breaks, Economy Minister Emmanuel Macron, with the head- “Everyday I read your press, I listen and I watch Hollande presidency, and the social economic “identi- frequent strikes and a sinking economy, concluding line “France’s new banker-Socialist”. “Despite his what is being said about France,” Valls said in London. ty crisis”. that some were true, and others undeserved. youth, Macron has been a major force behind a “Too often I see in some of your newspapers some National broadcaster the BBC chose the headline However, an acerbic comment piece by the news- recent shift by the politically struggling Hollande bias, prejudices and attacks as well.” Valls also hit out “French PM meets David Cameron and attacks UK ‘car- paper’s deputy editor Allister Heath was headlined toward a more centrist economic policy for France,” at Street’s remarks at a lunch with influential British icature’”. The Daily Telegraph published several articles “France’s stagnation is tragic to watch”. “For all its the profile read.— AFP Mexico disarms police in missing students city

IGUALA: Mexican federal forces disarmed a southern city’s entire police corps and took over security Monday after officers were accused of colluding with a gang in violence that left 43 students missing. The deployment in Iguala, 200 kilometers south of Mexico City, came after President Enrique Pena Nieto pledged justice in a case whose motive remains a mystery. Authorities discovered a mass grave on a hill outside Iguala over the weekend con- taining 28 unidentified bodies, raising fears over the fate of the students, who were last seen in the city more than a week ago. Authorities say it will take at least two weeks to get the results of DNA tests to identify the badly burned corpses. The case could become one of Mexico’s worst slaughters since the drug war intensified in 2006, leaving 100,000 people dead or miss- ing to date, and the most horrific since Pena Nieto took office in December 2012. Convoys of the government’s new paramil- itary-like gendarmerie police force and IGUALA: View of a grave in Pueblo Viejo, on the outskirts of Iguala, BRUSSELS: The new European Union Commissioner for Education, Culture, Youth and Citizenship Tibor Navracsics army trucks rumbled down the streets of Guerrero state, Mexico. At least 28 bodies were pulled from a mass grave in attends his hearing at the European Parliament in Brussels. — AFP Iguala. Officials said more than 400 police southern Mexico and authorities are checking if they are some of a group and gendarmes were dispatched to patrol of 43 students missing since a police shooting last week. — AFP streets and man checkpoints with an to killing 17 of the students, saying they undergo evaluations while investigators New EU executive hits unspecified number of soldiers. “Good were told by Iguala’s public security direc- check whether their guns were used in afternoon, God bless you. The gendarmerie tor to head to the scene of the shootings, crimes. He did not say how many were dis- is here,” said an officer waving at people while a gang leader told them to execute armed but state prosecutors said last week obstacle in parliament from his truck window. Carla Flora, a 40- them, authorities said. But nobody knows that they had detained 22 officers after year-old educator, welcomed the federal why the violence happened. Amnesty interrogating more than 140. Some 30 forces’ arrival because “we were at the mer- International called Monday for an “exhaus- people in total have been detained, while cy of who knows who.” “We felt unsafe. tive” investigation into the disappearance. the mayor and public security chief are on Parliament votes down Juncker’s nominee Organized crime was inside the municipal Attorney General Jesus Murillo Karam said the run. police,” she said. Witnesses say several stu- more federal investigators would arrive in A banner signed “Guerreros Unidos” dents, from a teacher training college BRUSSELS: The formation of a new EU executive hit a fresh and capital markets union impartially. But though he the city of 140,000 and that he would head appeared in the town on Monday demand- known as a hotbed of radical protests, there soon. ing the release of the 22 officers within 24 snag on Monday when a parliamentary committee reject- charmed many lawmakers with his wit, he left many doubt- were whisked away in police vehicles on hours. “This incident is without a doubt ed the Hungarian nominated to run education and culture ing his grasp of key issues for the euro. Britain’s the night of September 26 after officers Mexicans want justice shocking, painful and unacceptable,” Pena due to his record in a government accused of curbing civic Conservatives quit the EPP five years ago, leaving Hill with- shot at buses the youngsters had comman- The violence in Iguala has highlighted Nieto said in a televised address at the rights. The committee voted to accept Tibor Navracsics in out the protection of one of the main parliamentary deered to return home. Mexico’s enduring challenge of cleaning National Palace in Mexico City. “Mexican another role on the European Commission but asked its groups. However, concern not to alienate Britain after Prosecutors say the Guerreros Unidos up corrupt and abusive police forces. society and the families of the youths who incoming president, Jean-Claude Juncker, not to assign Prime Minister David Cameron offered voters a referendum drug gang participated in the night of vio- National Security Commissioner Monte are regrettably missing rightly demand him the education, culture, youth and citizenship portfolio on leaving the EU may limit any push to deprive Hill of an lence that left six people dead, 25 wound- Alejandro Rubido Garcia said Iguala’s offi- that the incidents be cleared up and that Juncker had proposed. important post. ed and 43 missing. Two hitmen confessed cers were being sent to a military base to justice be served,” he said. —AFP After a handful of the 27 nominees failed to secure French Socialist Pierre Moscovici must deliver a second immediate legislative approval last week, Navracsics was set of written answers to written questions by lunchtime the first to suffer outright rejection. With confirmation after coming under fire from the right and Germany over hearings due to wind up on, his fate may now depend on a his ability to impose euro zone budget discipline on a package of compromises Juncker may have to offer to deficit-running Paris government in which he was finance unblock a process that has become snarled in party rival- minister until this year. Greens and the left objected to ries in parliament. “First defeat for Juncker!” tweeted Spanish conservative Miguel Arias Canete taking a com- Spanish Green Ernest Maragall, saying the culture and edu- bined energy and climate change brief, citing his family cation committee voted 14-12 against the Hungarian tak- interests in the oil industry. However, a clean bill of health ing the post he was offered. “Both Navracsics and also on Monday in a legal review of his declaration of interests Juncker must understand that there can be no question of may help him now secure a majority. giving a portfolio focused on values to someone who has Also in trouble are two nominees from the centrist bloc belonged to a Hungarian government that has been indif- in parliament, Czech Vera Jourova at justice and, after a ferent, if not opposed, to fundamental European values,” lacklustre hearing on Monday, the former Slovenian pre- said German Social Democrat Petra Kammerevert. mier Alenka Bratusek, Juncker’s proposed vice president Navracsics presented himself at a hearing last week as for energy. Aside from Hill’s “resit”, the final hearings will the man who negotiated with the EU to amend laws enact- involve Jyrki Katainen, the Finnish conservative Juncker ed while he was justice minister under premier Viktor has proposed as vice president for economic issues to Orban. EU neighbors accused Orban of curbing minority oversee Moscovici among others, and former Dutch for- rights and media, judicial and educational freedoms. In fol- eign minister Frans Timmermans, nominated as Juncker’s low-up written testimony, Navracsics sought to distance second-in-command. himself from Orban, voicing “regret”. Navracsics’s centre- right allies were pushing for him to retain the bulk of his Mogherini on Russia portfolio, shorn of responsibility for “citizenship” - broadly Late on Monday Federica Mogherini, the Italian nomi- civil rights. But opponents called for him to be moved to an nated by EU leaders to run foreign affairs, told her confir- entirely different brief. That could push Juncker into an mation hearing that Ukraine’s government required EU awkward reshuffle if his team is to win confirmation en backing and that relations with Russia should be “deeply bloc. It is scheduled to take office on Nov 1. reassessed” over the five years of the new Commission’s mandate. Party political bargaining on the executive team, Consensus breakdown complicated by the interests of the 28 EU member states Smaller parties in a European Parliament to which vot- which each are entitled to a commissioner, may take some ers returned dozens of new, Eurosceptic members at an time to resolve. Juncker can switch nominees to different election in May, have criticized what they see as a “grand jobs-though that may require further hearing by parlia- coalition” between Juncker’s centre-left EPP and the main- mentary committees. stream centre-left S&D group driving through a He can also ask countries to put forward a new candi- Commission line-up that suits them. A breakdown in that date if one meets stiffer resistance. Bratusek may be vulner- left-right consensus during the first week of hearings last able as she put her own name forward while interim prime week, however, has left several key posts still uncertain. minister after losing an election. Her successor in Ljubljana Britain’s Jonathan Hill faces an unusual repeat hearing to has complained. Yesterday morning, lawmakers expected overcome reservations on his suitability to oversee the Juncker to meet parliamentary speaker Martin Schulz, from bloc’s financial sector. the centre-left S&D group, along with the floor leaders of He sought last week to defend his ability as a conserva- the EPP and S&D. However, further negotiations later in the tive lobbyist from a non-euro zone state that has a major week are likely before it is clear whether, and how, consen- financial services industry to manage moves to banking sus is emerging on the Commission. — Reuters India wields the axe on Her Majesty’s ‘laughable’ laws NEW DELHI: If you happen to unearth treasure worth even as certain tribe from the purview of local laws because it was an little as 10 rupees (16 US cents) in India, don’t even think of “uncivilised race” will also go. Even after all these have been pocketing it - that’s because under a law introduced by the for- abolished, there will still be hundreds of clauses within other mer British colonial rulers, it still belongs to “Her Majesty”. Now, laws and thousands of regulations that are real obstacles to however, the Treasure Trove Act of 1878 and nearly 300 other business. The government has started identifying these anom- outdated laws are set to be repealed in the largest-ever cull of alies too, Prasad said. rules that make India one of the most puzzling places in the world to do business. New Prime Minister Narendra Modi is hop- Spittoons out, scrawny Inspectors back In ing that less regulation and faster decision-making will lift India Flying kites or balloons without police permission is illegal from its ranking of 134 out of 189 countries on the World Bank’s across India as they are classified as an “aircraft” under a 1934 ease of doing business table into the top 50 and attract act, and a World War II decree outlaws the dropping of pam- investors. “Some of the laws on our books are laughable. Others phlets from the air in the state of Gujarat. have no place in a modern and democratic India,” said Law Under the Motor Vehicles Act, the state of Andhra Pradesh Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad who is leading the legislative enacted a law that a motor inspector must have a clean set of clean-up. Previous administrations have failed to remove teeth and anyone with a “pigeon chest, knock knees, flat foot, obscure laws dating back to the 19th century, either because of hammer toes and fractured limbs” will be disqualified. objections by government departments or simply a lack of will. “There are instances where the entire statute is dysfunction- But Modi’s officers have identified 287 obsolete laws for scrap- al,” said prominent economist Bibek Debroy, who advised Modi ping in a November session of parliament. during his election campaign and has written a book on the On the chopping block along with the Treasure Trove Act is absurdities of Indian law. He said that obscure laws can some- an 1838 law that says property in an area of the former imperial times be abused. A swanky New Delhi hotel was threatened capital of Calcutta can only be sold to the East India Company, with a lawsuit for refusing to give water to a person who which laid the foundations of the British Empire but ceased to invoked an 1867 act under which a rest house must offer exist more than 150 years ago. An 1855 measure removing a passers-by free drinks of water. —Reuters

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2014 INTERNATIONAL Hundreds flee as India, Pakistan exchange fire News in brief SRINAGAR: Hundreds of villagers have fled their homes in the remote Kashmir region as Indian and Pakistani forces kept up yesterday their cross-border firing that has left nine people dead so far, officials said. Firing across the bor- North, S Korea naval der in recent days has stoked tensions and left nine people dead on Monday alone, the highest civilian toll in a single patrol exchange fire day in more than a decade in the troubled region. Overnight, forces again traded heavy mortar fire, leaving SEOUL: North and South Korean naval patrol boats briefly seven people injured on the Indian Kashmir side, as vil- exchanged warning fire yesterday near their disputed lagers fled to shelters to escape the firing, a top local offi- Yellow Sea border which has been the site of numerous cial said. “We had 1500 people in safe shelters during the clashes in the past, the South’s defense ministry said. The night away from their homes along the border,” said incident came as hopes had been raised of a constructive Shantmanu, a top administrator of the Indian Kashmir reboot in strained inter-Korean relations following the sur- region, who uses only one name. prise visit of a top-ranking North Korean delegation to the “It is a voluntary thing. Otherwise the entire border South just three days before. The defense ministry said the population is vulnerable,” he said, adding that villagers South’s patrol boat had initially fired a warning shot after were returning to check on their homes in the morning. the North Korean vessel penetrated half a nautical mile India and Pakistan have accused each other of provoking inside the South’s territorial waters. Instead of retreating the firing that began Sunday night and fanned tensions immediately, the North patrol boat opened fire, so “our side between the nuclear-armed nations that have fought two fired back,” a ministry spokesman said, adding that there wars over the Muslim-majority region. Pakistani officials neither vessel had directly targeted the other and “no dam- yesterday said Islamabad had lodged a strong protest with age” was sustained. The South’s patrol boat fired “around United Nations Military Observers Group for what it said 90” rounds in total. was “unprovoked firing” by Indian troops.

Divided region Sri Lanka Buddhists seek Kashmir is divided between India and Pakistan but both ties with India’s Hindus lay claim to the scenic Himalayan region, with regular COLOMBO: A Buddhist group accused of instigating clashes along their disputed border known as the Line of religious hate attacks in Sri Lanka said yesterday it is in talks with Hindu nationalists in India to form an Control (LoC). The firings in recent days have occurred KASHMIR: Kashmiri residents and Indian police clash in Srinagar. — AFP along the LoC as well as their internationally recognized alliance against what it called rising Islamic extremism border further south. “Seven more civilians were injured part of Kashmir. India called off peace talks last month over five villagers and left 30 injured. A Pakistani military state- in the region. The Buddhist Force, or BBS, says Sri last (Monday) night in intermittent small arms firing in the Kashmir after Pakistan consulted with Indian Kashmiri sep- ment said four civilians, including two children, were killed Lanka faces a threat from radical Islam. It has been Arnia area,” top Indian Kashmir police officer Shakeel Beig aratists. Since 1989, fighting between Indian forces and on its side, while 26 were injured. The latest exchange of linked to a rise in attacks against the country’s minority said. National home Minister Rajnath Singh, whose govern- rebels seeking independence or merger of the territory fire comes after a brief period of cooperation in the disput- Muslim and Christian population in the past two years, ment stormed to power at May elections, warned that with Pakistan has killed tens of thousands, mostly civilians. ed region between the two foes. On August 8, Pakistan although it denies any involvement. Yesterday it said it India would “not tolerate such acts of border violations by Violence has fallen in the region since 2004 when the freed an Indian soldier who was captured after he was was seeking a tie-up with India’s Rashtriya Pakistan”. “Ceasefire violation must stop. Pakistan must real- countries began a peace process a year after signing a swept into the Pakistani zone of Kashmir when his patrol Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a Hindu nationalist group ize that a decisive government has come to power, which ceasefire agreement that has largely held. But officials have boat capsized. However on August 11 both countries again linked to India’s ruling party that is viewed as hostile to will not take such instances lying down,” Singh said in an said the civilian death toll of nine on Monday was the exchanged accusations of cross-border firing while on the country’s 160-million-strong Muslim minority. interview with the Hindustan Times daily published yester- worst in a single day since 2003. August 23, Pakistan accused Indian border forces of killing “Discussions are at a high level with the RSS,” BBS chief, day. India has an estimated 500,000 troops deployed in its On the Indian side, firing from across the border killed two civilians in an unprovoked firing.—AFP Buddhist monk Galagodaatte Gnanasara told reporters in Colombo. “We are having a dialogue with the RSS as well as Buddhist organizations in India. “We think we can have a Buddhist-Hindu peace zone in this part of Umbrella Generation: the world.” Sri Lanka suffered its worst religious vio- HK despairing youth lence in decades this June when riots left four people dead. split with old guard HONG KONG: Hong Kong’s unprecedented student-led US drone strike in Pakistan democracy rallies have highlighted a stark divide between a kills 6 suspected militants disenfranchised younger generation who say they have little to DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Missiles from a US drone yesterday lose, and an older guard who favor pragmatism over protest. slammed into a suspected militant training camp in north- Throughout the past week the legions of predominantly youth- west Pakistan, killing six, intelligence officials said, in the ful demonstrators camped out on the city’s streets have third such strike in as many days. Three missiles from the focused their energies on the single galvanizing issue that unmanned aircraft hit the camp in the Shawal area of sparked the mass sit-ins-universal suffrage. Dubbed the South Waziristan just after midday, two intelligence offi- Umbrella Revolution after umbrellas were used to protect from cials said. Nine suspected militants were reported injured, pepper spray and tear gas, protesters say Hong Kongers should they said. The United States halted drone strikes for the be allowed to both nominate and choose their next leader in first six months of 2014 while the government engaged in 2017. Beijing insists only candidates vetted by a loyalist com- ultimately fruitless peace talks with the Taleban insurgency. mittee will be able to stand for election. But the strikes restarted in June, just days before the mili- But the battle for full democracy in the former British colony tary announced an anti-Taleban offensive, and their pace is only part of why so many of the financial hub’s youngsters stepped up this month. Five suspected militants were have taken a leading role in what has become the greatest chal- killed in a strike in Shawal on Monday, and another five lenge to China’s hold over the territory since its 1997 handover. killed in a strike in the same area on Sunday. The Shawal The protests are taking place against a backdrop of rising valley is a thickly forested, mountainous area where many inequality and soaring living costs which leave many young of the militants who fled the anti-Taleban offensive are people with little prospect of renting, let alone buying, their believed to be hiding. own homes. Increased competition with wealthy mainlanders, anger over the cosy relationship between the government and Hong Kong’s financial elite and a sense of alienation from the Jackfruit sap used to ruling authorities have left the younger generation deeply HONG KONG: A pro-democracy protester sleeps beneath an office directory board in the Admiralty district of rob Philippine banks uneasy about what awaits them in adulthood. Hong Kong yesterday. — AFP MANILA: Philippine thieves have been using low-tech Shadow Wu, a 16-year-old secondary school student, sticky tree sap to rob high-tech cash dispenser believes the government simply does not care about what machines in banks, police said yesterday. Jackfruit sap awaits its younger generation. “The government now doesn’t HK protests at crossroads; is daubed on a metal bar that thieves insert into the listen to our concerns, it’s a fake government that doesn’t card slot of automated teller machines, said a subur- respond to the needs of the people,” she fumes. But Wu, who ban Manila police spokesman Inspector Edwin has spent the last nine days camped out with two teenage traffic, frustration pile up Malabanan. Whenever a person tried to withdraw friends, admits her grandparents believe her protest is a “waste cash, the bills would stick onto the bar inside the of time”. “My grandmother and grandfather had really hard lives, machine, which thieves would retrieve once the disap- so they think we’re silly and that we should be happy to have Protest numbers dwindle pointed customer had left. “The sap is really sticky. It comfortable lives,” she says. was really clever of them to think of it,” Malabanan HONG KONG: Hong Kong’s dwindling ceived over a year ago referring to the promises something, otherwise it is said. Customers of several banks complaining of losses pro-democracy protesters relaxed block- Central business district, have present- impossible to persuade the people to Bleak prospects prompted the police to look into the matter and one ades of key places yesterday, allowing ed Beijing with one of its biggest politi- quit,” said Hong Kong Federation of Unlike their Chinese compatriots on the mainland, whose of two thieves was arrested last week thanks to closed some business supplies in and out, cal challenges since it crushed pro- Students leader Alex Chow. With trunk desires for greater personal and political freedoms have largely circuit TV footage of a bank ATM, he said. Police do not although traffic was still largely snarled democracy demonstrations in and roads occupied by protesters, alterna- been counteracted by Beijing with the promise of stellar eco- know how many other thieves have used this method, and talks with the government offered around Tiananmen Square in the tive routes into the city have quickly nomic growth, Hong Kong’s youngsters are ever more restricted he added. Malabanan said police charged the suspect little hope of a quick solution. Hundreds Chinese capital in 1989. become clogged. Traffic jams on Hong by the rocketing cost of living. The average rent at 50 major under a law punishing tampering of electronic devices of protesters in the second week of their Beijing fears that calls for democracy Kong Island and across Victoria Harbour housing estates hit a record high of HK$26.99 per square foot in for theft, but it was thrown out since he had used a campaign for greater democracy were in Hong Kong could spread to the in Kowloon stretched back miles in August, the South China Morning Post reported last month, non-electronic tool. camped out on the road leading into mainland, with China already facing some places. Passengers trying to get meaning a tiny 300 square foot flat goes for at least HK$8,000 a Hong Kong’s main government and separatist unrest in far-flung Tibet and on to underground trains were packed month ($1,030). business districts, the last holdouts after Xinjiang. The Communist Party leader- tight as they queued up two levels and In comparison, the average monthly graduate salary last days of rallies that attracted tens of ship has dismissed the Hong Kong spilled out on to the street near the year was just US$1,650, job search website jobsDB found. Carol thousands at their peak. protests as illegal and has left the city’s main protest site in the Admiralty dis- Hung is typical of many young professionals protesting-a 30- The student-led protesters began Beijing-appointed leader, Leung Chun- trict. year-old graphic designer, she lives with her parents and feels lifting their controls of government ying, to find a solution. Over the past her future is bleak. “We feel that the past generation achieved a offices and retail areas on Monday as week, the protesters have demanded Sales slump stable life if they worked, but now, no matter how hard we preliminary, behind-the-scenes talks that Leung quit and that China allow Retail authorities have warned that work, we may not be able to achieve this.” Hung, who has meant to lead to formal negotiations Hong Kong people the right to vote for a quick solution is needed before the drawn a series of satirical cartoons that have gone viral in recent showed modest signs of progress. “Now a leader of their choice in 2017 elec- former British colony suffers a fall in days, also says the city’s younger generations-many of whom we just have to wait and see about the tions. China wants to select candidates October sales, an important shopping are the first in their families to go to university-are more deter- meetings,” said Ronald Chan, a recent for the election. month that encompasses the Golden mined to fight for personal freedoms than their parents. university graduate who was one of sev- After preparatory discussions with Week holiday period, for the first time “The last generation saw their livelihoods as their priority eral protesters manning a barricade in student representatives late on since 2003. The Hong Kong Retail but for our generation, a lot of us have had access to more edu- the Central business district, but allow- Monday, Lau Kong-wah, the govern- Management Association said late on cation so we will have a different mindset.” Pro-democracy law- ing delivery vans and garbage trucks in ment’s undersecretary of constitutional Monday sales at chain stores had maker Claudia Mo says that the mass protests are young peo- and out. and mainland affairs, said both sides dropped between 30 and 45 percent ple’s “one big chance” to voice their anger, frustration and He said several passersby had had agreed on general principles for from Oct 1-5 in Admiralty and Central, resentment. “We used to believe in the ‘Lion Rock spirit’,” says thanked them for allowing deliveries formal talks. “I think today’s meeting as well as in the nearby shopping dis- Mo, using a local phrase which refers to a mountain overlook- and he estimated that more than half was successful and progress has been trict of Causeway Bay. Sales fell just as ing some of the city’s poorer districts and encapsulates Hong supported them. “We know we have made,” he told reporters. Protest leaders sharply in Kowloon’s working class dis- Kong’s renown as a place where hard work and perseverance caused some inconvenience but we have promised to carry on with their trict of Mong Kok, scene of some of meant a brighter future. “The younger generation feel that Lion have our reasons,” he said. “We hope Occupy Central demonstrations until the most violent clashes between pro- Rock spirit has been killed off.” that other people understand.” The their demands are met. “It has to end testers and police and pro-Beijing ‘Occupy Central’ protests, an idea con- when, and only when, the government groups. — Reuters ‘Too radical’ KIHOU: High waves batter a breakwater at a port at Many of Hong Kong’s older citizens escaped grinding pover- Kihou town in Mie prefecture, central Japan. — AFP ty or political persecution on the Chinese mainland and toiled long hours to give their children a better life. Some now believe Vietnam-flagged tanker ‘missing’ Typhoon death toll their children and grandchildren risk throwing that away in rises to six in Japan what they see as a “radical” protest. “I support democracy, but I KUALA LUMPUR: A Vietnam-flagged unknown,” the Kuala Lumpur-based siphoned off to other vessels. There TOKYO: The death toll from a typhoon that pounded don’t agree with this approach,” said Chan Kuen, a 69-year-old tanker has gone missing en route from piracy watchdog said, urging ships have been no reports of deadly vio- Japan this week has risen to six, while five other people retired civil servant. “Rents are so expensive now, but shops Singapore to the Vietnamese port of transiting the region to keep a lookout lence. Vietnamese media said authori- including two US serviceman remain missing, reports said have had to shut. What they are doing is too radical and peo- Quang Tri and is feared hijacked, a for the missing tanker and report its ties there were seeking help from their yesterday. Powerful typhoon Phanfone whirled over Tokyo ple’s livelihoods have been affected.” “What can they achieve?” world piracy watchdog said yesterday, whereabouts if seen. counterparts in Malaysia, Indonesia and and other major cities during the Monday morning rush questioned one man in his eighties, who was watching the amid growing concern over piracy in Southeast Asia has seen a spate of Singapore. In recent years, global con- hour, cancelling some 600 flights and suspending more protests at a distance and gave his name as Hui. “They should Southeast Asian waters. There has been daring hijackings this year, centered on cern over piracy has focused on attacks than 100 bullet train services while many factories were be going to school instead. If the government decides to clear no contact with the MT Sunrise 689 the Strait of Malacca running between by trigger-happy Somali pirates off East shuttered. The storm, which left a trail of damage across this area, they are doomed.” since shortly after it departed Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore. The Africa. An international naval effort has the archipelago, was downgraded to a low-pressure sys- But student movements have played pivotal roles during Singapore last Thursday, the incidents have fanned fears that the virtually stamped out that threat, but tem by Monday night as its eye moved out over the Pacific political upheaval in recent Chinese history-from the anti-impe- International Maritime Bureau’s Piracy region’s busy shipping lanes-plagued Southeast Asian piracy attacks have Ocean, Japan’s meteorological agency said. Among the rialist protests of 1919, to the bloodletting of the Cultural Reporting Centre said in a news alert. by piracy for centuries-could once crept back up, according to the IMB. dead was a US military official who had been photograph- Revolution and the quashed Tiananmen protests. And some The state-run Vietnam News Agency again become a problem area after an The agency in June called on regional ing the storm along with two still-missing colleagues who older members of the community have shown their solidarity. “I said the vessel belonged to a shipbuild- earlier surge in sea banditry was largely authorities to step up cooperation to were engulfed by high waves triggered by the typhoon on think I should give some support because they are doing what ing company in the northern Vietnam suppressed over the past decade by prevent a re-emergence of the piracy the southern Okinawa island chain, local police said. In is right,” said Kwok Kwai-to, a 61-year-old retired bus driver who port of Hai Phong and was carrying regional navies. The majority of the scourge in the Malacca Strait and adja- Yokohama, southwest of Tokyo, two men in their 20s and had spent almost a week protesting. “I will be doing it until more than 5,226 tons of oil and 18 crew. recent attacks have involved tankers cent waters-conduit for one-third of 30s were killed separately as landslides destroyed their there is an answer, whether it’s a crackdown or dialogue. I am “The fate of the crew and vessel is whose oil or fuel cargoes were global trade flows. — AFP homes, a city official said. willing to go to jail because I am old.” — AFP NEWS WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2014 Kobane ‘about to fall’ as hundreds killed

MURSITPINAR, Turkey: Jihadists are on the verge of strikes near Kobane on Monday and yesterday. Several seizing the key Syrian border town of Kobane, Turkey armed vehicles, anti-aircraft artillery, a tank and a jihadist warned yesterday, after a three-week assault by the “unit” were damaged or destroyed, the Pentagon said. Islamic State group that has left hundreds reported Four more air raids were carried out elsewhere in dead. The fall of Kobane to IS would mark a major victory Syria - including on a facility producing homemade for the jihadists, who are fighting for a long stretch of bombs - as well as four strikes in Iraq. Warplanes from the border with Turkey for their self-proclaimed “Islamic Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates took part in caliphate”. With the battle entering a crucial phase, US the bombing raids in Syria. The Netherlands said its F- and Arab warplanes launched fresh strikes on IS posi- 16s had carried out their first strikes on IS in Iraq as part tions near Syria’s third largest Kurdish town. of the US-led campaign, targeting armed vehicles shoot- At least 412 people, more than half of them jihadists, ing at peshmerga Kurdish fighters. At least 17 people have been killed in and around Kobane since mid- were reported killed north of the Iraqi city of Samarra in September, according to the Syrian Observatory for a suicide bombing on a militia observation post watch- Human Rights, a Britain-based monitoring group. ing for IS fighters crossing the Tigris River late Monday. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned that the The battle for Syria’s Kobane has prompted some strategically important town was “about to fall”, saying a 200,000 residents to flee across the Turkish border. An ground operation was needed to defeat the militants. “I official in the Turkish town of Suruc said on Tuesday that am telling the West -dropping bombs from the air will 700 people, including 47 wounded, had crossed the not provide a solution,” he said. frontier overnight, both civilians and Kurdish fighters. Iran, which unlike the West supports President Bashar Seven bodies were also carried across. Turkey last week Al-Assad’s regime, criticised the “passivity of the interna- won parliamentary approval for military intervention tional community” in the face of the IS offensive. Kurdish against IS in Syria and Iraq, but it has yet to announce militia in Kobane waged fierce street battles with the any firm plans despite the advance of the jihadists on its advancing jihadists, who pierced the town’s defences on doorstep. Monday. The Kurdish defenders have vowed to “fight to In Istanbul, protesters clashed with Turkish police in a the last person”, said Kobane activist Mustafa Ebdi. new show of anger over the government’s inaction, with SURUC, Turkey: Smoke rises from the city centre of the Syrian town of Ain Al-Arab, known as Kobane by the Gunfire, explosions and the roar of fighter jets were tear gas and water cannon used to disperse several hun- Kurds, as seen from the Turkish-Syrian border during heavy fighting yesterday. — AFP heard from the Turkish side of the border, while a dred demonstrating Kurds. One person was killed during Kurdish flag was seen flying in the centre of Kobane, an similar clashes in the southeastern city of Mus. IS, an AFP journalist reported. “We need help from the interna- extremist Sunni Muslim organisation, has taken advan- Hajj selfies spark controversy tional community,” said Idris Nahsen, a Kurdish official tage of the chaos unleashed by Syria’s several-sided civil still in the town, which is also known as Ain al-Arab. war to capture large parts of the country, as well as of Continued from Page 1 nating, then no problem. “But if they were for the purpose “Either we finish them (IS) or they will finish us,” he said neighbouring Iraq. The group has been accused of carry- of showing off, then they are prohibited, such as the pho- by telephone. ing out widespread atrocities, including mass executions, Two women covered in traditional black abayas and tography that takes place at the (hajj) rites.” The scholar Kurdish fighters have ordered civilians to evacuate abductions, torture and forcing women into slavery. veils hurried towards the Big Jamarah wall, but not with- requested anonymity because of the sensitivity of stating the town, after the jihadists planted their black flags on In northwestern Syria, a rival extremist organisation out stopping for a quick self portrait along the way. “My a religious opinion in the ultraconservative kingdom. “It is its eastern side and entered Kobane on Monday. “There to IS - the Al-Qaeda-affiliated Al-Nusra Front - abducted daughter and I are taking selfies to show our hajj pictures better for Muslims to avoid them,” he said of selfies. are no more civilians in Kobane. It’s just a battlefield,” a priest and 20 other Christians on Sunday night, the to our family in Paris. It’s also a nice memento,” said one of For the teenage pilgrim Wafaa Ahmed, “this is not a said resident Faruq Hajji Mustafa, who fled the town on Franciscan Order said. IS sparked outrage at the week- the women, a Saudi pilgrim from Jeddah who gave her convincing view” because taking selfies “has nothing to Monday. The United States and its allies have launched end with the release of a video showing the beheading name only as Umm Abdallah, 44. Her daughter Wafaa do with religion”. The elderly pilgrim Mohammed Ali also nearly 2,000 air raids against jihadists in both Iraq and of British aid worker Alan Henning, one of several Ahmed, 19, said: “I love taking many selfies wherever I go discounts the scholar’s opinion. He says the camera “is a Syria in an attempt to stop their advance, including five Western hostages killed by the group. — AFP to keep them for myself, as well as to show them to my tool such as mobiles, used even by religious scholars who friends and brothers.” have not prohibited them, so why prohibit another tool of Speaking to AFP by telephone, a professor of Islamic the modern era?” As he speaks, a group of young Saudi Sharia law in the Saudi capital Riyadh said that “if photo- men gather for a group selfie in front of a Jamarah wall Affleck defends Muslims graphs are only for personal memory and not for dissemi- before they stone the “devil”. — AFP Continued from Page 1 a double-A ballpark in Charleston, West Virginia”, his wife Jennifer Garner’s hometown. “But why are you so hostile about this?” said Maher, a Not that Maher was swayed: He called Islam “the only LED lamp wins Nobel for Japanese trio leftwing comedian and atheist who shared Harris’ con- religion that acts like the Mafia, that will f***ing kill you Continued from Page 1 century. A lot of people left (the research project), but I tempt for Islam. “It’s gross, it’s racist,” a visibly frustrated if you say the wrong thing, draw the wrong picture or never considered doing so at all,” he said. “I never Affleck said, likening it to calling someone “a shifty Jew”. write the wrong book.” As the Friday night flap became LED lamps emit a bright white light, last for tens of thought of success or failure. I simply did what I wanted “How about the more than a billion people, who a Monday morning topic of water-cooler banter, Maher thousands of hours and use just a fraction of energy to do... Luckily, my colleagues supported me.” The octo- aren’t fanatical, who don’t punish women, who just stuck to his guns, telling Salon.com: “We are not bigoted compared with the incandescent lightbulb pioneered by genarian, born in 1929, had advice for young want to go to school, have some sandwiches, pray five people - on the contrary, we’re trying to stand up for the Thomas Edison in the 19th century. The most advanced researchers: “Don’t be fooled by fashionable subjects. Do times a day, and don’t do any of the things that you’re principles of liberalism.” Asked by the online news site if LED lamps now consume nearly 20 times as little elec- whatever you like if it’s really what you want to do.” saying all Muslims do.” Affleck went on to say that “we’ve he expected Affleck, a frequent guest on his show, to tricity as regular light bulbs and their performance is The Nobel announcement was welcomed as “brilliant killed more Muslims than they’ve killed us, by an awful get so upset, Maher replied: “You know, I don’t want to improving constantly. LEDs are also commonplace in news” by the environmental group Greenpeace. “It cap- lot,” and argued that the Islamic State group “couldn’t fill talk about this.” — AFP computers, TV, watches and mobile phone screens. tures the spirit of the times,” Sven Teske, a climate and Around a quarter of world electricity consumption is energy campaigner, told AFP. “It is high time that such KPI cancels investment in refinery, mulls... used for lighting, so governments in many countries are innovative steps in the direction towards a sustainable promoting a switch to LEDs to slash heat-trapping emis- future are celebrated and admired. Science and educa- Continued from Page 1 ident, Upstream, Chevron Corporation. “The transaction sions from fossil fuels, which are burned to generate tion are key to freeing us from fossil fuels.” Britain’s provides us an expanded relationship with a valued power. And because they have very low electricity Institute of Physics said the research “is having a direct Chevron’s Canadian subsidiary has exploration leases partner.” Duvernay is widely viewed as one of North needs, LED lights can be connected to cheap, local solar impact on the grandest of scales, helping protect our for about 1,335 sq km in the Duvernay shale formation. America’s most promising shale fields. power - a benefit for the more than 1.5 billion people environment, as well as turning up in our everyday elec- The area is located about 200 km northwest of Allen Good, senior equity analyst at Morningstar, said around the world who lack access to the electricity grid. tronic gadgets.” Edmonton, Alberta. The deal also creates a partnership the divestment was not a comment on the quality of “I really think that Alfred Nobel would be happy with this Akasaki worked together with Amano at the for appraisal and development of liquids-rich shale Chevron’s Duvernay assets but rather a way to cut prize... It’s really something that will benefit most peo- University of Nagoya, when conducting their part of the resources in the Kaybob area of the Duvernay, Chevron spending at a time when the company has a number of ple,” said Nobel Committee member Per Delsing. path-breaking research. He is currently a professor at said. After the deal closes in November, Chevron major projects underway. “I see this as a way to reduce Unusually for a recipient of the Nobel Prize, Meijo University in Nagoya, while Amano, born in 1960, Canada will remain the operator and will hold a 70 per- capital spending but still retain exposure to a potential- Nakamura was employed at Nichia Chemicals, a small is a professor at Nagoya University. Nakamura, born in cent interest in the project. The deal price includes a ly lucrative play,” Good said, adding that Kuwait Foreign Japanese company, when carrying out the research that 1954 in Japan, is now a US citizen and a professor at portion of Chevron Canada’s share of future capital Petroleum Exploration Co did not offer any particular was rewarded yesterday in Stockholm. “It’s unbeliev- University of California, Santa Barbara. The winners will costs for the joint venture. expertise. “It’s simply a funding source that historically able!” Nakamura said when phoned by the Nobel share the sum of eight million Swedish kronor ($1.1 mil- “This sale demonstrates our focus on strategically Chevron would not have looked at, but they are spend- Committee. His co-laureate Isamu Akasaki told reporters lion) at an awards ceremony on Dec 10. Last year’s award managing our portfolio to maximize the value of our ing a lot on developing LNG and offshore so are looking at Meijo University in Nagoya that the announcement went to Peter Higgs of Britain and Francois Englert of global upstream businesses and is consistent with our at monetizing some of their assets sooner than they was “a half-surprise” and the “greatest honour”. “At first, it Belgium for the discovery of the Higgs boson, which partnership strategy,” said Jay Johnson, senior vice pres- normally would.” — Agencies was said that this could not be invented during the 20th gives mass to other elementary particles. — AFP WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2014 ANALYSIS

