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Qatar’s non-oil exports hit Destinations of Qatar’s non-oil exports in June 2018 QR11.5bn in six months

THE PENINSULA The total value confirm that the exports were not of non-oil exports affected by the blockade. DOHA: Despite the ongoing unjust for the month Al Sharqi noted the expansion blockade against Qatar imposed of the list of markets receiving by Arab quartet, the combined of June reached non-oil exports in terms of value of country’s non-oil exports QR1.65bn recording number and volume of their in the first-half of this year (H1, a remarkable imports, which is another proof of 2018) reached QR11.5bn regis- increase of 108 the quality of the products that tering a sharp increase of 33.7 constitute the strength of these percent compared to QR8.6bn percent compared to exports. witnessed during the corre- QR794m in June 2017, He thanked all the trading sponding period (H1, 2017). according to a Qatar partners of Qatar for the level of The total value of non-oil Chamber report. success achieved in terms of the exports for the month of June exports of non-oil products and reached QR1.65bn recording a the Qatari private sector com- remarkable increase of 108 panies which are the main driver percent compared to QR794m in pointed out about 2,599 certifi- in achieving this success and June 2017, according to a report cates of origin were issued in June development in the value, size and 14.3 percent, and Turkey with exports reached to 56 destinations 35.5 percent of non-oil exports released by Qatar Chamber (QC) 2018. quality of these exports. QR155.8m, or 9.4 percent. including 10 Arab and GCC coun- were received by the GCC with on the foreign trade of the private Saleh bin Hamad Al Sharqi, Oman was Qatar’s top non-oil Germany stood at the fourth tries, 12 European countries, QR587.3m. sector. Director General of Qatar exports destination in June, place with about QR99.3m, or 6 including Turkey, 14 Asian coun- The countries in the European The report which was pre- Chamber, said that after one year accounting for QR581.2m, or 35.1 percent, followed by Hong Kong tries (excluding Arab countries), region, including Turkey, came in pared based on certificates of of the unjust siege imposed on percent, of the total exports in the with QR88m, or 5.3 percent. It is 18 African countries (excluding the second place. The region origin issued by the Chamber’s Qatar, the monthly data and sta- month. followed by Singapore, US, China, Arab countries), 2 countries of imported goods worth QR500m Research and Studies Department tistics of our exports, which It was followed by The Neth- India, and Indonesia. North and South Americas. accounting for 30.2 percent of the and Member Affairs Department, indicate the growing growth, erlands with about QR236.6m, or June’s data show that Qatar’s The report showed that about total non-oil exports.

Department stamp Blocking traffic: Over 6,800 violations registered on commercial

SIDI MOHAMED obstructions cause blocking of and blocking traffic and said that QR6,000 in some cases espe- order to ensure traffic safety. signboards not THE PENINSULA smooth traffic flow leading to the number of violations of cially on highways. Colonel Mohammed Radhi required, says MEC road accidents and chaos cre- wrong overtaking from January “The Traffic Law stipulates Al Hajri, Director of Media and DOHA: The number of violations ation,” Captain Ali Hamad Al to the end of July 2018 reached a number of requirements for Traffic Awareness Department related to obstructing traffic flow Marri, head of Traffic Investi- to 17,931. safe overtaking, including over- at the General Directorate of THE PENINSULA during the first half of this year gation Section at Madina Khalifa, Stressing the importance of taking from the left, using the Traffic said that ‘Accident-free reached to 6,850 while in the said yesterday. moving vehicles from the scene indicators, avoiding overtaking Summer’ campaign, which DOHA: In a move to further ease second half of 2017 their number Al Marri, while addressing a in the event of minor accidents when the road is not fully visible entered its sixth week, focuses commercial licensing proce- stood at 5374. press conference held as part of in order to avoid blocking of and at pedestrian crossings,” he on the most frequent violations dures, the Ministry of Economy “The traffic law prohibits ‘Accident-free Summer’ cam- traffic flow and endangering said. and seeks to minimise them in and Commerce (MEC) issued motorists from driving very paign at the General Directorate the safety of other road users, He also stressed the impor- order to achieve maximum yesterday a circular cancelling slowly which does not commen- of Traffic headquarters, high- he said that the fine for tance of cooperation in spreading safety and security on the roads. the Commercial Registration surate with the traffic flow of the lighted risks of two traffic viola- obstruction of traffic is awareness to comply with traffic and Licenses Department’s road. Such slow speed and other tions including wrong overtaking QR1,000 and may reach to rules and avoid violations in →CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 stamp on the design of commercial signboards. The Ministry said that the circular is in line with the min- istry’s efforts to streamline 90% rise in building work procedures, provide investor services in line with the best standards, and reduce the number of commercial permits issuance licensing procedures. Based on the Ministry’s THE PENINSULA Rayyan municipality came circular, the stamp of the in second place with 172 Commercial Registration and DOHA: Building permits issued permits, with a share of 24 Licenses Department is no in the country have increased percent, followed by munici- longer required on the design by 90 percent in July compared pality of Doha with 121 permits of signboards of commercial to previous month, indicating (17 percent) and Al Da’ayen and industrial establishments that the construction sector municipality with 107 permits. as well as similar stores before continues to grow. Umm Slal municipality issued the sign is manufactured. According to the 43rd issue 56 permits, Al Khor munici- When designing the sign- Sidra Medicine’s CED team during a simulation exercise. of the monthly Statistics of pality 39 permits, Al Sheehaniya board, the companies shall be Building Permits and Building municipality 20 permits while responsible for matching the Completion certificates Al Shamal municipality issued data on the signboard with the Sidra Medicine plans airlift for released yesterday by the Min- 12 permits. data at the commercial istry of Development Planning In terms of type of permits register. and Statistics, 729 building issued, the new building The circular highlighted children emergency cases permits certificates were issued permits (residential and non- the need to write the data on in July. A total of 402 building residential) constituted 60 the signboard in Arabic based THE PENINSULA with Qatar’s Ambulance Services stringent patient safety processes, completion certificates were percent (435 permits) of the on the Commercial Register’s to provide an immediate including medication allocation, issued in July which was 55 total building permits issued in data while adding a translation DOHA: Sidra Medicine has response for children’s emer- staff rotations and access to Patient percent more than the previous July , while the percentage of in English and the number of started working with the Ambu- gency cases. Just recently, Sidra Experience teams to ensure month. additions permits constituted the commercial register. lance Service to provide a quick Medicine’s CED team took part patient comfort and safety. Building permits and 38 percent (279 permits), and In case the company wishes response including airlift of chil- in a practice run to airlift children The CED treats serious emer- building completion certificates fencing permits with 2 percent to add an advertisement or dren’s emergency cases. to Sidra Medicine as part of an gencies for children up to the age data is of particular importance (15 permits). trademark to the signboard, a Following the opening of the ongoing series of simulation of 18 free of charge, including loss as it is considered an indicator In terms of new residential legal proof shall be submitted. Children’s Emergency exercises designed to ensure a of consciousness, severe trouble for the performance of the con- buildings permits data, villas All companies must adhere to Department (CED) and Urgent culture of safety permeates breathing, major bone fractures, struction sector which in turn topped the list by accounting for and implement the circular Care Clinic (UCC) in July, Sidra through everything we do,” said seizures and convulsions. occupies a significant position 59 percent (191 permits) of all new from the date it goes into effect. Medicine shared plans for con- Dr Khalid Al Ansari, Chair of the Although the CED is designed in the national economy. residential buildings permits, fol- The MEC had earlier tinuous testing and training of Department of Emergency at to treat true emergency cases, the Al Wakrah comes at the top lowed by dwellings of housing launched a number of initia- its facilities and operations to Sidra Medicine in a statement. co-located UCC can offer care for of the municipalities in terms loans permits by 33 percent (108 tives to reduce licensing pro- ensure the department is always Operating according to inter- non-emergency cases, including of issuance of building permits permits) and apartments cedures and provide investor at the leading edge of world- national best practices with an upper respiratory issues like sore as it issued 202 permits, buildings by 5 percent (17 permits). services in line with the best class patient care. understanding of local needs, Sidra throats and coughs, rashes, or accounting for 28 percent share standards in a bid to streamline “We are working together Medicine CED has put in place low-grade fevers. in of the total issued permits. →CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 procedures and transactions. 02 HOME MONDAY 13 AUGUST 2018 Milipol Qatar to focus on vital role of civil defence

THE PENINSULA Milipol Qatar 2018 continues to raise awareness of public safety through industry DOHA: Milipol Qatar 2018, to be to be held from leading conferences and exhibi- held under the patronage of October 29 to 31 at tions, lectures and outreach pro- AMIR H H Sheikh Tamim bin Doha Exhibition and grams and training,” said Brig- Hamad Al Thani, from October Convention Center adier Nasser Bin Fahad Al-Thani, 29-31 at Doha Exhibition and President of Milipol Qatar Convention Center (DECC), will (DECC) will emphasize Committee. emphasize the vital role civil the vital role civil “Milipol Qatar 2018 brings defence plays in protecting defence plays in together the leading interna- populations and ensuring public protecting populations tional figures in civil defence to safety. demonstrate the latest smart The 12th edition of the and ensuring public solutions to assist with civil leading homeland security and safety. defence and discuss latest trends civil defence exhibition in the and best practice. We are looking Middle East has incorporated the forward to an interesting three Civil Defence Exhibition and trends and best practices. days. This event will further Conference in line with its con- In the constantly evolving cement Qatar’s position as a stant evolution to provide modern world, civil defence con- premier destination for hosting unmatched experiences for tinues to play an increasingly world-class agenda setting exhibitors, visitors, buyers and important role in protecting cit- conferences.” industry professionals and izens of a state in emergencies, To date, there exhibitors spe- provide the link between defence disasters and everyday life and cialising in civil defence have specialists and key decision covers the full gamut of related confirmed their participation for makers. issues, including crisis man- Milipol Qatar 2018, to name few The collaboration of the two agement, emergency man- such as Qatar Factory for fire shows has cemented the exhibi- agement, emergency prepar- One of the civil defence vehicles on display. Fighting NAFFCO, Consolidated tion’s position as the region’s edness, contingency planning, Engineer System CESCO and leading event of its kind and will civil contingency, civil aid and Comexposium Security, will increasing opportunities for International Gulf Trading bring together key global players civil protection. provide exhibitors, buyers and organisations across the full “The Ministry of Interior Company - Chubb Fire from for a series of focused conference Milipol Qatar, 2018, visitors to with a tailored spectrum of sectors to demon- (MOI) for the State of Qatar has Qatar; China Pioneer from China, sessions and agenda-setting organised by the Ministry of platform to network and close strate how they can contribute made great strides in ensuring Haix Schuhe and Uniform Brands panel discussions on the latest Interior (MOI) of the State of deals for a better, safer future for towards safety and security for Qatar has world-class civil GMBH from Germany and Tur- and emerging civil defence Qatar and the French-based all. The exhibition presents the world’s population. defence systems in place and bosan from Turkey.

QA Privilege Club announces Summer Shopping Collection MEC fines shop in Al THE PENINSULA Commercial Officer, Ehab Amin, to strive to reward our loyal and and arrival halls of Hamad Inter- said: “We are delighted to dedicated members with national Airport, and at Oryx Rayyan Al Jadeed in DOHA: Qatar Airways’ award- announce our latest promotion exclusive benefits to further Galleria in Doha. winning frequent flyer this summer for our valued elevate their experience with In March 2018, Qatar programme, Privilege Club, has Privilege Club members, just Qatar Airways and make it a Airways’ Privilege Club launched inspection campaign provided its members an ahead of the festive Eid holiday memorable one,” added Amin. a refreshed brand identity, THE PENINSULA exclusive offer this summer with season. Our special new Qatar Airways’ Privilege offering members a range of its latest Summer Shopping Summer Shopping Collection Club launched its Qmiles reward programme enhancements. Collection. offers our members an programme in 2007 to offer its Privilege Club members can now DOHA: The Ministry of From August 10 to Sep- extensive variety of choices at loyal passengers the opportunity do all their account activities Economy and Commerce has tember 10, 2018 Privilege Club an incredible range of luxurious to earn Qmiles when travelling online, including purchasing launched a surprise inspection members can take advantage of retail outlets, where passengers on Qatar Airways, oneworld air- award tickets using Qmiles, campaign targeting a number a 50 percent discount when can treat themselves or their lines, or any of the airlines’ nominating family members to of retails outlets in Al Shafi using their Qmiles on select loved ones to a moment of partners. join their membership account, Street in Al Rayyan Al Jadeed products at Qatar Duty Free, luxury in a world-class duty free Qmiles has since served as updating personal profiles and in a bid to monitor the both at Hamad International shopping environment”. another convenient means of requesting services including compliance of suppliers with Airport (HIA) and at Oryx Gal- “As a multiple award- payment at the award-winning cabin upgrades, excess baggage, their obligations under law leria in Doha. winning airline and leader in the Qatar Duty Free (QDF) outlets, date changes, refunds, and much number 8 of 2008 on Qatar Airways Chief aviation industry, we continue located in both the departure more. consumer protection. The inspection campaign comes within the framework of the Ministry’s efforts to An MEC official during the monitor markets and com- inspection at the shop. Temporary closure of Al Shura Intersection mercial activities across Qatar to uncover violations, coun- THE PENINSULA Wednesday morning. terfeit and fraudulent products, Violations of Law No. (8) of During this period, traffic and goods that do not conform 2008 on consumer protection DOHA: The Public Works heading to Al Shura Intersection to standards. can result in administrative Authority ‘Ashghal’ has from its four sides can turn right This inspection resulted in closure and financial penalties announced that it will only and use the next inter- penalising one of the shops ranging from QR3,000 to implement a temporary closure section, as shown in the attached over the display and sale of QR1m. of the Al Shura Intersection map. counterfeit sports clothing The Ministry stressed that (known as White Palace Inter- This temporary closure aims bearing international trade- it will not tolerate any viola- section), on the main lanes of the to complete the installation of marks, in violation of Article 6 tions of Consumer Protection four sides of the intersection, in new traffic lights in Al Shura of Law No. 8 of 2008 on con- Law and its regulation and will coordination with the General Intersection, as part of the devel- sumer protection and anti- intensify its inspection cam- Directorate of Traffic. opment works implemented on commercial fraud. paigns to crack down on such The closure will last for 12 intersections and roundabouts Article 6 prohibits the sale, practices. The ministry said it hours only in two phases. First, in various areas of the Greater display, promotion or adver- will refer those who violate the intersection will be closed Doha, which aim to enhance the tising of any spoiled or fraud- laws and ministerial decrees for 6 hours only from today till flow of traffic and reduce con- ulent goods. An item is con- to competent authorities, who tomorrow morning. Second, the gestion in vital areas. sidered spoiled or fraudulent will in turn take appropriate intersection will be closed for 6 The Public Works Authority if it does not conform to the action against perpetrators in hours only from the evening of will install road signs advising has requested all road users to follow the road signs to ensure prescribed standards, is order to protect consumer August 14 (tomorrow) till motorists of the closure. Ashghal abide by the speed limit, and their safety. unusable or has expired. rights. HBKU faculty member bags Cambridge fellowship MEC recalls Volvo Truck FH 4X2 Tractor THE PENINSULA are provided with environmental law research, but also financial support by the with other colleagues across the Uni- Head 2018 model DOHA: In an accomplishment demon- international law firm, versity of Cambridge who have THE PENINSULA strating the world-class caliber of Herbert Smith Freehills, expertise in these areas, thereby Hamad Bin Khalifa University’s during their residency opening up new opportunities for (HBKU) academic faculty, Associate at the Cambridge institutional collaboration. I look DOHA: The Ministry of Economy and Professor of Law at HBKU’s College of Faculty of Law. The forward to the high-level brain- Commerce, in collaboration with Law and Public Policy (CLPP), Dr schedule thus aims to storming, dialogue and scholarly Domasco, Doha Marketing Services Damilola S Olawuyi, was awarded the facilitate high-quality exchange that a visit of this kind will Company, dealer of Volvo vehicles in Herbert Smith Freehills Visitor Scheme interaction between undoubtedly provide.” Qatar, has announced the recall of Volvo at the Cambridge Faculty of Law in the legal academics and During this visit, Dr Olawuyi will Truck FH 4X2 Tractor Head 2018 model UK. practitioners through undertake comparative and collabo- because the flange nuts are not correctly Dr Olawuyi, who has practised and collaborative academic rative evaluation of law, governance installed in the body. taught law across Europe, North research. Visiting and contractual aspects of structuring, The Ministry said the recall campaign America, Asia, Africa and the Middle scholars are often financing, designing and operating comes within the framework of its ongoing East, and whose most recent publica- invited to speak at the public-private energy infrastructure efforts to protect consumers and ensure tions include “The Human Rights- law firm’s London projects in the Gulf region, with the that car dealers follow up on vehicle Based Approach to Carbon Finance,” headquarters. aim to draw lessons from the United defects and repairs. The Ministry said that is thereby honored as a notable scholar Dr Damilola S Olawuyi Dr Olawuyi said, “I Kingdom’s public private partnerships it will coordinate with the dealer to follow in the legal field. As part of CLPP, he am delighted to receive (PPP) framework. This research is up on the maintenance and repair works is part of a dynamic legal training the Herbert Smith Free- timely, relevant, addresses an area of and will communicate with customers to program that focuses on interdisci- faculty and student researchers. hills Visiting Professorship at Cam- national and international priority, and ensure that the necessary repairs are plinary discourse and systematic During his visit, that is set to com- bridge. This visit will allow me to work fits within HBKU’s global research carried out. The Ministry has urged all cus- learning within an innovative educa- mence in May 2019, Dr Olawuyi will collaboratively, not just with col- goals of providing a hub for cutting tomers to report any violations to its Con- tional environment that produces con- join the ranks of distinguished aca- leagues within the Cambridge Law edge energy and sustainability sumer Protection and Anti-Commercial sistent research outputs among both demics from around the world, who Faculty who are engaged in energy and research. Fraud Department. MONDAY 13 AUGUST 2018 HOME 03 Huge potential to enhance Qatar-Korea ties

