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El Jaish beat Al Ahli Kuwaiti Emir World Stadium welcomes two Qatari boys Congress to lay QNA

KUWAIT: Emir of Kuwait H H Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Jaber pitch for 2022 Al Sabah welcomed at Bayan Pal- ace yesterday two Qatari boys, Ghanim Mohammad Al Muftah and Ahmad Mohammad Al Muf- come,” said Eng Othman Zarzour, tah and the team of “Ghanim Competition Venues Deputy Exec- Around-the-World Tour”, in the Meeting to bring utive Director at the SC. presence of Kuwait’s Minister of together biggest The summit will host some of the Information and Minister of State biggest names in sports and stadi- for Youth Affairs Sheikh Salman names in sports ums including FIFA, the SC, UEFA, Sabah Salem Al Humoud Al Sabah. and stadiums. DFL Bundesliga and more and act as Ghanim Al Muftah said he a precursor to 2022 FIFA World Cup was honoured to meet the Emir of . It will outline the best venue Action from El Jaish’s Emir Cup quarter-final clash against Al Ahli at Abdullah Bin Khalifa Stadium Kuwait, adding that his visit came and event security systems. yesterday. El Jaish won 4-2. Earlier in the evening at the same venue, Lekhwiya edged past Al Sailiyah at the invitation of the Kuwaiti The Peninsula “With presentations from gov- 1-0 when Youssef Msakni fired home a late winner in the 87th minute. Pic: Baher A/The Peninsula Emir who recently visited Qatar, ernment, federation, club, and → See also page 36 Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) stadium directors from Barcelona, reported. Brussels, Cairo, Geneva, Frank- Ahmad Al Muftah said he DOHA: The World Stadium Congress furt, , Zurich, and more, the was proud and happy to see the 2016, to be held here next week, is event will allow Qatar to prepare for humanitarian leader — the Emir expected to lay the groundwork for a successful delivery of sports and of Kuwait. the 2022 FIFA World Cup Qatar and stadia projects bound to spur soci- Qatar University ranks first in Arab region other FIFA World Cups and discuss oeconomic growth in the region for COMING UP... the latest in stadium technologies. all,” said David Zabinsky, Confer- The annual conference is being ence Director. The Peninsula The rankings measure per- Sustainability groups. organised by the International Qual- “I’m confident that this year’s formance of 700 leading world Dr Mazen Hasna, VP and Chief ity and Productivity Center (IQPC) summit will act as the most diverse universities by 20 unique indica- Academic Officer of QU, said: “QU has Middle East in partnership with the and comprehensive summit of its DOHA: Qatar University (QU) has tors and four key areas of university been advancing well in all rankings Supreme Committee for Delivery and kind. Not only will you hear from been ranked number one in the Arab activities — teaching, research, over the past few years, and in this Legacy (SC). The event is slated to be the stadium architect, consultant, region, according to Round University international diversity, financial particular case, we are proud of our held from May 16 to May 19 at the or operator, but you will also gain Rankings (RUR) published recently. sustainability. position that witnessed substantial Westin Doha Hotel & Spa. the perspective from the player him- The university also ranked 360th The Bronze League is part of improvement over last year. “The SC is proud to be part- self, as famous retired footballer worldwide, attaining the Bronze a classified system comprising 6 While QU is improving in almost Dr Mariam Ali Abdulmallik, Managing ners for this year’s summit, which Louis Saha and high jump athlete League in the overall rankings, and leagues adopted by the RUR. The all aspects related to the indicators Director of the Primary Healthcare will bring together experts to dis- Mutaz Barshim will speak on the 13th worldwide on the International Bronze classification embraces uni- of this ranking, our organised data Corporation (PHCC), in an exclusive cuss solutions to stadium planning, importance of stadia perfection, Diversity indicator. versities ranked 301-400. reporting and understanding of dif- interview with The Peninsula speaks operation and management. The ranging from the locker room to the The rankings agency is based To be counted as a part of the ferent rankings have added to our about the ambitious and far-reach- ing transformation taking place in impact of our plans for the 2022 white on-field lines to the pitch,” he in Moscow and is supported by league, the university should get into improvement. We are happy with this Qatar’s primary healthcare sector. FIFA World Cup and the legacy it added. data produced and provided by the the 3rd quartile on main RUR indi- news and look forward to improving Read the full interview in tomor- will leave behind will benefit Qatar Institutional Profiles database by cators and into the 2nd quartile in our positioning in the international row’s paper. and the region for generations to → Continued on page 6 Thomson Reuters. International Diversity and Financial arena.” 02 MONDAY 9 MAY 2016 HOME Qatar Charity raises QR5.5m for Aleppo

Philanthropists in Qatar donate generously during a special episode of ‘Relieve Aleppo’ campaign on ‘Tafreej Korba’ show on Quran Radio.

The Peninsula A Qatar Charity representative hands over aid to a boy in Aleppo. DOHA: Qatar Charity raised QR5.5m for the Syrians through The initiative aims to achieve a ‘Relieve Aleppo’ campaign also a special episode of its #Relieve target of QR10m for the benefit mobilises financial support for Aleppo campaign on ‘Tafreej of some 20,000 Syrians. the injured people and its team Korba’ radio show. Sheikh Hassan said: “Helping keeps working on reaching the Produced by QC in coopera- the needy is helping ourselves distressed and distributing food tion with Quran Radio, the show since the reward for doing so baskets and baby milk, among is aired on Tuesdays at 8pm. The is great,” he said. Sheikh Abdul others. Good doers can donate episode discussed the priori- Salam stressed the role as Mus- to #Relieve_Aleppo campaign ties and needs of the people of lims to relieve our brothers and for ambulances, treatment of Aleppo and facilitated donations sisters. “Aleppo is now the most the injured and food distribu- on air. The show hosted Sheikh dangerous region worldwide. It tion. Donations can be made Abdul Salam Al Basyoni and is the first time for prayer to be through Al Rayan Bank account Sheikh Hassan Al Husseini and prohibited in mosques because No. IBAN/QA40MAFR0000000 was presented by Abdul Rah- of the severity of the situation,” 00003111111001; QC’s website man Al Harami and Haqer Al he said. qcharity.org; QC’s headquar- Shahwani. Youssef bin Ahmed Al ters and branches in Qatar; and The episode highlighted the Kuwairi, CEO, QC, said: “We the collection points in the malls. situation in Aleppo and tragic thank you all for contributing Donations for medical serv- incidents happening there as to the success of the humanitar- ices (treatment for the injured) the world remains silent. It ian campaigns QC implements can be made by sending ‘MS’ encouraged philanthropists in for the victims of wars and dis- code by SMS to 23629 to donate Qatar to stand by their Syrian asters in regions around the QR50; 24629 to donate QR100 brothers and sisters so the lat- world. We are grateful for this 82429 to donate QR500; and ter would enjoy some peace and continuous support to help alle- 92429 to donate QR1,000. People security. During the episode, a viate the sufferings and spread can donate food baskets, each relief campaign was inaugu- virtue. We also thank Quran costing QR150 by sending ‘ES’ rated to cover medical and food Radio for cooperating with QC code by SMS to 25629. QC has services, including food baskets, to cover its campaigns and for set up hotline 11776644 for dona- water tanks and ambulances. making special episodes.” The tions and answering queries. HOME MONDAY 9 MAY 2016 03 Sheikha Mayassa attends GU-Q Commencement ceremony

“If a hoya (alumnus) could bring the FIFA World Cup to Qatar, I have no doubt you can achieve great things. No matter where you go, you will always be part of Qatar Foundation and Qatar’s narrative,” Sheikha Al Mayassa tells new graduates.

H E Sheikha Al Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, Chairperson, Qatar Museums, Doha Film Institute, and Reach Out to Asia, and Co-Chair, Joint Advisory Board, GU-Q, with officials and graduates at the ceremony. The Peninsula unique, interdisciplinary programme was the guest and delivered the tra- graduates, and will become part of “Qatar will continue to make speaker,” said Dean Dr Gerd Non- that prepares students to tackle the ditional address. the Georgetown family,” she said, list- progress using its National Vision neman in his introduction of the most important and pressing global She quoted Emir H H Sheikh ing world leaders and change makers 2030 to propel us into the future. honoured guest, highlighting her DOHA: Georgetown University issues by providing them with train- Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani who said who are Georgetown alumni and the “If a hoya (alumnus) could bring career dedicated to education and in Qatar (GU-Q) saw 68 students ing in critical thinking and analytic Georgetown had been part of Qatar vast array of careers alumni pursue. the FIFA World Cup to Qatar, I have turning Qatar into a global art hub. graduating at the eighth Com- and communication skills within an for the past 10 years, and played an “The list includes three of my no doubt you can achieve great things. The presentation of the candi- mencement ceremony in Education international context. important role in the development of siblings who attended GU-Q,” she No matter where you go, you will dates for the degrees was performed City. H E Sheikha Al Mayassa bint Qatar and the region. said, noting that her brother, Sheikh always be part of Qatar Foundation by Dean of School of Foreign Serv- This year’s graduating class Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, Chair- “Already, your fellow hoyas Mohammed bin Hamad bin Khalifa and Qatar’s narrative,” she added. ice on Main Campus, Dr Joel Hellman. included 24 men and 44 women person, Qatar Museums, Doha Film (alumni) have made a mark in Qatar Al Thani was the chairman of Qatar’s “There are several reasons why it The Tropaia Awards were receiving Bachelor of Science in Institute, and Reach Out to Asia, and and worldwide. Tonight you join winning bid to host the FIFA 2022 is particularly fitting that Sheikha Al held prior to the commencement Foreign Service (BSFS) degrees — a Co-Chair, Joint Advisory Board, GU-Q, Georgetown’s extensive orbit of World Cup. Mayassa is today’s commencement ceremony.

Al Sulaiti with Djibouti President Ashghal completes work on operating rooms for HGH’s surgical facility

The Peninsula helipads to transfer emergency cases procedures to ensure the success of and natural resources, the authority directly connected to the operating surgical intervention and contain or used local and international sustain- rooms and the ICU for accidents. avoid complications. ability assessment systems, such as The surgery building is equipped During the design and implemen- the Global Sustainability Assess- DOHA: The Public Works Author- with advanced systems to be used tation of the general surgery building, ment System to promote the ‘Green ity (Ashghal) has completed for the first time in Qatar, making it Ashghal considered the environ- Buildings’ concept to meet the current constructing and equipping one of the leading countries to use mental dimension and construction needs without affecting the environ- operating rooms for a new surgi- the technologies, such as the ability sustainability. To achieve sustainabil- ment and resources in the future. cal facility to be integrated with to use radiography during surgical ity and reduce consumption of energy The building cost about QR900m. Hamad General Hospital (HGH). Ashghal has also completed examination, inspection and operation procedures for techni- cal and electromechanical systems in preparation for the handover to the Ministry of Public Health. The surgery department build- ing project is one of the most important health projects to reflect positively on the efficiency of med- ical care services in Qatar. Minister of Transport and Communications H E Jassim bin Saif Al Works implemented by Ash- Sulaiti represented Qatar at the inauguration of Djibouti’s new ghal include construction works, President Ismail Omar Guelleh yesterday. Al Sulaiti conveyed complete equipping of the opera- greetings of both Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani tion rooms. The building includes and Prime Minister and Interior Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin 20 operating rooms, 17 of which Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani to President Guelleh and their wishes are general operating rooms, and of further progress and development to both countries. President three for operation with diag- nostic devices in addition to the Guelleh entrusted the Minister with his greetings to the Emir and Intensive Care Unit for accidents, the Premier and his wishes to Qatari leadership and people for recovery unit (post-anaesthesia further progress and prosperity. care), ICUs surgery, pre-surgery preparation units and associated services and a multi-storey park- ing tower to accommodate around 800 vehicles. Oman minister meets Al Kawari The building also includes a services unit, water storage facility, medical gasses networks and two

Shafallah sports day

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DOHA: Al Shafallah Centre For People with Special Needs organ- ised a sports entertainment day on its premises in Lusail, in cooper- Oman’s Minister of Heritage and Culture Sayyid Haitham bin Tarik ation with Qatari Police Sports Al Said met H E Dr Hamad bin Abdulaziz Al Kawari, Cultural Adviser Federation. At least 50 students took part at the Emiri Diwan and Qatar’s candidate to the post of Unesco in the event, which included activ- Director-General, in Muscat yesterday. Al Said welcomed Qatar’s ities based on students’ capacities nomination of Dr Al Kawari and stressed his country’s support. Dr and were held under the supervi- Al Kawari was in Oman as part of his election campaign in Arab sion of coaches and staff. Several and foreign countries. teachers and specialists from the centre were present. QU begins early registration of students

The Peninsula Registration Department, said the students to register for 12 credit hours department opened registration for instead of nine. The new summer graduate students (diploma, master’s system aims to help QU’s students and doctorate) yesterday and regis- registering in more hours and finish DOHA: Qatar University (QU) yes- tration for undergraduate students graduation requirements in less time. terday began early registration for who have finished 90 credit hours Al Marri said all courses offered for semester Fall 2016 and three summer or more will be today. Summer 1, 2, and 3 and Fall 2016 are semesters (summer 1, 2 and 3). Reg- Registration for other students is announced one week before early istration is available via myBanner scheduled according to a timeline. registration to give students oppor- self-service system on QU’s website. The new summer cluster (includ- tunity to prepare schedule and seek Nasser Rashid Al Marri, Director, ing the three semesters) allows guidance from academic advisers. 04 MONDAY 9 MAY 2016 HOME

Ministry recalls RAF builds traditional village in Tunisia GMC Envoy models of 2006-2007 traditional stitching of dresses, black- smith tools, and earthenware among The QR4.6m village in other handicrafts. The Peninsula Tauzar Governorate “The new facility, a generous ges- ture of RAF, has 350,000 handicrafts aims to preserve of 90 types,” said Asma Al Madhuyb, ancestors’ professions Director-General, Tunisian National DOHA: The Ministry of Economy Diwan for Traditional Industries. and Commerce, in collaboration and provide jobs to “The village will help provide jobs with Mannai Trading Co. dealer artisans. to 5,000 artisans annually. It will also of GMC vehicles, has announced help revive traditional industries as the recall of GMC Envoy models of Tunisian heritage is very special. 2006-2007 over a potential defect Tunisian artisans rely on natural in the driver’s door module when By Sanaullah Ataullah materials like palm trees for hand- subjected to fluids. The Peninsula icrafts,” said Al Madhuyb. The ministry said the recall is The village was named ‘Qas- part of efforts to protect consum- tilia’ after the name of Tauzar in the ers and ensure dealers follow up first Islamic era as it is a miniature of on vehicle defects and repairs. DOHA: Sheikh Thani Bin Abdullah Biledulgerid in buildings and other The ministry said it will coor- Foundation for Humanitarian Serv- components. Biledulgerid (the coun- dinate with the dealer to follow up ices (RAF) has built a traditional try of dates) was formerly a country in on maintenance and repair works village at a cost of QR4.6m in Tau- Northern Africa, south of Mount Atlas, and communicate with customers zar Governorate of Tunisia to preserve bounded on the north by Tunis on the to ensure repairs are carried out. ancestors’ professions and provide west by Algiers and the Sahara on the The ministry urged custom- jobs to artisans. east by Tripoli, supposed to be about ers to report any violations to its The village developed over an 180 square miles. Consumer Protection and Anti- area of 4,300sqm houses 20 work- The village was inaugurated in a Commercial Fraud Department shops with 200 artisans and a hall ceremony attended by Qatari Ambas- through the call centre: 16001; to showcase their products for sale. sador to Tunisia Abdullah bin Nassir email: [email protected]; Twitter: The workshops deal with mak- Al Humaidi, a RAF delegation led by @MEC_Qatar; Instagram: MEC_ ing items from palm tree wood and Mohammad Salah Ibrahim and Tau- Qatari Ambassador to Tunisia, Abdullah bin Nassir Al Humaidi, Tauzar Governor Lutfi Sasi and RAF delegation Qatar; or the ministry’s mobile app leafs, designs on wall, hand-stitching, zar Governor Lutfi Sasi. led by Mohammad Salah Ibrahim at the opening ceremony of the village. for Android and IOS: MEC_Qatar. WISH invites applications for ‘Innovation Showcases’ competition

The Peninsula opportunity to launch their products and rev- Showcases creation team, is part of the judg- has fuelled the success of many competitors, open new doors for collaboration and unpar- olutionise the healthcare profession in several ing panel. “In addition to the exciting chance to including Erin Stieber, Vice-President, Strate- alleled possibilities for worldwide diffusion of fields. To be considered, innovators must sub- attend WISH 2016 in Doha, competition win- gic Partnerships, Smile Train, who showcased innovative ideas.” mit a project that is inventive, transferable ners will have opportunity to meet and engage her company’s ‘Virtual Surgery Simulator’ in WISH is a global initiative of Qatar Foun- DOHA: The World Innovation Summit for and has a potentially global impact. Projects with many of the key global decisionmakers 2015. As the first free, open-access, web- dation. The 2016 Summit will focus on seven Health (WISH) has invited applications for in any field relevant to healthcare innovation in healthcare innovation, policy and delivery,” based, multilingual, interactive simulation specific challenges: Healthy Populations; its ‘Innovation Showcases’ competition. are eligible. The competition closes on May 27. he said. “Longer term, acquisition of the sta- designed to provide additional training for Precision Medicine; Economic Benefits of The contest will give healthcare innovators To submit an application, or find out tus of WISH Innovation Showcase will open surgeons in cleft lip and palate surgery, the Investing in Health; Cardiovascular Disease; a chance to demonstrate their works in front more about the competition, candidates new doors for collaboration and unparalleled simulator holds promise for the developing Accountable Care; Autism; and Behavioural of more than 1,000 global health experts and should visit http://www.wish-qatar.org/ possibilities for worldwide diffusion of your world, where many medical professionals face Insights. WISH will also report on its ongoing decisionmakers at the summit in November. innovation-showcases/ innovative ideas.” difficulty accessing training for cleft surgery. impact locally and globally on issues previ- This year, 20 entrants will be chosen to Professor Lord Darzi, Executive Chair The competition was introduced in Encouraging other innovators to enter the ously highlighted at the conference, such as present projects, providing competitors with of WISH and Chair of WISH Innovation December 2013 at the inaugural summit and competition, Steiber said, “The showcase will diabetes and patient safety. Beauty salon shut down over violations

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DOHA: The Ministry of Economy and Commerce has shut down a beauty centre in a resort in Ras Abu Aboud for one month over display and use of expired products. The ministry acted against the facility following an inspection campaign carried out by its Department of Consumer Protection and Anti-Commercial Fraud. Inspectors fined the beauty centre and ordered it closed in line with provisions of Law No 8/2008. The law stipulates that suppliers of goods must clearly dis- play on product labels a clear description of goods and their ingredients and refrain from posting any mislead- ing or false statements. The ministry’s efforts seek to offset price manipulation and expose violations pertaining to coun- terfeit goods and non-conformance with standards and specifications. An official from the The Ministry of Economy and The administrative closure is published on the minis- Commerce prepares a report during inspection of try’s website and two newspapers at the centre’s expense the beauty salon. in line with Article 3 of the law on consumer protection. The ministry said it will refer violators of laws and ministerial decrees to authorities for legal action. department concerned and send complaints and sug- It urged consumers to report any violation to the gestions through the ministry’s communication channels. Support vital for new mothers to cope with stress after birth

The Peninsula “After birth, the new mother may be prone to emotional outbursts experiences a dramatic drop in within a couple of weeks of having hormones that can leave her feeling her baby. She may be extremely sen- fatigued, lethargic and depressed; sitive to any comment, cry or be upset DOHA: New mothers having support she may have emotional issues such easily, sometimes for no apparent of family and friends are better able as feeling less attractive or as if she reason, and be generally moody.” to cope with the stressful period after has lost control over her life,” said For some women, however, these giving birth and have less chances of Dr Suhaila Ghuloum, Senior Con- symptoms may indicate a more seri- developing postpartum depression, sultant, Mental Health Service, HMC. ous problem, particularly if they are according to a psychiatry expert at Families and friends can pro- severe or last more than two weeks. Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC). vide support in different ways, such In postpartum depression, the According to a research published as helping to look after the child or mother may develop a persistently by HMC in 2013, the prevalence of the household, especially if there low mood or severe mood swings, postpartum depression among psy- are other children to care for. Many overwhelming fatigue and feel- chiatry patients was just under 18 times, listening and understand- ings of hopelessness, worthlessness percent. The study also confirmed ing can also be helpful. It is also or inadequacy. She may start feel- that risk factors in Qatar are similar important to watch out for signs or ing guilty or fear that she is failing to those found worldwide, including symptoms of depression, as people as a mother or cannot cope with the lack of marital or family support, often may not recognise or acknowl- duties of motherhood. Her sleep may complicated pregnancy, history of edge that they are depressed. be more disturbed than normal for a depression, and sources of stress such “Postpartum depression is dif- parent caring for a newborn, and she as financial problems, for example. ferent from ‘baby blues’ which are may have a very poor appetite, lead- “While having a baby is one of common and usually go away on ing to significant weight loss. She may the most joyous experiences we can their own in a few days,” Dr Ghu- feel unable to enjoy the experience of have, it is also a major life event that loum said. being a mother and have difficulty can be very stressful for new parents. “In baby blues, the new mother bonding with her baby. HOME MONDAY 9 MAY 2016 05

The Peninsula bids farewell to long-serving employee Katara brings out book on ‘classical poets’ in Qatar

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DOHA: The Cultural Village Foundation-Katara launched its latest book Divan of Classi- cal Poets in Qatar, compiled by a team of researchers at the Studies and Research Committee. Dr Nadia Al Madahka, Direc- tor of the Research Department, and Research Expert Abdul Aziz Rifaat launched the book. Dr Al Madahka said: “It’s my pleasure to meet you today as we celebrate the occasion of launching a new Katara milestone The Peninsula Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Khalid Al-Shafi, presenting a memento to Roy George Kattoor during his farewell party at the newspaper’s office last night. Roy George joined publication: Divan of Classical the newspaper on December 13, 1996 and worked for more than two decades before deciding to move to his home country, India. Acting Managing Editor Mohammed Salim Poets in Qatar. Mohamed (right) is seen applauding. (RIGHT) Roy George addressing colleagues at the farewell ceremony. Pics: Salim M / The Peninsula “This book represents another jewel added to the Crown of the Qatari innovation and poetry library. Katara’s library has become an incubator for thought and creativity featuring treasures of the Qatari national heritage.” He pointed out that the publi- Most ‘drugs seized in Qatar came through sea’ cation has 375 pages and contains altitude constellation of 14 Qatari poets and poets who lived in Qatar. They include Mohamed By Sidi Mohamed said most of the countries in the bin Hassan Al Marzoqi, Majed bin The Peninsula world are facing drug and alcohol Saleh Al Khulaifi, Abdulrahman problems, which make them enact bin Abdullah Al Derham, Abdul- laws and sign agreements between lah bin Saleh Al Khulaifi, Salih themselves to prevent drug smug- Soliman Al Mana, Ahmed bin DOHA: Most of drugs seized in gling and take action against those Youssef Al Jaber, Abdulrahman Qatar came through the sea where involved. Al Maawada, Youssef bin Abdul- smugglers use high-speed cruisers Some 10 years ago, Qatar estab- rahman Al Khulaifi, Abdullah bin and weapons, according to a Public lished the committee, which has Abdelrahman Qtba, Sheikh Ali bin Security official.. organised several awareness pro- Soud Al Thani, Maarof Rafeeq, This was disclosed by Staff grammes using media. Ahmad Mohamed Al Sadeeq, Dr Major-General Saad bin Jassim Al Drugs between America and Asia Staff Major-General Saad bin Jassim Al Khulaifi (second right), Director-General, Public Security, and Hassan Naama, and Dr Hajar Khulaifi, Director-General, Public pass through the Arabian Gulf and President, Permanent Committee for Drugs and Alcohol Affairs, In a lecture at Ahmed Bin Mohammed Ahmad Hajr. Rifaat said the book Security, and President, Permanent more than 80 percent of the nar- Military College. is a publication that represents Committee for Drugs and Alcohol cotics come through , poetry from the 18th century to Affairs. Pakistan and Sri Lanka, which are this present day, documented In a lecture at Ahmed Bin also trying to combat the menace. said authorities had seized millions of Qatar to other countries. countries to prevent the smuggling by Researcher Ali Abdullah Al Mohammed Military College, he Staff Major-General Al Khulaifi Captagon pills which were crossing “So we cooperate with many of the narcotics,” he added. Fayaad. QRCS holds self-enrichment workshops at 12 schools

Participants at Qatar Red Crescent Society’s ADEPTS programme at one of the schools.

The Peninsula “It comprises interactive lectures practical skills such as mind map- and educational workshops on dif- ping, teamwork, smart goal setting ferent topics and issues related to the and executive planning. lives of youth to solve their problems, Programme staff are trying to DOHA: Qatar Red Crescent Society’s broaden their minds and instill use- help trainees realise that insight- (QRCS) Social Development Depart- ful attitudes and thoughts into them, ful strategies are key to success, ment is implementing ADEPTS, a building upon their experiences, ten- have a positive self-image, enjoy school training programme to create dencies and mental and age-related work under pressure, be proactive effective and productive personalities faculties.” and open-minded, master the art of among schoolchildren, producing a He said diverse methods of dialogue, pursue flexibility and prob- generation that believes in the vision teaching are used such as discus- lem-solving techniques, be aware of of its nation and aligns itself towards sion, experimentation, role-playing, consciousness and the subconscious, it. group learning and extracurricular deal with strengths and weaknesses During the second semester of the activities. by perceiving their own, be interper- current academic year 2015-2016, the “This combines together edu- sonally intelligent and interactive by programme covered 12 schools in cational aims, personal innovation perceiving others’ schemata, under- Doha, Al Shamal, Mesaieed, Dukhan and hands-on practice, instilling into stand negative and positive aspects and Al Jumailiyah. their minds values and attributes to of problems, know how to shift from Rashid bin Saad Al Mohan- benefit them now and in the future.” negative to the positive aspects, and nadi, Director of the department, The programme has three assimilate and copy success stories said, “ADEPTS is a developmental dimensions: Abilities to create an through modelling. project to achieve human develop- innovative personality; morality to Influential as they are, teachers ment goals of Qatar National Vision promote such ideals as prayer time and parents are also covered by the 2030 by developing a future genera- observance, honesty, truthfulness, programme to enable them to bring tion of creative citizens, leaders and benevolence, tolerance; and man- the young men and women up in a decisionmakers. agement to acquire personal and positive and constructive way. 06 MONDAY 9 MAY 2016 HOME LG Electronics honours Video Home & Jumbo Electronics

Director & CEO C V Rappai visited present immense opportunities for South Korea in the last week of April. mutual growth for Video Home & LG Video Home & Jumbo They were received by LG’s top Electronics. “We will continue to strive Electronics officials management, including Brian Na, for innovation for a better life from the Executive Vice-President, Global Mar- consumer’s perspective which is the visit South Korea to keting Office, on behalf of LG CEO; foundation of our ‘Life’s Good’ brand celebrate 30 years of Jaeyoo Park, Senior Vice-President, promise. With our innovative products Home Appliances & Air Solution; Yong and advanced technologies which will partnership. Geun Choi, President, Gulf FZE; and deliver new levels of entertainment, officials from various product divi- convenience, comfort, security and sions. Jennifer Kim, General Manager, energy savings, we will make you and The Peninsula LG Qatar, was present. The board was Qatar consumers smile because it will presented with a commemorative make their lives better.” plaque in recognition of the 30 years Video Home & Jumbo Electronics of partnership and special gold lapel was founded in 1980 by late Jassim SEOUL: Video Home & Electronic pins were presented to board mem- Mohd Sulaiman and began its associ- Centre has completed 30 glorious bers. LG also organised a gala dinner ation with LG Electronics in 1986 with years of association with LG in Qatar. to felicitate Video Home & Jumbo two showrooms in Musherib to over This special relationship was rec- Electronics, attended by Mohamed 18 today all over Qatar, backed by a ognised by LG’s top management in Abdulla Al Dehaimi, Qatari Ambas- strong service network and an effi- South Korea which invited Video sador to South Korea; Mohamed A I cient supply chain. Video Home’s local Home’s chairman and board of direc- Al Sada, Minister Plenipotentiary at market expertise has helped nurture tors to a meeting to recognise and the Qatari embassy; and Jassim M Al the partnership and today Video Home appreciate fruitful ties nurtured from Moftah, Head of Financial and Admin- & Electronic Centre is the distributor humble beginnings to becoming a top istrative Affairs at the embassy. for LG’s home entertainment, appli- brand in Qatar. Video Home’s Board Na reiterated Sheikh Ahmed’s ances, mobile devices, air solutions, Chairman Sheikh Ahmed bin Saif Al views about the partnership to grow to hotel TV, digital signage and commer- Thani; Vice-Chairman and Managing greater heights and said Qatar’s ongo- cial air conditioning in Qatar. Video Video Home’s Board Chairman Sheikh Ahmed bin Saif Al Thani (centre) and other officials receive a Director Sajed Jassim Mohd Sulaiman; ing and planned development projects Home also caters to B2B business commemorative plaque from LG’s top management in Seoul. Director Ahmed Abdulla Al Khal; and as part of its National Vision 2030 across reality, institutions and hotels.

Aliyev honours QA to fly A380 on Doha-Guangzhou route from July 1 Al Nasser with

Delta region is one of China’s most vibrant trade Presidential Medal and travel hubs and we have witnessed steady Qatar Airways will be the passenger growth both to and from Guangzhou of First Class first foreign carrier to fly the over the years. superjumbo to Guangzhou “Passengers from Asia can now enjoy their QNA entire journey on our luxurious A380 aircraft Baiyun International when they fly to popular cities such as London Airport. and Paris via our state-of-the-art Hamad Inter- national Airport in Doha.” BAKU: President Ilham Aliyev The A380 provides outstanding levels of of Azerbaijan has awarded the comfort and reliability using state-of-the-art Presidential Medal of First Class technology and sets new benchmarks for all to Nasser bin Abdulaziz Al Nasser, The Peninsula the key qualities related to a passenger’s well- High Representative of the United being while on board. Wider seats, lower noise Nations Alliance of Civilisations, in levels, draught-free air circulation, and accu- recognition of his efforts to pro- rate temperature control are among the many The A380 upper deck features a spacious in-flight lounge for First and Business Class mote the culture of peace and DOHA: Qatar Airways (QA) will upgauge its advancements on the A380 that keep passen- dialogue among civilisations at passengers. Doha-Guangzhou service with the introduc- gers feeling fresh and comfortable during a long the global level in general and tion of its flagship Airbus A380 on the route. flight. between the UN organisations and Guangzhou will be QA’s fourth A380 desti- The 517-seat aircraft is spread across twin QA’s acclaimed Business Class cabin on the a 3-4-3 configuration. Each Economy Class seat Azerbaijan in particular. nation after London, Paris and Bangkok. decks in a tri-class configuration of eight seats A380 features 48 seats on the upper deck in a is 18.5-inch wide with a 32-inch seat pitch. Cou- President Aliyev and Al Nasser Daily flights on board the world’s largest in First Class, 48 seats in Business Class and 1-2-1 configuration, with an 80-inch full flat pled with the higher ceilings on the main deck opened the Seventh International commercial aircraft will begin on July 1 from 461 in Economy Class. Seats in each cabin class bed, 17-inch HD in-flight entertainment screen and a configuration that uses fewer seats, the Conference of the Alliance of Civi- Hamad International Airport in Doha, Qatar, are proprietary to QA and have been crafted and direct aisle access. The upper deck also fea- inflight environment contributes to a real feel- lisations in Baku on April 26 which to Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport. in close collaboration with the designers and tures a spacious in-flight lounge offering First ing of spaciousness when on board the A380 continued for two days, and con- Passengers travelling to and from Guangzhou manufacturers. and Business Class passengers an escape from super-jumbo. cluded with the issuance of the on QA QR874 and QR875 will enjoy a unique The First Class cabin features eight exclusive the typical plane environment, a QA experience Travellers can indulge in luxury and spa- Baku Declaration. and enhanced travel experience on the airline’s suites on the upper deck in a 1-2-1 configura- that is unique to the A380. In addition, First and cious extravagance on their way to Guangzhou The declaration was adopted bespoke A380 super-jumbo aircraft. tion. Each seat features a 90-inch pitch with a Business Class passengers can look forward to a for the Canton Fair, one of China’s largest import by UN member states and focused Akbar Al Baker, Group Chief Executive, QA, fully lie-flat bed, 26-inch HD in-flight entertain- sumptuous on-demand à la carte service menu and export trade events - in October for which on the concept of co-existence and said: “This year marks our eighth anniversary of ment screen and direct aisle access. The First and luxurious Giorgio Armani amenity kits when QA is the official airline partner. respect of others, respect for reli- operations in Guangzhou and we are delighted Class cabin also offers features such as spa- flying with QA. Doha (DOH) and Guangzhou (CAN) daily gions and acceptance of cultural to celebrate this milestone by introducing our inspired bathrooms with luxurious amenities The two Economy Class cabins on the spa- flight schedule: Departs DOH QR874 at 02:30 and civilisational diversity with bespoke A380 aircraft, re-affirming our long- to ensure passengers enjoy a comfortable and cious QA A380 can be found on the upper deck and arrives in CAN at 15:30; leaves CAN QR875 emphasis on the role of educa- standing commitment to China. The Pearl River leisurely flight. in a 2-4-2 configuration and on the main deck in at 00:55 and arrives in DOH at 04:00. tion in promoting these concepts. The conference witnessed a large and effective participation at the level of heads of state and government, foreign ministers, journalists and opinion makers and thought. WSC summit to focus on 2022

Continued from page 1 While the event boasts global and international intrigue, with case studies from Bilbao Arena (Spain), Camp Nou (Spain), DFL Bundesliga (Germany), Estadio Placido (Brazil), Emirates Stadium (UK), the summit will also dedi- cate much of the agenda to 2022 FIFA World Cup Qatar and other Qatari themes. Speakers confirmed to show- Officials from Qatar Red Crescent Society and Palestine Red Crescent Society at the opening of case their expertise and discuss the centre in Khan Yunis, southern Gaza. respective projects include: Sheikh Nasser bin Hamad bin Nasser Al Thani, Chief New Line of Business QRCS opens social support centre in Gaza Officer, Ooredoo Qatar; Jurgen Muller, Head of Planning & Infra- structure and Head of 2022 FIFA World Cup Qatar FIFA; Eng. Oth- The Peninsula cost of $135,000. Dr Nassar commended the strong man Zarzour, Keith Dalton, Senior relations between QRCS and PRCS, which is play- Match Operations Manager, UEFA; ing a significant role in improving the psychological Birger Nass, Head of Stadium & conditions of Palestinians, especially at times of Security Department, DFL Bun- DOHA: Qatar Red Crescent Society (QRCS) has war, said a statement. desliga; John Beattie, Stadium and opened a new centre of social and psychological “The opening of this centre is part of QRCS’s con- Facilities Director, Arsenal Football support in Khan Yunis, southern Gaza, in part- tinuous efforts to develop the psychological service Club; Dimitri Huygen, Managing nership with the Palestinian Red Crescent Society facilities in Gaza, under its program to relieve the Director and EURO Brussels 2020 (PRCS). victims of the 2014 war on Gaza. So far, this program Project Director, ESSMA; Prof. The opening ceremony was attended by Dr. has covered more than 6,000 families”. Dr. Ashraf Sobhi, Deputy Minis- Akram Nassar, Head of QRCS office in Gaza, Dr Dr Al Khatib said PRCS is looking forward to ter, Ministry of Youth & Sports, Younis Al Khatib, President, PRCS, top officials of offering more social psychological support, within Egypt, Bill Mannarelli, Director Italian Red Cross and Danish Red Cross and PRCS its strategy to work together with fellow National – Area Patrimonial, Espai Barca personnel and volunteers. Societies to serve the Palestinian people. and Chris Dite, Associate Director QRCS is sponsoring the psychological support He valued QRCS’s contribution to helping the – Sport Venue Design and Major program for victims of the 2014 war on Gaza, at a vulnerable and the distressed around the world. Events, Arup. MIDDLE EAST MONDAY 9 MAY 2016 07 warplanes IS militants shoot dead eight cops near Cairo attack rebels AFP CAIRO: Eight policemen were shot dead on Cairo’s southern outskirts in an attack claimed yesterday by the near Aleppo Islamic State group, one of its dead- liest in mainland Egypt. The interior ministry said four assailants in a truck intercepted a van significant advances in the north- carrying the policemen in the district ern region after their other main of Helwan, just south of Cairo, and Heavy fighting ally, Russia, entered the war in sprayed them with automatic rifle reported as September. fire. But the seizure of Khan Tou- It said those killed in the shooting government forces man on Thursday by an alliance of overnight included a lieutenant and try to push back Islamist insurgents known as Jaish seven lower ranking policemen who Al Fatah, including the Al Qaeda- had been on patrol in plain clothing. rebel advance. linked Nusra Front, marked a major In a statement circulated on social counter-attack by forces opposed to media, IS said “a squad of the soldiers President Bashar Al Assad. of the caliphate” opened fire on the Reuters The loss of the town south of police van and then made off with Aleppo was a particular blow for their weapons. Iranian troops who suffered one of It said the attack was carried out their biggest single-day losses in the in retaliation for “women imprisoned” A damaged vehicle following a gun attack on Egyptian policemen in Cairo’s southern outskirts yesterday. AMMAN: Syrian warplanes attacked conflict. in Egyptian jails. Islamist militants near the north- A fighter from the Nusra Front Jihadists have killed hundreds of ern city of Aleppo yesterday, both — which is not involved in a shaky policemen and soldiers in attacks, where police have had more success They have also targeted foreign- The bombing came two months sides said, as the government tried ceasefire across Syria — said on mostly in the Sinai Peninsula and in quelling them than in Sinai. ers. In October, the Islamic State after IS militants abducted a Croatian to push back an insurgent advance social media it was now pushing also in and around Cairo, since the They have claimed several attacks group claimed responsibility for oil worker near Cairo and beheaded in the area. further south towards the town of military toppled Islamist president in Cairo, including the bombing of the bombing a Russian airliner carrying him. Police later tracked down the top Dozens of air strikes hit near Al Hader, a stronghold for Hezbol- Mohamed Mursi in 2013. Italian consulate in July 2015. holidaymakers from a south Sinai IS operative in Cairo, who was linked the town of Khan Touman, which lah and Iranian forces. Militants had carried out a pre- More recently militants have resort, killing all 224 people on board. to the Croat’s murder, and killed him rebels took from forces loyal to the Inside Aleppo, where Russia vious attack in Helwan, killing a conducted hit-and-run attacks on The group said it smuggled explo- in a shootout. government and its ally Iran late on said it extended a truce that began policeman standing guard outside a policemen in Cairo and small scale sives concealed in a soda can on to But efforts to crush the insurgency Thursday, insurgents and state media on Wednesday until Monday, rebels museum in June 2015. bombings. They often claim their the plane at Sharm El-Sheikh, a popu- in Sinai have floundered despite a reported. said the Syrian army shelled and IS jihadists, who are based in the attacks are in retaliation for a bloody lar Red Sea resort in south Sinai. massive army campaign. Aleppo — one of the biggest bombed overnight their posts near sparsely populated Sinai Peninsula police crackdown on Islamist sup- That attack prompted Russia to In March, Islamic State gunmen strategic prizes in a war now in its a frontline in the western part of bordering Israel and the Palestin- porters of Mursi, which has killed suspend all flights to Egypt, and has killed 15 policemen at a checkpoint sixth year — has been divided into the city near the Jamiyat Al Zahraa ian Gaza Strip, have repeatedly tried hundreds of protesters and impris- cost the country hundreds of millions near El-Arish, the provincial capital government and rebel-held zones neighbourhood. to make inroads into the capital, oned thousands. of dollars in tourism revenues. of North Sinai. through much of the conflict. The “We don’t know how to take surrounding region is also crossed cover from the intensity of rockets by valuable supply routes into neigh- and air strikes that are showering bouring Turkey. us,” said Ahmad Al Wawi, a fighter The Syrian army said it had hit from Jaish Al Mujahdeen. Muslim Brotherhood unveils plan to heal rifts what it described as terrorist groups Rebels are seeking to take over hard yesterday, but did not give the area that would allow them to details of any territorial gains. enter the heart of government-held Anatolia and best organised political opposi- regime, younger members have In a Saturday statement, the Manar, the media outlet of the parts of Aleppo. tion movement, the Brotherhood has pressed for escalation. Brotherhood’s so-called “Supreme Iran-backed Hezbollah group sup- The British-based Syrian recently been dogged by divisions The rift burst into the open last Administrative Committee” urged porting Syrian government forces Observatory for Human Rights said CAIRO: Young members of Egypt’s between its old guard and younger December when the Brotherhood’s the two camps to “take a step back” in the area, said heavy fighting was rockets fired by rebels on residen- embattled Muslim Brotherhood have members. London office sacked group spokes- and “give a chance to the new gen- going on against the hardline Sunni tial areas in government-controlled unveiled a “roadmap” for healing the While the group’s older members man Mohamed Montaser in a move eration to be chosen by Brotherhood Muslim rebels. areas and in the main Saad Al Jabiri rifts currently plaguing the group. call for the use of “peaceful” means that was rejected by 11 of the group’s members in a free and transparent Government forces had made square injured seven. Once considered Egypt’s largest to oppose Egypt’s military-backed administrative offices. fashion”. 08 MONDAY 9 MAY 2016 MIDDLE EAST Lebanese vote for first time in six years

