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Emir attends closing session of Riyadh Summit Emir condoles Cabinet okays with Kuwait Ruler DOHA: Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani sent a cable of condolences to the Emir ban on illegal of Kuwait H H Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Jaber Al Sabah on the death of Sheikh Saleh Al Moham- mad Al Khaled Al Mohammad petroleum trading Al Sabah. Emir prayed the Almighty Allah to have mercy on the departed soul and make paradise his last abode and give Draft law referred to Advisory Council his family solace and fortitude. Emir also received a telephone DOHA: The Prime Minister and license is also to be banned. call from the Emir of Kuwait. Interior Minister H E Sheikh Obtaining a share of petroleum Both leaders reviewed fraternal Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa products that are distributed by ties in addition to a number of Al Thani yesterday presided over licensed entities while submitting issues of mutual interest. the Cabinet’s regular weekly incorrect information or meeting at Emiri Diwan premises. documents is to be banned, too. Following the meeting, Deputy Also to be banned will be First Qatari soldier Prime Minister and Minister carrying on receiving a quota of State for Cabinet Affairs, of petroleum products that are Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani with leaders and heads of delegations of Arab and South martyred in Yemen H E Ahmed bin Abdullah Al distributed by licenced entities American countries at the closing session of the 4th Summit of Arab and South American countries at Mahmoud, said the cabinet after the end of the purpose King Abdulaziz International Conference Centre in Riyadh, yesterday. Report on page 2 DOHA: Qatar Armed Forces reviewed topics on the agenda due to which the quota was announced yesterday the martyr- and took a set of decisions and allotted, using the allotted quota dom of soldier Mohamed Hamid measures. for purposes other than it was Suleiman while performing his The cabinet ratified a draft allotted for, and unlawfully duty as part of the Arab forces law on combating the smuggling deciding the right to a quota of MoI launches 18 new e-services participating in the operation and illegal trading of petroleum petroleum products or allotting it ‘Restoring Hope’ in Yemen. products and referred it to the to undeserving people or entities. There have been no previous Advisory Council. The draft law also includes DOHA: The Ministry of Interior Mubarak Salim Al Bouainain, cerned within the ministry. deaths reported among the Qatari According to the draft law, tightening sanctions on violators (MoI) yesterday launched more Asst Director of Public Relations The officials told reporters force though two soldiers had pre- bringing petroleum products of the provisions of the law. In than 18 new electronic services Department. that the project will contribute viously been injured, said officials. to the country or taking them the case of conviction, petroleum within its own departments as Several other senior officials to saving time as well as logis- Qatar sent 1,000 troops into out without prior permission products that were smuggled or part of its strategy to be a ‘Min- of the ministry also attended the tical requirements for service Yemen in September as part of of Qatar Petroleum (QP) is to illicitly traded shall be confiscated, istry Without Papers’. press briefing. requests. the Arab coalition battling Iran- be banned, reports Qatar News or their equivalent value would This was disclosed at a press Brigadier Al Malki said the They said that most service backed rebels. Agency (QNA). Illegal trading have to be paid if the products conference held at the Informa- ministry adopted the strategy requests made by various MoI QNA in petroleum products will also are not found. The means of tion Systems Department of the to become a ‘Ministry without departments to one another will be banned, including intentional transport, tools and materials ministry, addressed by Brigadier Papers’ to achieve financial and be processed electronically with- sale of petroleum products to used in committing the crime Abdurrahman Al Malki, Assistant technical development in the out the use of paper. The intra- Saudi supports whoever resells them without shall also be confiscated, QNA Director of Information Systems Ministry. ministry e-service project will be being granted a license. said. Department, Brigadier Abdul The project was implemented completed next year. Yemen peace talks Likewise, purchasing petroleum Continued on page 6 Rahman Majid Al Sulaiti, Direc- by the ministry’s Information Continued on page 6 products with the intention of tor from the ministry’s Strategic Systems Department in collabo- RIYADH: Saudi Foreign Minis- reselling them without having a THE PENINSULA Planning Department, and Capt ration with the authorities con- THE PENINSULA ter Adel Al Jubeir voiced support yesterday for peace talks on Yem- en’s conflict which the United Nations says will take place this month in Geneva. “We hope they will be success- Erdogan puts ful,” Jubeir told reporters after a New QFC rules by early next year summit of Arab and South Amer- ican countries in Riyadh. Syria, Iraq on “We support these negotiations By Mohammad Shoeb Traded Funds (ETFs),” said You- in rules and regulations between direct investments (FDI),” he and hope they will achieve peace, G20 agenda suf Mohamed Al Jaida, CEO and the two jurisdictions. said. He noted that the drop in security and stability in Yemen,” DOHA: The Qatar Financial Board Member, QFC. Al Jaida, who took charge as the oil prices has worked as blessing he said. ANKARA: President Recep Centre (QFC) has announced Al Jaida, speaking to reporters new CEO some five months ago, in disguise since it has further Saudi Arabia has since late Tayyip Erdogan said yesterday plans to introduce revised regu- at a roundtable meeting, said: “ said that QFC has always been a accelerated the efforts towards March led an Arab coalition fight- he wanted world leaders to dis- lations by early next year. The Certain efforts cannot be made laboratory for policy change, but economic diversification and ing Iran-backed Houthi rebels cuss conflicts in Syria and Iraq new rules will enable QFC-reg- such as listing of QFC companies, also assured that the new set of the promotion of private sector and their allies in Yemen, in sup- at a G20 summit in Turkey this istered firms to list on Qatar unless rules are revised.” rules will allow the judicial envi- development, both on the priority port of the internationally rec- weekend and is ready to take Exchange more smoothly, said a Currently, there are no QFC ronment in the QFC to expand agendas of the government. ognised government of President “stronger steps” in the region senior official of QFC yesterday. registered firms listed on the QE, and grow in a sustainable manner. “In the past ,there were some Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi. after polls this month strength- “The new set of laws, which but there is a long list of firms “With the revised laws, which sort resistance from the local Addressing the summit late on ened the ruling party, will be more aligned with the which are keen to join the stock is to be enacted by the first quar- communities, but today we enjoy Tuesday, UN Secretary General Leaders of the Group of 20 rules of Qatar Central Bank market. ter of 2016, the QFC companies the support of all, including local Ban Ki-moon said that his spe- major economies (G20), includ- (QCB) and other regulatory bod- The QFC is a fully onshore will be able to conduct business businesses and the entire govern- cial envoy to Yemen, Ismail Ould ing the United States, China, ies, will provide the QFC-regis- business and financial centre more freely and smoothly across ment, which has made our man- Cheikh Ahmed, “intends to con- Japan, Russia, Canada, Australia tered companies more access to based on English Common Laws, the country, and ensure bet- date more meaningful,” he added. vene a new round of peace con- and Brazil, are to meet on Sunday the local market, including list- while the state laws are predomi- ter market stability, which will Continued on page 6 sultations in Switzerland... this and Monday in the Mediterra- ing on the Qatari bourse and nantly based on Arabic laws. As eventually attract more inter- month”. nean resort of Antalya primarily also help launching Exchange- a result, there is a contradiction national companies and foreign THE PENINSULA AFP to discuss global economic issues. But host Turkey, a Nato mem- ber which has taken in more than two million refugees and faces a Qatar-Turkey friendly tomorrow growing threat of spillover from the conflicts in neighbouring Palestinian probe finds Israel Syria and Iraq, wants the heads of state to also discuss unrest over its southern borders. behind Arafat assassination “Our inclusion of issues of Iraq and Syria to the G20 agenda is not against the primary objectives RAMALLAH: The head of the Palestinian His widow Suha lodged a complaint at of the platform,” Erdogan told a team looking into the death of Yasser Ara- a court in France in 2012, claiming that business meeting in the capital fat again accused Israel of assassinating the her husband was assassinated, sparking Ankara. Prime Minister Ahmet iconic Palestinian leader in a Paris hospital. an inquiry. The same year, Arafat’s tomb Davutoglu said on Tuesday that His comments came on the eve of the in Ramallah was opened for a few hours Turkey would respond by air and 11th anniversary of Arafat’s death and two allowing three teams of French, Swiss and land to threats from Syria and months after French judges closed an inves- Russian investigators to collect around 60 that a new strategy was needed tigation into claims he was murdered, with- samples. in the country. out bringing any charges. Many Palestinians believe that Israel poi- Turkey, which holds the rotat- “The inquiry committee has been able to soned Arafat and the Palestinian probe into ing presidency of the G20 this identify the assassin of former president his death has accused the Jewish state of year, is expected to press its Yasser Arafat,” said Tawfiq Tirawi, the head assassinating him before — a charge Israel argument that there can be no of the probe opened in 2009. flatly denies. lasting peace in Syria without the “Israel is responsible,” he said, without giv- A French inquiry into the death of the departure of President Bashar ing further details other than to add that “we Nobel Prize winner closed their case in Sep- al-Assad, and to try to dissuade still need some time to elucidate the exact tember without bringing any charges, as did Washington from lending greater circumstances of this assassination”. a previous Russian probe. Suha Arafat is support to Syrian Kurdish rebels Qatar football players during a training session at Lekhwiya Stadium yesterday. Qatar Arafat died in Percy military hospital appealing the French decision. fighting Islamic State. take on Turkey in an international friendly tomorrow at the same venue. The match near Paris aged 75 in November 2004 after See alsopage 7 will start at 8:30pm. developing stomach pains while at his head- REUTERS quarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah. AFP THURSDAY 12 NOVEMBER 2015 HOME 02 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Emir attends closing session of Arab-S American Summit

