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THURSDAY 2 JUNE 2016 • 26 SHA’BAAN 1437 • Volume 21 • Number 6815 thepeninsulaqatar @peninsulaqatar @peninsula_qatar 3 million visit Emir attends Qatar University graduation health centres in 16 months

The centres are located in Al Muntaza, Airport, Umm Ghuwailina, Two new health West Bay, Omar Bin Khatab and Al centres in Doha — Wakrah. Dr Fathia Al Meer, Director of Al Thumama and the central region, said many health Rowdath Al Khail — centres in the region witnessed ren- will open this month. ovations and introduction of new programmes and services. Al Wak- rah health centre launched a centre for early detection of cancer, spe- cialised in detection of stomach and The Peninsula breast cancers. New smart clinics were launched for Qataris as a pilot project for diabetes check-up and DOHA: Over three million people follow-up treatment for those visited the primary health centres diagnosed with the disease, with across the country over the past 16 support of specialists, including months, the Primary Healthcare nutritionists. Corporation (PHCC) said yesterday. Umm Ghuwailina and Airport Two new health centres will health centres have been expanded open in Doha — Al Thumama and to increase capacity and working Rowdath Al Khail on June 7 and June hours at the clinics while labora- Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani with officials and graduates at the ceremony at Doha Exhibition and Convention Center sterday.ye 17, respectively. tories have been extended. The Umm Salal centre, the sec- The seven health centres in The Peninsula The Emir honoured 67 outstand- presence of QU President Dr Hassan Pharmacy and Practice. ond wellness centre in the country, the western region received over ing students who achieved a GPA of Rashid Al Derham, members of QU Dr Al Derham congratulated the is scheduled to open next month. 1.16 million visitors during the 3.50 and above. Accounting student leadership, parents and well-wishers. graduates and praised their hard According to data released by same period. The centres are Abu DOHA: Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Khaled Hosny Hosny scored the The ceremony also saw the work and determination that resulted PHCC for 16 months from Janu- Nakhla, Al Karanaa, Al Juamailia, Hamad Al Thani yesterday graced highest GPA of 3.98. graduation of the first cohorts of aca- in their success which he said is the ary 1, 2015 to April 30, 2016, the six Mesaimeer, Shihinia Aboobacker the men’s graduation ceremony of A total of 461 students graduating demic programmes, including BA “beginning of a new and exciting health centres in the central region Siddiq and Al Rayyan. Qatar University’s (QU) Class of 2016 with bachelor’s, master’s and diplo- Policy, Planning and Development; phase in your lives”. received the highest number of vis- at Doha Exhibition and Convention mas from different colleges received BBA Economics; B.Ed Second- itors — over 1.18 million. → Continued on page 6 Center (DECC). certificates from their deans in the ary Education; and MSc Clinical → Continued on page 3 Dr Al Kawari: Education key to peace

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DOHA: H E Dr. Hamad bin Abdulaziz Al Kawari, Cultural Adviser at the Emiri Diwan and Qatar’s candidate for the post of Unesco Director-General, has underlined the role of education in raising awareness about peace and fighting terrorism that “emanates from the hotbeds of conflict and H E Dr. Hamad bin Abdulaziz Al Kawari, Cultural Adviser at the Emiri the impoverished regions over- Diwan and Qatar’s candidate for the post of Unesco Director-General, shadowed by ignorance.” speaking at the European Parliament in Brussels. → Continued on page 4

New health insurance draft law ready government decision to transfer package, benefits, financial limits The Peninsula health cover to private insurance and installments. companies. The new health insurance “The draft law includes the system aims to introduce compre- ideal strategy for health cover hensive health cover with quality DOHA: The Ministry of Public with necessary legal framework services that are easy accessi- Health said yesterday it has com- for establishment of comprehen- ble with diverse benefits, said the pleted work on a draft law for sive health insurance system,” the statement. establishing a new health insur- ministry said in a statement. The Ministry said it plans a sur- ance system in the country. Private insurance compa- vey to collect feedback from society The draft law will be submitted nies will provide health cover at and health service providers on the to the Cabinet this month for action the highest level of efficiency and new health insurance system. The and the first phase of the new insur- professionalism. survey will be conducted from July ance system will be launched next Meanwhile, the Cabinet issued to September. year, the ministry said. a decision to form a committee Citizens will benefit from the The new system will replace headed by the Minister of Finance to new health insurance system when Seha, the national health insurance invite tenders from private compa- its first phase is launched in 2017, scheme terminated on December 31 nies, immediately after the issuance the Ministry said, adding it will last year. Services of the National of the new health insurance law to update on the draft law and devel- Health Insurance Company (NHIC) provide health cover to citizens and opments regarding the new system were also stopped following a review the basic health services in the near future.

HOME THURSDAY 2 JUNE 2016 03 Emir honours outstanding QU students

local and international levels. “Today, we embark on a new phase in “On your behalf, I thank QU for giving our personal and professional lives and us an education of such high quality in line prepare to join the labour market and with the highest international standards be the next generation of future leaders and best practices, and that has provided and loyal ambassadors of the university. us with opportunities to unlock our poten- Congratulations, classmates on a job well tial and excel in our respective goals. done,” he added.

Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani with officials and guests at the graduation of Class of 2016 at Doha Exhibition and Convention Center. (RIGHT) The Emir honouring one of the 67 outstanding students.

Continued from page 1 top universities in the world and achieved rankings successes, the “This comes at a time when most recent being named No. 1 in QU is witnessing a period of tran- the Arab region in the Round Uni- sition, which is essential in light versity Rankings. of fast-growing development in He said QU continued to all sectors of society, particularly develop academic infrastruc- the economic development from ture by establishing a Health which resulted changes in social, Education Cluster that merges the cultural and intellectual areas. colleges of Pharmacy, Medicine “It is important for us to keep and Health Sciences to contribute abreast of society’s fast growth to equipping the healthcare sector and needs by establishing a com- with qualified and well-trained prehensive vision for the future professionals and enhancing its which aims to preserve and pro- services. mote QU’s achievements while In a speech, valedictorian aligning them with the goals of Mohammed Ahmed Al Merri from Qatar National Vision 2030,” he the Faculty of Arts and Sciences added. expressed pride with QU which Dr Al Derham said over the enjoys international recognition past 10 years, QU continued to of accredited centres and gathers advance its standing among the an elite of distinct professionals at 04 THURSDAY 2 JUNE 2016 HOME Darfur ‘talks positive & transparent’ Emir greets Philippines’ President QNA

Al Mahmoud attends DOHA: Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani yesterday sent a cable of congratulations to Philippines’ President-elect Rodrigo Duterte on his vic- talks between Sudan tory in the presidential elections. Justice and Equality Deputy Emir H H Sheikh Abdullah bin Hamad Al Thani also sent a con- gratulatory cable to President-elect Rodrigo Duterte. Movement and Sudan Prime Minister and Interior Minster H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Liberation Movement Khalifa Al Thani sent a similar cable to President-elect Duterte. in Doha. Qatar elected Member of FAO Council

The Peninsula ROME: Qatar was unanimously elected Member of Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) Council in Rome, starting a two-year membership in July. The council comprises 45 countries out of FAO’s 193 member states, and Qatar will represent the Near East and North Africa region. DOHA: Deputy Prime Minister and FAO, a United Nations agency working on combating poverty, hunger Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs and malnutrition, is facing significant issues such as food security, climate H E Ahmed bin Abdullah bin Zaid Al Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs H E Ahmed bin Abdullah bin Zaid Al Mahmoud change, water problems, desertification, drought, and food shortages. Mahmoud has described as intensive, attending the talks between leaders of two movements of Sudan. The independent chairperson of the FAO Council and FAO general secre- positive and transparent the talks tariat congratulated Qatar for being voted to the membership of the council held by the joint mediation for Darfur and the state’s active role in the organisation. The current session of FAO peace in the past two days in Doha. go on and looked forward to return- issues, and as a mediator, he is try- and hard work to establish peace in Council concludes tomorrow A delegation from Sudan Justice ing again, hoping that all will take a ing to bring different views together Darfur and in Sudan in general. and Equality Movement and Sudan second step forward in this way. to create a shared understanding with About the outcomes of the talks, Liberation Movement led by Minni On whether there will be a return the government to proceed. Dr. Uhomoibhi said he is very opti- Montenegro waives visa for Qataris Minnawi held talks. to talks during Ramadan, he said the Dr. Martin Uhomoibhi, Joint mistic, especially that the talks were Al Mahmoud said the two move- return to talks depends on the con- AU-UN Special Representative for held in an atmosphere of transpar- DOHA: Montenegro has announced the exemption of Qataris from visa for ments have put forward their views sultations outcome because there are Darfur, and Head of UNAMID and ency, intimacy and trust. He said entry, transit and residence in the country for 90 days effective since March and their delegation confirmed that issues, some might be solved while Joint Chief Mediator, said the Doha positive matters overshadowed the 3, said an official source at the Department of Consular Affairs of the For- they will continue efforts to reach other procedural issues need more meeting was important and stressed meetings and discussions in all top- eign Ministry. a peaceful settlement and affirmed consultation. Two days were not that the arrival of the two movements ics and viewpoints. The talks followed Doha as the venue to establish peace enough to consult on these issues and delegation in Doha is an essential the Paris meeting between Al Mah- in Darfur. He said the two movements some points need to be approved by achievement. He said he believed that moud the two movements and the SJC workshop concludes also stressed their confidence in joint both parties. meetings over three days with both meeting of Dr. Uhomoibhi with the mediation and that there were some On whether these points rep- movements represent a great achieve- movements in Addis Ababa on April DOHA: The Supreme Judiciary Council concluded a workshop on facilitat- procedural matters that needed con- resent conditions or demands, Al ment and that the participants agreed 15 and 16. They discussed procedural ing procedures and developing work. SJC President Masoud Mohamed Al sultation with the other party — the Mahmoud said there were no con- that the most important matter is that issues that will pave the way for the Amri presented attendance certificates to participants. government — to reach the desired ditions but demands were presented. the talks must continue until peace is resumption of the peace process Al Amri praised the attendees and called for more workshops that pro- result. He said the delegation had pre- achieved in Darfur. between the Sudanese government mote employees’ work culture, help them develop performance and improve Al Mahmoud said the two move- sented the two movements’ views He thanked and praised Qatar for and the two movements to achieve court services in general. The workshop was part of SJC’s training and devel- ments had confirmed willingness to about some matters relating to Darfur hosting these meetings and its sincere peace in Darfur. opment plan for this year to rehabilitate SJC’s cadres and enable them to lead and innovate in their fields of work.

Al Kawari calls for ‘Global Day for Culture against Terrorism’ Ministry to organise

Continued from page 1 the world, in predominantly educationally field, my country’s constant “These values are represented Ramadan programmes for deprived areas. support to Unesco and my ini- by the Unesco, which are, spe- Addressing representatives of the Euro- “If we consider that strengthening tiative program are all timely cifically, tolerance, rejection pean Union at the European Parliament in security in Europe and the world requires factors that can help me under- of violence, security, stability non-Arabic speaking expats Brussels on Tuesday, Dr Al Kawari said, “As supporting people’s choices to build peace- take the responsibility I am and prosperity throughout the I stand here with you, in Belgium, a country ful, civil societies based upon shared entrusted with. I am thoroughly world. I highly regard the expe- that has paid a heavy price in the resistance knowledge, we definitely should seek to aware of the difficulties that the rience of the EU as an ultimate The Peninsula for other expatriates communities against terrorism, and in Brussels, a city support education initiatives and strive to organization is currently facing, humanitarian, political and such as Indonesians, Ethiopians, and that truly represents diversity and accept- more greatly achieve gender equality in this namely in terms of financial cultural experience, as it con- those speaking Tamil and Urdu after ance as it is the capital of a multilingual and important area,” he said. resources, open governance tinually embraces many diverse the Tarawih prayers, said Al Sulayti. multicultural continent. “In this context, I would like to pay and transparency.” cultures and languages despite DOHA: The Ministry of Awqaf Competitions on religious mat- “I would like to express my solidarity tribute to the women of the European He reiterated his call for a the difficulties imposed by the and Islamic Affairs will hold pro- ters will be held in Urdu. The centre to the people of Europe in the ongoing fight parliament who are struggling to promote “Global Day for Culture against recent challenges that it is fac- grammes for non-Arabic speaking will offer Iftar meals to about 200 against terrorism, and at the same time, the presence of women within the political Terrorism,” stressing that the ing at the regional and global people of expatriate communities, newly converted fasting people. highlight that terrorism is the enemy of all arena, and thus strengthening the position battle against terrorism is levels,” he added. The event including Muslims and non- Other activities include 52 reli- of humanity, it is transcontinental in scope of women around the world,” he added. primarily cultural because took place in coordination Muslims, during Ramadan. The gious lectures on Ramadan and and it poses an internationally destructive He said being named Man of the Arab terrorism resides in the human between Qatar-EU Friendship programmers aim to introduce 76 on fasting. Preachers will be threat to all of us, which obliges us to unite Heritage for 2016 makes him specially mind from which it must be Group within the European Islamic and Arab cultures, local provided to 24 Iftar tents run by together in order to fight it for the sake of motivated to “promote Unesco’s leading cleansed. “Therefore, changing Parliament and Qatar’s mission customs and traditions and gen- charity organisations throughout our common human values.” role in the enactment of legislation that minds and convincing people to the EU. Sheikh Ali bin Jassim eral norms and values of society. the country. He called for promoting enrolment of will criminalise individuals and groups of the right path is the main Al Thani, Qatari Ambassador The activities will be held in Iftar The Ministry has readied children and women in schools. He high- who violate our unique global heritage.” task that must be undertaken to Belgium and Head of Qatari tent at Abdulla Bin Zaid Al Mahmoud mosques to accommodate the grow- lighting Qatar’s support for major projects “I hereby run as a candidate for the posi- in order to drain the springs of mission to the EU and Nato, Islamic Cultural Centre, commonly ing number of worshippers during in this field, which includes the “Educate tion of Director-General for the upcoming terrorism.” He also highlight the was present along with senior known as Fanar. the Holy Month. It has received 23 A Child” initiative that has helped to edu- phase because I believe, in my heart, that deepest historical ties, common Belgian dignitaries, European “Separate programmes will be new mosques, including nine big cate more than 10 million children around my years of experience in the diplomatic interests and continuous efforts commissioners, Nato officials, organised for Russian and Brit- one, in the past five months and to consolidate the high common European parliamentarians, ish communities under the centre, will receive 11 more soon. It plans values, which connect Qatar Arab and foreign ambassadors for the first time this year,” said to launch a campaign to encour- and the Arab and Islamic civ- accredited to Brussels, and per- Nasser Yousuf Al Sulayti, Head of age people for endowment for Holy ilization on one hand with the manent representatives to the the centre. Quran reciting centres to meet the European people on the other. EU. Similar programmes will be held growing demand for such services. New Quality Hypermarket opens in Al Rayyan

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DOHA: Quality Group Interna- tional has opened its new retail outlet, ‘New Quality Hypermar- ket’, in Al Rayyan. Shamsudheen Olakara, Chair- man, Quality Group International; and Sheikh Jassim Thamir Issa Thamir Al Thani, Chairman, New Quality Hypermarket, inaugurated the hypermarket. Galma Muke Boru, Ambas- sador of Kenya to Qatar; Anissa Lahreche, Commercial Specialist of US Commercial Service; Jhon Danilo G Jiao. Jr., Cultural Atta- che at the Philippine Embassy; Saleh Murad, CEO, Al Ahli Bank; Khalid A Rahman Al Kooheji, Man- ager, Khaleeji Commercial Bank; Sheikh Jassim Thamir Issa Thamir Al Thani, Chairman, New Quality Hypermarket, Shamsudheen Neeraj Vohra, CEO, UNIKAI-UAE; Olakara, Chairman, Quality Group International, and other officials inaugurating the new Quality Mohammed Hamad Mubarack Al Hypermarket in Al Rayyan yesterday. Khaleefa, Rashid Hamad Al Athba, Pic: Salim M / The Peninsula a large number of officials, dig- nitaries and a large crowd were a spacious supermarket for food, part of a department store. first two days of the inauguration, present. fresh food and other grocery items. The second floor is designed especially for electronics, food and The new hypermarket is The first floor includes non- for electric, electronic, IT and tech- non-food sections. designed across three floors with food, health and beauty items, nology products, garments, fashion The New Quality Hypermar- a total area of 85,000sqft. The household and home furnishing, accessories, footwear and luggage ket is the seventh outlet of Quality ground floor features shops and gifts, stationery and sports items. from leading brands around the Group International in Qatar, kiosks, including a pharmacy, Shops for mobile phones, world. Promotions and price dis- which plans to open one more out- ATM counters of leading banks, watches and fashion jewellery are counts were announced for the let Al Khor by this year-end. HOME THURSDAY 2 JUNE 2016 05 QA Cargo adds belly-hold capacity

Meeting the high demand, Qatar Airways Cargo offers a combined 744 tonnes of capacity a week, with the launch of daily passenger Ashraf Abu Issa, Chairman, Abu Issa Holding; Maya Farhat, Brand Manager, Palestyle, flight to Atlanta and other officials at the launch at Blue Salon.Pic: Baher A / The Peninsula yesterday.

New Lipault travel bag to The Peninsula Qatar Airways Cargo operates dedicated freighters to Atlanta, which is one of its six destinations in the Americas. empower refugee children DOHA: Qatar Airways Cargo (QAC), the world’s third largest a week on the Doha-Atlanta- services to Atlanta in Novem- in the handling of tempera- international cargo carrier, has Doha route, meeting the robust ber 2011, and we are excited to ture-sensitive pharmaceutical The Peninsula story in itself. The intricate designs and vibrant increased its capacity to Atlanta, demand of the destination. QAC now launch passenger flights and perishable cargo, as well as colours are a reminder of the rich Arab heritage, Georgia, with the launch of daily operates dedicated freighters to giving us extra cargo capacity professional care and service and evokes optimism among the people of the passenger flights to Atlanta yes- six destinations in the Americas into the world’s busiest airport. for the shipment of horses and region. Employing the design acumen of Pale- terday. — Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas/Fort Our customers now have access other live animals. The cargo DOHA: Lipault, a leading bag and luggage brand style members — refugee women — also allows The introduction of daily Worth, Houston, Los Angeles and to more capacity in addition to a airline also offers QR Charter, based in France, has launched a new travel bag us to give back towards skills and community wide-body Boeing 777 passen- Mexico City and belly-hold cargo network of more than 150 desti- utilising its most modern fleet collection in Qatar, focussed on a humanitar- development,” Ashraf added. ger flights provides additional space to 13 hubs in the Americas. nations via our state-of-the-art of Boeing 777, Airbus A330 and ian cause. By directing sales proceeds towards building belly-hold capacity to the QA Chief Officer Cargo, hub in Doha as well as innova- Boeing 747 freighters. The air- Designed in collaboration with Palestyle, a community libraries, the brand aims to alle- cargo carrier’s existing four Ulrich Ogiermann, said: “There tive solutions for their cargo.” line has announced the launch design house that works with refugee artisans viate psychological distress among displaced times weekly freighter services is enormous potential for growth QAC’s portfolio of distinctive of QR Express, a solution to for social and economic empowerment, the new children through bibliotherapy – a healing between Doha and Atlanta. in the Americas, as our rapid products includes QR Pharma, deliver airport-to-airport air product line will raise proceeds for community technique that involves the reading of specific The carrier now offers a expansion in this market indi- QR Fresh and QR Equine, offer- freight service for time-critical libraries in Jordan with high concentration of texts and collective reading. Plans also involve combined 744 tonnes of capacity cates. We started freighter ing efficiency and compliance shipments. displaced children. festive book distribution events and engaging The Lipault brand is distributed in the GCC storytelling sessions. Ashraf said the blend of by Abu Issa Holdings in Qatar, which operates participative fashion and books can be tapped diverse and market-leading businesses. for social impact. “By harnessing bibliotherapy, Ashraf Abu Issa, Chairman, Abu Issa Hold- we are attempting to rebuild the psychological Heya Arabian Fashion Exhibition opens today ings, explained the significance of the launch and intellectual foundations of children through at Blue Salon: “We continuously endeavour to imagination, creativity and exploration. Books build socially-conscious brands in the region. have the power to help restore normalcy in The Peninsula open from 6pm and tomorrow from 3pm. Sahar Al Homoud from Kuwait; Haifa Fahad Extending Lipault’s heritage in enhancing travel tumultuous lives and, even if momentarily, live in Organisers are encouraging visitors to reg- from Saudi Arabia and Dar Naseen Alando- experience with stylish designs and durable bags, a different world inspired by the author’s imag- ister in advance at heya.qa to avoid waiting los from Bahrain. the new collection aims to provide travellers with ination.” The new collection is part of efforts by in queues. The event will also feature spe- The exhibition represents a fusion of an opportunity to contribute to the psycholog- Lipault and Abu Issa Holdings to highlight social DOHA: The ninth edition of Heya Arabian cialised workshops for make-up and hair art, couture and luxury, offering residents ical and intellectual development of displaced causes in the region and address them through Fashion Exhibition opens today at Doha today and tomorrow. and tourists a unique experience of Arabian people, especially children.” collaborative solutions driven by partnerships Exhibition and Convention Center. Some of the most reputed design- cultural heritage. It provides a high-profile The bags, courtesy of Palestyle’s trained arti- between brands and organisations on building a Sheikh Khalifa bin Jassim bin Mohamed ers taking part include Debaj, Jo La Mode, platform for reputed and up-and-coming sans, exhibit the cross-stitch technique to form stable environment. The bags, intertwined with Al Thani, Chairman, Qatar Chamber, will Al Mutahajiba, Al Dukan, M Jay Design local and Khaliji designers to display their uniquely embroidered patterns that symbolise the planned community libraries, hope to nur- inaugurate the exhibition. and Harlenz from Qatar; Hessa Alflasi, latest creations to a fashion-conscious prosperity, success and strength in the face of ture the region’s children and help turn a new Heya is a five-day women-only event, Anatomi, Manal Al Ahmadi, Anaya Collec- audience. It is organised by Qatar Tourism odds. “The aesthetics of the new collection is a chapter in their lives. open daily from 10am to 10pm. Today, it is tions, Sogha and Murikan from the UAE; Authority and delivered by Design Creationz. 06 THURSDAY 2 JUNE 2016 HOME

Draft law to curb illegal trade Russia’s National Day marked of petroleum products soon

documents. The session ratified a cabinet It also includes continuing to draft decision amending the regu- The Cabinet issued receive a share of petroleum prod- lation of some administrative units directives to take ucts that are distributed by licensed that constitute the Communications entities after the end of the purpose Regulatory Authority and assigning measures for the by virtue of which the share was their powers. issuance of a draft decided, using the granted share in It also ratified a draft decision law to combat purposes other than it was set for by the minister of transport and and unlawfully deciding the right communications on establishing smuggling and illegal to a share of petroleum products or departments at the administrative trade of petroleum granting it to undeserving parties. units that constitute the Commu- The draft law stipulates strict nications Regulatory Authority and products, after penalties for those found violating assigning their powers. having briefed on a its provisions. The Cabinet endorsed a draft The penalties include confisca- decision by the minister of economy recommendation by tion of petroleum products smuggled and commerce specifying the fees Advisory Council. or illicitly traded, or payment of an for the issue and renewal of prac- equivalent amount if the products ticing consultancy services. Assistant Minister for Foreign Affairs H E Mohammed bin Abdullah Meteb Al Rumaihi, (second right); are not found, in cases of conviction. The bill comes as part of com- Ibrahim Fakhroo (right), Director of Protocol; Assistant Minister for Foreign Affairs H E Sultan bin Saad The tools and materials used in pleting the procedures of regulating The Peninsula the crime, along with the mode of the consultancy business, and the Al Muraikhi (second left); and Russian Ambassador to Qatar Nurmakhmad Kholov cutting a cake to transport, will also be confiscated. registration and renewal of its prac- mark Russia’s National Day, at Ritz-Carlton Doha, yesterday. Pic: Abdul B / The Peninsula The Cabinet approved taking tice in line with the provisions of the necessary measures for the Law No. 10 of 2012 on the regula- DOHA: Prime Minister and Interior issuance of two draft laws on civil tion of consultancy services, and Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin human resources law and its exec- Cabinet Decision No. 54 of 2014 on Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani chaired utive bylaws, after having been specifying the terms and conditions Customs officials the weekly Cabinet meeting at the briefed on the recommendation of of granting licenses to global expe- Accessible Qatar app Emiri Diwan yesterday. the Advisory Council with respect rienced consultancy service centres The Cabinet issued directives to to the draft law. and their commitments. seize 5kg of gold take measures for the issuance of a The draft law included pro- The Cabinet ratified a draft deci- and website launched draft law to combat smuggling and visions relating to planning and sion by the minister of economy and illegal trade of petroleum products, organizing employment, terms of commerce on issuing the regulations The Peninsula after having briefed on a recommen- appointment, salary, bonus, allow- of the law (system) on brands in GCC The Peninsula dation by the Advisory Council on a ance and other related benefits states. draft law. for employees and their training, The Ministry of Economy and The draft law bans import appraisal of performance, and pro- Commerce prepared the bill as DOHA: The General Authority of and export of petroleum products motions, along with organizing staff part of completing the procedures DOHA: Sasol, the international Customs at Hamad International without the permission from Qatar transfer, delegation and secondment for issuing the required decisions to integrated chemicals and energy Airport (HIA) seized 5kg of gold Petroleum. It also bans illegal trade and vacation and their duties. activate provisions of Law No. 7 of company, launched yesterday the from an Asian passenger who tried of petroleum products, Qatar News The draft included the employ- 2014 on issuing the law (system) on Accessible Qatar initiative at Katara to hide it inside his bag. Agency reports. ee’s entitlement to end of service brands in GCC states. Hall in the presence of top officials, The passenger disclosed to According to the draft law, it is benefit. The meeting agreed to extend dignitaries and media. inspectors of having some quantity illegal to sale petroleum products to The meeting ordered measures the settlement deadline for the Accessible Qatar is a smartphone of gold in his bag, but the inspector somebody who resells them, pur- for the issuance of a draft law to addressees of the provisions of Law app and website where the disabled who grew suspicious transferred chasing such products for reselling issue the arbitration law in civil and No. 5 of 2015 on commercial and community is able to view the public the person for further inspection. them without license and obtaining a commercial matters, after having industrial stores, the similar public and tourism locations and outlets in It was found that the person was share of petroleum products that are been briefed on the recommenda- ones, and street vendors, as well as Qatar and whether they are acces- hiding five pieces of gold weighing distributed by licensed entities while tion of the Advisory Council with Law No. 11 of 2015 on the issuance of sible and in what way. 5kg in secret pockets inside the bag submitting incorrect information or respect to the draft law. commercial companies law. Responding to the need for reli- to avoid customs fees. able and vetted information about The app also allows users to rate Ahmed bin Ali Al Mohannadi, the accessibility of popular venues and submit their reviews about the Chairman of the General Authority across the nation, it will bring new accessibility of venues. of Customs, honoured the inspec- Umm Salal Health and Wellness Centre opens in July mobility and further inclusion for the Sheikh Faleh bin Nasser Al Thani tor, stressing on continuing the disabled community. (pictured), Assistant Undersecre- efforts for protecting the coun- The app and website (www. tary for General Services Affairs, try’s security. AccessibleQatar.com) is available said, “We believe that this app will Continued from page 1 regions, received 814, 866 visitors. country, was opened last year and in Arabic and English with accessi- be very beneficial for the local com- The centres are located in Al new facilities for early detection of bility features for free for all users. munity and urge all organisations in Bakery shut down Dr Hiam Al Sada, Director Daain, Al Kaabaan, Medinat Kha- breast and stomach cancer were Sasol has developed it in part- Qatar to renovate and improve their of western region, said the new lifa, Al Khor, Umm Salal, Al Shamal, introduced. nership with the Ministry of venues in support of accessibility.”. DOHA: Al Shamal Municipality programmes and systems intro- Al Gharafa, Al Guwairiya and “There is a plan for launch- Municipality and Environment, Dr Amal Al Malki, Dean, Col- inspectors shut down a bakery in duced in healthcare services have Labeeb. ing a mobile unit for diagnosis of Qatar Tourism Authority, Hamad lege of Humanities and Social Industrial Area for seven days for encouraged more people to visit Dr Nada Al Emadi, Director of breast and stomach cancers and we Bin Khalifa University and other Sciences at HBKU, said, “HBKU has preparing food in unhealthy con- the centres. northern region, said during this want to increase working hours of institutions. been working with Sasol from the ditions. New services will be introduced period, health centres in the region health centres and laboratories in At launch, 50 locations around very beginning on Accessible Qatar The closure came during in some health centres in the region saw introduction of a package of the region,” said Dr Nada. Qatar, ranging from retail locations through our Translation and Inter- inspection conducted by the this year. new services to improve the qual- The Umm Salal Health and to hotels and public parks, have been preting Institute. municipality inspectors before The nine health centres in the ity of care. Wellness Centre will open next audited by an expert and detailed “We believe that the initiative Ramadan to be sure that food northern region which is less pop- The Labeeb Health Centre, month to replace the existing health information is available for people will make lives easier for the disa- outlets are meet the health ulated compared to the other two the first wellness centre in the centre, she added. with various types of disabilities. bled community in Qatar.” standards. QTA takes part in GCC tourism meeting

The Peninsula Authorities in Saudi Arabia later for the tourism industries in the of meetings of GCC tourism offi- this year. member states. Officials will cials in 2015, which resulted Qatar’s delegation includes also explore means of promoting several resolutions, including the Hassan Al Ibrahim, Chief Tourism intra-GCC tourism by develop- announcement of a Gulf Tourism DOHA: A delegation from Qatar Development Officer; Hamad Al ing special packages for travel Capital, which was celebrated by Tourism Authority (QTA) repre- Abdan, Director of International between GCC countries, partic- the Bahraini capital Manama in sented Qatar at the meeting of Cooperation; Saif Al Kuwari, ularly for Gulf nationals. its first year. the GCC Tourism Undersecre- Director of PR and Communica- The meeting will also look The initiative aims to high- taries authorities, which started tion; and Mohammed Hafnawi, into mechanisms, such as the light tourism offerings of each yesterday in Riyadh. Legal Consultant. development of promotional GCC country and raise aware- The two-day meeting is The meeting aims to lay film materials and websites, to ness among people about the being held ahead of a meeting the foundations for joint work unify efforts to promote the Gulf importance of tourism and oppor- of the GCC Ministers of Tourism between GCC countries in the region as a tourist destination. tunities it presents for investment and Chairpersons of Tourism field of tourism and set guidelines Qatar hosted the previous round and creation of jobs. Fasting can help reduce stress, anxiety and insomnia

The Peninsula anger management in individuals who may be of depression participating in such activities more inclined towards being easily angered. tend to get removed out of their secluded life- Fasting and associated acts of worship, style and think more positively of themselves such as Taraweeh (the evening prayer usually and others around them. DOHA: Fasting in the month of Ramadan can performed in a congregation with other worshi- During the first few days of fasting, the body have many advantages for some individuals pers) during the holy month of Ramadan helps starts to release these ‘feel good’ hormones. As living with various psychological disorders to promote communication and social interac- a result, individuals may find that their ‘mood’ such as mild degrees of depression, anxiety tion among people. ‘Qiyam Al Layl’ (the special improves. Sleep is known to improve in qual- and insomnia. late evening voluntary prayers) in Ramadan can ity during fasting, though cultural practices of According to Dr. Suhaila Ghuloum, Senior also contribute to peace of mind and thereby staying up late may partially interfere with that. Consultant Psychiatrist at Hamad Medical Cor- curb frustrations associated with the burdens According to Dr. Ghuloum, international poration (HMC), fasting, and the spiritual and and pressures of life. research has revealed that fasting had a great social practices that accompany it, can help There are studies showing that in addition positive impact on individuals undergoing ther- some individuals cope with certain stresses in to the established physical health benefits of apeutic treatment for addiction and substance daily life. Six percent of the world’s population fasting, there are also benefits on mental health. abuse, as this act of worship promotes positive suffer from depression or about 350 million Fasting increases the release of some endor- behavioural change in these individuals. In fact, people of all ages, according to World Health phins, these are the body’s naturally released there has been some research suggesting that Organisation. ‘happiness’ hormones, the deficiency of which spiritual practices result in structural changes Research studies revealed that fasting can is linked with depression and anxiety disor- to the brain in areas associated with depression, help promote self-restraint and also supports ders. Patients with mild to moderate degrees thereby offering a protective element. MIDDLE EAST THURSDAY 2 JUNE 2016 07

Ready for take-off Al Shabaab car US-backed forces bomber targets hotel in Somali open major front capital; 10 dead in Syria war Reuters

MOGADISHU: A suicide car engage in direct combat,” the offi- bomber crashed his vehicle into cial said. The operation will also a gate outside a hotel frequented The operation aims count on airpower from the US-led by lawmakers in the centre of the to choke off the coalition, which pounded Islamic Somali capital Mogadishu yester- State positions near Manbij with 18 day and the attack was followed group’s access to strikes on Tuesday, including six mil- by gunfire, killing at least 10 peo- Syrian land along the itant tactical units, two headquarters ple, police said. facilities and a training base. Al Qaeda-affiliated Al Shabaab Turkish border. Driving Islamic State from its last militants quickly claimed respon- remaining foothold at the Turkish sibility for the attack on the Hotel border has been a top priority of the Ambassador. “We targeted the US-led campaign against the group. members of the apostate govern- Reuters The group controls around 80km ment ... We killed many of them A Palestinian prepares to fly a kite during a festival organised by El Bireh municipality in the West of the frontier stretching west from inside and we shall give details later. Jarablus. Still, some US military and Bank town of El Bireh, yesterday. Our mujahideen are on the top floor intelligence officers caution Islamic of the hotel building,” Sheikh Abdia- WASHINGTON/BEIRUT: Thou- State has proved adaptable, willing sis Abu Musab, Al Shabaab’s military sands of US-backed fighters to change tactics. operation spokesman, said. opened a major new front in Syr- The Syrian Observatory for Colonel Ali Mohamed, a ia’s war, launching an offensive to Human Rights said US-led air strikes Mogadishu police officer, said the drive Islamic State out of a swathe in support of the ground operation Iraq forces stall Fallujah advances hotel was hit by a car that rammed of northern Syria it uses as a logistics killed 15 civilians including three chil- its gate. State-run Radio Mogad- base, and were reported yesterday to dren near Manbij in the last 24 hours. ishu said government forces were be making swift progress. It said the Syria Democratic Forces still at the scene rescuing people The operation, which began on (SDF) alliance, which is conducting the AFP said concern for the estimated worsening shortages and nervous IS from the hotel. Maka Al Mukaram, Tuesday after weeks of quiet prepa- assault to capture the Manbij pocket, 50,000 civilians the United Nations fighters preparing for a desperate where the attack took place, is a rations, aims to choke off the group’s had taken 16 villages and was 15km has said IS was using as human holdout. No aid has reached Fallujah major street lined with hotels, res- access to Syrian land along the Turk- from Manbij town itself. shields was slowing progress. “It since September last year and resi- taurants and banks in the heart of ish border that the militants have The US officials earlier said the NEAR FALLUJAH: Iraqi forces would’ve been possible to end the dents have been living on dates, dirty the capital. long used to move foreign fighters operation would be overwhelmingly stalled at the fringes of Fallujah, battle quickly if protecting civilians water from the Euphrates and animal Before the hotel attack, gov- back and forth to Europe. comprised of Syrian Arabs instead of slowed in their advance yesterday wasn’t one of the foundations of our feed. The Norwegian Refugee Council ernment officials announced “It’s significant in that it’s their last forces with the Kurdish YPG militia, by concerns over the fate of trapped plan,” he told commanders in com- said another 300 families managed two strikes against the militants remaining funnel” to Europe, a U.S. who will only represent about a fifth civilians and resistance from the ments broadcast by state television. to flee areas around Fallujah, bring- — one in which the head of the military official said. A small number or a sixth of the overall force. Islamic State group. Iraq’s parliament Speaker, Salim ing to about 5,000 the number of al Shabaab intelligence unit was of US special operations forces will This is seen as important Tur- After a week of shaping opera- Al Juburi, held talks with officials people who escaped since the start killed, and another which killed support the push on the ground to cap- key, which has opposed any further tions aimed at sealing the siege of from Anbar province, where Fallu- of the operation. the suspected mastermind of an ture the “Manbij pocket” of territory, expansion of Syrian Kurdish sway at Fallujah, which lies just 50km west of jah is located, as well as commanders Commanders said another fac- attack on a university in Kenya, in acting as advisers and staying back the frontier. Ankara sees the Syrian Baghdad, elite forces launched a new, and tribal leaders on the humani- tor slowing the operation is the which 148 people died last year. from the front lines, the officials said, Kurdish YPG fighters, who already more aggressive phase on Monday tarian issue. He discussed “ways of resistance they are meeting from Among the dead , was Moha- speaking on condition of anonymity control an uninterrupted 400km morning. But they have so far been rescuing the families being held hos- jihadists fighters. A police colo- mud Ali Dulyadeyn, suspected to to discuss military planning. stretch of the border, as terrorists unable to reach the city centre and tage and opening safe corridors for nel on the outskirts of Fallujah have been the mastermind the “They’ll be as close as they need and has been enraged by US back- battle IS fighters in the streets of one them,” his office said in a statement. said “every time our forces try to April 2015 attack on Garissa Uni- to be for the (Syrian fighters) to com- ing for the militia in its battle with of their historical strongholds. Inside Fallujah, trapped residents push in, they encounter really tough versity, the worst such assault in plete the operation. But they will not Islamic State in Syria. Prime Minister Haider Al Abadi were under increasing pressure from defence systems set up by Daesh”. Kenya in almost 20 years. Signals detected from EgyptAir black box

AFP track of conversations and other Mediterranean along with belong- sounds in the pilots’ cabin. ings of passengers on board the The signals were picked up by jet, which crashed between the French survey ship Laplace which Greek island of Crete and the CAIRO: A French navy vessel using is using acoustic detection systems Egyptian coast. deep-water listening devices has to listen for the “pings” emitted by No survivors have been found detected signals from one of the the flight recorders, said France’s from flight MS804. Another vessel black boxes that could explain why aviation safety agency BEA. “The sent by Deep Ocean Search (DOS), the EgyptAir plane crashed into the detection of this signal is a first step,” a private company hired to help Mediterranean, investigators said said BEA official Remi Jouty. find the black boxes, is on its way yesterday. Egypt’s civil aviation ministry to the area carrying a ship with a It is expected to be at least had announced the potential break- robot capable of diving up to 3,000 another week before an underwa- through earlier, saying the signals metres to retrieve the recorders. The ter robot can recover the two flight were “assumed to be from one of the ship is due to arrive at the site within recorders of the Airbus A320 that data recorders”. a week, the Egyptian ministry said. went down with 66 people aboard en The French navy, in a statement, The black boxes have enough bat- route from Paris to Cairo on May 19. said the flight recorders still had to tery power to emit signals for four or A digital flight data recorder be precisely located at a estimated five weeks. The search area is located gathers information about the speed, depth of 3,000 metres (10,000 feet). around 290km north of the Egyptian altitude and direction of the plane, Some of the wreckage has coast, according to a source close to while a cockpit voice recorder keeps already been pulled from the the investigation. France to host talks to Saudi court orders 14 Shias executed revive Mideast peace bid for crimes in East

DUBAI: A Saudi court yester- AFP “We must bring back hope, rec- day sentenced 14 Shia citizens reate an international atmosphere to death on charges related to that is favourable to a (peace) proc- terrorist activities in the predom- ess,” said French Foreign Minister inantly Shia Eastern Province, a PARIS: France will tomorrow host Jean-Marc Ayrault. lawyer said. an international meeting in Paris in The last, US-led peace effort The lawyer, who works in the a bid to revive the moribund Israel- collapsed in April 2014 and Ayrault province and wished to remain Palestinian peace process, even warned of a “catastrophic” situation anonymous for fear of retribution, though its efforts have received a if there is no resumption of talks. said that of the 24 defendants, the lukewarm response. There has been a surge of vio- Specialized Criminal Court in Riy- After decades of failed negotia- lence since October that has claimed adh ordered one man released. tions and gridlocked talks, France the lives of 205 Palestinians and 28 The court was established launched a fresh push to resolve one Israelis. Most of the Palestinians in 2008 to try terrorism cases, of the world’s longest-running con- were killed while carrying out knife, though it has also increasingly flicts earlier this year. gun or car-ramming attacks, Israeli ruled in cases against political Neither Israel nor the Palestin- authorities say. activists whose worked is deemed ians will be represented at Friday’s Many analysts say the recent a national security threat. talks, which aim to lay the ground for unrest has been fuelled by Pal- The Saudi broadcaster Al Ara- a fully-fledged peace conference to estinian frustration with Israel’s biya reported that nine others were be held by the end of the year. ongoing settlement building and by given prison terms ranging from But Washington — the tra- the repeated failure of peace efforts three to 15 years for the killing of ditional mediator — has been to end the occupation, but also with a policeman, vandalism, armed hesitant to get behind the new ini- their own fractured leadership. robbery and shooting at security tiative, with Secretary of State John According to French diplomatic forces and civilians in the Eastern Kerry stalling for weeks before sources, the fresh peace push would Province village of Al Awamiya. finally agreeing to attend. centre on the 2002 Saudi peace ini- The lawyer said the group has The conference will none- tiative. Under that proposal, Arab been under arrest since 2013 for theless bring together foreign leaders said they would recognise crimes dating back to a wave of ministers from some 30 Western the state of Israel in exchange for an 2011 protests that erupted in the and Arab countries, as well as rep- Israeli withdrawal from territories Eastern Province among minority resentatives of the United Nations occupied since 1967, and the crea- Shias demanding a greater voice and European Union. tion of a Palestinian state. and rights in the country. 08 THURSDAY 2 JUNE 2016 ASIA / PHILIPPINES Philippines won’t be ‘lackey’ to any foreign power: FM

