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A Muslim woman reads the Quran during the first day of the fasting month of Ramadan at a Mosque on the outskirts of Jakarta, Indonesia, yesterday. During Ramadan, the holiest month in Islamic cal- endar, Muslims around the world refrain from eating, drinking, smoking and sex from dawn till dusk. — AP Local FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 2015

Just kiddin’, Local Spotlight seriously Of beggars and If you don’t like Kuwait, you can leave! prostitutes By Sahar Moussa

By Muna Al-Fuzai [email protected]

[email protected] have written a lot about Kuwait in my previous As Winston Churchill said: “Criticism may not be columns. Being an expat, I have tried to give an idea agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same func- Ion how expats live in Kuwait and have written about tion as pain in the human body - it calls attention to the our experiences, good and bad. I have written about development of an unhealthy state of things. If it is ne of the most disturbing phenomena in our sufferings and disappointments, hopes and dreams. heeded in time, danger may be averted - if it is sup- Kuwait is the increasing number of female As journalists, it is required from us to be objective: pressed, a fatal distemper may develop.” Obeggars on the streets during the holy month Report what we see without manipulating the truth I do not criticize for the sake of criticizing. I raise of Ramadan, especially in the markets and mosques. under any circumstances, even if it causes us problems what are obvious and serious social ills to highlight the These women are not always as poor and miserable as or harm. Truth is the torch that guides us in our profes- problems and encourage improvement, instead of leav- they seem. Many of them are hucksters who come to sion, although I do agree that the truth hurts some- ing them buried and neglected. It is a fact that the Kuwait on visit visas during the holy month in order to times and can be devastating, but still necessary, at all transportation system in Kuwait needs to be re-planned collect bountiful charity. times. and public transport definitely needs solutions. Ask Some are not even beggars but prostitutes in dis- On many occasions, I have received responses for my anyone who uses the public bus to get to work, about guise and they know exactly what they want and columns whenever I criticize or highlight a bad situa- the conditions inside the buses - how you can almost where they can catch their prey: men. All they want is tion that is harming expats in general and locals, be it cook an egg inside the bus, especially in summer, money and are willing to trade their bodies for it. the inferior educational system, the deplorable trans- where the temperature sometimes reaches 50 or 60 Recently, the Undersecretary of the Ministry of portation system, the high prices in restaurants, of food, degrees, because there is no air-conditioning. Interior Suleiman Al-Fahad addressed this subject and transportation, housing, and utilities, the hustle of pro- It is a fact that inflation is killing all of us - local and warned that begging is a crime in Kuwait. Vowing to cessing government papers, not to mention the expats alike. From food to rent to basic shopping, prices immediately deport any man or woman who is caught observed slacking of employees there, the discrimina- are skyrocketing, yet salaries are not keeping up. begging, he noted that this phenomena constitute a tion between expats and locals, between Kuwaitis and Discrimination exists and is spreading and getting crime against society and harms the appearance and other Kuwaitis, between people from the same religion worse every minute. Most maids are treated badly. spiritually faithful, especially in Ramadan. He also but from different sects, the polarizing politics and Some politicians do not do their jobs as they are sup- called for the cooperation of citizens and expats to racism. posed to, leaving the country to fall to a dark future. All report any case of begging by calling the police on Yet I always hear the same answer: “If you don’t like that I have mentioned above are nothing but facts. #112. it here, you can leave the country.” And my response In our culture, there is a saying that goes: “He who I agree that begging is despicable and unaccept- always is, “In criticizing something, Kuwait in this situa- keeps silent over injustice is like a mute devil.” I only able as a profession - either legally or religiously. tion, doesn’t mean that I have no respect for or don’t speak on behalf of the people that have no voice. I gen- There are plenty of charitable organizations in Kuwait like Kuwait; on the contrary, I only criticize because I uinely cherish Kuwait, because it has offered me a - not to mention that every mosque will provide iftar care. I criticize because it hurts me so much to see a future when my own country could not, and for this I meals for fasters. Beggars, however, are often just con country with so much potential, money and resources feel I have a sincere obligation to make it a better coun- artists and prostitutes and so will never dare to go to going backwards every year instead of flourishing and try. Only by admitting our mistakes can we change these places and risk being caught. prospering. A country that I am grateful to for giving things. Do we want to be ruined by praise or saved by You can easily notice that the number of these me a decent job. criticism? abaya-covered ladies with two or three kids in hand increase in Ramadan because they know that many people would tend to give them money as an act of charity and kindness. People are generous and in Ramadan many will give out of pity without even con- sidering the true nature of the beggars. Not all of them are even women! Sometimes men use the abaya as a disguise to sit and beg. I know some of you may think this is an exaggera- tion but the truth of the matter is that some people have taken to begging as a profession and what bet- ter time than Ramadan to practice their business? Those female beggars enter the country with a visit visa and use this permit to collect as much money as they can until their time is over or they get arrested by the police and sent back home. What they do is illegal and dangerous. It is impossible to find out who’s who from their eyes ... beside you would not even know if this person even has a bomb hidden within the folds of their gown. Isn’t that what happened recently in Saudi Arabia when a suicide bomber disguised as a woman in black entered a mosque? The bomb went off leav- ing behind many dead and injured!!! Due to the current security situation in the region everyone must be very careful dealing with such peo- ple because you would not be able to identify them. The Ministry of Interior and the Ministry of Social Affairs is cracking down on begging in Kuwait. The sponsor who helped the beggar obtain a visit visa will also be held accountable, whether the sponsor was a person or a company or a hotel. So if anyone finds themselves accosted by beggars, be careful and call the police and they will know what to do. Photograph from the book, Faces of Kuwait by Jack Wozniak, Cronion, Spain 1981. Researched by Mahmoud Zakariyya, Happy Ramadan! heritage researcher in Kuwait. Local FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 2015

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By Badrya Darwish Ramadan Mubarak

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alaam alaykum! I was not given the chance to offer (most companies do, in fact) but what I’m worried about meal, ghabqas or suhoor. This means these helpers are in you greetings on the first day of Ramadan but nev- are the laborers in the street. The street cleaners, the the kitchen nearly 24 hours. Fasting is not only fasting Sertheless greetings can continue throughout the valets, construction workers, security, all of those people but having mercy on the people who work for you. Give month. I wish the whole Muslim world peace and tran- who work outside, I hope that their bosses will have the them ample time to rest and give them a day off to rest. quility during this holy month. As for Kuwait, I have many heart to supply them with an air conditioned kiosk for the I’m not talking about government laws, I’m talking about wishes actually. Ramadan Mubarak and I pray to God in worst of the heat. Actually these workers should be pro- humanity and God’s law. this soaring heat there will be no electricity cuts. So far it’s vided with these places even outside of Ramadan. Beyond that, I hope this will be a peaceful month for going well, we’ve only minor cuts so far but I hope they I hope also that many families will consider giving everyone from Yemen to Syria to Kurdistan to Palestine. do not get worse. I hope the Ministry of Electricity took enough rest to their domestic helpers. Many people have We need some peace and calm in our beloved region. into consideration the fact that everyone is fasting and many social obligations like giving food and late ghabqas After all Ramadan is a holy month and a blessed stacking their refrigerators with food. and working in the kitchen. And so domestic helpers month so I hope some of its blessings spread around all Second of all, I hope that the employers take more have to work in the kitchen preparing for Iftar and then of us and purifies our souls. mercy on their employees by cutting their working hours once iftar is over they have to start preparing for the next Have a nice Ramadan guys.

Ramadan Kareem Ramadan Fanous (lantern) Ramadan and Patience

By Teresa Lesher ne of the most prominent outcomes of fasting the The second kind of patience required for Paradise is month of Ramadan, especially in the summer heat, reactive, and it is demonstrated by our reaction to things Ois the development and perfection of patience. outside of our control, such as illness, injury, loss, calamity Nobody can fast without having a degree of patience, and all circumstances related to our physical vulnerability which is mentioned in the Quran as one of the qualities of and mortality. The Quran guarantees us that “And We will someone who will go to Paradise. For example, “I (God) surely test you with something of fear and hunger and a have rewarded them this Day [with Paradise] for what they loss of wealth and lives and crops, but give good tidings to have endured patiently; they are indeed the ones that are the patient who, when disaster strikes them, say, ‘Indeed, truly triumphant!” (23:111) we belong to God, and indeed to Him we are returning’” As successfully completing fasting in Ramadan requires (2:155-156). Our reaction in adverse circumstances beyond patience, so does entrance into Paradise. In fact, Paradise our control should be to turn our thoughts to God, who requires two kinds of patience: one is proactive and the describes Himself as wise, merciful and caring. We should other reactive. The proactive type is striving to adopt a not disagree or be dissatisfied with what He does. As the way of life sanctioned by God. It means making the effort Quran reminds us, “He cannot be questioned as to what to learn what God wants from us and then applying it in He does, while they will be questioned” (21:23). Instead, our lives. we should believe that God allowed such circumstances The Quran, which is God’s final message to mankind, for our ultimate benefit. The Quran reminds us that “per- tells us exactly what God expects from us, and Prophet haps you dislike something and it is good for you and per- Muhammad demonstrated practically its teachings, mak- haps you like something and it is bad for you. And God ing it easier to understand. As it is a lifelong process of knows, while you know not” (2:216). We must trust in God study coupled with conformance to God’s teachings and and His knowledge of the “big picture.” to the example of Muhammad, it will take determination Both kinds of patience - making the effort to follow to and patience. the way of life God envisions for us, and then truly submit- But the reward is worth the effort, according to the ting to God and His management of our lives - should have Quran: “The ones who fulfill the covenant with God and the characteristic of beauty. The Quran describes real do not break its solemn pledge to Him, who keep joined all patience as beautiful. “Therefore, be patient with beautiful the relations and obligations that God has commanded to patience” (70:5). Beautiful patience is one of contentment be joined and stand in awe of their Lord, and fear an evil and absolute conviction of God’s goodness and care. In reckoning, who endure with patience seeking the counte- Ramadan, for example, patience means being cheerful and nance of their Lord, who establish the prayer and spend productive throughout the month, and anticipating God’s charitably from what We have provided them, secretly and pleasure, forgiveness and generous rewards. openly, and who avert what is evil with what is good... the The Quran encourages us to be patient: “Indeed, angels will say, ‘Peace unto you for that you persevered in mankind is in loss, except those who believe and do right- patience! Now how excellent is the final Home!’” (13:20- eous deeds, and exhort one another to uphold truth and 24) exhort one another to persevere with patience.” (103:2-3) Those who repent, believe, do not bear false witness, “Those who show patience and work righteousness - for pass by vile talk with honor, and heed the verses of God... them is forgiveness and a great reward” (11:11). “So perse- Kuwait celebrated the start of the holy month of fasting “those are the ones who will be rewarded with the highest vere in patience, for the Promise of God is true.” (40:77) yesterday. Restaurants, cafes and many shops closed until place in heaven, because of their patient constancy.” What a greater way to show patience than Ramadan! after Iftar, the traditional breaking of the fast. Hotels, (25:75) Courtesy of the TIES Center, the social and educational shops and malls often decorate with colorful lanterns, “Those who believe in the unseen, establish prayer and hub for Western Muslims in Kuwait. For more information, famous, as a tradition during the holy month. The tradi- spend out of what We have provided for them, and who please call 25231015/6 or email [email protected] or visit tional use of fanous as decorations associated with believe in what has been revealed to you [Muhammad] www.tiescenter.net. Ramadan is believed to have originated during the and what was revealed before you, and of the Hereafter Fatimid Caliphate, primarily centered in Egypt, where tra- they are certain - those are upon guidance from their Lord Courtesy of the TIES Center, the social and educational dition holds that the Caliph Al-Muizz Lideenillah was and it is those who are the successful” (2:2-5). The patience hub for English-speaking Muslims in Kuwait. For more greeted by the Egyptian people holding lanterns to cele- required for Paradise needs a level of commitment and information, please call 25231015/6 or e-mail brate his arrival at Cairo during the holy month of effort beyond the everyday patience of the common man. [email protected] or visit www.tiescenter.net. Ramadan. Its use has now spread to almost all Muslim countries.— Photo by Yasser Al Zayyat 5th Ramadan Quiz ANSWER & WIN 1st Prize Two vouchers from Crown Plaza Hotel for lunch or dinner Two Business Class tickets Kuwait­San Francisco­Kuwait on Etihad Airways Cosmetic voucher from Al­Sanabel AlThahabeya One voucher for lunch or dinner from Ruby Tuesday Espresso Italian coffee machine with 30 capsules

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The Kuwait Times Ramadan quiz will start on the first dayof Ramadan and last until the 30th day of Ramadan. Participants must fill in the correct answer to a question that is printed daily in the form of a coupon in Kuwait Times. Participants must then collect 30 coupons together after the quiz and send them in an envelope to Kuwait Times. All answers should be marked on the coupons that are published in Kuwait Times. Any other type of coupon that is mailed in will be invalid. All coupons should be received by Thursday 16th of July 2015. Winners will be announced during the draw which will be on 26th of July held under the supervision of Ministry of Commerce and Industry. Prizes can be claimed at Kuwait Times from 27th July from marketing department from 9 am to 5 pm. Local Friday 19 June 2015

Inside Beit Dickson

By Ben Garcia Times revisited the well loved Beit Dickson museum in Kuwait City, opposite Souq Sharq. The house is a testament ahra Dickson-Freeth, a British author and daughter of of the strong and last relations between Kuwait and Britain. the late HRP Dickson, a widely popular former British It stands mostly empty with a few rooms housing the origi- ZPolitical Administrator of Kuwait (from 1929-1936), nal furniture and photos framing several walls. died last month (20 May 2015) in Colchester, England. She Each room and photograph has a story to tell. One room was 90 years old. Zahra was the remaining direct descen- is filled with photographs and memoriabilia about the dis- dant of the famous Dickson family of Kuwait. Her mother, covery of oil in Kuwait, its exploration, shipments and the late Dame Violet Dickson (d. 1995) was also very agreements in the early 1930s and 1940s. famous in Kuwait because she remained in Kuwait even In the first room, to the right, are displays of photo- after her husband’s death in 1959. Zahra’s brother, Saud graphs of Kuwaiti rulers from the time of Mubarak the Dickson, died in May 2005. Great to HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmed Al-Jaber Al- To reminisced life of the famous Dickson family, Friday Sabah. The evolution of the Kuwaiti flag is also displayed Friday 19 June 2015

there. In the foyer is a room filled with photographs each with story of Dickson’s family house and the transition from the 1930s up until the present day. “As shown in the picture, there was no fresh water available in Kuwait at that time, so they got fresh water from neighboring Iraq or Iran,” explained the tour guide, Faiz Khan. “So you see the boats were stationed right next to the Dickson house here. That boat was from Iran. This place was already congested with people or vil- lagers because this place at that time was the most accessible place to boats. The Gulf Road which you see now was salt water at that time; this house was on the seashore. The Gulf Road was only made in the 1970s, from reclaimed land. So before this place behind us was congested with villagers; small sand houses were built there. One of those houses is this one, the Dickson House,” he explained. Answer & Win Another room was a library of several documents, some Fabulous Prizes of them in hard-bound books including the famous Records of Kuwait anthology along with British documents The Kuwait Times Ramadan quiz will start on the first dayof Ramadan and last until the 30th day of Ramadan. Participants must fill in the correct answer to a question that is printed daily in the form of a coupon in Kuwait Times. from 1899-1961. Some are documents and hand written Participants must then collect 30 coupons together after the quiz and send them in an envelope to Kuwait Times. letters by sheikhs and rulers of Kuwait and the British All answers should be marked on the coupons that are published in Kuwait Times. Any other type of coupon that is administrators. mailed in will be invalid. All coupons should be received by Thursday 16th of July 2015. Winners will be announced The dining table of the Dickson family is located on the during the draw which will be on 26th of July held under the supervision of Ministry of Commerce and Industry. second level of house. The living room is at the opposite Prizes can be claimed at Kuwait Times from 27th July from marketing department from 9 am to 5 pm. side of the dining room along with Um Saud’s office. The two bathrooms were both located on the second level, but Raamadanmadan Quuiziz Raamadanmadan Quuiziz they are now turned into exhibition rooms where various Answer & Win Answer & Win photographs about the Dickson family are displayed. Date: Very prominent in one corner of the compound was the 1436-2015 first telegram and post office said to be set up in Kuwait. “I 2- How many months are there in the Islamic Name: can show you the documents signed by the rulers of Calendar? Kuwait creating the post office and telegram. This small Civil ID.: 12 building was the first ever telegram and post office in Kuwait,” Khan said. TTeeel: 11 There are three more separate small rooms and struc- Email: tures inside the Dickson’s House, one was used storing fire- 9 wood for their the chimney every winter, the other two are rooms for their butlers and cook and security. Though the family is all gone now, the Dickson House remains as a reminder of Kuwait’s past and its relations with the rest of the world. Local FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 2015

A look inside Reddit sub r/Kuwait

By Aakash Bakaya diverse group of users on the sub. Many users like me are hoping to see it grow and evolve further and discovered Reddit just as I was falling out with with Reddit growing in popularity around the inter- other social media platforms. Facebook has been net, it definitely looks like it can. Ia confusing mess for the last few years and June 13 was the day of the ‘Global Reddit Twitter has become so crowded that it was only a Meetup’. Here, Reddit users of a nation’s subreddits matter of time before the overall quality began to hold a special get together to meet up and interact drop. Facebook will always be the standard of inter- with each other. r/Kuwait held their meet up at Al- acting with your social circles but Twitter was once a Shaheed park and even though the number of place for discussion and interaction. Now there are members were small, everyone seemed to have a simply too many users and too many hashtags to nice time. These meets are unique for a social net- keep track off. Twitter trends use to be what people work, Reddit especially because users are not were majorly talking about, now it’s what advertisers required to share any personal details to sign up for want you to talk about. So what makes Reddit so an account. special? It’s a simple looking website with links and dis- Creating an account cussions that doesn’t exactly scream ‘social network’ Creating a Reddit account only requires a user- but there’s a deeper layer of content behind its plain name and password while e-mail verification is exterior. Reddit is made of an innumerable amount optional and will never show up on your profile of forums called ‘subreddits’. These subreddits (or page. Today, every website requires a multitude of subs for short) are simply forum boards for a topic of personal information that people are understand- discussion. r/Soccer is the sub for football related ably hesitant to give out. On Reddit, this lack of stories and discussions, r/Movies is the sub for film, social details helps users interact more openly as r/Worldnews for breaking news etc. However, these they know their identity is solely based on their are the most basic subs. There’s a wide array of dis- opinions. This is a factor where most social networks cussion boards you won’t find anywhere else on the falter but here it thrives. It’s what drew me in and internet. r/explainlikeimfive is a forum where some- has kept many people hooked on the site for years. one posts a complex question and users try to pro- At the end of the day, social networks will always vide an answer in the easiest way possible. come down to preference. Instagram is tremendous- r/Showerthoughts is collection of the odd and ly popular in Kuwait and the Middle East in general sometimes interesting things people come up with because it opens up and liberalizes a more closed, in the shower. conservative society. It’s also why Saudi Arabia has some of the largest number Twitter users on the Subreddits planet. Reddit on the other hand falls somewhere in There are subreddits for pretty much anyone’s between. Your comments visibility is covered by a interests, whether you’re a fan of Japanese anime or rating system so only the smartest, most relevant snooker. Specific countries have their own subs as comments are placed at the top. The complete lack well where everything from regional topics to of social details make it a safer place for public dis- restaurant guides is discussed. Kuwait’s own sub - course but don’t expect much discussion if you’re r/Kuwait is a small community of friendly users that looking for a fight. anyone living in Kuwait should visit. It has a general- Reddit is very much like the internet itself, it is an ly positive atmosphere that is a small but genuine almost limitless pool of interesting, funny, and look at the mindsets of the people living in this strange information and topics. If you can get used country. Whether you’re looking for cultural events to its navigation and find interesting subreddits - or friends to play online games with, there’s a you’re sure to become another hooked ‘Redditor’. Local FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 2015

Crime Report Wanted Sri Lankan woman arrested Conmen cheat citizen of KD400

KUWAIT: A Sri Lankan woman wanted to serve a five-year jail sentence was arrested by the authorities in Kuwait. Her residency had expired. The woman was sent to authorities for further action.

KUWAIT: Deputy Premier, Interior Minister Sheikh Mohammad Al-Khalid Al-Hamad Al-Sabah with Ministry Undersecretary Lt Syrian robbed General Suleiman Al-Fahad and other officials at the Drugs Control General Department during an inspection visit. — KUNA A Syrian reported to Salmiya police that his car was broken into and KD 67 and a passport were stolen.

Sheikh Khalid visits Citizen swindled A citizen reported to Salmiya police that he was swindled by unknown people who took away KD 400. He said some- Drugs Control Dept one called from the UAE and told him he won KD 22,000. He was given a phone number in Kuwait to contact a per- son who told him that he should transfer KD 400 as fees By Hanan Al-Saadoun The minister checked the latest bust by the department only to discover that he was tricked. which included 1.170 million Captagon tablets, hidden in KUWAIT: Deputy Premier, Interior minister Sheikh Mohammad moisture exhaustion equipment arriving from an Arab coun- Egyptian conman Al-Khalid Al-Hamad Al-Sabah visited the Drugs Control General try in Shuwaikh port. The international drugs fighting Meanwhile, a citizen told Sabah Al-Salem police sta- Department accompanied by Ministry Undersecretary Lt General department learned about a container arriving from an Arab tion that an Egyptian took 230,000 Saudi riyal from Suleiman Al-Fahad. Sheikh Mohammd Al-Khalid appreciated country loaded with 390 moisture exhaustion system. The the company branch in Saudi Arabia and did not the sincere efforts of DCGD to rid the society of the damaging container was opened and the drugs were found weighing transfer the money. It seems that he left the country impact of drug menace. 210.600 kgs. illegally while the records show that he is still in Kuwait. MoH denies foam cups Syrian held pose health hazards Farwaniya police arrested a Syrian in debt of KD14,000. The arrest was made after his car was stopped late night and it By Meshal Al-Salama was found after checking his ID that he was wanted in a debt case. He was referred to concerned authorities. KUWAIT: The Ministry of Health said the use of white foam cups does not cause infections, adding that work is underway Woman assaulted in lift to ensure the safety of foam cups and their meeting of Kuwait Hawally detectives are looking for an Egyptian who specifications and standards. assaulted a woman in a Salmiya building lift and Health Ministry Assistant Undersecretary for Public Health KUWAIT: A Kuwait Airways plane is loaded with relief sup- escaped. The woman told Salmiya police that while Affairs Majida Al-Qattan told Kuwait Municipality Director plies to Iraq as part of a humanitarian bridge to help the Iraqi she was entering the left the Egyptian expat followed General in an answer to a proposal to ban foam cups to safe- people yesterday. — KUNA her, assaulted her and escaped as soon as the door guard people’s health that foam cups do not cause any health opened. hazards and that such cups are used at the ministry of health Kuwait sends hospitals. second load of relief Stations Maid, driver held Public Works, Electricity and Water Minister Ahmad Al-Jassar An Asian domestic helper and a delivery driver were signed a contract to supply and install three main stations one supplies to Iraq detained in Adan police station after being caught in a in Sabah Al-Salem area and two in Mirqab with a total value of compromising position by the maid’s sponsor. Both will be KD 10.880 million. The execution of the projects will take 24 KUWAIT: Kuwait yesterday dispatched the second planeload of sent to concerned authorities. months. relief supplies to Iraq, as part of a humanitarian bridge to relieve the Iraqi people. Chairman of Kuwait Red Crescent Society Dr. Fight in police station Greetings Hilal Al-Sayer said in a statement that the plane boarded 20 tons Salmiya police ended a fight that broke out in the Department of relations and security information congratu- of medicines, adding that the society teams would distribute, police station between a citizen and an Asian who lated citizens and expats on the occasion of the month of next week, 15,000 food parcels to those in need in Iraq. The socie- went there following an accident. Ramadan and asked them to maintain values and customs ty has managed to act rapidly to address the humanitarian condi- related to the month of Ramadan and to respect feelings of the tions in Iraq due to His Highness Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al- fasting by not eating in public during the day, as it is a violation Jaber Al-Sabah’s donation of $200 million. The first planeload of Citizen accused of the law and carries a month jail sentence and KD 100. supplies flew to Baghdad yesterday. It boarded 20 tons of medi- A citizen accused her ex-husband of beating her and caus- cines and medical supplies, destined for hospitals in the country. ing a cut on her head. Police are investigating the case. Closure Up to 200 tons of relief supplies will be sent to Iraq as part of the Traffic department announced the closure of part of Kuwait humanitarian bridge in the coming days. — KUNA University roundabout (U turn only) from and to Kuwait City on Jamal Abdelnasser Street in cooperation with Ministry of Public Works on Friday, 19/6, until Saturday 15/8. Kuwaiti charity serves Ramadan

Detention The prosecution ordered the detention of Saud Al-Quhaidi, meals to Muslims in 100 countries Ali Al-Barrak, and Humoud Al-Ajmi for 10 days before being tak- en to central prison for harboring former MP Musallam Al- KUWAIT: The regular project to offer Iftar (fast-breaking) meals to Yemeni refugee camps in Djibouti and Somalia, as well as Palestinians Barrak. The prosecution ordered the release of Khalid Al-Ardhi. Muslims will be carried out in more than 100 countries during the in diaspora, he added. He noted that the IICO receives donations from holy month of Ramadan via a number of offices, in collaboration with benefactors through its offices across the country, urging them to Asians held 250 charities, the International Islamic Charity Organization (IICO) said. increase their support for this huge project to alleviate suffering of Jahra police arrested five Asians for harboring violators in In a press statement yesterday, IICO Director General Salem Hamada people. Amghara. They were sent to concerned authorities to be said the organization would provide the meals to disaster or unrest- He said the project is part of the organization’s campaign to pro- processed for deportation. hit areas and countries like Syria. vide meals for Muslims in Ramadan, underlining the importance of The meals also will be given to the countries hosting Syrian providing Iftar meals to meet the growing needs of Muslims in refugees, mainly Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey, and the Gaza Strip, Ramadan. — KUNA Local9 FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 2015 Amir receives Ramadan greeting cables

KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah received yesterday cables of congratulations and warm wishes on the advent of the holy month Ramadan by a host of top state officials and figures. HH the Amir received cables from His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al- Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Speaker of the National Assembly Marzouq Ali Al-Ghanim, His Highness President of the National Guard Sheikh Salem Al-Ali Al-Sabah, Deputy chairman of the National Guard Sheikh Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, as well as His Highness Sheikh Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Ahmad Al- Sabah, His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, and First Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al- Sabah. They expressed their sincere wishes for His Highness the Amir on the holy month of Ramadan, wishing His highness the Amir ever- lasting health and wellness and further progress and prosperity to our country under His Highness wise leadership, praying to Allah to witness this holy month for many years to come, and to grant the Arab and Muslim nations with glory, and prosperity. His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al- Sabah sent telegrams of thanks for the sate top officials and figures in recognition for their sin- cere wishes and prayers, praying to Allah to grant our country and the Arab and Muslim nations with safety, peace and prosperity. His Highness the Amir exchanged greeting cables with leaders of Arab and Islamic nations on the KUWAIT: Communications Minister and State minister for Municipal Affairs Essa Al-Kandari and officials hold talks with the Iraqi occasion. — KUNA Communications Minister Hassan Kazim and the accompanying delegation. —KUNA HRW urges Kuwait to free jailed blogger

KUWAIT: Human Rights Watch urged term imposed on the blogger, Saleh Al- past, Kuwait stood out as a country that Kuwait yesterday to waive a six-year jail Saeed, (and) order his release,” HRW said respected free speech, but the tide has sentence against a blogger for criticizing in a statement. turned,” said HRW Middle East and neighboring Saudi Arabia on Twitter. The New York-based watchdog also North Africa director Sarah Leah The supreme court last week upheld the called on parliament to “revoke laws Whitson. The group said that since sentence against Saleh Al-Saeed who allowing Kuwait authorities to bring December, Kuwait has charged at least tweeted comments on a row between charges against peaceful critics for exer- five people, including one sitting and KUWAIT: Speaker of the National Assembly Marzouq Al- the Gulf neighbors over a halt to shared cising their right to free speech.” one former lawmaker, with insulting Ghanem holds talks with Indian Ambassador Sunil Jain at his oil production from the neutral zone But just Tuesday the pro-government Saudi Arabia or its royal family. “The way office yesterday. During the meeting, the two sides discussed between them and on the hostile Gulf parliament passed a new law on elec- Kuwaiti authorities are hampering politi- means of enhancing the bilateral relations in all fields to position towards the Syrian regime. tronic crimes setting even tougher cal comment significantly chills public serve the interest of the two friendly countries. —KUNA “Kuwait...should set aside the prison penalties for online activists. “In the discourse,” Whitson said. — AFP Kuwait to mark 54th anniversary of Independence KUWAIT: Kuwait will mark today the 54th tory and fold another page of the past with all ment that shall be in charge of the state’s for- May 14, 1963, Kuwait got the approval and anniversary of ending the British protection and its components and contents, to open a new eign affairs and merge Kuwait government sec- became the 111th member. His Highness the declaring its independence on June 19, 1961. page represented in this treaty which you read retariat in the foreign department which turned Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmed Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, The independence document was signed by now, whereby Kuwait gained its full independ- with the 1st ministerial formation into the min- the then-Foreign Minister, delivered Kuwait’s the then Amir late Sheikh Abdullah Al-Salem Al- ence and sovereignty.” istry of foreign affairs. speech at the UN in a historic moment of Sabah, the 11th ruler of Kuwait, who is also After the independence, an Amiri Decree was In 1962, Sheikh Sabah Al-Salem was appoint- Kuwait’s march. named the “Father of Independence”, and the issued identifying the form of Kuwait’s post- ed as a foreign minister in the first cabinet line- Later on, Kuwait joined various UN and inter- British commissioner for the Arabian Gulf Sir independence flag. On the constitutional level, up, to be followed up by His Highness the cur- national organizations such as, the World Health George Middleton, on behalf of his government. the first step was crystallized on August 26, 1961 rent Amir of Kuwait, Sheikh Sabah al Ahmad Al Organization (WHO), the Food and Agriculture The document abolished the agreement with the enactment of the Amiri Decree calling Sabah who was appointed the minister of for- Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the signed by late Amir Sheikh Mubarak Al-Sabah, for general elections to choose members of the eign affairs in the second cabinet, issued on United Nations Educational, Scientific and the 7th ruler of Kuwait, with Britain on January constituent council to draft the country’s consti- January 28, 1963. Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the World Bank 23, 1899, to protect Kuwait against external tution. On foreign relations, Kuwait submitted an (WB), the International Labour Organization ambitions. Within nine months, the council finalized the application for membership in the Arab League, (ILO) and the Organization of Petroleum Upon declaring the independence, the late draft constitution, consisting of 183 articles, whereby the League board held a meeting on Exporting Countries (OPEC). Amir Sheikh Abdullah Al-Salem, whose rule which was submitted to Sheikh Abdullah Al- July 16, 1961 and passed a decree for accepting The road to independence had started with extended from 1950 to 1965, delivered a speech Salem Al-Sabah, who ratified and passed it on it as a member besides its sister Arab countries. Sheikh Abdullah Al-Salem’s assumption to pow- on the occasion in which he said: “On this mem- the same day, 11th November 1962. On the On November 30, 1961, the United Nation’s er in 1950 as he embarked on a series of meas- orable day of our beloved nation, on which we political level, an Amiri decree was issued on Security Council started discussions over ures to prepare the country for independ- transfer from one phase to another phase of his- August 19, 1961 to establish a foreign depart- Kuwait’s demand to join the United Nation’s. On ence.—KUNA FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 2015 Bombings, war, Gunman on the Hong Kong disease as Yemen run after US lawmakers reject marks holy month Hate crime church Beijing-backed 14 shooting15 election17 plan

PESHAWAR: A Pakistani Muslim man recites the Quran at a mosque. —AP Muslims worldwide mark the start of Ramadan Month of prayer, dawn-to-dusk fasting and nightly feasts

RIYADH: Muslims around the world marked the er to God and to remind them of the suffering of Chairwoman Pia Jardi at the Finnish Muslim of the evening is often spent at the mosque in start of Ramadan yesterday, a month of intense those less fortunate. Muslims often give to char- Union in Helsinki said Muslims there will be prayers called “taraweeh.” prayer, dawn-to-dusk fasting and nightly feasts. ities during the month, and mosques and aid fasting for 21 hours and have just three hours - Children, the elderly, the sick, women who Muslims follow a lunar calendar and a moon- organizations organize free meals for the public or even less - for eating, drinking and prayer are pregnant or menstruating and people sighting methodology that can lead to different every night. Fasting also is seen as a way to before the sun rises again. “The good thing is traveling are not obligated to fast. Non- countries declaring the start of Ramadan a day physically and spiritually detoxify through exer- that you’ll eat with moderation and that you’ll Muslims or adult Muslims not observing the or two apart. However, this year religious cising self-restraint. Sexual intercourse between stick very much into the true, simple spirit of fast who eat in public during the day in authorities in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Iran, spouses also is off-limits during the day, while Ramadan,” Jardi said. “Long fasting time Ramadan can be fined or even jailed in some Indonesia and most other parts of the world Muslims also are encouraged to be mindful of means you rarely want to eat heavily.” Middle Eastern countries, such as Saudi Arabia announced based on their sightings of the their behavior and to avoid gossiping, cursing In a statement, President Barack Obama and the United Arab Emirates, home to large moon that daily fasting would begin yesterday. and quarreling. and his wife Michelle extended their “warmest Western expatriate populations in Dubai and Authorities in Pakistan have yet to announce This year, Ramadan falls during the summer, greetings to all those observing the month of Abu Dhabi. the sighting of the moon. During Ramadan, which means long and hot days of fasting. fasting in the United States and around the Fasting during Ramadan is one of the five observant Muslims abstain from eating and Mainstream scholars advise Muslims in northern world.” The world’s 1.6 billion Muslims tradi- pillars of Islam, along with the Muslim declara- drinking from sunrise to sunset for the entire European countries with 16 hours or more of tionally break their fast like the Prophet tion of faith, daily prayer, charity and perform- month. A single sip of water or a puff of a ciga- daylight to follow the cycle of fasting of the near- Muhammad did around 1,400 years ago, with ing the hajj pilgrimage in Mecca. Muslims cel- rette is considered enough to invalidate the fast. est Muslim majority nation to them to avoid a sip of water and some dates at sunset. Then ebrate the end of Ramadan with a three-day The fast is intended to bring the faithful clos- impossibly long hours without food or water. family and friends gather for a large feast. Part holiday called Eid Al-Fitr. — AP

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Palestinians walk near to a large traditional Ramadan lantern decorated a shop at the main road as a celebration for the announcing of the holy month of Ramadan.— AP/AFP photos Ramadan from around the world

Indian Muslims buy dates from a street vendor on the eve of the Muslim fasting month of Palestinian people take part in a prayer called Tarawih, on the eve of the holy fasting of Ramadan in Allahabad. Ramadan in Gaza City.

Malaysian Muslim family breaking their fast on the first day of Ramadan. A Pakistani vendor sells dates in preparation for Ramadan in Peshawar. International FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 2015 13 Rohingya praying for a peaceful Ramadan Migrants happy to spend month in Muslim country KUALA CANGKOI, Indonesia: Muhammad set. Ramadan will be a busy time for Yunus, who Yunus came ashore in Indonesia by accident left Myanmar in 2012 when his Islamic school after a harrowing boat journey-but he and hun- was destroyed during fierce communal violence dreds of other Rohingya migrants are delighted between local Buddhists and Rohingya, as he to be spending Islam’s holiest month in the acts as prayer leader for the Rohingya in the world’s most populous Muslim-majority country. camps. He said that at the time he fled, it was The boat people in Aceh province are among impossible for Muslims to worship in peace, thousands of Rohingya and Bangladeshi with mosques being razed to the ground and migrants who arrived in countries across security forces stopping them from performing Southeast Asia in May after a Thai crackdown prayers. Yunus spent several years at a camp in threw the people-smuggling trade into chaos Bangladesh but got on a boat earlier this year in and sparked a regional crisis. an attempt to escape the pitiful conditions Yunus had hoped to reach relatively affluent there. Malaysia, like many of the region’s migrants, but A resident of Sittwe, the capital of Myanmar’s after a months-long voyage was dumped in Rakhine state where persecuted Rohingya have shallow waters off Aceh. He is nevertheless fled in droves, told AFP there were no restric- relieved to have washed up in Indonesia-partic- tions imposed by local authorities this year dur- ularly in time for Ramadan, which started yester- ing Ramadan, and local Muslims could worship day-and be far from his native Myanmar, a pre- in mosques. Nevertheless, the situation has long dominantly Buddhist country where the been tense, with many Muslims in the city living Rohingya have long faced discrimination and segregated under armed guard. are denied citizenship. ACEH PROVINCE: This picture shows Rohingya migrants queuing for food in Kuala Acehnese also suffered Cangkoi. — AFP ‘I miss mother’s cooking’ It is a starkly different picture in Aceh, where “Praise be to God, we were saved and people have flocked to give donations of food Syamsuddin Muhammad, a 55-year-old fisher- Thailand shocked the world-but AFP tracked brought to a Muslim country,” said the 35-year- and money to the new arrivals and are planning man who came to the migrant camp to donate some of them down last month at a camp in old religious education teacher, who was res- to bring them delicacies to break fast during money collected by his village. The Acehnese another part of Aceh, where they had eventually cued off the coast of Aceh on May 10 with Ramadan, which ends with the Muslim holiday are also trying to improve the migrants’ living arrived, and found many relaxed, dressed in around 580 other migrants. “The people here of Eid. Many in the area sympathize with the conditions. At first they were given shelter in a fresh clothes and less gaunt and emaciated. are very kind and have helped us, they see Rohingya’s plight because of their own painful sports centre before being moved to shabby Despite the migrants’ immediate relief at Rohingya refugees as their brothers.” recent history-Aceh was left in ruins by a buildings in the fishing town of Kuala Cangkoi, having made it to a welcoming nation, they are Others, such as 16-year-old Muhammad decades-long separatist conflict, which only and this week they were taken to a village likely to be living in limbo for years as few coun- Shorif, who fled a Rohingya refugee camp in ended when the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami hit inland, where they are being housed in better tries are willing to resettle migrants, including Bangladesh where he had lived with his family, the province, leaving more than 170,000 dead in buildings. those who have genuine refugee status, and echoed his sentiments. “I miss mother’s cooking Indonesia alone. Since coming ashore emaciated and filthy there are a huge number waiting for resettle- in the refugee camp,” he said, but added he was “During the conflict in the past, we endured after months at sea, many of the migrants ment. Many end up living a half-life in the shad- “very happy” to be in Aceh for Ramadan, when suffering. But there are Rohingya who have had appear to be recovering swiftly. Images of one ows, eking out a living in the informal sector, far Muslims are required to fast from sunrise to sun- worse experiences than people in Aceh,” said desperate group in a green wooden boat off from their loved ones.—AFP International FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 2015 Bombings, war, disease as Yemen marks holy month Worsening humanitarian and ceasefire situations SANAA: War-torn Yemen began marking the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan yesterday after a wave of Islamic State group bombings, with little hope of a ceasefire and a worsening humanitarian situation. The five simultaneous bombings targeting Shiite mosques and offices in the capital late Wednesday killed at least 31 people and wounded dozens, medics and wit- nesses said. Apparently timed to coincide with sunset prayers when worshippers flocked to mosques to mark the eve of Ramadan, the bombings were claimed by IS as “revenge” against Shiite Houthi rebels who have been battling pro-gov- ernment forces for months. The conflict has cast a pall in Yemen over this year’s Ramadan, which is observed by more than 1.5 billion Muslims worldwide who believe the Koran was revealed to their prophet Mohammed during this month in the western Saudi city of Mecca in 610 AD. During the holy month, believers abstain from eating, drinking, smoking and having sex from dawn until sunset, when they break their fast with an elaborate meal known as iftar. The iftar will be a luxury this year in Yemen, where the UN says a “catastrophic” humanitarian crisis has left 80 percent of the population — 20 mil- lion people-in need of aid. SANAA: Boys gather at the site of a car bomb attack yesterday. A series of Islamic State-claimed bombings in Yemen’s rebel-controlled The rebels, considered by IS as heretics, capital killed several people and wounded dozens Wednesday night amid the country’s raging war. — AP have overrun much of the Sunni-majority coun- try and, along with their allies among forces ized ceasefires. Ramadan shoppers complained of steep con- of a stall with a colorful display of chilies, green loyal to ousted president Ali Abdullah Saleh, Yemen’s war has killed more than 2,500 sumer prices as the holy month got underway. peppers, courgettes and aubergines at Riyadh’s have been the target of Saudi-led air strikes people since March, according to UN estimates. “In Ramadan the prices are higher,” said Otaiga Market. “Some things that were five since March. UN-brokered talks between the Across the border in oil-rich Saudi Arabia, Mohamed Ahmed Hajouli as he stood in front riyals ($1.33) before are 10 now.” — AFP warring parties are stalling in Geneva, after Secretary General Ban Ki-moon launched nego- tiations on Monday with a plea for a Ramadan truce. The humanitarian situation is particularly Global refugee numbers dire in the southern port city of Aden, battered by nearly three months of air strikes and fight- ing. reach alarming levels ‘Empty supermarket shelves’ Aden was struck by more air strikes at dawn BERLIN: Syria overtook Afghanistan to become the while fighting raged between the rebels and world’s biggest source of refugees last year, while forces loyal to exiled President Abedrabbo the number of people forced from their homes by Mansour Hadi, witnesses said. The city’s streets, conflicts worldwide rose to a record 59.5 million, usually busy for Ramadan with shoppers, were the United Nations’ refugee agency said yesterday. empty. Pointing to crises in Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Burundi and “It’s the first time we don’t feel happy that elsewhere, UN High Commissioner for Refugees Ramadan has begun,” said Aden resident Antonio Guterres said he doesn’t expect any Abdulrahman Anis. “We haven’t received improvement in 2015. salaries since the crisis began in March,” said “There is a multiplication of new crises,” he said. the employee at a local newspaper. “Food sup- “The Iraq-Syria crisis gained the dimension of a plies are thin and triple the usual prices. mega one ... and at the same time the old crises Supermarket shelves are completely empty,” have no solutions.” The report comes at a time he said. when Europe is grappling with how to deal with a The health situation is also deteriorating, flood of new migrants crossing the Mediterranean with diseases such as malaria, typhoid and to escape fighting in Syria, Libya and elsewhere. dengue fever spreading fast across Aden, UNHCR estimated that a total of 59.5 million where dead bodies are left on the streets for people worldwide had been displaced by conflict days amid intense fighting. “Every day we by the end of last year - including 38.2 million dis- receive between 90 and 100 patients infected placed within their own countries. That was up by dengue fever,” said Marwa Marwan, a doctor from 51.2 million in 2013 - the previous highest at the emergency department of Aden’s Al- since the UN began collecting numbers in the early Breihi hospital. 1950s. Syria alone accounted for 11.6 million of She said 10-15 people die from dengue those people, the biggest single figure. AKCAKALE: In this Sunday, June 14, 2015, file photo, a Syrian refugee holds her baby each day due to the lack of medicine to treat The agency counted nearly 3.9 million Syrian after crossing into Turkey from Syria. — AP them. The UN’s Ban pleaded with the warring refugees in 107 countries last year, the fourth year sides this week to observe a “humanitarian of the country’s civil war. That made it the leading Pakistan, which had held that position for more lowest number since 1983. The countries to pause for at least two weeks” to coincide with source of refugees - pushing Afghanistan, which than a decade, was second with 1.51 million. which most people returned were Congo, Mali the start of Ramadan. With an overall truce had held that status for more than 30 years, down and Afghanistan. Guterres said he was alarmed unlikely, a source close to the UN-sponsored to second place with 2.6 million refugees. Syria’s ‘Staggering acceleration’ by “a staggering acceleration” in the number of talks in Geneva said warring parties would dis- northern neighbor, Turkey, became the world’s Over the course of last year, only 126,800 people being forced from their homes over cuss yesterday the possibility of striking local- biggest refugee host with 1.59 million refugees. refugees returned to their home countries - the recent years.— AP International FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 2015 15

US births up after 7 years of decline

NEW YORK: It appears the baby recession really is over: Preliminary figures show US births were up last year for the first time in seven years. About 53,000 more babies were born in 2014 than the year before - a 1 percent increase. Births were up for nearly every racial and ethnic group, and there were improvements in several other key measures. Teen births hit another historic low and there were fewer cesarean sections and preterm deliveries. “It looks like perhaps we’re seeing the turnaround that many experts have been anticipating,” said Gretchen Livingston, a birth trends expert at Pew Research Center. She was not involved in the report. The nation has been in a baby recession since 2007 - a decline in births that experts have blamed mainly on the nation’s economy. It looked like it might have ended in 2013, with preliminary figures showing the number of births rising slightly. But the final tally showed yet another decline. Government statisticians said they’ve taken extra steps to make sure the preliminary 2014 numbers hold up. Still, some experts are cautious about declaring a lasting upswing. “I’ve learned not to prognosticate,” said Brady Hamilton of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He’s lead author of the new report, which is based on a review of nearly all birth certificates.

Unwarranted caution CHARLESTON: Charleston police officers search for a shooting suspect outside the Emanuel AME Church, in downtown Highlights from the 2014 report released Wednesday: Charleston, South Carolina. — AP There were just under 4 million babies born. Births rose for white, black, Asian and Hispanic women. For some unknown reason, it fell for Native American moms. The birth rate for women of child-bearing age rose 1 percent, Gunman on the run after US to just under 63 births per 1,000 women. In 2013, the rate was 62.5 percent - the lowest it had ever been. The total fertility rate rose slightly, by less than 1 per- Hate crime church shooting cent. That tells how many children a woman can be expected to have if current birth rates continue. The figure Pastor and 8 others fatally shot was just shy of 1.9 children last year. Experts say 2.1 is a goal if you want to keep the population at its current size. CHARLESTON: US police yesterday breaking for Charleston and South Advancement of Colored People About 32 percent of babies were delivered through hunted for a white gunman who killed Carolina,” said Senator Tim Scott of (NAACP), said the shooter may not have cesarean section, marking the second straight decline. In nine people at a prayer meeting in one South Carolina, one of only two African drawn attention because of the church’s the 1980s, health officials set a goal of 15 percent, believ- of the nation’s oldest black churches in Americans in the Senate. location. “It sits in an area that a lot of ing that many C-sections are done out of convenience or Charleston, as federal authorities the tourists frequent. It’s not out of the unwarranted caution. The preterm birth rate - delivery at opened a hate crimes probe. ‘Absolutely bizarre’ ordinary that folks just walk into the less than 37 weeks - fell to a little under 10 percent, as part The shooting at the Emanuel African Jim Curley, owner of AC’s Bar & Grill, sanctuary and sit and listen to what’s of a continuing decline. Methodist Episcopal Church in the which is located a few blocks from the going on,” Scott told CNN. The birth rates women in their 30s and early 40s contin- southeastern US city was one of the church, said locals were shocked anyone Officials did not immediately release ued to rise. The rate for women in their late 20s - who have worst attacks on a place of worship in would carry out an attack in the popular the names or any details of the victims, the most babies - held steady after years of decline. The the country in recent years, and comes tourist area. “This is absolutely bizarre,” or say what kind of gun was used. teen birth rate fell 9 percent, continuing a decline that at a time of lingering racial tensions. Curley told AFP. “This is really complete- According to its website, the Emanuel started in 1991. The number of babies born to teens last Churchgoers had gathered Wednesday ly out of the blue... We have no idea African Methodist Episcopal Church is year - about 249,000 - is less than half the peak of nearly evening when the shooter walked into what the motivation is.” Officers investi- the oldest such church in America’s 645,000 in 1970. Some experts had expected to see that the building, sat in the congregation for gated a possible bomb threat after the southern states. The church was found- decline level off at some point. about an hour and then opened fire, shooting, but several hours later gave ed in 1816 and in 1822 was investigated “What we have seen is quite remarkable,” said Bill Charleston Police Chief Gregory Mullen the all-clear. for its involvement with a planned slave Albert of the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and said. Three men and six women were The incident once again highlights revolt, the website states. “The only rea- Unplanned Pregnancy. Experts attribute the decline to a killed, and several other people were broad racial tensions that persist in son someone can walk into church and range of factors, including less sex and more use of contra- wounded. Among the dead was the many US communities, more than five shoot people praying is out of hate,” ception. Related to that, apparently, is a change in social church’s pastor Clementa Pinckney, who decades after the Civil Rights Act was mayor Riley said. “It is the most dastard- norms for many teens, Albert said. They are more wary of was also a South Carolina state senator. enacted to outlaw racial and other forms ly act that one can possibly imagine.” pregnancy, and less likely to know someone who became “At this point, we have nine victims in of discrimination. In April, in the neigh- Republican presidential candidate pregnant as a teen or even to know someone who is the this hideous crime that has been com- boring city of North Charleston, a white Jeb Bush canceled campaign events daughter of a teen mother, he suggested. — AP mitted,” Mullen told journalists. “I do police officer was charged after a video that had been planned for yesterday in believe it was a hate crime.” Police surfaced of him fatally shooting a flee- Charleston. Democratic presidential can- released photos of the suspect-a slender ing black man in the back during a traf- didate Hillary Clinton, who had been in white man believed to be in his 20s with fic stop. But Curley said the neighbor- Charleston earlier Wednesday, tweeted dark blond or brown hair in a distinctive hood’s residents typically get along fine. her condolences. “Heartbreaking news bowl-type haircut and wearing a grey “Generally, there’s not a great deal of from Charleston - my thoughts and sweater. He was seen leaving the scene racial tension,” he said. prayers are with you all,” she wrote. in a black sedan. Helicopters and sniffer The Charleston shooting is the latest dogs were deployed in the hunt for the ‘Dastardly act’ on a long list of mass shootings in the suspect. Charleston is known locally as “The United States. The deadliest in recent “He obviously is extremely danger- Holy City,” due to its large number of years include the April 2007 Virginia ous,” Mullen said. The shooting comes churches and historical mix of immi- Tech shooting, when 32 were killed, and at a time of heightened racial tensions in grant ethnic groups that brought a vari- the December 2012 Sandy Hook ele- America, after several high-profile ety of creeds to the city on the Atlantic mentary school shootings in Newtown, killings of unarmed black men at the coast. “People in prayer on a Wednesday Connecticut, when a total of 27 people hands of white police in recent months evening. A ritual coming together, pray- died, including 20 children. Charleston is led to protests and a national debate on ing and worshipping God. To have an famous for its cobblestone streets, race. A Justice Department spokesper- awful person come in and shoot them is, Southern cuisine and nearby beaches son said a hate crimes probe had been is inexplicable,” Mayor Joseph Riley said. and islands. The city is also known out- opened, with FBI agents working in tan- Dot Scott, the head of the local chap- side the United States for its namesake dem in with local police. “My heart is ter of the National Association for the 1920s dance. — AFP International FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 2015

man loses legal battle over his own birth

AHMEDABAD: An Indian man who sued the authorities over his own birth because his mother conceived after undergoing sterilization in a state clinic, has lost his decades-long legal bat- tle. Rajesh Laljibhai Patel’s mother launched a lawsuit against the government of India’s western Gujarat state two years after he was born in 1985. Vijuben Patel, who already had four children, had under- gone a sterilization procedure at a camp organized by authori- ties in the state six years earlier. She argued that government should pay for her son’s maintenance, citing medical negli- gence, and named him as a plaintiff in the case even though he was just two years old at the time. India’s legal system moves notoriously slowly and it was not until 1992 that the court ruled in her favor, ordering authorities to pay her 25,000 rupees (about $400). But the authorities appealed, and a higher court finally ordered the family to repay the money in December last year-by which time Rajesh had grown up and his mother had died. Rajesh, now a soldier in the Indian army, launched a count- er-appeal in April. His lawyer E E Saiyed told AFP said he wanted to achieve justice for his late mother. But the Gujarat high court rejected his appeal, ruling that sterilization carried a marginal rate of failure and his birth did not constitute medical negli- gence. “Prima facie it appears that all methods of family plan- ning have small but varying degrees of possibility of failure,” Justice Akil Kureshi said in his judgment, adding that Rajesh will have to repay the 25,000 rupees given to his mother. India, which is set to become the world’s most populated country in the next decade, has been trying for decades to curb popula- tion growth. While the national government officially abandoned targets for family planning in 1996, local authorities still offer cash incentives to women who undergo sterilization. Rights groups GORKHA DISTRICT: This photograph taken on June 14, 2015, shows a Nepalese villager standing next to her temporary say these amounts to coercion. The problem was highlighted dwelling in the village of Sirdibas in Gorkha District, some 250kms north-west of Kathmandu.— AFP last year when 13 women died after a government-run mass sterilization program in the central state of Chhattisgarh. The procedure involves tubal ligation, or tying of the fallopian Nepal quake leaves remote tubes, and the failure rate is around one per cent. — AFP

villages cut as rains begin Afghan clerics protest Getting supplies is the biggest battle first woman in SC