RIYADH: Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani attended, along with leaders and heads of delegations, the closing session of the Fourth Summit of Arab and South American coun- tries here yesterday. It was chaired by the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia at King Abdulaziz International Confer- ence Centre. The Emir’s delegation, Saudi Crown Prince, First Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minis- ter Mohammed bin Nayef bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Deputy Crown Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani with Saudi Deputy Crown Prince, Second Deputy Prime Prince, Second Deputy Premier and Minister of Defence Mohammed bin Minister and Minister of Defence Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud in Riyadh yesterday. Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, other minis- cal process of dialogue in Libya The statement stressed sup- ters and heads of Arab civil society under the UN’s auspices and port of Arab and South Ameri- organisations were present. Ear- rejected any interference in inter- can countries through the UN lier, the Emir attended the sum- nal affairs of countries in the General Assembly Resolution mit’s second closed-door session. region by foreign powers in vio- 319/69 for the adoption of basic The leaders and heads of delega- lation of the UN Charter and the principles of the process of sov- tions welcomed dialogue and coop- principle of good neighbourliness. ereign debt restructuring and eration between the two regions The leaders stressed the the importance of promoting cul- to develop partnership based on importance of respecting unity, tural and social communications mutual interest and respect. sovereignty and independence of between both regions. The leaders In the summit’s closing state- states and territorial integrity welcomed the Riyadh Declaration ment, they reiterated their belief and resolving conflicts peacefully. as unprecedented in its compre- in the right of peoples to live in a They called on Iran to respond hensiveness and issued without stable and prosperous future with to the UAE’s request to find a any reservation, and Venezuela’s no dangers of terrorism, nuclear peaceful solution to the Greater offer to host the fifth summit. weapons and weapons of mass and Lesser Tunbs and Abu Musa They praised and thanked King destruction. islands in line with the UN Char- Salman, the Saudi government They stressed the need to ter and international law. and people for hospitality and achieve just and comprehensive The leaders underscored the warm reception. solution to the Palestinian cause need for regional and interna- On the sidelines, the Emir met in accordance with resolutions tional efforts to ensure a stable Saudi Deputy Crown Prince, Sec- of international legitimacy and world free from risks posed by ond Deputy Premier and Minis- Arab Peace Initiative to establish nuclear proliferation. They con- ter of Defence Mohammed bin a Palestinian state based on 1967 demned terrorism in all its forms Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud borders with East Jerusalem as and manifestations and rejected at the centre. Talks dealt with its capital. associating it with religion, cul- fraternal relations between both They also stressed the need to ture or race. The statement wel- countries, means of enhancing reach a peaceful solution to the comed results of implementation them to serve common interests Syrian crisis in accordance with of sectoral meetings as stated in of both countries and peoples, Geneva I statement and Vienna Lima Declaration and stressed latest regional and international Conference. The leaders high- that investment is a social and developments, and issues of com- lighted the importance of finding economic development pillar. mon concern, particularly with a solution to the Yemeni crisis The leaders welcomed the suc- regard to Syria and Yemen. Later through UN Security Council cess states parties achieved in the Emir returned home. resolutions, particularly 2216. the UN Framework Convention They supported ongoing politi- on Climate Change. QNA THURSDAY 12 NOVEMBER 2015 HOME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 03

Emir sends cables Action on Diabetes of condolence QRCS runs mobile clinics for Screening Village at to Gauck, Merkel Katara opens today DOHA: Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani yesterday displaced communities in Syria DOHA: The annual Action on sent cables of condolence to Ger- Diabetes Screening Village at man President Joachim Gauck Katara opens today and visi- and Chancellor Angela Merkel Clinics serve 2,160 people or 180 per day in a couple of weeks tors will be able to learn about on the death of Helmut Schmidt. healthy diets and exercise from Deputy Emir H H Sheikh DOHA: Qatar Red Crescent large portion of the population of diabetes educators, in addition to Abdullah bin Hamad Al Thani Society (QRCS) has run emer- the town, already hosting 15,000 taking tests in the custom-built also sent cable of condolence to gency mobile clinics, providing IDPs. Al Zarba Primary Health- screening bus. To continue until Gauck and Merkel. healthcare services for the dis- care Center was turned into an Saturday, the event marks World Prime Minister and Interior placed communities inside Syria. emergency medical hub to receive Diabetes Day. Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah In a couple of weeks, the clinics serious cases, carry out first aid Dr Mohsin Mismar, Head, bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani served 2,160 people, 180 per day. and refer them to hospitals, if Service Development, Primary sent similar cables to Gauck and In southern Aleppo country- needed. To meet the excessive Health Care Corporation, said, Merkel. side, there are nearly 120,000 demand, work hours at the centre “Action on Diabetes plays a valu- IDPs (Internally Displaced Per- were extended to 24/7. able role in our collective fight Condolences sons), a figure that is likely to QRCS supplied the centre with against diabetes in Qatar. We are increase as the fighting is extend- surgical consumables and solu- delighted to once again support sent to Kuwait ing to new regions. tions to treat injuries and burns. the village at Katara through the The towns that were destina- A mobile clinic was sent from provision of health staff and dia- DOHA: Deputy Emir H H Sheikh tions of IDPs are projected to the centre to visit IDP groups betes educators. We hope to see Abdullah bin Hamad Al Thani receive a new influx, causing addi- in several towns in the south- hundreds of people tested over the yesterday sent a cable of con- tional pressure on humanitarian ern countryside region. Another three days and raise awareness dolences to the Emir of Kuwait organisations working in Syria, mobile clinic was sent from about the causes of diabetes and H H Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad especially with the advent of the Anjara Center for IDP-hosting how to prevent it from develop- Al Jaber Al Sabah following the cold winter. To deal with the wide A doctor with some of the members of the displaced communities. towns in southern and western ing.” death of Sheikh Saleh Al Moham- geographic scope of clashes, a flexi- Aleppo countryside. A third clinic The bus is fitted with testing mad Al Khaled Al Mohammad Al ble intervention plan was designed among the regions in need of help, QRCS medical services was Al was sent to Alteh to visit the adja- equipment to allow analysis of Sabah, praying to Almighty Allah to distribute QRCS’s health cen- in coordination with peers to avoid Zarba, a town in southern Aleppo cent IDP camps in several towns. random blood glucose and body to have mercy upon him, make tres and the available stock of duplication of efforts. countryside, which experienced mass index. People tested at the paradise his abode and give his medications and surgical supplies One of the regions targeted by severe violence that displaced a THE PENINSULA bus will receive a personalised family solace and fortitude. analysis of results, and recom- Prime Minister and Interior mendations on how to reduce the Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah risk of developing diabetes. bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani Over the past four years, Action sent a similar cable to Emir on Diabetes has screened more Sheikh Sabah. than 32,000 people with the help Maersk Challenge to focus on diabetes of partners; engaged with thou- 2004-11 Dodge sands of people through aware- DOHA: The fourth Maersk Oil & sional services as well as a min- Spread over 48 hours, each tion fees will be donated to Qatar ness campaigns. models recalled Qatar Petroleum (MOQP) Chal- istry. of the five inter-related stages Diabetes Association through the lenge will see around 100 partici- Organisations competing is themed around a key lifestyle AoD partnership. This will be Ministry attends DOHA: The Ministry of Econ- pants from more than 20 teams include the Supreme Council of issue related to diabetes such used to fund the 15th Al Bawasil omy and Commerce, in coopera- compete over two days in the Health, Maersk Oil Qatar, Action as healthy eating and avoiding Camp, a seven-day educational tion with United Cars Almana country’s largest corporate team- on Diabetes (AoD), Schlumbeger, long-term damage to feet and camp for children with diabetes agriculture fair Company, dealer of Dodge cars in building event to raise awareness Oxy, Gulf Drilling International, eyes. Teams will be required to from Qatar. DOHA: The Public Parks Qatar, has announced the recall and funds to tackle diabetes in WorleyParsons, Texas A&M, Tri- solve problems, navigate their Every year, the challenge Department at the Ministry of of 2004-2011 models of Dodge Qatar. pletwo, Gasal, Dolphin Energy way around a specially designed coincides with World Diabetes Municipality and Urban Planning Durango, Dodge Charger, Dodge This year’s event takes place at and Al Shaheen