Reuters to Washington, in turn straining ties Yasay added that the president- pursuing the mutual interest of both a key trade route through which an Chinese teen with China. elect would honour existing treaties countries, we should not hesitate to estimated $5 trillion worth of goods Yasay said relations with China with the United States, including do so,” Yasay said. pass each year. reaches Dubai should improve. the Enhanced Defence Cooperation The Supreme Court this year Yasay, who has participated in in plane hold MANILA: The Philippines will not “For as long as it (China) adheres Agreement that allows US troops upheld the constitutionality of the global trade deals in the past, said distance itself from its long-time to the rule of law, respects our ter- increased access to local bases. agreement that lets the United States Manila would respect whatever Dubai: A Chinese teen- security ally, the United States, but ritorial integrity and sovereignty... US President Barack Obama build warehouses and logistics hubs decision is handed down by the Per- ager hid in the cargo neither will it be a lackey to any for- we should continue to make sure called Duterte on May 17 to congrat- anywhere in the Philippines. manent Court of Arbitration in The hold of an Emirates air- eign power, incoming Foreign Minister that our friendship and relationship ulate him on his election win. “That Washington is also helping its Hague, where the Philippines is liner during a nine-hour Perfecto Yasay said yesterday. would be stronger,” he said. was a very strong indication about former colony to bolster its defences, challenging China’s position on the flight to Dubai where he In his first interview with the for- Duterte, the tough-talking mayor our friendship with America not being providing three Hamilton-class cut- disputed waters. It is not clear when hoped to make a for- eign media since being appointed by who takes office on June 30, said on affected, and will not be affected by ters, radar equipment and a research a ruling will come. tune, describing the President-elect Rodrigo Duterte, the Tuesday that the Philippines would his election,” Yasay said. ship that will arrive in July. Duterte has said he was open to journey as “comfortable”, lawyer by training sought to under- not rely on Washington, signalling At the same time, Duterte has not The build-up is part of an effort joint ventures with China to explore reports said yesterday. line the Philippines’ independence in a potential shift in approach to the ruled out renegotiating agreements in by the Philippines to strengthen its and exploit resources in the South The 16-year-old stow- dealing with disputes with China over South China Sea and broader secu- the future if it was deemed necessary. claims in the disputed South China China Sea. The Philippines was will- away was found after the South China Sea. rity issues. “When he said he is committed to Sea, where China has been construct- ing to pursue bilateral talks with the flight from Shang- “We should not be a lackey of any “He was simply articulating the agreements we have entered into...he ing artificial islands. China to resolve a dispute over the hai landed in Dubai nation,” Yasay said in Manila, the position that, according to the con- does not discount the possibility that Brunei, Malaysia, Vietnam, Tai- Scarborough Shoal, but would stick on Friday, the English- day after Duterte named his cabinet. stitution, we are supposed to carry in the future, if it is determined that wan and the Philippines also have to multilateral discussions for the language daily 7Days Under outgoing President Benigno an independent foreign policy,” Yasay there is a need to further negotiate overlapping claims in the sea, Spratly islands, because there were reported citing police. Aquino, the Philippines moved closer said of Duterte’s remarks. on these agreements on the basis of believed to be rich in oil and gas and other claimant states, Yasay said. “He told us that the bags section in the plane had been comfortable,” said Dubai’s assistant police Outrage after chief for ports and air- ports, General Ahmed bin Thani. “He planned to come to Dubai after hearing about the life- Duterte justifies style, and he was looking to make money,” he added. Speaking through a translator, the stow- away from Bazhong in scribes’ murders southwest China said he heard an online rumour that “even beggars” can make good money in Speaking in Davao, Duterte sug- Dubai, the paper said gested the majority of those victims citing Chinese media. Reporters Without were partly to blame. “Most of those It was unclear how the Borders called for killed, to be frank, have done some- teenager, who remains thing. You won’t be killed if you don’t in custody in the emir- journalists in the do anything wrong,” said Duterte. ate, got into the cargo Philippines to boycott He also raised the case of Jun Pala, hold, which is usually Duterte’s press a journalist and politician who was pressurised and temper- murdered in Davao in 2003. Gun- ature-controlled, unlike conferences until he men on a motorcycle shot dead Pala, wheel wells where stow- apologised. who was a vocal critic of Duterte. His aways risk death due to murder has never been solved. freezing temperatures Luis Teodoro, deputy direc- and a lack of oxygen. tor of the Manila-based Centre for Philippine President-elect Rodrigo Duterte (centre) meets his National Security officials in Davao City, on AFP Media Freedom and Responsibil- ity, described Duterte’s comments as the southern island of Mindanao, yesterday. Lattes and les- “distressing”. The New York-based sons Committee to Protect Journalists also MANILA: Media groups expressed condemned Duterte’s remarks. “What Ex-rebels praise Duterte offer to meet chief on offer at ukule- outrage yesterday at Philippine he has done with these irresponsible le cafe in Manila President-elect Rodrigo Duterte’s comments is give security officials the endorsement of killing corrupt jour- right to kill for acts that they consider Anatolia government’s “moral responsibility… against humanity, along with about nalists, warning his comments could defamation,” CPJ’s Southeast Asian to give justice to the innocent victims.” 60 of his followers. The editorial yes- MANILA: A music cafe in incite more murders in a nation representative, Shawn Crispin, said Last week, Duterte — the Davao terday underlined that the 1996 deal Manila has put free uku- already one of the world’s most dan- from Bangkok. And Reporters With- City mayor — said he would fly to the “has already been practically imple- lele lessons on the menu, gerous for reporters. out Borders called for journalists in ZAMBOANGA CITY: The Philip- southern Philippines province of Sulu mented or fulfilled”. It stressed that alongside coffee and Duterte, who won last month’s the Philippines to boycott Duterte’s pines’ one-time largest Muslim rebel to meet Misuari. once a draft autonomy law was cake, to provide custom- elections in a landslide, told reporters press conferences until he apologised. group has welcomed President-elect In September 2013, a group led approved and ratified, the MNLF ers with some alternative on Tuesday that there was justifica- Adding to the public relations Rodrigo Duterte’s offer to meet the by Misuari laid siege to the predom- would be included in a “Bangsamoro entertainment. Visi- tion for killing journalists who took nightmare for Duterte, the distraught fugitive leader of the Moro front it inantly Christian city of Zamboanga Transition Authority” in a new Muslim tors to the cafe, opened bribes or engaged in other cor- widow of the Manila journalist killed broke away from due to disagree- following a 2012 MILF-government Bangsamoro region. “The truth is that in the Filipino capi- rupt activities. “Just because you’re last week appeared in front of report- ments over the peace process in peace deal, which Misuari claims is in both MNLF and MILF peace proc- tal last year by a fan of a journalist you are not exempted ers asking how Duterte could imply southern Mindanao island. a betrayal of an 1996 Organisation of esses, Strictly speaking, there is no the four-stringed instru- from assassination,” Duterte said her husband was corrupt. “He had The Moro Islamic Liberation Front Islamic Cooperation (OIC)-brokered more negotiations. Both are in imple- ment, can bring their when asked how he would address only 200 pesos ($4) in his wallet when (MILF) said in an editorial on its offi- agreement, has left his organization mentations modes,” it said. own ukulele, rent one of the problem of media killings in the he was killed,” a sobbing Florabel Bal- cial website Wednesday that it has short-changed, and granted Muslims The MILF also reiterated that the many colourful ones Philippines after a reporter was shot coba told reporters. no objection to a purported meeting in the region lesser autonomy. Duterte has expressed support for that decorate the out- dead in Manila last week. Duterte’s spokesman Salvador between Duterte and Moro National The MNLF is internationally rec- the peace process in Mindanao, from let or listen to instructors The National Union of Journal- Panelo insisted Duterte’s comments Liberation Front (MNLF) founder Nur ognised by the OIC, but some of its where he hails, as well as the stalled play. Ukuleles are said ists of the Philippines described the had been taken out of context, and Misuari, describing it as a step “in the factions are opposed to the ongoing Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL). to have originated in comments as “appalling”. It conceded urged reporters to look at the pres- right direction”. peace process between the govern- “His is not only the commitment Hawaii in the 19th cen- there were corruption problems in the ident-elect’s body language to “Frankly speaking, there is little ment and MILF — which broke away to solve the Bangsamoro Question tury and are known for industry but said these did not justify understand his comments. problem that blocks the immediate from the MNLF in 1984. but the unequivocal conviction that their small, four-stringed murdering reporters. “He has also, in “He is against all illegal killings. healing with Misuari by govern- Since the 2013 siege, Misuari — ‘nothing will satisfy the Muslims, body adapted from a effect, declared open season to silence He will pursue the criminals to the ment,” it said. “It is only the cases who publicly urged his followers nay Moros, except to give them the Portuguese guitar-like the media, both individual journalists ends of the Earth in accordance with filed against him and more than 200 to support the presidential candi- BBL’,” the editorial said, referring to instrument. and the institution, on the mere per- the law and in accordance with the followers that stand on the way,” dacy of Duterte — has been wanted his comments in the last presidential ception of corruption,” the NUJP said. constitution,” Panelo said. it added, while highlighting the for rebellion, genocide and crimes debate in April 24. Suicide jumper kills man walking with family Weaving their home Online map blunder sparks Seoul: A South Korean student who committed Indonesia-Singapore row suicide by jumping from his 20th floor apartment hit and killed another man walking home with AFP The six islets were also changed his pregnant wife and to red on the website map, one of the son, a news report said colours on the Indonesian flag. yesterday. The 38-year- But by this point, Indonesian old local government JAKARTA: Furious officials sent army and navy personnel had employee was returning troops to Indonesian islets near Sin- already been dispatched from a local from work in the south- gapore after an online map of an eco base at the weekend to the resort to ern city of Gwangju on resort mistakenly suggested they place the country’s flag on the high- Tuesday when he was belong to the city-state. est point of one of the islands. struck by the 25-year- Indonesian lawmakers also Local tourism chief Guntur Sakti old student, the Yonhap demanded the country’s sovereignty said he had sent a warning to Singa- news agency said. The be defended as anger mounted at pore over the map, while Indonesian man had been walking the map of the under-construction parliament speaker Ade Komaruddin with his wife who was “Funtasy Island”. The map initially told news website Tribunnews that eight months pregnant showed the islets that make up the “our sovereignty must be upheld”. and their five-year-old resort in blue, the same colour as However Indonesian foreign son. Both men were Singapore, prompting outrage in ministry spokesman Arrmanatha taken to a nearby hospi- Indonesian media at what they said Nasir played down the row, saying tal but neither survived, was an attempt to claim their coun- it was due to a mistake by the group Yonhap said. The agency try’s territory by stealth. Funtasy Island Development, which said police planned to Both governments scrambled to is building the resort. charge the dead student defuse the escalating anger, with the Funtasy Island Development with manslaughter in A pair of weaver birds build their nest hanging from a tree on the outskirts of Kathmandu yesterday. city-state’s foreign ministry saying insisted in a statement it recognised order to ease any insur- Weavers, small passerine birds related to finches, are one of some 868 species of birds found in Nepal. it was “deeply puzzled” since it did the islands were all Indonesian and ance claim brought by The country’s diverse topography and climate is home to more than 10 percent of the world’s bird species. not claim the islands while Jakarta it had never claimed the resort was the other man’s family. insisted it was a mistake. inside Singaporean territory. ASIA / AFRICA THURSDAY 2 JUNE 2016 09 Lone voices speak out in Zimbabwe as Mugabe clings on

AFP failure to provide basic services. to western powers supposedly plot- who is missing—and feared dead— out even after being detained for The video, in which Mawarire ting to oust Mugabe, who has ruled after being abducted in mysterious a lone protest carrying a placard Japan military was wearing a Zimbabwean flag, since 1980. Mawarire, 39, a father of circumstances more than a year ago. that read “Mr President, the people became a huge hit — viewed more two who describes himself as “just Last month, Mudzvova was briefly are suffering” outside the ZANU-PF joins search for HARARE: Dissent is seldom aired pub- than 100,000 times — and spawned a regular guy who likes to express detained by police after staging a annual conference last year. licly in Zimbabwe after Robert Mugabe’s a wave of Internet activism in a coun- himself”, says he now fears he will one-actor play outside parliament He was released on $50 bail after missing boy 35 years of authoritarian rule but, try where any expression of protest attract unwelcome attention from denouncing state corruption and spending 16 days behind bars. Unde- against all the odds, individual voices can be dangerous. the authorities. environmental damage. terred, Mugadza last month gave a are taking a stand and tapping into “This is how political reform is “I am afraid of being beaten, hurt “There are issues that the govern- sermon while chained to a lamp-post Tokyo: Japan’s mili- anger bubbling below the surface. going to happen,” Mawarire said. or abducted,” he said. Sylvanos Mudz- ment needs to address but hasn’t and in Harare telling listeners “until we tary yesterday joined President Mugabe, now aged 92, “I asked as many Zimbabweans as vova, an actor, knows all too well that we shouldn’t keep our mouths shut stand up and demand our freedom, the search for a seven- oversees a moribund economy, a food possible to carry our national flag as Zimbabwe can be a violent and dan- in a conspiracy of silence,” Mudz- we will watch our nation bleeding to year-old boy missing shortage crisis and a listless political a way of saying to our government gerous place for subversive voices. vova said at Alliance Francaise in death.” Such individual protests pose in the country’s north scene with opposition parties weak- ‘enough is enough’. “Citizens are He was mugged by unidentified Harare while preparing to stage his little threat to Mugabe, who retains a since his parents said ened by rigged elections and constant aware, they are watching the govern- assailants in 2013 after he wrote and solo act on the opaque diamond-min- fierce grip on power despite increas- they abandoned him in intimidation. Amid such gloom, pas- ment when it comes to issues where staged a play about the Arab Spring. ing industry. ing signs of ageing and has vowed to a bear-inhabited moun- tor Evan Mawarire has emerged as a we feel there is mismanagement of The play told of disillusioned Zim- To avoid arrest, Mudzvova often run for re-election in 2018. tain forest, officials said. national hero in recent weeks after resources or an injustice.” babweans including a street vendor and performs what he calls “hit-and- But they offer glimmers of hope A total of 75 personnel starting his “ThisFlag” campaign that The campaign has unnerved the a motor mechanic who planned their run” shows in a public places, such as to the many Zimbabweans who wait from the Ground Self- rapidly became an unlikely outlet for government due to its non-political own version of the protests in Harare’s shopping centres and marketplaces, for the country to begin a new chapter Defence Force — Japan’s many Zimbabweans’ frustration. stance and its choice of the national main public square. The mugging left without any warning. when Mugabe’s long rule finally ends. army — joined some 130 Two days after Mugabe recited flag as its symbol — making it a diffi- Mudzvova with a paralysed left leg, and He quickly performs his short play “This can get serious on the back of fire rescuers, police offic- a list of his achievements at a rally cult target for official criticism. he still walks with a limp. and leaves the surprised audience the deteriorating economy,” Ibbo Man- ers and volunteers to in April, Mawarire posted a video of Two cabinet ministers have Mudzvova is also a close friend pondering the issues he has raised. daza, head of the think-tank Southern look for the boy, rescuer himself on Facebook venting against instead sought to focus on Mawar- of Itai Dzamara, an outspoken anti- Another cleric, Patrick Mugadza, African Political and Economic Series, Satoshi Saito said. Yam- state corruption and the government’s ire himself, alleging that he is linked Mugabe protester and rights activist has vowed he will continue to speak said. “Anything can happen.” ato Tanooka has been missing since Saturday after his parents said they made him get out their car on a mountain road Vivid walkway as punishment for misbe- Indonesia to roll having. He is reportedly without food or water. Rescuers have admitted it is a frustratingly difficult task to find the vanished out biggest boy due to a lack of evi- dence found so far of his presence in the rugged mountainous area on the wild bear-inhabited island healthcare plan of Hokkaido. Man loses leg

far members of the programme in in shark attack the world’s fourth most populous The scheme aims nation, and it has been credited with Perth: A surfer was criti- to make healthcare helping many since its 2014 launch. cal yesterday after a shark But it faces numerous chal- ripped off his leg in an accessible to the lenges, from underfunding, to slow attack in Australia’s west country’s entire and patchy implementation, to cases with witnesses recounting like Karmila’s, where the system has how “all hell broke loose” population of 255 become a victim of its own success as his board was snapped million by 2019. in densely populated areas, leading in half. The attack hap- to long queues. pened at Falcon Beach, Karmila, whose 72-year-old a suburb south of Perth, Visitors walk through a light tunnel at the Botanical Gardens during the Vivid Sydney festival yesterday. mother suffers from multiple ailments, late on Tuesday not long AFP said she also suspected that one public Vivid Sydney, an annual festival of light, music and ideas, runs till June 18. after Surf Life Saving WA, hospital was turning ordinary people a volunteer non-profit away and instead reserving places for organisation, tweeted privately-insured patients, who bring that a shark, believed JAKARTA: When Heni Karmila bigger profits. to be a great white, had sought to find a doctor for her ail- In the remote and poor east of been sighted in the area. ing mother using Indonesia’s new the country, the problems are dif- Over 17 million women and girls The West Australian healthcare system, she faced a nine- ferent — people may theoretically newspaper reported that hour wait in a line outside a crowded have access to healthcare under the Ben Gerring, 29, was with public hospital in Jakarta. JKN, but often there are not enough collect water in Africa every day a group of other surfers “The queue at the hospital is hospitals and doctors to provide it. when he was hit by the always very long, packed with The most pressing challenge shark, which it said sev- young and old people, pregnant in recent months has been under- ered his right leg above women, people who have had acci- funding as patients flocked to use the Reuters author of the study, told the Thom- the time and energy it takes to col- the knee. Fellow surfers dents, those in need of operations system, prompting the agency that son Reuters Foundation. lect water, Graham said. dragged the heavily- and even tiny babies,” the small busi- runs the JKN to warn it could run out “I knew it would be large... but I Since they often need to walk bleeding man to shore as ness owner, 43, said. of money as its funds may not cover didn’t realise it would be that high,” long distances to find water, women he lost consciousness. The case illustrates the chal- claims from medical providers. LONDON: At least 17 million women added Graham, who is professor at and children are also at a higher risk Seven Hong Kong lenges for Indonesia as it seeks to roll Despite resistance from lawmak- and girls in Africa collect water every the Milken Institute School of Pub- of sexual abuse, he added. out one of the world’s biggest univer- ers and the public, the government in day, which increases their risk of sex- lic Health at The George Washington In a statement issued last cops in court sal healthcare systems. The scheme April increased the premiums paid ual abuse, disease and dropping out University. The daily practice causes month, the Human Rights Commis- aims to make healthcare accessible by some users. Monthly premiums of school, a study published yester- musculoskeletal damage, soft tissue sion of Sierra Leone said drought Hong Kong: Seven Hong to the country’s entire population now range from 80,000 rupiah day has found. damage and can lead to early arthri- was putting even more pressure on Kong police officers of 255 million by 2019, part of the (around $6) in the top category of It is one of the first studies to tis, Graham said. children to find water. “Children, par- were in court yester- government’s efforts to direct some the JKN — which provides better calculate how many women and People also have to contend with ticularly girls, are out in the street day over the beating of of the benefits of strong economic services, such as private rooms in children were responsible for water water-borne diseases like schisto- very late at night or as early as 4am in a pro-democracy pro- growth into improved welfare. hospital as opposed to wards — to collection in Africa, the researchers somiasis, an infection caused by search of water,” the statement read. tester during mass rallies Joining is compulsory, with most 25,000 rupiah (around $2) in the said. Using datasets from the World parasitic worms living in fresh water, “This heightens their vulnera- in 2014, an incident members paying a small premium. bottom category. Bank, the UN children’s agency he said. Across all 24 countries exam- bility and contributes to increase in which was captured on Civil servants are automatically In the past, most Indonesians Unicef, and the US Agency for Inter- ined, including Sierra Leone, Malawi teenage pregnancy, child labour, high film and beamed around enrolled, private companies must sign relied on private insurance of some national Development, researchers and Niger, more girls were tasked rates of school drop outs, and poor the world. On the first up staff while the self-employed and sort while those deemed living in found that around 3 million children with water collection than boys. school performance,” it said. day of their highly antici- those working in the informal sector poverty got free public health care and 14 million women collect water Women were also the primary water Demand for water is expected pated trial, the seven men are required to join themselves. — but this left millions stuck in the in sub-Saharan Africa. collector in all countries. to increase by 2050 as the world’s all pleaded not guilty to The poorest get care for free middle, too poor to afford care but “The absolute number of adult Children are pulled out of school population is forecast to grow by the attack on Civic Party under the system, known as the JKN. not poor enough to qualify for gov- females affected by this practice for the daily task, and many women one-third to more than 9 billion, activist Ken Tsang. The A total of 160 million people are so ernment assistance. was a shock to me,” Jay Graham, lead cannot earn an income because of according to the United Nations. seven men, including sen- ior officers, are charged with causing grievous bodily harm with intent on Tsang, while one also Leopard scare Defiant Thai leader rebukes ‘haters’ faces an allegation of common assault. They were suspended from AFP sentenced to seven-and-a-half years in prison duty after their arrests. for royal defamation — one of several harsh laws the junta has used to curb critics, especially on Simone Gbagbo the Internet. BANGKOK: Thailand’s junta leader swatted The singer, known by his stage name Tom claims ‘abuse’ away critics yesterday, vowing to stay in power Dundee, was convicted for comments he made “despite how much you hate me”, as tensions sim- in a 2013 speech at a political rally organised by Abidjan: Ivory Coast’s mer before a referendum which the military says supporters of the now-ousted government. former first lady Simone will pave the way for elections. Prayut also defended the sweeping powers Gbagbo yesterday denied Prime Minister Prayut Chan-O-Cha seized granted to him as junta chief, saying “there are charges of crimes against power two years ago from the elected government still some politicians expressing their opinions”. humanity during politi- when he was army chief, promising to heal a bitter On the surface the political climate has cal violence in 2010 and decade-long political divide. But his regime has calmed significantly under the junta, follow- said she had suffered curbed free speech, outlawed political activities ing years of competing street protests that often attempted rape while in and penned a new charter designed to entrench turned deadly. But disquiet is returning before an detention. “I stand before the military’s role in government. August referendum on the charter, despite a new this court on the demand “I won’t go anywhere as long as the country law which punishes campaigning in the run-up of the government and is not at peace and in order. I won’t leave, despite to the vote with up to 10 years in prison. for crimes that I did not how much you hate me,” Prayut, who is renowned The junta has promised elections will go commit,” Gbagbo said as Nepalese government officials and police carry a tranquilised wild leopard for his often irate outbursts, said in remarks to a ahead in 2017 but has not clarified what will hap- her trial went into its sec- which entered a residential area in Kuleshowor, Kathmandu, yesterday. forum in Bangkok. pen if the charter is rejected in the referendum, ond day. While he was speaking, a Thai folk singer was raising fears the timetable will slip once again. 10 THURSDAY 2 JUNE 2016 VIEWS

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EDITORIAL Unwise comment Opec meet will miss Al Naimi ith a North Korean newspaper calling Donald Trump ‘wise’, the reputation of the waters as he did most recently in to advocate on behalf of Saudi presumptive Republican nominee who has February in Houston as oil prices Arabia’s new reform plans rather been leading a verbal rampage against so W danced at 13-year lows, he boldly Young people than to engage with fellow Opec many — from Mexicans to journalists — has reminded his U.S. competitors that members around future strategy. finally been proved. It would be the only newspaper in the world “we are all in it together.” sometimes ask me, But either way, for most observ- to have lauded the trash-talking Trump and the only source of The majority of the 13 minis- what is the secret ers the group will remain on the praise for the presidential hopeful. ters meeting today in Vienna for sidelines in an everyone for them- the 169th Opec Conference weren’t of your success? I selves posture. Calling Trump wise is like upending the meaning of the word in office when Al Naimi led the oil tell them there is no “Opec’s previous ability to which in public life is used for people with a learned worldview exporters group to make an historic swing prices was when it had a and a grasp of public policy. Indeed those who can participate change of direction in November secret. Number one: monopoly over the market. Now in the race for the most coveted position in the world ought to be 2014 away from maximizing rev- Hard work! There with many players in the mix, it is up By Sean Evers wise. But to use the word for the likes of Donald Trump would be enue to maximizing market share. is no substitute for to the market forces to decide who a travesty of wisdom. This decision accelerated a col- stays in business and who leaves,” lapse in the oil price and set it on said HE Abdullah Bin Hamad Al- It is not surprising that a paper from the isolated state hard work, and that a two-year roller coaster ride that Attiyah, Chairman of the Abdullah has been unwise enough to praise an individual who is most pec, which accounts for has delivered much pain and sig- goes for studying Bin Hamad Al-Attiyah International undeserving of such adulation. about a third of global nificant budget deficits to all Opec and in their work. Foundation for Energy & Sustaina- What can be expected of a press that crude oil supply, will member states. ble Development, who was Qatar’s regularly heaps praise on an autocratic convene in Vienna today Oil prices have seen a series of oil minister at the 98th Opec Con- Ofor the first time in 21 years and 70 spectacular 50+% drops and 50+% ference in mid-1995, the last time Donald Trump ruler given to political purges. During his campaign, Trump has summits without the formidable Ali recoveries since mid 2014 when oil The current market-share baton the group met without Al Naimi as and North Al Naimi sitting in the chair of the prices were sitting stable after many now passes onto a new generation Saudi Minister. “If Opec were to cut Korea have in offered to talk to North Korean leader cartel boss Saudi Arabia – yet the years above $100 a barrel – thus of relatively inexperienced energy production by let’s say 1.5 million Kim Jong-un. He also promised to shadow of the diminutive former far this year we have seen prices officials at a time when the group is barrels per day and the next day common that withdraw American troops from the desert-office boy will loom large drop to under $25 a barrel early in once again vulnerable to reverting the price goes up, the other pro- which can be Korean peninsula. Washington has over the busy noisy room. the first quarter only to recover to back to a gaggle of states bicker- ducers will take the whole share wrong with troops in South Korea, a close ally and Prior to his arrival as the defacto reach $50 a barrel in recent days as ing over what fissures divide them, - there is no benefit for Opec in rival of the North. The two Koreas are leader of the oil exporting group Al Naimi’s market-share strategy rather than the technocrat Al Naimi that. Let market forces determine an individual in late 1995, the disparate group starts to finally show dividends. way of focusing on policies that are the oil price now,” Al Attiyah said. separated by the 38th parallel and have and state. of Asian-Arab-African-Latam This has been the former Saudi mutually beneficial. His Excellency Ali Al Naimi was been technically at war in the absence countries would spend weeks in Minister of Petroleum & Mineral The world awaits to find out this year’s recipient of The 2016 of a ceasefire. convocation twice a year trying Resources third time leading Opec whether Al-Falih and more impor- Honorary Lifetime Achievement The press, like everything else, is to reach a consensus on the next into battle against a price collapse, tantly his boss, Saudi Arabia’s Award for the Advancement of tightly controlled in North Korea and policy to adopt in what appeared and it is starting to appear like he Deputy Crown Prince Moham- International Energy Policy & Diplo- the DPRK Today editorial praising the business tycoon could be to be a perpetual standoff with retires with a perfect 3 and 0 score. med Bin Salman bin AbdulAziz, macy presented by the Abdullah closer to government policy. Though Pyongyang may not have their international partners. The He played a key role in efforts to will approach Opec as an impor- bin Hamad Al-Attiyah International father of four took the reins of a defend prices when they dropped tant tool in the kingdom’s major Foundation for Energy & Sustain- directed the paper to appreciate Trump’s mental faculties, it very geopolitically-focused Opec to $10 a barrel in 1997 as the Asian economic reform plan or as a dis- able Development. is clear that the official stance wouldn’t be far removed from that obsessed over the fractures financial crisis took hold, and again traction that will be left to wither The writer is founder and what the publication said. On Tuesday, the bumbling Trump that divided the group and put it in decade or so later when oil prices on the vine. Managing Partner of Gulf Intelli- railed against journalists at a press conference. He said that the the hands of technocrats that spent fell off a cliff from $150 a barrel The first signals look reas- gence. He spent his career building press has been picking on him and pointing out his mistakes. hours instead of weeks agreeing to $30 during the 2008-09 glo- suring with AL-Falih arriving in ground-breaking media enter- What else would the real estate tycoon expect the press to do? It mutually beneficial strategies that bal credit crisis when Al Naimi Vienna 3 days ahead of the Opec prises, correspondent for The served their customers. choreographed Opec to slash pro- summit on June 2nd, but it would Financial Times in Cairo and rep- cannot sing paeans for him when all that Trump can do is court “Young people sometimes ask duction by 4 million barrels a day appear that may be the early arrival resentative of Bloomberg in UAE controversies. The papers will not give him glowing headlines me, what is the secret of your suc- and send prices back up to $100 may be more to avail of the single and US Media regional network of if he growls at a journalist and calls him a sleaze before his cess? I tell them there is no secret. a barrel. swoop access to the global media bureaus in the ME. colleagues at a press conference. Number one: hard work! There is Trump and North Korea embody a strange symbolism. The no substitute for hard work, and Republican contender and the reclusive state seem to live on the that goes for studying and in their fringes of a world order given to common sense and the concept work,” Al Naimi told an industry audience last week in Doha in what of justice. Though hundreds of thousands on the globe have been was his first public address since wronged, no state or individual stands blatantly against the being retired on May 7th. “Number world order as do Trump and Pyongyang. two, I tell them, make your boss look good. If you do, maybe he will be promoted and you can take his job!” the Stanford University gradu- ate said a fortnight after his protégé Khalid Al-Falih took over his post as the kingdom’s oil minister. HE Al Naimi’s journey to Quote of the day become the most influential man in the global oil markets began 70 In Brazil, we have the years ago, when as a 12-year old boy problem of Zika and at the he signed up to run errands at Saudi Arabia’s state-owned oil company same time we have a political Aramco, rising to become its first problem. And that, for a Saudi President. He climbed up the country that lives sport, a ranks and became the Minister of country that practises sport, Petroleum and Mineral Resources in 1995, putting him at the helm of it’s very sad. the world’s largest crude exporting group. As the Opec linchpin, Saudi Pele Arabia and Al Naimi’s influence Brazil’s football legend stretched far beyond the country’s borders and he was regularly called upon to calm oil markets through A file picture of Saudi Arabia’s former oil minister, Ali bin Ibrahim Al Naimi, talking to journalists turbulent political and economic before a meeting of Opec oil ministers in Vienna, Austria, last year.

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By Tobin Harshaw Bloomberg

he bombers came in over the Iraqi desert just before dawn, attack- ing the road to Baghdad so as to avoid civilian carnage in the city Tcenter or damage to the vital bridge span- ning the Euphrates River. Later, the British crews switched from munitions to leaflets in Arabic, urging the small band of Iraqi rebels holding Fallujah to abandon their hopeless position. But no surrender came. In all, the Royal Air Force dropped more than 10 tonnes of munitions to support the invasion by ground troops. A last ditch to turn the fight by the German Luftwaffe was brushed aside, and the garrison of 300 or so Iraqis surrendered. Not a sin- gle British life was lost. Today, as Iraqi troops and their Iranian and US advisers gear up to take Fallujah back from insurgents for the third time in Internally displaced civilians from Fallujah flee their homes during a fight between Iraqi security forces and Daesh militants during a military operation to a dozen years, nobody expects things to regain control of the city, outside Fallujah, west of Baghdad, Iraq, yesterday. go as smoothly as they did on May 18-19, 1941. While the Islamic State forces there today are hardly more numerous than Fallujah has come to represent both the uprising by the end of April, the Baghdad from Baghdad, it is an isolated pocket of civilians by Shiite militias that occurred the Nazi sympathizers of the Iraqi mili- shortsightedness of the American inva- government failed to restore order. Within Islamic State resistance and its strategic after the retaking of Tikrit last year, it tary were 75 years ago, they are far more sion of Iraq and the courage of US troops months, the insurgents regained the upper importance in the current war is relatively will be that much harder to persuade devoted to their cause. As at Ramadi and in trying to salvage some kind of victory. hand in Fallujah, led in part by Abu Musab minor. This has led to some idiocy among Mosul’s residents that government forces Tikrit over the last 14 months, they can be American forces first took the city AlZarqawi, founder of the radical group that historically challenged commentators who are approaching in a spirit of liberation expected to rig deadly booby traps, take without incident in April 2003, which would eventually become Islamic State. would have you believe that Fallujah is rather than vengeance. And a botched sniper positions on rooftops and give their was somewhat surprising considering its So in late 2004, for a second time, US simply “a symbol of the utter pointless- Fallujah operation could even be the lives in suicide car attacks. residents were mostly Sunni Arabs like troops spearheaded an efficient effort to ness of US efforts in Iraq.” end of Prime Minister Haider AlAbadi, More than any other city or town, the ousted dictator, Saddam Hussein. But cleanse the city of rebels. It was marked The upcoming battle is in fact hugely who remains the best hope for a unified, tensions rose over the next 11 months, by widespread destruction of homes, the meaningful -- as a precursor to the looming multiethnic Iraq. In this sense, it may be culminating in the fatal ambush by Iraqi deaths of more than 50 Americans and 1,200 effort to retake Mosul, the nation’s second- nearly as important as the brief battle of insurgents of four US military contrac- rebel fighters, and some of the best jour- largest city and a hodgepodge of ethnic and 1941, which the military historian Robert tors, whose burned bodies were paraded nalism of the Iraq war -- by Dexter Filkins religious groups. So here are three things Lyman notes could have cost the British around town before being hung on the of the New York Times, Anthony Shadid to watch for: whether the performance their foothold in the Middle East and the The Royal Air Force dropped more Euphrates bridge. of the Washington Post, and Bing West, and coordination of the Iraqi military has eastern Mediterranean. than 10 tonnes of munitions to It was that searing image of charred a former assistant secretary of defense, improved since the uneven effort to retake The coming fight will also echo 2004. support the invasion by ground corpses that, for many Americans, was among others. Ramadi last December; whether the Ira- Shadid, who died reporting from war-torn the tipoff that things were not going to get And now we’ll watch history repeat nian-backed Shiite militias are allowed Syria in 2012, and Karl Vick wrote 12 years troops. A last ditch to turn the better in Iraq for a very, very long time. It itself. Again. In January 2014, the city fell (or force their way) into the fighting in ago that the battle for Fallujah had “less fight by the German Luftwaffe was was also the moment it became very clear to Islamic State forces, who now hold about the middle of the heavily Sunni city; and to do with battlefield success than with a that we were no longer fighting old-regime 50,000 civilians hostage. Last week, the whether the shaky Baghdad government cause infused with righteousness and sac- brushed aside, and the garrison of loyalists but an altogether new insurgency Iraqi military began pounding suspected can establish a new civic administration rifice.” For the Islamic State zealots now 300 or so Iraqis surrendered. Not a among Iraqis opposed to the US occupa- jihadist strongholds with artillery, urging that can restore basic services and keep rigging homemade bombs in the city’s single British life was lost. tion of their country. residents to flee or raise white flags over sectarian tensions in check. basements, that motivation remains mur- While US reinforcements quelled the their shelters. While the city is just 35 miles If we see the sorts of abuses of Sunni derously powerful. Global-warming alarmists, you’re doing it wrong

economy. Enormous mental effort essentially what the “lukewarmists” of climate catastrophe, just as I would planet than in forcing their own left- and not a few careers were invested bring to discussions about climate support even a very expensive system wing economic order on the rest of the in building out these models. And then change. They concede that all else to detect and deflect massive asteroids world. Many of these claims about the whole effort was basically aban- equal, more carbon dioxide will cause that might hit our planet. We’ve only motives are probably not entirely false doned, because the models failed to the climate to warm. But, they say that got the one planet so far, and it would -- it’s difficult to change your mind outperform mindless trend extrapo- warming is likely to be mild unless you be a shame if something happened to when you’ve built a career around a lation -- or as Kevin Hassett once put use a model which assumes large pos- it.) I urge you to read it because it is a certain set of theories -- but they’re it, “a ruler and a pencil.” itive feedback effects. Because climate calm, measured, very thoughtful lay- certainly not entirely true, and they’re Computers are better now, but the scientists, like the macroeconomists, ing out of the lukewarmist case by a largely beside the point. If Joseph Sta- Computers are problem was not really the comput- can’t run experiments where they test very smart person who has put a lot of lin tells you that the sky is blue, he’s better now, but ers; it was that the variables were too one variable at a time, predictions of time and effort into thinking about the right, even if he’s wrong about nearly many, and the underlying processes feedback effects involve a lot of the- subject -- much more time and effort everything else, and an authoritarian the problem was By Megan McArdle not understood nearly as well as econ- ory and guesswork. I do not denigrate than 99 percent of the angry people monster to boot. not really the Bloomberg omists had hoped. Economists can’t theory and guesswork; they are a vital on both sides who shout over dinner The arguments about global run experiments in which they change part of advancing the sum of human tables and type in all caps. warming too often sound more like computers; it was one variable at a time. Indeed, they knowledge. But when you’re relying on The series is also a model of how theology than science. Oh, the word that the variables don’t even know what all the varia- theory and guesswork, you always want to talk about the subject. Meyer says “science” gets thrown around a great were too many, sk a Washington dinner party bles are. to leave plenty of room for the possi- “this is what I think, and this is why I deal, but it’s cited as a sacred author- full of moderately well informed This meant that they were stuck bility that your model’s output is (how think it.” People can certainly disa- ity, not a fallible process that staggers and the underlying Apeople what will happen with guessing from observational data of shall I put this?) … wrong. gree with his conclusions, and I would only awkwardly and unevenly toward processes not Iran over the next five years, and you’ll a system that was constantly chang- Naturally, proponents of climate- be very interested to see climate blog- the truth, with frequent lurches in the end up with a consensus that gee, that’s ing. They could make some pretty good change models have welcomed the gers engage with Meyer’s series in wrong direction. I cannot count the understood tough. Ask them what GDP growth will guesses from that data, but when you lukewarmists’ constructive input by like manner: refraining from calling number of times someone has told me nearly as well be in fall 2019, and they’ll probably con- built a model based on those guesses, carefully considering their points and names or questioning motives, and that they believe in “the science,” as if verge on a hesitant “2 or 3 percent, I it didn’t work. So economists tweaked by advancing counterarguments firmly instead calmly laying out the reasons that were the name of some omnis- as economists guess?” On the other hand, ask them the models, and they still didn’t work. couched in the scientific method. that they think warming is likely to be cient god who had delivered us final had hoped. what’s going to happen to the climate More tweaking, more not working. No, of course I’m just kidding. catastrophic. answers written in stone. For those Economists can’t over the next 100 years, and what you’re Eventually it became clear that The reaction to these mild assertions But vanishingly little of the debate people, there can be only two cate- likely to hear is angry. there was no way to make them work is often to brand the lukewarmists is conducted in those sorts of terms. gories in the debate: believers and run experiments in How can one be certain about out- given the current state of knowledge. “deniers” and treat them as if what Skeptics are accused of being ideo- unbelievers. Apostles and heretics. which they change comes in a complex system that we’re In some sense the “data” being mod- they were saying was morally and log- logues, or in the pay of the fossil fuel This is, of course, not how science not really all that good at modeling? eled was not pure economic data, but ically equivalent to suggesting that the industry, or simply selfish monsters works, and people who treat it this way one variable at Anyone who’s familiar with the his- rather the opinions of the tweaking Holocaust never happened. who care nothing for future genera- are not showing their scientific bona a time. Indeed, tory of macroeconomic modeling in economists about what was going If you’re not familiar with the luke- tions. The other side -- who expect big fides; they are violating the very thing the 1960s and 1970s will be tempted to happen in the future. It was more warmist case, I urge you to read the temperature jumps and catastrophic in which they profess such deep belief. they don’t even to answer “Umm, we can’t.” Econo- efficient just to ask them what they nine-part series by Arizona business consequences -- are accused of being One does not believe in “science” as know what all the mists thought that the explosion of thought was going to happen. People owner Warren Meyer at CoyoteBlog. ideologues, or interested in making an answer; science is a way of ask- data and increasingly sophisticated still use models, of course, but only the com. I am not urging you to read it an alarmist case in order to further ing questions. At any given time, that variables are. theory was going to allow them to unflappable true believers place great because I agree with every part. (In their own careers as climate change method produces a lot of ideas, some produce reasonably precise fore- weight on their predictive ability. particular, I’m much more eager to activists, or authoritarian monsters of which are correct, and many of casts of what would happen in the This lesson from economics is ensure against even a small chance who are less interested in saving the which are false, in part or in whole.