GORKHA: For the villagers of Sirdibas in million people are in need of assistance compared with everything else,” he KABUL: Members of an influential Islamic panel in Afghanistan Nepal, one of hundreds of isolated after the quake, and more than 800,000 smiles. have protested against President Ashraf Ghani’s nomination of a mountain communities dotting the vast of those are in hard-to-reach areas. It has Even the food that the villagers usu- woman to the Supreme Court, a milestone appointment in a coun- Himalayan region, a trip to the nearest warned that access problems will wors- ally grow is in short supply after the try where the Taleban once banned women from most areas of market meant a difficult three-day jour- en significantly in the coming weeks as quake. The main crops are corn and public life. Ghani’s decision last week delivered on an election ney by donkey even before the recent the monsoon rains begin. potatoes, but quake damage has promise to appoint the first woman to the Supreme Court, but 7.8-magnitude earthquake. Since the With helicopters in short supply, the blocked access to some fields, while oth- conservative lawmakers could fight the parliamentary confirma- quake struck on April 25, however, flat- UN World Food Programme has hired ers have been ravaged by insects, tion of Anisa Rassouli, who now heads a juvenile court. tening villages and killing more than thousands of porters left unemployed adding to the misery. “Usually people The step represents good news for civil rights activists worried 8,700 people, that rudimentary trail has by a collapse in tourist numbers to deliv- store their crops inside their house. But that gains made by women might be eroded after the withdrawal been cut off, and the monsoon rains er aid to remote mountainous areas. The this time they have nothing to store,” of most foreign troops last year, 13 years after the US-led military mean it cannot be repaired for months. operation aims to deliver food and shel- said Ram Kumar, the head of the village intervention that toppled the Taleban in 2001. The Taleban ruled Almost every house in Sirdibas, in the ter materials to an estimated 100,000 committee. with a strict interpretation of Islamic law and forbade women to worst-hit district of Gorkha west of the people as well as clearing walking trails, Sirdibas has around 2,500 residents work, attend school or leave home without a male relative and the capital Kathmandu, was damaged by many of which have been blocked by according to a 2011 census, but they are all-encompassing burqa covering the face and body. More than a the quake-a story echoed in countless quake-triggered landslides. spread over a large area and there are decade later, Afghanistan remains a largely conservative Muslim communities across Nepal, where at Around 10 kilometers of the path only a few hundred in the small village society and members of the Ulema Council, an influential panel of least half a million homes were from Sirdibas is blocked, according to itself. For the moment, emergency relief clerics, protested against Rassouli’s nomination in a meeting with destroyed. But villagers say getting sup- one of the 37 soldiers deployed in the is still coming-the UN and Nepal army Ghani. plies is the biggest battle-a worry that village for relief work. The villagers tried helicopters airdrop supplies of rice and “We told him that a woman cannot be a judge in capital crimes becomes even more pressing as the using an old route, but found that too sugar every week. But even if the vil- and other serious criminal issues,” said Shams-ul Rahman Frotan, a monsoon nears. was impossible, and there is a constant lagers are not going hungry, the difficul- panel member who attended last Friday’s meeting. Rassouli’s con- risk of falling rocks. One of the few local ty of sourcing food supplies has other firmation is likely to face opposition from conservative religious Inaccessible by road generators of income is tourism, as the consequences. lawmakers. “Ghani’s decision is a big mistake. Under Islam, a “We don’t have access to market, we village sits on a popular trekking route, Lessons are about to restart at the woman can only be a judge in small family affairs,” said Qazi Nazir can’t buy anything and we need rice adding to the need to repair the path local school, using rigged-up shelters Hanifi, a lawmaker from the western province of Herat, who vowed and cooking oil,” said 60-year-old Lani quickly. after many of the building’s stone walls to vote against the confirmation. Gurung, one of around 100 villagers crumbled in the quake. But 120 of the Rassouli declined to comment before the parliamentary vote. who gathered to speak to the local ‘Nothing to store’ 500 pupils board because they live two Ghani’s spokesman could not be reached yesterday, the first full United Nations coordinator Susan The quake also took its toll on the days’ walk away and the teacher, elegant- day of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan. However, the Robertson on a recent visit. Many vil- donkeys who locals rely on to carry ly dressed in a long yellow skirt and pur- Afghan parliament’s own future is in question, since its five-year lages in Gorkha in the foothills of the heavy loads across long distances. Hira ple shawl, says they will not be able to mandate officially expires next week after elections for new law- Himalayas were inaccessible by road Chhetri, a villager who works for the return because the village cannot feed makers, due in April, were delayed indefinitely. Some politicians even before the quake. National Trust for Nature Conservation, them. And the imminent onset of the and analysts expect Ghani to introduce several nominees, includ- They are now even more cut off, says that between 200 and 300 of the monsoon rains means that emergency ing his defense minister and Rassouli, during the parliament’s last forced to rely on helicopter deliveries for around 2,000 donkeys living in the area shelters being airlifted in by the Red official days, in exchange for his support in extending the lawmak- basic supplies. The UN estimates that 2.8 were killed. “But that’s a small problem Cross-are another, urgent priority. — AFP ers’ mandate. — Reuters International FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 2015 Philippines tests health app for remote islands

MANILA: The Philippines is testing an app that will speed up deliv- ery of health services to hundreds of remote island communities, the science department said yesterday. Using the app, designed for tablets using Google’s Android operating system, the health officer of a remote town can upload medical records and clinical informa- tion on a patient, which can then be viewed anywhere by doctors and nurses. So far, about a hundred tablets preloaded with the local- ly-developed application have been distributed by the ministry to towns in four islands to test its viability. If successful, about 450 remote towns in the archipelago will get their own tablets, with mayors and health officers-local officials responsible for community medical care-then better able to track the area’s health needs using the data they obtain. “This is for communities that are isolated, remote and hard to reach. Its chief advantage is its portability,” said Vincent Tablos, the project coordinator for the government’s Department of Science and Technology. “If it is adopted widely by our local health (work- ers), then we can consolidate it as part of our national health sys- tem,” he told AFP. Under the pilot-scheme a mayor and health offi- cer each get one tablet loaded up with government health forms, including for health insurance, via the app. After an individual’s health data is uploaded, all of the information on the required forms can be easily called up during consultations. “Once they go to the health centre, they will have all their records available. Instead of waiting two hours just filling out forms, they go straight to the doctor,” he said. If a person moves to another town, his existing health records can be viewed immediately through the app, Tablos added. The communities targeted are all located far from major cities, where health centers are not readily accessible to local populations, making it difficult to send or receive patients’ information, Tablos said. The device also includes a communication HONG KONG: Hong Kong pro-democracy lawmakers Alan Leong, (bottom) and Claudia Mo sit next to placards with system that allows for easier data sharing between the local health crosses to symbolize against the election reform proposals on the second day of a legislature debate yesterday. — AP officer and mayor. “This will help in decision-making. The mayor can chart any outbreak or see any rise in dengue or malaria. He can see what kind of medicines have to be bought, what they must prioritize Hong Kong lawmakers reject for next year,” he said. — AFP Beijing-backed election plan Reform package derided as ‘fake democracy’

HONG KONG: Hong Kong lawmakers democrats of denying residents the the future as it enforces universal suf- yesterday rejected a Beijing-backed elec- opportunity to choose a leader. Leung frage in the chief executive election,” toral reform package derided as “fake added it was time for the community to Xinhua reported, citing a statement from democracy” during mass protests last “move on” and focus on other issues. the National People’s Congress Standing year, leaving the city in deadlock over “Political reform will effectively grind Committee (NPC). how its leader should be chosen. to a halt,” said Shi Yinhong, international Some analysts said China may take a The government’s electoral roadmap relations professor at Beijing’s Renmin harder line against Hong Kong, but giv- would have given all residents the right University. “There is unlikely to be a new en its importance as a finance hub, to vote for the chief executive for the (reform) proposal from China’s govern- Beijing is likely to avoid any measures first time in 2017, but only able to ment,” he said. Pro-democracy lawmak- that could dent its economic prosperity. choose from candidates vetted by a ers did not cast their defeat of the vote “Possibly China will draw some lessons GWACHEON: South Korea’s new Prime Minister Hwang Beijing loyalist committee. In an as a victory, with some saying that it was from this, and make some changes in its Kyo-ahn speaks during his inauguration ceremony at the unprecedented rebuke, the proposal just the beginning of a long battle. “I Hong Kong policy. Some matters may be government complex building. — AP was voted down by 28 votes to eight, think in the short-term we cannot see treated more harshly. It’s hard to say,” with the majority of pro-government any opportunity or incentive for them to said Shi. South Korea govt lawmakers walking out of the legislative sit together and start up another round Around 100 pro-democracy support- chamber without casting their ballots as of negotiations,” said Ivan Choy, a senior ers outside the legislature cheered at the approves new PM defeat loomed. “This result is not what lecturer at the Chinese University of vote yesterday, punching the air and we want to see,” Beijing’s foreign min- Hong Kong. “Political reform may be in a hugging each other as the result was SEOUL: South Korea’s ruling party-controlled legislature yestersday istry spokesman Lu Kang said after the deadlock for two or three years.” Hong broadcast live on a big screen. “I’m excit- approved President Park Geun-hye’s choice for prime minster, end- vote, which required support from two- Kong is largely self-governing after ed!” said 30-year-old IT worker Ken ing a lengthy merry-go-round at the country’s No. 2 job caused by thirds of the assembly’s 70 lawmakers to being handed back to China by Britain in Tsang. “It was a proposal that would only political wrangling and corruption scandals. The National Assembly pass. 1997 and enjoys much greater freedoms benefit those in power.” Hundreds of approved the appointment of Hwang Kyo-ahn by a vote of 156-120. He added that China wanted to than on the mainland, but there are fears pro-government supporters, who had Two lawmakers abstained, parliamentary officials said. “press ahead with the democratic devel- that these are being eroded. Analysts say gathered at the harbor front assembly, Hwang has been the country’s justice minister. He successfully opment of Hong Kong” in the interests that despite yesterday’s vote, the pro- shouted through loudspeakers to “vote petitioned the country’s constitutional court last year to disband a of stability and prosperity in the former democracy campaign risks fragmenting out” the democrats. “I’m very disap- small leftist party accused of pro-North Korea views, a decision critics British colony. But analysts agreed that as frustrations grow over the lack of pointed that I cannot have my vote (for said exposed the limits of freedom of expression in a nation once Beijing was unlikely to alter its stance on progress, and that smaller radical splin- leader),” said Leung Ting-to, 63, who was ruled by military dictators. the vetting of candidates, and authori- ter groups could emerge. standing with the pro-Beijing camp. Hwang will succeed Lee Wan Koo, who resigned in April amid ties in Hong Kong have said the political “Hong Kong... was given the chance to allegations that he was among several members of Park’s adminis- reform debate is now off the table for Beijing backlash have universal suffrage, but the democ- tration who received bribes from a businessman who committed 2017. Beijing has not made it clear how it rats took it away.” suicide weeks earlier. Lee in February had replaced Chung Hong- will respond to what was a slap in the Civic Party leader Alan Leong, part of won, who stepped down over the government’s handling of a ferry ‘Naturally disappointed’ face for the mainland authorities. China’s the pro-democracy camp, said that it disaster that killed more than 300 people last year. That means the next chief executive top legislature emphasized that the would “go down in history” that only Chung offered to resign shortly after the ferry sank to take will be chosen by a 1,200-strong pro- issue was non-negotiable, saying its eight people supported the bill. “The responsibility over the disaster, but two possible replacements aban- Beijing committee, as was the unpopular decision last August to insist on the vet- message that we are sending to the cen- doned their nominations because of questions over past behavior, current leader, Leung Chun-ying. “I, the ting of candidates will remain in force in tral people’s government and the Hong forcing Park to retain him. South Korea’s executive power is concen- government and millions of Hong Kong the future, state media reported. “The Kong government is that Hong Kong trated in the president, but the prime minister leads the country if people are naturally disappointed,” decision shall continue to serve as the people do not want to take on this fake the president becomes incapacitated. — AP Leung said after the vote, accusing the constitutional ground for Hong Kong in democratic package,” he said. — AFP International FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 2015

MERS sparks mask rush, but are they effective?

TOKYO: As South Korea scrambles to control an out- break of the killer MERS virus, its fearful citizens have donned surgical masks en masse-but the jury is out on whether they actually protect against the invisible enemy lurking in the air. Across Asia, masks have lost their stigma to become an everyday sight in the street or on the subway, despite some experts believing they do little more than provide psychological reassurance against dis- eases such as MERS, which has already left 23 people dead in South Korea. The virus, which arrived in the country with a busi- nessman who had been travelling in the Middle East, has sparked a rush of orders at a small Japanese mask- maker, similar to that in the 2002-2003 Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) outbreak in China. “We have received 100,000 orders for our masks, 10 times more than the same time last year,” company presi- dent Tsuyoshi Nakagawara told AFP. “Half of them are from overseas, of which 70 percent are from South Korea, while Hong Kong and (mainland) China account BEIJING: A Chinese Muslim man offers prayers on the first day of Ramadan, the Muslim holy month, at a mosque. — AFP for the rest.” The company’s most popular mask, a 9,980 yen ($80) model, is made with several layers of filters, China restricts Ramadan which the firm claims are fine enough to block pollen, infectious viruses, PM2.5 — tiny airborne pollutants small enough to penetrate deep into the lungs-and fasting in western region even radioactive particles. While fear over MERS is at the root of the latest boom in South Korean mask wearing, the practice is widespread in East Asia, even Officials blaming ‘religious extremism’ for violence in relatively normal times. BEIJING: China has banned civil servants, students and ty”, the county’s official website said. teachers in its mainly Muslim Xinjiang region from fasting Ahead of the holy month, one village in Yili, near the Runny noses during Ramadan and ordered restaurants to stay open, border with Kazakhstan, said mosques must check the In Japan it is common to see small children, busi- official websites showed as the holy month began yester- identification cards of anyone who comes to pray during nessmen, pregnant women and others in a white sur- day. Most Muslims are required to fast from dawn to dusk Ramadan, according to a notice on the government’s web- gical mask as they go about their daily life-on trains, in during the month but China’s ruling Communist Party is site. The Bole county government said that Mehmet Talip, offices and in the street. They are particularly abun- officially atheist and for years has restricted the practice in a 90-year-old Uighur Communist Party member, had prom- dant during the winter ‘flu season and remain so Xinjiang, home to the mostly Muslim Uighur minority. ised to avoid fasting and vowed to “not enter a mosque in through spring as millions of hayfever sufferers grap- “Food service workplaces will operate normal hours dur- order to consciously resist religious and superstitious ple with runny noses and sneezing. ing Ramadan,” said a notice posted last week on the web- ideas”. — AFP Masks are used in China chiefly as a way of protect- site of the state Food and Drug Administration in Xinjiang’s ing the wearer from the sometimes-choking pollution Jinghe county. Officials in the region’s Bole county were of the big cities, while South Koreans wear them rou- told: “During Ramadan do not engage in fasting, vigils or Australian IS tinely for a mixture of reasons. “Masks are most preva- other religious activities,” according to a local government website report of a meeting this week. lent in the winter season and in the spring, supported Uighur rights groups say China’s restrictions on Islam in doctor Issued by a government campaign,” said Kim Mi-Kyung, a Xinjiang have added to ethnic tensions in the region, health management professor at Kyung-In Women’s where clashes have killed hundreds in recent years. China arrest warrant University. “Nowadays, different types of masks are says it faces a terrorist threat in Xinjiang, with officials widely used for sanitation and protection against the blaming “religious extremism” for growing violence. SYDNEY: An arrest warrant was issued yesterday for cold, or to prevent the inhalation of pollutants,” she Muslim culture an Australian-trained doctor who appeared in an said. However, scientists-and even mask manufactur- “China’s goal in prohibiting fasting is to forcibly move Islamic State propaganda video which urges other ers-say wearing a mask every day does not provide the Uighurs away from their Muslim culture during Ramadan,” medical professionals to join the jihadists, police said. level of protection many people seem to think. said Dilxat Rexit, a spokesman for the exiled World Uyghur Tareq Kamleh was shown in the slick video, uploaded “Wearing a mask is not perfect to prevent a wearer Congress. “Policies that prohibit religious fasting are a to YouTube in April, identifying himself as Abu Yusuf from picking up a virus,” said Mitsuo Kaku, professor of provocation and will only lead to instability and conflict.” and explaining that he travelled to the city of Raqa in infectious disease at Tohoku University. “It can be said, Going one step beyond simply discouraging government Syria to use his medical skills in the IS cause. though, that wearing a mask and washing your hands employees to forgo fasting, police and court officials in Police said he was an Adelaide-trained doctor who could reduce the spread of micro-organisms,” he said. Awat county were ordered to “take the lead in teaching has worked in hospitals in South Australia, family members not to fast and not to participate in Norio Ohmagari, director of Japan’s Disease Control Queensland and the Northern Territory. ‘The South Ramadan-related religious activities”, according to a post and Prevention Center, said improper use of masks fur- Australian Joint Counter Terrorism team has obtained ther lessens their efficacy. “In principle, masks should on China Legal Media. As in previous years, school children were included in an arrest warrant for Dr Tareq Kamleh,’ police said in a be used only once,” he said, adding a wearer must statement. They allege he is a member of, and recruit- wash their hands after disposing of the used mask. directives limiting Ramadan fasting and other religious observances. The education bureau of Tarbaghatay city, ed for, a terrorist organization and that he entered a “People don’t know how to handle them properly.” In prohibited area under Australia’s Criminal Code Act. the US, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention known as Tacheng in Chinese, this month ordered schools to communicate to students that “during Ramadan, ethnic ‘Should Dr Kamleh return to Australia, this warrant says face masks block “large-particle droplets, splash- minority students do not fast, do not enter mosques... and authorizes law enforcement to arrest him immediate- es, sprays or splatter that may contain germs... from do not attend religious activities”. ly,’ the statement said. Australia raised its threat level reaching your mouth and nose.” But they do not “filter Similar orders were posted on the websites of other to ‘high’ last September and has since carried out a or block very small particles in the air that may be Xinjiang education bureaus and schools. Officials in the series of counter-terrorism raids with alarm fuelled by transmitted by coughs, sneezes or certain medical pro- region’s Qiemo county this week met with local religious the departure of dozens of Australians to fight in Iraq cedures.” — AFP leaders to inform them there would be increased inspec- and Syria. — AFP tions during Ramadan in order to “maintain social stabili- FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 2015 www.kuwaittimes.net of thenewmoon, beganyesterdayinAfghanistan.— AFP Jalalabad yesterday, Islam’sholymonthof Ramadan, whichiscalculated onthesighting Afghan children studytheQuranduringfirst dayofthemonthRamadan atamosquein Lifestyle FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 2015 Madonna brings star power, children to new video adonna has brought out some of the biggest fellow Minaj, who collaborated on the song originally-depicts a party names in pop-and two of her children-in a new video atmosphere and was shot at the Standard High Line, a hotel in Mshe debuted Wednesday on the fledgling streaming New York’s Meatpacking District known for its nightclub with service Tidal. Beyonce, Katy Perry, Miley Cyrus and Kanye West a jacuzzi overlooking the city. all make cameo appearances in the video for “I’m Madonna,” ‘B###hI’m Madonna” also includes rare appearances by off her latest album “Rebel Heart.” Madonna released the two of the Material Girl’s four children, 14-year-old Rocco and video initially on Tidal, where it will appear exclusively for one nine-year-old David. “Rebel Heart,” Madonna’s 13th studio day before wider distribution. But a number of users reported album, shows a growing hip-hop direction for the pop icon technical problems, saying that the video froze up when they whose dance numbers and risque persona have made her first tried to watch. “We apologize to all the fans excited to one of music’s most successful artists since the 1980s. watch the #B###hImMadonna video, we’re working on a fix,” Madonna, 56, will launch a global tour on September 9 in said a Tidal message on Twitter before later reporting Montreal. Her 88-date “MDNA” tour in 2012 grossed more smoother streaming. than $300 million and generated controversy as she raised Tidal-led by rap mogul Jay-Z with participation of Madonna her voice on stage on issues ranging from gay rights to the and other stars-has promoted exclusives in a bid to win sub- rise of Europe’s far right. — AFP Madonna scribers. But despite a splashy launch on March 30, Tidal trails more established players in the growing field of streaming, led by Spotify. The video-which also features hip-hop star Nicki Theron and Penn call off engagement, split up

cademy award-winning duo Charlize Theron and Sean Penn have broken off their engagement Aand parted ways after a two-year relationship, US media reported Wednesday. The couple was last seen together in May in Cannes, where Theron-who only recently referred to Penn as the love of her life-was pro- moting the premiere of her film “Mad Max.” Theron, 39, decided to cut it off with Penn, 54, whom she started dating in 2013 after the two had known each other as friends for years, Us Weekly reported. In 2004, the pair shared a one-of-a-kind expe- rience: they each took home a first Oscar, in her case for “Monster,” and in his for “Mystic River.” Penn then won another Academy Award in 2009 for “Milk.” — AFP

Tommy Chong Charlize Theron Tommy Chong and Sean Penn says he is battling rectal cancer omedian Tommy Chong, who with Cheech Marin was one of the most successful comedy teams of Cthe 1970s, said on Wednesday he is being treated for rectal cancer. “I have good news and bad news. First the bad news, the cancer came back and it is a real pain in the butt,” he said on Twitter. “The good news is I now have to use more marijuana to treat the cancer.” Chong, 77, said he will let fans know how he is doing and will document his battle against the disease on the “Chong and Chong” podcast. “Please wish me luck while I kick cancer’s behind,” he added. It is Chong’s second battle with cancer. In 2012 he was diagnosed with prostate cancer. Chong and Marin gained fame in 1971 with their comedy album “Cheech and Chong” and earned a reputation for smoking pot with their films “Up in Smoke” and “Nice Dreams.” After breaking up in the late 1980s, the duo reunited decades later for a comedy tour, “Cheech & Chong: Light Up America.” A documentary film of their first tour in 25 years was released in 2010. — Reuters

Brad Paisley (white Hat) joins The Rolling Stones Mick Jagger, Ronnie Wood and Keith Richards during The Rolling Stones North American ‘ZIP CODE’ Tour - Nashville at LP Field on June 17, 2015 in Nashville, Tennessee. — AFP Lifestyle FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 2015

From left, Chanel Iman, Pharell Williams, Kiersey Clemons, Shameik Moore, Amin Joseph, Tony Revolori, Quincy Brown, Zoe In this image released by Open Road Films, Shameik Moore, Kravitz, Rick Famuyiwa and A$AP Rocky pose for photographers during a photo call for the film Dope, at the 68th international left, and Zoe Kravitz in a scene from, ‘Dope.’ film festival, Cannes, southern France. — AP photos Stereotype-busting ‘Dope’ moves to beat of a new generation ope” began in the ears of Rick Famuyiwa. The Los adventure. “These kids live in a tough environment, but like any world that they perceive or that they dream.” “Dope” certainly Angeles filmmaker was listening to Kendrick Lamar, other kids, they’re thinking about school, they’re thinking about realized the dreams of the 20-year-old Moore, an Atlanta actor “DA$AP Rocky and Tyler the Creator - genre-shifting R&B parties, they’re thinking about the hot girl or guy,” says Famuyiwa. whose audition tape blew away a desperate Famuyiwa. and hip-hop musicians prone to freewheeling experimentation - “These kids have more obstacles to face in their journey, but The director had struggled to cast Malcolm, but Moore encap- and he heard a new sound. Though many, like the collective Odd they’re optimistic and embrace life. I think it’s a generational sulated the blend of wit, leading-man charm and sincerity he was Future, were from parts of LA close to Inglewood, the community thing.” The film has a direct connection to the music that inspired looking for. It’s an overwhelmingly obvious star-marking perform- where Famuyiwa grew up, they struck the 41-year-old as not at all it, too. Along with the film debut of Rocky, whose second album ance. “Everything I’ve been wanting is coming to life,” says Moore, like his contemporaries. “They were hanging around in all these debuted at No. 1 on Billboard’s chart last week, Pharrell Williams is who’s currently shooting Baz Luhrmann’s upcoming hip-hop dra- same places but their energy was completely different,” Famuyiwa a producer and wrote several songs for the soundtrack. “Dope” ma series “The Get Down.” “I did have to learn how to be a leading said in an interview last month at the Cannes Film Festival. “They caused a sensation at the Sundance Film Festival, sparking a bid- man. But after I got the hang of it, it was something amazing. I felt uninhibited. I was listening to Kendrick Lamar, who’s from ding war won by Open Road Films, which is opening it wide this learned how to really do something different on this movie, access (nearby) Compton. I was like: His Compton and how he sees and weekend. The journey to big summer release from Sundance hit, a new part of myself.” experiences Compton is completely different than NWA or Ice with a stop in between at the Cannes Film Festival, is similar to the But while “Dope” was creating good vibes, many of America’s Cube.” one the acclaimed “Fruitvale Station” went on in 2013. city streets were overrun with protests fueled by police killings of “Dope” is Famuyiwa’s attempt to capture, in a movie, a new Both films share Forest Whitaker as a producer, and like unarmed black men. Noting that he wrote “Dope” while the black generation just as different from “Boyz n the Hood” as the “Fruitvale Station” did, “Dope” also came away empty-handed in Trayvon Martin case was unfolding, Famuyiwa said the events had frenetic Lamar is from gangster rap. It’s a John Hughes-like teen initial meetings with studios. “We’re taking a leap on stories that a subconscious effect on the making of the film, particularly for its movie, vibrant and spirited, only one set in a much different neigh- maybe somebody else says they just don’t get,” says Whitaker. “We young cast members. “Malcolm in particular and what he repre- borhood - like Inglewood, which Famuyiwa depicted in his feature were told that in both of those movies.” Whitaker calls “Dope” part sents especially in terms of black masculinity is a counterpoint to debut, “The Wood.” The film, written and directed by Famuyiwa, of a rising cultural tide that signals that “the universality of our the hyper-aggressive, almost cartoon-like ideas that some have in centers on a flat-topped, punk-playing, self-professed geek named lives and the cosmopolitan nature of our cities and the makeup of their head about young black men,” says Famuyiwa. “That 12 year- Malcolm (newcomer Shameik Moore) who’s trying to get into our country is starting to come to the fore.” old boys can get shot and killed in the park because a police offi- Harvard when a fleeing drug dealer (A$AP Rocky) stuffs his back- cer felt like his life was in danger from a 12-year-old boy. It’s like: pack full of drugs. Subconscious effect What’s going on with your mind psychologically that you see this “That doesn’t mean there aren’t pockets of people that are still young boy in that way?”— AP Causing a sensation struggling with educational systems and financial systems and He and his friends (Tony Revolori, Kiersey Clemons) traverse Los opportunities,” says Whitaker. “But there is a growing group of Angeles, often on their bikes, in a comic, stereotype-busting individuals even inside of that that are looking toward making the Scorsese to receive Lumiere Award

artin Scorsese is set to receive the 7th Fremaux’s dedication and passion for heritage films. On top of directing 23 feature films, Scorsese has Lumiere award at the Lyon-set festival cre- He created in 1990 the The Film Foundation in the also written and directed several documentaries, Mated by Cannes topper Thierry Fremaux U.S. which has restored dozens of masterpieces. most of which dealt with two of his passions: Films and French director Bertrand Tavernier. The Scorsese also teamed with Fremaux and Gian Luca (Elia Kazan or Sidney Lumet) and music (George Lummiere fest, which celebrates classics and her- Farinelli to launch the World Cinema Foundation in Harrison, the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan). itage films, will pay tribute to Scorsese for his “entire 2007 during Cannes with the ambition to fund the Scorsese, who won an Oscar in 2007 for “The filmography, for his generous love of film, for his restoration of films from Asia, Latin America, Eastern Departed,” has just completed filming “Silence” in tireless fight for the preservation of the cinema of Europe or Africa. Recently renamed The World Asia, adapted from the novel by Japanese writer yesteryear, for his feature films, for his documen- Cinema Project, the org continues to present its Shusaku Endo. Scorsese’s work will also be placed taries, for his love of music, for his kindness to restoration work at Cannes Classics, in Bologna, under the spotlight during an exhibition hosted by young filmmakers from around the world, and also among other locations. Some of these films will also the French Cinematheque - and conceived by its for his thunderous laugh,” it stated. be shown in Lyon. German counterpart-from Oct 14. The Lumiere Scorsese, who will make his first trip to Lyon for Scorsese has a close relationship with Cannes, Award ceremony will take place Oct 16.—Reuters the occasion, said “What the Lumiere festival does is having won the Palme d’or in 1976 with “Taxi very important. And it means a lot to me. I am proud Driver.” Scorsese then served as the Jury’s president to be invited and to receive the Lumiere Award.” in 1998 and remains honorary president of the Past Lumiere honoraries have included Quentin Cinefondation, which was created by Gilles Jacob to Tarantino and Clint Eastwood. Scorsese shares nurture emerging directors throughout the world. Martin Scorsese Lifestyle FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 2015