often related to their stance on the everything related to our daily life war in Syria. must wait for political parties to Municipal elections in Polling stations for the municipal come to an agreement,” she told Al- see low trunout election were open yesterday from Jadeed TV. 7am to 7pm (0400 GMT to 1600 GMT). Madinati hopes to channel the in wake of trash crisis. Results are expected today. energy of the protest movement, There are 1.8 million voters reg- which emerged in response to the istered for this round of voting. Three trash crisis that stemmed from a gov- other rounds will take place over the ernment failure for months to reach AP coming weeks in other parts of the an agreement on how to deal with it. country. In Beirut, residents are voting The protests went on to challenge the for the first time since an eight-month political class that has governed Leb- trash crisis ignited anti-government anon since the end of its 1975-1990 BEIRUT: Lebanese voted yesterday protests, with an outsider group of civil war. in municipal elections in Beirut and candidates challenging a political In one of the Bekaa’s main cities, the Bekaa Valley amid tight security establishment widely seen as cor- Baalbek, political groups, prima- and a low turnout in the capital that rupt and incompetent. rily Hezbollah and allied Shia group has recently seen the largest anti-gov- Beirut Madinati, for “Bei- Amal are pitted against family-backed ernment protests in years following a rut, My City,” has vowed to clean up candidates. months-long trash crisis. both the city’s streets and its politics. A day ahead of the elections, Leb- Security was tight in the country It is running against “Beirutis,” a list anese army and police intensified as authorities took strict measures to backed by several political groups, patrols and deployed in front of poll- guarantee that the vote passes without including the powerful predominantly ing stations. Motorcycles were banned trouble. was hit by a wave of Sunni Muslim Future Movement of on the day of the vote in an apparent bombings in recent years that killed former Prime Minister Saad Hariri, attempt to head off potential attacks scores of people and Syria’s civil war the Shia Muslim Amal group and the or speedy getaways. And to avoid late has spilled over in the past. country’s three main Christian groups. night crowds, Beirut’s famed night- Yesterday’s vote is the first to be Lebanon’s powerful Hezbollah clubs were ordered closed while bars held in the country since 2010. The group is only backing neighbourhood and restaurants had to shut after mid- government has postponed parlia- mayors, but not municipal candidates, night Saturday. In the eastern town of mentary elections, citing security in Beirut. Hezbollah has a strong base Arsal, a curfew was imposed on tens concerns linked to the conflict in in the country’s south and the Bekaa Lebanon’s Prime Minister Tammam Salam votes during Beirut’s municipal elections yesterday. of thousands of Syrian refugees until neighboring Syria. Lebanon has also Valley, and is fielding municipal can- the polling stations close. been without a president since 2014, didates there. Lebanon is home to more than a with the parliament failing to elect a But turnout was low in Beirut in the capital. The highest turnout percent voted. Nadine Labaki, a well- voters to “not let us down” in a tele- million registered Syrian refugees, the leader amid political disagreements, by the afternoon. The interior min- was in Baalbek, a Hezbollah-strong- known film director and candidate vised interview. equivalent of a quarter the country’s and a paralysis among political rivals ister said turnout was at 13 percent hold near the Syrian border, where 33 on the Beirut Madinati list, called on “It is not necessary that population of 4.5 million. Israeli Islamist cleric starts nine-month prison term Air strikes jolt Yemen truce as AFP 28 Israelis. Most of the Palestinians killed were carrying out knife, gun or car-ram- ming attacks, Israeli authorities say. talks flounder BEERSHEBA: Israeli Arab Muslim leader Salah has previously spent time in Raed Salah started a nine-month prison Israeli prisons for offences ranging from Reuters sentence yesterday for fomenting riots at incitement to spitting on a policeman to Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque. funding Palestinian Islamist militant group Salah was accompanied by about 100 Hamas. His latest jail spell comes after the CAIRO: Yemen’s Houthi movement accused a Saudi- well-wishers, including Israeli Arab law- Israeli Supreme Court last month denied led coalition of launching air strikes that killed seven makers, as he arrived at the prison in the him leave to appeal against convictions for people yesterday, shaking a truce that has largely held city of Beersheba in southern Israel’s Negev incitement to violence and racism. through more than two weeks of UN-backed peace desert, an AFP journalist said. The convictions stem from a 2007 rally talks in Kuwait. At a farewell rally earlier in his home against Israeli construction work near the The Iran-allied Houthis and Yemen’s Saudi- town of Umm Al Faham, in the north of the Al-Aqsa compound, in which he urged “all backed exiled government are trying to broker a peace country, he exchanged hugs with support- Muslims and Arabs (to) start an intifada through the talks in Kuwait and ease a humanitar- ers, local news agency Q-Press, considered (uprising) to support holy Jerusalem and ian crisis in the Arabian Peninsula’s poorest country. close to the Islamic Movement, reported. the blessed Al-Aqsa mosque.” The year-long conflict has drawn in regional pow- “It is an honour for me to enter prison In clashes with Israeli police which fol- ers and killed at least 6,200 people, according to the to defend and protect Al-Aqsa and Jerusa- lowed, a number of officers were injured. . lem,” it quoted him as saying. The protests reflected fears among Mus- “The aggressor’s planes bombed various districts “I enter prison by the will of God, not lims that Israel was planning to change in the Nehm district, leading to the death of seven the will of Netanyahu.” rules governing the site, the third holiest martyrs and wounding three,” the Houthis said in a Salah leads the radical northern wing in Islam. statement. of the Islamic Movement in Israel, which Revered by Jews as their most sacred Political sources from the Houthi group’s rivals Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shrine, the compound is a crucible of ten- in Yemen’s government say the bombing in the Nehm ordered banned last year after accusing it of sions in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. area east of the capital Sana’a was directed at Houthi encouraging violent protest that contributed Under longstanding rules, Jews are forces that were massing in the area in violation of a Israeli Arab Muslim leader Raed Salah bids farewell to his mother Laqia before to the October outbreak of a wave of unrest allowed to visit, but not pray in, the ceasefire that began on April 10. entering the Eshel prison in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba yesterday. that has so far killed 203 Palestinians and compound. A spokesman for the mostly Gulf Arab military coalition did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment. As part of the peace talks, representatives of Yem- Saudi soldier martyred in clash with militants en’s warring sides formed joint political and security committees last week but have made little progress Reuters toward a full ceasefire or political transition plan. In a further setback to talks after yesterday’s events, Houthi representatives refused to attend a DUBAI: A Saudi soldier died in a gunbattle with militants in the western Taif region meeting with UN Yemen envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh outside Makkah yesterday, state news agency SPA said. Ahmed, a statement from the office of Yemen’s prime Two assailants opened fire on a police station before retreating to the mountain minister said. village of Thaqeef where the soldier, named as private Saeed Al Harithy, was killed The meetings of the joint committees have as a in an exchange of fire, SPA reported. result been indefinitely postponed, pan-Arab Al Ara- Troops found an explosive vest and bomb-making material and the security biya television reported. operation was ongoing, the news agency added. A civil war in Yemen escalated when an armed Saudi forces have been caught up in an escalating confrontation with Islamic push by the Houthis pushed the government into exile State militants in the last week after troops shot dead two Islamic State fighters and on March 26 last year. two others blew themselves up in a raid on their compound outside the holy city of had mustered an alliance of mostly Makkah on Thursday. Gulf Arab countries to push the group back. But the coalition still appears far from forcing the Houthis out of Sana’a. Jailed ex-Israeli president applies for pardon

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JERUSALEM: Israeli ex-president Moshe Katsav, in prison for rape and other sexual offences, has asked the current head of state for a pardon, President Reu- ven Rivlin’s office said yesterday. “A request for pardon arrived at the president’s office today,” it said in a brief statement. “As is the custom with every request for a pardon it has been passed for handling to the presidential legal department,” the statement added. Katsav, the first Israeli head of state to be sent to prison, was jailed in 2011 for seven years on two counts of rape as well as sexual harassment, indecent acts and obstruction of justice. A parole board last month turned down his application for early release, saying that Katsav, 70, “expressed no regret and no sympathy toward the victims of his crimes”. ASIA / PHILIPPINES MONDAY 9 MAY 2016 09 Security forces on alert ahead of Philippine polls

his threats to unleash security forces was largely taking place on the local in an unprecedented crime spree, levels, but with the leaders’ angry Over 90% of the and shut down Congress if lawmak- rhetoric fuelling matters. nation’s police force, ers oppose him. President Benigno At least 15 people have died in Aquino, who is limited to a single six- election-related violence this year, or about 135,000 year term, has likened Duterte to Nazi according to national police statistics. officers, were already leader Adolf Hitler and warned of a In the latest suspected case, a looming dictatorship, with the pres- grenade blast killed a nine-year-old on election-related idential tensions fuelling an already girl behind the house of a powerful duty and has been volatile and violent political culture. political warlord in the strife-torn “Their rhetoric is quite vicious, province of Maguindanao late on Sat- authorised to carry their exchanges are quite vicious and urday, said Chief Inspector Jonathan their assault rifles. this is a signal to a lot of supporters del Rosario. Her death has not yet to up the ante and be more aggres- been included in the tally although sive,” Eric Alvia, head of the watchdog it likely will be, according to del group, National Citizens Movement Rosario, spokesman for a police elec- AFP for Free Elections, said. tion-monitoring taskforce in Manila. “This campaign has been divi- “This looks like it is election- sive and its polarising a lot of people. related but we have a process we They (feel they) can do whatever they have to follow,” del Rosario told AFP. MANILA: Security forces fanned out want.” Duterte has accused Aquino’s In the wake of the blast, across the Philippines yesterday on administration of planning “massive armoured vehicles could be seen the eve of national polls, following a cheating” to ensure that his preferred patrolling the streets of the town vicious and deadly election campaign successor, former interior secretary while soldiers in camouflage stood Paramilitary rescue team searching for life signs at the site of a landslide in Taining county in southeast dominated by presidential favourite Mar Roxas who surveys show is trail- guard on vital chokepoints. Rodrigo Duterte’s threats to kill thou- ing in second place, wins. Del Rosario said 90 percent of China’s Fujian province yesterday. sands of criminals. His followers have warned of a the nation’s police force, or about Surveys show Duterte, mayor “revolution” if Duterte loses, while 135,000 officers, were already on of the southern city of Davao, has a military-linked figures have threat- election-related duty and had been clear lead in today’s presidential elec- ened a possible coup attempt if he authorised to carry their assault tions as millions of voters embrace wins. Alvia said that the violence rifles. 34 missing in China landslide

AP Taining county in Fujian province The official Xinhua News Agency around 5am yesterday, according to reported that a 75-year-old woman a website run by the county’s Com- and her 3-year-old great-grandson munist Party’s publicity department. were washed away in an overflow- BEIJING: Rescuers yesterday China’s state broadcaster, CCTV, ing river from Friday to Saturday searched for 34 construction work- later reported that seven workers in Hubei province. Rainstorms had ers missing in a landslide at the site were rescued alive, with injuries earlier led to the evacuation of more of a hydropower project following including broken bones. than 1,000 people in Guangxi region, days of heavy rain in southern China. An official at the department said and collapsed a road in Guizhou Seven other workers were pulled out by phone that the cause of the land- province that left one person dead alive, officials and state-run media slide was still unclear, but that the and one missing. reported. area had seen rainfall in the past few The Taining county official, who Rocks and mud with a volume days. only gave his surname of Wei, said A combination photo shows Philippine presidential candidates for the election today, (from left) Davao of 100,000 cubic meters buried an Heavy rain has affected much of firefighters and police were attempt- city mayor Rodrigo “Digong” Duterte, Senator Grace Poe, former Interior Secretary Manuel “Mar” Roxas, office building and the workers’ liv- southern China since Wednesday, ing to reach the buried, who were Vice-President Jejomar Binay and Senator Miriam Santiago. ing area at the site in mountainous triggering floods and landslides. working on a hydropower project. Taiwan’s incoming govt accuses China of interference in WHO status

Reuters eral relations deteriorated further. parliamentary elections in January, in its legitimate government. On Friday, according to a state-run Xinhua the Taiwan Affairs Office were unac- China and self-ruled Taiwan part on rising anti-China sentiment on Ma Xiaoguang, spokesman for the Tai- report. ceptable. “We believe this is political underwent a rapprochement under the island. She has said she will main- wan Affairs Office, China’s top agency Taiwan, an island separated by the interference in our participation in the outgoing government which was tain the status quo with China, but that deals with the island, said that Taiwan Strait from mainland China, the WHO. We cannot accept this and TAIPEI: The incoming Taiwanese run by China-friendly Nationalists, has never conceded to a key bilateral Taiwan’s participation in the World has attended the annual gathering of express our solemn protest,” Tung government yesterday accused China but ties have begun to strain with their agreement, the “one China” principle. Health Assembly was an arrangement the World Health Assembly, the deci- said. “Taiwan people’s health and of “political interference” after a sen- successors, the independence-lean- Under this agreement with the based on the “one China” principle, sion-making body of the WHO, since their right to fully participate in the ior Chinese official cast doubt over the ing Tsai Ing-wen and her Democratic Nationalists, Taiwan and China agree and that this could cease “should the 2009 in an observer status. Incom- international community must not be island keeping its observer status at Progressive Party (DPP). Tsai and the they are both part of a single China political foundation of cross-Strait ing DPP cabinet spokesman Tung constrained by any political frame- the World Health Organisation if bilat- DPP won landslide presidential and although both sides lay claim to being ties be destabilised in the future,” Chen-yuan said the comments by work,” he said.

Electric bikes take off in North Korea Customers in pipeline?

Reuters predominate on Pyongyang’s wide Department Store for 2.62m won avenues, the electric bike trend began - around $330 at the unofficial in the last year, locals and foreign exchange rate of 8,000 won to the residents of the North Korean cap- dollar. While that is well beyond the PYONGYANG: Wheels have long ital said. reach of the average North Korean, been a sign of economic status for “You can carry luggage,” said Kim an expanding grey market economy both individuals and nations, and Chol Jin, a computer science student has given rise to a growing consumer on the lightly trafficked streets of at Kim Chaek University of Technol- class known as “donju”, or “masters of Pyongyang, capital of impoverished ogy, who was riding his electric bike money”. Most residents still commute and isolated North Korea, electric along Mirae Scientists Street. by foot or on the city’s crowded buses. bicycles are the hottest new ride on “My wife bought me this to help Ou Xiongfei, sales manager at the road. shorten my commute,” he told jour- another company, Benling Cycle Tech Almost unseen two years ago, the nalists, who were accompanied by a Limited Co in Dongguan, China, said Chinese-made two-wheelers are a government guide. its electric bikes and motorbikes are common site this week in the city, The proliferation of electric bicy- exported via trading companies to which hosts the first congress of the cles follows another recent local countries including , Iran country’s ruling Workers’ Party in consumer trend: a surge in residen- and North Korea. “Lots of our e-bikes 36 years. tial usage of LED light bulbs and solar and e-motorcycles are exported to Kim Jong Un, whose family has panels, to get around the country’s North Korea,” she told Reuters by run the country for nearly 70 years, chronic electricity shortage. phone. Traffic is getting busier in A vendor waits for consumers in front of concrete pipes at a wet market at Davao City, on the southern is expected to consolidate his lead- A bike made by a Chinese com- Pyongyang, which last year began ership at the congress. pany called Anqi was for sale this laying out its first dedicated bicycle island of Mindanao, in the Philippines yesterday. While pedal-powered bikes still week in Pyongyang’s Kwangbok lanes.T ‘Cyber warriors’ promoting moderate form of Islam in Indonesia

AFP of the Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) -- one hit back at IS’s sophisticated Internet were starkly illustrated in January cyberspace by establishing websites the group mostly communicate with of the world’s biggest Muslim organ- operations, which have been credited when militants linked to the jihadists promoting the group’s moderate one another over the web. But it will isations -- are seeking to counter the with attracting huge numbers from launched a gun and suicide bombing views, an Android app and web- be an uphill battle and the NU, which Islamic State group’s extremist mes- around the world to their cause. attack in Jakarta, leaving four assail- based TV channels, whose broadcasts has been promoting moderate Islam JAKARTA: A group of Indonesian sages. Internet propaganda is believed ants and four civilians dead. include sermons by moderate preach- for decades, conceded they have “cyber warriors” sit glued to screens, “We’ll never let Islam be hijacked to have played a key role in drawing It was the first major attack in ers. The initiative has been building previously struggled to take on IS’s as they send out messages promot- by fools who embrace hate in their some 500 Indonesians to the Middle Indonesia for seven years, following a momentum for a while but started hate-filled messages. “NU has for a ing a moderate form of Islam in the heart,” tweeted Syafi’ Ali, a prominent East to join IS, particularly among string of Islamic militant bombings in to pick up pace a few months ago. while wrestled with this radical prop- world’s most populous Muslim-major- member of the NU’s online army, a those living in cities where it is eas- the early 2000s that killed hundreds. A handful of cyber warriors oper- aganda,” said Yahya Cholil Staquf, ity country. Armed with lap tops and typical message to his tens of thou- ier to get online. The dangers of the As well as firing off tweets, the NU ate from a small office in Jakarta, secretary general of the NU, which smart phones, some 500 members sands of followers. They are trying to growing IS influence in Indonesia members have sought to dominate while the rest work remotely, and claims at least 40 million followers. 10 MONDAY 9 MAY 2016 VIEWS

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EDITORIAL Turmoil in Greece Obama’s policy: Syrian people

reece is again in turmoil over the austerity measures being imposed by its creditors. Police and protesters clashed outside the parliament yesterday as MPs must leave, not Assad! prepared to vote on controversial pension and tax laws that are seen as the toughest reforms the Gcountry has been forced to enact since its financial crisis began. The magnitude of disappointment and anger among Greeks could pressure on the regional allies not took place between Iranian repre- allowed Assad to create the perfect be gauged from the severity of violence. Rioters threw police to supply advanced weapons to sentatives and U.S. officials. In line environment for the birth and prolif- the rebels, and on some occasions with this, although 2012 witnessed eration of extremist groups, mainly with stones while black-clad anarchists pelted flaming Molotov stopped weapon shipments to the the largest flow of Shia militias led by after the chemical massacre. Obama cocktails. The unions had called a nationwide strike on Friday to Free Syrian Army. the IRGC into Syria to support Assad, made use of this issue in order to protest the reforms and several vital sectors were hit. In 2012, Obama had a historic Obama did nothing. Moreover, he defend his inaction against Assad. The creditors are demanding an overhaul of the pensions opportunity to make a significant decided to establish secret negoti- At the end of 2014, the U.S. began system -- which would effectively cut the pensions people are change in Syria and the region, when ations with Iran in Oman in 2013. to support the PYD, the Syrian affil- receiving -- and rises in social security contributions. Ordinary all the prominent members of his During this period, Assad used iate of the PKK, which is officially National Security Council (the sec- all kinds of weapons against the Syr- classified as a terrorist group. Fur- Greeks believe this would further pile misery on them after going retary of defense, the secretary of ian people. Moreover, in Aug. 2013, he thermore, the U.S. withdrew its through the worst of times. Greece’s largest labour union, the state, the CIA chief, the joint chief challenged the whole world by using battery missiles from the Turkish private sector GSEE, said the changes of staff chairman) supported a pro- chemical weapons against civilians, border, paving the way for the Rus- were the “last nail on the coffin” for posal to arm the Syrian opposition, crossing Obama’s “red lines”, thus sian military intervention in Syria workers and pensioners. “Every day By Ali Hussein Bakeer but once again he rejected his own giving him another opportunity to with a green light and encourage- Greece is they destroy our country a little more,” Anatolia NSC’s suggestion. correct his strategic mistakes. But ment supposedly in the name of again in a young waiter said. “How can anyone Furthermore, at that time, the once again, instead of punishing “fighting terrorism”. White House received detailed Assad and overthrowing him, he The U.S.’ policy has aroused the turmoil as the survive on a national monthly pension plans from the CIA with 50 options decided to make a chemical deal anger of its putative allies in the country tries of €384?” another man asked, which to remove Assad from power. CIA with Russia. region, such as Turkey and Saudi aptly captures the frustration of the any people believe that Director David Petraeus, and other Senator John McCain, chairman Arabia, inasmuch as it harmed their to implement people. But creditors are adamant and United States President officials who supported the plan, of the Armed Services Committee national security interests and fur- the toughest are unlikely to budge from their position Barack Obama does not believed that it could have pre- (SASC), had this to say about the ther strengthened their enemies on of the – which is that Greece must implement have a policy towards vented the rise of Daesh, Assad’s White House’s decision: the one hand, while on the other Mwar-torn Syria. use of chemical weapons, the Euro- “Not only did it violate every allowing a full destruction of Syria, all of the reforms demanded of it if the austerity However, the lack of such a pol- pean refugee crisis, and the tens of moral obligation we have to pre- the killing of hundreds of thousands next tranche of about €5bn, which is measures icy is actually part of a strategy in thousands of civilian deaths that vent mass atrocities and punish the of civilians, and the displacement overdue, is to be released. Eurozone the sense that a policy absence is have happened since. use of chemical weapons, but it also of millions. demanded by finance ministers are meeting in an not an absurdity, but rather a plan It turned out that Obama was gave a green light to Assad to accel- Since the White House consid- creditors. emergency session today to discuss towards strengthening the Rus- mainly interested in appeasing erate his sectarian war against the ered the “fight against terrorism” a Greece. It’s not that the government in sian and Iranian role in the region Iran’s mullah regime, more than moderate opposition. Moreover, the priority, it continued its insistence Athens doesn’t want to help its people. and filling the void left by the U.S. his interest in the freedom of the president’s inaction destroyed U.S. on the rejection of various solutions withdrawal. Syrian people, their revolution, or credibility with our Arab partners in offered by the above-mentioned Leftist Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras For five years, the Obama establishing a democratic system the region who had been prepared countries, such as setting up a safe had tried in vain to convince his European lenders not to push his administration has consistently said in the country. to support the U.S. mission, and it area or arming the moderate oppo- country too far. Finance Minister Euclid Tskalotos too has warned that Syrian regime leader Bashar And because he was afraid to shook the confidence of America’s sition with advanced weapons in of the dangers of punishing a country which has already suffered. Al-Assad has lost his legitimacy. endanger his secret contacts with the allies worldwide.” order to create pressure on Assad Greece’s economy has shrunk by more than 25 percent in the However, no action has been taken Iranian regime, he avoided taking Within one month of the chem- to remove him from power, or to six years since successive governments began cutting budgets against him in this regard. any steps that might anger or insti- ical attack, Obama made a phone create the necessary conditions for When the Syrian revolution gate any opposition on the Iranian call to Hassan Rouhani, president of his ouster. in return for bailout money and the austerity measures are still broke out at the beginning of March side, including of course support the Islamic Republic of Iran -- the The administration believed continuing. Tens of thousands of people whose lives have been 2011, civilians were continuously and to the Syrian opposition and over- first such call since 1979. Following earlier that a focus on the terror- torn asunder by the crisis and the austerity measures are yet to publicly killed without any resist- throwing Iran’s strategic ally in the this progress, they reached a deal ism issue would help it contain the come out of their misery. ance for six months. And when no region, Bashar Al-Assad. which was hailed as “historic” at conflict of interests between Russia But despite the protests and anger, there is no solution in international action was taken to This was no temporary meas- the end of 2013. and Iran on one side, and Turkey and sight to the current problems. As in the past, the creditors will stop this madness, members of ure. It was an extension of a policy As a result, throughout 2014, Iran Saudi Arabia on the other, count- not release funds unless the reforms are carried out, and the the Syrian Armed Forces started that was previously put in place. In realized its long-term goals by con- ing on the idea that when all sides to defect and form the Free Syrian 2009, the administration ignored trolling other countries in the Middle were on the same track, the Assad government will be forced to carry out the reforms because it Army in order to defend civilians. the “Green Revolution” in Iran for East politically and militarily. For problem would be circumvented doesn’t have a second option. This is a phase Greeks have to go At this stage of the crisis, there the sake of keeping in touch with instance, it got to decide the fate of and forgotten. through. It’s upto their government to convince the lenders about were as yet no armed radical groups, the mullahs’ regime, an attitude that the president in Iraq, brought down But what happened next was the consequences of reforms. And the lenders too must adopt a no Al-Qaeda and certainly no Daesh, encouraged Iran’s “Islamic Revo- Lebanon’s president, suspended a totally the opposite. Turkey and more lenient approach. a fact that many avoid mentioning lutionary Guard Corps” (IRGC) to president in Yemen, and kept Assad Saudi Arabia were always insist- even now. brutally suppress thousands of as Syria’s president. ing that without removing Assad, In the period between 2011 and democracy protesters and end In other words, Iran control- extremism, sectarianism, terror- 2013, Washington was looking for the revolution without facing any led all these countries without a ism, and the number of refugees excuses to justify its negative atti- consequences. single reaction from the U.S. admin- would increase, the situation would tude toward the Syrian revolution, In 2010, the White House istration in what it appears to be an continue to worsen, and there Quote of the day stressing its intention to avoid stag- reached an understanding with Iran official recognition of a legitimate would be no serious results in the ing a military intervention in the concerning Iraq, which ultimately Iranian sphere of influence. fight against Daesh. In the middle International coalition country, although none of the Syri- led to the end of nascent democ- After satisfying Iran, the U.S. of 2015, Russian preparations for has left us alone in our ans had asked for such a thing at all. racy in the country. focused on giving Russia a bigger staging a military intervention in All they asked is either to allow So instead of respecting the peo- role in Syria. Russia’s direct role in Syria in Assad’s favor coincided struggle against Islamic the supplying of weapons to them ple’s choice to name Iyad Allawi the country started to take shape with the first and second Vienna State, which is shedding to defend themselves against Assad -- a national Shiite Iraqi with major in the wake of their joint chemical meetings. our blood both through and his allies, or to prevent the flow- Sunni support -- as a prime minis- deal, and it became formal at the These meetings were used in suicide bombings and by ing of Iranian, Iraqi, Hezbollah, and ter, the U.S.-Iranian understanding beginning of 2014 mainly through order to provide political legiti- Russian support to Assad so that they brought Nouri Al-Maliki to power, the Geneva-II Agreement on Syria. macy for Russia’s intervention in attacks on Kilis. have fair fight in what would then one of the worst dictators in the his- In order to justify all its previ- Syria, stressing the fact that all of become “Assad vs. the Revolution”. tory of Iraq -- particularly in terms ous steps, Washington started to the circumstances were aimed at However, Obama rejected of his sectarian, exclusivist, and divi- talk about its willingness to support weakening the moderate Syrian Recep Tayyip Erdogan both; he also refused the constant sive policies that gave rise to Daesh. the moderate Syrian opposition. But opposition, ending the Syrian Rev- Turkish President demand to establish a safe zone. In 2011, the year the Syrian rev- its decision came too late because olution, and reinforcing the Assad Moreover, his administration put olution broke out, secret meetings its negative policies had already regime.

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By Matthew Nock The Washington Post

t populates our most ancient stories, spelling the ends of figures both infa- mous and innocent, from to Brutus to Judas to Juliet -- but we still don’t fully Iunderstand suicide. Are the causes hered- itary? How much does brain chemistry matter? What are the best ways to detect the impulse? Despite decades of research, scientists, clinicians and counsellors are just beginning to unlock the mysteries of self-inflicted death. Sadly, the federal gov- ernment currently allocates more money to problems like headaches, Lyme disease and lupus than to suicide, according to the National Institutes of Health; no other lead- ing cause of death (in the United States, it is No. 10) has so little money dedicated to it. The absence of consistent, well-funded, quality research has led to a proliferation of myths about suicide and the people whose lives it claims. 1. We’re experiencing a suicide epidemic. The Centres for Disease Control and Prevention released new data last month showing that the suicide rate in the United States rose between 1999 and 2014. Many media outlets, including the Guardian, the Washington Times and Foreign Policy, reported this as “an epidemic.” These reports are misleading in several Fog envelops the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California ways. Suicide is neither a disease nor con- tagious, so it doesn’t fit the literal definition of an epidemic. But the metaphorical use of “epidemic” doesn’t match, either: Suicide is not actually gaining sudden prevalence. violence combined -- more than 800,000 3. Most suicides are impulsive acts. don’t fully understand (including cancer and concept of ‘a gene for ... ‘ does not exist for The high rates of suicide reflected in the every year, according to the World Health Suicide is often described as an act Alzheimer’s), many of us want “the cause” psychiatric disorders.” CDC’s report are not new. Yes, the rate in Organization. This means that we are each born of a sudden, fatal decision. “Indeed, to be discovered so we can devise a treat- 5. We know how to prevent suicide. the United States has increased over the more likely to die by our own hand than many people who commit suicide are more ment. We want, in short, a “suicide gene.” Many organizations and public health past 15 years or so, but it decreased over by someone else’s. Unfortunately, that’s momentarily desperate than classically And several studies published in the past campaigns say suicide is preventable. The nothing new. depressed,” Elisabeth Rosenthal wrote in a few years have identified aspects of DNA National Institute of Mental Health, for 2. Suicides are most common during 2013 New York Times article. “The role of that seem to differ between some people instance, dubs suicide a “major, preventa- the winter holidays. impulsiveness is one of the saddest things who have died by suicide and those who ble mental health problem.” After all, it’s a The notion that suicides peak during the about suicide,” Business Insider opined after haven’t. When such studies are reported behaviour based on human decision-mak- We do know what factors put holiday season is a longtime misconception, actor Robin Williams’s death in 2014; the in the media, they are often described as ing, and in that sense it can theoretically with cultural precedents in films such as nonprofit Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun having found “a gene for suicide.” In 2014, be spotted and stopped. people at elevated risk for suicide “It’s a Wonderful Life.” In 2014, the Annen- Violence says on its website that “impulsiv- the Huffington Post announced that “this But we are not yet very successful at this. -- depression, substance use, a berg Public Policy Center at the University ity” is “the link between guns and suicide.” gene could tell you who is at risk for suicide,” There are many well-intentioned preven- family history of suicide -- and of Pennsylvania found that 70 percent of In 2015, Vox’s Ezra Klein echoed that sen- while similar headlines ran in Forbes and tion programs out there, but we have very the news articles between November 2013 timent, tweeting that “suicide is impulsive, the Guardian. But things aren’t so simple. little data on which ones work and which according to a study published this and January 2014 that mentioned the hol- and can be prevented if it fails.” There is no gene for suicide. Suicide is ones don’t. Likewise, several proposals for year in the journal PLOS Medicine, idays and suicide suggested that suicides In reality, most people who attempt to the result of a complex interaction among reducing suicide rates have been made over surge during the season. kill themselves make a plan to do so, and many factors that cannot be reduced to a the years -- among them restricting gun some treatments appear to reduce It’s easy to see why people might believe even those classified as “impulsive” often single piece of genetic code. And none of access (as posited by a 2015 paper analys- the chance of reattempts among this myth: During the winter holiday season, have suicidal thoughts before they try it, the genetic factors that have been linked ing suicides in Connecticut and Missouri) or those who have previously tried there are fewer hours of sunlight, meaning according to a 2007 Australian study. (In to suicide are unique to suicidal behav- doing more screening (as suggested by the shorter days and longer nights. It is cold and that same study, only about 25 percent of iour. Instead, they seem to be markers for Substance Abuse and Mental Health Serv- to kill themselves. But we have no dreary. And while many people cheerily people who attempted suicide considered things like a tendency to have low mood, ices Administration). But studies haven’t programs backed up by evidence spend time with family and friends, oth- their behaviour to be impulsive.) Likewise, sleep problems and anxiety -- all of which been carried out. ers are not so fortunate and are left feeling a recent review of research on this topic increase the risk of suicidal behaviour but We do know what factors put people from randomised controlled trials, sad and lonely. Sounds like the time of concluded that the link between impulsiv- don’t code for it specifically, and often exist at elevated risk for suicide -- depression, the highest standard, showing year when the suicide rate goes up, right? ity and suicide is weak. This is good news in non-suicidal people. For example, one of substance use, a family history of suicide that they stop people from ever Wrong. The rate is consistently high- for prevention efforts: According to a 2002 the most recent and lauded studies found -- and according to a study published this est in the spring, specifically in April and study published in the American Journal a genetic defect that could affect how the year in the journal PLOS Medicine, some attempting suicide. May. Experts do not fully understand why of Psychiatry, nearly half of those who die brain manages stress hormones -- which treatments appear to reduce the chance of this might be the case, although one recent by suicide visit their doctors in the month is perhaps related to suicidal behaviour reattempts among those who have previ- the 15 years before that. Today, 13 of every study by researchers from the University before their deaths, and nearly two-thirds but far from its only cause. ously tried to kill themselves. But we have 100,000 people in the United States kill of Vienna, published in the journal JAMA tell someone that they want to die or are Ultimately there is no one cause, genetic no programs backed up by evidence from themselves; in 1914, 16 per 100,000 did. Psychiatry, showed that as hours of sun- thinking about suicide. That provides not or otherwise, for suicide. As Kenneth Ken- randomised controlled trials, the highest Suicide has always been a major public light increase, so does the risk of suicide. only clues that they are at risk but also dler put it in a 2005 article in the American standard, showing that they stop people health problem. It is the 10th leading cause The authors speculate that sunlight could opportunities to help them. Journal of Psychiatry: “The phrase ‘X is a from ever attempting suicide. Our best of death in the United States, while world- boost energy and motivation, thus giving 4. There is a “suicide gene.” gene for Y’ . . . [is] inappropriate for psy- bet for preventing suicide is to ramp up wide, more people die from suicide than people who are depressed the ability to Suicide is a perplexing problem. As with chiatric disorders. The strong, clear, and research and hopefully shed more light from wars, genocide and interpersonal take action and make a suicide attempt. many other leading causes of death that we direct causal relationship implied by the on this troubling phenomenon. Venezuela’s military needs to get out of business

It would be far Bloomberg judicial branches to frustrate and delay In February, Maduro put the mil- will face consequences. The U.S. is Cuba has erased a once-popular left- better for the that effort, which is unlikely to suc- itary in charge of a new state oil and building cases against officers impli- ist talking point. Argentina’s changed ceed this year. (If a recall succeeds in mining services company -- one of cated in Venezuela’s burgeoning drug leadership has stepped up criticism of opposition to focus enezuela has more than 4,000 2017, Maduro’s vice president will step nearly a dozen military enterprises trade. It has also targeted a handful of Venezuela, which may lose another on winning votes for generals, compared with fewer in to complete his term.) The opposi- started under his administration. Active officials with asset freezes and visa bans friend if Brazil’s Workers’ Party loses the election in 2019, Vthan 50 in 1993. This kind of tion’s credibility has already been hurt or former officers head about one-third for engaging in political violence and power. runaway inflation is every bit as per- by its rash boast that it would throw of Venezuela’s ministries and govern acts of public corruption. Leading the Venezuelans are right to hold when the current nicious as the economic variety, which out Maduro within six months after nearly half its 23 states. Service mem- charge would only validate Maduro’s Maduro responsible for his economic presidential term also afflicts Venezuela -- in fact, they taking over the legislature in January. bers have gotten big raises; preferential anti-Yanqui narrative, so the U.S. should mismanagement, which has resulted in have to be addressed together. It would be far better for the oppo- access to housing, cars and food; and quietly make clear that there’s plenty blackouts, two-day government work- ends. That means Instead, opponents of President sition to focus on winning votes for promotions. Officers have won lucrative of room left on the targeted sanctions weeks and life-threatening shortages uniting around a Nicolas Maduro are hellbent on remov- the election in 2019, when the current contracts, exploiting currency con- list and that it will publicize credible of medicines. But kicking the pres- ing him from power, and they have presidential term ends. That means trols and subsidies -- selling cheap information of corruption, criminal- ident out of office will not by itself coherent plan to collected some 2 million signatures on uniting around a coherent plan to fix gasoline to Venezuela’s neighbors at ity and abuse. end Venezuela’s economic hardship fix Venezuela’s a recall petition. Maduro still has sig- Venezuela’s imploding economy -- enormous profit, for instance. The good news is that support for and political dysfunction. That will nificant political support, and he will an economy in which the military is One way to put the military back in Chavismo is crumbling both from with- also require getting the military out imploding economy use his control of the executive and increasingly involved and invested. the box is to make clear that misdeeds out and within. The U.S. opening to of business and back into its barracks.