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National Assembly AyazSadiq. 2016-17 will take place on June 21. 45 percent on the basis of minimum Some efforts were made in the tax rates apply for filers and non- After discussion and taking into Meanwhile, various proposals are basic pay scale of 2008, might be past to reform the pension but it failed filers of salaried persons. Most of Sharif ministry account suggestions by representative under consideration of the govern- transferred on the basis of minimum to deliver any good on the ground. On them do not file returns. At present, mulling proposals of the political parties in the National ment to revise the pay scales of civil pay scale of 2015. The conveyance pay increase, the Finance Ministry’s 309,941 salaried persons are filers and Assembly, it was decided that general servants by merging one or two ad allowance may also be increased in Regulation Wing prepared different 1,038,193 are non-filers, reflecting a to revise pay scales discussion on the budget will continue hoc allowances into basic pay scales the upcoming budget. proposals for Finance Minister Ishaq total of 1,349,134 salaried persons. of government from June 6 to 15. and then granting 5 to 10 percent On the pension side, 80 percent Dar as currently four ad hoc allow- Tax deducted from filers amounted It was also decided that Minis- increase in salaries and pensions of pension amount is being consumed ances are not part of basic pay scales. to Rs58.75bn and tax deducted from employees. ter for Finance Ishaq Dar will wind civil and armed forces personnel in by retired military personnel while The ad hoc allowance provided in non-filers stood at Rs20.71bn so total up general discussion on the budget the upcoming budget. only 20 percent is utilised by civil- 2010 stands at 50 percent which will amount stood at Rs79.46bn. followed by discussion on appropria- One percent raise in salaries of ian retired workforce. The pension not be merged into basic pay scale. The Federal board of Revenue tion in respect of charged expenditure public sector employees is estimated reforms remained a problematic The second ad hoc allowance of 10 proposed increasing tax rate by 15 Internews 2016-17 on June 16. to cost the national exchequer Rs2.5bn area as none of the governments percent in 2013 may be merged into percent for each slab for non-filers It was also decided that discus- to the federal government alone, so irrespective of dictatorial or demo- basic pay scales. except low salary class. The FBR has sion and voting on cut motions and the pay increase will depend upon cratic regimes in the last two decades The remaining ad hoc allow- estimated to generate Rs2.5bn in the demand for grants in respect of voted the availability of resource envelop. had undertaken any serious efforts to ances of 10 per cent in 2014 and 7.5 next financial year if the government ISLAMABAD: As the national budget expenditure 2016-17 would be taken The Consumer Price Index (CPI)- introduce the reforms. percent in 2015 is also under consid- grants green signal to this idea. for the new fiscal year 2016-17, which up on June 17 and 18. based inflation stands at 2.8 percent “Every financial year, the govern- eration to be merged into basic pay The annual exemption threshold begins on July 1, is expected to be The parties agreed that the con- on average in July-April 2015-16, so by ment utilised taxpayers’ money to pay scale and then provide 5 to 10 per- for salaried class stands at Rs0.4m . presented in the National Assembly sideration and passage of Finance linking the pay increase with the CPI pension amount runs into billions of cent raise in shape of fresh allowance The tax has been charged above the tomorrow, the government has set a Bill 2016 will take place on June 20 basket will allow the government to rupees. Why does not the government in the upcoming budget. annual threshold of Rs0.4m. deadline of June 20 for its passage. and discussion on supplementary increase salaries in the range of 5-10 establish a pension fund on the pat- Tax proposal for salaried class: However, there is no proposal to Official sources said here yes- demands for grants and appropri- percent after merging the existing one tern of modern world and run it on The government is considering slap- increase the existing threshold for sal- terday the decision was taken in a ation 2015-16 in respect of charged or two ad hoc allowances. professional lines instead of utilising ping 15 percent tax on non-filers for aried individuals for the purpose of meeting of the House Business Advi- and voted expenditure and laying of The House Rent Allowance taxpayers’ money to pay the pension each slabs of salaried class in the tax payments in the upcoming finance sory Committee chaired by Speaker schedule of authoriszed expenditure (HRA), which is currently granted as liabilities,” said the official. upcoming budget. Currently, same bill 2016-17.

Karzai to visit Nawaz Sharif & Imran Islamabad got worst attendance next month

KABUL: Former Afghan president in National Assembly Hamid Karzai has said he will visit Pakistan next month. “I’ve received an invitation Internews percent of sittings. from Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif Leader of the Opposition Khur- a couple of days back,” Karzai told a shid Shah had an impressive 73 group of journalists at his residence percent attendance and the remain- in Kabul this week. He thanked ISLAMABAD: Opposition leader ing parliamentary leaders had better Premier Nawaz and prayed for his Imran Khan has left Prime Minis- records: Iftikhar Uddin of All Paki- recovery from a major heart sur- ter Nawaz Sharif behind with least stan Muslim League had the highest gery. Karzai said cordial relations attendance in the National Assem- attendance at 85 percent. between Afghanistan and Paki- bly for parliamentary year 2015-16, The overall attendance of mem- stan were in the interest of both which ended last week. bers in the 2015-16 parliamentary the neighbours. He praised Paki- Overall, Khan attended only 5 year was recorded at 61 percent of stan and its people for extending percent sittings of the house while the membership with 206 of 340 ‘tremendous support and hospital- Sharif was in attendance in 10 per- members in attendance on average ity’ to millions of Afghan refugees cent of the sessions. Meanwhile, Sharif per sitting. However, over the 103 sit- at a very crucial time. “The Afghans successfully underwent open heart tings this year, quorum was lacking 17 will remember their unprecedented surgery in London on Tuesday times, indicating that members might support forever,” he added. According to the latest statistical have attended the house, but many However, Karzai, who was report from the Pakistan Institute of stayed only long enough to mark known for his Pakistan-bashing Legislative Development and Trans- their attendance and did not actu- Supporters of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif hold oil lamps as they pray for his early recovery in Multan, during his elongated presidency, parency (PILDAT), Sharif managed to ally attend the entire session. yesterday. Sharif successfully underwent open heart surgery in London on Tuesday, his daughter said. did not miss the opportunity attend more sittings in the National The National Assembly received to find fault with Pakistan’s Assembly than the Senate where he its highest score of 51 per cent for its Afghan policy. “The Pakistani appeared just once in the whole year. legislative capacity in 2015-16. The the previous year when 26 bills were a worrisome trend: the passage of Commissioner and members of the establishment should focus on Sharif’s track record for the par- legislature saw an active membership submitted. hasty legislation. The 22nd Constitu- Election Commission of Pakistan was strengthening friendly relations liamentary year past is worse than the that laid 42 private members’ bills, Despite this important achieve- tional Amendment that redefined the tabled and passed on the same day with the Afghans instead of using preceding year when he attended 36 up from a significant 62 percent in ment, legislators were plagued by selection process of the Chief Election on May 19. pressure tactics,” he said. “Strate- gic depth should not be imposed on us this should be replaced with a policy of friendship.” Pakistan has long accused Six dead as Taliban bombers raid Afghan courthouse arch-rival India of using Afghan soil against Pakistan. And Kabul’s India leaning is no secret either. Asked about the ‘third country’ AFP northern Kunduz province, as the the complex. The Taliban said the through the insurgency-prone dis- religious figure in a swift power tran- undermining Kabul-Islamabad insurgents step up their annual spring attack was in retaliation for the exe- trict of Aliabad. sition after officially confirming the relations, Karzai said: “It shows offensive after naming a new leader. cution of six Taliban-linked inmates Most of the passengers have since death of Mullah Mansour in a US our weaknesses.” “Four attackers entered the court in early May, which were approved as been released but a handful are still in drone strike. He added that the ‘third force’ GHAZNI: Taliban suicide bomb- compound after killing the guard,” part of President Ashraf Ghani’s new Taliban captivity, officials said, with- The drone attack was the first has been involved in Afghanistan ers wearing police uniforms raided provincial police chief Aminullah hardline policy against the insurgents. out giving a precise number. known American assault on a top since long but Kabul never allowed a courthouse in the eastern Afghan Amarkhail said. “One of the attack- On Tuesday the Taliban killed 10 The violence underscores Afghan- Afghan Taliban leader on Pakistani it to materialise its dreams. He city of Ghazni yesterday, killing six ers detonated his suicide vest inside people after pulling them off buses in istan’s fragile security situation as the soil. said all issues between Pakistan people in what they said was revenge the compound and the three others the northern province of Kunduz, offi- militants intensify assaults against Mansour was killed just nine and Afghanistan could easily be for last month’s execution of Taliban- were gunned down by police.” cials said, revising down their earlier government forces after launching months after being formally resolved politically through mutual linked prisoners. The interior ministry said five toll of 16. The insurgents also kid- their spring offensive in April. appointed leader following a bitter understanding. He sought to quash The assault comes a day after civilians and one policeman were napped dozens of passengers, saying The Taliban last week announced power struggle upon the confirma- the impression that the Afghan the Taliban killed 10 bus passengers killed in the 30-minute assault, which they were targeting Afghan security Haibatullah Akhundzada as their tion of the death of Taliban founder government could not take deci- and kidnapped dozens of others in left bloodied corpses littered around officials aboard the buses passing new leader, elevating a low-profile Mullah Omar. sions as a sovereign nation. Islamabad teen burned alive for refusing marriage proposal

AFP Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences “We have arrested at least one of in the capital. the accused and a hunt is on for the Grieving relatives outside the rest,” Mazhar Iqbal, the officer direct- centre wept and protested at the teen- ing the murder investigation, said. ISLAMABAD: A young Pakistani ager’s death as police moved her body A doctor at the hospital said woman died yesterday after she was to another hospital for a post-mortem. Sadaqat had succumbed to serious tortured and set alight in the country’s Basit said his niece had been burns. “The poor woman was becom- conservative northeast for refusing a attacked by the principal of the pri- ing better but then could not survive marriage proposal from the son of a vate school where she had formerly because most parts of her body had former colleague, relatives and police worked as a teacher, and by his serious burn injuries,” said Ayesha said. accomplices after she refused a mar- Ihsani. Maria Sadaqat, 19, was attacked riage proposal from his son. It was the second time in just over by a group of people on Monday in “He was divorced and twice her a month that a Pakistani woman had the village of Upper Dewal close to age, so she refused the proposal and been murdered over a marriage issue. the summer hill resort of Murree, left her job when they pursued her A woman believed to be aged outside the capital Islamabad. “She time and again... eventually they between 16-18 was drugged, stran- was badly tortured and then burned attacked her,” Basit said. gled and her body burnt on the orders alive. We brought her to hospital in Police said Sadaqat gave a state- of a village jirga (council) in north- Islamabad but she succumbed to her ment before her death naming the west Pakistan on April 29, allegedly wounds today,” Abdul Basit, Sadaqat’s principal and four others as her for helping a friend to elope with her People gather around an ambulance carrying the body of the young woman who was tortured and set uncle, said outside a burns centre at attackers. lover. alight, outside a hospital in Islamabad, yesterday. INDIA THURSDAY 2 JUNE 2016 13

Inundated hope Answer sheets Congress faces of Bihar Class 12 toppers to be push to make rechecked Rahul president IANS PATNA: As eyebrows were raised over the academic aptitude of choice,” a party leader said. Class 12 “toppers” in Science and There is also a feeling in the Arts streams in Bihar this year, Party’s Working party that the elevation should not authorities yesterday announced Committee to meet be delayed for long as the party their results have been put on hold. has to plunge into preparations for The toppers were also ordered later this month to assembly polls in five states early to appear before a team of experts discuss issue along next year, including crucial states for interview and written exam- with poll results in of Uttar Pradesh and Punjab. ination to re-test their academic Punjab Congress chief Capt calibre. four states. Amarinder Singh in an interview “The Bihar School Examina- this week said that time has come tion Control Board (BSECB) has for the new generation to emerge in stayed the results of Class 12 Sci- the party. A shopkeeper waits for customers at his grocery shop on a flooded street after heavy rainfall in ence and Arts toppers and decided IANS Amarinder said that to conduct their interviews. A Kolkata yesterday. Sonia Gandhi might be special team will re-check their feeling tired. “It will be answer sheets also,” a senior offi- only fair if she wishes cials said yesterday. NEW DELHI: Demands to hand over (the reins The BSECB asked the Class for Congress Vice-Pres- of the party),” he said. 12 toppers in Science, Arts and ident Rahul Gandhi’s There has been Commerce streams to appear for (pictured) elevation recurrent speculation interviews and written examina- as the party chief are of Rahul Gandhi tak- Court to announce verdict tion on June 3 after it was reported growing and the issue ing over reins of the that they lacked even basic knowl- may figure in a Congress party from his mother edge about their subjects, BSECB Working Committee and Congress presi- on Gujarat massacre today Chairman Lalkeshwar Prasad (CWC) meeting expected dent Sonia Gandhi, who Singh said. later this month, party has led it for nearly “The Bihar School Exam sources said. 18 years. Committee of the Education They said a reshuffle of the All But the change has not come AFP Department has decided for the India Congress Committee is also about so far due to perceived reluc- first time to conduct interviews being contemplated and younger tance of Rahul Gandhi to assume of Class 12 exam toppers. A com- party leaders are likely to be pro- high party office. AHMEDABAD: A court is expected to mittee of the education board moted to positions of responsibilty. There have also been suggestions deliver its verdict today on 62 people will interview them, a board offi- “A meeting of the party’s Work- that Rahul Gandhi’s sister Priyanka accused of a massacre during reli- cial said. ing Committee is likely to take place Gandhi Vadra should play a more gious riots which swept Gujarat state Singh said action will be taken later this month after the biennial active role in politics. 14 years ago, a prosecutor said. against toppers if they failed in the elections to the Rajya Sabha are Rahul Gandhi was appointed They are charged with murder, interview and their results too will over,” a party leader said here. party vice-president in 2013. Several rioting, criminal conspiracy and be cancelled. The CWC is also expected to party leaders, including Digvijaya arson over the deaths of 69 Muslims Bihar Education Minister discuss the party’s showing in the Singh and Kamal Nath, have said in sheltering in a residential complex in Ashok Choudhary has already assembly polls in Assam, Kerala, the past that he should be elevated the city of Ahmedabad. assured of action against officials West Bengal and Tamil Nadu. and given full charge of the party. The riots have long dogged Prime found guilty. Party leaders have called for a Congress spokesperson Sushmita Minister Narendra Modi, who as chief Rubi Kumari, who topped in “major surgery” and “cardiac sur- Dev told reporters here yesterday minister of the state was accused of Class 12 (Intermediate) Humani- gery” since after the round of four that the party would like Rahul turning a blind eye to the pogrom in ties stream examination conducted assembly polls saw the Congress Gandhi to take up the leadership which more than 1,000 people died. File photograph showing firemen trying to put out a fire in Ahmedabad by BSECB this year, did not know reduced to being in power in only mantle. Public prosecutor RC Kodekar during rioting. about her own subjects. six states, most of them small ones. “There is lot of speculation going said a verdict was expected today For her, political science is a There is a feeling among lead- on and I think Sonia Gandhi ji and following a drawn-out trial that has June 2 to pronounce the judgement Hindus angry for revenge subject that imparts knowledge ers that Rahul Gandhi should take Rahul Gandhi ji have led the party been delayed for so long by appeals against 62 accused in the case. We rampaged through Muslim neigh- on cooking. up the responsibility of the party as through its many phases. There is, that six of the original accused have sought maximum punishment bourhoods in some of India’s worst Similarly, Saurabh Sresth did its chief and bring a new team with of course, a demand from various have died. Kodekar said yesterday for all of the accused,” Kodekar said. religious riots since 1947. not have basic knowledge of sci- fresh ideas to prepare ground for the quarters of workers and all of us he was seeking life in prison for all The attack was one of many kill- An investigative panel appointed ence. He said aluminium is an 2019 Lok Sabha elections. would like Rahul Gandhi ji to take 62 accused of storming the Gulbarg ings across Gujarat triggered by the by the Supreme Court concluded in active element in response to a “It is good that change comes the lead. As and when there is any Society complex, hacking to death death of 59 Hindu pilgrims in a train 2012 that there was no evidence question. But when asked about about because we have to be ready news, we will be happy to address and burning the Muslims hiding fire on February 27, 2002 that was to charge Modi himself and he has sodium and electrons, he failed for 2019. He (Rahul) is the best the issue,” she said. there. “The judge PB Desai has fixed initially blamed on Muslims. always denied any wrongdoing. to reply.

Indian Muslims have developed Jayalalithaa’s acquittal in graft case unsustainable: Karnataka ‘Indo-Islamic IANS challenging the acquittal of Jayala- accepting the arguments by the Tamil direct fresh trial or remit for the faults with the trial court judgment culture’: Ansari lithaa, her aide N Sasikala Natrajan Nadu Chief Minister would amount matter to the high court for fresh of conviction. and her two relatives V N Sudhakaran to throwing the anti-corruption law consideration. Telling the court that the bur- and Elavarasi by the Karnataka High - Prevention of Corruption Act - into The bench outlined the three den of proof of the legitimacy of the IANS NEW DELHI: Karnataka yesterday Court. They were accused of alleg- the dustbin. options available to it after senior sources of the income was on the told the Supreme Court that the state edly amassing disproportionate assets As arguments by Karnataka gov- counsel Dushyant Dave appearing for accused, Dave said merely that the high court judgment acquitting Tamil to the tune of Rs666.5m during her ernment were concluded, the court Karnataka described the judgment income tax department had accepted Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa first term as Chief Minister from 1991 said that one of the three options acquitting Jayalalithaa and others their returns does not attach legiti- RABAT: Indian Muslims have and three others in disproportionate to 1996. it may exercise would be either to as “perverse beyond imagination”, macy to their incomes and assets. lived in a religiously pluralis- assets case was unsustainable both on Describing the defence offered by uphold the high court verdict acquit- devoid of reasoning and based on He said that the income tax tic society over the years and the facts and law and defeated the very Jayalalithaa and three others as “cock ting Jayalalithaa and three others, “conjectures and surmises”. department was only concerned intermingling has helped develop purpose of cleansing the public life. and bull story”, the vacation bench reverse the high court verdict and He told the court it had the three with realising the tax and produc- “an Indo-Islamic culture in India”, The top court is hearing appeal of Justice Pinaki Chandra Ghose and restore the conviction or still after options available to it but could not tion of returns was not the end of the Vice President M Hamid Ansari by the Karnataka government Justice Amitava Roy was told that re-appreciating the entire evidence, re-appreciate the evidence to find matter. said here yesterday. He also said in the modern world with diversed cultures across the globe, tolerance alone is not adequate and efforts ought Rising malaise Call for action against kin of to be made to seek “acceptance of diversity as a civic virtue”. “The challenge for the modern world is to accept diversity as an man lynched in Uttar Pradesh existential reality and to config- ure attitudes and methodologies IANS Akhlaq’s family by the government should for dealing with it. In developing be taken back,” he added. such an approach, the traditional He also asked for releasing the persons virtue of tolerance is desirable but LUCKNOW: BJP parliamentarian Yogi Adi- arrested by the state police for Akhlaq’s insufficient,” he said delivering a tyanath yesterday said that action should be murder. lecture at the Mohammed V Uni- taken against Mohammed Akhlaq’s family An earlier report by Dadri Deputy Chief versity here during his ongoing for eating beef and the compensation given Veterinary Officer Y S Tomar had declared visit to Morocco. to the family should be taken back. the meat found in Akhlaq home was mut- “...our effort, thinking and Akhlaq, a resident of Bisara village near ton and not beef. practices have to look beyond it Dadri in Uttar Pradesh, was lynched by a After the Mathura lab’s report came out, and seek acceptance of diversity Hindu mob on September 28 last year for Tomar said he had only “visually examined” and adopt it as a civic virtue,” said allegedly possessing and eating beef. The the meat and the forensic lab’s report should Ansari. incident, which drew attention of interna- be seen as the final report. “Indian Muslims have lived tional media, was widely condemned in However, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minis- in India’s religiously plural soci- India. ter Akhilesh Yadav raised questions about ety for over a thousand years, at Yogi’s remarks came after a report from a the relevance of the report, saying nothing times as rulers, at others as sub- forensic lab in Mathura emerged, saying that objectionable was found in Akhlaq’s home. jects and now as citizens. They the meat seized in the case was actually beef. “From where was this meat sample are not homogenous in racial or “It is a crime in Uttar Pradesh to slaugh- collected? As you may recall, nothing objec- linguistic terms.....Over centuries ter cow and possess or eat its meat. Akhlaq’s tionable was found in Akhlaq’s household A medical assistant arranges packs of donated blood at a transfusion clinic in New Delhi of intermingling and interaction, family has indulged in this crime. Action or his fridge. Everyone wants justice in this an Indo-Islamic culture devel- yesterday. More than 2,000 Indians contracted HIV over a 17-month period after receiving should be taken against them for this,” the case, the family (Akhlaq’s) deserves justice oped in India,” the vice- president blood transfusions, data from the national AIDS body showed yesterday. Bharatiya Janata Party MP said. as one of their members has been murdered,” said. “Secondly, the compensation given to the chief minister said. 14 THURSDAY 2 JUNE 2016 INDIA

Water warfare! Tamil Nadu First disaster tailor declines free electricity management IANS

CHENNAI: A small tailor in Tamil Nadu’s Coimbatore has shown the way to the rich in Tamil Nadu by plan unveiled voluntarily declining the 100 units of free power offered by the state government. “I was very happy when Chief report. Many Indian cities recently Minister J Jayalalithaa ordered Blueprint seeks faced deadly natural calamities free power for domestic use up including floods in Uttarakhand, to 100 units. Later, I read it would to involve state Jammu and Kashmir, Bihar, Odi- cost around Rs10bn for the gov- governments and sha, Maharashtra and Assam that ernment,” S Muthukumarasamy, left thousands of people dead and who owns a small tailoring shop other agencies. losses to properties worth billions in Coimbatore, said over phone. of rupees. “My average power bill will The key to battle such deadly be around Rs600 and monthly IANS events depends on an effective pre- income ranges between Rs10,000- paredness, including early warning 15,000. As I can afford to pay the systems and strong infrastructure. bill, I decided to surrender the free The country’s disaster manage- power so that the really needy can NEW DELHI: India yesterday got its ment has always come under flak benefit,” he added. first national plan to manage disas- despite the National Disaster Man- Muthukumarasamy said he ters with an aim to make the country agement Authority (NDMA) — in had discussed the idea with his “resilient” to and reduce mortality place. But at the state-level, disas- friends and they told him they from deadly calamities with effec- ter management and mitigation has would also do the same if the gov- tive management and prevention always been lax. A fight breaks out to collect free drinking water from a municipality tanker on a hot summer day on ernment comes out with a proper policies. The new plan involves all stake- scheme. He submitted the letter the outskirts of Ahmedabad, yesterday. The National Disaster Man- holders including state governments declining free power to the Dis- agement Plan (NDMP), unveiled by and other government agencies. trict Collector on Monday. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, is It sets out targets that will ena- based on the UN’s Sendai frame- ble disaster managers to reduce work, a 15-year blueprint signed last possible damage to infrastructure year to reduce deaths and economic and any disruptions to basic serv- losses from disasters the world over. ices, including health and education Young UP bureaucrats mingle with the masses The plan is based on four prior- facilities. It also lays down guidelines ities outlined by the UN framework. to increase access to early warning These include understanding disas- systems and disaster risk informa- ter risk, strengthening disaster risk tion for the public. IANS Prime Minister Narendra Modi used similar meeting over lunch with the to dissuade people from open def- governance, investing in disaster The “vision”, the statement said, to the hilt for political success in the lekhpal, panchayat secretary, beat ecation. “It is amazing to see such risk reduction for resilience and is to “make India disaster resilient, 2014 Lok Sabha polls, Gonda dis- constable and other grassroots-level officials; it is a reassuring feeling,” enhancing disaster preparedness achieve substantial disaster risk LUCKNOW: A young ‘collector saheb’ trict magistrate Ashutosh Niranjan workers. “The idea is to strengthen said Vivek Singh, who works with a for effective response during and in reduction, and significantly decrease sipping piping hot coffee and munch- has kicked off a ‘coffee with collec- the panchayat system and setttle telecom company in Varanasi. the aftermath of a disaster. loss to life, livelihoods, and assets — ing ‘laiyya-chana’ at a chaupal with tor’ wherein he randomly selects a many issues like land disputes at the Moradabad district magistrate “This is the first ever national economic, physical, social, cultural wide-eyed villagers, a young woman village panchayat, drives in with his grassroots level,” Niranjan said. Zuhair Bin Sageer has done some plan prepared in the country,” a and environmental”. IAS official cradling infants at an officials for a cup of coffee and prob- Varanasi district magistrate exemplary development work in the statement from the Prime Minister’s This will be done by maximis- Aanganwadi centre, a district mag- lems of the village are discussed and Vijay Karan Anand is setting a sim- villages. Not only did he step out of Office said, adding it has a “regional ing the disaster-fighting abilities at istrate riding pillion on a motorbike solved there! ilar example wherein many-a-time the confines of his air-conditioned approach...beneficial not only for all levels of administration and the to check open defecation at a Vara- The first edition of the event was he hitches a motorbike ride to reach office but was also instrumen- disaster management but also for communities, according to the plan nasi village. held recently in the Paraspur devel- far-flung locations to “catch up with tal in creating a mobile application development planning”. that lays stress on a greater need for Dispelling the myth that bureau- opment block at the panchayat of reality”. Only recently, he rode pil- for monitoring work in what are The new plan is significant information, education and commu- crats are meant only for office Mijhaura where, over steaming cups lion at 5 in the morning to physically designated Lohia villages, where because India is one of the most dis- nication activities. comforts, a band of young officials of coffee, village head Vipin Kumar check issues like cleanliness, the affordable housing is being devel- aster-prone countries in the world It also sets out to reduce disaster in Uttar Pradesh is scripting a new Singh, the lekhpal (revenue official) power situation and sewerage. oped for the poor. and some 200 million Indians are risk by mainstreaming its require- chapter wherein not only are the peo- and the panchayat secretary delib- He found the situation in neigh- Pilibhit district magistrate likely to be exposed to natural dis- ments into the overall developmental ple benefiting but the state’s tainted erated upon a host of issues ranging bourhoods like Dayanagar Malin Masoom Ali Asgar has almost cleared asters by 2050 because of rapid plans. bureaucracy is also getting a long due from roads to potable water to power Basti and Sigra “pathetic” and was the high-profile political constitu- urbanisation and the extreme Experts hailed the plan as a leap makeover. supply. quick to order immediate course ency of encroachments. He is also weather stemming from climate forward with stress on protecting Perahaps taking a leaf out of the It was also decided that the gram correction. He has also been visiting credited with beautifying the tiger change, according to a World Bank people and properties. ‘chai-pe-charcha’ campaign that pradhans would very soon host a villages very early in the morning reserve here.

UK land registry Running into trouble Govt gifts bikes to records show no Vadra links to Nepal school girls London property IANS schools, the embassy said. The government of India IANS extended a financial assistance of KATHMANDU: The Indian gov- Rs80m under its Small Development ernment has gifted 2,000 bicycles Project scheme. LONDON: UK land registry to poor Dalit girls studying in gov- The literacy rate in various dis- records show that no transaction ernment schools in Banke, Siraha, tricts of the Nepali Terai is low and took place in 2009 to link Robert Dhanusha and Sarlahi districts of the region requires special atten- Vadra, the son-in-law of Congress Nepal to stem the dropout rate. tion in the fields of basic education, President Sonia Gandhi, to a house These bicycles were handed over community awareness and women in London, allegedly funded by an during functions organised in the empowerment, the mission said. arms dealer. respective districts by senior Indian The government of India has The property in question, Flat Embassy officials, including Deputy been extending assistance to vari- No 12 in Ellerton House, Bryan- Chief of Mission Vinay Kumar. ous programmes for improvement ston Square, London, is owned by Students in the Terai region of of education and health services in Harold and Shirley Sacks, and not Nepal mostly pedal to schools since all districts of Nepal. by any company allegedly front- bicycles are an affordable means of The India-Nepal Economic Pro- Young Indian athlete Kajal Manilal Parmar poses with her medals at her home in the village of Hajipur, ing for Vadra. conveyance. gramme has an outlay of over 76bn According to official docu- some 130km from Ahmedabad. The 17-year-old, who has won medals for her performance in regional The gifting of bicycles to the Nepali rupees, with more than 529 ments, the current owners bought and national championships, had her monthly stipend of Rs4,800 ($71.48) withdrawn from the Gujarat poor Dalit girl students was aimed developmental projects completed or the flat for £950,000 on Septem- Sports Authority. Now Kajal and her family are surviving on her father’s income as a daily wage labourer. at enhancing the literacy rate among under implementation across Nepal ber 23, 2005. The financial burden of nutrition, training and travel may force her to curtail her career in athletics. girls in Nepal and also to encourage in cooperation with the government Since then, the property has girls from such families to enrol in of the Himalayan nation. not changed hands, documents accessed by London-based Asian Lite reveal. On Tuesday, NDTV news channel had reported that the gov- Police gird to take on traffickers who force kids to beg ernment was probing allegations that Vadra purchased the prop- erty through arms dealer Sanjay Bhandari for £1.9m in 2009 and Reuters Human Rights Commission, up to or burned to elicit greater sympathy Save”). In coordination with various police, Pronob Mohanty, who spear- sold it a year later. 40,000 children are abducted in India and get more alms, said the report. government departments and char- headed the operation, teams of police According to NDTV, the inves- every year, of which at least 11,000 The money they earn is usually ities, they drew up a blueprint to help and health workers rescued 300 chil- tigation was based on two reports remain untraced. paid to the traffickers, or to buy alco- children forced into begging. dren on one day across the city. by investigating agencies prompted CHENNAI: At least 300,000 children “The police don’t think begging hol and drugs. Months before carrying out a The traffickers were arrested and by e-mails allegedly sent by Vadra across India are drugged, beaten and is an issue because they assume that The report is based on the expe- series of rescues, they spread out later imprisoned. “Operation Rak- and his executive assistant Manoj forced to beg every day, in what has the adult with the child is either fam- riences of police and charities in across the city, taking pictures of chil- shane is meant to be a template which Arora to Bhandari. become a multi million rupee indus- ily or a known person,” said co-author Bengaluru city — formerly known as dren on the street, documenting their can be replicated as a model of inter Vadra’s lawyer had denied the try controlled by human trafficking Anita Kanaiya, CEO of The Freedom Bangalore — in the southern Indian daily activities and shadowing them agency cooperation,” Mohanty said in allegation, saying his client had cartels, police and trafficking experts Project India, which works on traf- state of Karnataka. There is a seasonal back to their homes. the handbook, which includes sugges- nothing to do directly or indirectly said. ficking issues. pattern to begging, local police said. “When we started, we had noth- tions for surveillance, data collection with 12, Ellerton House. Writing in a report which is about “But for every 50 children rescued Cities like Bengaluru see a sharp rise ing to prove the connection between and rehabilitation, as well as listing According to Zoopla.com, the to be circulated across the country’s there will be at least 10 who are vic- in the numbers of children wander- begging and trafficking. But we went relevant laws. leading website that tracks the real police forces, the authors urged law tims of trafficking. And there has to be ing the streets just before festivals or about meticulously recording any Kanaiya said: “We are now initi- estate market and transactions, the enforcers to carry out greater surveil- a constant vigil to identify them,” she after a natural disaster. signs of forced labour on the streets ating a planned campaign to take the flat’s current market worth is esti- lance of children living on the streets. told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. In 2011, Bengaluru police of the city,” Kanaiya said. book to every police headquarter in mated at £2,524,000. According to the Indian National Children are sometimes maimed launched “Operation Rakshane” (“To According to inspector general of the country”. EUROPE / UK THURSDAY 2 JUNE 2016 15

‘Out’ campaign outlines Royal welcome new immigration plan

put both sides level on 41 percent, beyond. Immigration is one of the key unchanged from its previous survey. battlegrounds in what is becoming an Senior members of Senior members of the Out cam- increasingly bitter debate. the ‘Out’ campaign paign including former London Mayor Supporters of EU membership have said that Boris Johnson and Justice Secretary have complained the Out campaign Michael Gove said immigration post- has failed to offer any concrete pro- immigration post- Brexit would be based on job and posals as to what life would look like Brexit would be language skills. if Britain left the bloc. “Migration brings many benefits Setting out its plans, the Out based on job and to Britain—culturally, socially and campaign said there would be no language skills. economically,” they said in a joint change for Irish citizens, who can statement. “We want Britain to con- live and work in Britain, while those tinue to benefit from migration. But EU citizens already lawfully resi- if we are to welcome more people to dent of Britain could remain and be Reuters Britain then the public must be reas- granted indefinite leave. But by the sured that we have control over who next national election in 2020, the comes here. “Our membership of the Out campaign said it would have EU means we don’t have control.” extended a points-based system LONDON: Britain would extend an Prime Minister David Cameron, where EU citizens would be treated Australian-style points-based immi- who supports an “In” vote, has come like any other and admitted on the Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II (left), and her husband Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (centre), greet gration system to European Union under fire during the campaign for basis of their suitability for a job. German President Joachim Gauck during a private audience at Buckingham Palace in central London citizens if it votes to leave the bloc, the failing to deliver a promise to keep net “To gain the right to work, eco- yesterday. “Out” campaign said yesterday, ratch- migration to the “tens of thousands”. nomic migrants will have to be eting up the pressure on a key issue The figures released last week suitable for the job in question,” ahead of the June 23 referendum. put net migration at 330,000 in they said. “For relevant jobs, we will Two polls on Tuesday showed 2015. Of those, a net 184,000 came be able to ensure that all those who Britons have moved towards voting to from the EU, which mandates free- come have the ability to speak good leave the bloc after official figures pub- dom of movement. Britons’ choice on English.” Ireland, Luxembourg & Netherlands lished last week put net migration at whether to remain in the 28-member The In campaign said in response second highest level on record last year. EU has far-reaching consequences that any move to take Britain out of A YouGov poll published yesterday for many aspects of British life and the EU single market would damage the economy. first to be hit by Brexit: OECD “Australia, who have a points- based immigration system, have twice as many migrants per head as AFP myriad warnings on the likely three criteria, the OECD said. the UK,” said Will Straw of Britain impact of a so-called Brexit. They include British imports of Stronger In Europe. As part of its twice-yearly eco- goods and services from each coun- “Economic experts are agreed nomic outlook, the Paris-based OECD try as a share of that country’s gross that leaving the Single Market would BERLIN: Ireland, Luxembourg and became the latest, highlighting the domestic product in 2014, as well lead to recession - costing jobs and the Netherlands would be the first possible effect on Britain’s European as investment in Britain and inter- raising prices.” of Britain’s EU partners to bear the peers from the uncertainty unleashed est reflected through online Brexit Meanwhile in Edinburgh, former brunt if voters back an exit from the by it quitting the bloc. searches, the OECD report said. Bank of England governor Mervyn European Union, the OECD said yes- “The UK decision to exit could Eurozone heavyweights Germany, King has criticised arguments in the terday. Britain itself could be buffeted reinforce uncertainty about the France and Spain are among nine debate over Britain’s European Union by financial market turbulence akin to future of the European Union and other EU countries that are “moder- membership that he said “insult the that seen at the height of the eurozone the Single Market,” it said. ately exposed” to the British economy intelligence of voters. ” crisis in 2011 and 2012, the Organisa- “The resulting uncertainty would on all three counts, it added. “Both sides have been engaged tion for Economic Cooperation and lead to more difficult financial con- A vote by Britons to leave the EU in a public relations campaign which Development (OECD) warned. ditions in other European countries.” could “heighten uncertainty, reduce insults the intelligence of the vot- In a heated build-up to the EU members Ireland, Luxem- confidence and result in a series of A campaigner wears a T-shirt bearing the slogan “Believe In Britain” ers by making wildly exaggerated British referendum on June 23, bourg and the Netherlands are financial market shocks” in Britain as he attends an anti-EU United Kingdom Independence Party pro- claims,” King said, decrying the economists, businesses, politi- “relatively highly exposed” to the and elsewhere in Europe, the OECD Brexit campaign event, in Birmingham, central England, yesterday. debate as a missed opportunity. cians and world leaders have issued British economy, as measured by said. Trump to visit Ukraine detains two IS fighters Fresh probe ordered UK day after AFP in Ukraine and is suspected by law and Europe would present “poten- Brexit vote enforcement officials of possible tial targets for terrorists.” into Birmingham’s involvement in terrorist activity,” the The security service has reported SBU said in the statement. the detention or expulsion of more AFP KIEV: Ukraine said yesterday it had A senior official told reporters than 30 Islamic State supporters from deadly bombings detained two Islamic State (IS) fight- on condition of anonymity that the Ukraine since March. ers from Syria who were trying to suspect assisting the IS was a Rus- SBU chief Vasyl Grytsak said on cross into western Europe in order sian national. March 23 that 19 of the 25 IS sus- LONDON: Presumptive US Repub- to stage new attacks. “Two of the Islamic State support- pects detained in a series of security AFP 18-year-old sister Maxine died in lican presidential nominee Donald The SBU national security serv- ers detained in Kharkiv were Syrian sweeps were Russian nationals. the attacks, welcomed the decision Trump will visit Britain a day after ice said the cell was uncovered in nationals,” SBU spokeswoman Olena “IS members and supporters to resume the inquests. it holds a landmark referendum on Ukraine’s second-largest city of Gitlyanska said. freely move across Russia and other “All we want is to be heard so its EU membership, saying he was Kharkiv—an industrial hub control- Ukraine’s UNIAN news agency post-Soviet states,” the Interfax- LONDON: A coroner yesterday we can get the truth, justice and coming to open a newly-renovated led by Kiev throughout the ex-Soviet said the arrests were made at the end Ukraine news agency quoted Grytsak ordered a re-examination of the accountability,” she told reporters Scottish golf course. republic’s 25-month separatist war. of last week. as saying at the time. deaths of 21 people in the 1974 Bir- outside the coroners’ court. Trump said in a statement “The Kharkiv national security It was not immediately clear “They use Ukraine as a transit mingham pub bombings, one of She also urged the “cowards” he would visit on June 24, a day service of Ukraine has uncovered which western European countries point,” Grytsak added. Britain’s worst ever terror attacks, responsible to give themselves up, after the crucial vote which has an attempt to send supporters of the IS members intended to attack. Russia’s north Caucasus lead- after claims that police failed to act saying: “If you have any level of sharply divided Britain’s ruling the Islamic State international ter- Europe has been on heightened ers and its neighbours in Central on two warnings. humanity, any moral compass, then Conservative party, with the bil- rorist organisation from Syria by alert since last year’s jihadist attacks Asian have been clamping down on Coroner Louise Hunt ordered by rights you should come forward.” lionaire tycoon previously saying transit through Ukraine to western in Paris and subsequent bombings Islamists—some of them linked to new inquests for the victims killed The original inquests—judicial he believed Britain should leave. European states,” the SBU said in a in Brussels. Afghanistan—for years. in the twin attacks, which were fact-finding investigations that do But a spokesman for Prime statement issued yesterday. The United States warned its cit- Moscow has remained a staunch widely blamed on the Provisional not apportion blame—were halted Minister David Cameron’s Down- “The organiser of this illegal izens on Tuesday that the upcoming ally of Syria and began propping up Irish Republican Army (IRA) par- by a police probe that led to six men ing Street office said there were transfer was a citizen of a neighbour- Euro 2016 football championship the ruling regime with a powerful air amilitary group, although it never being wrongly jailed for the bomb- “no plans” for the two men to meet ing country who is living unlawfully and related events across France assault in September 2015. formally claimed responsibility. ings in 1975. during Trump’s visit to Britain. She said there was evidence that The conviction of the so-called Trump said he would be vis- police missed two warnings about Birmingham Six was ruled unsafe iting the Turnberry golf course in the November 21, 1974 attack, which by the Court of Appeal in 1991 and Scotland which would be reopen- left 182 people injured—one 11 days they were freed, after what is seen ing after a £200m (€260m/$289m) Picasso’s masterpieces before, and another on the day of the as one of Britain’s greatest miscar- renovation on June 24. bombings itself. riages of justice. His visit to the resort and Ailsa The attack on two pubs in Brit- No one has since been convicted, golf course, which has hosted ain’s second biggest city came at the but the police investigation remains The Open Championship four height of the IRA’s bloody campaign open. One of the Birmingham Six, times, will come as Britain learns to end British rule in the province of Paddy Hill, said the new inquests whether it will stay in or leave the Northern Ireland. were “the first step” but said he was European Union following the June “I have serious concerns that “very sceptical” that the whole truth 23 referendum. advanced notice of the bombs may would emerge. Trump has said his personal have been available to the police and Dave Thompson, chief consta- “feeling” is that Britons should that they failed to take the neces- ble of West Midlands Police, said the vote to leave, telling Fox News last sary steps to protect life,” Hunt said. failure to catch the bombers and the month: “I would say that they’re She cited the two potential wrongful conviction of the Birming- better off without it, but I want warnings, saying that “it is only in ham Six was “the most serious failing them to make their own decision.” respect of that issue that I consider in this force’s history”. Last week Cameron, who is there is sufficient reason to resume “I hope the new inquest provides pushing for Britain to stay in the an inquest to investigate the circum- answers to families,” he said, adding bloc, said US presidential can- stances of these deaths”. that the police force would “assist didates “often come through Some relatives have claimed the process now under way”. London” but added: “We have no police were protecting an inform- However, he warned against any firm dates in the diary.” ant within the IRA, but Hunt said this hopes of imminent prosecutions in Cameron told parliament in was unfounded. the case. “Since 2012 and directly as December last year Trump’s com- She also said the emergency a result of campaign by families of ments about banning all Muslims Art handlers pose with ‘Nature morte’ (left) and ‘Nature morte aux volets verts’ by Pablo Picasso, at services’ response was not a con- those died we have carefully reas- from entering the United States Christie’s auction house in London, Britain, yesterday. tributing factor towards the deaths. sessed the opportunities to bring the were “divisive, stupid and wrong”. Julie Hambleton, whose people responsible to justice,” he said. 16 THURSDAY 2 JUNE 2016 EUROPE