A woman walks in front of an artwork by British artist Grayson Perry entitled ‘Comfort A visitor watches of an artwork by Cameroonís artist Pascale Marthine Tayou entitled Blanket’ during the preview day of Art Basel, the world’s premier modern and contempo- ‘Plastic Tree’. rary art fair. — AFP photos Tracey Emin, bad girl of British art, ‘slowly’ catching up to her age

ritish artist Tracey Emin seems stressed and ruffled don’t like people who buy the work and then flip it. I’ve no as she weaves through crowds of deep-pocketed respect for them whatsoever,” she said. Emin, known for Bcollectors to reach three of her pieces on prominent her raw openness and often sexually provocative works, display at Art Basel. “It’s a trade fair, isn’t it? People are said attending Art Basel, where she is set to be honored on shopping,” she said in an interview at the largest contem- Saturday, “is absolutely exhausting,” forcing her to face porary art fair on the planet, which opened to the public crowds of fans and hop from reception to party. A visitor watches an artwork by US sculptor Robert Gober yesterday. Emin, one of Britain’s most famous living artists, entitled ‘Ear with Axe’. Confident and strong But fairs have a clear advantage too, she said. “It’s really brilliant at fairs because you can stand behind people and hear what they are saying,” she said, nodding towards a couple studying an embroidery of her crotch. “I’m instant- ly recognizable, and it’s really great when they turn around and they see me,” she said with a wry smile. “If they say something nice, then it’s good, but if it’s negative, then it’s a lot of fun for me, I can assure you. I am very con- fident and strong about my work, so it doesn’t really get to me, but it’s good fun.” Emin’s most famous work is per- haps “My Bed”, a 1998 installation consisting of a rumpled bed surrounded by the intimate debris of empty bottles of vodka, cigarette packets and condoms, which sold at auc- tion last year for $3.8 million. That piece is currently showing at Tate Britain, along- side six of her recent figure drawings and two oil paintings by Francis Bacon. She also has around 50 of her often highly sexualized works on display at Vienna’s Leopold Museum, alongside 15 similar, if tamer drawings and poems by Egon Schiele, one of her great inspirations. She said she was also planning a show alongside another one A visitor watches an artwork by Peru’s artist Teresa Burga entitled ‘Sin Titulo’. of her influences, Norwegian master Edvard Munch, in 2019, and “there’s a possibility of Rodin.”“It’s all going into said showing her work at the Lehmann Maupin gallery place,” she said. booth at Basel, inside halls teeming with art enthusiasts Emin admits that her previous “bad girl” image has and investors, was very different to exhibiting in dedicat- shifted over the years as she has become a staple of the ed museums and galleries. “It’s heightened commerciality art world establishment. “Things have to change. I can’t on an extreme level. You’ve got billionaires and million- carry on as I was when I was 28. It’s impossible,” she said. aires and art lovers that are getting in from all over the “I’m buying full-piece swimsuits now. I bought myself a world, and they have come here to buy art,” she said. leaf collector the other day, so I’m slowly catching up with A vast array of artworks by 20th century masters like my age,” she said. Regardless of her age or where she is in Picasso, Calder and Warhol, mixed in with today’s cutting the world, Emin said she always brought her water colors edge creations are on display across 284 galleries at the and sketch books with her. “Wherever I am, I’m always fair. The 51-year-old artist, who entered the art scene more working,” she said. — AFP than two decades ago as part of the wild Young British Artists movement, says she thinks investing in art is a good thing-”much better than buying other things, like gold bars.” But investment in art just to turn a buck is A Visitor watches an artwork by late Spanish sculptor Juan something she has no patience for. “I don’t like flippers. I Munoz entitled ‘Walking with a Glove’. Lifestyle FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 2015 Theatre therapy: Italy’s migrant drama moves from sea to stage oseph Eyube always felt there was a performer inside him wait- atre in war zones and prisons and involving displaced people, the Africans, he said, had been joyful despite their total absence of per- ing to get out. “I’m a funny man,” says the Nigerian asylum- disabled and torture victims. “I never had the opportunity to try formance experience. Jseeker. “Sometimes when I was watching TV or a movie, I theatre or anything like that before,” Eyube said, explaining how “There was some diffidence at first but what we do is not literary would think, ‘I could do better than that guy’. “It all depends on preparing for Sabbia had allowed him to offset the tedium of end- theatre, it is more a theatre of action,” he explained. “Our approach, your mind. If you know really you can do it, it is possible.” Now less days spent waiting for news on the progress of his application is similar to that in sport, it is about creating a team. And then here Eyube has been given his chance to prove to the world that his self to stay permanently in Italy. “I needed something to keep me mov- is a lot of fun and friendship.” For Ebuye and the other asylum-seek- confidence is justified. Eight months after he landed in Italy, the 34- ing. A man cannot live only sleeping and eating, sleeping and eat- ers in the cast, remembering lines and stage marks help occupy year-old is one of the stars of a new production that has brought ing,” he said in a break from rehearsals. His role involves delivering minds that otherwise would be filled with anxiety over the future or the epic drama of migrants’ journeys from Africa to Europe, across the “To be or not to be,” soliloquy from Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” in haunting memories of the recent past. “I really don’t want to talk the Sahara and the Mediterranean, to the Italian stage. his rich baritone voice. T.S. Eliot’s epic poem “The Waste Land” and about the journey,” said Ebuye. “I know what I have passed through Asylum-seekers make up 20 of the 30-strong cast of “Sabbia” the paintings of Jackson Pollock are also referenced in the contem- and I know what I have seen. (Sand), an original piece conceived by director Riccardo Vannuccini porary production. “Finding myself here, I am so happy because sometimes when I that emerged from a six-month theatre workshop run by the watch TV I see people in the sea, dead. I jump around because it is ArteStudio company in the Castelnuovo di Porto reception centre ‘Grace of God’ the grace of God.” For Farba Mangane, 22, from Senegal, the men- on the outskirts of Rome. Sabbia had its first two showings at the Director Vannuccini’s CV includes a piece called “Al Hodood” tal scars from being forced onto a boat off Libya having never seen weekend in Rome’s prestigious Teatro Argentina and there are that was produced in Jordan with the help of refugees from neigh- the sea prior to that day have healed slowly. He was so traumatized plans to take it around a country grappling with the pressures and boring Syria and a production of “Hamlet” in Hebron, in the he has only just recovered the ability to urinate without medication polemics generated by the arrival of unprecedented numbers of Palestinian territories. He says his latest work is not trying to make 13 months later. “(In the centre) I think so much,” he said. “Am I migrants on its southern shores. any particular point about Italy’s migration crisis, instead framing going to get papers, am I going to have any money?” he said. “But Eyube, like nearly all the others in the Castelnuovo centre, his objective as a greater understanding of the forces driving it. since we started this theatre my heart has begun to relax.”— AFP arrived there after being plucked from a floundering people-smug- “This year there will be 200,000 people arriving in Italy, in the com- glers’ boat in the Mediterranean. He grabbed the chance of work- ing years it could be a million. It is an epochal event, both for those ing with ArteStudio, a company that specialises in producing the- fleeing and for those at the receiving end.” Working with the young

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Women pose for a photograph during Ladies’ day at Royal Ascot, in Berkshire, west of London yesterday. — AP/AFP photos FRIDAY 19 JUNE, 2015

Unique Zaatar recipes to spice up your Ramadan

amadan Kareem to one and all! Today we wanted to bring you some unique Zaatar recipes created by inspiring cooking bloggers from across the internet. Zaatar is easily one of the Middle East’s favorite spices as there’s a lot of different ways one can use this versatile spice. Take a look at some Rof these delicious zaatar recipes that are definitely worth your time. Zaatar and Pomegranate Roasted Chicken Ingredients 1.5 kg chicken, cut into pieces with skin on Preparation 1/4 cup olive oil Make the marinade by mixing together olive oil, zaatar, pomegranate molasses, gar- 4 tbs zaatar lic, salt and pepper. Rub the chicken with this marinade overnight. Preheat the oven 2 tbs pomegranate molasses to 200 degrees Centigrade. Place the chicken skin side up in a baking tray in the 4 garlic cloves, crushed middle rack and roast for about 1 hour or until the chicken has beautifully browned salt and pepper to taste and cooked through. If you prefer the skin to be crispy, place the chicken under the 1 lemon broiler for a few minutes but watch it very carefully to avoid burning. Sprinkle with 1/4 cups toasted pine nuts lemon juice, pine nuts, and parsley and pomegranate seeds and serve immediately. 3 tbs parsley 3 tbs fresh pomegranate seeds Fattoush Salad with Zaatar Baked Pita Chips

Ingredients Salad 2 red bell peppers 2 medium cucumbers, with skin 3 cups grape tomatoes, sliced in half 1 large red onion, thinly sliced with a mandolin 3 green onions, thinly sliced 1 cup chopped flat-leaf parsley, rough chopped 1 cup chopped mint, rough chopped 4 tbsp zaatar

Fattoush Dressing 1/4 cup good quality extra virgin olive oil 1/4 cup freshly squeezed lemon juice Zest of 1 lemon 1 tsp. agave nectar 2 cloves garlic, pressed or minced A couple pinches of sea salt A pinch of black pepper

Zaatar Baked Pita Chips 5 large Lebanese-style pitas 2 tbsp zaatar olive oil

Preparation Preheat oven to 325. Tear or cut pitas into chip-sized pieces. Brush each chip with olive oil and sprinkle with zaatar spice. Bake for 10 minutes or until golden brown. Let cool. When you’re ready to eat, throw half the dressing into the salad and toss. Add more until desired sauciness is achieved. Spoon onto plates and crumble pita crisps over the salad.

Baked Zaatar Eggplant Fries with Lemon Tahini Dip Ingredients For the fries 1 large eggplant 1/2 cup all-purpose flour 3/4 cup panko breadcrumbs 3 tablespoons grated Parmesan 1/4 cup zaatar spice blend 1 teaspoon kosher salt Pinch cayenne pepper 2 large eggs

For the dip 1/2 cup tahini 1 tablespoon sour cream 2 tablespoons lemon juice 1 teaspoon apple cider vinegar 1 tablespoon tamari (or soy sauce) 1/4 teaspoon garlic powder 1 teaspoon zaatar spice blend 2-4 tablespoons water, to thin

Preparation To make the eggplant fries, preheat the oven to 425∞F. Wedge a wire rack atop a baking sheet (so the fries will be slightly elevated and not directly touching the baking sheet). Cut the eggplant into 1/2-inch thick rounds. Then cut each round into 1/2-inch thick spears. Set aside. Pour the flour into a small bowl. Beat the eggs together in another small bowl. In a third small bowl, combine the breadcrumbs, Parmesan, zaatar, salt and cayenne. Roll the eggplant spears in the flour, dunk them in the egg, and then roll them into the bread crumb mixture. Lay each spear close to one another on the prepared baking sheet. Bake until golden brown and crispy, about 15 minutes. Sprinkle the tops with flaky salt. While the fries are baking, combine all the ingredients for the dip except the water in a small bowl. To thin, add a drizzle of water and stir vigorously until you reach the desired consis- tency. Serve the fries with the dipping sauce while the fries are still hot. FRIDAY 19 JUNE, 2015 Entertainment

The biggest games on the horizon ow that the E3 press events are out of the way, we have a firm idea of what the gaming landscape looks like for the next year or two. The major events were brimming with games of all sizes, and the near future is looking extremely Nbright. So today, we want to highlight the most impressive games we saw at E3, and help you figure out which titles are worth keeping an eye on.

Rise of the Tomb Raider

rystal Dynamics’s follow up to 2013’s Tomb Raider reboot is looking gorgeous. CIt seems that the dev team took all of the criticisms to heart, and this title will focus much more on - you know - raiding tombs. Unfortunately, Microsoft locked up timed exclu- sivity, so only Xbox One and Xbox 360 players will get to enjoy Rise of the Tomb Raider this year.

t was sad to see Uncharted 4 get Ipushed back into 2016, but this new footage looks truly outstanding. The folks at Naughty Dog are well known Uncharted 4: for their technical prowess, so I’m confi- dent that they’ll be able to deliver stun- Metal Gear ning visuals with a (mostly) solid frame A Thief’s End rate. Solid V: The Phantom Pain

his will likely be Hideo Kojima’s swan song at Konami, but he’s Tgoing out in style. The Phantom Pain, just like Ground Zeroes before it, is an open-world stealth shooter with real panache. And in terms of tone and gameplay, this is a large departure from older entries in the series. Running on the multi-platform FOX Engine, MGSV looks great on PC, Xbox One, and PS4 while continuing to support the Xbox 360 and PS3. Thankfully, everybody gets to enjoy one last crazy Metal Gear adventure architected by Kojima. FRIDAY 19 JUNE, 2015

The Last Guardian

hen people talk about troubled game development, this title inevitably comes up. Originally planned as a PS3 release, The Last Guardian has been in the Wworks for nearly a decade now. Sony finally showed off the game running on the PS4, and it looks great. However, the heavy lifting here is definitely being done by the second-to-none art direction - not the tech.

Fallout 4

ethesda showed off Fallout 4 at its own event on BSunday, and then came out on Microsoft’s stage the next day to announce that PC mods will also run on the Xbox One version. The game itself is coming to the PS4 as well, but that version will probably seem a bit hobbled in comparison. The scope here is absolutely jaw-dropping, but every time they show facial animations, I feel like I’m looking at gussied up last-gen technology.

Horizon: Zero Dawn

ade by the developers behind Killzone, this new Mfranchise focuses on a human population that has survived for generations past some sort of technologi- cal apocalypse. Robot dinosaurs roam the earth, and humans seem to be living in a relatively primitive state. Sony gave ample stage time to this game, and effective- ly showed off exactly how impressive it is. It’s a new IP, it prominently features a woman as the protagonist, and it’s visually stunning from tip to tail.

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ecades of tourism haven’t dampened Kuta, Legian and Seminyak Greater Canggu luxury villas like RedDoor Bali to cheap and Bali’s deep-rooted spirituality and nat- Seminyak remains an epitome of sophisti- Most maps still class this area as ‘north cheerful bungalow hideaways like United Dural charms. Volcanoes rise from the cation, Kuta still plays the wild child, and Kuta’. But locals will insist the expat-heavy Colors of Bali. The area’s to-do list has length- sea, monkeys swing in the trees, and there are Legian falls somewhere in between. But this enclave of Canggu has well and truly arrived. ened considerably over the past decade, with still dozens of idyllic spots to escape the 12km stretch of south Bali all boasts wonder- Greater Canggu, including Umalas, a ten-pin bowling alley, tennis courts, a water crowds. And all of this paradoxical magnifi- fully diverse shopping, myriad accommoda- Kerobokan, Echo Beach, Berewa and park, and trampoline centre in the Canggu cence is crammed onto an island less than tion options, world-class dining, authentic Pererenan, has lur ed a carefree and creative Club precinct alone. Don’t miss a trip to half the size of greater Tokyo. warungs (food stalls), beach bars, clubs and crowd. You might find yourself maneuvering neighbouring Tabanan’s Pura Tanah Lot tem- But first-time visitors to Bali can be forgiv- day spas. a scooter between lost cows on your way to a ple that sits among crashing waves on an iso- en for being confused about what to expect. Must-dos include sunset cocktails at perfect macchiato at Crate CafÈ (about a kilo- lated rock. Images from holiday brochures and Potato Head Beach Club; conga lines and meter back from the beach on Batu Bolong) Hollywood films contrast with rumors that coconut cocktails at Motel Mexicola; haggling or savoring vegan pad Thai at Green Ginger Bali is crowded with Australian tourists, dan- and people watching on Kuta Beach; and a Noodle House. Bukit Peninsula, Nusa Dua and Jimbaran gerous to visit, and tragically over-developed day of shopping and eating on Jl Laksmana, Accommodation here is less about up mar- Bay - a criticism that could be levied at any num- also known as Oberoi, Eat Street or Jl Kayu ket chain hotels and more about boutique The fist of land jutting out from southern ber of global tourist hotspots. Discover it Aya. You will be hard-pressed to find a travel- and unique, from upscale Bali encompasses diverse tourist centers yourself with our guide to finding your own er on the island who hasn’t dipped into this offering their own versions of a dreamy day at piece of paradise on the Island of the Gods. lively precinct. the beach. The Bukit Peninsula offers up the world-famous waves of Ulu Watu, surf-shack vibes of Bingin, and unfathomably clear waters of Dreamland and Pandang Padang. If you’ve been pawing through holiday brochures, you may recognize one of Ulu’s main attractions, the Rock Bar at Ayana Resort, overlooking Jimbaran Bay. This glam- orous venue is accessible by an open-air ele- vator that is rarely without a sizeable sunset queue. Sweeping south from Bali’s airport, Jimbaran Bay itself is more low-key. Tourists line up for freshly barbecued seafood, but more adventurous travelers should swap seafood warungs for Jimbaran Fish Market. Over at Nusa Dua, things revert back to ele- gant and excessive, with top-of-the-line golf courses, umpteen high tea options and five- star resorts aplenty.

Ubud and Central Bali A haven for the artistic, spiritual and alternative, Ubud is where Bali’s heartbeat can be heard. Here, vegan cafes, crystal shops, chakra cleansing workshops and canvas artwork stores reign supreme. Other drawcards include the Royal Palace, the cheeky inhabitants of the Sacred Monkey Forest Sanctuary, and boho shopping galore. A swanky trip to Ubud might include a stay at the indulgent Bidadari Retreat and a night of palate-pleasuring at Locavore. A more grass-roots experience could include experimental dance class- es at perfectly peculiar Michi Retreat Travel

FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 2015 and deep conversations over quinoa at Alchemy. Central Bali’s tapestry of wonders stretches well beyond Ubud. The valleys flow- ing off Gunung Batukaru (Mount Batukaru), rice terraces of Munduk, the lakes and botani- cal gardens of Bedugul, and holy water bathing site of Tirta Empul Temple are just a few places well worth a visit.

East Bali and Sanur With arguably the island’s best dive spots right off the shores of Amed and Candidasa, and the island’s highest point, Gunung (Mount) Agung, looming authorita- tively above them, east Bali is a place of lit- eral highs and lows. Make time for the floating palace of Puri Taman Ujung and seek out the quaint fish- ing village of Amed, home to the jam/tea/kombucha garden of Aiona, great villas (such as Bukit Segara), and restau- rants offering every variation of mahi-mahi under the scorching Indonesian sun. Sanur blends the best of the laid-back fish- pared ing village feel of the east and the great din- for a few stairs, but as a general rule, more like ing and lodging on offer in the south. Try your stairs equal less crowds. For a window into ayam betutu, a wood-smoked chicken broth Ignoring hand at kite surfing or learn the intricacies of Bali’s past, swing by the town of Singaraja, the served with rice and spicy spinach. Off the Indonesia’s culinary favourites at Bamboo the presence of a few new resorts and mod- administrative centre of Bali during Dutch coast of west Bali, Menjangan Island offers ern cafes, the appeal of Lembongan lies in the Shoots cooking school colonial times and, until the boom of the one of Bali’s least crowded dive spots, despite (bambooshootsbali.com). Coincide your visit authenticity of island life. While away your south, the port of arrival for most visitors. the appeal of its fluorescent marine life and days surfing, diving and snorkeling, experi- with the International Kite Festival to see surreal coral cliffs. On the high edge of west Sanur in full swing. menting with yoga moves on a stand-up pad- West Bali and north Bali, the mythical stone fountain dleboard, kayaking through mangrove Many travellers can’t look beyond West baths of Air Panas Banjar nod to the island’s North Bali forests, or getting a feel for the island’s sea- Bali as the gateway to good surf, blazing their strong spiritual roots. weed farming industry. If that doesn’t keep In north Bali, days start with dolphin- way to Medewi or Java. All the while, they are watching trips from Lovina in traditional out- you occupied, walk the yellow suspension skirting the stunning Taman Taman Nasional Nusa Lembongan bridge to Nusa Ceningan where you can dine rigger canoes, followed by long afternoons Bali Barat (West Bali National Park) with its When the madness of the mainland gets bathing in the mossy air terjun (waterfalls) of or sleep at the boat shed-style Le Pirate Beach calm, secluded beaches that are home to fam- too much, Nusa Lembongan is just a 30- Club. (www.lonelyplanet.com) Sekumpul, Gitgit and Sambangan. Be pre- ilies of wild deer, and unique regional flavors minute boat ride across the Badung Strait. Leisure FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 2015