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Sea blockade Thailand police N Korea won’t defend arrest of activist’s mother use N-weapons AFP

BANGKOK: Thai police yesterday first: Kim defended arresting the mother of a prominent student activist, fol- lowing public outcry over a case rights groups described as a “new to stay away from inter-Korean low” for the junta’s crackdown on issues. dissent. Kim said he is ready “Our republic is a responsible Patnaree Chankij, 40, was to improve ties with nuclear state that, as we made clear charged Friday with violating before, will not use nuclear weap- Thailand’s severe royal defama- “hostile” nations, ons first unless aggressive hostile tion law, which bans disparaging and called for more forces use nuclear weapons to invade the monarchy with up to 15 years on our sovereignty,” Kim said in a in prison. Her detention followed talks with rival South roughly three-hour speech shown a sweep of arrests over the past yesterday on the North’s Korean two weeks that saw at least nine Korea to reduce Protesters against coal and fossil fuels block shipping access to ’s largest coal port in Newcastle, Central Television. Kim is believed people detained for criticising the misunderstanding to have delivered the speech at north of , Australia, yesterday. junta or monarchy on Facebook. and distrust. Pyongyang’s April 25 House of Cul- Patnaree’s lawyers said she ture the day before, but its content was charged for simply writing “ja” wasn’t made public until early yes- -- the Thai equivalent of “yeah” -- terday. At the congress, Kim also in response to private Facebook AP announced a five-year plan start- messages that allegedly insulted ing this year to develop the North’s Kenya building collapse toll rises to 49 the royal family. moribund economy, and identified “I saw the conversation and improving the country’s power sup- I can say that at no point did she PYONGYANG: North Korean leader ply and increasing its agricultural share any opinions [of her own] Kim Jong-un said his country will and light-manufacturing production AFP of Nairobi following days of heavy as Thursday. “We have come to the about the royal family,” Poonsuk not use its nuclear weapons unless as critical parts of the program. He rain, triggering a desperate search end of this search and rescue oper- Poonsukcharoen, a member of its sovereignty is invaded and also said the country must secure for survivors. ation after recovering 49 bodies for the team of human rights lawyers announced a five-year economic more electricity through nuclear Overall, 140 people were rescued, people confirmed dead,” said Masai. assisting Patnaree, told. plan at a milestone congress of North power. NAIROBI: A total of 49 people are said Pius Masai, the head of Kenya’s Another 47 people remained But the police officer behind Korea’s ruling party, which entered It was first time North Korea has confirmed to have died after an natural disaster management unit. missing, he added, though it was the case insisted Patnaree — its third day, yesterday. announced a five-year plan since apartment building collapsed in the Among the lucky ones was a unclear whether they were actu- whose son is one of Thailand’s Kim said he is ready to improve the 1980s and detailing it in such a Kenyan capital last week, authorities seven-month-old baby who was ally in the building at the time of the most vocal junta critics — had ties with “hostile” nations, and called public way demonstrated that Kim said yesterday, as they announced the miraculously found alive after four accident. breached the law. for more talks with rival South Korea is taking ownership of the country’s end of the rescue operations. days under the rubble. Her mother The dwelling’s collapse has been “There are also other actions to reduce misunderstanding and dis- economic problems, something his The six-storey block went down did not survive. Four other resi- blamed on a combination of shoddy involved, but we cannot reveal trust. He also urged the United States father, Kim Jong Il, avoided as leader. on April 29 in an impoverished part dents were pulled to safety as late construction and bad weather. them,” Olan Sukkasem said. Fish-death protest: Many arrested in Vietnam Lightning kills Australian PM calls July four elephants AFP Several hundred demonstra- pointed the finger at a 1.5km waste tors had gathered in the heart of water pipeline from Formosa’s multi- election for both houses the capital outraged at the poison- billion dollar steel plant into the in Sri Lanka ing of waters near Ha Tinh province ocean. The company has a bad record HANOI:Vietnamese police detained that has left tonnes of fish and clams of environmental scandals spanning AFP AFP published by News Limited yester- scores of people yesterday as they dead and decimated the local fishing the globe. As the scandal unfolded day, showed the coalition and Labor broke up a protest against a Taiwan- industry, accusing Taiwanese steel in April a Formosa communications neck-and-neck at 50-50. ese company accused of being behind mill Formosa of overseeing a toxic official was sacked after he said Viet- Turnbull ruled out a snap poll a toxic leak that has caused mass fish leak. “Never has the Vietnamese sea nam needs “to choose whether to COLOMBO: Four elephants, CANBERRA: Australian Prime Min- after he assumed the top job but deaths off the central coast. been this badly polluted,” army vet- catch fish and shrimp or to build a including two calves, were killed ister Malcolm Turnbull yesterday stayed true to his threat last month to The protest in Hanoi, which fol- eran Nguyen Manh Trung, 68, told. state-of-the-art steel mill”. by lightning in northern Sri Lanka called an election for both houses call early elections by using the trig- lows a similar demonstration last Vietnam’s prime minister has “You cannot have both,” the in one of the worst wildlife trag- of parliament on July 2, as he seeks ger of a double dissolution -- where weekend, was swiftly dispersed by vowed to get tough on those responsi- official said. The company later apol- edies to hit the country in years, his own mandate with the public just all seats in both houses of parliament authorities, yesterday morning, in a ble for the leak, but an official inquiry ogised for the comments and has officials said yesterday. eight months after deposing prede- are contested — after deadlocked communist country where all shows has yet to apportion blame. launched its own inquiry but public A female elephant, aged about cessor Tony Abbott in a party coup. legislation failed to pass the upper of dissent are tightly controlled. However state-run media has anger is snowballing. 25 years, and two of her calves, The widely expected announce- house Senate. aged 10 months and two years, ment was the latest chapter in the The suave ex-barrister and jour- and an eight-year-old female were turbulent world of Australian pol- nalist, a moderate on social issues, found dead Sunday just outside the itics, where a revolving door of came into power with high personal Wilpattu wildlife sanctuary, an leaders saw multi-millionaire former ratings. Unique march official said. banker Turnbull, 61, become the But support for him and the rul- “Villagers from neighbouring fourth prime minister in just over ing Liberal-National coalition has areas alerted the authorities and two years when he ousted Abbott slipped recently amid poorly han- we carried out autopsies,” wild- in September. dled debates about reforms and life veterinary surgeon Chandana “The governor-general has internal divisions fuelled by dis- Jayasinghe said. “The deaths were accepted my advice to dissolve content from Abbott’s conservative caused by lightning.” both houses of parliament effec- supporters. Local villagers in Mahavilach- tive tomorrow morning, and call an The coalition has tradition- chiya, 250 kilometres (156 miles) election for both houses, a double ally campaigned on its purported north of Colombo, had reported dissolution, on July 2,” Turnbull said strength in economic manage- heavy rains accompanied by in Canberra as he announced one ment, with Turnbull and Treasurer thunder and lightning in the shrub of the nation’s longest-ever election Scott Morrison pledging to boost jobs jungle area on Friday when the campaigns. and growth when they handed down elephants were thought to have “Australians will have a very their first budget Tuesday. been struck. clear choice — to keep the course, Australia is charting a rocky It was the worst natural dis- maintain the commitment to our path away from mining dependence aster involving elephants since national economic plan for growth after an unprecedented resources February 2011 when four baby ele- and jobs, or go back to Labor, with its investment boom that has helped the phants drowned in a major flood high-taxing, higher spending, debt nation avoid a recession for 25 years. in the north-east of the country. and deficit agenda. Labor will focus on the party’s Elephants are venerated in “I will be seeking a mandate traditional policy areas of improv- the mainly Buddhist country and from the Australian people as the ing health and education. they are a highly protected species. prime minister of this country to “This election is much more than Elephant deaths must be investi- carry out this (economic) plan.” a choice between parties and per- gated and death certificates issued Labor opposition leader Bill sonalities. This election is a choice before disposing of the carcasses. Shorten, a 48-year-old ambitious about what sort of Australia that we Despite tough conservation former union chief, will take on the want to live in,” Shorten told report- South Korean Buddhists march with lanterns during the Lotus Lantern Festival to celebrate Buddha’s laws and the elephant’s associa- Liberal Party’s Turnbull in what is ers in the southern island state of upcoming birthday, in Seoul, yesterday. tion with Buddhism, nearly 200 tipped to be a tightly contested vote. Tasmania. Voting is mandatory in jumbos are killed each year. The latest opinion polls, Australia for all adults. Two former Rwandan mayors to go on trial in tomorrow

AFP countries. Two decades on, Rwanda for allegedly playing a direct role in Meilhac and Francoise Mathe have former Belgian colony, the slaughter “There are around 50 witnesses accuses France of complicity in the massacre of hundreds of Tutsi ref- highlighted “contradictions” in wit- would continue until the FPR fighters coming from Rwanda,” Gauthier, the genocide — which saw at least ugees in a church in the eastern town ness testimony. Meilhac has also said finally prevailed in July. The mayors’ whose wife lost her mother and doz- 800,000 people die in an 100-day of Kabarondo on April 13, 1994. he is “extremely concerned” over trial, which is set to last eight weeks, ens of other relatives in the genocide, PARIS: Two former Rwandan may- slaughter — because of its unwaver- The pair were sentenced in absen- Barahira’s fitness to stand trial, as he comes two years after that of Pascal said. Witnesses have said, they saw ors to go on trial in France tomorrow ing support for the Hutu nationalist tia to life imprisonment by Rwandan suffers from kidney failure and must Simbikangwa, a former Rwandan Barahira, wielding a spear, at a rally facing charges of crimes against government at the time. people’s courts, known as gacaca, have dialysis three times a week. army captain who was jailed for 25 at the football field where he called humanity and genocide over the Two years ago, on the 20th anni- in 2009. They were both mayors of The killings in Kabarondo, a town years for his role in the genocide. The for “work” — then already code for 1994 massacres in the central Afri- versary of the mass killings, Rwanda’s Kabarondo, Ngenzi having succeeded near the border with Tanzania, took defence has denounced that verdict as killing Tutsis. can country. minority Tutsi president, Paul Kag- Barahira in 1986. They deny accusa- place with great speed. “political” and is appealing it. Soon afterwards, hundreds of As the second trial in Paris by a ame, openly accused French soldiers tions of carrying out “massive and The bloodshed was over by the “With this second trial, we will be refugees who had arrived in the pre- special court created to go after sus- of not only complicity in the genocide systematic summary executions” end of April, when Tutsi rebels in the dealing with a much more concrete vious days were hacked or beaten to pected Rwandan killers who fled to but of actually taking part in it. and implementing a “concerted plan armed wing of what is now the ruling genocide, with victims,” said Alain death or blown up with hand gre- France, it is expected to lay bare the Tomorrow, Octavien Ngenzi, 58, aimed at the annihilation” of the Rwandan Patriotic Front (FPR) took Gauthier, president of the Collective nades within the space of a few hours, strained relations between the two and Tito Barahira, 64, will go on trial Tutsi minority. Their lawyers Philippe control of the area. Elsewhere in the of Civil Plaintiffs for Rwanda (CCPR). according to survivors. PAKISTAN MONDAY 9 MAY 2016 13 Afghan road crash inferno leaves at least 73 dead

accident in , near the completely out of control.” Afghan capital, one of the areas worst Afghanistan has some of the Many of the dead, affected by the insurgency. world’s most dangerous roads and including women and “The death toll has soared to 73,” many in the country rely on old and ministry spokesman Ismail Kawoosi rickety passenger vehicles, meaning children, were burned said, warning that the toll was that high casualty road traffic acci- beyond recognition expected to rise still further. dents are common. and dozens of others “Most of them are completely At least 18 people were killed in burned. Many of the survivors have May last year when a minivan over- were left wounded in been rushed to hospitals in (southern) turned in the western province of the accident near the Kandahar city and Ghazni.” Badghis. And in April 2013 a bus hit Kawoosi gave a sharply higher toll a wrecked fuel tanker in the south- Afghan capital. than other officials. Ghazni’s gover- ern province of Kandahar, killing 45 nor Mohammad Aman Hamimi earlier people. The World Bank in November reported seven fatalities but his own signed off a $250m grant to upgrade spokesman gave a death toll of 50. roads crossing Afghanistan’s Hindu AFP The collision occurred on the Kush mountains, crucial trade links highway connecting the cities of that are often closed in winter by Kabul and Kandahar, a major road- snow. Insecurity is growing around way that passes through volatile Afghanistan as the Taliban press GHAZNI: At least 73 people were insurgent areas. Many bus drivers on with their 15-year insurgency killed yesterday when two buses and are known to drive recklessly at top against the Western-backed Kabul an oil tanker burst into flames in a speeds so as not to get caught up in government. head-on collision in eastern Afghan- insurgent activity. The Islamists, who have been istan, health officials said, in one of “Our driver was at fault — he was waging an insurgency since being top- the worst road accidents in the war- driving too rashly,” said Esmatullah, pled from power in 2001, announced battered nation. one of the few lucky passengers who the start of their spring offensive on Many of the dead, including survived the crash with minor inju- April 12, dubbed “Operation Omari” women and children, were burned ries. “Most bus drivers on the high in honour of founding leader Mullah beyond recognition and dozens of ways are known to smoke hashish, Omar, vowing large-scale attacks Afghans help an injured man to a hospital after two buses collided with a fuel tanker on a highway in the others were left wounded in the opium and other drugs. They are across Afghanistan. central province of Ghazni, Afghanistan, yesterday. Prominent activist shot dead in Karachi Afghanistan hangs six

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KARACHI: Gunmen shot dead a anti-Taliban push prominent Pakistani rights activ- ist, known for his outspoken stance against the Taliban and other radi- AFP their photographs. Most of them cal groups, in the southern port city were convicted of militant strikes of Karachi late on Saturday night, across Afghanistan, including one police said. charged with facilitating the 2011 The police said Khurram Zaki KABUL: Afghanistan yesterday assassination of former president was killed at an outdoor cafe in hanged six Taliban-linked inmates, Burhanuddin Rabbani. central Karachi, while a compan- the government said, in the first set In its response, the Taliban ion was wounded. A faction of the of executions carried out as part of vowed revenge attacks against Pakistani Taliban, the Hakeemullah President Ashraf Ghani’s new hard- government offices responsible for group, claimed responsibility for the line policy against the insurgents. carrying out the executions. attack, saying Zaki had been targeted Ghani carried out his threat to The Taliban, which announced for his stance against radical cleric execute militants after an insurgent the start of their annual spring Abdul Aziz. attack last month left 64 people dead offensive on April 12, have already The police could not verify the in Kabul, in seemingly the deadli- stepped up their campaign against Hakeemullah faction’s claim, and est attack on the Afghan capital the Western-backed Kabul said the group has previously taken since 2001. The executions, the first government. responsibility for attacks it did not endorsed by Ghani since he came In an unusually vitriolic speech carry out in Karachi, a teeming to power in 2014, have dashed the last month, Ghani pledged a tough metropolis of 20 million people that last traces of hope of reviving Tali- military response against the Tal- is known for its complex mix of eth- ban peace talks that broke down last iban and vowed to enforce legal nic, sectarian and political violence. summer. punishments, including executions “Zaki was sitting at a cafe where “In accordance with the Afghan of convicted militants. His remarks he was targeted by four armed men Mourners raise their hands and shout slogans during the funeral of Khurram Zaki, who was shot by gunmen, constitution... Ghani approved the were in response to a brazen Tali- arriving on two motorcycles,” Muqa- in Karachi, yesterday. execution of six terrorists who ban assault on April 19 on a security das Haider, a senior police official perpetrated grave crimes against services office in the heart of Kabul, said yesterday. schoolchildren were killed in 2014. strict version of Islamic sharia law hate campaign” by a political leader civilians and public security,” the seen as the opening salvo in this Zaki was known for his outspoken In 2007, Aziz and his followers to be imposed. Zaki had confided to and Lashkar-e-Jhangvi. presidential palace said in a state- year’s spring offensive. stance against the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, were engaged in an armed standoff friends that he was on several militant Targeted killings are com- ment. “This order has been carried The carnage left 64 civilians and a Sunni Muslim sectarian militant with government forces at his mosque “hitlists”, Jibran Nasir, a fellow activ- mon in Karachi, although violence out today after... considering the military personnel dead and cast a group, the Pakistani Taliban, and in the capital Islamabad, culminat- ist who was also involved in protests has declined significantly since the human rights obligations of Afghan- pall over international efforts to radical cleric Abdul Aziz. ing in a eight-day military operation against Aziz, said. launch of a paramilitary operation in istan... and in accordance with jumpstart Pakistan-brokered peace In December 2015, Zaki lead that saw Pakistani commandoes raid Nasir said that Zaki did not spec- the city almost three years ago. Afghan laws.” talks, which stalled last summer street protests against Aziz, demand- the mosque. ify which groups specifically had Rights activists are increasingly Five Taliban inmates and one after the Taliban belatedly confirmed ing the cleric be arrested and Aziz has since been exonerated threatened him. According to a state- among those targeted in Karachi. In from the Taliban-allied Haqqani the death of longtime leader Mul- charged with hate speech for alleg- of all criminal charges by Pakistani ment released after Zaki’s death by April last year, prominent activist network were executed in Kabul’s lah Omar. Rights groups had pleaded edly justifying attacks, such as the courts, but still calls for the over- a website he helped run, the activ- Sabeen Mahmud was shot and killed Pule Charkhi prison, Afghani- with Ghani to not press ahead with Peshawar school massacre where 134 throw of the government and for a ist had been “a target of a systematic while travelling in her car. stan’s spy agency said, releasing the executions.

Govt plans to reform World Thalassemia Day Sharif to go for medical check-up accountability system and to meet with Zardari in London Internews government may contact someone else for the task. The Panama Leaks has badly ISLAMABAD: Prime Minis- exposed four most relevant state ter Nawaz Sharif will proceed to ISLAMABAD: Following mounting institutions including the National London for a medical check-up pressure in the wake of Panama Accountability Bureau, the Fed- sometime after May 20, official Leaks, the government is consider- eral Investigations Agency, Federal sources said. ing setting up a Commission under a Bureau of Revenue and the State During his trip PM Nawaz is reputed retired judge of the Supreme Bank of Pakistan as none of them also expected to discuss with top Court to prepare a comprehensive initiated any action or probe into this PPP leader Asif Ali Zardari the plan for establishing a trustworthy issue of global importance. overall political scenario of the and independent accountability While the State Bank and FIA country in the wake of the Pan- commission. remained unmoved, the NAB and ama Papers, according to sources. Sources said that recently in a FBR despite having in-house dis- Apparently, Nawaz has high-level official meeting, Prime cussions and meetings on the issue reached out to Zardari at a number Minister Nawaz Sharif aspired to soon got cold feet and decided to stay of occasions to seek counsel. have a reformed accountability away from any probe into the matter. This time around, PM Nawaz commission. The premier was of the None of these institutions wanted to is likely to discuss the terms of view that a non-controversial and annoy the government. references put forward by the reputed retired chief justice should The disclosures about the off- opposition and the ones suggested be engaged to study the present sys- shore companies owned by hundreds by the government. “It will be the tem of accountability and suggest to of Pakistanis have possible aspects second meeting of both the lead- the government how to have a fool- of money laundering, corruption, tax ers on the Panama leaks issue,” the proof accountability system. evasion the issues which fall in the official said. The sources said that follow- domain of NAB, the FIA, FBR and It is likely that the two lead- ing the prime minister’s desire, a State Bank of Pakistan. Yet they Pakistani children suffering from Thalassemia light earthen lamps, before World Thalassemia Day in ers might hammer out a strategy reputed retired chief justice was avoided initiating any action because Karachi, on Saturday night. to help fend off the opposition contacted for the task. However, he of politicisation and for being under pressure on the PM and his gov- was reluctant to do the job. Now the strong government influence. ernment, he said. 14 MONDAY 9 MAY 2016 INDIA

Artful waste Government can’t Govt monitoring deny fundamental rights: Apex Court social media to IANS combat IS threat CUTTACK: Supreme Court Chief Justice TS Thakur yesterday once again raised the issue of shortage of judges and said the government be the target of terror propaganda. cannot afford to deny the people At the same time, the efforts should their fundamental rights, which The terrorist be made to bring them into the included access to justice. organisations mainstream through welfare and He said the shortage of judges employment schemes,” the official was one of the formidable chal- have been using said. Simultaneously, there is an lenges the Indian judiciary was various social media effort to bring youth from the minor- facing at present. ity community into the mainstream “Access to justice is a funda- platforms. There through various sops and employ- mental right and the government is no reason to not ment prospects. cannot afford to deny the people believe that they may “The youth who do not have any- their fundamental rights,” Thakur thing to do, who are unemployed, said after inaugurating the cente- be setting their eyes may go astray. We have been try- Tourists speak as they walk in The Rock Garden in Chandigarh, yesterday. The Rock Garden of nary celebrations of Orissa High on India: Official ing to educate and skill them so that Chandigarh was built by self-taught Indian artist Nek Chand Saini over the course of 18 years, where Court circuit bench here. they earn a decent livelihood and each of the featured artworks have been made using recycled industrial and urban waste. He said that while the Law enjoy their lives,” Minority Affairs Commission of India in 1987 sug- Minister Najma Heptulla said. For gested for 44,000 judges to deal IANS implementing this strategy, state with cases pending at that point governments and their police forces of time, the country at present had have been asked to pitch in in the only 18,000 judges. effort apart from the central agen- Rajasthan govt flayed over removal “Thirty years down the line, we NEW DELHI: The government cies, according to sources. continue to work with a depleted favours a “carrot and stick” approach As for the ministry of minor- strength. If you go by the number to prevent the spread of the Islamic ity affairs, it has been asked to of people added to the (Indian) State. Highly placed sources in the implement various welfare and of Nehru’s name from textbooks population, we may now require home ministry said that the secu- employment oriented schemes, more than 70,000 judges to clear rity agencies are keeping a strict vigil especially in the “vulnerable pock- the pending cases,” he said. on the social media activity of the ets” of the country and has been IANS vindictive manner by not even men- Janata Party) have proven that they “The government has ren- “potential targets” of terror modules. allocated Rs.87 crore for this fiscal. tioning India’s first prime minister in are taking politics to a lower level. dered all assistance and financial “The terrorist organisations have “The ministry has been asked the textbooks.” The Congress leader said that support for infrastructural devel- been using various social media to implement various schemes Pilot said the party will agitate Nehru’s contribution to the freedom opment of the courts in the state. platforms to spread their propa- including those under the Skill JAIPUR: The Rajasthan unit of the on the issue and approach the union struggle and as the first prime minis- We have established 30 judicial ganda and recruit more foot soldiers India mission in various parts of Congress yesterday reacted strongly government as well as the governor ter of independent India is enshrined magistrate first class courts for for their cause. There is no reason to the country, with a special focus on to the “removal” of India’s first prime and might even seek legal opinion. in history. “The BJP can change text- ensuring speedy trials of crime not believe that they may be setting madrasas,” a senior ministry official, minister Jawaharlal Nehru’s name “We will not allow this sort of books but it can’t rewrite history. We against women in Odisha,” Pat- their eyes on India,” a senior home who did not wish to be named, said. from the new textbooks for classes deliberate elimination and deletion condemn this act. The Congress will naik said. ministry official said. At the same time, with cases of sixth to eight in the state’s schools. of (the names of) big leaders from oppose the Rajasthan government’s He said another 26 additional “It’s a two-pronged approach. Indian Muslims going to fight for IS in State Congress chief Sachin textbooks as it is unbecoming of any move and ensure that these kind of judicial magistrates’ courts were One is to keep an eye on the social other countries few and far between, Pilot said: “It’s absolutely unaccept- elected government,” he added. things are not allowed as it shows a set up in remote and topographi- media activity of those who might there is no major threat as of now. able that the BJP is working in a Pilot said that they (Bharatiya clear vindictive nature of the BJP.” cally challenging areas of the state. Heat wave Tripura’s suspended conditions prevail in Rajasthan Congress leaders discuss IANS joining Mamata’s party

JAIPUR: Heat wave conditions prevailed in Rajasthan yester- IANS suspension, their angry supporters day as day temperatures hovered Saturday ransacked the party head- between 41 and 47 degrees Celsius quarters and vandalised furniture, at various places. computers and other property. Phalodi town was the hottest AGARTAL: A group of Congress Other senior leaders who have in the desert state, recording a leaders from Tripura, including also earlier quit the party on the maximum of 46.5 degrees while suspended legislature party leader same issue include women’s front Sri Ganganagar was scorching at Sudip Roy Barman, yesterday met state chief Kalyani Roy and sched- 45 degrees. Bikaner was close at Trinamool Congress leader Mukul uled caste front head Prakash 44.8 degrees. Roy in Kolkata to discuss their Chandra Das, besides 32 block pres- State capital Jaipur recorded a joining the Mamata Banerjee party idents and many student leaders. high of 41.6 degrees, two degrees sources said here. Yesterday, two more senior Boys look at a bus after it fell into a gorge, at Golu near Joginder Nagar, Himachal Pradesh, yesterday. above normal. The minimum here “Barman accompanied by par- leaders - Amal Mallik and Balai was one degree above normal at ty’s former state working president Goswami - also quit their party 26.5 degrees. Ashish Saha, and Youth Congress’ posts on the same issue. Barman, in The border towns of Barmer former state chief Sushanta Chow- his resignation letter to party chief and Jaisalmer were also hot at 44.7 14 dead in Himachal Pradesh bus crash dhury met Trinamool vice president Sonia Gandhi, said: “In spite of your and 44.5 degrees, respectively. Mukul Roy yesterday in Kolkata and understanding of the CPI-M’s unpre- Kota and Ajmer recorded highs of discussed about their joining the dictable character, its treacherous 42.7 and 41.5 degrees, respectively. party,” said a dissident Congress role in the past, anti-national think- The weather office said there AFP Kadam, a senior state government Rescuers had managed to pull out leader. ing and activities and the immense would be no respite from the heat official, said. all the bodies from the accident site, He said that the leaders would barbaric atrocities upon Con- wave in the next 24 hours. The driver of the bus and a six- with state Chief Minister Virbhadra meet Banerjee today to finalise their gressmen in West Bengal, Tripura “Heat wave conditions are year-old girl were among those killed Singh flying in to meet the families joining. Protesting against the Con- and Kerala, you have given the likely to prevail at isolated places SHIMLA: An overcrowded minibus in the accident. Karam Singh, a survi- of the victims. Singh also ordered gress’ electoral tie-up with the Left nod to this so-called alliance/seat in the state in the next 24 hours. fell into a deep gorge in India’s north- vor, said the bus was packed beyond an immediate investigation into the in West Bengal, many top Congress adjustments.” Jaipur may see partly cloudy ern Himalayan region after a portion capacity as he described the horror tragedy. leaders in Tripura including Barman, He said the party’s alliance sky with maximum and mini- of the road caved in, killing 14 peo- when the vehicle started hurtling Fatal traffic accidents are com- Saha and Chowdhury quit their posts with the Left Front led by Commu- mum temperatures likely to be ple, an official said yesterday. down. mon in India, which has some of last month. nist Party of India-Marxist in Bengal around 42 and 28 degrees Celsius, Another 41 people were injured “The driver was allowing another the world’s deadliest roads with The party high command on Sat- would have a far-reaching political respectively,” a weather depart- when the bus heading towards the vehicle coming from the opposite more than 200,000 fatalities annu- urday suspended Barman and Youth impact at the national level. ment official said. Hundreds of popular tourist destination of Kin- side to cross when a small portion ally, according to the World Health Congress president Amarinder Singh Tripura Congress president Bira- people across the country died of naur rolled into the steep valley in of the road caved in,” Singh said. The Organisation. Raja Brar took similar action against jit Sinha meanwhile said here that heat wave and the central govern- Mandi district of Himachal Pradesh bus, packed with more than 55 peo- Last month, a bus carrying per- 14 youth Congress leaders includ- all the party leaders who quit their ment is in talks with various state state late Saturday. ple, was coming from the hill town forming artists plunged into a gorge ing Chowdhury from the party for posts and criticised the central lead- government of the measures to be “The death toll has risen to 14 of Dharamsala, the seat of Tibet’s in the east of the country, killing at an indefinite period. Immediately ership would be suspended from the taken to tackle drought while 41 others are injured,” Sandeep government-in-exile. least 27 people. after the announcement of the party soon. Nagaland MP praises legislators for concern over ‘neglected’ northeast

IANS keen interest in the region,” Rio, who (West Bengal). India. Northeast is an important con- discussion over AgustaWestland VVIP honouring Manipur’s Irom Sharmila, a is the lone Nagaland MP in Lok Sabha, What they said was a far cry from stituent of India, but it did not get its chopper scam in the ongoing budget long-time campaigner against AFSPA, said. Rio was referring in particular to the parochialism that MPs, especially due.” “Though not neglected always, session, but did not lack the boldness with a Padma award. TDP’s Kinjarapu the Lok Sabha debate on April 27 on from the regional parties, are often it definitely deserved better attention. required to deal with the sensitive said: “The North-east region has been NEW DELH: It’s heart-warming for demand for grants for the Ministry of accused of. Sawant, for instance, sug- That was our point in the Lok Sabha,” security situation of the troubled a huge victim of lot of different things, the lawmakers from regional par- Development of North Eastern Region gested that the government should set said the MP from Mumbai South. region. starting from bad governance, bad ties to be speaking in parliament (DoNER) in which several members up a sports university in the northeast Sawant said he had also suggested Biju Janata Dal’s Sathpathy even policy making and bad political will”. on the problems faced by the “long from across the country participated. and Kinjrapu called for immediate developing the tourism potential of claimed that Indian armed forces He appreciated, however, what neglected” northeast, MP and former Those who spoke their heart out restoration of the northeast indus- the northeast. “The region has scenic have killed over “50,000 civilians in he saw as a renewed commitment Nagaland chief minister Neiphiu Rio were Tatagatha Sathpathy of Biju trial and investment promotion policy beauty, rivers and diverse flora and the region”. “The Armed Forces Spe- shown by Prime Minister Narendra said yesterday. Janata Dal (Odisha), Arvind Sawant which, he said, greatly helped the fauna. There are also 13 big monaster- cial Power Act (AFSPA) has been the Modi towards the region. The govern- “This new trend is definitely of Shiv Sena (Maharashtra), Ram people of the region. ies in the region. All of that provides biggest deterrent to integrating the ment should immediately increase encouraging. We appreciate that Mohan Naidu Kinjarapu of Telugu Sawant said: “Shiv Sena is Mahar- the leverage for boosting tourism,” youth of the North-east with the rest funding for the North-eastern states, members from other parties in var- Desam Party (Andhra Pradesh), and ashtra-based. That does not mean we he said. The April 27 debate con- of India,” he said. especially to promote organic farm- ious parts of the country are taking Saugata Roy of Trinamool Congress are not concerned about the rest of trasted sharply with the acrimonious Sathpathy also called for ing, Kinjarapu said. INDIA MONDAY 9 MAY 2016 15

Point-of-sale Modi attacks Bribery video Congress and CPI-M in Kerala of Congress IANS

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Prime Minister Narendra Modi MLA surfaces yesterday criss-crossed Kerala while campaigning for National Democratic Alliance candidates “Bribes are being given to in the May 16 assembly elections MLAs to win their support in Utta- and attacked both the ruling UDF The sting allegedly rakhand. I call it a ‘danavi khel’ and the opposition LDF in the state. shows Congress MLA (diabolical game). This brokering of Starting his campaign in ‘dev bhoomi’ (gods’ land) should be Kasargode district, Modi took a Madan Singh Bisht stopped immediately,” BJP MP and potshot at the political rivals by admitting to payment former Uttarakhand chief minister saying that while in West Bengal ` Bhagat Singh Koshiyari said here. the Communist Party of India- of 25 lakh each to “Can anything be more ridic- Marxist and the Congress had 12 legislators. ulous and shameful than a former ‘dosti’ (friendship), it’s ‘kushti’ chief minister offering bribes to sat- (fight) in Kerala. A vendor sells guava fruit in front of Vidhana Soudha, the seat of the State Legislature of Karnataka, isfy his own MLAs? This is murder of “In Bengal, CPI-M leaders democracy,” Koshiyari said. in Bengaluru, yesterday. praise the Congress and its lead- IANS Bharatiya Janata Party spokes- ers while in Kerala the very same man Anil Baluni asked for legal party call the Congress a corrupt action against Rawat while party party. The literate Keralites should general secretary Kailash Vijayvar- rise to the occasion and end this NEW DELHI: Two days ahead of the giya took a dig at Rawat and said he politics of adjustment between floor test in the Uttarakhand assem- must have done something wrong these two parties,” said Modi. bly, a video of a new sting operation so that his own MLAs are unhappy Colachel sea port will provide “What is happening in Ker- allegedly showing a Congress leg- with him. ala between the CPI-M and the islator talking of bribe to at least a On the other hand, the Congress Congress is the politics of adjust- dozen party MLAs to keep them on called the sting operations a “BJP ment, politics of compromise and ousted chief minister Harish Rawat’s conspiracy” to discredit Rawat and jobs to Tamil Nadu youth: PM the politics of corruption as these side has surfaced. wrest control in the state. two fronts alternate in power every The sting allegedly shows Con- “The BJP has been attempting to five years,” the prime minister said. gress MLA Madan Singh Bisht discredit Harish Rawat and this so- Modi later in the afternoon admitting to payment of `25 lakh called sting video, and the earlier IANS seaport will provide employment to provided help and relief material to spoke at a rally near Alappuzha. each to 12 legislators. It has been video as well, are part of their con- the Kanyakumari youth,” Modi said. people of Chennai affected by floods “It’s going to be two years since done by a news channel that spiracy,” state Congress chief Kishore He said tourism is another indus- last December. we assumed power in Delhi. There earlier released a video clip alleg- Upadhayay told IANS. try that provides lot of employment Referring to the release of Father hasn’t been a single corruption edly showing Rawat indulging in He said the Congress is confident KANYAKUMARI: Prime Minis- opportunities, and his government Alexis Prem Kumar from Taliban’s allegation against us, while you all horse-trading. of proving the party government’s ter Narendra Modi yessterday said has laid a wide road connecting custody, Modi said the priest’s sis- know what happened during the In the latest video, Bisht is pur- majority in the assembly on Tuesday, a big seaport at Colachel, entailing Kanyakumari with Kerala’s Thiru- ter did not believe when he called previous Congress-led UPA (United portedly seen and heard talking with as directed by the Supreme Court. an investment of `21,000 crore, will vananthapuram which in turn would her and said: “I am Narendra Modi Progressive Alliance) government’s longtime colleague but now dissident The Harish Rawat government be set up in Tamil Nadu’s Kanyaku- develop tourism. speaking.” rule,” he said. MLA Harak Singh Rawat — who is was dismissed by the Centre under mari district and help provide jobs Modi said economic development “I told her that her brother will be Modi flew into the state cap- not visible in the clip — about how Article 356 of the constitution on for local youth. is the solution of all the problems. back in India in two and a half hours. ital and again lashed out at the he managed to extract money from March 27 after nine Congress MLAs, Addressing an election rally here, According to him, the central He said it was the BJP govern- United Democratic Front, led by Harish Rawat for the “poor MLAs”. led by former chief minister Vijay around 710km from Chennai, Modi government in New Delhi will reach ment that negotiated with the Sri the Congress, and Left Democratic Taking potshots at Harish Rawat, Bahuguna, revolted against Rawat. said the work on building the sea- out to people in crisis wherever they Lankan government and secured the Front, led by the CPI-M. The prime the Bharatiya Janata Party yesterday The Supreme Court has fixed port has begun. “For the first time are and cited the Chennai floods as release of five fishermen from Tamil minister also spoke of corruption said he was power hungry and could May 10 for Rawat to prove his major- an investment project worth `21,000 an example. Nadu who were sentenced to death cases allegedly involving Congress go to any extent to remain in power. ity in the assembly. crore has come to Kanyakumari. The He said the central government by a Sri Lankan court. leaders.

India 9th among Happy journey Jails searched after social crony capitalist countries: Report media posts by inmates IANS in Punjab; mobiles seized

LONDON: A spurt in number of IANS that the jails in Punjab are free of billionaires and increasing wealth objectionable/prohibited material creation by any means have made and do not become house for drugs India rank ninth among the crony and organised crime,” the spokes- capitalist countries, said a study in CHANDIGARH: With jailed gang- man said. “The Economist” latest issue. sters having a free run with posts on Punjab Director General of Crony fortunes had leapt rel- social media and reports of prisons Police Suresh Arora had said on Sat- ative to global GDP and as a share being dens of drugs and crime, the urday that special emphasis would of total billionaire wealth. Punjab Police yesterday conducted a be laid on strengthening the jails not “Encouragingly, India seems state-wide “major search operation” only by providing required number to be cleaning up its act. In 2008 Kashmiri school girls enjoy a train ride after the launch of a new train service in Anantnag, 50km south in various jails leading to the “recov- of police officers but also enhancing crony wealth reached 18 percent of Srinagar, the summer capital of Kashmir, yesterday. ery of number of mobile phones, SIM electronic surveillance in the form of of its GDP, putting it on a par with cards besides tablets being used as installing more jammers and CCTV Russia. Today it stands at 3 per- drugs by inmates”. to cover every nook and corner of cent of its GDP, a level similar to The search operation was under- jails. Australia,” the study revealed. The taken in Amritsar, Hoshiarpur, In recent months, there have non-crony sector wealth in India Gurdaspur, Tarn Taran, Fazilka, been several complaints of some accounts for 8.3 percent of its GDP. Tagore’s birth anniversary marked Moga, Faridkot, Mansa, Sri Mukt- of the prisons becoming the hub The index ranked Russia as the sar Sahib jails, maximum security of criminal activities of gangsters worst crony-capitalist country, fol- jails in Nabha, Patiala, Sangrur lodged there. In some cases, after lowed by Malaysia, Philippines, and Ropar and sub-jail in Barnala the recent killings of gangsters Jas- Singapore, Ukraine, Mexico, Indo- IANS he created the knowledge town of his founded the Viswa Bharati univer- simultaneously. winder Singh ‘Rocky’ on April 30 nesia and Turkey above India. dreams, people thronged in hundreds sity in 1921, the festivities began “This operation resulted in and Sukha Kahlon on January 22 Taiwan and China are ranked 10th to pay their homage to the versatile early morning with a “prabhat pheri” recovery of number of mobile last year, gangsters and criminals and 11th after India. ARRAYKOLKATA: With his ever- bard. People from all walks of life (morning choir) that went around the phones and SIM cards besides tab- uploaded posts on Facebook and The magazine’s index of crony popular songs, poems and other queued up at Jorasanko Thakurbari sprawling campus. lets being used as drugs by inmates,” social media, allegedly from inside capitalists is based on a study by compositions reverberating through in north Kolkata - Tagore’s sprawl- Born on this day Vaisakha 25 a Punjab Police spokesman said on prisons. Ruchir Sharma of Morgan Stanley the air across the state, West Ben- ing ancestral home - since dawn to according to Bengali calendar (May Sunday. 21 mobile phones, five batteries Investment Management and Aditi gal yesterday paid homage to Nobel see the room where he was born and 7, 1861, according to the Roman cal- “The raids were conducted by the of mobiles, two mobile chargers, 11 Gandhi and Michael Walton of Del- laureate Rabindranath Tagore on his watch a cultural programme, where endar), Tagore in 1913 became the Punjab Police jointly with the prisons charging leads, three head phones, hi’s Centre for Policy Research. 155th birth anniversary. well-known singers, elocutionists first Asian Nobel laureate and the department and civil administration eight SIM cards, two memory cards Germany is the cleanest with least From his birthplace here to San- and dancers participated. first non-European to win the prize in the early hours of the morning as , Rs.14,340 cash, tablets, drugs and number of crony capitalists. tiniketan in Birbhum district, where At Shantiniketan, where Tagore for literature. a part of its ongoing drive to ensure other material were recovered. Discussion on Uttarakhand budget & Enemy Property Bill likely to storm parliament

IANS geared up to embarrass the BJP-led “unconstitutional”. “The government (amendment). In the Rajya Sabha, basic principle of natural justice, Enemy Property (Amendment and National Democratic Alliance (NDA) should await the result of the floor Congress members K Rahman Khan, human rights and settled principles Validation) Second Bill 2010, which government yet again as members test,” Tewari said. Hussain Dalwai and P.L. Punia have of law. The provisions of the present was introduced in the Lok Sabha and insisted they could stall the passage Uttarakhand was placed under already submitted note of dissent on bill also disturb the balance on the referred to the standing committee. NEW DELHI: The proposed dis- of the Enemy Property (Amendment President’s Rule on March 27, neces- the Select Committee report on the subject. The new law will not sustain “Further, the bill seeks to insert cussion on the 2016-17 Uttarakhand and Validation) Bill. sitating parliamentary nod for the Enemy Property (Amendment and in a court of law,” a Congress member certain provisions which totally budget and the Enemy Property Bill Congress spokesperson Manish state’s budget. According to sources, Validation) Bill, 2016. said. K C Tyagi (Janata Dal-United), D. violate Articles 14, 19, 300A of the are likely to generate much heat Tewari has said the government’s the government’s agenda for the The report, prepared by a panel Raja (Communist Party of India) and constitution and is also against the between the treasury and opposition move to take up discussion on the ensuing week — the last week of headed by Bharatiya Janata Party Javed Ali Khan (Samajwadi Party) also principles of natural justice,” it said. benches in both houses of parliament Uttarakhand budget a day ahead the second budget session of parlia- member Bhupender Yadav, was sub- gave note of dissent identical to that The Enemy Property Ordinance, during the coming week. of the vote of confidence by the ment -- also includes passage of bills mitted on May 6. “The provisions of of the Congress members. 2016, was promulgated on January 7 Numerically stronger in the Rajya Harish Rawat government — as pertaining to anti-hijacking, Indian the bill or the ordinance, as brought The note of dissent says that this to seek amendments to the Enemy Sabha, the opposition parties are directed by the Supreme Court — is trusts (amendment) and child labour by the government, violates the very bill does not follow the lines of The Property Act, 1968. 16 MONDAY 9 MAY 2016 EUROPE / UK