Sarkozy slams Rail workers down tools as unrest spreads French govt’s handling of today followed by Paris airport staff over the weekend. Philippe Martinez, Around half of head of the powerful CGT union, said strike chaos France’s trains were that this week would see “the strongest mobilisation in three months” of strikes. cancelled as workers Adding to the chaos, one Air AFP from railway operator France pilots’ union threatened to SNCF launched their hold a two- or four-day strike from the day after Euro 2016 kicks off on PARIS: Former president Nicolas eighth strike in three June 10. Sarkozy has slammed the French months. Since March, hundreds of thou- government’s handling of labour sands of people have taken to the law reforms that have sparked streets in demonstrations that have strikes and protests across the frequently turned violent, while about country, denouncing its “weak- AFP a fifth of France’s petrol pumps ran ness, cowardice and total loss of dry last week as CGT activists block- authority”. aded refineries and depots. The leader of the opposition Energy group Total faces losses of said President “Francois Hollande PARIS: Transport chaos hit France “tens of millions of dollars per week” had everything wrong from the yesterday, just nine days before the from blockades at its five refineries, start” in his handling of the cri- Euro 2016 football tournament, as according to an internal report. sis, which has caused chaos two railway workers went on strike in the Although most have been cleared, weeks before the start of the Euro latest salvo of a months-long battle workers at an oil terminal in the 2016 football tournament. between the government and unions. northern port of Le Havre—which Hundreds of thousands of Around half of France’s trains supplies kerosene to Paris’s two main people have taken to the streets were cancelled as workers from rail- airports—extended their blockade in demonstrations that have fre- way operator SNCF launched their into yesterday. quently turned violent, while eighth strike in three months, this Despite disruption to their daily petrol pumps have run dry after a time saying they will continue until lives, 46 percent of French people still A man wearing a mask of French Prime Minister Manuel Valls and another striking employee of the French prolonged blockade of refineries demands for better pay and condi- support the unions’ calls, an opin- state-owned rail operator SNCF lays rail tracks in front of the MEDEF’s (French employers’ association) branch and depots by CGT union activists. tions are met. ion poll in the Journal du Dimanche in Lyon, during a strike to protest against government labour reforms, yesterday. Faced with a rebellion within “It’s a nightmare today—even newspaper showed Sunday. his own Socialist party, Prime Min- more than the other strike days,” said But the protests have cast a unemployment,” he told parliament. stubbornly high unemployment and than being bound to industry-wide ister Manuel Valls used a special Christine, an SNCF worker survey- shadow over preparations for month- SNCF said 17 percent of its staff making the struggling economy agreements, allowing companies to constitutional provision to force ing the chaos at Ormesson station in long Euro championship, which is were on strike yesterday, leading to more business-friendly. cut jobs during hard times and go the bill through the lower house the Paris suburbs, where commuters expected to attract over a million more than two-thirds of inter-city But unions are furious that the beyond the 35-hour work week. of parliament without a vote ear- were struggling to squeeze on to one foreign visitors and has already been trains and nearly half of high-speed government rammed the reforms Despite often violent demonstra- lier this month. of the few trains that had shown up. dogged by security fears following last TGV services being cancelled. through the lower house of parlia- tions, President Francois Hollande has “Pushing it through by force The strike has piled further pres- year’s jihadist attacks in France. International services to Brit- ment without a vote, and have called refused to scrap the legislation and cuts out debate,” said Sarkozy sure on the Socialist government, Prime Minister Manuel Valls ain and Germany were not due to be for another national day of strikes in has criticised the unions for tarnish- in an interview with magazine which has been besieged by months decried the “waste” caused by the affected, but the majority of trains two weeks when the bill goes before ing France’s image. Valeurs Actuelles, due to be pub- of protests and work stoppages over a strikes. “This conflict is weighing to Spain and Italy were likely to be the Senate. “The image of a paralysed lished today. controversial labour reform bill. on our economy at a time when the cancelled. They say the law favours bosses country conforms to the worst “If you don’t accept the debate Subway workers in the capital actions of the government are allow- The French government says its by letting them set their own working French-bashing cliches,” a Social- of ideas in parliament, then it were planning to walk off the job from ing a rebound, growth and a fall in new labour law is aimed at reducing conditions for new employees, rather ist party spokesman said. moves to the streets.” Merkel backs Armenian Flash floods maroon towns in Germany & France

‘genocide’ resolution AFP with two teachers and a chaperone ran into trouble on a boat trip down the Regen river. AFP Minister Binali Yildirim called the Their group of 12 boats became vote “absurd”. But Armenia’s Presi- BERLIN: Incessant rain in regions of separated in raging current sparked dent Serge Sarkissian urged German Germany, France and Austria led to by a sudden storm and panic broke lawmakers to stand firm. flash flooding yesterday, forcing res- out among the pupils. About 20 BERLIN: German Chancellor Angela “It would not be fair to not call idents to seek refuge on rooftops and members of the group were rescued Merkel agrees with her party that the the genocide of Armenians genocide stranding hundreds of pupils at their by emergency services, while oth- massacre of Armenians by Ottoman just because that makes the head of school overnight, authorities said. ers reached riverbank on their own. forces should be branded a genocide state of another country angry,” he In southern Bavaria state on the Just over the border in Aus- but will not attend a parliament told Bild daily yesterday. Austrian border, firefighters and tria, heavy rain lashed the Salzburg vote today on the issue, her “I am sure that Bundestag politi- other emergency services were dis- region, flooding several roads and spokeswoman said. cians see it this way too and will not patched to inundated towns. forcing several schools to announce “She told me this morning that be intimidated,” he added. “The floods came so quickly closures for today. she sided with her parliamentary Turkey and Armenia have long that people had to escape to roofs And in central France, residents group,” her spokeswoman Christiane been at loggerheads over the World of their houses,” a spokesman for called in emergency services 8,000 Wirtz told journalists, when asked if War I-era massacre. Lower Bavaria regional police said. times in recent days to demand Merkel signalled her approval of the Armenians say up to 1.5 million The town of Triftern, around 200 assistance due to flooding. Armenian “genocide” resolution dur- of their kin were killed between 1915 schoolchildren bunked down in their In Paris, many promenades ing a party meeting yesterday. and 1917 as the Ottoman Empire school, preparing to spend the night, along the Seine were closed due to However, the German leader was falling apart but modern Tur- when road access became restricted. high water while in Nemours, 80 kil- will not be able to attend the vote at key rejects the claim. A town spokesman said the school ometres to the south, residents had the Bundestag due to other official Ankara argues that 300,000 to building was out of danger as it was to be evacuated yesterday afternoon Firefighters search for people on their boat as the city is flooded due to engagements on her schedule, her 500,000 Armenians and as many on higher ground. A separate group after the Loing river burst its banks, spokeswoman said. Turks died in civil strife when Arme- heavy rainfalls at Montargis, central France, yesterday. of 27 children on a class trip together officials said. Merkel’s Christian Democrats nians rose up against their Ottoman and junior coalition partner Social rulers. Democrats, along with opposition The vote comes at a particularly Greens, had prepared the resolu- awkward time, as Germany and the tion entitled “Remembrance and European Union need Ankara to Do not expect EU warns Poland to respect rule of law commemoration of the genocide help stem a migrant influx even as of Armenians and other Christian tensions are rising over a string of sanctions reprieve minorities in 1915 and 1916”, which issues, including human rights. AFP commission sent the warning to introduced in 2014 and has never also carries the contentious word The issue is also particularly “frame the debate” toward solutions been used against any of the 28 EU throughout the text. sensitive in Germany, as it has spe- from Russia visit: “so that there is no longer a systemic member states. Poland’s regional The text would be put to a vote cial ties with Ankara not least due threat to the rule of law in Poland.” ally Hungary is likely to torpedo today but in the run-up to the Bun- to its three-million-strong ethnic Juncker BRUSSELS: The European Union Poland’s ruling Law and Justice any possible sanctions, which would destag move, Turkey issued stark Turkish population which settled AFP yesterday formally warned Poland’s (PiS) party plunged the country into require unanimous approval of all 28 warnings that adopting the resolu- following a massive “guest worker” rightwing government to roll back its a political crisis in December, when EU members. Poland now has two tion would harm ties. programme in the 1960s and 1970s. overhaul of the top Polish court and it pushed through legislation that has weeks to respond to the warning. Turkish President Recep Tayyip More than 20 nations, including PARIS: European Commission remove a “systemic threat” to the rule paralysed the constitutional court by If it fails to satisfy EU concerns, Erdogan had also telephoned Mer- France and Russia, have recognised chief Jean-Claude Juncker warned of law, or risk sanctions. modifying its decision-making rules. the Commission could recommend kel over the resolution, while Prime the Armenian genocide. against expecting any announce- The unprecedented warning is In January, the EU executive, that Warsaw solve the problems iden- ment on lifting of EU sanctions on part of a drawn-out procedure which launched a probe to see if the changes tified within a fixed time limit. Russia when he visits the country in could eventually see Warsaw have violated EU democracy rules and Timmermans played down the mid-June. EU leaders must decide its voting rights suspended in the merited punitive measures. confrontation between Brussels and by the end of June whether to pro- European council of ministers, the Timmermans did not mention Warsaw which has also flared over German Cabinet approves long the sanctions they imposed EU’s most important decision-mak- threat of sanctions, but they are a Poland’s rejection of refugees under an on Russia over the annexation of ing body. last resort in a procedure that was EU-wide plan to tackle migrant crisis. Crimea and the conflict in eastern “We have decided to send a new anti-terrorism measures Ukraine, which run out in July. rule-of-law opinion to the Polish Juncker will attend an economic authorities,” European Commission forum in Saint Petersburg on June First Vice President Frans Timmer- AP organizations are internationally net- 16, where he will meet with Presi- mans told a press conference in worked” and that “we need to network dent Vladimir Putin. Brussels yesterday. our security agencies better.” But he downplayed the pros- “Despite our best efforts we have Other measures include expand- pect of any breakthrough on lifting not been able to find a solution to the BERLIN: Germany’s interior minis- ing German police agencies’ ability the sanctions on Russia’s banking, main issues that concern us,” Tim- ter said Chancellor Angela Merkel’s to go undercover, particularly to defence and energy sectors. mermans said following five months Cabinet approved a package of new infiltrate smuggler networks, and “My visit to Saint Petersburg, of talks with the Polish government. measures to help fight terrorism. requiring official identification for which has a more economic than The concerns focus on the over- Thomas de Maiziere told report- the purchase of a prepaid cellphone political focus, will not be an occa- haul of the constitutional court by the ers yesterday that one key feature or sim card so they can’t be as easily sion for the European Union to Polish government. of the proposals, which will have used to skirt surveillance. announce any sort of change in our Poland’s deputy foreign minister to be approved by Parliament, Though regular prepaid cell- attitude towards Russia,” he said. Konrad Szymanski told the PAP news will be to expand information and phone customers may chafe at “I will not change the European agency that the commission’s written People march holding giant EU and Polish flags during an anti- intelligence-sharing with other the measures, de Maiziere says Union’s general assessment of Mr opinion “brings nothing new” because governments. “security is more important than Putin’s actions,” he said. the government knew it was coming. government demonstration organised by main opposition parties in He says “international terrorist convenience.” Timmermans said the Warsaw, Poland. EUROPE THURSDAY 2 JUNE 2016 17 World’s longest tunnel opens in Switzerland

region’s spectacular mountain peaks, for improving connectivity from Rot- with European leaders on board. terdam to the Adriatic at a time when The tunnel took 17 The tunnel took 17 years to build, the continent’s divisions have domi- years to build, at a at a cost of over 12bn Swiss francs ($12 nated headlines. Travel through the bn, €11 bn), with 125 labourers rotat- picturesque Alpine region, by rail or cost of over 12bn ing in three shifts to lay the tunnel’s by road, requires taking a zigzag and Swiss francs ($12bn), slab track in 43,800 hours of non- undulating route. stop work. The Gotthard Base Tunnel was with 125 labourers German Chancellor Angela designed to offer a better option for rotating in three shifts Merkel, French President Francois both private travellers and commer- to lay the tunnel’s Hollande and Italian Prime Minister cial freights. When the full service Matteo Renzi were among the pas- opens in December, the tunnel will slab track in 43,800 sengers on the first train yesterday. shave the train journey from Zurich hours of non-stop The trio sat together in a to Milan in Italy to two hours and 40 first-class carriage, along with Sch- minutes, roughly an hour less than it work. neider-Ammann, and chatted through currently takes. It should also make the 20-minute journey from Erstfeld rail freight more efficient—partly by in the central canton of Uri southward supporting heavier cargo, reducing to Ticino canton. the number of smoke-spewing lorries AFP Speaking at ceremony in Pollegio on the roads and in turn improving after the inaugural trip, Hollande urged traffic and curbing pollution. British voters to recall their closeness to The number of daily rail passen- Europe on June 23 Brexit vote. gers is expected to increase from the POLLEGIO, Switzerland: The world’s “We are as united as we have current rate of 9,000 people to 15,000 longest tunnel officially opened yester- ever been,” Hollande said, drawing by 2020, according to the Swiss fed- day , with the trailblazing rail passage a parallel between the GBT and the eral railway service. under the Swiss Alps aiming to ease 1994 opening of the Channel Tunnel, The rough design for a rail tun- transit through heart of Europe. which connected Paris and London by nel under the Gotthard Pass was first With Europe’s political unity high-speed rail and fostered fresh ties sketched by Swiss engineer Carl Edu- shaken by a massive migrant crisis between the two capitals. ard Gruner in 1947. But bureaucratic German Chancellor Angela Merkel gestures as Italy’s Prime Minister Matteo Renzi (left), Switzerland’s Federal and the looming threat of Britain’s EU Merkel told Swiss broadcaster delays, concerns over the cost and President Johann Schneider-Ammann (second left) and France’s President Francois Hollande look on while exit, Swiss President Johann Schnei- ATS the network it was “marvellous” other hurdles pushed back the start travelling in the VIP train during the opening ceremony of NEAT Gotthard Base Tunnel, in Gotthard, yesterday. der-Ammann said the tunnel would to think about taking a journey with of construction until 1999. “join the people and the economies” 2000 metres of mountain rock above Yesterday’s inauguration fea- orange-clad workers. blast-and-drill method. It cuts through rock and throws of Europe. her head. tured a ceremony with at times The Gotthard Tunnel was largely The primary machine used the debris backwards while simul- He spoke as the first train made The tunnel was entirely funded abstract choreography and elabo- made possible by technical advances to make the Gotthard tunnel was taneously placing the pre-formed a ceremonial run through the 57km by non-EU member Switzerland, but rately costumed dancers, including in tunnel-boring machines, which roughly 410-metres long and func- segments of concrete that form the Gotthard Base Tunnel (GBT) beneath the leaders from the bloc have hailed it an angel-type figure floating above replaced the costly and dangerous tioned like a mobile factory. shape of the tunnel.

Czech police bust Wet wings Pro-Russian rebels claim crime ring forging EU passports fresh Ukraine assault

AFP AFP as a Russian volunteer fighter, but refused to give his name, said eight members of separatist force had PRAGUE: Czech police said they been killed in a town 10 km north busted a crime ring forging Lithua- DONETSK, Ukraine: Ukraine’s pro- of Donetsk since Monday. nian passports, ID cards and Russian eastern insurgents yesterday Kiev has also reported losing driving licences used by migrants accused Kiev’s soldiers of launching about 20 soldiers in the past 10 days. to illegally enter the European a new blitz near a prized but long- The OSCE said in a daily dis- Union. The accused sold fake doc- obliterated airport in the separatists’ patch that its monitors recorded uments to “foreigners from third de facto capital of Donetsk. 305 “undetermined explosions” just countries” who were not allowed The claim appears to fit with a north and west of Donetsk between to enter EU territory, said Pavel mounting death toll reported by the late Monday and early Tuesday. Hantak, spokesman for the organ- pro-Western leadership in Kiev and More than 9,300 civilians and ised crime squad. foreign monitors from the Organiza- fighters from both sides have died The police charged ten sus- tion for Security and Co-operation since the revolt against leaders who pects ranging in age from 28-46 in Europe (OSCE). toppled Ukraine’s Russian-backed years with forgery and facilitat- The insurgents seized the president broke out in April 2014. ing illegal sojourn in the Czech Donetsk airport at a heavy cost in Russia denies seizing the Black Republic. They face up to ten years January 2015. Sea peninsula of Crimea and then in prison if convicted. Visitors walk through the rain past aircraft on display at the ILA Berlin Air Show in Schoenefeld, south Ukrainian President Petro Poro- plotting the separatist conflict in Five Ukrainians, all members of Berlin, Germany, yesterday. shenko soon vowed to win back the retaliation for seeing Ukraine pull of an organised crime group, are key trophy of the 25-month war—a out of its historic sphere of influence. in custody after being nabbed in pledge that clashed with Washing- But Moscow admits that vol- the May 18 raid. The police did not ton’s efforts to bring peace to the unteer and off-duty soldiers were reveal the nationality of the other European Union’s backyard. fighting alongside the insurgents. five suspects. A rebel fighter who identi- Poroshenko’s military spokes- Seven people who used forged Hacker gang which defrauded banks held fied himself by the nom de guerre man Oleksandr Motuzyanyk Lithuanian documents to stay ille- Moskva (Moscow) said the Ukrain- confirmed the upsurge in fighting gally in the Czech Republic were ian assault began from positions just but blamed the militia command. also detained, Hantak said. Reuters The suspects had used mal- About 50 individuals were north of Donetsk last Saturday. “The Ukrainian armed forces He said the case was unrelated ware to set up a network of bots on detained in raids as part of the “The entire (airport) terminal are observing a state of ceasefire,” to recent arrest of three suspects in infected computers to carry out the investigation, 18 of whom were now was hit by air defence guns,” the Motuzyanyk said. The self-described Prague, allegedly part of an inter- cyber attacks, the ministry said, and behind bars pending the outcome of insurgent said. These heavy weapons Russian volunteer solider blamed national forgery ring. Another 16 MOSCOW: Russia’s FSB security Sberbank, Russia’s largest bank by the case, according to the FSB. were meant to have been withdrawn the spike in violence on attempts suspects were detained in Ath- service said yesterday it detained a assets, had helped the authorities A criminal case has been opened from frontline dividing rebel-run by Poroshenko to revise the terms ens on May 25 for same crime in a gang of about 50 hackers who stole crack the case. accusing those arrested of being part regions from rest of Ukraine within of last year’s truce deal. Europol-coordinated raid. over 1.7bn roubles ($25.33m) from the The hackers targeted accounts of an organised criminal group and of days of the signing of a February The agreement was meant to offer Forgery and people smuggling accounts of various Russian financial belonging to corporate entities as well using computers to perpetrate fraud. 2015 truce. separatist regions limited self-rule have become common amid the institutions. as correspondent accounts of finan- Footage of the raids in 15 different That ceasefire helped contain the and the right to hold local elections— ongoing migrant crisis that saw The same gang had tried to steal cial institutions. The authorities did regions showed armed men wear- worst violence but failed to bring a conditions opposed by numerous over one million people arrive in 2.273bn roubles by issuing false pay- not name any other lenders apart ing balaclavas using battering rams halt to one of Europe’s bloodiest con- lawmakers and nationalist volunteer Europe last year, mostly from war- ment instructions which had been from Sberbank or say how many to gain access to properties and hand- flicts since the 1990s Balkans wars. battalions who backed up government torn Syria. blocked, the interior ministry said. accounts had been compromised. cuffed men later unloaded from a van. A man who identified himself troops throughout the war. Drowned migrant baby was Children’s pageantry probably Somali: Italian cops

Reuters Sea-Watch after a wooden boat Mediterranean last week. “The pho- carrying more than 400 migrants tograph corresponds with the corpse capsized and sank some 58 km off of a six-month-old boy, who survi- the Libyan coast. vors of the shipwreck said was from ROME: A dead baby plucked out of sea Sea-Watch immediately handed Somalia,” a high-ranking police offi- whose picture sparked international the boy’s body over to crew of the cial told reporters yesterday. outrage this week was probably a six- Vega, an Italian navy ship. The Vega “Survivors we talked to said the month-old Somali boy whose mother brought 135 survivors and 45 bodies mother was not among the bodies also most likely died in the shipwreck, recovered after the shipwreck to the recovered,” he said. Italian police said yesterday. southern port city of Reggio Calabria, There were discrepancies among Like the photograph of the three- including those of three small chil- the survivors as to the boy’s name, year-old Syrian boy lying lifeless on dren, two boys and a girl. which remains a mystery, he said. a Turkish beach last year, the image Sea-Watch said it had distrib- Police arrested two men, a Syrian put a human face on more than 9,000 uted photograph of the baby because and a Moroccan, who were among people who died in the Mediterra- it wanted to persuade European the survivors of the shipwreck nean since the start of 2014. authorities to ensure safe pas- brought to Reggio Calabria on Sun- The baby was pulled from sea last sage to migrants after at least 700 day, accusing them of disaster at sea Participants attend an annual carnival to celebrate International Children’s Day in central Krasnoyarsk, Friday by a German rescuer work- were feared to have drowned in and international people smuggling, Siberia, Russia, yesterday. ing for humanitarian organisation three separate shipwrecks in the according to a statement. 18 THURSDAY 2 JUNE 2016 AMERICAS

Hillary to assail ‘Trump varsity’ Trump in foreign documents policy speech Reuters

WASHINGTON: US Democratic pres- unsealed idential candidate Hillary Clinton will contrast her foreign policy creden- tials with those of Donald Trump in “While Trump University a speech today that will portray the claimed it wanted to help consum- Republican rival she calls a “loose The most damning ers make money in real estate, in cannon” as too dangerous be presi- revelations came fact Trump University was only dent, her campaign said. interested in selling most expen- Clinton, US secretary of state from from former staffers sive seminars they possibly could,” 2009-13, has called Trump “divi- of the profit-driven former Trump University staffer sive and dangerous” and has said Ronald Schnackenberg wrote in a Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump holds paperwork which states “Donald J Trump, Veteran the former reality television star is operation that statement unsealed yesterday. unqualified to lead the country. Fundraiser” during a news conference at Trump Tower in Manhattan, New York. launched in 2004 The business offered several She will seek to convey the threat and closed in 2010, courses in entrepreneurship, under Trump poses and to present her vision the famous Trump brand. for preserving US security and its triggering lawsuits. But Schnackenberg, the opera- NY mayor slams Trump for closing atrium position as a world leader, Clinton’s tion’s former head of sales, described campaign told reporters. how he quit in 2007 after coming to Her foreign policy speech in San believe that “Trump University was Reuters whether Trump’s using the atrium for Avenue skyscraper taller than zoning Diego will come just before presiden- AFP engaging in misleading, fraudulent, private campaign events without per- rules would have otherwise allowed, tial nominating contests in California and dishonest conduct. ” mission is in breach of a long-standing including the penthouse where Trump and five others states on Tuesday, Another former employee, Jason agreement between Trump and the lives, Trump agreed to keep the atrium which Clinton hopes will put to rest Nicholas, acknowledged in testimony NEW YORK: A showdown between city’s planners. Trump had agreed to open to the public from 8am. to 10pm what has been an unexpectedly tena- WASHINGTON: Newly unsealed that the seminars were taught by New York City and Donald Trump maintain as a public space as a zoning every day. cious challenge from US Senator court documents in a case against “unqualified people posing as Don- over one of the most potent symbols of concession when the tower was built. The atrium, opened in 1983, is one Bernie Sanders of Vermont. White House hopeful Donald ald Trump’s ‘right-hand men.’” Trump’s candidacy, the glitzy atrium of A spokesman for Mayor Bill de of scores of “privately owned public Her target, however, will be the Trump’s “university” reveal allega- Nicholas said those staff “were Trump Tower, intensified yesterday as Blasio, a Democrat, weighed in on to spaces” across the city, an effort to Republican, who has moved past tions from ex-employees that the teaching methods that were unethi- the mayor’s office criticised his closing register City Hall’s displeasure, which balance the wishes of developers to the primary battle and is now pre- now-defunct business preyed on cal, and they had had little to no of the tower’s public space for cam- may yet force Trump to find an alter- build taller while preserving pockets sumptive nominee for his party in the uneducated and misled con- experience flipping properties or paign events. native setting for his events for the five of space for New Yorkers in crowded the November 8 presidential election. sumers with aggressive marketing doing real estate deals.” Lined with pink marble and indoor months remaining before the Novem- neighbourhoods. Trump’s willingness to speak with that amounted to fraud. The court also unsealed internal waterfalls and a popular tourist attrac- ber presidential election. Since launching his campaign North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, The most damning revela- company manuals, called “play- tion, the atrium has become a favorite “Despite what he may think, the by descending an escalator into the his criticism of British politicians and tions came from former staffers books,” detailing marketing and sales event backdrop for Trump, the pre- rules and laws of this city apply to eve- atrium last June, Trump has held at his suggestion that Japan and South of the profit-driven operation that techniques for steering prospective sumptive Republican nominee for the rybody, including Mr Trump. Mr Trump least half a dozen campaign events Korea should acquire nuclear weap- launched in 2004 and closed in 2010, students to most expensive courses U.S. presidency, who frequently boasts should honour his agreement with the where reporters have seen his security ons have been cited by Clinton as risky triggering lawsuits that may well see and programmes, which ran as high to voters of his wealthy lifestyle and city to keep the space open to the pub- staff prevent anyone but a few pre- and irresponsible. She has repeat- the presumptive Republican presi- as $35,000 for supposedly revealing his success as a building developer. lic,” Austin Finan, the spokesman, said. approved journalists from entering edly called the New York billionaire dential nominee dragged into court. Trump’s wealth-generating secrets. City officials are now investigating In order to build his flagship Fifth parts or all of the atrium. a “loose cannon.”

Life sentences Peru’s Kuczynski backs out of upheld for three Murder-suicide leaves plans to join anti-Fujimori rally convicted in two dead at UCLA terror plot Reuters stood calmly, taking pictures on their Reuters Fujimori, who portrays herself think she’s changed at all.” cell phones and watching the emer- as the strongest candidate to tackle At least 40,000 activists marched AP gency workers. crime, has taken the lead over Kuc- in the rally, according to a witness. Bioengineering student Bahjat zynski in the past week despite Banners in favour of Kuczynski were LOS ANGELES: A murder-suicide Alirani said police were yelling at LIMA: Peru’s centrist presiden- a scandal involving a senior aide scarce amid a flood of signs that read CAMDEN, NEW JERSY: Three killed two people at the University of people to run from the scene. tial hopeful Pedro Pablo Kuczynski accused of having links to drug traf- “Fujimori never again” and “No to the immigrant brothers sentenced to California, Los Angeles (UCLA) yes- “I was in Boelter Hall to take a canceled plans to take part in a rally ficking and money laundering. narco-state!” life in prison for plotting to kill US terday, shutting down the campus final and I exit the staircase to see against his rival Keiko Fujimori, in a Fujimori has defended her aide and A protest held at the same stage of soldiers at Fort Dix will not have for two hours as officers in camou- SWAT-looking police yelling at eve- last-minute U-turn that could rein- said both are victims of a smear cam- the first-round race helped dent sup- their life sentences overturned. flage and tactical gear responded to ryone to evacuate immediately,” force a view he is indecisive ahead of paign to keep her from power. An Ipsos port for Fujimori, who nevertheless US District Judge Robert Kugler reports of a shooting. Alirani told reporters. Sunday’s vote. poll on Sunday showed her winning came in first with a double-digit lead said he didn’t buy the arguments “A homicide and a suicide UCLA, with more than 43,000 Tens of thousands of Peruvians the election with 53 percent support. over runner-up Kuczynski. from Dritan, Eljvir and Shain Duka occurred,” Los Angeles Police Chief enrolled students, is in the West- marched in Lima to protest Fujimori’s “She is still covering up for pro- Kuczynski has said he endorsed that they were wrongly convicted Charlie Beck told reporters near the wood section of Los Angeles and one candidacy, calling the centre-right tagonists of corruption,” said Carmen Fujimori in 2011 in a bid to keep then- in 2008 because their lawyers scene, saying a gun was recovered of the more well-regarded schools frontrunner a threat to democracy Pretel, a psychologist who took part leftist Ollanta Humala from winning. kept them from testifying. Kugler at the scene. in the University of California sys- and the embodiment of the author- in the anti-Fujimori rally. “I don’t ruled that he found testimony from “It appears to be entirely con- tem, known for its successful sports itarian government of her father their defence attorneys at a Janu- tained,” he said. “There are no programme. Alberto Fujimori, who is now in ary hearing more credible. suspects outstanding and no con- Police received multiple calls of prison for corruption and human The Albanian-born brothers tinuing threat to UCLA’s campus.” shots fired around 10 am (1700 GMT) rights abuses. were convicted with two others of Both victims were males, offi- yesterday, triggering an immediate Kuczynski, a former World Bank plotting an attack at military sites cials said, without offering further search for suspects and victims economist who endorsed Fujimori at Fort Dix in New Jersey. Support- details. The shooting created a stir by LAPD and campus police, offi- during her first presidential run in ers believe the FBI entrapped them as police approached the scene fear- cials said. 2011, said it would be “undemocratic” and exaggerated the case, but the ing the shooter might still be active Erica Roberts, a sophomore for him to join calls to stop Fujimori. Dukas have exhausted their appeals. and university officials ordered the economics major from Rockville, “I think the march is just, its prin- Dritan “Tony” Duka, 37, said at campus locked down. Maryland, said she took shelter ciples are just, but if I go it will look a January hearing that his lawyer At least three city blocks lead- inside the student health centre like I don’t want this election to hap- thought he would come across as ing into the campus were filled with about 10 minutes after she had pen, and I think that would be wrong a Muslim extremist and therefore dozens of emergency vehicles. Offic- arrived for work there. of me,” Kuczynski said. didn’t put him on the stand. ers in camouflage uniforms with “Everyone is really on edge and While the move may help Kuc- Their lawyers denied the rifles, bulletproof vests and helmets contacting loved ones to let them zynski win over conservative voters accusations and testified for the surrounded the area of the shooting. know we are safe,” she said in a wary of protests, it might also alien- government. Dritan Duka’s trial An armored car was parked in telephone interview. “I’m trying to ate him from Fujimori’s hard-core lawyer, Michael Huff, said he the middle of one intersection, and stay in contact with all my friends on opponents or broaden the view that Thousands of activists gather to rally and march in Lima, opposing feared his client’s desire to express helicopters clattered overhead. campus to make sure they are OK. he is not firm enough to be president. the candidacy of Keiko Fujimori. religious views. Students and other bystanders Everyone is just terrified.” Criminal charges possible in Cincinnati gorilla’s death

Reuters initially saying no one was charged. demanding “Justice for Harambe.” but actually hurting him. “Once their investigation is con- The death of gorilla also Zoo officials were not imme- cluded, they will confer with our prompted animal rights group Stop diately available for comment on office on possible criminal charges,” Animal Exploitation Now to file a either the negligence complaint or CINCINNATI: The parents of a 3-year- Hamilton County Prosecutor Joseph negligence complaint against the zoo the police investigation but said that old boy who fell into a gorilla enclosure Deters said. Police on Tuesday also with US Department of Agriculture. the exhibit was safe and exceeded in Cincinnati, prompting killing of the verified the age of the child to be The group is seeking the maximum required protocols. endangered animal to rescue the child, three-year old. Earlier reports said penalty of $10,000. The group said The Gorilla World exhibit has are the target of an investigation into the boy was four-year old. in its complaint letter that the child’s been closed since the incident and the incident, police said. Witnesses said the child had ability to get past the barrier was will reopen tomorrow. Investigators are focusing their expressed a desire to get into the proof the zoo was negligent and Looking at the incident through attention on actions of the parents enclosure and climbed over a 3-feet should be fined for a “clear and fatal Harambe’s eyes, his former caretaker, and family that led up to the incident barrier, falling 15 feet into a moat. violation of the Animal Welfare Act.” Jerry Stones, said that the breach of and not the operation or safety of the Zookeepers took down the 17-year- The boy’s mother said on Face- his habitat was likely confusing. Cincinnati Zoo, where officials fatally old the Western lowland silverback book that the boy suffered a “Here is this animal that has this shot Harambe, a 200-kg gorilla, the after he violently dragged and tossed concussion and scrapes but was oth- strange thing in his house,” Stones Cincinnati Police Department said. the child, officials said. erwise fine. said on CNN. “He knew what adult “We are closely reviewing the facts Mounting outrage over killing of Thane Maynard, director of the people were but he’d never been of the case,” the department said in the endangered species sparked crit- Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Gardens, around children. It smells similar, it a Tweet. icism of both the zoo and the child’s on Monday stood by the decision looks similar but ‘What is it? Do I play Police officers conduct a search at the University of California, Los Police are taking a second look parents. Online petitions drew to shoot Harambe, saying he was with it? Am I supposed to be afraid of Angeles campus after it was placed on lockdown following reports at possible criminal charges after more than 500,000 signatures not simply endangering the child it? What do I do?’” of a shooter that left two people dead, yesterday. AMERICAS THURSDAY 2 JUNE 2016 1917 Swollen river feeds flooding as residents flee in Texas

54.23 feet in Fort Bend County, just time to drain through the whole river two years after it had run dry in places and drain out into the Gulf of Mexico,” Large swaths because of drought. Overpeck said. of suburban National Weather Service mete- Four of the six people killed in communities orologist Charles Roeseler said that flooding were recovered in Wash- 54.23 feet appeared to be the crest ington County, which is between southwest of Houston at Richmond early yesterday, but he Austin and Houston, County Judge were underwater and said it could still go higher before the John Brieden said. Lake Somer- level started to slowly fall yesterday ville, one of the Brazos reservoirs, hundreds of people morning. was “gushing uncontrollably” over were evacuated from An additional 1 to 3 inches of rain the spillway and threatening peo- expected later this week could keep ple downriver, he said. their homes before the Brazos in major flood stage into About 40 people were rescued on the Brazos River the weekend. Sunday and Monday from low-lying “I’m scared,” said Abigail Salazar, homes in a flooded neighbourhood of reached 54.23 feet in standing in knee-deep water outside Simonton, a Fort Bend County com- Fort Bend County. her home in Richmond, where she was munity of about 800 residents. retrieving personal belongings after The county had set up a pump- the city issued a voluntary evacua- ing system to divert the water from tion advisory. “My kids ask me in the the neighbourhood, but it was over- AP morning, ‘Ma, what happened? The powered by the flooding, county water is here.’” spokeswoman Beth Wolf told During four days of torrential rain reporters. last week, at least six people died in Wolf further said that any addi- RICHMOND, TEXAS: Residents of floods in Texas. tional rain in the region would be a some rural southeastern Texas coun- Scott Overpeck, a National problem. ties were bracing for more flooding Weather Service meteorologist, said “The ditches are full, the river’s Flood waters from the rain-swollen Brazos River continue to rise in Richmond, Texas. along a river that reached a record that the Brazos will recede in the high, there’s nowhere else for that high as more rain was expected in coming days but that its levels will water to go,” she said. the coming days. remain high for up to three weeks, In the Fort Bend County city of rescue boats in place, city spokes- and authorities performed about 15 searching for the body of an 11-year- Large swaths of suburban com- in part because water will need to Rosenberg, which is next to Rich- woman Jenny Pavlovich said. water rescues, including from homes old boy who fell into a creek in munities southwest of Houston were be released from swollen reservoirs mond, about 150 households were Heavy rains moved across the and vehicles, said Sheriff Roger Deeds. Wichita, Kansas, and is presumed underwater and hundreds of people upriver. evacuated and city officials were Dallas-Fort Worth area on Tuesday. He says they were still trying to deter- dead. Relatives have identified the were evacuated from their homes “There’s so much water on the coordinating with the county’s office In Hood County, southwest of Fort mine how many homes flooded. boy as Devon Dean Cooley, who dis- before the Brazos River reached Brazos that it’s going to take a long of emergency management to have Worth, several roads were washed out Elsewhere, authorities were appeared Friday night.

AyyayayayayayayyyyTaking off the glitter Cousin in-law of Canada wildfire Mexico striker evacuees return nabbed Reuters

AFP As they trickled back into Fort McMurray, returnees found a dev- MEXICO CITY: The cousin- astated community that will need in-law of Alan Pulido has been a long time to rebuild, littered with detained for his role in allegedly FORT MCMURRAY , CANADA: The burnt-out dwellings and surrounded masterminding kidnapping of the first convoys of weary, anxious res- by scorched forests. Mexican soccer player, authorities idents returned to wildfire-ravaged The city had experienced rapid in northern Mexico said. Fort McMurray yesterday, a month growth in recent decades as oil sands Pulido, a Mexico national team after they were forced to flee the production to the north expanded striker, was kidnapped after leav- Canadian oil city due to the inferno. dramatically, attracting workers ing a party, but managed to escape Physically-exhausted and wor- from across Canada and around the by punching a guard, snatching a ried about what had become of world. But it fell on hard times last cellphone, and calling for help their homes, the returnees were year due to the oil rout, when prices from the house where he was held welcomed by a giant Canadian flag tumbled from $100 to less than $50. in Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas. tied to the ladders of two firetrucks The downtown was unscathed Police had already detained a and billboards that read “Together and most city services have been captor, who belonged to a criminal we will rebuild” and “We are here, restored, except potable water. Most gang. But local officials said they we are strong.” stores were re-stocked before resi- had nabbed 29-year-old Osvaldo Father Emir H H Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani witnessed last evening the arrival of Fath Al Kheir “To the people of Fort McMurray dents’ re-entry. Velazquez Garcia, the master- 2 at Katara Cultural village beach. The event was also attended by H H Sheikh Jassem bin Hamad Al heading home—we will be with you Three hard-hit neighbourhoods, Peruvian police officers take part in an operation to destroy illegal gold mining camps in Salpo town mind of the crime and husband Thani, Representative of the Emir. Pic: Qassim/The Peninsula → See also page 26 every step of the way,” Prime Minis- however, have been fenced off by a in the Andes mountains at La Libertad, Peru. of Pulido’s cousin. ter Justin Trudeau said. Up to 15,000 30km enclosure. The few homes residents were expected to return in undamaged by the fires here were an initial wave, their vehicles packed deemed unsafe for habitation this with food, water, gasoline and other week after tests of air, soil and ash necessities, after being told to expect revealed chemical and heavy metal supply shortages. contamination. Nearby on the edge Baby born with birth defect to mother infected by Zika The rest of the nearly 100,000 of seared trailer park, a deer was forced to evacuate the city and spotted just after dawn prancing surrounding villages on May 3 are back into the blackened forest. Reuters cesarean section at Hackensack Uni- be related to Zika infections in the which transmit the virus to humans. scheduled to follow in staggered Elsewhere a man carried boxes versity Medical Center in Hackensack, mothers. The unidentified premature A small number of cases of sexual caravans over the next two weeks, and luggage from his truck into New Jersey. newborn also suffers from intestinal transmission have been reported officials said. his undamaged home, while a few US health officials have concluded and visual issues, Manny Alvarez, in the United States and elsewhere. Abandoning hotels, campsites blocks away another man inspected NEW JERSY: A baby suffering from a that Zika infections in pregnant chief of obstetrics and gynecology A case of suspected transmission and emergency shelters that housed a charred shed in his backyard. The birth defect caused by the Zika virus women can cause microcephaly. The at Hackensack, said. through a blood transfusion in Bra- them over last month, the first cars flames had miraculously stopped a was born early yesterday in New World Health Organisation has said “You could see the pain in her zil has raised questions about other and trucks took to the road starting few feet from his house. Jersey to a woman visiting from Hon- there is strong scientific consensus that heart,” Alvarez said of the mother, ways that Zika may spread. as early as 5 am, as soon as police “Getting life back to a degree of duras who is infected with virus after Zika can also cause Guillain-Barre, a the website reported. In January, the US Centers for Dis- brought down barricades. normalcy in the immediate (future) she was bitten by a mosquito early rare neurological syndrome that causes The unidentified 31-year-old ease Control and Prevention said that Police monitored traffic flows is the key, and obviously for those on in her pregnancy, media reported. temporary paralysis in adults. mother was staying with relatives a U.S. woman who had lived in Bra- and ambulances were put on standby people who have lost their homes The baby girl is suffering from The connection between Zika after she arrived in the United States zil gave birth to a microcephalic baby along the mostly barren 500km tragically it is to make sure they have severe microcephaly, a birth defect and microcephaly first came to light more than a month ago from Hon- in Hawaii. highway from provincial capitial the supports they need,” Scott Long, marked by small head size that can last fall in Brazil, which has now duras, where she was bitten by a The Zika outbreak is affecting Edmonton to Fort McMurray. Rest head of the Alberta Emergency Man- lead to severe developmental prob- confirmed more than 1,300 cases mosquito, Alvarez said. large parts of Latin America and the stops were also set up along the route. agement Agency, said. lems, after she was delivered through of microcephaly that it considers to Zika is carried by mosquitoes, Caribbean, with Brazil the hardest hit. Canadian minister OAS backs recall referendum as spat with Venezuela intensifies resigns to deal

with addiction Bloomberg Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela,” down on its effort to oust Maduro, the OAS said in the statement. who they blame for the worst eco- Almagro and Maduro have been nomic recession in decades. They Reuters trading insults for months. The head have called for a recall referendum CARACAS: A spat between head of OAS issued a statement two weeks and nationwide protests against his of Organisation of American States ago mocking Maduro’s accusations government. Maduro was elected in OTTAWA: Canadian Cabinet min- and Venezuelan government reached that he is a “traitor” and “CIA agent,” 2013 to a six-year term following the ister Hunter Tootoo, who was in new heights when the regional body and accusing him of betraying his death of President Hugo Chavez. charge of fisheries and Canadian backed a recall referendum on Pres- people with his “supposed ideology.” Maduro said he would file charges Coast Guard, resigned to seek ident Nicolas Maduro. Maduro immediately slammed the against national assembly president treatment for addiction issues. The OAS invoked its democratic OAS action at a rally in Caracas and Henry Ramos Allup and other oppo- Tootoo, a member of Parlia- charter to review the political situa- accused Almagro of trying to provoke sition leaders for overstepping their ment fro Nunavut, said he resigned tion in Venezuela at a meeting of its an intervention from the US. authority by asking the OAS to invoke his Cabinet post and would also be Permanent Council between June 10 “I’m the target of attacks of the democratic charter. A day earlier, he stepping down as a member of the and 20. The statement was linked to world’s oligarchies and their puppets,” said he would deploy military in streets Liberal caucus “in order to not dis- a 132-page report signed by its secre- Maduro said. “We’ll win this battle at across the country to fight crime. tract from the important work of tary-general, Luis Almagro, urging the the OAS and in the streets.” Assembly President Henry Ramos my colleagues.” recall referendum this year and the The statement, which also called Allup didn’t comment on implica- “I have decided to seek treat- release of political prisoners. for opposition-led National Assem- tions of the upcoming OAS meeting, ment for addiction issues and ask The meeting “will address break bly to have its power restored and but said the opposition would con- Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro shakes hands with supporters for privacy at this time,” Tootoo of the constitutional order and grave for the impartiality of the Supreme tinue insisting that a referendum be during a rally in Caracas, yesterday. said in a statement. affect on democratic order in the Court, comes as opposition doubles held this year.