RAYNALD C RIVERA and Qatar reached $11.7bn in 2017. While strong areas like ICT, mobile phones, another opportunity to strengthen their THE PENINSULA Korea’s overall exports to Qatar last semiconductors, cosmetics and ship- industries,” he commented on the year amounted to $435mn, its imports building Qatar has a lot of opportunities ongoing unjust blockade. stood at $11.3bn. Among the Korean to invest,” the envoy said. Commenting on how the improving DOHA: The new Korean Ambassador products exported to Qatar are vehicles, With Qatar’s continuing efforts on relations between North and South to Qatar, Kim Chang-mo (pictured), heavy construction equipment and self-sufficiency and food security, Korea will impact South Korea’s rela- expressed keenness to further enhance transformers while its imports from Ambassador Chang-mo is open to the tions with other countries, particularly bilateral cooperation between Korea Qatar comprise mostly liquefied natural possibility of complementary cooper- with Qatar, he said, “Qatar has contin- and Qatar in the field of investment, gas (LNG), crude oil and Naptha. ation between the two countries in uously supported South Korea’s efforts among other areas as he spoke to local Qatar is currently the number one various areas where Korea has expe- for the denuclearisation and bringing media for the first time yesterday. supplier of LNG to Korea and in accu- rience and expertise. Aquaculture peace in the Korean peninsula.” Addressing the media at the new mulated figures, it is the eighth largest industry and smart farming are two Meanwhile, he announced that in Korean embassy yesterday, the envoy, foreign construction market for Korea. potential areas of cooperation which the celebration of Korean National Day, a who arrived in Qatar three months ago, From 2009 to 2017, Qatar invested envoy believes Korea can provide Qatar group of musicians will be performing expressed desire to continue efforts in $593,535 in six projects in Korea in the when it comes to its food security efforts. at the Korean Embassy and Katara Cul- furthering the already cordial relations fields of entertainment, industrial robot “I feel, after one year of blockade, tural Village on November 1 and 3 between the two friendly countries. and cosmetics, among others. Qatar is more confident. I think they can respectively. of traditional and contemporary Korean According to the ambassador, “Qatar’s investment in Korea is not now overcome this difficulty and can The group of six artistes with dif- music as well as perform other classical bilateral trade volume between Korea so conspicuous. As Korea has many also utilise this crisis as ferent backgrounds will present a fusion and pop pieces.

Pakistan Embassy Ooredoo officially ‘Qatar’s Fastest Mobile Network’ to host flag hoisting THE PENINSULA ceremony on Aug 14 The top ranking testament to our support for Ooredoo has already Qatar’s far-reaching gov- installed more than 75 network comes on the back of THE PENINSULA DOHA: Ooredoo has been ernment-led visions and our towers that support the 5G named “Qatar’s Fastest Mobile Ooredoo’s strong push investment in the hyper-connec- network. Network” for having the coun- to further enhance tivity that our customers need Al Sayed added: “Ultra-fast DOHA: On 71st Independence try’s fastest mobile internet its country-leading for the Digital Economy.” mobile internet speeds and 5G Day of Islamic Republic of speeds for the first half of 2018, The top ranking comes on network rollout are helping our Pakistan, the Pakistan according to the global Ookla Ooredoo Supernet. the back of Ooredoo’s strong customers to better keep in Embassy will hold flag Speedtest Global Index. push to further enhance its touch, make their lives easier, hoisting ceremony at the Ookla’s Speedtest Global country-leading Ooredoo and for organisations to do embassy premises on Index collects data from hun- Supernet. Ooredoo recently business. Ooredoo is committed Tuesday (August 14). dreds of millions of monthly tests fastest mobile network. became the world’s first com- to continuing to enhance our The Embassy of Pakistan taken around the world. In Waleed Al Sayed, (pictured) munications company to launch network coverage and innova- in Doha has invited all Paki- Qatar, more than 68,000 in- Chief Executive Officer, Ooredoo, a 5G network, providing about tions to further enable Qatar as stanis residing in Doha to country tests were made during said: “Ooredoo’s leading ranking 100 times faster speeds than 4G one of the world’s leading digital attend the flag hoisting cer- Q1-Q2 2018, confirming the in mobile internet speed is a networks. economies.” emony which will be held at the Embassy of Pakistan, Doha at 7:30am on August 14. QRCS marks International Youth Day by cleaning beach Radio Olive 106.3 FM THE PENINSULA to host Qatar’s first online music concert DOHA: Qatar Red Crescent THE PENINSULA Society (QRCS) yesterday cele- brated the International Youth Day, which is observed every DOHA: Radio Olive 106.3 FM year on August 12. will be hosting Qatar’s First Under the theme of ‘Safe Ever Online Music Concert - Beaches’, QRCS’ Volunteers ‘JASHN-E-DOSTI’. Section and Al Khor Branch held The concert will be a diverse sports and fun pro- broadcasted Live on the radio gramme, ending with an event station’s Facebook page and to clean the beach of Eraida. Youtube channel on August The event was supported by 13th from 8pm to 9pm. The Soul Soul Jeepers, who made a young artists performing in parade to raise awareness about the concert will be from India the cause of environment pro- and Pakistan. tection, said a release. The concert will take The group was accompanied towards a stronger role of youth and more, today and tomorrow, place to celebrate the Inde- by a police car, and the munici- in society, Al Khulaifi pointed depends on tapping into the pendence days of Pakistan pality cleaning team was present out, QRCS gives top priority to power of youth. Yet more than and India in Qatar. It’s for the to help the volunteers with this important segment of 400 million young women and first time that such an inno- garbage collection. society. “We have numerous men live amidst armed conflict vative concept will be exe- Ahmed Ali Al Khulaifi, Head educative, qualification, training, or organized violence. Millions cuted in the State of Qatar and of QRCS Volunteers Section, said, and volunteering courses/pro- face deprivation, harassment, people are surely keen to be “As usual every year, QRCS grams for young women and bullying and other infringements a part of the celebration. shares local and international men. We help them gain of their rights. Young women and Radio Olive known for its organizations in celebrating the knowledge and skills in various girls are particularly innovative programming and International Youth Day, a UN areas, adopt a culture of charity vulnerable”. engaging events also recently observance marked since 2000. and volunteerism, develop “The world’s young people launched their app on the This year’s celebrations themselves, and serve their need safe spaces – public, civic, Google Play store making involve events around the world society,” he noted. physical, and digital spaces online listening easier for the to emphasize the right of young Under the global theme of where they can freely express fans. Radio Olive is the people to have their own space “Safe Spaces for Youth”, António their views and pursue their Number 1 Hindi Radio Station to attain their potential and Guterres, UN Secretary-General, dreams. We must invest so that in Qatar and you tune in to practice their cultural, sports, issued a message: “The hopes of young people have access to Radio Olive on 106.3 FM. fun, and community activities”. the world rest on young people. education, training and decent Radio Olive is visual now QRCS volunteers celebrating the International Youth Day by cleaning In conformity with the Peace, economic dynamism, jobs to achieve their full through Ooredoo TV and the beach of Eraida yesterday. approach of the State of Qatar social justice, tolerance – all this potential. Ooredoo App on channel number 910. QNL will be Parents, caregivers urged to be aware of accidental poisoning risk THE PENINSULA closed from is exposed to poison without knowing parents to keep up with their child’s capa- that it may be harmful. Young children bilities. For example, parents often Aug 19 to 22 DOHA: Hamad Medical Corporation do not know the difference between what underestimate the ability of their child (HMC) has reminded parents and is safe and what is dangerous. Parents to get into seemingly inaccessible places, DOHA: Qatar National Library caregivers about the importance of and caregivers must take responsibility so it is important to be aware of the (QNL), has announced ‘Library supervising young children, noting that for making their home safe for children,” common types of injuries that happen to Hours’ for the months of August children are naturally curious and are at says Dr Al Yafei. babies and young children and to learn and September. high risk of having an accident, including Noting that the number of accidents how they can prevent them,” says Dr Al Between August 15 and August accidental poisoning. involving children increases during the Yafei. 18 the library will be opened from Young children are inquisitive, often summer months, holidays, and during Dr Al Yafei says that during the hot 8am to 8pm but on August 17 it putting things in their mouth out of curi- weekends, Dr Al Yafei stresses that iden- summer months, it is important for will open only from 4pm to 8pm, osity and are unaware of the conse- tifying and understanding the potential parents to be particularly aware of the while the QNL will be closed from quences. Locking up dangerous risks and taking some basic safety risks of heat exhaustion, heat stroke, and August 19 to August 22. From household items, including medicines, measures, it’s possible for parents and sunburn. August 23 August onward the cleaning products, antifreeze, paint caregivers to keep their children safe. He added that incidents of food poi- library will open for the public thinner, windshield washer fluid, Dr Al Yafei says parents should be soning increase during the summer, from 8am to 8pm (Saturday – gasoline, and pesticides, can help reduce particularly aware of the risk of food and largely due to the hot and humid weather. Thursday) and from 4pm to 8pm the risk of accidental poisoning; however, chemical poisonings, as well as uninten- He noted that while most cases of food on Fridays.QNL has received more Dr Khalid Al Yafei, Senior Consultant of tional injuries caused by falls, burns and poisoning do not require medical than 270,000 visitors since it Pediatric Emergency Medicine, at HMC scalds, electric shocks, glass, and attention, it is important to see a doctor opened to the public last year. This says childproofing is not a substitute for drowning. He says the type of childhood if the affected child experiences vomiting achievement is the result of a col- supervision. Dr Khalid Al Yafei injuries that occur in the home is often that lasts more than 12 hours, has lective effort by all community “Teaching children about safety and linked to a child’s age and level of diarrhea with a fever higher than 101°F, members and institutions working what is and is not dangerous is an accidents and reducing a child’s risk of development. has severe belly pain, or a racing or across Qatar. important strategy for preventing injuring themselves. In most cases, a child “It can sometimes be difficult for pounding heart. 04 HOME / MIDDLE EAST MONDAY 13 AUGUST 2018 HEC Paris offers three Executive Short Programs

THE PENINSULA new perspectives on some of the The first program to run on then a Global Executive Com- Matthew Mulford, Affiliate Pro- stage. This program will be led by most crucial issues to managing October 24 and 25 is ‘Demysti- mittee member at the French fessor at HEC Paris, who is an Affiliate Professor Roger Hal- DOHA: HEC Paris, one of the successful businesses in today’s fying Finance: Finance for Non- multinational banking and expert in negotiation skills, lowell, who is dedicated to world’s leading providers of Exec- rapidly-evolving business land- Financial Managers’, which financial services company effective business decision working on issues of strategic utive Education, is to run three scape”, explained Professor Nils focuses on enabling participants Société Générale in London and making and leadership. He has concern to organisations and is Executive Short Programs during Plambeck, Dean & CEO, HEC to read, understand and interpret Paris. He is now advising Boards also designed and run customized an authority on strategic initia- the Fall-Winter Term of 2018. Paris in Qatar. a company’s key financial and Executive Committees programs for some of the world’s tives to simultaneously reduce The two-day programs will “They will take part in inter- indicators. worldwide. biggest institutions including costs and improve quality. be led by HEC Paris Affiliate Pro- active discussions, case analysis, It will be led by Patrick On November 27 and 28, the Deutsche Bank, Ericsson, All programs will be held at fessors, and will deal with exec- group work and experiential Legland, HEC Paris Affiliate Pro- program focuses on ‘Managing Ooredoo and Total. the Tornado Tower in West Bay utive essentials for understanding exercises, which will allow par- fessor, who has accumulated over People to Create Impact’ with the Rounding out the program – the HEC Paris Doha campus company finances and dealing ticipants to expand and deepen 25 years’ financial sector expe- aim of improving attendees’ series on December 12 and 13 will and are open for registration. For with people to create impact and their knowledge, leading to rience. Patrick Legland has been effectiveness, self-awareness and be ‘Managing Business in Chal- more information or to register, manage challenging times. “Par- further personal Managing Director at UBS (Hong team management skills. lenging Times’, which will put contact shortprograms@hec-q. ticipants will gain insights and development”. Kong, New York, London), and It will be led by Professor leadership and strategy centre qf.org.qa