London mayor Labour party must broaden appeal: Khan flays ‘Trump-style’ tactics of PM next parliamentary election only if it started talking to those people who The newly elected have left its ranks or were voting for London Mayor the Conservative Party and smaller AFP parties such as the anti-European denounced the Union UK Independence Party. campaign against “My point is this - I want a big LONDON: London’s new Muslim tent,” he told the Andrew Marr show. mayor Sadiq Khan accused Prime him, calling it nasty “We’ve got to speak to everyone, there Minister David Cameron yesterday and divisive. is no point us just speaking to Labour of using “Donald Trump playbook” voters, our core vote.” tactics to try to divide communities It was a clear criticism of Cor- in a bid to prevent his election. byn, a socialist who was elected He condemned Cameron’s Con- Agencies leader of Labour last year on a wave servatives for trying to link him to of enthusiasm, among mostly younger Islamist extremists during the elec- members, for change and an end to tion campaign. ‘establishment politics’. “They used fear and innuendo LONDON: Sadiq Khan, the newly Despite enjoying some of the high- to try to turn different ethnic and elected mayor of London, called on est levels of membership in the party, religious groups against each other— Labour yesterday to “stop talking Corbyn has been criticised by several something straight out of Donald about ourselves” and broaden its Labour lawmakers for concentrating Trump playbook,” Khan wrote in The appeal in the latest criticism of the on issues precious to him, but which Observer newspaper. opposition party’s hard-left national have only marginal interest for the pub- “Londoners deserved better and I leader, Jeremy Corbyn. lic, such as Britain’s nuclear deterrent. hope it’s something the Conservative Khan, 45, was elected the first Corbyn opposes the renewal and party will never try to repeat.” London Mayor Sadiq Khan (left) shakes hands with Holocaust survivor Harry Fleming as he attends the UK Muslim mayor of London last week, maintenance of the Trident nuclear A number of Conservative politi- defeating a challenger from the rul- submarine programme. Jewish community’s Holocaust remembrance ceremony, in Barnet, London, yesterday. cians criticised tone of the campaign, ing Conservatives who had attempted In a newspaper article, Khan but Defence Secretary Michael Fal- to link him to extremism in a cam- urged Labour to follow in his cam- campaigning, and move more quickly Jews slain in the Holocaust as his The event inside a rugby stadium lon said the questions raised had been paign also marred by charges of paigning footsteps if it wanted to win and forcefully to tackle charges of first official act in office. brought together thousands from Lon- legitimate. Khan had admitted rep- anti-Semitism. at a parliamentary election in 2020. anti-Semitism in the party’s ranks. He made yesterday’s appearance don’s Jewish community, including resenting some “pretty unsavoury The former human rights lawyer Khan won with a convincing lead “How can you expect to enthuse at a north London ceremony following more than 150 Holocaust survivors characters” during his previous job as denounced the campaign against of more than 13 percent over Zac an undecided voter, or persuade a pre- a racially charged election campaign and a combined choir from five Jew- a human rights lawyer but said their him in an interview on the BBC, call- Goldsmith, despite bitter campaign, vious Tory voter, if you can’t gain their during which Conservative Party ish elementary schools. views were “abhorrent”. ing it “nasty” and “divisive”. But he which Conservative leaders defended trust on the key issues, or you don’t opponents sought to portray him as London’s former Labour mayor, “Both candidates were asked reserved more criticism for his own as the “rough and tumble” of politics. want to talk about what they care an apologist for Islamic extremism Ken Livingstone, was suspended last questions about their backgrounds, party, which struggled in local elec- Khan condemned the Con- about most?” Khan wrote. and to highlight cases of alleged anti- month from the party after he claimed their personalities, their judgment, tions on Thursday. servatives’ tactics and said Labour Meanwhile, Khan joined an Semitism within the ranks of Khan’s that Adolf Hitler supported the Zion- the people they associate with,” Fal- He said Labour could win the should also learn from the divisive annual memorial to the millions of Labour Party. ist aim of establishing Israel. lon told BBC radio. Ex-intelligence bosses Panama leaks: Cameron to host anti-graft meet say Brexit poses threat Bloomberg by the prime minister’s office. The summit marks the latest street protests in Norway and caused Corruption is “an enemy of attempt by the UK leader to deal with problems for Argentine President progress and the root of so many of the political fallout of millions of doc- Mauricio Macri, who pledged to put Reuters article, which was challenged by other the world’s problems,” Cameron said uments leaked from Panamanian law his assets in a blind trust. lawmakers campaigning to leave EU. LONDON: UK Prime Minister David in the statement. “It destroys jobs and firm , one of which Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Justice Secretary Michael Gove Cameron will host a summit in Lon- holds back economic growth, traps revealed he once owned a stake in Solberg and Colombian President told the BBC that the argument was don on Thursday aimed at beating the poorest in desperate poverty and an offshore fund linked to his father. Juan Manuel Santos are expected to LONDON: A British vote to leave the “flat wrong” and that many security corruption, weeks after admitting undermines our security by pushing The revelations from leaks drew attend the summit, along with World European Union next month could experts did not think that a Brexit he had a stake in an offshore fund people towards extremist groups.” accusations of hypocrisy for Cameron Bank President Jim Yong Kim, and make the country more vulnerable would harm Britain. set up by his father. Leaders will be asked to sign a and come as he fights to win a refer- Christine Lagarde, IMF managing to militant attacks and cause insta- Sawers and Evans said modern Nigeria’s President Muhammadu global declaration that promises endum over Britain’s membership of director, according to the statement. bility across the continent, two former intelligence work relied on sharing Buhari and Afghanistan President to expose corruption, punish those the European Union on June 23. The A spokesman for Number 10 wouldn’t senior British intelligence officials said. large data-sets and that Britain could Ashraf Ghani are among a handful responsible and help its victims, in a documents also led to resignation say if Macri had been invited, but said John Sawers, who stepped down be restricted in the information it of leaders confirmed to attend the bid to tackle an issue that Cameron of Icelandic prime minister and two more details about the guest list will as head of MI6 foreign intelligence received if it was not part of the EU. gathering, according to a statement said has been a taboo for too long. European bank executives, prompted emerge over the coming days. service in 2014, and Jonathan Evans, The two men, who do not often who led the MI5 domestic spy agency speak out on national matters, said until three years ago, warned that a their concerns about the vote went British exit, or Brexit, could weaken beyond Britain’s security and that intelligence-sharing between Britain removal of one of Europe’s main mil- Prince Harry and neighbouring countries. itary powers could unsettle the EU Cruise delight “Counterterrorism is a team itself.“ If the UK were to withdraw irked over game, and the EU is the best frame- from the EU, the destabilising effect work available—no country can on the EU itself - already beset with media focus on succeed on its own,” they said in an economic difficulties, the migration article for the Sunday Times. crisis and a resurgent Russia - could his private life National security has become a be profound,” they said. key battleground between rival cam- “Those who are enemies of paigners since more than 150 people democracy would rejoice. In our were killed in Islamic State attacks judgment, there is a real risk that Reuters in Paris and Brussels. such a destabilisation could, in time, Those wanting Britain to leave lead to the fragmentation of the EU the 28-member bloc say an exit and the return of instability on the LONDON: Britain’s Prince Harry would hand the country greater con- continent.” criticised what he called an “inces- trol over its borders. Those backing Elsewhere, European Commis- sant need” of the media to delve membership, including Prime Minis- sion President Jean-Claude Juncker into his private life, saying he would ter David Cameron, say the EU helps said in remarks published yesterday work hard to protect the line divid- to coordinate intelligence-sharing. that a Brexit would have unfor- ing his public and personal life. A eurosceptic lawmaker for the seeable consequences on future Saying “everyone has a right to Conservative Party cast doubt on European cooperation. privacy”, Harry, who is fourth in whether the comments were gen- “A negative result of referendum line to the throne, told the BBC he uine, saying, in a personal capacity, would certainly have unpredictable thought it was “unnecessary” that that he had spoken to one of the consequences on European coop- there was a desire to know “every authors in the last three weeks and eration about which I don’t wish to little bit of detail about what goes he had expressed the opposite opin- speculate now because I believe on behind the scenes”. ion - that leaving the EU would make that Britons will decide ration- The British royal family has no difference to our security. ally,” Juncker told Germany’s Funke long had a fractious relationship Julian Lewis, chairman of par- Media Group. “All Europeans would Fireworks display illuminates the cruise ship AIDAaura during the 827th Hamburg Port anniversary, with the media. Harry’s mother, liament’s Defence Select Committee, very much like to keep Britain in the in Hamburg, Germany. the late Princess Diana, was often said he was “disappointed” to see the family,” he added. pursued by the press and died in a car crash in 1997 as she was chased by tabloid photographers. Harry, 31, said the line between his public and personal life had become almost non-existent. Cannes juggles security with not cramping stars “We will continue to do our best to ensure that there is the line,” he said in an pre-recorded interview AFP including Julia Roberts, Jodi Foster, Air and sea exclusions zones are But many are worried that too Festival’s president Pierre Les- from the United States, where he is at Sean Penn, Robert De Niro, Kirsten also being declared—including a ban much security will cramp Cannes, cure insisted a balance had to be the Invictus Games, a sporting event Dunst, Charlize Theron, George on drones—with a security cordon making the already hectic merry- struck between security and free- for wounded British, American and Clooney and Jeff Bridges due on the thrown around Cannes and all road go-round of screenings, meetings, dom of movement. Nevertheless, allied military personnel. CANNES: The Cannes film festival Croisette for the festival which starts and rail routes leading to the town. interviews and parties all the more there would be no compromising on Harry has on several occasions opens this week with authorities in Wednesday, police are taking no risks. Mayor David Lisnard said the difficult to navigate. the “sealed bubble” around the Pal- come under intense media scrutiny French Riviera resort torn between They staged a simulated ter- police were being ordered to “ran- Head of Directors’ Fortnight sec- ais, he said, where the stars including for his party lifestyle, most notably need for tight security and wrecking ror attack last month on the Palais domly search people in the street. We tion of the festival, Edouard Waintrop Russell Crowe, Kristen Stewart and the leak of a video in 2012 showing the party of a particularly starry year. des Festivals, where the films in are taking all measures so that the sounded alarm, telling reporters he was Ryan Gosling will walk the red carpet. the grandson of the Queen cavort- France is still under a state of emer- the running for the Palme d’Or are festival will be both safe and popu- forced to cut screenings. With quarter of a million visitors ing with a nude young woman in a gency six months after the Paris attacks shown, to test their new emergency lar,” he said. “We will have exceptional security due in the Mediterranean resort dur- hotel room in Las Vegas. in which 130 people died, and Interior response plan. More than 500 security person- measures in place this year. We’ve lost ing the festival, which runs until May Critics have often condemned Minister Bernard Cazeneuve will visit A car bomb attack on a school nel will guard the Palais des Festivals 17 hours of screenings—equivalent to 22, bottlenecks and queues are inev- the British tabloids for their dis- the town to oversee measures. on the town was also part of the sce- itself and prefect Adolphe Colrat will four films—due to new security proto- itable, however. regard of privacy. But since an He promised “highest level of nario, with four top security experts announce today the number of police cols for gaining access to the cinemas. And no amount of security in the inquiry into press ethics was security possible given the context including former Israeli general and and paramilitary gendarmes that are “If the numbers have fallen this past has deterred the determined launched in 2011, more newspa- of the terrorist threat”. anti-terrorism expert Nitzan Nuriel being drafted in to patrol around that year, it’s not out of choice but rather criminals and cat burglars of the pers have refrained from covering With a host of Hollywood stars carrying out a full security audit. cordon. necessity,” he added. Cote d’Azur. some more personal stories. EUROPE MONDAY 9 MAY 2016 17 Police and protesters Azerbaijan to mark Heydar Aliyev’s clash in Athens over bill birth anniversary tomorrow The Peninsula Parliament of the Republic of Azerbaijan from 1991 to 1993,. After the collapse of the Soviet Union and beginning of Armenian aggression against Azerbaijan, an extreme AP a series of strikes. tension and political crises occurred in the country and The larger protest yesterday was DOHA: The People of Azerbaijan commemorate 93rd birth Azerbaijan faced the threat of civil war and loss of inde- Police responded called for by Greece’s biggest unions anniversary of national leader Heydar Aliyev tomorrow pendence. In such a difficult time, people of Azerbaijan with stun grenades and most of those in attendance (May 10). Every year Azerbaijanis celebrate the birth anni- invited Heydar Aliyev to Baku and requested him to regain ATHENS: Greek anarchists hurled were Communist party sympathis- versary of their national leader Heydar Aliyev. He was a the power and lead the country. On June 15, 1993, Hey- firebombs, chairs and wooden planks and bursts of tear ers. About 45 minutes before they great historical leader and phenomenal political figure, dar Aliyev was elected as Chairman of the Parliament of at riot police in brief clashes outside gas to disperse the started throwing projectiles, anar- who dedicated his life to the development and prosper- Azerbaijan. On October 3, 1993, as a result of nationwide parliament while lawmakers were chists approached and beat up a ity of his country and the people. voting, Heydar Aliyev was elected President of the Repub- debating a controversial austerity anarchists. known farmer activist, shouting Heydar Aliyev was born on May 10, 1923 in Nakh- lic of Azerbaijan. On October 11, 1998, gaining 76.1 percent bill, disrupting a much larger peace- that he was a member of the far-right chivan, historical city of of the votes, he was re-elected Pres- ful rally yesterday. Golden Dawn party. Other protesters Azerbaijan. ident of the Republic of Azerbaijan. Police responded with stun dragged the farmer away. Working since that time On December 12, 2013, Hey- grenades and bursts of tear gas to A few minutes later, another in the security bodies, from dar Aliyev passed away. Today, he disperse the anarchists, who were country must meet under its third group of anarchists set upon another 1964 he held the post of dep- occupies a permanent place in the split into two groups — one of them international bailout, is set to dra- person, with riot police using stun uty chairman, and from 1967 history of the Azerbaijani state and mixed among a peaceful protest of matically increase social security grenades to stop the beating. The chairman of the Committee memory of its people. about 10,000 people holding ban- and pension contributions and raise anarchists then regrouped before of State Security in Azerbai- More than 30 years of Azerba- ners and the other inside Syntagma taxes for most people. Greek workers attacking riot police outside a trio of jan, and was conferred with ijan’s recent history, revival of Square in front of parliament. say the increases will decimate their luxury hotels in Syntagma Square. the rank of lieutenant general. political, economic and cultural The bill, introduced as part of incomes, already hurt by six years of The police use of tear gas initially In July 1969 he was elected life are connected to Heydar Ali- requirements debt-ridden Greece crippling austerity, and have staged cleared the space outside the parlia- as the First Secretary of the yev. It was result of Heydar Aliyev’s ment. But most of the peaceful Central Committee of the far-sighted domestic and foreign protesters returned, before Communist Party of Azerbai- policy and intensive activities that finally dispersing for good, jan, Heydar Aliyev became the Azerbaijan started to play the role although there had been talk head of Azerbaijan. of a reliable bridge between the of staying until lawmakers In December 1982, Hey- East and the West and become vote on a pension and taxa- dar Aliyev was elected as a one of the most dynamic econo- tion reform member of Political Bureau of mies in the world. There were also clashes the Central Committee of the Thanks to Heydar Aliyev’s in Thessaloniki, when anar- Communist Party of the Soviet decisive steps in the international chists broke away from a Union, and was appointed to arena, our diplomacy has devel- protest march to hurl fire- the post of the First Deputy oped an active stance. The attitude bombs at police guarding the Chairman of the Cabinet of Min- of the world community towards the local offices of the ruling Syr- isters of the USSR, and became one of the great leaders of Armenian-Azerbaijani Nagorno-Karabakh conflict has iza party. Police used tear gas the Soviet Union. In October 1987, Heydar Aliyev, protest- changed. The sovereignty and territorial integrity of our and chased the rioters through ing against the policy pursued by Political Bureau of the country and the inviolability of its borders are reflected the streets in central Thessalo- Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet in all international legal documents. niki, an eyewitnes said. Union and personally the Secretary General Michael Gor- The construction of a modern, democratic, law-gov- Several professional asso- bachev, resigned from his position. erned and secular state, the development of civil society, ciations, including engineers, After the tragedy committed on January 20, 1990 in the return to the national and spiritual values, and the journalists and doctors, have Baku by the soviet troops, the next day Heydar Aliyev vis- development of science, education and culture in Azerba- warned lawmakers that are ited Azerbaijani Representation in Moscow demanding ijan are forever linked with the name of Heydar Aliyev. also members of these asso- the punishment to the organisers of the crime commit- Today the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham ciations, that they will face ted against the people of Azerbaijan. Aliyev, the worthy successor of the National Leader is suc- disciplinary action and pos- In July 1990, Heydar Aliyev returned to Azerbaijan, first cessfully continuing the political course founded by great sible expulsion if they vote for he lived in Baku, then in Nakhchivan, and in the same year leader Heydar Aliyev. The personality of Heydar Aliyev is the bill. Prime Minister Alexis he was elected deputy to the Parliament of Azerbaijan. He the main factor of the successful development of Azerba- Workers affiliated to the Communist party, participate in a demonstration Tsipras himself is a member of held the post of Chairman of the Parliament of the Nakh- ijan today. Heydar Aliyev lives in the minds and hearts of against reforms to the tax and pension system in Athens, yesterday. the engineers’ association. chivan Autonomous Republic and Deputy Chairman of the all Azerbaijanis. He will live as long as there is Azerbaijan. Muslims welcome Germany’s move against Islamophobia Three scribes freed from

Anatolia Germany’s police have long been “This new registration system It is also important in this respect Syria return to Spain criticised for ignoring the Islamo- of anti-Muslim racism must also be to define this and also register it in phobic character of many hate accompanied by awareness-raising police records accordingly,” he added. crimes and often classifying them activities and training for public offi- Zick said having reliable figures BERLIN: Germany’s move to give as petty offenses or politically moti- cials and the police. The government on Islamophobic crimes following AFP Spanish journalists who were Islamophobic crimes their own spe- vated crimes. should provide more support for these the new system would also help the released in March 2014 after held for cial category in police records is being The existing classification scheme activities,” he said. development of new measures to six months in Syria by the Islamic welcomed by leading experts and used by the police includes several Professor Andreas Zick of address Islamophobia in Germany. State group, Al-Nusra’s rival which Muslim community leaders. categories of politically motivated Bielefeld University, a leading expert “Having reliable figures on Islam- MADRID: Three Spanish journal- has executed many of its hostages, Aiman Mazyek, the chairman of crimes, but makes no explicit ref- on discrimination and racism, told ophobic hate crimes in the near future ists who had been held hostage in sources added. Germany’s Central Council of Mus- erence to Islamophobia, a growing reporters that the move to classify will also make it more visible so pol- Syria by an Al Qaeda-linked group Pampliega’s mother Maria lims, said that for many years they problem in Germany. Islamophobic hate crimes under a iticians can see the need to take returned to Madrid yesterday where del Mar Rodriguez Vega said she have sought such a measure to help According to a draft reform special category would also provide measures to address the problem of they were welcomed by overjoyed planned to cook her son’s favourite address the growing number of ver- hammered out by Merkel’s coalition better protection for Muslims. Islamophobia,” he said. family members after nearly a year dish to celebrate his return—spin- bal and physical attacks on Muslims. partners, the scheme will be updated “It is unacceptable to regard Germany has witnessed growing in captivity. ach with bechamel sauce. “We will finally be able to have in June, and will make Islamophobic Islamophobic-motivated crimes as anti-refugee sentiments and Islam- Antonio Pampliega, Jose Manuel “He had the same voice as reliable figures on Islamophobia,” crimes a special sub-category under regular crime incidents. If some- ophobia in recent years, triggered Lopez and Angel Sastre were flown always, from when he was a child, he Mazyek told reporters, praising the hate crimes. one falls victim to a hate crime just by the propaganda of far-right and on a Spanish defence ministry jet repeatedly asked me for forgiveness move by German Chancellor Angela The government recently because she or he is a Muslim, than populist parties, which exploited the from Turkey to Torrejon air base for what he made me go through,” Merkel’s conservative-left coalition informed lawmakers, in response to this should be defined accordingly,” refugee crisis and fears from religious near Madrid where they were she said in a statement released by government. an April 29 parliamentary question he told told reporters. extremist and terrorist groups, such greeted by Deputy Prime Minister the Spanish branch of media rights “German authorities and police motion, that the planned change will “It is important to define Islam- as Daesh. Soraya Saenz de Santamaria. group Reporters Without Borders. will now be more sensible towards come into force in January 2017. ophobic crimes under a special Last year there were 80 attacks The three men could be seen The three were kidnapped by Islamophobic crimes. Above all, the Mazyek said the move should also category. Otherwise, courts often find on mosques across Germany, accord- smiling as they descended from the armed men on July 13 while they growing anti-Muslim racism in Ger- be supported by additional measures it difficult to differentiate between ing to the largest Muslim organisation plane as officials held up umbrellas were travelling together in a van in many will not be subsumed under to raise awareness of Islamophobia the character of the crime, whether in the country, the Turkish-Islamic to shield them from driving rain, in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo xenophobia anymore,” he added. among public officials. it was a discrimination or hate crime. Union (DITIB). a video released by the government. where they had been reporting on Pampliega kissed his sister Ale- fighting for various Spanish media. jandra on the forehead and gave her They were held by Al-Qaeda’s a hug after she ran to greet him. Syrian affiliate, the Al-Nusra Front, Bulgarian Socialists “Crying from joy falls short,” she government sources said. said on Twitter when the news broke When news of the kidnapping German’s SPD members pick first that the three reporters had been broke, a week after the journalists released and were in good health. went missing, the families of the hos- woman leader The release was “possible tages asked the media to keep quiet. deny Gabriel stepping down thanks to the collaboration of allies The case was handled by Spain’s and friends especially in the final National Intelligence Agency which SOFIA: Bulgaria’s Socialist Party phase from Turkey and Qatar”, the tried to follow the kidnapped jounal- Reuters hogwash that you can’t even prop- election when its vote slumped to (BSP), the biggest opposition party, Spanish government said. ists’ movements in Syria and get erly deny it,” he told broadcaster ARD. a post-war low of 23 percent. chose a new leader yesterday with The trio appear to have been signs that they were alive and well, Gabriel has struggled to impose As deputy chancellor in Merkel’s the task of winning back disaf- treated better than three other according to government sources. his leadership credentials before grand coalition, he has to show he is fected voters and pushing for an BERLIN: Senior members of Germa- next year’s federal election. Many fit to lead the nation while also work- early general election. ny’s Social Democrats (SPD), junior in his party openly doubt that he ing out policies his party can agree Kornelia Ninova, the first partners in Chancellor Angela Mer- should stand as their candidate for to implement in tandem with the female leader in the BSP’s 125- kel’s coalition government, yesterday chancellor. conservatives. year history, won 395 votes from rejected as nonsense reports that the He scored just 74 percent in a The former teacher, who is also delegates at the party’s Congress, party’s leader Sigmar Gabriel was party delegates’ vote of confidence economy minister, was forced to with her predecessor Mihail Mikov preparing to step down. last December - the lowest for an SPD cancel a trip to Iran last week due to coming second on 349. Helmut Markwort, co-publisher leader in 20 years. illness. This was a blow for German “Dear comrades, thank you of magazine Focus, sparked a flurry His party has struggled to capi- companies that had seen the event for the trust placed in me,” Ninova of media speculation when he told talise on infighting among Merkel’s as a potential catalyst for increasing said after her election. “I will not a German television programme he conservatives over Europe’s migrant exports to Iran. let you down, I will not betray you. had heard from reliable sources that crisis and had a poor showing in Still, most pundits are betting Tomorrow, we will change the BSP Gabriel planned to hand in his resig- regional elections in March as voters on him still running in 2017 given together.” nation this week. punished Germany’s ruling parties in the lack of clear rivals and apparent On Saturday, Ninova said the “Mr Markwort has presumably favour of the anti-immigrant Alter- reluctance among top SPD officials to new leader, whoever it might be, had too much sun in Munich,” SPD native for Germany party. take on what is viewed as an unen- should unite the party and press Deputy Chairman Ralf Stegner said. A poll for Bild am Sonntag yes- viable position. for early elections, aiming to oust Justice Minister Heiko Maas also terday put the support for the SPD “Of course Gabriel is the one who the “inhuman” centre-right gov- Spanish freelance journalist Antonio Pampliega (left) arriving at dismissed the rumour. at 22 percent, even worse than will run as candidate for chancellor,” ernment, led by Prime Minister Torrejon military airport in Madrid, yesterday. “I think it’s such a load of the party’s showing in the 2009 Maas told ARD. Boiko Borisov. 18 MONDAY 9 MAY 2016 AMERICAS

No need for Sanders gains Republican new leads but unity: Trump long way ahead AFP WASHINGTON: There may be much Republican hand-wringing over Don- ald Trump’s presumptive nomination four of the seven delegates at stake. to face the Democratic candidate for Sanders will pick up three delegates. the White House, but the boastful bil- Combined with some The Pacific island is one of five lionaire says he doesn’t care, and it delegate gains in US territories that casts votes in doesn’t matter. primaries and caucuses to decide A growing chorus of senior Washington state, the nominee, even though those Republican leaders have joined the Hillary Clinton now residents aren’t eligible to vote in “anyone but Trump movement,” November. Often overlooked, Guam including 2012 Republican presiden- has more than this election cycle drew attention tial nominee Mitt Romney and last 93 percent of the from both the presidential candi- two Republican presidents, George 2,383 delegates dates, who ran radio advertisements W. Bush and George H W Bush. “Does in a bid to scoop up any possible del- it have to be unified?” Trump asked US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump addresses a campaign rally at the Northwest Washington needed to clinch the egate in the final stretch of primaries about the Republican Party. nomination. and caucuses. Fair and Event Center in Lynden, Washington, yesterday. “I’m very different than everybody Combined with some dele- else, perhaps, that’s ever run for office. gate gains in Washington state, party could produce vote data bro- generate the more detailed infor- lead of 290 delegates, according to I actually don’t think so,” he told ABC’s Clinton now has more than 93 per- ken down by congressional district. mation until its county conventions the count by a media group. This Week. cent of the 2,383 delegates needed District-level data provided to were complete on May 1. If he hopes to overtake her based “I think it would be better if it AP to clinch the nomination as she a section of media show that Sand- Meanwhile, at Maine’s state con- on just those primary and caucus del- were unified, I think it would be— seeks to look ahead to a November ers will pick up 49 of those delegates, vention early yesterday, party officials egates, he still must win 66 percent there would be something good about matchup against Republican Don- while Clinton will receive 18. said Sanders ultimately gained one of the remaining delegates — a figure it. But I don’t think it actually has to ald Trump. Sanders has said he will The 67 district-level delegates additional delegate — and Clinton lost unchanged from before. be unified in the traditional sense.” WASHINGTON: Democratic pres- take his delegate fight to the floor of from Washington had generated one — after he picked up additional Clinton’s lead is bigger when A group of conservatives opposed idential candidate Bernie Sanders the Democratic National Convention some debate on social media, support following the state’s March 6 including superdelegates — party offi- to Trump’s candidacy announced it has cut into Hillary Clinton’s lead in Philadelphia in July. where Sanders supporters ques- caucus. cials who can support any candidate. had launched a “formal effort” for by more than two dozen delegates, In Washington state, Sand- tioned why he had not yet received Still, even with the additional del- She now has a total of 2,228 dele- an alternative candidate, though it based on new data from Washing- ers handily won the caucus on any of those delegates in a state he egates for Sanders, his mathematical gates, or more than 93 percent of the stopped short of backing a contender ton state, but his chances of winning March 26, when the Vermont sen- won big. Like Iowa, Colorado and chances of winning the nomination 2,383 delegates needed to win. Sand- from a third party. “This is not a fight the nomination haven’t gotten much ator won 25 of the 34 delegates Maine, Washington state has a haven’t improved. ers has 1,454. for heart and soul of the Republican better. Clinton won the Guam caucus. awarded that day. An additional multistep process for awarding del- Based on primaries and caucuses Just 155 delegates short, Clinton Party; it is a battle for the future of In Guam, the party said Clinton 67 district-level delegates could egates to the national convention. to date, Clinton now has 1,705 dele- remains on track to clinch the nomi- our country,” Conservatives Against won 60 percent of the vote to earn not be divided up until the state It said it could not immediately gates while Sanders has 1,415 — or a nation early next month. Trump said in a statement.

Leftist deputy Preparing for the ‘worst’ asks court to block Man found in bay impeachment vote was asphyxiated

AFP Reuters nose by duct tape,” said Chief Med- ical Examiner Barbara Sampson in a statement. “The manner of death BRASÍLIA: A deputy from the rul- is homicide.” ing Workers’ Party has appealed NEW YORK: A man whose face There have been no arrests in the to Brazil’s Supreme Court in an was wrapped in duct tape and feet case and the investigation is ongo- effort to block the impeachment encased in concrete when his body ing, according to the New York Police of President Dilma Rousseff ahead washed ashore in New York City Department. of Wednesday’s Senate vote. this week was killed by asphyxia, Martinez was identified by a fin- Deputy Paulo Teixeira asked the New York City Medical Exam- gerprint and the tattoo of the Virgin the court to annul a vote taken on iner’s Office said. Mary with a rose on his back. Police April 17, saying political leaders The body of the 28-year-old said he had at least 30 prior arrests had exercised illegal and improper victim, Peter Martinez of Brooklyn, and was linked to a local street gang, pressure on their members, local was wrapped in garbage bags and the G-Stone Crips. news media reported yesterday. his arms were tied behind him when The case seemed to spring from At a plenary session, an over- he was found along the shore in the the pages of pulp fiction. According whelming majority of parliament Fire department workers, special operations groups and medical officals take part in a terrorist bomb borough’s Sheepshead Bay area, the to folklore, New York gangsters were (367 to 146 members) voted to attack simulation in Butanta metro station as a whole with the participation of more than 300 people police said. known to have tossed their victims launch impeachment proceed- involved in this operation in Sao Paulo, Brazil, yesterday. “The cause of death is asphyxia, into rivers wearing cement shoes to ings against Rousseff, whom the including covering of the mouth and “sleep with the fishes.” opposition accuses of illegally manipulating government budget numbers to help her re-election chances in 2014. Teixeira based his argument on the fact that the high court had sus- Mexican military veteran defends torture he oversaw pended speaker of lower house of Congress, Eduardo Cunha—the man at the centre to impeach Rousseff — AFP Although the screams still haunt “The information obtained in The stark admission comes as Amnesty International. on grounds he had tried to obstruct the retired service member long those interrogations becomes intel- President Enrique Pena Nieto’s gov- In 2014, the figure soared to 2,403 an inquiry into his own alleged cor- after he left the military, he remains ligence,” said the former official, who ernment faces torture scandals investigations. Last week, a general ruption in Petrobras scandal. unapologetic about using torture to asked that his rank, military branch against troops and police amid a dec- was sentenced to 52 years in prison Teixeira alleges that leaders, MEXICO CITY: The Mexican military find drug lords and rescue kidnap- and location be omitted in order to ade-long drug war. for ordering torture of a man who under pressure from Cunha, “vio- veteran recalls overseeing interro- ping victims. speak freely about the torture sessions When he took office in December died and whose body was inciner- lated” the deputies’ right to vote gations during which his men beat It was the only way to break the he witnessed. The rough interroga- 2012, the authorities were investigat- ated by troops. Last month, foreign freely on impeachment matters, suspects, wrapped their faces in plas- code of silence of criminals who would tions gave criminals “the same dose ing 287 torture cases at the federal experts investigating disappearance according to their conscience and tic bags to cut off their oxygen and otherwise refuse to speak, the 30-year (of torture) they give” captured gov- level, according to figures from the of 43 students said there was evidence not in lockstep with their parties. jolted them with electric shocks. veteran said on condition of anonymity. ernment forces, he said. attorney general’s office obtained by the authorities tortured 17 suspects.

Senate’s power brokers are ageing Destroyer on final journey with several seeking new terms

AP Arizona’s John McCain, the Committee. Pat Roberts of Kansas, 79-year-old chairman of Armed 80, runs the Agriculture Committee Services Committee, is also running and 78-year-old Thad Cochran of for re-election. So are Richard Shelby Mississippi leads the powerful Appro- WASHINGTON: Millennials have of Alabama, the Banking, Housing priations Committee. At 75, Lamar emerged as the nation’s largest living and Urban Affairs Committee chair- Alexander of Tennessee is chairman generation yet that demographic shift man who turned 82, and Johnny of the Health, Education, Labor and isn’t reflected in the upper reaches Isakson 71 of Georgia, who leads the Pensions Committee. of the Republican-controlled Senate, Veterans’ Affairs Committee and the Senate Majority Leader Mitch where the body’s oldest members are Senate’s ethics panel. McConnell of Kentucky is 74. the power brokers. And several are Other committees are controlled Three senior Democrats have asking voters for new six-year terms. by senior Republicans whose terms opted to retire at end of the year: At 82, Chuck Grassley wants Iow- don’t end for at least a few more Minority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada, ans to send him back to the Senate years. Orrin Hatch of Utah, chair- 76, Maryland’s Barbara Mikulski, 79, for a seventh time. The Republican man of Finance Committee, is 82 and California’s Barbara Boxer, 75. But chairman of Judiciary Commit- and has been a senator since 1977 Vermont Democrat Patrick Leahy, 76, tee pitches his seniority as a plus, — the same year Jimmy Carter was is running for another term. Leahy, telling voters he gives them a “big inaugurated as president. Oklaho- first elected in 1974, has been in office The former USS Barry, once a Navy destroyer and a museum ship at the Washington Navy Yard for voice at the policymaking tables” in ma’s James Inhofe is 81 and heads longer than any other currently serv- more than 30 years, is towed down the Potomac River to a final resting place in Philadelphia. Washington. the Environment and Public Works ing senator — 41 years. AMERICAS MONDAY 9 MAY 2016 1917 Canada wildfire rages for 7th day despite light rain

toward the neighboring province of “On something this big, it may well An Alberta Saskatchewan, said wildfire informa- trigger the maximum under the for- tion officer Travis Fairweather, but was mula, which would mean 90 percent government not expected to reach the border. While of the cost would be borne by the gov- statement said the there were some communities near the ernment of Canada,” he said. fire, they were not in its path, he said. Officials have said that, even fire had consumed Winds of up to 60 kph (37 mph) though the fire has largely pushed 500,000 acres — were fanning the flames, but there through Fort McMurray, the town is was a chance of rain and cooler still too dangerous to enter. an area the size temperatures later in the day. The Thousands of evacuees are of Mexico City and Canadian Broadcasting Corpora- camped out in nearby towns but stand tion reported ash fell in parts of little chance of returning soon, even would continue Saskatchewan. if their homes are intact. The city’s to grow. An Alberta government statement gas has been turned off, its power said the fire had consumed 500,000 grid is damaged, and the water is acres - an area the size of Mexico City undrinkable. - and would continue to grow. Provincial officials said displaced Reuters Fort McMurray is the centre of people would be better off driving to Canada’s oil sands region. About half cities such as Calgary, 655 km to the of the crude output from the sands, or south, where health and social serv- one million barrels per day, had been ices were better. GREGOIRE LAKE, ALBERTA: A taken offline as of Friday, according “I know today is a bittersweet wildfire ripping through Canada’s to an estimate. Mother’s Day for many Alberta moms, oil sands region looked set to grow The inferno looks set to become the as you’re away from your homes,” rapidly as it entered its second week costliest natural disaster in Canada’s said Alberta Premier Rachel Notley yesterday despite cooler weather and history. One analyst estimated insur- on Twitter. “All of you are incredibly light rain, but move further away from ance losses could exceed C$9bn ($7bn). strong, and I hope you’re able to find Smoke and flames from the wildfires erupt behind cars on the highway near Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada. heavily populated areas, a fire offi- Canada Public Safety Minister a small moment for yourself today.” cial said. Ralph Goodale said the economic cost The provincial government has The fire, which started near the of the wildfire would likely eclipse promised evacuees pre-paid debit supervisor Susie Demelo got some “And nobody has died in the fire.” By yesterday morning, a Royal Cana- town of Fort McMurray in northeast that of the 2013 Alberta floods, which cards to cover immediate costs, with welcome good news. New satellite Through Friday and Saturday, dian Mounted Police spokesman said Alberta, spread so quickly that the was in the range of C$6bn. C$1,250 per adult and C$500 per images showed the house she rents police escorted thousands of evacu- that process was complete. town’s 88,000 inhabitants barely had Speaking to CTV television, he dependent, expected to cost about in Fort McMurray was still standing. ees who had been forced to flee north Some residents were complain- time to leave. noted that when disasters are more C$100m. Demelo and her partner had no from Fort McMurray back through ing about the lack of news from the The front of the fire was moving expensive, federal funding covers a After the scare of her life escap- insurance on their belongings. “I’m the burning town, to allow them to town, fire chief Darby Allen said in a southeast, away from Fort McMurray larger proportion of their costs. ing the fire on Tuesday, housekeeping very blessed and grateful,” she said. head south to Alberta’s major cities. video posted online. Petition of 1.5m counted for Maduro’s removal Cop held in shooting spree to appear in court today AFP in elections last December, is seek- a referendum if the petition is vali- MUD leader Jesus Torrealba said ing to organize a recall referendum dated. But his side looks likely to put the “electoral council leadership is to cut short Maduro’s term. roadblocks in the way. intentionally delaying completion AP who was described as being in grave “As of today we already have The man Maduro appointed to of the count” by blocking opposi- condition, is “making progress. We CARACAS: Venezuela’s opposition National Electoral Council verifi- oversee verification of the petition, tion lawmakers from entering places remain hopeful he’ll survive.” forces said electoral authorities have cation of 1,567,310 signatures. That former CNE president Jorge Rod- where some remaining signatures are Hundreds of people attended a tallied 1.5 million signatures seeking is almost eight times the minimum riguez, indicated he was already being held. ROCKVILLE: Police say they’ve seen vigil remembering Winffel at Clarks- to force President Nicolas Maduro needed” to force the vote, opposition sure that many of the signatures were Venezuela, which has the world’s no signs of remorse from a federal burg High School, where his two from power with a recall referendum. lawmaker Carlos Ocariz said. invalid. largest proven oil reserves, has police officer accused of a two-day children are enrolled. A gofundme Oil-dependent Venezuela has The opposition Democratic Unity Under Venezuela’s constitution, plunged into economic chaos as glo- shooting spree in a string of suburban page set up to help the family with descended ever deeper into economic Roundtable (MUD) on last Monday after January 10, 2017, a successful bal crude prices have collapsed. parking lots in Maryland that left three funeral expenses and the kids’ col- turmoil as global crude prices have delivered 1.85 million of a total of recall vote would transfer power to The opposition blames Maduro for people dead and three wounded. lege expenses had received nearly collapsed, triggering food shortages, 2.5 million signatures it says it col- Maduro’s vice president rather than the economic crisis, which has Ven- Eulalio Tordil, 62, of Adelphi is $30,000 in donations. inflation and an electricity crisis. lected. The number needed to force trigger new elections. ezuelans queuing for hours to buy scheduled to make an initial court In an interview, Pilar Winffel said The centre-right opposition, a vote was 195,721. The MUD is racing to hold a recall rations of food and basic goods such appearance today in Rockville, a her brother had gone to the mall for which won control of the legislature Maduro has said he would allow referendum before the end of the year. as toilet paper. suburb near the nation’s capital, lunch with a friend from work. Wit- on charges including first-degree nesses told her that her brother was murder. shot as the woman under attack by Police said the shootings began Tordil spotted Winffel in the parking Black cadets cause on Thursday when Tordil fatally shot lot and ran toward him for help. Winf- AyyayayayayayayyyyDrag culture his estranged wife—Gladys Tordil, a fel was shot with his arms extended, West Point stir chemistry teacher— in a high-school reaching out to help the woman, Pilar parking lot. A bystander was wounded. said. She was told Tordil was smiling The shootings continued on as he fired the shots. with raised fists Friday at two different mall park- Hamill said Tordil spoke to ing lots. At the first, one man was investigators a little about the shoot- killed and his friend was wounded ings. “I would not describe him as AFP while coming to the aid of a woman, being remorseful,” Hamill said. who also was wounded. At the sec- Hamill said a search of Tordil’s ond, a woman was shot and killed car uncovered a .40-caliber Glock WASHINGTON: The prestigious in her car. handgun that was used in shoot- West Point military academy has Police said they identified the ings. Police believe it also was used opened an inquiry after 16 black victims who died in the Friday in shooting of Gladys Tordil but that female cadets posed for a photo shootings: Malcom Winffel, 45, of more testing is needed to confirm. with fists raised in militant style. Boyds, was shot and killed at the Tordil, a federal security officer The pose struck by the cadets, first crime scene. Claudina Molina, employed by the Federal Protective dressed in their gray uniforms while 65, of Silver Spring, died at the final Service, was put on administrative standing on the steps of barracks crime scene. duties in March after a protective in late April, is seen by some critics Winffel’s family was not sur- order was issued against him when as an implicit show of support for prised to learn that he had died in his wife said he had threatened to the Black Lives Matter movement an effort to help others. harm her if she left him. and thus a potential violation of a “He was always helping peo- The protective service said Defence Department rule against ple,” said his sister, Pilar Winffel, of Tordil’s weapon, badge and creden- “partisan political activity.” Columbia. “If a friend of a friend was tials were taken when he was placed West Point seeks to portray itself moving, he would go and help.” on leave. Tordil also got into trouble as a melting pot that brings together At a news conference, Mont- in 2008. A report from Department talented students from across the gomery County Assistant Police of Housing and Urban Development’s country, without regard for racial Chief Russ Hamill said Winffel and inspector general said Tordil entered or ethnic differences, for elite train- his friend, who was not identified, into a civil settlement and paid HUD ing as future military leaders. were coming to the carjacking vic- nearly $16,000 after he obtained Lieutenant Colonel Christopher FatherAndrew Emir Barrett H H Sheikh Cox (centre) Hamad andbin KhalifaMichelle Al GeositsThani witnessed (right) walk last through evening athe display arrival of of RuPaul Fath Al fashion Kheir tim’s aid when they were shot. a $27,000 discount on a property Kasker, a spokesman for the acad- 2during at Katara RuPaul’s Cultural DragCon village at thebeach. Los TheAngeles event Convention was also attendedCentre, in Losby Angeles,H H Sheikh California. Jassem Thebin DragConHamad Al “Those two men acted selflessly through a federal programme but emy in New York state, confirmed Thani,convention Representative includes vendors, of the Emir. exhibitors, Pic: Qassim/The panel discussions,Peninsula screenings and autograph→ See also sessions page for26 and heroically, most likely saving her failed to live up to the program rules, that the cadets were members of fans of drag culture. life,” Hamill said. which required him to live in the prop- the current graduating class. Hamill said Winffel’s friend, erty where he received the discount. “Academy officials are con- ducting an inquiry into the matter,” he said. The young women were following a longtime tradition at West Point, where soon-to-be Spy agencies are pushed to reveal extent of US surveillance graduates each year strike stern and straightlaced poses in historic style much as their predecessors have done for more than a century. AP collected under programmes author- the information. In the past five years, the United States. They say the law and our allies,” Clapper said recently But instead of raising their ised by Section 702 of the Foreign Democratic Senators Ron Wyden and explicitly bars the government from about continued need for Section sabers to the sky, the black Intelligence Surveillance Act. Tom Udall have asked repeatedly. Last targeting a foreigner to acquire the 702 programmes . student-officers sparked a mini- The programmes target foreign- October, a coalition of more than 30 communications of an American or He did not say how soon an esti- tempest by raising their fists at a WASHINGTON: Even though bulk ers, but domestic communications civil liberties groups wrote Clapper someone in the US. But they say intel- mate could be released and cautioned school with a predominantly white collection of Americans’ telephone sometimes are vacuumed up as well. seeking the information. Unsatisfied ligence agencies are authorised under that “any methodology we come up and male student population. records has ended, calls and emails They were first revealed to the public with the answer they received, they Section 702 to query communications with will not be completely satisfac- Some duty officers have com- are still being swept up by US sur- by Edward Snowden, who leaked files wrote him again in January. made with US persons under certain tory to all parties.” plained the pose seemed to violate veillance work targeting foreigners. from the National Security Agency. Intelligence officials have tried cases with certain approvals. Even Congress acknowledges that Pentagon rules on avoiding politi- Congress is making a renewed push “Surely the American public is enti- to assuage concerns of Congress and Late last month, Clapper said producing an estimate could require cal activity by paying tribute to the to find out how many. tled to some idea of how many of our others by saying any domestic com- intelligence agencies are looking into reviewing actual emails, for instance, black nationalism of civil rights- Six Republicans and eight Dem- communications are swept up by these munications collected are “incidental” several options for providing an esti- acquired under Section 702, which era Black Panthers group or to ocrats on the House Judiciary programmes,” the committee members to the targeting of foreigners. They say mate and will do their best to come itself could raise privacy concerns. the militant tone of the present- Committee have asked the nation’s wrote in their April 22 letter to Director Section 702 allows the government up with a number. But lawmakers say they are only day Black Lives Matter protests top intelligence official for the number of National Intelligence James Clapper. to target only non-US persons rea- “This tool is a terrific producer of advocating a “one-time, limited sam- against police abuses. of Americans’ emails and phone calls They weren’t the first to request sonably believed to be located outside critical intelligence for this country pling” of communications.