Weatherford. course, run, and ride mountain Day, the world’s largest diabetes participated in the 4th Qatar Ram Pick-up and Chrysler 300 the Sealine Resort and will fea- Participants are in the final bikes and kayak to succeed. awareness campaign with events International Agriculture Exhi- cars due to a defect in the driver’s ture teams representing some of stages of preparing for challenges The challenge promotes work organised in more than 100 coun- bition, inaugurated on Tuesday airbags. Qatar’s largest and best-known that will test them to the limit of AoD, a public-private part- tries last year. at the Exhibition Centre. The The recall is part of the minis- organisations from the public and over five gruelling stages. These nership initiated and funded by Led by International Diabetes ministry’s stall featured designs try’s coordination and follow-up private sectors. include a series of tasks that Maersk Oil Qatar to help raise Federation, the day unites the for green roofs, green walls and to ascertain dealers’ commitment The 2015 challenge sees the focuses on strategy and deci- awareness about diabetes, assist global diabetes community to pro- lighting using solar energy to pro- to follow up and repair vehicles’ involvement of teams represent- sionmaking and tests their abil- those at risk to avoid it, and help duce a powerful voice for diabetes tect the environment, a high-tech defects to protect consumers’ ing organisations from sectors as ity to work as a team, as well as people living with the condition to awareness and advocacy. waterfall and a Zoo Section. rights. diverse as energy, health, higher activities designed to stretch their manage their health. QNA education, advertising and profes- physical and mental agility. Money raised from registra- THE PENINSULA THE PENINSULA THURSDAY 12 NOVEMBER 2015 04 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME 11 global cruise lines to attend Qatar Tourism Authority forum Talks with industry stakeholders on future of cruising in Arabian Gulf

DOHA: Eleven international Qatar Tourism Authority (QTA) to Qatar this cruise season, in The forum will feature a cruise line executives will head will be held at Marsa Malaz addition to the three already summit attended by cruise line to Qatar next month to meet Kempinski from December 7 to visited this year. executives, ministers, tourism government representatives 8 and follows chapters taken place On November 17, Seabourn will leaders, port and immigration and industry stakeholders from in Abu Dhabi, Bahrain, Dubai and make its maiden voyage to Qatar, officials and a day-long ROTA Executive Director Essa Al Mannai addresses the second annual ports, tourism, immigration and most recently, Muscat, Oman. docking at Old Doha Port. The conference for tourism boards, Social Innovation and Global Ethics Forum 2015 in Geneva. security departments around the “We are looking forward to following day Noble Caledonia’s port authorities, destination GCC, at Seatrade Middle East welcoming members of the cruise Island Sky will arrive as the first management companies, tour Cruise Forum. industry to the same table as ship to stop in Qatar as part of operators, travel agents, hoteliers, Participating global cruise lines government representatives in Cruise Arabia Alliance. airlines and ship agents. ROTA attends global include MSC Cruises; Thomson immigration, tourism and port Vanessa Stephens, MD, Under the spotlight will be Cruises; TUI Cruises; Crystal management,” said QTA Chief Seatrade Middle East, said, sessions on regional itinerary Cruises; Royal Caribbean Cruises Tourism Development Officer “The commitment of so many development; operating in the Ltd; Carnival UK; Azamara Club Hassan Al Ibrahim. cruise lines is testament to the region; source markets and two social innovation forum Cruises; Cruise & Maritime “The cruise industry cannot significance they place in ensuring interactive sessions about shore Voyages; Cunard; Holland succeed without cooperation regional destinations are prepared excursions and terminal design DOHA: Reach Out To Asia sion and help solve challenges. America Line; P&O Cruises; between all sides and this is an and ready for cruise lines to visit and operation. The forum will also (ROTA) participated in the sec- To achieve this, education is the Princess Cruises; Seabourn opportunity to find the common and plan itineraries. include a workshop where each ond annual Social Innovation most important step in youth Cruise Line; and The World; and ground to overcome challenges The focus of the forum is the hosted cruise line executive will and Global Ethics Forum 2015 at development and empowerment. will tackle key issues impacting and lay the ground work for a future of cruising in the Arabian meet officials from participating Bâtiment des Forces Motrices in If a young person is deprived of the future of the Arabian Gulf’s thriving cruise sector.” Gulf and this will be the anchor destinations. Geneva, Switzerland. education, then the community cruise industry. The forum comes as QTA theme from which all other ROTA Executive Director is deprived of progress. ROTA is The two-day forum hosted by plans to welcome five more ships discussions will develop.” THE PENINSULA Essa Al Mannai was invited by adamant in ensuring the develop- Horyou Foundation, a non-profit ment of youth through education. institution based in Geneva, to “ROTA aims to build a strong join international speakers who and sustainable community based shared ideas and thoughts on on education in line with Qatar effective solutions to shape a bet- Foundation’s mission to develop College begins mosque architecture award contest ter future. sustainable human capacity, social Al Mannai presented ROTA’s and economic prosperity for a vision of the youth’s role in over- knowledge-based economy,” said DOHA: Qatar University Col- versities which incubate global coming social challenges and how Al Mannai. lege of Engineering has launched and regional initiatives to achieve to foster an environment condu- “We have achieved results a competition for ‘Abdullatif Al consolidation of Islamic architec- cive to helping youth reach their when we engaged youth and gave Fozan Award for Mosque Archi- ture in the GCC. full potential. He said challenges them opportunity to lead. They tecture’. The award aims to document facing youth are becoming more have never let us down.” College Dean Dr Rashid Alam- and disseminate diverse and difficult every day and every- The forum gathers non-profit mari, other officials, faculty, staff ambitious ideas of mosques with where. He said these challenges organisations, speakers, social and students were present. The significant architectural designs are not only related to conflicts entrepreneurs and the public for event included a presentation in harmony with national and and armed conflicts, but also cli- three days of dialogue and inter- on award conditions, rules and regional values. Nominated mate change, which has become a action. Over 100 NGOs, 60 speak- guidelines. The award aims to entries will be assessed by an major threat to humanity. ers and 60 media representatives raises awareness about contem- independent jury through criteria, ROTA believes in youth capa- participated in 14 sessions. porary architecture of mosques Officials at the launch of the award. including architectural structure, bilities and is confident that youth in the Gulf with a focus on the use of space, technology, sense of can and will rise to the occa- THE PENINSULA best practices in their design, research topics our researchers tion to participate in the contest, spirituality, fulfilment of prayer construction and maintenance. have been exploring for years. which contributes to highlighting requirements, and integration of Dr Alammari said, “Mosque as We encourage all architects and the most innovative architectural the building into its local environ- a building is at the core of Islamic engineering consultancy compa- styles in Qatar and the region.” ment. architecture, and one of the main nies involved in mosque construc- QU is one of the regional uni- THE PENINSULA Qatar Schools Debate League for girls held Al Jazeera campaign to promote respect for opinions DOHA: QatarDebate, a member and would require any product DOHA: Al Jazeera yesterday from 70 countries around the A key part of the initiative is a was held as a televised news pro- of Qatar Foundation, held this tested on animals to display pic- launched a campaign to promote world. “We are proud of our her- TV series on the people behind Al gramme, featuring guest Asef year’s first Qatar Schools Debate tures of the animal’s suffering on understanding, respect and toler- itage as the first Arabic-language Jazeera. It explores the diversity Hamidi, Al Jazeera Arabic’s League (QSDL) for girls. their packaging. ance for differences of opinions news channel to deliver high qual- within the network and allows Director of News. The tournament saw 49 teams Participating teams repre- and beliefs in the Arab world. ity, impartial coverage of world viewers an in-depth look at people A social media initiative was from 25 schools and from teams sented schools, including Al Called ‘We Are Al Jazeera’ and events”, said Yaser Abuhilalah, at Al Jazeera. also launched to invite questions from Pakistan Education Centre Ieman, Al Jazeera Academy, Al launched at the beginning of the Managing Director, Al Jazeera ‘We Are Al Jazeera’ starts next from viewers about Al Jazeera via grabbed the first two places, while Maha Academy, American Acad- network’s 20th year, the effort Arabic. week with presenter Mohamed the network’s Arabic social media Birla Public School came third. emy School, Amna Bint Wahab, includes a regional creative cam- “We report from the point of Krichen talking intimately and channels @HonaAlJazeera and @ “It is inspiring to witness how Arwa Bint Abd Al Muttalib paign, new programming and a the view of the people, using our revealingly about his career. The AJArabic. The ‘open door’ initia- excited and committed female ISSG, Aysha bint Abu Baker, call for social media engagement different experiences to widen series begins on November 19 and tive to spur conversation began students are to the art of debate. Bayan Independent Second- across the Arab world to hear all our vision. We reflect reality as will air weekly at 8.30pm Makkah yesterday and continues through Seeing youth devote themselves ary School, Cambridge Inter- opinions. it is, with its multitude of beliefs time. the month. Al Jazeera staff will to become better speakers and national, DeBakey High School, The campaign is inspired by the and views. This diversity enriches The initiative was announced interact with the audience. Some thinkers, gives us hope that the Doha Modern Indian School, DPS diversity of opinion in the Arab all of us. Today, we call on people during an event at Al Jazeera stu- participants will be chosen to future is in good hands,” said Modern Indian School, Lebanese world and seeks to show that Al across the Arab world to join Al dios in Doha in the presence of Al travel to Doha to ask questions Hanad Sahardeed, Programme School of Qatar, Mesaieed Inter- Jazeera is well placed as a plat- Jazeera in a respectful and open Jazeera Arabic staff and media. to senior staff in filmed segments. Coordinator, QatarDebate. national School, Newton Inter- form for dialogue because it is conversation about the region’s Hosted by Al Jazeera news The event included four rounds national Academy, Rabba’a Al diverse, with thousands of staff future,” he added. anchor Fairouz Zayani, the event THE PENINSULA and motions to allow individuals Adawiya, Resala ISSG, Rodah to opt into a one-way mission to Bint Mohammad, Shayma’a Mars with the Mars One Project, ISSG, Sherborne Qatar, Stafford would pay teachers based on per- Sri Lankan School, Umm Ayman, formance, anyone granted refugee and Wakrah ISSG. status should be granted the same HEC Paris holds negotiation skills and strategies event socio-economic rights as citizens THE PENINSULA