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News 14:45 Built For The Kill 10:30 Come Dine With Me Witch 23:00 #RichKids Of Beverly Hills 15:40 Life on the Barrier Reef 10:55 Fantasy Homes By The Sea 12:40 Sabrina: Secrets Of A Teenage 16:35 World’s Deadliest Animals Witch 17:30 Wild 24 00:00 Top Gear (UK) 11:40 New Scandinavian Cooking 00:00 The Ring Two-PG15 13:05 Good Luck Charlie 18:25 Hyena Queen 01:00 Chicago Fire 12:05 Nigel Slater’s Simple Cooking 02:00 Shanghai Noon-PG15 12:35 Masterchef: The Professionals 13:30 Good Luck Charlie 19:20 Built For The Kill 02:00 Justified 04:00 40 Days And Nights-PG15 13:00 Bargain Hunt 13:55 Dog With A Blog 20:10 Life on the Barrier Reef 03:00 The Night Shift 06:00 Empire State-PG15 13:50 Come Dine With Me 14:20 H2O: Just Add Water 21:00 World’s Deadliest Animals 04:00 The Fosters 08:00 Marvel’s Hulk vs. Thor & 14:15 Fantasy Homes By The Sea 14:55 Lolirock 00:10 The Jonathan Ross Show 21:50 Wild 24 05:00 The Blacklist Special Wolverine-PG 15:05 New Scandinavian Cooking 15:20 Liv And Maddie 01:05 Tricked 22:40 Hyena Queen 06:00 Top Gear (UK) 10:00 Shanghai Noon-PG15 15:30 Nigel Slater’s Simple Cooking 15:45 Girl Meets World 02:00 Emmerdale 23:30 Why Sharks Attack 07:00 Survivor: Worlds Apart 15:55 Paul Hollywood’s Bread 16:10 Jessie 02:25 Tales From Northumberland 09:00 The Blacklist Special 12:00 40 Days And Nights-PG15 16:20 Masterchef: The Professionals 16:35 Austin & Ally With Robson Green 10:00 The Fosters 14:00 Empire State-PG15 16:45 Come Dine With Me 17:00 Enchanted 02:55 Coronation Street 11:00 Chicago Fire 16:00 Mission To Mars-PG15 17:15 Bargain Hunt 18:40 Liv And Maddie 03:25 Murdoch Mysteries 12:00 Emmerdale 18:00 Shanghai Knights-PG15 20:00 Reign Of Fire-PG15 18:05 DIY SOS: The Big Build 19:05 H2O: Just Add Water 04:20 Murdoch Mysteries 13:00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 22:00 Sniper: Legacy-PG15 19:00 Chefs: Put Your Menu Where 19:30 Lolirock 05:15 Get Your Act Together 15:00 Top Gear (US) Your Mouth Is 19:55 Violetta Top 5 Tracks 06:10 Tricked 00:30 The Daily Show With Jon 16:00 Emmerdale 19:45 Masterchef: The Professionals 20:20 Binny And The Ghost 07:05 Coronation Street Stewart 17:00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 20:35 Bargain Hunt 20:45 H2O: Just Add Water 01:00 The Nightly Show With Larry 19:00 The Blacklist Special 21:30 Come Dine With Me 07:30 Murdoch Mysteries 21:10 Good Luck Charlie Wilmore 20:00 Drop Dead Diva 21:55 Chefs: Put Your Menu Where 08:25 Murdoch Mysteries 21:35 Wizards Of Waverly Place 01:30 Modern Family 21:00 Sleepy Hollow Your Mouth Is 22:00 Wizards Of Waverly Place 09:20 The Chase 00:00 Mafia! 10:15 Tales From Northumberland 02:00 Black-Ish 22:00 Downton Abbey 22:40 Nigel Slater’s Simple Cooking 22:25 Sabrina: Secrets Of A Teenage 23:00 The Night Shift 02:00 Oscar 23:05 DIY SOS: The Big Build With Robson Green 02:30 The Simpsons 04:00 The Internship Witch 03:00 Hot In Cleveland 23:55 Come Dine With Me: South 22:50 Sabrina: Secrets Of A Teenage 10:40 The Jonathan Ross Show 06:00 The Smurfs 2 Africa 11:35 Tricked 03:30 The Goldbergs 08:00 The Simpsons Movie Witch 04:30 The Tonight Show Starring 23:10 Wolfblood 12:30 Get Your Act Together 10:00 Mafia! 13:25 Emmerdale Jimmy Fallon 12:00 Struck By Lightning 23:35 Wolfblood 05:30 The Daily Show With Jon 13:50 Emmerdale 14:00 10 Years Stewart 14:15 Coronation Street 01:00 Good Morning America 16:00 The Simpsons Movie 06:30 The Nightly Show With Larry 18:00 The Best Man Holiday 14:40 The Jonathan Ross Show Wilmore 03:00 House Of Cards 15:35 The Chase 20:30 Last Vegas 00:20 Fast N’ Loud 07:00 Late Night With Seth Meyers 05:00 Good Morning America 16:30 Who’s Doing The Dishes 22:30 High Fidelity 01:10 King Of Thrones 08:30 The Daily Show With Jon 07:00 Emmerdale 17:25 Tricked Stewart 09:00 Parenthood 02:00 The Pool Master 00:00 Giuliana & Bill 18:20 Get Your Act Together 09:00 Hot In Cleveland 10:00 Emmerdale 02:50 Tanked 00:30 Giuliana & Bill 19:10 Coronation Street 09:30 Two And A Half Men 12:00 Supernatural 03:40 Storage Hunters 00:55 Extreme Close-Up 19:35 The Chase 10:00 Community 13:00 Resurrection 04:05 Extreme Collectors 01:25 Keeping Up With The 20:30 Who’s Doing The Dishes 10:30 The Nightly Show With Larry 14:00 Live Good Morning America 04:30 Auction Kings Kardashians 01:30 Five Thirteen-PG15 21:25 Tricked Wilmore 16:00 Parenthood 05:00 How It’s Made 02:20 E! 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01:00 Malavita-PG15 03:00 The Hunger Games: Catching Fire-PG15 05:30 The Gabby Douglas Story-PG 00:00 Violetta 07:00 The Nut Job-FAM 00:50 Sabrina: Secrets Of A Teenage 09:00 Justice League: The Flashpoint Witch Paradox-PG 01:15 Sabrina: Secrets Of A Teenage 11:00 Won’t Back Down-PG15 Witch 13:00 When The Game Stands Tall- PG15 01:40 Wolfblood 15:00 Muppets Most Wanted-PG 02:05 Wolfblood 17:00 Justice League: The Flashpoint 02:30 Violetta Paradox-PG 03:20 Sabrina: Secrets Of A Teenage 19:00 Think Like A Man Too-PG15 Witch 21:00 In My Dreams-PG15 03:45 Sabrina: Secrets Of A Teenage THE RING TWO ON OSN MOVIES ACTION HD 23:00 The Other Woman-PG15 TV listings FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 2015

01:00 Tony Hawk: Boom Boom Sabotage 02:30 Jack And The Cuckoo Clock Heart 04:30 Unstable Fables: Tortoise vs. Hare 06:00 Moshi Monsters: The Movie 10:00 Moomins And The Comet Chase 11:30 Moshi Monsters: The Movie 13:00 Jack And The Cuckoo Clock Heart 14:30 Unstable Fables: Goldilocks & The Three Bears 16:00 Happy Feet 18:00 Moomins And The Comet Chase 20:00 Catch That Kid 21:45 Unstable Fables: Goldilocks & The Three Bears 23:30 Happy Feet

00:00 Thor: The Dark World-PG15 02:00 Grudge Match-PG15 04:00 Guardians Of The Galaxy 06:15 Turbo-PG 08:00 Horizon-PG15 10:00 Frozen-PG 12:00 Guardians Of The Galaxy 14:15 Run For Your Wife-PG15 16:00 Horizon-PG15 18:00 Red 2-PG15 20:00 The Colony-PG15 22:00 Penthouse North-PG15

02:00 This Is PGA Tour 02:30 AFL Premiership 07:00 Golfing World 08:00 World Rugby REIGN OF FIRE ON OSN MOVIES ACTION HD 08:30 ICC Cricket 360 09:00 Volvo Ocean Race Highlights 10:35 Toddlers & Tiaras 08:00 Ben 10: Omniverse 05:20 Nightmare Next Door 06:15 Loopdidoo Rangers 12:30 Live Super Rugby 11:25 Something Borrowed, 08:25 Ben 10: Omniverse 06:10 True Crime With Aphrodite 06:25 Limon And Oli 21:25 Ducktales 18:30 Golfing World Something New 08:50 Ninjago: Masters Of Jones 06:35 Art Attack 21:50 Lilo & Stitch 19:30 This Is PGA Tour 11:50 Something Borrowed, Spinjitzu 07:00 Nightmare Next Door 07:00 Calimero 22:15 Zou 20:00 Live US Open Something New 09:15 Regular Show 07:50 Fatal Encounters 07:10 Zou 22:30 Art Attack 12:15 Something Borrowed, 09:27 Regular Show 08:40 I Almost Got Away With It 07:25 Nina Needs To Go 22:55 Limon And Oli Something New 09:40 The Amazing World Of 09:30 I Was Murdered 07:30 Jake And The Neverland 23:05 Henry Hugglemonster 12:40 Something Borrowed, Gumball 09:55 Stalked: Someone’s Pirates 23:20 Calimero Something New 10:05 Uncle Grandpa Watching 07:55 Sofia The First 23:35 Zou 00:00 Golfing World 13:05 Something Borrowed, 10:17 Uncle Grandpa 10:20 Forensic Detectives 08:20 Doc McStuffins 23:50 Loopdidoo 06:00 U.S Open 2015 Something New 10:30 Johnny Test 11:10 On The Case With Paula 08:45 Loopdidoo 12:15 NRL Full Time 13:30 Oprah: Where Are They Now? 11:20 Total Drama: Revenge Of Zahn 09:00 Limon And Oli 12:45 Live NRL Premiership 14:20 Oprah’s Next Chapter The Island 12:00 Blood Relatives 09:10 Sheriff Callie’s Wild West 16:30 AFL Premiership 15:10 Little People, Big World 11:45 Total Drama: Revenge Of 12:50 True Crime With Aphrodite 09:35 Mickey Mouse Clubhouse 19:00 WWE Bottomline 15:35 Little People, Big World The Island Jones 10:00 Sofia The First 20:00 WWE Superstars 16:00 Little People, Big World 12:10 Steven Universe 13:40 Who On Earth Did I Marry? 10:25 Jake And The Never Land 21:00 WWE Main Event 16:25 Little People, Big World 12:35 Regular Show 14:05 Who On Earth Did I Marry? Pirates 22:00 Live Super League 06:00 The 7D 16:50 Little People, Big World 13:25 Clarence 14:30 On The Case With Paula 10:55 Runaway Shuffle/Surfin’ 06:10 Phineas And Ferb 17:15 Something Borrowed, 13:50 Uncle Grandpa Zahn The Whirlpool 06:35 Kickin’ It Something New 14:15 Matt Hatter Chronicles 15:20 I Was Murdered 11:20 Messages From Miles 07:00 Mighty Med 17:40 Something Borrowed, 14:40 Ben 10 15:45 Stalked: Someone’s 11:25 Doc McStuffins 07:25 Lab Rats Something New 15:05 Ben 10 Watching 11:50 Henry Hugglemonster 07:50 Supa Strikas 00:00 1st ODI H/L : BAN v IND 18:05 The Next Great Baker 15:30 Ninjago: Masters Of 16:10 Fatal Encounters 12:05 Henry Hugglemonster 08:15 Mini Ninjas 16:30 Natwest T20 Blast H/L: 19:20 19 Kids And Counting Spinjitzu 17:00 Blood Relatives 12:15 Sofia The First 08:40 Kirby Buckets Northants v Derbys 19:45 19 Kids And Counting 15:55 Total Drama: Pahkitew 17:50 I Almost Got Away With It 12:40 Mickey Mouse Clubhouse 09:05 Ultimate Spider-Man 17:30 Natwest T20 Blast H/L: 20:10 Sister Wives Island 18:40 Forensic Detectives 13:05 Sheriff Callie’s Wild West 09:30 Camp Lakebottom Northants v Derbys 21:00 19 Kids And Counting 16:20 Steven Universe 19:30 True Crime With Aphrodite 13:30 Loopdidoo 09:55 Boyster 18:30 Natwest T20 Blast H/L: 21:25 19 Kids And Counting 16:33 Steven Universe Jones 13:45 Limon And Oli 10:20 Randy Cunningham: 9th Glamorgan v Somerset 21:50 Sister Wives 16:45 Teen Titans Go! 20:20 The Will 13:55 Jake And The Never Land Grade Ninja 19:30 Live Natwest T20 Blast : 22:40 Angels Among Us 17:10 The Amazing World Of 21:10 Who On Earth Did I Marry? Pirates 10:45 The 7D Gloucestershire v Somerset 23:05 Mob Wives Gumball 21:35 Who On Earth Did I Marry? 14:20 Doc McStuffins 11:00 Phineas And Ferb 23:00 ICC Cricket 360, Episode 24 23:55 Mob Wives 17:35 Clarence 22:00 I Was Murdered 14:45 Runaway Shuffle/Surfin’ 11:25 Phineas And Ferb 23:30 1st ODI H/L : ENG v NZ 17:47 Clarence 22:25 I Was Murdered The Whirlpool 11:55 Pair Of Kings 18:00 Adventure Time New 22:50 Serial Killers 15:10 Messages From Miles 12:20 Pair Of Kings 18:10 Adventure Time 23:40 Fatal Encounters 15:15 Sofia The First 12:45 Zeke & Luther 18:25 Adventure Time 00:30 Devil In The Details 15:40 Mickey Mouse Clubhouse 13:10 Zeke & Luther 18:50 Regular Show 01:20 Diabolical 16:05 Nina Needs To Go 13:35 Lego Marvel Super Heroes 19:40 Uncle Grandpa 02:10 I Was Murdered 16:10 Lilo & Stitch Maximum Overload 19:52 Uncle Grandpa 02:35 I Was Murdered 16:35 Adventures Of The Gummi 13:40 Star Wars Rebels 20:05 Teen Titans Go! Bears 14:05 Marvel Avengers Assemble Cartoon Network 20:55 Ben 10: Omniverse 17:00 Chip n Dale Rescue 14:30 Hulk And The Agents Of 00:45 Oprah’s Next Chapter 03:15 Ninjago: Masters Of 21:20 Ben 10: Omniverse Rangers S.M.A.S.H. 01:35 Extreme Cheapskates Spinjitzu 21:45 Johnny Test 17:25 Ducktales 14:55 Ultimate Spider-Man 02:00 Mob Wives 03:35 Ninjago: Masters Of 23:10 Regular Show 17:50 Jake And The Neverland 15:20 Camp Lakebottom 02:50 Say Yes To The Dress Spinjitzu 23:55 Teen Titans Go! Pirates 15:45 Mini Ninjas 03:15 Something Borrowed, 04:00 Teen Titans Go! 00:40 Grojband 18:00 Runaway Shuffle/Surfin’ 16:10 Pair Of Kings Something New 04:45 Grojband 01:00 Grojband 03:10 Henry Hugglemonster The Whirlpool 16:35 Kirby Buckets 03:40 Secret Eaters 05:05 Total Drama World Tour 01:25 Total Drama World Tour 03:20 Calimero 18:25 Messages From Miles 17:00 Mighty Med 04:30 Cake Boss 05:30 Adventure Time 01:45 Regular Show 03:35 Zou 18:30 Sofia The First 17:25 Supa Strikas 05:00 Little People, Big World 06:00 Uncle Grandpa 02:30 Johnny Test 03:45 Loopdidoo 18:55 Nina Needs To Go 17:55 Kickin’ It 05:30 Extreme Couponing 06:11 Uncle Grandpa 04:00 Art Attack 19:00 Jake And The Never Land 18:20 Lab Rats 06:00 18 Kids And Counting 06:20 Clarence 04:25 Henry Hugglemonster Pirates 18:45 Phineas And Ferb 06:25 Cake Boss 06:32 Clarence 04:35 Calimero 19:30 Loopdidoo 19:10 Phineas And Ferb 06:50 Cake Boss 06:45 The Amazing World Of 04:50 Zou 19:45 Doc McStuffins 19:40 The 7D 07:15 Cake Boss Gumball 05:00 Loopdidoo 20:00 Adventures Of The Gummi 20:05 Ultimate Spider-Man: Web 07:40 Cake Boss 07:10 Steven Universe 05:15 Art Attack Bears Warriors 08:05 Bakery Boss 07:23 Steven Universe 20:30 Sofia The First 03:00 Blood Relatives 05:35 Henry Hugglemonster 20:35 Pair Of Kings 08:55 Bakery Boss 07:35 Adventure Time New 20:55 Cars Toons 03:45 Fatal Encounters 05:50 Calimero 21:00 Lab Rats 09:45 Toddlers & Tiaras 07:47 Adventure Time 21:00 Chip n Dale Rescue 04:30 Extreme Forensics 06:00 Zou 21:25 Kickin’ It Stars FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 2015

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Bahamas 001242 Marshall Islands 00692 Bahrain 00973 Martinique 00596 Bangladesh 00880 Mauritania 00222 Barbados 001246 Mauritius 00230 Belarus 00375 Mayotte 00269 Belgium 0032 Mexico 0052 Belize 00501 Micronesia 00691 Taurus (April 20-May 20) Scorpio (October 23-November 21) Benin 00229 Moldova 00373 Bermuda 001441 Monaco 00377 You’re drawn to a rebellious person who pushes Bhutan 00975 Mongolia 00976 against your boundaries today, but you’re cautious about acting Although your long-term goals are coming back into Bolivia 00591 Montserrat 001664 sharp focus now, the road to your future is being blocked by the Bosnia 00387 Morocco 00212 out your feelings. You might believe you shouldn’t step outside Botswana 00267 Mozambique 00258 your comfort zone and therefore you may deny your unconven- past. Old fears may resurface today when you realize that nothing can change until you begin to shift your own attitude. Brazil 0055 Myanmar (Burma) 0095 tional attractions. 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Gambia 00220 Slovakia 00421 Georgia 00995 Slovenia 00386 Germany 0049 Solomon Islands 00677 Ghana 00233 Somalia 00252 Gibraltar 00350 South Africa 0027 Greece 0030 South Korea 0082 Leo (July 23-August 22) Greenland 00299 Spain 0034 Aquarius (January 20- February 18) Grenada 001473 Sri Lanka 0094 Guadeloupe 00590 Sudan 00249 An act of generosity reveals more than you intend Your current optimism collides with reality today Guam 001671 Suriname 00597 today, especially if you’re feeling more secretive than usual. because you aren’t ready to face a lingering issue head-on. The Guatemala 00502 Swaziland 00268 Unfortunately, your magnanimous gesture won’t likely express subjective Cancer Moon’s visit to your 6th House of Employment Guinea 00224 Sweden 0046 your true emotions now. However, you still might need to go Guyana 00592 Switzerland 0041 challenges you to stay objective at work because you have specif- Haiti 00509 Syria 00963 through the motions whether you like it or not. 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Ibiza (Spain) 0034 Toga 00228 Iceland 00354 Tonga 00676 India 0091 Tokelau 00690 Trinidad 001868 Indian Ocean 00873 Tunisia 00216 Indonesia 0062 Turkey 0090 Iran 0098 Tuvalu 00688 Iraq 00964 Uganda 00256 Ireland 00353 Ukraine 00380 Virgo (August 23-September 22) Pisces (February 19-March 20) Italy 0039 United Arab Emirates 00976 Ivory Coast 00225 United Kingdom 0044 You aren’t the least bit interested in burdening any You may be worried about the wisdom of a recent Jamaica 001876 Uruguay 00598 of your friends with your problems today. However, it’s healthier choice, but you’re also hopeful that your life is on the upswing. Japan 0081 USA 001 Jordan 00962 Uzbekistan 00998 to let them know the issues that have been on your mind, rather Fortunately, you can be very patient now, even if your emotions Kazakhstan 007 Vanuatu 00678 than keeping everything to yourself. Don’t go searching for sym- are all over the place. Nevertheless, it’s still impossible to tell if Kenya 00254 Venezuela 00582 pathy; just accept responsibility for your lot in life and keep work- you’re overreacting to the current situation or if the residual nega- Kiribati 00686 Vietnam 0084 ing to manifest your dreams. Rather than dwelling on your fears, Kuwait 00965 Virgin Islands UK 001284 tivity you’re feeling is actually real. For the sake of clarity, wait a Kyrgyzstan 00996 Virgin Islands US 001340 take the time to catch up with everyone before you let the nega- few days prior to changing your game plan. In the meantime, visu- Laos 00856 Wales (UK) 0044 tivity bring you down. Take comfort in the fact that others care alize the most positive outcome instead of stressing about all the Latvia 00371 Yemen 00967 enough to listen. things you can’t change. Lebanon 00961 Yugoslavia 00381 Liberia 00231 Zambia 00260 Libya 00218 Zimbabwe 00263 Health FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 2015 What are trans fats and why are they unhealthy?

WASHINGTON: You may not even know you are How do I know I am eating them? eating them, but trans fats will soon be mostly The FDA has required the amount of trans gone from your food. The Food and Drug fats in foods to be listed on the backs of food Administration said it will require food compa- packages since 2006, but that doesn’t always nies to phase them out over the next three years tell the whole story - companies are allowed to because the agency says they are a threat to round less than half of a gram of trans fat to public health. zero on the package label. Susan Mayne, direc- Among the foods that commonly contain tor of the FDA’s Center for Food Safety and trans fats: frostings, pie crusts, biscuits, Applied Nutrition, says those hidden amounts microwave popcorn, coffee creamers, frozen can still “add up to a considerable intake of pizza, refrigerated dough, vegetable shorten- trans fats if you look at the overall diet.” For ings and stick margarines. The fats help give a now, the agency is recommending that con- more solid texture and richness to certain foods, sumers take a look at ingredient lists on pack- like baked goods and ready-to-eat frostings. aged foods to make sure they don’t contain Questions and answers about the dangerous partially hydrogenated oils. Once the three- fats: year compliance period is up, none of those ingredients would be allowed unless FDA What are trans fats? specifically approves them. Trans fats are created when hydrogen is added to vegetable oil to make it more solid, Are all fats bad for you? which is why they are also called partially hydro- No, but they should be eaten in modera- genated oils. They can contribute to heart dis- tion. Unsaturated fats found in nuts, vegetable ease and are considered even less healthy than oils and fish are the best for you. Saturated fats saturated fats, which can also contribute to ILLINOIS: In this April 26, 2011 file photo, doughnuts are displayed in Chicago. The Obama mostly derived from animals are less healthy heart problems. administration is cracking down on artificial trans fats, calling them a threat to public health. and should be less than 10 percent of a per- The Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday that it will require food companies to phase son’s daily calories. Why are they so bad for you? out the use artificial trans fats almost entirely. Consumers aren’t likely to notice much of a dif- Trans fats can raise “bad” cholesterol and ference in their favorite foods, but the administration says the move will to reduce coronary Is it hard to find substitutes? lower “good” cholesterol. That can contribute to heart disease and prevent thousands of fatal heart attacks every year. —AP In some cases, no. Frying oils are easily sub- heart disease - the leading cause of death in the stituted and food scientists have already fig- United States. use them. The Grocery Manufacturers health threat by themselves. ured out how to substitute other fats for trans Association, the main trade group for the food fats in many items. In other cases, it will be How will trans fats be phased out? industry, is working with companies on a peti- Haven’t they already been largely phased out? harder. Ready-to-eat cake frosting, for exam- The FDA has determined that trans fats no tion that would formally ask the FDA if it can Yes. The FDA says that between 2003 and ple, gets some of its solid shape from trans longer fall in the agency’s “generally recognized say there is a “reasonable certainty of no harm” 2012, people ate about 78 percent less trans fat fats. as safe” category, which is reserved for thou- from some specific uses of the fats. But the as food companies began using other kinds of sands of additives that manufacturers can add agency isn’t likely to approve many uses since it oils to replace them. Will I notice the change? to foods without FDA review. Once trans fats are has determined the fats are a threat to public Probably not. Trans fats don’t have any par- off the list, anyone who wants to use them health. So why is the FDA doing this? ticular taste, and in most cases other fats will would have to petition the agency for a regula- There will also be some trans fats in the food The FDA is aiming to get rid of those trans simply be substituted. Your heart might tion allowing it. supply that occur naturally in meat and dairy fats that are left in the marketplace, saying they notice, though. The Obama administration products - the FDA has not targeted those small are still a public health concern. While the fats says the move will reduce coronary heart dis- So they won’t be completely banned? amounts because they would be too difficult to have been phased out in a lot of foods, some ease and prevent thousands of fatal heart No. Food companies can petition the FDA to remove and aren’t considered a major public companies still use them. attacks every year. —AP FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 2015 K7035092 issued at Kuwait LOST on 24/06/2012 and having Kuwait Indian residence at Ezzy KNCC PROGRAMME FROM THURSDAY TO I, Waqar Ahmad Son of Mohallah, Partapur, Dist. WEDNESDAY (18/06/2015 TO 24/06/2015) Zulfiqar Ahmad resident of Banswara, Rajasthan India, Kuwait announce through change my name to Mustafa Kuwait Times that my HSSC Feroz Tapiya. 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FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 2015 US to put woman Merkel: Greek deal possible if Athens shows the will on new $10 bill PAGE 40 PAGE 38

ST PETERSBURG: Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, arrives to meet with Russian businessmen at the St Petersburg International Investment Forum in St Petersburg yesterday. —AP Russia, Saudi eye broad oil cooperation deal Investment forum starts under cloud of Ukraine tensions

ST PETERSBURG: The oil ministers of Russia unless non-OPEC producers contributed. tion is good, that isn’t true, it is still quite com- products if the European Union extends its and Saudi Arabia plan to discuss a broad coop- Saudi Arabia is pumping oil at a record high plicated. But it is not as complicated as we saw sanctions. EU member states agreed eration agreement yesterday at an economic as it focuses on keeping market share, while in October, November and December,” First Wednesday to extend damaging economic forum in St Petersburg, two sources told Russian output hit a post-Soviet high of 10.71 Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov said at sanctions against Russia over the Ukraine crisis Reuters. million barrels per day (bpd) in April. the conference. by another six months to the end of January Saudi Arabia is the top producer in the Despite ample supply, oil prices have ral- But the economy continues to contract, 2016 and will finalise the decision on Monday, Organization of the Petroleum Exporting lied to almost $65 a barrel in 2015 after sliding with the central bank predicting it will shrink officials said. Countries and the world’s top oil exporter, toward $45 in January, supported by stronger- 3.2 percent this year, and experts warned the Faced with growing isolation from the while Russia, which is not an OPEC member, is than-expected demand and signs the supply bad blood with the West would inflict long- West, Russia has sought to bolster ties with the second biggest oil supplier to the global glut will ease. Meanwhile, Russia’s showcase term damage. new partners including China. Putin is set to sit markets. One source said the agreement to be investment forum kicked off in Saint down with China’s vice premier Zhang Gaoli, discussed between Russian Energy Minister Petersburg yesterday under the shadow of ‘Eye of the storm’ among other leaders. Alexander Novak and Saudi Oil Minister Ali Al- Moscow’s standoff with the West over Ukraine “Where are we in terms of growth? We are The Kremlin strongman will meet with Naimi would not be about joint oil production and the country’s economic crisis. in the eye of the storm,” respected former Tsipras-who is making his second visit to or export strategy. Russia has stepped up con- Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is set to finance minister Alexei Kudrin warned. Russia in less than three months today. tacts with OPEC after oil prices plunged last jet in as the star guest at the three-day confer- “The uncertainty in terms of the third and The two leaders are expected to ink a gas year, but it has dismissed any suggestion it ence-once billed as Russia’s answer to Davos- fourth quarters are high because the chal- deal, but Tsipras-who has openly criticized might cut output to prop up prices. OPEC has but many Western leaders and CEOs have lenges are not just cyclical and economic, sanctions against Russia-is unlikely to get any also refused to curb its output in order to shied away amid tensions with Moscow. linked to the oil price, but political,” said help with the immediate problem of Greece’s defend market share. Attention is set to focus on Russia’s eco- Kudrin, who is believed to still have Putin’s ear. June 30 deadline to repay 1.6 billion euros A spokeswoman for Russia’s Energy nomic woes, with the country having slumped Herman Gref, chief executive of state-run ($1.8 billion) to the IMF. Analysts say they Ministry confirmed the meeting but declined into recession on the back of Western sanc- Sberbank, criticized the government’s han- expect few deals to be signed at the forum. to comment on the agenda. The talks in tions over Ukraine and lower oil prices. The dling of the crisis. “Crisis is a result of bad man- But despite the ambient tensions, some lead- Russia’s second city follow OPEC’s meeting on Kremlin has claimed that the worst of the crisis agement,” he said to applause from the audi- ers of Western businesses with interests in June 5 in which the group kept its output poli- might be over as the ruble has stabilized ence. In a sign of the continuing rancour, Russia are taking part in it, including the cy unchanged. Before the meeting, an OPEC somewhat this year after losing some 40 per- economy minister Alexei Ulyukayev said heads of Britain’s BP and France’s Societe delegate said the group would not cut supply cent of its value in 2014. “I can’t say the situa- Russia would maintain embargoes on Western Generale. —Agencies Business FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 2015 News US to put woman in brief