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AFP in national folklore. Sometimes also referred to as MOST READ “human fish”, the slim vertebrate sports has pink three feathery gills on each Chinese teen hides in hold for POSTOJNA: The strange, slithery crea- side of its elongated snout. The body’s 1 nine-hour flight to Dubai tures inside Slovenia’s Postojna cave sheer pink skin makes it easy to spot were once considered living proof that the internal organs. Dead tigers found in Thai temple dragons existed, prompting locals to But its cave-dwelling existence 2 amid trafficking fears give it a wide berth. has also equipped the olm with some Now, large crowds from all over the extremely powerful skills. In place of Man United: The 3 Transfer Targets world have been queueing up to wit- sight, it has developed acute sensory 3 The Club Must Pursue This Summer ness the extremely rare hatching of the receptors for smell and movement, mysterious olms—ancient underwater helping it to hunt for prey like crabs and predators that can live up to 100 years snails in the dark, or snap at intruders. and only breed once in a decade. Even more impressively, the small Their treat came on Tuesday when predator can go without food for up to a TWEET OF THE DAY An olm, an ancient underwater predator, which can live up to 100 years the translucent larva broke through the decade. Breeding olms is a difficult and delicate egg envelope after four months and only breed once in a decade, in Postojna cave. often fatal affair. A previous try in 2013 of nervously monitored gestation The failed to produce any fertilised eggs at birth, caught on live camera, is noth- happen,” the cave statement said. arrivals will help to shed fresh light on Postojna. But the latest attempt looks ing short of “a miracle”, cave spokesmen The good news doesn’t end there: the enigmatic olm, which has become more promising. said. “A mere two baby olms success- the new arrival could soon be joined a national symbol and even featured on Of the 64 eggs laid in January, two fully hatch from 500 eggs in nature,” by several siblings, with more eggs set Slovenia’s currency before the euro was dozen remained alive, with their gills they said in a jubilant statement. to hatch at any moment. introduced. While locals now fondly talk functional and their hearts clearly beat- Found primarily in Balkan cave riv- Inside a giant hall, the mother and of their “baby dragons”, people for cen- ing. For those who make it, the path to ers, the protected eel-like species has her precious spawn are kept in com- turies were too afraid to even go near adulthood will be long: “They will take been living in the world-famous Posto- plete darkness in a covered tank under the cave. around 10 to 15 years to reach their full jna cave, 50km southwest of the capital the continuous watch of a night-vision During winter, heavy rains would size,” noted Weldt. Ljubljana, for what researchers say is camera. On a nearby television screen, wash out the wriggly creatures from And even then, their long-term sur- millions of years. This week, the tour- visitors can see the miniature eggs the grotto as it lay surrounded by a sea vival is not guaranteed. Although not ist attraction became one of the first spread over a rock. From time to time, of thick fog, according to 17th century officially endangered, the species is nev- ever human-controlled environments one of the embryos stirs ever so lightly. folk tales. ertheless considered vulnerable as it finds to successfully breed a baby olm. “It’s one of those moments where Slovenians believed them to be itself at risk of environmental changes “Although both science and you are happy to be alive now and the offspring of fire-breathing “drag- like pollution seeping into the so-called researchers’ previous experience experience such a unique event,” said ons living inside the dangerous cave”, karsts, or caves created from water eat- gave us almost zero chance that the Saso Weldt, a biologist working at explained Weldt. Reaching a maximum ing through soluble rocks like limestone. drama unfolding in the cave aquar- Postojna, one of Europe’s largest caves length of 35 centimetres, the blind ani- “Olms are a flagship species need of pro- ium before our very eyes would have that draws 700,000 visitors a year. mal with its four tiny limbs is a far cry tection. If there’s too much pollution, they a happy ending... we had faith it would Weldt and his team hope the new from the scary monsters conjured up will disappear,” warned Weldt. www.thepeninsulaqatar.com PAGE | 22 QE 9,572.32 +33.55 PTS PAGE | 23 DOW 17,787.69 +0.49 PTS Qatar ICT Directory to FTSE100 6,191.93 -38.86 PTS Al Meera Deputy boost private sector: CEO is Businessman BRENT $49.09 -$0.01 Minister of the Year

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OECD warning about growth Aramco enters Dr Al Sada in Baltic market; signs deal with Vienna for Polish PKN Reuters

WARSAW: Saudi Aramco and Opec meeting Poland’s biggest refiner PKN Orlen yesterday signed a contract agreed in May for Aramco to supply PKN with 50,000 barrels of crude oil and the slowing down or outage of per day starting this month, the many production stations around the companies said. Opec is meeting at world, let alone the retreat in invest- The deal solidifies the slow a time when the oil ments in the sector. erosion of Russian state oil giant Opec ministers gathering in Rosneft’s dominance in northern market is showing Vienna for the group’s biannual Europe, its core market for sales of a positive trend meeting said the oil market is mov- its medium sour grade Urals. towards rebalancing, ing in the right direction as a supply Saudi Aramco has been glut dissipates. “From the beginning The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Secretary-General Angel aggressively trying to expand its of the year until now, the market Gurria presenting the economic outlook at the OECD Ministerial Council meeting in Paris yesterday. global market share and success in has been correcting itself upward,” Governments must step up spending quickly to avert a low-growth trap, the organisation has warned. Russia’s backyard will likely stoke Suhail Mohamed Al Mazrouei, Min- existing tensions with the Krem- The Peninsula ister of Energy, UAE told reporters in lin over failed efforts to reverse the Vienna. “The market will fix itself fall in global oil prices. to a price that is fair to the consum- “This agreement marks a DOHA: A delegation from Qatar, ers and to the producers,” he added. strong first-step for Saudi Aram- headed by Minister of Energy and Some of the world’s biggest oil QFC law on investment by year-end co’s entry into the Baltic market, Industry and current President of the traders said accelerating demand is adding value in the key mar- Opec (Organization of the Petroleum also helping to rebalance the mar- kets of Poland, Lithuania, and Exporting Countries) H E Dr Moham- ket. Opec currently produces around the Czech Republic, where PKN med bin Saleh Al Sada arrived in 32.5 million barrels per day. Organ- Reuters access financial products and serv- bank, said the centre was continu- Orlen operates refineries,” Saudi Vienna yesterday to take part in the isations from Goldman Sachs Group ices. “The law is being debated with ing to grow in spite of low oil prices, Aramco’s CEO Amin Nasser said 169th Opec Conference Meeting that to the International Energy Agency the Council of Ministers. We don’t licensing 24 firms so far in 2016, in a statement. will be held today. (IEA) say the crude glut is finally have a timeline but, hopefully, it’ll compared with 68 in the whole of Polish state-run oil compa- The agenda of the high profile dwindling. The IEA expects oil DUBAI: A law governing the Qatar be some time this year,” Kamal Nagi, 2015. Most of these are non-reg- nies - PKN Orlen and Lotos , which conference is expected to include demand to increase this year by 1.2 Financial Centre (QFC), aimed at chief strategic and business develop- ulated entities, such as business refine mostly Russian oil - started the situation of the global oil market, million barrels a day. simplifying procedures for foreign ment officer at the QFC, told Reuters support firms and technology com- to diversify their supplies at the expected developments in produc- Oil prices fell early yesterday investors, will hopefully be intro- in an interview. panies, although Italian Bank Intesa end of last year. tion levels, supply and demand, as production from the major Mid- duced by year end, an official said It had been hoped the law would Sanpaolo was registered in April, The contract agreed with Saudi investments in the oil sector and dia- dle East exporters was expected to yesterday. be ready for the first quarter of according to the QFC website. Aramco in May is PKN’s first long- logue with non-Opec producers, said remain high or even increase just The QFC has its own legal, 2016, QFC’s chief executive said in “Asset management is something term deal with a supplier from the the Ministry of Energy and Industry as concerns over the state of Chi- regulatory, tax and business infra- November. that we see growth coming from in Gulf region. in a statement yesterday. na’s economy weighed on its fuel structure, which allows for 100 However, steps are being taken to the future, but we’re also focusing on PKN Orlen began buying Saudi Opec is meeting at a time when demand outlook. percent foreign ownership and full try remove some of these obstacles to the business services sector as well,” crude last year along with Swedish the oil market is showing a posi- International benchmark Brent repatriation of profits in a country boost foreign investment and aid the said Nagi, noting around three-quar- refiner Preem and Poland’s second tive trend towards rebalancing, with crude oil futures were trading at where local law demands Qataris diversification of national economies ters of firms registered in the QFC refiner Lotos. Brent prices last week touching $50 for $49.59 per barrel, down 30 cents, retain at least a majority holding. away from hydrocarbons, something are now entities which wouldn’t be Opec will meet today with the first time in many months, com- or 0.6 percent, from their last set- The draft QFC law aims to which has gained greater prominence regulated. hopes that a plan to freeze output pared to around $27 in January, an tlement. US West Texas Intermediate streamline different aspects of given lower oil prices. QFC houses the Qatari offices of may be revived. OPEC sources said increase of almost 85 percent. This crude futures were down 23 cents, existing regulation, including how Nagi, who started in the role last international banks including Citi, that a new output ceiling would be was largely due to a rise in demand or 0.47 percent, at $48.87 a barrel. companies registered in the zone month after a stint at Qatar’s central Deutsche Bank and UBS. considered. Al Faisal Holding’s Artic acquires Miami hotel Qatar’s CPI at 1.6% in 2015: Report The Peninsula in every way: location, quality and then the hotel industry has been architectural design,” said Sheikh growing strongly, benefiting our US Faisal bin Qassim Al Thani (pic- investments. With this acquisition, tured), Chairman of Artic. “Along Artic has become one of the key play- By Sachin Kumar the Advanced Economies and -3.9 DOHA: Al Rayyan Tourism with this acquisition, we have signed ers in the US hospitality industry and I The Peninsula percent (deficit) for the Middle East Investment Company (Artic), the an agreement with Starwood Hotels am confident that we are on the right and North Africa. international hotel investment and and Resorts, one of the world’s lead- track towards achieving our vision of In 2015, the real growth rate hospitality subsidiary of Al Faisal ing hotel and leisure companies, for becoming one of the world’s leading of GDP for Qatar was 3.7 percent, Holding Company, announced yes- Starwood to run the hotel. This clearly hotel investment groups through our DOHA: The year-on-year change in compared to that of the World (3.1 terday that it has acquired the Viceroy demonstrates Artics’s commitment strategy of portfolio expansion and the Consumer Price Index (CPI) was percent), Advanced Economies (1.9 Miami luxury boutique hotel, in US to adding value to our investments,” value enhancement.” 1.6 percent for Qatar in 2015, com- percent), and Middle East and North and will now convert the property he added. The hotel has won several awards pared to 3.3 percent for the world, Africa, (2.3 percent). into a W hotel to be renamed W Currently operating as Viceroy and accolades including Conde Nast 0.3 percent for the advanced econo- The report added that GDP Miami. Miami, the hotel is part of a three Traveler’s 2013 & 2015 Top Hotels in mies and 5.9 percent, for the Middle for the fourth quarter of 2015 (Q4 The hotel is part of the Icon Brick- tower project in downtown Miami. It Florida, USA Today’s “10 Best” 2015 East and North Africa. 2015), at current prices, was esti- ell project, a ground-breaking 10-acre is located in Tower 3 and comprises Best Hotel Rooftop Bars, and a Fodor’s CPI is a measure that examines mated at QR146.83bn, which development situated directly on 148 rooms and suites, five commer- Choice Award. the change in the weighted average showed a decrease of 1.7 percent, the waterfront in downtown Brick- cial units, and 38 condominium hotel Tarek M El Sayed, Managing of prices of a basket of consumer when compared with that of pre- ell, Miami’s burgeoning urban centre. units which are currently part of a including a signature rooftop lounge Director of ARTIC, added: “This goods and services such as food, vious quarter (Q32015). Real GDP “W Miami is a magnificent prop- hotel rental programme. on the 50th floor, a 28,000 square acquisition adds further value to our clothing, rental, transportation, etc. (calculated at 2013 constant prices), erty which we are proud to add to our Designed by Arquitectonica, the foot spa, and a 300-foot rooftop pool, investment portfolio. With its unique According to the fifteenth issue in order to eliminate the effects of expanding US investment portfolio. It hotel’s 50-storey structure reinforces Florida’s longest infinity pool over- location in Brickell - Miami’s Wall of “Window on Economic Statistics price changes, showed that, in vol- is our fifth investment in the US and the architecture firm’s reputation for looking Biscayne Bay. Street of the Americas and financial of Qatar”, released yesterday by the ume terms, GDP grew by 3.9 percent our second in Miami and its acqui- innovation through its ultra-modern Sheikh Mohamed bin Faisal bin district - the hotel is the centerpiece Ministry of Development Planning over Q4 2014 and, decreased by 0.5 sition, which is fully in line with our design and expansive public spaces Qassim Al Thani, Vice Chairman of the Icon Brickell development. and Statistics (MDPS), Qatar’s Cur- percent over the previous quarter. targeted strategic approach, dem- that maximize the stunning views. of Artic, said: “The US market has Looking ahead, Artic will continue to rent Account Balance as percentage The Gross Value Added (GVA) onstrates the strides which Artic The hotel opened in 2009 and always been attractive to us. Artic evaluate and take advantage of new of GDP, in 2015, remained among of the Mining and Quarrying sec- is successfully making in the glo- contains several award-winning res- entered the US in 2012, focusing on opportunities for portfolio growth the highest in the world at 8.2 per- tor for Q4 2015, was estimated at bal arena. It is an outstanding hotel taurants and flexible function spaces, the hospitality industry, and since and value creation.” cent, compared to 0.7 percent, for QR46.16bn. 22 THURSDAY 2 JUNE 2016 BUSINESS Qatar ICT Directory to boost private sector: Minister

itiveness, regionally and globally. Al Sulaiti also said: “Initiatives The Awards is an initiative by the He also noted that the Directory, such as the Qatar IT Business Awards Ministry of Transport and Commu- The directory will launched in collaboration with the help to build understanding, generate nications and provides a platform help public and Ministry of Economy and Commerce, interest and perhaps more impor- to showcase IT business-related is helping public and private sectors tantly, recognise those who are at the achievements in the country. The private sectors and the business community to find forefront of information and commu- Awards invited companies to submit and the business best information and communication nications technology in Qatar.” projects that have demonstrated great community to find (ICT) service providers and products. The winners were announced in innovation, best practice and inspira- The document has developed a the presence of the Minister of Trans- tional ways developing new ideas to best information and database of ICT companies in Qatar port and Communications and the drive a connected society. communication (ICT) that will help government and busi- Minister of Economy and Commerce, Reem Al Mansoori, Assistant nesses select suitable ICT companies. HE Sheikh Ahmed bin Jassim Al Thani. Undersecretary of Digital Society at service providers and It also helps better understand Qatar’s The award included seven catego- the Ministry of Transport and Com- products. ICT landscape. ries, which include Service Provider munications, added: “Initiatives like The Directory has a fast search of the Year, Cloud Service Provider of these allow us to create awareness of feature where users can search for the Year, Tech Startup of the Year, Best the importance of IT Businesses in the companies, services and products. Mobile Application of the Year, Best IT rapid growth and economic develop- The Peninsula Users can also smoothly review a Adoption in the SME Sector and Smart ment of Qatar. We congratulate the list of all ICT companies, let alone Solution of the Year. winners and wish to support them the advanced search to find specific The winners were Malomatia for with an IT business friendly environ- results. By understanding the ICT sec- Service Provider (Software), Mannai ment to achieve great success for the Minister of Transport and Communications, H E Jassim bin Saif Al Sulaiti, DOHA: Minister of Transport and tor’s actual volume and needs, the Infotech for Service Provider (Hard- IT Business sector of Qatar.” Communications, H E Jassim bin Saif Directory could effectively help dia- speaking at ‘Qatar IT Business 2016 Awards’ ceremony at St Regis Doha ware), Meeza for Cloud Service, Meddy Sponsors of the Qatar IT Business Al Sulaiti, speaking at ‘Qatar IT Busi- logue the factors that hamper small on Tuesday night. for Tech Startup, Oordeoo for best 2016 Awards included leading Qatari ness 2016 Awards’ ceremony, said that and mid-sized enterprises (SMEs) and Mobile Application of the Year, Riy- organisations, with QDB as Platinum the launch of ‘Qatar ICT Directory’ will startups. held on Tuesday night at the St Regis to the IT sector and are an initia- ada Trading for best IT Adoption in Sponsor, Vodafone as Gold Sponsor, help enhance private sector’s footprint The gala awards ceremony for the Doha. The prestigious awards cele- tive of the Ministry of Transport and the SME sector and QMIC for Smart and Microsoft and Qatar Rail as Sil- in the market by ensuring their compet- ‘Qatar IT Business 2016 Awards’ was brate Qatari companies’ contribution Communications. Solutions. ver Sponsors.

Egypt Suez Canal Oryx GTL holds biannual forum ‘Tawasol Day’ revenues at $1.239bn in Q1 The Peninsula Reuters

DOHA: Oryx GTL held its bian- CAIRO: Revenue from Egypt’s Suez nual forum ‘Tawasol Day’, under the Canal reached $1.239bn in the first patronage of the company’s CEO, quarter of 2016, up slightly from Sheikh Thani bin Thamer Al Thani, $1.236bn in the same period last and in the presence of all its Qatari year, the state news agency MENA managers and employees. quoted the Suez Canal Authority The event was dedicated to Qatari chairman as saying yesterday. employees, as part of Oryx GTL pro- Mohab Mameesh said the gramme aimed to communicate with canal’s revenues had increased them, bringing them closer to senior despite slowing global trade. management, providing a forum to The Suez Canal Authority usu- discuss their concerns and to follow- ally reports the canal’s revenues in up on their training and development dollars every month towards the schemes. end of the following month. Since The staff also presented their sug- February it has not published dollar gestions and inquiries communicating figures for revenues on its web- Oryx GTL officials at the biannual forum ‘Tawasol Day. openly about a vast range of topics. site, making monthly comparisons The CEO, along with the chiefs, man- hard to assess after the central bank agers, and head of sections answered solutions accordingly. work to acknowledge their commit- wonderful and enriching lecture how to become an actor in the com- devalued the pound in March. the inquiries and committed to review In addition to that, ‘Certificates of ment and encourage them to continue from Salah Al Yafei, titled “Inspira- munity, and the ways in which you Egypt’s central bank devalued certain issues that were raised in the Appreciation’ were presented to out- their good work. tional Motivation”, which gave advice must follow in order to achieve your the pound to 8.85 per dollar from discussion in order to present suitable standing employees across all fields of The meeting also included a and guidance to all attendees on aspirations. 7.73 on March 14.

Hikma to replace Inmarsat in Coreo opens office FTSE 100 index at The Pearl-Qatar Reuters

The Peninsula and providing clients access to a team LONDON: Hikma Pharmaceuti- of professional and experienced cals will be promoted to Britain’s real estate agents who are uniquely blue chip FTSE 100 equity index equipped and able to meet each cus- following a sharp rally in its shares DOHA: Qatar-based real estate tomer’s needs.” since March, while satellite firm agency Coreo opened a brand new He added: “We are delighted to Inmarsat will drop out of the index. two-storey office at The Pearl Qatar welcome our guests to our state-of- The London Stock Exchange on Tuesday. the-art facility, which offers potential Group said on Wednesday that the Established in 2008, Coreo customers a holistic experience, changes will take effect on June 20. provides real estate services and solu- presenting visuals of our available Getting into the FTSE 100 can tions for individual private investors, properties while being surrounded often fuel further demand for a homeowners, and major developers. by bold, invigorating pieces of art.” company’s shares, since funds Some of their services include rental It is part of Coreo’s vision to intro- that track the FTSE or invest in support, resale and marketing. It also duce a creative space in the near the index can then add that stock provides resettlement assistance and future, with hopes to foster the local to their portfolio, while the inverse solutions to newly relocated clients. design scene and attract an array of is true if a company falls out of the Misnad Al Misnad, Chairman, new customers. FTSE 100. Coreo said: “This is a project we have Nuria Miranda, Coreo Director Shares in Hikma, which reit- been heavily invested in for nearly said: “Coreo is raising the bar for real Senior officials of Coreo at the office opening ceremony. erated its guidance for 2016 last a decade. Coreo truly embodies a estate servicing in Qatar, and we are month and said it continued to combination of two very important thrilled to be expanding our reach to expect full year group revenue business values to us; being both international markets, where our cli- all while being situated right in the office opening shed light on Coreo’s to innovate and provide world-class in the range of $2.0bn to $2.1bn, personally engaged in developing a ents will have unique opportunities to comfort of our offices.” identity as a culturally diverse and services to clients looking to rent, buy have surged 45 percent since strong and trusting client relationship, invest in carefully selected projects, The agency’s re-launch and new cultivated hub, constantly striving or sell property in Qatar and abroad. mid-March. On the other hand, Inmarsat has fallen 37 percent since early February as the company is fac- ing tough trading conditions in its maritime and government mar- Qatar First Bank introduces efficiency action plan kets businesses. A slowdown in the global economy has hit its shipping- The Peninsula QFB’s efficiency action plan com- are part of the bank’s planned reorgani- Makkawi also said that there is utilizing its human capital; QFB related operations, one of the main plements and confirms the strategy zation, previously introduced and backed still a great deal of work to be done aims to raise shareholders’ value and engines for cash flow in the satel- introduced in 2015 that streamlined by an advanced automated and tech- on the Bank’s journey to success. As enhance profitability levels. lite communications group. the bank’s businesses to offer corpo- nology based infrastructure, to enable the global investment market contin- Earlier in May, the bank The rankings are decided on DOHA: Qatar First Bank (QFB) yes- rate and institutional banking, private accelerating the shift from being invest- ues to go through major challenges, announced the development of a the basis of market capitalizations. terday confirmed its strategy and banking and wealth management, ment focused to investor focused.” and the Bank will continue to explore pioneering open architecture pri- Companies with the lowest mar- announced an action plan that focuses treasury and investments, as well as “QFB is at the beginning of a new attractive opportunities that increase vate banking platform, which is set ket cap in the FTSE 100 drop into on optimising the bank’s resources and private equity and real estate. era. The current direction to raise effi- revenues generated from all busi- to offer Shari’ah compliant products the FTSE 250 mid-cap index, and raises its efficiency level. Ziad Makkawi, CEO of QFB, said: ciency levels is part of our bigger plan, nesses and contribute positively to including financing, private bank- vice versa. Along with the tight cost cut- “In line with the current market con- and actually complements our strategy, shareholders’ value. ing services, innovative investment The companies joining the ting measures including strategic ditions and in order for QFB to emerge which benefits we have started reap- By committing to its current solutions, as well as family office mid-cap index included Metro reduction of the workforce, the plan as a more efficient and productive ing. We are committed to continue strategy and investing in the bank’s services covering trusts, founda- Bank, CYBG, whose brands include also pledged to focus on capitalis- contributor to Qatar’s financial mar- delivering on our promise to grow the future, QFB is effectively maximizing tions, advisory, real estate planning, Clydesdale Bank and Yorkshire ing on the bank’s human resources ket, we have undertaken important business, expand our offerings, and the benefit of its QSE listing. Through and statement consolidation. This is Bank, and CMC Markets. Shares in and maximizing their experience to cost rationalization initiatives touch- provide a ‘Signature of Excellence’. focusing on business lines that are in line with QFB’s commitment to the three companies have climbed boost performance during 2016, and ing upon both staffing and business We will continue investing in the com- expected to generate income, posi- offer shareholders and clients the between 10 percent and 30 percent achieve objectives over the coming related expenses.” ing years to achieve our objectives in a tively exiting from some of its private chance to grow, manage and pro- since the start of April. years. He added: “The efficiency measures timely manner,” Makkawi said. equity investments, and efficiently tect their wealth and assets. BUSINESS THURSDAY 2 JUNE 2016 23 Ooredoo wins big at Global Telecoms Business Awards

Network Infrastructure Innova- app developed to help connect tion and Infrastructure Innovation users with useful, real-time news Awards included categories. on politics, business, sport and honours in Consumer The wins included three awards entertainment. for Indosat Ooredoo’s eMagic M2M The Ooredoo Mobile Money serv- Service Innovation, platform; Ooredoo’s Mobile Money ice (OMM) was developed in 2012 Business Service service in Qatar, Indonesia, Iraq, alongside MoneyGram and Qatar Maldives and Tunisia; and Ooredoo National Bank, and today works with Innovation, Myanmar’s Bindez-Tha-Din app. multiple partners globally to support Wireless Network In addition, Ooredoo was hon- 7.5 million transactions per month Infrastructure oured with two joint collaborative across its four key markets of Qatar, awards for technology deployments Iraq, Indonesia and Tunisia. Innovation and with global giants Nokia and Huawei. OMM is the leading mobile finan- Infrastructure Sheikh Saud bin Nasser Al Thani, cial service for customers across Group CEO, Ooredoo said: “Ooredoo MENA and Southeast Asia. The award Innovation categories. continues to deliver excellence in celebrates the service’s efficient distri- An Ooredoo official receiving an award at the Global Telecoms Business Innovation Awards. all our operations, deploying inno- bution, unique models of deployment vative technologies that can make a and a wide range of services includ- real difference in the lives of our cus- ing remittance, payroll, micro-finance, want to deploy M2M solutions by the industry about our achievement implementation of performance The Peninsula tomers. These awards demonstrate loans and personal insurance as well embedding connectivity, from GPS with this award from GTB. We will con- improvements on the Ooredoo net- how, across our footprint, Ooredoo as deposits, payment, withdrawal and tracking, fleet management, smart tinue to work closely with Ooredoo and work. Organised by Global Telecoms is establishing leadership positions transfer functionality. metering, and industrial telemetry. operators around the world to trans- Business magazine, the Innovation DOHA: Ooredoo won five awards through advanced networks, incred- In the Business Service Inno- In the joint award categories, form their network and provide high Awards recognise innovation and at the tenth annual Global Telecoms ible customer service and enriching vation category, Indosat Ooredoo’s Ooredoo and Huawei won the “Infra- quality services to their customers,” excellence throughout the interna- Business Innovation Awards held in people’s digital lifestyles.” eMagic took home the award, dem- structure InnovationAwards” in said James Zhai, General Manager of tional telecoms industry. This year, London recently. Ooredoo Myanmar’s new Bindez- onstrating the benefits of Indonesia’s recognition of their close collabora- NFV Integration Services, Global Tech- entrants competed in five catego- The awards, which were accepted Tha-Din app and the Ooredoo Mobile first cloud-based M2M platform. tion on Project UNIFY-Transforming nical Service Department at Huawei. ries - fixed network infrastructure by Ooredoo Group, Ooredoo Qatar, Money service (OMM) received a Con- Packaged as an extremely reli- Infrastructure with Network Func- Nokia and Ooredoo Qatar also innovation, wireless network infra- Indosat Ooredoo and Ooredoo sumer Service Innovation award each. able wholly-managed service that tion Virtualisation. took home a joint award for Wireless structure innovation, wholesale Myanmar, included honours in the Launched in 2015,Ooredoo provides critical business solutions, “We are excited and delighted to be Network Infrastructure Innovation service innovation, business serv- Consumer Service Innovation, Busi- Myanmar’s new Bindez-Tha-Din app eMagic primarily targets large busi- part of Ooredoo UNIFY transformation for the Nokia Predictive Optimiza- ice innovation and consumer service ness Service Innovation, Wireless is a local language news-aggregation nesses and service providers who project and honoured to be recognised tion service, which supports faster innovation. Al Meera Deputy CEO is QIB announces winners of Credit Card campaign Businessman of the Year The Peninsula between February 25 and April 30, are listed on QIB’s website. “This Credit Cards Spring cam- 2016. All the Bank’s credit cardhold- QIB offers a wide range of Debit paign was highly successful and we The Peninsula ers who fulfilled the minimum spend and Credit cards, all with a variety of had a great number of customers requirement became eligible for the valuable features tailored to meet the entering into the prize draw. I would DOHA: Qatar Islamic Bank (QIB), prizes, giving them more reasons to needs of different customers. All of like to add my personal congratula- the country’s leading Shariah-com- enjoy the benefits and features of QIB QIB’s cards are accepted locally and tions to all the prize winners, all of DOHA: Dr Mohammed Nasser Al pliant banking services provider, credit cards. internationally – and can be used whom have been notified of their win Qahtani (pictured), Deputy CEO of has announced the winners of the The draw for the lucky winners at millions of merchant outlets for via SMS messages. When they check Al Meera Consumer Goods Com- recently concluded “Credit Cards was held at the Bank’s head office in cashless purchases and more than their accounts they will be delighted pany, has won the ‘Businessman Spring Campaign”, where all QIB the presence of the Ministry of Econ- 1.8 million ATMs globally. to find a credit for the amount they of the Year’ award at Qatar Today credit cardholders were eligible to omy and Commerce and QIB officials. D Anand, General Manager of have won added to their balance” Business Excellence Awards (QTBEA) participate. One lucky winner has won QIB’s Personal Banking Group, said: “Our excellent offers are not ending ceremony. The campaign offered the Bank’s QR25,000 while six customers have “As a leading Islamic Bank in Qatar here, as we will continue to provide our Dr Al Qahtani deserved this customers the chance to win differ- been rewarded with QR10,000 each, and the region, we strive to offer cus- customers with exclusive and exciting recognition as a prominent Qatari ent prizes for international or local and forty winners won QR2,000 tomers clear and compelling reasons offers as part of our appreciation for businessman, following robust purchases using QIB Credit cards each. The names of all the winners to choose QIB as their main Bank.” their loyalty,” Anand said. financial results and significant profits made by Al Meera, and the opening of several new branches along with renewal and revamping British Steel of existing ones, said the company. The year of 2013 was recog- Among the most prominent nised by the opening of two new Some new cars still using returns as Tata achievements since Dr Al Qahtani neighbourhood malls in Nuaija and joined Al Meera in 2011 is the sig- Legtaifiya. In addition, Al Meera sells assets nificant expansion with a major brought easy shopping to the com- growth in sales in the same year munities in Beverly Hills 3 and defective Takata airbags AFP that exceeded by QR1bn. In the same Barwa Messaimeer. year, Al Meera acquired Qatar Mar- Al Meera took its chain of oper- kets Company (Giant Stores) and Al ations a step further that year by LONDON: India’s Tata Steel yes- Oumara Bakery, which provided five bringing the first Géant Hypermarket Reuters showed some substitute inflators recalled. Automakers may not dis- terday completed the part-sale of new sale outlets in different areas to Qatar as a result of transforming may also be defective. close all new vehicles being recalled its European assets, safeguarding totaling 15,000 square metres. its Giant Stores at the Hyatt plaza, NHTSA has taken control of the until 2019. 4,800 jobs, but thousands more Al Meera continued in 2012 its and turning it into a renowned inter- massive recall, using legal authority “Until that time, it’s impossi- are threatened with no buyer steady growth in addition to the buy- national name. WASHINGTON: Toyota Motor to do so for the first time - and last ble for consumers to find out if their found for the rest of the business. ing of five stores in Oman with the While in 2014, Al Meera com- Corp, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles year appointed a former federal pros- vehicle has a defective airbag which Tata Steel UK announced its partner, National Investment fund pleted the construction of the nine NV, Volkswagen AG and Mitsubi- ecutor to oversee the effort. will need to be replaced,” said Rich completion of the sale of its Euro- Company (NIFCO), reaching a total new, modern community shopping shi Motors Corp are still selling new “What’s troubling here is that Newsome, an Orlando lawyer who pean piping business to Greybull of 29 branches in Qatar and 5 other malls in Qatar, while also revamping vehicles with defective airbags that consumers are buying new cars not represents people who have sued Capital, a British-based family in Oman. and renovating it’s already existing will eventually have to be recalled, realizing they’re going to be recalled,” Takata. investment firm for an undis- Additionally, during this year, Al stores. the top Democrat on the US Sen- U.S. Senator Bill Nelson, a Florida Ford Motor Co announced closed sum. Meera bought the franchise right to In 2015, the company opened 10 ate Commerce Committee said in a Democrat and the report’s author, Wednesday it is expanding its Takata The deal, hailed by Tata, the WHsmith, which was set for inau- branches new branches that were report yesterday. said in a statement. “These cars air bag recalls by nearly 1.9 mil- British government and unions, guration at the Ezdan Mall, Nuaija equipped with state-of-the-art The report said the automak- shouldn’t be sold until they’re fixed.” lion vehicles - and more recalls are means the return of the British Mall and Hyatt Plaza. elements. ers confirmed they are continuing Takata inflators can explode expected later this week. Steel brand for the first time since to sell some vehicles with ammo- with excessive force and spray Last month, Takata agreed to 1999. nium-nitrate inflators without a metal shrapnel into passenger com- declare as defective another 35 mil- “From today the Long Prod- drying agent. The vehicles are legal partments. They are suspected in 13 lion to 40 million US inflators that ucts Europe business... will trade to sell but must be recalled by 2018, deaths worldwide and more than 100 don’t have drying agents in frontal under the name of British Steel,” US Treasury to press the report said. injuries. airbags. Tata Steel UK said in a statement. The report by the top Democrat There is no required public dis- Last week, eight automakers “All together the business on the committee that oversees the closure of all new vehicles that have announced recalls of more than 12 employs 4,800 people -- 4,400 China on yuan policy US National Highway Traffic Safety air bag inflators that will need to be million vehicles as a result. in the UK and 400 in France. The Administration (NHTSA) is the lat- sale follows an accelerated process est to raise concerns about what of negotiations between Tata Steel has grown into the largest ever auto UK and Greybull Capital.” Reuters China’s yuan has slid in recent safety recall in history - now close to Britain’s government has been weeks to near five-year lows against 70 million air bag inflators. racing to find a buyer for Tata’s UK the dollar amid weak factory data It was not clear precisely how assets -- and save around 16,000 and market expectations that the many care are being sold with defec- jobs -- after the company’s shock WASHINGTON: The US Treasury Federal Reserve is preparing to raise tive inflators. The report said the announcement in March that it was will press China in bilateral meetings interest rates in June or July. vehicles being sold with inflators that selling because of a global over- next week to keep moving toward a The Treasury official said that will later need to be recalled include supply of steel, cheap imports into market-determined exchange rate, it was also for important for China the 2016-2017 Mitsubishi i-MiEV, 2016 Europe, high costs and currency reduce excess industrial capacity, to continue to communicate clearly Volkswagen CC, 2016 Audi TT and volatility. and make reforms that boost domes- its intentions for exchange rate poli- 2017 Audi R8. Tata Steel in April said it had tic consumption, a senior Treasury cies. “That communication is a core Toyota, one of two automakers agreed to sell its Long Products official said yesterday. part of an effective exchange rate that did not provide specific years Europe (LPE) division, whose chief The official, speaking to report- regime,” the official said. and models, expects to produce asset is the Scunthorpe works in ers ahead of Treasury Secretary Jack After a yuan drop in January approximately 175,000 vehicles northern England, to Greybull Lew’s trip to Beijing for the annual roiled global markets, China’s top with the defective Takata inflators Capital. Long products are items US-China Strategic and Economic central banker had calmed investors between March 2016 and July 2017, such as steel pipes that are sold Dialogue meetings on June 6-7, said by saying the government had no the report said. by length. a “hallmark” for China to achieve a intention to devalue the yuan. The Automakers face both supply Tata is still looking for a buyer market-determined exchange rate renminbi fell 1.6 per cent against the issues and in some cases engineering for the rest of its British assets, would be “two-sided flexibility” that dollar in May, after the People’s Bank challenges to phase out the inflators. including the Port Talbot steel- Visitors look at Ford’s 2010 Mustang at an unveiling in Santa Monica, allows the yuan to both appreciate of China reformed the way it sets its BMW AG in March received a five- works on the south Wales coast, and depreciate in response to mar- daily guidance rate for the currency, month extension to acquire Takata California. Ford Motor Co said it would recall about 1.9 million vehicles Britain’s biggest steel plant, which ket pressures. known as the midpoint price. replacement parts because tests fitted with Takata airbags. employs 4,000 workers. 24 THURSDAY 2 JUNE 2016 BUSINESS Factories stuck in low gear on sluggish demand

concerns about China and a possible the big lift we saw in Q1 is going to be which feeds into a composite PMI due investment decisions prior to the ref- Kumamoto were also knocked by a British exit from the European Union, sustained,” said Ben May at Oxford Eco- Friday that is seen as good guide to erendum on EU membership,” said contraction in external demand. The The world economy has knocked confidence. nomics. “Industry will be a bigger drag growth, also fell. James Smith at ING. Markit/Nikkei Japan PMI showed the will meander along at The world economy will mean- on growth in Q2 so we will see a slow Gross domestic product in the bloc China’s official PMI was only frac- fastest contraction in three years. der along at its slowest pace since the down in GDP growth in the euro zone.” grew 0.5 percent in the first quar- tionally positive at 50.1, though it was The yen’s recovery to an 18-month its slowest pace since financial crisis for a second year in British factory growth was mini- ter, figures showed last month, but is the third straight month of improve- high against the dollar last month has the financial crisis for a row in 2016 as it is ensnared in a mal at best in May and activity in Asia expected to expand just 0.3 percent ment. The survey also revealed new also clouded the outlook for Japan’s a second year in a row “low-growth trap”, the OECD said yes- also failed to speed up as the region’s this quarter, according to a May Reu- orders slowed and export orders exporters. terday, urging governments to boost export-driven businesses struggled ters poll. Britain’s growth pace slowed stalled. Elsewhere in Asia, conditions in 2016. spending. for new orders from an overall lack- in the first three months of the year A private Caixin/Markit PMI, were patchy at best. Having fired another salvo in its lustre global economy. and many economists expect further focusing on smaller companies, made Even in India, the world’s fastest- battle to drive up growth and infla- “The picture is pretty muted in weakening in the second quarter. The sorrier reading for global firms reliant growing big economy, manufacturing tion in the euro zone earlier this Asia, both in terms of exports and Bank of England has said a vote to on China’s giant market for every- activity increased at a tepid pace as Reuters year, European Central Bank Presi- factory activity,” said Su Sian Lim, leave the EU could even tip the econ- thing from consumer items, to cars output growth softened for the sec- dent Mario Draghi in April called on Southeast Asia economist at HSBC in omy into recession. and commodities. It showed condi- ond month in a row. governments to help get the region’s Singapore. Britons vote on June 23 whether tions deteriorated for a 15th straight South Korea’s manufacturing LONDON/BEIJING: Global manu- sluggish economy on a more solid Similarly, US factory activity grew or not to remain in the EU and recent month. activity improved slightly last month, facturing activity remained stuck in footing. only marginally last month, Institute data showed business investment fell China’s economy grew by 6.7 but more alarmingly, separate data a rut last month with factory output Yet, despite the ultra-loose mone- for Supply Management data due later in annual terms for the first time in percent in the first quarter - its showed exports unexpectedly fell 6.0 from Asia to Europe barely improv- tary policy, euro zone manufacturing yesterday are expected to show. three years as uncertainty over the slowest since 2009, and there are percent last month with shipments to ing as producers struggled to bring in activity remained lacklustre in May, Markit’s final manufacturing Pur- referendum weighed on sentiment. nagging doubts about the authori- China, its biggest customer, contract- new orders, surveys released yester- supporting the view that strong eco- chasing Managers’ Index (PMI) for the The Markit/CIPS manufactur- ties’ ability to engineer a turnaround ing 9.1 percent on-year. day showed. nomic growth in the first quarter did euro zone dipped to a three-month ing PMI for Britain rose more than without piling on dangerous Australia, at least, was faring bet- Speculation has hardened in not carry through to the second. low of 51.5 from April’s 51.7, in line expected but came in only just above amounts of debt. ter, with data released earlier in the recent weeks that the US Federal “This reinforces the idea things with a flash reading. Anything above the 50 level. In Japan, factories grappling to day showing the economy accelerat- Reserve will raise interest rates in the are going okay; it’s not a disaster, but 50 indicates growth. “This data is further evidence that recover from the earthquakes in ing at its fastest annual pace in three next few months which, coupled with clearly there are no obvious signs that A sub-index measuring output, businesses are holding off on hiring/ the southern manuacturing hub of years in the first quarter. Japan PM puts fiscal Arabtec to use $272m reserves reform on back burner to wipe out loss Reuters