DOHA: HEC Paris held an open- The two-day programme at Tor- through the application of enrolment programme on negotiation nado Tower in Doha was conducted a practical framework and skills and strategies for 40 partici- by Professor Matthew Mulford, an improved self-awareness, pants from the public and private Affiliate Professor, HEC Paris, and an the program was designed sectors representing healthcare, air- expert in negotiation analysis, effec- to build on negotiation lines, infrastructure works, broad- tive business decisionmaking and experiences of participants casting, real estate, family businesses leadership. Aimed to improve con- to improve their future and education. ceptual understanding of negotiations performance. Each partici- pant was given opportunity to think about their rou- tine approaches to nego- tiations and practise new approaches. Topics included key principles to employ when preparing for and conduct- ing negotiations; creation of value and increased deal efficiency through the use of integrative negotiation tactics; and strengths and weaknesses of individual negotiation styles (strate- gic, psychological and emo- tional). Challenges of intra and inter-organisation negotiations; identification and removal of barriers to agreement, establishment of trust, conflict de-esca- lation and resolution; iden- tification of and defence from common persuasion and manipulation tech- niques were also discussed.

THE PENINSULA THURSDAY 12 NOVEMBER 2015 HOME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 05 Al Jazeera unveils new mobile, tablet apps on iOS, Android

DOHA: Al Jazeera has launched audiences to get content that is ences in the future releases of national news channel established new mobile and tablet apps on important and relevant for them. our products.” Imad Musa, Man- in 2006, has continued to grow in iOS and Android systems, bring- “With one click, you can get ager, Al Jazeera English Online, reach and popularity due to its ing latest Al Jazeera news and quick access to your favourite top- said: “The apps put the user in extensive coverage focused on programmes live together with ics, shows and any saved articles the driver’s seat. For example, if human issues from underreported on demand personalisation. from your personalised news feed. your favourite content from Al regions across the world. The apps available for Al “We have built a new expe- Jazeera is our weekly TV show on On a daily basis, millions of Jazeera English and Al Jazeera rience from the ground up in the media such as the Listening people access latest news, analy- Arabic will provide breaking these feature-rich apps. From Post, now you can get a notifica- ses and documentary films on the news alerts and special coverage the revamped and curated home tion when a new episode is online; channel’s social media platforms notifications with a curated home screen, with the new video expe- or if you like to follow writers on and aljazeera.com. A section of the new public park. screen which highlights top sto- rience on the enhanced story our opinion pages, with one click, On TV, the channel broadcasts ries. They will provide 24-hour pages, we are bringing a new the app saves everything in that to over 260 million households access to live video and back- and compelling experience to section for offline reading. Our across 130 countries. Al Jazeera ground audio streaming with a our audiences and are commit- audience has been generous with English’s in-depth global approach Ras Laffan, Al Khor civic personal newsfeed area for shows, ted to regular updates with new feedback over the years, and we to journalism, along with a com- topics and saved stories which can features. took their input into considera- mitment to tell the human story, be shared on social media. “The apps complement our tion with the new apps. The result has won it awards and plaudits Ibrahim Hamid, Director, growing portfolio of digital prod- is an app that is simple and gets over the years. It won the Out- body open new park Enterprise and Digital Plat- ucts such as our Al Jazeera Eng- you to Al Jazeera content you are standing Digital Team of the Year forms, Al Jazeera Media Network, lish Apple TV app we launched looking for quickly, whether video Award in June. DOHA: A new public park was Programme in collaboration with said: “Our new mobile and tablet last week and you will see a or text.” opened in Al Khor by the Ras Al Khor Municipality. apps will make it easier for our growing convergence in experi- Al Jazeera English, the inter- THE PENINSULA Laffan Community Outreach The inauguration ceremony was attended by officials from Doha and Al Khor municipali- ties, company representatives Quality Retail names promotion winners and members from the Al Khor community. Malabar Gold & Diamonds to Al Tawasul Park is located in the middle of Al Khor City, near commercial and residential areas, conduct free medical camp spreading over an area of 23,000 square meters. DOHA: Malabar Gold & Diamonds, the nities. The first camp was held in Novem- The park has entertainment leading jewellery retailer in the Middle ber 2012 and the retailer plans to conduct facilities, including multi-use East, is organising a free medical camp more camps on the outskirts of Doha in playground and playing facilities ‘Care & Aware’ in association with Aster future. Public response to the first two for all age groups. Medical Centre, Wellcare Group & Qatar camps from encouraged the retail chain It also contains different types KMCC Kozhikode District on November to do more in the field. of equipment to practise sports 20 from 6.30am to 11am at Aster Medical Diagnosis is based on pre-registration. and entertainment activities. Centre, near Lulu Al Khor Mall. Checkups and free consultations are done Ras Laffan Community Out- This is the third edition of the camp in by doctors, including general physicians reach Programme aims to build Qatar. To ensure that quality healthcare is and dentists, from Aster Medical Centre. communication bridges with the accessible to all, especially those who can- Residents can check blood sugar and local community, based on trust not afford expensive medical care, Mala- pressure, cholesterol (as per doctor’s pre- and cooperation among industrial bar Gold & Diamonds has been conducting scription) and undergo free tests. companies at Ras Laffan City and such health camps in different parts of Free medicines will be provided to the the local community, said a state- The second draw of summer promotions of Quality Retail Group for Mitsubishi Pajero cars the Middle East in association with like- needy through Wellcare Group. Pre-regis- ment. was conducted yesterday at Quality Hypermarket, Salwa Road branch, in the presence of minded organisations as part of their CSR tration forms will be distributed by KMCC The programme is a consor- Khaled Rashid Al Marri from the Ministry of Economy and Commerce. Officials of the Group, activities. volunteers, who will coordinate for the tium that includes Qatar Petro- Aboo Navas, General Manager, Shahid, Manager Executive, Ramshad, Commercial Manager, In Qatar, the retailer, along with Aster camp, supported by Malabar Gold & Dia- leum, Qatar Shell, RasGas, and Najeeb Hameed, Operations Manager, were present. Four winners C K Bahdur Magar, Medical Center, Well Care Group and monds, Aster Medical Centre & Wellcare Dolphin Energy Limited, Pearl, Shankar Chandro Das, Shamseer Thayyil Majeed and Amjood will each get a Misubishi Qatar KMCC committee, will conduct staff. For details, call 55009166, 33081224. and ORYX GTL. Pajero 4X4. SALIM MATRAMKOT healthcare activities all over the country, mainly for low-income expatriate commu- THE PENINSULA THE PENINSULA THURSDAY 12 NOVEMBER 2015 06 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME QR10,000 to QR100,000 fines Qatar committed to UN labour conventions DOHA: Minister of Labour and launch a wage protection system for violating contractors Social Affairs H E Abdullah for workers. Saleh Mubarak Al Khulaifi has A special Labour Inspection reiterated Qatar’s commitment Department of the ministry per- to submitting periodical reports forms the task of monitoring the No work on any building if landlord fails to obtain municipality permit regarding ratified and non-rati- system through a Wage Protec- fied international conventions in tion Department set up at the DOHA: Contractors will face fines ranging a timely manner. ministry, he said. from QR10,000 to QR100,000 if they carry The reports include those on Some 11,500 companies are out any construction, demolition or mainte- the Forced Labour Convention part of Wage Protection System nance work on buildings if the landlord had and Labour Inspection Conven- (WPS) and the number of ben- not obtained a legal permit from the munici- tion, which is a subject of com- eficiary workers is 600,000, the pality concerned. plaints filed against Qatar on Minister added. Such permits are also required for any addi- alleged lack of its commitment WPS has come into force from tional construction or partition of buildings. to comply with these conventions November 2 and violators are to In a paper presented at a workshop held by in accordance with the request be punished and the punishment the Ministry of Municipality and Urban Plan- of the committee responsible for includes denial of any new work ning, Dr Ahmed Abu Mustafa, Legal Adviser making signatory countries com- permits and stop the employer’s of the