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IS claims attack that killed 8 SYDNEY: A study of 30 years' 2 Egypt policemen near Cairo worth of data has concluded that no link exists between mobile Saudi soldier killed in phones and brain cancers. The 3 gunbattle with militants study, out of Australia, pores over the prevalence of brain tumors since 1987, reports the Daily Mail. During this 29-year period - TWEET OF THE DAY a time when mobile phone usage has increased dramatically - there was no corresponding increase in cancerous brain tumors. The study noted that 9 percent of Australia’s population had cell phones in 1993. Today, the phones are ubiquitous, with 90 percent of all residents owning one. During the same period, rates of brain cancer remained basi- cally stagnant. Brain cancer rates did go up slightly among men aged 20 to 84. Among women in this age range, rates were unchanged. The study investigated the incidence of brain cancer among 19,858 men and 14,222 women who have been diagnosed with brain Cast member Blake Shelton with characters from the movie “The Angry Birds Movie” at the party cancer from 1982 to 2012. It also following the premiere of the film in Los Angeles, US, yesterday. examined overall mobile phone usage from 1987 to 2012. Diamond hunt gets tougher

AFP sources have probably been found current rate. Amid such swings, min- but, with this resource here, we hope ing companies must judge whether it we have something that can extend is profitable to prospect for diamonds well into the future." in increasingly difficult geological SOUTH AFRICA: Proof that dia- As the hunt for diamonds conditions, or in unstable countries monds are getting harder to find can becomes tougher, mining compa- such as Angola and the Democratic be seen in the South African bush, nies must go to greater lengths — and Republic of Congo. where one of the world's largest absorb higher costs — to secure the Reflecting widespread uncer- mining companies is spending $2bn ultimate precious stone and symbol tainty in the industry, De Beers -- the tunnelling beneath a vast open-pit of love. "Across the globe, the big dia- world's largest supplier of diamonds mine. mond deposits have been exploited, by value -- shut diamond mines in De Beers spent 25 years digging and I don't see any big new mines Canada and Botswana last year. a 450-metre (1,500-foot) deep by coming online," Peter Major, mining It also sold its last mine in the one-kilometre wide hole to access specialist at Johannesburg-based South African town of Kimber- diamond-rich rock from the surface Cadiz Solutions, told. ley, where the diamond industry at the Venetia mine, close to the bor- "We are often told that the grow- was born and where De Beers was der with Zimbabwe and Botswana. ing world population, combined with founded in 1888 by British colonial- Now a whole new underground the increasing difficulty of finding ist Cecil Rhodes. mine is being constructed under- diamonds, will mean prices always But the Venetia mine is set to neath the hole to reach diamonds rise, but we will see. Many produc- become one of the world's five biggest more than 1,000 metres below ers are losing money. diamond mines after its conversion ground -- a big bet by De Beers that "The project at Venetia is stu- from open-pit to underground oper- their investment will reap decades pendous — especially as very few ations is finally completed in 2022. of profit. "We are in very challeng- other firms are investing in mining Current predictions suggest the ing times," Ludwig Von Maltitz, the in South Africa." In recent years, dia- mine will then operate until at least mine's general manager, told on the mond prices have fluctuated sharply. 2043. edge of the cavernous open-pit as After the global economic crisis "The troughs and the peaks (of trucks rumbled up to the process- in 2008, prices recovered quickly to diamond prices) happen more fre- ing plant. hit a peak in 2011 before falling about quently now but I am optimistic," said "Worldwide, the easier diamond 20 percent to slightly below their Von Maltitz. US flight delayed after economist’s Full moon can equations alarm female passenger shorten sleep

AFP gate and the woman disembarked, she reported that her real reason of children for wanting to turn back was that IANS WASHINGTON: It could be a case of she was concerned about Menzio's racial profiling — or doing math in behaviour. the wrong place at the wrong time. Menzio met with airline agents TORONTO: While the full moon A noted economics professor and security, who said he was sus- does not make kids hyperac- was questioned by security after a pected of "terrorism." The professor tive - as commonly believed - it fellow passenger reported that he showed them that his scribbles were, may decrease their sleep time by was suspicious, scribbling intently in fact, a differential equation. The five minutes on an average, says on a notepad in what appeared to flight took off after a delay of about a study. However, the clinical be cryptic code. an hour. implication of sleeping five min- The pilot quickly determined Menzio is a theoretical mac- utes less during full moon does not that "the female passenger's con- roeconomist at the University of represent a considerable threat to cerns are not valid," American Pennsylvania, according to his fac- health, the researchers pointed out. Airlines spokesman Casey Norton ulty profile. Last year, he won the "We should not worry about said. According to media reports, Carlo Alberto Medal for Best Italian the full moon. Our behaviours are Guido Menzio — an Italian with Economist Under 40. Menzio told largely influenced by many other olive skin and dark curly hair — the Washington Post in an email factors like genes, education and was traveling to give a talk when the that "it is hard not to recognize in psychosocial aspects rather than woman next to him on the Ameri- this incident, the ethos of (Donald) by gravitational forces," said one can Eagle flight from Philadelphia Trump's voting base", in a reference of the researchers, Jean-Philippe to Syracuse told the crew she was ill. to the presidential hopeful's anti- Chaput from the Eastern Ontario After the plane returned to the Islam, anti-immigration rhetoric. Research Institute in Canada. www.thepeninsulaqatar.com

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QTA and Germany’s TUI Cruises sign agreement

Europe Forum held in Hamburg upcoming 2016-2017 cruise sea- mix of modernity and history, Qatar The German cruise in 2015 and puts Qatar on track to son, bringing in an expected 55,000 has a lot to offer to our guests. We are achieve its target of 250,000 visitors passengers. This provides new and looking forward to having a close col- line will include Qatar on board cruise ships in 2019. Qatar untapped investment opportunities laboration with QTA,” said Wybcke in its itineraries for Ports Management Company (Mwani for businesses to develop tourism Meier, CEO, TUI Cruises. Qatar) has confirmed the berthing products and services that cater to TUI Cruises is a Germany-based, the 2017-2018 season, schedule for the cruise ships. the cruise visitors. Joint venture cruise line of the Ger- according to the deal. QTA is working closely with TUI Cruises has planned for Mein man Tourist firm, TUI AG and the Mwani Qatar to expand the vari- Schiff 5 ship to dock in Qatar. The ship American cruise line operator, Royal ous elements of the country’s cruise is approximately 294 metres long, has Caribbean Cruises Ltd. The company industry, in particular, Doha Port, 15 decks and the capacity to carry up started operations in 2009 and is The Peninsula which will be undergoing redevelop- to 2,506 passengers on two persons marketed for German-speaking cus- ment to transform it into a full-time per cabin basis. tomers who opt for premium cruise cruise terminal and tourist attraction. Mein Schiff 5 is also known for experience. DOHA: Qatar Tourism Authority “Cruise tourism in Qatar provides being an energy-efficient ship, con- The Qatar National Tourism Sec- (QTA) has announced an agreement huge opportunities for the growth of suming around 30 percent less energy tor Strategy 2030 (QNTSS) identifies with TUI Cruises through which the the country’s overall tourism indus- than comparable cruise liners thanks the cruise industry as a focus area German cruise line will be including try and is central to the realisation of to an advanced energy manage- in coming years, with the outlook of Qatar in its itineraries for the 2017- the Qatar National Tourism Sector ment system. Additionally, the ship Qatar to become an emerging cruise 2018 season, bringing seven cruise Strategy 2030,” said QTA chief tour- the significant development that the pursue other major cruise lines.” is equipped with a modern exhaust destination exceptionally bright. The A TUI cruise liner. ships with up to 17,500 visitors to the ism development officer Hassan Al cleaning system, which makes it one GCC is among the top three cruise country. Ibrahim. of the most environmental-friendly destinations worldwide during the The agreement between QTA He added: “The commitment of cruise ships worldwide. winter months, offering tremendous and TUI Cruises comes as a result of TUI Cruises to include Qatar in its sector is undergoing and gives us an He said Qatar is set to receive “Qatar is a very fascinating desti- opportunity for Qatar’s tourism sec- discussions started at the Seatrade 2017-2018 itineraries is testament to encouraging boost as we continue to between 35 to 40 ships in the nation for TUI Cruises. With its vibrant tor and overall economy. Saudi to maintain stable Ezdan Holding set to open two hotels petroleum policies By Sachin Kumar ready by the end of this year. The offi- of 24 floors that comprises 600 var- The Peninsula cial opening ceremony will hopefully ious sized serviced apartment and Reuters global customer base, backed by be by January next year,” he added. fully furnished. our current maximum sustainable Under Ezdan Holding Group, “The demand is good for four-star capacity.” Ezdan Hotels Company operates as hotels in Qatar. We want to diversify, Falih’s comments yesterday sup- DOHA: Ezdan Holding Group will the manager of the Group’s hotels. this the key strategy for us- diversify- ABU DHABI/AL KHOBAR: Saudi port analysts’ views that no shift in soon open two hotels - Ezdan Pal- Ezdan Palace is a fine luxury hotel ing the portfolio. With The Curve, we Arabia’s new energy minister said Saudi oil policy is likely as a result ace and The Curve Hotel - a move that with 194 rooms, of which 36 are inter- want to attract the people who prefer yesterday the world’s largest crude of his appointment. will strengthen the group’s leadership connected, 31 suites and a Royal Suite. to go to four-star,” said Dr Al Awwad. exporter was committed to meeting Falih’s appointment was part of in the hospitality and tourism sec- The hotel will be located adjacent to The hotel will include a two- demand for hydrocarbons from its a bigger Saudi shake-up announced tor. The Curve, a four-star hotel, is the Landmark Mall and across from story underground parking that can customers and would maintain its on Saturday. expected to open in July while Ezdan the Ezdan and Gulf Mall on Al Shamal accommodate about 320 cars, in petroleum policies. As part of the restructuring, Palace will be a luxury five-star hotel Road that will allow its guests to enjoy addition to a fitness centre, a fully “Saudi Arabia will maintain the Petroleum Ministry has been anwill open in January next year. shopping with their family and also equipped swimming pool, a meeting its stable petroleum policies. We renamed the Ministry of Energy, “The Curve Hotel, we are expect- access any part of Doha within min- Gulf waters. The Curve will have a room and other facilities and services. remain committed to maintaining Industry and Mineral Resources. ing some time in July. We are almost utes. The hotel will equipped with unique structure that follows the Currently Ezdan Group operates our role in international energy “The creation of a new Min- done.. We will do some enhancements modern technology and boasts three curvature of the Corniche, Doha’s Ezdan Hotel and Suites which is one markets and strengthening our istry in Saudi Arabia that brings outside. We should be okay with con- fine restaurants- Italian, Thai and famous shoreline. The architecture of the largest hotels that provide a position as the world’s most reliable together the Kingdom’s abundant struction by July,” Dr Mousa Al Awwad International Cuisine. A grand ball- will allows its guests to have the best variety of well-being services and supplier of energy,” Khalid Al-Falih and unrivalled energy and mineral (pictured), Chief Operating Officer, room that will hold events for over view of West Bay all the way to the features. These features enable Ezdan said in an e-mailed statement. resources and industrial capabil- Ezdan Holding Group recently told 900 guests. Museum of Islamic. Hotel to receive the largest possible “We are committed to meeting ities is in line with the ambitious The Peninsula recently on the side- Ezdan Hotels Company owns 32.5 The hotel will be spread over number of visitors at the same time existing and additional hydrocar- objectives of Saudi Vision 2030,” lines on real estate exhibition. percent of ‘The Curve Hotel’ located 64,000 square metres with a total with a capacity of up to 3,100 rooms bons demand from our expanding Falih said. “The Palace will be definitely in the West Bay overlooking Arabian estimated cost of QR224m. It consists and suites. Oil demand and supply set to balance by year-end: NBK report

The Peninsula Rising Iranian output off- rise of 405,000 b/d year-to-date. This is still off the failure of Opec and Russia to agree on a sets losses in Nigeria to keep short of the 500,000 b/d that Iranian officials production freeze, oil prices posted their larg- Opec production steady in boasted could be brought online immediately est monthly gain in seven years in April. By the March and Opec and Russia post-sanctions. Nevertheless, Iran is only a end of the month, Brent crude, the international DOHA: Oil markets are looking to the second fail to sign off on a produc- few months away from reaching its pre-sanc- benchmark, had surged by almost 22 percent to half of 2016 for demand and supply to balance. tion freeze in Doha. tions production capacity level of 3.6 mb/d. close at $48.1 per barrel (bbl)—its highest level A more meaningful adjustment to the demand/ Overall, Opec produc- Its target of 4 mb/d, however, is unlikely to since November 2015. Similarly, West Texas supply dynamic is likely to come about after tion held steady at 32.2 mb/d be attained without significant investment in Intermediate (WTI), the US crude marker, ended oil consumption peaks during the third and for the second consecutive view of the weakened state of the country’s the month 20 percent higher at $45.9/bbl. fourth quarters of the year and when non- month in March, according to oil infrastructure. Since hitting 13-year lows in mid-Janu- Opec production, especially US light tight oil Opec secondary source data. Iran’s refusal to countenance capping pro- ary, oil prices have rallied by a remarkable 72 production (shale), records further declines Output declines in Nigeria duction before reaching its target of 4 mb/d percent on the back of several bullish signals in output, NBK’s update on oil market noted and Libya due to supply dis- proved decisive in the Doha negotiations. including the production freeze talks, sup- yesterday. ruptions and in the UAE as a Attention now shifts to Opec’s biannual meet- ply outages among Opec members, falling US According to the International Energy result of maintenance were ing in June, when members will likely resume shale production and a depreciating US dollar. Agency (IEA), the market should reach equilib- percent in 2015, was already down three per- broadly offset by output gains their discussion of production ceilings. Rather than dwell on the inability of Opec rium in 3Q16. The agency also estimates that by cent, or 280,000 b/d, at 8.9 mb/d by 22 April of in Iran and Iraq. Production in Saudi Arabia April saw oil markets shrug off the failed and Russia to agree on oil output cuts at the 17 4Q16, non-Opec supply will have contracted by this year, the US Energy Information Adminis- and Kuwait was unchanged. Opec/Russia output freeze accord and propel April meeting in Doha, markets took their cues around 800,000 barrels per day (b/d). US shale tration (EIA) noted. The increase in production Unshackled by sanctions, Iranian pro- prices to their biggest monthly gain since 2009. from the supply disruptions that have come production is expected to account for much of efficiency that has come about despite sizable duction has been increasing at the rate of According to NBK analysts, April may come thick and fast since February. Among the larg- the fall, NBK analysts said. falls in drilling activity and capital spending about 135,000 b/d a month in 2016. Output to be known as the month in which oil market est oil producers to witness falls in output were US crude production, which fell by one by oil firms looks to be finally tapering off. reached 3.3 mb/d in March, an impressive sentiment turned perceptibly bullish. Shrugging Iraq, Nigeria, Ghana and Kuwait. 22 MONDAY 9 MAY 2016 BUSINESS Doha top-ranked in achieving smart city goals

major cities in the Middle East, a latest deliver its smart cities goals in line for smart buildings, is a great source between subsystems, about 60 per- survey, which was launched yester- with its National Vision 2030, and is of best practice examples in the smart cent were found to have limited or Doha scored 70 day, has revealed. strongly positioned to lead the way building arena and has experiences no system integration platforms that points out of 100 The Qatari capital scored 70 for smart buildings on a global scale, that could benefit the entire region.” can help centralise facility informa- points out of 100 in the study, which placing Doha as the overall leader for The study evaluated a building’s tion, streamline processes, and reduce in the study which evaluated 620 buildings across seven smart buildings in the region. use of 15 technology assets to find out energy and operating costs. evaluated 620 major Middle Eastern cities which The results fall in line with the pri- which systems are in place to make In addition to investment in inte- included Abu Dhabi, Dammam, Doha, orities outlined by Qatar’s leadership the facility green, safe and productive gration technologies, the Honeywell buildings in seven Dubai, Jeddah, Kuwait City and Riy- and the National Development Strat- — the three main indicators of smart Smart Building Score found that hav- cities in the Middle adh. The average score across the egy, and highlights Qatar’s prominent buildings. The systems’ overall capa- ing strong building codes are key to East. Middle East was 48 out of 100, with role as one of the most influential bilities, coverage of the facility and increasing the “smartness” of a city’s Doha scoring 22 points above the countries in the Gulf Cooperation uptime were then factored in. buildings. regional average, closely followed Council (GCC). According to Honeywell, Doha’s high scores, according to by Dubai scoring 65 points. “Doha has some of the smartest increased investment in smart Honeywell, are also likely explained By Mohammad Shoeb The survey, conducted to prepare buildings in the Middle East, and we building technologies and improv- by the presence of strict building The Peninsula ‘Honeywell Smart Building Score’ have found that the country’s 2030 ing integration between subsystems regulations and the enforcement (Middle East) in partnership with vision and development strategy have that manage functions such as energy of codes as laid out by the Global researchers Nielsen and global advi- created great momentum for smart usage, access control, fire safety and Sustainability Assessment System sors Ernst & Young, highlights Qatar’s and sustainable development,” said CCTV systems from a single point of (GSAS), as well as early engagement Norm Gilsdorf, President for DOHA: Doha ranked number one in dedication to smart and sustainable Norm Gilsdorf, President for Honey- access, are key to achieving a higher among developers, designers, con- Honeywell’s Middle East, Russia terms of smart building capabilities, development. well’s Middle East, Russia and Central smart score. tractors, technology companies and and Central Asia regions, speaking across all three categories of ‘Green’, The findings of the research sug- Asia regions. Although 40 percent of build- end users during the building plan- in Doha. ‘Safe’ and ‘Productive’, among all gest that Qatar is well on its way to Norm added: “Qatar, as a leader ings in Doha have robust integration ning phases.

New data shows Malaysia to meet Qatar’s growing appetite for timber India’s GDP growth slowing The Peninsula the Malaysian investments espe- He pointed out that the vol- cially since there is a big boom in ume of exports of timber sector in QNA the building and construction sec- Malaysia reached $70m to over 218 tor in Qatar which requires the use countries around the world, mainly DOHA: Qatari and Malaysian busi- of all types of timber products on a Japan, the US, the European Union nesses are working closely to enhance large scale. and Australia. NEW DELHI: Indian economy bilateral trade cooperation, especially He noted that QC receives for- He said that the large-scale has been losing momentum since to establish production and manufac- eign delegations from all countries infrastructure projects in Qatar middle of financial year 2014-15, turing facilities of timber products to that are interested in exploring the require the use of a lot of timber a new study says, citing corpo- meet the growing appetite of these Qatari market. Many foreign delega- products and wood furnishings, rate results and ‘real economic items from Qatar’s building and con- tions establish business with Qatari paving the way for genuine part- indicators’, while questioning struction industry. partners and achieve rewarding nerships and cooperation between the ‘counter-intuitive’ official Qatar Chamber (QC), the country’s profits. the two sides. GDP data. oldest private industry representative He stressed that there are real The timber industry in Malay- It also said that a region-wise body, yesterday held a meeting with opportunities for cooperation sia has garnered much attention analysis shows that the southern the visiting Malaysian business del- between Qatar and Malayisa which as one of the economy’s core com- part of the country has been wit- egation and discussed areas of trade enjoys a developed and high quality ponents of growth. As Malaysia is nessing faster economic growth cooperation focusing on the produc- industry. well-blessed with an abundance of than the North, in contrast to the tion timber products. Dr Harun said that wood and rainforest and land, the steady sup- trend shown by the official data. Vice Chairman of QC, furniture industry in Malaysia is ply of trees and logs highlights the However, it is Middle India Muhammed bin Ahmed bin Towar witnessing a big boom and adopts importance of this resource-based that is growing the fastest, as per Qatar Chamber Vice-Chairman Muhammed bin Ahmed bin Towar Al Al Kuwari, held a meeting with the the highest standards in quality and sector, ranking it among the likes of the Regional Keqiang Index (RKI) head of the delegation, the Direc- Kuwari, with the Director-General of the Malaysian Timber Council, Dr technology. agriculture, oil and gas, mining and developed by leading financial tor General of the Malaysian Timber Jalaluddin Harun, at the Chamber’s headquarters yesterday. He highlighted the distinct trad- manufacturing. services and investment research Council Dr Jalaluddin Harun, at the ing and economic relations between Malaysia is among the world’s firm Ambit Capital. Chamber’s headquarters to dis- and entrepreneurs from both sides in both the countries. Qatar and Malaysia, and the keen- largest exporters of tropical logs, ply- According to Central Statis- cuss areas of cooperation between in this important sector, and to Al Kuwari said that the Qatari ness to further promote the relations wood, sawn-timber and furniture to tics Office (CSO) data, GDP growth Qatari and Malaysian companies explore investment opportunities business community welcomes at all levels. international markets. ‘accelerated’ in fiscal 2015-16 as against 2014-15, Indian news agency PTI reported. The Ambit Capital report noted UAE-Japan that “corporate results as well as Europe’s banks forego Iran deals on fear of US fines the range of alternative tools we have developed to track the health trade rises of the real economy, however, sug- gest that the Indian economy has to $15bn Bloomberg that companies may lose exports, has started talks abuses and ballistic-missile development. A crucial been losing momentum since with the U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Con- ban remains on dollar-denominated trades related mid-FY15”. QNA trol to get a commitment that banks can do business to Iran, scaring away most large European banks. It further added that “for 2015- without incurring legal woes, two people with knowl- Iranian officials are pushing the US. to reas- 16, the CSO’s data shows that GDP LONDON: European companies flocking back to edge of the matter said. sure banks on doing business with Iran. Iranian growth was recorded at 7.6%, Iran are doing so without their favoured lenders “Banks want the maximum certainty,” said Tan- Central Bank Governor Valiollah Seif told Bloomb- implying that GDP growth ‘accel- ABU DHABI: The volume of the at their side. guy Coatmellec, a Dubai-based partner at Ernst & erg Television last month that the US Treasury’s erated’ from 7.2% in 2014-15. UAE foreign trade with Japan stood Less than two years after BNP Paribas agreed to Young’s financial-services advisory group. “A big OFAC should issue guidelines encouraging Euro- However, this once again at about $15bn in 2015, accounting pay a record $9 billion U.S. fine in part for dealings part of the risk is really the U.S. political position pean banks to be more receptive to Iran. makes little sense as 9 of 14 real for one third of non oil trade with with Iran, many of the continent’s biggest banks over the long term. Either financing methods will The U.S. will work to clarify the existing “con- economy indicators (supplied by Japan, it was revealed during the remain unwilling to go anywhere near Iran-related be found or these contracts won’t be finalized.” fusion” among some foreign banks, Secretary of industrial bodies/regulators as 4th the Arab-Japanese Economic business for fear that they will run afoul of remain- France’s Societe Generale, Germany’s Deut- State John Kerry said April 22, before a meeting with against the government) deceler- Forum in Casablanca. ing U.S. sanctions on the country. That’s opened the sche Bank, Zurich-based Credit Suisse Group, ING Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif. ated in fiscal 2015-16”. The 4th the Arab-Japanese Eco- way for Chinese and Persian Gulf lenders, as well Groep in the Netherlands and the U.K.’s Standard He stopped short of saying the Treasury will The report termed the state nomic Forum was organized by the as European institutions such as Belgium’s KBC Chartered are among the big European banks that issue guidance elaborating on permitted transac- level GDP data as “dodgy”, and Arab League in cooperation with the Groep, to grab a slice of the business of funding say they’re generally not prepared to do business tions, encouraging banks instead to reach out with said that its “annual-RKI sug- Government of Japan from May 4- 6, companies’ investments in Iran. in Iran yet. questions. “When in doubt, ask,” he said. gests that South India has been in Casablanca, Morocco. The event The reluctance adds a complication for manufac- The United States, Russia and European coun- French companies have been among the most outperforming the North on the was attended by high-profile repre- turers from Airbus Group to PSA Group, the maker of tries in January lifted a series of economic sanctions aggressive in pursuing Iranian deals. While French economic growth front”, and sentatives from Arab and Japanese Peugeot cars, as they seek to capitalize on growth in in exchange for Iran’s agreement to curb its nuclear businesses this year have pledged more than $30bn going by the quarterly-RKI, “Mid- governments, as well as represent- Iran. The funding issue has become a financial diplo- activities. Still, significant restrictions remain on of investments in Iran, it remains unclear how dle India has been the strongest atives from the private sector. macy hot-spot. In France, the government, worried Iran to combat terrorism support, human rights recent business agreements will get bank funding. performer”. The UAE Assistant Undersec- retary of the Ministry for Foreign Trade Affairs Juma Mohammed Al Kait stressed the importance of the forum said on the sidelines of Tourism windfall Honda to recall 20 million the event that the volume of trade exchange between the Arab coun- tries and Japan exceeded $80bn in more Takata airbags 2015, accounting for 7 per cent of Japan’s total foreign trade, the Gulf Today reported. AFP The Japanese automaker now Al Kait noted that the UAE is plans to widen areas for the recall ranked 10th globally and first in to Asia, Oceania, Latin America and the Arab world as the major trade Europe, which will force the firm to partner to Japan, adding that the TOKYO: Honda Motor will recall an recall another 20 million airbags UAE trade with Japan accounts additional 20 million Takata-made or more globally, bringing the total for about 40 per cent of total Arab airbags globally, a newspaper said number to more than 50 million, the trade with Japan. yesterday, in a widening scandal that Nikkei daily said. With exception of oil exports, has led to the biggest auto recall in The additional cost is estimated he continued, the UAE is still the US history. at 200 billion yen ($1.87 billion), the top trade partner to Japan at the Tokyo-based auto parts giant business newspaper said, adding that Arab level. Takata is struggling to deal with a the latest move by the biggest buyer The UAE foreign trade with defect that can send metal and plas- of Takata air bags may prompt other Japan stood at about $15bn in 2015, tic shrapnel from the inflator canister automakers to follow suit. accounting for one third of non oil hurtling toward drivers and passen- Immediate confirmation of the trade with Japan. gers when an airbag is deployed. news report was not available. The UAE official noted that The defect has been blamed for Last Wednesday, the US National these figures could increase in grisly injuries that have in some Highway Traffic Safety Adminis- light of potential opportunities to cases proved fatal. Honda, along tration ordered Takata to recall build more partnerships in vital Employees of Chinese company Tiens participate in a guided visit in Barcelona. Some 2,500 employees with other automakers, has already between 35 and 40 million more air- sectors of mutual interest. of Chinese conglomerate Tiens arrived in Spain for an all-paid holiday treat, in a trip costing a grand been ordered by US authorities to bags installed in US cars. That is on Al Kait said Japan comes first total of $8m, hailed as helping the ailing local economy. recall all units that do not contain top of the 50 million already recalled in the list of the most important a desiccant that keeps explosives in globally, including about 29 million investors in the UAE. airbags from deteriorating. in the United States. BUSINESS MONDAY 9 MAY 2016 23 Qatar Airways celebrates launch of flight to Adelaide

The airline also welcomed Minis- gateway into Australia. We have a spe- ter of Tourism South Australia, Leon cial relationship with the people of The gala dinner event Bignell; Adelaide Airport Managing Australia and I am pleased to be able was attended by the Director, Mark Young; and CEO of to offer them an additional service South Australia Tourism Commission, connecting them to the Middle East, crème de la crème Rodney Harrex to the celebration. Europe and beyond.” of South Australian The attendees enjoyed a line-up of He added: “It is also my special society. entertainment starting with an open- pleasure to be the first airline to bring ing sequence choreographed by the the A350 to Australian travellers who renowned Australian dancer Marko will benefit from this new-generation Panzic, star of So You Think You Can aircraft’s modern technology and ulti- The Peninsula Dance. mate passenger comfort.” The evening continued with a per- Passengers travelling to or from formance from X-Factor duo Matt Adelaide on board the Qatar Airways Price and Jess Dunbar, which was fol- Airbus A350 in one of its 36 Business DOHA: Qatar Airways celebrated lowed by a double act from Australian Class seats will enjoy one of the most the arrival of its inaugural flight to singing stars Bonnie Anderson and comfortable fully-flat beds in the Adelaide, the fourth gateway into Kate Ceberano, performing together sky with 80 inches of seat pitch. The Australia, recently with a gala din- for the very first time at the Qatar 1-2-1 configuration gives every pas- ner event attended by the crème de Airways celebration event. Master of senger direct access to an aisle and la crème of South Australian society. Ceremonies and one of South Aus- the on-demand à la carte menu serv- The evening was hosted by Qatar tralia’s most recognised TV and radio ice allows Business Class passengers Airways Group Chief Executive, Akbar presenters, Belinda Heggen, added a to order anything from the menu at Al Baker. Present were distinguished further touch of glamour to the night’s any time during the flight. The aircraft guests, including the Governor of proceedings. also features the state-of the-art Oryx Hieu Van Le AO, Governor of South Australia (left), and The Lord Mayor of Adelaide, Martin Haese (right) South Australia, Hieu Van Le AO, and Al Baker said: “I am very happy to One entertainment system, with more join Qatar Airways Group Chief Executive, Akbar Al Baker at Qatar Airways’ gala celebration of its inaugural The Lord Mayor of Adelaide, Martin be here tonight celebrating the launch than 3,000 entertainment options on Haese. of our flights to Adelaide, our fourth individual screens in all classes. Adelaide flight. Commercial Bank named ‘SME Bank of the Year’ QIB launches ‘boost your salary’ campaign The Peninsula the economy by providing the engine increasing focus of the SME com- financial institutions in the Middle for private sector growth and diversity munity in Qatar, receiving such East and Africa. Commercial Bank in line with the Qatar National Vision recognition is a testament to Com- aims to encourage a culture of savings 2030,” said Abdulla Saleh Al Raisi, mercial Bank’s strategy which through the Regular Saver Account, The Peninsula programmes cover different needs for DOHA: Commercial Bank yesterday CEO, Commercial Bank. “Two awards continues to evolve in line with as customers who save regularly are the customers, whether they need to said it won two awards at The Asian in two years for the strength of our market and customer requirements. rewarded with high interest rates. buy a house, a new car,refurbish their Banker’s Excellence in Retail Finan- SME banking from respected interna- Commercial Bank’s Enterprise The Asian Banker acknowledged home furniture or covering any emer- cial Services Programme in Annual tional publications is testament to how Business Loan was recognised for Commercial Bank’s successful digital DOHA: Qatar Islamic Bank (QIB) has gency financial need. Middle East and Africa Awards Cer- highly Commercial Bank values nur- its success in the Qatari market, innovation via Internet and Mobile announced the launch of a Finance Commenting on the cam- emony held recently in Dubai. turing Qatar’s entrepreneurial business addressing SME customers’ working Banking, and marketing through Campaign, “Boost Your Salary”. The paign, QIB Personal Banking Group Following the International Banker community through our specialised capital needs with quick turnaround social media and other platforms to three-month campaign started on 1st General Manager, D Anand said: award in 2015 for ‘Commercial (SME) department: Enterprise Banking. As times and flexible criteria for eligi- secure over 15,000 accounts. of May and ends on 31st of July 2016. “QIB aims to enable its custom- Bank of the Year’, Commercial Bank the SME bank of choice in Qatar, we bility contributing to the doubling of The Asian Banker is an authori- QIB’s customers will have the ers to fulfil their financial needs. has been awarded ‘SME Bank of the will continue to find new and innova- sales of the product through 2015. tative provider of strategic business opportunity to win 15 cash prizes, We are committed to offering the Year’ by The Asian Banker. tive ways to deliver the best experience The bank also claimed ‘Deposit intelligence to the Asian financial serv- each equal to a one-month salary of best financing deals in the market “Commercial Bank’s track record for our SME customers and support the Product of the Year’ for its Regular ices community and Commercial Bank up to QR 25,000. QIB will announce to meet our customers’ expecta- of supporting Qatari businesses for development of the Qatari economy,” Saver Account at the same awards underwent a stringent three-month five winners every month. tions. We realised that the summer over 40 years means we understand he added. ceremony, held to recognise the evaluation for both awards based on The campaign aims to enable season is where customers need the fundamental role that SMEs play in Given the importance and pursuit of excellence among retail a balanced and transparent scorecard. people fulfil their financial needs financial support the most, mainly during the busy summer season due to the Eid and holiday season, by providing them with an oppor- which is then followed by back- tunity to win one of the 15 cash to-school expenses. Therefore, we prizes. wanted to show our support and All the existing and new cus- give the chance to our customers to tomers who apply for aQIB finance win an additional one month salary within the campaign period will up to QR25,000 that would enable enter into a raffle draw. To be eligi- them to achieve their goals.” ble for the draw, customers’ need to QIB Personal Finance is offered apply for a minimum of QR 50,000 at a competitive profit rate , with no worth of finance. Each QR 50,000 administration charges, up to three- will qualify as one chance in the month grace period and free for the draw and the higher the finance first year the QIB - Qatar Airways amount, the higher the chances of co-brand credit card. The finance winning. is arranged quickly and easily from QIB offers various Shari’a-com- the first visit. pliant finance products, such as the In addition, customers can also personal finance programme, the auto transfer their liabilities from other finance programme, and the home banks to benefit from this offer, the Commercial Bank officials with the awards. finance programme. These finance bank said. Vanilla price bubble China’s April exports and imports decline vexes Madagascar Reuters take steps to boost exports, including weakest since the global financial cri- bit for the downside risk in other Chi- encouraging banks to boost lending, sis, but activity picked up in March nese data and some sort of market expanding export credit insurance as policy steps to boost the economy, correction might be inevitable,” Zhou and raise tax rebates for some firms. including six interest rate cuts since said. AFP company and one of the few people BEIJING: China’s exports and imports China had a trade surplus of late 2014, seemed to be taking effect. An official factory survey and willing to talk on the record, pointed fell more than expected in April, $45.56bn in April, versus forecasts Concerns of a hard-landing in Caixin’s private-sector gauge for April to large operators for stockpiling and underlining weak demand at home of $40bn. China had eased after the strong painted a mixed picture of the health hiking up prices. and abroad and cooling hopes of a Economists polled by Reuters had March data, but analysts have warned of the manufacturing sector. ANTANANARIVO: The sweet fla- Half of Madagascar’s vanilla is recovery in the world’s second-larg- expected April exports to fall 0.1 per- the rebound may be short-lived. The official purchasing managers’ vours of vanilla are taking on a bitter exported to Europe, and a third to est economy. cent, after a surprise 11.5 percent rise Economists expect a slowdown index (PMI) showed factory activity edge for buyers in Madagascar as the United States -- but the island is Exports fell 1.8 percent from a in March, and expected imports to fall in credit growth and industrial pro- expanded for the second month in prices have almost quadrupled but not seeing the potential benefits of year earlier, the General Adminis- 5 percent, following March’s 7.6 per- duction in April although inflation a row in April but only marginally, quality has declined, with experts higher prices. tration of Customs said yesterday, cent decline. could accelerate. Key economic data while Caixin’s manufacturing PMI blaming speculation, money laun- “Some buyers abroad have now reversing the previous month’s brief China’s economic growth slowed is expected over the next two weeks. pointed to 14 straight months of sec- dering and a poor harvest. cancelled or reduced their orders,” recovery and supporting the gov- to 6.7 percent in the first quarter - the “The market has to prepare a little tor contraction. Madagascar, producer of 80 per- said Rakotoson, while food pro- ernment’s concerns that the foreign cent of the world’s vanilla, has seen duction companies are turning trade environment will be challeng- the spice’s price jump from about to cheaper synthetic vanilla as an ing in 2016. $60 per kilogramme in 2014 to as alternative. April imports dropped 10.9 per- much as $220 now. All the while, the quality of cent from a year earlier, falling for In some local supermarkets, Madagascar’s crops have been the 18th consecutive month, suggest- vanilla -- used in everything from slipping. ing domestic demand remains weak ice cream to cakes -- has become so Many producers are harvesting despite a pickup in infrastructure expensive that the pods have been the vanilla pods before they reach spending and record credit growth removed from the spice aisle and maturity, hoping to cash in on the in the first quarter. placed close to the cash registers to high prices and also to pre-empt “Both exports and imports came deter thieves. the theft of their increasingly val- in weaker than expected, in line with “The 2015 harvest was not uable crops. the soft trade performance across excellent, about 1,200 tonnes com- There has also been a spike in Asia, pointing to another challenging pared to 1,800 the year before,” vacuum packing, bypassing a com- year for emerging markets,” said Zhou Emmanuel Nee, head of the ingre- plex and months-long preparation Hao, senior emerging market econo- dients department at French spice process that dries out the pod and mist at Commerzbank in Singapore. trading company Touton, said. reveals the spice’s sweet aroma. China’s exports to the United “But that doesn’t justify the huge By trapping the moisture in the States - the country’s top export mar- price jump we’ve seen this year,” he pod, “vacuum packing interrupts ket - fell 9.3 percent in April from a added, instead blaming “extremely the drying process, which compro- year earlier, while shipments to the speculative” traders and an “irra- mises the quality of the vanilla,” European Union - the second big- tional” market. explained Landry Njaka, secretary gest market, rose 3.2 percent, customs Dominique Rakotoson, head of a of the National Vanilla Platform, the data showed. A man riding on a motorcycle with goods waits to cross a street in Beijing yesterday. Madagascan family-operated vanilla industry’s trade association. China’s cabinet has vowed to 24 MONDAY 9 MAY 2016 BUSINESS Crunch Eurozone talks on Greece debt deal today