Reuters delayed an increase in the sales tax to 10 percent from 8 percent, after a rise ABU DHABI: A meeting of from 5 percent in April 2014 tipped the shareholders in Dubai-listed con- economy back into recession. struction firm Arabtec Holding TOKYO: Japanese Prime Minister “From an economic standpoint, approved yesterday a plan to use Shinzo Abe announced yesterday his the market is likely to view the delay 1bn dirhams ($272m) of the com- widely expected decision to delay a as a positive surprise for domestic pany’s statutory reserves to wipe scheduled sales tax increase by two- demand,” said Lee Jin Yang, macro out some of its accumulated losses. and-a-half years, putting his plans for research analyst for Aberdeen Asset The company has been strug- fiscal reforms on the back burner due Management in Singapore. gling with a difficult industry to growing signs of weakness in the Abe, whose premiership will environment as Gulf economies economy. end when his term as LDP presi- slow and governments restrain While the decision may help Abe dent finishes in September 2018, had spending because of low oil win votes at an upper house elec- repeatedly said he would raise the tax prices. tion on July 10, it could fan doubts as planned unless the economy faced The Dhs1bn will cover 44 per- about his plans to curb Japan’s huge a shock from a financial crisis or nat- cent of the company’s accumulated public debt and fund ballooning ural disaster. losses, leaving a reserves balance social welfare costs of a fast-age- But he laid the groundwork for a of Dhs148m, officials said. ing population. delay at last week’s Group of Seven Arabtec has hired restructur- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe addressing a press conference at his official residence in Tokyo yesterday Mindful of opposition criticism summit, insisting his G7 partners ing advisory firm AlixPartners to that the delay is a sign his “Abenom- shared a “strong sense of crisis” about to announce the delay in the consumption tax hike. help it strengthen its capital struc- ics” stimulus policies have failed to the global economy, and he drew par- ture and reform its business. Vice spur growth, Abe justified the deci- allels to the 2008 world financial been disappointingly weak. Abe said he has not abandoned a keep reflating growth so tax revenues chairman Mohamed al-Mehairi sion, saying it was needed to forestall crisis that followed the bankruptcy Manufacturing activity in May pledge to bring the primary budget will continue to increase. said the work of advisors in draw- risks posed by external factors - nota- of Lehman Brothers. contracted by the most in more than balance into surplus by the fiscal “I have very strong concern about ing up a restructuring plan was bly slowing Chinese growth. Abe said that while the global three years. Corporate profits fell at year starting April 2020, and rein fiscal discipline,” said Hiroshi Shirai- “going very well and should be “Abenomics has been stead- economy was not on the verge of the fastest pace in more than four in public debt which is already more shi, senior economist at BNP Paribas completed very soon”. ily producing results, but the global another financial crisis, Japan must years in January-March, which could than double Japan’s annual eco- Securities. In 2014, Arabtec agreed in economic environment has changed spearhead efforts to boost global hurt capital expenditure plans. nomic output. “We are stepping onto a poten- principle to build one million unexpectedly quickly in the past year. demand by loosening fiscal policy. Slow wage growth has also But that target had already looked tially dangerous path because once homes for middle-income Egyp- The biggest risk is the slowdown in “We’ll deploy a comprehensive, weighed on consumer spending. elusive, even based on the govern- you start this policy it is difficult to tians by 2020 in a $35bn project, emerging economies,” Abe told a news bold economic package this autumn,” “I’m not sure whether it’s bad ment’s rosy forecast of real economic stop, and once you do, the economy but the company and the Egyptian conference. he said, without indicating the scale enough to delay the tax hike but we growth of 2 percent on average in will tank.” government have not agreed on “Faced with global risks, we must of spending envisaged. can’t be too optimistic about con- coming years. Abe also ruled out calling a snap specifics since then, and Egyptian fully reignite the engine of Abenomics Many economists found Abe’s sumption,” Sadanobu Takemasu, Abe offered few clues on how general election for parliament’s pow- officials have said talks are now and speed up efforts to escape defla- comparisons to the Lehman Brothers president and chief operating officer Japan will make up the funding gap erful lower house as he did in 2014 focusing on much smaller num- tion,” he said. failure far-fetched, but there is con- of major convenience store chain created by the delay in the tax hike to after announcing the first tax hike bers of housing units to make the It is the second time Abe has sensus that Japan’s economic data has Lawson, told Reuters. October 2019, saying only that he will delay. project feasible. Smartphone growth slows to a trickle in 2016 Apple plans to sell $1bn of 30-year bonds in Taiwan Reuters

Reuters said an official at a local securities house, declining to be identified as WASHINGTON: The global smart- he was not authorised to talk to the phone market is sputtering in media. 2016, with Apple likely to see its TAIPEI: Apple Inc plans to issue “But their funds continue to grow first “down” year for the iPhone, a bonds in Taiwan for the first time because in this low rate macro-envi- research report said yesterday. with the aim of raising $1bn, sources ronment. Consumers prefer to buy Research firm IDC said world- familiar with the matter said, join- financial products offered by insur- wide smartphone sales will likely ing a queue of big global names that ance companies rather than park increase just 3.1 percent to 1.48 bil- have sold billions of dollars on the money in a bank deposit,” he said. lion units, after 10.5 percent growth island’s busy debt market. The planned offering is likely to last year. Liquidity in the Taiwanese bond help Apple secure solid partnership IDC said it expects “low single market is flush, with long-term buy- with its suppliers, analysts said. Tai- digit growth” in the United States, ers of debt, primarily life insurance wan is home to Apple’s massive supply Western Europe, and China while firms, seeking creditworthy names chain that includes iPhone manufac- Japan and Canada are expected to and chasing higher yields. Blue-chip turer Foxconn, formally known as Hon contract by 6.4 percent and 6.9 per- multinationals regularly issue dol- Hai Precision Industry Co, contract cent, respectively. lar bonds of such size on the island, chipmaker Taiwan Semiconductor The slowdown comes with the home to Apple’s supply chain. Manufacturing Co and lens producer large markets generally saturated, In December, US chipmaker Intel Largan Precision Co. and consumers keeping their hand- Corp sold $915m of 30-year bonds The US dollar bonds will have a sets longer, because they are paying with yields of 4.7 percent. A month tenor of 30 years and be calleable the full price without a subsidy from later, global brewer Anheuser Busch after the second year, the sources carriers. InBev SA issued a $1.47bn bond of said yesterday, speaking on condi- “Consumers everywhere are get- the same maturity at 4.915 percent, tion of anonymity. ting savvy about how and where they according to data from the Taipei So far this year, upwards of buy their smartphones,” said IDC’s Exchange, the island’s over-the- $16bn in new U.S. dollar bonds have Ryan Reith. A participant adding friends into an app on his smartphone during a matchmaking event in Hangzhou, counter market. been issued, already more than half This means that instead of get- eastern China’s Zhejiang province. The global smartphone market is sputtering, with Apple likely to see its Cash-rich and yield-hungry of the $29bn in U.S. dollar bonds sold ting devices from carriers, consumers first “down” year for the iPhone. investors in Taiwan have made for all of 2015, OTC exchange data are going directly to manufacturers or the island a haven for debt financ- shows. The OTC exchange, where buying in online marketplaces. dominance is likely to continue this decline ever for the iPhone in 2016 lower cost iPhone SE. ing. These investors tend to hold corporate bonds can trade in the “Consumers are having more say year, with the Google-powered -- a two percent drop to 227 million IDC said the Windows Phone through maturity, letting issuers secondary market, said it was not over which brands they want and at operating system in 84 percent of units, IDC predicted. platform will see further declines as lock in cheap pricing. aware of any plan by Apple to issue the same time able to bargain shop,” smartphones sold in 2016, up from But IDC said Apple can bring Microsoft shifts its focus. The report “Taiwan insurance companies bonds. In Taiwan, bond issuers only Reith said. 81 percent a year ago. iPhone back to growth in 2017 with said Windows will account for just don’t have enough good (quality) need three days or less to notify the IDC said Android’s global Apple is likely to see its first sales its trade-in program as well as the 0.8 percent of the market this year. fixed-income investment targets,” exchange before being listed. BUSINESS THURSDAY 2 JUNE 2016 25

Smartphone Mideast bond maker Xiaomi buys Microsoft market likely to patents AFP

SHANGHAI: Upstart smartphone face obstacles maker Xiaomi has bought nearly 1,500 patents from US technology giant Microsoft, the companies and reports said, as part of a “global chasing these deals,” said a lead on partnership” that will help the Chi- Noor Bank’s $500m Additional Tier 1 nese firm expand outside its home There are signs trade that priced on Tuesday. “From market. the Middle East a GCC perspective, a lot of interna- The patents cover wireless tional investors are still asking about communications, video, cloud market is becoming the amount of liquidity among the and multi-media technologies, overburdened. local names.” Bloomberg News quoted a Xiaomi Secondary Emirates Islamic’s deal would spokeswoman as saying. have helped allay some of those “This will help ease of performance has liquidity fears - the $750m trade had operation in new markets,” been shaky for some 58% take-up from the Middle East. spokeswoman Kaylene Hong said. “The worries at the start of the Besides the patent transfers, deals. year about liquidity in the Middle Xiaomi will pre-install Microsoft East have gone for me now,” said Office and Skype on its Android another syndicate banker. smartphones and tablets, Micro- A Middle East-based DCM soft said in a statement. Xiaomi Workers polish steel at an offshore oil engineering platform in Qingdao, east China’s Shandong province Reuters banker said that for Qatar to raise sold more than 70 million hand- as much as it did, the local banks yesterday. sets last year. must have had a lot of involvement In May, Microsoft announced LONDON: The Middle East has had with the deal. the sale of its phone business for a triumphant quarter, with $21bn “You need the regional bid in China manufacturing expands $350m to a new Finnish company of debt placed since April 1, but the to get to the sort of levels Qatar HMD Global and its Taiwanese market is beginning to creak around reached,” he said, pointing to Abu partner, FIH Mobile of FoxConn the edges and bankers warn that Dhabi’s $5bn trade in April, which Technology Group. issuers will have a tougher time after had a strong international investor for third straight month Microsoft bought the unprof- the Ramadan break. focus. itable handset unit of Finland’s Qatar raised $9bn from around But there are signs the Middle Nokia in 2014, but is now seek- a $23bn book last week, just ahead East market is becoming overbur- ing to shut it down as it largely of a trio of deals totalling $2.45bn dened. Secondary performance has AFP second biggest economy. China’s market demand remained rather exits production. “Microsoft is out of the United Arab Emirates for been shaky for some deals, nota- economy is a vital driver of global weak and the foundation for man- using its IP (intellectual property) DP World, Noor Bank and Emirates bly DP World and Noor, which saw expansion. But it grew only 6.9 per- ufacturing growth is still unstable,” arsenal as leverage to lure and Islamic Bank. their notes sinking soon after pric- cent last year, its weakest rate in a NBS analyst Zhao Qinghe said in a lock-in vulnerable players such as “For now, the market is able to ing, with bankers on and off the BEIJING: Activity in Chinese facto- quarter of a century. statement, referring to the May figure. Xiaomi,” Neil Shah, research direc- take it all,” said a syndicate banker. trades unable to agree on any clear ries expanded for the third straight The key manufacturing sector China’s economy is “operating tor at Counterpoint Research, told “Can you blame issuers for trying to reason. month in May, official data showed, has been struggling for months in steadily” now but is “lacking any Bloomberg. come now?” “They were disappointing,” said a further sign of stabilisation in the the face of sagging global demand upward momentum”, Tao Dong of “So possibly it’s a win-win for A second syndicate banker a bond trader, who said both notes world’s second largest economy after for Chinese products. Credit Suisse told Bloomberg News, both parties as Xiaomi gets IP- based in London said: “I would have were still bid below their reoffer a period of slow growth. Analysts with ANZ Research said adding that the economy “will wane protected and Microsoft grows its thought there might be some diges- prices last Friday. The official Purchasing Manager’s the results were lifted by property again in the summer”, which will be roster of partners.” tion issues, but so far it doesn’t seem And the pipeline is still solid. IPIC Index (PMI), which tracks activities investment and fiscal policies and ruled a “key test” for the central bank to Founded in 2010, Beijing- that way.” is a possibility in euros, while Qatar’s in the country’s factories and work- out any imminent “broad-based mon- keep policies stable. based Xiaomi was the world’s fifth One thing that has helped the Commercial Bank was to meet shops, came in at 50.1 yesterday, etary policy easing” as China’s leaders The signs were less positive from biggest smartphone vendor at the market cope with the influx of deals investors from Monday. Oman has according to the National Bureau of “do not welcome property-led growth” the private Caixin Purchasing Man- end of last year, shipping 18.2 mil- is that they all have a slightly dif- mandated for a US dollar deal that Statistics (NBS). in the first quarter. agers’ Index, which puts a greater lion phones in the fourth quarter ferent spin - bank capital deals, might still come to fruition before Any reading above 50 signals Real estate spending can boost emphasis on smaller firms. of 2015, according to International sovereigns and sukuk have all Ramadan begins less than a week expanding activity, while anything manufacturing by increasing demand That figure came in at 49.2, meet- Data Corp (IDC). featured. from now. below indicates shrinkage. for furniture, appliances and house- ing economists’ expectations of a However, despite its efforts “This has definitely helped,” said Meanwhile, there is still the big The figure was unchanged from hold goods. A recent private survey fractional decline from 49.4 in April, in India and Brazil, Xiaomi still the London-based syndicate banker. one from Saudi Arabia in the mak- April and just below the March fig- showed that new home prices rose at the Chinese financial magazine said depends heavily on the domes- “If they were all senior unsecured ing. The issuer sent a request for ure of 50.2, but beat economists’ their fastest pace in more than two in a joint statement with data com- tic market, which accounted for bank trades, it wouldn’t have gone proposal last week and is thought median expectations of 50 in a sur- years in May, surging more than 10 piler Markit. 90 percent of its sales volume last half as well.” to be targeting as much as $10bn, vey by Bloomberg News. percent year on year. Manufacturers continued to shed year, IDC said. However, this does not mean though any deal is likely to come Investors watch the figure closely “What is worth paying attention jobs as weak demand and a drop in The deal with Microsoft will there is unlimited demand. after the summer and bankers warn as the first available indicator each to is that the growth rate of raw mate- new orders weighed on the figures, help the firm expand outside “It’s the same pot of capital the sovereign could be facing a very month of the health of the world’s rial prices declined, showing that it said. China.

Total returns Ryanair shuts Norway base Bridgeport buys Turkish second Danish shale gas licence dried fruit maker Peyman

AFP Reuters where deals have dropped off due to rising political uncertainty, security COPENHAGEN: French energy concerns and a struggling lira cur- group Total has returned the sec- rency, which make it harder to lure ond of two shale gas licences to ISTANBUL: British private equity new investors and exit investments Denmark after disappointing test firm Bridgeport has acquired Turkish profitably. drilling results, the Danish govern- dried fruit and nuts producer Pey- There have only been 41 M&A ment said yesterday. “There is not man from its founders and Turkey’s transactions in the first four months enough shale gas in the north Jut- Esas Holding, it said yesterday, in a of this year in Turkey, according to land underground at Dybvad for deal sources said was worth about data from Ernst & Young, the lowest commercial extraction,” the Danish $110m. level since 2009, during the global energy ministry said in a statement. Istanbul-based Peyman is financial crisis. Energy Minister Lars Chris- focused on nuts, seeds and dried Sources told Reuters in April that tian Lilleholt said that while Total’s fruits, a market estimated to be Bridgepoint planned to acquire Pey- move was “regrettable” for govern- worth more than €2bn ($2.2bn) a man for around $110m. ment finances, he was “glad” that year in Turkey, Bridgeport said in a The deal will allow local fund local residents in Dybvad now had statement, without giving a value for Esas to exit a 30 percent stake of “clarity regarding Total’s decision the transaction. Peyman that it acquired in 2008. to discontinue its work in the area.” It said Turkey offers one of the Peyman was established in 1995 in Danish state oil and gas com- most attractive markets in the world Eskisehir, northwest Turkey, where pany Nordsofonden held a 20 for fast-moving consumer goods, it still has a factory. Irish low-cost airline Ryanair’s plane on the tarmac of the MP2 airport in Marignane where Ryanair has percent stake in the licence. given its growing population, eco- Established with 100 per- Environmental activists had its French hub. Ryanair announced it will shut down one of its Norway bases, condemning to closure nomic size and rising middle class. cent Turkish capital, Peyman has sought to ban the so-called frack- an airport in the Oslo region, in protest against a disputed new tax. The deal marks some rare recent reached a strong position in the ing process to extract the gas amid activity for private equity in Turkey, sector today. fears that ground water could be contaminated by drilling fluids. Fracking, or hydraulic frac- turing, is a process used to extract gas or oil from shale rock Indian oil payment backlog to Iran ‘to be cleared soon’ by blasting a high-pressure mix- ture of water, sand and chemicals deep underground to release hydrocarbons trapped between Reuters in euros through Halkbank to the back some payments to Iran after in the forex market. Iran wants to from Turkey and Europe. layers of the rock. National Iranian Oil Co (NIOC) in a channel through Halkbank was recover the funds owed by India He also said the Turkish and Ira- “Total’s exit from Denmark May. closed in 2013, although payment and other buyers of its oil in euros nian central banks had reopened is good news for the climate, the “As per the instructions of the of some of the funds was allowed to reduce its dependence on the US their connection on the SWIFT glo- environment, the ground water ISTANBUL: Indian oil refiners will Central Bank of Iran, the local banks after an initial temporary deal to lift dollar, a source at the NIOC told bal transaction network, in a sign of and public health,” a spokesman clear around €6bn ($6.7bn) of out- in India will transfer the money to sanctions. Reuters in February. normalising banking ties. for Greenpeace in Denmark, Tar- standing debt to Iran through Turkey’s Halkbank,” Sadegh Akbari, Iran’s Last week, on the basis of an advi- Europe is one of Iran’s biggest SWIFT this year reconnected a jei Haaland, said in a statement. Halkbank soon, a senior Iranian general director for foreign economic sory from the Reserve Bank of India, trading partners, increasing Iranian number of Iranian banks to its system, Total abandoned another shale economy official said yesterday. relations, told reporters at a confer- India’s oil ministry wrote to refiners demand for the European currency. allowing them to resume cross-bor- gas project in eastern Denmark India is one of the biggest buyers ence in Istanbul. saying the remaining dues can be set- Akbari said Iran wanted to der transactions with foreign banks. last year, also citing poor explo- of Iranian crude and built up a pay- Asked when the remaining funds tled in three months from May 30. complete the transfer from Indian Iranian banks were disconnected ration results. Denmark’s former ments backlog when Iran was under would be cleared, he said “in a short It told companies to stagger pay- refiners via Halkbank because of from Belgium-based SWIFT in March centre-left government tempo- Western sanctions, with its refiners period of time” but declined to com- ments and ensure foreign exchange the “positive banking relations” 2012 as international sanctions tight- rarily stopped awarding shale gas owing about $6.5bn to Iran. ment further. demand was limited to $500m per between Iran and Turkey and said it ened against Tehran over its disputed licences in 2012. They cleared around $770m The refiners had been holding week in a bid to avoid volatility needed the funds to import products nuclear programme. 26 THURSDAY 2 JUNE 2016 BUSINESS

QE INDICES SUMMARY QATAR STOCK EXCHANGE QE Index 9,572.32 0.35 % QE Total Return Index 15,487.37 0.35 % QE Al Rayan Islamic Index 3,748.04 0.31 % QE All Share Index 2,682.97 0.35 % QE All Share Banks & Financial Services 2,597.21 0.15 % QE All Share Industrials 2,990.47 0.46 % QE All Share Transportation 2,464.91 0.40 % QE All Share Real Estate 2,352.26 0.65 % QE All Share Insurance 4,037 0.63 % QE All Share Telecoms 1,052.16 1.03 % QE All Share Consumer Goods & Services 6,450.65 0.31 %

QE MARKET SUMMARY COMPARISON 01-06-2016 Today 31-05-2016 Previous day Index 9,572.32 9,538.77 Change 33.55 13.27 % 0.35 0.14 YTD% 8.22 8.54 Volume 5,198,728 10,765,389 Value (QAR) 202,170,126.20 423,063,130.22 Trades 2,820 5,176 Up 20 | Down 16 | Unchanged 04

WORLD STOCK INDICES Index Day’s Close Pt Chg % Chg Year High Year Low All Ordinaries 5447.802 -25.761 -0.47 5489.8 4762.1 Cac 40 Index/D 4518.93 -10.47 -0.23 4607.69 3892.46 Dj Indu Average 17873.22 44.93 0.25 18188.8 15370.3 Hang Seng Inde/D 20815.09 185.7 0.9 21794.84 18278.8 Iseq Overall/D 6506.77 4.5 0.07 6791.68 5611.89 Karachi 100 In/D 36061.56 -173.13 -0.48 36848.02 29785 Nikkei 225 Index 17234.98 166.96 0.98 18951.12 14865.77 S&P 500 Index/D 0 0 0 2132.82 1810.1

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On Tuesday the company said its board recommended the distribution of a higher divi- dend for the first half of this year. Other petrochemical shares were also laggards with Rise in US manufacturing activity masks underlying weakness the largest producer, Saudi Basic Industries, falling 0.6 percent. Cairo’s main index gained 1.2 percent. Sixth of October Development and Investment rose 3.3 per- around the world. kind of trapped in limbo that the central bank more comfort- On Wednesday, handbag cent; on Tuesday the company reported a 31 percent Global manufacturing Global manufacturing activity way with respect to a lot of the able that inflation is on track to maker Michael Kors rose 6.4 per- drop in first quarter net income to 54.7 million Egyp- activity remained remained stuck in a rut last month fundamentals.” rise back to its 2 percent target cent to $45.44 after posting its tian pounds ($6.2 million). with factory output from Asia, The Dow Jones industrial as they consider whether to raise strongest quarterly sales growth In Dubai, Shuaa Capital surged 6.3 percent after stuck in a rut last Europe and the Americas barely average was falling 3.94 points, interest rates. in a year. Reuters reported on Tuesday that Abu Dhabi Finan- month with factory improving, surveys released on or 0.02 percent, at 17,783.26, the Investors are parsing through Demandware soared 55.9 per- cial Group, Al Mal Capital and Arqaam Capital were Wednesday showed. S&P 500 was gaining 1.63 points, economic data, including Friday’s cent to $74.80 after Salesforce. among the bidders for Dubai Group’s 48.4 percent stake output from Asia, But major U.S. stock indexes or 0.08 percent, at 2,098.59 and employment report, to gauge com agreed to buy the company in the Islamic financial firm. Europe and the recovered from steeper losses ear- the Nasdaq Composite was add- whether the Fed will raise rates in a $2.8 billion deal. Salesforce The Dubai index recovered early losses and edged lier in the session after a report ing 9.06 points, or 0.18 percent, as soon as its June 14-15 meet- was down 0.2 percent. up 0.1 percent to 3,315 points; it faces technical resist- Americas barely showed U.S. manufacturing grew at 4,957.12. ing. The Fed caught investors off Advancing issues outnum- ance at the mid-May high of 3,373 points, from which improving. for a third straight month in May, U.S. auto industry sales weak- guard last month when it sig- bered declining ones on the NYSE it retreated earlier this week. even as factories appeared to ened in May, with General Motors, naled its next rate hike could be by 1,747 to 1,224, for a 1.43-to-1 Abu Dhabi’s index gained 0.8 percent, supported by be taking in fewer deliveries Ford Motor and other manufac- just weeks away. ratio on the upside; on the Nas- rises in Dana Gas and telecommunications firm Etis- AFP from their suppliers. Stocks also turers reporting lower U.S. vehicle The S&P 500 is coming off its daq, 1,702 issues rose and 1,081 alat , which climbed 3.8 and 2.3 percent respectively. rebounded as oil prices pared sales. GM and Ford shares each third straight month of gains, its fell for a 1.57-to-1 ratio favoring Etisalat, a constituent of the MSCI emerging market losses. were down about 3 percent. first such streak in two years. The advancers. index, is up 5.5 percent since hitting a 12-week clos- “The numbers are not bad; Inflation pressures grew benchmark index is up more than The S&P 500 posted 19 new ing low on May 22. NEW YORK: Wall Street kicked they’re just not good either,” slightly across most of the United 2 percent in 2016 after a rough 52-week highs and 1 new lows; In Qatar, the index climbed 0.4 percent, buoyed by off June on a sluggish note yester- said Bruce McCain, chief invest- States from April to mid-May, the start to the year amid jitters about the Nasdaq recorded 56 new highs a 0.5 percent bounce in Qatar National Bank, the larg- day, as investors sifted through a ment strategist at Key Private Federal Reserve said on Wednes- the global economy and volatility and 19 new lows. est listed lender. raft ofmanufacturing data from Bank in Cleveland, Ohio. “We’re day in a report that could make in the oil market. BUSINESS VIEWS THURSDAY 2 JUNE 2016 27

China’s banks ramp Fed records show dozens up compliance as of cybersecurity breaches global push hits snags

By Matthew Millerand smuggled back into China. BoC Shu Zhang has denied any wrongdoing. Reuters Global Financial Integrity, a Washington-based watchdog, estimated that in the decade between 2004 and 2013 China hina’s biggest banks are was the world’s biggest source beefing up their risk of illicit outflows, accounting for management and com- about 28 percent of the $4.885 pliance programmes, trillion in illicit funds mov- Cfollowing a series of high-profile ing from the 10 biggest source judicial investigations and regu- economies. latory probes in the United States The banks are responding and Europe. with more training and an over- These legal and regulatory haul of their compliance systems. headaches are likely to be a BoC said it was implementing drag on their aggressive over- a three-year plan to provide spe- seas expansion until suitable cial AML training for management anti money-laundering (AML) and staff, with the aim of produc- and know-your-customer (KYC) ing 200 certified AML specialists. controls are in place, bankers and In its deal with the Federal compliance experts say, but they Reserve, CCB agreed to revamp are taking action. its transaction controls, oversight A survey by LexisNexis Risk and reporting. Solutions, which provides com- ICBC said last year it had pliance services to China’s big improved its AML systems and state-owned commercial banks supervision of overseas institu- and smaller financial services tions, measures it said “effectively companies, showed that about prevented the anti-money laun- half expect to increase their com- dering compliance risk and pliance budgets by 20 percent or reputational risk”. By Jason Lange and Dustin Volz have access to reports by local cybersecu- more than 21 million background check more this year, and the rest will Each ICBC overseas branch Reuters rity teams at the central bank’s 12 privately records from the federal Office of Per- raise it by a lesser amount. has an AML mechanism com- owned regional branches. sonnel Management, and U.S. officials “Chinese banks are going pliant with local regulation, a The disclosure of breaches at the Fed attributed the breach to the Chinese gov- through a learning curve,” said Beijing-based ICBC spokesman comes at a time when cybersecurity at cen- ernment, an accusation denied by Beijing. Ellen Zimiles, Global Head of told Reuters. he US Federal Reserve detected tral banks worldwide is under scrutiny after Security analysts said foreign gov- Investigations and Compliance at In 2015, ICBC Europe pur- more than 50 cyber breaches hackers stole $81m from a Bank Bangladesh ernments could stand to gain from inside Navigant Consulting in New York. chased an advanced European between 2011 and 2015, with sev- account at the New York Fed. Fed information. China and Russia, for “They’re going to have to come up AML monitoring system to eral incidents described internally Cyber thieves have targeted large finan- instance, are major players in the $13.8 to standards if they’re going to enhance the bank’s AML mech- as “espionage,” according to Fed cial institutions around the world, including trillion federal debt market where Fed pol- have branches in the United States anisms in Europe, the spokesman Trecords. America’s largest bank JPMorgan, as well icy plays a big role in setting interest rates. and Europe.” said. The central bank’s staff suspected as smaller players like Ecuador’s Banco del “Obviously that makes it a very clear China’s top four banks, which However, one foreign reg- hackers or spies in many of the incidents, Austro and Vietnam’s Tien Phong Bank. (hacking) target for other nation states,” together control $700bn of over- ulator who is responsible for the records show. The Fed’s computer sys- Hacking attempts were cited in 140 of the said Ari Schwartz, a former top cyberse- seas assets, have added more than overseeing Chinese lenders in tems play a critical role in global banking 310 reports provided by the Fed’s board. In curity adviser at the White House who is 70 branches and offices to their an Asian geography, said the big and hold confidential information on dis- some reports, the incidents were not clas- now with the law firm Venable. global network in the last three state banks still lacked adequate cussions about monetary policy that drives sified in any way. U.S. prosecutors in March accused years, following Chinese busi- risk management, experienced financial markets. In eight information breaches between hackers associated with Iran’s govern- nesses abroad and extending their officers, and international staff in The cybersecurity reports, obtained by 2011 and 2013 - a time when the Fed’s trad- ment of attacking dozens of U.S. banks. reach in countries from the Czech central compliance departments. Reuters through a Freedom of Information ing desk was buying massive amounts In the records obtained by Reuters, Republic to Chile. “Chinese banks have much Act request, were heavily redacted by Fed of bonds - Fed staff wrote that the cases espionage might also refer to spying by The expansion has exposed lower compliance standards than officials to keep secret the central bank’s involved “malicious code,” referring to soft- private companies, or even individu- shortcomings. Last year the US foreign banks,” the regulator said. security procedures. ware used by hackers. als such British activist Lauri Love, who Federal Reserve instructed both Even China’s own banking The Fed declined to comment, and the Four hacking incidents in 2012 were is accused of infiltrating a server at a Bank of China Ltd (BoC) and China regulator warned lenders in April redacted records do not say who hacked the considered acts of “espionage,” according regional Fed branch in October 2012. Love Construction Bank Corp (CCB) to about “the complexities” of oper- bank’s systems or whether they accessed to the records. Information was disclosed stole names, e-mail addresses, and phone improve their AML procedures. ating overseas, and asked them to sensitive information or in at least two of those incidents, according numbers of Fed computer system users, Their failings pale next to the increase on-site due diligence for stole money. to the records. In the other two incidents, according to a federal indictment. abuses some European banks offshore borrowers. “Hacking is a major the records did not indicate whether there The redacted reports obtained by Reu- have been recently fined for by “There’s the desire and the threat to the stability was a breach. ters do not mention Love or any other US authorities, but a senior bank- need to adopt these practices, of the financial system. In all, the Fed’s national team of cyber- hacker by name. The records point to ing source said the deals BoC and they just may not have the expe- This data shows why,” security experts, which operates mostly out breaches during a sensitive period for CCB struck with the Fed would rience,” said Tom Brown, senior said James Lewis, a of New Jersey, identified 51 cases of “infor- the Fed, which was ramping up aid for the likely prevent them opening new vice president for LexisNexis Risk cybersecurity expert at mation disclosure” involving the Fed’s board. struggling U.S. economy by buying mas- branches or lines of business for Solutions. the Center for Strategic Separate reports showed a local team at the sive quantities of U.S. government debt at least three years. There is also, said Brown, a and International Stud- board registered four such incidents. and mortgage-backed securities. In Spain, six Industrial and tendency among Chinese banks The Fed’s computer ies, a Washington think The cases of information disclosure can In 2010 and 2011, the Fed went on Commercial Bank of China Ltd to prefer homegrown technology, tank. Lewis reviewed refer to a range of ways unauthorized people a $600bn bond-buying spree that low- (ICBC) bankers were arrested in rather than include tried-and- systems play a critical the files at the request see Fed information, from hacking attacks ered interest rates and made bonds more February, suspected of facilitating tested third-party solutions as role in global banking of Reuters. to Fed emails sent to the wrong recipients, expensive. It restarted purchases in Sep- money laundering and fraud. The part of their due diligence and The records repre- according to two former Fed cybersecu- tember 2012 and expanded them up in bank has said it implemented AML compliance procedures, as is and hold confidential sent only a slice of all rity staffers who spoke on condition of December of that year. regulations and operated strictly common with Western banks. information on cyber attacks on the anonymity. The Fed cybersecurity records did not within the law. Perhaps the biggest challenge, Fed because they include The former employees said that cyber indicate whether hackers accessed sensi- In Italy, prosecutors are seek- however, is changing the culture discussions about only cases involving attacks on the Fed are about as common as tive information on the timing or amounts ing a trial for BoC officials in a at banks where compliance has monetary policy the Washington-based at other large financial institutions. of bond purchases or used it for financial money laundering investigation long played second fiddle to new Board of Governors, a It was unclear if the espionage incidents gain. The Fed’s national cybersecurity into billions of euros allegedly business generation. that drives financial federal agency that is involved foreign governments, as has been team - the National Incident Response markets. subject to public records suspected in some hacks of federal agencies. Team, or NIRT - created 263 of the inci- laws. Reuters did not Beginning in 2014, for instance, hackers stole dent reports. Indian central bank chief wins over Modi despite broad mistrust

By Rajesh Kumar Singh economy. With Modi’s patronage, it is more ministry did not respond to requests for com- and economist Subramanian Swamy, one of Reuters likely the government will reappoint Rajan, ment. Rajan, former chief economist at the those leading a campaign to remove Rajan, whose three-year term expires in September, International Monetary Fund, has not dis- recently accused him of “wilfully and delib- should he wish to stay on, the sources said. closed his plans, and did not respond to erately wrecking the Indian economy.” That would allow him to try to revive requests for comment for this article. The governor’s penchant for blunt com- n late 2014, the knives were out for India’s India’s banking sector that has been smoth- Modi’s support would be important if the mentary raises hackles. central bank governor Raghuram Rajan. ered by distressed debt, which, in turn, is 53-year-old RBI chief is to get the big state Rajan’s appeal for tolerance late last Finance ministry officials were frus- choking off economic recovery. banking sector to complete a cleanup of mas- year was perceived to be a veiled criticism trated by his reluctance to cut interest “Rajan will get another term and he will sive debts and force defaulters to pay up. of the government for appealing to the Hindu Irates to stimulate growth, and moves were accept it,” said Arvind Mayaram, India’s Banks making provisions for bad debt are majority at the expense of minority commu- afoot to ease him out of the job. Some were former finance secretary who Rajan worked reluctant to issue new loans, leading to criti- nities, prompting Swamy to rebuke him for airing their reservations about Rajan’s hawk- with closely first as the government’s chief cism within the sector and complaints from speaking like a “grandfather”. Modi’s support would be ish stance in the media. economic adviser and then as RBI governor. smaller businesses and politicians. Rajan recently compared India’s fast- Prime Minister Narendra Modi convened “He is well entrenched in India’s political Patronage from above will also help shield growing economy to a “one-eyed king in important if the 53-year- a meeting of senior finance ministry staff that economy.” Rajan from lingering opposition within the rul- the land of the blind”. Trade Minister Nirmala old RBI chief is to get the December to hear their complaints, said a A top government official said the deci- ing nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to Sitharaman publicly censured his comments. person who was present. sion rests with Modi and the leader has not a man known for his straight talking and will- The first signs of growing bonhomie big state banking sector At the end, the leader delivered a stern yet said what he wants to do. Modi recently ingness to question government policy and between Modi and Rajan came early last year, to complete a clean-up of message: do not indulge in a public spat with told The Wall Street Journal that Rajan’s reap- achievements. As the personal understand- when Modi called Rajan the “best teacher” for massive debts and force the central bank. pointment would come up only in September. ing between Rajan and Modi appears to grow, explaining complex economic issues to him. The moment marked a turning point in The official, speaking anonymously some officials still resent him. Days later, the governor returned the defaulters to pay up. ties between the heads of the newly installed because he was not authorised to discuss the The fact that Rajan was appointed by the compliment, saying the teaching went both government and the Reserve Bank of India matter with the press, added that the prime previous Congress government did not help ways. The prime minister backed Rajan in (RBI). Since then, Modi and Rajan have devel- minister was “proud” of the RBI governor him win friends in Modi’s BJP, and the former the monetary policy panel’s composition and oped a close working rapport, government and that a campaign against Rajan would University of Chicago professor has been blocking moves to strip the RBI’s authority officials and people close to the governor say, not affect Modi’s decision. viewed by some with suspicion as a product to regulate government bonds and manage and that could be crucial to the $2 trillion The prime minister’s office and finance of the West, not India. BJP parliamentarian public debt. 28 THURSDAY 2 JUNE 2016 BUSINESS

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Next big material — graphene EU cautions govts — needs a killer app against banning

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By Julia Fioretti and Eric both grew up in the hot-house Auchard San Francisco Internet scene n 2002, a researcher experi- Reuters and almost from the start have menting with graphite—aka faced regulatory battles across pencil lead—in physics pro- the United States, and, more fessor Andre Geim’s lab at the recently, around the world. UK’s University of Manches- uropean Union govern- Both have become favourite Iter discovered an ultra-thin layer of ments should not ban targets of local officials and rival the substance sticking to a piece of services like home- trade groups in Europe, with its Scotch tape in a wastebasket. Geim rental site Airbnb or tradition of strong social over- took the tape, folded it and pulled it Eride-hailing app Uber except sight. In the “sharing economy”, apart a few times, and saw under a as a last resort, the EU says in customers use the Internet to microscope that the layer kept get- new guidelines, seeking to rein contract services such as ride- ting thinner. As John Colapinto told in a crackdown on the “sharing sharing, where amateur drivers the story in the New Yorker in 2014: economy”. displace professional taxis, or Geim had isolated the first two- In guidelines seen by Reu- home-sharing, which reduces dimensional material ever discovered: Property Office has collected global the stuff, this shouldn’t be a big sur- was about $100 per gram, accord- ters, the European Commission hotel demand. an atom-thick layer of carbon, which data -- 25,855 graphene-related pat- prise or disappointment. As Geim ing to Deloitte. But big new sources said any restrictions by EU “These services can fall appeared, under an atomic micro- ents had been published, with more himself put it in 2013: of supply could be on the way. In an member states on these new within several sectors, falling scope, as a flat lattice of hexagons than 9,000 in 2014 alone. The top pat- It’s a bit silly for society to throw article Monday on Australian miner online services should be jus- under the regulatory burden linked in a honeycomb pattern. Theo- enters have been Samsung, Ocean’s a little bit of money at something and Mark Thompson of Talga Resources, tified and proportionate to the of all of them,” the Commis- retical physicists had speculated about King Lighting of China, the Korea expect it to change the world. Every- who pivoted from looking for gold and public interest at stake. sion said. such a substance, calling it “graphene,” Advanced Institute of Science and thing takes time. iron to acquiring the mining rights to “Total bans of an activ- A case in point is Uber, but had assumed that a single atomic Technology, IBM and Shanghai Jiao I guess it’s also at least possible that a seam of graphite north of the Arctic ity constitute a measure of last which considers itself merely layer could not be obtained at room Tong University. graphene will prove to be a total bust, Circle in Sweden, Bloomberg’s Anna resort that should be applied a digital service connect- temperature—that it would pull apart Actual products based on but that seems really unlikely. Others Hirtenstein reported: only if and where no less restric- ing drivers and passengers as into microscopic balls. graphene have remained scarce, are experimenting with graphene in Talga is investing A$30 million tive requirements to attain a opposed to a transport service, Together with graduate student though. There are tennis rackets lighting too; one of the bulbs will hit [$21.7 million] in its Swedish mine public interest can be used,” the which would make it subject to Konstantin Novoselov and others in with graphene in them, and some the market eventually. Scientists have and processing plant, with plans to draft document says. more onerous rules on driver his lab, Geim spent two more years printed electronics that use graph- recently made progress in figuring out start shipping 46,000 tons a year of In the case of room-renting qualifications, road rules and researching the ultra-thin, ultra- ene ink. Chinese startup Moxi Group how to make graphene work as a semi- graphite and 1,000 tons of graphene sites like Airbnb, the Commis- insurance. strong, ultra-flexible material before announced last week that it would conductor. And it could be that the most starting in 2018. By comparison, total sion said banning short-term The EU’s highest court is set publishing their first findings in the ship 100,000 bendable smartphones important uses for the substance are global supply of graphene last year lets of apartments “appears dif- to rule later this year or next on journal Science in 2004. Six years this year that it says are based on ones that no one has thought of yet. The was about 1,000 tons, according to ficult to justify” when limits on whether Uber is a transport later Geim and Novoselov had won graphene technology, but it’s not clear hard-to-predict nature of technological Graphene-Info. the maximum number of days company or a digital service. the Nobel Prize in Physics for their what if any role the material actually progress is a major theme of Colapinto’s A doubling of the graphene supply apartments can be rented out Associations of taxi drivers graphene work, and researchers at plays in the devices. Graphene-coated New Yorker article—he tells the story would be a big deal. And that could would be more appropriate. have staged high-profile protests universities and companies around light bulbs were supposed to go on of aluminum, which was first extracted be just the beginning. Research pub- The guidelines will come as against Uber in France, Britain, the world—but mainly in Asia—were sale in the U.K. last year, but the most from ore in 1825, was first extracted lished late last year suggests that good news for the likes of Uber Portugal, Spain and many other hard at work patenting new uses for recent word from the company that cheaply in 1889 and was hailed as a leonardite, an abundant, low-grade and Airbnb, which have faced European countries since 2014. the “wonder material.” Possibilities makes them is that they’re still on wonder metal for decades, but had lit- lignite coal, could be used to manu- outright bans or restrictions in Last year, French prose- include batteries, drug delivery, fuel the way. Early hopes that graphene tle economic impact until the rise of facture graphene too. It’s also possible some cities as established indus- cutors staged a high-profile cells, tissue engineering, transistors could displace silicon in semiconduc- airplanes in the 20th century finally to make small flakes of graphene just try players complain of unfair raid of Uber’s Paris offices in and water filters, among dozens of tors have mostly been disappointed. gave it a transformative use. by mixing graphite and detergent in competition. a showdown over whether the others. The wonder material has yet to trans- One big factor would seem to be a kitchen blender. Get enough of this Airbnb, founded in 2008, company was violating a law to The patents keep piling up. form the world. the availability of graphene. Right remarkable material out there, at a and Uber, launched a year later, curtail online taxi services. Through 2014 -- the most recent Given that it has only been 12 now it’s still scarce, and expensive. low enough price, and people will find year for which the UK Intellectual years since the world learned about The market price at the end of 2015 things to do with it. Right?