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By Max Delany

suicide bombing that killed five policemen in Chechnya is a stark reminder of the Islamist insur- Agency spreading in the North Caucasus and the threat posed by jihadists who have joined the Islamic State group, analysts say. “The number of shootings and deaths has dropped but the situation remains far from stable,” said Grigory Shvedov, editor of the website kavkaz-uzel.ru that focuses on the Caucasus. “It is possi- ble that suicide attacks have gone down because the new leadership of the Caucasus Emirate does not want to use them and not because the security forces have been working more effectively,” Shvedov told AFP. The Caucasus Emirate is a group created in 2007 that aims to establish an Islamist state in the region and has called for global jihad. Five policemen were killed and 12 injured in the Chechen capital Grozny on Sunday when US sees Kim’s absence, talks as tactical authorities said they blocked a 19-year-old suicide bomber from attacking a concert hall where thousands had gathered to mark a local holiday. The blast, which By David Brunnstrom spokeswoman Jen Psaki said the United States was “in shattered a period of relative calm in the region, has close consultation with the government of (South) Korea sparked concerns of a new cycle of violence in the North surprise visit by a senior North Korea delegation to as the visit was happening.” Washington has declined to Caucasus where the Kremlin fought two wars with sepa- South Korea and the disappearance from public make clear whether it knew in advance of a planned vis- ratists over the past 20 years. Aview of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un for the it. These fears are further fuelled by worries over what past month have triggered speculation about Kim’s impact fighters from the region who have flooded to health and the stability of his government. But US ana- Possible North Korean Motives Syria and Iraq to battle alongside radical groups such as lysts say both can just as easily be interpreted as diplo- Alexandre Mansourov, a North Korea specialist at Islamic State (IS) will have when they return home. “There matic tactics by Pyongyang, aimed at dividing and weak- Johns Hopkins University, said North Korea may have is a basis to suggest that a link exists between the ening international pressure over its nuclear weapons been thrusting itself into the Asian Games spotlight for Caucasus Emirate and IS and that it could grow stronger,” program and human rights record as well as propaganda domestic propaganda. He said it could also have been an Shvedov said. for domestic consumption. attempt to divide and weaken international resolve to Chechnya’s Kremlin-backed President Ramzan North Korean officials have denied that Kim’s public pressure North Korea to scrap its nuclear arms program Kadyrov has previously claimed that the Islamist insur- absence since Sept 3 is health-related and a US official and improve its rights record. Pyongyang’s move comes gency has almost been crushed and his boasts were bol- following North Korea said there were no indications he just weeks before a resolution criticizing North Korea stered by the admission from rebels in March that their was seriously ill or in political trouble. While minor health over its rights record is due to come up for debate at the veteran leader Doku Umarov had been killed. The problems could not be ruled out, Washington believed a United Nations. Moscow-backed strongman at the weekend rushed to purge last year that resulted in Kim having his uncle and The yearly ritual this time has been given extra weight offer assurances that the situation remained under con- former top advisor executed had cemented him in pow- by a report by UN investigators denouncing North trol despite the latest attack. “What has happened has er, said the official, who asked not to be identified. Korea’s system of labor camps. US Secretary of State John not impacted the situation in Chechnya. It remains stable “There’s no sign that something big is going on,” the Kerry has called on North Korea to close the camps, say- and entirely under the control of security forces,” Kadyrov official said, adding that Kim’s absence from some high- ing their existence and systematic torture and execu- wrote on his Instagram site following the attack. level meetings was not unusual as his predecessors, tions brought shame on the country. Joel Wit, who runs father Kim Jong Il and grandfather Kim Il Sung, did not the North Korea monitoring project, 38 North, said that if Changing Rebel Strategy always attend either. North and South Korea agreed on North-South talks did move forward, it could leave But analysts said security in Chechnya is still extreme- Saturday to resume reconciliation talks after North Korea Washington increasingly isolated since it has imposed ly fragile despite the veneer of relative calm in the region sent its most senior delegation ever to its neighbor at preconditions on a resumption of international talks on of late. The Islamist movement emerged from the rem- just 24 hours’ notice. The delegation, formally sent to North Korea’s nuclear program. nants of the independence struggle in the wake of attend the closing ceremony of the Asian Games, com- North Korea’s ambassador to the United Nations in Chechnya’s two separatist wars, with fighting increasing- prised close aides to Kim. Geneva said this month his country was willing to ly focusing on the neighbouring regions of Ingushetia South Korean President Park Geun-hye has been resume the international talks but Washington said and Dagestan. The latest attack in Chechnya was fol- pushing for resumption of high-level dialogue stalled Pyongyang must first take steps toward denuclearization lowed Monday by an announcement from officials in since February, and the North Koreans agreed that senior and refrain from provocative acts. Mansourov said he Dagestan that two security operatives and eight rebels officials would meet sometime between late October expected Kim Jong Un to appear in public soon, and a have been killed in clashes there over the past week. and early November. It was a striking change in tone key date would be Friday, Oct 10, a holiday for the found- The Islamist insurgency - responsible for a string of after months of near daily-invective from North Korean ing of North Korea’s communist party, which leaders nor- spectacular attacks in Russia, including a spate of blasts media against South Korea and Park. State Department mally mark with public appearances. — Reuters ahead of the February Olympic Games in Sochi - has struggled of late to carry out attacks on security forces in Chechnya. “The security forces have suffered fewer and fewer losses at the hands of the rebels,” said Alexander After dramatic race, familiar runoff Cherkasov, chairman of Russia’s leading human rights group Memorial. By Yana Marull dent Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s handpicked Influence of Islamic State successor, now seems poised to keep the PT The drop in rebel activity can be explained in part by fter a presidential campaign steeped in in office for a fourth term. “The Brazilian elec- the flow of fighters from the North Caucasus to take part drama, Brazilians opted Sunday for a tor wanted to vote for what he knows. The in conflicts raging abroad, especially in the ranks of the Arelatively undramatic runoff election traditional parties came through,” said Islamic State (IS) jihadist group battling in Syria and Iraq, featuring the two parties that have governed Brasilia University political science professor Cherkasov said. There are no precise figures, but the for the past 20 years. Frustrated with an eco- David Fleischer. Central Intelligence Agency says IS militants in Iraq and nomic slowdown and corrupt politicians, vot- Syria now have about 20,000 to 31,500 fighters on the ers flirted for weeks with Socialist candidate Chasing the Marina Vote ground. Marina Silva’s promise of a “new politics,” but With Silva out of the race, the chase is now The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring ultimately relegated the popular environ- on for the 22 million people who voted for group says IS actually has more than 50,000 fighters in mentalist to third place, dashing her hopes to her. She has not yet endorsed either Rousseff Syria alone, including 20,000 jihadists from Chechnya, or Neves, despite his post-poll courting. “How Europe, China and Gulf Arab countries. Islamic State mili- become Brazil’s first black president. tants last month issued a threat to President Vladimir In the end, political analysts said, it was Marina Silva’s vote shares out will be key. If Putin, vowing to oust him and “liberate” the volatile not Silva but business favorite Aecio Neves, a her supporters plump for Aecio Neves, he will North Caucasus over his support of the Syrian regime. lifelong member of the political elite, whose be in a position to turn things around in his While it was too early to establish a link between momentum impressed on election day and favor in the second round,” said Daniel Sunday’s attack in Chechnya and the promised violence put him through to the second round with Barcelos Vargas, analyst with the Getulio by the Sunni militants the future return of radicalised incumbent Dilma Rousseff on Oct 26. Vargas Foundation. Taken together, the Silva fighters from abroad could prove a major security “Neves, who looked condemned to the and Neves camps took 55 percent of the vote headache for Moscow. “Thousands (of fighters) could shadows a month ago in the face of Silva and Sunday. And polls show that around 60 per- come back to Russia from the Middle East. This is a Rousseff’s dominance in the polls, arose from cent of Silva’s voters will now switch to potential future threat,” Cherkasov said. And in a sign the ashes and surprised with a much better Neves. that the influence of Syria might already be being felt in score than expected,” said Andre Cesar of A poll by the Ibope Institute this week the North Caucasus, authorities told the state-owned RIA consultancy Prospectiva. “That means he showed 39 percent of Brazilians will stay loyal Novosti news agency that one of the rebel fighters killed arrives much stronger for the second round, to the PT but that 33 percent of voters will in recent days in Dagestan had received explosives train- which will be fought vote by vote.” vote against. “There is a desire for change ing in Syria. — AFP Rousseff, whose Workers’ Party (PT) has from people, especially in the upper classes, governed for the past 12 years, finished with who are unhappy with a tanking economy 42 percent of the first-round vote. Neves, amid four years of sluggish growth,” said Joao All articles appearing on these whose Social Democrats (PSDB) ruled for Augusto de Castro Neves of Eurasia Group. eight years before that, finished with 34 per- “But there is also strong defense of the PT’s pages are the personal opinion of cent. Silva’s final total - 21 percent of the vote social policy accomplishments during the writers. Kuwait Times takes no - was almost 13 percentage points down Rousseff’s four years, indeed the 12 the party responsibility for views expressed from her highest poll results in early has been in power,” he said, predicting the therein. Kuwait Times invites read- September. That was just over two weeks incumbent would win. after she took the place of late runningmate Cesar, however, predicted both had equal ers to voice their opinions. Please Eduardo Campos following his death in a chances of winning. “The powerful structures send submissions via email to: opin- plane crash. of the PT and public administration favor the [email protected] or via snail Campos had been in third place behind incumbent, as does a broad party alliance,” he mail to PO Box 1301 Safat, Kuwait. Neves, but Silva galvanized the race within said. “But mitigating against her is an econo- days, shooting up in the polls, which forecast my which is falling to pieces and showing no The editor reserves the right to edit she would beat Rousseff in the runoff. But her sign of improvement. Neves sets off a strong, any submission as necessary. star soon waned amid attacks from both structured party and his support much galva- Rousseff and Neves. Rousseff, former presi- nized by this result.” — AFP WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2014 SPORTS

Pietersen: Players were bullied Paralympics debut in Tokyo Uchimura targets record LONDON: Kevin Pietersen has criticized England’s hierarchy for allowing BERLIN: Badminton will make its Paralympics debut in Tokyo in 2020 after the TOKYO: It this week’s world championships,Japan’s Kohei Uchimura will what he perceived to be a culture of bullying and intimidation in the International Paralympic Committee yesterday included it in the first batch of be aiming to break his ownformidable record of four consecutive all- national team, accusing former coach Andy Flower of ruling “by fear” and approved sports for the event. around titles by adding a fifth straight crown to his glittering collection. ex-teammate Matt Prior of picking on players. Badminton, hugely popular in Asia, is already an Olympic sport. “I would Yet despite his rise to global prominence in the most technical of In an interview with British newspaper The Daily Telegraph ahead of the like to congratulate the 16 sports that we have already confirmed will be sports, including winning gold in the all-around event at the 2012 release of his autobiography, Pietersen said Prior - the team’s wicketkeeper - included in the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, in particular badminton, who London Olympics, the son of two gymnasts never considered himself a and England’s bowlers “ran the dressing room” and that fielders were forced after missing out four years ago, submitted a very strong application,” IPC child prodigy. to apologize for errors and dropped catches .”Horrendous. Hugely disturb- President Philip Craven said after a governing board meeting in Berlin. “When I was little, I would get nervous and blank out sometimes,” the ing,” Pietersen was quoted Monday as saying. “The IPC looks forward to working with the Badminton World Federation 25-year-old, rated by some as the greatest gymnast of all-time, told the The South African-born Pietersen, who was told in February that he had (BWF) over the coming years to manage their smooth transition into the 2020 Asahi Shimbun daily. But the boy who finished last in his first- no future with England after nine turbulent years in the sports programme.” The IPC approved 16 sports, including athletics, archery, ever competition soon developed a huge appetite for hard work to achieve his aims.”When I was in high school I team, said that it got to the point where Flower and for- equestrian, powerlifting, rowing and wheelchair basketball among other, as thought I could fly if I tried hard enough,” he told the paper. part of the Tokyo Paralympics. Eight other sports, including cycling, whose mer captain Andrew Strauss said they had been Popular back home for his affable and relaxed personali- approached by team members that were “intimidated to federation applied too late to be considered at the Berlin meeting, and foot- ty, Uchimura always possessed a genuine love for a sport he field the ball.” “I thought, I reckon I could hit these guys,” ball, will be reviewed early next year for inclusion. Both these sports are part began practicing as a three-year-old at a gymnasium Pietersen said. “Who do you think you are, to ask for an of the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Paralympics sports programme. “For the eight founded by his parents in the western Japanese city of apology from someone who’s trying his heart out, who’s sports still in the running, we identified a number of issues with their submis- Isehaya. He first learned to maintain his poise and playing for his country, who’s making a mistake?” sions, or, in the case of UCI, it was submitted too late to be assessed at this composure in the air on a trampoline his parents Pietersen targeted Prior by saying he was a “bad influ- meeting,” Craven said. “The IPC Governing Board will re-evaluate these appli- acquired from the United States. “For Kohei, gymnas- ence, a negative influence - he picks on player.” Prior cations when it meets in Abu Dhabi (in January) and will make its final deci- tics wasn’t something he practiced, but an extension reacted on Twitter, saying it was “sad to see the accusa- sion on the number of sports, and which sports will be included in the Tokyo of his playtime,” his uncle Taiyo Ogawa told the Sankei tions against me.” —AP 2020 Paralympic sports program.” — Reuters Shimbun daily in 2012. —Reuters NCAA needs to drop anti-celebration rule NEW YORK: The NCAA and its defenders are joy once the play is over. That’s just not right. always blabbing about the student-athlete, This past Monday night, the pros found how much they care for these kids and only themselves embroiled in controversy after want to do right by them. Well, here’s an easy Kansas City Chiefs safety Husain Abdullah one. was flagged for falling to his knees in prayer Drop the rule against excessive celebra- after scoring a return touchdown against the tion in college football, or at least give it New England Patriots. some serious modification. Don’t wait until The NFL said the officials made a mistake. the end of the season, either. Do it right now. The referee union countered that it was the Before another team is unfairly penalized. right call under the rules, because Abdullah No. 2 Oregon was the latest squad to unfairly slid on his knees before bowing his head in a feel the wrath of what is nothing more than Muslim prayer at the back of the end zone. the NCAA’s version of an old man yelling, What a crock. “Hey, you crazy kids, get off my lawn!” This is There shouldn’t be any dispute, because taking nothing away from Arizona’s impres- neither act - the slide nor the prayer - should sive performance in a shocking 31-24 upset be against the rules. Of course, the college of the Ducks on their home field Thursday game is much tougher on anyone who night. But what happened with just over 4 shows the least bit of personality. The rule minutes remaining was a downright travesty. passed in the mid-1990s essentially bans any What did Tony Washington do that was so act that is viewed as drawing attention to awful? Well, after sacking Arizona’s quarter- yourself, such as removing your helmet. back to put the Wildcats in a fourth and-goal It’s been carried to such extremes that a situation from the 17 - which should’ve have Georgia Southern player was penalized for set up a 34-yard field goal attempt (not briefly tugging at his jersey, a la Superman, exactly a chip shot) - Washington came to a after scoring a touchdown against Georgia stop, put his hands together, and bowed Tech a few weeks ago. And Georgia’s star toward the roaring crowd at Autzen Stadium. running back, Todd Gurley, was flagged for Ohhh, the humanity! For that horrific throwing the ball to the turf with a little too transgression in a tied, tense game, much force after a 51-yard touchdown run Washington was assessed an unsportsman- against Tennessee, a penalty that was like conduct penalty. The officials moved the enforced on the kickoff and gave the Vols a ball half the distance to the goal line, with an short field on the ensuing possession. They automatic first down. Three plays later, the quickly turned it into a touchdown, though Wildcats scored the go-ahead touchdown. Georgia held on for a 35-32 victory. This is not to imply Arizona would not have “There’s a thin line in there sometimes,” won the game anyway, but there’s no excuse retired Georgia coach Vince Dooley said for such a benign act to potentially have Friday. “It’s a judgment call, like pass interfer- such a huge impact on the national champi- ence.” Dooley, interestingly enough, was on onship race. Oregon was one of the leading the NCAA rules committee that came up contenders to make college football’s new with the anti-celebration rule about two four-team playoff, but those chances might decades ago. He still thinks it is desperately have gone up in smoke because a player had needed, especially at a time when just about the nerve to get caught up in the excitement everyone is craving their 15 minutes of fame LANDOVER: Seattle Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch (24) breaks a tackle by Washington Redskins inside linebacker Perry Riley (56) on of making a huge play with a polite gesture on YouTube and social media. “If you don’t his way to a touchdown during the second half of an NFL football game. — AP toward his own fans. have that, there’s no limit on what you can This wasn’t taunting. This wasn’t some do,” Dooley said. “At one time, there was no elaborate, planned-in-advance celebration. limit and everybody wanted to outdo every- Seattle defeat Washington No, this was a 22-year-old expressing himself body else in putting on a show. Some people in a way that shouldn’t have been offensive are natural entertainers. They like to call to anyone. attention to themselves. They like to get on WASHINGTON: Seattle quarterback Russell an 86-yard strike, and threw a 12-yard scoring Smith and Michael Vick combined to go 13-of- “That penalty is very open to interpreta- television. Where’s the line? How do you stop Wilson’s ability to escape trouble helped the pass to Julius Thomas in the fourth as he fin- 32 for 74 yards and one interception. tion,” Oregon coach Mark Helfrich said in the it if there’s no limit to it? So I think the rule is most diplomatic way possible. Well, this is no good.” Maybe the intent was good, but it’s penalty-prone Seahawks hold off Washington ished the game with a career-high 479 pass- Jets coach Rex Ryan pulled second-year time for diplomacy. gone too far. Choreographed celebrations for a 27-17 NFL triumph on Monday. ing yards. The Broncos outscored Arizona 17-0 signal-caller Smith at halftime, with New York The NCAA - and, to an extent, the NFL - should be banned. Ditto for anything that Wilson dazzled on the ground, running for in the fourth quarter to pull away for the win. trailing 21-0. Vick, however, fared no better, seem intent on sucking all the joy out of this drags on too long, after the official has duti- a career-high 122 yards and a touchdown. He “I do think about how many people helped completing nine of 20 passes for 47 yards and brutal game. Apparently, it’s OK for these fully warned the player that enough’s also completed 18 of 24 passes for 201 yards me throughout my career, and when some- enduring two sacks. athletes to literally put their lives as risk on enough. Otherwise, let these guys show a lit- and two touchdowns as the reigning Super thing like this happens, how grateful I am for New Orleans bounced back from an every snap, as long they don’t show a lick of tle joy.—AP Bowl champions overcame 13 penalties to that support,” Manning said of reaching yet embarrassing loss to Dallas with a 37-31 over- improve to 3-1 for the season. another NFL benchmark. time victory over Tampa Bay. The Saints Marshawn Lynch carried the ball 17 times “Football is the ultimate team game. One scored 17 unanswered points and Khiry 2015 Giro route to run for 72 yards for Seattle, who had three touch- man has to accept the honor, but I really Robinson ran for an 18-yard touchdown in downs called back because of penalties in an accept it on behalf of a lot of coaches and overtime to seal the victory. uncharacteristically undisciplined display. teammates.” The Cowboys also worked overtime for a from San Remo to Milan Lynch also caught five passes for 45 yards Another superstar quarterback, New win, Dan Bailey’s 49-yard field goal lifting and a touchdown. Seattle came into the game England’s three-time Super Bowl winner Tom Dallas 20-17 over the Houston Texans, who MILAN: Giro d’Italia officials have unveiled a The two-time Tour champion won the Giro Brady, silenced doubters as he led the Patriots had scored the last 10 points in regulation to balanced route for next year’s race, which in 2008 and was also triumphant in Milan in well rested, having enjoyed a bye week after they believe will allow cyclists to compete in 2011 but was stripped of that title for testing their September 21 victory over Denver in a to a 43-17 triumph over Cincinnati-the only force the extra session. the Tour de France as well as the Italian clas- positive in the 2010 Tour. re-match of last season’s Super Bowl. The other team that went into the fifth week of Buffalo’s Dan Carpenter nailed a 58-yard sic. The 2015 Giro will take the riders from San Contador is aiming to become the first rid- Seahawks are now tied with Arizona atop the the season unbeaten. field goal with four seconds to play to lift the Remo to Milan, via central Italy, the Dolomites er to win both the Giro and the Tour in the NFC West division, while Washington fell to 1- Brady and the Patriots had been under Bills to a 17-14 victory at Detroit. and the Alps over a total of 3,481.8 kilometers same year since Marco Pantani achieved that 4 and are last in the NFC East. intense scrutiny all week in the wake of a 41- Bills cornerback Ron Brooks was (2,163.6 miles) from May 9-31. Organizers feat in 1998. Meanwhile, Denver quarterback Peyton 14 loss to Kansas City on Monday. “It was a stretchered off the field in the first quarter revealed the 21-stage route on Monday, The Spaniard was at the unveiling of the Manning notched another milestone on long week,” Brady admitted. “A lot of guys dug with a neck injury after he was up-ended cov- including five days in the high mountains and route at Milan’s Palazzo del Ghiaccio, along Sunday with his 500th career touchdown pass really deep this week-coming off a tough loss ering a punt return. seven medium mountain stages. There are with a number of his rivals, including Fabio in the Broncos’ 41-20 NFL win over previously like we did.” Indianapolis quarterback Andrew Luck also seven legs for sprinters, an individual Aru, Rigoberto Uran and new world champi- unbeaten Arizona. Brady threw two touchdown passes for the passed for a touchdown and ran for another time trial and a team one. There are two rest on Michal Kwiatkowski as well as Manning threw his 500th touchdown pass Patriots. He completed 23 of 35 passes for 292 score, overcoming four Colts turnovers in a International Cycling Union President Brian in the first quarter, connecting with tight end yards, becoming the sixth quarterback in NFL 20-13 victory over Baltimore. In other games, Cookson. Defending champion Nairo Julius Thomas for a seven-yard score. The five- history to throw for 50,000 yards midway Cleveland rallied from a 25-point first-half Quintana was absent as he recovers at home time NFL Most Valuable Player joined Brett through the first quarter. Quarterbacks were deficit to edge Tennessee 29-28. Pittsburgh in Colombia after his Vuelta crash. Favre as the only other quarterback to throw in a less welcome spotlight in San Diego, beat Jacksonville 17-9, Philadelphia defeated “When I made the decision of course I did- 500 TD passes, and by the end of the contest, where the Chargers romped past the hapless St. Louis 34-28, the New York Giants defeated n’t know the route,” Contador said. “I like this Manning was just five short of matching New York Jets 31-0. Atlanta 30-20, Carolina defeated Chicago 31- course, it’s suited to my characteristics as an Favre’s record of 508. San Diego’s Philip Rivers passed for three 24 and San Francisco got five field goals from aggressive rider. Manning connected with Demaryius touchdowns and was rested late with the Phil Dawson in a 22-17 victory over Kansas “This Giro is very tough, with a lot of game in hand. Meanwhile, the Jets’ Geno City. — AFP climbs, but the factor that makes it different Thomas on a pair of scoring passes, including to the Tour or the Vuelta is the weather, often it can be cold or snowy in Italy at that time of year.” The Giro begins with a team time trial NFL standings ITALY: Polish Michal Kwiatkowski, UCI road from San Lorenzo al Mare to San Remo. It also world champion 2014, rides during the features a long individual race against the American Football Conference National Football Conference 108th edition of theGiro di Lombardia clock on the 14th stage, along a 59-kilometer AFC East NFC East (Tour of Lombardy), a 260 km cycling race (36-mile) route from Treviso to W L T OTL PF PA PCT Philadelphia 4 1 0 0 156 132 .800 from Como to Bergamo. — AFP Valdobbiadene. There are six mountain-top Buffalo 3 2 0 0 96 89 .600 Dallas 4 1 0 0 135 103 .800 finishes, with the first - the Abetone - coming New England 3 2 0 0 123 107 .600 NY Giants 3 2 0 0 133 111 .600 days and relatively short transfer distances, on stage five. However, the most daunting Miami 2 2 0 0 96 97 .500 Washington 1 4 0 0 112 136 .200 which organizers hope will convince many of tests come in the final week with finishes up NY Jets 1 4 0 0 79 127 .200 NFC North the big-name Grand Tour contenders to join Madonna di Campiglio, Aprica, Cervinia, and AFC North Detroit 3 2 0 0 99 79 .600 Alberto Contador in riding both the Giro and Sestriere. Cincinnati 3 1 0 0 97 76 .750 Green Bay 3 2 0 0 134 106 .600 Tour in 2015. The Aprica, at the end of stage 16, has Baltimore 3 2 0 0 116 80 .600 Minnesota 2 3 0 0 101 126 .400 “Looking at the recovery time, I think it’s maximum gradients of 15 percent and comes Pittsburgh 3 2 0 0 114 108 .600 Chicago 2 3 0 1 116 131 .400 possible to do the double,” race director just after the cyclists have scaled gradients of Cleveland 2 2 0 0 103 105 .500 Mauro Vegni said. “It’s a hard Giro but it’s a up to 18 percent on the Mortirolo climb. NFC South AFC South Carolina 3 2 0 0 104 120 .600 very balanced one. The climbs are spread out The penultimate stage up to Sestriere con- Indianapolis 3 2 0 0 156 108 .600 Atlanta 2 3 0 0 151 143 .400 and there are very few transfers. It’s the low- tains the highest peak of the Giro - the Colle Houston 3 2 0 1 104 87 .600 New Orleans 2 3 0 1 132 141 .400 est amount of transfers we’ve had in 20 years, delle Finestre - and is likely to decide the win- Tennessee 1 4 0 0 88 139 .200 down to 800 kilometers or so. ner, with the final 185K (114.96-mile) leg from Jacksonville 0 5 0 0 67 169 0 Tampa Bay 1 4 0 1 103 156 .200 “The ideal would be to race both the Giro Torino to Milan set to be mainly an extended AFC West NFC West and the Tour as similar to a two-legged foot- victory parade. As well as a lengthy time trial, San Diego 4 1 0 0 133 63 .800 Arizona 3 1 0 0 86 86 .750 ball match and then the Vuelta as a one-off.” there are three days which stretch to more Denver 3 1 0 1 116 87 .750 Seattle 3 1 0 0 110 83 .750 Contador announced last month that he than 200K (124 miles), with the seventh stage Kansas City 2 3 0 0 119 101 .400 San Francisco 3 2 0 0 110 106 .600 would compete in both the Giro and the Tour from Grosseto to Fiuggi topping out at 263K Oakland 0 4 0 0 51 103 0 St. Louis 1 3 0 0 84 119 .250 next year. (163.4 miles). —Reuters WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2014 SPORTS Time to look ahead, not behind Wilson wins Alfred

NAPA: A new PGA Tour season starts tomoor- rookie (Victor Dubuisson) as his partner and sit- Dunhill Championship row, and it’s about time. The last thing American ting two sessions. They combined to go 5-0-1. ST ANDREWS: Oliver Wilson held his nerve down the golf needs right now is another idle week to That’s what should be remembered about this stretch to win his first career EPGA title as the world num- rehash a Ryder Cup loss that is getting over- Ryder Cup. ber 792 upset the field at the Alfred Dunhill Links cooked by the minute. It’s probably good that The US press conference won’t be forgotten, Phil Mickelson is not expected to play again which is why Mickelson said what he did and Championship. until we know which two teams are going to the when he did. Lefty spoke of a “winning formula” The 34-year-old Englishman, a losing player on the 2008 Super Bowl. To spend a week or more looking from which the Americans have strayed, and he European Ryder Cup team, finally tasted victory with a 72- back at the pivotal moments is standard fare for had a point. While his frustration might have hole total of 17-under par at St Andrews, after finishing a great event like the Ryder Cup. been geared toward Watson, the message was runner-up nine times during his topsy-turvy career. What if Justin Rose had not made that 45- for the PGA of America and the unilateral way it His compatriot and playing partner Tommy Fleetwood foot putt in Sunday singles at Medinah, or if Ian goes about the business of picking a captain had a chance to send the tournament to a play-off but Poulter had missed any one of his last five birdie and running the Ryder Cup. missed a 10ft putt for birdie on 18 to hand the emotional putts Saturday afternoon? If only Stewart Cink Thanks to Mickelson, change is inevitable for Wilson victory. World number one Rory McIlroy and had made either one of those short birdie putts Team USA, and that’s a good thing. But does Scotland’s Richie Ramsey also finished one shot back along over the last four holes at Celtic Manor. And that guarantee a change in the outcome? No. To with Fleetwood on 16-under. Scotland’s Chris Doak was don’t think Europeans haven’t seen enough of suggest the Americans will look back at alone in fifth a further stroke back, after a six under 66. “I Justin Leonard and that putt heard ‘round the Gleneagles as the turning point 10 years from don’t have words for it, this has been 10 or 11 years com- world at Brookline. now is dismissive of the opponent. Even if the ing,” said a tearful Wilson after his win. “Nine-times runner- But that hasn’t been the case this year. When America has the ideal captain, Europe still has up, nothing had gone my way but I must thank the organ- it comes to a Ryder Cup review, no one is talking McIlroy, Rose, Poulter, McDowell, Sergio Garcia, isers because they offered me an invite to play this week about the golf. For the Americans, it seems as Martin Kaymer. It still has the cup. And it’s no and I’m very grateful. though the Ryder Cup only got started after it accident. “I’ve never been able to win a tournament but I tried to was over. The Europeans once had a heavy-handed be patient today (Sunday) and Rory (McIlroy) was in front One story says US captain Tom Watson captain in Seve Ballesteros, and they managed. scoffed at his gift from the players - a replica of It’s still down to the players, and the Americans so I was keeping an eye on him and Tommy (Fleetwood) the Ryder Cup they signed. Another story said as a whole didn’t perform as well. Their top three who played very well today. “So many people had written Watson wasn’t dismissive of the gift, rather he qualifiers - Bubba Watson, Rickie Fowler and Jim me off which obviously hurt me but a lot of others tried to motivate his players by telling them he Furyk - combined to go 1-8-3. believed in me and they know who they are. Thanks to all wanted the real thing. More than its players, what makes Europe so of them. “Every day my confidence grew and I have good Watson was not the Great Communicator. On formidable is the culture of winning it has culti- memories here at St Andrews (finished second in 2009 that point everyone can agree. But to prattle on vated for nearly 30 years. Everyone is involved. behind Simon Dyson).” about Watson’s stubborn leadership style - did That much was clear when McGinley was leav- Wilson, who splits his time between his native Mansfield that catch anyone by surprise? - or the pairings ing the press room at St. Andrews, and Ken in England and Augusta, Georgia, came into the final round he never seemed to get right is to overlook the Brown - a player on four teams, vice captain on with a three-shot lead but saw that evaporate over the obvious. The better team won. another, now a TV analyst - approached to con- front nine when South African Louis Oosthuizen birdied The Europeans were favored to win, were gratulate him. four of his first six holes. they not? They had Rory McIlroy with his two A handshake quickly turned into a hug. McIlroy got off to the worst possible start when he dou- majors and No. 1 ranking. When the teams were “You’re a part of this,” McGinley told him. Europe ble bogeyed the opening hole after missing the green but set, they had four of the top five players in the celebrates. America contemplates. And it’s time bounced back with four straight birdies to claw himself world. And they were playing at home. to move on. Does golf even matter this time of back into contention. They also had captain Paul McGinley, who the year? It sure did to the six players who won Chasing his fifth win of the season, the world number blended supreme confidence with an extraordi- tournaments in the fall start to the wraparound one, was tied for the lead down the stretch but bogeyed nary eye for detail. Most telling about McGinley season. All six began the FedEx Cup playoffs in the difficult 17th when he rolled his putt from off the green was when he was asked last week the one thing the top 20, and all but one (Harris English) quali- into a pot bunker. he feared when he was appointed captain. fied for the Tour Championship. The Frys.com “Honestly, I didn’t have a fear. I had a real clear Open was supposed to have Rory McIlroy and Playing alongside his father Gerry, who was celebrating idea of what I wanted to achieve.” Did he win the Tiger Woods until one asked for time off from a his 55th birthday and playing the pro-am with his son, Ryder Cup for Europe? hectic summer of winning back-to-back majors, McIlroy birdied the 18th to get within one but just came up McGinley certainly helped. The players took and the other was forced into time off because of short. “If I look back, I probably lost it on those two holes, it from there. Rose was unbeaten. McIlroy played injury. McIlroy and Woods are expected to be at SCOTLAND: Dunhill Links Championship at St Andrews Old Course, In St Andrews, the first and the 17th but it was fantastic to play with my his best golf Sunday. Graeme McDowell the Frys.com Open next year. Think anyone will Scotland. Oliver Wilson held off Rory McIlroy to capture his first European Tour title dad and for him to play St Andrews on his birthday was unselfishly accepted the role of taking on a be grousing about the schedule then? — AP with a one-shot victory in the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship. — AP very special,” said McIlroy. —AFP Leisure golfers from 18 countries tee-off at the Sri Lankan Golf Classic

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COLOMBO: Considering Sri Lankan Airlines’ representing India, Asia Pacific and South overlooking the picturesque Victoria England, Spain, Australia, Japan and Saudi courses according to the Golf Digest consistent overseas promotional drive to pro- East Asia will be closely following the action Reservoir. The tournament will be played on Arabia and our own players in Sri Lanka. Magazine, and the best in South Asia accord- mote leisure golf combined with family holi- on the green for four days. two consecutive days by each player and Spread across 520 acres, Victoria was the ing to the Asia Golf Monthly. days, over 100 amateur golfers from 18 The international line-up of keen, consis- points will be allocated for a player’s Gross first course to be built in Sri Lanka in over a Apart from the Golf Tournament Package nations across the globe will fly into Sri tent golfers will be joined by over 100 Sri and Nett Stableford scores over their two century. Nestled amidst the scenic hills of which is on offer to the players, several excur- Lanka, to take part in the 15th Sri Lankan Lankan golfers which will increase the total rounds. Digana, near the ancient city of Kandy, the sions and tours to places such as Nuwara Airlines’ Golf Classic at the stunning Victoria number of participants to around 200 play- The Sri Lankan Golf Classic has attracted 18-hole course was designed by world Eliya, Pinnawala, Kandy, Sigiriya, Dambulla, Golf and Country Resort course in Digana, ers, creating a great challenge and an oppor- golfers from Abu Dhabi, Dubai, India, famous golf course architects, Donald Steel Kitulgala, Horton Plains, Minneriya and Uda Kandy, from September 24th- 28th 2014. A tunity to enjoy two consecutive days of Malaysia, Kuwait, Canada, USA, Singapore, and Martin Ebert. Since then, it has been Walawe are also available for accompanying contingent of local and international media leisure golf on the par 73, 18-hole course Thailand, China, Pakistan, Hong Kong, Italy, among the world’s 100 most beautiful golf families and friends on holiday.

Overall winner men’s gross score - Amith De Soysa of Sri Overall winner Ladies gross score - Qin Ami of Pakistan Lanka receives his award from Nishantha Wickremasinghe, receiving her award from Nishantha Wickremasinghe, Chairman SriLankan Airlines. SriLankan Airlines Chairman Nishantha Wickramasinghe Chairman SriLankan Airlines.