90% rise in QNCECS educates building permits students about Qatar issuance CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 at summer camps In case of building com- pletion certificates issued during July, Rayyan munici- THE PENINSULA entitled “My Qatari Identity” pre- pality comes at the top of the sented by Mariam Yassin Al municipalities where the DOHA: Qatar National Hammadi at 10 summer camps. number of building completion Commission for Education, At the end of the event the certificates issued were 161 Culture and Science (QNCECS) students were given tasks to certificates, with a share of 40 has helped educate students prepare art or cultural activity percent of the total issued cer- about Qatar at summer camps. like drawing, writing a story, and tificates while municipality of The move came within the other artistic work, reflecting the Doha came in second place framework of the participation concept of Qatari identity. These with 89 certificates, having a of the QNCECS in the activities works will be presented at the share of 22 percent, followed and events of the summer camps end of each summer camps. by municipality of Al Da’ayen organised by the Ministry of Edu- A seminar entitled “Pros and with 44 certificates (11 percent). cation and Higher Education, Cons of Social Media” was pre- In terms of type of certifi- said a statement. sented by Faisal Al Marzouqi at The children attend the summer camp byQNCECS. cates issued, data indicated The activities were attended two summer camps at Khalifa that the new building com- by a large number of students Secondary School for Boys and communication, which is to on the Siege and the of Qatar with a short film called pletion certificates (residential from each of the three educa- Hassan Bin Thabit Secondary achieve many achievements and Enhancement of National Love” “Dari Qatar” and competitions and non-residential) consti- tional levels (primary, prepar- School for Boys. cultural, economic and educa- was held at Al Khor Secondary were conducted by listing some tuted 78 percent (312 certifi- atory and secondary). The Com- Faisal explained the positive tional services to the human. School for Girls. A brief presen- questions related to the State of cates) of the total building cer- mission participated in a debate aspect of the means of social A debate entitled “Drawings tation was made about the State Qatar. tificates issued during July, while the percentage of addi- tions certificates constituted 22 percent (90 certificates). In terms of new residential Children among 39 dead in Syria arms depot blast buildings completion certifi- cates data, villas’ topped the list, accounting for 59 percent (162 AFP from the wreckage to an ambu- certificates) of all new resi- lance, the correspondent said. dential buildings completion BEIRUT: An explosion at a White Helmet rescue workers certificates, followed by weapons depot in a rebel-held attempted to lift part of a floor of dwellings of housing loans cer- town in northwest Syria killed one of the buildings with a tall tificates by 37 percent (103 cer- at least 39 civilians including a crane. Nearby three young boys tificates) and apartments dozen children yesterday. watched on in silence, perched on buildings by 4 percent (10 cer- A correspondent at the site a rock. tificates). Comparing number in Sarmada in Idlib province Behind mounds of rubble, of certificates issued in July 2018 near the Turkish border said the the facade of a building was with those issued in the pre- explosion of unknown origin scorched black, due to a fire after vious month the report noted a caused two buildings to collapse. the blast. A civil defence source general increase of 55 percent. Rescue workers used bulldozers told AFP that women and to remove rubble and extract children were among the dead. trapped people from the flat- But rescue workers had Qatar’s non-oil tened buildings, the corre- pulled out “five people who were spondent said. still alive”, the source said. exports up 33.7% Rami Abdel Rahman, head Most of Idlib is controlled by CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 of the Syrian Observatory for rebels and HTS, but the Islamic Human Rights monitoring group, State jihadist group also has Asian countries stood at said a previous death toll of 12 sleeper cells in the area. The the third place, receiving increased after more bodies regime holds a small slither of QR406.5m, or 24.6 percent, were retrieved from the rubble. southeastern Idlib. In recent of the total value. Arab coun- “The explosion occurred in months, a series of explosions tries, excluding GCC coun- a weapons depot in a residential and assassinations — mainly tar- tries, came in the fourth place Syrian civil defence members conduct search and rescue operations at wreckage of two 6-storey building in Sarmada,” said the geting rebel officials and fighters with total exports of QR75m, buildings after a blast in Idlib, Syria, yesterday. head of the Britain-based — have rocked the province. or 4.5 percent, of the total monitor, which relies on a While some attacks have been value. They are followed by network of sources inside Syria. added. He said most of those killed an alliance led by jihadists from area from the central province of claimed by IS, most are the result North America, African coun- But the cause of the blast was were family members of fighters Syria’s former Al-Qaeda affiliate, Homs. A rescue worker carried the of infighting since last year tries excluding Arab coun- “not yet clear”, Abdel Rahman from Hayat Tahrir Al Sham (HTS), who had been displaced to the motionless body of a small child between other groups. tries, and South America. Blocking traffic: Over 6,800 violations registered CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 He pointed out that the behavioral and moral side played a major role in driving attitude of the drivers for respecting rules and traffic laws. “Driving is an art, taste and ethics.” Colonel Al Hajri clarified that the wrong overtaking is one of the main causes of traffic accidents and may lead serious risks. A number of sta- tistics were announced at the end of the press conference Yemeni children protest against airstrike by the coalition among them was the number Yemeni children raise pictures during a demonstration in the capital Sana’a yesterday, against an of violations of not wearing airstrike by the Saudi-led coalition which hit a bus killing dozens of children in the northern Houthi seatbelts during August 4 to stronghold of Saada. The UN Security Council called for a “credible” investigation after at least 29 August 10 which is 679 and 344 Colonel Mohammed Radhi Al Hajri (left), Director of Media and Traffic children were killed in an airstrike by the Saudi-led coalition in northern Yemen. The raid hit the violations related to using Awareness Department, and Captain Ali Hamad Al Marri, Head of bus at Dahyan market in Saada, injuring at least 48 others, including 30 children, according to the mobile while driving and 172 Traffic Investigation Section at Madina Khalifa. International Committee for the Red Cross. violations of crossing red PICS: BAHER AMIN / THE PENINSULA signal. MONDAY 13 AUGUST 2018 MIDDLE EAST / AFRICA 05 Israel detains Iran arrests five fishermen off Gaza coast 67 people for ANATOLIA

GAZA CITY: Israeli naval forces financial crimes yesterday detained five Pales- tinian fishermen off the coast of the Gaza Strip, according to a REUTERS The central bank and local official. the judiciary have “The five fishermen were DUBAI: Iranian authorities blamed “enemies” detained while fishing off have arrested 67 people in a northern Gaza’s shores,” Nizar drive against financial crime, for the fall of the Ayyash, head of Gaza’s fishermen the judiciary said yesterday, as currency and a rapid union, said. the country faces renewed US rise in the price of There was no comment from sanctions and a public outcry gold coins. Those the Israeli Navy on the report. against profiteering and arrested included According to the fishermen union, corruption. a former central roughly 50,000 Gazans earn their Special Islamic revolu- living from fishing. tionary courts were being set bank deputy, and After Israel’s devastating mil- up to try suspects quickly after some faced charges itary onslaught against Hamas- Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali carrying the death run Gaza in mid-2014, in which Khamenei called on Saturday penalty, the judiciary some 2,150 Palestinians were for “swift and just” legal action said. killed, Israel began allowing Pal- to confront an “economic war” estinian fishermen to fish up to by foreign enemies, state tele- six nautical miles off the Gaza Palestinians steer their boats as they protest against more than a decade-long Israeli naval blockade vision quoted a judiciary the price of gold coins. Those coast, as opposed to three nau- of Gaza, in Beit Lahya on the border with Israel in the northern Gaza Strip, yesterday. spokesman as saying. arrested included a former tical miles previously. The rial currency has lost central bank deputy, and some about half of its value since faced charges carrying the April over worries about the death penalty, the judiciary sanctions, with heavy demand said. for dollars among ordinary Ira- The judiciary has suggested Three terrorists dead in Jordan shootout nians trying to protect their that arch-foes the United States savings. The cost of living has and Israel, as well as regional AFP also soared, sparking sporadic rival Saudi Arabia and gov- She said the militants were A fourth who was critically operation is still under way,” demonstrations against profit- ernment opponents living in sought in connection with Friday wounded died of his injuries on Ghneimat said, adding that units eering and corruption, with exile, are fomenting the unrest AMMAN: Four members of the night’s bombing that killed a Sunday, she added. The bodies of the civil defence were at the many protesters chanting anti- and waging an economic war Jordanian security forces and police sergeant and wounded six of three “terrorists” as well as scene to assess the damage at the government slogans. to destabilise Iran. three “terrorists” have been others in the town of Al Fuhais automatic weapons were found building and sift through the “Sixty seven suspects have In May the United States killed during a raid on a militant west of Amman. under the rubble of the building, rubble. been arrested, some of whom pulled out of a 2015 deal hideout after an officer died in “The suspects refused to and a total of five militants were Ghneimat urged civilians to were released on bail, and more between world powers and a bomb blast near the capital, the surrender and opened heavy fire arrested during the operation, stay away, warning that “it could than 100 people including gov- Tehran under which interna- government said yesterday. toward a joint security force,” Ghneimat said. totally collapse at any minute”. ernment employees and offi- tional sanctions on Iran were Five suspects were also Ghneimat said on Saturday. Bomb blasts targeting An excavator was later seen cials, as well as private lifted in return for curbs on its arrested during Saturday’s raid They also “blew up the security forces are rare in Jordan, demolishing the structure. employees and others have nuclear programme. in connection with the home- building in which they were although the small desert Medical sources said that 11 been given travel bans,” judi- Washington this week made bomb that exploded under hiding, and which they had kingdom bordering Syria and people were wounded during ciary spokesman Gholam- reimposed sanctions on Iran’s a patrol car at a music festival. booby-trapped earlier”, she Iraq has had to struggle with a the raid, including members of hossein Mohseni Ejei said in purchase of US dollars, its trade A joint unit of special forces, added. Three members of the rise in Muslim uprising in recent the security forces and civilians remarks carried by state in gold and precious metals and police and army troops raided a security forces were killed in the years. There was no immediate who were residents of the television. its dealings with metals, coal house in the town of Salt shootout with the gunmen who claim of responsibility for Fri- building where the militants The central bank and the and industrial-related software, northwest of Amman in search were holed up in an apartment day’s bomb blast in Al Fuhais, a were hiding. judiciary have blamed and it is planning to impose of a suspected “terrorist cell”, in the four-storey residential mostly Christian town, and the Women and children were “enemies” for the fall of the heavier sanctions in November government spokeswoman block in Salt, she said in a identities of the suspects were among those hurt, they said, currency and a rapid rise in aimed at Iran’s oil sector. Jumana Ghneimat said. statement. not known. “A clean-up without giving further details.

Brotherhood leader receives another Mali in presidential life sentence runoff in shadow AGENCIES

CAIRO: An Egyptian court of security crisis yesterday sentenced five AFP people, including the head of “targeted attacks” in the capital the outlawed Muslim Broth- Bamako on the eve of the runoff. erhood, to life in prison on BAMAKO: Malians were voting Several polling stations violence-related charges. It’s yesterday in a presidential were again closed in the res- the latest of several life runoff likely to see Ibrahim tive central and northern regions sentences for Mohammed Boubacar Keita returned to on Sunday due to insecurity. Badie, who has also been office despite criticism of his Voting could not take sentenced to death in separate handling of the country’s place in the northern village trials since his 2013 arrest. security crisis and allegations of Kiname, 120 kilometres (75 Charges have included inciting of election fraud. miles) from Timbuktu, after violence and planning attacks The second round is a rerun “armed men came and took against the state. of a 2013 faceoff that Keita, 73, all the voting material to the won by a landslide over former river bank and set it on fire,” a Ethiopian rebels finance minister Soumaila Cisse. resident said. This year’s campaign saw fierce “There was no voting in declare ceasefire attacks on Keita’s perceived fail- Toguerekotia in the Sossobe dis- ure to dampen a wave of jihadist trict (of the central Mopti region) ADDIS ABABA: An Ethiopian bloodshed and ethnic violence, because of insecurity,” the West rebel group declared a as well as mounting accusa- Africa Network for Peacebuild- unilateral ceasefire yesterday, tions of vote fraud. ing (WANEP), which has 150 the latest dissident movement But public enthusiasm has observers across the country, to aim for an end to hostilities been low and the opposition is said in a statement. in the wake of reforms. The fractured. Keita cast his vote in the Ogaden National Liberation “We hope the new president capital Bamako shortly after Front (ONLF) launched its bid does better and knows how to 0900 GMT and warned against for secession of the Somali make up for past mistakes,” El “staged” electoral fraud after Region, also known as Ogaden, Hajd Aliou Sow, a retired civil accusations of ballot box stuffing in eastern Ethiopia in 1984. In servant, said as he left a group and other irregularities. 2007, Ethiopian forces waged of early-morning voters. Mali, “How could you stage fraud a large-scale offensive against a landlocked nation home when you are assured of the sup- them after the group attacked to at least 20 ethnic groups port of your people?” Keita said. a Chinese-run oil facility, where the majority of peo- Cisse’s party said in the early killing 74 people. ple live on less than $2 a day, hours of yesterday that ballot has battled jihadist attacks papers were already circulat- Tourist dead in hippo and intercommunal violence ing, several hours before polls attack in Kenya for years. opened. But he has failed to After the July 29 first-round unite the opposition behind NAIROBI: Kenya’s wildlife vote the pool of candidates was him, and first-round challengers authority says a Chinese tourist reduced from 24 to two, as Keita have either backed the presi- died after he was attacked by was credited with 42 percent of dent or refused to give voting a hippo as he was taking the vote and Cisse, 68, picked up instructions. pictures on the shores of Lake 18 percent. That vote was pep- Local observers said Naivasha in the Rift Valley. The pered by violence and threats voter turnout was low by the Kenya Wildlife Service said in from armed groups that led to afternoon, WANEP said in a a statement that another several hundred polling sta- statement. Voting will close Chinese tourist was injured in tions being closed, mainly in at 1800 GMT and results are the incident on Saturday night the lawless central region. Secu- expected within five days. Turn- and received treatment in the rity services said Saturday they out was low in the first round local hospital in Naivasha. had disrupted a plot to carry out at around 40 percent. 06 ASIA MONDAY 13 AUGUST 2018 Oppn unity failed idea, NDA will break records in ’19: Modi