Kuwaiti oil price up on new $10 bill KUWAIT: The price of Kuwaiti oil barrel went up 25 cents reaching $59.15 per barrel on Wednesday, compared to $58.90 pb on Tuesday, said Kuwait Petroleum Corporation yesterday. Move first time in over a century Meanwhile, the prices of Brent crude oil contracts for August delivery moved up 17 cents to $63.87 pb upon settlement, while US crude for July delivery was up 5 cents to settle at WASHINGTON: The US will put the image $95.92 pb. of a woman on an American banknote for the first time in over a century, breaking the lock that white male political heroes have on the greenback. Egypt pound steady The US Treasury announced Thursday CAIRO: Egyptian pound steady at official auction and on that a yet-unchosen woman, likely “a black market Egypt’s central bank kept the pound’s champion for our inclusive democracy,” exchange rate steady at 7.53 to the dollar at a foreign will feature on the $10 note from 2020, exchange auction yesterday, with black market rates also replacing Alexander Hamilton, the first stable. The central bank has held the official exchange rate secretary of the treasury. unchanged for four months since letting the pound weak- Only twice before have women fea- en at the beginning of 2015. This weakening and other tured on US paper currency. Martha measures have helped reduce black market trading. In Washington, the wife of first president Thursday’s auction the bank said it had offered $40 million George Washington, was on $1 notes in and sold $37.5 million at a cut-off price of 7.5301 pounds the 1880s and 1890s. Pocahontas, a Native per dollar, unchanged from Tuesday’s rate. On the black American woman linked to the colonial market the pound was trading at 7.68 pounds to the dol- settlement at Jamestown, was featured in lar, one trader said, unchanged from Tuesday’s rates. a group of people on banknotes in the 1860s. Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew said the woman on the new $10 bill will be chosen Mubadala starts output DUBAI: Mubadala Petroleum has started production at its by the Treasury after fielding the ideas of Nong Yao oil field, located in the southern Gulf of Thailand, it the public “about what qualities best rep- said yesterday, with output to be sold into the Thai market. resent democracy.” Hinting at where the The unit of Abu Dhabi state investment fund Mubadala said candidates will come from, Lew said the WASHINGTON: This March 29, 2009 file illustration shows Alexander Hamilton, production was expected to reach a peak rate of around change will take place on the 100th the first US Secretary of the Treasury, on the front of the US $10 note in 10,000 barrels of oil per day as more wells were completed, it anniversary of women’s suffrage, when Washington, DC. — AFP said in a statement. Nong Yao, which it is developing along American women gained the right to vote. with KrisEnergy and Palang Sophon Limited, is Mubadala’s “America’s currency is a way for our its website and on social media using the Mankiller, the first female chief of the third operating oil field in Thailand, along with Jasmine and nation to make a statement about who we tag “TheNew10.” The winner will be cho- Native American Cherokee Nation. Manora. Mubadala’s gross production in Thailand will reach are and what we stand for. Our paper bills- sen later this year, the department said. Six weeks ago the group presented a around 40,000 barrels of oil per day during the second half of and the images of great American leaders petition to the White House asking 2015, more than double the rate from a year ago and making it and symbols they depict-have long been a Campaign for change President Barack Obama to have Lew Thailand’s second largest producer of black oil, it said. way for us to honor our past and express The announcement came as a cam- make the change. The group encouraged our values,” said Lew. Current US ban- paign to place a woman on the currency, the president to strike Jackson off the $20 knotes all feature familiar male figures focused on the $20 note, was gaining bill because of his checkered past dealing from the country’s history. Washington on steam. The Women on 20 campaign with Native American tribes and his oppo- Dubai airport traffic soars received some 600,000 votes for different sition to the central bank. the $1, president Abraham Lincoln on the DUBAI: Passenger traffic through Dubai International candidates, with 19th century African “There is no greater gender gap than $5, Hamilton on the $10, president Airport, the world’s busiest airport for international pas- American rights activist Harriet Tubman on our paper money,” the group said in a Andrew Jackson on the $20, president and senger business, rose 5.7 percent from a year earlier in the winner. Running behind Tubman in video. Civil War commander Ulysses S. Grant on April, its operator said yesterday. The number of passen- the vote was Eleanor Roosevelt, the wife of It’s time for “an exemplary American the $50, and inventor and statesman gers climbed to 6.51 million from 6.16 million, partly Great Depression and World War II presi- woman who has helped shape our Benjamin Franklin on the $100. because of growth in Eastern European traffic as Dubai dent Franklin D. Roosevelt; 1960s civil Nation’s great history” to be on the coun- The Treasury said it would review com- carrier flydubai expanded services to that region. During rights icon Rosa Parks, and Wilma try’s paper money, the group said. — AFP ments over the new design submitted on the first four months of the year, passenger traffic increased 6.5 percent to 26.12 million people. Daman Investments says working on IPO

DUBAI: Dubai’s Daman Investments, a “We confirm our intention to float book-building - or obtaining indicative United Arab Emirates investment man- remains unchanged and we shall in due bids from fund managers - rather than agement firm, is working on plans to go course announce a definitive date of our through a fixed-price evaluation method. public, its chairman said yesterday, offering.” Daman said last November that it although sluggish equity markets have Gargash said Daman was assessing a would sell new shares equivalent to 55 caused other UAE companies to suspend new UAE companies law introduced in percent of the firm to the public. The such moves. April, the summer holiday season and introduction of the new companies law Daman had said in mid-March that it the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, means it could now theoretically sell a was in the final stages of obtaining regu- which began on June 18, as factors in its smaller stake. Founded in 1998, Daman latory approval and hoped to launch an decision. He did not elaborate. is backed by investors from the UAE and initial public offer in the next few weeks. Stock trading turnover in the UAE the wider Gulf region. It sold a 22.7 per- After reviving last year, however, the tends to slow during the hot summer cent stake to private investors via a UAE’s IPO market has become inactive and Ramadan, when many individual placement of shares in June 2012, which again this year, as a slowdown in the real investors step back from the market. The valued the company at 440 million estate market and lower oil prices have new companies law reduced the mini- dirhams ($120 million). Emirates AMRITSAR: An Indian Sikh vendor sorts onions as he sells veg- weighed on stock prices and trading mum “free float” of shares in listings on Investment Bank was appointed finan- etables from his horse cart in Amritsar yesterday. The India activity. “We are actively working on our the UAE’s two main stock markets to 30 cial adviser and lead manager for the Meteorological Department (IMD) has predicted an overall 12 IPO plans,” the chairman and founder of percent from 55 percent, aiming to IPO, with law firm White & Case acting percent shortfall in monsoon rains for the season, mainly due to Daman Investments, Shehab Gargash, encourage company owners to go pub- as legal adviser, the firm said in the presence of El Nino conditions in the Pacific Ocean which said in a statement emailed to Reuters. lic. It also allowed IPO prices to be set by November. — Reuters often weakens the southwest monsoon over India.—AFP Business FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 2015

Moody’s says MERS poses risk to S Korean economy China nationwide home EOUL: An outbreak of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) prices edge up in May threatens to deal a blow to South Korea’s economic recovery, Moody’s Investors Service said on Thursday, as the Health Ministry reported three new cases, the lowest daily increase in 17 days. Recovery in property investment slow World Health Organization Director General Margaret Chan said the country’s response, although initially slow, has been “exemplary.” HONG KONG: New home prices in prices will ease strains on the economy Weakness persists “The MERS outbreak in (South Korea) can be stopped, although it China rebounded nationwide for the and help banks which are heavily The price data also highlighted a may take a little longer than everyone would like to see,” Chan, who first time in 13 months in May, suggest- exposed to the real estate market, ana- growing divide between conditions in arrived in South Korea yesterday to attend a previously scheduled ing a property downturn is bottoming lysts said a full-blown sectoral recovery the biggest cities and smaller ones, sug- conference, told a media briefing. out after a barrage of stimulus from the was still a long way off. gesting unevenness in regional growth There have been signs that the outbreak, the largest outside of central bank and local governments Official data last week showed resi- could become more pronounced. Saudi Arabia, may be slowing. The daily number of new cases has since late last year. Economists, howev- dential inventory in May was 21.9 per- Prices in all four top-tier cities rose on dropped to single digits this week compared to as many as 23 last er, warned that massive inventories of cent higher than a year ago. the month but those in most third-tier week. Three were reported on Thursday - the lowest number since unsold homes could continue to drag Bloated inventories may result in a cities continued to fall. Beijing, Shanghai June 1. on the world’s second-largest economy longer lag between sales and new hous- and Guangzhou reported increases of The outbreak has kept consumers from visiting malls and parks well into next year, discouraging new ing starts than the six- to eight month- 1.1 percent, 2.2 percent and 1.4 percent, and led to more than 100,000 tourist visit cancellations, denting con- investment and construction. long gap previously seen. Hence, bot- respectively, while prices in Shenzhen sumer spending. Worried by the economic impact, President Park “Inventories in first-tier cities are back toming-out of new home prices is surged as much as 6.6 percent, fuelling Geun-hye and other leaders have urged the public and the business to healthy levels...but in third and unlikely to lead to a recovery in property concerns that the southern city’s market community to return to normal. fourth-tier cities it will take at least two investment this year, economists said. could be overheating. “The spread of the illness is credit negative for the sovereign, more years,” said Rosealea Yao, econo- “Nine months of good sales growth On an annual basis, nationwide because it is dampening consumer confidence amid already-weak mist at Gavekal Dragonomics based in may lead indicators to show a recovery prices fell for the ninth consecutive domestic demand, threatening to undermine an incipient recovery in Beijing. in property investment, but any recov- month, decreasing 5.7 percent but nar- economic growth,” Moody’s said. Average new home prices in China’s ery will be more muted than what we rowing from a 6.1 percent drop in April, Hotel Shilla Co Ltd said yesterday it had shut its hotel on the holi- 70 major cities climbed 0.2 percent in saw in the past,” said Louis Kuijs, Greater the National Bureau of Statistics data day island of Jeju after it learned a guest who had stayed there last May from April, the first rise since May China chief economist for RBS. showed, While Beijing would need 13.4 week has been diagnosed with MERS. 2014, according to Reuters calculations China’s central bank cut interest rates months to clear all empty homes in the The finance minister has said it was considering a possible supple- based on official data released on for the third time in six months in May city, Haikou, the capital city of resort mentary budget to bolster Asia’s fourth-largest economy. The blow Thursday. to lower borrowing costs and re-ener- island Hainan, and Shengyang, the from the MERS outbreak is unlikely to be serious enough to prompt a Weighed down by the cooling prop- gise the slackening economy. Mortgage largest city in Northeast China, would sovereign ratings downgrade, said Park Sang-hyun, a senior econo- erty market and sluggish demand at restrictions were also eased. need 48.8 and 28.8 months, respective- mist at HI Investment & Securities. South Korean debt is rated at Aa3 home and abroad, China’s economic The property industry accounted for ly, according to property researcher positive by Moody’s, well within investment grade territory. growth slowed to a six-year low of 7 per- around 12 percent of China’s economic CRIC. A total of 165 people have been infected with MERS and 23 have cent in the first quarter and recent data output in the first quarter, but the sec- Property investment growth slowed died in an outbreak that has been traced to a 68-year-old man who showed weakness persisted into the tor’s slump has hit demand for every- to 5.1 percent in January to May from a returned from a trip to the Middle East in early May. The WHO said it second quarter, putting more pressure thing from steel and cement to appli- year earlier, the slowest pace since 2009, expected new cases in coming weeks. More than 6,700 people are in on the government to step up policy ances and furniture - industries that while new construction slumped 16 per- quarantine, either at home or in health facilities. — Reuters stimulus. While signs of a stabilization in account for some 30 percent of GDP. cent. — Reuters UK employers, economy turn sights on EU referendum risks

LONDON: For Encocam, one of the world’s few sterling its standing as a global reserve currency. recession and needs more business investment to economy. Researchers at the Bertelsmann manufacturers of crash test dummies, a British exit Seeking to counter concerns that Britain was take over from a rise in consumer spending which Foundation in Germany predict that Britain’s eco- from the European Union looks like an accident losing its appeal for investors, Cameron announced has propelled the recovery so far. nomic output per capita, if the country left the EU that will probably be avoided. But if things turn out on June 17 that the value of foreign direct invest- “Our concern is that after five or six years of in 2018, could be as much as 14 percent smaller by differently in the country’s planned EU referendum, ment in Britain had topped 1 trillion pounds ($1.57 waiting for business investment to come through, 2030 than if it stayed in the bloc, under a worst case it will have big consequences for the company trillion) in 2014 for the first time-the highest in we could have this European-induced uncertainty scenario. based 20 miles (30 km) north-west of Cambridge. Europe. which prevents it,” said Richard Batley, an econo- Much of the hit was attributed to lower interna- The firm’s managers say they would have to mist with Lombard Street Research. tional competition, which would gradually make move “significant parts” of the business abroad if it Keeping calm “The economic cycle in the UK could be cut British companies less innovative and invest less, it became harder to hire foreign workers. Currently, a So far, bosses of companies in Britain say they short.” said. Open Europe, a think-tank with links to third of Encocam’s 180 staff are non-British, includ- are not changing their investment and business Cameron’s Conservatives, says a “politically realistic ing skilled engineers from several EU states. plans. Carmakers, which would be most exposed to Big hit or small boost range” for the impact of a Brexit on the size of the “Personally, I don’t think we would be mad enough the risk of EU trade barriers in the event of a Brexit There are significant differences of opinion over economy by 2030 goes from a hit of 0.8 percent to as a country to go for it. So right now, we are not because of the bloc’s high tariffs on automobile what an actual exit from the EU would mean for the a possible boost of 0.6 percent.— Reuters really that concerned,” managing director Mike imports, have not scaled back. Ashmead said. “But over the next 12 or 18 months, Nissan announced on June 18 a 37 million- we will see how it goes.” pound investment at its plant in the northeastern A so-called Brexit-or a British exit from the EU-is city of Sunderland. rising up the list of risks for many British companies. “As long as a European plant in the UK works,” As well as tighter immigration rules which could the group would support it, Renault-Nissan Chief aggravate a shortage of skilled workers, executives Executive Carlos Ghosn told Reuters earlier this worry that a Britain outside the European Union month. “If it doesn’t we’ll adapt.... If there’s a major might find it hard to maintain free access to the change, we’ll reconsider.” markets of the other 27 EU countries. The calm in the boardrooms stems from opin- For the financial services industry, a big provider ion polls which suggest a majority of Britons will of jobs and tax revenues, a Brexit would mean a vote to stay in the bloc. But a once uneventful-look- gradual loss of power, the City of London’s policy ing referendum on Scottish independence turned chief told Reuters this month. into a nail-biter last year before voters backed Prime Minister David Cameron hopes his plan to remaining in Britain. With that scare fresh in their hold the vote by the end of 2017, once he has minds-and aware of how the polls failed to predict secured EU reforms, will settle a decades-old rift the outcome of May’s national elections — compa- that has split his Conservative Party and stem a loss nies are taking nothing for granted. of support to the anti-EU UK Independence Party. “When you’re talking about a referendum, But some worry that the government could be dis- you’re talking about injecting uncertainty and that tracted from pressing economic priorities. Ratings intuitively is bad for investment,” Terry Scuoler, agency Standard & Poor’s says the focus on Europe chief executive of EEF which represents British could delay improvements to infrastructure or manufacturing and engineering firms, said. attempts to tackle a housing shortage. “There has to be a suspicion that this will damp- S&P warned this month that it might strip en investment, but we are picking up no evidence Britain of its AAA credit rating because leaving the of it yet.” He has called on Cameron to hold the ref- EU could diminish long-term investment flows, erendum as soon as possible to reduce the uncer- BANGKOK: A street food cook (L) buys chilies from a street food vendor (right) in the erode London’s status as a banking centre and cost tainty effects. Britain is still healing after a deep Chinatown district of Bangkok yesterday.—AFP Business40 FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 2015 EU ‘undermined Ireland’ in markets to push bailout DUBLIN: European officials used anonymous media briefings to undermine market confidence in Ireland and increase pres- sure on the government to accept a bailout in 2010, the head of the finance ministry at the time said yesterday. Kevin Cardiff, the secretary general of the Department of Finance in November 2010, did not specify whether the officials were from the European Central Bank or European Union, the two bodies that wanted a bailout to ease wider market con- cerns. “It was though clearly inappropriate, that at the outset, at the point when we were trying to make decisions, that back- door briefings of the media should be used to undermine our position on the market so as to add to our pressure,” Cardiff said. “Democratic systems should not rely on undermining rep- utation and distributing misinformation via anonymous briefin- gs,” he told a parliamentary inquiry into the banking crisis that forced Ireland into a 64 billion euro bailout. The Irish govern- ment was “pushed quite hard” by the European Central Bank into accepting an EU-IMF bailout in 2010 and was prevented from burning senior bank bondholders, he said. The ECB denies any undue pressure was put on Ireland to take the bailout, needed after the collapse of the country’s LUXEMBOURG: Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis (left) looks at the media as he waits for the start of the annual banking system, and says its perilous finances forced it to seek meeting of the European Stability Mechanism Board in Luxembourg yesterday. — AP aid. “At the moment we entered it we were pushed quite hard,” Cardiff said. A letter from ECB head Jean Claude Trichet told Ireland in November 2010 that it would not extend further emergency funding to the country’s banks if Dublin did not Merkel: Greek deal possible sign up to a bailout. Ireland signed the deal two days later. The government was initially supported by the head of the International Monetary Fund Dominique Strauss-Kahn in seek- if Athens shows the will ing to impose burden sharing on senior bank bondholders in failed Irish banks, Cardiff said. But Strauss-Kahn was overruled IMF’s Lagarde rules out payment delay in a conference call with EU and ECB officials, Cardiff said, citing information he said was not first hand, but that he believed to BERLIN/ATHENS: German Chancellor new proposals to the discussion, hopes 1.6 billion euro ($1.8 billion) repayment be credible. Angela Merkel said yesterday a deal for a breakthrough at the meeting have due to the International Monetary Fund There was “a strong negative reaction from the ECB and oth- between Greece and its creditors was all but vanished. that could force it to default. Greeks ers and that moreover the EU-IMF program would not go ahead still possible if Athens showed the nec- Arriving for the Luxembourg meet- have been squeezed by five years of if senior bondholder burden sharing was contemplated”, he essary will, amid mounting pessimism ing, EU Economics Commissioner Pierre budget cuts demanded by the European said. “Of course it was formally Ireland’s decision not to burn that the austerity-hit country might Moscovici told reporters he didn’t want Commission, the International Monetary bondholders, but it was one of those decisions without much crash out of the euro-zone. the debt standoff to turn into a rerun of Fund and the European Central Bank in option.” Greece, facing a possible IMF default on July 1, is nego- Neither side has shown any sign of the Battle of Waterloo on the 200th two bailouts. But opinion polls suggest tiating with the ECB and European Commission on an aid-for- yielding, with creditors insisting it is up anniversary of the historic defeat for the majority want to stay in the euro. reforms deal. Both institutions have rejected accusations that to Greece to make concessions to secure France. “Greece belongs to Europe!” read one they are using inappropriate pressure to convince the Greek a cash-for-reforms deal so the govern- “Today is an important date and I Facebook invitation to join yesterday’s government to accept the new bailout funds. — Reuters ment can honor looming debt repay- have no desire to see us return to the pro-euro rally, which had received more ments and avoid a potentially disastrous age of Waterloo when the Europeans than 11,000 “likes” by Thursday morn- default. International Monetary Fund were all lined up against a single state,” ing. “We are sending a strong message Small US frackers chief Christine Lagarde warned Athens he said. to the government,” it said. “It’s time we yesterday it cannot delay a huge pay- With European leaders and Greece’s join our voices in favor of our country face extinction amid ment due at the end of the month, pil- central bank warning a possible “Grexit” staying in the euro and in the European ing on the pressure as euro-zone minis- was on the horizon, European shares fell family.” drilling drought ters sought a deal on the Greek debt cri- and Greek shares hit a new three-year- Those calls were echoed in an open sis. low. In a sign of growing nervousness letter by a group of Greek businesses- WEATHERFORD, Texas: Oil field work was coming in fast when Lagarde laid down the law as among many Greeks about their coun- including tourism operators and retail- GoFrac doubled its workforce and equipment fleet at the begin- German Chancellor Angela Merkel said try’s fate, pro-euro demonstrators will ers- to Tsipras, urging him to close a ning of last year, just one of hundreds of small oil service compa- she was still convinced an agreement hold a rally in central Athens, calling for deal. nies thriving on the revival of US drilling. was possible to save Greece from an end to the deadlock. That comes a “Greece’s relations with our partners Founded in November 2011 with a loan of around $35 million, defaulting and crashing out of the euro day after anti-austerity protesters rallied have been hit hard and both sides are the Fort Worth, Texas-based company was by 2014 making near- if Athens made concessions. Europe’s in support of the government and responsible for that,” the letter said. “But ly that much in monthly revenues, providing the crews and main stock markets fell as euro area’s against policies set by lenders. the most important thing is to not sacri- machinery needed by companies including ExxonMobil to frack finance ministers poured cold water on “I’m still convinced: where there’s a fice a great national achievement which oil and gas wells from North Dakota to Texas. Executives flew to hopes that their meeting in will, there’s a way,” Merkel told German is Greece’s euro zone membership and meetings across the country in a Falcon 50 private jet, and enter- Luxembourg could end the stand-off lawmakers, repeating a message from to put an end to this “balance of terror” tained customers at their suite at the Texas Rangers baseball sta- between the anti-austerity Greek gov- last week. “If those in charge in Greece which has frozen the economy and dium in Arlington. The firm would soon move into a 22,000- ernment and its creditors. “There will be can muster the will, an agreement ... is undermines any growth prospect,” they square-foot office on the 12th floor of Burnett Plaza, one of Fort no period of grace,” Lagarde told still possible.” Merkel faces growing said. Worth’s most prestigious office buildings. reporters in Luxembourg. “I have a term opposition from within her ruling con- Tsipras is expected to meet business Eighteen months on, however, without work and unable to of June 30 — if it’s not paid by July 1, it’s servatives to granting Greece any more leaders in St. Petersburg ahead of talks meet monthly loan payments, GoFrac has closed its doors, its not paid.” bailout money, with a narrow majority with Russian President Vladimir Putin ambitions gutted by a steep dive in oil prices. Of the 550-odd Far from giving ground, Greek Prime of Germans now in favour of Greece today. In a guest column for Der employees on the payroll at the beginning of this year, only six Minister Alexis Tsipras launched a new leaving the euro zone. Tagesspiegel newspaper in Berlin, remain. attack on the lenders in an article in a Having been voted into power in Tsipras sought to dispel a “myth” that At GoFrac’s only remaining outpost, a small warehouse and German newspaper, slamming what he January on a pledge to roll back austeri- German taxpayers were paying Greek 40-acre gravel yard in Weatherford, 30 miles west of Fort Worth, called their “blind insistence” on pen- ty, Tsipras’s leftist government has pensions and wages. its huge fleet of sand haulers, chemical blenders and pressure sion cuts he said would worsen his balked at demands for new pension cuts “The blind insistence of cuts (in pen- pumps that months before were being used to frack US oil and country’s crisis. The leftist leader began and tax hikes on basic goods like food sions) in a country with a 25 percent gas wells, sit idle in long rows, waiting to be sold. a two-day visit to Russia to attend an and electricity. unemployment rate and where half of “We knew it was going to be rough, but nobody foresaw what economic forum in St. Petersburg as all the young people are unemployed was coming,” said GoFrac chief financial officer Kevin McGlinch, euro-zone finance ministers gathered in PRO-EURO RALLY will only cause a further worsening of who was hired in November 2014 to see GoFrac through the Luxembourg to discuss the impasse. Athens needs to break the impasse the already dramatic social situation,” he slowdown.— Reuters Given that Athens ruled out bringing by the end of the month, when it faces a said. — Reuters Business41 FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 2015 Japan’s tourism boom lifts economy Foreign tourist influx brings money and headaches