SriLankan Airlines Chairman Nishantha Wickramasinghe with winners. A golfer hits the ball. —Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2014 SPORTS NHL League set for Photo of the day smooth start to 2014-15 season

TORONTO: With the NBA trying to recover the NHL’s longest active championship from the Donald Sterling fiasco and the NFL drought. The Maple Leafs, who are the only reeling from a string of domestic violence NHL franchise valued at $1 billion by Forbes, cases, the National Hockey League opens a have been a massive success everywhere but new season today free of controversy. With a on the ice having made the playoffs once in $5.2 billion Canadian television-rights deal the last nine years. and guaranteed labour peace through the While Leafs supporters have suffered, fans 2021-22 season, it seems as if NHL of the Blackhawks and Los Angeles Kings Commissioner Gary Bettman is looking for- have celebrated with thwe two teams having ward to the 2014-15 campaign with a smile. captured four of the last five Stanley Cups. “The game on the ice has never been No franchise has successfully defended more exciting, more entertaining, more com- the Cup since the Detroit Red Wings won petitive,” Bettman told the Canadian Club of back-to-back titles in 1997 and 1998 and the Toronto last month. “We’re coming off our Kings will have an opportunity to establish best season ever and we think this year is themselves a true hockey dynasty if they can going to be even better. skate away with the trophy for a third time in “The fact is this is the most stable our fran- four seasons. The Blackhawks, led by captain chises have ever been, the healthiest we have Jonathan Toews and the Kings, anchored by been ... we’re feeling good about where we defenceman Drew Doughty, start the season are, we’re feeling good about the future.” as the teams to beats in a Western With the 2018 Olympics nearly four years Conference packed with contenders. away the debate on whether to send NHL The Boston Bruins, the only team other players has been pushed to the back burner than Chicago or Los Angeles to lift the Cup along with any threat of a labor dispute as since 2010, again look the class of the East players and owners agreed to a 10-year col- but will have to fill the void left by Jarome lective bargaining agreement in 2013. The Iginla, who tied for the team lead in goals Carlos Sainz performs during the Peugeot 2008 DKR test in Chateau de Lastours, Portel des Corbieres, France. — www.redbull.com NHL will stage two outdoor contests, four less with 30 last season but has signed with than last season, starting with the Winter Colorado. Pittsburgh Penguins forward Classic on New Year’s Day between Sidney Crosby and Capitals sniper Alex Washington Capitals and visiting Chicago Ovechkin remain the NHL’s marquee names Aussies thump faltering Blackhawks. In late February, the San Jose piling up individual honours but the two cap- Sharks play the Los Angeles Kings at the tains have had not had the same success home of the NFL’s San Francisco 49ers. leading their teams to championships. Certainly the NHL’s problems have not all Ovechkin, a three-time league most valu- suddenly vanished in a blur of billion-dollar able players, has yet to have his name Pakistan in Twenty20 rights deals, record revenues and soaring engraved on the Stanley Cup while Crosby, attendance. the reigning league MVP, hoisted his only DUBAI: Australia put on a clinical performance There is still the troubling issue of concus- Cup in 2009. Now 27-years-old and about to to beat Pakistan by six wickets in the one-off sions and threat of a costly lawsuit as well as enter his 10th NHL season, Crosby, who led Twenty20 international in Dubai on Sunday. the debate over fighting which is sure to the league in scoring last season, is no Off-spinner Glenn Maxwell took a career best resurface the next time a player is left blood- longer ‘Sid the Kid’ and, like Ovechkin, is a (3-13) and debutant Cameron Boyce (2-10) con- ied and unconscious on the ice. The Canadian player in his prime under pressure to deliver demned Pakistan to their fifth lowest Twenty20 dollar has taken a pounding in recent months a championship. Detroit have made it the international total of 96-9 in 20 overs. and the NHL will surely keep a close watch playoffs for 23 consecutive years and there is Australia knocked off the target for the loss since the seven teams in the game’s spiritual no reason that run should end this season of four wickets in 14 overs with opener David home and financial engine earn revenue in with Mike Babcock, who piloted Canada to Warner hitting a robust 39-ball 53 not out with Canadian dollars but pay players in U.S. cur- gold medals at the 2010 and 2014 Olympics, four fours and three sixes. rency. The big concern for hockey-mad behind the bench. With an Olympic gold Warner reverse-swept Sohaib Maqsood for a Canadians, however, is not how well their cur- medal winning netminder in Carey Price, big six to complete the only half-century of the rency is performing but how well their teams one of the top defenceman in P.K. Subban match in a low-scoring game, much to the dis- will play since no Canadian team has cap- and a crop of solid forwards, the Montreal appointment of a packed Eid holiday crowd. tured the Stanley Cup since 1993. Canadiens remain the best bet to end Pakistan did make some inroads while defend- Nowhere are expectations higher than in Canada’s Cup drought while the New York ing their low total, with left-arm spinner Raza Toronto where the Maple Leafs, who have not Rangers could make to the finals for a sec- Hasan (2-17) dismissing skipper Aaron Finch won a Stanley Cup since 1967, will try toend ond consecutive year. — Reuters

SCOREBOARD

DUBAI: Scoreboard of the one-off Twenty20 international between Pakistan and Australia played at Dubai stadium on Sunday:

Pakistan Ahmed Shahzad c Finch b Boyce 10 Awais Zia c Richardson b Maxwell 3 Umar Amin st Haddin b Maxwell 0 Sohaib Maqsood b Maxwell 0 Saad Nasim b Starc 25 Umar Akmal c Warner b Richardson 1 Shahid Afridi lbw b Abbott 2 Anwar Ali c Richardson b Boyce 5 Wahab Riaz c Starc b Faulkner 16 Raza Hasan not out 13 Mohammad Irfan not out 1 Extras: (lb7, w13) 20 Total (for nine wkts, 20 overs) 96 Fall of wickets: 1-13 (Zia), 2-13 (Amin), 3-23 (Maqsood), 4-33 (Shahzad), 5-36 (Akmal), 6- GLENDALE: Justin Hodgeman No. 52 of the Arizona Coyotes skates with the puck 46 (Afridi), 7-57 (Ali), 8-71 (Nasim), 9-86 (Riaz) ahead of Logan Couture No. 39 of the San Jose Sharks during the first period of the Bowling: Maxwell 3-0-13-3 (6w), Starc 4-0-17- preseason NHL game at Gila River Arena. — AFP 1 (5w), Boyce 4-0-10-2, Richardson 3-0-13-1, Abbott 3-0-17-1 (2w), Smith 1-0-4-0, Faulkner 2-0-15-1. Bangladesh urged to send SHARJAH: Australian bowler James Faulkner bowls during their first One Day International Australia cricket match in Sharjah. — AFP ‘any’ team to Pakistan D. Warner not out 53 (five) and Steve Smith (three) in an incisive four- Awais Zia (three), Umar Amin (nought) and A. Finch c Irfan b Hasan 5 over spell but that was not enough. Maxwell hit Sohaib Maqsood (nought) to leave Pakistan DHAKA: Pakistan’s cricket chief has urged cooperative relations... on the cricket front” G. Maxwell lbw b Afridi 17 three boundaries in his 17 before he fell to reeling at 23-3. Leg-spinner Boyce, one of four Bangladesh to send ‘any’ team to his country as which soured in early 2013 when Bangladesh S. Smith c Riaz b Hasan 3 Shahid Afridi but Warner and James Faulkner debutants for Australia, chipped in with the they seek to bring back international matches shelved a planned tour on safety grounds. P. Hughes c Maqsood b Riaz 6 (seven not out) saw Australia home. wickets of Ahmed Shahzad (ten) and Anwar Ali following the deadly attack on Sri Lanka’s team Pakistan responded by banning their own J. Faulkner not out 7 Pakistan were missing key spinners Saeed (five). It was left to Nasim to take Pakistan past bus in 2009. cricketers from playing in Twenty20 Bangladesh Extras: (lb4, w1, nb1) 6 Ajmal (suspended for an illegal bowling action) their lowest Twenty20 total of 74 — against Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Shahryar Premier League tournament. Total: (for four wkts; 14 overs) 97 and Mohammad Hafeez (injury) but they failed Australia at the same venue last year-with an Khan arrived in Bangladesh on Monday and “If your national team cannot come to Fall of wickets: 1-11 (Finch), 2-38 (Maxwell), declared that it was now much safer in his coun- Pakistan for security reasons-even though I yet again in their batting. enterprising knock. 3-42 (Smith), 4-56 (Hughes) Only debutant Saad Nasim (25), tail-enders Riaz and Hasan helped Pakistan add 25 runs try than five years ago. “We understand that would ask them to send a team to examine how Bowling: Hasan 4-0-17-2, Irfan 2-0-20-0, security situation is a hurdle in the way of your things are-I want to start cricket between two Wahab Riaz (16) and Raza Hasan (13 not out) for the last two wickets. The two teams now Afridi 4-0-17-1 (1w), Riaz 2-0-15-1, Nasim 1-0- came good in an innings which only had four play three one-day internationals with the first national team, or any other team, visiting countries,” Khan said. 12-0, Maqsood 1-0-12-0 (1nb) Pakistan,” Khan told reporters late on Monday. He added that they would welcome ‘any’ boundaries and no sixes. match in Sharjah late yesterday. The other two “But let me say that the security situation is team from Bangladesh even “at the level of A Pakistan won the toss and decided to bat on matches are in Dubai (October 10) and Abu Result: Australia won by six wickets. much, much better,” he added. Pakistan have not teams, U19s. Send your schoolboys to us, and of a spin-friendly pitch. Maxwell removed opener Dhabi (October 12). — AFP hosted an international cricket match since gun- course your women. We want to start at every men attacked the Sri Lankan team bus in Lahore level with Bangladesh. “They will get a very in March 2009, leaving eight people dead and warm welcome. This is what I have come for, to wounding seven Sri Lankan players and an assis- revive and revitalise our relationship,” Khan said. Cricketers fight for foothold tant coach. Pakistan’s “home” matches have “My expectation is that we will sit down and since been played in venues ranging from the work out something in the future, which will United Arab Emirates to England. Khan said he start up the relationship at whatever level is con- in baseball-mad Cuba was undertaking the visit “to renew cordial and venient to Bangladesh.” — AFP

HAVANA: The ball bounced off the pavement and youths playing pickup games in San Miguel del to Cuba. “They kept some of their diet, they kept Yordeni Caballero swung, whacking it with a soft Padron on the outskirts of Havana. “It’s a game that some of their religious heritage, and cricket is part thud and hurling his bat to the side as if he’d hit a forces you to think, to organize, to do things delib- of it as well.” Cricket is most deeply rooted in the homerun. As the 7-year-old raced down a street- erately. At the same time there’s respect and unity eastern province of Guantanamo, home to many of turned-cricket pitch, his coach shouted instructions among the players,” said Aguiar, a 35-year-old Cuba’s immigrant-founded communities, where about a sport that’s barely known in Cuba. unemployed maintenance worker. “There’s not a cricket is frequently taught to children in after- The Caribbean is divided between baseball-play- single cricket pitch in Cuba, so we play where they school athletics programs despite the lack of stan- ing countries with US ties and cricket-playing let us, on a soccer field, a baseball field, a running dard equipment. “If we don’t have a bat, we make it islands that once belonged to the British Empire. track.” Cuba has organized cricket in six of its 16 from a stick. If there’s no ball, we make it from rags,” Nowhere is more baseball-crazy than Cuba, but provinces, with 1,150 registered players throughout said Eliecer Brooks, the descendant of Jamaican even here, a tiny but passionate group of men is try- the country of 11 million, said Barbara Delarra, an immigrants who plays for Guatanamo’s cricket ing to win people over to cricket, baseball’s slower- official with Cuba’s National Sports Institute. team. “We’ve wanted to maintain this tradition paced, more courtly British relative. “Youngsters like it because it’s similar to base- because it’s beautiful to remember one’s roots.” Mostly descendants of sugar-cane workers who ball, with pitching, batting and fielding. It’s a new Without a national tournament, Cuba has migrated from other islands in the early 20th centu- sport and appealing to youngsters frustrated with amateur tournaments like one played on a ry, Cuba’s cricket partisans subsist on homemade baseball,” she said. Havana soccer field last month between three and donated equipment from the embassies of Cricket is also part of the cultural identity of Cuban teams and three teams of students from cricket-playing countries. They recruit players from Caribbean migrant communities in Cuba, the cricket-playing countries like Pakistan and Sri the streets and teach them rules of the new sport, descendants of some 250,000 workers from Lanka. Adithya Senavirath, a Sri Lankan studying while exploiting baseball-honed skills such as bat- Jamaica, Dominica and other British colonies who at the Latin American School of Medicine, where ting and running bases. The offspring of immigrants moved to sugar towns in eastern Cuba where they foreigners receive free medical education, said he LAHORE: Pakistani policemen gather on March 3, 2009, beside the wreckage of a from the island of Martinique, Kiomai Aguiar said he attended Protestant churches, ate spicier food and enjoyed playing against Cubans instead of the police van after masked gunmen attacked the visiting Sri Lankan cricket team in played baseball and basketball as a child, then played cricket. “They kept a lot of their identity,” said fellow foreign students he usually faced in crick- Lahore. Pakistan’scricket chief has urged Bangladesh to send ‘any’ team to his coun- switched to cricket at 16, falling in love with its Jorge Giovannetti, chair of the Department of et. “The Cubans have skills, they’re good bowlers,” try as they seek to bring back international matches following the deadly attack on leisurely pace and courtly interactions between Sociology and Anthropology at the University of he said. “They lacking some technique, but they Sri Lanka’s team bus in 2009. — AP players. He now coaches Caballero and other Puerto Rico and an expert on Caribbean migration learn fast.” — AP WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2014 SPORTS Referee to be rested as Juve v Roma scandal grips Italy

MILAN: The referee at the centre of Juventus’s con- conscience is clear.” Yet two days after the Monday’s Corriere dello Sport’s front page headline the players had “scrubbed out” the vanishing spray troversial 3-2 win over title challengers Roma is set encounter, opinion over the supposed influence of blasted: “Distorted Championship.” used by referees to mark the distance between the to be sidelined until November as the fall-out from Juventus-who were stripped of two league titles But Juventus’ general manager Beppe Marotta, ball and the defensive wall. Sunday’s bad-tempered Serie A clash continues to from 2005 and 2006 for their role in the ‘Calciopoli’ speaking on the Processo del Lunedi television Former Serie A referee Paolo Casarin, who also divide Italy. match-fixing affair-remains divided. show, hit back: “This is out of order. How can we talk served as chief of the league’s refereeing body, said: Giancluca Rocchi, considered Italy’s number two In a country traditionally divided along regional about a distorted championship after six match “The biggest mistake made was the penalty deci- referee, was slammed for his handling of the top-of- lines and deep-rooted team loyalties, there was no days, when there are still 32 games to play and 96 sion against Maicon,” Casarin told Radio Anch’io. the-table encounter in Turin which allowed shortage of opinion on Sunday’s events. points available?” The penalty award, converted by Carlos Teves to Juventus to pull three points clear. Italian politician Fabrizio Cicchitto, a member of Roma’s defeat, their first of the season under give Juve a 1-0 lead, only added fuel to an already He is expected to be rested for the remainder of parliament for the New Centre-Right party, claimed French coach Rudi Garcia saw the club’s share price combustible atmosphere. And two further penalty the month to allow the dust to settle, according to little had changed since the dark days of ‘Calciopoli’, drop by two percentage points while those of decisions-one for each side-as well as Leonardo reports in Gazzetta dello Sport on Tuesday, when Juventus’s former general manager Luciano Juventus lost only 0.09% in value. Bonucci’s 86th minute winner for Juventus that although he has been given the backing of the Moggi is said to have used his influence to pick and Rocchi, meanwhile, has seen his reputation take Roma claimed was offside, led to angry clashes Italian referees’ association (AIA). choose sympathetic referees for key games. a battering despite the media now claiming, after which marred the encounter. “The players on the pitch were totally disrespect- “The Juventus of Moggi, of manipulating games two days of intense analysis, that his biggest mis- French coach Garcia, who last week said the ful. This is not something we see in the rest of and referees, has not gone away,” said Cicchitto. take of the night was awarding Juventus’s first game would be a “great advert for Italian football”, Europe, where players accept the referee’s decision. Marco Travaglio, the journalist who coined the penalty in the 26th minute when Roma wingback was sent off in the first half for a violin-playing ges- It’s not acceptable,” the AIA commented. name ‘Lucky Luciano’-a reference to the notorious Maicon used his elbow to defend his face from an ture after the penalty award that was perceived to Rocchi, who awarded three penalties and issued Mafia gangster-to refer to Moggi’s supposed influ- Andrea Pirlo free kick. Although Maicon appeared mean that with Juventus, it is always the same three red cards during the explosive top-of-the- ence, was also critical. to be just outside the penalty area, Rocchi hesitat- music (situation). On Monday, he changed his tune, table clash, said his conscience was clear: “The play- “I’m a Juventus supporter, and I haven’t felt so ed, before appearing to bow to pressure from Juve’s commenting: “On reflection... this game has really ers didn’t help the situation, but all the same my ashamed since the days of Luciano Moggi,” he said. angry players. Explaining his decision, Rocchi said damaged the reputation of Italian football.” — AFP UEFA punishes Italian FA boss over racist remarks

GENEVA: UEFA yesterday banned Italian next congress, scheduled for March 24, 2015. “ The Italian football federation (FIGC) said that Football Federation boss Carlo Tavecchio from Tavecchio will organize a special event in Italy Tavecchio had decided to accept the six month its next congress and ordered him to hold an aimed at increasing awareness and compliance suspension in order to avoid a prolonged dis- anti-racism event in punishment for widely con- with the principles of UEFA’s Resolution entitled pute with UEFA. demned remarks. In a statement, European foot- European Football United Against Racism,” it “With regard to the proceedings initiated by ball’s governing body said that its ethics division added. UEFA against the President of the FIGC for had decided to impose the penalty after wrap- expressions used on July 25 ... Carlo Tavecchio, ping up a probe launched in August. after explaining his position, has taken note of It said that it had taken into account the proposal made by UEFA’s Disciplinary Tavecchio’s decision to refrain from any UEFA- inspector decided to accept in order to avoid related activity pending a resolution of the issue. protracted litigation between UEFA and the At a public meeting in July, during the Italian FIGC,” read a FIGC statement. federation’s election campaign, 71-year-old “President Tavecchio has therefore accepted Tavecchio contrasted what he claimed was the the proposal of UEFA’s Disciplinary Inspector, wrongheaded player-recruitment approach of who asked that Tavecchio refrain from partici- KATWJIK: Netherlands national players Arjen Robben (left) and Robin van Persie run dur- Italian clubs compared to the wisdom of their pating in the UEFA Congress scheduled for ing a training session. Netherlands will face Kazakhstan on October 10 and Iceland on English counterparts. “Here we get ‘Opti Poba’ March 24, 2015 and to also refrain from partici- October 13, 2014 in their upcoming UEFA EURO 2016 qualifying football matches. — AFP who previously ate bananas and then suddenly pating in or be appointed to any UEFA commit- becomes a first-team player at Lazio,” he said. tees for a period of six months.” Terry’s English title The comments, which appeared to be aimed Tavecchio has acknowledged he should not at France and Juventus midfielder Paul Pogba, have made the remark but insists he was only who is black, sparked controversy in Italy with Carlo Tavecchio guilty of a clumsy turn of phrase. He has alo race far from over many commentators condemning what they insisted that he has a clear conscience over the saw as an overtly racist outburst. UEFA said that Tavecchio said that it wouldn’t affect his work episode and dismissed suggestions he was a Tavecchio would be “ineligible for any position with his federation. “You don’t comment on deci- racist. “I adopted three African children, I also LONDON: Chelsea captain John Terry said The experienced Terry said it was essen- as a UEFA Official for a period of six months sions, you follow them and respect them. But run a tomato-growing cooperative there and Tuesday he was delighted by the way they tial to Chelsea’s hopes they made the most starting from the communication of this deci- this doesn’t change anything with respect to my built two hospitals,” he said in August, adding: “I had started their quest to regain the of any stumbles by their title rivals. sion”. In addition, he will not take part in UEFA’s position in the FIGC,” he said. didn’t mean to hurt anybody.” — AFP English title but insisted there was plenty “You’re just hoping when you’re at the of work to be done before the Premier top and have a five-point cushion and League trophy was back at Stamford more on certain teams, a couple of them Bridge. Table-toppers Chelsea are five slip up again and that increases. Ferdinand returns to QPR points clear of second-placed Manchester “If that happens, it’s a lot of points to City, the reigning champions, heading into give up early on. All we can do is keep win- the international break. ning and wait for those teams to slip up.” LONDON: Former England and QPR striker Chelsea have yet to lose in the Premier Terry also said Chelsea were a more for- Les Ferdinand answered his former club’s call League this season, winning six out of sev- midable side this season than last, when yesterday and agreed to become head of en games with their worst result a 1-1 draw they finished four points behind champi- football operations in a bid to help turn away to City. ons City, following the arrival at Stamford around the fortunes of the Premier League’s Sunday saw Chelsea see off London Bridge of Diego Costa. bottom club. rivals Arsenal 2-0 in fine style and, with the The 47-year-old-whose previous coaching club having been crowned champions SHARP COSTA experience was as assistant to Tim Sherwood when leading from the front during man- The Spain striker scored his ninth goal in at Tottenham Hotspur last season-will be ager Jose Mourinho’s first spell in charge, seven Premier League games on Sunday, involved with coaching all the different QPR some observers are already questioning despite Portuguese boss Mourinho insist- teams and act as a go-between on the foot- ing the forward was struggling to train whether the Blues can be caught. balling side between the coaching staff and But with 31 league games remaining, because of a hamstring problem. the board of directors. centre-half Terry was not getting carried Terry, however, played down sugges- away. “Clearly it (the title race) is not over,” tions Costa, signed for �32 million ($53.1 Ferdinand, who scored 80 goals in 163 he said. “Other teams have been in this million, 40.4 million euros) from Atletico appearances for QPR from 1987-95, joins the position. It’s nice to have the lead but when Madrid in pre-season, wasn’t firing on all team with them having lost five of their sev- you’re at the top everyone wants to shoot cylinders. en games so far, although they are just two you down. “I’m not sure where that’s coming from,” points off fourth-bottom Everton. The club “That’s the good thing about the Terry said. “He isn’t showing that in train- said in a statement his task would be to ‘over- Premier League and why everyone loves it. ing. He looks sharp, he looks angry, he see the structure of the footballing side of “Teams are out to get us because we are at looks aggressive. the club, focusing on improving the foot- the top and playing well. “The international “He’s fit and that’s the main thing. Diego balling philosophy at all levels’. break is here and we need to come back has been a nightmare for defenders. He Ferdinand, the cousin of QPR defender and maintain our form after that as well. It’s popped up with another great finish.” Rio, said he did not hesitate when he was very important we do that,” the former Former Arsenal captain Cesc Fabregas, approached over the job. “When the oppor- England international added. whose superb pass set up Costa for his goal tunity to return here in this role came up I Chelsea are chasing a first Premier against the Gunners, has also proved a valu- jumped at the opportunity,” he told League trophy since 2010 — the only time able addition to Chelsea’s squad and an qpr.co.uk. they have been crowned champions of impressed Terry said: “When it’s quiet and “There’s nothing I want more than for QPR England since double title-winner tight like that you need someone to open to be successful in the short, medium and Les Ferdinand Mourinho’s first spell in west London ended up the defence. “He’s not only shown it long term and I’m excited about the chal- against Arsenal but from day one.” — AFP in September 2007. lenge ahead.” bosses to be sacked next, said Ferdinand’s with the club, someone who understands Manager Harry Redknapp, who is the ties to the club made him an invaluable the history of it, can only be good for QPR,” Spaniard aspiring to make bookmakers’ favorite among Premier League asset. “Having someone like him involved Redknapp said. — AFP Qatar competitive in 2022 Jokanovic to coach Watford PARIS: Formerly responsible for strategic level,” he said. “At that time they needed help planning at Real Madrid, Spaniard Ivan Bravo and I was at Real Madrid. It seemed like a is now charged with the task of building a good, exciting project to me, in a country LONDON: Watford appointed their fourth man- they can to support the new coach and his Forest. The 46-year-old Jokanovic played 64 Qatar side capable of competing at the 2022 hopeful of achieving something in sport. ager in six weeks yesterday when Serbian Slavisa squad.” Watford are third in the Championship times for his country as a defensive midfielder World Cup on home soil. Jokanovic replaced Billy McKinlay, only eight (second tier) on goal difference with 21 points and spent two years at Chelsea from 2000-02. He Bravo is now the Director General of the ‘A MATTER OF TIME’ days-and two unbeaten games-after the Scot from 11 matches, the same total as leaders previously managed Partizan Belgrade, Levski Aspire Academy in Qatar, the national acade- “We want the boys that we are rearing to had been put in charge. McKinlay was given the Norwich City and second-placed Nottingham Sofia and Spanish club Hercules. — Reuters my of sport which, he says, is attempting to fulfil their potential. When the World Cup job following the resignation of Giuseppe “give sporting success” to the tiny Gulf state. comes around, hopefully the team will be Sannino after five games and Oscar Garcia’s deci- Qatar, with a population of just over two competitive. Since 2010, when Qatar was sion to stand down for health reasons at the end million, has never won an Olympic gold named as host nation, we have looked to of September. medal and has never competed at a World 2022 as a target. Sannino joined Watford last December but Cup, although the awarding of the 2022 finals “I am sure that we will come into Qatar despite the team winning four of their first five to the oil rich country means that will soon 2022 with a very competitive team. We will league games of the season, he resigned on Aug. change. And Aspire is now focusing on work with that hope and there is plenty of 31 amid reports of dressing room unrest. preparing players from Qatar capable of com- support within the country. He was replaced by Garcia, who stepped peting in the World Cup on home soil, for all “Everyone wants the same thing and down on Sept. 29 after being admitted to hospi- the ongoing controversy about FIFA’s award- when everyone pulls in the same direction tal with chest pains. McKinlay, who left his job as ing of the tournament in the first place. and works with hope, dedication and knowl- Northern Ireland’s assistant manager, took over Speaking to AFP in Paris, where he was edge, it is only a matter of time before results and in his eight days in charge at Vicarage Road, attending a conference organised by Aspire, come.” Bravo did not reveal the extent of the Watford beat Brentford 2-1 and drew 1-1 with Bravo insisted that building towards the budget he is working with, but he admitted Brighton on Saturday. Watford owner Giampaolo World Cup was not initially a key goal of the that he would one day like to see a Qatari Pozzo, who also owns Udinese in Italy and academy but has turned into one since his player turning out for a leading European Granada in Spain, said the move to replace arrival. club. “I hope it happens soon, but that would McKinley so quickly was in the “long-term inter- “Aspire was born in 2004 and was the need to be more the result of what we are ests” of the club. vision, the dream, of the royal family of Qatar, doing than the objective,” he said. Bravo also “There can be no compromise on this-whatev- who wanted a place where youngsters would refused to become embroiled in the debate er the circumstances,” the BBC reported him say- have all they needed to be successful in sport. about the awarding of the World Cup to Qatar ing. “I fully support and endorse the view from And also to form them as people,” he said. and the controversy as to whether the finals our technical staff that, given the talented squad Bravo arrived at Aspire three years ago, should be played in the northern hemisphere which has been assembled and our position in just months after Qatar was chosen so con- summer or winter. “That is not a topic for us. It the league, an experienced head coach with a troversially by FIFA, in December 2010, to is for the organisers of the World Cup, for FIFA. winning pedigree is of primary importance to stage the 2022 World Cup. We get on with our job, which is to bring help ensure the success we are all striving for. “I arrived at the start of 2011, because through young players and form a team. That “The supporters of Watford have always been PARIS: French head coach Didier Deschamps (center) gives instructions to his players during a Qatar had been given the World Cup and is our mission. We don’t offer an opinion on very understanding towards our project here and training session in Clairefontaine-en-Yvelines ahead of a friendly football match between wanted to compete at a demanding and high anything else,” he added. — AFP I am certain they will continue to do everything France to Portugal to be held on October 11. — AFP WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2014 SPORTS Treve’s Arc win a monumental achievement

PARIS: The buzzword for this year’s running of in the week leading up to the race, was said to be filly had justified her confidence and beaten bred Treve and astonishingly given what has fol- Europe’s most prestigious race, the Prix de l’Arc de ‘upset’ at that bold move, although defeat in the Flintshire by a comfortable two lengths on Sunday. lowed failed to find a buyer for her at the 2011 year- Triomphe was “monumental” and Criquette Head- Vermeille with Jarnet on board appeared to confirm “I would like to thank Sheikh Joaan who placed ling sales even at 22,000 euros. Maarek’s performance in training the winner Treve the impression that injuries had taken their toll. his confidence in me, both for when I said that she “I am on a cloud, on a cloud,” said Head senior, was just that. Jarnet himself was not convinced she could go should run in the Arc whatever happened and now 90. “I trained several Arc winners, but Treve is Last year’s impressive winner was all but written on and become only the sixth horse to win back-to- when I asked him to restore Thierry Jarnet in the the best of the lot. I am overcome with joy for my off after three successive defeats this season espe- back Arcs but there was no stopping Head-Maarek saddle,” she said. Head-Maarek also proved her daughter Criquette.” cially after her last outing, the Prix Vermeille in early and her deep-seated belief there was one more point to Dettori in no uncertain fashion after he had Jarnet, 47 and who joined a rare club of jockeys September where her famed acceleration failed to great performance in Treve. said last weekend that Treve had cracked mentally. to have won four Arc de Triomphes, highlighted materialise. However, Head-Maarek then won two Thus after mounting a robust defence of her She retorted she would never run a horse if she how much Head-Maarek’s belief in the horse had crucial debates with Qatari owner Sheikh Joaan al- defeat in the Vermeille, saying the back injury and felt she had lost interest and she would prove him helped convince him she could win. Thani. First she persuaded him to restore veteran the cyst in her hoof had forced her to lay her off till wrong. To say the Arc is part of the DNA of the Head “I was a little sceptical after the Vermeille as she jockey Thierry Jarnet at the expense of his retained the beginning of August, she convinced the Sheikh family would be an understatement as Head- (Treve) seemed to have tightened up,” he said. jockey, Italian legend Frankie Dettori. his star filly could achieve a feat several other greats Maarek now has three wins to her name, her grand- “However, Criquette said she was a lot better than Jarnet had ridden Treve in the Head colours and had failed to do the following year since Alleged father William Head and father Alec trained two and she had been and she reassured me with those won the 2013 French Oaks before Sheikh Joaan managed it in 1977/78. He acquiesced although four Arc winners respectively, while brother Freddie words. “Only great champions can raise their game bought her ahead of last year’s Vermeille. some owners would have not yielded thinking they won three as a jockey. as Treve did today and in large part she was able to Dettori, who won on her in the 2013 Vermeille knew better than the trainer. But Sheikh Joaan However, this victory moved both her and her because of both Criquette’s belief and her ability to but then missed the Arc because he broke his ankle earned her unstinting praise and gratitude after her father Alec more, not least because the family had restore her to the top of her game.” —AFP Phelps suspended for six months

NEW YORK: American swimmer Michael ing and then crossing the double-lane lines Phelps, the most decorated Olympian of all inside a Baltimore tunnel, police said, adding time, was suspended for six months by USA he was clocked by radar traveling 84 miles per Swimming on Monday following his recent hour (135 kph) in a 45-mph (72-kph) zone. arrest on a drunken driving charge. Phelps, Documents indicate that Phelps registered who recently returned to top-level competi- .14 percent on a Breathalyzer test after being tion after a two-year retirement, will also not pulled over in his 2014 Land Rover. The legal be allowed to represent the United States at limit for intoxication in Maryland is .08. the 2015 FINA World Swimming Phelps apologized for the incident and said Championships in Russia next August, USA on Sunday he was checking himself into rehab Swimming said in a statement. for six weeks in order to “better understand The arrest last Tuesday marked the second myself.” time the 29-year-old Baltimore-area native had He can train with his member club during been arrested for drunken driving, the first his suspension, but is ineligible to participate being in 2004. In the first case, he pleaded in USA Swimming-sanctioned competitions guilty to a lesser charge of driving while through March 6, 2015. Phelps, who has won impaired in exchange for 18 months’ proba- 22 Olympic medals, 18 of them gold, will also tion. forfeit a monthly stipend from USA Swimming “Membership in USA Swimming, and partic- during the six-month suspension. “Michael ularly at the National Team level, includes a accepts USA Swimming’s sanctions,” said a clear obligation to adhere to our Code of spokesman at Octagon, the group that repre- Conduct,” USA Swimming Executive Director sents Phelps. “He has apologized for his actions Chuck Wielgus said in a statement. “Should an and, as he shared yesterday, is taking steps to infraction occur, it is our responsibility to take address them.” appropriate action based on the individual Although he has not indicated a desire to case. Michael’s conduct was serious and compete at the 2016 Olympics, many view required significant consequences.” Phelps’ recent return to the pool as a clear sign Phelps was arrested last week after speed- he wants to stage a comeback. —Reuters Michael Phelps F1 faces new safety scrutiny after crash

LONDON: Twenty years after the death of vived huge accidents, and Max Mosley, for- India. Williams driver Valtteri Bottas joined CHINA: Russia’s David Belyavskiy competes on the horizontal bar during the men’s Ayrton Senna, Formula One awoke Monday mer president of the International Motoring the call for an explanation of why a recovery team final of the Gymnastics World Championships in Nanning. — AFP from a sleepless night in Suzuka to face a Federation (FIA), said the ruling body and vehicle was on circuit in a dangerous place. barrage of questions on Grand Prix safety. race organisers had done all they could and “It’s easy to say afterwards, but it’s worth a China wins men’s team title In the wake of Jules Bianchi’s life-threat- should not be blamed. good look to see if we can learn from it.” NANNING: China gambled on tough routines to petition because the Japanese team has been a ening accident in Sunday’s Japanese Grand Mosley described Bianchi’s crash as a Another question must be asked: why do F1 snatch a record sixth straight world gymnastics very, very strong competitor for quite a long Prix, it was the most intense scrutiny the “freak accident” and told Sky Sports News cars not have cockpits to protect drivers men’s team title yesterday, overtaking arch-rivals time.” Japan won the 2004 Olympic team gold sport has faced since 1994 when Austrian that he “cannot fault any of the people from head injuries? Japan at the last minute in front of a roaring when China finished fifth, but have not tri- Roland Ratzenberger and Brazilian Senna involved.” Senna, the last driver to be killed at a home crowd. umphed at the worlds since 1978, finishing sec- lost their lives on successive days at the San He explained that advancing the race Grand Prix, died from head injuries and since China, who also won the 2008 and 2012 ond behind China in their last three encounters. Marino Grand Prix. start was not a solution because it was then fellow-Brazilian Felipe Massa, Spanish Olympic titles, finished the six-apparatus team No country had ever won the world team The questions were clear: why was a unclear precisely when bad weather would test driver Maria de Villota and on Sunday competition with 273.369 points-just 0.1 points title-male or female-six times in a row. In the motorised safety crane deployed in a dan- arrive. Heavy rain, however, has been a fea- Bianchi have suffered severe head injuries. ahead of Japan at the world championships in Olympics, however, the Soviet women’s team gerous position in torrential rain while the ture of many Japanese races since 1976, Car safety has progressed rapidly and the southern Chinese city of Nanning. The claimed eight straight team titles from 1952 to cars continued racing? Why was the race not when Lauda famously retired after two laps impressively since 1994, enabling many driv- United States came in third with 270.369 points, 1980. Uchimura, aiming ot break his own record with Britain fourth on 269.170. China had trailed of four men’s all-around titles to add to his 2012 red-flagged and halted immediately after and gifted James Hunt the championship, ers to survive unharmed in accidents that Japan by nearly a point going into the final Olympic gold, expressed disappointment. Adrian Sutil’s initial crash at the place where saying “my life is more important than the would previously have been serious or fatal, event, high bar. Japan’s Yusuka Tanaka and four- “When my high bar was over, I thought we had Bianchi also aquaplaned off the circuit? title.” On Sunday, the race promoters chose but open cockpits still mean drivers’ heads time world all-around champion Kohei won,” he said. “I guess we are still not there yet.” And, given the advance forecasts of to ignore calls to change their schedule and remain unprotected. When Senna died, Uchimura had put on clean performances to “When I saw (Zhang’s) final score, I had inde- dreadful weather arriving with Typhoon the race finished in a downpour and near- Michael Schumacher won the Imola race to earn the top and third highest high-bar scores scribable feelings,” the 25-year-old added. “China Phanfone, why was the race schedule not darkness. Many drivers felt an earlier start embark on his record-breaking career and it so far on the day, 15.266 and 15.400 respective- came under pressure in the final high bar but advanced to avoid the storms that made the was the wisest option. was seen as ironic this year that, after 307 ly. China were the last team left to perform. After the three of them all performed with mettle. track so treacherous? “What’s done is done, but they have to Grands Prix, he suffered near-fatal head national champion Deng Shudi and 19-year-old (The) 0.1-point difference owed to that mettle.” The answers were reluctant and unclear, analyse it, look back and if they could have injuries while skiing. As the F1 circus heads to Lin Chaopan finished their routines, China’s gap China’s coach Huang said his team had to Sochi this week for Sunday’s inaugural with Japan was 15.866. choose difficult elements to boost their scores. as drivers, experienced observers and pad- or should have done something then they Zhang Chenglong, the 2010 world high bar “When it comes to the execution score, we are dock pundits avoided placing the blame will know for next time,” said Daniel Russian Grand Prix, Bianchi’s fight for life champion, was the last up and wowed a capaci- not as good as the Japanese gymnasts,” he said. exclusively at the door or the organisers. Ricciardo of Red Bull. “In hindsight, of course should stimulate a new look at the introduc- ty crowd of nearly 4,000 with giant swings and On floor, the first apparatus of the China- Jackie Stewart and Niki Lauda, both it was wrong, but you never know what is tion of cockpits and an overhaul of the safety spectacular releases before pulling off a perfect Japan group, Kenzo Shirai scored 15.766 and three-time champions and men who sur- going to happen,” said Sergio Perez of Force procedures for racing in torrential rain. — AFP landing. Uchimura 15.700, the second and third highest When his score of 15.966 came up on the of the night, to put Japan on the leaderboard. In board, the crowd burst into a roar after a their second event, 25-year-old Deng, a new- stunned silence. “I gave myself a mental hint and comer to the worlds, bungled on his dismount Coe has ‘big problems’ thought about how to deal with this kind of situ- from the pommel horse as China slipped to fifth ation and pressure. I was ready mentally,” said in the standings with a 1.583-point gap with 25-year-old Zhang, a member of China’s Japan. Olympic gold medal team at London 2012. He But China hit the night’s highest team scores added that the team had “decided earlier to use on rings, vault, parallel bars and high bar for the with Gatlin nomination the hardest set of movements for tonight’s com- dramatic turnaround at the last moment. — AFP LONDON: Two-time drugs cheat Justin Gatlin’s nomination for the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) athlete of the year doesn’t sit comfortably with IAAF vice-presi- dent British athletics legend Sebastian Coe, he admitted yes- terday. The nomination of Gatlin, who received a six year ban reduced to four the second time he tested positive in 2006 this time for testosterone, has already caused a furore with Germany’s discus star Robert Harting demanding to have his name withdrawn from the nominees list in protest. Gatlin, the 2004 Olympic 100m gold medallist and double sprint world champion in 2005, belied his 32 years during an incredible season which saw him record the three fastest times this year in the 100 metres, and the fastest times in the 100 metres and 200 metres ever by a man in his 30s. Coe, also chairman of the British Olympic Association (BOA), said he wasn’t happy with the fact Gatlin was competing and agreed with a recent University of Oslo study that the after effects of taking steroids and other performance enhancing drugs can last decades. “The only thing I would say is that he is entitled to be com- peting,” said 58-year-old Coe, who won 1500 metres Olympic gold in 1980 and 1984. “I’m not particularly comfortable about it. I think you’d be pretty surprised if I did sit here and was san- guine about that. “I personally have big problems with that. “I have long since believed that, particularly anabolic steroids, but performance-enhancing, muscle-developing drugs, have a long-term effect. “I don’t wish to be dismissive about the Oslo research but I think anybody in the last 20 years that I’ve known in that world, particularly in sports physiology and biochemistry would tell you that’s certainly the case. “The effect is certainly not transient and we’ve seen that in the performance of ath- letes for some time,” added Coe, who was speaking at the Securing Sport Conference in London. Coe, who masterminded the outstanding hosting of the 2012 Olympic Games, said he is hoping to succeed long-time IAAF president Lamine Diack when the Senegalese steps down next year. “I’ve always been clear, if I’m given the opportunity CHINA: Germany’s Fabian Hambuechen competes on the ring during the men’s team to shape the future of my sport, I will certainly take it. “If there final of the Gymnastics World Championships. — AFP is a presidential election, I will want to stand for that.” — AFP Justin Gatlin NHL League set for Phelps suspended smooth start to for six months 2014-15 season