IANS “Indian electorate has attempt by the Congress to always kept national exorcise its Bofors ghost. “It is NEW DELHI: Debunking oppo- interest paramount. I an honest and transparent deal.” sition plans for a grand alliance On Pakistan and the relations as “political adventurism” and have faith it will not with the new government-led a “failed idea”, Prime Minister compromise its vote by Imran Khan that is set to take Narendra Modi has expressed for a disparate group charge in Islamabad, Modi said: confidence that the BJP-led NDA that has nothing more “We hope Pakistan would work will get more seats than ever for a safe, secure, stable and and break all records in the 2019 to offer that a single prosperous region, free from Lok Sabha battle. ideology that is to terror and violence.” On the He ruled out cracks in the remove Modi.” government’s initiatives to ruling National Democratic promote the ease of doing Alliance (NDA), saying the coa- business, he said emphasis was lition was intact as evidenced political adventurism... a failed on simplifying processes, be it by the government’s victory in idea that has never succeeded” incorporation of a company, Federal Home Minister Rajnath Singh (centre) gestures next to Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan the no-confidence motion in the be it in 1979, 1990 and in 1996. induction of a director, or and Minister of State Tourism K J Alphons (left) during their visit to a makeshift relief camp in Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha Asked about unease among payment of income tax or GST. Chengamanadu Government Higher Secondary School in Ernakulam, Kerala, yesterday. Deputy Chairman’s election. NDA partners, Modi said the Rajya On the initiatives to curb In a wide ranging interview Sabha Deputy Chairman’s black-money and bring to book with The Times of India, Modi election, “I am sure, will put the unscrupulous elements, Modi Kerala situation very serious, says condemned incidents of mob apprehensions of sceptics to rest”. said the government had lynching as a crime whatever Asked what the government already struck off the names of the motives. can do to reassure minorities around 2.6 lakh shell companies Rajnath Singh after aerial survey “We will definitely get more and backward classes amid and 3.09 lakh directors. seats than we got the last time repeated incidents of lynching “Names of 55,000 com- IANS “Every loss that has been 2,398.66 feet on Sunday even and I am confident that we will in the name of cow protection, panies more will be struck off suffered will be addressed, though rain was recorded at a break all records of the seats the Prime Minister said even a this month.” He dismissed crit- KOCHI/IDUKKI: Union Home including loss of houses, other few places in and around the won by the NDA in the past.” He single incident made him “very icism that there hasn’t been Minister Rajnath Singh properties and crops. Once you dam area during the day. said India’s status had improved sad” and needed to be con- much movement on strategic yesterday described the situ- return to your homes, you will The situation in the hilly dis- globally since the BJP took demned in the “strongest voice”. sale of PSUs and labour law ation in the flood-affected areas face a lot of problems. Necessary trict of Wayanad -- which saw power, giving the country “a “I want to make it clear that amendments, saying “nothing of Kerala as “very serious” and steps will be taken to clean up destruction to crops and prop- performing, strong and stable mob lynching is a crime, no can be farther from truth”. assured the state of all possible your homes,” Vijayan said. erties -- looked grim on Sunday government” after 30 years. matter the motive. No person can, Asked about the burgeoning help from the Centre. On the other hand, officials in as intermittent heavy rains “People have bitter experience under any circumstances, take the NPAs in public sector banks, Modi Rajnath Singh, who arrived Ernakulam and Thrissur said yes- pounded the area, forcing of coalition governments bur- law into his or her own hands and said one needed to understand here on Sunday afternoon, made terday that the flood situation was authorities to ask those lodged dened by politics of compulsions. commit violence.” He, however, why the percentage of non-per- the statement after an aerial under control even as parts of in relief camps to stay back due A mahagathbandhan or whatever put the onus of stopping such inci- forming assets had gone up. survey of Idukki and Ernakulam both districts still remained sub- to possibilities of landslides. you may call it cannot create a dents on state governments who “There was an increase in districts. He was accompanied merged. The Periyar river water Vijayan yesterday submitted gathbandhan of the electorate. need to “take stringent action as disbursement of loans during by Union Tourism Minister K J level had come down to enable a memorandum to Rajnath “Indian electorate has per law against the perpetrators UPA-II. The credit goes to an Alphons and Chief Minister some of the affected persons to Singh seeking Rs 8,316 crore as always kept national interest of such violence”. important innovation known as Pinarayi Vijayan. return home, they said. a special package for dealing paramount. I have faith it will The Prime Minister said fake ‘telephone banking’ where tel- “The situation is very serious Idukki district, which with the situation arising from not compromise its vote for a news and incidents arising due ephonic instructions used to go in Kerala. The Centre will extend recorded 90mm rainfall over 24 unprecedented floods. disparate group that has nothing to rumour-mongering were also directly to banks and loans all necessary support to the state in hours till Saturday morning, wit- “As it requires more time to more to offer that a single ide- condemnable and the gov- would get sanctioned.” On alle- all respects,” Rajnath Singh told the nessed lesser rainfall at 40mm make a detailed assessment of the ology that is to remove Modi.” ernment was actively engaging gations that his government had inmates of a relief camp near Kochi. on Sunday morning, weather damage that has been caused, we He said a non-ideological with digital media platforms and failed to create jobs, Modi said Vijayan said the affected officials said. require an immediate assistance alliance of “desperate and dis- other stakeholders. he believed the shortcoming lied persons need not worry as the Water level in Idukki dam of Rs 1,220 crore from the parate groups” was not a Modi said the allegations of in the absence or lack of a state government will do eve- had decreased by three feet in National Disaster Relief Fund,” ‘mahagathbandhan’ “but a scam in Rafale jet deal was an streamlined database of jobs. rything to ensure them relief. the past 48 hours to stand at said Vijayan’s memorandum.

India soon to launch space Weather alarms highlight need to boost low-carbon economy and science IANS average in five of the last six events and changes in seasonal immense, yet the solution brings opportunities for corporate years. And if the rainfall remains patterns. an opportunity — innovative houses to take the lead. channel: ISRO NEW DELHI: With India too below average this season, it will The report estimates nearly financing in green technology. At the World Economic witnessing a change in its be for the third consecutive year. half of India’s population could India has to offer a lot of pos- Forum in Davos, Mahindra IANS weather patterns, researchers India Meteorological face a degraded living standard itive examples of climate Group Chairman Anand believe climate change may not Department (IMD) data says the by 2050. ambition and clean energy Mahindra took the initiative by BENGALURU: India will soon only challenge the country’s cumulative monsoon rainfall for So what are the economies development, The Energy and committing to science-based launch a dedicated space and conventional development the country from June 1 to August for climate change in India? The Resources Institute (TERI) targets to cut its greenhouse gas science television channel to pathways but also pose a serious 8 was 10 per cent below the landmark 2015 Paris agreement Director General Ajay Mathur emissions. make their benefits reach threat to its economy. long-period average (LPA). aims to limit global warming said. Science-based targets give people across the country, a Considering that climate Monsoon rainfall was five below two degrees Celsius by The growth of renewables, corporate houses a clear top official said yesterday. change is the single biggest exis- percent lower than normal in the collective reduction in green- the increase in energy efficiency, roadmap for how much they “Within the next three to tential threat the country faces central regions of the country, house gas emissions. The scaling up of electric mobility need to shrink their carbon foot- four months, there will be a today, they say greenhouse gas while it was as high as 25 percent agreement was adopted by and even the recognition of print in line with the Paris television channel launched reduction must happen imme- deficit in east and northeastern nearly 200 countries, including linkages between air quality and agreement goals. to reach even the rural parts diately and call for green states. India. climate change all demonstrate Mahindra has now been of India on how space pro- financing to combat climate According to a World Bank This provides a challenge for the country’s climate action, he invited to co-chair the Global gramme can benefit the change threats. report in June, climate change a country like India where 200 said. Climate Action Summit to be common man,” Indian Space The southwest monsoon could cost India 2.8 percent of million people don’t have access The challenges posed by held in San Francisco from Sep- Research Organisation (ISRO) rainfall in India has been below its GDP due to extreme weather to electricity. The challenge is climate change offer a slew of tember 12 to 14. Chairman K Sivan told reporters here. The ISRO Chairman was speaking to media at the space agency’s headquarters NIA arrests two youth in here on the sidelines of an event where the statue (bust) of the father of India’s space Hyderabad for IS links programme, Vikram Sarabhai, was unveiled on his IANS Nagar and Chandrayangutta 99th birth anniversary. areas of the old city. To be named “ISRO TV”, HYDERABAD: The National The arrests were made as the channel will telecast Investigation Agency (NIA) part of the investigation into an science programmes and yesterday arrested two youths earlier case registered in New highlight the benefits of the here for alleged links with the Delhi in 2016 against Sheikh space agency’s missions in international terror outfit Azhar ul Islam, Mohammed regional languages as well as Islamic State (IS). Farhan Shaikh and Adnan English, so that it reaches Mohammed Abdullah Hassan for the allegations that people across the country. Basith, 24, and Mohammed they and their other unknown “The information on Abdul Qhadeer, 19, were associates were members of IS. India’s space missions and arrested after searches by NIA They were allegedly their applications are not at seven places in the city on involved in a conspiracy to reaching the people fully. Our August 6. identify, motivate, radicalize, effort through the channel is According to NIA, the initial recruit and train Indian Muslim to make people aware of the questioning brought out the youths on behalf of IS to carry benefits of the space pro- involvement of Basith, Qhadeer out terror activities, NIA said in gramme,” Sivan added. and others pledging their alle- a press release. The space agency also giance to the proscribed ter- All the three accused were aims to develop scientific rorist organization IS to carry subsequently arrested by NIA. rigor among India’s children out terror activities in India. A special court later sentenced and youth through this The agency arrested the Azhar ul Islam and Farhan channel. two to ascertain the details of Shaikh to seven years of impris- ISRO will also be setting Police stunt the ongoing conspiracy and also onment, while trial against up a module for students their role played in furthering accused Adnan Hassan was still from classes 8-10 to be Kolkata police “Daredevils” motorcycle riders perform during a full dress rehearsal for India’s the IS ideology to carry out ter- going on. Further investigation trained at the space agency Independence Day parade in Kolkata, yesterday. rorist acts in India. The accused continued against other for a month, Sivan added. are residents of Hafiz Baba accused. MONDAY 13 AUGUST 2018 ASIA 07

8 Chinese detained Imran Khan gets over possession convincing majority of firearms AGENCIES

MULTAN: Police in Pakistan to form government say they have detained eight Chinese nationals who tried INTERNEWS The majority of to enter a power plant with Pakistan Tehreek-i- weapons in the eastern ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Insaf’s tally, led by Punjab province. Tehreek-i-Insaf’s tally reached Imran Khan, reached Officer Zafar Iqbal says 158 members in the National the eight men were stopped Assembly after the joining of 158 members in the at a checkpoint on Sunday nine independents and bagging National Assembly outside the Qadirabad power 33 seats reserved for women after the joining of plant in Sahiwal after a and minorities. nine independents pump-action gun, a handgun, Out of the 60 reserved and bagging 33 seats a rifle and ammunition were women seats, the PTI has reserved for women found in their vehicle. He says clinched 28, followed by the an investigation is underway. Pakistan Muslim League-N and minorities. China has heavily invested (PML-N) with 16 seats, Pakistan in energy and other projects Peoples Party (PPP) nine seats, of former special assistant to across Pakistan as part of its Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) the PM on foreign affairs Tariq Pakistan frees 26 Indian fishermen global “Belt and Road” initi- two seats and one seat each by Fatemi, Mussarat Asif Khawaja, ative, and has sent thousands Freed Indian fishermen board a train for Wagah, in Karachi, yesterday. The Pakistani government Balochistan Awami Party (BAP), the wife of Khawaja Asif, of workers to the country. has released 26 Indian fishermen held for violating its territorial waters as a goodwill gesture. Balochistan National Party (BNP), former foreign minister Hina Grand Democratic Alliance Rabbani Khar, former religious Key terrorist (GDA), Muttahida Qaumi affairs minister Shagufta Movement (MQM) and Pakistan Jummani, Shazia Marri and operative dead Muslim League-Q (PML-Q). former senator Rubina Irfan. Similarly, out of the 10 The National Assembly has ISLAMABAD: The head of a reserved seats for minorities, a total of 342 seats, including Myanmar asks Bangladesh to Daesh-affiliated terror group the PTI has won five, followed 272 general seats, 60 seats has been killed in an oper- by two each by the PPP and reserved for women and 10 ation in northern region of PML-N and one by the MMA. reserved for minorities. Pakistan, a Pakistani official If the votes of the PTI and its Elections on July 25 were stop aid to stranded Rohingya said yesterday. allied parties are counted, the held in 270 constituencies as Lashkar-e-Jhangvi Al total comes to 184 in the house polls in NA-60 Rawalpindi had Alami chief Khalilur Rahman, AFP of 339. In addition to this, four been postponed following the demned as ethnic cleansing. said. Bangladesh made no com- also known as Commander independent MNAs-elect are also disqualification of PML-N They are now stuck in a mitment but “responded posi- Khalil with a two million- poised to support the PTI and, leader Hanif Abbasi days before DHAKA: Myanmar has asked narrow “no mans land” relying tively” to Myanmar’s proposal rupee ($16,600) bounty on his therefore, the total number of the the polling while elections in Bangladesh to stop providing aid on international aid sent by to conduct a survey of the no head, was killed in Diamer members belonging to the PTI NA-103 (Faisalabad) had been to 6,000 Rohingya stranded on Bangladesh. Myanmar called for mans land area, the ministry district in Gilgit-Baltistan and its allies comes to 188. But put off after the death of a can- the border between the two the aid to be halted in talks said. A Myanmar minister on a region. “Khalil was killed the PTI will still not be facing a didate. The notification of the countries since a military between Bangladeshi Foreign visit to the strip of land earlier during clash with police while weak opposition as the strength success of Fida Dero of the PPP crackdown prompted a mass Minister A H Mahmood Ali and this year warned the Rohingya his two other militants were of its arch-rival PML-N and its from NA-215 (Sanghar) has exodus of the Muslim minority Myanmar’s top diplomatic refugees that they will face arrested in injured condition,” allies also comes to 151. been withheld by the Election last year, the foreign ministry in envoy, Kyaw Tint Swe, in Myan- “consequences” if they do not Aijaz Ahmad, a local police The prominent women who Commission and thus results of Dhaka said. mar’s capital Napyidaw on take up a Myanmar offer to officer of Diamer district, told have been notified as MNAs on only 339 NA constituencies The group refused to enter Friday, the foreign ministry said. return. Anadolu Agency on phone. reserved seats are Dr Shireen have so far been announced. Bangladesh in the months “Myanmar particularly Dil Mohammad, a Rahman was behind Mazari, Munaza Hassan and Out of the total 141 general during and after Myanmar’s mil- requested Bangladesh to stop Rohingya community leader several terrorist attacks Andaleeb Abbas of the PTI; seats of the National Assembly itary campaign, which drove providing humanitarian among the group on the including those targeting Tahira Aurangzeb, Shaista in Punjab, polls took place on 700,000 other Rohingya across assistance to those people... and border, said the latest pressure schools in the area, he added. Pervez, former information 139 with the PML-N and PTI the frontier in an act the United proposed to arrange supply of from Myanmar to vacate the A police operation was still minister Marriyum Aurangzeb, clinching 61 and 60 seats, Nations, United States and other humanitarian assistance from no mans land area would add underway in different areas Zahra Wadood Fatemi, the wife respectively. western countries have con- Myanmar side,” the ministry to their hardship. of Diamer district.

Fight for Afghan city Ghazni rages despite govt claim of upper hand

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GHAZNI: The fight for the eastern Afghan city of Ghazni entered its third day as Taliban militants and security forces engaged in heavy clashes yesterday, despite Kabul’s claim that the city was firmly under government control. Taliban fighters continued to roam the city, torching gov- ernment offices, and were in control of several police check- points, as reinforcements Afghan security forces keep watch at a checkpoint on the Ghazni deployed from Kabul slowly highway, in Maidan Shar, the capital of Wardak province in entered the area to confront the insurgents. Afghanistan, yesterday. Residents hid in their homes or attempted to flee the fighting, fighters’ control,” he added. remained down after militants with basic provisions increas- Ghazni resident Rahmat- damaged a telecommunication ingly scarce and expensive, ullah Andar described similar tower and targeted several according to residents and scenes in an interview with media offices in Ghazni, officials. broadcaster Tolonews, saying making information difficult “The situation is chaotic,” fighting continued to rage in to verify. Amanullah Kamrani, deputy large swathes of the city and The descriptions stood in head of the Ghazni provincial outlying districts. stark contrast to statements council, said from Kabul. “There are not sufficient from Afghan and US officials, “In Ghazni, only the police forces to repel the Taliban who said government forces headquarters, governor’s office fighters. We have not witnessed were firmly in control of the city and a few departments are such a large scale attack by the and vowed that Ghazni was in under Afghan forces’ control -- Taliban before,” said Andar. no danger of being seized by the the rest are under the Taliban Mobile services in the city Taliban.