From the beginning of the year until now, the market has Capital been correcting itself upward. The market will fix itself to a price that is fair to the consumers and to the producers. Suhail Mohamed Al Mazrouei, Comment Minister of Energy, UAE.

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Sixth annual Symposium of Anti-Doping Lab Qatar concludes in Doha

Dr Vidya Mohammed Ali (left), moderating the discussion on the topic ‘Balancing medication and doping’ during the sixth annual ymposiums of Anti-doping Lab Qatar in Doha yesterday. Professor Mats Traedsson, Professor at Maxwell H. Gluck Equine Research Center, University of Kentucky, and Shawn Stanely, Chief Analyst, STC Laboratory, Hong Kong were other members of the panel. CENTRE: Professor Mats Traedsson RIGHT: Shawn Stanely Pictures by: Kammutty VP/The Peninsula Murray and Wawrinka set Ronaldo absence a useful test, says up semi-final showdown Portugal coach

1985 to reach the semi-finals with Wawrinka is the oldest semi- David Ferrer 6-3, 7-5, 6-3. AFP while Santos believes it is too soon Defending champion a 6-2, 6-1, 7-6 (9/7) win over Spain’s finalist in Paris since 32-year-old Austria’s Dominic Thiem to compare them to the greats of yes- Albert Ramos-Vinolas. Jimmy Connors in 1985. advanced to his maiden Grand Slam teryear, he says that they are capable becomes oldest man Gasquet, bidding to end France’s He was in complete con- quarter-final with a 6-2, 6-7 (2/7), of going all the way in France. in 31 years to make 33-year-wait for a French cham- trol against world number 55 6-1, 6-4 win over Spain’s Marcel LONDON: Portugal’s friendly game “I’ve seen England play,” he said. French Open semis pion, reeled off five straight games Ramos-Vinolas, playing in his first Granollers. Granollers had made the with England today is an opportunity “They have talented players, but we to recover from 5-2 down and claim quarter-finals at the majors, firing last 16 without hitting a ball when for the team to demonstrate that they can’t compare the current players to the opening set in front of a raucous an impressive 49 winners. nine-time champion Rafael Nadal can prosper without absent talisman players in the past like Bobby Moore Philippe Chatrier Court crowd. “Overall, I played a good match withdrew with a wrist injury last Cristiano Ronaldo, coach Fernando and Bobby Charlton. AFP But former US Open and Wimble- with an incredible level in the first week. Rain halted play at one set Santos said yesterday. “England has a big ambition and don champion Murray won a second two sets,” said Wawrinka. apiece on Tuesday, but 13th seed Ronaldo, Portugal’s captain and they can compete with any other set tie-break before claiming 12 of the “I had to dig deep to finish the Thiem quickly found his groove on all-time leading scorer with 56 goals, team. They are one of the favourites next 14 games. match. To win in three sets, it’s ideal.” Wednesday to race through the third will miss the Wembley encounter as and they can win the Euro, for sure.” PARIS: Andy Murray and defending Murray leads his head-to-head Wawrinka, who beat Novok Djok- set before nailing down a place in the he is resting following his involve- The one English survivor from champion Stan Wawrinka set up a 8-7 with Wawrinka but the Swiss ovic in last year’s final, will be playing last eight. The 22-year-old will next ment in Real Madrid’s Champions the 2006 defeat in Gelsenkirchen mouth-watering French Open semi- star has won their last three meet- in only his second Roland Garros meet Belgian 12th seed David Goffin League final victory over Atletico is captain Wayne Rooney, who final duel yesterday. ings as well as their only two matches semi-final. who saw off Latvia’s Ernests Gulbis Madrid in Milan last Saturday. was sent off for a stamp on Ricardo Second seed Murray reached the on clay. Top seed Djokovic reached the 4-6, 6-2, 6-2, 6-3 in another match It deprives Santos of his most Carvalho. semi-finals in Paris for a fourth time “Stan’s played great tennis here quarter-finals for the 10th time held over from Tuesday. potent attacking weapon, but he Now 30, Rooney was used in by battling back to defeat the last the past couple years. It’s going to be by defeating 14th seeded Roberto called on the other players in his a withdrawn role by Manchester home hope Richard Gasquet 5-7, 7-6 extremely tough, hopefully I can play Bautista Agut 3-6, 6-4, 6-1, 7-5. French Open Results squad to step up to the plate in their United over the season’s closing (7/3), 6-0, 6-2. my best tennis and try and reach my The 29-year-old Serb will today Men’s singles penultimate warm-up game ahead months, but Santos says that he can Wawrinka, the 31-year-old third first final here,” said Murray after a take on Czech seventh seed Tomas Quarter-finals of Euro 2016. be dangerous wherever he plays. seed, became the oldest man since third win in Paris over Gasquet. Berdych, who beat Spanish 11th seed “Of course Cristiano Ronaldo “Of course Rooney is important Stan Wawrinka (SUI x3) bt Albert is very important for Portugal, but for England. But it’s up to Roy Hodg- Ramos (ESP) 6-2, 6-1, 7-6 (9/7) he’d be important for any team in son where he plays, not me,” said the Andy Murray (GBR x2) bt Richard the world,” Santos told a press con- former Greece coach. Gasquet (FRA x9) 5-7, 7-6 (7/3), ference at Wembley. “He can be dangerous from 6-0, 6-2 “I hope he can play in all seven near or far from the goal. It’s not so 4th round games in France (assuming Portugal important where he plays.” Novak Djokovic (SRB x1) bt Roberto reach the final), but we need to be Meanwhile, holders Spain Bautista Agut (ESP x14) 3-6, 6-4, able to play without him and tomor- stepped up their preparations for 6-1, 7-5 row is a chance to practise that.” the European Championships by Tomas Berdych (CZE x7) bt David In Ronaldo’s absence, his former smashing South Korea 6-1 in a Ferrer (ESP x11) 6-3, 7-5, 6-3 Manchester United team-mate Nani friendly in Austria with Alvaro Mor- Dominic Thiem (AUT x13) bt is expected to adopt an advanced ata and Nolito each hitting a brace Marcel Granollers (ESP) 6-2, 6-7 role against Roy Hodgson’s England, on Wednesday. (2/7), 6-1, 6-4 with Sporting Lisbon’s Joao Mario The Spaniards were slightly David Goffin (BEL x12) bt Ernests and Rafa Silva of Sporting Braga pro- under-strength as coach Vicente Gulbis (LAT) 4-6, 6-2, 6-2, 6-3 viding support. Del Bosque rested players from Women’s singles Ronaldo could return in Portu- Real Madrid and their city rivals gal’s game against Estonia in Lisbon Atletico following their exertions Quarter-finals next Thursday, after which the squad in the Champions League final on Garbiñe Muguruza (ESP x4) bt will travel to France, where they Saturday. But it hardly mattered as Shelby Rogers (USA) 7-5, 6-3 face Iceland, Austria and Hungary a dominant Spain scored three times Samantha Stosur (AUS x21) bt Tsvetana in Group F. before the break through David Sil- Pironkova (BUL) 6-4, 7-6 (8/6) The last time the teams met -- va’s sublime free-kick, Cesc Fabregas 4th rd Portugal winning on penalties in and Nolito. Morata netted a second- Serena Williams (USA x1) bt Elina the quarter-finals of the 2006 World half double and Nolito grabbed his Svitolina (UKR x18) 6-1, 6-1 Cup -- former England stalwarts like second as Spain recorded a morale- Yulia Putintseva (KAZ) bt Carla John Terry, David Beckham, Steven boosting thrashing of the Koreans, Suárez (ESP) 7-5, 7-5 Gerrard and Frank Lampard were whose consolation seven minutes Kiki Bertens (NED) bt Madison Keys all on the losing side. from time came from Ju Se-Jong. (USA x15) 7-6 (7/4), 6-3 The new team is built around Nolito had struck his first two an exciting young generation led international goals in a 3-1 friendly Great Britain’s Andy Murray reacts after winning a point during his men’s quarter-final match against Timea Bacsinszky (SUI x8) bt Venus Williams (USA x9) 6-2, 6-4 by Tottenham Hotspur trio Harry win over Bosnia and Herzegovina in France’s Richard Gasquet at the Roland Garros 2016 French Open in Paris yesterday. Kane, Dele Alli and Eric Dier and Saint Gallen, Switzerland, on Sunday. 30 THURSDAY 2 JUNE 2016 SPORT Pro boxers to compete at Games

compete in Rio’s boxing events. AIBA spokesman Nicolas Jomard The game’s global said there would be no wild cards, ruling body with the age limit at 40 for the athletes. AIBA approves a The move has drawn considera- constitutional change ble criticism as many argue it would be unfair to amateur boxers who have to allow professional trained for the Games for years and boxers to compete may now have to make way for the at the Olympics professionals. Former world heavyweight cham- pion Mike Tyson, who as an amateur won gold at the 1981 and 1982 Jun- ior Olympic Games, has branded the Reuters move “ridiculous”. “It’s ridiculous, it’s foolish, and some of the pro fighters are going to LAUSANNE: Professional boxers will get beat by the amateurs. It’s just going compete at the Rio de Janeiro Olym- to happen, I really believe that,” the pics after the international boxing 49-year-old said last week. association AIBA approved a constitu- He said the three rounds in the tional change yesterday, its president Olympics would work in favour of the said. amateurs, with professionals used to AIBA boss Ching-Kuo Wu said the fighting as many as 12 rounds. change of the AIBA constitution was Northern Ireland’s Carl Frampton, approved with 95 percent in favour a former amateur who has won WBA Boxing superstar Manny Pacquiao with Yousuf Ali Al Kazim, -- 84 of 88 voting members -- paving and IBF world title belts at super-ban- President, Qatar Boxing Federation, and Dr Ching-Kuo Wu, the way for professionals to fight for tamweight, was also against allowing President, AIBA, in this October 2015 file photo taken in Doha. medals for the first time at the Olym- professionals into the Olympics. pics starting on August 5. “They’re two different sports. It’s “We approved it and now they can like a badminton player playing ten- He said professionals would just “Why should we adapt for a fighters earned money competing for Amateur boxing has had its share compete,” he said. nis,” he said on Twitter. need to adapt to a different set of rules minority? We are acting for the Olym- city-based teams. He also introduced of Olympic champions who have gone Some 26 Olympic spots will be up Jomard rejected claims of a that was Olympic boxing. pic legacy of boxing. This is not just a women’s boxing at the Olympics in on to become top professionals in the for grabs when fighters compete at a disparity. “Olympic boxing has existed for one-off thing.” London in 2012. world, among them Muhammad Ali, qualifying tournament in Venezuela “There has been a lot of talk about decades and it is for them (profession- Under Wu’s leadership, AIBA Some of those WSB boxers have Joe Frazier, George Foreman, Lennox next month, with a total of 286 box- disparity of level,” Jomard said. “But als) to adapt and not the other way set up the semi-professional World already secured places at the Rio Lewis, Oscar De La Hoya and Vladimir ers -- 236 men and 50 women set to it is not true.” around. Series Boxing (WSB) in 2011 in which Games. Klitschko. ‘Suffering’ Klitschko vows India’s Mary Kom seeks to humble ‘bad boy’ Fury Olympic wildcard entry

AFP Dutch town of Steenbergen to lose the AFP ahead with our efforts.” But Kom, an three stones (19 kilos) he put on after 2012 Olympic bronze medallist in the beating Klitschko. The British fighter NEW DELHI: India’s boxing star 51 kilogram category, faces an uphill BERLIN: Ex-world champion has promised to beat Klitschko “in Mary Kom (pictured) is seeking a battle to secure a spot. Only one wild- Vladimir Klitschko (pictured) says every department”, but has become wildcard entry to the Olympics after card entry is on offer in Rio in August he has ‘suffered like a dog’ since los- an unpopular champion after mak- a loss last month during qualifying in each of the three women’s boxing ing to Tyson Fury, but has vowed to ing some poorly-judged comments. saw her dreams of competing in Rio categories, the official said. humble the controversial British heav- Klitschko was the undisputed shattered, an official said yesterday. Wildcard entries are announced yweight in next month’s rematch. heavyweight champion of the Kom, a former five-time world at the end of all boxing qualifying Klitschko lost his IBF, WBA, WBO world from 2008 until losing to the champion and a household name in events, which wrap up at the end and IBO belts after Fury’s unanimous 27-year-old Fury, and had secured India, was left devastated after los- of this month with men’s events in points win last November in Dussel- 22 consecutive victories since his last ing a crucial bout at the Women’s Azerbaijan. dorf as the Ukrainian suffered his first defeat in 2004, which often led to him World Boxing Championships in Kom, a mother of three and one defeat in more than a decade after a being portrayed as a boring champion. Kazakhstan. of the country’s most successful poor display. He compared his previous suc- Kom needed to reach the sem- sports stars, has kept a low profile “I’ve suffered like a dog,” Ham- cess to football team Bayern Munich, ifinals to book an Olympic spot but since losing the bout. Hailing from burg-based Klitschko told German who have just become the first club lost in the second round to Germany’s a poor family in the long-neglected magazine Stern, who admitted think- to win the German league tile four Azize Nimani, triggering reports the and remote state of Manipur, her life ing immediately after his defeat, times in a row. 33-year-old was mulling retirement. inspired a Bollywood biopic in 2014 “that’s fair. He was better”. “I’m going to bash his face in for “Continuous success is always India’s boxing committee has trying to see whether Mary with all called “Mary Kom”. The pair will meet again in Man- all his anti-semitic, sexist and homo- boring. It is unsatisfying for the pub- now lodged a request with the sport’s her accomplishments over the last The International Boxing Associ- chester on July 9 and Klitschko wants phobic comments, which he regularly lic. It’s like Bayern Munich,” he said. world association for a wildcard spot 15 years can represent India at the ation suspended India’s federation in revenge. likes to come out with.” “But what is the option? To lose? for Kom, the senior boxing official Olympics,” the official told AFP. 2012 due to election malpractices, but “I’m going to win,” said the While Klitschko is preparing in Or to be the subject of scandal? I said on condition of anonymity. “We first took her consent and has approved a provisional commit- 40-year-old. Austria, Fury is training hard in the wouldn’t want either.” “We... have this responsibility of once she said yes, we decided to go tee to run the sport in India.

Jason Day in action in this Golf: Day energised by challenge of May 2016 file photo. top guns Spieth and McIlroy

WORLD RANKINGS AFP “And it should. It should bother “For some reason, I’ve kind of guys who are competitive and want turned that into the actual tournament, 1. (1) Jason Day (Australia) 13.40 to stay on top as well. I’m taking similar lines, and you just 2. (2) Jordan Spieth (US) 11.60 LOS ANGELES: Recent wins for Rory “I know I’m pushed that way as can’t do that.” 3. (3) Rory McIlroy (Britain) 9.66 McIlroy and Jordan Spieth have only well when I see Rory or Jordan on top Having decided to change that energised world number one Jason of the world. I want to do that as well. approach, and with his confidence 4. (4) Bubba Watson (US) 7.77 Day, who said yesterday he’s look- “So it’s great to see how they’ve still high in the wake of his win at TPC 5. (5) Rickie Fowler (US) 7.42 ing forward to teeing it up against his responded so quickly.” Sawgrass, Day believes this is the year 6. (6) Henrik Stenson (Sweden) 7.10 rivals in the Memorial today. Day, Spieth and third-ranked McIl- he could turn his Memorial fortunes 7. (7) Adam Scott (Australia) 6.85 Australia’s Day will be competing roy are among 30 of the top 50 in the around. “I feel different this year,” for the first time since his wire-to-wire world in the field for the $8.5m tour- he said. “And I’m hoping for a better 8. (8) Dustin Johnson (US) 6.61 victory in the US PGA Tour’s Players nament, which also features number result.” Rose withdraws from Memo- 9. (9) Danny Willett (Britain) 6.55 Championship. four Bubba Watson, fifth-ranked rial with bad back 10. (10) Justin Rose (Britain) 5.91 During his well-deserved break, Rickie Fowler and number eight Dus- Meanwhile, former US Open 11. (11) Branden Grace (South Africa) McIlroy ended a six-month victory tin Johnson. champion Justin Rose has withdrawn 5.19 drought with a scintillating victory in Muirfield Village hasn’t been espe- from this week’s Memorial tournament the Irish Open, while Spieth shook off cially hospitable to Day, who called his with a lingering back injury. 12. (13) Patrick Reed (US) 5.07 a Masters meltdown to win at Colo- record on a course where he has never England’s Rose won the US PGA 13. (12) Sergio Garcia (Spain) 5.00 nial Country Club on Sunday and edge finished in the top 10 “horrific”. event, hosted by Jack Nicklaus, in 2010 14. (14) Louis Oosthuizen (South Africa) closer to Day atop the world rankings. It’s especially disheartening since and was second last year, losing to 4.76 For Day, the successes of his rivals his wife, Ellie, is from Ohio and Day Sweden’s David Lingmerth in a playoff. 15. (15) Hideki Matsuyama (Japan) 4.60 are fuel for his own competitive fire. is a member at Muirfield -- a fact the The world number 10 hasn’t played “I heard a couple of weeks ago that Aussie said has actually hurt him in since finishing equal 19th at the US 16. (16) Brooks Koepka (US) 4.18 it bothered Jordan that I was winning the tournament. PGA Tour’s Players Championship 17. (17) Brandt Snedeker (US) 3.99 tournaments and have the number “I typically play this course when three weeks ago. 18. (20) Matt Kuchar (US) 3.91 one spot in the world,” Day said as he I’m playing in a social round,” he said. His back trouble also prompted 19. (18) Phil Mickelson (US) 3.88 prepared for the Jack Nicklaus-hosted “I play it very aggressive. I’m hit- him to withdraw from last week’s tournament at Muirfield Village in ting drivers off most tees or taking European Tour PGA Championship at 20. (19) Zach Johnson (US) 3.83 Dublin, Ohio. lines that you wouldn’t take. Wentworth. SPORT THURSDAY 2 JUNE 2016 31 Djokovic enters $100m dollar club

eyes on this week. What he desper- In contrast, Austrian tyro Dominic ately wants is to get his hands on the Thiem was enjoying his most success- The Serbian world Musketeers’ Cup to complete his grand ful run at a grand slam after beating number one becomes slam collection. Spaniard Marcel Granollers 6-2, After winning a match that was 6-7(2), 6-1, 6-4 to set up a last-eight the first tennis player originally scheduled for Monday, clash with Belgian David Goffin. to reach the new began on Tuesday and was finally With only two hours of play pos- prize money list after completed on Wednesday, the sible over the previous two days as 29-year-old will have to play four days Parisians were hit by monsoon-like win over Bautista in succession if he is to reach Sunday’s showers, the women in top seed Ser- title showdown. ena Williams’s half of the draw had “I have the feeling I played three also been left bogged down in the matches against him,” a grinning fourth round for 48 hours. AFP Djokovic told the crowd after donning Hence it was little surprise they a yellow rain hat during his victory were all in a hurry to play catch-up speech. on Wednesday. “Yesterday the match was inter- Williams is no stranger to playing PARIS: Novak Djokovic had 100 mil- rupted three times and it wasn’t easy in front of capacity crowds but barely lion reasons to celebrate reaching the coming here at 9 am and leaving at a couple of hundred spectators both- French Open quarter-finals yesterday 7.30 or 8:00 pm. ered to turn up at the 15,000-seater -- albeit two days later than expected “So that’s the reason why we Philippe Chatrier Court as she began -- as players made a mad dash to clear should have the roof here. I’m hop- her tussle against 18th seed Elina the fourth-round backlog created by ing we’re going to have it very soon,” Svitolina. the fickle Parisian weather. added the Serb after joining athletes However, one person who was The Serbian world number one such as golfer Tiger Woods and boxer there to witness the champion’s 6-1 became the first tennis player to bank Lennox Lewis in the $100 million club. 6-1 walloping of Svitolina was her $100m in prize money after his 3-6, Djokovic will be back in action on former on-court rival, four-times 6-4, 6-1, 7-5 win over Spaniard Rob- Thursday to contest his 28th succes- champion Justine Henin. erto Bautista Agut tipped him over the sive major quarter-final against Czech What Henin thought of her charge magic number. However, the fourth- seventh seed Tomas Berdych, a 6-3, Svitolina’s performance is anyone’s round winner’s cheque is a far cry 7-5, 6-3 winner over 2013 runner-up guess but unlike the Belgian’s often from the real prize Djokovic has his David Ferrer. prickly encounters with Williams, tosday’s match ended with the two Serbia’s Novak Djokovic (right) wears a yellow rain hat as he is interviewed by former French tennis player players sharing a joke and a warm handshake at the net. Fabrice Santoro after winning his men’s fourth round match against Spain’s Roberto Bautista Agut at the However, there will be no Wil- Roland Garros 2016 French in Paris yesterday. BOTTOM: Switzerland’s Stanislas Wawrinka serves the ball liams family reunion at Roland to Spain’s Albert Ramos-Vinolas during their men’s quarter-final match. Garros this year after Timea Bacsin- szky ambushed Serena’s elder sister possible semi-final showdown for the Venus 6-2 6-4. most celebrated sisters in sport. On a day when it was so murky “My first win over Venus is -- tha the Eiffel Tower disappeared well, it’s just amazing,” the beaming into the hazy clouds hanging Swiss eighth seed said after reach- over Paris, Venus arrived for her ing the last eight for the second year match on Suzanne Lenglen Court running. looking more like a winter sport Describing herself as “a chame- athlete than someone about to play leon” who can adapt to “every type of a tennis match on June 1 -- wear- court” she will next face Kiki Bertens ing leggings under her skirt and a after the Dutch outsider downed long black quilted jacket zipped up American 15th seed Madison Keys to her neck. 7-6(4) 6-3. Once the match got going, she Serena will take on another unex- failed to warm up sufficiently as Bac- pected quarter-finalist in the shape of Switzerland’s Stanislas Wawrinka at the end of his men’s quarter-final sinszky went on an eight-game roll Kazakhstan’s Yulia Putintseva, who match against Spain’s Albert Ramos-Vinolas at the Roland Garros 2016 from 2-0 down in the first set and beat Spanish 12th seed Carla Suarez French Tennis Open on Tuesday. kept up the run to dash dreams of a Navarro.

Leading prize money Nadal’s Wimbledon winners Organisers hit back as more Paris: Leading prize money winners in men’s tennis after Novak Djokovic hopes dim with passed the $100 million mark yester- French Open criticism rains down day at the French Open: Novak Djokovic (SRB) $100,000,875 Queen’s withdrawal (into QF at French Open) REUTERS Roger Federer (SUI) $98,011,727 (did not play French Open) AFP who won Wimbledon in 2008 and Rafael Nadal (ESP) $78,223,403 (lost PARIS: Another defeated player 2010, has almost four weeks for his 3rd French Open) added his voice to the growing criti- injury to heal with the third Grand Andy Murray (GBR) $45,484,935 (into cism of the organisers of the French Slam tournament of the year begin- QF at French Open) Open after bowing out of the rain- LONDON: Rafael Nadal’s (pictured) ning on June 27th. Pete Sampras (USA) plagued tournament two days after hopes of winning a third Wimbledon Nadal, who had been bidding for $43,280,489 (retired) his match had been scheduled to title are in doubt after he withdrew a 10th French Open title, has been start. from the key warm-up event at plagued by injuries throughout his Roberto Bautista Agut sympa- Queen’s yesterday due to the wrist career, affecting his knees and wrist. thised with disgruntled spectators injury that brought to a halt his A right wrist injury forced him to However, he only played two and after his rain-interrupted fourth- French Open campaign. skip the 2014 US Open. a half sets Tuesday before finishing round defeat to world number one The Spaniard -- whose win in Despite his latest setback, the the tie on Wednesday afternoon, Novak Djokovic on Wednesday. 2008 at Queen’s was sandwiched charismatic Spaniard said he will leaving him facing a schedule of four The Spaniard told reporters that by victory in the French Open and keep playing. matches in five days if he is to clinch organisers had forced the players to then Wimbledon -- had said when he “This is a tough moment and the a first Roland Garros title. stay on court for two hours -- just withdrew from the French Open that toughest press conference I have ever “Of course sometimes, the tour- exceeding the threshold for reim- Latvia’s Ernests Gulbis sits under an umbrella as play is interrupted further playing risked him breaking had to give but it’s not the end,” he nament referees and the grounds bursing ticket-holders -- although due to rain during his men’s fourth round match against Belgium’s his left wrist. said on quitting the French Open last people, they are trying to do their tournament organisers said in a David Goffin at the Roland Garros yesterday. The Queen’s tournament begins Friday. best to evaluate the condition of the statement that they just wanted to on June 13th. Meanwhile, Djokovic said he court,” said Djokovic, after his 3-6, let play go on for as long as possible. “I am very sad that my wrist understood the anger felt by play- 6-4, 6-1, 7-5 win. Roland Garros’s refund policy Same reason -- raining,” he said. as possible, even if that meant being injury means that I cannot play at ers whose French Open hopes were “Sometimes it does appear that states that spectators should receive The Djokovic v Bautista Agut criticised for playing in difficult The Queen’s Club this year,” Nadal, washed away in the Paris deluge maybe they don’t because they don’t a 100 per cent refund if there is less match was supposed to start on Mon- conditions. who turns 30 on Friday, told the tour- while Ernests Gulbis blasted tennis play, they don’t maybe to full extent than an hour’s play during the day day but rain washed out the whole “I understand that not refunding nament website. for looking like a “winter sport”. understand what you go through and 50 per cent if there is between day and the tie did not get under way spectators with tickets to the Philippe “It is a tournament and a club Only two hours of play was possi- with your movement and why is it one and two hours -- but nothing if until Tuesday, ending around lunch- Chatrier Court has caused frustra- that I love, I enjoy playing in front of ble on Tuesday following a complete so dangerous.“It was funny and unac- two hours of tennis are played. time on Wednesday. tion and anger. the British people, and I was look- washout on Monday. ceptable as well at the same time to Tuesday’s match between Djok- The top seed repeated his call for But can we really change the ing forward to trying to win the title World number one Djokovic have a chair umpire come in in ele- ovic and Bautista Agut was halted a roof on the main court -- which is rules in the middle of the game? for a second time,” added the 14-time should have started his last-16 match gant shoes and try to slide and check when the clock showed 2h 01m. not expected to be ready until 2020 What happens tomorrow if a match is Grand Slam champion. against Roberto Bautista Agut on whether or not the lines are slip- “The conditions were not good -- but refused to complain. interrupted after two hours and three Missing Queen’s means Nadal, Monday afternoon. pery. It’s gonna be slippery anyway to play tennis, of course. Today was “Once you accept the circum- minutes, or two hours and seven min- in those shoes.” much better than yesterday. I can stances and the decision is such that utes of play?” Djokovic claimed that Tuesday’s understand the view of the tourna- you play, then you have to go with However, the experienced Venus action was played in a thin mist and ment, its position. They pushed us to it,” he said. Williams hinted that Tuesday should that rain kept falling throughout most play two hours yesterday,” Bautista “It’s the same for you and your have been another washout. of the afternoon. Agut said after his 3-6, 6-1 6-4, 7-5 opponent. But it was a great mental “I think the conditions were not He said that only a match at defeat yesterday. test for all of us, really, yesterday, the playable yesterday. It was really bad. Wimbledon early in his career -- “Of course, the court at the end entire day,” he said, adding: “But pri- It’s hard to see. The balls are wet, the played over five days -- took longer was not in a good shape to play. Also, ority should always be the health of courts are wet,” she said after losing to complete. was a bit difficult to play with these the players, no doubt.” to Timea Bacsinszky 2-6 4-6. Top 10 women stars Agnieszka heavy balls. Today I had a bit pain French Open organisers, stung by Simona Halep and Agnieszka Radwanska and Simona Halep on the elbow because of the balls.” the criticism over the past couple of Radwanska, who were both knocked both lost Tuesday in the only ties Djokovic was less critical, even if days, issued a statement defending out in the drizzle on Tuesday, agreed. completed. he reminded organisers the health of their stance. “The decision to sus- World number two Radwan- Second seed Radwanska said she the players was paramount. pend or resume play lies solely with ska, who lost to Bulgarian Tsvetana was “pissed and angry” about being “I remember early in my career tournament referee Stefan Fransson,” Pironkova, hit out at organisers, say- forced to play while Halep accused I played a match against (Nicolas) tournament director Guy Forget said. ing a major tournament deserved organisers of ignoring player welfare. Kiefer in Wimbledon for five days. “Our aim was to play for as long more care. 32 THURSDAY 2 JUNE 2016 SPORT England set for Portugal dress rehearsal today

position. Hodgson’s line-up could also give a clue as to who out of Chelsea’s Gary Cahill and Hodgson may reveal Everton’s John Stones will partner United’s Chris Rooney’s role in team’s final Smalling in central defence in France. England travel to their Chantilly base camp friendly match ahead of on Monday, when they will begin preparations Euro 2016 to face Russia, Slovakia and neighbours Wales in Group B. Today’s game will be the first meeting AFP between the countries since Portugal defeated England on penalties at the 2006 World Cup in Germany. Cristiano Ronaldo played a key role that day in Gelsenkirchen, controversially imploring the LONDON: England manager Roy Hodgson (pic- referee to send off United team-mate Rooney for tured) could reveal his hand ahead of Euro 2016 a stamp on Ricardo Carvalho and then netting when his side tackle Portugal in Wembley today the decisive penalty. in their final pre-tournament match. But he will not feel the wrath of the Wem- Hodgson finalised his 23-man squad for bley crowd as he has been granted time off after the campaign on Tuesday, including 18-year- netting the winning spot-kick in Real Madrid’s old Manchester United striker Marcus Rashford penalty shootout win over Atletico Madrid in and cutting loose Leicester City’s Danny Drink- Saturday’s Champions League final. water and Newcastle United’s Andros Townsend. In Ronaldo’s absence, Portugal strolled to a Rashford needed just 138 seconds to open his 3-0 friendly win over Norway in Porto on Sunday England account on his debut against Australia He has tested both a 4-4-2 formation with a and coach Fernando Santos hit out at journalists last Friday and midfielder Jordan Henderson has midfield diamond and a 4-3-3 system, with the afterwards for continually asking him about his backed him to enjoy a distinguished interna- former configuration expected to hold sway for absent talisman. tional career. England’s opening Euro 2016 game against Rus- “I don’t understand why we always have to “It reflects the season he’s had -- he’s got no sia on June 11. talk about Ronaldo,” said Santos, whose side will fear and wants the ball all the time in behind With Rashford due to provide an option from face Iceland, Austria and Hungary in Group F at and it was a great finish from him,” said the Liv- the bench, today’s game may reveal how Hodg- Euro 2016. erpool captain of the youngster’s adroit volley. son intends to fit captain Wayne Rooney and “I’m not in the least bit worried about him. “Marcus is good on the ball, he’s got good in-form strikers Harry Kane and Jamie Vardy He’ll be here next week with the goal of helping movement, his finishing is very good for a young into his starting XI. One option would be to use Portugal have a great Euro 2016. The rest is just lad. He’s got everything. Rooney, who has been playing in midfield for journalist talk.” “He needs to continue to work hard and I’m United, as a number 10, with Tottenham Hot- Portuguese press reports suggest that Ronal- sure he will do. He’ll be a very big player for Man- spur striker Kane and Leicester sensation Vardy do’s former United colleague Nani will be handed chester United and England.” ahead of him. an attacking role alongside Sporting Braga’s Rafa Having tested his options in the 2-1 friendly But he could elect to use Rooney as an out- Silva against England. victories over Turkey and Australia, Hodgson is and-out striker next to Kane, which would leave Portugal, whose final warm-up match is England’s Harry Kane (right), Wayne Rooney (centre) and Danny Rose during a expected to align something approaching his Raheem Sterling, Adam Lallana, Dele Alli and against Estonia in June 8, will also be without training session at Watford Training Ground yesterday, ahead of their friendly preferred starting XI against Portugal. Ross Barkley to fight it out for the number 10 Ronaldo’s Real Madrid team-mate Pepe. match against Portugal. Spain’s Reyes Ireland suffer defeat against to quit Sevilla Belarus in final warm-up game AFP

MADRID: Spanish international AFP RESULTS a header over when unmarked. striker Jose Antonio Reyes is set to Ireland finally forced Belarus goal- leave his hometown club Sevilla Results from pre-Euro 2016 inter- keeper Sergey Chernik into serious for a second time, the La Liga out- national friendlies on Tuesday: action just before the hour mark, fit announced yesterday. CORK, Ireland: The Republic of Ire- In Klagenfurt, Austria with the 27-year-old beating away Spanish press suggested the land ended their preparations for Austria 2 (Arnautovic 4, Schoepf 18) a Ciaran Clark header, before getting Seville-born Reyes who was a Euro 2016 on a sour note, as they Malta 1 (Alaba 87-og) up quickly to keep out Jeff Hendrick’s member of the 2006 World Cup were beaten 2-1 by Belarus in Cork In Cork, Republic of Ireland follow-up effort. squad and who is best known in on Tuesday night. Republic of Ireland 1 (Ward 72) Belarus O’Neill’s men were caught out Britain for a spell at Arsenal, would Mikhail Gordeychuk gave the 2 (Gordeychuk 20, Volodko 63) soon afterwards though, as maraud- be joining Turkish Super Lig side visitors a 20th-minute lead with ing left-back Volodko cut inside, Galatasaray. a wonderful curling strike, and before seeing his right-footed shot The 32-year-old Reyes spent Maksim Volodko’s deflected effort final 23-man squad after the match. strike Ireland defender Richard seven seasons during two spells at doubled the advantage with 25 min- After a slow start to the encoun- Keogh before spinning into the net. the southern Spanish club playing utes to go. ter, Belarus forged ahead in fine The introduction of Long helped Ire- 253 times for them and winning The Irish gave themselves hope style. land stretch the Belarusian defence, the last three Europa League titles of not ending their Euro preparations Igor Stasevich picked out winger and the Southampton striker held with them, a title he also won with defeat, as Stephen Ward drilled Gordeychuk, and the BATE Borisov the ball up well before picking out twice at Atletico Madrid. home after being teed up by substi- man’s long-range shot flew past the Burnley full-back Ward, who ham- “Jose Antonio Reyes is leav- tute Shane Long, but a late rally was outstretched hand of Shay Given and mered the ball into the bottom ing Seville, putting an end to his to no avail. nestled in the far top corner. corner with his favoured left foot. second spell here, the most col- Martin O’Neill made wholesale Ireland’s keeper did pull off an The hosts piled forward in lectively successful one,” a club changes to the side that were held excellent save nine minutes before search of an equaliser with 21-year- statement said. to a 1-1 draw by the Netherlands half-time though, springing to his old Oxford United midfielder Callum Reyes was a fans’ favour- in Dublin on Friday, naming an right to turn Volodko’s rising shot O’Dowda impressing off the bench Republic of Ireland’s James McClean (right) and Belarus’ Ihar Stasevich ite who professed his love for his entirely different starting XI as the over the bar. The home side started on debut, but they failed to create hometown and cried publicly after in action duirng their friendly match at Turner’s Cross, Cork, Republic of fringe players were given a chance to the second half brightly, but striker any chances of note as Belarus held news of his transfer to Arsenal. Ireland on Tuesday. impress before the coach named his Daryl Murphy could only steer on. Euro snub: Benzema says Deschamps ‘bowed to racists’

AFP at Real Madrid and is widely consid- with whom he says he enjoys good nothing more, and the whole thing ered to be France’s top striker. relations, had been pressured into blew up in my face.” Last December however a legal leaving him out by outside influences. The French football federation investigation into an alleged attempt “I’m convinced that is what has head Noel Le Graet has been rela- PARIS: Karim Benzema claimed rac- by one of Benzema’s friends to black- happened,” he said. tively supportive of the player. ism was behind his non-selection for mail fellow France international “I got left out of the 2010 World “I rather like Karim Benzema, and France’s Euro 2016 squad in an inter- Mathieu Valbuena over a sex tape saw Cup squad but this is much harder,” this hasn’t changed my opinion, but view the Real Madrid striker gave to immediate calls for the Real Madrid he admitted. he’s let himself go a bit to far here,” Spanish daily Marca yesterday, but his star to be left out of the France set up. His path to the French Euro 2016 Le Graet said. comments were slammed by French It could be worse for Benzema as squad was at one time cleared when “Didier (Deschamps) is on top officials who came to the defence of he faces up to five years in jail over legal restrictions stopping him play- form, he’s a tough guy.” Patrick coach Didier Deschamps. accusations he encouraged Valbuena ing were lifted and it seemed he would Kanner the French Sports Minister The French football federa- to pay the blackmailers. make the squad after all. sympathised with Benzema’s pre- tion said Benzema was unpickable “France will realise it has been But then tough-talking French dicament but rejected any attack on because he is under investigation over unfair to me,” Benzema said. Prime Minister Manuel Valls and other the national coach with just nine days an alleged sex-tape blackmail case. “They said I cannot be selected, politicians began to oppose any reha- to go before the start of the France But Benzema insists that Des- fine. But on a sporting level, I don’t bilitation while the sex-tape inquiry hosted Euro 2016. champs, who was captain of France’s understand why,” he said. goes on. “I can understand Mr Benzema’s 1998 World Cup winning team, had “At a legal level, I am still inno- “The only person who knows what disappointment but under no circum- “bowed to pressure from a racist part cent until proven guilty. They should happened in this affair, who knows stances are his statements acceptable This file photo taken on June 06, 2013 shows French national football of France” in his selection process. wait until the justice system has made the truth, is Valbuena,” Benzema told regarding what he said about Mr Benzema, a Frenchman of Alge- its decision.” Marca. Deschamps’ sporting decisions nor team’s head coach Didier Deschamps (left) speaking next to forward rian descent, is a world class centre Benzema went on to insist that “He played a role, he has not his personality,” Kanner said in an Karim Benzema during a training session at the Gremio Stadium in forward who has played six seasons Deschamps and the French federation, told the truth. I wanted to help him, interview. Porto Alegre, Brazil. SPORT THURSDAY 2 JUNE 2016 33