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SHANGHAI: Andy Murray of Britain returns a shot to Teymuraz Gabashvili of Russia during the Shanghai Masters tennis tournament. — AP Murray wins Shanghai opener

SHANGHAI: Andy Murray’s bid to make the end of season The Briton finally drew the scores level to 5-5 after he said Wang. “I practised with him in Beijing, so I knew a bit Qizhong Tennis Center. ATP World Tour Finals remains on course as he powered forced Gabashvili to drag his shot wide as the pair engaged about him.” “I was in the hospital on Sunday,” said Nadal who begins through his Shanghai Masters opener yesterday, defeating in a tense rally. Elsewhere, 12th seed Ernests Gulbis came up against a his Shanghai campaign against compatriot Feliciano Lopez Russia’s Teymuraz Gabashvili 6-1, 7-5. The 27-year-old Scot Gabashvili’s confidence then evaporated and Murray serving masterclass from his opponent Mikhail Youzhny, today. “Yesterday the nurse came to my room to give me is desperate to book his place in next month’s tournament, took the next game without dropping a point, before who dropped just 10 points on serve to dump out the the treatment again. Today I was at the hospital in the which features the world’s top eight players, and would charging to 40-0 in his opponent’s final service game. He Latvian in two sets. morning again. I had again the antibiotics. It seems like need a deep run in Shanghai to help his cause. then sealed victory on his second match-point. Murray The Russian world number 35 — who had previously everything is under control now. “I’m not going to go for The 11th seed in Shanghai, who is currently ninth in the made the semi-finals at the China Open last week, losing to not won a match on the ATP Tour in three attempts-con- surgery. That’s great news for me today. That’s why I’m here Race for London, took one hour 25 minutes to overcome a dominant Novak Djokovic after beating US Open champi- verted three of his four break points to win 6-4, 6-1. practising for 45 minutes and trying to play tomorrow. But the 29-year-old qualifier in a game in which he got off to a on Marin Cilic convincingly in the quarters. Canada’s Vasek Pospisil squandered a 5-2 lead in a sec- obviously I am not in my best condition. flying start. He is aiming to win his second title in China this year ond set tie-break as his opponent Santiago Giraldo forced a “The positive thing is I am feeling better today than yes- Murray raced to 4-0 ahead without dropping a point in after winning the ATP World Tour 250 Shenzhen Open at decider in their match. But the 44th ranked player fought terday. Yesterday I felt a little bit better than the day before. his first two service games in a remorseless show of deter- the end of last month. back ruthlessly to wrap up a 6-2, 6-7(5/7), 6-1 victory. I hope tomorrow I will feel better than today.” mination. Both players traded serves in the first two games Meanwhile, Fabio Fognini, the 17th ranked player in the Meanwhile, Rafa Nadal will play in this week’s Shanghai Nadal said he would consult his doctors back in Mallorca of the second set, before Gabashvili took a 4-2 lead after world, suffered an embarrassing defeat at the hands of 553- Masters despite being diagnosed with appendicitis which before deciding when to remove his appendix. “I have to Murray hit a routine return into the net. ranked Wang Chuhan of China, who showed great compo- will require a surgery, the world number two said yesterday. talk with my doctors when I get back home. It is true that Murray, a two time winner in Shanghai, fought back two sure under pressure to seal a 7-6(7/5), 6-4 victory. The Spaniard went to hospital on Sunday after com- the doctor here told me that (eventually) I have to take it games later, gaining two break points which were saved as The 22-year-old wildcard saved four of the five break plaining of stomach pains and was given antibiotics which out. Because when you have it once, the normal thing is his opponent played with confidence, sensing an upset points he faced against the Italian 15th seed. “I wanted to seem to have worked as the 28-year-old, after two days of that it is going to come back. Sooner or later I have to take could be on the cards win this match, but I never actually thought I could do it,” resting in his hotel room, had a 45-minute practice at the it out.” — Agencies Australia rout Pakistan DUBAI: Steven Smith scored a maiden one day hun- dred while paceman Mitchell Johnson took three wick- SCOREBOARD ets to help Australia beat Pakistan by 93 runs in the first day-night international yesterday. DUBAI: Scoreboard of the first day-night international between Smith, who had never scored a half-century in one- Pakistan and Australia played at Sharjah stadium yesterday. day games before, managed a sedate 118-ball 101 to Australia guide Australia to a challenging 255-8 before bowlers A. Finch c Shahzad b Irfan 0 D. Warner c Akmal b Afridi 43 exposed Pakistan’s fragile batting to bowl them out for S. Smith Riaz b Afridi 101 162 in 36.3 overs at Sharjah stadium. G. Bailey c Afridi b Alam 18 Johnson (3-24) combined with off-spinners Glenn G. Maxwell c Irfan b Babar 21 Maxwell (2-29) and Nathan Lyon (2-33) bowled with F. Faulkner lbw b Afridi 11 B. Haddin not out 23 venom and guile to derail Pakistan’s chase for Australia’s S. Abbott c Ali b Riaz 3 1-0 lead in the three-match series. Only Umar Akmal 46 M. Johnson b Riaz 21 and Sarfraz Ahmed (34) offered some resistance in a K. Richardson not out 2 poor batting display. Pakistan lost opener Ahmed Extras: (lb3, w9) 12 Total: (for eight wkts; 50 overs) 255 Shahzad early for four but make-shift opener Ahmed Fall of wickets: 1-0 (Finch), 2-86 (Warner), 3- 123 (Bailey), 4-158 and Asad Shafiq (13) put on 50 for the second wicket (Maxwell), 5-196 (Faulkner), 6-216 (Smith), 7-221 (Abbott), 8- before Pakistan lost three wickets for just four runs. 253 (Johnson) Lyon had Sarfraz caught behind off a miscued sweep Bowling: Irfan 10-2-35-1 (1w), Riaz 10-0-61-2 (7w), Babar 9-0- 35-1, Ali 8-0-52-0 (1w), Afridi 10-0-46-3, Alam 3-0-23-1 and the next ball had Pakistan skipper Misbah-ul Haq, playing in his 150th one day international, caught at SHARJAH: Pakistani batsman Fawad Alam (left) prepares to play a shot during their first One Day International cricket match Pakistan leg-slip by a diving David Warner. against Australia yesterday.— AFP Ahmed Shahzad c Smith b Johnson 4 Johnson, who had recovered fully from a rib injury, Sarfraz Ahmed c Haddin b Lyon 34 turn a bit, our spinners were effective, good pace from ond wicket stand with Warner (43) and another 37 with Asad Shafiq c Haddin b Johnson 3 then had Shafiq off a rising delivery to leave Pakistan the quicks, backed up well in the field,” said Bailey. Bailey (18) for the third wicket. Warner fell to Afridi while Misbah-ul Haq c Warner b Lyon 0 reeling at 63-4. Misbah was left rueing another poor batting per- Bailey holed out to part-time spinner Alam. Dashing all- Fawad Alam c Warner b Maxwell 7 Akmal and Fawad Alam (seven) were all at sea formance by his team. “The kind of batting performance rounder Maxwell (21) failed to take advantage of two Umar Akmal b Richardson 46 against some vicious spin from Lyon as runs were hard Shahid Afridi c Faulkner b Abbott 5 we have had, we need to do a lot of things to improve,” dropped catches as he gave away his wicket to debu- Anwar Ali c Haddin b Johnson 8 to come by. As the pressure built up Alam fell to Glenn said Misbah. tant spinner Zulfiqar Babar. Wahab Riaz c and b Maxwell 5 Maxwell while Shahid Afridi made just five before hol- “Nobody is getting scores right from the top. That is a Afridi was the best Pakistani bowler with 3-46, after Zulfiqar Babar not out 12 ing out off Sean Abbott. big worry for us. We need to come to the next game going wicket-less in his last six matches. Smith too Mohammad Irfan run out 12 Allrounder Anwar Ali made just eight before being Extras: (b4, lb5, w7) 16 with a positive attitude.” It was Smith who helped holed out off Afridi in the 45th over, leaving Haddin Total: (all out; 36.3 overs) 162 caught by Brad Haddin off Johnson to cap a good Australia recover from a poor start in an innings stud- (23 not out) and Johnson (21) to add the final touches. Fall of wickets: 1-9 (Shahzad), 2-59 (Ahmed), 3-59 (Misbah), 4- return for the bowler. ded with six boundaries and two sixes. Smith’s previous best of 46 not out came against 63 (Shafiq), 5-90 (Alam), 6-102 (Afridi), 7-125 (Ali), 8-137 (Riaz), Australian captain George Bailey praised Smith and Smith walked in as early as the second ball of the England at Adelaide in 2011. The second match will be 9-137 (Amal) Johnson. “I think we were 15-20 runs short with the bat Bowling: Johnson 7-1-24-3 (3w), Richardson 6.3-1-22-1 (2w), match when opener Aaron Finch’s casual shot off lanky in Dubai on Friday followed by the thid in Abu Dhabi Faulkner 2-0-20-0 (1w), Abbott 5-0-25-1, Lyon 10-2-33-2, but Smith did very well and then there was an out- paceman Mohammad Irfan saw him caught at point. on October 12. The one-days will be followed by two Maxwell 6-1-29-2 (1w) standing effort with the ball,” said Bailey. “It started to Smith consolidated the innings with an 86-run sec- Tests. — AFP Lack of IPR protections deters entrepreneurs in Kuwait

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LUXOR: Tourists look out at the ruins of the Karnak Temple in Luxor, Egypt yesterday. Foreign tourism, a major part of Egypt’s economy, has been hurt during years of turmoil following the 2011 revolt that saw autocrat Hosni Mubarak step down. —AP IMF cuts Arab growth forecast GCC to remain strong, but Kuwait growth outlook lowered

DUBAI: The International Monetary Fund to grow by a whopping 5.9 percent. And oil- Weak growth outside Gulf slightly off from the 2.3 percent April fore- has lowered its economic growth forecasts dependent Iraq is seen growing only 1.5 Among the non-GCC oil exporters, and cast. UAE business activity for most Arab countries over unrest in the percent next year, compared with 6.7 per- excluding Iran, growth is forecast to average region but said growth would remain gen- cent projected in the April report. only 0.25 percent in 2014 given recent polit- Oil importers stutter growth falls: Survey erally strong in the oil-rich Gulf states. In its For oil exporters as a whole-the Gulf ical shocks and deteriorating security. It is The growth outlook for oil-importers has DUBAI: Business activity growth in the United Arab semi-annual World Economic Outlook states, as well as Algeria, Iraq, non-Arab Iran, projected to recover to 3.0 percent in 2015, also been lowered slightly from April. Emirates’ non-oil private sector fell to a four-month low released yesterday, the IMF said the Middle Libya and Yemen-the IMF lowered 2014 assuming a rebound in oil production in “Economic activity in the oil importers is in September as gains in new orders slowed despite East and North African (MENA) region growth forecast to 2.5 percent from 3.4 per- Iraq, Libya and Yemen. projected to improve only gradually as they increasing output, a survey showed yesterday. would grow by 2.6 percent this year, com- cent. “These assumptions are, however, sub- continue to deal with difficult sociopolitical The HSBC UAE Purchasing Managers’ Index, which pared with 3.2 percent forecast in April. And And the outlook for 2015 was cut to 3.9 ject to significant uncertainty,” the IMF said. transitions, subdued confidence and set- measures the performance of the manufacturing and even though the figure for next year is seen percent from 4.6 percent. A key priority for most of the oil exporters is backs from regional conflicts,” IMF said. services sectors, dropped to 57.6 points in September as higher, it was cut from 4.5 percent to 3.8 to shore up weakening fiscal balances, the Economies of the so-called Arab Spring from a record high of 58.4 points in August. The adjust- percent. “With increased strife in some GCC growth IMF said. The overall fiscal balance is project- countries, mainly Egypt and Tunisia, will ed index remains well above the 50-point mark which countries in the region, the projected pick- The IMF said growth in the six-nation ed to decline from 2.0 percent of gross continue to be negatively affected by insta- separates growth from contraction, the survey of 400 up in growth in 2014... is now projected to Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states is domestic product in 2014 to 1.0 percent in bility, the IMF said. After growing 2.1 percent private sector firms showed. be weaker relative” to the April forecast, the projected to remain strong at an average 4.5 2015. Fiscal surpluses are too low in most in 2013, Egypt’s economy is expected to “Numbers continue to indicate we are in a good IMF said. percent in 2014 and 2015. The IMF GCC countries to enable them to save an expand by 2.2 percent in 2014, slightly low- stage in the economic cycle. Output continues to grow “Growth is expected to increase in 2015, increased its economic growth projections equitable share of oil wealth for future gen- er from 2.3 percent expected in April. The while price pressures remain under control,” said Razan assuming that security improves, allowing for Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab erations and are expected to vanish by forecast for next year has been lowered Nasser, senior economist for the Middle East and North for a recovery in oil production, particularly Emirates. 2017. from 4.1 percent to 3.5 percent. Africa at HSBC. UAE firms saw output growth accelerate to a three-month high of 63.2 points in September from Meanwhile, all non-GCC oil exporters are The economy of Tunisia, cradle of the in Libya,” it said. The most spectacular drop However, IMF lowered growth forecast 62.2 points in August. However, new orders growth is expected in Iraq, whose economy is being for Kuwait whose economy contracted by running fiscal deficits. Iranian, whose econo- wave of Arab uprisings, is expected to grow dropped to 64.0 points, the lowest rate since August hit hard by the conflict between a US-led 0.4 percent last year. But it warned of oil my shrank 1.9 percent last year, is showing 2.8 percent in 2014, only slightly off the 3.0 2013, from 66.4 points the previous month. coalition and the Islamic State group. price fluctuations due to weaker demand signs of recovery. It is expected to grow 1.5 percent April forecast. In 2015, it is expected Growth in new export orders also slowed to a four- The IMF now expects growth to contract and increased non-OPEC production, partic- percent in 2014, unchanged from April’s to see 3.7 percent growth, compared with month low of 60.9 points from 64.0 points, which was by 2.7 percent this year after it was forecast ularly from the United States. projections, and by 2.2 percent next year, 4.5 percent. — AFP the highest level since the series began in August 2009, the survey showed. Employment creation across the UAE’s non-oil private sector slipped to 52.6 points, the Gestamp Solar signs $28m contract with Kuwait Oil weakest growth since January. Output price growth slipped into negative territory again after one month in KUWAIT: Spain’s Gestamp Solar has is scheduled to be completed by the mid- The Kuwaiti project is the latest exam- “We’ve invited the major five interna- positive territory. The rate of input price inflation eased signed a $28 million contract with Kuwait dle of 2015. The facility will have more ple of major oil producers increasingly tional oil companies (IOCs) to show inter- to a four-month low of 54.4 points. Oil Company (KOC) to build the first utility- than 32,000 and 12 transformation cen- turning to solar power for its operations. est. This is our approach,” Hashem said in a scale PV plant in Kuwait, according to ters. Gestamp Solar estimates annual elec- Last month the country of Oman and phone interview, adding Exxon might not Saudi non-oil growth reports. tricity production to reach 17,600 Royal Dutch Shell announced a $53 mil- be interested in this bid. Non-oil private business activity in Saudi Arabia grew Gestamp Solar, the photovoltaic energy megawatt hours, equal to the emission of lion investment in California’s GlassPoint “We are trying by first or second quar- at the fastest pace in over three years last month, buoyed by strong expansions in new orders and division of Gestamp Renewables, will engi- 9,100 tons of CO2. Solar. Kuwait is in talks with five major oil ter of next year to conclude this contract.” employment, a survey showed yesterday. The SABB neer, construct, operate and oversee main- Gestamp Solar teamed up with corpo- companies to help boost crude produc- The plan is part of efforts to meet Kuwait’s HSBC Saudi Arabia Purchasing Managers’ Index climbed tenance of the 10 MW Umm Gudair Field rate affiliate Solar Steel by Gonvarri as a tion and develop some of its oilfields target of producing 4 million barrels of oil to a seasonally adjusted 61.8 points in September, its solar plant. The solar farm is the Spanish supplier of one-axis trackers for the proj- including Burgan, the world’s second per day (bpd) by 2020. The OPEC member highest level since June 2011, from 60.7 points in company’s first project in Kuwait and in ect. The group is part of Gonvarri Steel largest, a move that has faced fierce politi- currently produces around 3 million bpd August, remaining far above the 50 line denoting the Middle East. It is scheduled to be com- Services, which, like Gestamp Renewables, cal opposition in the past. and exports around two thirds. growth. pleted by the middle of 2015. is a division of the Corporacion Gestamp KOC also plans to open up other oil- Output growth hit its highest level since March 2011 Gestamp Solar’s facility in Kuwait will conglomerate. Northern filed development fields such as its North Kuwait fields and while new orders expanded at their fastest pace since have more than 32,000 and generate an Gestamp Solar has until now focused Kuwait had last week invited Britain’s areas of the giant Burgan field for foreign May 2012. Construction was a major source of demand estimated 17,600 megawatt hours of elec- on the development, construction, opera- BP, France’s Total, Royal Dutch Shell, oil companies to develop, and will send a growth, companies responding to the survey said. The tricity annually. Kuwait Oil Company is a tion and maintenance of solar power ExxonMobil and Chevron, to bid for a so- letter to the five majors seeking their survey suggested that the short-term negative impact subsidiary of the state-owned Kuwait plants in the United States, India, South called enhanced technical service agree- interest in bidding, Hashem said. “We are of labour reforms on the economy might be fading; Petroleum Corporation and the world’s Africa, Latin America, China, Japan, Italy, ment for the northern Ratqa heavy oil- starting first with the heavy oil and then employment growth rose to 53.9 points, its highest level fourth-largest oil exporter. France and Spain. To date it has devel- field, Hashem Hashem, chief executive of will continue with north Kuwait and since December 2012. Measures to push more Saudi The installation is Gestamp Solar’s first oped over 500 MWs of solar energy proj- state-run Kuwait Oil Co (KOC) told south-east Kuwait, we will take it in citizens into private sector jobs have made it harder and project in Kuwait and in the Middle East. It ects. Reuters. stages, one-by-one,” he said. — Agencies more costly to hire foreign workers. — Reuters BUSINESS WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2014

Special Report Lack of IPR protections deters Entrepreneurs in Kuwait

By Naeimah Al-Kharafi open Instagram or Twitter to find countless hope of return is a risk that cannot be expect- replicators casually selling their products and ed for an entrepreneur to make. KUWAIT: Small business and entrepreneur- services for a quarter of the price, this after The first step in bringing about change is ship are vital contributors to the strength of the entrepreneur has spent tremendous time, adequate education with regard to ethical a local economy. With an overflowing pub- energy, and capital investment to build a issues surrounding intellectual property. lic sector, small businesses are an opportu- brand. F2odesigns by Fatma Al-Othman is Awareness that infringement is a crime is still nity - not only to create new jobs, but also one amongst countless young entrepreneur at its nascent stages. In addition, government to bring innovation and money back to the businesses which has been subjected to officials should enforce these laws by treating community. infringement. evidence of violation seriously and prevent- After the Kuwait National Assembly’s There are three forms of protection for ing the manufacture, sale, or use of such approval in 2010 to establish a KD 2 billion intellectual property: patents, trademark, and items. Ultimately, it is most vital for people to national fund for small and medium-sized copyright. They are protected by law No 4 of be guaranteed that going to court over IPR enterprises, a tremendous amount of startups 1962; law No 68/1980 article 61-95, and law would not be futile. have emerged every year. Young Kuwaitis are No 64 of 1999, respectively. Kuwait is also a When will Kuwait witness the proper finding new and creative solutions to old member of the World Trade Organization and implementation necessary for creativity and problems and are using social networks to the World Intellectual Property Organization. innovation to thrive? —Naeimah Al- Kharafi is market and sell their products and services. However, the lack of proper implementation an administrative engineer and lecturer in But local entrepreneurs feel let down makes these laws ineffective. Kuwait University. Although graduated and when authorities do not take serious meas- Without protection for unauthorized use trained in architecture, she completed her ures to protect their ideas and prevent of intellectual property rights, investing in a MBA in 2014 with distinction and is an avid infringement. Many popular ideas, brands creative or innovative idea is all risk with no contributor in topics of business, entrepre- and innovations are quickly copied. One need payoff. An x Kuwaiti dinar investment with no neurship, and public policy.

BEIJING: Chinese pedicab driver waits for clients in the Central Business District in Beijing yesterday. — AFP Egypt business activity grows at record pace Hiring improves for first time in two years CAIRO: Business activity in Egypt expanded at a near- points hit last November. the related subindex standing at 53.3 points. The record pace in September, a survey showed yesterday, Readings above 50 indicate expansion while those subindex for new orders hit a nine-month high of 53.8, with a nascent economic recovery encouraging com- below 50 point to contraction. “Growth in new orders up from 52.8 in August. panies to hire for the first time in nearly 2-1/2 years. and employment shows us market sentiment is The new export orders subindex stood at 52.4, just Egypt’s economy has been hit by more than three improving. Many challenges still lie ahead, but overall down from August’s 52.5 points. Companies said years of political and economic turmoil following the the numbers are encouraging, and we continue to much of that growth came from Europe and neigh- 2011 uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak after 30 expect growth to pick up pace through 2015,” said bouring Libya, despite the political challenges there. In years in power. Razan Nasser, senior economist at HSBC, commenting a significant shift, however, Egypt created more jobs in The government is trying to strike a balance on the Egypt PMI. September with the subindex hitting 51 points, the between cutting its deficit whilst reviving economic fastest rate of employment since records began in growth, which fell to 2.1 percent in the 2012/13 fiscal Employment returns to growth 2011. year and remains far slower than the pace needed to Egypt raised fuel prices by up to 78 percent in July Egypt’s non-oil private sector firms have been create enough jobs for a youthful population of 86 in a long-awaited step to cut energy subsidies and shedding jobs since May 2012, showing only a single million. ease the burden on the government’s swelling budget month of stability at 50 points last July. Increased output and a sharp rise in new orders deficit. The cuts pushed up prices and hit business Input prices rose sharply, with the index at 61 last month, however, appeared to suggest that confi- activity in July, but the effects appear to have been points, squeezing company profits, though the pace dence was beginning to return. At the same time, short-lived, with the pace of economic activity picking of rise eased from 63.8 points and 67.8 in the previous inflationary pressures stoked by a major reduction in up in the two months since. Egypt is targeting eco- two months as the government cut energy subsidies. government subsidies to the energy sector in July nomic growth of up to 5.8 percent in the next three Higher input prices fed into higher selling prices in eased, with input and output prices rising more slowly. years, with the deficit staying at around 10 percent of September. The output price subindex stood at 51.5 The HSBC Egypt Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) gross domestic product (GDP). points, though the pace of increase again fell back for the non-oil private sector stood at 52.4 points in The PMI survey of around 350 private-sector firms from the previous month when it reached 51.7 points. September, just a tick below the all-time high of 52.5 showed that output grew steadily in September, with — Reuters EXCHANGE RATES

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UAE Exchange Centre WLL Syrian Pound 2.805 Sierra Leone 0.000063 0.000069 Nepalese Rupees 3.920 Singapore Dollar 0.222915 0.228915 Malaysian Ringgit 88.920 South African Rand 0.019587 0.028087 ASIAN COUNTRIES COUNTRY SELL DRAFT SELL CASH Sri Lankan Rupee 0.001912 0.002492 Japanese Yen 2.648 Chinese Yuan Renminbi 47.505 Australian Dollar 231.65 228.65 Taiwan 0.009436 0.009526 Indian Rupees 4.739 Thai Bhat 9.890 Canadian Dollar 263.04 264.04 Turkish Lira 126.805 Thai Baht 0.008606 0.009156 Pakistani Rupees 2.801 Swiss Franc 308.18 306.18 Srilankan Rupees 2.208 Euro 369.44 370.44 Arab Nepali Rupees 2.968 US Dollar 289.10 292.10 Bahraini Dinar 0.759855 0.767855 Singapore Dollar 228.110 Sterling Pound 472.19 475.19 Bahrain Exchange Company Hongkong Dollar 37.169 Egyptian Pound 0.039007 0.042107 Japanese Yen 2.68 2.70 Bangladesh Taka 3.714 Iranian Riyal 0.000080 0.000081 Bangladesh Taka 3.725 3.995 CURRENCY BUY SELL Philippine Peso 6.488 Iraqi Dinar 0.000186 0.000246 Indian Rupee 4.724 5.024 Thai Baht 8.968 Europe Jordanian Dinar 0.403379 0.410879 Sri Lankan Rupee 2.213 2.648 Irani Riyal transfer 0.271 Belgian Franc 0.007537 0.008537 Kuwaiti Dinar 1.000000 1.000000 Irani Riyal cash 0.273 Nepali Rupee 2.952 3.487 British Pound 0.460805 0.469805 Lebanese Pound 0.000140 0.000240 Pakistani Rupee 2.809 2.790 Czech Korune 0.005290 0.017290 Moroccan Dirhams 0.023493 0.047493 GCC COUNTRIES UAE Dirhams 78.56 78.03 Danish Krone 0.045049 0.050049 Nigerian Naira 0.001163 0.001798 Saudi Riyal 76.857 Bahraini Dinar 767.32 769.39 Euro 0.361181 0.369181 Omani Riyal 0.744363 0.750043 Qatari Riyal 79.192 Egyptian Pound 40.32 40.92 Norwegian Krone 0.040652 0.045852 Qatar Riyal 0.078643 0.079856 Omani Riyal 748.700 Jordanian Dinar 410.30 415.95 Romanian Leu 0.083065 0.083065 Saudi Riyal 0.076403 0.077103 Bahraini Dinar 765.510 Omani Riyal 749.75 757.05 Slovakia 0.008412 0.018412 Syrian Pound 0.001711 0.001931 UAE Dirham 78.491 Qatari Riyal 79.61 80.16 Swedish Krona 0.036181 0.041181 Tunisian Dinar 0.158286 0.166286 Saudi Riyal 77.01 77.41 Swiss Franc 0.295408 0.305608 Turkish Lira 0.129702 0.136702 ARAB COUNTRIES Turkish Lira 0.129117 0.136117 UAE Dirhams 0.077675 0.078824 Egyptian Pound - Cash 41.400 Yemeni Riyal 0.001304 0.001384 Egyptian Pound - Transfer 40.208 Dollarco Exchange Co. Ltd Australasia Yemen Riyal/for 1000 1.345 Australian Dollar 0.245510 0.257010 New Zealand Dollar 0.220209 0.229709 Tunisian Dinar 163.040 Rate for Transfer Selling Rate Jordanian Dinar 407.010 America Al Mulla Exchange US Dollar 289.050 Lebanese Lira/for 1000 1.934 Canadian Dollar 0.2544709 0.263209 Canadian Dollar 260.725 Syrian Lira 2.054 US Dollars 0.285500 0.290200 Sterling Pound 469.715 Currency Transfer Rate (Per 1000) Morocco Dirham 33.894 US Dollars Mint 0.286000 0.290200 Euro 367.240 US Dollar 288.750 Swiss Frank 302.960 EUROPEAN & AMERICAN COUNTRIES Asia Euro 366.850 Bahrain Dinar 769.365 US Dollar Transfer 288.100 Bangladesh Taka 0.003304 0.003904 Pound Sterlng 470.550 UAE Dirhams 78.675 Euro 371.940 Chinese Yuan 0.045553 0.049053 Qatari Riyals 80.275 Canadian Dollar 260.000 Sterling Pound 472.480 Hong Kong Dollar 0.035131 0.037881 Saudi Riyals 77.340 Indian Rupee 4.690 Canadian dollar 264.550 Indian Rupee 0.004398 0.004799 Jordanian Dinar 408.270 Egyptian Pound 40.360 Turkish lira 129.110 Indonesian Rupiah 0.000020 0.000026 Egyptian Pound 40.372 Swiss Franc 308.130 Japanese Yen 0.002547 0.002727 Sri Lankan Rupee 2.208 Sri Lankan Rupees 2.213 Australian Dollar 267.180 Kenyan Shilling 0.003233 0.003233 Bangladesh Taka 3.727 Indian Rupees 4.682 US Dollar Buying 286.900 Korean Won 0.000264 0.000279 Philippines Peso 6.425 Pakistani Rupees 2.819 Malaysian Ringgit 0.085503 0.091503 Bangladesh Taka 3.731 Pakistan Rupee 2.817 GOLD Nepalese Rupee 0.002952 0.003122 Philippines Pesso 6.432 Bahraini Dinar 768.750 20 Gram 232.505 Pakistan Rupee 0.002767 0.003047 Cyprus pound 709.970 UAE Dirham 78.650 10 Gram 118.950 Philippine Peso 0.006400 0.006680 5 Gram 60.155 Japanese Yen 3.630 Saudi Riyal 77.050 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2014 BUSINESS Philippines rice self-sufficiency target pushed back MANILA: The Philippines has pushed The Philippines suffered from supply back its 2013 target to attain self-suffi- tightness in 2013, forcing the govern- ciency in rice production by another two ment to resort to more imports in the years, an official said yesterday, adding latter part of that year, he added. that the country will likely have to The situation was repeated this year, import hundreds of thousands of tons with domestic rice prices shooting up by next year. about 20 percent between June and “We’re pretty set at 1.7 million metric October, he said. This forced the govern- tons” of rice imports for this year, said ment to inject subsidized rice into the Francis Pangilinan, an adviser to local market to stabilize prices. About 26 President Benigno Aquino on food secu- percent of the rice now on the local mar- rity. Asked if the Philippines planned to ket is state-subsidized rice, he added. import even more than 1.7 million tons With these factors in mind, Pangilinan next year, Pangilinan said: “That’s a pos- said rice self-sufficiency remained an sibility”. important target. He said the Philippines is now aiming “Any country would like to be able to to end rice imports in 2016 — three secure its food and be sufficient in rice. years later than its original 2013 target. But I guess the issue here is at what cost Last year the Philippines imported a mil- and how much and how soon.” lion tons of rice, making it the eighth Given time, he said higher-yielding largest importer in the world, according seeds and more widespread access to to the US agriculture department. irrigation and other support services During the global food crisis in 2008, should eventually help Filipino rice farm- the Philippines imported a record 2.34 ers produce enough for local consump- million tons of rice, the largest for any tion. “If we improve yields, if we improve country. Bad weather, including frequent mechanisation, if we improve irrigation, typhoons and floods, had repeatedly that 10 percent (gap between produc- MANILA: Workers unload sacks of rice at a warehouse of the National Food Authority (NFA) in suburban Manila yester- stymied the country’s efforts to produce tion and consumption) should not be day. The Philippines is importing hundreds of thousands of tons of rice this year and next after missing a target to grow enough rice, Pangilinan said. unachievable,” he said. —AFP enough of the grain last year, an official said yesterday.—AFP