China expels German journalism student AFP this year warned him twice against pursuing the politically sensitive subject, but he went ahead BEIJING: A German man has learned the hard anyway because he wanted to “get to learn Chi- way that practising journalism in China, even for nese society and politics.” a class project, could lead to serious trouble. “In a way, the last two months I did get to learn David Missal, 24, was pursuing a master’s degree more Chinese society and politics,” Missal said, in journalism and communication at prestigious referring to his own case. Tsinghua University in Beijing. He left for Ger- China questioned, detained and in some cases many yesterday, after immigration authorities formally arrested around 300 people nation- told him his student visa was cancelled and he wide starting from July 9, 2015, as part of its had a week to leave China. biggest crackdown on human rights lawyers Missal said he thinks that’s because he reported and activists. Several received lengthy sen- on the plight of jailed human rights lawyers in a jour- tences for subversion of state power while a nalism class. Missal said a Tsinghua representative few still await sentencing. 08 VIEWS MONDAY 13 AUGUST 2018 Trump’s ‘Arab Nato’ plan to ESTABLISHED IN 1996 counter Iran is doomed to fail CHAIRMAN SHEIKH THANI BIN ABDULLAH AL THANI

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF DR. KHALID BIN MUBARAK AL-SHAFI [email protected]

MARWAN KABALAN ACTING MANAGING EDITOR AL JAZEERA MOHAMMED SALIM MOHAMED [email protected] ith the stated aim of bringing it back to the DEPUTY MANAGING EDITOR table of negotiation in MOHAMMED OSMAN ALI order to clinch a “better” Wdeal than the one signed by its prede- [email protected] cessor, the Trump administration reimposed the first round of economic sanctions on Iran. The second and more painful one, which targets Iran’s vital oil sector, will come into effect in early November. Iran’s economy is EDITORIAL already feeling the heat. The currency is falling, European companies are leaving, and oil customers are looking for supplies elsewhere. But this is not Qatar promoting peace the whole story. President Trump knows that economic sanctions alone, atar has always played crucial role in promoting peace especially in the absence of interna- unseen since the early years of the revolution, which overthrew the and it has won praise from world over for its efforts tional consensus, would not produce Cold War, when foreign powers had monarchy. Qin this direction. This time the country’s efforts in the intended effects - to force Iran to often tried to erect regional security The key reason for the failure of all Sudan are being lauded. negotiate and accept US terms. Sanc- alliances to confront threats, protect these security arrangements was an Sudanese officials have appreciated the role played by tions, according to several studies, their interests and those of their intrinsic lack of understanding by the Qatar in achieving peace in Darfur through the Doha Peace have only a 35 percent success rate regional allies. But these security architect, the US in this case, and its Document, especially in the areas of social life, the process when they are unaccompanied by systems have rarely worked. inability to appreciate the centrality of of recovery and rehabilitation of the Darfur communities. other means of coercion. Hence, the Right after the end of World War the Palestinian cause in the collective Sudan’s Minister of Environment, Natural Resources and idea of establishing a so-called “Arab II, both Britain and the US tried to awareness of the Arab people. For Urban Development, Hassan Abdul Qader Hilal, said yes- Nato”. establish regional security alliances most Arabs, at that time, Israel was far terday that the peace process in Darfur and the progress The proposed security and political with the aim of confronting the Soviet more imminent threat than the Soviet achieved by the Doha Peace Document in security, has alliance tentatively known as the Union and containing communist pen- Union. Today, there are more reasons enabled the Ministry to implement green environment Middle East Strategic Alliance (MESA) etration into the strategically to expect the failure of the US-spon- projects in Darfur. The project is aimed at restoring vege- would bring together the six GCC important region of the Gulf and the sored Arab Nato. tation in the region which was affected by war and countries, Egypt and Jordan to con- Middle East. The Arab-Israeli conflict Needless to say that the founding conflict. front Iran. It might well be announced and Arab struggle against European pillar of any collective security organi- He said Sudan highly appreciates the Qatari development at a summit colonialism, made it difficult, however, sation is that all of its members must movement in Darfur and looks forward to many additional provisionally to include Israel in any collective share the same threat perception. Oth- roles for the Qatar Fund for Development and the Qatari scheduled for security arrangement for the Middle erwise, it cannot be called collective organisations. Sudanese President Omar Al Bashir had Washington East. The US opted, as a result, towards security. This is lacking in the case of launched a development project for Darfur under the name on October establishing a “Northern Tier,” the Arab Nato on two levels: on the of the Green Future of Darfur last 12. Indeed, referring to the line of countries that inter-state level and on the state- March and said the proposed The proposed one is formed a border between the Soviet society level. For some member states, project would transform Darfur security and tempted to Union and the Middle East. According the threat comes from within the pro- into a green zone. political alliance think that the to the Archive of the US Department of posed security alliance as much as it The Doha Document for Peace tentatively known main driver State, “The idea was to conclude an comes from without. in Darfur (DDPD) was finalised at of the idea is alliance that would link the south- On the state-society level, there is The Doha Docu- the All Darfur Stakeholders Con- as the Middle East President ernmost member of the North Atlantic even a larger gap between the threat ment for Peace ference in May 2011, in Doha. On Strategic Alliance Donald Treaty Organization (Nato), Turkey, perceptions of the rulers and those of in Darfur (DDPD) July 14, 2012, the Government of (MESA) would Trump’s with the westernmost member of the the ruled. Indeed, many Arabs see Iran was finalised Sudan and the Liberation and bring together blatant desire Southeast Asia Treaty Organization as a grave threat, given its destabil- Justice Movement (LJM) signed a to see friends (SEATO), Pakistan”. Other attempts ising activities in the region and its at the All Dar- protocol agreement committing the six GCC and allies were made to establish a “Middle East interference in the internal affairs of fur Stakehold- themselves to the Document, countries, Egypt shoulder Command”, a British idea, to encircle the Arab world. ers Conference which is now the framework for and Jordan to more of the the Soviet Union. The plan was aban- Yet, a greater number of Arabs the comprehensive peace process financial doned in favour of another scheme: believe that Israel and the US present a in May 2011, in in Darfur. The DDPD is the culmi- confront Iran. burden in “Middle East Defense Organization”. far greater threat to Arab security than Doha. DDPD is nation of over 20 months of nego- confronting Later efforts resulted in the estab- Iran. According to the Arab index, Iran the culmina- tiations, dialogue and consulta- regional lishment of the “Baghdad Pact”, which ranks first among the most threating tion of over 20 tions with the major parties to the security threats. Notwithstanding the included Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan countries to Arab security only in Darfur conflict, all relevant stake- importance of money for the calculus and the UK. The US did not join the Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. For the rest months of nego- holders and international of the US president, there are much Pact, preferring instead to sign indi- of the Arab world, it lags far behind tiations, dialogue partners. deeper implications of the proposed vidual agreements with the member Israel and the US. In addition, a great and consulta- Qatar is promoting peace in plan that will also affect the chances of states. All of these collective security number of Arabs believe that the most Sudan by playing a key role its success. alliances have failed, however, in pressing problem for them is the lack tions with the through several initiatives. On In fact, what President Trump is achieving their primary objective: of good governance and the absence major parties to June 3, Qatar Fund For Devel- primarily suggesting is a collective containing the Soviet Union and con- of sound public policies to tackle the Darfur con- opment (QFFD) with Qatar security formula composed of coun- fronting communism. Despite all the poverty, unemployment, and social flict, all relevant Charity (QC) and International tries from the region to deal with efforts, Moscow succeeded in pene- inequality. Centre for Sports Security (ICSS), threats emanating from within the trating the region and establishing Indeed, Iran’s meddling in Arab stakeholders and had launched an initiative to region, be that by states like Iran, or by close ties with Syria and Egypt. To add affairs must stop and its behaviour international promote peace and development non-state actors, like the Islamic State insult to injury, a key member in the must change, but President Trump’s through sport for internally dis- of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and other Baghdad Pact (Iraq) became Moscow’s Arab Nato venture will not help partners. placed people (IDPs) in Darfur, radical groups. This is something closest regional ally after the 1958 achieve that. Sudan, under the title “Sport for Peace and Development”. The new initiative comes within the framework of the Doha peace document for Darfur in western Sudan and within the ‘Save the Dream’ initiative. The professor’s truth The initiative was implemented with the participation of pressure scholars and intellectuals to might threaten him or the party’s Save the Dream’s key partners such as Qatar Olympic Com- THE WASHINGTON POST fall in line behind the party and Pres- monopoly on power. He told news mittee, Qatar Football Association, Aspire Academy, Qatar ident Xi Jinping, China’s strongman media organizations in 2016 they Stars League and Al Jazeera Center for Human Rights. enguang Sun, a retired who has shown little tolerance for should “have the party as their family Qatar’s efforts will encourage other countries to play university professor who dissent while building a cult of person- name.” active role in promoting peace. lives in Jinan, the capital ality not seen in China since Mao It was recently demonstrated yet of China’s Shandong Zedong. Under Xi, ideological cam- again how one freethinking voice can Wprovince, is one of the oldest living paigns have returned, targeting such have a wide impact. On July 24, Xu voices of dissent in China. On Aug. 1, ideas as freedom of speech and Zhangrun, a professor of law at he was speaking by telephone to a live assembly. China is also engaging in Tsinghua University in Beijing, pub- QUOTE OF THE DAY broadcast in Mandarin with the Voice campaigns to spread its ideology and lished a lengthy essay that boldly of America when he informed the influence far beyond its borders. questioned China’s current direction anchor that police had just broken into A new campaign aims at intellec- and specifically criticized Xi and his We are once again his home and demanded he stop. He tuals. The party has announced it will throwback to Maoism. Xu said”an facing a political, refused. “I am entitled to express my seek to wage “unremitting struggle” emergency brake must be applied to opinion. This is my freedom of among them by organizing study ses- the personality cult” of the Chinese underhand plot. With speech,” he declared. Then the line sions about party ideology to make president and expressed fear that God’s permission we went dead. VOA said it was unable to them more “patriotic.”Radio Free Asia, China is returning to totalitarianism. will overcome this. reach him again. which published an account of the The essay offers an example of how Wenguang, now in his 80s, who new drive, quoted a former official in unfettered thinking in the open is val- once taught physics and economics, the propaganda department as saying uable to a society and to its leaders. Xu Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been speaking out against China’s it was essentially an order to attempt calls on China not to throw away the Turkish President Communist Party for more than 50 mass brainwashing. If all this language gains of the era of reform and opening. years and has suffered prison time, sounds archaic, it is - harking back to His advice would benefit China far beatings and harassment. The latest Mao and the harsh years before the more than the dreary stuff about attempt to silence him is another opening and reforms of the past four loyalty and obedience pounded out in chapter in one man’s long struggle - decades. Xi has attempted to extin- the party’s study sessions. but it also reflects a campaign to guish freedom of thought wherever it MONDAY 13 AUGUST 2018 OPINION 09 Signing of Caspian Sea Convention to sum up 20-year talks

head of the upcoming Aktau format and all the provisions of the diplomatic efforts that have been cooperation around the fight Foreign Ministers’ Summit, Convention were adopted based on made and the progressive search for against terrorism, organized Foreign Minister of Kaza- the consensus of all five Caspian lit- compromises and mutually crime, illegal fishing and drug khstan Kairat Abdra- toral states. acceptable solutions, the sides trafficking. Additionally, partici- khmanovA (pictured) shared his President Nursultan Nazarbayev managed to reach a consensus on all pants will consider issues related thoughts on the historic meeting has recently given his assessment of the issues concerning their interac- to military activity, incident pre- which is due to determine the legal the experts’ work. It was a mammoth tions on the Caspian Sea. vention, navigation safety and status of the Caspian Sea and close task which required coordinated The draft Convention on the Legal interaction between the littoral the curtain on 20 years of negotia- efforts of many parties and the top- Status of the Sea which is set to be states’ authorities, including coast The forthcoming tions between the coastal states. level Aktau Summit will take stock of signed by the presidents bears witness guards. Caspian Summit in The forthcoming Caspian Summit those efforts. The draft Convention to that fact. The Convention is the fun- The summit will conclude with Aktau is bound to in Aktau is bound to become a on the Legal Status of the Caspian damental legal document which will the signing of several intergovern- become a landmark landmark event because it will Sea was drawn up in the five-sided regulate the whole range of issues mental documents which are part determine the legal status of the format and all the provisions of the associated with the rights and obliga- of the implementation of the event because it will Caspian Sea. How would you asses Convention were adopted based on tions of the coastal states concerning Agreement on Security Cooper- determine the legal the efforts made by the experts who the consensus of all five Caspian lit- the use of the Caspian Sea, including ation in the Caspian Sea as of status of the Caspian spent over 20 years drawing up the toral states. From our point of view, its waters, seabed, subsoil and aerial November 18, 2010. Sea. How would you draft Convention on the Legal Status the document is quite well-balanced domain. This agreement set the stage of the Sea? and takes into account the interests The Convention is set to become for the further step-by-step devel- asses the efforts made President Nursultan Nazarbayev of all negotiating parties. It is clear the guarantor of security, stability opment of cooperation towards by the experts who has recently given his assessment of that until the document is signed and and prosperity of the entire Caspian ensuring security and combating spent over 20 years the experts’ work. It was a mammoth ratified it can’t be made public. region. At this point, we have illegal activity in the Caspian Sea. drawing up the draft task which required coordinated Could you give us an insight into developed consolidated approaches The non-presence of armed efforts of many parties and the top- the main provisions of the towards sovereignty limitations and forces which do not belong to the Convention on the level Aktau Summit will take stock of Convention? the sovereign and exclusive rights of five Caspian countries is one of the Legal Status of the those efforts. The draft Convention The main thing here is that the littoral states. agreed provisions. This principle Sea? on the Legal Status of the Caspian thanks to the political will of the The sea area will be divided into was captured in the joint Sea was drawn up in the five-sided heads of Caspian states, the zones with various regulation statement of the presidents of regimes, including inland waters, Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, territorial waters (extending up to 15 Russia and Turkmenistan, which nautical miles), fishing zones was adopted following the 4th (extending up to 10 nautical miles), Caspian Summit held in Sep- as well as the common water area. tember 2014 in Astrakhan. And seabed and subsoil delimitation This arrangement is also stipu- will be carried out as agreed by lated in the Convention on the neighboring and opposite states. It Legal Status of the Caspian Sea. will take into account the common Altogether, I am confident that the principles and norms of international signing of the Convention will sum law in order to implement their sov- up the multi-year talks on deter- ereign rights for subsoil use and legal mining the legal status of the economic activity related to seabed Caspian Sea and establish a clear and subsoil development. legal framework for further devel- How do Caspian States plan to opment. It will also result in the cooperate in terms of ensuring strengthening of mutually prof- security within the Caspian Sea and itable international, political, eco- beyond? nomic, cultural and humanitarian This is one of the pivotal points of cooperation between the littoral our cooperation. It embraces many states. different aspects, and combating unlawful activity is the most important one. At the upcoming Caspian Summit, the heads of state will discuss issues related to