Russia and FIFA launch volunteer Copa America: Messi looks to recruitment campaign end Argentina’s long wait AFP MOSCOW: Russian Presi- dent Vladimir Putin and FIFA’s new President Gianni Infantino 16-TEAM EVENT BEGINS It has been a very TOMORROW launched yesterday a campaign to recruit volunteers for the 2017 long time since Confederations Cup and 2018 Argentina has World Cup that Russia is prepar- shine off an event which will bring ing to host. won anything, I together some of the world’s best “Russia will host the world’s think we deserve players. top 32 football teams at the World Messi and Argentina will be aim- Cup,” Putin said at a ceremony at to be champions ing to win the country’s first major the All-Russian Exhibition Centre of an important title since the 1993 Copa America after in Moscow. competition, says a series of recent near-misses. “Today we are giving the start The Argentines lost both the 2014 to the creation of the 33rd squad. Messi World Cup final and the 2015 Copa The biggest team, the 2018 World America in Chile. Messi, due in Spain Cup volunteers’ team. this week to attend his trial for tax “I am confident that Rus- fraud, says it is time Argentina’s tal- sia will guarantee the highest AFP ented players delivered. possible level of the World Cup “It has been a very long time since organisation. Argentina has won anything, and this Infantino for his part began his group came very close in the World speech by saying in Russian: “I love LOS ANGELES: Lionel Messi and Cup and at the last Copa America,” football. I love Russia.” Argentina will be targeting the coun- he told Sports Illustrated on the eve He called the start of the try’s 23-year title drought when the of the tournament. recruitment campaign an impor- Copa America Centenario kicks off “I think we deserve to be cham- tant milestone in the country’s tomorrow after a troubled build-up pions of an important competition.” preparations for the World Cup. marred by corruption allegations Argentina open their campaign “We move from the infrastruc- which threatened to derail the event. against Chile in Santa Clara next ture construction phase to the One hundred years after Uruguay Monday. Panama and Bolivia com- operational phase,” he said. clinched the inaugural four-team plete Group D. “We’re all volunteers and we Argentina’s Lionel Messi attends a training session during the Copa America in Vina del Mar, Chile in this South American championship in The United States meanwhile know – as President Putin has said Argentina, 16 teams from across the June 2015 file photo. will aim to build on their encourag- – how important the volunteering Americas are gathered in the United ing performance at the 2014 World programmes are in sport events. States for a special one-off edition of American teams and six teams from South American federation (CONME- due to appear in a New York court- Cup, when they reached the knockout “And what unites all of us – the the tournament. the CONCACAF (North America, BOL) chief Eugenio Figueredo. room tomorrow – the day of the round, by progressing from a “Group president, the fans, the players, the The three-week festival of football Central America and the Caribbean) “The American continent may opening match – to face sentencing of Death” which includes Colombia, coaches, the referees – we’re all gets under way at the Levi’s Stadium region make up the field. have been discovered in 1492, but I for his role in the scandal. Costa Rica and Paraguay. united by the passion.” in California tomorrow, when the For organisers, the mere fact that can’t imagine a better way to unite Figueredo, 84, was extradited Five-time World Cup winners The 2008 European champion United States face Colombia at the the tournament is taking place at all this continent than with football,” to Uruguay from Switzerland last Brazil will be favoured to safely and 2010 World Cup winner Carles home of the San Francisco 49ers is something of a triumph. Webb said. December and also faces criminal navigate Group B, where they face Puyol of Spain, former Croatia American football team. For several months last year the Yet if prosecutors have their way, prosecution. Ecuador, Haiti and Peru. midfielder Zvonimir Boban and The tournament will conclude Copa faced an uncertain future after both men may soon be united behind Both Figueredo and Webb – as The Brazilians open against Russia’s legendary goalkeeper with a final at New Jersey’s MetLife the arrest and indictment for corrup- bars. Webb and Figueredo were well as former CONMEBOL chief Ecuador at Pasadena’s Rose Bowl on Rinat Dasayev also attended the Stadium in East Rutherford on June tion of several officials from South among several officials arrested in Nicolas Leoz – are accused of pocket- Saturday – scene of their victory at ceremony. 26, drawing a line under what is argu- America and CONCACAF responsi- Switzerland in May 2015 as part of ing millions of dollars in bribes linked the 1994 World Cup final. The 2018 World Cup organising ably the biggest tournament held in ble for dreaming up the tournament. the US-led corruption investigation to the award of media rights for the Mexico and Uruguay will be committee plans to bring in around the United States since the 1994 World When plans for the tournament which ultimately led to the sensa- tournament, part of a scam dubbed a expected to progress from Group C, 5,500 volunteers for the 2017 Con- Cup. were launched at a glitzy event in tional downfall of FIFA President “World Cup of Fraud”. with Jamaica and Venezuela com- federations Cup, while a further Billed as a celebration of foot- Miami in 2014, CONCACAF President Sepp Blatter. The sleazy background to the pleting the field in the 16-team 15,000 volunteers will come on ball across the Americas, 10 South Jeffrey Webb stood proudly alongside With impeccable timing, Webb is competition threatened to take the competition. board a year later to help host the World Cup in Russia. The 15 recruiting centres in all of the World Cup host cities will Mourinho plays choose candidates from both Rus- sian and foreign applicants. Ibrahimovic tight-lipped about future, The selection of volunteers is down new rivalry expected to last until the end of 2016. with Guardiola Russia will host the 2018 says he’s ‘too good’ for Swedish League World Cup at 12 venues in 11 cities Reuters - Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Ros- tov, Kazan, Volgograd, Nizhny Novgorod, Samara, Saransk, LISBON: Manchester United man- Reuters Kaliningrad, Yekaterinburg and Sweden’s forward ager Jose Mourinho will not stoke Sochi. his rivalry with fellow new recruit and team captain Putin said that the prepara- Pep Guardiola at Manchester City Zlatan Ibrahimovic tions for the World Cup were “in next season because it could dam- STOCKHOLM: Sweden captain attends a training full swing,” and three stadiums age his team’s Premier League title Zlatan Ibrahimovic has remained session in Bastad, -- in Kazan, Sochi and Moscow hopes, he said on Tuesday. tight-lipped about his future at club Sweden, yesterday -- had already been built. Mourinho and Guardiola had and international level, telling report- where the team He added that the reconstruc- a fractious relationship when the ers oyesterday that he would let them stays for a training tion of Moscow’s Luzhniki, the Portuguese was in charge of Real know his plans when he was good camp as part of tournament’s main venue, would Madrid and the Spaniard was at and ready. preparations for the be completed by December 2016. the helm at Barcelona during the Rumours linking the 34-year-old upcoming Euro 2016 A number of other World Cup 2010-11 and 2011-12 seasons. free agent to Manchester United and European football facilities will be functional in one “My experience does not allow Malmo, as well as speculation that he Championships. year for the Confederations Cup. me to be naive. What I mean by would announce the end to his inter- that is that I was with Pep for two national career, have gathered steam years in a championship where the but a relaxed Ibrahimovic opted to Rafinha and champion was either him or me, avoid discussing his future. Real Madrid or Barcelona,” Mour- “I want you to still write a lot of Ederson out of inho told an event at the Faculty of stories, so I get excited when I see Human Kinetics in Lisbon. them, because I want to see who is “In a situation like that indi- making up the best story,” he told Brazil squad vidual battles make sense because reporters at Sweden’s training camp, they can have an influence. If, in where the side are preparing for the AFP the English Premier League, I focus Euro 2016 finals in France. on him at Manchester City and “When I’m tired of it, I’ll let you he on me at Manchester United, know where I will go.” LOS ANGELES: Brazil’s prep- another team will win the title.” The striker did manage to refute arations for the Copa America Mourinho said he could not a suggestion that he might play half Centenario suffered a further afford to focus on Guardiola if he a season for Swedish league leaders blow on Tuesday after midfielder wanted to bring the title back to and his first club Malmo before join- to bring his international career to happen. I believe the security will be and an overnight stay in hospital. Rafinha and goalkeeper Ederson United for the first time since 2013. ing another side at the beginning of a close. in place. Sweden coach Erik Hamren told were ruled out of the tournament “Look at the Bundesliga ... in 2017. Sweden’s all-time leading goal “I hope that the people can enjoy reporters on Tuesday that he may not through injury. the last five years the same team “I’m still not interested in the scorer did, however, reveal that he the football, the players can enjoy be fit to start in their opening Group E Barcelona player Rafinha has won the title four times and in Allsvenskan (Swedish league). I’m too was back in full training following a playing football, and even those sit- fixture against Ireland, but he might not been able to train properly France the same team won the good for the Allsvenskan,” he stated, calf muscle injury that caused him to ting at home -- let them enjoy it. I yet play some part. with the squad since arriving for last four,” he said. without giving any more hints about miss the 0-0 draw with Slovenia in hope it will be a pleasure,” he said. “Albin has made great progress a pre-tournament training camp “In Spain Atletico (Madrid) his next destination after he com- Malmo on Monday. Sweden have been drawn in during the week and it feels good,” in Los Angeles last week. won once and Barcelona the other pleted four trophy-laden seasons with With the US State Department Group E of the June 10-July 10 tour- Hamren said. Rafinha is to be replaced three. In England there have been French champions Paris St Germain issuing a warning about possible nament alongside Belgium, Italy and “He is not a player that will start by Paris Saint-Germain’s Lucas four different champions in the last last month. attacks in Europe during events like Ireland, who they play first at the against Ireland, but he could be a very Moura. Benfica goalkeeper Eder- four years,” he said. Speaking in the west coast town the European Championship, Ibra- Stade de France on June 13. good player to finish the game against son -- effectively the third choice “That says a lot about the com- of Bastad where the Swedes are himovic said he would not be unduly Meanwhile, Sweden have Ireland.” stopper – has been replaced by petitiveness. The fact it has the training ahead of their final pre- worried. included Hamburg midfielder Albin Niggling injuries and the late Marcelo Grohe. Brazil’s squad has biggest television rights and that tournament friendly against Wales, “After the tragic events in Paris Ekdal in their 23-man squad for Euro arrival of some players from their already suffered injuries to two the television revenues are dis- Ibrahimovic stonewalled questions (last November), the security has been 2016, despite the fact the 26-year-old clubs mean Sweden’s preparations other players – Ricardo Oliveira tributed in the way that they are, from reporters about his post-Euro heightened considerably, you see mil- is still recovering from a deep wound for the finals are only just beginning, and Bayern Munich star Doug- allows the league to grow as a 2016 plans. itary guys on the street,” he explained. in his back. Hamren said. las Costa. Brazil open their Copa competition whereas, in the other “It’s nothing I’ve thought about, “Ahead of this championship I Ekdal fell over a table in a night- “We have been together for a America campaign against Ecua- leagues, the sharks are always the nothing I’ve invested any energy in,” know that they have stepped it up a club at the beginning of May, opening week but we haven’t trained with the dor at the Pasadena Rose Bowl in sharks,” added Mourinho. he said when asked if he intended lot. One doesn’t want something to a cut in his back that required stitches whole group yet,” he noted. Group B on Saturday. 34 THURSDAY 2 JUNE 2016 SPORT India face Pakistan in Trophy opener

Second in importance only to the India’s Virat Kohli (left) talks to The 2017 Champions World Cup and featuring the top eight Pakistan’s Misbah-Ul-Haq as teams in the world, the 2013 edition they leave the field during the was supposed to be the last but the Trophy to take place ICC Champions Trophy Group ICC decided it should continue. B match at Edgbaston Cricket in England from June The eighth tournament will fea- 1 to 18, organisers ture 15 matches across three venues Ground, Birmingham, in this June 2013 file photo India won announced in London in England and Wales with The Oval hosting the June 18 final. by eight wickets. yesterday Hosts England will take on fast- improving Bangladesh in the June 1 opener, also at The Oval, according to the fixture schedule announced yesterday. Reuters Group A also contains twice winners Australia, who begin their campaign against trans-Tasman LONDON: India will begin their rivals New Zealand in a repeat of last ICC Champions Trophy title defence year’s World Cup final in Melbourne with a mouthwatering Group B clash in which the hosts prevailed. against arch-rivals Pakistan in next Apart from India and Pakistan, year’s tournament in England, the Group B also includes former cham- International Cricket Council (ICC) pions Sri Lanka and South Africa. The announced yesterday. top two from each group progress ICC CHAMPIONS TROPHY GROUPS AND FIXTURES LONDON: Groups and fixtures (x denotes seed) for the 2017 ICC Champions Trophy tournament in England and Wales announced yesterday: Group A Australia (x1), New Zealand (x4), England (x6), Bangladesh (x7) Group B India (x2), South Africa (x3), Sri Lanka (x5), Pakistan (x8) Venues: The Oval, Edgbaston, Cardiff Fixtures June 01: England vs Bangladesh, The Oval (d) June 02: Australia vs New Zealand, Edgbaston (d) June 03: Sri Lanka vs South Africa, The Oval (d) June 04: India vs Pakistan, Edgbaston (d) June 05: Australia vs Bangladesh, The Oval (d/n) to the semi-finals at Cardiff and “There is very little room for World Cup, where they had met in the is not just an ODI competition, it car- Edgbaston on June 14 and June 15 error.” semi-final. ries a great deal of value since it is June 06: England vs New Zealand, Cardiff (d) respectively. England are hosting the tour- When asked if this was a coinci- being played just three months before June 07: Pakistan vs South Africa, Edgbaston (d/n) “Having won the event in 2013, we nament for the third time, having dence, the ICC chief executive Dave the ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 quali- June 08: India vs Sri Lanka, The Oval (d) know how intense this event can be reached the finals in 2004 and 2013. Richardson said it wasn’t. fication cut-off date,” Richardson said. June 09: New Zealand vs Bangladesh, Cardiff (d) and we are under no illusion that it “The ICC Champions Trophy is an “What we try and do is make sure “As such, every point earned here June 10: England vs Australia, Edgbaston (d) will be any different next year,” India elite ODI competition, contested by that when you add up the rankings of could be crucial.” June 11: India vs South Africa, The Oval (d) captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni said the sport’s top eight ranked sides fea- the different groups that they all add England are hosting the Cham- in an ICC statement. turing the finest 50-over cricketers,” up to the same number of points. You pions Trophy for the third time; they June 12: Sri Lanka vs Pakistan, Cardiff (d) “In the ICC Champions Trophy, it England captain Eoin Morgan said. can do that in a number of ways: zig- made the finals of both the previous June 14: 1st semi-final (A1 vs B2), Cardiff (d) doesn’t matter which other sides are “As professionals, we want to be zag, you can go sort of like a snake … tournaments at home, losing to Wwest June 15: 2nd semi-final (A2 vs B1), Edgbaston (d) in your group or who your semi-final involved in such intense competitions No doubt we want to try and put India Indies in 2004 and to India in 2013. June 18: Final, The Oval (d) or final opponent is. where our individual and team skills versus Pakistan in our event, it’s mas- Groups: June 19: Reserve day (d) “You have limited time and the are tested almost each day.” sive around the world. It’s probably no Group A: Australia, New Zealand, key to success is consistency, and India and Pakistan have met in coincidence that the two keep ending England, Bangladesh Notes: d = day matches (0930 GMT start); d/n = day/night matches (1230 being on top of your game each time the group stage of every ICC tourna- up in the same group. Group B: India, South Africa, Sri GMT start) you step out on to the field. ment - five of them - since the 2011 “The ICC Champions Trophy 2017 Lanka, Pakistan

Gavaskar backs ODI captain says Amir Cook to break Tendulkar record

AFP over spot-fixing scandal NEW DELHI: Indian batting great Sunil Gavaskar (pictured far right) AFP yesterday backed England skip- per Alastair Cook to surpass Sachin Tendulkar as Test cricket’s all-time LAHORE: Pakistan’s one-day captain leading run-scorer. Azhar Ali threw his support behind Cook became the 12th player in Mohammad Amir yesterday for the history to score 10,000 Test runs team’s forthcoming tour of England, during England’s nine-wicket win saying the spot-fixing episode is against Sri Lanka at Durham on Mon- behind the pacer. day to take an unassailable 2-0 lead runs in Test cricket, believes the Eng- the Test-playing sides and Cook will Amir, 24, is seen as Pakistan’s in the three-match series. lishman can chase down the target. have ample opportunity to add to his main weapon for the team’s tour of The opener was also the first “Cook can break Tendulkar’s tally in the coming months. England, where they will play four Englishman to achieve the feat and, record of Test runs. He has age on England play one more Test Tests, five one-day internationals at 31 years and 157 days, the young- his side and England play more Tests,” against Sri Lanka at Lord’s next week and a Twenty20 between July and est to get to the landmark, breaking Gavaskar told NDTV. before then taking on Pakistan in a September. Tendulkar’s record by more than five “Given the number of Tests Eng- four-match series. Amir has returned strongly since months. land play every year and if Cook can Cook’s team then embarks on his five-year ban for spot-fixing was Currently Cook (10,042 runs in hold on to his form in the next seven tours to Bangladesh and India, where lifted in September last year, tak- 128 Tests) is 5,879 runs away from years, he can surpass Tendulkar,” he they will play a total of seven Tests. ing five wickets in the two one-day Tendulkar’s record and Gavaskar, added. internationals against New Zealand who was the first to register 10,000 England are one of the busiest of in January and as many wickets in 11 Twenty20 games. Ali said the sordid episode is firmly behind his bowler. “The 2010 case is past (for Amir) and now we need to look forward,” Kulasekara quits Tests said Ali, when asked if the case still haunts Amir. Amir, along with then Test cap- tain Salman Butt and pace partner AFP went on remained a regular fixture in Sri Mohammad Asif, was charged for to play 21 Lanka’s one-day international and taking illegal money in return for Tests, cap- Twenty20 line-ups. deliberate no-balls during the Lord’s COLOMBO: Veteran Sri Lankan turing 48 Kulasekara has so far played 173 Test in August 2010. Pakistani seamer Nuwan Kulasekara (pic- wickets. ODIs and was ranked as the number The three were briefly jailed in cricketer tured) announced his retirement His one bowler in the world in March the UK before returning to Pakistan Mohammad from Test cricket yesterday but said best match 2009. Kulasekara has also played to serve out the rest of their ban. Amir in he would continue to be available for figures 50 T20 internationals, including the “It’s been a while now since the action during limited-overs matches. were 8-58 recent World Cup in India. case, Amir has gelled with us well. It a practice The 33-year-old paceman has against Meanwhile, veteran open- could have been tough had he come session. not played a Test in almost two Pakistan at ing batsman Tillakaratne Dilshan straight for such a tour but now after years and said in a letter to the Sri Colombo in announced on Tuesday that he would playing with us for long, things have Lankan board that he was retiring 2009, while be unavailable for the upcoming lim- settled for him,” said the captain. the pressure the same way he did on faith in him to deliver,” said Ali of the with “immediate effect”. his highest ited-overs series with England, with Ali said the toughest phase of his comeback (in January).” left-arm bowler who took 17 wickets “I hope it will allow me to bet- score with the 39-year-old citing a back injury Amir’s comeback has since passed However, the captain said the in the 2010 series and was the man ter prepare for ODI and T20 cricket, the bat was and “other personal reasons”. but noted that his return to England team is prepared to back Amir and of the series for Pakistan. which I would like to continue play- 64 against The limited-overs squad has not could spur additional stress. would deal with any issues if they Pakistan will play two warm- ing for Sri Lanka subject to good England at been named yet but Sri Lanka have “I know England was the place arise. up games in the first week of July performance and selection,” he said. Lord’s in 2006. His last Test appear- already lost the Test series with Eng- where the incident (in 2010) hap- “But still if anything happens we before the first Test starts at Lord’s Kulasekara made his Test debut ance, in 2014, was also against land after being comprehensively pened but hopefully he can handle as a team will handle it. We have full from July 14. against New Zealand in 2005 and England at Lord’s although he has beaten in the first two matches. SPORT THURSDAY 2 JUNE 2016 35

White Sox snap Healthy supporting cast gives seven-game LeBron’s Cavaliers the edge losing streak Agencies

and three years later he departed NEW YORK: Tyler Saladino reached base in all four for Miami. The Heat lost the 2011 LAST 10 NBA CHAMPS plate appearances and hit a go-ahead two-run homer Cleveland superstar and 2014 finals and won the 2012 in the eighth inning as Chicago snapped a seven-game looks to dump and 2013 NBA titles before James 2015: Golden State Warriors losing streak. returned home vowing to make the 2014: San Antonio Spurs The White Sox came back from a 4-0 deficit to win defending champs in Cavs a champion, barely missing on 2013: Miami Heat for just the fourth time in their last 20 games. The Mets his sixth consecutive his first try. 2012: Miami Heat have lost three of four. NBA Finals “I know what it feels like to win 2011: Dallas Mavericks Rangers 7, Indians 3 it. I know what it feels like to lose,” 2010: Los Angeles Lakers Colby Lewis pitched six scoreless innings and Bryan James said. “And I don’t want to lose 2009: Los Angeles Lakers Holaday and Jurickson Profar homered to lead the Texas it again.” 2008: Boston Celtics Rangers to a 7-3 victory over the Cleveland Indians at In an 11-2 playoff run, James has 2007: San Antonio Spurs Progressive Field. AFP averaged 24.6 points, 8.6 rebounds, 2006: Miami Heat Mariners 16, Padres 4 7.0 assists and 2.2 steals a game with Seth Smith hit two of Seattle’s five home runs in a Irving contributing 24.3 points, 5.1 Teams with the most titles: 16-4 rout of San Diego. assists, 2.5 rebounds and 1.5 steals 1. Boston Celtics 17 The Mariners led 16-0 after scoring in each of the OAKLAND: LeBron James, in his a game and Love adding 17.3 points, first five innings. Position playes Christian Bethancourt 2. Los Angeles Lakers 16 sixth consecutive NBA Finals, leads 9.6 rebounds and 2.4 assists a game. and Alexi Amarista combined to pitch a scoreless eighth 3. Chicago Bulls 6 the Cleveland Cavaliers in a rematch “Thinking about just the steps inning Rangers 7, Indians for San Diego. with defending champion Golden it took to get back to where we are 4. San Antonio Spurs 5 Astros 8, Diamondbacks 5 State starting today, but this time now, I really have a true appreciation 5. Golden State Warriors 4 George Springer had three hits, including a homer, the superstar has a healthy sup- of the journey,” Irving said. “We’re and drove in four runs and Luis Valbuena homered in porting cast. still not satisfied. There’s still a goal Houston’s win. Two-time NBA Most Valuable at hand we have to accomplish.” Springer hit a three-run homer in the second inning Player Stephen Curry sparks the Blocking that path are Curry, after Arizona took a 2-0 lead in the first. He also sin- Warriors’ quest for a title repeat 3-point sharpshooter Klay Thomp- gled in a run in a four-run fourth off Diamondbacks against four-time MVP “King” James, son, Draymond Green and Andre left-hander Patrick Corbin. who is trying to bring Cleveland a Iguodala, last year’s NBA Finals MVP Red Sox 6, Orioles 2 major sports crown for the first time after the Warriors won the last three Mookie Betts homered three times and drove in since the 1964 NFL Browns. games when he started. five runs to back the pitching of Eduardo Rodriguez, “Our city deserves it. Our fans “They’ve been playing well the and the Boston Red Sox defeated the Baltimore Ori- deserve it,” James said. “But that whole playoff run,” Curry said. oles 6-2 Tuesday night for their third consecutive win. gives us no sense of entitlement. “We’re ready for anything. Knowing It was Betts’ first career three-homer game, and his We’ve still got to go out and do it, how important taking care of your LeBron James of the Cleveland five RBIs were also a personal best as Boston increased be as great as we can every night. home court is, that will be a high pri- Cavaliers shoots against the Brooklyn its American League East lead to three games. We look forward to the challenge.” ority going into game one.” Nets during their game at the Marlins 3, Pirates 1 Last year, Cavaliers forward But this year, the Warriors have Barclays Center in New York City in Jose Fernandez pitched seven scoreless innings and Kevin Love missed nearly all of the battled playoff injuries -- Curry this file photo. James, in his sixth Christian Yelich broke up a scoreless duel with an RBI playoffs and injury-nagged guard missing two games with an ankle consecutive NBA Finals, leads the single to lead Miami over Pittsburgh. Kyrie Irving broke a kneecap in the sprain and two weeks with a right Cleveland Cavaliers in a rematch with Nationals 5, Phillies 1 championship series opener. knee sprain -- and enter the finals defending champion Golden State Daniel Murphy hit a go-ahead home run, one of A superman effort by James -- after three must-win triumphs over starting today, four homers by the Nationals as Washington beat the first man to lead the Finals in all Oklahoma City with only two days Philadelphia. three major statistics with averages off. Jayson Werth, Danny Espinosa and Stephen Drew of 35.8 points, 13.3 rebounds and 8.8 “Guys have been playing hurt all also connected for Washington, which won its third assists -- couldn’t keep the Warriors year,” Thompson said. “But I think no Five keys to the NBA Finals straight. from taking the best-of-seven series matter what they’re going through, Blue Jays 4, Yankees 1 in six games. we’ve got too many competitors on Kevin Pillar singled home the go-ahead run, Dar- 1. The MVPs: Four-time NBA Most Valuable Player LeBron James for games and has had five days off. A road win in game one or two by “It’s definitely a different feeling,” this team to let that hold them back.” win Barney added a two-run single in the three-run James said. “I didn’t appreciate last “We never lost confidence that Cleveland and two-time reigning NBA MVP Stephen Curry for the Cavs could put Golden State in another tight fix. seventh inning and Toronto defeated New York. year, what we were able to accom- we could get back to The Finals,” Golden State bring emotional and physical strengths as the sport’s Toronto’s J.A. Happ allowed four hits, two walks and plish. Knowing Kev was out and Ky Curry said. “It was just a roller top stars. James has more versatile ways to impact a game but 4. Motivation: Cleveland has not enjoyed a sport champion since one run in six innings. He struck out three and did not was dealing with injuries from the coaster from the time I got hurt to Curry’s 3-point sharpshooting is a wonder and can be just as much 1964. LeBron James has been a loser in four of his prior six NBA factor in the decision. first round. I just didn’t appreciate coming back. Now we’re four wins a dagger in the heart of a rival as a LeBron slam dunk. Finals appearances, two each with Miami and Cleveland although he Giants 4, Braves 0 getting to the Finals. away from our goal. We’ve got to just took two titles with the Heat. Irving and Love want to show what Jake Peavy celebrated his 36th birthday by throw- “Having our team at full strength, refresh and get our bodies ready.” 2. Supporting cast: Cleveland has guard Kyrie Irving and forward they can do healthy against the NBA’s best. And there is revenge for ing seven scoreless innings, getting a hit and scoring a and the way I feel personally, I The Warriors produced the best Kevin Love healthy this time around and how they will fare against the Cavs. But the Warriors don’t want the embarrassment of not run in San Francisco’s win over Atlanta. appreciate this moment, to be a part record in the NBA’s 70-season his- Klay Thompson and Draymond Green figures to loom large. Andre winning a title after their 73-9 season and gritty playoff comeback Dodgers 5, Cubs 0 of it once again.” tory at 73-9, Curry leading the league Iguodala came off Golden State’s deep bench last year to earn the over Oklahoma City. They will need more than one title to cement a Adrian Gonzalez’s eighth-inning single broke a James and reserve teammate with 30.1 points and 2.14 steals a NBA Finals MVP award and sometimes unheralded heroes can have dynasty legacy. And who is better anyway, LeBron James or scoreless tie, and Los Angeles rolled victory over the James Jones are the first players to game. Golden State led the NBA in great impacts when a title is on the line. LeBron took the team on Stephen Curry? Chicago Cubs. reach six straight NBA Finals since scoring, assists and shooting per- his back a year ago with Love and Irving hurt, the first man to lead Cardinals 10, Brewers 3 legendary Bill Russell and the Boston centage overall and from 3-point a finals in scoring, rebound and assist average. He won’t need such 5. Three-pointers: Curry set an NBA record with 402 3-pointers this Matt Carpenter had four hits including a pair of RBI Celtics ended a run of eight consec- range. lone-wolf heroics this time, which should make him even more season, shattering his old mark by 116. Klay Thompson made an triples and Jedd Gyorko hit his sixth home run of the utive titles half a century ago. But they needed 3-point heroics season as St. Louis beat Milwaukee. dangerous at whatever he does. NBA playoff one-game record 11 3-pointers to help deny Oklahoma “In this day and age, to see LeB- from Thompson and Curry to escape Carpenter finished a home run short of the cycle, City an NBA Finals trip. Golden State was the first team in NBA his- ron do something like that where it a semi-final ouster. scored four runs and drove in three as the Cardinals hasn’t been done in 50 years, that’s “Everybody will look at 73 wins 3. Rest: Golden State went 73-9 this season, the best record in NBA tory to make 1,000 3-pointers in a season. But if the hot shots from combined for 14 hits and broke open the game with five crazy,” said Cavs forward Richard and say this team never hit any history, but fell behind Oklahoma City 3-1 in the Western Conference beyond the arc have an off night, that could signal major trouble. runs in the eighth inning. Jefferson. adversity,” Green said. “When eve- final before taking the last three games to advance. With only two And the Cavaliers have some solid outside shooting as part of a Rockies 17, Reds 4 James and the Cavs were swept rything is on the line, that makes it days to recover from the physical and emotional fightback, the more versatile and balanced attack. It promises to be dramatic and Colorado set a franchise record with 14 extra-base by San Antonio in the 2007 finals 10 times worse. It took a tremendous Warriors must face a Cleveland squad that won its first nine playoff tension-packed. hits, including hitting seven home runs in a drubbing of Cincinnati. Nolan Arenado hit two homers and drove in four runs. Charlie Blackmon led off the game with a homer for the second straight day and belted his first career grand slam in the seventh, tying his career high with Durant to take his time amid free agent frenzy five RBIs. Royals 10, Rays 5 Lorenzo Cain, Eric Hosmer and Kendrys Morales AFP or he could opt to return to Okla- combined to drive in nine runs as Kansas City breezed homa City for one more year, before past Tampa Bay. re-entering the free agency pool in A’s 7, Twins 4 2017 -- when the salary cap will Danny Valencia homered, doubled and drove in LOS ANGELES: Kevin Durant was increase again and thus further raise three runs, powering Oakland to its fourth straight vic- still digesting Oklahoma City’s West- his salary expectations. tory, a win against Minnesota at the Oakland Coliseum. ern Conference finals defeat when Durant’s impending free agency The A’s beat the Twins for the second straight game the simmering subject of his free was a hot topic even before the sea- and will go for the series sweep on Wednesday. Stephen agent future reached full boiling son began, with Washington Wizards Vogt went 3-for-5 with a two-run double in the eighth point. fans hoping his Washington-area inning, extending Oakland’s lead to 7-4. Vogt scored “I’m just embracing my team- roots could prompt him to move East. two runs. mates and just reflecting on the Durant, who has spent his entire Angels 11, Tigers 9 season,” Durant said Monday night NBA career with the same club, Los Angeles pounded out a season-high 17 hits but after the Golden State Warriors ral- didn’t sound like a player looking had to survive a late rally by Detroit before pulling out lied to eliminate the Thunder -- who for a way out after Oklahoma City’s a win at Angel Stadium. had led the best-of-seven series 55-win season. three games to one. He has a superstar team-mate BASEBALL RESULTS “I’ll think about that stuff, I don’t in Russell Westbrook, and together Houston 8 Arizona 5 know when. But we just lost an hour they led the Thunder past the 67-win ago, 30 minutes ago, so I don’t know.” Spurs and within a hair’s breadth of Seattle 16 San Diego 4 Durant, the 27-year-old former beating the 73-win Warriors. Texas 7 Cleveland 3 NBA Most Valuable Player, will be Oklahoma City’s playoff per- Boston 6 Baltimore 2 the most coveted prize of the free formance, after an erratic regular Washington 5 Philadelphia 1 agency period that starts on July 1. season, amply demonstrated the Toronto 4 NY Yankees 1 Western Conference rivals development of first-year coach Billy Chicago White Sox 6 NY Mets 4 Golden State and San Antonio -- Donovan and such emerging players Miami 3 Pittsburgh 1 Kevin Durant of the Oklahoma City who fell to the Thunder in the second as Steven Adams and Dion Waiters. San Francisco 4 Atlanta 0 Thunder reacts during game six round of the playoffs -- are poten- “When we were losing eight of the Western Conference Finals tial suitors. out of 12, we were getting criticized LA Dodgers 5 Chicago Cubs 0 against Golden State Warriors They can offer a maximum for not being where other teams St Louis 10 Milwaukee 3 at Chesapeake Energy Arena on contract worth $25.9 million or a were,” Durant said. “But I thought Kansas City 10 Tampa Bay 5 maximum deal worth $111 million we peaked at the right time and got May 28, 2016 in Oklahoma City, Colorado 17 Cincinnati 4 over four years. better at the right time. We laid it all Oklahoma. LA Angels 11 Detroit 9 The Thunder can offer $149 mil- out there. Everybody left their soul lion over five years to keep their star, out on the court. We have no regrets.” Oakland 7 Minnesota 4 36 THURSDAY 2 JUNE 2016

I’m no villain, Barshim, Haroun continue pleads Gatlin

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Rio warm-up in Rome today ROME: Controversial American sprinter Jus- tin Gatlin (pictured), J ustin Gatlin of who has served two Gatlin in the the United States doping bans, insisted he is “no villain” and shade of Kenyan claimed comments steeplechasers dredging up his past were “sensationalist” as stars galore and “hurtful”. at Diamond Gatlin cuts a con- troversial figure on League meet the track scene, read- ily admitting that a four-year doping ban served between 2006-10 after Agencies a positive test for testosterone had been both “a gift and a curse”. The Florida-based sprinter won the Olympic 100m in 2004 and world sprint double golds a year later in ROME: Qatar’s gravity defying Helsinki before serving his second ban. superstar Mutaz Essa Barshim The long lay-off paid dividends, however, and the will be up against the reigning 34-year-old has since hit the peak of his form, estab- World Indoor champion and local lishing himself as firm favourite in both the 100 and hero Gianmarco Tamberi in the 200m although arch-rival Usain Bolt pipped him to men’s high jump event as a host of the world double in Beijing last year. world renowned athletes will look There is never a shortage of people willing to shoot to shine at the Diamond League Gatlin down. He has been shunned by organisers of meet in Rome today. some meetings and track and field’s governing body, Barshim, the 2014 World the IAAF, even changed their rules for their prestigious Indoor Champion and London Athlete of the Year awards, insisting that a convicted 2012 Olympic bronze medal- doping cheat was not eligible. list is expected continue his run “I understand the media. They want to be more towards his dream of winning creative and be able to make storylines more sensa- Qatar’s first ever Olympic gold tionalised,” Gatlin said of his detractors. medal this summer. “I’m just a runner like everybody else. I get up and In the men’s 400m, Qatari train every day, like everybody else. It’s hurtful, it’s sprint sensation, world indoor sil- hurtful to be looked at as a villain because that’s not ver medallist Abdelalelah Haroun how I portray myself, that’s not how my son portrays will face South African Wayde me or my family. Van Niekerk who has risen to “So when I come out, I come out to get ready for fame as the only male athlete to the support. When I go to meets, when I’m doing my have run the 100m sub-10sec, the victory lap, I stop and sign every autograph and I take 200m sub-20sec and the 400m every picture I can and I give back to communities sub-44sec. Botswana’s Isaac around the world as much as I can. Makwala and Grenada’s Bralon Qatar’s Mutaz Essa Barshim “I don’t think a villain does that,” he said, speak- Taplin are also expected to pro- competes during the men’s High ing ahead of Thursday’s Diamond League meeting at vide a good show at the Rome Jump qualification of the Beijing Rome’s Stadio Olimpico. Olympic Stadium. 2015 IAAF World Championships It was in the same stadium in June 2013 that Gat- American sprint star Justin Abdelalelah at the National Stadium in Beijing, lin trumped Bolt, and in 2015 the American clocked Gatlin might be used to hogging 9.75sec to better the Jamaican’s stadium record. Haroun in this file photo. the limelight, but there’s a strong “It’s about pure competition. To get the victory over chance he’ll be overshadowed Usain at that time... It wasn’t raised to be such a big today by one of the strongest ever champion who was banned for which promises to be an elec- Qatari Saif Saeed Shaheen 800m having dominated her race, it was still a great win,” Gatlin said of the unex- Kenyan steeplechase line-ups. doping between 2006 and 2010, tric race. (7:53.63) in 2004. rivals in the Diamond League pected victory. “I think it was kind of like a launching With no less than 50 Olym- clocked a wind-assisted 9.88 sec- All three podium finish- Also in the field are Ukraine’s meets in Doha and Rabat. pad for me to be able to say ‘Okay, I can win up here, I pic, world or European medallists onds at Eugene last week. ers from the 2015 Beijing world Bohdan Bondarenko, world In Rome she will be up can start dominating again, assert races and be able or Diamond League winners at The world number one took championships will be in Rome: champion in Moscow 2013 and against the Beijing worlds to hold on to consistent dominance’.” the Golden Gala Pietro Mennea, the tape ahead of Jamaican Asafa four-time world champion and European champion in Zurich podium in Marina Arzamasova, The American warned that he was carrying a slight the fifth leg of the 2016 IAAF Dia- Powell and American Tyson Gay reigning Olympic champion 2014, and world silver medal- Melissa Bishop and Eunice Sum, injury, with an eye firmly fixed on the Rio Olympics mond League at Rome’s Stadio and will doubtless seek to extend Ezekiel Kemboi, Brimin Kipruto lists Zhang Guowei and Robbie the top-two of the World Indoor in August. Olimpico will be another stage that form heading into the Rio and Conseslus Kipruto. Grabarz, who won at the Olym- Championships in Portland Fran- “I’m still coming back from my ankle issue. So my for fine-tuning ahead of the Rio Games. To that trio are added two pic Stadium in 2012. cine Nyonsaba and Ajee Wilson transition around 50 or 70 (metre mark) gets a little Olympics in August. The 100m line-up also fea- more Kenyans in the shape The men’s 200m features and European champions Linsey sticky when I’m trying to put more pressure into the Gatlin has form in the Italian tures Asian record holder Femi of Golden Gala record holder American hopeful Trayvon Bro- Sharp and Selina Buchel. ground and generate more speed,” he said. capital, last year tying Maurice Ogunode, European record holder Paul Kipsiele Koech and Jairus mell, world indoor champion in Ethiopia’s world 5000m “But I have time over the next month to be able Greene’s record of four wins at Jimmy Vicaut and South African Birech, winner of the two last the 60m and world bronze in the champion Almaz Ayana will to get everything worked out for the Olympic trials. the Golden Gala and breaking record holder Akani Simbine. editions of the Diamond Race 100m, out to break the 20-sec try to better the Rome record “Training has been steady, getting ready for the Usain Bolt’s meeting record with But the blue riband event who has announced he would barrier. of 14:23.46 set by compatriot trials. After I leave here I have a street race in Rio and 9.75sec. could well be eclipsed by the this season target the world In-form South African Caster Tirunesh Dibaba. after that I’ll shut my season for now and get ready for Gatlin, the 2004 Olympic men’s 3000m steeplechase, record set by Kenyan-born Semenya will race the women’s some more speed endurance Fotouhi joins Al Sebastian Sasha leaves Al Wakrah Kharaitiyat for The Peninsula

DOHA: Argentine striker Sebastian Sasha’s relationship with Al Wakra next QSL season club has ended as there was a lack of agreement between the two par- ties to renew the contracts. Sasha leaves the team after three The Peninsula Kharaitiyat after the season ended. seasons playing for Al Wakrah. We will sign other players as well The announcement was made at to replace Asear and Yahia Kebe. a press conference held at the head- Domingos will be returning to the quarters of the club, in the presence DOHA: Moroccan player Idris Fot- team next season.” of club secretary Ahmed Mahmoud, ouhi will play for Al kharaitiyat in Al Saadi added that the player deputy headof football Abdullah Saqr, the next Qatar Stars League sea- Idris Fotouhi would be one of the Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa bin Hassan son, Nasser Al Saadi, deputy Head most important players of the Qatar Al Thani and Mohammed Al Sulaiti of football at Al Kharaitiyat con- Stars League in the new season the media coordinator. firmed on Tuesday. because of the technical capabili- The player was presented with Fotouhi joined the club from ties he possesses as a midfielder. gifts and special memorabilia by Ajman Club of the United Arab Emir- He also pointed out that the the club, as a gratitude to him for his ates and the club officials expect club’s management is making every services extended towards the team. he will be a great addition to the effort to strengthen the team in the The farewell ceremony took a Kharaitiyat line up in the 2016/2017 preparation for the 2016/2017 season festive atmosphere as they also cut season. Fotouhi played his last three and that the contract with Fotouhi is a cake as they commemorated the seasons at Ajman and signed the a step toward strengthening the team time the player spent with the club. Argentine striker Sebastian Sasha (centre) cuts a cake during his farewell ceremony at the Al Wakrah Club. contract on Tuesday, in the pres- and they are also looking to make Sasha thanked the club for all that ence of Sheikh Khalifa bin Thamer some local signings as well. the club had given to him. Sasha left the QSL side after serving for three seasons. Al Thani, chairman of Al Kharaiti- Fotouhi, 27, was born September Ahmed Mahmoud, assistant sec- yat club and Moussa Mansour Head 30, 1989 in Casablanca, began his retary general thanked the player for The praise continued, Abdullah the past years. For his part, Sasha he was satisfied and also his fam- of football. career at Club Casablanca Wydad the three seasons Sasha spent with Saqr, deputy of football praised the expressed great sadness to leave ily was happy, he said: “In the end I Nasser Al Saadi said: “The newly before joining Ajman. He also repre- Al Wakrah, stressing that it was an Argentinian striker and his capa- Wakra after three seasons with the am a professional player and in foot- contracted player will replace sented Morocco at the 2012 London example of highly skilled commit- bilities and saluted him for the team, stressing that he hoped to ball and in life in general, change is Hassan Abdel Fattah, who left Olympics. ment and really deserves honor. service he provided to the club over stay with the club in Qatar because inevitable.”