Chad to double oil output BoJ strikes less-optimistic by 2016, develop minerals tone on view of economy PARIS: Chad expects to double oil pro- at the international arbitration court in duction by the end of 2015 as new fields Paris, and has cancelled five exploration come on stream and has appointed firms licences held by CNPC, warning that if Bank holds off fresh monetary easing measures to inventory potential mineral deposits in the fine is not paid it will re-auction an effort to diversify the economy, its them. TOKYO: The Bank of Japan yesterday struck a ‘Positive outlook’ finance minister said. The former French less optimistic tone on its view of the world’s Despite the slump, BoJ Governor Haruhiko colony, one of the poorest nations in the Gold, mineral potential number three economy, although it held off Kuroda has kept up his rosy view of Japan’s world, has been rocked by humanitarian Bedoumra said Chad was trying to fresh monetary easing measures after its latest prospects, saying Tuesday that factory output crises over the past decade including finally unlock mineral resources after policy meeting. Policymakers flagged housing would turn around along with corporate and conflicts in the east and south, drought appointing firms, including French con- and industrial production as weak spots, while it household spending. in the arid Sahel region and flooding. sultancy BRGM on a 3.5 year contract, to said business sentiment had “paused” owing to “Industrial production data has been show- That has been compounded since identify potential sites. “It’s not just oil an April sales tax hike that led to a sharp con- ing some weakness...but we’ve been told that 2012 by instability on its borders with that we have underground. There are traction in second-quarter gross domestic prod- the outlook is positive,” he told reporters at a Libya, Nigeria and Central African strong indications of gold, nickel, urani- uct. “Japan’s economy has continued to recover post-meeting news briefing. Republic, forcing Chad to increase its um and other minerals. We appointed moderately as a trend,” the BoJ statement said, Kuroda’s upbeat take on the economy has security budget to handle thousands of consultants to identify what there is,” he but it noted “some weakness, particularly on the appeared increasingly at odds with the official new refugees and counter a growing said. production side” as demand dived after the rate data, as it suffered in the April-June quarter its cross-border threat. The landlocked cen- He said GPB Global Resources, a unit hike. Consumer spending has yet to recover ful- deepest contraction since the 2011 quake- tral African country has, nevertheless, of Russia’s state-owned Gazprombank ly, but the BoJ said it was still on track to hit a 2.0 tsunami disaster. Japan’s top central banker has given little indication he will soon increase the seen strong growth over the past decade Group which in 2012 was awarded a five- percent inflation target, seen as key to reversing BoJ’s asset-purchasing stimulus-similar to the as it has become an oil producer, year licence to explore for gold in south- years of falling prices and tepid growth. Federal Reserve’s quantitative easing-saying the although GDP growth slowed to 3.5 per- ern Chad, had seen “positive” results and “Policymakers are slowly but surely acknowl- impact of the sales tax hike has not been as bad cent in 2013 due primarily to lower could begin exploiting its field in 2015. edging the recent sluggishness of the economy,” income from ageing wells in its Doba oil- Since seizing power in a 1990 coup, as expected. Kuroda also said Tuesday that he said Marcel Thieliant from Capital Economics. was still confident in reaching the inflation tar- field. President Idriss Deby has won a series of “The bank’s more cautious stance will certainly Speaking to Reuters, Kordje elections disputed by international get by next year, but added that the bank can trigger speculation that additional easing may adjust its policy if necessary to address “both Bedoumra, said the country expected a observers and faced allegations of graft TOKYO: Bank of Japan governor Haruhiko already be announced at the upcoming meeting upside and downside risks” to the economy. rebound in the growth rate this year to and rights abuses. He has weathered sev- Kuroda gestures as he answers questions at the end of this month.” Tokyo’s tax hike was seen as crucial to 11-13 percent and double digits again in eral rebellions, the most recent in 2008. during a press conference in Tokyo yesterday. He said he did not see inflation to pick up addressing a mammoth public debt but econo- 2015 as oil production ramps up. Deby has been accused of spending Japanese central bank yesterday struck a less towards the end of the year, as the bank expects, mists had warned it could derail a budding “We are more or less at around too much on internal security and the optimistic tone on its view of the world’s but instead decline further. recovery in an economy beset by years of defla- 100,000 barrels per day (bpd),” he said in military to the detriment of local commu- number three economy, but it held off “With the economic recovery likely to remain tion. The 1.8 percent dip in gross domestic prod- an interview at an OECD forum on Africa. nities, health and education. However, he subdued, policymakers may therefore have to launching fresh monetary easing measures has been able to position himself as a uct-or a 7.1 percent contraction at an annualized “Our expectation is that by the end of acknowledge soon that the inflation target after a two-day meeting. —AFP this year we can move to 130,000 bpd regional powerbroker since 2013 after rate-gave the clearest picture yet of the tax remains out of sight,” he added. Despite its generally positive take on the and by the end of next year probably taking part in peace-keeping operations increase’s impact, and threw into question The dollar fell to 108.61 yen after the economy, the BoJ has lowered its growth fore- double that production because we will in Mali and Central African Republic. Tokyo’s plans for another such move next year. announcement, from above the 109 level, while cast for the current fiscal year to March to 1.0 have new fields.” Chad this year bought three MIG Millions of shoppers made a last-minute dash to percent, well down from a 1.5 percent prediction Bedoumra said output would increase fighter jets to protect against threats the euro fell to 137.14 yen from 137.64 yen earli- stores before prices went up on April 1, which in late 2013. — AFP from the Mangara and Badila fields, from rebels on the Sudanese border, al er in the day. was followed by a slump in spending. which are operated by mining company Qaeda-linked militants in Libya, Nigeria- Glencore Xstrata, and a new field man- based Boko Haram from the Lake Chad aged by a China National Petroleum region, and rebels in Central African Corporation (CNPC) subsidiary. Chad ear- Republic. French PM to the City: lier this year suspended CNPC’s further Bedoumra said there was no price for exploration activity, citing violations of ensuring stability “It’s not just the environmental standards while it was refugees. The situation of our neighbors drilling for crude oil in the south of the on all sides is a big burden, but we have ‘My govt is pro-business’ country. no choice. We must have measures in It has ordered the company to pay a place to ensure peace and security,” he $1.2 billion fine, for which it filed a claim said.—Reuters LONDON: French Prime Minister Manuel out the red carpet” for French executives. Luxembourg on October 20. But his tour Valls on Monday defended his Socialist gov- Relations have improved since, and Valls also comes amid criticism of France for not ernment against a stream of criticism of its met Cameron during his visit and business is doing enough to reduce its budget deficit economic and business reforms during a vis- the clear target of his charm offensive. The next year and suggestions made by an EU Oil slips towards $92 it to London. “My government is pro-busi- French prime minister, who arrived in source to AFP that Brussels is set to reject his ness!” he told British business leaders in London late on Sunday, began his visit by government’s fiscal plans. on weak German data English at the Guildhall in the heart of the meeting the French business community in However, Valls told BBC news “I’m con- British capital’s City financial district. London, home to more than 350,000 French vinced that the dialogue with Brussels and LONDON: Brent crude oil fell towards oil markets represents “the impact of this “A French prime minister in the City is an nationals. the European Commission will allow us to $92 a barrel yesterday, pushing towards tremendous surge in US oil production”, event. A Socialist French prime minister in He admitted that France’s economic understand each other.” 27-month lows as weak demand and says Daniel Yergin, vice chairman of IHS the City is a revolution!” he quipped. France’s growth had been stuck in a “long break- While signalling France’s determination President Francois Hollande was elected in down” but said people should not “resign to carry out economic reforms to Cameron, ample supply outweighed the price sup- and an oil market historian. Investors part on a tough line towards the financial themselves” and encouraged British busi- Valls also urged his British counterpart to port from a weaker dollar. awaited US crude inventory data for sector. nesses to invest in France. keep Britain in the EU. Britain would “lose a German industrial output fell by far clues on demand at the world’s top oil Hollande’s remark that the finance sector lot” if it were to “turn its back” on Europe, more than expected in August, posting consumer. is “his enemy” and policies including a deci- UK eurosceptics influential Valls said, in response to rising euroscepti- its biggest drop since early 2009, US crude stocks rose by 1.4 million sion to impose 75 percent tax on top earn- Valls made similar comments after meet- cism in Britain. Economy Ministry data showed yester- barrels last week to 358 million barrels, ers, had been met with derision across the ing with German Chancellor Angela Merkel Cameron is currently trying to appease day, driving European equities down and according to a Reuters poll ahead of Channel, where British Prime Minister David in September, and he is expected to take the the eurosceptic wing of his Conservative pointing to weak demand for oil. “There weekly inventory reports from industry Cameron in 2002 said his country would “roll message to the Netherlands and Party and fend off encroachment from the is stagnation in Europe and China is group the American Petroleum Institute anti-EU UK Independence Party ahead of slowing down. It’s going to be very diffi- (API) and the US Department of Energy’s next year’s general election. cult for the oil price to rally on that basis,” Energy Information Administration (EIA). He has already promised to hold an in- said Michael Hewson, chief market ana- Ministers from the Organization of the out referendum in 2017 on Britain’s EU lyst at CMC Markets in London. Petroleum Exporting Countries meet in membership if his party wins the May 2015 A slump in the dollar on Monday Vienna next month to discuss output vote. “France wants Britain to stay in the helped stem oil’s decline. The US curren- policy and may decide to reduce produc- European Union,” said Valls, calling also for cy suffered its biggest one-day drop tion, industry analysts say. joint action to reform Europe and make it since January against a basket of major “Until OPEC makes some moves to “more intelligible to bring it closer to the currencies. The dollar recovered slightly reduce supply, oil prices are likely to people”. yesterday. remain under pressure,” said Carsten “There is a choice that we can and should Oil is priced in dollars on world mar- Fritsch, senior oil and commodities ana- make together: reform Europe to put kets, and a weak greenback makes fuel lyst at Commerzbank in Frankfurt. With growth, competitiveness and jobs back at cheaper for holders of other currencies. over a month until the meeting, oil mar- the heart of its priorities,” he said. Brent was down 60 cents at $92.19 a bar- kets are facing several weeks of volatility, Meanwhile, Valls also sought to overcome rel by 0947 GMT. The global benchmark Hewson of CMC Markets said. “French-bashing”, a popular sport north of reached a low of $91.25 on Monday “There is real potential for a price war the Channel. Andy Street, the director of before recovering in late trading. US because Saudi Arabia is reluctant to cut upscale department store chain John Lewis, crude was down 55 cents at $89.79. The production,” he added. Oil is still vulnera- last week apologized after saying that “noth- dramatic price collapse over the past few ble to political shocks from the Middle ing works” in France, and that the country months has led some analysts to suggest East, traders say. was “finished”. In a bid to overturn this per- that an era of relatively high prices may Islamic State fighters have advanced ception in an interview with BBC’s flagship be coming to an end as production further into Kobani, a town on the Syrian- Newsnight program, Valls said his priority increases faster than consumption. Turkish border, showing the insurgents’ was growth, and that he would cut business US crude oil output has jumped more resilience and increasing the possibility costs, and allow shops in Paris and tourist than 3 million barrels per day since 2010 that Turkey could be dragged into the areas to open on Sundays. “I want to tell your audience, if our deficit at a time when sluggish global economic conflict. is too high, we can reduce it, but at our growth has depressed demand for fuel, NATO would support member Turkey speed while not losing sight of our priori- while improving energy efficiency and if it came under attack, alliance Secretary PARIS: French Prime Minister Manuel Valls (right) and French Economy and Industry minister ties... indispensible for maintaining a good use of alternative fuels have also begun General Jens Stoltenberg said on Emmanuel Macron leave a cabinet meeting focusing on employment yesterday at the Elysee quality of life,” Valls said. —AFP to curb oil demand. What is happening in Monday. — Reuters palace in Paris. —AFP WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2014 BUSINESS Kuwait bourse index closes in green zone

BAYAN MONTHLY MARKET REPORT

KUWAIT: Kuwait Stock Exchange (KSE) ended September in the green zone. The Price Index closed at 7,621.51 points, up by 2.57 percent compared to the closings of the month before, the Weighted Index increased by 0.49 percent after closing at 494.44 points, whereas the KSX-15 Index closed at 1,203.82 points increasing by 0.28 percent. Furthermore, last month’s average turnover increased by 41.81 percent, compared to the preceding month, reaching KD 28.06 million, whereas trading volume average was 274.67 million shares, recording increase of 41.60 percent. As far as the stock market performance during the last month; the three indices were able to close in the green zone supported by the continued control of the active purchasing operations on the trading activity, which concentrated appar- ently on the small-cap stocks that was leading the increases direction during the last period, which positively impacted the Price Index performance and enabled it to break the 7,600 point up during last month, to compensate all its loss since the beginning of the year. Also, the positive trading activity wit- nessed by some large-cap and blue-chip stocks was positively reflected on the Weighted Index and KSX-15 Index perform- ances, to join the Price Index and close the month’s trading activity in the green zone for the third consecutive month. In addition, it was noticed during last month’s trading activ- ity the return of the quick speculations to influence the market performance, whereas such operations included many listed stocks, headed by the small-cap ones in the Financial and Real Estate sectors, which contributed to enhancing the trading lev- els, especially the value, which witnessed a noticeable increase by the end of the month when compared to its level in August. On the contrary, the stock market was subject to some sell- ing and profit collection operations executed on a number of listed companies during some daily sessions, whereas it con- centrated on the large-cap and operational stocks, especially that of previous gains, which limited the gains of the stock market indicators, mostly the Weighted and KSX-15 indices. On the other hand, it is expected by the end of September that the market enters into a new phase of watch and caution, waiting for the listed companies third quarter financial results, which will shape to a great extent such companies’ perform- ance for the year 2014. For the annual performance, the price index ended last month recording 0.95 percent annual gain compared to its closing in 2013, while the weighted index increased by 9.18 percent, and the KSX-15 recorded 12.67 percent increase.

Sectors’ Indices Ten of KSE’s sectors ended last month in the green zone except for two sectors. Last month’s highest gainer was the Consumer Services sector, achieving 4.52 percent growth rate as its index closed at 1,224.77 points. Whereas, in the second place, the Financial Services sector’s index closed at 1,073.86 points recording 4.29 percent increase. The Industrial sector came in third as its index achieved 2.93 percent growth, end- ing the week at 1,200.56 points. The Consumer Goods sector was the least growing as its index closed at 1,350.55 points with a 0.58 percent increase. On the other hand, the Oil & Gas sector was last week’s loser as its index declined by 2.90 percent to end the week’s activity at 1,246.73 points. Followed by Technology sector as its index declined by 0.70 percent to end the week’s activity at 1,001.17 points

Sectors’ Activity The Financial Services sector dominated total trade volume during last month with 3.28 billion shares changing hands, representing 54.30 percent of the total market trading volume. The Real Estate sector was second in terms of trading volume as the sector’s traded shares were 21.59 percent of last month’s total trading volume, with a total of 1.30 billion shares. On the other hand, the Financial Services sector’s stocks where the highest traded in terms of value; with a turnover of KD 213.01 million or 34.51 percent of last month’s total market trading value. The Banking sector took the second place as the sectors last month turnover of KD 139.50 million represented 22.60 percent of the total market trading value. —Prepared by the Studies & Research Department, Bayan Investment Co. Emerging stocks hold at one-week high

WALL STREET WEEKLY OUTLOOK

LONDON: Russia’s ruble resumed denominated share index slipped policy meeting that is expected to its slide yesterday following fresh 0.9 percent. culminate in a 25 basis point rate central bank intervention and The market has been hit by a cut. another shift in its trading band triple whammy of Western sanc- Those expectations have been while Moscow stocks fell 1 per- tions that limit access to global strengthened by a raft of weak cent, lagging broader emerging capital markets, an economy data out of Germany, eastern equities which held at one-week headed for recession and falling Europe’s main source of invest- highs. A slight pullback in the dol- oil prices. Earlier, Asian currencies ment and trade. Data on Tuesday lar from recent highs helped had firmed slightly against the showed German industrial output emerging markets regain some dollar. The Indonesian rupiah plunged 4 percent in August, the poise on Monday after last week’s pulled away from eight-month biggest fall in five years. selloff, but those gains have fiz- lows after the country’s central Emerging dollar bond markets zled as expectations of higher US bank governor said the authority however were in a bullish mood, interest rates from next year was prepared to carry out “mea- after Kazakhstan placed a dual- remain in place. sured intervention” to keep the tranche bond for $2.5 billion, gar- MSCI’s emerging equity index currency in a range the bank is nering $11 billion in orders. The was flat after hitting one-week comfortable with. 10-year bond was yielding 100 SYDNEY: A shop assistant works between sale signs in a shop in Sydney yesterday. The Australian dollar hit a highs earlier in the session, follow- Hong Kong shares finished bps below Russia’s 10-year issue. four-year-low of 86.43 US cents in New York last week as Australia’s economy struggles to transition away ing Monday’s 1.3 percent advance. higher for a third day in a row as “In the current geopolitical from resources-led growth following an unprecedented boom in mining investment that is expected to fall- Commerzbank analyst Tatha pro-democracy demonstrations environment Kazakhstan is clearly off sharply over the next year. — AFP Ghose said that despite brief peri- eased after a meeting between becoming a good substitute to ods of relief the weaker trend protest leaders and government Russian debt - with similar energy Australian interest rates on steady remained in place. officials. Ghose noted some easing dependence but a much better “I wouldn’t see today’s move of geopolitical tensions, including economic outlook and overall SYDNEY: Australia’s central bank investor activity in the booming August, with RBA noting “it will prob- (as) any more than a wiggle in the in Hong Kong and Ukraine, where stance from foreign investors maintained interest rates at a record housing market ahead of the possi- ably be some time yet before unem- chart. You get (chart levels) like it’s despite some fighting, a month- towards the country,” ING Bank low for the 13th-straight time yester- ble introduction of tougher lending ployment declines consistently”. a one-week high et cetera, but the long ceasefire is deemed to be said. A bond trader said the bond day, flagging a “period of stability” as rules to cool the sector. “The tone of The bank has been frustrated by fall so far has been sharp. So on a holding. Moreover the Turkish had slipped by a quarter cent but it toned down comments about the the statement suggests that there the recent strength of the Australian medium-term chart, the predomi- subsidiary of Russia’s Sberbank the bullish demand had lifted local dollar. Reserve Bank of was increasing confidence that we’re dollar against its US counterpart, nant move is downwards,” Ghose has been removed from a list of emerging bonds across the board, Australia governor Glenn Stevens seeing moderate growth in the which has hurt export-oriented said. Russian companies sanctioned by including for Russia which was said monetary policy was “appropri- economy,” Westpac chief currency industries. While many emerging curren- the West. looking cheap in comparison. ately configured” to foster sustain- strategist Robert Rennie said. But it softened its rhetoric about cies are near multi-month lows, “There is a reciprocation on Kazakhstan was also the first able growth in demand and keep “The pieces of the jigsaw puzzle the exchange rate, dropping its the worst-hit has been the ruble, both sides that is in a positive emerging issuer to include aggre- inflation on target. required are in place but we’re not September statement remarks that plumbing successive record lows direction, not that we think it can gated CACs in its bond - clauses “On present indications, the most yet seeing the rebalancing really it “remains above most estimates of and forcing central bank interven- turn the general tide of markets,” that bind investors to a single vote prudent course is likely to be a peri- work its way through.” The govern- its fundamental value” after hitting tion. The bank confirmed it had Ghose added. The South African across all bonds - as well as a mod- od of stability in interest rates,” ment is seeking to transition the a four-year-low of 86.43 US cents in spent $1 billion on Friday. The rand was flat against the dollar ified pari passu clause, which Stevens said. But the RBA-which has economy away from resources-led New York Friday. Stevens said: “The ruble traded 0.2 percent weaker after Monday’s 1 percent surge as requires equal treatment of credi- left interest rates unchanged since growth following an unprecedented exchange rate has declined recent- versus the dollar after the central data revealed a fall in the coun- tors. The steps are recommended August 2013 to support the econo- boom in mining investment that is ly, in large part reflecting the bank again shifted the trading try’s foreign exchange reserves. by industry body ICMA and the my as it rebalances away from min- expected to fall off sharply over the strengthening US dollar, but band against a euro-dollar basket In central Europe, Poland’s zloty International Monetary Fund to ing-led growth-warned that the next year. remains high by historical stan- by 10 kopecks, though it stayed was flat against the euro as the avoid a repeat of Argentina’s court local currency “remains high by his- The unemployment rate hit a 12- dards, particularly given the further off record lows. Russia’s dollar- central bank started a two-day battle with creditors. — Reuters torical standards”. year high of 6.4 percent in July declines in key commodity prices in It also highlighted the increase in before easing to 6.1 percent in recent months. — AFP WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2014 BUSINESS

Carbon captures energy penalty problem: Expert

LONDON: SaskPower’s Boundary Dam system mean that it could be done much penalty” at a typical power plant vary. Policy support In practice, it would not be cost-effec- Unit #3, the first utility-scale power plant more cheaply next time. But construc- Researchers at Britain’s Imperial College The most modern ultra-supercritical tive to retrofit the entire fleet. It would to be fitted with carbon capture and tion cost is not the only problem with put it at around 20 percent (“Carbon cap- coal power plants can achieve a thermal make more sense to retrofit only the storage (CCS), has produced a surge in the plant. ture technology: future fossil fuel use efficiency of up to about 45 percent. most modern and efficient plants, retire media interest since becoming opera- The refurbished and retrofitted Unit and mitigating climate change” Nov Retrofitting an ultra-supercritical power older ones and replace them with new tional this month. #3 is also much less efficient than its 2010). But scientists at Harvard and the plant would reduce its thermal efficiency capacity. Given the enormous practical But it also illustrates the formidable predecessor. It will supply “over 110 Massachusetts Institute of Technology to around 35 percent, a penalty of impact of the energy penalty, there is challenges that must be overcome megawatts” of electricity to the grid (MIT) suggested the penalty could range around 25 percent. intense interest in finding ways to before CCS is ready to play a significant compared with 139 MW previously, a anywhere from a theoretical lower But for less-efficient supercritical and reduce it. Most of the energy consumed role in the fight against climate change. reduction of around 20 percent, accord- bound of 11 percent to as much as 40 sub-critical power plants, with initial in the CCS process is used in capturing Refurbishing the 45-year old Unit #3 to ing to SaskPower. percent, with 29 percent as a good tar- thermal efficiencies of less than 40 per- and compressing CO2 in the first place. extend its life for another 30 years and The reduction in net output is in line get (“The energy penalty of post-com- cent and in some cases less than 30 per- Researchers are trying to find ways to retrofitting it with equipment to capture with published estimates for the “energy bustion CO2 capture and storage” Jan cent, the penalty could amount to 40 separate CO2 more efficiently from the carbon dioxide emissions has cost penalty” imposed by CCS systems, which 2009). percent or even 50 percent of the plant’s other gases in the exhaust stream and almost C$1.3 billion, according to the is the major barrier to their widespread The penalty must be paid by burning total electrical output. run the compression system using some company’s accounts, about three times adoption. more fuel or reducing the net amount of Even a 20-30 percent energy penalty of the heat that would otherwise be as much as a similar-sized plant without electricity supplied. In Unit #3’s case, the is enormous and would radically affect wasted from the power plant. But even CCS. SaskPower received $240 million Price to pay project planners opted for lower net the operations of coal-fired power plants with those measures, CCS will only be from Canada’s government to help with Separating CO2 from the other gases electrical output. in North America and the rest of the competitive if the energy penalty is off- construction costs and will realise addi- in the plant’s exhaust stream (mainly Net output from Unit #3 has fallen world if all power plants were retrofitted set by carbon taxes, carbon prices, or tional revenues from the sale of CO2 to nitrogen and water vapour), compress- around 20 percent, but the upgrade is with CCS systems. other policy measures to level the play- an enhanced oil recovery project. But the ing it, transporting it by pipeline and likely to have involved an improved Retrofitting all coal-fired plants in the ing field by pushing up the cost of elec- high capital costs of Unit #3 underscore injecting it deep underground under steam generator and turbines, which United States would increase coal con- tricity from other fossil fuel plants. So in how far away CCS remains from being high pressure all need a substantial would otherwise have increased output. sumption by 400-600 million tons per the longer term, the outlook for CCS is competitive with conventional power amount of work and consume a signifi- The underlying energy penalty proba- year, or cut their net electrical output by really a gamble on the outlook for car- stations or renewables such as wind and cant amount of the heat and electrical bly falls within the 20-30 percent range, 75-100 gigawatts, more than the peak bon prices, taxes and tough emission solar. SaskPower insists that the lessons output from the power plant. Published in line with the central estimates pro- demand of California, according to the controls, rather than a technology prob- learned from building the plant and CCS estimates for the size of this “energy duced by most researchers. Harvard and MIT researchers. lem.—Reuters

Ailing Russian economy faces more pain over Ukraine: IMF

MOSCOW: Russia’s already battered econ- the country’s perilous economic situation omy will struggle to recover from the fall- but President Vladimir Putin has shown out of the crisis in Ukraine as uncertainty little sign of relenting over Ukraine in a looks set to drag down growth around bid to ease the economic woe. the former Soviet Union, the IMF warned Economy Minister Alexei Ulyukayev yesterday. “Risks to growth are largely to last week warned that the combination of the downside,” the international lender high inflation and feeble growth created wrote in its World Economic Outlook an “explosive situation.” released yesterday. The head of Russia’s largest bank, “An escalation in geopolitical tensions Sberbank, Herman Gref, himself a former between Russia and Ukraine, resulting in economy minister, warned that Russia a tightening of sanctions against Russia, could end up collapsing like the Soviet could entail a serious setback for the Union. But many analysts say that Putin region.” appears willing to withstand any econom- Russia’s economy has been hit hard by ic pressure in his bid to stand up to the the spillover from the Ukraine crisis, with West and secure control over Ukraine’s the IMF’s projected growth rate for 2014 industrial heartland in the east. slumping to just 0.2 percent. The global “All signals from President Putin are lender has halved its 2015 growth fore- that the Russian government is prepared cast for Russia to 0.5 percent amid fears to weather whatever economic storms are that Moscow’s standoff with the West necessary in pursuit of its broader objec- over Ukraine will continue to take its toll. tives in Ukraine,” Eurasia Group wrote last The US and EU have slapped the toughest week. sanctions on Moscow since the Cold War over its support for a separatist uprising in Regional impact east Ukraine, prompting Moscow to retali- Around the region the economic out- ate with embargoes on a wide range of look remained grim. In Ukraine-already in food products from the West. recession since mid-2012 — the fighting Massive capital flight from the country in the east has led the IMF to forecast the is expected to reach some $100 billion in economy will shrink by 6.5 percent this 2014 and to remain high over the next year and only recover 1 percent in 2015. BEIJING: People eat their lunch in the Beijing Central Business District, in Beijing yesterday. The IMF’s analysis and projections of economic developments will present next week the World Economic Outlook. — AFP year, the IMF has estimated. The turmoil The Ukrainian hryvnia has lost some 40 has seen the ruble lose a fifth of its value percent of its value against the dollar against the dollar since the start of the since the start of the year as inflation has year, with the national currency on soared. Neighbouring economies reliant IMF keeps China economic Monday briefly plummeting through the on trade with Moscow will also be hit by psychologically important mark of 40 to fallout from the crisis. Lower demand the dollar to reach an all-time low. from Russia will see pro-Moscow Belarus Meanwhile inflation has soared to over endure “subdued” growth and Western- growth forecast at 7.4% 8 percent and looks set to remain elevat- leaning Moldova will struggle to bolster ed in 2015.“Even without further escala- its economy, the IMF said. tion, prolonged uncertainty could erode The knock-on effect will also be felt in Country faces range of ‘near-term risks’ confidence, accelerate capital outflows, ex-Soviet nations such as Armenia, put pressure on the exchange rate, and Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan where remit- HONG KONG: The International Monetary Fund slower but more stable and sustainable growth ket...to correct while preventing an excessively further weaken investment and growth, tances from Russia make up a key chunk left its forecast for China’s economic growth in the long run. sharp slowdown,” it said. with the adverse spillovers to the rest of of the economy. The oil-rich Central Asian this year unchanged at 7.4 percent yesterday “In China’s case, the government still has the the CIS via lower imports, remittances, nation of Kazakhstan will also see growth but warned the world’s second-largest econo- Weakening despite stimulus measures capacity to absorb and and respond to the and foreign direct investment,” the IMF decline as investor confidence remains my faces a range of “near-term growth risks”, Recent indicators have suggested that types of shocks which triggered crises else- said. Some senior Russian officials have unsteady on the back of ongoing regional especially in real estate. GDP growth will slow growth in China-which stood at 7.7 percent last where.” further to 7.1 percent next year, the IMF said in year, maintaining its slowest expansion in more Propping up growth through infrastructure sounded increasingly dire warnings over tensions.—AFP its latest World Economic Outlook report, citing than a decade-is weakening even after authori- spending would “complicate the challenge of a probable tightening of credit and ongoing ties took limited stimulatory measures. China’s rebalancing,” the leader said, adding that weakness in the property market. industrial production growth slowed sharply in “slightly lower growth in the future is seen to The figures came after the World Bank cut its August to its lowest level for more than five be a healthy development”. Africa growth still robust but own forecasts on Monday to 7.4 percent for years, official data said last month, while house It urged China to reform its financial sector 2014 and 7.2 percent in 2015. But the IMF’s pre- prices have fallen for five consecutive months. by making its exchange rate more flexible, lib- Ebola threat remains: IMF dictions were unchanged from estimates it Officials are targeting GDP expansion of eralizing bank deposit rates, and boosting gave in July, when it downgraded its projec- “about 7.5 percent” this year, the same as last spending on the “social safety net” to reduce JOHANNESBURG: Sub-Saharan Africa’s west African region,” the IMF said. tions for China’s expansion from 7.5 percent year’s objective. The goal is normally exceeded, household saving rates. economic growth remains strong and In a separate report, the World Bank and 7.3 percent respectively. but senior officials have repeatedly sought to “Without a change in the pattern of growth should accelerate to 5.8 percent in 2015 said that without a scaled-up response, China is a key driver of the global economy play down its significance this year. that relies on credit and investment, vulnera- but if the Ebola outbreak in its western transportation, cross-border trade, sup- and in recent decades it enjoyed many years of Overall growth will be “in line with the bilities will continue to rise,” it said. Failing to corner is protracted or spreads it will ply chains and tourism in West Africa double-digit growth, the boom propelling it up authorities’ target” this year, the IMF said, do so would threaten Asian expansion, it have “dramatic consequences” for that could be “severely disrupted”, costing the world financial tables. But now the government thanks in part to government spending on added. “Asia’s potential growth, which has zone, the IMF said yesterday. In its latest region as a whole tens of billions of dol- and analysts say China’s economy needs to be infrastructure, but added that “risk stems from a declined in the last few years, could weaken World Economic Outlook, the Fund said lars. rebalanced away from an emphasis on exports sharp decline in house prices and housing further, particularly if reform implementation Africa should repeat 2013’s growth rate The security situation in several parts and over-reliance on huge and often wasteful activity”. is delayed.” But for the current year, it said, of 5.1 percent this year and then acceler- of Sub-Saharan Africa remained fragile, state-backed investment projects, towards “Real estate investment has been an impor- world export growth “is expected to remain ate in 2015 as infrastructure investments the IMF said, noting rumbling internal internal demand. tant engine of growth in China, and it will be strong given the projected rebound in The transformation is expected to result in challenging to allow imbalances in the mar- advanced economies and China”. —AFP boost efficiency and the service sectors conflicts in South Sudan and Central and agriculture flourish. African Republic. The 2015 forecast was an improve- Growth in South Africa, the conti- ment on the 5.5 percent growth for the nent’s most advanced economy, had Mahindra to buy 51% stake in Peugeot scooter unit overall region projected by the IMF in been lacklustre, hit by protracted strikes, April. “This overall positive outlook is, low business confidence and tight elec- NEW DELHI: Leading Indian vehicle manu- India market, mass market product technol- however, overshadowed by the dire situ- tricity supply, the IMF said. But it saw facturer Mahindra announced yesterday a ogy and competence in marketing while ation in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone, “muted recovery” taking hold in 2015 binding offer to buy a majority stake in Peugeot brings premium range, a strong where the current Ebola outbreak is through improving labor relations and France’s Peugeot Motorcycles, the world’s European footprint, and a globally recog- exacting a heavy human and economic gradually stronger exports that would oldest motorcycle-maker, as it seeks new nized brand,” Goenka said. The announce- toll,” the report’s Sub-Saharan Africa sec- push South African growth to 2.3 percent technology to drive sales. Mahindra Two ment caps lengthy talks between the two tion said. from a forecast 1.4 percent this year. Wheelers Ltd, an unlisted arm of Mahindra companies and comes as Peugeot under & Mahindra, said its “binding offer” for the new chief executive Carlos Tavares strives to Since it was detected in Guinea in By contrast, Nigeria - the continent’s 51-percent stake would involve a 15-mil- return to profit. March, spreading to neighbouring Sierra top oil producer which overtook South lion-euro ($19-million) injection into The scooter unit has suffered losses in Leone and Liberia, the Ebola epidemic Africa as its biggest economy this year Peugeot Motorcycles, part of the Paris- the face of strong competition from rivals. has killed more than 3,400 people and is after a dramatic GDP rebasing - is fore- based PSA Group. The acquisition, bringing with it sophisti- the world’s worst recorded outbreak of cast to expand 7 percent this year and In a statement, Mahindra, part of the cated new technology, could boost the deadly hemorrhagic fever. 7.3 percent in 2015, the Fund said. $16.5-billion Mahindra Group, called the Mahindra’s efforts to compete against local The epidemic has overwhelmed the Some African economies had been offer a “win-win” for both companies. rivals Hero MotoCorp and Honda in the vast health systems and battered the able to increasingly tap capital markets, “The coming together of Mahindra and Indian two-wheeler segment, analysts say. economies of these three small West with recent sovereign bond issuances in Peugeot is a win-win for the two-wheeler Mahindra & Mahindra has been strengthen- African states, which were showing signs the Eurodollar market largely oversub- business for both companies,” said ing its position in the two-wheeler segment of recovering from a decade of interlock- scribed, the report said, citing maiden Mahindra & Mahindra executive director globally with sales operations in Latin ing civil wars in the 1990s. issues by Kenya and Ivory Coast. African Pawan Goenka, who gave no additional America, Africa and South Asia. Isolated travellers have also carried currencies had also generally stabilized financial details about the transaction. The partnership would enable both the disease to Nigeria, Senegal and the after weakening in 2013, with some Mahindra gave assurances that Peugeot Mahindra and Peugeot Motorcycles to United States, and a Spanish nurse has exceptions. The IMF report singled out AHMEDABAD: India Vice President for Sales and Motorcycles would not lose its French iden- “speed (up) their international expansion,” become the first person to contract Ghana’s cedi, whose continued down- Customer Care at Mahindra Two Wheelers, tity under the Indian firm. Mahindra & Goenka said. Ebola outside of Africa in this outbreak. ward pressure reflected “domestic poli- Dharmendra Mishra, speaks during the launch of the Mahindra is India’s biggest utility vehicle- The management approach outlined by “Should the Ebola outbreak become cy slippages”, and Zambia’s kwacha, ‘GUSTO’ Scooter in Ahmedabad. India’s Mahindra & maker and flagship of the Mahindra Group Mahindra for Peugeot Motorcycles is in line Mahindra group has announced a bid to purchase a more protracted or spread to more coun- which fell heavily in the first half of the led by industrialist Anand Mahindra, a with the one the Indian company followed 51% stake in PSA Puegeot Citroen’s scooter business tries, it would have dramatic conse- year before recovering some lost member of one of India’s richest business in its $378-million purchase of a 70 percent and invest 15 million euros in the Pugeot Motorcycles families. stake in troubled South Korean automaker quences for economic activity in the ground. — Reuters company. —AFP “Mahindra would offer access to the SsangYong in 2011. — AFP BUSINESS WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2014

Joyalukkas ‘Think Pink’ campaign spreads message ‘self check saves lives’

KUWAIT: The ‘Joyalukkas Think Pink’ movement, with the Pink Pledge’ to help fight breast cancer continues with to as many countries as possible,” said, Sonia John Paul, early detection in most cases is 100 percent curable. theme ‘Take a Pink Pledge,’ will again actively undertake more vigor and energy based on the many positive Director, Joyalukkas Group. “As a woman I understand what women and their fami- various initiatives this October with the mission to spread responses we have received over the past three years,” said The month of October is dedicated to building aware- lies go through if affected by breast cancer hence our the message of ‘Self Check Saves Lives’. Joy Alukkas, Chairman & MD, Joyalukkas Group. ness, educating and empowering women on Breast Cancer pledge to it has grown stronger. The overwhelming sup- The ‘Joyalukkas Think Pink’ campaign is a 100 percent “I have taken the pink pledge, to actively work towards worldwide. To complement the global drive, Joyalukkas port and response we have received over the past three non-profit initiative with the single-minded objective to taking this movement wherever Joyalukkas is present launched ‘JoyalukkasThink Pink’ in the year 2011, as one of years, is inspiring us to reach greater heights. As a Group, educate and empower women with tips and guidance to across the world. We are a network of 95 plus showrooms its main activities within its yearly CSR calendar. The we are committed to take up various causes that help and protect themselves and fight against the dreaded dis- spread across 10 countries around the world and under ‘JoyalukkasThink Pink’ initiative strives to drive awareness assist mankind and we look forward to reaching an mini- ease. the leadership of our visionary chairman, Alukkas and our and educate society on the various aspects of breast can- mum of 200,000 people through our movement of ‘Take a “Our commitment to grow this movement of ‘Taking a CSR head Jolly Joy Alukkas, I plan to spread this movement cer and urges people to take periodic self-check because Pink Pledge’,”said Jolly JoyAlukkas. Dubai Smart govt’s ePay generates AED 5bn in first 9 months of 2014 Portal posts 25% y-o-y transaction increase