darkly of the potential cost if the talks IMF chief Christine Lagarde ran aground. warned there were “significant gaps” The clock is ticking “Nobody should believe that in Greece’s reform offers, but she also to complete the another Greek crisis, leading per- pressed for debt relief in a letter to haps to another failed state in the the finance ministers ahead of the long-stalled first region, could be beneficial to any- meeting. review of Greece’s one,” Tsakalotos said. “We believe that specific [eco- In its official agenda the Euro- nomic reform] measures, debt €86bn ($95bn) group said it would discuss the restructuring, and financing must EU-IMF bailout. “progress achieved” by Greek and now be discussed contemporane- creditor officials in recent days on ously,” according to the letter, a copy the reforms, “with a view to conclude of which was obtained by AFP. them as soon as possible.” The extraordinary meeting was AFP It added that it would “also dis- called after scheduled Eurogroup cuss possible debt relief measures talks in Amsterdam on April 22 failed aiming at ensuring that Greece’s to produce a breakthrough in the BRUSSELS: Eurozone finance min- gross financing needs remain at a review, which was originally meant isters hold an emergency meeting on sustainable level, with a view to reach to have been completed in December. Monday to try to thrash out a difficult a political agreement”. EU President Donald Tusk last deal on fresh reforms for Greece as “Both elements need to be in week urged the ministers to close fears grow of a repeat of last year’s place in order to finalise the pro- the Greek deal “very soon”, warn- chaotic bailout negotiations. gramme’s first review and unlock ing that “we need to make sure that The ministers from the 19 further financial assistance to Europe contributes to stability rather countries that use the euro—the Greece,” it said. than global instability.” The spectre Eurogroup—will also discuss debt European Commission head of the Greek crisis has returned, add- Tugboats help a barge through the Miraflores locks as it transports the last rolling gate for new locks on relief for Greece, which the Inter- Jean-Claude Juncker said in an ing to the EU’s headaches. national Monetary Fund (IMF) has interview to be published Sunday It comes in the runup to the the Panama Canal, in Panama City. demanded as a condition for a new in Germany, that Greece has “basi- British referendum on June 23 on agreement. cally achieved” the objectives of the whether to quit the 28-nation bloc— The clock is ticking to com- reforms required by its creditors, and the EU’s standing with many plete the long-stalled first review adding that “discussions about how British voters is already at a nadir. Expansion of Panama Canal of Greece’s €86bn ($95bn) EU-IMF to make Greece’s debt sustainable With an agreement, eurozone bailout so cash-strapped Athens can in the long term” would be on the governments would unlock funds that unlock billions of euros to pay the agenda. would allow Greece to make two big exposes US infrastructure woes European Central Bank (ECB) in July. But the ongoing negotiations payments to the ECB this summer. Tensions are rising. Greece was between Athens and its EU-IMF cred- In new growth forecasts pub- paralysed at the weekend by a strike itors are currently stuck on a demand lished last week the European to protest government plans to over- that Greece commit to an extra set of Commission said that Greece will be haul pensions and increase taxes reforms in case it misses its spending the only eurozone member in reces- Reuters US port officials embraced Authority did not respond to requests as demanded by its international targets in 2018. sion this year with a contraction of the project and promised to make for comment. Some shippers said creditors. These so-called “contingency 0.3 percent as fallout from debt cri- changes to accommodate bigger they were eager to use the expanded Greek Finance Minister Euclid measures” are a key demand of the sis continues to affect its economy. ships. Traffic already had been shift- waterway to get more consumer Tsakalotos on Saturday urged IMF to complete the bailout’s first Greece’s mountain of public debt NEW YORK: The $5.2 billion expan- ing east for several reasons, including goods to Latin American ports. eurozone countries to approve his review, as the Fund is sceptical Ath- is estimated to rise to 182.8 percent of sion of the Panama Canal was labor disputes at the twin ports of Panamanian President Juan economic programme—and warned ens will meet the targets. GDP, an unwanted eurozone record. expected to make US East Coast ports Los Angeles-Long Beach. East Coast Carlos Varela said during an energy more competitive for cargo ships car- ports’ share of containers from Asia summit in Washington, D.C. this week rying televisions, tennis shoes and to the US rose to 31 percent in 2015 the country planned to leverage the other products from Asia. from 26 percent in 2012, according canal expansion by building new liq- But those hopes are fading. As the to Drewry Maritime Research. The uified natural gas facilities nearby, China Expo wider, deeper canal nears its debut competition centers on cargo bound creating “a natural gas distribution next month, ports that stand to gain for the middle of the country. It has hub for the entire region.” aren’t ready to handle the bigger been cheaper for retailers as far east The Panama Canal was not the ships that will come through. as the Ohio Valley to bring goods only bottleneck between Asia’s fac- The harbor in Charleston, S.C., for through West Coast ports. The new tories and East Coast markets. The instance, is too shallow. The Bayonne canal is expected to push the battle Bayonne Bridge spanning the tidal Bridge outside New York and New line west - just how far depends on strait between New York and New Jersey terminals is too low. energy prices, canal tolls, infrastruc- Jersey is a big one. Delayed port fixes, a freighter glut ture investments, economic growth Ships plying the East Coast visit and a wobbly global economy mean and other variables. more than one port, but all stop in that, in the short term, the benefits of Under the rosiest scenario for the New York, which accounts for 40 the expanded waterway along the US Panama Canal, it would help East percent of the container traffic for East Coast will be marginal at best, Coast ports handle goods for retail- the Eastern United States. If a ship say shipping executives and analysts. ers nearly as far west as Chicago. Jim cannot unload part of its cargo in Hopes were much higher when Newsome, CEO of the South Carolina New York, it does not make eco- the project started nearly a decade Ports Authority, recently predicted nomic sense for it to travel to the East ago, amid cheerleading from US ports the East Coast’s share would hit 50 Coast at all, shippers said. “New York officials. percent within a couple years. A is one of the main gateways to the “There was a lot of hyperbole,” Boston Consulting Group analysis Midwest and eastern Canada,” said said Lawrence Gross, a partner at issued less than a year ago forecast Angel Mavares, head of marine oper- FTR Transportation Intelligence. East Coast ports could reach parity ations for the Americas at Maersk, the “It will have an impact, but it’s not a with West Coast terminals by 2020. world’s biggest carrier. game changer.” But that looks unlikely now, said “It’s a major obstacle if the larg- A new lane will double the capac- Peter Ulrich, one of the authors of est market on the East Coast doesn’t ity of the 48-mile shortcut between that report. “In the longer term, the have the scale to handle larger ships.” the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. New theory is sound,” Ulrich said. “But in In anticipation of the Panama Canal locks will lift freighters carrying up to the short term, I would be extremely improvements, the New York New Jer- Visitors view a classic Morgan automobile on display at the Luxury China Expo 2016 at the Beijing 14,000 standard, 20-foot-long cargo cautious.” sey Port Authority announced a $1.3 Exhibition Center in Beijing. containers – nearly three times as The impact on the canal itself billion plan in 2010 to raise the bridge. many as ships fit now. is less clear. The Panama Canal Billion-dollar Nicaragua projects in limbo Saudi imposes annual tax on undeveloped land AFP Those involving Brazil and Ven- presidential candidate from a dis- group had problems getting the capi- ezuela were forecast to create 6,500 sident wing of Ortega’s Sandinista tal together” and then Queiroz Galvao jobs directly and another 18,500 movement, believe the government got caught up in the corruption scan- indirectly—an important fillip in a is playing “the lottery with hopes of dals rocking Brazil, said former Reuters its Twitter account. MANAGUA: The political and eco- relatively poor country where unem- pulling out the big prize though a economy minister Mario Arana. Fines for failure to pay would nomic crises buffeting Brazil and ployment affects nearly one in three mega project.” Jarquin said that “the investment reach up to the amount of tax owed, Venezuela are having a big impact in economically active people. The hydroelectric project amount had always been overes- RIYADH: Saudi Arabia has imposed the ministry said, tweeting with the Nicaragua, where the future of bil- But the plummeting economic calls for a dam across the Grande timated” and Brazil’s corruption an annual tax on undeveloped urban hashtag “build it to give it life”. Reve- lion-dollar projects have been thrown fortunes of Venezuela and Brazil, both river in the southwest of the country morass “ended up burying it.” land, the Housing Ministry said yes- nues raised would be spent on public into uncertainty. mired in political turmoil and corrup- to be built by a consortium 45 per- Ortega has not thrown in the terday, finalising the rules for a services like roads, water, electric- Venezuela was to have invested tion, has piled uncertainty on top of cent owned by the Brazilian state towel yet, however. system intended to address a politi- ity and sewage systems at ministry $6.5 billion in a petrochemical plant repeated delays. Managua’s plans now company Eletrobras, 45 percent by “We are speaking with the Brazil- cally sensitive shortage of affordable housing projects, it said. in the Central American country, seem to be up in the air. Brazilian industrial group Queiroz ians to find a way to move forward,” housing. Local state-aligned media while Brazil was set to spend $1.1 bil- Brazil is in the grip of its worst Galvao and with the Nicaraguan he said last week. The introduction of a land tax, reported in February that the new lion on a hydroelectric facility. recession in a quarter of a century, government holding the remaining The Venezuelan petrochem- first announced by the cabinet in tax would enter into effect on June 8, They are among four “mega- with a massive corruption scandal 10 percent. ical plant had its inception in 2007. November, marks a major step for with an unspecified grace period for works” Nicaraguan President Daniel and also moves underfoot to oust It was approved by a law that gave Ortega, returned to the presidency the world’s top oil exporting coun- land slated for development. Ortega has championed, and they President Dilma Rousseff. the Brazilians the right to operate the after years in the political wilderness, try in addressing a housing shortage The government has announced were planned to have started spring- Venezuela, an oil-rich state mis- plant for 39 years with significant tax invited over Chavez to lay the refin- frequently griped about by young a series of steps intended to boost ing from the ground this year in time managed since the time of late leader breaks. ery’s cornerstone. Saudis. home ownership in the past year, for the leader’s expected announce- Hugo Chavez and plunging deeper Its financing was to come from The plant was to be constructed Analysts estimate that 40 to 50 including a government-backed ment he would stand for re-election into ruin under his successor Nico- Brazil’s BNDES development bank, by Albanisa, a joint venture in which percent of the land inside major cit- mortgage scheme and plans to pro- in November. las Maduro, is struggling on the brink the Central American Bank for Eco- Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) held ies remains vacant, much of it owned vide housing to 100,000 low-income The most ambitious of them is of default. nomic Integration, and partners, and 51 percent and Petroleos de Nic- by wealthy individuals or companies families. a plan to build a Chinese-financed Nevertheless, according to last year it acquired 7,000 hectares aragua Petronio had the other 49 that have tended to hold or trade it Under a broad economic reform canal across the country to rival the Ortega, there is a desire to see the two (1,700 acres) for the plant. percent. for speculative profits rather than plan announced last week, the Saudi American-built one in Panama. projects through, especially as they Yet the start of work on the dam, The goal was to build a gleaming developing it for housing. government said that it would aim The projects are meant to ensure represent more than half the gross which was meant to have been in facility to handle 150,000 barrels of The new tax would be equivalent to increase the rate of home owner- “the continuity” of Ortega’s reign, domestic product of his country. 2014, has been pushed back several oil a day—four times the demand in to 2.5 percent of the value of the land ship among its citizens by at least 5 former diplomat Roger Guevara told But his critics, such as Edmundo time because of lack of funds. Nicaragua and half of the entire con- held by individuals or non-govern- percentage points by 2020 from 47 AFP. Jarquin, an economist and former “I understand that an investor sumption across Central America. ment entities, the ministry said on percent now. BUSINESS MONDAY 9 MAY 2016 25 Saudi’s Khalid Al Falih is believer in reform and low oil price

Reuters with its fellow Opec members. “Some people were concerned fought hard and struggled to create a finally allowed to retire have been executive in the world as he was the key Things were different this time. that we were too slow in the past.. As price environment which would have hitting the market periodically in the negotiator behind a Saudi initiative to For the first time in decades, output a former runner, I can tell you that it been good for both consumers and past four years. jointly develop gas resources with oil cuts were not on the agenda to fix the helps to go through sprints at times to producers,” said Gary Ross, a vet- But even though the Riyadh- majors in early 2000. LONDON/DUBAI: It was January growing global glut that Saudi Arabia develop your muscular strengths. We eran Opec watcher and founder of born and US-educated Al Falih Over the past year, when Al 2016 and oil prices had crashed to helped create by ramping up supply are accelerating reform.” New York-based consultancy PIRA. has long been tipped to replace Al Nuaimi was carefully choosing their lowest in more than a decade. to drive higher-cost producers such The writing was on the wall, said “We are moving to a new era where Nuaimi, his fortunes and career his words or not commenting at Saudi Arabia’s health minister, as US shale firms out of the market. the executives leaving the Davos con- Opec will no longer be managing the kept zigzagging from Saudi Ara- all, Falih has become more vocal Khalid Al Falih, who took over the oil Also for the first time in dec- ference. Falih would soon become oil market while supply and demand will mco’s chairman to health minister about his views that the oil mar- ministry from his mentor Ali nin Ibra- ades, a royal rather than a non-royal minister reporting to Prince Moham- determine the price. The new Saudi until finally securing the job on ket needs to rebalance through low him Al Nuaimi, was not panicking. - Deputy Crown Price Mohammed med, who is quickly turning into the oil leadership believes the market will Saturday - combining energy, prices and that the Saudis have the Falih told an audience of oil exec- bin Salman — had been appointed a world’s most powerful oil figure. dictate the price and that means higher industry and mineral resources resources to wait. utives, bankers and policymakers at few month earlier to oversee Saudi Three months later, Prince volatility. We will see higher highs and in a new super ministry. “That doesn’t really point to some- the World Economic Forum in Davos oil policies and drive the massive Mohammed had a chance to show- lower lows,” Ross said. Falih takes the job in a much bet- body who would invest a lot of time that the world’s top oil exporter might change. case his might when he effectively Al Nuaimi, born in 1935, had ter market environment compared and energy in trying to reconcile dif- benefit from oil below $30 per barrel. Do you not think Prince Moham- ordered the Saudi delegation led by orchestrated several Opec oil output to January - oil prices have indeed ferent Opec members,” said Richard It could help to speed up reform med, who is just 30, is doing it all a Al Nuaimi not to agree to a global pro- cuts and increases since taking on the recovered from their January lows Mallinson from Energy Aspects. and restructure the economy, and bit too fast for the generally conserv- duction freeze deal with Opec and oil minister job in 1995. of $27 per barrel to trade at around Falih says job creation and eco- move Saudi Arabia to a smaller and ative Saudi society, Falih was asked. non-Opec Russia. The former Saudi Aramco’s clerk- $45 last week on th prospect that the nomic reforms are top worries for the more effective government and “The Royal Highness is very ambitious Fellow Opec members accused turned-chairman saw oil priced as market has began to rebalance thanks Saudi government these days, not an unleash its private sector, he said. where he wants Saudi Arabia to be Naimi, who initially said he liked the low as $9 per barrel during the Asian to lower US output. obsession with oil price levels. For decades Saudi Arabia, a de sooner rather later. I can assure you deal, of no longer speaking with the financial crisis at the end of 1990s, as Born in 1960, Al Falih joined “Those transitions sometimes facto leader of Opec, had targeted cer- that everybody who works around voice of authority. Three weeks later high as $147 in 2008 and back to $36 Aramco in 1979, and went to study engi- takes years, sometimes decades. The tain oil price levels. If it did not like him is very excited by his vision and on Saturday, Naimi was gone and several months later after the collapse neering at Texas A&M University in 1982 current low oil prices will give us an the price, it would try to orchestrate energised by his energy,” Falih told Falih became energy minister. of Lehman Brothers. on an Aramco sponsorship programme. impetus to accelerate this,” Falih said a production cut or increase together the audience. “It is an end of an era when Naimi Rumours about Al Nuaimi being Al Falih probably knows every oil chief in Davos in January.

Oil drillers Car buyers in dig for the bottom for China seek more rig counts room & comfort Reuters

NEW YORK: For the past year and car buyers will want roomier, more a half, a chart of the number of U.S. comfortable interior space. Further oil rigs in operation has resembled Shifts towards ahead, others see self-driving cars a death-defying ski slope - but electric cars in many and electric propulsion leading to soon it may be time to get back on radically new body styles with even the chair lift. cities, potential more space and comfort in cars. The U.S. rig count may finally breakthroughs in Chinese tend to live near their be bottoming out as U.S. oil com- parents, and the changes to the one- panies look for oil prices to rally autonomous, self- child policy are expected to make just a bit more, a signal that the driving technology family units larger, Hiroji Onishi, time has come to deploy more and lifestyle changes head of Toyota Motor’s (7203.T) China capital and get production mov- operations, said on the sidelines of ing again, analysts say. with the relaxation the Beijing auto show, which ended The number of active oil rigs of China’s one- on Wednesday. in the United States has fallen for “We think MPVs have good pros- seven consecutive weeks, as of child policy pose pects in China. Given those changing data released Friday. Some believe A visitor looks at a Baojun 730 model from SAIC-GM-Wuling Automobile during the Auto China 2016 auto challenges for life-stage needs, we think what’s the rig count will start to rise, as going to be popular are smaller, show in Beijing. drillers plan to ramp up production product planners in more affordable MPVs like the (Toy- if benchmark U.S. crude reaches the world’s largest ota) Noah Voxy, a compact minivan percent of China’s passenger vehi- SUV boom making up as much as 45 go in the opposite direction, IHS says, the trigger level of $50 a barrel. which we market in Japan,” he said. cle market, with sales of 1.08 million percent of the total market in around slipping to around 500,000 vehicles by U.S. crude prices hit a year-to-date auto market. Developers at the Japanese auto- vehicles last year, says consultancy a decade - in line with industry trends 2020, or 3.5 percent of the total, from high of $46.78 last week. maker say sales of the Alphard, a IHS Automotive. in the United States - up from around 4.5 percent last year. In the past two weeks, oil boxy, but premium-level, minivan At the more affordable end of 35 percent today and just 10 percent Product planners at Audi (NSUG. producers including Anadarko brimming with gadgets and busi- the market are the Wuling Hong- five years ago. DE) see autonomous driving and elec- Petroleum Corp and Pioneer Nat- Reuters ness-class-like airline seats, suggest guan microvan and the Baojun 730, a The boom has been driven by Chi- tric cars as potentially revolutionizing ural Resources have cited an an emerging appetite for a spacious, minivan from SAIC-GM-Wuling, a no- na’s well-off thirty somethings who car design, as new technologies allow improving outlook for oil prices, upscale people-mover. Imported from frills joint venture of General Motors want sleek looks and a roomy inte- for more space and comfort. executives said on calls discussing Japan, the model starts at around (GM.N), SAIC Motor Corp (600104. rior. Auto executives and industry “Autonomous driving gives the earnings. Dave Lesar, chief exec- BEIJING: Even as Chinese car buyers 759,000 yuan ($117,000). SS) and Guangxi Automobile. Among experts predict SUV sales will con- car interior a totally different mean- utive of oilfield services provider feed a boom in crossovers and sport Toyota officials and dealers say global automakers’ offerings are the tinue to grow strongly for several ing,” Joachim Wedler, head of Audi’s Halliburton Co, said he believes the utility vehicles (SUVs), automakers are the van’s interior comfort offers a Buick GL8 and Honda Motor Co’s years, even as the market becomes China operations, told reporters at the rig count has hit a bottom and likely looking ahead to the likely ‘next big more subtle way for China’s rich to (7267.T) Odyssey. more crowded and profitability dips. firm’s Beijing tech center ahead of the will rise this year. The U.S. rig count thing’ and reckon affordable people- signal their wealth in a climate where The MPV segment has also MPVs aren’t likely to hit those auto show. generally reacts to prices with a carriers, or multi-purpose vehicles overt excess is frowned upon. And in expanded into a lucrative niche for heights, but demand is expected to grow “Fun and relaxation are the new three or four-month lag, so follow- (MPVs), could be it. China, trends that catch on at the pre- spacious, luxury people-movers such at 5-6 percent a year, Shanghai-based targets for those cars, while (electri- ing the nadir for crude in February, Shifts towards electric cars in mium end traditionally spread quickly as the Mercedes-Benz (DAIGn.DE) Chao said. “We expect the popularity fication) offers us different vehicle it should bottom in the next month, many cities, potential breakthroughs through the rest of the market. Viano and the Alphard. of MPVs will spread more and more to packaging opportunities as there’s no Morgan Stanley’s head of energy in autonomous, self-driving technol- Rising demand for MPVs con- James Chao, Asia-Pacific man- family purchases,” he told Reuters. (bulky) engine or transmission. Bat- commodity research Adam Long- ogy and lifestyle changes with the tributed to an 8.8 percent increase aging director at IHS, believes other The minivan is a popular format teries more or less lie flat on the floor. son said in a report this week. relaxation of China’s one-child policy in overall vehicle sales in March, global automakers will mimic GM’s across emerging markets, and smaller, We have totally different opportuni- “The same analysis also sug- pose challenges for product planners according to the China Association strategy of emphasizing a market for cheaper MPVs sell well in countries ties for roominess and ergonomics.” gests a notable increase in rig in the world’s largest auto market. of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM). affordable, family-oriented minivans. such as Indonesia and Malaysia. In the “These will lead us to a new con- activity may be ahead – potentially In the near-term, some predict MPVs account for about 5.5 Chao, meanwhile, sees China’s United States, MPV sales are likely to cept for the car,” he said. reversing much of the decline over the past several months,” he wrote. Some companies are already resuming drilling on wells that had been put on hold, known as Iran exhibition Toshiba picks new CEO drilled-uncompleted projects, and planning to drill new wells. “Our estimates are that at $45- $50 WTI some of the light tight oil Reuters plans for 14,000 job cuts and the goes into production,” said Mark sale of the medical unit to Canon Routt, Chief economist in the Inc for $5.9bn. Last month, it also Americas for KBC Advanced Tech- took a $2.3 billion writedown on nologies, referring to a technical TOKYO: Japan’s Toshiba Corp U.S. nuclear unit Westinghouse in a name for the type of oil in shale (6502.T) said it had nominated much-anticipated move to address formations. “When you have the Satoshi Tsunakawa, a former head lingering doubts over its accounting front of the market lift, as it has of its medical equipment division, to practices. Tsunakawa’s appointment done, it makes it that much easier be its next chief executive officer - a is expected to be confirmed at a to justify coming back on.” move that it hopes will draw a line shareholders’ meeting in late June. U.S. crude prices, after hitting under a damaging accounting scan- Current CEO Masashi their year-to-date high on April 29, dal. Sixty-year-old Tsunakawa, who Muromachi took the helm last July have gained support from output was not embroiled in the scandal, when his predecessor and a slew of disruptions in Canada during the is credited with having grown the other senior executives resigned for past week, indicating that the mar- medical equipment unit into a major their roles in the scandal, but had not ket is becoming more responsive to profit driver. He is currently a senior planned on doing the job long term. fundamental supply concerns that executive vice president. He will become a special adviser. have often failed to elicit a price “My biggest task would be to Also on Friday, Senior Executive response during the rout. Compa- rebuild trust from stakeholders and Vice President Shigenori Shiga was nies are expected to be cautious transform the company under our nominated to become chairman. as they redeploy rigs, so the count new action plans,” Tsunakawa told a Shiga was chairman of Westing- will not rapidly accelerate and press conference. “I would place the house when the unit booked charges blunt the impact of the increase most immediate priority on beefing of $930 million in fiscal 2012 and in crude prices. up the capital base.” $390 million in fiscal 2013, which The current count of 332 rigs is People talk in front of the stand of the French Sud Robinetterie Industrie (SRI) company during the A $1.3 billion book-keeping scan- Toshiba failed to flag at the time in unlikely to surge back to the 668 21st International Oil, Gas, Refining and Petrochemical Exhibition in the Iranian capital Tehran. dal last year has pushed Toshiba to violation of the Tokyo bourse’s dis- seen a year ago, to say nothing of streamline its businesses, announce closure rules. 2014’s peak north of 1,600 rigs. 26 MONDAY 9 MAY 2016 BUSINESS

QE INDICES SUMMARY QATAR STOCK EXCHANGE QE Index 9,730.10 0.19 % QE Total Return Index 15,742.65 0.19 % QE Al Rayan Islamic Index 3,800.27 0.27 % QE All Share Index 2,720.2 0.29 % QE All Share Banks & Financial Services 2,641.09 0.17 % QE All Share Industrials 3,033.36 0.13 % QE All Share Transportation 2,443 0.69 % QE All Share Real Estate 2,395.58 0.44 % QE All Share Insurance 4,056.89 2.12 % QE All Share Telecoms 1,091.7 0.23 % QE All Share Consumer Goods & Services 6,421.97 0.10 %

QE MARKET SUMMARY COMPARISON 08-05-2016 Today 05-05-2016 Previous day Index 9,730.10 9,748.78 Change 18.68 106.07 % 0.19 1.08 YTD% 6.7 6.53 Volume 3,867,197 7,394,488 Value (QAR) 112,266,854.31 252,426,200.65 Trades 2,328 3,923 Up 18 | Down 18 | Unchanged 06

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That demand The top 10 companies in the UBS list the A share market, it’s very easy to issue Peso QR 0.0760 QR 0.0785 HONG KONG: As China’s richest man has risen as alternative investments such have a combined market value of about bonds also.” SL Re QR 0.0246 QR 0.0253 Wang Jianlin prepares to delist his main as real estate faltered in China’s slow- $40bn, and eight belong in the property Listing fees remain a big part of HKEX’s commercial real estate company from ing economy. sector, including Country Garden Holdings turnover, accounting for a fifth of total rev- Taka QR 0.0468 QR 0.04670 Hong Kong, bankers expect more Chinese At least 10 Chinese companies with Co and Shimao Property Holdings. enue, up from a tenth a decade ago. Nep Re QR 0.0339 QR 0.0346 businesses to head back home, irked by the Hong Kong listings have unveiled plans to Shimao said it had no plans to delist “How, when and where a company SA Rand QR 0.2440 QR 0.2490 deep discount for shares listed on the ter- either delist, spin off assets and list them in from Hong Kong and was happy with its lists are commercial decisions deter- ritory’s stock exchange. China or sell a controlling stake to a main- current structure, with a Shanghai-listed mined by a wide variety of factors, but we Hong Kong has been the most popular land-listed company since November 2015. unit focusing on commercial property, are convinced that Hong Kong remains a GOLD AND SILVER location for share listings from Chinese There were only a handful of such deals in while Country Garden said it studied very competitive listing center with many state-owned and private enterprises each of 2012, 2013 and 2014. “everything that can help with the val- advantages,” HKEX said in a statement. GOLD QR151.1957 per gramme for three decades, making it the world’s There were still nearly 30 Chinese uation, to create better return for the HKEX could also have a valuable ally SILVER QR2.0445 per gramme leading destination for initial public companies that listed in Hong Kong over investors”. in the China Securities Regulatory Com- offerings (IPOs). the same period, but those deals were Since Wang’s Dalian Wanda Com- mission, which said on Friday that it was Mainland companies have long been much smaller, and IPO fund raisings fell mercial Properties announced its plans, concerned by the huge valuation gap drawn by Hong Kong’s standing as a glo- 18 percent in 2015. China’s No. 2 listed developer, Ever- between domestic and overseas stocks bal financial hub, stable legal regime and “Selected Chinese entrepreneurs will grande Real Estate, bought a controlling and speculation on shares in shell com- large pool of institutional investors, but be tempted to delist their companies from stake in a smaller, loss-making rival panies, which can be used to repatriate Most Gulf stock the downside of those benefits is a much Hong Kong if the A/H premiums continue listed in Shenzhen, the main attraction overseas-listed companies. lower share price than they could achieve at these high levels,” said Prashant Bhay- being its lofty valuations and access The regulator has only said it is stud- on mainland bourses. ani, chief investment officer, Asia for BNP to China’s capital markets through the ying the issues, but if it takes action to markets rise Over two-thirds of shares listed in both Paribas Wealth Management, which over- mainland listing. address the gap or deter such relistings, Hong Kong and China trade at a premium sees $64.5 billion in assets. “Property companies, when they that could help avert or at least delay any of more than 50 percent in the mainland, UBS has identified 38 Hong Kong- go public in Hong Kong, one of the rea- day of reckoning for Hong Kong. Reuters according to a UBS research report. That listed Chinese companies with similar sons is to be able to do foreign issuance “Hong Kong will face competition from gap has substantially widened since 2014, characteristics to those recently delisted, (of bonds), have better credit rating and Shanghai and Shenzhen for hosting big making it less appealing for companies to using criteria such as negative share price cheaper financing,” said Ringo Choi, Asia- Chinese companies, but we are not there DUBAI: Most major Gulf stock markets rose yesterday raise secondary funds in Hong Kong. performance since listing, a forward Pacific IPO leader at consulting firm EY. yet,” said BNP’s Bhayani. in response to a modest recovery on Wall Street and in oil prices at the end of last week, while a sweeping reor- ganisation of Saudi Arabia’s economic policy-making apparatus boosted shares there. The Saudi stock index closed 0.2 percent higher after Key macro-economic data to rising as much as 1.0 percent at one stage. Petrochemi- cal blue chip Saudi Basic Industries gained 0.3 percent. The Saudi reorganisation replaced the oil minister and central bank governor and restructured some major drive India equity markets ministries, creating a super-ministry under Khalid Al Falih to manage the growth of industry and resource extraction. State utility Saudi Electric climbed 1.8 percent. Insur- IANS scheduled for release on May 12,” James said. ers were also strong, with Saudi Arabian Cooperative The US data for last month showed that the Insurance jumping its 10 percent daily limit. economy created 160,000 jobs, against 215,000 Dubai’s index gained 0.6 percent to 3,326 points, in March. Devendra Nevgi, Chief Executive of bouncing from near technical support on the late March MUMBAI: Key macro-economic data, com- ZyFin Advisors said that the parliament ses- lows of 3,248-3,253 points, though trading volume was low. bined with quarterly earnings’ results and the sion closing May 13 would be closely followed Dubai Parks & Resorts, the most heavily traded stock, progress in parliament, are expected to flare-up next week. “The parliament session would be rose 2.3 percent. Trading in rights to a major share issue in volatility in the Indian equity markets during closely watched on the reforms and action on the company began last week and will continue through the upcoming week. bills, some of which will need the upper house next week. Abu Dhabi’s index gained 0.5 percent as Abu “In the coming week the market may nod,” Nevgi said. Dhabi Commercial Bank rebounded for a second day remain volatile as macro-economic data, global Further, market observers pointed out that from a slump following its first-quarter earnings. The markets and the movement of crude oil prices the next batch of fourth quarter (Q4) results will stock rose 1.3 percent. will dictate trends in the near term,” said Vaib- also guide the equity markets. “Investors will Qatar edged down 0.2 percent although Dlala Bro- hav Agarwal, vice president and research head closely track the next batch of Q4 results,” Agar- kerage added 2.7 percent in unusually heavy trade. at Angel Broking. wal added. Sector-wise, Pankaj Sharma, head Kuwait’s Burgan Bank rose 1.5 percent after report- Key domestic macro-economic data such as of equities for Equirus Securities said that IT ing an 18.5 percent fall in first-quarter net profit to 14.3m the consumer price index (CPI) and IIP (index of stocks will be influenced by Cognizant’s results dinars, largely because of lower foreign exchange income; industrial production) are slated to be released which were declared on Friday. HSBC had forecast the bank would make 12.68m dinars. next week. Besides, global macro-economic data “The performance and guidance is a bit dis- Kuwait’s index edged down 0.1 percent. Egypt rose 0.3 on US retail sales and consumer sentiment, along appointing from one of the largest IT companies percent, buoyed by gains in a few blue chips such as with inflation figure from China and eurozone which has similar model as other large cap Indian Orascom Telecom Media, which was up 2.7 percent. GDP will influence the equity markets. IT names,” Sharma said. “And, this doesn’t inspire HIGHLIGHTS According to Anand James, chief market a lot of confidence on how this year would look SAUDI ARABIA: The index climbed 0.2 percent to strategist, Geojit BNP Paribas Financial Serv- like on growth for the Indian IT sector.” 6,672 points. ices, the equity markets’ tone for the next week The equity markets closed the previous DUBAI: The index rose 0.6 percent to 3,326 points. will be set by the Bank of Japan (BoJ), which is week in the red, as negative global cues, along ABU DHABI: The index gained 0.5 percent to 4,449 points. expected to release its March meeting minutes with disappointing Q4 results and profit book- QATAR: The index fell 0.2 percent to 9,730 points. on Monday. James elaborated that the dismal ing, dented the equity markets. During the week EGYPT: The index rose 0.3 percent to 7,572 points. US non-farm payroll figures have fuelled talk ended May 6, the wider 51-scrip Nifty of the KUWAIT: The index edged down 0.1 percent to 5,371 about a possible recession and reduced the National Stock Exchange (NSE) slipped by 116.35 points. potential for a June rate hike. points or 1.48 percent to 7,733.45 points. OMAN: The index rose 0.3 percent to 5,996 points. “In this backdrop the possibilities of a The barometer 30-scrip sensitive index BAHRAIN: The index edged down 0.1 percent to RBI (Reserve Bank of India) rate cut would be (Sensex) of the BSE declined by 378.12 points A view of the Bombay Stock Exchange. 1,112 points. played up, especially with IIP and CPI data or 1.47 percent to 25,228.50 points. BUSINESS VIEWS MONDAY 9 MAY 2016 27

Digging for growth in Bitcoin has a governance problem China? Not quite yet: Excavator makers no matter who created it

By Fang Yan and Anne large part because of new emis- Marie Roantree sions rules that had customers Reuters pulling forward purchases to get cheaper deals. He said the demand won’t hold. “We’ve been losing money, and he makers of China’s exca- we still are,” shrugged Han, who vators and bulldozers would only give his surname. should be rejoicing: after One of the main problems - two years of consecutive dampening government efforts Tmonthly declines, overall sales to revive growth - is overcapacity. were up in the first three months Chinese and foreign compa- of the year, while property sales nies, caught out on the way up and construction activity revived. after 2008, poured money into Not so, say dealers, con- factories and output. When the sultants to the industry and slowdown hit, many were sud- construction equipment manufac- denly producing so much they turers themselves: a stronger start were forced to seek export mar- to 2016 is less the start of a tepid kets instead of selling in China. recovery than a temporary blip. In 2015, according to Off- It is only masking continued pain Highway Research, a consultancy for a sector that flourished dur- which analyses international con- ing the construction frenzy that struction equipment markets, propelled China past the global output touched its lowest level financial crisis. since 2003. New emissions rules drove “The impact of government sales, but factories that once investment seems to be not as churned out excavators and strong as previously, which could loaders are still working only at be because there are too many a fraction of capacity - as little as machines out there already,” said 20 to 25 percent, they said. Liu Chunyu, vice president of the Choking off new sales, domestic sales division of Shantui A Bitcoin (virtual currency) paper wallet with QR codes and a coin are seen in an illustration picture. machines bought at the peak are Construction Machinery , China’s still barely used, while fleets of biggest bulldozer maker. equipment seized from bankrupt “We know the breakneck contractors are clogging the sec- growth we saw back in 2010 will ond-hand market. never come back again.” By Jemima Kelly “That’s what makes all this stuff kind of funny. to a shared repository of bitcoin rules. Rosier economic indicators Japan’s Komatsu said last Reuters It’s like searching for the creator of a sys- Initially, these developers justified earlier this year - including a week that Chinese government tem that’s designed not to require a creator.” their move on security grounds, saying pickup in construction - prompted efforts were failing to revive While grey-suited central bankers print his computer must have been hacked more than a few economists to sluggish demand, forecasting a conventional currencies and commercial - something Andresen denied. When Reu- revise higher their predictions for sharp drop in full-year growth s one would-be father of bitcoin banks control transactions in them, no ters asked Todd whether Andresen’s access China’s 2016 growth. April data, for the group as a whole. Chi- falls by the wayside, squabbling one person or entity is in charge of bitcoin. would be reinstated, he responded: “Heck though, is less robust, raising con- nese demand alone could fall by among the web-based currency’s Instead it runs on a decentralised system of no”, saying a belief in Wright amounted to cerns that any resurgence may be as much as 25 percent, it said. lead developers is exposing a fun- shared trust without any third-party veri- “inexcusable incompetence”. fizzling out. “There’s little change, in that damental flaw: It must evolve to fication of transactions - one reason why Andresen admitted to bewilderment A Reuters reporter’s visit to we’re seeing a slowdown,” said Ameet growing demand, but may lack a gov- many people are attracted to it. over whether he still believed Wright’s dealerships on Beijing’s outskirts Chief Financial Officer Mikio ernance structure to achieve this. Critics, however, say it needs a “benev- claims. “Ask me in six months; I don’t trust found a half-empty dealer com- Fujitsuka. The latest bickering erupted after Aus- olent dictator” or at least some “adults” to my own judgement right now after all the pound and deserted forecourts, This isn’t to say that the sector, tralian entrepreneur Craig Wright promised manage the expansion that it needs to cope drama,” he said on Twitter. where new excavators and fork- like the rest of the economy, hasn’t to prove he was the mysterious creator of with the increasing number of transactions. The squabbling is not new. One of the lift trucks still in their packaging seen some improvement from its bitcoin - which allows users to move money Someone, or some group, must decide how lead developers, Mike Hearn, stood down were lined up alongside battered darkest days. across the world quickly and anonymously to meet users’ requirements, they say. from bitcoin in January because of a power used models. There was no sign Inventories were over 12 - but then said on Thursday he could not pro- Trades are handled by thousands of struggle nicknamed the “bitcoin civil war”. of buyers. months at the nadir but are vide further evidence to back this up. “mining” computers around the world which Hearn and Andresen had proposed Speaking at a dealership now closer to normal levels. For Wright stopped short of reneging on his validate blocks of transactions by compet- increasing the size of the blocks in which in Beijing’s northeastern sub- Zoomlion , for example, they are claim to be Satoshi Nakamoto, assumed to ing to solve mathematical puzzles every 10 transactions are processed but the other urbs that sells Guangxi LiuGong equivalent to three to four months be a pseudonym for the minutes. developers opposed this. Machinery Co’s equipment, man- - not far from their two-month person or people who The first computer to solve the puz- In quitting, Hearn said that “what was ager Dang Yongli said that at the norm, one senior executive at the launched the digital zle clears the transaction and is currently meant to be a new, decentralised form of peak, he could barely keep up company said. cryptocurrency in 2009. rewarded with 25 new bitcoins, now worth money that lacked systemically important with demand for new machines. But excess capacity remains However, he apologised around $11,250.. This is how the comput- institutions” had now become “a system “Many customers just couldn’t a major headache, from the for damaging the repu- ers’ owners cover their costs - largely power completely controlled by just a handful wait. They would go to LiuGong booming second-hand market tations of bitcoin experts bills - and make a profit. The system also of people”. directly, and line up outside the to barely-used existing machines, who had believed him. ensures there is no single point in the sys- Many investors and start-up firms workshop,” he said. factors which David Phillips, Many members of tem that might fail. remain optimistic about bitcoin and are Now, two out of every three managing director at Off-High- The squabbling is the bitcoin commu- In practice, there do appear to be people making money from it. But Emin Gun Sirer, machines he sells are used. way Research, estimates will take not new. One of the nity reckon this is all a who can make decisions, but it is also pos- a computer science professor at Cornell The slack in the system means another 12 to 18 months to work distraction and agree sible to be excluded from this magic circle. University, said the appearance of inter- even the world’s largest heavy through. lead developers, with Wright when he One of the bitcoin experts who initially nal conflict was undermining it. equipment maker, Caterpillar That holds even if some pock- Mike Hearn, stood said that the identity of believed Wright’s claim is Gavin Andresen. “For bitcoin to retain its value, it’s Inc (CAT.N), cautiously optimis- ets revive first: road work or water Nakamoto “doesn’t, and Nakamoto handed control of bitcoin’s soft- important to have hope that there’s good tic and more positive than some, conservancy projects, for example, down from bitcoin shouldn’t, matter”. ware to Andresen when he stepped aside management in charge, that there are urged caution last month. already pepping up machines like in January because “Satoshi’s biggest in 2011, a transfer that kept the creator’s adults in charge,” Sirer said. “When we Back outside Beijing, Han, a road pavers - whose sales grew achievement was to cre- identity a mystery as it was conducted in see opportunistic moves, that’s a problem.” salesman for domestic brand in 2015. Leading suppliers in that of a power struggle ate a system that doesn’t cyberspace without human contact. But Sirer also said that any open- Lonking Holdings (3339.HK) said business include China’s XCMG , nicknamed the require his participation Andresen later shared that control source project such as bitcoin, which runs January to April saw growth in Germany’s Vogele and Sany . “bitcoin civil war”. to run,” said Peter Todd, with others. But when he stated publicly using software that anyone can access, one of bitcoin’s core he believed Wright, sceptical developers change, and distribute, faces the chal- software developers. responded by revoking his “commit access” lenge of governance. Software security suffers as upstarts lose access to virus data

By Joseph Menn companies said the changes will leave some simply not functioning right now,” he said, Chief Technology Officer Raimund Genes, Reuters services more likely to mistakenly classify declining to say which. He said the loss of one of many old-line tech executives who legitimate software as malicious and less able VirusTotal could help spur the companies pushed for the shift. to protect their customers from real threats, to invest in their own innovation to catch Marx of AV-TEST said that some newer at least in the short term. viruses. companies secretly relied on data supplied by number of young technology security “If they no longer have access to Virus- Asked whether it had been kicked off the older companies while marketing themselves companies are losing access to the Total, their detection scores will drop,” said service, Palo Alto said only that it had not as a cut above the older technology. “They Alargest collection of industry analy- Andreas Marx, chief executive of security been relying on the VirusTotal peer deter- are using traditional methods, too,” he said. sis of computer viruses, a setback industry software evaluation firm AV-TEST. With minations and expected “no impact” on Some of the newer companies said they experts say will increase exposure to hackers. detection rates down, hackers will find eas- customers. do not share their evaluations for competitive The policy change at the information- ier entry. Some security companies rely CrowdStrike said it was negotiating with reasons. Blanket copying of virus indicators Alphabet Inc’s Google sharing pioneer VirusTotal takes aim mainly completely on the database, essentially free- VirusTotal and had not been cut off by Sat- has been an historic grievance at VirusTotal, runs the VirusTotal at a new generation of security companies, loading, said executives on both sides of the urday. “We support the mission of VirusTotal with at least one victim resorting to sabo- some with valuations of $1 billion or more, divide, and did not want to share their anal- and have reached out to them to explore tage in retaliation, Reuters reported last year. database so security that haven’t been contributing their analysis. ysis for fear of being found out. additional ways we can collaborate for the Others say the way that they detect bad professionals can Older companies, some with market valua- VirusTotal did not name any companies benefit of the entire security community,” programs is too intensive to integrate with tions much smaller than the upstart rivals, to be cut off. But several people familiar with the company wrote in an emailed statement, VirusTotal’s current system. share new examples had pressed for the shift. the matter told Reuters the move would affect declining to answer further questions. “We were more than willing to work with of suspected malicious Alphabet Inc’s Google runs the VirusTotal high-profile California firms Cylance Inc, VirusTotal gets about 400,000 submis- them, but they didn’t have a way for us,” said database so security professionals can share Palo Alto Networks Inc and CrowdStrike Inc, sions of potentially dangerous files daily, Tomer Weingarten, chief executive of Sen- software and opinions on new examples of suspected malicious soft- as well as some smaller companies. mostly from old-guard antivirus companies tinelOne, a firm that acknowledges it was the danger they pose. ware and opinions on the danger they pose. Cylance said it gave up access to the rat- like Symantec Corp, Intel Corp and Trend cut off from the feed against its will. “This On Wednesday, the 12-year-old service qui- ings two weeks ago after deciding not to Micro Inc which sit on the most machines. is a step back.” etly said it would cut off unlimited ratings share its technology. Chief Research Officer “It was never meant to enable new com- Weingarten said SentinelOne had added access to companies that do not share their Jon Miller said Cylance had not suffered but panies to use it as a shortcut by silently relying a new data feed to replace VirusTotal and own evaluations of submitted samples. that others had. on, and benefitting from, the service without a predicted that VirusTotal will become less Analysts and executives at several “Many next-generation products are corresponding investment,” said Trend Micro relevant as companies are excluded. 28 MONDAY 9 MAY 2016 BUSINESS

BACK TO BUSINESS sight Machines will never put HK’s ‘prince of toys’ playing up to humans out of work high-tech tastes

By Jill Mao help Early Light boost its profit By Leonid Bershidsky Even now, top earners spend Bloomberg margins and stay ahead of its Bloomberg larger shares of their income on edu- competitors, Choi said. cation, personal services, handcrafted China cranked out 70 percent luxury items and insurance. Even of all toys globally, according to Frey and Osborne agree that “per- illionaire Francis Choi researcher IBISWorld. Chinese t is now widely accepted that suading”—as in selling an insurance built a toy-making empire manufacturers such as Goldlok technological advances, espe- policy—won’t be automated any- Bfrom stuffing Snoopy dolls Toys Holdings Guangdong Co. cially ones that make machines time soon, and nor will jobs such as in a small Hong Kong warehouse and Alpha Group are increasingly more like humans—such as making one-of-a-kind furniture or four decades ago. Now, his son moving into making interactive robotization or artificial intel- small-batch whisky. Karson Choi is seeking to reju- toy robots, as well as animation Iligence—are putting people out of Atkinson’s purpose is to convince venate the family business—one and video games, amid rising work and will only destroy more jobs regulators and policy makers that of the world’s largest toy manu- competition from countries with in the future. The wealth will accrue tech-driven productivity growth is to facturers—by going high-tech. lower labour costs such as those to those who own the machines, not be encouraged, not suppressed for the By remote-controlling toys in Southeast Asia. to what’s known as the middle class sake of keeping people employed in through smartphone apps, you “The toy-making industry today. There’s some good news for jobs that are not really needed in the may fly a drone or make your has entered a stage of industrial humans, though: The evidence of our a convincing-looking chart: disruption doesn’t explain the rise evolving economy. That may sound soldiers battle each other at your upgrade and reshuffle,” said Fan displacement by machines is sketchy, It might make more sense to of the top 1 percent and the lack of like a primitive Darwinian argument: fingertips, said the 30-year-old Zhangxiang, a Shanghai-based and we should be able to adjust to the examine the relationship between median income growth. What happens to the people who are vice chairman of Early Light analyst who covers the man- new technological era if we put our productivity and unemployment, One could argue that even if eventually displaced? Paradoxical as International Holdings Ltd., ufacturing industry at SWS minds to it. rather then employment, but there’s technology isn’t eliminating jobs or it may seem, allowing machines to which supplies more than 30 toy Research Co. Ltd. “Traditional Eric Brynjolfsson and Andrew only a weak negative correlation depressing incomes now, it may do take over whole industries and enrich brands for companies including companies that squeeze prof- McFkindAfee of the Massachusetts between them. so in the future, when machines get their owners can only work without Mattel Inc., Hasbro Inc. and Walt its from labour intensive mass Institute of Technology labeled this What about stalled income intelligent enough to perform most disturbing social peace if govern- Disney Co. The high-tech toys production are being eliminated, “the great decoupling”: according growth? Atkinson’s argument is that human functions. Carl Benedikt ments invest in training people for are part of Choi’s plans to diver- while stronger companies have to them, advances in productivity, it has nothing to do with productiv- Frey and Michael Osborne made this old-fashioned professions. Someone sify the family’s toy and luxury to upgrade by developing higher mainly driven by the development ity increases, either. Incomes stopped argument in a 2013 paper that sug- will need to make all those artisanal watch businesses into high-mar- value-added hi-tech products.” of digital technology, and the result- growing because of increased inequal- gested that 47 percent of total U.S. products that machine-owners will gin areas such as electronics and Chinese parents can afford ing economic growth, no longer cause ity within occupations, not because employment was at risk from “com- crave. Someone will need to take medical products. to spend more on their children employment and workers’ incomes technology wiped out jobs in middle- puterization,” in areas as diverse as service industries to a whole new “We’re no longer only a due to rising household income to rise. “The Second Machine Age is wage professions. “To take an example truck driving and legal writing. level of personal attention, inac- manufacturer of dolls or toy and with many young families playing out differently than the First from pro basketball, income inequality Atkinson’s response to that is that cessible to machines. And someone sets,” Choi said last month at a having only a single child, said Machine Age, continuing the long- did not grow because technology elim- the “robot owners” who will reap the will need to provide forms of enter- Hong Kong shop of the compa- Fan. There are also an increas- term trend of material abundance but inated middle-skilled players, it grew financial benefits of all that automa- tainment that machines will forever ny’s luxury timepiece retailer ing number of young adults who not of ever-greater labor demand,” because of political economy factors, tion will need to spend their money struggle with; ballet dancers and clas- Halewinner Watches Group. are attracted by high-tech toys, McAfee told Harvard Business Review. such as the introduction of free agency, on something, and they will likely sical musicians may suddenly find “We’re very strong in terms of he said. Economist Robert Atkinson, who “ Atkinson writes. want to spend it on something with themselves in great demand. electronic toys.” In response, Early Light has heads the Information Technology The people at the top of the income a human touch: This is not about providing China shipped 97 billion come up with products such and Innovation Foundation, argues distribution aren’t all bankers or tech “Global productivity could more or cheaper college education. yuan ($15 billion) of toys abroad as robot dinosaurs that react that no “great decoupling” is taking gurus. Seven percent of the top 1 per- increase by a factor of 50 without In Europe, according to the Euro- last year, an 11 percent increase to hand gestures, and a voice- place. Employment, he points out, cent of earners are lawyers, another people running out of things to buy. pean Commission, about 40 percent from 2014 despite the country’s activated Yoda figurine from the declines in step with the working-age 7 percent doctors, 3 percent work in Just look at what people with higher of workers feel overskilled—they economic slowdown and fall- Star Wars movies, according to population. Productivity and employ- insurance and real estate. According incomes spend their money on: nicer have more education than their job ing total exports, data from Choi, who said his three-month ment, Atkinson writes, “were never to a recent article by Jonathan Roth- vacations, larger homes, more res- requires. It’s a matter of matching the General Administration of old twins and 1 ½-year-old coupled, any more than the divorce well, a Brookings Institution fellow, taurant meals, more entertainment skills to a shifting demand pattern, Customs show. Shifting produc- daughter are still too young to rate in Maine and the consumption “there are five times as many top 1 like concerts and plays. Moreover, if driven by technology change—and tion to pricier playthings will play with the company’s toys. of margarine (two variables that percent workers in dental services as we ever get that rich, working fewer by people’s need to feel human in a have moved together).” He, too, has in software services.” Technological hours would evolve on its own.” world of machines.