ministry, explained the concept and ply with these conventions and transactions with the ministry. provisions of judicial control over buildings recommendations and follow up Al Khulaifi said the ministry and excavations in line with provisions of Law on the findings of a high-level has trained 300 inspectors in No. 4 of 1985 and amendments brought about committee whose members vis- cooperation with regional and by the Law No. 8 of 2014 ited Qatar this February. international organisations and The law has banned construction of any This was disclosed by the seeks to train another 400 by the building, initiating any works, expansion, Minister at an ILO meeting in end of 2016 and provide them with raising height, strengthening, maintenance, Geneva, reports Qatar News sufficient electronic devices to change of features by way of excavation, land- Participants at the workshop. Agency (QNA). contribute to reducing time and fill or levelling, any connection or extension Al Khulaifi said all observa- effort to complete the inspection of utility line to buildings prior to obtaining a and procedures for registration of violations They are also required to meet conditions tions contained in the complaint process in addition to launching legal permit from the municipality concerned, and reconciliation with violators. for pedestrian paths in the peripheral of work has been dealt with by the gov- self-service devices which enable explained Abu Mustafa. The second paper by Engineer Hussein sites and interim sidewalk and install guide- ernment of Qatar absolutely worker to file complaints against It is also not permitted to paint the build- Mohammed, of the Office of the Assistant lines and warning signs and barriers for regu- seriously, stressing that major their employers in any of the ing façades and exterior walls in any colour Undersecretary for Public Services Affairs, lating pedestrian movement. The decisions economic developments being several major languages of the not approved by the municipality concerned. discussed the ministerial decisions No. 120, 121 also make it mandatory for contractors to witnessed in the country have migrant workers. The law has imposed a fine ranging from and 122 of 2015, which aim to regulate con- install a banner in a clearly visible location in created a set of challenges Qatar The Minister referred to the QR250 and QR500 per square metre and a fine struction, maintenance and demolition works the work site, showing the name of the owner, is tackling ably. new Law No. 21 of 2015 regulating ranging between QR200 and QR400 for every in public places. description of the project, number and date Large numbers of migrant entry and exit of expatriates and linear metre in case of undertaking any build- The law mandates contracting and excava- of the licence, name and other particulars of workers who are here from more their residence and said the Law ing works or partition and the like without a tion companies, engineers and consultancy the contractor, and the name of the person in than 130 countries in a short No. 4 of 2009 eliminates sponsor- permit. He also explained personal qualities to offices practising construction works to take charge of the site. period of time, account for nearly ship system. be met by inspectors checking such violations precautions for protection of passersby. THE PENINSULA 85 percent of the population, he He said the new law gives the said. worker the right to change his Qatar’s government has taken place of work (employer) at the a wide range of actions and deci- end of his contract and elimi- sions, most notably the issuance nates exit visa so that the new- of Law No. 1 of 2015, amending comer worker leaves the country some provisions of the Labour without prior permission of the Workers happy at new homes in Labour City Law No. 14 of 2004 as part of employer. a required legislative package to THE PENINSULA By Sanaullah Ataullah at our accommodation and work site at our company’s expense,” DOHA: Workers are very happy said Kumar. at their new homes in the Labour He said they were paid a City in Mesaimeer, near the monthly food allowance of QR150 Industrial Area. They are enjoy- now withdrawn as food is pro- Cabinet nod to rules for ing free time playing, chatting vided by a catering company con- with co-workers sitting on the tracted by their company. green grass and shopping at a About the quality of food, mall inside the city. Kumar said: “We are served good standard specifications The city offers more advantages quality of food and of varieties. than a dream workers’ accommo- We are served chapatti, paratha, Continued from page 1 visions of the guidelines are to dation, some residents said. local bread with cooked vegetable The Cabinet endorsed its draft be implemented for imported It is at walking distance from and tea. On the menu generally decision amending some provi- shipments as well as shipments Al Attiya Market in the Indus- for lunch and dinner are rice, sions of Decision No. 10 of 2007 on of domestically produced goods, trial Area, a favourite assembly lentils, bread, meat, chicken and the establishment of the national except food and agricultural prod- point of labourers, especially on vegetables. Vegetarians are served committee on civil aviation secu- ucts, medicines, medical equip- Fridays. They gather to meet rel- special vegetables.” rity. ment and crude oil. atives, friends and acquaintances However, one doesn’t get all The amendment stipulates that The guidelines include provi- regularly, particularly during the this food in a day. “If we get a representative each of the Min- sions related to the procedures weekend. A view of the Labour City chicken today, for instance, red istry of Justice and Qatar Airways to issue a certificate of Qatari Workers say they feel more meat would be served tomorrow is to be roped in as members of conformity for shipments of com- freedom in the city. This is true net and Wi-Fi that have made play football. It was 5pm yester- and vegetables the day after,” the committee. modities and imported products of those who have shifted from workers closer to near and dear day as The Peninsula approached explained Kumar. “My company The Cabinet approved a draft as well as shipment of commodi- family residential areas as they ones in their countries and friends Kumar who had a headset from provides free laundry services,” decision of the Minister of Envi- ties and domestically manufac- were not allowed to venture out and countrymen in Qatar. a mobile phone stuck in his ears said an employee of a construc- ronment to amend Decision No. tured products. at night. In leisure time, workers talk as he was talking to some family tion company. The city is a very 19 of 2008 to endorse the guide- Many other topics were also on The rule in the city is that no on the phone with relatives and member back home. safe place, CCTV cameras have lines about the certification of the agenda of the meeting, said one can cook in their accommo- friends for hours on end through He took some time off and said: been installed throughout. No one Qatari conformity with standard Qatar News Agency. dation, something workers this free mobile phone apps like “My camp was shifted from Al dares enter others’ rooms with specifications. newspaper spoke to said they WhatsApp and video-calling. Wakrah to the city during Ram- malicious intention like stealing, The draft stipulates that pro- THE PENINSULA found favourable from many “What should be better than adan.” he added. aspects. Private catering com- this? I share a very nice room, The previous accommoda- Many workers have salary- panies are serving hot meals to a dining hall facility, and a very tion was not bad but there were withdrawal cards of a famous workers three times a day. Break- clean bathroom,” said Shiv restrictions. “We would not feel bank, but there is no ATM booth fast and dinner are served at their Kumar, a Nepali worker from a free there. As it was in a fam- of the bank in the city, said accommodation and lunch is pro- big construction company that ily residential area, we were not Ahmad Mohammad, a worker. vided at work site after a meagre employs thousands of labourers. allowed to go out after 6pm. We “We are forced to go to Al Attiya deduction from their monthly He was sitting in the green are not permitted here to prepare Market and other places to with- salary. space between two buildings, food in the kitchen that is also not draw cash.” Another amenity is free Inter- enjoying some of his countrymen bad. We are being served hot food THE PENINSULA

First Qatari law firm at QFC soon HBKU to hold Graduate Open House

Continued from page 1 for prospective students tomorrow “We are focusing on areas other than financial services, such as DOHA: Hamad Bin Khalifa Center for Executive Educa- Brig. Abdul Rahman Majid Al Sulaiti (left), Director, Strategic Planning sports, IT and marketing, and we are University (HBKU) will open tion, and new College of Public Department, Brigadier Abdul Rahman Al Maliki, Assistant Director, revisiting some regulated entities in its doors to prospective stu- Health. Information System Department, and Captain Mubarak Salim Al Bouainain, areas such as banking, insurance and dents tomorrow, at its Grad- Those interested in scien- Assistant Director, Public Relations Department, at the press conference. asset management.” uate Open House at Student tific research will be provided He said QFC is looking into devel- Centre from 5pm to 7pm. with information about ways oping a regulatory framework and Deans and faculty will speak in which science-based degree working with QCB and other regula- about Master’s and PhD pro- programmes involve collabo- 16,934 internal e-applications tory authorities to attract companies grammes answer questions ration with HBKU’s research from the regulated areas. Rules will about studying at HBKU. institutes Qatar Biomedical be structured in a manner which will With the application cycle Research Institute, Qatar processed this year: MoI be more aligned with rules of QCB for the fall 2016 intake open, Computing Research Insti- and other market regulators without representatives from HBKU’s tute, and Qatar Environment Continued from page 1 four departments of the ministry a lot of discrepancies,” said Al Jaida. Yousef Mohammed Al Jaida, CEO and Student Recruitment Depart- and Energy Research Insti- “The ministry has, in the past — Information Systems, Ware- Asked about the recently Board Member, Qatar Financial Centre, ment will discuss admissions tute. New for fall 2016 will three years, converted some 266 housing and Supply Department, announced moratorium on registra- speaking at a press briefing yesterday. process and there will be a be a Master of Public Health of its internal