DUBAI: Recent statistics from Dubai Smart the growing interest of customers in using the ePay The portal is part of the Dubai Smart Government (DSG) have revealed that approxi- service to complete their government transactions, Government’s efforts to provide government servic- mately AED 5 billion was collected through its ePay further reflecting their full confidence in this highly es through innovative channels in order to facilitate portal, an increase of 25 per cent from January 1 to efficient and secure service. We have come a long government interaction with the people and busi- September 30, 2014, compared to the same period way in offering smart government applications, ness community of Dubai. It enables instant pay- the previous year. The uptrend was accompanied especially for financial transactions which are con- ment of government fees through a smart, effec- by a 16 per cent increase in the number of complet- sidered sensitive areas for our customers. We have tive, comfortable and secure mechanism to save ed transactions. been able to improve user confidence in DSG time and effort related to personal visits to banks or A total of AED 4,985,541,820 was collected through portal enhancements such as the integra- relevant departments, in line with Dubai’s current through DSG’s ePay portal on behalf of 28 govern- tion of a 3D Secure System and the inclusion of strategy of ensuring full customer satisfaction. ment entities by the end of September 2014, multiple payment options for our customers.” accounting for 3,810,153 transactions compared to “This portal enables individual and corporate 3,296,356 transactions during the same period in users to pay electronically or via smart channels for 2013. This has led to substantial benefits in terms of more than 100 services being offered by participat- Agility wins ‘Logistics Company reducing government expenses through invest- ing government entities, either through the ment in DSG’s technical infrastructure, which is eDirham, credit or debit cards from seven leading offered to all Dubai-based government entities and banks, namely: Commercial Bank of Dubai, Dubai of the Year’ at Arabian departments as well as individual and corporate Islamic Bank, Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank, Abu users. Dhabi Islamic Bank, Emirates Islamic Bank, Union Business Achievement Awards As part of DSG’s Corporate Social Responsibility National Bank, and Emirates NBD”, Bin Humaidan (CSR) initiatives, the ePay gateway contributes to concluded. environmental sustainability efforts by lowering the The ePay portal has a smart feature which allows KUWAIT: Agility, a leading global logistics “It’s great to be recognized as a logistics carbon footprint from exhaust gas emissions as a it to be connected with all the smart and e- services provider, was named “Logistics Company of leader in Kuwait, especially because Agility result of less daily heavy traffic movement of cus- of government departments, irrespective of the the Year” at the Arabian Business got its start in this country,” said Ali Mikail, tomers going to government offices. technologies and software used by these entities. It Achievement Awards 2014, organized by Senior Vice President, Agility Kuwait and Ahmad Bin Humaidan, Director General of Dubai is also compatible with all means of electronic pay- Arabian Business, a top business publication Levant. “The award reaffirms our commit- Smart Government, commented on the massive ment including the internet, kiosks, Interactive Ahmad Bin Humaidan, Director General of in the Middle East. ment to providing the best service to our increase in ePay usage: “These results demonstrate Voice Response, and major credit cards. Agility was recognized for leading the customers. It is dedicated to our employees Dubai Smart Government logistics industry in Kuwait with consistently whose efforts and hard work make such high quality service, a wide range of logistics recognition possible.” The annual Arabian services and extensive assets. Muhannad Al- Business Achievement Awards honors the Malabar Gold & Omari, Agility’s Director of Sales for Kuwait, best corporations and individuals for their German growth falters as accepted the award at a ceremony in Kuwait outstanding achievements in various fields Diamonds announces City. of business and industries. industrial sector slumps exciting festive FRANKFURT: Germany’s unexpected weak ECB action needed Gulf Bank announces winners industrial data in August have cast a shadow The drop in the industrial data was large- season offers over the performance of Europe’s biggest ly technical rather than a sudden deteriora- of Al-Danah daily draws economy and the entire region for the rest of tion in fundamentals, the expert said. KUWAIT: Malabar Gold & Diamonds, one of the leading jewelry the year, analysts said yesterday. Following a But Capital Economics economist retailers announced the detail of its fabulous offers to enthrall cus- KUWAIT: Gulf Bank held its Al-Danah daily for the million dinars will be held on 8 January, deep 5.7-percent slump in factory orders as a Jonathan Loynes was more pessimistic. draws on September 28th 2014, announcing 2015 whereby the Al-Danah millionaire will be tomers during the festive season. The promotions will run at all result of the late timing of the summer holi- “August’s big drop in industrial production outlets of Malabar Gold & Diamonds in GCC until 25October, the names of its winners for the week of announced alongside winners of KD50,000 and days, overall industrial output shrank by a all but confirmed that German industry is September 21 to September 25. The Al-Danah KD250,000. 2014. massive 4.0 percent, according to regular data back in recession and underlined the need To celebrate this festive season, Malabar Gold & Diamonds is daily draws include draws each working day for Al-Danah allows customers to win cash compiled by the economy ministry. for both the European Central Bank and the two prizes of KD1000 per winner. prizes and simultaneously encourages them to offering an opportunity to their customers to win one kilogram “The setback in industrial production in German government to give the euro-zone’s gold. Customers who buy gold or diamond jewelry worth KD 40 save. Each KD100 gives the customer 1 chance August was a massive one. Shutdowns in the biggest economy much more policy sup- The winners are daily which accumulates day by day. The more get a chance to enter the raffle draws to win quarter-kilo gold auto industry due to the late summer holi- port,” he said. The ECB has cut its key interest every week. Apart from this, a free one gram gold coin can be (Sunday 21/09): Athari Saleh Mohammed money saved and the longer it is in the account, days played an important role,” said UniCredit rates to new all-time lows and has promised Al-Azmi, Hameed Sayed Shobbar Hashim Al- the more chances individuals stand to win. availed of with every diamond jewelry purchase of KD 250. economist Andreas Rees. “We do not expect to embark on a range of measures to pump Furthermore, eight gram gold coins can be bought from all Mousawi Every Al-Danah prize draws will automatically shrinking GDP (gross domestic product) in cash into the economy. (Monday 22/09): Sultan Sager Awad Al- be deposited into the winner’s account within Malabar Gold & Diamond outlets with absolutely no making the third quarter, and hence a technical reces- BayernLB economist Stefan Kipar point- charge during this period. Customers can also exchange 22 carat Eteiby, Taliah Hassan Suweiei two working days. sion. However, the envisaged rebound in the ed the finger at uncertainty over the eco- (Tuesday 23/09): Khaled Hady Al-Danah also offers a number of unique GCC gold jewelry with zero loss during the festive season. The third quarter is now at risk,” Rees said. nomic fallout of the Ukraine crisis, since jewelry retailer is also offering advance booking facility, keeping Mohammed Al-Namran, Jamal services including the Al-Danah Deposit Only The German economy shrank by 0.2 per- Germany has important business ties with Abdulmohsen Abdullah Al-Thuwene ATM card which helps account holders deposit the convenience of their customers in mind. cent in the second quarter of this year and Russia which has been hit with a series of EU Starting from 1 October, these offers can be availed at all (Wednesday 24/09): Jaber Ahmad their money at their convenience; as well as another contraction in the third quarter and US sanctions. But he said he was pen- Abdullah Al-Saqoubi, Fouziya Mohammed the Al-Danah calculator to help customers cal- Malabar Gold & Diamonds outlets across Kuwait until 25 October, would technically put the country in reces- cilling in “positive, albeit very modest 2014. Malabar Gold & Diamonds have outlets in Al Rai Lu&Lu Motlaq Al-Bedaih (Thursday 25/09): Khalifa culate their chances of becoming an Al-Danah sion. But the government, the German central growth” for Germany in the third quarter. Harfash Khafi Al-Shemari, Mufeed Hussain winner. Hypermarket, Dajeej Lu&Lu Hypermarket, Fahaheel and at Souk Al bank and a whole range of think tanks are Natixis economist Johannes Gareis said Watya in Kuwait City. Mohammed Al-Nasser Gulf Bank’s Al-Danah account is open to confident the decline will be short-lived and the broad-based decline in the industry Kuwaitis and all residents of Kuwait. Customers To add extra shine to this season, the jewelry retailer has also Germany will return to growth in the third data “was exacerbated by the timing of launched an exclusive festive jewelry collection in gold and dia- Gulf Bank’s Al-Danah 2014 draw lineup who open an account and/ or deposit more will and fourth quarters of this year. UniCredit’s German school holidays, which started late includes daily draws (2 winners per working day enter the draw within two days. To take part in monds at attractive prices that suits the taste of a variety of cus- Rees insisted that while the drop in both this year. Yet, this effect may not explain tomers. Malabar Gold& Diamonds also offers their diverse and each receive KD1000). Gulf Bank advises all its the Al-Danah 2014 upcoming yearly draw, cus- industrial orders and industrial output was the whole weakness.” The data “suggest Al-Danah customers and customers that are tomers must have an Al-Danah account con- unique collection of branded jewelry - Mine - Diamonds severe, “there is no reason to panic.” “German that the underlying growth trend of the Unlimited, Era- Uncut Diamond Jewelry, Ethnix- Handcrafted interested in taking part in the Al-Danah mil- taining at least KD 200. To be part of the Al- industrial activity will soften in coming German economy has heavily slowed lionaire draw to increase their deposits or to Danah draws, customers can visit one of Gulf Designer Jewelry, Divine - Indian Heritage Jewelry, Precia- months as already indicated by business sen- down,” he said. Commerzbank economist Precious Gem Jewelry and Starlet - Kids Jewelry. open an Al-Danah account by October 31st, to Bank’s 58 branches, transfer on line, or call the timent but not tumble into the abyss,” he said. Ralph Solveen predicted that Germany was enhance their chances of winning, and be eligi- Customer Contact Center on 1805805 for assis- “There is no reason to dig up the R-word likely to see stagnation “at best” in the third ble for the annual draw. The final Al-Danah draw tance and guidance. again,” he insisted, referring to recession. quarter. — AFP IMF trims global outlook; euro-zone warned

WASHINGTON: The International Monetary Fund warned of this year to 3.3 percent, down 0.1 percentage point from July and nomic expansion that does not generate more jobs for the unem- stagnation in advanced economies yesterday as it trimmed its 0.4 point less than it envisaged in April. ployed. The IMF report also evoked a worry increasingly discussed growth forecast for the whole world. The global economy faces an The 2015 outlook has been cut to 3.8 percent growth, com- among economists, “secular stagnation” in advanced economies, increase in risks this year from the Russia-Ukraine crisis and strife pared with 4.0 percent previously forecast. The overall projections where private demand and investment growth dries up, and job in the Middle East, and the wider economic threat if the Ebola out- appeared even less buoyant in the details. The growth forecast for creation slows well shy of the goal of full employment. break in West Africa is not contained. the world’s largest economy, the United States, was revised That could reduce the growth potential of a country, and ulti- And it said that the deep wounds of the economic crisis that upward 0.5 percentage point to 2.2 percent this year, recognizing mately impact the global economy, it said. began in 2008 are “proving tougher to resolve”, especially in the country’s sharp rebound from a first-quarter contraction. Europe. “Given these increased risks, raising actual and potential Euro-zone risk growth must remain a priority,” the Fund said in its semi-annual US growth strong The deepest such worry is the euro-zone, where a stalling World Economic Outlook report. The United States and Britain were singled out, leading the recovery could see demand further weaken and deflation take But it also said that the strength of advanced economies could way with “decent” growth, but even so the IMF hedged its enthusi- root. The IMF stressed that such a scenario is not the one it sees be enhanced with much-needed investment in infrastructure, asm. “Even for those two countries, potential growth is now lower most likely, as the European Central Bank acts to further stimulate financed by the state. “Should the recovery stall, being ready to do than in the early 2000s,” it said. investment and spending with negative interest rates. “We believe more would be important,” it said. Last week International Monetary Fund Managing Director euro area fundamentals are slowly improving,” said IMF chief The global crisis lender lowered its forecast for global growth Christine Lagarde stressed the danger of a “new mediocre” in eco- economist Olivier Blanchard.—AFP WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2014 technology

New York cancels phone booth transmitter program NEW YORK: The city has scuttled an out- ogy is most often used to send ads, had asked Titan to remove the beacons. are expected to be removed in the com- eras and transmitters to track residents door media company’s project slated to called push advertising, onto people’s “While the beacons Titan installed in ing days. Civil liberties groups com- but has yet to publicize a policy as to install in payphone booths thousands of cellphones. But the signal, which uses some of its phones for testing purposes plained about a possible invasion of pri- how they will use the devices. Last transmitters that could track people’s Bluetooth rather than Wi-Fi or cellular are incapable of receiving or collecting vacy and the lack of public discussion month, one of them turned on - police movements by sending signals to their signals, could also be used to track the any personally identifiable information, over the program. “To the extent that the said it was inadvertently - which raised smartphones. movements of the phones’ owners, we have asked Titan to remove them city is involved in this, the lack of trans- concerns from right-to-privacy groups. Titan, which sells ad space in more which would have added to the ever- from their phones,” said Phil Walzak, parency (is) of even greater concern,” the A furor has also erupted in London, than 5,000 phone kiosks, had received increasing layers of surveillance installed spokesman for Democratic Mayor Bill de head of the New York Civil Liberties where an advertising company has approval from the city to place the trans- in the nation’s largest city since the Sept. Blasio. Walzak noted that Titan was help- Union, Donna Lieberman, told Buzzfeed. installed transmitters in trash cans to mitters, known as beacons, in the 11, 2001, terror attacks. ing the city pilot free Wi-Fi in public The revelation in New York comes as a track cellphones. And in Washington, booths, and 500 had already been The proposal was first reported spaces. A spokesman for Titan said that similar battle over privacy is being several cellphone tracking towers have installed around Manhattan. Monday morning in a joint piece pub- the beacons were not intended to track waged on the West Coast. More than a been spotted around the city, but the The beacons emit a signal that is lished by Buzzfeed and the Daily News. people but it would honor the city’s year ago, Seattle police vowed not to identities of their operators remain a picked up by smartphones. The technol- Hours later, the city announced that it request to remove them. The beacons turn on a network of surveillance cam- mystery. — AP Taiwan PM warns China cyber attack threat growing

TAIPEI: Taiwan’s premier warned yesterday end of a civil war, separated by the Taiwan of increasing cyber attacks from China, the Strait. Ties between Taiwan and China have island’s highest-ranking official to improved markedly since President Ma denounce attempts to “steal government Ying-jeou took office in 2008 on a platform secrets” despite warming cross-strait rela- of boosting cross-strait trade and tourism. tions. But Taiwanese government websites Jiang Yi-huah’s warning comes after the have frequently suffered digital bombard- Federal Bureau of Investigation warned on ments from China, usually during disputes Sunday that China is waging an aggressive between the two sides, authorities say. cyber war against the United States which “The Chinese mainland has political costs American businesses billions of dol- ambitious towards Taiwan and never lars every year. ceased its preparations for invading Taiwan, “The mainland’s cyber units have been among them military exercises and cyber stepping up attacks on Taiwan’s civil and attacks,” Jiang said. government websites,” Jiang said in parlia- “While the cross-strait ties look calm ment. ostensibly, the undercurrents have been Urging government employees to turbulent,” he added. heighten their vigilance, Jiang said Chinese The United States, a key ally of Taiwan, cyber attackers often use civil websites as routinely accuses China of cyber attacks springboards to access Taiwan’s official and spying. Five Chinese military officers websites and “steal government secrets”. were indicted for hacking into US compa- Taiwan and China split in 1949 at the nies in May. — AFP

Talking to your car can TOKYO: A model displays Japanese mobile communication giant NTT Docomo’s mobile navigation device “Yubi Navi” (Finger Navigator) which be dangerous, studies say uses tactile sensations to guide the user at the CEATEC electronics trade show in Chiba, suburban Tokyo yesterday. — AFP

WASHINGTON: Just because you can talk University of Utah psychology professor to your car doesn’t mean you should. Two who led the two studies, said researchers Mind-reading bar, health new studies have found that voice-activated consulted with Apple before beginning the smartphones and dashboard infotainment study. The study used an iOS 7 version of systems may be making the distracted-dri- Siri that was tweaked to be nearly identical T-shirt unveiled in Japan ving problem worse instead of better. to the iOS 8 version, which was just recently The systems let drivers do things like released, he said. tune the radio, send a text message, or The systems with the worst ratings were CHIBA: Glasses that tell you how to get home, make a phone call while keeping their eyes those that made errors even though drivers’ adverts that know where you are looking and a on the road and their hands on the wheel, voice commands were clear and distinct, T-shirt that knows how fast your heart is beating but many of these systems are so error- said Strayer. Drivers had to concentrate on were on display at a huge tech gathering in prone or complex that they require more exactly what words they wanted to use and Japan yesterday. concentration from drivers rather than less, in what order to get the systems to follow The gadgets were all part of this year’s according to studies released yesterday by their commands, creating a great deal of Cutting-Edge IT & Electronics Comprehensive the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety and frustration. Exhibition (CEATEC), Asia’s largest electronics the University of Utah. For example, an infotainment system fair, just outside Tokyo. Leading the pack was a One study examined infotainment sys- might recognize a command to change a tiny projection device that can be attached to a tems in some of the most common auto radio station to “103.5 FM,” but not “FM pair of glasses to give the wearer an ever-visible brands on the road: Chevrolet, Chrysler, 103.5” or simply “103.5,” he said. screen. Ford, Hyundai and Mercedes. The second Siri sometimes garbled text messages or The prototype-dubbed Toshiba Glass and study tested the Apple iPhone’s Siri voice selected wrong phone numbers from per- weighing 42 grammes (less than 1.5 oz) — system to navigate, send texts, make sonal phonebooks, Strayer said. During one might offer directions or a simultaneous transla- Facebook and Twitter posts, and use the cal- test, Siri called 911 instead of the phone tion, or could assist factory workers who need endar without handling or looking at the number requested by the volunteer driver both hands free while working, a Toshiba phone. Apple and Google are working with and the driver had to scramble to end the researcher said. automakers to mesh smartphones with info- call before it went through. Siri found the “We still don’t know what wearable formats tainment systems so that drivers can bring number in the driver’s phonebook because will be the most accepted in the future,” said their apps, navigation and music files into the driver had called it once before. Toshiba senior research scientist Yoshiyuki their cars. “When these systems become more Kokojima. “Constantly seeing a small screen may The voice-activated systems were graded complex, like sending text messages or get tiring to the eyes, but you could get informa- on a distraction scale of 1 to 5, with 1 repre- posting to Facebook, it pushes the work- tion without even lifting a finger. It’s less effort senting no distraction and 5 comparable to loads to pretty high levels and may be dan- than consulting a wrist watch.” doing complex math problems and word gerous while driving,” Strayer said. Leading mobile carrier NTT Docomo was TOKYO: A model displays prototype model of a smart glass “Toshiba Glass”, produced by memorization. The studies contradict claims by showcasing a T-shirt that uses a special textile to Japanese electronics giant Toshiba which enables to display various information on the glass The systems were tested by 162 universi- automakers, who have been pitching the keep track of the wearer’s pulse. The data is at the CEATEC electronics trade show in Chiba, suburban Tokyo yesterday. —AFP ty students and other volunteers in three voice systems to car buyers as a way they transmitted to a smartphone, which must run a settings: a laboratory, a driving simulator can safely enjoy social media and connectiv- specific app, the company said. Freedom nudging left or right until the destination hoves and in cars while driving through a Salt Lake ity. Safety advocates say drivers assume that While Docomo’s offering might have concen- NTT Docomo’s Yubi Navi might prove useful into view. City neighborhood. such systems are safe because they are trated on health, Fujitsu unveiled something to for customers struggling to find their way home Its inventors say the Yubi Navi also offers a incorporated into vehicles and are hands- encourage a bit more relaxation, in the form of a after a night at such an accommodating bar. way to communicate with someone who is far Worst rating free. device that could help a barman read his cus- Billed as “just like holding someone’s hand”, away, effectively “squeezing” their hand by acti- Apple’s Siri received the worst rating, The National Highway Traffic Safety tomers’ minds. the small rubber cuboid fits snugly in the palm vating your own device. 4.14. Twice test drivers using Siri in a driving Administration, which regulates vehicle Small sensors in a bar track where a drinker is and buzzes or vibrates to guide the user through “Touch sensation can create a new type of simulator rear-ended another car. safety, has issued guidelines to automakers looking and automatically offer information on unfamiliar streets. gadget for the future,” an NTT Docomo presenter Chevrolet’s MyLink received the worst rat- for dashboard systems and is working on screens about that bottle of expensive wine he The kit offers freedom from the tyranny of said. ing, 3.7, among the infotainment systems. similar guidelines for cellphones and voice- keeps gazing at-such as where it comes from having to keep your eyes glued to a smartphone Nearly 550 companies are taking part in the Infotainment systems from three other activated systems, but the guidelines are and what year it is. for directions, the company said. trade show, which has gathered foreign automakers - Mercedes, Ford and Chrysler - voluntary. “This could be one way of marketing in the After a user types in the intended address on exhibitors from 24 countries and territories. The also were rated more distracting for drivers “Infotainment systems are unregulated,” future,” said Fujitsu spokesman Naoki Mishiro. their connected phone, the device takes over, show runs until Saturday. —AFP than simply talking on a hand-held cell- said Deborah Hersman, president of the phone. National Safety Council and former chair- “What we continue to see from cus- man of the National Transportation Safety tomers is that they demand this level of Board. “It is like the Wild West, where the Funky robots display Japan’s technologies technology in their vehicles, that access to most critical safety feature in the vehicle - music and access to calls is now a critical the driver - is being treated like a guinea pig TOKYO: A smartphone-controlled dinosaur, syn- this robot perhaps being used in a factory or pro- manufacturer, presents a group of 10 robot cheer- part of the driving experience and so we’re in human trials with new technologies.” chronized cheerleaders and a ping pong-playing duction line and having a role in which it would leaders with color-changing pom-pons that use looking at innovative ways to provide that,” Two of the infotainment systems were spider are some of the robot technology show- have to interact with a worker to do or build gyroscopic sensors to roll on spherical bases in said Chevrolet spokeswoman Annalisa rated relatively low for distraction. Toyota’s cased at the CEATEC Japan electronics exhibition. something. This would involve the robot under- unison without losing their balance. Bluhm. Apple noted in a statement that Entune received a 1.7, the distraction equiv- Exhibitors used such attention-grabbing gadg- standing the needs of its human counterpart and “These robots use our proprietary balancing researchers didn’t use the company’s alent of listening to an audiobook, and ets to showcase their technology and stand out at behaving appropriately.” technology combined with technology that pre- CarPlay or Siri Eyes Free, which are designed Hyundai’s Blue Lin Telematic System the event that started yesterday. Sadly for gadget vents, in real time, the robots from clashing for use in cars. However, David Strayer, the received a 2.2.— AP lovers, the robots aren’t for sale. SYNCHRONIZED CHEERLEADERS together,” said Tomoyuki Mori, a Murata engineer. They are 36 centimeters (14 inches) tall but “It also uses technology that coordinates the A DINOSAUR PAL their choreography is flawless. Murata movement of all the robots together in a synchro- TE Connectivity’s dinosaur robot, the TE Manufacturing, a leading electronic component nized manner.” —AP Saurus, lets users experience a close encounter with a 2.1-meter-tall (6-foot-11) reptile without going back in time. A smartphone application can make the dinosaur walk or jump. A shake of the smart- phone prompts the TE Saurus to bark. TE Saurus also can play trivia games as users answer ques- tions through the app.

PING-PONG COMPANION Despite its intimidating spider-like resem- blance, OMRON Corp.’s three-legged robot is a relaxed ping pong playmate. It watches its human opponent to predict the ball’s path. Still, the robot takes it easy on opponents by missing a few hits here and there. With five motors to control paddle movement, it is programmed to serve the ball in a SALT LAKE CITY: This March 6, 2014, image provided by AAA Foundation via way that makes it easy for the player to return. DanCampbellPhotography.com shows drivers during the Cognitive Distraction “This ping pong robot is really a demonstra- Phase II testing in Salt Lake City. Two new studies have found that voice-activat- tion of how a robot can interact with a person ed smartphones and dashboard infotainment systems may be making the dis- and react in an appropriate manner,” says Takuya TOKYO: A TE Connectivity Japan staff member demonstrates how to control remotely its tracted-driving problem worse. — AP Tsuyuguchi, an Omron manager. “We envision dinosaur robot “TE Saurus” by a smart phone during the annual CEATEC Japan advanced tech- nologies show in Chiba, east of Tokyo yesterday. —AP HEALTH & SCIENCE WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2014

Scientists see severe coral bleaching near Oahu

KANEOHE: While people in Hawaii have been Department of Land and Natural Resources. completely white. healthy as possible ... so that they can respond sweating out a lack of trade winds, corals under- This September was the second-hottest on There also have been reports of coral bleach- and they don’t bleach and they don’t die because water are also suffering. record since the 1940s, with recent underwater ing on Maui, the Big Island and at Honolulu’s of these additional stressors.” Scientists standing in the muggy heat at Heeia temperatures as high as 86 degrees, scientists famed Hanauma Bay, a popular snorkeling spot, The current bleaching event is more severe Small Boat Harbor in Kaneohe said Monday that noted. A maximum of 83 degrees is normal. said Frazer McGilvray, administrator of the Aquatic than the last one in 1996. Almost all of the coral they’re seeing more evidence that higher-than- “It is fairly common to see some level of Resources Division. recovered from the localized bleaching that normal ocean temperatures are causing near- bleaching around this time of year,” said Anne The warm temperature is adding to the stress occurred in the earlier part of that year. But the shore bleaching across the islands. Rosinski, marine resource specialist with the factors coral already face, such as pollution, sedi- latest event is amid higher temperatures later in The warm water prompts algae inside the coral department’s Division of Aquatic Resources, ment in the water, invasive algae and being tram- the year, said Ruth Gates, researcher at the Hawaii to leave, which starves coral and turns it white. explaining that the peak season is August to pled upon. Institute of Marine Biology. It’s the same phenomenon causing mass September. But “this is way above average from “The corals are animals, right, they’re not “And so, what we want is for the trade winds to bleaching that was detected about 1,000 miles what we would expect.” rocks,” said Kim Hum, Hawaii Director of Marine return,” she said, so that the coral can rebound. northwest of Honolulu. The bleaching that crews She said 75 percent of the dominant coral Programs for The Nature Conservancy. “So what But the scientists said bleaching conditions will have found along Oahu’s windward coast is espe- species surveyed in Kaneohe Bay showed signs of bleaching is, it’s a sign of distress.” worsen in the next four to six weeks before the cially severe, according to officials at Hawaii’s bleaching - starting to lose color or bleached She said people need to “make our coral as weather cools. — AP

DNA linked to how much coffee you drink

NEW YORK: How much coffee do you genes that are involved with caffeine, drink every day? One cup in the morning? either in how the body breaks it down or Or do you gulp it all day? in its stimulating effects, the researchers Scientists have long known that your said in a paper released Tuesday by the DNA influences how much java you con- journal Molecular Psychiatry. sume. Now a huge study has identified The two other newly implicated genes some genes that may play a role. were a surprise because there’s no clear Their apparent effect is quite small. But biological link to coffee or caffeine, variations in such genes may modify cof- Cornelis said. They are instead involved fee’s effect on a person’s health, and so with cholesterol levels and blood sugar. genetic research may help scientists Marian Neuhouser, a nutrition explore that, said Marilyn Cornelis of the researcher at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Harvard School of Public Health. She led Research Center in Seattle and study co- the research. author, said identifying genes related to The project analyzed the results of consumption may one day help doctors about two dozen previous studies with a identify patients who need extra help in combined total of more than 120,000 par- cutting down on coffee if recommended. ticipants. Those participants had For example, pregnant women are described how much coffee they drink a advised to consume only moderate day, and allowed their DNA to be amounts of caffeine because of risk of scanned. The new work looked for minute miscarriage and preterm birth, she said. differences in their DNA that were associ- None of the identified genetic vari- ated with drinking more or less coffee. ants was related to how intensely a per- Researchers found eight such variants, son tastes coffee, and Cornelis said that two of which had already been linked to surprised her. She doesn’t drink coffee, coffee consumption. she said, because she can’t stand the Four of the six new variants implicate stuff. — AP MADRID: This is a Monday, Sept 22, 2014 file photo provided by the Spanish Defense Ministry, aid workers and doctors transfer Manuel Garcia Viejo, a Spanish priest who was diagnosed with the Ebola virus while working in Sierra Leone, from a military plane to an ambulance as he leaves the Torrejon de Ardoz military airbase, near Madrid, Spain. Spain has placed in quarantine the husband of a Spanish nurse who has test- ed positive for the virus in the first known transmission of the outbreak of Ebola outside West Africa. — AP Nurse in Spain gets Ebola, raising global concern

MADRID: In a case underscoring the perils of treated. It’s not clear how he was infected. It may was receiving an experimental medication caring for Ebola patients, a nurse in Spain who have happened when he helped clean a vehicle called brincidofovir, which was developed to cared for an Ebola patient has come down with someone died in, said his father, Dr. Mitchell treat other types of viruses. Laboratory tests the disease - the first known transmission out- Levy. On Monday, his symptoms of fever and suggested it may also work against Ebola. side West Africa during the current epidemic. nausea still appeared mild, Levy said. Two other experimental drugs developed Her husband and a second nurse who treated specifically for Ebola have been used, though it’s the patient are now in quarantine, Spanish offi- Experimental treatments unclear whether they had any effect. The small cials said yesterday. A man who arrived on a Mukpo is the fifth American sick with Ebola supply of ZMapp was exhausted after being flight from Nigeria has also been quarantined, brought back from West Africa for medical care. used on a few patients, though government offi- they said. Public Health Director Mercedes The others were aid workers - three have recov- cials say more should be available in the next Vinuesa told Parliament that authorities were ered and one remains hospitalized. There are no two months. A second drug, TKM-Ebola from making a list of other people who may have had approved drugs for Ebola, so doctors have tried Tekmira Pharmaceuticals, has been used in at contact with the nurse, who has not been pub- experimental treatments in some cases. The crit- least one patient. licly identified. The couple has no children. ically ill Liberian man hospitalized in Dallas is Federal health officials say a travel ban could CRANBERRY: In this Friday, Feb. 6, 2009 photo, the owner of a coffee shop serves The Health Ministry’s chief coordinator for also getting an experimental treatment, Texas make the desperate situation worse in those cappuccinos to judges during a barista competition in Cranberry, Pa. Scientists have health alerts and emergencies, Fernando Simon, Health Presbyterian Hospital said Monday. countries, and White House spokesman Josh long known that one’s genes influence how much of coffee one consumes, and a told Cadena SER radio that the nurse was in sta- Thomas Eric Duncan is the first person to be Earnest said it was not currently under consider- study released yesterday, 2014 by the journal Molecular Psychiatry has identified ble condition and her life not in any immediate diagnosed with Ebola in the US; he was admit- ation. some genes that may play a role. — AP danger. Health officials said she had no symp- ted to the hospital Sept. 28. President Barack Obama said the US will be toms besides the fever. Texas Gov. Rick Perry urged the US govern- “working on protocols to do additional passen- News reports said she was 44. Simon said her ment to begin screening air passengers arriving ger screening both at the source and here in the husband was “OK and relatively calm.” There was from Ebola-affected nations, including taking United States.” He did not outline any details or 6 die in dengue virus a low risk that some people in contact with the their temperatures. The hospital said Duncan offer a timeline. — AP nurse could develop Ebola, Simon said, but he insisted this did not represent a public health outbreak in China threat. He disputed critics who said authorities were slow to react to the case. Nobel discovery opens BEIJING: The dengue virus has killed six cial capital of Guangzhou, a sprawling city The nurse, was hospitalized on Sunday, had people and infected more than 23,000 in in China’s manufacturing heartland near helped treat Manuel Garcia Viejo, a Spanish window onto Alzheimer’s southern China’s worst outbreak of the mos- the border with Hong Kong. It said more priest returned from Sierra Leone who died quito-transmitted disease in about two than 1,000 new infections were being reg- Sept. 25 in another Madrid hospital designated LONDON: The discovery of cells in the brain ple worldwide and that number is set to reach decades, officials said yesterday. istered in Guangdong every day, with for treating Ebola patients. She had changed a that act as the body’s internal global position- 135 million by 2050, according to Alzheimer’s Authorities in worst-affected Guangdong other provinces reporting a few dozen diaper for the patient and collected material ing system, which won three scientists the Disease International, a non-profit campaign province attribute the severity of this year’s cases. from his room following his death. She then Nobel Prize for medicine on Monday, opens group. outbreak to exceptionally hot and wet Authorities have dispatched teams went on vacation. an intriguing new window onto dementia. “Understanding how the healthy brain weather, plus increasing travel by residents around Guangzhou to spray insecticide to Vinuesa said Spain had several therapies Since these spatial cells are among the first functions, especially areas of the brain crucial to regions where dengue is endemic, espe- kill the mosquitoes that spread the virus, available and began applying them Monday, but to be hit in Alzheimer’s and other forms of to learning and memory, is incredibly impor- cially Southeast Asia. China’s official Xinhua News Agency said. gave no further details. She had also assisted dementia-explaining why sufferers often lose tant in understanding what changes occur The Guangdong health agency said on Dengue causes flu-like symptoms and treating 75-year-old Spanish priest Miguel their way-understanding how they are during conditions such as Alzheimer’s dis- its website that 19,631 of the 23,146 cases rashes. It usually is not fatal, but can be Pajares, also flown back to Spain from Liberia. He degraded should shed important light on the ease,” said Doug Brown, director of research reported as of Monday were in the provin- especially severe for younger victims. — AP died after being treated with the experimental disease process. and development at Britain’s Alzheimer’s Ebola medicine ZMapp. That is the belief of British-American Society. researcher John O’Keefe, winner of the 2014 The Nobel Prize winners’ work on the Supplies run out prize alongside Norwegians May-Britt and brain’s navigation system stretches back more Garcia Viejo, who was in charge of the San Edvard Moser, who plans to take his research than 40 years, but more recently scientists Juan del Dios hospital in Lunsar, Sierra Leone, to the next level as director of a new brain have developed powerful new tools for study- was not given the treatment because worldwide institute in London. ing brain circuits that O’Keefe plans to put to supplies ran out. “We’re now setting up to do much more work at the new London research institute The virus that causes Ebola spreads only high-tech studies where we hope to follow where his is director. through direct contact with the bodily fluids of the progression of disease over time,” he told The first of more than 150 scientists will an infected person showing symptoms. reporters after hearing he would share the 8 start work at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre The nurse’s illness illustrates the danger that million Swedish crowns ($1.1 million) prize. for Neural Circuits and Behaviour at University health care workers face not only in poorly “This will give us the first handle as to College London next year, using state-of-the- equipped West African clinics, but also in the when and where the disease starts and how art lasers, molecular biology and computa- more sophisticated medical centers of Europe we can attack it at a the molecular and cellu- tional modelling to explore the brain’s intri- and the United States, said Dr. William Schaffner, lar level.” cate wiring. an infectious disease expert at Vanderbilt The battle against Alzheimer’s has been “It’s a very exciting time,” O’Keefe said. The University. long and frustrating. Global cases of dementia Group of Eight leading industrial countries set “At greatest risk in all Ebola outbreaks are are expected to treble by 2050, yet scientists a goal health care workers,” he said. The unprecedented are still struggling to understand its basic last December of finding a cure or effective Ebola outbreak this year has killed more than biology and drug development is littered treatment for dementia by 2025. It is a decade 3,400 people in West Africa, the World Health with failures. since the last drug was approved to treat Organization estimates, and it has become an The work by O’Keefe and the Mosers will Alzheimer’s, and there is still no treatment escalating concern to the rest of the world. More not lead to immediate breakthroughs but by that can slow the progression of the disease, than 370 health-care workers in the hardest-hit explaining how cells function- and then fail to with current drugs only easing some of the RIO DE JANEIRO: Brazilian biologists Mariane da Rocha Davi and Roberto Costa countries of Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone function-in two very specific regions of the symptoms of the disorder. “We all know there Peres chat before releasing 10,000 Aedes aegypti mosquitoes infected with the have died. brain it is seen as vital for unpicking how is a time bomb there,” O’Keefe said. “We are Wolbachia bacterium —which reduces mosquito transmitted diseases such as In the US, video journalist Ashoka Mukpo, Alzheimer’s develops. starting to get a handle on it but that doesn’t dengue and chikungunya by shortening adult lifespan, affect mosquito reproduc- who became infected while working in Liberia, Dementia, of which Alzheimer’s is the most mean it is going to turn into a cure in the tion and interfere with pathogen replication — in Tubiacanga, Ilha do Governador, arrived at the Nebraska Medical Center in common form, already affects 44 million peo- immediate future.” — Reuters Rio de Janeiro. — AFP Omaha, where another Ebola patient had been HEALTH & SCIENCE WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2014

US foods labeled ‘natural’ often contain GMOs

NEW YORK: A majority of US packaged foods While foods labeled as “non-GMO,” or “organic” The report comes as the Grocery But critics point to studies that show links to labeled as “natural” and tested by Consumer were found to be free of genetically modified Manufacturers Association, which represents human and animal health problems and environ- Reports actually contained a substantial level of corn and soy, virtually all of the foods labeled as more than 300 food companies, is pushing the mental damage. Last October, an international genetically modified ingredients, according to a “natural” or not labeled with any claim related to federal government to develop a definition of the coalition of scientists said there is a lack of con- report issued yesterday by the non-profit product GMO content contained substantial amounts of term “natural” on food packaging, and to allow sensus in the scientific community about the testing group. GMO ingredients, Consumer Reports said. foods containing GMOs to be labeled as natural. safety of genetically modified crops. Consumers are being misled by the “natural” GMOs were present in breakfast cereals, chips, Some food manufacturers have been sued for Vermont has passed a law that requires foods label, said Urvashi Rangan, executive director of and infant formula, the group said. using “all natural” labels on products that contain containing GMO ingredients to be labeled as Consumer Reports Food Safety and Sustainability. The organization said it tested at least two genetically modified ingredients. such, and more than 20 other states are consider- Consumer Reports said it had conducted a sur- samples of each of the 80 products to measure Biotech crops currently on the market include ing mandatory labeling of GMO foods, including vey of more than 80 different processed foods GMO content. The products were purchased corn, soybeans, canola and sugar beets that have Colorado and Oregon, which have the issue on containing corn or soy, the two most widely between April and July 2014, the group said. been genetically altered to repel pests or tolerate the ballot for the November election. grown genetically engineered crops in the United Products considered to be free of GMOs con- direct spraying of herbicides. The companies that The policy arm of Consumer Reports, States, to determine whether labeling claims for tained no more than 0.9 percent genetically mod- develop them say the crops are safe. Many scien- Consumers Union, supports mandatory labeling GMO presence were accurate. ified corn or soy. tific studies back those claims. of foods containing GMOs. — Reuters