Mohamed Ramady, an While Al Falih might not be happy to see low oil prices independent analyst and a Capital affecting the industry’s long-term investment needs, former professor at King Fahd he will need to defend Opec’s policy to maintain its University of Petroleum and Minerals in Dhahran, Saudi Comment market share as non-Opec supply starts to scale down. Arabia.

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AFP Spanish MotoGP rider Jorge Lorenzo of Movistar Yamaha celebrates winning the French Grand Prix at Le

DOHA: A teenage forward is set to Mans race track, Le Mans, France, yesterday. become the first player from Qatar ever to play in La Liga and possibly the Champions League after being signed by Spanish club Villarreal. The transfer of Akram Afif was Gutsy Lorenzo grabs points confirmed on Twitter by his par- ent club Al Sadd, the Doha team for which former Barcelona great Xavi Hernandez plays, late on Saturday evening. lead with win at Le Mans “OFFICIAL: #AlSadd & @Villar- realCF have agreed on the transfer of Akram Afif to the Spanish club,” read the tweet. AFP In a statement on its website, subsequently retweeted by Afif, Villarreal also confirmed that an LE MANS, FRANCE: Jorge Lorenzo agreement had been reached “in put in an exhibition ride to win a principle”. thrilling French MotoGP Grand Prix The 19-year-old, who was born and go top of the world champion- in Doha, is no stranger to Spanish ship standings yesterday. football having played for Villarreal Akram Afif (right) in action in this The Yamaha rider crossed the and Sevilla’s youth teams. 2014 file photo taken in Paris. line more than 10 seconds clear of Since 2015, Afif has been play- his team-mate Valentino Rossi, with ing for KAS Eupen, a Qatari-owned club’s website that he was sorry to La Liga and have already secured Maverick Vinales on a Suzuki in third. team in the Belgian second division. see Afif leave but the club “wished qualification for next season’s Cham- Lorenzo, who takes over the Eupen is owned by Qatar’s him luck and success in his future pions League. lead of the 2016 title race from Marc renowned Aspire Academy, which career”. They will be placed in the tour- Marquez, was completing a perfect has spent millions trying to develop In the same statement Afif said nament play-off round before the weekend in Le Mans after setting a young Qatari sports stars over the Eupen had been a “beautiful episode” main group stage. record-breaking lap in qualifying on past decade. Afif is a product of in his life. Several other young Qataris play Saturday. Aspire. A fast and technically proficient in Europe, but it is thought that only The defending world cham- Afif’s transfer to arguably the player, Afif made his debut for the one other Qatari has appeared in a pion enjoyed a serene afternoon at strongest European league could be Qatari national side last year during major league. the historic Bugatti circuit, avoiding seen as a major coup for Aspire. the country’s record 15-0 trounc- Hussein Yasser made one mayhem behind with no fewer than During the current season he ing of Bhutan in an AFC World Cup appearance for English club Man- eight riders parting company from scored six times in 16 appearances qualifier. chester City in the 2005/6 season. their bikes. for Eupen, who subsequently have He is likely to feature in Qatar’s Yasser, who plays for Al Wakrah, “This was a very important race, gained promotion to Belgium’s top make-or-break matches for the 2018 was in his early 20s when he made a great race for the championship,” division. World Cup in Russia, with qualifi- his only appearance during a defeat said Lorenzo, who now leads Mar- Eupen director Christoph Hen- ers taking place from later this year. on penalties to Doncaster Rovers in quez by five points. kel said in a statement posted on the Villarreal currently lie fourth in the League Cup. Marquez was one of those to crash, although he remounted his Jorge Honda to trail in at the rear of the Lorenzo pack. From pole Lorenzo got off to a celebrates quick start to boss this fifth leg of his win QOA, CAS join hands to the season. yesterday. The main winner at the start was Andrea Dovizioso, riding for Ducati, who surged from sixth on the grid to Turn seven was to prove the “I’m happy, after a difficult race in second, tracked by Marquez. undoing of a third rider when British weekend - 20 points is good for the organise seminar in Doha Rossi, who set off from a Yamaha rider Bradley Smith slithered championship,” which now moves on season-lowest seventh after a mis- out of the race. to Italy on May 22. take-strewn qualifying, triggered a Lorenzo, who was never in dan- Vinales, after securing his first The Peninsula Matthieu Reeb (CAS Secretary huge roar from the crowd when he ger of being caught by Rossi in the MotoGP podium and his team’s first General), Dr Jan Kleiner (lecturer of nipped past Marquez as the midway closing stages, reflected on his 63rd since 2008, said: “We did a good job D O H A : The Qatar Olympic Acad- international sports law at the Uni- point of the race approached. overall victory and 42nd in MotoGP. today, I lost many places on the first emy (QOA) in collaboration with versity of Zurich), Dr Abdullah Al And the hugely popular Italian “I wanted to keep a high pace and few laps then I recovered and pushed, Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) is Hayyan (a member of the Interna- veteran soon only had his teammate not lose concentration, I kept push- pushed, pushed.” organising a productive seminar on tional Court of Arbitration for Sport) Lorenzo ahead of him after overtak- ing on the throttle,” he said. Earlier, South Africa’s Brad Binder international sports arbitration at and Michele Bernasconi (teaching ing Dovizioso. “I could breathe a little more won the Moto3 race to extend his lead the headquarters in Doha tomorrow. assistant at the University of Zurich) With 13 laps to go Marquez and when Marquez and Dovizioso in the world championship title race. The prestigious course will bring are the speakers at the event, which Dovizioso exited the scene in car- crashed.” The KTM rider recorded succes- together more than 70 trainees, rep- is surely going to generate lot of bon copy crashes on turn seven, their Rossi was a relieved man to sive wins after his debut triumph in resenting different government and interest. bikes slipping from underneath them, add 20 points to his championship Spain last time out by shading his non-government organizations in The topics discussed will be “The to promote Vinales to third. standings tally - he is placed third, Italian teammate Romano Fenati and Qatar beside participants from GCC Court of Arbitration for Sport: History, Championship leader Marquez 12 points adrift of Lorenzo. Spanish Honda rider Jorge Navarro. nations. structure and landmark cases”, “The manfully climbed back on board. “I lost a lot of time at the begin- Spain’s Alex Rins notched up his At the seminar, experts will shed typical football-related dispute: FIFA Unaffected by all that drama ning but that’s normal when you start second Moto2 win of the season to go light on the importance of arbitration and CAS Procedure” and “The Juris- Lorenzo was racing smoothly in from the 10th row,” the Italian said top of the standings. in sport, highlight legal procedures prudence of CAS in football-related front, well clear of Rossi, who was yesterday. The Kalex rider comfortably saw Saif Al Nuaimi, the Executive at FIFA and speak about the juris- matters”. A round-table on the impor- seeking to follow up his win in “After good pace, I got in front of off Italian Simone Corsi (Speed Up) by Director of Qatar Olympic prudence of CAS in football-related tance of arbitration in sport will also Spain a fortnight ago with 10 laps Marquez and Dovizioso but Lorenzo almost two seconds with Rins’ Swiss Academy. matters. be held. remaining. was too far in front. teammate Thomas Luthi taking third. 30 MONDAY 9 MAY 2016 SPORT Pellegrini makes low-key Kyrgios lobs ‘tweener’ return at chef de mission

Reuters The 23-year-old, nicknamed Manchester City farewell ‘Tomic the Tank Engine’ after accu- sations he ‘tanked’ -- or failed to try his best -- in a loss to Andy SYDNEY: If tennis player Nick Roddick at the 2012 US Open, then Kyrgios has been chastened by a told reporters: “Would you care if It was not the way we warning about his future behaviour you were 23 and worth over $10 wanted to finish the from Australia’s chef de mission for million?”. the Rio Olympics, he is not show- Chiller told reporters at the season as we wanted ing it. Australian Olympic Committee’s to qualify for the final Kyrgios and his fellow Austral- AGM on Saturday that she thought ian young gun Bernard Tomic were his behaviour “appalling”. of the Champions told by chef de mission Kitty Chiller “It goes against every value League, says on Saturday that their behaviour that all the Olympians live by, it must improve if they wanted to goes against everything that we’ve the Chilean represent their country at the Rio been trying to build in this team,” Olympics. she said. The talented and hugely con- “It is not behaviour that I fident Kyrgios hit back with some would want any team member in AFP cheeky humour from the Madrid a team that I’m responsible for to Open, where he hit a stunning lob exhibit.” between his legs on his way to Tennis Australia nominates defeat at the hands of Kei Nishikori athletes for Olympic selection and MANCHESTER, United Kingdom: in the quarter-finals. Kyrgios and 22nd-ranked Tomic Manuel Pellegrini could not conceal “Someone tell that Kitty chiller are likely to head their picks for the his disappointment after his final to watch that tweener lob, then she Aug. 5-21 Olympics in Rio. home game as Manchester City man- will understand why I’m on watch The Australian Olympic ager ended in a damaging 2-2 draw for the olympics lol,” he posted on Committee must approve the nom- with Arsenal yesterday. Twitter. inations, however, and Chiller said The result means that City’s hopes Kyrgios, Australia’s highest that behaviour in the public arena of finishing in the Premier League’s ranked player at number 21 in the would be taken into account. top four and qualifying for the Cham- world, combines a rare tennis tal- “We have the ability to take pions League are no longer in their Manchester City’s manager Manuel Pellegrini (right) waves during the lap of honour after his last home ent with a reputation for firing that into consideration whether own hands, raising the prospect that game at the Etihad Stadium, after the English Premier League match against Arsenal at the Etihad Stadium, insults at fellow players, officials we proceed to select the nomina- Pellegrini’s successor, Pep Guardiola, Manchester, yesterday. and fans. tion or not,” Chiller added. will start life at the club in the Europa It was Tomic who was courting In Tomic’s case the point League. controversy this week, however, may be moot with the Austral- City must win at Swansea City Villa. Addressing a half-full Etihad game today, for the next Champions “Most of all, don’t change. Con- after bowing out of the Madrid ian newspaper reporting that the in their final league game next Stadium after the final whistle, Pel- (League). “But for me they were three tinue the same way because this team Open by holding his racket by 23-year-old had signed up to play Sunday and hope that Manches- legrini told City’s fans: “It was not the wonderful years of working, three needs you and I’m sure that next year the strings and not offering a shot in a tournament in Los Cabos, ter United drop points in one of way we wanted to finish the season. unforgettable years. So all I can say you will be a very successful team in when facing match point against Mexico that takes place at the same their two last games or that Arsenal We wanted to qualify for the final of to the fans is thanks for all. I will all the competitions. Thanks for all, Fabio Fognini. time as the Olympics. lose at home to bottom club Aston the Champions League and win our never forget you. and I’ll see you.”

Jones gives new Hyderabad thrash Mumbai Indians by 85 runs faces chance to shine in IANS the hosts. The partnership lasted just 5.3 overs but by then the Lions had training squad gathered 42 runs. Smith (27) was clean bowled by Shakib Al Hasan and then VISAKHAPATNAM: Riding on McCullum (29) after smashing Morne AFP Shikhar Dhawan’s unbeaten 82 fol- Morkel for a 17-run over was out lowed by an impressive performance caught at long on. The double blow by the bowlers, Sunrisers Hydera- brought a huge smile on KKR co- LONDON: England coach Eddie bad outclassed defending champions owner and Bollywood star Shahrukh Jones named eight uncapped play- Mumbai Indians by 85 runs in an Khan. ers in a 26-man squad yesterday Indian Premier League (IPL) match But the innings did not show any for a three-day training camp in here yesterday. signs of running out of steam as Suresh Brighton ahead of the Six Nations’ Batting first, Sunrisers posted an Raina and Dinesh Karthik got together champions one-off international impressive 177/3 in 20 overs. Dhawan to knit another brisk partnership. By against and three-Test tour was well supported at the other end the end of 10 overs the Lions were of Australia. by David Warner (48 of 33 balls) and comfortably placed at 89/2. Among those yet to play Test Yuvraj Singh (39 off 23 balls). The stand went on for a few more rugby selected by the Australian In reply, Mumbai Indians lost overs which got the Lions closer to are Northampton’s New Zealand- wickets at regular intervals from the the target. But, with 43 runs required, born back-row Teimana Harrison, start and were eventually bundled out Raina perished trying to hook an who has been in fine form for the for just 92 in 16.3 overs. Andre Russell delivery.Finch who Saints this season, Bath lock Char- Veteran pacer Ashish Nehra (3-15), came in next did not hang around lie Ewels and wing Muztafizur Rahman (3-16), and Bar- much and started clobbering the bowl- . inder Sran (2-18) were the pick of the ers. He smashed 31 runs off the 15th Dylan Hartley, England’s bowlers for Hyderabad while Moises and 16th over.Though Brad Hogg got New Zealand-born captain, was Henriques and Bhuvneshwar Kumar rid of Karthik in the next and Finch included after returning to action claimed one wicket each. got run-out. with Northampton on Saturday Chasing a challenging target of Earlier in the evening, Yusuf after nearly two months out with 176, Mumbai got off to a terrible start Sunrisers Hyderabad Shikhar Dhawan plays a shot during the IPL Twenty20 match against Mumbai Indians Pathan and Shakib Al Hasan’s uncon- a concussion injury suffered when losing both openers Rohit Sharma (5) at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad yesterday. quered fifth wicket stand of 134 Jones’s men clinched a Six Nations and Parthiv Patel (0) in the second rescued KKR after a disastrous start grand slam with victory over over itself to have Mumbai in trouble. and helped them post a challenging France in Paris. Incoming batsman Krunal Pan- over. Kieron Pollard (11) struck two added 51 runs without losing any and 12 balls to spare at the Eden Gar- total. Hasan remained unbeaten with Former Melbourne Rebels dya (17) and Ambati Rayudu (6) tried boundaries and looked to putting wickets after the completion of the dens yesterday. a 49-ball 66, while Pathan carried his Danny Cipriani, who to build a partnership but some out- some runs on board but eventu- powerplay. With the win, Gujarat go atop the bat through with a knock of 63 from will leave Sale to join former standing bowling by Hyderabad ally failed. Hardik Pandya (7), Tim Warner kept up his sublime form points table with seven wins from 11 41 deliveries. club Wasps next season, was also bowlers saw Mumbai wickets falling Southee (8), Mitchell McClenaghan in the cash rich T20 tournament going outings. Dinesh Karthik top scored for For the Lions, Praveen Kumar among the 26-man squad heading in clusters. It was a one-way traffic in (8) all departed cheaply to hand the as he closed in on yet another half- the visitors with a 29-ball 51, while returned figures of 2-19 on a wicket to the south coast, where training favour of Hyderabad as not a single match to Sunrisers. Harbhajan Singh century before he was dismissed in Aaron Finch contributed with a quick- that helped him swing the leather. will take place at Brighton College Mumbai batsmen could settle down. (21 not out) top scored for Mumbai. the 10th over to have Hyderabad at fire 29 to their total of 164/5. Put into bat, it was Uthappa for KKR secondary school from May 17-19. With the dismissal of Krunal, Earlier put in to bat on a hot and 85/1. The left-hander struck seven Chasing Kolkata’s 158/4, Dwayne who started on the right note slam- However, Australian coach Rayudu and incoming batsman Jos humid afternoon, Sunrisers got off to boundaries and one six in his 33-ball Smith and Brendon McCulllum helped ming two back-to-back boundaries of Jones’s latest squad had a very dif- Buttler (2), the defending champions a flying start, courtesy in-form open- innings. Gujarat get off to a bit of a flyer. How- Dhawal Kulkarni. But then in the very ferent look to the won that one the were left tottering at 30/5 in the fifth ers Warner 48 and Dhawan. The duo Veteran off-spinner Harbhajan ever, the latter seemed to have edged next over, veteran pacer Pravin Kumar Six Nations as no players from the Singh who had dismissed Warner ear- one-through to the keeper in the sec- got rid of Gautam Gambhir and then four sides involved in the English lier, helped Mumbai get back into the ond over but there was no appeal from Manish Pandey. Premiership play-offs -- Saracens, SCOREBOARD game by getting rid of incoming bats- Exeter, Wasps and Leicester -- were man Kane Williamson (2) in the 12th selected. SUNRISERS HYDERABAD P A Patel lbw Kumar 0 over to put a check on the Hydera- SCOREBOARD Saracens alone provided the D A Warner c Pollard b H Singh 48 A T Rayudu c Williamson b Nehra 6 bad run flow. likes of , Owen Far- KOLKATA KNIGHT RIDERS B B McCullum c Pandey b Chawla 29 S Dhawan (not out) 82 K H Pandya c Dhawan b Sran 17 Despite two wickets falling rell, , , K S Williamson c Sharma b H Singh 2 J C Buttler c Ojha b Nehra 2 in quick succession, Dhawan and R V Uthappa c Karthik b Kulkarni 14 S K Raina c Hogg b Russell 14 and for Yuvraj Singh (hit wkt) b McClenaghan 39 K A Pollard c Sran b Henriques 11 incoming batsman Yuvraj used their G Gambhir b Kumar 5 K D Karthik st Uthappa b Hogg 51 the squad that completed England’s M C Henriques (not out) 1 H H Pandya c Ojha b M Rahman 7 experience not to let the team’s run- M K Pandey c Karthik b Kumar 0 A J Finch (run out) 29 clean sweep of their major Euro- rate fall. S A Yadav c Raina b Smith 4 R A Jadeja (not out) 9 pean rivals. Extras (LB-2, W-3) 5 Harbhajan Singh (not out) 21 Both the left-handed batsmen Just how many players from Shakib Al Hasan (not out) 66 D J Bravo (not out) 0

Total (for 3 wkts in 20 overs) 177 T G Southee c Ojha b M Rahman 3 sneaked in with ones, twos and in the the training squad make it onto

Did not bat: D J Hooda, N V Ojha, B Kumar, B M J McClenaghan c Henriques b M Rahman 8 death overs brought in handy bound- Y K Pathan (not out) 63 Extras (W-5) 5 the June tour of Australia remains B Sran, A Nehra, Mustafizur Rahman. J J Bumrah c Ojha b Sran 6 aries and couple of sixes to have the Extras (LB-2, W-4) 6 Total (for 5 wkts in 18 overs) 164 to be seen. Fall of wickets: 1-85, 2-91, 3-176. Extras (LB-2, W-4) 6 team on course for a competitive total. Total (for 4 wkts in 20 overs) 158 Did not bat: P Kumar, D S Kulkarni, S Kaushik, “The Brighton training camp Bowling: T G Southee 4-0-35-0; M J McClena- The duo managed to put on a Fall of wickets: 1-15, 2-15, 3-21, 4-24. P V Tambe . is a good opportunity for Eng- Total (all out in 16.3 overs) 92 much needed 85-run partnership land to get together and train hard ghan 4-0-38-1 (1w); Harbhajan Singh 4-0-29- Bowling: P Kumar 4-1-19-2; D S Kulkarni 4-0- Fall of wickets: 1-42, 2-67, 3-116, 4-155, Fall of wickets: 1-5, 2-5, 3-28, 4-30, 5-30, for the third wicket to help the team. ahead of the Wales game and sum- 2 (1w); J J Bumrah 4-0-35-0; H H Pandya 1-0- 30-1 (1w); D R Smith 2-0-14-1 (1w); D J Bravo 5-158. 6-49, 7-50, 8-58, 9-78, 10-92. Harbhajan Singh (2/29) was the mer tour,” said Jones, appointed 4-0-39-0 (1w); S Kaushik 1-0-14-0; R A Jadeja Bowling: A D Russell 3-0-21-1 (1w); M Morkel 10-0; K A Pollard 2-0-23-0 (1w); K H Pandya Bowling: B Kumar 3-0-23-1 (1w); A Nehra pick of the bowlers for Mumbai. as England’s first overseas coach 3-0-25-0; P V Tambe 2-0-15-0. 4-0-38-0; Shakib Al Hasan 3-0-38-1; P P 1-0-5-0. 3-0-15-3; B B Sran 3.3-0-18-2 (1w); M C Hen- Meanwhile, Gujarat Lions came after Australia knocked the hosts Chawla 4-0-30-1; G B Hogg 2-0-19-1; U T Ya- MUMBAI INDIANS riques 4-0-18-1; Mustafizur Rahman 3-0-16-3 up with an all-round effort to out- GUJARAT LIONS out of last year’s World Cup with a dav 2-0-18-0; R G Sharma b Nehra 5 (2w). class Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) D R Smith b S Al Hasan 27 convincing 33-13 victory at Twick- comprehensively with five wickets enham in October. SPORT MONDAY 9 MAY 2016 31 Al Khater, Karama bag titles at Losail

Qatari rider wins 600 Cup while Palestinian driver clinches Qatar Touring Car Championship as extensive season concludes at Losail International Circuit

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DOHA: The Losail Circuit Sports Club has concluded a competitive racing season before the summer by hosting a series of spectacular motorsports tournaments on Saturday night. In spite of the hot weather this weekend, around twenty local and international riders competed in the final rounds of the Losail 600 Cup and the Qatar Touring Car Championship. The final round of the Losail 600 Cup witnessed Qatar’s Fadhel Al Khater the winner of championship Qatar’s Fadhel Al Khater in action during the Losail 600 Cup race at Losail International Circuit on Saturday. RIGHT: Al Khater (centre), Soud Al Thani (left) and Abdulla Al Qubaisi with a total of 91 points while Soud Al Thani and Abdulla Al Qubaisi ended pose on the podium after the Losail 600 Cup race. in second and third place with 71 and 58 points respectively. In the first race of the Losail 600 excited with the results and hopefully was that the bike was good and I run close, but unfortunately, Al Malki eleven drivers in the second round of Cup, Qatar’s Nasser Al Malki, who got next year I will come back more pre- again. I pushed hard to go back to my had a mechanical problem with his the championship. Palestinian driver AROUND 20 RIDERS VIE the pole position in the qualifying ses- pared and see better results,” said Al second place but Ali was very good Yamaha and had to retire from the Omran Karama secured his title of the FOR 600 CUP sion, made a dominant race from the Malki. today. But overall I am happy to finish race. With Al Malki out of the race, Qatar Touring Car Championship only beginning until the checkered flag and Ali Al Shammari finished the third after my crash,” said Al Khater. Al Khater pushed hard to stay in the by one point ahead of Peter De Vido won the first race of the day. race in second position after battling The second race of Losail 600 Cup front of the race until the final lap and who finished in second place. time I race here,” Karama said after Al Malki, who didn’t take part in with Al Khater, who had a crash in witnessed tough competition in the got the victory. Qatar’s Mansour Al Hajri finished wining the title. De Vido got the sec- the previous rounds was very happy the fourth lap when he was riding in ten laps. “Al Shammari was a really good the championship in third place over- ond place in the championship. with his victory. second place. The first five laps of the race, the rider, I learnt something from him, all. In the first race of the day, the “The second race was better than “I am very happy to be back after “I lost a gear in corner 13 and leading positions were for Al Malki, Al respect all the riders, fast or slow rid- winner was the Qatari driver Abdulla the first as the weather cooled off and six months and to participate and crashed in lap 4 but the good thing Khater and Al Shammari riding very ers and it was a great honor to race Al Khelafi, who lead the entire 10-laps was more enjoyable, it was a fantastic with him in this championship. I am race and Peter De Vido kept his sec- championship and I secured 2nd place very happy with my first title in this ond place throughout all the race. and I’m happy with my win and would championship and looking forward Al Hajri was in third place during like to thank Losail Circuit Sports Club to race again next season,” Al Khater almost all the race but in the last lap, and I hope I will be back next sea- Palestine’s Omran said after winning the title. Karama overtook him and he got the son,” he said. Karama in action Ali Al Shammari ended in second third place in the podium. ‘Qatar’s Khelaifi, winner of the during the Qatar place and Soud Al Thani rounded up The second race of the day was two races of the day was very happy Touring Car the podium of the second race. highly competitive as well due to the with his performance today. Championship at Losail Al Thani was very happy with his reverse starting grid order and ended “In the second race, the compe- International Circuit. podium and for finishing the cham- with the same winners as race one. tition was stronger because of the pionship in second position. De Vido managed to be in front reverse grid, I had a good battle with “In the first race, my aim was the first two laps but Khelaifi took the Peter. I am happy with my two wins to get as much points as possible to lead in the second lap and secured a and my fourth overall in the champi- secure my second position in the second time win of the day. onship,” he said. championship and when it happened, Karama finished third as in the The closing ceremonies and in the race 2 I said I need to push first race. He was overwhelmingly trophies presentations for the two and show my potential as I already happy with his title. championships were held following secured my second position and noth- “The second race was hard as I the races at the Circuit, and attended ing to lose, so I pushed to be on the started from the back, I had to push by Abdulrahman Al Mannai, QMMF podium again. a lot and I had a great challenge with President and Khalid Al Remaihi, The second competition of the day Mansour, he pushed me a lot but I suc- Losail Circuit Sports Club Vice Chair- was Qatar Touring Car Champion- ceeded to get the third place and I am man and Secretary-General who ship (QTCC) with the participation of ecstatic to get this title being the first distributed the trophies.

Al Kharaitiyat to train in Slovenia Giro d’Italia: German sprint ace Kittel clinches ahead of new QSL season successive second stage to claim pink jersey DOHA: Al Kharaitiyat will travel to Slovenia for a training tour ahead of the new QSL season, club’s offi- AFP Giro, and I’ve also got leader’s jersey cials confirmed yesterday. as well,” said Kittel. No dates have been formally “I’m very happy to be able to say confirmed but the Amar Osim’s that I’ve worn the yellow jersey at side will be returning to the same ARNHEM, Netherlands: German the Tour de France and now the pink training camp that they went to for sprint ace Marcel Kittel pulled off an jersey at the Giro d’Italia, which is last season. impressive double coup yesterday by something quite unique.” The club also confirmed winning his second stage of the 99th Kittel admitted hopes of a sec- that meetings will happen in the Giro d’Italia to claim the race lead- ond successive stage win were kept in upcoming days to confirm the er’s pink jersey. check by the windy conditions, and a status of the clubs professional Kittel claimed his first win of this stubborn breakaway that saw Johann players. year’s edition with a dominant sprint Van Zyl solo away on his own with 12 Al Kharitiyat’s season formally finish on Saturday in Nijmegen, the km to race. ended on Saturday after a 3-0 Netherlands. The South African’s move forced defeat to Al Rayyan in the quar- On the third and final stage to Etixx to use precious energy chasing, ter-finals of the Emir Cup. be held in the country yesterday, the but Kittel’s team completed the job The Thunders just avoided rel- Etixx-Quickstep rider again proved with aplomb and delivered him to the egation to the Qatar Gas League unstoppable in a final dash to the home straight ready and willing to put this season by goal difference after finish line of the 190km race from the cherry on the cake. finishing on the same points as rel- Nijmegen, which saw the peloton “It was a super tough day, with lots egated Qatar Sports Club. chase down the last remnants of an of wind, which made it difficult to stay early breakaway just 1km from the in position,” added Kittel. line. “The breakaway also got a big gap. Team Sky fast man Elia Viviani But the boys did an amazing job of finished a distant second, with fellow keeping me out of trouble and then Italian Giacomo Nizzolo completing getting Matteo Trentin, Fabio Sabatini the podium. and me into position for the sprint. Thanks to bonus seconds on offer “Matteo and Fabio also did an at the finish, Kittel has taken the race amazing job, and that made it eas- lead from Giant-Alpecin rider Tom ier for me.” Dumoulin. After a rest day today, the race Kittel now heads Dumoulin by resumes on Tuesday’s 200km fourth nine seconds, with Movistar rider stage from Catanzaro to Praia a Mare Andrey Amador in third at 15 behind. in the south of Italy. German rider Marcel Kittel of the Etixx Quick-Step team celebrates after winning the third stage of the Giro “I’m super happy with this victory, The race finishes in Turin on May Al Kharaitiyat coach Amar Osim. which is my fourth stage win at the 29. d’Italia cycling race over 190km between Nijmegen and Arnhem, Netherlands, yesterday. 32 MONDAY 9 MAY 2016 SPORT Villareal move: A dream come true for Qatar’s Afif

The Peninsula one of the top sides in Spain’s La Liga. Akram made his debut for the Akram pointed out that former “I am very happy to sign for Villar- Qatari national side during Qatar’s FC Barcelona captain Xavi Hernan- real, they are a big team and one of 15-0 win over Bhutan in an Asian dez has helped him greatly in recent the best teams in Spain. I hope I can qualifier for the 2018 FIFA World Cup, months: “Xavi is a big player and he DOHA: One of the brightest prospects learn a lot of things in the next years and believes his country could make gives me advice about how I can in Qatari football, Akram Afif, has from the players and the coaches with it to the finals with the current group improve,” he added. expressed his delight at joining Span- the club. I know some of the players of players. “Everyone knows that Xavi is one ish La Liga side Villarreal CF after in the team and the city is very nice “Our target in the national team is of the best players in the world. I am helping Belgian outfit KAS Eupen win so I hope that I can do something for that we want to play in the World Cup inspired by a lot of players from the promotion to the top division – and the team. in Russia in 2018. We have the chance Spanish league, Messi, Cristiano, Ney- said he believes more players have “Villarreal will play the Champi- to do so because we have a very good mar, Iniesta, I like Denis Suarez at the potential to join European sides ons League next season so we’ll try to team. It is a difficult group but noth- Villarreal, and they also have some ahead of the 2022 FIFA World Cup be a difficult team to beat in La Liga ing is easy in life, and I hope that we of the best defenders in the world like on home soil. and go as far as we can in all compe- can take third or second position.” Sergio Ramos.” “It is a dream come true for me to titions. I haven’t started training yet The youngster played an impor- So as he prepares for a new life be the first Qatari player in La Liga,” at Villarreal, but when I do I want to tant part in Eupen getting promoted in one of world football’s top tiers, Afif told www.sc.qa in an interview play for the first team and I hope to to Belgium’s top flight, and said the the Aspire Academy graduate ended on Sunday. compete for a place.” team was a fantastic place for Qatar’s by saying the experience of play- “I hope I can be one of the best The Doha-born striker, who future talents to develop. ing against the best in the world in Qatari footballer players in La Liga for Villarreal, and already has some experience in Spain “It was a great season for us, we Europe is something that he will Akram Afif aims to help Qatar for the World Cup and as he first trained in the youth team had a difficult time from November greatly benefit from ahead of 2022. for a successful represent the players from the Aspire of Sevilla in 2012, added that he was to January, but we played as one team “I want to learn from the expe- atint with his Academy. looking forward to representing his with one heart and kept pushing hard. rience of training with and playing La Liga team “I want to do something for Qatar. national team in the home FIFA World We got to third position and we said against the best players in the world, Villareal. Playing in the Champions League is Cup in six years’ time. ‘why not, we can go to the first posi- and take that experience back to an objective for me, but first I want to “I dream of playing for Qatar in tion’, and I was very happy when we Qatar with me when it comes around help the team, that is the most impor- the World Cup in 2022. I think we will got the promotion to the first division. to the 2022 FIFA World Cup,” he said. tant thing.” have a good team for Qatar 2022, our “It is a big success also for the “I also hope more Qatari play- The 19-year-old forward who youth team is readying for the Asian Aspire Academy, we have a lot of good ers can play in Europe to improve, was on loan at KAS Eupen in Bel- Cup in October and they have a good players in Qatar who can come here to fight, to keep working hard and to gium from Qatar Stars League club team, we also won the last Asian Cup to play in the first division. I wish learn a lot of things for the World Cup. Al Sadd, said he was excited to begin in Myanmar. We have a good young for them to come here and have the The World Cup is in our country and competing for a first team place in generation developing.” chance to make it.” it is a big chance for Qatari players,”

Man City hand Champions 5-star Barca edge towards League initiative to United

AFP EPL RESULTS title as Atletico suffer loss Liverpool 2 (Allen 35, Firmino 76) Watford 0 LONDON: Pep Guardiola could find Manchester City 2 (Aguero 8, De Bru- himself without Champions League yne 51) Arsenal 2 (Giroud 10, Sanchez Messi, Suarez and football next season after Manches- 68) ter City’s hopes of qualifying suffered Tottenham 1 (Son 16) Southampton 2 Neymar all score a major setback in a 2-2 draw with (Davis 31, 72) in 5-0 rout over Premier League top-four rivals Arse- nal at Eastlands yesterday. Espanyol as Real Arsenal twice came from behind, striker Giroud equalised for Arse- move second after goals from Olivier Giroud and Alexis nal when he rose unmarked to head defeat ends Atletico’s Sanchez, cancelling out efforts from in a corner. Sergio Aguero and Kevin de Bruyne City, beaten in the Champions hopes in what was City manager Manuel League semi-finals by Real Madrid Pellegrini’s final home game in in midweek, restored their lead in charge before he is replaced by Bay- the 51st minute when Belgium mid- ern Munich’s Guardiola after the end fielder de Bruyne’s low shot from the AFP of the season. edge of the box beat Arsenal goal- This result left fourth-placed City keeper Petr Cech. just two points in front of Manches- Arsenal rallied again when Chile ter United, who have two games in striker Sanchez, ultimately deny- MADRID: Barcelona are one win hand on their local rivals. ing compatriot Pellegrini a farewell away from retaining their La Liga title FA Cup finalists United, currently home win, struck in the 68th-minute after Lionel Messi, Luis Suarez and fifth, will definitely finish above City after getting on the end of Giroud’s Neymar all scored as they thrashed and deny Guardiola, who guided flick into the box. Espanyol 5-0 in the Catalan derby Barcelona to two Champions League City though almost won the yesterday. titles before joining Bayern, a place game late on, only for Wilfried Real Madrid moved into second in European football’s premier club Bony’s shot to hit the crossbar. place, a point behind Barca with one competition if they end their league Concerningly, ahead of June’s game remaining, as they racked up season with wins against West Ham European Championships, Gun- Barcelona’s Argentinian forward Lionel Messi (centre) celebrates with his team-mates Neymar and an 11th straight La Liga win, 3-2 over and Bournemouth. ners striker Danny Welbeck went Valencia, thanks to two goals from Barcelona’s Uruguayan forward Luis Suarez (right) after scoring a goal during their La Liga match against The draw meant Arsenal off with an apparent knee injury in Cristiano Ronaldo. RCD Espanyol at the Camp Nou Stadium in Barcelona, yesterday. remained third but they moved to the first half. However, Atletico Madrid’s title within two points of second-placed England manager Roy Hodgson hopes are over as they lost 2-1 at Tottenham Hotspur, after their arch- is due to name his France 2016 squad already relegated Levante. a delightful free-kick into the top from Koke’s pass after two minutes. north London rivals saw a miserable on Thursday. Barca will be champions with vic- corner. LA LIGA ROUND-UP Diego Simeone had left inspira- week end with a 2-1 loss at home to Tottenham had already seen tory at Granada next weekend, who Ivan Rakitic had a second ruled tional central defender Diego Godin Southampton just hours earlier on their slim chance of winning the crucially are now mathematically out for offside minutes later as Barca and top scorer Antoine Griezmann on Sunday. Premier League evaporate with safe from relegation after a 4-1 win tried to kill the game off as early as the bench and was made to pay when City were ahead as early as a 2-2 draw away to capital rivals at Sevilla. possible. through injury to move above Atletico Victor Casadesus headed Levante the eighth minute when Argentina Chelsea on Monday -- a result that Real Madrid travel to Deportivo la However, they had to wait until for the first time in 2016 with victory level on the half hour mark. striker Aguero got on the end of confirmed 5,000/1 pre-season rank Coruna on the final day of the season. seven minutes into the second half over Valencia. Griezmann was introduced for Fernandinho’s header into the box. outsiders Leicester City had won the Elsewhere, Sporting Gijon remain for the second as Messi teed up Sua- Ronaldo missed a huge chance to the second half and came closest to But just minutes later, France title instead. out of the relegation zone thanks to rez to fire high past Pau Lopez. open the scoring when he fired too finding a winner for Atletico when their superior head-to-head record Suarez maintained his four-goal close to Diego Alves, but the three- Diego Marino turned his near post with Getafe after the two drew 1-1. lead over Ronaldo as the league’s top time World Player of the Year made effort wide 15 minutes from time. But Rayo Vallecano also remain in the scorer as he powered home his 56th amends with his next opportunity Giuseppe Rossi finished off a sweep- bottom three after losing 2-1 at Real goal of the season from Neymar’s moments later when he fired into ing Levante counter-attack in the Sociedad. corner. the far corner for his 48th goal of the final minute to end Atletico’s hopes of Barca were out to avoid a repeat A howler from Lopez handed season. an unlikely second title in three years. of their title collapse in 2007 when a Rafinha an open goal to tap home Valencia felt hard done by for last-minute equaliser from Espanyol his first goal since suffering a seri- Madrid’s second three minutes before at the Camp Nou on the penultimate ous knee injury at the start of the half-time as the referee overruled his RESULTS day of the season handed Real the season, before Neymar rounded off linesman, who had flagged Karim Las Palmas 0 Athletic Bilbao 0 title. the scoring. Benzema offside, before he slot- Villarreal 0 Deportivo La Coruna 2 (Fajr The world club champions got off Madrid shrugged off the absences ted home as the ball through to the 32, Lucas Perez 57) to a perfect start when Messi curled of Gareth Bale and Luka Modric French striker deflected off Valen- cia defender Joao Cancelo. Real Madrid 3 (Ronaldo 26, 58, Ben- zema 42) Valencia 2 (Rodrigo 55, The visitors’ bright start to the Andre Gomes 81) second period was rewarded when Real Madrid’s Rodrigo pounced on an error from Getafe 1 (Scepovic 80) Sporting Gijon 1 Portuguese Raphael Varane to halve the deficit. (Alvarez 50) forward Ronaldo quickly restored Real’s Celta Vigo 1 (Nolito 31) Malaga 0 Cristiano two-goal advantage, but Andre Eibar 1 (Sergi 73) Real Betis 1 (Ruben Ronaldo Gomes ensured a nervy finish when Castro 37) celebrates he smashed home from the edge of Barcelona 5 (Messi 8, Suarez 52, 61, after scoring the box before Valencia were reduced Rafa 74, Neymar 83) Espanyol 0 against to 10 men late on when Rodrigo was Sevilla 1 (Gonzalez 74) Granada 4 Valencia CF shown a straight red card. (Cuenca 45+1, 88, Babin 79, El-Arabi during La Atletico paid for their exertions 86-pen) in setting up a second all-Madrid Liga game Real Sociedad 2 (Oiarzabal 12, Bautista Champions League final against in Madrid 50) Rayo Vallecano 1 (Guerra 69) Alexis Sanchez celebrates scoring the second goal for Arsenal against yesterday. Bayern Munich in midweek, despite getting off to a brilliant start when Levante 2 (Casadesus 30, Rossi 90) Manchester City during their Premier League match at Etihad Stadium Fernando Torres opened the scoring Atletico Madrid 1 (Torres 2) in Manchester yesterday. SPORT MONDAY 9 MAY 2016 33