D-RING ROAD oogle is proposing a new reality is much different. Beijing has a itlargely pulled out of China after POST BOX: 3488 Faustian bargain with the state policy of stealing intellectual Chinese hackerspenetratedcompany DOHA - QATAR Chinese government that property from any foreign business servers in 2010 to spy on dissidents [email protected] isn’t just morally wrong; it’s within its borders and giving it to and steal US national security infor- alsoG terrible for business. Experience China’s own national champion com- mation. At the time, co-founder has shown that American tech com- panies, which obviously destroys fair Sergey Brin arguedthat the costs of EDITOR-IN-CHIEF OFFICE JOSH ROGN panies that sell their souls for access competition. cooperating with Chinese government TEL: 4455 7741 / 767 FAX: +974 4455 7758 BLOOMBERG to the Chinese market also end up The Trump administration’s drive censorship were not worth the to stop China’s forced technology benefits. transfer and intellectual property theft Brin, who lived his early childhood MANAGING EDITOR was the impetus for the current trade in the Soviet Union, also said he didn’t TEL: 4462 7505 war. Having one of the United States’ want Google to support the spread of largest tech giants strike a side deal totalitarianism worldwide. DEPUTY MANAGING EDITOR with Beijing undermines the entire “One of the reasons I am glad we TEL: 4455 7769 Google’s plan for China effort. Moreover, US tech companies are making this move in China is that LOCAL NEWS SECTION that cave to Beijing’s demands don’t the China situation was really TEL: 4455 7743 get rewarded with kindness; more emboldening other countries to try isn’t just evil - it’s bad often, it’s the opposite. This year, and implement their own firewalls,” BUSINESS NEWS SECTION Apple agreed to place iCloud servers he said. TEL: 4462 7535 and data within the government’s Google built a culture in which for business reach. This week, Chinese state media doing good was prioritized to a degree SPORT NEWS SECTION threatened to punish Apple in retali- that it attracted and earned the trust TEL: 4455 7745 ation for the Trump administration’s of the world’s best minds. To sacrifice losing their shirts. tariffs by cutting off its access to that trust in pursuit of limited profits ONLINE SECTION Ever since the Intercept revealed cheap, Chinese labor. would be the most serious business TEL: 4462 7501 that Google has been secretly working In 2015, Qualcomm agreed to pay failure in Google history. Employee [email protected] with Beijing to build a censored an almost $1 billion fine to China and dissent recently caused Google to end lower its royalty rates for Chinese a controversial contract with the search engine, code-named Drag- PUBLIC RELATIONS manufacturers - at huge cost to the Defense Department. If leadership onfly, the company has faced unprec- TEL: 4455 7613 ignores concerns about working with edented public criticism and internal company. In thanks, last month the [email protected] angst. Members of Congress and Chinese government effectively killed the Chinese government, those employees couldn’t be blamed for Google’s own employees are Qualcomm’s bid to acquire Dutch ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT walking out the door, taking Google’s demanding explanations from an chipmaker NXP. TEL: 4455 7837 / 780 unusually silent leadership team led Sure, Beijing will allow American future with them. FAX: 4455 7870 by chief executive Sundar Pichai, the companies to make money in China - The good news for Google is that [email protected] reported mastermind behind Google’s as long as they stay in the Communist it’s not too late. The company’s execu- multifaceted expansion into China, Party’s good graces and until China’s tives can correct their mistake by CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT which includes partnering on artificial own national champions are ready to shuttering the Dragonfly project and TEL: 4455 7857 intelligence. take over. A core tenet of Beijing’s repurposing all that data to thwarting [email protected] It’s shocking to learn that the “Made in China 2025” strategy is for the Great Firewall rather than rein- company whose motto was “Don’t be Chinese tech companies to supplant forcing it. Then they should shift their SUBSCRIPTION & evil” has been caught compiling user US firms, not to cooperate with them. broader focus to beating China, not DISTRIBUTION data to create blacklists. If Google “Beijing’s ultimate goal is for joining it. There’s still time for Google TEL: 4455 7809 / 839 does launch a censored search engine, domestic companies to replace to save its soul - and its business. FAX: 44557819 it will be complicit in mass surveil- foreign companies as designers and [email protected] Ever since the lance, broad Orwellian social control manufacturers of key technology and Intercept revealed and the suppression of free speech. products first at home, then abroad,” The scheme is a “coup for the Chinese the US-China Economic and Security that Google has government” and spells trouble for Review Commission wrote in its 2017 been secretly All thoughts and views any company that wants to do report. Google built a culture in expressed in these columns working with business in China without compro- For all these reasons, it’s clear the which doing good was are those of the writers, Beijing to build a mising core values, lawmakers wrote US tech industry’s future is not inside to Pichai on Aug. 3. China; it’s in the rest of the world that prioritized to a degree that not of the newspaper. censored search But that’s not the only reason is resisting Chinese tech domination. it attracted and earned the engine, code-named Google’s foray into China is so disas- While China is huge as a market, trust of the world’s best All correspondence Dragonfly, the trous. The company would be placing India, Africa and Southeast Asia are minds. To sacrifice that regarding Views and company has faced its people and its assets at huge risk by big, too. In most countries, companies putting its future in the hands of the that protect data and don’t cooperate trust in pursuit of limited Opinion pages should be unprecedented Chinese government. The record with the Chinese government have profits would be the most send to editor-in-chief public criticism and shows that rarely works out well. the advantage. serious business failure in office or mailed to the internal angst. The lure of the huge Chinese What’s strange is that Google Internet market is tantalizing, but the already knows all this, because Google history. [email protected] 10 ASIA / EUROPE MONDAY 13 AUGUST 2018 US to return war-era church bells to Philippines

AFP Philippine governments had “We’ve received assurances emotional response from the soldiers perished during the urged Washington to return the that the Bells will be returned to descendants of American sol- escape from Balangiga, and US MANILA: The United States will bells, with the president often the Catholic Church and treated diers who served in the Phil- reinforcements razed the town The spokeswoman return to the Philippines church raising the issue in his anti- with the respect and honour they ippine campaign. the day after, it added. bells seized by American forces American tirades as he builds deserve,” she said, adding that The Philippines, a Spanish Then-Philippine president for the US embassy in a bloody campaign more than closer ties with China and Russia. there was no date scheduled for colony for centuries, was ceded Fidel Ramos first sought but in Manila said: We’ve a century ago, its embassy said The US had initially given a the move. to the United States in 1898 at the failed to recover the bells during received assurances yesterday, following a demand non-committal response to Duterte’s spokesman wel- end of the Spanish-American a 1998 Washington trip. that the Bells will by President Rodrigo Duterte. Duterte’s demands but yesterday comed the announcement. War. The country gained inde- Duterte, who took office in American forces took three said it would return the bells. Two of the bells are installed pendence from the US in 1946. mid-2016, demanded the return be returned to the bells from the Catholic church of “The Secretary of Defense at a memorial for US war dead The brutal Samar campaign of the bells during his State of the Catholic Church and Balangiga town on the eastern has notified Congress that the in the state of Wyoming, while was launched about a month after Nation address last year: “Give treated with the island of Samar in 1901 as war Department (of Defense) intends the third is with US forces in Filipino rebels killed 34 US troops us back those Balangiga bells. respect and honour booty in what historians said was to return the Bells of Balangiga South Korea. in Balangiga on September 28, They are not yours. They are a particularly brutal military to the Philippines,” said Molly Some US politicians oppose 1901, according to a US Army War ours. They belong to the Philip- they deserve. operation in the new US colony. Koscina, spokeswoman for the the dismantling of the memorial, College research paper. pines. They are part of our Duterte and previous US embassy in Manila. and the issue had sparked an Seven other American national heritage.”

Wildfire rages Boy only survivor in on Greek island Indonesia plane crash REUTERS ATHENS: Two villages on the AP to the Oksibil hospital. Greek island of Evia were A statement from the army evacuated yesterday as a JAYAPURA: A 12-year-old boy said the boy was conscious but forest fire raged, fanned by is the only survivor from the gave no other details. strong winds. crash of a light commercial The plane with two pilots The fire brigade described plane in a mountainous region and seven passengers lost the evacuation of Kontodespoti of Indonesia’s easternmost contact after communicating and Stavros village in central province of Papua that left eight with the control tower in Evia, about 70 km from Athens, other passengers dead, rescuers Oksibil just before it was due to as a precaution. said yesterday. land Saturday afternoon, said A wildfire near the capital The Swiss-made Pilatus local police chief Lt. Col. in July killed 94 people, the PC-6 Porter single-engine Michael Mumbunan. country’s worst such disaster, plane operated by Dimonin Air Airplanes are the only prac- prompting the prime minister was reported missing Saturday tical way of accessing many Alexis Tsipras to replace the during a 45-minute flight from areas in the mountainous and Civil Protection Minister and Tanah Merah in Boven Digul jungle-clad easternmost prov- the heads of Fire Brigade and district to Oksibil, the district inces of Papua and West Papua. Police. capital of Pegunungan Bintang, Indonesia, the world’s Tsipras announced the bordering Papua New Guinea. largest archipelago nation, with Royal celebrations demolition of thousands of The local army chief said more than 260 million people, illegal buildings in response Sunday the plane crashed near has been plagued by transpor- Well-wishers participate in a ceremony to celebrate the 86th birthday of Thai Queen Sirikit of the to the deaths of dozens of Oksibil airport. tation accidents on land, sea late King Bhumibol Adulyadej, in Narathiwat, yesterday. people who were unable to Col Jonathan Binsar Sianipar and air because of over- escape a maze of poorly said the boy, identified only as crowding on ferries, aging planned streets. Jumaidi, was the only passenger infrastructure and poorly found alive and was evacuated enforced safety standards. Vietnam communist war Mass rally over US base relocation off Okinawa AP Onaga, elected in 2014, had construction at the bay risks mainland, which annexed the hero-turned-dissident dies spearheaded opposition to the corals and endangered dugongs. islands, formerly the inde- TOKYO: Tens of thousands of relocation and criticised the The protesters held up signs pendent kingdom of the Ryukus, AFP Tin, a former army jour- protesters in Okinawa vowed to central government for ignoring saying “Henoko new base, NO!” in 1878. nalist, had lived in exile in stop the planned relocation of a the voices of Okinawans. and “Okinawans will not give Okinawa was Japan’s only PARIS: A Vietnamese former France since 1990 when he US military base, saying they He had filed lawsuits against up,” as they chanted slogans. home battleground in the final colonel and revolutionary war defected during a trip for a want it off the southern Japanese the central government and said They also adopted a resolution days of World War II, and the hero who became disillusioned meeting organised by island entirely. he planned to revoke a landfill demanding the central gov- island remained under US rule with the communist regime and l’Humanite communist news- Opponents of the relocation permit issued by his predecessor ernment to immediately scrap for 20 years longer than the rest defected, becoming one of its paper in Paris. said the plan to move US Marine that is needed for construction the relocation plan. of Japan. most vocal and influential It was an unlikely twist of Corps Air Station Futenma from of the new base. Japan’s government said the Okinawa is still forced to critics, died in France at age 90. fate for a man who spent much a crowded neighbourhood to a Deputy Governor Kiichiro current plan is the only solution, sacrifice for the interest of the Bui Tin passed away of of his life fighting for Vietnam’s less populated coastal site would Jahana, representing Onaga at a but many Okinawans want the mainland, Onaga’s son kidney failure in hospital in a independence — first from not only be an environmental rally, said he will follow through base off the island. About half of Takeharu, an Okinawa assem- Paris suburb early Saturday, his French colonial rulers and later debacle but also ignore local with the revocation process as the 50,000 American troops in blyman, told the rally. friend and a relative confirmed, from US-backed anti-com- wishes to remove the base. instructed by the governor and Japan are stationed on Okinawa. “The (relocation issue) is after several weeks of declining munist fighters in the south. About 70,000 people succeed his “strong determi- Onaga had said Tokyo’s pushed to Okinawa because health. He was just a teenager gathered at a park in the state nation and passion.” postwar defence posture under nobody on the mainland wants “The hospital told me that when, full of fervour, he joined capital of Naha under pouring Okinawans are trying to the Japan-US security alliance was it,” he said, urging the rest of the Tin passed away after falling the army aligned with Ho Chi rain ahead of an approaching block the government plan to built on Okinawa’s sacrifice. country to also think about the into a coma,” close Minh’s revolutionary movement typhoon and observed a moment start dumping soil into Henoko The dispute over the issue. “Let us keep fighting so we acquaintance Tuong An said. that would eventually expel the of silence for Okinawa’s gov- Bay within days to make a landfill Futenma relocation reflects cen- can achieve my father’s unfin- A relative in Hanoi also French in the epic battle of Dien ernor, Takeshi Onaga, who died for the new site of the Futenma turies-old tensions between ished goal and give him good confirmed his death. Bien Phu in 1954. Wednesday of cancer. base. Environmental groups say Okinawa and the Japanese news.” France to set penalities on non-recycled plastic Two migrants found

AFP will cost more, that will elim- dead in Croatian forest AFP inate much of the excessive Many have been camping PARIS: France plans to packaging,” Poirson said. out in parks or abandoned introduce a penalty system that France currently recycles ZAGREB: Two migrants buildings, while the Red Cross would increase the costs of around 25 percent of its plastic, thought to have sneaked into and local volunteers have been consumer goods with packaging according to the magazine 60 EU member Croatia from providing meals and other basic made of non-recycled plastic, Million Consumers. neighbouring Bosnia were services. part of a pledge to use only It has already outlawed found dead yesterday in a forest They are among more than recycled plastic nationwide by single-use plastic bags in super- some 90km from the border, 10,000 migrants who have 2025, an environment ministry markets unless they can be com- Croatian police said. entered the poor Balkan official said yesterday. posted, hoping to encourage “Twelve people were found country illegally since January, Brune Poirson, secretary of people to shop with their own of whom two were dead,” according to the latest gov- state for ecological transition, bags. police spokeswoman Senka ernment figures. said the move was one of several The Carrefour and Leclerc Staroveski said, adding that According to a tally by the to be implemented in coming supermarket chains have also they were found early yes- humanitarian group Doctors years, including a deposit- said they will quit selling plastic terday in a wood near the town Without Borders, more than 80 refund scheme for plastic bottles. straws in the coming months, of Dreznica. migrants have died — mainly “Declaring war on plastic is ahead of a law outlawing them She did not provide further by drowning, freezing to death not enough. We need to by 2020. details such as the migrants’ or in road accidents — since the transform the French economy,” The European Commission age, nationality or the cause of start of the year along the she told the Journal du The illustration shows plastic containers, cutlery and plastic wrapped also wants to sharply cut down death, saying only that an Balkans Route originating in Dimanche newspaper. food packaging taken in a studio in Paris, yesterday. on single-use plastic objects, investigation was under way. Turkey. Under the new plan, announcing in May rules Bosnian authorities estimate Anger has been mounting products with recycled plastic to increase taxes on burying awareness of the problem, requiring the use of alternative that some 4,000 migrants and in Bihac over the government’s packaging could cost up to 10 trash in landfills while cutting France is among several coun- materials and incentives for refugees are currently in Bosnia, poor management of the influx. percent less, while those con- taxes for recycling operations, tries hit recently by a wave of businesses. mainly in the towns of Bihac and On Friday, the EU said it taining non-recycled plastic up hoping to address the growing “plastic attacks” — where Plastic production has Velika Kladusa, both near the would give Bosnia $6.85m to to 10 percent more, Poirson problem of tonnes of plastic shoppers dump all the packaging soared more than 40 percent Croatian border, hoping to enter cope with the new arrivals. The said. finding its way into oceans. of their purchases outside stores. globally over the past 10 years, the EU along the so-called aid comes on top of 1.5 million The government also aims In a sign of growing public “When non-recycled plastic mainly for packaging. “Balkans Route”. euros already granted in June. MONDAY 13 AUGUST 2018 EUROPE 11