Astronauts Japan puts new satellite into space resume TOKYO: Japan put a new weather satellite Japan’s Meteorological Agency will use into space yesterday in the hope it can the satellite, alongside the Himawari-9, spacewalks improve the forecasting of typhoons and which is to be launched in 2016, for fore- detect volcanic gas plumes. casting and to replace its ageing Himawari- for NASA The successful launch comes the day 6 and -7. after a typhoon strafed Japan and just over The new satellite “can obtain a satellite CAPE CANAVERAL: Two astronauts performed a a week after a volcano killed more than 60 image of a typhoon once every 2.5 min- spacewalk 260 miles (420 kilometers) up yesterday, people when it erupted without warning. utes, against the current pace of once NASA’s first routine maintenance outside the The Japanese-made H-2A rocket carry- every 30 minutes,” an official of the weather International Space Station in more than a year. ing the Himawari-8 weather satellite blast- agency told AFP. American astronaut Reid Wiseman and German ed into a blue sky at the Tanegashima “Together with improvement in com- spaceman Alexander Gerst worked to move a broken Space Center in southern Kagoshima pre- puter-aided analysis, we hope our forecasts pump into its proper storage location, a long overdue fecture at 2:16 pm (0516 GMT). of a typhoon’s future course will be more job. The 17 billion yen ($155 million) satellite accurate,” he said. US-based spacewalks were curtailed in July 2013 separated successfully from the rocket and “As satellite images will become multi- after an Italian astronaut nearly drowned because of a entered its designated orbit, sparking colour from the current black and white, it flooded helmet. NASA solved the problem with the applause at the space centre, a Japan will be easier to observe volcanic gas” suit’s water-cooling system. Then concern arose over Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) which will be helpful for early warnings of a the spacesuit batteries. spokeswoman told AFP. volcanic eruption, he added. — AFP New batteries arrived late last month, clearing the way for Tuesday’s spacewalk and another one sched- uled for next week. The 780-pound (350-kilogram) Woman with womb transplant pump on the move yesterday is about the size of a double-door refrigerator. It ended up in temporary hopes to inspire others storage during urgent spacewalking repairs to the sta- tion’s ammonia-cooling system last December; NASA did not want to waste time back then putting the GOTHENBURG: The parents of the first Grateful pump in the correct long-term location, given all the baby born to a woman who had a womb For the new mother, the normal stresses spacesuit worries. transplant say they hope they can be an of caring for a newborn seem less important This was the first spacewalk ever for Wiseman and inspiration to others struggling with infer- after years of thinking she would never have Gerst. Wiseman’s exuberance was evident as he tility. a child. “We’ve been through so many things emerged from the hatch into the vast darkness over After what they describe as a roller- I couldn’t control but now that this little fan- the Pacific. “Wow, looks like we’ve almost got a full coaster of a journey, the unnamed Swedish tastic boy is here, I just feel relieved,” she moon out here. It’s beautiful,” Wiseman said. When the couple finally became parents last month, said, in a near-spotless, stylish two-floor glow of sunrise started to appear several minutes lat- when the mother gave birth to a healthy house that bore little trace of a newborn er, he shared his excitement again with Mission but premature baby boy. For the couple, except for an errant pacifier on the kitchen Control. making history was an afterthought. counter. A follow-up spacewalk is scheduled for Oct. 15 to “Yes, we’re the first to do this, but that’s Her husband said they will be forever further whittle down NASA’s lengthy to-do list, on not the important thing,” she told The grateful to the 61-year-old woman who hold since the 2013 close call. That spacewalk will be Associated Press during an interview at donated her uterus, the mother of one of his conducted by Wiseman and fellow American Butch their home, in an undisclosed part of best friends. She made the offer after hear- Wilmore, a newcomer. Sweden. “I want people to know that what ing about the difficulties the young couple A week after that, two of the three Russians on they think is impossible can happen.” To was having in starting a family. board will perform a spacewalk on their country’s side mark their baby’s birth as a victory over “What she did for us was so amazing and of the orbiting outpost. The Moscow-led spacewalks their difficult journey to parenthood, they selfless that the words ‘thank you’ don’t were unaffected by NASA’s spacesuit troubles. named him Vincent, meaning, “to conquer.” seem like enough,” said the father, adding NASA considered December’s US spacewalks - to Cradling her sleeping young son, she she is also the godmother to their son. replace the failed ammonia pump and thereby restore said she still could not believe she was These days, the new parents are busy mar- full cooling to the space station - too important to finally a mother, after being told at 15 that veling at their baby’s expressive face and wait. The same went for a critical spacewalk by she had no womb and would never carry remarkably calm nature. “He doesn’t really Americans in April to replace a dead computer. her own children. Now 36, she was one of scream, but he makes these funny little The helmets used by Wiseman and Gerst contained nine women to receive a transplanted sounds,” the mother said, comparing him to absorbent pads and makeshift snorkels in case of womb last year in a ground-breaking trial a little kitten. Though his white wooden crib water leakage. The items became mandatory follow- led by Dr. Mats Brannstrom, a professor of has a welcoming teddy bear and blankets, ing last year’s close call experienced by Italian space- gynecology and obstetrics at the she said her son prefers to sleep in between walker Luca Parmitano, safely back on Earth for nearly University of Gothenburg and Stockholm his parents in their bed. a year now. IVF. She and her husband said they haven’t As for the spacesuit batteries, NASA sent up Based in Gothenburg, Brannstrom said quite figured out how to tell their son how he replacements on the latest SpaceX cargo ship and his patients are from all over Sweden. Aside made medical history, once he’s older.”We Russian Soyuz capsule. Ground testing uncovered a KAGOSHIMA: Japan’s H-2A rocket, which carries the Himawari-8 weather satel- from his efforts, two other such transplants will show him all the articles that were writ- potential fuse problem earlier this year, and NASA opt- lite, leaves the launching pad at the Tanegashima Space Center, Kagoshima pre- have previously been tried - in Saudi Arabia ten and tell him everything we went through ed to switch out the batteries on board. — Reuters fecture, in southwestern Japan in a bid to improve the accuracy of weather fore- and Turkey - but neither reported a live to get him,” she said. “Maybe he will be casts related to natural disasters. — AFP birth. inspired to become a doctor.” — AP WHAT’S ON WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2014 Indonesian community celebrates Eid Al Adha

Indonesian children’s show after the prayers. Indonesian community in Kuwait performing the Eid Al Adha prayers. n Saturday, 4th October, the Indonesian community in Kuwait Ocelebrated one of the biggest annual Islamic day which is Eid Al Adha. The event was attended by approximately four hundreds Indonesians who work in various employment sector, such as oil companies, engineering, chemical compa- nies, information technology and graphic designer, hotel and tourism, health, edu- cation and domestic worker. They gath- ered at the Indonesian Mosque in Reggae to perform Eid Al Adha prayer. After the prayer, children 5 - 9 of age staged various performance such as Qur’an recital, singing, dancing and dra- ma. This wonderful occasion was held with the cooperation of Indonesian mosque committee, the Indonesian Embassy and various Indonesian commu- Qur’an recital, singing Islamic song and drama during the celebrations. nity groups in Kuwait. Children seen performing. IES launches cleanliness drive as part of ‘Swachh Bharat Abhiyan’

o strengthen the ‘Swachh Bharat’ initiative announced by the Prime Minister of India, TNarendra Modi, the students of Indian Educational School (Bharatitya Vidya Bhavan) launched a Cleanliness Drive on 02, October with the objective of generating awareness among the young Indians on the importance of hygiene, cleanliness, and healthful living. The drive was also intended to commemorate the birth anniver- sary of Mahatma Gandhi, who is also known as the ‘Father of the Nation’ of India. “Cleanliness refers not only to the way we tend to our hygiene, but also to the care we take to maintain and cherish all aspects of our environment,” said princi- pal of IES, T.Premkumar while officially inaugurating the Cleanliness Drive Initiative launched by Bhavanites dur- ing the morning assembly as he read out the message from the Union Minister Mrs Smirti Irani. The school was in a festive mood. Students and ‘teachers clad in white dress’ were seen busy turning the school premises, can- teen area, indoor playgrounds, and staffrooms spick and span. Grade eleven students helped clean the bookstore. They not only helped the bookstore staff clean the store but also helped them arrange the books neatly in the stands and racks. The entire area encompassing the library, bookstore, and the stairs were swept and cleaned by the students as a token of their reverence to the Gandhian principle ‘Dignity of Labour.’ Student Prefects of all the classes emptied the trash bins of their classrooms which is usually done by the cleaning staff. Grade 5 students prepared colourful cards and the same were presented to the cleaning staff as tokens of the children’s heartfelt appreciation for their strenuous but often unacknowledged labour. Student Council of IES also organized a Poster Making Competition and a Drawing Competition for the seventh and sixth graders respectively. The theme of the Poster Making Competition was ‘Cleanliness is Next to Godliness.’ The exclusive theme for the Drawing Competition was ‘Mahatma Gandhi - The Apostle of Non-Violence.’ Both the Poster Making Competition and the Drawing Competition were adjudged by the Art Faculty of IES. The icing on the cake was a street play by the eighth, the ninth and the eleventh graders. The performance caused a stir in the campus. The teachers, students and a few parents thronged to the basketball ground to watch the dazzling performance of the young artistes. The theme of the street play was ‘Swachh Bharat’ or Clean India. Through the play, the children made an attempt to sensitize the young Indians to the dangers of environmental pollution which is rampant in India and elsewhere. It was indeed endearing to see students making and wearing white caps with the slogan ‘Swachh Bharat’ (Clean India) written on them. The caps were also dis- tributed to all the teaching and non-teaching staff of the school. The events of the day came to an end when pupils and pedagogues vowed to keep their country as well as the country of their domicile always clean and shipshape. The supreme council members said that the clean drive launched on October 02 would be a long- term project of the school and not a one day celebra- Members of Future Eye Theatre, Kuwait with their families went on day’s ‘Bus Yatra’ on the first day of Eid Al-Adha, making a journey through Wafra farms and Fahaheel tion. beach. The participants engaged themselves in several fun-filled games and songs during the bus journey and toured vegetable farms in Wafra. WHAT’S ON WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2014 KNES staff dinner 2014

It is a tradition at Kuwait National English School (KNES) to welcome all staff member new and returning ones at the start of each academic year. Gharabally Al Gharabally the School Chairman and the School Director Madame Chantal Al Gharabally hosted a Thursday night, 4th of September, a lovely dinner in a friendly and enjoyable atmosphere for all members of staff. TV PROGRAMS WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2014

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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2014

SITUATION WANTED

A lady maid is needed to work for one or two days a week, preferably Sunday and/or Thursday in an apartment located in Salmiya. Contact: Directorate General of Civil Aviation Home Page (www.kuwait-airport.com.kw) 66417504 (C 4777) 2-10-2014

CHANGE OF NAME Arrival Flights on Wednesday 8/10/2014 Departure Flights on Wednesday 8/10/2014 Airlines Flt Route Time Airlines Flt Route Time I, Jainuddin Katka, holder QTR 1084 Doha 00:05 AIC 982 Ahmedabad/Hyderabad/Chennai 00:05 JZR 267 Beirut 00:25 JAI 573 Mumbai 00:20 of Indian Passport No. KAC 2918 Jeddah 00:30 JZR 562 Sohag 00:20 Z2814003 hereby change DLH 637 Dammam 00:35 UAL 981 IAD 00:25 my name to Zainuddin JZR 239 Amman 01:00 MSR 615 Cairo 00:30 PGT 858 Istanbul 01:25 SVA 4212 Jeddah 00:40 Katka. My address is JZR 539 Cairo 01:30 JZR 502 Luxor 01:30 Muslim Colony, Banswara, THY 764 Istanbul 01:40 DLH 637 Frankfurt 01:35 Rajasthan, India. (C 4776) RJA 642 Amman 01:45 THY 773 Istanbul 02:20 ETH 620 Addis Ababa 01:45 ETH 621 Addis Ababa 02:45 2-10-2014 GFA 211 Bahrain 02:00 PGT 859 Istanbul 02:55 KKK 6700 Istanbul 02:20 KKK 6701 Istanbul 03:10 UAE 853 Dubai 02:25 MSC 404 Sohag 03:30 MSC 403 Sohag 02:30 FDB 070 Dubai 03:40 JAI 576 Kochi/Abu Dhabi 02:35 UAE 854 Dubai 03:45 ETD 305 Abu Dhabi 02:45 FDB 068 Dubai 04:05 FDB 067 Dubai 03:05 ETD 306 Abu Dhabi 04:10 CEB 7694 Manila 03:10 MSR 613 Cairo 04:15 112 MSR 612 Cairo 03:15 OMA 644 Muscat 04:20 TMA 213 Beirut 03:20 QTR 1077 Doha 04:25 OMA 643 Muscat 03:20 TMA 223 Dubai/Chittagong 04:30 QTR 1076 Doha 03:25 CEB 7695 Manila 04:40 Prayer timings THY 1464 Istanbul 03:30 THY 1464 Istanbul 05:00 MSC 401 Alexandria 04:00 MSC 406 Sohag 05:00 Fajr: 04:26 JZR 555 Alexandria 04:10 FDB 078 Dubai 05:00 FDB 077 Dubai 04:15 QTR 1085 Doha 05:20 Shorook 05:45 THY 770 Istanbul 04:35 JZR 560 Sohag 05:35 DHX 170 Bahrain 05:10 JZR 358 Mashhad 05:40 Duhr: 11:35 RBG 555 Alexandria 05:25 THY 765 Istanbul 06:00 JZR 1543 Cairo 05:55 RBG 556 Alexandria 06:05 Asr: 14:55 BAW 157 London 06:35 DHX 172 EBL 06:10 JZR 1541 Cairo 06:40 JAI 575 Abu Dhabi/Kochi 06:30 JZR 563 Sohag 06:45 Maghrib: 17:25 KNE 478 Jeddah 07:05 RJA 643 Amman 06:35 KAC 382 Delhi 07:30 THY 771 Istanbul 06:50 Isha: 18:42 KAC 204 Lahore 07:35 GFA 212 Bahrain 07:00 JZR 503 Sohag 07:40 JZR 164 Dubai 07:15 FDB 053 Dubai 07:45 KAC 545 Alexandria 07:20 KAC 206 Islamabad 07:50 JZR 256 Beirut 07:30 KAC 302 Mumbai 07:50 KNE 479 Jeddah 07:55 Kuwait QTR 1086 Doha 07:55 BAW 156 London 08:25 KNE 482 Jeddah 08:05 FDB 054 Dubai 08:25 KNCC EID AL ADHA PROGRAMME FROM THURSDAY TO KAC 352 Kochi 08:05 KAC 2923 Jeddah 08:45 KAC 344 Chennai 08:20 QTR 1087 Doha 08:55 WEDNESDAY (02/10/2014 TO 08/10/2014) UAE 855 Dubai 08:25 KNE 483 Jeddah 08:55 KAC 362 Colombo 08:45 JZR 534 Cairo 09:15 ABY 125 Sharjah 08:50 KAC 671 Dubai 09:25 SHARQIA-1 ANNABELLE (DIG) 5:15 PM KAC 284 Dhaka 08:55 ABY 126 Sharjah 09:30 THE PRINCE (DIG) 1:30 PM AL HARB AL ALMIAH AL THALITHA (DIG) (Arabic) 7:45 PM MRJ 4817 Mashhad 09:05 KAC 787 Jeddah 09:35 IRM 1186 Tehran 09:10 JZR 482 Istanbul 09:35 AL HARB AL ALMIAH AL THALITHA (DIG) (Arabic) 3:15 PM THE PRINCE (DIG) 10:00 PM ETD 301 Abu Dhabi 09:30 UAE 856 Dubai 09:50 ANNABELLE (DIG) 5:30 PM ANNABELLE (DIG) 12:05 AM FDB 055 Dubai 09:40 KAC 117 JFK 10:00 THE PRINCE (DIG) 7:45 PM QTR 1070 Doha 10:00 MRJ 4816 Mashhad 10:05 IRA 665 Mashhad 10:30 ETD 302 Abu Dhabi 10:15 AL HARB AL ALMIAH AL THALITHA (DIG) (Arabic) 9:45 PM MARINA-2 GFA 213 Bahrain 10:40 IRM 1181 Mashhad 10:20 A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES (DIG) 12:05 AM MAYA THE BEE MOVIE (DIG) 12:30 PM MEA 404 Beirut 10:55 FDB 056 Dubai 10:20 JAZEERA 2 (DIG) (Arabic) 2:30 PM IAW 157 Baghdad/Al Najaf 11:00 QTR 1071 Doha 11:00 MSC 405 Sohag 11:20 KAC 561 Amman 11:25 SHARQIA-2 JAZEERA 2 (DIG) (Arabic) 5:45 PM JZR 359 Mashhad 11:30 IRA 664 Shiraz 11:30 JAZEERA 2 (DIG) (Arabic) 12:30 PM JAZEERA 2 (DIG) (Arabic) 9:00 PM FDB 8051 Dubai 11:45 KAC 541 Cairo 11:30 JAZEERA 2 (DIG) (Arabic) 3:45 PM JAZEERA 2 (DIG) (Arabic) 12:15 AM JZR 165 Dubai 11:50 GFA 214 Bahrain 11:35 IRM 1188 Mashhad 11:50 JZR 356 Mashhad 11:40 JAZEERA 2 (DIG) (Arabic) 7:00 PM FDB 065 Dubai 11:55 MEA 405 Beirut 11:55 JAZEERA 2 (DIG) (Arabic) 10:15 PM MARINA-3 JZR 561 Sohag 12:00 IAW 158 Al Najaf/Baghdad 12:00 THE PRINCE (DIG) 1:30 AM THE GUEST (DIG) 12:45 PM SYR 341 Damascus 12:05 BON 101 Sarajevo 12:05 IZG 4161 Mashhad 12:10 KAC 175 Frankfurt/Geneva 12:10 MAYA THE BEE MOVIE (DIG-3D) 2:45 PM FDB 071 Dubai 12:35 JZR 776 Jeddah 12:15 SHARQIA-3 MAYA THE BEE MOVIE (DIG) 4:45 PM UAE 871 Dubai 12:45 MSC 402 Alexandria 12:20 MAYA THE BEE MOVIE (DIG) 12:30 PM THE GUEST (DIG) 6:45 PM MSR 610 Cairo 13:00 FDB 8052 Dubai 12:30 MRJ 4815 Mashhad 13:00 KAC 103 London 12:30 THE GUEST (DIG) 2:30 PM THE GUEST (DIG) 8:45 PM THY 766 Istanbul 13:10 FDB 066 Dubai 12:40 MAYA THE BEE MOVIE (DIG) 4:45 PM THE GUEST (DIG) 10:45 PM CLX 792 Luxembourg/Cairo 13:15 JZR 786 Riyadh 12:50 THE GUEST (DIG) 6:45 PM THE GUEST (DIG) 12:45 AM IYE 826 Sanaa/Mukalla 13:30 KAC 785 Jeddah 13:00 IRC 534 Mashhad 13:35 SYR 342 Damascus 13:05 THE GUEST (DIG) 8:45 PM KAC 672 Dubai 13:40 JZR 176 Dubai 13:10 THE GUEST (DIG) 10:45 PM AVENUES-1 FDB 057 Dubai 13:45 IZG 4162 Mashhad 13:10 ANNABELLE (DIG) 12:45 AM THE PRINCE (DIG) 2:00 PM QTR 1078 Doha 13:45 IRM 1189 Mashhad 13:15 IRC 526 Mashhad 14:10 FDB 072 Dubai 13:15 THE PRINCE (DIG) 4:00 PM KAC 546 Alexandria 14:15 MSR 611 Cairo 14:00 MUHALAB-1 GOVINDUDU ANDARIVADELE (DIG) (Telugu) 4:00 PM MSR 575 Sharm el-Sheikh 14:15 THY 767 Istanbul 14:10 MAYA THE BEE MOVIE (DIG) 1:30 PM GOVINDUDU ANDARIVADELE (DIG) (Telugu) 7:00 PM GFA 221 Bahrain 14:20 UAE 872 Dubai 14:15 MSC 407 HRG 14:20 MRJ 4814 Mashhad 14:15 MAYA THE BEE MOVIE (DIG) 3:30 PM THE PRINCE (DIG) 6:00 PM KAC 2924 Jeddah 14:30 FDB 058 Dubai 14:25 BANG BANG (DIG) (Hindi) 5:30 PM THE PRINCE (DIG) 8:00 PM SVA 500 Jeddah 14:30 CLX 792 Hanoi 14:30 THE PRINCE (DIG) 8:45 PM GOVINDUDU ANDARIVADELE (DIG) (Telugu) 10:00 PM FDB 8053 Dubai 14:55 IYE 827 Mukalla/Sanaa 14:30 JZR 257 Beirut 14:55 IRC 535 Mashhad 14:35 GOVINDUDU ANDARIVADELE (DIG) (Telugu) 1:30 PM THE PRINCE (DIG) 10:00 PM FDB 081 Dubai 14:55 QTR 1079 Doha 14:55 GOVINDUDU ANDARIVADELE (DIG) (Telugu) 4:30 PM THE PRINCE (DIG) 1:00 AM KNE 472 Jeddah 14:55 MSR 76 Sharm el-Sheikh 15:00 GOVINDUDU ANDARIVADELE (DIG) (Telugu) 7:30 PM THE PRINCE (DIG) 12:05 AM KAC 788 Jeddah 15:00 GFA 222 Bahrain 15:05 ABY 127 Sharjah 15:35 KAC 673 Dubai 15:05 ANNABELLE (DIG) 10:30 PM KNE 462 Madinah 15:45 IRC 527 Mashhad 15:10 THE PRINCE (DIG) 12:45 AM AVENUES-2 IRM 1180 Mashhad 15:45 MSC 408 HRG 15:15 BANG BANG (DIG) (Hindi) 12:30 PM AGY 680 Alexandria 15:50 KAC 617 Doha 15:30 RJA 640 Amman 15:55 FDB 082 Dubai 15:35 MUHALAB-2 BANG BANG (DIG) (Hindi) 3:30 PM KNE 460 Riyadh 15:55 FDB 8054 Dubai 15:35 BANG BANG (DIG) (Hindi) 12:30 PM BANG BANG (DIG) (Hindi) 6:30 PM JZR 535 Cairo 16:05 KAC 2701 Madinah 15:40 SAT+SUN+MON BANG BANG (DIG) (Hindi) 9:30 PM QTR 1072 Doha 16:15 SVA 503 Madinah/Jeddah 15:45 JZR 787 Riyadh 16:15 KNE 473 Jeddah 15:50 THE GUEST (DIG) 1:00 PM BANG BANG (DIG) (Hindi) 12:30 AM NIA 251 Alexandria 16:20 JZR 188 Dubai 15:50 NO SAT+SUN+MON JAWAZA MIRI (DIG) (Arabic) 1:30 PM FDB 051 Dubai 16:25 KAC 773 Riyadh 15:50 ETD 303 Abu Dhabi 16:45 AL HARB AL ALMIAH AL THALITHA (DIG) (Arabic) 3:30 PM MAYA THE BEE MOVIE (DIG) 3:45 PM ABY 128 Sharjah 16:15 THE GUEST (DIG) 5:45 PM JAWAZA MIRI (DIG) (Arabic) 5:45 PM UAE 857 Dubai 16:45 KAC 513 Tehran 16:20 KAC 562 Amman 16:50 THE GUEST (DIG) 7:45 PM A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES (DIG) 8:00 PM FDB 073 Dubai 16:55 KNE 463 Madinah 16:30 SVA 510 Riyadh 17:15 KNE 481 Taif 16:40 AL HARB AL ALMIAH AL THALITHA (DIG) (Arabic) 10:00 PM A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES (DIG) 10:15 PM GFA 215 Bahrain 17:30 AGY 683 Sharm el-Sheikh 16:50 THE GUEST (DIG) 12:15 AM A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES (DIG) 12:30 AM JZR 357 Mashhad 17:30 RJA 641 Amman 16:55 GOVINDUDU ANDARIVADELE (DIG) (Telugu) 10:00 PM JZR 177 Dubai 17:45 IRM 1187 Tehran 17:00 FDB 075 Dubai 17:45 JZR 266 Beirut 17:05 THE GUEST (DIG) 1:00 AM AVENUES-3 JZR 777 Jeddah 17:50 FDB 052 Dubai 17:10 THE GUEST (DIG) 12:45 PM KAC 542 Cairo 18:15 QTR 1073 Doha 17:20 MUHALAB-3 THE GUEST (DIG) 3:00 PM RBG 553 Alexandria 18:20 NIA 262 Luxor 17:20 QTR 1080 Doha 18:25 FDB 074 Dubai 17:35 JAZEERA 2 (DIG) (Arabic) 1:45 PM THE GUEST (DIG) 5:15 PM KAC 786 Jeddah 18:30 JZR 538 Cairo 17:40 JAZEERA 2 (DIG) (Arabic) 5:00 PM THE GUEST (DIG) 7:30 PM JZR 483 Istanbul 18:35 ETD 304 Abu Dhabi 17:45 JAZEERA 2 (DIG) (Arabic) 8:15 PM THE GUEST (DIG) 9:45 PM KAC 166 Paris/Rome 18:40 SVA 511 Riyadh 18:15 FDB 063 Dubai 18:45 JZR 184 Dubai 18:20 JAZEERA 2 (DIG) (Arabic) 11:30 PM THE GUEST (DIG) 12:05 AM GFA 217 Bahrain 19:00 GFA 216 Bahrain 18:20 ABY 129 Sharjah 19:00 UAE 858 Dubai 18:25 FANAR-1 360º- 1 FDB 076 Dubai 18:25 KAC 618 Doha 19:00 MAYA THE BEE MOVIE (DIG) 1:00 PM THE GUEST (DIG) 1:45 PM UAE 875 Dubai 19:05 JZR 156 Dubai 18:35 KAC 774 Riyadh 19:15 JZR 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PM A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES (DIG) 6:30 PM KAC 514 Tehran 20:50 KAC 331 Trivandrum 20:50 AL HARB AL ALMIAH AL THALITHA (DIG) (Arabic) 5:30 PM A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES (DIG) 8:45 PM FDB 079 Dubai 21:05 OMA 648 Muscat 20:55 THE GUEST (DIG) 7:45 PM A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES (DIG) 11:00 PM DLH 636 Dammam 21:00 ALK 229 Colombo 21:10 AL HARB AL ALMIAH AL THALITHA (DIG) (Arabic) 9:45 PM A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES (DIG) 1:15 AM FDB 069 Dubai 21:10 IZG 4168 Mashhad 21:00 KAC 2702 Madinah 21:10 KAC 351 Kochi 21:05 THE GUEST (DIG) 12:15 AM UAE 859 Dubai 21:15 JZR 554 Alexandria 21:15 360º- 3 ETD 307 Abu Dhabi 21:30 MEA 403 Beirut 21:15 FANAR-3 REVENGE OF THE GREEN DRAGONS (DIG) 1:15 PM QTR 1074 Doha 21:30 DHX 171 Bahrain 21:50 GFA 219 Bahrain 21:45 FDB 080 Dubai 21:50 THE PRINCE (DIG) 12:45 PM GOVINDUDU ANDARIVADELE (DIG) (Telugu) 3:30 PM JZR 135 Bahrain 21:45 ETD 308 Abu Dhabi 22:15 BANG BANG (DIG) (Hindi) 3:00 PM GOVINDUDU ANDARIVADELE (DIG) (Telugu) 6:30 PM KNE 480 Taif 22:00 ALK 230 Colombo 22:20 BANG BANG (DIG) (Hindi) 6:00 PM GOVINDUDU ANDARIVADELE (DIG) (Telugu) 9:30 PM FDB 059 Dubai 22:10 ETD 920 Sharjah 22:25 AIC 975 Chennai/Goa 22:25 UAE 860 Dubai 22:25 BANG BANG (DIG) (Hindi) 9:00 PM REVENGE OF THE GREEN DRAGONS (DIG) 12:30 AM AGY 682 Sharm el-Sheikh 22:45 KAC 381 Delhi 22:30 JAZEERA 2 (DIG) (Arabic) 12:05 AM REVENGE OF THE GREEN DRAGONS (DIG) 3:15 PM JZR 157 Dubai 22:55 QTR 1075 Doha 22:35 REVENGE OF THE GREEN DRAGONS (DIG) 5:15 PM JZR 185 Dubai 22:55 KAC 301 Mumbai 22:40 BBC 043 Dhaka 23:10 GFA 220 Bahrain 22:45 FANAR-4 REVENGE OF THE GREEN DRAGONS (DIG) 7:15 PM FDB 8055 Dubai 23:10 KNE 461 Riyadh 22:50 JAZEERA 2 (DIG) (Arabic) 1:15 PM REVENGE OF THE GREEN DRAGONS (DIG) 9:15 PM JAV 621 Amman 23:15 FDB 060 Dubai 22:50 JAZEERA 2 (DIG) (Arabic) 4:30 PM REVENGE OF THE GREEN DRAGONS (DIG) 11:15 PM KAC 205 Islamabad 23:35 JAI 574 Mumbai 23:20 JAZEERA 2 (DIG) (Arabic) 7:45 PM REVENGE OF THE GREEN DRAGONS (DIG) 1:15 AM NIA 263 Luxor 23:20 AGY 681 Alexandria 23:45 MSR 614 Cairo 23:30 JZR 1540 Cairo 23:50 JAZEERA 2 (DIG) (Arabic) 11:00 PM KLM 411 Amsterdam/Dammam 23:40 KAC 415 Kuala Lumpur/Jakarta 23:50 AL-KOUT.1 THY 772 Istanbul 23:45 FDB 8056 Dubai 23:50 MARINA-1 THE GUEST (DIG) 12:30 PM THE PRINCE (DIG) 1:15 PM JAZEERA 2 (DIG) (Arabic) 2:30 PM DIAL161 FOR AIRPORT INFORMATION THE PRINCE (DIG) 3:15 PM JAZEERA 2 (DIG) (Arabic) 5:45 PM stars34 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2014

CROSSWORD 688 STAR TRACK

Aries (March 21-April 19) Libra (September 23-October 22)

This is a significant day you can use to your best advantage. A day that is Although you are in the top of your field with whatever professional not too lazy or too stressful, a time for accomplishing tasks or setting business you are in, there are always others from whom you continue to things up to work in your favor. Delays and inconveniences may try your patience learn. Today you may meet one of those individuals. Ambition and practicality make from time to time; proof your work and confirm appointments. This afternoon, you for a good leader and this description fits you as well as a new incoming friend. You will find an item that has been lost from a long time ago. Short trips or a planned will be learning from each other and may have an interest in following each other’s vacation can be enjoyed soon. Acknowledging a person’s dilemma will encourage lectures or progress. There are some wonderful techniques you can learn and there frankness. This communication could lead to ideas of ways you or this person could are groups that you can sit in on, such as college classes or lectures, to become more earn an income. There are present energies that will work in favor of putting together informed. Networking is a great activity and can further your interests in the work- a few plans for a small business partnership. Tonight is your turn to cook and you con- place and your personal life achievements, perhaps starting tonight at a special party centrate on dessert. for you. Happy birthday!

Taurus (April 20-May 20) Scorpio (October 23-November 21)

If you need a loan, this is a good day to request one. This is a perfect This is a vital day with much energy and lots of action. You may feel time to be assertive and move forward in your career. You have all the energy you focused and even a bit radiant. You could find yourself in the public eye could want today and it should be easy to channel your energies in the right direc- with people gathered around you to find out the next project or answer to the pres- tion. The path you need to take is open and clear. Communicating and being under- ent quandaries in the workplace. You are good at getting your ideas and instructions stood is important to you and today seems to be a high point for you as you learn over to others. All sorts of financial or business opportunities are opening up to you at new communication techniques and skills. Being clearly understood and respected this time. You can demonstrate great understanding and sensitivity to the needs of for your ideas frequently are important issues in your life. Your timing should be per- others and are in a good position to guide and communicate. A fascination with some fect today and you will remain focused but ever the type of caring person that can be new idea or a person that pushes a new idea makes you want to expand your horizons flexible. People love to be around you and the young ones in your family bring much and study new possibilities. Do not shrink back into the everyday concerns without laughter tonight. making new plans.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) Sagittarius (November 22-December 21) This may be a challenging day where you can use your skills and expert- You could find that you are appreciated for your ability to respond ise to solve problems and feel successful. Any professional advice you quickly when others need help. You may learn some new techniques might need is available. You may have to pay close attention to the negative feelings that will teach others to help themselves. You will find that your time will not be your and talk them into a more positive place. Change is important and your adapting to own if you agree too quickly each time someone needs your guidance or helping hand. Communications with others are positive and your friends and co-workers find ACROSS 3. South African plant widely cultivated for its whatever is changing is even more important at this time. Radical and inventive ideas hold the key to realizing your ambitions and advancing your status-a shakeup is in the you witty. Others appreciate your independence. This is a very lucky day for making 1. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac showy pure white spathe and yellow works. This mood could carry into your living space-careful. Low-profile activities will plans or decisions and finding your way through just about any problem you may dis- insects. spadix. help you adjust to any large changes just now. You and a friend draw close this after- cover. You feel successful. It can be easy now to separate and get rid of that which 4. (chemistry) In the formation of a coordinate 4. Situated at an apex. noon. Sharing your thoughts and ideas helps you feel lighter. does not advance your goals. The results are solid goals that support you. bond it is the compound to which elec- 5. A squeaking sound. trons are donated. 6. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed dur- 12. (prefix) Bad or erroneous or lack of. ing respiration and by the decomposition 15. Title for a civil or military leader (especially of organic substances. in Turkey). 7. The administration of a strong electric cur- Cancer (June 21-July 22) Capricorn (December 22-January 19) 16. A white crystalline powder (trade name rent that passes through the brain to Some trigger is ignited that creates in you a tease to purchase items that Ethocaine) administered near nerves as a induce convulsions and coma. You are very much like a genius. Some of the things you think and say are obviously brilliant. You have such an outpouring of insights that having a you think will enhance your life. Material things and the whole concept of local anesthetic in dentistry and medicine. 8. Shah of Iran who was deposed in 1979 by value take on more importance today, fortunately you remember that you are saving for 17. A constellation in the southern hemi- conversation with you can be a real experience. Your mind works like lightning. Words Islamic fundamentalists (1919-1980). and thoughts take form, illuminating whatever subject is at hand. You really do have something special. When dealing and working with others, you are good at helping oth- sphere near Telescopium and Norma. 9. Hoop that covers a wheel. very different ideas and you express yourself in creative ways. There may also be a sus- ers spend money. The higher-ups in your department are happy you enjoy socializing 18. (Scottish folklore) Water spirit in the form 10. United States musician (born in Japan) tained interest in communication, computers, electronics and all that is electrical. This with the patrons. The patrons sense your earnest intent to be helpful. Today is all about of a horse that likes to drown its riders. who married John Lennon and collaborat- is a good day to start a diet, or perhaps, a new and positive habit. All the energies are helping your customers to leave happy. Someone may come up with a contest to see 20. A deep pulsating type of pain. working in your favor for this to be a successful endeavor. One example of favorable which clerk can sell the most. You have been hoping for just such an opportunity to show ed with him on recordings (born in 1933). off your talents. This evening you enjoy the evening and notice a change in the air. 21. A local computer network for communica- 11. (informal) `johnny' was applied as a nick- outcome is your method of investing-which is working out successfully just now. tion between computers. name for Confederate soldiers by the 22. In the shape of a coil. Federal soldiers in the American Civil War. 24. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease 12. A republic on the island of Malta in the Aquarius (January 20- February 18) affecting connective tissue (skin or joints). Mediterranean. Leo (July 23-August 22) 26. A member of an Indian people formerly 13. A native or inhabitant of Iran. Your public image has improved and you may find higher-ups are tak- This is a great time to be with others and to work together. You have an living along the Gulf coast of Louisiana 14. The capital and largest city of Yemen. ing another look at your potential. The good life and all that is fine and uncanny ability to get beyond the status quo, always coming up with and Texas. 19. Brazilian tree with spicy red fruit. luxurious are what you value. You could enjoy making your own way and finding solu- new ways of doing things. You can take the most mundane stuff and find a new angle. 30. A note appended to a letter after the sig- 23. A white soft metallic element that tarnish- tions to whatever problems you have. Business decisions are straightforward and easy Unpredictable and spontaneous, you seldom lean on other people’s experience, pre- nature. to make. You make your way through ideas, concepts and your ability to communicate ferring to create as you go. All will agree that you are very original, unconventional es readily. and possess deep and accurate insights. Contacts you make this day could make a big 32. A silvery ductile metallic element found 25. Any of various trees of the genus Ulmus. and express yourself to others. Everything may be pouring in at once and it’s all good news. Your career direction receives encouragement and life’s difficult situations seem difference in your professional future, so get out there and shake hands, looking peo- primarily in bauxite. 27. Usually paved outdoor area adjoining a ple in the eye at every opportunity. This fall season may bring a variety of party invita- 33. Evergreen Indian shrub with vivid yellow to flow past you with little frustration. A relationship with a difficult older person may residence. become more positive now. Whistle a happy tune! tions-networking when appropriate is important. Love and money mix together beau- flowers whose bark is used in tanning. 28. A peninsula between the Red Sea and the tifully this evening. 35. Earn on some commercial or business Persian Gulf. transaction. 29. Offering fun and gaiety. 42. Mongolian wild ass. 31. The world's largest desert (3,500,000 Virgo (August 23-September 22) 43. The capital of Mali. square miles) in North Africa. Pisces (February 19-March 20) 45. Thin fibrous bark of the paper mulberry 34. An associate degree in nursing. This could be a challenging day but it is one that opens up opportunities This is not perhaps the best time to make important decisions that and Pipturus albidus. 36. Cause to ripen. 46. Italian lawn bowling (played on a long nar- for improvement and positive changes. You may find that you have to look into unusu- affect your living situation or life circumstances. Your thinking process 37. A highly unstable radioactive element (the al places for answers to current projects. Some sort of temporary obstacle may appear. may undergo some transformation or change at this time. There is a natural sense of row dirt court). heaviest of the halogen series). There is an opportunity to pull on some past project and revise, revamp and refresh growth and development. Concentrating and getting down to the important issues is 48. (Norse mythology) Ruler of the Aesir. 38. An esoteric or occult matter that is tradi- the old into something new. This is a time to rebuild, improve and refine. New informa- the best path to take right now. There is a community affair this evening that will 49. A strong emotion. tionally secret. tion about a physical complaint or hindrance is exciting and progressive. You want to bring a positive end to a confusing day. You strive to attain ideals of the highest order. You bring imagination to group goals. You dream of what is best for all people. 51. Poor acting by a ham actor. 39. Genus of sticky herbs with yellow flowers know more and may be able to attend a lecture by the author or inventor to learn more. This may mean you know someone that can be helped by some forward-moving Inspired, you could be quite creative-even inventive. One of your most creative times 52. (astronomy) An indistinct surface feature open in morning or evening but closed in of Mars once thought to be a system of application. A friend will go with you if you ask. Tonight is a good time to socialize. begins this week. Your artistic talents are sure to be noticed, so now is the time to bright light. channels. write, dance and create. 40. Lacking funds. 54. Rock that in its molten form (as magma) 41. A monarchy on a Polynesian archipelago issues from volcanos. in the South Pacific. 56. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Word Search Yesterday’s Solution 44. A port city in southern Kenya on a coral Chad. island in a bay of the Indian Ocean. 57. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables. 47. Portable power saw. 59. A tiny or scarcely detectable amount. 50. (pathology) An elevation of the skin filled 62. Syncopated music in duple time for danc- with serous fluid. ing the rumba. 53. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly 69. The villain in William Shakespeare's for security reasons) was made the capital tragedy who tricked Othello into murder- in 1998. ing his wife. 55. The blood group whose red cells carry 70. A public announcement (in church) of a both the A and B antigens. proposed marriage. 58. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind 73. Russian country house. and raisins and almonds. 74. Aromatic Old World herb having aromatic 60. A doctor's degree in optometry. threadlike foliage and seeds used as sea- 61. The present time or age. soning. 63. Precipitation of ice pellets when there are 75. A Dravidian language spoken in southern strong rising air currents. India. 64. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tanger- 77. An international organization of European ine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled countries formed after World War II to skin. reduce trade barriers and increase cooper- 65. A former copper coin of Pakistan. ation among its members. 66. Made agreeably cold (especially by ice). 78. English essayist (1775-1834). 67. (Greek mythology) The Titaness who was 79. A passageway between buildings or giv- mother of Helios and Selene and Eos in ing access to a basement. ancient mythology. 80. The longer of the two telegraphic signals 68. (used of count nouns) Every one consid- used in Morse code. ered individually. 71. A river in north central Switzerland that DOWN runs northeast into the Rhine. 1. The cardinal number that is the fifth power 72. The compass point that is midway of ten. between north and northeast. 2. American novelist (1909-1955). 76. An official prosecutor for a judicial district. Yesterday’s Solution