Bayern Munich Infantino seeks backing for FIFA reforms eye double for Pep’s farewell AFP But the Frenchman could still reclaim April 27, 60 days after the vote, but The congress also faces prickly his place as UEFA’s president.Former Infantino must now make sure the votes over the admission of Gibraltar FIFA president Sepp Blatter is also regional confederations and national and Kosovo that will take the world fighting his six-year ban. Blatter, who associations at the heart of the cor- body to 211 members. AFP MEXICO CITY: New FIFA President signed off on a $2m payment to Platini ruption take note. The former Serbian province of Gianni Infantino (pictured) will seek that is the subject of a Swiss crimi- Infantino said in a message Kosovo narrowly won a vote at the more support for reforms to the scan- nal investigation, is also no longer a ahead of the Mexico City congress UEFA congress last week to get mem- dal-rocked world football when its threat to Infantino. on Thursday and Friday that the bership of the European body. BERLIN: Bayern Munich plan to leaders and annual congress meet in But a US investigation into world reforms “will help restore credi- Gibraltar, a British territory also bid farewell to coach Pep Guardi- Mexico City this week. football remains a shadow over its bility, strengthen governance and claimed by Spain, had to go to the ola with the league and cup double, With new corruption and legal efforts to redeem its name. rebuild trust, creating a new cul- CAS after FIFA’s executive rejected as they prepare to start the party fallout hitting almost daily, the FIFA Last week, FIFA banned for life for ture at FIFA that it is now up to you its membership bid. CAS ordered FIFA next Saturday after winning a leadership will also have to give new top executive members Sergio Jadue to emulate at the level of the mem- to put Gibraltar’s case to a vote at the historic fourth straight Bundes- details of the cost of the scandals as of Chile and Luis Bedoya of Colom- ber associations.” full congress. liga title. well as admit Gibraltar and Kosovo as bia over the bribes they accepted for With tougher membership rules Serbia has gathered strong sup- Bayern became the first club to new members in the face of opposi- football television and marketing in force, the FIFA Council will have port for its case while Spain opposed win the German league four times tion from top members at the annual contracts. to decide who sits on the body’s Gibraltar joining UEFA. in a row on Saturday after their 2-1 congress. A New York court could next governance council and the ethics If admitted, Gibraltar and Kos- win at Bavarian neighbours Ingol- Infantino and top leaders on month start setting dates for the trials commission currently led by Domen- ovo hope to be allowed into European stadt, when Robert Lewandowski the FIFA Council will start a two of the 39 individuals and two compa- ico Scala. qualifying groups for the 2018 World scored both goals. meeting today just after the Court nies facing charges over bribes said to There will be close attention paid Cup in Russia. Their hopes of winning the of Arbitration for Sport announces be worth more than $200m. to FIFA’s financial report at the con- Infantino should also give an Champions League were ended its ruling on an appeal by former The special FIFA congress in gress after the world body reported update on his search for a general on Tuesday in the semi-finals vice president Michel Platini against February that elected Infantino also a $122 loss for 2015. secretary. by Atletico Madrid, but Bayern a six-year ban. passed reforms, renaming the dis- Infantino has promised to give He said last week that he had “a can win the domestic double for A win for Platini would not graced executive as the FIFA Council more of the body’s $5bn-plus rev- couple” of names in mind for a deputy the 11th time, having won both change FIFA, where his former dep- and pruning its powers. enues every four years to national but that it would take several more the league and cup eight times uty Infantino took over in February. The reforms came into force on bodies. weeks to make an announcement. since 2000. They face Borussia Dortmund, who finished as the Bundesliga’s runners-up, in the German Cup final on May 21 at Berlin’s Olympic Stadium. The Bayern squad partied on the way back to Munich, but the Roma move up to second in real festivities start on Satur- day after Guardiola’s final home game against relegated Hanover 96, before coaching Manchester Roma’s 22nd win of the campaign when the towering striker got his City next season. moved them one point above Napoli head to M’Poku’s cross on the edge Guardiola will need a spare Totti makes 600th into second place, and has piled the of the box. suit at the Allianz Arena when the league appearance as pressure on Maurizio Sarri’s men Yet Roma were a constant threat players receive over-sized full beer Frosinone and Verona before a tough away fixture at Torino. and Stephan El Shaarawy twice came glasses after the final whistle and “I wouldn’t say no to them close to adding to the scoreline, curl- the coach is always the preferred get relegated (Torino) getting a result for us, but ing one effort just wide and seeing candidate for the traditional ‘beer no stress, we’ve done what we had Bizzarri fingertip an even better shower’. to do today,” said Spalletti. chance just past the post. Once captain Philipp Lahm AFP “Today we showed how much we Totti has scored several goals has lifted the Bundesliga trophy wanted to win and it was great to see for Roma recently after coming off in Munich, the focus will be beat- a stadium full of fans. Their support the bench but this time settled for an ing Dortmund in Berlin. is precious.” assist, his one-touch pass allowing “Next week, we’ll celebrate MILAN: Francesco Totti made his Reported Chelsea target Radja Pjanic to run clear and prod past Biz- with our fans in Munich, then it’s 600th Serie A appearance as Roma Nainggolan got the party started zarri with five minutes to play. the cup final and if we win that, heaped the pressure on Napoli by when he fired home from the edge Elsewhere, Frosinone saw their then the season will have been moving up to second spot with a of the area to beat Albano Bizzarri top-flight survival hopes ended by really good,” said striker Robert festive 3-0 home win over Chievo on 18 minutes. Matteo Politano’s 85th minute strike Lewandowski, the league’s top yesterday. Germany defender Antonio Rudi- in a 1-0 defeat to Sassuolo that, in scorer with 29 goals. One-club man Totti has yet to ger doubled Roma’s lead six minutes turn, sent the Tuscans up to sixth Germany star Thomas Muel- settle his future despite reports in before half-time when he headed place and back in the hunt for a ler said winning the title did not midweek claiming Roma are finally Miralem Pjanic’s curling free-kick Europa League place. compensate for their European warming to his request for a 24th and past the stranded keeper at the back The defeat, along with Palermo’s heartbreak, but that a weight had final year’s contract. post, although there was more than surprise scoreless draw at Fiorentina, been lifted. But with some believing this a hint of offside. left Frosinone second from bottom “Four titles in a row, that some- could be the 39-year-old’s final sea- Chievo earned more than their at five points from safety with one thing which has never happened son in Italy’s top flight, fans, including fair share of chances but Paul Jose game to play. before in the history of the Bundes- ultras who had boycotted the Curva M’Poku smacked the near post on Frosinone now join Verona in liga and some really great teams Sud for most of the season, flocked the half-volley just after the restart. Serie B next season although Carpi, have played in this league,” said to the Stadio Olimpico with banners, Totti was given a standing ovation who lost 3-1 at home to Lazio, or Pal- Mueller. t-shirts and flags all paying tribute to before he even kicked a ball in anger ermo will suffer the same fate next “It’s an exceptional thing and the longevity and loyalty of ‘Il Re de when he replaced Egyptian winger week. not something we need to talk Roma’ (the King of Rome). Mohamed Salah on the hour. Coach Roberto Stellone is being down. Some declared they had grown Only Inter Milan legend Javier tipped to take over a Serie A club, but “Now a huge weight has been up on ‘Bread and Totti’, as opposed Zanetti (615) and AC Milan great he told Sky Sport: “I want to thank lifted and there is certain satis- to bread and water, but the veteran Paolo Maldini (647) have made more the fans because they’ve stuck with faction, it always looks hard to playmaker was left on the bench as appearances in Serie A. us throughout, even in the most dif- win the title back in August.” Luciano Spalletti’s men went about Again, Chievo threatened, Anto- ficult times. Chairman Karl-Heinz Rum- staking their claim for the league’s nio Floro Flores nodding just wide “We go back to Serie B with our menigge was proud to see Bayern AS Roma’s Francesco Totti reacts after the Italian Serie A match against second automatic Champions League before Wojciech Szczesny was forced heads held high. I’m proud of the crowned champions for the 26th AC Chievo Verona at Olimpico Stadium in Rome, Italy, yesterday. qualifying spot. to bat away Sergio Pellissier’s effort players, and of the club.” time. “I remember the team fea- turing Franz Beckenbauer, Sepp Maier, Gerd Mueller. They achieved it three times. Our team is on four Celtic clinch Scottish Premiership with win over Aberdeen now and that’s something historic,” said Rummenigge. “I have to pay the coach and the team a huge compliment. AFP sensational strike fired them into a the victory that moves them 12 clear McInnes felt his players deserved content to settle for just the point they “Unfortunately, we didn’t man- seventh minute lead. The on-loan of Aberdeen with two games remain- credit for the fight they showed. needed to seal the championship as age it on Tuesday in the Champions Manchester City winger added a ing and seals their 47th top flight title. “At 3-0 with 40-odd minutes they played with an intensity and League, but the title has now second in the 20th minute before “It was good to beat Aberdeen played at Celtic Park it is difficult, but tempo that has been lacking at times healed the wound a bit.” GLASGOW: Celtic clinched the Scot- stand-in skipper Mikael Lustig made to show we are the best team in the the players deserve a lot of credit for during the season. It was Roberts Rummenigge predicts fire- tish Premiership championship for it 3-0 four minutes after the break. country,” out-going Celtic manager not folding and giving up and coming who got the party started as he fired works against Dortmund in the the fifth time in a row as they sur- The Dons, who have pushed the Ronny Deila said. back fighting strong,” McInnes said. Celtic in front. The on-loan Manches- cup final. vived a nervy finish to seal a 3-2 win Hoops close this season, pulled one “We played very well in the first “We let them know we were there ter City winger was allowed to drift in “The game is important for over nearest challengers Aberdeen at back through Niall McGinn in the 57th 60 minutes and we got a bit edgy and weren’t going anywhere and they from the right and left the Aberdeen us and will unquestionably be a Parkhead on Sunday. minute before Andrew Considine’s in the end but I’m happy we got the had a fight but ultimately we just fell defence trailing in his wake before highlight of the season which all The Glasgow giants got off to header reduced the deficit further. three points and got everything over a bit short.” unleashing an unstoppable strike past of football in Germany can look the perfect start as Patrick Roberts’ However, Celtic hung on to claim the line.” Aberdeen manager Derek Celtic showed they weren’t Adam Collin from 25 yards. forward to,” he added. Wagner eyes England after breaking Hertha hearts

AFP to score 14 league goals to keep them equaliser, then their 83rd-winner at goal in front of Hertha’s fans having who booed me and called me blind “When you look at all the sacri- in Germany’s top flight. Berlin’s Olympic Stadium on Saturday. rejuvenated his career at Darmstadt (when he missed chances).” fices footballers have to make, they “We’ll have discussions with The result left Darmstadt 13th, this season after three unhappy years The 28-year-old Wagner sparked do not earn enough money.” him in the summer, but he has while sixth-placed Hertha are three with the Berlin club. controversy in Germany last month by Munich-born Wagner came up BERLIN: Bundesliga bad-boy striker made it clear that he imagines points from a Champions League He was then sent off two minutes suggesting footballers deserve higher through Bayern Munich’s youth acad- Sandro Wagner is set to play in Eng- playing football in England,” said play-off berth, but with an inferior from time for fouling Hertha’s Mitch- wages because of the sacrifices made emy, but failed to win a first-team land next season after scoring the Darmstadt coach Dirk Schuster goal difference to their main rivals ell Weiser. in their short careers. place and spent spells at Duisburg, winner, then being sent off, in Darm- yesterday. and are set to play in the Europa “There were a lot of emotions. I “I think even the players at Bayern Werder Bremen, Kaiserslautern and stadt’s 2-1 win at Hertha Berlin, which “We have to respect his wishes League in the 2016/17 season. wasn’t treated so nicely here when Munich do not make enough money, Hertha. effectively ended his ex-club’s Cham- and we won’t put any obstacles in Angry Hertha fans stormed past they let me go,” explained Wagner. not even 12m euros ($13.6m) or so He was part of the Germany pions League hopes. his way. security staff after the game and “I didn’t mean it nastily,” he is enough. Professional athletes in Under-21 team which won the 2009 Darmstadt reportedly turned “It’s been a win-win situation for unsuccessfully hunted Wagner in the said when explaining his enthu- American competitions make much European Championships along- down offers from Premier League all parties this season: he has raised catacombs of the Olympic Stadium siastic celebrating in front of more,” he told Bild. side the likes of Mesut Ozil, Jerome sides West Bromwich Albion and his market value and we have to thank before being ejected. Hertha’s fans. “Everybody is looking at every- Boateng, Mats Hummels and Manuel Aston Villa last December as Wagner, him for helping keep us up.” Wagner was booked for his over- “The fans here had supported thing you are doing, in your personal Neuer, scoring twice in the 4-0 win who has a contract until 2017, went on Wagner scored Darmstadt’s zealous celebrations for the winning me, but there were a few up there life as well. over England in the final. 34 MONDAY 9 MAY 2016 SPORT

Denver Broncos NBA: Lillard’s big night lifts select Lynch in Trail Blazers over Warriors first round Reuters

We were just a lot NBA PLAY-OFF NEW YORK: The Denver Bron- RESULTS cos moved up five spots in the more aggressive, we first round of the draft to select played a lot smarter Eastern Conference quarterback Paxton Lynch, who At Miami appears not that far away from down the stretch than Toronto 95 Miami 91 being game-ready. we did the last game, (Toronto leads series 2-1) On draft night, Broncos exec- says Damian Lillard Western Conference utive vice president of football At Portland operations and general manager John Elway wasn’t going to let Portland 120 Golden State108 another team snag his quarterback (Golden State leads series 2-1) of the future. Elway said Lynch AFP may just prove himself ready to be an NFL starter this year. “Is that going to happen LOS ANGELES: Damian Lillard tomorrow? Probably not, but you scored a career playoff-high 40 points never know when it can happen,” and handed out 10 assists on Satur- Elway told KDSP-AM yesterday. day as the Portland Trail Blazers beat “We think he’s going to be ready reigning NBA champions Golden State quicker than a lot of people think.” 120-108 to narrow the gap in their The 6-foot-7, 246-pounds playoff series. Lynch has drawn comparisons Al-Farouq Aminu collected from scouts to Marcus Mariota, 23 points and 10 rebounds and C J Cam Newton and Ben Roeth- McCollum added 22 points for the lisberger. Elway had brought Trail Blazers, who trimmed the deficit in veteran quarterback Mark in the best-of-seven Western Confer- Sanchez, who will serve as a bridge ence second-round series to 2-1. -- and, Elway hopes, a mentor -- The Trail Blazers will try to level Portland Trail Blazers for Lynch. the series when they host game four guard Damian Lillard ** Miami Dolphins first-round today. (left) drives on Golden pick Laremy Tunsil, who became Lillard connected on 14 of 27 shots State Warriors guard the story of draft night after a from the field, including eight of 13 Klay Thompson video of him smoking out of a bong from three-point range. during the second and wearing a gas mask leaked on “We were just a lot more aggres- half of game three social media minutes before the sive, we played a lot smarter down start, says he is not worried about of the NBA Western the stretch than we did the last game,” outside opinions. Conference semi- Lillard said. Nine days after the draft, “I think tonight we kept doing finals at the Moda Tunsil was smiling and joking fol- what was working for us.” Center in Portland, lowing the second day of rookie Aminu was eight-for-nine from Oregon US. minicamp on Saturday. the field, making four three-pointers “I’m not worried about that, for a Blazers team that withstood a everybody got their own opinions,” career play-off-high of 37 points from the next five points and the Warriors Kyle Lowry scored 33 points to quarter. left in the second quarter. He had hurt Tunsil said when asked about his Golden State’s Draymond Green, who never got within 12 the rest of the way. help the Toronto Raptors overcome He scored 14 points in the fourth the knee in the series opener but con- character, according to ESPN.com. also pulled down nine rebounds and “I thought we got out-worked,” the loss of center Jonas Valanciunas period when his jump shot over Heat tinued to play. “I’m the only one who knows what dished out eight assists. said Warriors coach Steve Kerr. “Even and beat the Heat 95-91 in Miami. veteran Dwyane Wade with 31 sec- This time, Whiteside, who led the kind of true character I have.” Klay Thompson added 35 points though we had a couple of guys who Lowry, who struggled with his onds to play gave the Raptors a NBA in blocked shots this season, The Dolphins signed the for the Warriors, who were again scored a lot of points we didn’t get the shooting in the first two games of three-point lead. left the game with six points and no offensive tackle out of Ole Miss without injured star Stephen Curry. flow or rhythm we needed to play at the best-of-seven Eastern Conference Miami’s Joe Johnson missed a rebounds in eight minutes. to a four-year contract on Friday, The young Portland team kept a high level.” second-round series, connected on 11 three-pointer with 16.8 seconds left Toronto’s Lithuanian center Val- including a fifth-year option for the their nerve in the face of a strong There was some good news for the of 19 attempts from the floor as the that would have tied the score. anciunas, who averaged 19.5 points team. Tunsil is slotted to earn $12.5 start from Golden State. Lillard scored Warriors as Kerr said Curry, nursing Raptors took a 2-1 series lead. Miami was led by Wade, who and 13 rebounds in the first two m with a $7.3m signing bonus. 25 points and Aminu contributed 11 a sprained right knee, had his first “I felt it was a matter of time scored 18 of his 38 points in the third games, had 16 points and 12 rebounds Hel fell to the Dolphins at No. points in the second quarter and “actual basketball” workout and came before my shots would go in,” Lowry period. when he sprained his right ankle with 13 last week after the video was the Blazers took a 58-46 lead into out of it well. said. “I just wanted to be aggressive. He had 11 points in the fourth 8:53 left in the third. released via Twitter as the draft halftime. Whether that means Curry might I’ve got great friends and great men- quarter, but missed a contested three- “They lost their rim protector began. Tunsil and his repre- Thompson had 24 in the half for be ready to play in game four, Kerr tors in my life. And every last one of pointer with 9.5 seconds left with (Whiteside) and we lost ours,” said sentatives said his social media the Warriors, who were outscored didn’t know. them told me to keep playing -- stop Miami down by four. Raptors coach Dwane Casey. accounts were hacked. 36-18 in the second period. “We’ll see how it goes (Sunday),” fighting myself and continue to grind Both teams saw key big men “We’ll see what happens (going ** The Tennessee Titans and The Warriors used a 9-0 scor- Kerr said. “We’ll put him into a three- it out.” depart early with injuries. forward).” All-Pro tight end Delanie Walker ing run to pull within 105-94 with on-three (workout) and see how he Lowry was three-of-three from Heat center Hassan Whiteside agreed on a two-year contract 5:25 remaining, but Portland scored does.” three-point range in his 15-point third injured his right knee again with 10:53 extension. Terms were not disclosed by the team, but ESPN reported the deal is a two-year extension worth $14.7m, with $8.2m guaranteed. Walker’s contract was initially NHL: Blues on the brink of reaching the finals scheduled to expire after the 2016 season. The Titans reworked the final year and added two more sea- AFP to advancing with a 5-1 victory over sons, meaning he is signed through the Nashville Predators. The Sharks 2018. lead the series 3-2 heading into Walker, a first-time Pro Bowler LOS ANGELES: The St Louis Blues today’s game six. in 2015, led the Titans and all NFL beat the Dallas Stars 4-1 on Saturday Jaskin, playing his first game of tight ends last season with 94 to move within one win of reaching the post-season, scored the eventual catches. He turned the receptions the NHL Western Conference finals game-winner for the Blues, collect- into 1,088 receiving yards and six for the first time since 2001. ing his own rebound to score his first touchdowns. Dmitrij Jaskin and Troy Brouwer career playoff goal midway through ** The Cincinnati Bengals scored second-period goals and Brian the second period. signed wide receiver Cody Core, Elliott made 27 saves for St Louis, who “I’ve been waiting for this moment the team’s sixth-round selection can wrap up the second-round play- for three, four weeks,” Jaskin said of in the 2016 NFL Draft. off series at home today. his return. “It’s great. I found out this The 6-foot-3, 205-pound Core “That’s what you play for,” Elliott morning and I was ready.” played four seasons at Ole Miss, said. “It’s three games down. It’s one Scottie Upshall made Jaskin’s making 78 of his 83 receptions and more. That’s what it comes down to, goal possible, keeping the puck in the all 10 of his touchdowns in the last getting the fourth.” offensive zone. He moved the puck to two seasons. He had 1,202 of his Jay Bouwmeester, who fed a pass in 1,297 receiving yards in the last In San Jose, California, Joe Pav- the slot to Jaskin. two seasons. elski scored two goals and the San Dallas goalie Kari Lehtonen made Core suffered a leg injury and Jose Sharks were another step closer the save on Jaskin’s first shot, but he was carted off the field during Fri- fired in the rebound for a 2-1 lead. day’s rookie minicamp session, but NHL PLAY-OFF “I thought it was a double crossbar he was likely dealing with cramps. or something, a double post,” Jaskin ** The Tampa Bay Buccaneers RESULTS said. “So I didn’t really celebrate. It signed tight end Dan Vitale, the was nice to find out it was in.” second of the team’s two sixth- LOS ANGELES: Results on Saturday in the second round of the NHL play- Robby Fabgri and Paul Stastny round selections in the 2016 NFL offs (series best of seven): each had a goal and an assist for the Draft. Blues, who won two straight games in The 6-foot-2, 239-pound Western Conference Dallas to push the Stars to the brink Vitale was chosen 197th overall out Washington Capitals’ left wing Alex Ovechkin (8) grabs Pittsburgh Penguins’ left wing Chris Kunitz (14) At Dallas of elimination. of Northwestern, where he played St Louis 4 Dallas 1 Alex Goligoski scored the lone during a scrum after a whistle in the third period in game five of the second round of the 2016 Stanley Cup in 49 games, catching 135 passes (St Louis leads series 3-2) goal for the Stars in the first period. Playoffs at Verizon Center. The Capitals won 3-1 as the Penguins lead the series 3-2. for 1,427 yards and 11 touchdowns. At San Jose “We’ve got to cash in (on our He was a three-time Academic All- San Jose 5 Nashville 1 chances),” Stars coach Lindy Ruff said. again as the Capitals stayed alive in In a series in which all four goaltender Matthew Murray to give Big Ten selection and also earned (San Jose leads series 3-2) “We hit some posts, we hit a cross- the Eastern Conference series with games had been decided by one Washington a 3-1 lead with 10:02 left. consensus second-team All-Big Eastern Conference bar, we missed a couple point blank.” a 3-1 victory over the Pittsburgh goal, Williams gave the Capitals some Washington then relied on goal- Ten honors as a senior. In Washington, Capitals right Penguins. breathing room halfway through the tender Holtby, who finished with 30 Vitale led Northwestern in At Washington winger Justin Williams scored a The Penguins still lead the best- second period. He collected the puck saves. That included consecutive stops receptions (33), receiving yards Washington 3 Pittsburgh 1 key second-period goal and Braden of-seven series 3-2 with game six inside the blue line and fired a shot against Patric Hornqvist and Justin (355) and receiving touchdowns (Pittsburgh leads series 3-2) Holtby was dominant in net once scheduled for tomorrow in Pittsburgh. that squeezed between the pads of Schultz late in the second period. (four) last season. SPORT MONDAY 9 MAY 2016 35

Crolla Alvarez knocks out Khan to defend retains WBA lightweight WBC middleweight crown title

AFP The hard-hitting Mexican sends the London: Britain’s Anthony quick Briton down Crolla retained his World Boxing Associa- in the sixth round to tion lightweight title with a leave him motionless seventh-round knockout of Ismael Barroso in Manchester on Saturday. The big-hitting Venezue- AFP lan made an encouraging start to what was Crolla’s first defence of his world belt, with the Manchester-born LOS ANGELES: Canelo Alvarez boxer showing the signs of defended his World Boxing Coun- some heavy blows come the cil middleweight belt on Saturday The referee declares the fight over after Amir Khan is knocked end of the fourth round. by knocking out Amir Khan with a down by Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez. BELOW: Alvarez poses for a photo But Crolla rallied in the vicious right hand late in the sixth after defeating Amir Khan during their middleweight boxing title next and he ended the con- round of their Las Vegas title fight. bout at T-Mobile Arena on Saturday. test in the seventh round The 25-year-old hard-hitting when Barroso failed to beat Mexican dropped Khan with a straight the count after a powerful right over a passive left jab that sent body shot dropped him onto the Briton crumpling to the canvas his knees. with just 23 seconds left in the round. “This is my house and no The back of Khan’s head bounced one comes into it and takes off the deck, prompting his corner to what I’ve got,” Crolla told Sky rush to his aid as he lay motionless for Sports. a couple of minutes. “He thought he was Khan eventually got up and went going to get me out of there to his corner. in three rounds... but I’m “Many people talk about my power improving and I’ve shown but I have many more qualities in the that tonight. ring and people saw that,” Alvarez said. “He caught me with a few, “I like to surprise everyone.” I wasn’t hurt but I felt a few, The savage end to what was sup- he hit me as hard as I’ve been posed to be the biggest fight of Khan’s hit. career will undoubtedly strengthen the “But I just felt there was notion that he has a soft chin. no way I could be denied. My It was a shocking end to what had Canelo Alvarez knocks out Amir Khan during whole team have pushed me been a close fight up to that point. their middleweight boxing title bout at and I’m in the best condition The 29-year-old Khan, who moved T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on Saturday. of my career.” up two weight classes to face the big- “There was no way I was ger champ, started strong and even losing this title.” won the first couple of rounds before on Saturday. scaled 155 pounds, bang on the catch- as well as fight promoter Oscar de la middleweight and he said he has no Asked how Saturday’s Alvarez worked his way into the fight After the fight Alvarez (47-1-1, weight limit. Many Mexicans were in Hoya. The challenge for former jun- plans to continue to fight in the 160- victory compared to the stop- at the brand new T-Mobile Arena. 33 KOs) stood in the centre of the Las Vegas to celebrate the Cinco de ior welterweight champion Khan is to pound division. page defeat of Darleys Perez “He’s very fast. So I knew it would ring and called out Golovkin during Mayo festival weekend, meaning the overcome another crushing knockout “The challenge came and it was in November which won him be complicated at the beginning,” the post-match interview. majority of the crowd was on Alvarez’s as his record dropped to 31-4 with 19 hard to turn down. My natural weight the title, Crolla replied: “This Alvarez said. “But I knew the time “I invited him to the ring,” Alva- side. There was also a vocal contingent knockouts. is 147 and I will be going down to that,” might have topped it. would come to my favor and you saw rez said. “Like we say in Mexico .... of Khan’s fans, who made the trip from “I am one of those fighters who he said. “These are the nights that.” We don’t fight for rings and stuff. We Britain for the title fight. will step in the ring with whoever,” Alvarez-Khan was the first you come into boxing for Alvarez is now mandated by the don’t come to play. I fear no one in this Also in attendance at ringside said Khan, who was knocked out for boxing match to take place at the -- hopefully it’ll live long in WBC to fight unbeaten two-belt champ sport.” were boxing legends Evander Holy- the third time in his career. 20,000-capacity arena. The $375m the memories of the fans Gennady Golovkin, who was ringside At Friday’s weigh-in, both boxers field, Roberto Duran and Roy Jones This was Khan’s first go at facility opened last month. because it certainly will me.” Fowler leads Wells Fargo as Mickelson finishes with quadruple bogey

Reuters GOLF: WELLS FARGO CHAMPIONSHIP

CHARLOTTE: Rickie Fowler tamed lightning-fast greens to year, on the European Tour, vault into a one-shot lead after and had a playoff loss in the the third round at the Wells U.S. at the Phoenix Open. Fargo Championship on Sat- “It was nice to drive it well,” urday. Fowler said after carrying his Ariya Jutanugarn of Thailand watches her tee shot during the third The American matched tee shot more than 300 yards round of the Yokohama Tire Classic on Saturday in Prattville, Alabama. the best score of the day, a at the par-four 18th. four-under-par 68 on a Quail “That’s going to be a posi- Hollow course that turned into tive going into tomorrow. And a beast as low humidity and a I’ve continued to swing it better Thailand’s Ariya grabs stiff breeze dried out the greens and better as the tournament’s and caused nightmares for the gone on. late starters. “It wasn’t very good the World number five Fowler, first two days and nice to Alabama LPGA lead who recorded his first PGA Tour finally get into a little bit of a victory here in 2012, will start rhythm out there today and the final round at nine-under hopefully it’s even better 207, with fellow American tomorrow.” AFP one shot in front of Americans Stacy Roberto Castro (71) alone at Fowler added that he Lewis (68) and Morgan Pressel (70). eight-under after bogeying the eagerly anticipated even Ariya is hoping to finally break last. tougher conditions on the next through and pick up her first US Tour Englishman Justin Rose and day, with the greens expected LOS ANGELES: Thailand’s Ariya victory. She has twice held 54-hole American James Hahn are two to continue to dry out after Jutanugarn fired a career-best leads but failed to convert those to shots behind, while halfway heavy rain earlier in the week. nine-under 63 Saturday to take a victories. leader Andrew Loupe double- “You’re going to have to three-shot lead after the third round Earlier this season at the ANA bogeyed the brutal par-four be in control of your golf ball, of the LPGA Yokohama Tire Classic. Inspiration, the first major of the 18th to fall three strokes off the especially out of the fairway. Ariya caught fire on the back year, she led by two shots with three pace. You’re not going to be able to nine Saturday, making birdie on to play in the final round but bogeyed Phil Mickelson fared even play this golf course out of the eight of nine holes to reach 14-under her final three holes to lose to Lydia worse at the last. rough tomorrow,” he said. 202 on the Robert Trent Golf Trail Ko. On Saturday her only back-nine His hopes were literally McIlroy, meanwhile, made course in Prattville, Alabama. par came on the 15th hole. washed away when he ran up a a monster curling 80-foot “A little bit excited,” Ariya said. Her storming finish came after quadruple bogey after yanking birdie putt at the 17th, but “Tomorrow is going to be so much a shaky start that included a bogey his second shot into the creek. the rest of his round was less fun. I just want to enjoy it and have on the par-three second. But she He shot 76 to plunge eight impressive as he again strug- fun.” rebounded with birdies at five and strokes from the lead, in a tie gled with his driver. The Thai had a three-shot lead eight. for 19th with, among others, “Maybe (I am) a little bit too over Australia’s Minjee Lee and First round leader Laetitia Beck Australian Adam Scott and far back, but at least I can go American Ryann O’Toole, who both of Israel started her day three strokes 2015 champion Rory McIlroy, out there tomorrow and try to carded 68 for 205. Overnight leader back of Ryu, remained in the hunt whose chances of successfully give it my all and try to post a Rickie Fowler lines up a putt on the third green during the third round of the Wells Ryu So-Yeon of South Korea carded with a two-under par, 70 that left defending all but disappeared. good one,” he said after card- Fargo Championship at Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte, North Carolina on Saturday. a 71 and was alone in fourth on 206, her six off the lead. Fowler has won once this ing 73. 36 MONDAY 9 MAY 2016 Msakni the hero in Lekhwiya win

Tunisian midfielder nets the only goal of the match as Djamel Belmadi’s side marches into the Emir Cup semi-finals

The Peninsula

DOHA: Tunisian star Youssef Msa- kni scored with just two minutes remaining as Lekhwiya marched into the semi-finals of the Emir Cup with a hard fought 1-0 win against Al Sailiya in their quarter-final played at Abdullah bin Khalifa Stadium yes- terday. Lekhwiya’s Tunisian midfielder Youssef Msakni Lekhwiya’s South Korean mid- fielder Nam Tae-hee shot into the (right) vies for the ball with Al Sailiya’s Omar Ibrahim penalty box and the ball was directed Hammad during their Emir Cup quarter-final match by Ismail towards Msakni who was played at Abdullah Bin Khalifa Stadium yesterday. well placed inside the goal box. Msakni scored the only goal of the match. Msakni made no mistake in kicking the ball past Al Sailiya’s goal- keeper Diranth, giving his team the FOORBALL: EMIR CUP much needed lead which they were QUARTER-FINALS in hunt for more than 87 minutes. The score was nil-all at half time. Lekhwiya lost a golden opportu- nity to score in the 30th minute when possession with Al Sailiya also try- Nam Tae-hee shot through a penalty, ing to impress whenever they held picked up by Spanish defender Chico onto the ball. Flores who headed the ball towards Al Sailiya’s goalkeeper Diranth the net, but only to see Al Sailiya’s was quite busy with gloves on, hav- efficient goalkeeper Gomis Gregory ing spoiled several attempts made by Diranth successfully redirecting it Lekhwiya players. over the bar. With both teams still search- Just four minutes later, Al Saili- ing for an opening goal, in the 54th ya’s Carlos Alberto Preciado almost minute, Ismail Mohamad gave it earned his team the much needed one more try to net the ball when lead when he took a shot at the goal he shot inside the penalty box, but Al Sailiya’s Omar Ibrahim and Lekhwiya’s Ali Mohamed Bazmanrkan in action during their Emir Cup quarter-final match played at Abdullah Bin from 35 yards away. Diranth was quick enough to spoil Goalkeeper Amine Claude his effort. Khalifa Stadium yesterday. Lekhwiya beat Al Sailiya 1-0 to reach the semi-final stage. Lecomte almost missed it but the ball Alain Djoko shot one in the 71st finally found the bar and bounced minute, from about 16 yards away, and Nam Tae-hee once again tried Lekhwiya coach Djamel Belmadi the AFC Champions League which Al Rayyan and Al Sadd have already back, disappointing Al Sailiya fans. but the ball flew over the bar once to box it just three minutes later, but had said that their main focus now will be played at the Abdullah Bin reached the Emir Cup semi-finals Djamel Belmadi’s Lekhwiya had again. Lekhwiya had the ball in the ball did not get away from will be on the Emir Cup, ahead of thei Khalifa Stadium on May 17. following their victories recorded more than 70 percent of the ball their possession for a long period Diranth. all-Qatari clash against El Jaish in Qatar Stars League champions on Saturday. Plenty of lessons for Mesaimeer in maiden QSL season Nominees for

The Peninsula and Everlito Silva all joined with Euro- from Everlito Silva. Unfortunately it proved maiden season came in March when they pean experience whilst veteran to be their only win of the domestic season. drew 1-1 with highflying El Jaish. Wajdi QFA Awards Mohammed Nouri was recruited from Iran. Four straight defeats in the league were Bouazzi registered a second half pen- The opening game promised to be punctuated with a 2-2 draw with Al Ahli in alty and the Flames held on our only their DOHA: Mesaimeer came into the exciting with the newly promoted side December, the Flames again having Everlito second draw of the season. Despite being 2015/2016 full of optimism making their facing Al Sadd, the most successful side Silva to thank. His brace helped his side reg- relegated Mesaimeer still put in good per- revealed first appearance in the Qatar Stars League. in Qatari football. Unfortunately the 4-0 ister their first ever draw in the QSL. formances and registered their second draw The flames overhauled their squad in the humbling by Sadd was the start of a long Mesaimeer failed to kick on and suf- of the season in their penultimate game. A summer, bringing in experienced head hard season for the flames. Five defeats fered a run of nine straight defeats in the 0-0 draw with Al Arabi showed that Rodion coach Rodion Gacanin. The Croatian tacti- followed to the likes of Al Gharafa and QSL, effectively sealing their relegation. Gacanin’s side still had plenty of fight. The Peninsula cian has had considerable experienced and Al Sailiya often by a solitary goal as Humbling defeats to Al Sadd (5-1) and Al Mesaimeer’s season in the QSL was was charged in helping beat Mesaimeer- Meisameer struggled to adapt to the pace Arabi (4-1) underlined the clubs fragility in poor, but the small side from South Doha beat the drop. of the QSL. defense. Whilst in the January transfer win- can draw plenty of lessons from their Four professional players joined the In round six Mesaimeer grabbed their dow both Rafael Amorim and Helio Pinto maiden season the QSL. They will now DOHA: The Board of Trustees for QFA Awards, headed side, all of whom was their first experi- first ever win in the QSL, a 2-1 over strug- made way for Wajdi Bouazzi and Adama return to the Qatar Gas league and focus by H E Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa bin Ahmed Al Thani, ence of Qatari football. Brazilian defender gling Al Kharitiyat. The flames came from a Traore. on returning back to the QSL at the first head of the Qatar Football Association, has finalised Rafael Amorim, Helio Pinto from Portugal goal down to win the tie, thanks to a brace Their most memorable result of their time of asking. the list of nominees ahead of the glitzy event which will be held on April 21. A number of awards are up for grabs during the ceremony and the Board of Trustees has also explained how the voting process took place. A host of voting forms were passed around to key stakeholders in football to vote across the following cat- Zidane still believes in Madrid’s pursuit of Barca egories: Best U23 Player, Coach of the year and Player of the Year. Among those who were asked to make their choice were, local media, trainers of Qatar Stars League AFP “In football you never know what teams, first team coaches, a representative of the Qatar can happen. We need to be aware of Football Association, a representative of the Qatar Stars that, give our all until the end and see League Foundation and the chairman and members of what happens. the Board of Trustees for the Qatar Football Associa- MADRID: Real Madrid coach Zin- “The first part is our part. It won’t tion Awards. edine Zidane insists he believes his be an easy game and we know that.” The Trustee’s also confirmed again that the Mansor side can snatch the La Liga title away Zidane has masterminded a dra- Muftah award, which is given to the top scorer in the from Barcelona in a dramatic final matic turnaround in Real’s fortunes QSL season, will be shared between Al Rayyan’s Rod- day showdown on Saturday. since replacing the sacked Rafael rigo Tabata and El Jaish’s Abderrazak Hamdallah. Both Barca hold a one-point lead over Benitez in January. strikers grabbed 21 goals this term. Real and will retain their title with Madrid have won 20 of their 25 The remaining awards will be distributed on the victory at Granada next weekend games since the French legend took evening of Saturday the 21st of May at the QNCC, and after thrashing Espanyol 5-0 yes- charge to progress to just their sec- is seen as the end of season event to bring the Qatari terday. However, Real moved up to ond Champions League final since domestic football season to a close. second place for the first time in 2016 Zidane scored the winner as a player with their 11th consecutive La Liga in 2002 and push Barca all the way win, 3-2 over Valencia, whilst Cham- in the title race. NOMINEES FOR AWARDS SELECTED BASED ON pions League final opponents Atletico “The objective we had fixed was Madrid lost 2-1 at already-relegated to get into second and now there is THE RETURNED NOMINATION FORMS: Levante. just one match left to try and go top,” And victory at Deportivo la he added. “Granada are safe (from Best U23 Player- Ahmed Moein (El Jaish) Abdulkarim Hassan (Al Sadd) Coruna next weekend allied to a relegation) and will play the match Ali Asad (Al Sadd) Barca slip-up will hand Madrid the as they have to. The important thing Coach of the year- Jorge Fossati (Al Rayyan) Yusef Adam (Al Ahli) Sabri title. is that we do too. Lamouchi (El Jaish) “I am always positive. Now we are “We have won 11 in a row and we Real Madrid coach Player of the year- Rodrigo Tabata (Al Rayyan) Abdulrazak Hamdullah second, there is one game to go and want to show we’ll continue to search Zinedine Zidane (El Jaish) Meshal Abdulla (Al Ahli) anything can happen,” said Zidane. for these two trophies.”