TOKYO: From the slopes of Mount Fuji to the temple streets of Kyoto, tourists are cramming Japan’s prime sightseeing spots, puzzling their way through Tokyo subways, and splashing out cash on cosmetics, sushi and high-tech toilet seats. The cheap yen, easier visas and other initiatives are luring for- eign travelers eager to stretch their budgets and see some UNESCO World Heritage sites, bringing in welcome cash as well as myriad complications. Tourism was among many Japanese industries that limped through more than 20 years of sluggish economic growth as locals tightened their belts and most foreigners stayed away, scared off by tales of $200 melons and other scandalous prices. But Japan has become a hot destination as the exchange rate weakened from about 80 yen to the US dollar in late 2012 to its current level of about 123 yen. Foreign visitors exceeded 10 mil- lion for the first time in 2013 and rose to 13.4 million last year. The aim is to have 20 million by 2020, when Tokyo will host the Olympic Games. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has jumped on the bandwagon with “Cool Japan” and “Omotenashi,” or Japanese-style hospitali- ty, national branding campaigns that capitalize on products and concepts considered uniquely Japanese, such as “anime” car- toons and traditional “washoku” cuisine. The efforts seem to be paying off: In April as the cherry blos- soms coincided with Easter and Asian holidays, a record 1.7 mil- lion foreign tourists visited. In May, tourists overall doubled to 1.6 million, with big increases from China, Hong Kong and South Korea. With the yen at its weakest in decades, “It’s pretty good value TOKYO: Chinese tourists choose goods at a cosmetics store in Tokyo’s Ginza shopping district. The cheap yen, easier for us at the moment,” said Grant Lutwyche, an Australian car visas and other initiatives are luring foreign travelers eager to stretch their budgets and see some UNESCO World mechanic who was visiting Tokyo’s Asakusa temple district with Heritage sites, bringing in welcome cash as well as myriad complications. —AP his wife. The boom offers new business opportunities but brings challenges. Investment in infrastructure has lagged, and many working in the services industry are unused to dealing with for- eigners, including the hundreds of mostly Chinese cramming into Japan’s humanoid robot the elegant Ginza flagship shop of cosmetics and skin care com- pany Fancl. ‘Pepper’ set to hit stores FANCY CUSTOMERS “We need more staff who can speak foreign languages, espe- cially Chinese,” said Noriko Fukazawa, director of Fancl Ginza TOKYO: Japan’s SoftBank said yesterday Square. Staff are learning one phrase of Chinese and one of that its chatty humanoid robot Pepper English a day, she said. Wednesday’s phrase: “Please put your would go on sale this weekend, as it bags over here,” in Chinese. announced a deal with China’s biggest e- As a rainy afternoon wore on, dozens of potential Fancl cus- commerce website Alibaba and a tomers took one look at the long line for the duty free counter Taiwanese manufacturer to work on robot- inside and walked away. ics technology. “We’re just holding the bags,” said Yao Shanding, waiting for The deal came as local media said his wife outside with 19-year-old son, Jiayi. Yao wasn’t exactly Alibaba was trying to attract Chinese con- sure what, apart from shopping, was on the agenda on the family sumers to the wise-cracking robot, which is trip from their home near Shanghai, Jiayi’s reward for finishing already being used to sell coffee machines rigorous high-school exams. and greet customers at a Japanese bank. But Yao was happy with what he had seen so far on his first Standing 120-centimetres (four-foot) day in town. “It’s so clean. The traffic is so orderly,” he said. “It’s tall, the robot has a human-like face perched on top of a white plastic body, nice here.” Visits by Chinese slowed after the 2011 nuclear disas- with rollers and what looks like a tablet ter and a 2012 revival of tensions between Tokyo and Beijing. computer on its chest. Unveiled last year, After exploring South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand and Bali, many Pepper-which its maker says can read affluent Chinese travelers are making up for lost time, said Shaun human emotions sells mobile phones at Rein, Shanghai-based managing director of market intelligence SoftBank’s outlets, where it has been used firm CMR. “There’s massive pent-up demand,” Rein said. To lure to collect customers’ opinions. more big spenders, Japan has slashed sales taxes on a wider Engineers claim the robot’s artificial range of items favored by foreign tourists and is setting up duty- intelligence can understand most conversa- free counters at hundreds of shops in Tokyo and elsewhere, even tions-in Japanese-and will beef up its lan- in drug stores - medicines and supplements are big sellers guage abilities by listening to what cus- among Chinese and Russian tourists. tomers say. Pepper goes on sale in robot- The Laox duty free shop in Ginza was crammed with Chinese crazy Japan this weekend for 198,000 yen buying watches, cosmetics, robotic vacuum cleaners and space- ($1,600). SoftBank released few details of age rice cookers. Ultra high-tech, detachable toilet seats with the deal with Taiwan’s Foxconn and automatic lighting and lid opening and closing, that warm, wash Alibaba in which it owns a one-third stake- and dry are another big must-have among Chinese, even though beyond saying both would invest in the the products are made-in-China for export to Japan. robotics unit with each taking a 20 percent “The new status symbol in China is buying things and having share for a combined $237 million. experiences,” said Rein. “It’s not just buying a Louis Vuitton bag Foxconn, a major supplier to Apple, said it but how you bought it and how you did something cool.” would manufacture the robot while Alibaba Since globally, tourism and travel account for about 9.5 per- disputed reports that it plans to sell the cent of GDP compared with just 2.2 percent in Japan, there robot in China. “There are no immediate TOKYO: Softbank Chairman and CEO, Masayoshi Son (center), Foxconn should be ample room for growth. Japan expects spending by plans for China sales, but SoftBank, Chairman and CEO, Terry Gou (left), and Alibaba Group Executive Chairman, tourists to exceed 4 trillion yen ($32.4 billion) by 2020, up from Foxconn and Alibaba will possibly cooper- Jack Ma (right) pose with Pepper, the world’s first personal robot that can 1.6 trillion yen last year, said Ichiro Takahashi, a Japan Tourism ate on this front in the future,” a company read emotions, during a press conference in Urayasu, suburban Tokyo yes- Agency official.—AP spokeswoman said. —AFP terday.— AFP Sports42 FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 2015 Yankees overcome Marlins 2-1

NEW YORK: Alex Rodriguez singled twice to including a three-run home run and Oakland Monday’s 11-inning loss to the Mets at Citi Field, Reliever-turned-starter Steve Geltz got the first raise his career hits total to 2,997, Michael beat San Diego. Chavez (3-6) went into the won the opener of a five-game homestand. six outs in what manager Kevin Cash called a Pineda carried a no-hit bid into the seventh game with the eighth-lowest ERA in the AL and Toronto is 12-3 in June. The Blue Jays lead the bullpen game. Jordan Zimmermann (5-5) inning before allowing Christian Yelich’s home was dominant while allowing three hits over majors with 369 runs. Entering play Wednesday, allowed three runs in seven innings for run, and the New York Yankees beat the Miami seven innings. He fanned seven of the first 11 Arizona was second with 291. The Mets dropped Washington. The Nationals committed three Marlins 2-1 Wednesday night. On a night when batters, walked one and didn’t allow a runner to 10-20 on the road. They’ve lost 12 of 15 away errors and had just two hits, one night after belt- Yankees manager Joe Girardi was spared having past first base until Alexi Amarista homered on from home. Hutchison (6-1) allowed career ing out 23 in a 16-4 victory over the Rays in to decide whether to lift Pineda with a high the first pitch leading off the sixth. Ben Zobrist highs of nine hits and eight runs in his previous Tampa. pitch count and New York benefited from an drove in three runs and fell a home run shy of outing, June 12 at Boston, but fared much better overturned call at home plate that prevented hitting for the cycle for the A’s. Stephen Vogt against the Mets. He gave up four hits in 5 2-3 PIRATES 3, WHITE SOX 2 the tying run in the eighth inning, A-Rod closed added two RBIs. Will Middlebrooks homered for innings, walked one and struck out five. Jeff Locke allowed just two runs in six in on becoming the 29th player to reach the the Padres, who lost their third straight since fir- innings, Jung Ho Kang hit a two-run home run 3,000 mark. Rodriguez lined an RBI single to cen- ing manager Bud Black on Monday. ROYALS 10, BREWERS 2 and Pittsburgh beat struggling Chicago for its ter in the first inning, singled softly to center in Joe Blanton picked up his first victory in near- seventh straight win. The Pirates, who had the fifth, walked twice to reach in all four plate ASTROS 8, ROCKIES 4 ly two years with five solid innings and Alcides thrown three straight shutouts - and five in the appearances and also was thrown out at home Carlos Correa hit one of Houston’s four home Escobar equaled his career high with four RBIs as previous six - saw their streak of scoreless plate. With New York starting an eight-game runs, Brett Olberholtzer pitched effectively into Kansas City pounded Milwaukee. Blanton (1-0) innings end at 35. Locke (4-3) was followed by homestand, he has a good chance to get No. the seventh inning and the Astros continued had not won since June 29, 2013, while with the Arquimedes Caminero, Tony Watson and Mark 3,000 at home. their power surge in a win over Colorado. Chris Los Angeles Angels against Houston. He limited Melancon, who combined for scoreless relief Carter, Preston Tucker and Jake Marisnick also the Brewers to one run and five hits. The 34-year- over the final three innings with Melancon get- REDS 8, TIGERS 4, 13 innings homered for the first-place Astros, who have old right-hander struck out four and walked ting his 22nd save. The White Sox, who snapped Todd Frazier hit an early solo homer and a won four straight and lead the majors with 95 none, throwing a season high 73 pitches. a string of 30 scoreless innings with two runs in grand slam with two outs in the 13th inning, home runs. Correa and George Springer had Escobar tripled with the bases loaded in a four- the sixth, have dropped a season-high six powering the Cincinnati Reds to a rain-delayed three hits each. Olberholtzer (2-1) followed up run eighth. He also singled home a run in a straight. Locke gave up three hits and had a sea- victory over the Detroit Tigers. The Reds twice his eight shutout innings against Seattle on three-run second. It was his third four-RBI game. son-high eight strikeouts. White Sox starter rallied from one-run deficits in the late innings, Friday with another strong outing. He allowed Mike Fiers (3-7) absorbed the loss, giving up six John Danks (3-7) settled down after a shaky first turning it into the longest game this season for three runs and eight hits, struck out five and did- runs on eight hits and three walks in five innings. inning to allow three runs and five hits in seven both teams. Ian Krol (1-0) escaped a two-on n’t walk a batter in 6 1-3 innings. He worked innings. threat in the 12th inning and stayed in the around Charlie Blackmon’s leadoff double in the CUBS 17, INDIANS 0 game. Skip Schumaker opened the 13th with a sixth but left after allowing Nick Hundley’s RBI Kris Bryant had a grand slam and Kyle BRAVES 5, RED SOX 2 single and Billy Hamilton walked. Joakim Soria Nick Markakis singled in the go-ahead run in took over and gave up a single by Brandon the seventh inning, Pedro Ciriaco added a pair Phillips that loaded the bases with one out. of RBI singles and Atlanta beat struggling Frazier connected for his fourth homer in two Boston. The Red Sox, who began the night in days, ending it at 1:20 am local time. Burke last place and eight games out in the AL East, Badenhop (1-2) retired the side in the 13th. Jay have dropped eight of nine overall and 11 of 12 Bruce had a career-high five hits - the first Reds on the road. Red Sox manager John Farrell player do so since Willy Tavares in 2009. showed his frustration in the bottom of the sev- enth, getting ejected for arguing balls and TWINS 3, CARDINALS 1 strikes. Atlanta, which has won three of five, Tommy Milone gave up one run in seven took its first lead at 3-2 in the seventh when innings and the Minnesota Twins squeaked out Markakis singled to score Cameron Maybin. a victory over St Louis. Milone (3-1) gave up five Markakis’ hit came off Junichi Tazawa (0-3), who hits and struck out five and Eduardo Nunez had gave up three hits, two runs and one walk in two hits and two RBIs to help the reeling Twins, two-thirds of an inning. Nick Masset (2-1) earned who had lost seven of their previous eight the win in relief, and Jason Grilli recorded his games. Carlos Martinez (7-3) gave up two runs - 18th save in 20 chances. one earned - on five hits and struck out six in 6 2/3 innings for the Cardinals, who are embroiled ORIOLES 6, PHILLIES 4 in a federal investigation into allegations that Chris Parmelee homered for the third time in members of the team’s baseball operations two games and Travis Snider also went deep as hacked into the Houston Astros’ personnel data- Baltimore handed Philadelphia its ninth straight base. The Cardinals had two runners on with no defeat. The Orioles still finished six homers shy outs in the ninth, but Glen Perkins struck out of the club record they set in Tuesday’s 19-3 vic- Mark Reynolds and Randal Grichuk and got LOS ANGELES: Dodgers’ Yasiel Puig (left) dives out of the way of a close pitch as Texas tory over Philadelphia. David Lough doubled Yadier Molina to ground out to improve to 23 Rangers catcher Carlos Corporan watches during the ninth inning of a baseball game on and had two RBIs for Baltimore, which won its for 23 in save tries. Wednesday, June 17, 2015. — AP 12th game in the last 14. Ubaldo Jimenez (5-3) struck out eight and walked none while giving MARINERS 2, GIANTS 0 single in the seventh. Schwarber was 4 for 5, including his first major up four runs on eight hits in 6 2/3 innings. Zach Felix Hernandez pitched eight innings of league hit and RBI, and Chicago hit four home Britton pitched a scoreless ninth for his 18th four-hit ball, Austin Jackson delivered a go- DIAMONDBACKS 3, ANGELS 2 runs to rout Cleveland. The Cubs scored seven save. Freddy Galvis homered and Ben Revere ahead RBI triple in the sixth, and Seattle beat Paul Goldschmidt and Welington Castillo times in the ninth inning, which ended with had a pair of hits, including a triple for San Francisco. Hernandez (10-4) allowed four each hit a solo home run, and Arizona held on to Indians position players Ryan Raburn and David Philadelphia, which has lost 19 of 22 to sink to hits, struck out five and walked two to rebound beat Los Angeles. Both homers came off Hector Murphy pitching. Schwarber, the fourth pick in 23 games under .500. Kevin Correia (0-1) took from the worst outing of his career. The Santiago (4-4). Yasmany Tomas had three hits last year’s draft who was called up Tuesday, the loss. Mariners’ ace allowed a runner to reach scoring for Arizona, including an RBI triple. tripled in the second to key a six-run inning and position twice, but both times he quickly retired Goldschmidt’s 19th home run came in the first added an RBI single in the third when the Cubs RANGERS 5, DODGERS 3 the side by inducing a groundout. Charlie inning. Castillo hit his fourth - second since com- scored four times. Schwarber hit into a double Rookie slugger Joey Gallo hit a two-run Furbush retired the first two batters of the ninth ing to the Diamondbacks - leading off the play in the fourth and singled in the seventh. He homer off Clayton Kershaw, and Prince Fielder and Carson Smith struck out Matt Duffy for his fourth. Goldschmidt had two hits to raise his added an infield hit in the ninth. Cleveland used also went deep to lead the Texas Rangers over fourth save in five chances. Jackson tripled batting average to .363, best in the majors. He seven pitchers in the first eight innings before the Los Angeles Dodgers. Wandy Rodriguez (4- home Mike Zunino with one out in the sixth off has reached base in 27 consecutive games, the calling on Raburn, who was given a loud ovation 2) shrugged off leadoff doubles by Yasiel Puig San Francisco starter Madison Bumgarner (7-4). longest active streak in the majors. Chase by the crowd of 15,572. and Scott Van Slyke in each of the first two Robinson Cano followed with an RBI double. Anderson (3-1) allowed two runs and seven hits innings to win his third straight decision in a Bumgarner, who lost a perfect-game bid in the in six innings for his second straight win. RAYS 5, NATIONALS 0 span of six starts. Keone Kela pitched a hitless fifth, also gave up four hits in eight innings, strik- Steven Souza Jr hit his 13th home run of the ninth for his first major league save. Kershaw (5- ing out nine and issuing one intentional walk. BLUE JAYS 8, METS 0 season and Curt Casali blasted the first of his 4) allowed four runs and five hits through six Danny Valencia hit a three-run homer, Kevin career to help Tampa Bay beat Washington. innings and struck out 10 after going 3-0 with a ATHLETICS 16, PADRES 2 Pillar had a solo shot and Toronto beat New Souza and Casali each had three hits, with Souza 0.94 ERA over his previous four starts. It was the Jesse Chavez struck out a career-high 11 in York behind a solid start from Drew Hutchison. doing so while returning to his former home first career appearance against the Rangers for seven innings to win for only the second time in Pillar went 3 for 4 with two RBIs as the Blue Jays, park. Matt Andriese (2-1) pitched four shutout the reigning NL MVP and three-time Cy Young his last eight starts, Billy Butler had four hits whose 11-game winning streak ended with innings of relief for the AL East-leading Rays. Award winner, who was born in Dallas.—AP Sports43 FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 2015 New-look US Open challenges golf’s best

TACOMA: The 115th US Open was set to tee off yesterday on an untested Chambers Bay layout that has left the world’s top golfers scratching their heads over how best to play it. World number one Rory McIlroy is seeking a fifth major title, Masters champion Jordan Spieth aims to make it halfway to the fabled calender-year Grand Slam and crowd favorite Phil Mickelson is desperate to finally win a US Open, after six runner-up finishes, and in so doing complete his career Grand Slam. Three- time champion Tiger Woods, mean- while, needs to prove he can still com- pete with the best after a horrendous year which will end with his 40th birth- day. But they all have a common enemy in Chambers Bay, some 50 kilometers south of Seattle, hosting the first US Open to be held in the US Pacific Northwest. Playing at between 7,300 and 7,700 yards, depending on the con- ditions, the course is more of a British Open seaside type course than a tradi- tional US Open venue, with its dunes and bunkers, bouncy, undulating fair- ways, blind shots and large, rolling greens. But unlike the classic British Open venues, it has a 500-foot elevation from the lowest to the highest point of the course, opening and closing holes which can either be par-4 or par-5 and oddly sloping tee zones. The record dry sunny weather that has marked the last few weeks in the area also means that the fairways are firm and fast and the greens devilish to read. Scoured out of a disused sand and gravel quarry overlooking the scenic Puget Sound, Chambers Bay opened just eight years ago and most of the top players have seen it for the first time this week. McIlroy was among those learning as they go along this week and TACOMA: Golfer Jack Nicklaus (right) watches a ball hit by Aaron Boyle (left) who lost a leg and an arm while serving in the US Army in his reaction to what he saw was typical. Afghanistan and uses a special cart to help him stand and strike a golf ball at American Lake Veterans Golf Course in Tacoma, Wash. Nicklaus “It’s really like playing an Open was at the course to inspect the progress of the “Nicklaus Nine,” nine new golf holes designed by Nicklaus as a donation to the course, which Championship in the United States,” the provides military veterans with both rehabilitation and recreation through golf.— AP 26-year-old Northern Irishman said. “That’s what it’s going to be like this week, apart from the fact that it’s about 20 degrees warmer.” Tour Players are not usually keen in Uncapped Footitt in being pulled out of their comfort zone and many at Chambers Bay this week were putting a brave face on it. Mickelson for one says that it has simi- Ashes training squad larities to the fabled Old Course at St Andrews in that first impressions can be deceptive. “When you play St Andrews, NOTTINGHAM: Uncapped Derbyshire left-arm environment in order to provide the best pos- 5-0 Test series defeat by Australia in 2013/14 you don’t know exactly where to hit it. paceman Mark Footitt was the eye-catching sible lead up to the first Test in Cardiff.” Footitt when the Ashes were last up for grabs, with And certain hillsides will take it one way selection in England’s 14-man squad apart, the squad led by Test captain Alastair the fall-out from that thrashing leading to the or the other. “Knowing how to play it, announced Thursday for a pre-Ashes training Cook is made up of players who have all fea- international exile of star batsman Kevin knowing where to go is critical. But after camp in Spain. The camp, which will take place tured at some stage during New Zealand’s Pietersen. playing a while it feels like it’s not as dif- for four days from June 27, will also provide tour of England. The bulk of the 14-man party However, Australia have not won the Ashes ficult a course.” the England squad, led by Test skipper Alastair played in the 1-1 Test series draw with New in England since 2001, with England triumph- Fitness will also be a factor with play- Cook, with a chance to meet their new Zealand, while fast bowlers Steven Finn and ing on home soil in 2005, 2009 and 2013 ers needing to complete several treks Australian coach, Trevor Bayliss. “With Trevor Liam Plunkett have both featured in the ongo- against their oldest rivals. This season’s Ashes up and down a huge man-made hill Bayliss arriving in the country next Thursday, ing one-day series with the World Cup finalists, starts in Cardiff on July 8. “The squad for the that straddles the course. “I think there Trevor, Alastair and I felt it important that both which concludes in Durham on Saturday. first Test will be announced within a few of is a big fitness element this week,” said players and management likely to be involved days of returning from the camp,” said former 2013 US Open winner Justin Rose. in the early stages of the Investec Ashes have Aussie left-arm threat opening batsman Strauss. One of Strauss’s first “There are a lot of us who have been chance to meet him and fully understand his Footitt’s inclusion comes after the 29-year- acts in his new role was to sack former here and probably preparing harder for approach prior to meeting up for the start of old took 82 wickets at a miserly average of just England coach Peter Moores and bring in this championship than many others. the Test series,” said director of cricket Andrew over 19 apiece for Derbyshire in the Second Bayliss, while appointing assistant coach Paul Because of that there’s an even bigger Strauss, in an England and Wales Cricket Board Division of England’s first-class County Farbrace to a caretaker position in the inter- physical demand.” The 156-strong play- statement. Championship last season. Even if he doesn’t vening period. Under Farbrace, who was ers in the field come from 26 different “With that in mind, we have arranged a make the Test side, Footitt could provide Bayliss’s deputy when the Australian was head countries and the total of 16 amateurs is preparation camp in Spain,” the former Ashes- England’s batsmen with some high quality coach of Sri Lanka, England drew the Test the highest for 34 years. Total prize winning England captain added. “This will practice given Australia’s Ashes attack is set to series with New Zealand and are currently all money for the year’s second major is up involve a combination of physical and fielding feature two left-arm quicks in Mitchell square at 2-2 in the one-dayers ahead of to $10 million.—AFP sessions and planning meetings in an informal Johnson and Mitchell Starc. England suffered a Saturday’s deciding fifth match.—AFP Sports44 FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 2015

Brumbies look to Is it worth making enemies of bury the last Russia, Qatar over football?

kick nightmare PARIS: The opportunity to score points by bashing FIFA, Russia and Qatar was too SYDNEY: Christian Lealiifano returns to the scene of his good for the parliamentarians to pass up. missed conversion nightmare as Australia’s ACT One by one, they lined up to take shots. It Brumbies bid to stay alive in the Super Rugby against was the political equivalent of shooting South Africa’s Western Stormers in this weekend’s play- fish in a barrel: easy. “FIFA is a sick organi- offs. Lealiifano plays his 100th game for the Brumbies in zation,” said one. “A many headed mon- Cape Town where he missed a potential match-winning ster,” “the rotting core of the once beauti- conversion in last month’s loss to the Stormers. In ful game,” said two others. And although Saturday’s other elimination game, the Otago representing countries flung far and wide Highlanders will bank on their home ground dominance - Estonia, France, Ireland, Germany, to knock out twice champions Waikato Chiefs in the all- Austria, et cetera - many of the speakers found common cause in the idea of strip- New Zealand showdown. The Brumbies missed out on ping the World Cup from Russia and crucial competition points when Lealiifano fluffed a sim- Qatar, especially if the 2018 and 2022 ple try conversion with eight minutes left as the hosts are found to have bribed FIFA vot- Stormers went on to win 25-24. ers. The South African media have this week been But this talk-fest in the European reminding the fly-half about his off-target kick. “I would- Parliament last week lacked a vital ingre- n’t say redemption. I haven’t thought about that kick dient: another side to the story. None of until you just asked me,” Lealiifano told reporters. “I’ve the more than 40 MEPs who spoke talked taken every game as if it’s going to be my last, so playing about the consequences, about how 100 games is a special time. I’m going to give the team Russia and Qatar could lash out against as much as I can and hopefully we can get the result.” such a humiliating body blow, if it ever Brumbies coach Stephen Larkham backed Lealiifano to comes to that. Might they retaliate by BERN: Swiss attorney General Michael Lauber attends a press conference in rise to the occasion and make amends for that miss. switching off gas and oil they supply to Bern. Swiss authorities are investigating the 2010 FIFA vote that awarded the “He’s working very hard at it and that’s what gives every- the world? Throw spanners into the works 2018 World Cup to Russia and the 2022 tournament to Qatar. — AFP one confidence around him,” Larkham said. “Particularly of international diplomacy? Withhold since that miss, Christian has spent more time in training trade and investment? Here are possible Stephens at the Royal United Services are out to destroy us.’” practising his conversions and penalty kicks. repercussions to consider: Institute, a London think-tank. “They all “I think we saw a bit of a turnaround over the last hate each other behind closed doors: BUT MONEY TALKS month with his goal-kicking.” Wallaby flanker David PRICKLY PUTIN They squabble, they bitch, they fight. But Ultimately, trade and investment Pocock is on track to play for the Brumbies, but playmak- Stripping Russia would confirm if you come against one, you come would keep Russia, Qatar and the west er Matt Toomua remains in doubt. Pocock missed the President Vladimir Putin’s impression, against the collective.” “The relationship glued together. Russia might threaten to second half of last week’s loss to the Canterbury which many Russians share, that “the would be affected for the best part of a reduce energy exports, but is too depend- Crusaders after failing a concussion test. “He’s on track to West is out to get him,” says Tony decade,” he said. “It would take a lot of re- ent on that revenue to actually turn off play,” Larkham said. “He’ll certainly be available for selec- Brenton, a former British ambassador to engagement to fix. It would be very, very taps, at least for long. Same goes for tion at this stage.” Toomua pulled up sore following his Moscow. “They will blame the west, they damaging.” Qatar. Because it knows its massive gas stint off the bench against the Crusaders in just his sec- will view it as an American plot, essential- and oil reserves won’t last forever, Qatar is ond game in eight matches following ankle injuries. ly,” he said in an interview with The ARAB ANGER squirreling away vast wealth in nest-eggs “Coming back from a syndesmosis ... everything is Associated Press. A wounded Russia could Depriving the Middle East of its first overseas. Al-Khalifa, the former ambassa- cleared medically, it’s just whether he feels good, which I become even pricklier to negotiate with World Cup “will be seen by hundreds of dor, gave short shrift to the suggestion suspect he will,” Larkham said. on big issues, none football-related, millions of Arabs and more than a billion that Qatari investment funds could hit The Stormers are South Africa’s last hope for Super 15 including but not limited to: restoring Muslims and other west Asians as proof of back by withdrawing some of their bil- glory this season after topping the national conference peace to Ukraine and Syria, preventing the west’s bad faith,” says Qatar’s former lions from Europe and elsewhere. He also ambassador to Washington, Nasser bin brushed off any possibility of Qatar boot- by three points from the Golden Lions but with the least Iran from building a nuclear bomb and preserving fragile ecosystems. “Russia Hamad Al-Khalifa. But Muslim extremists ing out US military forces stationed in the competition points of all the six play-off teams. The Cape would probably take this more seriously will be delighted, citing this as evidence emirate. “Investment does not have emo- Town-based side have scored just 32 tries in 16 games than any imaginable event on the global that the west doesn’t respect Muslims or tions, political connotations. You invest and have only managed two four-try bonus points. But landscape,” says Jeremy Kinsman, a treat Muslim partners as equals. “They will because you want to make a return,” he they are stronger in defense, letting in just 35 tries and Canadian former ambassador to Moscow, be so happy if this happens,” al-Khalifa said. “We have to isolate the issue of 2022, remain a tough side to break down. Much depends on also speaking in an AP phone interview. told the AP. They’ll say, “‘You see what and the issue of taking it away or not, flanker Siya Kolisi in the absence of captain Duane “It would completely alienate Russians, they have done to you?’” In Russia, hard- from other issues. We should not mix Vermeulen, and he will have to compete strongly at the who are already totally alienated.” line nationalists who want “a much more them. We are very clear about this.” breakdown against Pocock. closed economy, to have less to do with GULF BRIDGED the west, to build up (Russian) armed BOTTOM LINE Very smart team Qatar and its Persian Gulf neighbors forces” would be strengthened, said Qatar and Russia deny having corrupt- The Highlanders, the second-best Kiwi team behind don’t always see eye-to-eye. But they’d Brenton, the former British ambassador. ed FIFA voters. US and Swiss investigators tearaway leaders Wellington Hurricanes, are strength- likely unite if the 2022 tournament is “Every effort would be made to exploit are digging to see if that’s true. If wrong- ened by the return from injury of No.8 Nasi Manu, All moved, opening a rupture between the any such decision ...,” agrees James F doing is proved, taking away World Cups Blacks centre Malakai Fekitoa and lock Mark Reddish. west and its suppliers of energy. Collins, a former US ambassador, “to would be the nuclear option. Those call- “Nasi’s a real spiritual leader for us,” scrum-half Aaron “Ultimately this would be seen as an strengthen the case that, ‘You see, we’ve ing for that button to be pressed should Smith said. “He does a lot of key talking to the big boys attack on the entire Gulf,” says Michael told you we’re under siege, that people give the toxic fallout some thought.— AP especially. “He sets the mood with the way he plays, he’s a pretty easy man to follow.” The Highlanders spanked the Chiefs 36-9 in Invercargill three weeks ago, scoring four unanswered tries. World Muslim body lends Otago snatched a late 20-17 win over the Chiefs in their other meeting in Hamilton in March through two penalties after the Chiefs had dominated possession and support to Qatar’s WCup territory. “They’re a very smart team and they’ve also got a real good culture down there. It looks like they play for DUBAI: The world’s largest Muslim organi- the Organization of Islamic Cooperation bined population of some 1.5 billion peo- each other so it’s going to be a hell of game,” Chiefs skip- zation has thrown its weight behind (OIC) criticized what it said was “Western ple said in the statement on Wednesday. per Liam Messam said. The Chiefs, winners in 2012 and Qatar’s hosting of the 2022 World Cup, hit- media tendentious campaigns” targeting “It applauds the level of progress 2013, have hooker Hika Elliot and flanker Sam Cane back, ting back at Western criticism of the Gulf OIC member, casting doubt on its right to reached in the preparations and welcomes while Brad Weber starts at scrum-half after Chiefs Arab state’s dealings with FIFA amid a cor- host the event. “The Organization of Qatar’s continued preparations to host the dynamo Augustine Pulu fractured a forearm. The ruption probe into world soccer’s govern- Islamic Cooperation (OIC) stresses its sup- 2022 World Cup,” it added. US prosecutors Wellington Hurricanes and defending champions NSW ing body. Swiss and US authorities are port to the State of Qatar and to all that stunned international soccer last month investigating both Russia and Qatar’s suc- would ensure its success in hosting the by indicting 14 senior administrators and Waratahs face the qualifier winners in the following cessful campaigns to stage the 2018 and World Cup, as well as to its efforts towards business figures, including FIFA officials, week’s semi-finals.—AFP 2022 tournaments. optimal preparations for the event,” OIC, over alleged bribery and corruption in the In a statement posted on its website, which groups 57 countries with a com- sport.—Reuters Sports45 FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 2015 Cook goes off the boil at European Games