services into elec- Telecommunications Department tion of new law firms in QFC, he said KAMMUTTY VP chance to visit HBKU’s award- programme to develop par- tronic mode, and this year (2015) and Human Resources Depart- there are enough number of QFC- winning student housing vil- ticipants’ understanding of we have had further progress in ment. listed law firms serving. They are lages. the importance of protecting this regard,” officials said. The ministry is working on occupying a significant market share, QFC, which is celebrating 10th Students will be given and promoting health within Brig. Abdul Rahman Al Maliki transferring all documentation which is saturated to some extent. anniversary, has achieved great suc- opportunity to engage with society. It encourages students said almost 16,934 internal and paper work into digital for- “We have not shut down on new cess and growing fast. Last year, some some of the most promi- to take learning outside the e-applications were processed mat. “We have digitalised more law firms. We are going to have the 60 new firms (from non-regulated nent faculty members dur- classroom and requires them this year. These applications are than 80 million documents until first Qatari law firm in QFC within areas) registered at QFC, witness- ing break-out sessions with to complete an internship connected with various sectors now”. Some 88 percent of the a week or so. However, we also do ing a 100 percent growth compared College of Science and Engi- within the community during such as maintenance and service project has been implemented and not want to be a jurisdiction licens- to the previous year. neering, Translation and their studies. request, request for telephone, by next year it will be completed. ing only law firms as we want other Interpreting Institute, Faculty systems and other devices. companies to thrive.” THE PENINSULA of Islamic Studies, Law School, THE PENINSULA They are processed through THE PENINSULA THURSDAY 12 NOVEMBER 2015 GULF / MIDDLE EAST www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 07

Saudi FM Syria opposition rejects Russian ideas voices support Moscow’s draft proposal to solve crisis aims to keep Assad in power: Opposition leaders for Yemen

BEIRUT/DUBAI: Syrian opposition fig- the security services of the regime?” he peace talks ures and Gulf commentators dismissed said. yesterday a Russian draft proposal for The United States, its allies in the Gulf RIYADH: Saudi Foreign Min- a process to solve the Syrian crisis, say- Cooperation Council and Turkey, who have ister Adel Al Jubeir voiced sup- ing Moscow’s aim was to keep President backed the uprising against Assad, have port yesterday for peace talks on Bashar Al Assad in power and marginalise also all said he must leave power for there Yemen’s conflict which the United dissenting voices. to be peace. Nations says will take place this A draft document on Tuesday showed “The Russians are basically trying to month in Geneva. Moscow would like Damascus and unspeci- wiggle out of Geneva,” said Mustafa Alani, “We hope they will be success- fied opposition groups to agree on launch- Director of Defence and Security at the ful,” Jubeir told reporters after a ing a constitutional reform process of up Gulf Research Centre (GRC) think-tank. summit of Arab and South Amer- to 18 months, followed by early presidential “So it is the question of he can stay: it’s a ican countries in Riyadh. elections. red line for all the Gulf Cooperation Coun- “We support these negotiations Russia, which with Iran has been Assad’s cil. Absolutely a red line. This is something and hope they will achieve peace, top ally during Syria’s nearly five-year that won’t be a negotiable issue.” security and stability in Yemen,” conflict, has denied any document is being Saudi Arabia is one of Assad’s most stri- he said. prepared before a second round of inter- dent opponents and Foreign Minister Adel Saudi Arabia has since late national peace talks in Vienna this week. Al Jubeir has said he must be removed from March led an Arab coalition fight- The text does not rule out Assad’s par- power as part of a solution. ing Iran-backed Houthi rebels ticipation in early presidential elections, Saud Humaid Assubayii, Security Affairs and their allies in Yemen, in sup- something his enemies say is impossible if Committee Chairman at Saudi Arabia’s port of the internationally rec- there is to be peace. Shura Council, said the proposal was flawed ognised government of President “The Syrian people have never accepted because it did not rule out Assad’s partici- Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi. the dictatorship of Assad and they will not pation in elections. Addressing the summit late on accept that it is reintroduced or reformu- Speaking in a personal capacity, he said Tuesday, UN Secretary General lated in another way,” said Monzer Akbik, the Syrian president should not be able to Ban Ki-moon said that his spe- member of the Western-backed Syrian stand because “he killed hundreds of thou- Syrian air force helicopters and jets at the Kweyris military air base, in the northern Syrian cial envoy to Yemen, Ismail Ould National Coalition. sands of his own people” in the war. province of Aleppo, yesterday. Cheikh Ahmed, “intends to con- “The Russians are now trying to play the “He should not be put back. I don’t think vene a new round of peace con- game they have been playing since Geneva,” it’s in the interest of Syria. I don’t think on Tuesday, British UN Ambassador Mat- ment to Assad - this commitment is final,” sultations in Switzerland... this he said, referring to United Nations-led it’s in the interests of the region. It’s only thew Rycroft, president of the council for a source close to Damascus said. Russian month”. peace talks that collapsed in 2014. in the interest of a small group of people, November, said: “That issue did not come President Vladimir Putin gave Assad such He did not give a specific date Russia began air strikes in Syria six of a very small minority,” he said. up in the consultations, but we’re aware assurances in Moscow last month, the but said both the Yemeni govern- weeks ago after insurgents edged closer to A Western diplomat said the Russian of the Russian proposals and, speaking source said, in an account echoed by two ment and the Houthis have com- government-held areas vital to Assad. It document appeared to be “a trial balloon” to nationally, we have been in contact with diplomats briefed on the meeting. mitted to attend. has also stepped up its diplomatic efforts to test international reaction, and also to calm them and others about them.” Another diplomat said some Syrian “It is critical that all sides lend resolve the conflict that has killed hundreds any uneasiness among Assad’s entourage. Sources close to Damascus and diplo- officials had expressed concern, before their political support and engage of thousands and displaced millions. A more likely focus of discussion in mats say Russia and Iran have told Syria the Vienna talks, about Damascus being in good faith,” Ban said. Hadi Al Bahra, a member of the coali- Vienna would be the issue of who was a they will use the Vienna talks to shore up outside the diplomatic process. The talks “There is no military solution tion’s political committee, said the main terrorist, the diplomat said, an element also the government’s position and resist any included more than a dozen states but not to the conflict,” he said, even as problem was Assad and any political proc- referred to in the text. The Russian foreign solution that forces Assad out of office. Syria or the opposition. deadly fighting raged across the ess needed to tackle this with assurances ministry spokeswoman said on Tuesday A senior Syrian official last week rejected “They know Russia would have many country. and guarantees. that Moscow would be concentrating on the idea of a “transitional period” leading reasons to make a bargain with the West He also dismissed the idea of holding this at the meeting. towards the removal of Assad, as sought and the biggest piece Russia has in its hand 13 rebels killed elections under the current system. “How Asked if the Russian proposal for an by Western states. in the Middle East is Syria.” Pro-government forces yester- can the elections be fair when the citizens 18-month transition in Syria came up in “The Russians and the Iranians agree day killed 13 rebel fighters in an inside Syria are afraid of retaliation from closed-door Security Council consultations with each other on the topic of commit- REUTERS ambush in Yemen’s south after the insurgents took back several positions in the area, a military source said. The Houthi rebels were trav- elling in two military vehicles Hamas gives Arafat’s home to PLO south of Damt, the Daleh prov- ince’s second-largest city, which they and their allies recaptured GAZA CITY: Ahead of the 11th gave us the home of the symbol under interim peace accords with on Saturday. anniversary of iconic Palestin- of the Palestinian people Yasser Israel. Forces loyal to President ian leader Yasser Arafat’s death, Arafat and we hope it will be a “Abu Ammar was the symbol Abdrabuh Mansour Hadi attacked Hamas yesterday gave his Gaza step towards ending the division” of national unity, the only weapon them with rocket-propelled gre- residence and personal effects to between the groups, said Zakaria we have with which to confront nades and machine guns, the the Palestine Liberation Organi- Al Agha, an influential member the (Israeli) occupier,” Agha said. source said. sation. of the Fatah Central Committee. In the past, Hamas has The loyalists, backed by Saudi- The move was presented as Among personal belongings prevented Fatah from holding led coalition strikes, supplies and conciliatory gesture by Hamas, also ceded to the PLO on the eve commemorative events in Gaza troops, pushed the rebels out of which does not belong to the PLO of the anniversary are Arafat’s marking Arafat’s mysterious Daleh and four other southern and rejects its policy of seeking gun, items of clothing and death aged 75, at a hospital near provinces in July. But the rebels peace with Israel. photographs. Paris on November 11, 2004. this weekend recaptured several Hamas has controlled the Gaza The house, near the Gaza City Last year at least 10 explosions positions in the south. Battles Strip after forcing out Palestinian fishing port, is where Arafat, hit houses and cars belonging to continued in the area yesterday as president Mahmud Abbas’s Fatah popularly known as Abu Ammar, senior Fatah members in Gaza the rebels were trying to advance movement, which dominates the settled with his family after years days ahead of planned memorial on Daleh’s provincial capital. Palestinian boys hold candles during a protest marking the 11th anniver- PLO, in 2007. in exile on their return to the ceremonies. sary of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat’s death in Khan Younis yesterday. “Today our brothers in Hamas Palestinian territories in 1994, AFP AFP