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A picture shows members of the Night Wolves bikers club as they ride their motor- A picture shows headquarters of the Night Wolves bikers club in Moscow. bikes in Moscow. —AFP photos Russia’s Night Wolves ride for the motherland oaring through Moscow after dark with their big AFP. Passers-by stop to get their picture snapped in front up his ride alongside five dozen others lined up outside an bikes, long hair and leather jackets, the Night Wolves of the club’s motto “Wherever we are, that is Russia”-and open-air bar on the outskirts of the Russian capital. The Rcould be Russia’s answer to the Hell’s Angels. But their emblem of a burning wolf howling at the full moon. club has more than 46 branches spread out across the for- these are riders with a cause, and that cause is the mother- Although the club has no official status in Russia, its riders mer Soviet Union, but for aspiring young members the land. “Our values are quite simple: love your country, have can be relied on to put on a show of patriotic strength journey begins here-in the wolf’s den. “I hope to join them faith and don’t use or sell drugs,” summed up Alexander wherever needed-including in the Ukraine conflict. one day,” the young finance lecturer told AFP, drink in Benish, second in command of the powerful motorcycle Like in Crimea, where they held a mass rally in support hand. club whose members President Vladimir Putin calls his of the peninsula’s annexation by Russia in March, or in To become a Wolf, Timur would need to be invited in by “brothers”. Lugansk in Ukraine’s industrial east where they paraded in an existing member, and take part in club events-from the They may share a passion for the open road, but the support of pro-Russian separatists. When they ride in con- high-profile mission to Crimea down to local street Night Wolves-”Nochnye Volki” in Russian-reject the voy, many brandish the flag of Novorossia, or the “New parades-for a two-year period. From then on, he would get American biker label altogether. “The biker lifestyle is anti- Russia,” intended by eastern Ukrainian separatists to desig- to climb the grades-up to third, the highest. Straying from Photo shows Alexander Zaldostanov a.k.a Surgeon, social. It’s all about ‘let’s drink, break glasses, and if anyone nate the rebel-held parts of the ex-Soviet state. “Love of the club’s rules could see him knocked back a rank, or tem- leader of the Night Wolves bikers club as he rides a has a problem with that, we beat them up’,” said Benish, country fortifies a man,” said Benish. “It is essential that our porarily stripped of the right to wear the Wolves’ insignia. motorbike in Moscow. who at 46 has been a Wolf for two decades. “They think members show their patriotism.” “That doesn’t mean we “It’s a pretty demanding atmosphere,” warned Benish. they are better than the rest of society, and they have this believe Russians are the best. Everyone can be a patriot in Alongside the tough-guy routine, the riders also play what cult of violence. That’s not our philosophy. We only use vio- their own country,” he added. they see as a pastoral role, striving for “the moral and spiri- lence as a last resort.” The Night Wolves say they welcome members from tual development of the young generation based on patri- Founded in 1989, just before the fall of the Soviet across the former Soviet Union, regardless of their religious otism and traditions.” Union, the Night Wolves have since spread across Russia beliefs - and count Muslims in their ranks, alongside the “The words of Saint Augustine could sum up the philos- and the former Soviet bloc, with an estimated 5,000 mem- Orthodox Christian majority. Likewise its riders come from ophy of the Night Wolves,” said Benish, quoting the words bers-including the Kremlin-backed Chechen strongman varied social backgrounds, from car mechanics, to busi- of the medieval theologian: ‘In essentials, unity; in non- Ramzan Kadyrov. Their leader-a bearded six-foot colossus nessmen-even a few monks. “Everyone is free to join- essentials, liberty; in all things, charity.’” Judging by the who goes by the name of Khirurg, “The Surgeon”-has been except for women. ‘No woman no cry’,” joked Benish in a swarm of Muscovites pressing around “The Surgeon” for a spotted riding in official parades beside the Russian presi- play on the Bob Marley lyric. “Years ago when it was found- picture or an autograph, the Night Wolves’ popularity is in dent, who has often praised the club’s patriotic credentials. ed, the club was a kind of symbol of virility, of what it little doubt, and that is despite the odd brawl-sometimes means to be a man.” serious-involving his men.—AFP Motherland and manhood “We consider ourselves part of the army of Russia,” ‘Pretty demanding’ Photo shows Alexander Zaldostanov as he speaks with Khirurg-whose real name is Alexander Zaldostanov-told Under a thick leafy canopy, 27-year-old Timur has pulled his colleague in Moscow. Halloween treats don’t have to rot your teeth t’s true... Despite what the kids think, not Start to finish: 20 minutes, plus cooling all Halloween treats need to rot your teeth Servings: 12 Ion contact. Which isn’t to say the goodies 1/2 cup almond butter we’ve gathered here - a muddy punch and a 1/2 cup honey granola-like snack - don’t have a sweet side. 1/2 to 1 teaspoon cayenne pepper (more Rather, we decided to take a more balanced or less, to taste) approach to our sugar rush. You know, just in 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt case somebody over the age of 12 wanted 1 tablespoon cocoa powder 1 cup toasted pumpkin seeds 2 cups flaked corn cereal, lightly crushed Line a rimmed baking sheet with waxed paper. In a medium saucepan over medium-high heat, combine the almond butter, honey, cayenne, salt and cocoa powder. Bring to a simmer and cook for 2 minutes. Remove the pan from the heat and add the pumpkin seeds and cereal. Stir to com- bine, then transfer to the prepared pan. Using 2 spoons, separate the mixture into small Photo shows spicy sweet mole pumpkin clusters. Set aside to cool. seed clusters. —AP photos Nutrition information per serving: 230 calories; 130 calories from fat (57 percent of This photo released by Sony Pictures Entertainment shows, from left, Shia LaBeouf as Boyd “Bible” Swan, Logan Lerman as Norman, Brad total calories); 14 g fat (2 g saturated; 0 g Pitt as Sgt Don “Wardaddy” Collier, Michael Pena as Trini “Gordo” Garcia, and Jon Bernthal as Grady “Coon-Ass” Travis, in Columbia Pictures’ trans fats); 0 mg cholesterol; 21 g carbohy- “Fury.” —AP photos drate; 1 g fiber; 13 g sugar; 8 g protein; 160 mg sodium. Liquid mud punch Start to finish: 10 minutes, plus cooling ‘World of Tanks’ game finds ally in ‘Fury’ film Servings: 24 4 cups grape juice ury” is rolling into “World of Xbox 360 editions of “World of Tanks” Two 20-ounce bags bittersweet chocolate Tanks.” Before the World War for $30. While the game is free to play, bits II tank drama reaches the- upgraded tanks and resources cost 4 cups blueberry juice, chilled “F aters Oct 17, video gamers can make extra for wannabe tankers. Photo shows spicy sweet mole pumpkin 2-liter bottle lemon-lime soda, chilled like Brad Pitt’s character, Sgt Don The game, originally released in seed clusters. Shaved chocolate, to serve “Wardaddy” Collier, and steer a virtual Russia in 2010, currently features about In a medium saucepan over medium heat, rendition of the tank he commands in 110 million registered players around some. bring the grape juice to a simmer. Remove the film. It’s the latest example of a like- the world battling each other in 500 Start with the spicy-sweet mole pumpkin from heat and stir in the chocolate bits. minded movie and game aligning to different types of tanks representing seed clusters. Think of it as a savory-sweet Continue stirring until completely melted and hype each other, and it marks the first various nations. (“World of Tanks” granola that packs tons of addictive crunch smooth. Whisk in the blueberry juice, then Hollywood pact for the popular online boasts the Guinness World Record for and just a bit of heat (easily adjusted to your refrigerate until completely chilled. tank combat title. “It made sense,” said the most players simultaneously on taste). It definitely has that potato chip-like In a large punch bowl, gently stir the Victor Kislyi, CEO of “World of Tanks” one server: 190,541 on a Russian server can’t-stop-shoving-it-in-your-face quality. chocolate juice mixture with the lemon-lime developer Wargaming. “Both audi- in 2013.) Sony Pictures approached Embrace it. soda. Sprinkle with shaved chocolate just ences are interested in historical accu- Wargaming about the “Fury” collabora- To wash it down, we created a spooky, before serving. racy, so why don’t we do something tion after filmmakers recruited some of muddy punch. Sure, it’s jammed with choco- Nutrition information per serving: 320 together? We didn’t want to overdo it. the same tank experts that the Cyprus- This image provided by Wargaming shows an in-game screen shot late, but it tastes more fruity than sugary. We calories; 180 calories from fat (56 percent of We appreciate the opportunity, but based game studio enlists to ensure from the video game “World of Tanks,” in which you can choose to kept it simple - and nonalcoholic - in case total calories); 20 g fat (10 g saturated; 0 g our audience wants appropriateness. accuracy in “World of Tanks.” “Fury” play as “Wardaddy,” Brad Pitt’s character from the drama “Fury.” you’re willing to share it with the kids. But trans fats); 0 mg cholesterol; 45 g carbohy- It’s show business. You never know director David Ayers was on hand at after they go to bed, we suggest adding a drate; 3 g fiber; 36 g sugar; 4 g protein; 20 mg how it’s going to turn out before the Wargaming’s Electronic healthy splash of light rum. sodium.—AP premiere.” The movie, set in 1945, fol- Entertainment Expo booth this Spicy-sweet mole pumpkin seed clusters lows a five-man crew as they carry out summer to preview footage from the brutal missions behind enemy lines movie. Such cross-promotional efforts during the final days of the war. in Hollywood have long been consid- Beginning this week, “World of Tanks ered to be more beneficial for games Blitz” players can purchase a “Fury”- than films, but in an era where the lat- themed bundle for $15 that adds the est installments in game franchises like film’s M4A3E8 Sherman tank - right “Halo” and “Call of Duty” are promoted down to the name Fury scrawled on with marketing budgets larger than the gun - to the mobile version of the many film releases, the Belarus-born game. The nimble war machine, as well Kislyi doesn’t see the alliance with as a crew member resembling Pitt’s “Fury” the same way. “I believe that this “Wardaddy” and “Fury”-themed mis- movie could have a significant extra sions inspired by the film’s battles audience because of the millions and between German and American forces, millions of ‘World of Tanks’ gamers,” he This image provided by Wargaming shows a M4A3E8 Sherman tank will also be deployed to the PC and said. —AP Photo shows liquid mud punch. that appears in the video game “World of Tanks.” lifestyle WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2014

Music & Movies Abu Dhabi Festival’s Sanad film fund announces winners he Abu Dhabi Film Festival Sanad fund for films by Arab directors in either development Tor post has announced the nine projects that have made the cut for its second 2014 cycle. They include a post-prod grant for “Queens of Syria,” a timely docu about a group of Syrian refugee women trying to stage a contempo Arabic adapta- tion of Euripides’ “Trojan Women,” helmed by UK and Middle-East-based Yasmin Fedda. It will screen at the Abu Dhabi Film Fest. Another docu also tapping Sanad support for post and set to unspool in Abu Dhabi is “Sounds of the Sea” by Emirati helmer Nujoom Al-Ghanem. Lebanese helmer Maher Abi Samra’s “A Maid for Each,” about about how foreign housemaids in Lebanon can become something similar to slaves, also scored a Sanad post-prod grant after recently also winning other coin for post from The Venice film fest’s Final Cut in Venice workshop. The six projects selected for Sanad development grants are: “Thala My Love,” by Tunisian director Mehdi Hmili; “Yomeddine,” by Egyptian director Abu Actor Robert Downey, Jr center, and Col John M Devillier, 88th Air Base Wing commander, pose with the other attendees before the screening of Downey’s new film, “The Bakr Shawky; “The Flag,” by Palestinian director Firas Judge” at the Base Theatre at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base on Sunday in Fairborn, Ohio.—AP Khoury; “Joint Possession” by Morocco’s Leila Kilani; “Ward No. 3” by Egypt’s Aida Elkashef; and “Folktale of Palestine,” by Lebanon’s Dahna Abourahme. Sanad awards $500,000 total per year. Each post- Downey Jr sheds superhero production grant is worth up to $60,000 in funding, while the amount for development grants is up to $20,000. Winners will have the opportunity to par- ticipate in the Sanad co-production meetings dur- armor to face Duvall in ‘The Judge’ ing the Oct 23-Nov 1 Abu Dhabi fest.—Reuters t the beginning of his latest film “The Judge,” Robert “I just love the divide that’s between Joe Palmer and straight-talking prosecutor (Billy Bob Thornton). “I’m usual- Downey Jr could be mistaken for playing the arro- Hank Palmer, that there’s been 20 years of misunderstand- ly being prosecuted,” Thornton, who plays a lawyer for the Agant yet charming Tony Stark, the billionaire alter- ing,” Downey said. “Hank just wants to be understood, but first time in his career, said with a laugh. “It was hard to ego of superhero Iron Man. But soon the braggadocious he really has to come to understand this great man.” overcome the fact that I was prosecuting Duvall, who I’m armor sheds away and the film centers on a fractured rela- Downey channels the confident persona he inhabits in very close to. So I had to just forget about that being him.” tionship and generational disconnect between a father, Marvel’s “Iron Man” franchise and as the fictional British “The Judge” is the first film from Team Downey, the pro- played by veteran actor Robert Duvall, and his misunder- detective in the “Sherlock Holmes” films, but slowly strips duction company started by Downey and his wife, Susan. It stood son. “The Judge,” out in US theaters on Friday and away the arrogance to reveal Hank’s vulnerability. sees Downey take on a more serious role to the action and distributed by Time Warner Inc’s Warner Bros., sees two “They’re these two men from different generations who comedy fare he has inhabited in recent years. While Hollywood stalwarts face off in an intimate drama that have come to some sort of peace with each other,” Downey Downey’s wife said the actor didn’t make the decision to takes place in and out of the courtroom. said. As Hank is pulled back to small town life, he evaluates take on drama intentionally, she praised his nuanced per- Downey, 49, plays Hank Palmer, a charismatic lawyer his relationships with his older brother Glen (Vincent formance. “I think that Robert, the subtlety of what he’s who enjoys bending the rule book and earns big bucks in D’Onofrio), a former high school athlete, and his younger brought to Hank, and the raw experience that you go from the city, while Duvall, 83, plays a town judge in rural brother Dale (Jeremy Strong), who documents his family’s seeing the guy we recognize from other movies in the Indiana who is revered for his honesty and integrity. When journey with a Super 8 video camera. beginning and watch that being stripped away and seeing the Palmer family matriarch dies, Hank grudgingly returns Hank also finds himself facing two very different lawyers the journey he goes on, I feel like sometimes that’s under- home and tries to reconnect with his stubborn father as in the courtroom - the friendly C.P. Kennedy (Dax Shepard), valued,” Susan Downey said.—Reuters they become entangled in a murder mystery. who deals antiques on the side, and Dwight Dickham, the ‘Modern Family’ actress granted restraining order odern Family” actress Sarah Hyland’s ex- boyfriend has been ordered to stay away from “Mthe actress and not contact her for three years. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Andrea Thompson granted Hyland the protection from actor Matt Prokop on Thursday. A hearing on Hyland’s request for a stay-away order had been scheduled for Friday, but Prokop did not contest the order. The 23-year-old actress accused Prokop of choking her and threatening her during their relationship, which ended in August. Hyland didn’t report the incidents to police and Prokop has not been criminally charged. Prokop co-starred with Hyland in the TV movie “Geek Charming” and appeared in one episode of “Modern Family.” He also appeared in “High School Musical 3.” A phone message seeking comment was left for Prokop’s lawyer, Joseph Singleton.—AP

This still image released by the Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) yesterday shows a scene from Bangladesh film “Jalal’s Story” directed by Abu Shahed Emon.—AFP photos File photo shows actor Geoffrey Holder attending the 2010 Anglo-American Cultural Gala Awards reception at the Gerald W Lynch Theatre at John Jay College in New York City.—AFP Bangladeshi directors hope to step out of Bollywood’s shadow Dancer, actor, Geoffrey ith his debut nominated for ‘The society we see’ urban society in Dhaka. Both he and In this Aug 10, 2014 file photo, actress Sarah Hyland Emon has travelled to Korea, Emon refer to themselves as part of Holder dies at 84 the top prize at Asia’s arrives at the Teen Choice Awards in Los Angeles.—AP Wbiggest film festival, Australia and the United States for “the Chabail” — which loosely trans- Bangladeshi director Abu Shahed diploma courses to help further his lates as the “film hawker” community ony-winner Geoffrey Holder, a cultural giant who Emon is hopeful that his achievement film education as Bangladesh does in Bangladesh. Our inspiration comes dazzled fans with his dancing, acting and art work will help spur on his compatriot film- not have an internationally recog- from the stories that have surrounded ‘Gone Girl’ retains Tin a multifaceted career that spanned over six makers. “Jalal’s Story” is the first-ever nised film school. He said the our lives,” said Emon. “That’s why I decades, has died at 84, US media reported Monday. A Bangladeshi film to vie for the New “Bollywood” style films dominating wanted to shoot my film in a setting lead over ‘ Annabelle’ spokesman for his family told The New York Times that Currents award at the Busan box offices in the country of 150 mil- that was very real, and with people Holder’s cause of death on Sunday was complications of International Film Festival-the event’s lion usually revolve around a poor who could make the characters seem in final box office tally man longing for a beautiful and very real.” pneumonia. Born August 1, 1930 in Trinidad to parents main category that offers two prizes one Girl” managed to retain its box office crown, wealthy woman, offering little insight from Barbados, Holder studied dance under his brother of $30,000 to first or second-time but its slim lead over “Annabelle” shrank after final into the realities of Bangladeshi cul- Driven by emotion Boscoe Holder. directors. The film follows a young “G sales figures were tabulated Monday. David ture. This is something Emon and his Festival organizers say the breadth Eventually, he would take over the dance company orphaned boy as he faces the harsh Fincher’s adaptation of Gillian Flynn’s twisty mystery was pro- and, as its lead performer, move it to New York in 1954, contemporaries hope to change. “We of the New Currents selection this jected to generate $38 million in ticket receipts domestically, realities of life on the fringes of rural want to portray the society we see year reflects the strength of inde- at the suggestion of choreographer Agnes de Mille. As if Bangladeshi society. but ultimately fell a bit short of those estimates with $37.5 mil- directing the troupe from Trinidad were not enough to around us,” he said. pendent cinema in the region. Other lion. Low-budget horror film “Annabelle” also revised its final Emon said he was attempting to He has been joined in Busan by fel- features include a black comedy set keep him busy, Holder danced on Broadway, as well as a numbers down slightly, from $37.2 million to a little over $37.1 draw on personal experience to help low Bangladeshi filmmaker Mostofa around the Iran-Iraq war (Shakhwan principal in ballet at the Metropolitan Opera. Holder million. Just $400,000 separates the two R-rated thrillers. “Gone create a distinctly Bangladeshi identi- Sarwar Farooki, whose “Television” Idrees’ “The Face of the Ash”, from Girl” and “Annabelle” are now the tenth and eleventh biggest first starred on Broadway in 1954, dancing in “House of ty with his debut feature, which was closed BIFF in 2012 — the first ever Iraq) and a tale about a young girl Flowers,” a take on bordello life in his native West Indies. debuts in October history. Their success helped the box office shot over 55 days on a budget of Bangladeshi film to occupy that cov- looking for the perfect pair of shoes rebound after weeks of lagging behind the previous year’s On the acting front, Holder appeared on stage in $70,000 and stars mostly non-actors. eted festival spot. Farooki returns this (Milo Sogueco’s “Mariquina” from the “Waiting for Godot.” On the silver screen he became a results. Overall, the US box office generated $148.9 million in “Up until fairly recently Bangladeshi year with “Ant Story”, a biting look at Philippines). ticket sales, a 38.1% increase from the previous weekend and villain in James Bond classic “Live and Let Die,” and cinema has been basically like Iranian director Asghar Farhadi, starred in Woody Allen’s “Everything You Always Wanted an 18% jump from the year-ago period when “Gravity” lifted off Bollywood copies,” said the 31-year- who won the Best Foreign Film Oscar to $55.8 million. Twentieth Century Fox and New Regency pro- to Know About Sex, But Were Afraid to Ask.” Having old director. in 2011 for “A Separation”, is leading duced “Gone Girl” for $61 million, while New Line spent $6.5 painted for most of his life, in 1957 Holder received a “But a group of young filmmakers the Busan jury. This year New million to make “Annabelle.” Both films were originally expect- Guggenheim fellowship in painting. He also sculpted are trying to dream big. Being in this Currents has attracted a field of 12 ed to open in the mid-$20 million range.—Reuters entries from 12 countries, and Farhadi and took art photographs. His work was exhibited at award will help as we try to establish said he had been impressed by the New York’s Guggenheim Museum and Washington’s something the world can recognize Corcoran Gallery. He was also an accomplished chore- ability of Asian filmmakers such as as ‘Bangladeshi cinema’-something Emon to channel their own emotions ographer for stage and film, including work with the people can recognize straight away.” Alvin Ailey dance troupe. and experiences. “We all of us have “Jalal’s Story” faces stiff competition emotions inside of us and these are In 1975, Holder took home Tony Awards for direction for the New Currents prize, including of a musical and costume design for “The Wiz,” an all- very important when making a film,” from Korean family drama “End of said Farhadi. “You have to look inside black take on “The Wizard of Oz.” Holder, also remem- Winter” by director Kim Dae-hwan bered by many as a white-suited TV pitchman in the yourself and work from that, from and Li Xiaofeng’s bittersweet coming- your emotional experience.” The New “Un-cola” ads for Seven-Up soda during the 1970s and of-age tale “Nezha”. Countries also Currents award winners will be 1980s, is survived by his wife, dancer-choregrapher represented include Iraq, Iran and Photo shows Bangladeshi director announced on the festival’s final day Carmen de Lavallade and their son, Leo.—AFP Lebanon, entering for the first time. Abu Shahed Emon. on Saturday.—AFP lifestyle WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2014

Travel Velaa Private Island A new meaning to ‘private moments’

tretching north from the equator, the islands that rest erations of sea turtles that have flocked here to nest and upon the Maldivian archipelago are like jewels scattered hatch. Sacross pools of pure azure. Each of these island jewels encircled by pure white sand, with a heart of lush emerald Accommodation foliage. From above, this motif is almost hypnotically beauti- Accommodation comprises 43 private villas fusing local ful. materials with contemporary style - each with generous out- The Maldives have become one of the most desired luxury door space and private swimming pools. Of these, 18 are built destinations on the planet especially for Arabs that are com- on stilts over water, with an exclusive Romantic Villa accessible ing from the gulf, and for good reason. First is the welcome only by boat. and hospitality of the Maldivian people and second for the Alongside dreamlike one and two-bedroom beach and crystal clear waters of an unmistakable blue. water villas, a particularly distinctive feature is four expansive The climate, warm all year round, ranges from an average bedroom residences in elegant contemporary design, which maximum temperature of 31C to a pleasant minimum of 25C. are each over 1,350 square meters, incorporating two terraces, And a great deal of sunshine at an average of 8 hours per day, a swimming pool and courtyard. year- round. The Maldives are easily accessible, via medium Velaa Private Residences comes equipped with personal haul flights from the Middle East and South East Asia, and spa and gym rooms and can accommodate up to party of 10, direct long haul flights from Europe all to Male International a rarity in the archipelago which opens luxury travel options Airport. to groups of friends or large families. Velaa Private Island has been designed and curated with privacy and comfort as the guiding principles while allowing Dining experience the Indian Ocean to take centre stage. At one with nature, With three restaurants and two bars, Michelin star inspired each of the private retreats is built using local materials, com- dining is a resort signature, with a blend of French and Asian bining contemporary flourishes with interiors designed for cuisine, complemented by fresh produce and the resort’s pri- sensory exploration. Generous terraces and sultry gazebos are vate herb garden. Degustation menus are designed by positioned to maximize shade, breeze, views and privacy, Michelin starred chef Adeline Grattard. allowing for total immersion in nature. Of particular interest to Hong Kong and Chinese gas- Located north from Male, within the constellation of tronomes, she cooked for two years at the two Michelin star islands that form the Noonu Atoll, Velaa Private Island brings Hong Kong restaurant Bo Innovation, famed for its ground- new meaning to “private moments” in the Maldives. Velaa breaking modern Chinese cuisine. Private Island is the realization of founders Radka and Jiri Also a veteran of three Michelin star L’Astrance in Paris, the Smejc’s quest to establish an exceptional private luxury retreat 32 year-old from Burgundy opened her own restaurant in with service that goes beyond traditional resorts. Four bed- Paris in 2009, instantly earning her own Michelin star, along room residences with their own pool, spa and gym, a private with awards from Gault&Millau and Fooding. submarine and the cuisine overseen by a famous Michelin- She oversees elegant over-water restaurants Aragu and starred chef are just some of the island’s attributes. Cru, where guests can enjoy vintage drinks, as well as At Velaa Private Island, the essence of Maldivian culture, Tavaruteppanyaki restaurant at the center of the island, which lifestyle and landscape meets limitless opportunities, where is uniquely set in a striking ivory-white tower, and features live no request is too much, and each guest will ultimately feel cooking and an extensive drinks cellar. that this is their own private island. Bathed by azure skies in Additional venues include Athiri, offering beachfront all- the aquamarine waters of the Indian Ocean, the name Velaa day dining at its finest, and Avi - a pool bar by day and vibrant means “Turtle Island” in the local language - named after gen- cocktail bar by night. lifestyle WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2014

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A Destination Dining concept offers a variety of stylish and distinctly different settings, both on and off the island, with Recreation experience bespoke menus and entertainment tailored to special occa- A Yoga Pavilion features sessions with a yoga master, and sions. In-villa dining additionally allows guests’ privacy and personal training can also be conducted, either on a raised personal space round the clock with “Velaa Express” and tree meditation platform in the garden or by the beach. “Served in Room” menus. Recreation and wellness extends to world-class fitness equipment, covered tennis and squash courts, a football field Spa experience and beach volleyball court. Golfers can practice at the only A sublime spa with six secluded treatment rooms nestle- Troon Short Game Golf Academy in the Maldives, designed by dover the lagoon showcases the first ‘snow room’ in the two-time Masters Champion Jose Maria Olazabal. Maldives - a cloud-shaped reclining pod by Klafs and Sha that slowly sways and cradlesguests into deep relaxation. Velaa is Excursions one of only a handful of hotels in the world and the only A dive center offers excursions, PADI certification courses resort in Asia partnering distinguished spa brand My Blend By or simply snorkeling adventures over breathtaking marine vis- Clarins, featuring exclusive My Blend facial products and per- tas. Water activities extend to windsurfing, kayaking, sailing, sonalized facial and body treatments by Clarins. wakeboarding, water-skiing and kitesurfing - and the truly adventurous can embark on an exclusive semi-submarine expedition, in the Maldives only two-passenger private sub- marine. Sunset cruises, dolphin watching and private boat excur- sions can be arranged either aboard a luxury Prestige yacht or traditional ‘Bahtheli’ boat. Additionally, an excursions team is on-hand to take guests onfishing expeditions. Resort design by Czech architect Petr Kolar is an elegant fusion of Maldivian culture with contemporary luxury, inti- mate with Maldivian nuances. Styling adopts a motif of the turtle, after which the island is named, with the colors and patterns of turtle shell pervading the property. From a broader “bird’s eye view” which greets arrivals by seaplane, the island’s exclusive over-water villas are also constructed to resemble the head of a turtle, with the island forming the body. In another tribute to turtles, Velaa Private Island is ensuring plenty of room for its marine visitors, with a hatchery and con- servation plan in place.

Transportation The Maldives are easily accessible with direct flights from Europe, Middle East and Southeast Asia to Male’ International Airport. Velaa Private Island is located in Noonu Atoll, a scenic 45 minute seaplane flight north from Male’ International Airport.

Climate The weather is warm all year round but best climate to visit is from December till March. Downey Jr sheds superhero armor to face Duvall in ‘The Judge’

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Iraqis take a ride at an amusement park during Eid Al-Adha celebrations in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday. Eid Al-Adha, or Feast of Sacrifice, commemorates what Muslims believe was Prophet Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice his son. It is a festive holiday where it is traditional for men, women and children to dress in new clothing and spend time with their families outdoors. — AP

Viceroy Maldives launches exclusive all-inclusive experience

or the first time, Viceroy Maldives has curated an exclusive 5 • Experience a lobster barbeque dinner on the beach, under star all-inclusive package offering an unparalleled selection the stars! Fluxury amenities in the Maldives. Focusing on experiences, • Premium alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages during meal guests will be able to truly enjoy their pristine surroundings and times at Vista restaurant and Anguru Bar & Grill relax in the knowledge that even the finest of details have been • Daily stocked Mini bar with non-alcoholic beverages taken care of. Revel in pampering treatments at Vai Spa, romantic • Complimentary laundry included throughout your stay sunset cruises or adventurous water sports activities with this pre- (excluding dry cleaning) mium all-inclusive package. • Complimentary sunrise and sunset yoga classes, with Upon arrival at Male airport, guests can enjoy the stress free Viceroy’s resident Yogi welcome as they are whisked away to the Viceroy VIP Lounge with • USD100.00 credit per villa, per stay towards spa treatments complimentary refreshments and WiFi whilst waiting for their sea- and Vai spa plane journey to Vagaru Island. • USD125.00 credit per villa, per stay towards scuba diving, Guests will enjoy a feast for the senses once in the resort, with water skiing and jet skiing daily meals including 3-course lunch at the poolside Anguru Bar & • USD125.00 credit per villa, per stay towards a sunset cruise or Grill and dinner on Vista’s over-water terrace. Enjoy premium bev- a deep sea fishing trip erages including champagne, whilst soaking up the stunning sun- set views over the lagoon. In addition, guests will be treated to a Dnata offers the Viceroy Maldives all-inclusive gold package beachside lobster barbeque dinner, with the gentle sound of the starting from AED 18,590 per person including four nights stay in Indian Ocean lapping against the shore as the perfect soundtrack a beach villa or water villa, breakfast, lunch and dinner daily, return to an indulgent evening. For those in favour of lazy afternoons out of the sun, complimen- Luxury inclusions seaplane transfers and return economy class airfares from Dubai, Each morning, yoga enthusiasts can head to the over water tary movies are available on the Mac mini system provided in • Daily breakfast on Vista’s overwater terrace from 8.00 - 10.30 applicable taxes and surcharges. Offer is valid from 01 October - pavilion for sunrise yoga. Surrounded by water, the serene envi- each villa - also perfect for entertaining young children in the • Daily 3-course lunch in Anguru Bar & Grill, located poolside 19 December 2014. ronment makes for the perfect start to the day. For night owls, evening with a nanny whilst parents gather some alone time over from 12.30 - 14.30 sunset yoga is also available. dinner. • Daily dinner in Vista restaurant from 18.30 - 22.00 In the late afternoon, head indoors and learn from the best Ideal for families and honeymooners alike, who are looking to • Enjoy cocktails, beverages and snacks at Anguru Pool Bar & with cocktail making and cookery classes, designed for all levels. add extra value to their luxury holiday. Grill from 10.30 - 18.30

Escape to Oman and ‘Tee Off in Style’ at ‘The Chedi Muscat’

or golfing enthusiasts, improving your game is about swing as if standing at the tee. Milos Padjeski, Health Club Manager sun. In partnership with Almouj Golf at The Wave and Muscat Hills, ment and sports massage therapy, before tee-ing off at the golf enhancing technique through balance, strength and mobili- and Personal Trainer at The Chedi Muscat, comments, “Kinesis is a The Chedi Muscat has created the ‘Tee Off in Style’ packages for courses. Fty. Whilst practice makes perfect, exercising off the golf fantastic workout; it combines cardio, strength, and flexibility train- golfing enthusiasts who are looking for a gaming weekend away ‘Tee Off in Style’ is available until 23 December 2014, starting course has also proven to be equally beneficial to your sports per- ing into a single workout as short as 30 minutes. The cables 360- where they can find the perfect balance of stay and play. from 385 OMR for two rounds of golf, two 60-minute Balinese mas- formance. degree range of motion makes it an extremely versatile workout Conveniently located only ten minutes away from the course, the sages and buffet breakfast fora two night stay. To ensure that you are playing to your best, attention should be for anyone, from a beginner to a professional athlete.” resort offers a decadent and sophisticated setting to unwind and paid to movement and muscular coordination. Golfers may enjoy Another way to develop your game is to keep muscles supple dine in the evening as well. trying out equipment such as a Kinesis Wall for optimum results through massage and reflexology, promoting circulation and Golfers can make use of The Health Club and The Spa and com- whichallows you to practice and strengthen the motion of your movement as well as relaxing the body after a day standing in the plimentary daily group exercise classes including Kinesis equip-