Two children Aid group says among 10 hurt in Manchester ships refuse to shooting AFP

MANCHESTER: Ten people, save migrants including two children, were taken to hospital yesterday with pellet-type wounds after those rescued originate from reports of a shooting in Somalia and Eritrea. Many Manchester in northern migrants recounted how they England, police said. Aid group said were “held in inhumane condi- Officers were called at tions in Libya,” where human around at 2:30am (0130 GMT) that Libya’s rescue traffickers are based, the aid to the Moss Side neighbourhood coordination group aid. of the city, where a party had authorities wouldn’t It added that Libya’s rescue been held following a Caribbean provide the Aquarius coordination authorities Carnival nearby. wouldn’t provide the Aquarius “Nine people went to hos- with “a place of with “a place of safety” and pital, including two children, Police officers stand guard at the scene of a shooting at Claremont Road to the Moss Side neighbourhood safety” . asked it to request safe harbour with pellet-type wounds that are of Manchester, yesterday. from another country’s not believed to be serious,” a AP authorities. statement from Greater Man- Police said that they hoped could have had devastating con- community, he added: “Guns The Aquarius was sailing chester Police said. the less seriously injured sequences with families and have no place on our streets and north in the Mediterranean “A tenth person — a man — victims would begin to leave friends losing loved ones,” Chief we want to assure you we are ROME: Migrants in distress at Sunday in hopes of receiving remains in a stable but serious hospital during the course of Superintendent Wasim doing everything we can to find sea have told their rescuers that docking permission from condition in hospital with the day. Chaudhry said. the person or people several ships passed them by another country. injuries to his legs.” “This was a reckless act that In a message to the local responsible.” without offering assistance, a “What is of utmost impor- European aid group said tance is that the survivors are yesterday while seeking safe brought to a place of safety harbour for a rescue vessel with without delay, where their basic Violence against 141 migrants aboard. needs can be met and where Putin, Trump may meet to improve ties SOS Mediterranee said that they can be protected from refugees in REUTERS due to the recent refusal of Italy abuse,” the group quoted Nick As a result, Trump post- Germany drops and Malta to let rescue vessels Romaniuk, its search and poned in late July a second carrying migrants dock, ships rescue coordinator as saying. It MOSCOW: Russian President meeting with Putin until next REUTERS might be now unwilling to do said many aboard were very Vladimir Putin and US President year. rescues “due to the high risk of weak and malnourished. Donald Trump may meet if they A few days later, however, being stranded and denied a In June, Aquarius was feel the need to focus on Putin said he wanted Trump to BERLIN: The number of place of safety.” forced to sail north for days improving relations, Russian be his guest in Moscow, and the violent attacks on refugees On Friday, the group’s char- with more than 600 migrants Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov White House welcomed the idea and asylum shelters in tered ship Aquarius, which it to Spain after Italy and Malta (pictured) said yesterday, despite lingering criticism over Germany has fallen sharply operates in partnership with refused it docking permission. according to the RIA state news the Helsinki summit. in the first half of this year, a Doctors Without Borders, Since then, other private rescue agency. Russia is seeking such data from the interior rescued 141 people in waters off vessels have had to wait for “If the leaders feel the need meetings as it is under punitive ministry showed yesterday. Libya. Of these, 25 were found days until some country agreed to meet and get back to the sanctions imposed by the United German authorities reg- adrift on a small wooden boat to let migrants disembark. questions that we think should States and the European Union istered 704 such cases from that had no motor and was SOS Mediterranee said the unite Russia and the United and wants them lifted. January to June, down more believed to have been at sea for Libya rescue coordination centre States, but which provoke wave of criticism at home for Lavrov said on Sunday than a third from the 1,127 about 35 hours, the group said. didn’t inform it about migrant rejection among some circles in failing to confront Putin publicly Russia was ready to extend reported in the first six The other 116 people, including boats in distress despite knowing the United States, I think such over Moscow’s interference in contacts with the United States months of 2017, according to 67 unaccompanied minors, the Aquarius was nearby. “It was meeting will take place,” Lavrov the 2016 US election, and for on the level of foreign ministers the figures. were rescued later that day, it extremely fortunate that we said. seeming to contradict his own if the US side was ready to act There were 77 attacks on said. spotted these boats in distress After their last meeting in intelligence agencies on the on a basis of equality, RIA asylum shelters and 627 Nearly three-quarters of ourselves” on Friday.” Helsinki in July, Trump saw a threat from Russia. reported. attacks on refugees, with 120 people being injured in the first half of this year, the data showed. The criminal offences Study: Majority of Britons vote to remain in EU committed included dan- gerous bodily harm, arson, ANATOLIA remain in the EU. in the EU, compared to the 229 proponents of a “hard Brexit.” cannot be ignored,” said Nick property damage and The analysis is one of the seats in the referendum two “This groundbreaking Lowles of Hope not Hate. incitement. LONDON: More than 100 most extensive and compre- years ago. research shows that Brexit is still The study found that the shift In the year 2016, it was constituencies that voted to leave hensive studies carried out on Overall, according to the not inevitable. People across the in opinion was driven in large by reported that there were the EU in 2016 have now Brexit since the referendum two model, 53 percent of the popu- UK have witnessed the last two a change among Labour voters more than 2,500 attacks on switched their support to remain years ago and its findings could lation would vote to remain in years of uncertainty with dismay who voted to leave and as such refugees and refugee hostels in the bloc, according to a new have a significant and influential the EU while 47 percent would and are thinking differently - 112 north England and Wales, tradi- across Germany. analysis. impact on the Brexit debate in vote to leave. constituencies have switched to tional Labour strongholds that The influx of more than 1 The investigation and its parliament later this year. Among the many constitu- majorities that back staying in voted to leave the EU, are seeing million refugees ans asylum subsequent findings, undertaken 632 constituencies in encies that now want to remain our current bespoke deal with a shift from supporting Leave to seekers, mainly fleeing from by the pro-EU movement Best England, Scotland and Wales in the EU are that of Uxbridge the EU,” Eloise Todd, the chief supporting Remain. war zones in the Middle East, for Britain and the anti-racist were examined as part of the (51.4 percent), represented by executive of Best for Britain, told This shift of opinion among in the year 2015 and 2016 has Hope Not Hate group and com- study and found that 112 constit- former foreign secretary Boris the Observer. Labour supporters will add led to an increase in attacks piled by analytics company uencies that voted to leave the Johnson, and Surrey Heath (50.2 “Our data shows a clear shift increased pressure on Jeremy on asylum shelters in Focaldata and the Guardian’s EU now want to remain in the percent), represented by envi- in public opinion against Brexit Corbyn to soften his stance on Germany. Observer, has concluded that EU. As such, the analysis shows ronment secretary Michael Gove. and people’s growing anxiety over Brexit and his opposition to a But the number of new most seats in the U.K. now hold that there are now 341 seats with The two Tory MPs were the face how leaving the EU will affect second referendum on the final arrivals has gone down since a majority of voters who want to a majority that wants to remain of the Leave campaign and are themselves and their families. This deal. last year.

1,800 evacuated Nobel prize-winning British as France defuses WWII bomb author Naipaul dead at 85 AFP came to encompass countries AFP around the world, often LONDON: Nobel prize-winning focusing on the traumas of RENNES: Some 1,800 people British author V S Naipaul has post-colonial change. were ordered to evacuate died at the age of 85, his family When he was awarded the their homes in northwest announced. 2001 Nobel prize for literature, France yesterday as a bomb “He died surrounded by the Swedish Academy squad defused a British bomb those he loved having lived a described him as a “literary cir- from World War II, officials life which was full of wonderful cumnavigator, only ever really said. creativity and endeavour,” his at home in himself, in his inim- The 220kg bomb was wife Lady Nadira Naipaul said itable voice”. found in late June during con- in a statement. It said he was “the annalist struction work near the She described the out- of the destinies of empires in centre of Rouen in spoken author as a “giant in all the moral sense: what they do A meteor streaks across the skies over the Sand Pyramids during the peak of the Perseid meteor Normandy. that he achieved”. to human beings”. shower in the village of Miljevina near Foca, yesterday. Residents living within a Vidiadhar Surajprasad “His authority as a narrator 270 metre radius of the site Naipaul was born in Trinidad, is grounded in his memory of were told to leave the area the son of an Indian civil what others have forgotten, the early yesterday ahead of the Meteor shower lights up Bosnian sky servant, and studied English lit- history of the vanquished,” it operation, which wound up erature at Oxford University on said. REUTERS shortly after 11:00am. Mehic, a Bosnian from an inter- there is little light pollution. a scholarship. Naipaul, who was knighted Discoveries of bombs and national group of star gazers They arise when the Earth He settled in England but in 1990, mixed fiction, non- shells from World War II are FOCA: A meteor shower lit up who watched the light show at passes through the debris of spent much of his time trav- fiction and autobiography common in France and else- the skies above eastern Bosnia, the Sand Pyramids near the Comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle, which elling and despite becoming a without distinction. where on the continent. giving star gazers a rare oppor- town of Foca. was discovered in 1862 pillar of Britain’s cultural Overall he wrote more than Last month, the French tunity to see a display of The so-called Perseids Meteors are parts of rock establishment, was also a 30 books, and was one of the navy defused an unexploded shooting stars with the naked meteor shower returns to the and dust that hit the Earth’s symbol of modern first winners of the Booker shell found in the sea near a eye. skies every August, and are best atmosphere, heat up and glow. rootlessness. Prize, now Britain’s leading lit- popular beach in Cannes on “I think that everybody viewed in the northern hemi- Most vaporise as they descend, Naipaul’s early works erary award, in the year 1971 the Mediterranean coast. should see this,” said Miralem sphere in isolated areas where but some explode. focused on the West Indies, but for “In A Free State”. 12 AMERICAS MONDAY 13 AUGUST 2018 US House candidates ‘vulnerable’ to hacks REUTERS The report follows a Def Con study did not address string of warnings by that incident. The researchers LAS VEGAS: Three of every 10 Trump administration did not identify any cases where candidates running for the US security officials that it appeared that politically moti- House of Representatives have vated hackers had exploited significant security problems Russia is actively those vulnerabilities. with their websites, according interfering in the “We’re trying to figure out a to a new study by independent November elections. way to contact all the candi- researchers that underscores the dates” so they can fix the threat hackers pose to the problems, said Franklin, who November elections. to bolster cyber defenses of the joined the nonprofit Center for The research was unveiled party’s national, state and cam- Internet Security last month. yesterday at the annual Def Con paign operations. Department of Homeland security conference here, where Democratic National Com- Security officials said at Def Con some attendees have spent three mittee officials said they have that they are offering aid to days hacking into voting completely rebuilt the party’s states and counties for securing machines to highlight vulnera- computer network, including election equipment. Police detain a protester at the site where Heather Heyer was killed, on the one year anniversary bilities in technology running email systems and databases, to Still, some states said they of the 2017 Charlottesville “Unite the Right” protests, in Charlottesville, Virginia, yesterday. polling operations. avert a repeat of 2016, when are not getting enough help, and A team of four independent Russian intelligence agents new funding efforts failed in researchers led by former hacked into Democratic Congress. Individual campaigns National Institutes for accounts and then used stolen are not eligible for federal Counterprotesters expected to Standards and Technology data to undermine support for assistance, so they rely on party (NIST) security expert Joshua Hillary Clinton’s presidential bid. officials, an increased number Franklin concluded that the “No one wants to be the next of tech-savvy volunteers and dwarf white supremacists in DC websites of nearly one-third ‘patient zero,’” said DNC Chief nonprofit groups such as AP of US House candidates, Dem- Technology Officer Raffi Defending Digital Democracy, abandoned his bid to stage a The National Park Service ocrats and Republicans alike, Krikorian, a former executive a bipartisan project at the similar anniversary event in also issued permits for events are vulnerable to attacks. NIST with Twitter and Uber. Kennedy School of Government CHARLOTTESVILLE: A day Charlottesville, said in his permit organized by DC United Against is a US Commerce Department The report follows a string at Harvard University. after tensions between police application that he expects 100 Hate, New York Black Lives laboratory that provides advice of warnings by Trump admin- Franklin also said he found and community activists nearly to 400 people to participate in Matter and other groups. Gov- on technical issues, including istration security officials that numerous potentially malicious boiled over on the University of his event in Lafayette Park, in ernment and police officials in cyber security. Russia is actively interfering in web pages that closely resemble Virginia’s campus, the city of front of the White House. Pres- Washington have expressed Using automated scans and the November elections. FBI the names of candidates. Charlottesville marked yester- ident Donald Trump won’t be confidence the city can manage test programs, the team iden- Director Christopher Wray Hackers use that practice, day’s anniversary of a deadly there, though. He was at his golf the events without violence; the tified multiple vulnerabilities, recently warned that Russian known as “typo-squatting,” to gathering of white supremacists club in New Jersey. mayor and police chief have including problems with digital government agents were develop copycat sites for use with a rally against racial hatred. The number of people at promised a massive security certificates used to verify working around the clock to sow in phishing campaigns to steal But some 185km away in Kessler’s event could be lower mobilization to keep protesters secure connections with users, discord ahead of the election. credentials or to criticize Washington, the principal than his estimate and likely will and counter-protesters apart. Franklin said. Democratic Senator Claire candidates. organizer of last year’s “Unite the be dwarfed by counterprotests. In Charlottesville, a crowd The warnings about the McCaskill, who is facing a tough The candidates at most risk Right” event was scheduled to Some leading figures in the US of over 200 people gathered in midterm elections, which are re-election battle in Missouri, of hacks are ones with small hold a so-called white civil rights white nationalist movement a park to protest racism and less than three months away, last month said that hackers had campaigns that have with little rally, and police were preparing have said they won’t attend or mark the anniversary. The group come after Democrats have tried and failed to access her expertise in computer tech- for crowds of counterprotesters. have encouraged supporters to sang songs, and speakers spent more than a year working office’s computer network. The nology or security, Franklin said. Jason Kessler, who stay away. addressed the crowd.