BAKU: The sizeable amount of money paid by fought back from 5-0 to level the bout at 7-7 in any pleasure from seeing Lutalo Muhammad the bronze medal match, said he wasn’t pre- a Moldovan billionaire to persuade taekwon- the final second of the combat Cook was dis- who had been selected ahead of him for the pared to stay in England nad experience the do world number two Aaron Cook to switch traught to then fail to clinch a place in the last Olympics also fail to reach the final in Baku. same crushing disappointment he had in allegiance from Great Britain to Moldova failed four. He muttered angrily to his coach and Cook, whose girlfriend British world champion 2012. “I did everything possible to qualify for to yield a gold medal at the European Games brother Luke and then slumped down and sat Bianca Walkden rubbed her hands nervously London, I was world number one and I won all in Baku yesterday. The 24-year-old’s displeas- on the steps leading down from the mat. “I am throughout the bout as she watched from the the tournaments and fulfilled the criteria and ure at being controversially omitted from the absolutely devastated, I was very disappointed stands, said he would regroup and come back it wasn’t good enough then so why would it British team for the 2012 Olympics, despite after the world championships (in Russia in and try and qualify for the Olympics in Rio have been good enough for Rio?” said Cook. “I then being world number one, led ultimately May) losing to Great Britain on golden point next year. wasn’t going to put myself or my family to his switch eased further by the undisclosed (in the semi-finals),” said Cook. “It (European He added he had no regrets about his through that again and that’s why we made amount of money offered by Moldova’s bil- Games) was very close to the world champi- change of nationality. “I feel it’s been easier in the decision to go to Moldova. “I’m just doing lionaire taekwondo federation president Igor onships and I just felt a little flat today, espe- some ways, I can put the focus on my fights what’s best for me, realistically I’ve got six Iuzefovici. Cook, a three-time European cham- cially in that match. now and just focus on my training, and if I years left in my career, hopefully I’m going to pion, though failed to show his customary bril- “I came here for the gold medal every com- qualify I’m going to qualify and in Great Britain have two shots left at an Olympic Games, and liance yesterday and went out in the quarter- petition I expect the gold medal I put a lot of I possibly wouldn’t have had that chance,” said it’s given me the opportunity it wasn’t an easy finals on a golden point in sudden death to expectation on myself and that’s why I’m very Cook. Cook, who as a callow youth did com- decision of course but I think it was the right unheralded Portuguese Julio Ferreira. Having disappointed,” added Cook, who didn’t take pete for Britain in the 2008 Olympics losing in decision.”— AFP

Pakistan in turmoil as president suspended

KARACHI: Pakistan’s football federation was mired in tur- moil on Thursday after its president was suspended by a faction reportedly linked to the country’s governing political party. A special Pakistan Football Federation (PFF) congress earlier this week suspended Faisal Saleh Hayat, the body’s president of 12 years, accusing him of corruption and mismanagement. The move was led by rebel PFF officials who said a new election for president would be held on June 30. The rebels are reported by local media to have links to the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-N (PMLN) party, rais- ing the prospect of a possible ban under FIFA rules against political interference in football. The upheaval follows huge controversy during elections for the Punjab Football Association in April, which led to the PFF ban- ning 20 officials for forming a parallel provincial body to rival the official one. Most of those officials convened at Tuesday’s PFF con- gress in Islamabad and suspended Hayat, appointing banned members-Arshad Khan Lodhi and Farasat Ali Shah-as acting PFF president and secretary. Hayat, a member of FIFA’s Strategic Committee and a veteran politician in Pakistan, blasted the action of the parallel body, calling them a “mafia.” “We reject the illegal inter- TEHRAN: File picture shows Iran’s volleyball national team players warming up during a training session at Azadi sports ference in PFF’s business,” Hayat said. “This mafia is dam- hall in Tehran. A ban on women attending Iran’s male volleyball internationals against the United States has triggered a aging Pakistani football, which is on a strong footing, and debate about their role in society, a sensitive topic in the Islamic republic. —AFP through their actions ultimately we could face a FIFA ban-but I will ensure such a situation does not happen.” Pakistan was briefly banned by FIFA in 1994 over gov- Women Volleyball ban ernment interference. Hayat said the PMLN government had to accept defeat in their campaign to form their own Pakistan Olympic Association after intervention by the revives debate in Iran International Olympic Committee. “The government is still licking its wounds after having being forced to take a TEHRAN: A ban on women attending two women’s rights activists have taken to Jailed for five months before being complete U-turn in its ill-conceived and unconstitutional volleyball matches against the United social media to voice their frustration, released on bail, she was later sentenced attempt to install an illegal parallel POA. The same illegal States is reviving a fierce debate in Iran, posting on Twitter under the hashtag #let- to a year in prison for propaganda against attempt is now being made on the internationally-recog- with some accusing the government of womengotostadium. “Really, what’s the regime and for having contacts with nized PFF,” said Hayat. Pakistan narrowly avoided an backing down to conservatives. The wrong with women being in stadiums?” opposition groups. An appeals court even- Olympic ban last year after a parallel Olympic Association Volleyball World League men’s games in one asked, while another wrote: “So they tually dropped other charges against her. Tehran today and Sunday are generating just lied that they would let women in the was formed by a government-backed group, rejected by huge excitement here, especially given #volleyball stadium? Is that how we ‘Defend Islamic values’ the IOC. the two countries’ difficult relations after work?” Rules prohibiting women’s access The case caught the attention of volley- But the parallel PFF group is refusing to back down. 35 years without diplomatic ties. When the to stadiums have been in place since Iran’s ball’s governing authority, the FIVB, which “We have the backing of 18 of the 26 members of the PFF government announced this month that revolution of 1979, officially to protect last November banned Iran from hosting congress and with an acting president and secretary we some women would be allowed entry them from obscene behavior among male international championships because of the will hold elections for PFF on June 30 in which Hayat can despite a long ban on them attending fans. The government of President Hassan single sex rules on spectators. Football’s FIFA also contest,” said spokesman Khalid Mahmood. “During men’s sporting events, many female fans Rouhani, despite opposition from religious was also critical and urged reform. Iran’s vice his 12-year tenure, football has suffered badly and huge were hopeful. But media have since said conservatives, has been trying to relax the president for women’s affairs, Shahindokht funds have been wasted due to bad governance and cor- only 200 of the 12,000 seats in the arena at restrictions. Recently, some women Molaverdi, this month expressed support for ruption,” said Mahmood. Pakistan were among the top Tehran’s Azadi sport complex will be watched a male basketball match from a women being allowed to watch sports reserved for women-specifically female cordoned-off section of a venue in Tehran. played by men, admitting to not knowing Asian teams until the 1960s, before lack of facilities and officials from the volleyball federation and The issue of gender at sporting events gar- the reasons for restrictions. In April last year, government support saw them slide. They are now 170 in players’ relatives. nered international attention after the Rouhani admitted there were “deficiencies world rankings and 34th in Asia. The administration of This has sparked accusations that, arrest last summer of a British-Iranian law in women’s rights and in gender equality,” virtually every sport in Pakistan has long been dogged by despite promises of increased openness, graduate, Ghoncheh Ghavami, who took urging acknowledgement that “women political interference, with plum jobs often handed out Iranian authorities are still not willing to part in a protest outside a stadium in the stand alongside men and the two are by politicians as rewards to loyal supporters.— AFP take on the country’s hardliners. Many capital before a male volleyball match. equal.”—AFP Sports46 FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 2015 S Korea advance as Thailand out of Women’s World Cup

VANCOUVER: South Korea joined defending champions Japan and China in the last 16 of the Women’s World Cup as Asian min- nows Thailand failed to make the cut on the final day of group matches. The Koreans snatched a dramatic 2-1 win over Spain in their final Group E game in Ottawa on Wednesday, to make it through to the knockout round for the first time, where they play third-ranked France in Montreal next Sunday. Three of Asia’s four teams-Japan, China and South Korea-are now through to the last 16 of the tournament for the first time. Fourth-ranked Japan topped Group C with maximum nine points and play the Netherlands in Vancouver on Tuesday as 1999-run- ners-up China, second in Group A, take on Cameroon in Edmonton on Saturday. But Thailand, ranked 29th, failed to advance as one of the four best third-placed finishers despite three points for beating the Ivory Coast 3-2 in Group B.

‘Unforgettable day’ The Koreans had started the final day bottom of the table with one point and needed a win after a 2-0 loss to Brazil was followed by a 2-2 draw with Costa Rica. Substitute Kim Soo-Yun sealed South Korea’s victory after 78 minutes in a drama-filled match against Spain in which skipper Cho So-Hyun equalized on 53 min- utes following Veronica Boquete’s first half goal. “It’s an unforget- table day for me and my players who never gave up,” said coach Yoon Deok-yeo. “Our players suffered psychologically after our first two matches. Today’s win has really boosted our confidence. “I feel they can have a great match against France who are a very strong opponent and among the leaders in the soccer world.” A goal down at half-time Yoon made some key substitutions bringing on defender Kim, who lifted the team as well as scoring a goal. “In the first half we had challenges and lost a lot on the flanks so we tried something else in the second half,” said Yoon. “Kim fought well but she had an injury and couldn’t do too much. She put in a great performance, she scored and I hope she can do even better in our next match.” The 25-year-old Kim said getting out of the group stage for the first time almost felt like winning. “It’s taken us 12 years to make our second tournament,” she said. “We’ve had a lot of pres- sure on our shoulders since we came to Canada. I feel great relief today. “It felt like we had won the title. I was so pleased, so happy, this is my first time making it to the senior World Cup. “We need EDMONTON: Swiss coach Martina Voss-Tecklenburg (right) runs some heading drills during their training session at the to recover psychologically now, France is a great team but we’re FIFA Women’s World Cup in Edmonton, Canada. Switzerland meets Canada in Vancouver in their Group of 16 match on going to show we’re not an easy opponent.” Sunday. —AFP

Difficult debut Southeast Asian newcomers Thailand had a difficult debut in a group which included former champions Germany and Norway. Brazil coach wary “It was our first time at the World Cup finals and we feel that we learned quite a lot from facing great teams such as Norway and Germany,” goalkeeper Waraporn Boonsing told FIFA.com. “We are going to use this experience to improve ourselves and of ‘comfort zone’ improve the team. “I hope we will be a good inspiration for all the girls playing football back in Thailand.” — AFP MONCTON: Brazil coach Vadao achieve our objective with no contest, of the match. “I was happy to play American passion growing remains wary his star-studded side that gives us more confidence for today because I was able to organize will fall into the ‘comfort zone’ after more difficult games and against and assist the goal and that made me along with rivalries: Edu they glided unbeaten to the last 16 of Australia on Sunday,” he said. very happy.” Vadao pointed out: “It NEW YORK: Having several times experienced the red-hot the Women’s World Cup without The two-time Olympic silver- was important that the players who atmosphere of an ‘Old Firm’ derby with Scottish club Rangers, life dropping a goal. In remaining unbeat- medalists play the 10th-ranked had not played before got an oppor- back in the MLS could perhaps be a little tame for Maurice Edu. en with a 1-0 win over Costa Rica Australians in the last 16 in Moncton tunity to play. The next game against But the 29-year-old Philadelphia Union midfielder believes the Brazil’s women upstaged their male on Sunday. “Brazil have that habit of Australia is against a very competitive same rivalries that are so deeply-ingrained in Europe can evolve counterparts on duty at the Copa going to the comfort zone,” said and organized team.” in North America, even if it will take some time. Edu, who spent America, with Neymar and company Vadao. “Do a big game and the next Costa Rica coach Amelia Valverde four years with Rangers, winning three Scottish titles and playing falling to a 1-0 defeat to Colombia in game laid back and we stop playing. admitted they were outplayed. “The in the Champions League, before a forgettable spell with Premier that tournament in Chile. Women’s “This is one of the things we have to way the game was played we didn’t League Stoke City, returned across the Atlantic to a changed soc- world champions Japan and Brazil, the beware of. It’s very important from a have control of the ball for too long cer landscape. With more franchises, better stadiums, TV deals 2007 runners-up, were the only two psychological point of view. “Brazil are and that made us very tired,” she and youngsters clamoring to get into Academies, the sport is teams of 24 to win all three group pressured because they’re Brazil and explained. “Brazil is number seven in beginning to make serious inroads into the usual diet of NFL, games, but while the Japanese con- all of a sudden they do a good game the world, they are a powerhouse. baseball and basketball, especially in the metropolises. ceded a goal to Cameroon the South and they relax and they enter in such When we had control of the ball we Players including former Chelsea midfielder Frank Lampard Americans kept a clean sheet. a relaxed state the don’t do well. “It’s didn’t have the punch to bring it to the and Liverpool skipper Steven Gerrard will be playing in the MLS A late Raquel Fernandes goal seven characteristic of our football to have a goal.” Vadao said their stars including next season and the national team is thriving. “A lot has changed, minutes from time ensured Brazil fin- very high self esteem.” former five-time world player of the not only has the standard of play increased but also from an ished unbeaten in Group E on year Marta would be back against infrastructure stand point as well, you see a lot more soccer spe- Wednesday in a victory that sent Monopolized possession Australia. “Marta wanted to play today, cific stadiums that have been built around the league,” Edu told Costa Rica home. Vadao left stars The Brazilians monopolized posses- she trained and tried the whole day to Reuters. “Every team now has an academy system which is very Marta, Cristiane and Formiga on the sion against Costa Rica and could convince the technical committee that important, not only for developing our youth team players for the MLS but also to give them exposure to professional soccer bench for the clash to recover and have scored more but for a string of she could play but she had a slight and help their development as a professional player wherever give other players a run-out as the saves from ‘Las Ticas’ goalkeeper injury and it was an unnecessary risk.” that may be. “We can also see the fan base developing and each South Americans were already Dinnia Diaz. “One-nil did not reflect But he added: “If Marta doesn’t play team having different rivalries with distinct supporters groups assured of topping the group. “We the game,” said Brazil’s 20-year-old Sunday the president of the federation within each club.” —Reuters changed the players and were able to midfielder Andressina, named player will fire me.”—AFP Sports47 FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 2015

Home-based African stars get chance to shine JOHANNESBURG: Qualifying begins this weekend for the final against Ghana via shootouts. They are among 42 coun- of Uganda and Bobby Williamson of Kenya also handle CHAN fourth African Nations Championship, a senior national foot- tries chasing 15 places at the 2016 finals while Rwanda quali- assignments. But others nations like Senegal separate the ball team competition unique to the continent. Only home- fy automatically as hosts of the January 16-February 7 tourna- coaching of the senior and CHAN squads with Aliou Cisse based footballers are eligible, offering space on the interna- ment. A region-based draw pits Libya against Morocco and stepping aside and Moustapha Seck handling the home- tional stage for many who would otherwise remain in the Tunisia with the top two after a double-round mini-league based stars. Swaziland, who caused the biggest shock of the shadows. Many African national teams, including Algeria, progressing. The other five geographical areas will use a 2017 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers last weekend by win- Ghana, Ivory Coast and Senegal, are composed almost exclu- home-and-away knockout system with two or four games ning away to Guinea, can field virtually the same side when sively of foreign-based stars. So the African Nations required to secure qualification. A downside of going region- they host Angola in the CHAN. Championship-or CHAN-gives the best home talent a chance al is that powerhouses can be drawn together and the pair- Veteran midfielder Tony Tsabedze, whose brace sank the to don the national kit and display their skills. ing of Ghana and Ivory Coast later this year means one of Guineans, has drawn attention from South African clubs and Launched in 2008, the brainchild of Confederation of them will miss the finals. Of the 16 teams who competed at some plan to watch him at Somhlolo Stadium near Mbabane. African Football (CAF) president Issa Hayatou has been won the 2014 Nations Championship in South Africa, 13 could Burundi, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Mauritius and the Seychelles are by the Democratic Republic of Congo in Abidjan, Tunisia in qualify again. But the draw means Mali or Mauritania, Burundi other countries whose best players are predominantly home Khartoum and Libya in Cape Town. The shock Libyan tri- or Ethiopia and Nigeria or Burkina Faso cannot make succes- based. Zimbabwe host Comoros Islands and could field five umph last year was remarkable as the north Africans won sive appearances. of the starters who shocked Malawi in the Cup of Nations, but only one of their six matches, drawing the other five, includ- Fourteen preliminary-round, first-leg games are sched- scorers Cuthbert Malajila and Khama Billiat are ineligible ing all three in the knock-out stages. Libya triumphed in the uled for this weekend one in the north, four in the west, three because they play for South African clubs. Return matches 16-team competition thanks to penalty-kick accuracy and in the east and six in the south. National coaches like Ephraim are set for July 3-5, and the first round for successive week- nerves of steel, winning a quarter-final, a semi-final, and the ‘Shakes’ Mashaba of South Africa, Milutin ‘Micho’ Sredojevic ends during October.— AFP Top FIFA officials hire lawyers as Swiss probe bank transactions Bank Julius Baer launches internal investigation BERNE: FIFA’s embattled president, Sepp Blatter, World Cup and described suggestions he was client relationships, each of which represented sev- anti-corruption probe of the regional governing and his second-in-command have hired high-pow- involved in impropriety as “preposterous.” eral accounts. Switzerland’s Financial Intelligence body. ered lawyers to represent them as Swiss authorities Switzerland’s third-largest listed bank, Julius Baer , Unit anti-money laundering agency had identified Soosay was suspended last month after identified suspicious bank transactions in a corrup- said on Wednesday it had launched an internal 53 suspicious transactions flagged up from infor- Malaysian media reported an official at the 46- tion probe engulfing soccer’s global governing investigation in connection with FIFA. It said it was mation supplied by banks. member confederation had been asked by Soosay body. Blatter recently retained Richard Cullen, the cooperating with the authorities and did not say Blatter was re-elected to a fifth term just two to “tamper or hide” documents during a 2012 chairman of the law firm McGuireWoods and a for- when its own probe had begun. days after the probes became public. He external audit. The PricewaterhouseCoopers mer US federal prosecutor, FIFA confirmed in an The attorney general said Blatter and Valcke announced the following week that he would step inspection followed FIFA’s decision to impose a email to Reuters yesterday. Jerome Valcke, FIFA sec- could be among those summoned for questioning: down and a new presidential election would be lifetime ban for ethics breaches on former AFC retary general, has hired prominent New York “There will be formal interviews of all relevant peo- held between December and February. In a related President Mohamed Bin Hammam, with whom defense attorney Barry Berke to represent him, FIFA ple. By definition, this does not exclude interview- development, suspended Asian Football Soosay worked closely. Bin Hammam was once said, adding it had no further comment to make. ing the president of FIFA and this does not exclude Confederation (AFC) General Secretary Alex Soosay set to challenge Blatter for the FIFA presidency Swiss prosecutors looking into the international interviewing the secretary general of FIFA.” Lauber quit on Wednesday rather than fight to clear his but was banned for his part in a cash-for-votes soccer scandal identified 53 suspicious bank trans- said his team had obtained evidence on 104 bank- name, amid allegations he tried to interfere with an scandal. — Reuters actions, the country’s attorney general said on Wednesday, stressing that the investigation may take time. Attorney General Michael Lauber told Neymar awaits Copa fate; Brazil crash to Colombia journalists he would not rule out interviewing Blatter and Valcke, although Switzerland had so far SANTIAGO: Brazil captain Neymar faces a nervous to control the game,” Alves fumed. “We are used make him nervous.” But victory was sweet for targeted no individuals. Switzerland, where FIFA is wait to discover his Copa America fate after getting to this in South America-everyone here is against Colombia, who were subjected to rough-house tac- based, announced its criminal investigation and sent off in a post-match fracas as the five-time Brazil.” tics from Brazil last year during the World Cup in a seized computers at FIFA headquarters last month world champions crashed to a 1-0 defeat against 2-1 quarter-final exit, a match scarred by a whop- on the same day that the United States revealed Colombia on Wednesday. Neymar risks a two- Rough-house tactics ping 54 fouls. indictments of nine soccer officials and five busi- match suspension-ruling him out of Brazil’s final Alves also accused Colombia’s players of seek- “We had a great gameplan and it worked nessmen as part of a separate probe into corrup- group game and the quarter-finals-after appearing ing to provoke Neymar, 12 months after the striker today,” said Colombia’s Real Madrid star James tion. to aim a headbutt at Colombia goalscorer Jeison suffered a broken vertebra during the two teams’ Rodriguez. “Four days ago we lost to Venezuela “We are faced with a complex investigation with Murillo following the final whistle. Tournament dis- stormy World Cup quarter-final battle. “They know when we played well, tonight we played well many international implications,” Lauber said in his ciplinary chiefs are expected to confirm the length the personality of Neymar and they went in search and beat Brazil, sometimes it happens like first public comments since his office obtained the of Neymar’s suspension on Thursday, but reports in of him,” he said. “They tried to provoke him and that”. — AFP computer data last month. “The world of football the Brazilian media said the 23-year-old Barcelona needs to be patient. By its nature, this investigation star faces a two-game ban. will take more than the legendary 90 minutes,” he The striker had already picked up his second said, referring to the length of a soccer match. US yellow card of the tournament for a deliberate prosecutors have not accused Blatter of wrongdo- handball-automatically ruling him out of Sunday’s ing. Among the issues the Federal Bureau of final Group C match with Venezuela-when referee Investigation is examining is Blatter’s stewardship Enrique Osses showed him a straight red. Neymar of FIFA, sources have said. US prosecutors believe was scathing of the match officials after Brazil that Valcke was involved in $10 million in FIFA bank slumped to their first loss to the Colombians in 24 transactions that are a key part of the investigation, years. “In my view the rules are always used against a source said in early June. He also has not been me,” Neymar told Brazilian media, criticizing Osses’ accused of wrongdoing. decision to caution him for a handball in the first half. “I was off balance, the ball hit my hand but it FIFA looking at WCup bidding was not intentional. They put a weak referee in FIFA’s ethics committee confirmed it was con- there to whistle up for all that. The team didn’t play ducting its own investigation into individuals sus- well.” pected of breaking the rules in relation to bidding Brazil coach Dunga also laid blame at Osses’ for the right to host the 2018 and 2022 World Cups, door after the defeat, which complicates his which were granted to Russia and Qatar respective- team’s route to the knockout rounds. “He allowed ly. It said it was prepared to investigate more sus- rough play and provocation and then we had the pects and take on extra staff if needed. lamentable scenes at the end,” Dunga com- On Wednesday, Ricardo Teixeira, the former plained. Neymar’s Brazil and Barcelona team-mate head of the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF), Dani Alves lashed out at Chilean following the SANTIAGO: Brazil’s forward Neymar (center) vies for the ball with Colombia’s midfielder Carlos said he got “absolutely nothing” in return for his defeat. “Referees have to stop thinking that they Sanchez and Colombia’s defender Jeison Murillo (left) during their Copa America football match, vote to award Qatar the rights to host the 2022 are the stars, the stars are not them-they are there at the Estadio Monumental David Arellano in Santiago, Chile on June 17, 2015. — AFP FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 2015 Volleyball banforwomen Volleyball banforwomen revives debate inIran revives debate inIran www.kuwaittimes.net Page 45 women’s volleyballgoldmedal matchatthe against theUnitedStatesisreviving afierce debate inIran,withsomeaccusing thegov- ernment ofbackingdowntoconservatives. 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