Heavy fighting in Benghazi, 16 EU agrees guidelines to label goods made in Israeli settlement killed: Military BRUSSELS/JERUSALEM: The EU statement condemning the move, which it The EU’s position is that the lands Israel labelled as coming from settlements, which executive approved new guidelines yesterday sees as an effort to put pressure on Israel has occupied since the 1967 Middle East war the EU considers illegal under international BENGHAZI, Libya: At for labelling products made in Israeli over its settlements policy, and summoned — including the West Bank, East Jerusalem law. “It’s an indication of origin, not a least 16 people have been settlements, a move Brussels said was the EU ambassador to Israel. and the Golan Heights — are not part of the warning label,” the EU ambassador to Israel, killed in heavy fighting in technical but Israel branded “discriminatory” “We regret that the EU has chosen, for internationally recognised borders of Israel. Lars Faaborg-Andersen, said. the Libyan city of Benghazi and damaging to peace efforts with the political reasons, to take such an exceptional As such, goods from there cannot be between forces allied with Palestinians. and discriminatory step, inspired by the labelled “Made in Israel” and should be REUTERS the official government Drawn up over three years by the boycott movement,” the and Islamic State fighters, European Commission, the guidelines mean ministry said. a military commander said Israeli producers must explicitly label “It is puzzling and even yesterday. farm goods and cosmetics that come from irritating that the EU chooses Benghazi, caught up in settlements built on occupied land if they to apply a double standard fighting for more than a are sold in the European Union. concerning Israel, while year, is just one front in Israeli officials were briefed ahead of ignoring that there are over Libya’s multi-sided war the decision and responded quickly after 200 other territorial disputes involving two competing it was taken. The foreign ministry issued a worldwide.” governments — an official one in the east and a self- declared one controlling Tripoli — and the loose coalitions of armed fac- tions backing them. Battles involving air strikes erupted on Tuesday between General Khalifa Haftar’s Libyan National Army (LNA) forces, and militants allied with Islamic State, military spokesman Milad Zwei said. “Our special forces are making progress and have recaptured the air defence camp between Mash’hash and Sidi Faraj districts. The camp was captured last year by Islamic State,” he said. Haftar declared war on Islamist fighters in Benghazi more than a year ago and he was later named commander in chief for the official government.

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EUROPEAN Union decision to label goods from the Jewish settlements in Palestine has infuriated Israel which is calling the decision ‘anti-Semitic’ that will Aencourage a boycott campaign against the country. Why Obama’s defeat on immigration Drawn up over a period of three years by the European Commission, the new guidelines published yesterday say Israeli producers must explicitly label farm goods and other products that come from illegal settlements — settlements in the matters for millions of people Palestinian territories and annexed east Jerusalem as well as By Max Ehrenfreund the Golan Heights, all occupied by Israel in the 1967 Six-Day country illegally if their children are US drivers is technically breaking the law. War — if they are sold in the European Union. The EU must citizens or permanent residents. The It’s a legal principle known as prosecu- federal appellate court has delayed government would hold off on deporting torial discretion. On the other hand, the be congratulated for this decision, which has come in the face once again the Obama adminis- them. They could also apply for permis- president’s opponents say he has failed of stiff opposition from Israel and it shows Brussels is charting A tration’s controversial plans to sion to work. in his constitutional duty to execute and its own course when it comes to Israel and its aggression grant some undocumented immigrants And it would also expand an earlier enforce the laws passed by Congress. unlike US which blindly supports Tel Aviv. a reprieve from deportation. There is programme that the administration put Instead, they argue, he’s tried to write Britain, Belgium and Denmark already affix labels to Israeli now a chance that the Supreme Court in place in 2012. That programme allows what is effectively a new law himself, will consider the dispute sometime next some immigrants brought here illegally which is Congress’s responsibility. goods, differentiating between those from Israel proper and year. In the meantime, some 4 million when they were children to apply for a For several years, Obama was deport- those, like fruits and vegetables, that come from the people living in the US illegally who had deferral from deportation. Under Obama’s ing more undocumented immigrants Jordan Valley in the occupied West Bank. Now, all 28 hoped for at least a temporary guarantee new plan, a larger group would qualify. than any previous president. His defend- EU member states would have to apply the same labelling. that they would be allowed to stay are Those are the most controversial provi- ers say the administration is doing as Brussels calls this decision just a technical issue but Israel has still waiting. sions of the plan, which would also help much as possible, and can’t reasonably branded it “discriminatory” and damaging to peace efforts The decision issued by the US Court investors and students pursuing degrees be expected to do much more. So far this of Appeals 5th Circuit on Monday was in science, technology, engineering and year, though, the rate of deportations has with the Palestinians. expected. It’s not a final ruling on the mathematics get visas; modify how declined drastically. Agents are focusing More than the economic impact, Israel is worried about case itself. Rather, the court held that undocumented immigrants are detained their efforts more narrowly, even while the political impact of the decision. The goods in question while the case is still being decided, the when they are captured and dedicate Obama’s broader programme is disputed account for only two to three administration couldn’t carry out its additional resources to security at the in the courts. The EU percent of Israeli exports to the plans. That decision extended the delay border. What have the courts said about all European Union, at an estimated already ordered What isn’t Obama trying to do? First, this? They never gave the administra- by a lower Obama isn’t trying to grant citizenship tion a chance to put the plan into action. deserves praise value of $200m per year, according court earlier to anyone. Deportation would be deferred A coalition of states, mostly led by for its decision to Israel’s ambassador to the this year. Both only temporarily for those included in the Republican governors, sued the adminis- EU, David Walzer. Israeli leaders Obama isn’t courts also had plan. They’d have to apply again every tration, arguing the plan would force them to label are calling it discriminatory and trying to grant doubts about three years to renew their status. to spend more on law enforcement, health ‘anti-Semitic. Prime Minister the adminis- Second, the plan wouldn’t affect care and drivers’ licences for illegal resi- tration’s legal most undocumented immigrants, who dents. In February, Judge Andrew S Hanen goods from Benjamin Netanyahu compared it citizenship theory. would still risk deportation daily. There of the federal district court in Brownsville, the Jewish to Nazi-era practices and saying to anyone. All the same, are already roughly 1.2 million people Texas, put the programme on hold while the EU “should be ashamed.” “The the possibil- who could qualify for a reprieve under the courts considered this challenge. In settlements in labelling of products of the Jewish Deportation ity that the Obama’s 2012 programme. The new May, the appellate court issued a prelimi- Palestine. state by the European Union would be Supreme Court plan would expand that group as well nary ruling sustaining that delay, which it brings back dark memories,” he will hear the as extend temporary legal protection to then confirmed on Monday. deferred only case in the mid- those undocumented immigrants whose The debate in the courts so far has said in Washington. dle of the next own children live here legally, adding been a narrower one. Rather than the The EU decision is a huge victory for Palestinians and temporarily for year’s presi- another 4 million people in total, accord- president’s constitutional responsibility their supporters all over the world and a setback for Israel dential cam- ing to estimates from the Migration Pol- to enforce the law or the idea of pros- which has been enjoying immunity for its aggression against those included in paign means icy Institute. Altogether, there are about ecutorial discretion, judges have been Palestinians. The West is increasingly becoming aware of the plan. They’d that once again, 11 million undocumented immigrants liv- considering three main questions. the injustices heaped on Palestinians, an awareness which is immigration ing in the country now. First, there’s the issue of whether the is at the top Does the president get to decide who states are even allowed to sue the fed- gaining momentum more among the Western public rather have to apply of the national can stay? Technically, no, but Obama’s eral government in a case such as this than their governments. With changing public perceptions again every three agenda. Let’s supporters argue that in practice, that’s one. Second is the question of whether come policy changes in the West, which worries Israel. pause to look how it works. The Department of Home- the administration followed the right Israel has been the target of a global boycott campaign years to renew back at how we land Security doesn’t have nearly enough procedures in announcing the new pro- aimed at ending its illegal occupation, known as BDS (Boycott, got here. agents to deport all 11 million immigrants gramme. Finally, there is the immediate their status. What is living here illegally, they say, and doing so problem of whether the administration Divestment and Sanctions). This campaign has been gaining Obama actually would likely be enormously expensive. As should be allowed to carry through its momentum in the West, and even in the US, especially in trying to do again? a result, the agency must choose which plan while all these other questions are universities. The EU decision is certain to galvanise this The president’s plan, which he undocumented immigrants it will deport being decided. So far, the courts have campaign and give it legitimacy among those who have been announced last year, has a couple of and which it will ignore. For the same said it should not, including in the most viewing it with suspicion. components. reason, police officers don’t stop every recent decision on Monday. Israel has said the EU decision is harmful to peace efforts. First, it would grant a temporary car driving a mile over the speed limit reprieve to immigrants who are in the on the interstate, even if each of those THE WASHINGTON POST But the EU doesn’t think so. Rightfully• The other side Quote of Obama-Netanyahu talks the day