Maduro says would take FBI Ed Case wins Democratic help over ‘murder plot’ House primary AFP explosion occurred above in Hawaii Maduro’s head as he was AP CARACAS: President Nicolas speaking then when a second Maduro has said he would explosion was heard, the troops allow FBI agents come to Vene- could be seen scattering in panic. HONOLULU: Former zuela to help investigate a Authorities have arrested 10 Congressman Ed Case has recent alleged plot to kill him suspects whom they accuse of emerged from a crowded with explosive drones — but involvement backed by support field to win the Democratic with conditions. from neighboring Colombia as Party primary on Saturday If US officials confirm “the well as from people living in the to represent Honolulu in offer for the FBI to investigate United States. Congress. links in Florida with the assas- Maduro has repeatedly The 65-year-old fiscal con- sination plan... I would agree for accused Washington of con- servative defeated five other the FBI to come here,” Maduro spiring to oust him, with rela- major candidates including Lt. said at an event with top mil- tions between the two coun- Gov. Doug Chin, who is the itary leaders late on Saturday. tries so frosty that ambas- architect of Hawaii’s legal The incident took place on sadors have not been battle against President Donald the evening of August 4 when exchanged since 2010. Trump’s travel ban. Maduro said he was targeted by Following the drone “I think voters want Wash- an explosives-laden drone at a incident, President Donald ington to work again, that’s the military parade in Caracas Trump’s National Security number one issue. Clearly that which was broadcast live on TV. Advisor John Bolton insisted was my message and I think A helicopter drops water to a brush fire at the Holy Fire in Lake Elsinore, California. Maduro has blamed the there had been “no US gov- that accounts for much of the attack on “terrorist cells” in ernment involvement”. result of my race,” said Case. “I Florida led by a man called But he said that if Venezuela was clearly saying we need to Osman Delgado Tabosky, had “hard information” about 29% of California wildfire contained fix Washington and we need whom he claims was behind the any violation of US law, Wash- to work together and that AP plot. The state is home to a large ington would “take a serious sweeps through the dense, hillsides were being allowed to message clearly resonated with community of Venezuelan look at it.” Trump has harshly bone-dry brush of the Cleveland burn under the watchful eyes of many voters.” immigrants. criticized Maduro’s leftist LAKE ELSINORE: Firefighters National Forest. The Holy Fire firefighters as a way to reduce fuel He’ll face Cam Cavasso, a His apparent willingness to regime, saying it has “destroyed made significant progress trying — named for Holy Jim Canyon, and make it harder for flames to former state representative accept the FBI’s help came after a prosperous nation by to tamp down a wildfire that where it began on Monday — jump roadways into communities who previously ran unsuccess- Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza imposing a failed ideology.” threatened homes and has been grew to nearly 85 square kilo- if winds pick up again. fully for US Senate. Cavasso said on Wednesday that Wash- On Saturday, Maduro again raging for days south of Los metres. But firefighters made The Holy Fire was one of won the GOP primary on Sat- ington’s charge d’affairs in pointed the finger at former Angeles, officials said. progress, with containment nearly 20 blazes across California. urday. The winner of the Dem- Caracas, James Story, had Colombian president Juan Aircraft have been making rising from 10 to 29 percent. The largest fire ever recorded in ocratic primary is almost guar- expressed “the willingness of Manuel Santos of involvement flight after flight, dumping water High temperatures and dry California - the Mendocino anteed to win in the general his government to cooperate” in the suspected plot — charges and bright pink retardant to grass and brush have made it Complex - is burning north of Sac- election in Hawaii. in the investigation of the plot. Bogota has dismissed as protect Lake Elsinore and other difficult for firefighters to get a ramento and has destroyed 119 Asami Kobayashi, who During the incident, an “absurd and unfounded.” foothill communities as the fire handle on the blaze. Some homes but none in recent days. has been volunteering for the Case campaign, said she liked his message of bipartisanship. “That’s something that we really need right now when Stormy Daniels lawyer says would ‘hit harder’ to beat Trump in 2020 Congress seems to be really divided,” Kobayashi said. AFP “I’m going to put Donald state to hold a presidential nom- aggressively take on Trump. Too the character, the heart, the The seat was open because Trump on trial,” he said yes- inating contest every four years. many Democratic candidates, knowledge or the wisdom to be US Rep. Colleen Hanabusa is WASHINGTON: The lawyer for terday on ABC’s “This Week.” “I’m exploring a run for the Avenatti said, “have a tendency to president of the United States.” challenging one-term film star Stormy Daniels, Michael “The only question is how many presidency of the United States,” bring nail clippers to a gunfight”. In Avenatti’s ABC interview, incumbent Gov. David Ige in Avenatti has been a persistent jurors are we going to have in the California-based attorney told Referring to former first lady perhaps his first as a potential the gubernatorial primary. thorn in Donald Trump’s side. that trial.” Avenatti, who repre- the Des Moines Register news- Michelle Obama’s famous quote presidential candidate, he was Three Republicans, But in the last few days, Ave- sents Daniels in the legal dispute paper, in an unusually direct that “when they go low, we go asked about a range of issues. including House Minority natti has gone a step further, over her claim that a Trump statement so early in the game. high”, Avenatti offered a less pol- Asked on CNN about Aven- Leader state Rep. Andria strongly suggesting he is ready to lawyer paid her to remain silent In his speech on Friday to the ished version: “When they go atti’s political ambitions, Trump Tupola, are vying for the take on the president in the 2020 about an alleged affair with the Iowa Democratic Wing Ding low, I say we hit harder.” Ave- lawyer Rudy Giuliani pretended Republican nomination. elections and positioning himself future president, travelled to the dinner — where Democratic pres- natti argued against showing too not to recognize the younger law- Former Pearl Harbor non- as someone tough enough to take Iowa State Fair on Thursday — idential hopefuls vie to raise their much restraint, saying, “The yer’s name before suggesting Ave- profit CEO Ray L’Heureux and on Trump in a bare-knuckles an almost mandatory stop for profiles — he portrayed himself moment we are living in is grave. natti might first want to “settle (a) former state senator John battle for the White House. presidential aspirants in the first as a street fighter ready to It is critical. Trump doesn’t have bankruptcy situation” he faces. Carroll are the other two. 20 MORNING BREAK MONDAY 13 AUGUST 2018

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The United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket launches Nasa’s Parker Solar Probe to the Sun at Cape Canaveral, Florida, US, yesterday. Nasa spacecraft hurtles towards the sun

AP and coursing through space, some- five or six or seven years,” Parker said by Nasa’s Helios 2 spacecraft in 1976. times wreaking havoc on electrical on Nasa TV. By the time Parker gets to its 22nd, CAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA: systems on Earth. Among the mysteries scientists 23rd and 24th orbits of the sun in 2024 Embarking on a mission that scientists This is the first time Nasa has hope to solve: Why is the corona hun- and 2025, it will be even deeper into have been dreaming of since the Sputnik named a spacecraft after a living dreds of times hotter than the surface, the corona and traveling at a record era, a Nasa spacecraft hurtled yesterday person. As Parker and thousands of which is 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit 430,000 mph (690,000 kilometers per o o towards the sun on a quest to unlock others watched, a Delta IV Heavy (5,500 degrees Celsius)? And why is hour). Nothing from planet Earth has 34 C 44 C some of its mysteries by getting closer rocket carried the probe aloft, thun- the sun’s atmosphere continually ever gone that fast. than any object sent before. dering into the clear, star-studded sky expanding and accelerating, as Parker Even Fox has difficulty compre- Minimum Maximum If all goes well, the Parker Solar on three pillars of fire that lit up the theorized in 1958? hending the mission’s derring-do. Probe will fly straight through the middle-of-the-night darkness. “The only way we can do that is to “To me, it’s still mind-blowing,” Hot daytime with slight dust to blowing dust at places at times. wispy edges of the sun’s corona, or Nasa needed the mighty 23-story finally go up and touch the sun,” said she said. “Even I still go, ‘Really? We’re outer atmosphere, in November. In the rocket, plus a third stage, to get the project scientist Nicola Fox of Johns doing that?’”

HIGH TIDE 05:45 –18:45 LOW TIDE 01:00 – 11:30 years ahead, it will gradually get within Parker probe - the size of a small car Hopkins University. “We’ve looked at The 8-foot (2.4-meter) heat shield Courtesy: Qatar Meteorology Department 3.8 million (6 million km) of the and well under a ton - racing toward it. We’ve studied it from missions that will serve as an umbrella that will surface, its instruments protected from the sun, 93 million miles (150 million are close in, even as close as the planet shade the spacecraft’s scientific instru- the extreme heat and radiation by a km) from Earth. A Saturday morning Mercury. But we have to go there.” ments, with on-board sensors revolutionary new carbon heat shield launch attempt was foiled by last- A better understanding of the sun’s adjusting the protective cover as nec- and other high-tech wizardry. minute technical trouble. But yesterd life-giving and sometimes violent essary so that nothing gets fried. The Altogether, the Parker probe will gave way to complete success. nature could also enable earthlings to shield is capable of withstanding 2,500 make 24 close approaches to our star It was the first rocket launch ever better protect satellites and astronauts degrees F (1,370 degrees C). during the seven-year, $1.5bn journey. witnessed by Parker, a retired Uni- in orbit, along with the power grids so A mission to get up close and per- “Wow, here we go. We’re in for some versity of Chicago professor. He said vital to today’s technology-dependent sonal with our star has been on Nasa’s learning over the next several years,” it was like looking at photos of the Taj society, said Thomas Zurbuchen, books since 1958. The trick was making said Eugene Parker, the 91-year-old Mahal for years and then beholding Nasa’s science mission chief. the spacecraft compact and light astrophysicist for whom the spacecraft the real thing in India. Parker, the probe, will start shat- enough to travel at incredible speeds is named. “I really have to turn from biting tering records this fall. On its very first and durable enough to withstand the It was Parker who accurately the- my nails in getting it launched, to brush with the sun, it will come within punishing environment. orized 60 years ago the existence of thinking about all the interesting things 15.5 million miles (25 million kilom- “We’ve had to wait so long for our solar wind - the supersonic stream of which I don’t know yet and which will eters), easily beating the current record technology to catch up with our charged particles blasting off the sun be made clear, I assume, over the next of 27 million miles (43 million km) set dreams,” Fox said.

Shark thriller ‘The Meg’ The name’s Idris: Actor Elba chomps $44.5m fuels James Bond speculation AP AFP NEW YORK: Adding to Hollywood’s sizzling summer, the shark thriller “The Meg” opened LONDON: British actor Idris Elba well above expectations with an estimated (pictured), fuelled speculation $44.5m in ticket sales, while Spike Lee had yesterday that he may be named his best debut in a decade. the first black James Bond, with a “The Meg” had been forecast by some cryptic tweet. analysts for closer to half that total. An Amer- “My name’s Elba, Idris Elba,” he ican-Chinese co-production between Warner tweeted, echoing the super spy’s Bros. and China’s Gravity Pictures, it also famous catchline, “The name is debuted well overseas, taking in $50.3m in Bond, James Bond.” China and totaling $96.8m internationally, Lebanese pop sensation The message sent fans into a according to studio estimates yesterday. With frenzy of excitement, as rumours an international cast led by Jason Statham reveals breast cancer abound that Elba may be named to and featuring Li Bingbing, Rainn Wilson and succeed Daniel Craig as the next Winston Chao, “The Meg” cost at least $130m battle in music video incarnation of 007. to make. Elba, 45, made his name in gritty Following hits like “The Shallows” and “47 REUTERS US television drugs drama “The Meters Down,” the shark movie - 43 years after Wire” and won a Golden Globe for Steven Spielberg’s “Jaws” - has been showing BEIRUT: Lebanese pop singer Elissa his role as a murder detective in Elba has been linked to the that he and Broccoli had never dis- surprising bite at the box office. Jeff Goldstein, surprised fans this week by revealing in a “Luther”, before moving to the big Bond franchise for years, although cussed Bond or casting. Craig will distribution chief for Warner Bros., said late new music video that she had overcome screen. The son of a car factory he has previously said that he return for the fifth time as Bond in 2019, summer was ideal timing for “The Meg.” breast cancer, raising awareness of a worker from east London, he is now thought he might be too old. in an as yet unnamed movie directed “This was a fun, dumb popcorn movie disease campaigners say can be a taboo one of Hollywood’s most sought- Fresh rumours emerged this by Oscar-winning filmmaker Danny that just looked interesting to the public eve- topic of discussion in Lebanon. after stars. He has been in block- week amid reports that Bond producer Boyle. rywhere around the world,” Goldstein said. “Early detection of breast cancer can busters such as “Thor”, “Pacific Barbara Broccoli said it was now “time” It is expected to be Craig’s final “We dug our heels in and said: This is the save your life. Don’t ignore it, face it,” Rim” and “Star Trek”, and was nom- for a black actor to take the role. outing as 007, having previously right time to go. The last movie, as kids are 46-year-old Elissa wrote at the end of her inated for a Golden Globe for However, a spokesman for the alleged starred in “Casino Royale”, going back to school, all the big blockbusters video ‘To all who love me’, released on playing the title role in “Mandela: source of this quote, director Antoine “Quantum of Solace”, “Skyfall” and have played off. We’re in a space by Tuesday. Elissar Khoury, who performs Long Walk to Freedom”. Fuqua, told the Hollywood Reporter “Spectre”. ourselves.” under the name Elissa, is one of the best known and highest-selling female artists in the Arabic-speaking world, with 13.3 million followers on Twitter. Elissa revealed in her video that she was Scientists develop clothing that can communicate diagnosed with early stage breast cancer in December. Interspersed with glittering IANS dance scenes, the video shows her going that communicates optically light-emitting semiconductor the varsity. “It is already sensing diodes. under a medical scanner and lying in hos- with other devices. diodes the size of a grain of allowing us to expand the fun- The resulting fibres were pital beds. It also includes footage of her NEW YORK: Researchers This discovery, described sand, and a pair of copper damental capabilities of then woven into fabrics, collapsing on stage in February while per- have, for the first time, in the journal Nature, could wires a fraction of a hair’s fabrics to encompass commu- which were laundered 10 forming in Dubai. “I think there isn’t enough produced fibres with unleash a new ‘Moore’s Law’ width. When heated in a nications, lighting, physio- times to demonstrate their awareness in our Arab region about this. embedded electronics that are for fibres, in other words, a furnace during the fibre- logical monitoring, and more. practicality as possible Elissa found out because she was educated so flexible they can be woven rapid progression in which the drawing process, the polymer In the years ahead, fabrics will material for clothing. enough... and she does her yearly check ups,” into soft washable fabrics and capabilities of fibres would preform partially liquifies, deliver value-added services One of the advantages of said video director Angy Jammal. Lebanese made into wearable clothing. grow rapidly and exponen- forming a long fibre with the and will no longer just be incorporating function into gynaecologist and member of the National Embedding high speed tially over time, said diodes lined up along its selected for aesthetics and the fibre material itself is that Breast Cancer Campaign, Faysal Al Kak, wel- optoelectronic semiconductor researchers from the Massa- centre and connected by the comfort,” Fink added. the resulting fibre is inher- comed Elissa putting breast cancer in the devices, including light- chusetts Institute of Tech- copper wires. In this case, the solid com- ently waterproof. spotlight. “This is a very bold and pro- emitting diodes (LEDs) and nology (MIT) in Boston. “We are anticipating the ponents were two types of To demonstrate this, the gressive move,” he said, hoping increased diode photodetectors, into The key breakthrough for emergence of a ‘Moore’s law’ electrical diodes made using team placed some of the pho- awareness will help more people detect the washable fabrics also makes producing these new fibres analogue in fibres in the years standard microchip tech- todetecting fibres inside a fish early signs of cancer and seek out treatment. it possible to produce clothing was to add to the preform ahead,” said Yoel Fink from nology: LEDs and photo- tank.