HEY met after more than a signing the treaty. spokesman, Ran Baratz. On social background, the two made a ritual year and ritually emphasised More shocking for Tel Aviv, the media, Mr Baratz accused President reference to peace, while violence the need for peace. But to any powerful Israel lobby failed to pressure Obama of “anti-Semitism” and showed continues on the West Bank. Congratulations observer of US-Israeli relations, Congress into blocking the nuclear contempt for Mr John Kerry, saying he Before they met, President Obama Tit is obvious that peace in the holy land accord, thus paving the way for a grad- had the “mental age” of a 12-year-old. said he would try to bring Israel and the ... to the was hardly the agenda when President ual easing of sanctions against Tehran. The issue for President Obama has Palestinian Authority on “a path toward Barack Obama and Israeli Prime It is also widely believed that Israel felt been how to mollify Mr Netanyahu peace” while Mr Netanyahu spoke of chairperson Aung Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held that, for all practical purposes, the US- and the Israel lobby to ensure that the two-state solution. talks at the White House on Monday. led agreement with Tehran undermined the White House continues to have a The only bit of realism came from San Suu Kyi and A lot has happened to sour relations its military option against Iran. Democratic occupant. unnamed American officials who said between the two. Israel is furious with The face-to-face meeting must There is, of course, the price Mr President Obama doesn’t expect her party for the Democratic administration for have been embarrassing for the two Netanyahu may exact, for media peace in Palestine till he leaves gathering the the nuclear deal with Iran because it because of the unprecedented insults reports say American taxpayers’ the White House in January 2017. feels that Washington overruled its heaped on a sitting American president annual dole to Israel could go up from support of objections and has shown haste in and secretary of state by Israel’s new $3.1bn a year to $5bn. Against this DAWN Thein Sein the people. Myanmar President THURSDAY 12 NOVEMBER 2015 OPINION www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 09 GOP debate sets aside personal attacks

in a dangerous world, more money for defence was a requirement, not an option. Trump was Trump, occasionally There were no clear winners, at least not insulting to some of his rivals but the most outspoken and firm on the issues so much as in the earlier debates, in part of immigration. Ben Carson, who came to the debate after days of controversy because there were strong moments about his biography, was a calming pres- ence but not a dominant one. He dealt for many of the candidates, as one after with questions about his past by declar- ing that he doesn’t mind being vetted but another grabbed for the spotlight. objects to what he sees as a double stand- ard in which Democrats are not subjected to the same kind of scrutiny. “People who know me know that I’m By Dan Balz tensions within the party to play out an honest person,” he said. more clearly than in past encounters. Tuesday’s debate came at a time when he Republican presidential can- And throughout the evening, the under- the Republican race was beginning to didates turned serious Tuesday current that ran through many of the take on a three-tiered structure. Trump night, largely setting aside per- exchanges was the looming presence of and Carson, the two outsiders, remained Tsonal attacks in favour of a spir- Hillary Rodham Clinton, the current atop the national polls, as they have for ited discussion on economic and other front-runner for the Democratic nomi- many weeks. Rubio and Cruz make up the issues. In doing so, they highlighted the nation. next tier, still well behind the two leaders deep fault lines that are at the heart of The first debate featured sharp but ahead of the rest of the crowded field. the party’s nomination battle. exchanges between New Jersey Governor But from here forward, the focus of the One fault line underscored the frus- Chris Christie and Louisiana Governor campaign increasingly will be on the state trations of many grass-roots activists, Bobby Jindal. Christie argued that the of play in the early states, particularly who long for a nominee who espouses key to victory is his brand of conserva- Republican presidential candidates (from left) former Governor Jeb Bush, Dr Ben Carson Iowa and New Hampshire. Trump and small-government conservatism without tive politics, which he said would give and US Senator Ted Cruz after the conclusion of the debate in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Carson continue to lead in both, but most apology and who think they have lost the the party a better chance of defeating of the other candidates are picking one past two elections because their nominees Clinton. are here illegally should be sent back to the undercard debate when the number of the two states — and their different were unable to do that. “I’ll tell you what I’ll bring to the table: their home countries before some are of candidates in the main debate was cut electorates — to help propel them toward The other fault line reflected the desire the fact that I’ve won in a blue state, that allowed to return. “We’re a country of from 10 to eight. Super Tuesday and beyond. among conservatives for a tough stance I’ve won in a state that has 750,000 more laws,” he said. “We either have a country, Bush appeared more forceful at The Wisconsin debate is the last against illegal immigration and the Democrats than Republicans. . . . I won in or we don’t have a country. They’re going moments than in previous debates, a among the Republicans for five weeks. unease among mainstream Republicans a state for reelection after governing as a to have to go out.” helpful change after what was widely If they hope to move the polls now, the that such policies will prevent the party pro-life conservative and got 61 percent That drew a swift rebuke from both judged a weak performance two weeks candidates will have to rely on traditional from attracting more Hispanic votes and of the vote. That’s the person you want Ohio Governor John Kasich and former ago in Colorado. And despite some sug- methods: methodical retail campaigning potentially doom them to defeat in 2016. on the stage prosecuting the case against Florida governor Jeb Bush. Kasich said gestions that the debate might feature in Iowa and New Hampshire with the There were no clear winners, at least Hillary Clinton.” Trump was offering a “silly argument” another round of conflict with Senator goal of generating support by sometime in not so much as in the earlier debates, in Jindal argued strongly that sending a by suggesting America would ever try to Marco Rubio, the two Floridians steered January; and television advertising that part because there were strong moments big-government conservative to Wash- deport so many people. Bush said talk of clear of one another. breaks through the daily clutter of media for many of the candidates, as one after ington as president would lead to a per- deporting that many illegal immigrants Rubio offered another confident per- coverage. another grabbed for the spotlight. petuation rather than a reversal of the was music to the ears of Democrats. formance, deftly clipping pieces of his What played out during the two It’s not likely that what happened at policies that Republicans want to change. “They’re doing high-fives in the Clin- stump speech into effective answers on debates on Tuesday provided the frame the debate will dramatically change the “Let’s not be a second liberal party,” Jin ton campaign right now when they hear the economy and foreign policy. Senator by which voters in the primaries and cau- current shape of the race. But in high- this,” he said. “That’s the problem with Ted Cruz of Texas, who like Rubio has cuses will be asked to make their judg- lighting the deeper differences in the dal said. “Let’s actually cut government this. We have to win the presidency. And been rising, was similarly effective in set- ments. There is considerable agreement party, the evening’s discussions provided spending. Let’s grow the American econ- the way you win the presidency is to have ting forth his conservative vision. among Republicans about what they do a helpful roadmap to the issues that will omy. Let’s not just beat Hillary. Let’s elect practical plans.” At one point, Rubio and Senator Rand not like about the policies of Clinton and help determine the eventual nominee. a conservative to the White House, not Kasich was more forceful than he has Paul of Kentucky went after one another President Obama. But before they get to This was a night when it took both just any Republican.” been in past debates, seemingly deter- on government spending. Paul upbraided that debate, they have issues of their own debates — one among eight candidates The second debate broke open with a mined not to be an afterthought at a time Rubio for calling himself a conservative that the voters will be asked to resolve. leading the polls and the other among series of exchanges on immigration, with when he needs to move up. The same was while advocating a substantial increase in four trailing candidates — for the Donald Trump arguing that those who true for Christie, who was relegated to defence spending. Rubio countered that THE WASHINGTON POST Russians’ wake-up call to US Send in the By Dr Burhan M Al-Chalabi and early nineties provided the by the British in 1914 was disman- their usefulness, have been aban- US the opportunity to practise, tled. A sectarian constitution was doned and left to cause havoc. Cyborg Marines hroughout the Cold War, unopposed, its own brand of for- imposed to replace Iraq’s historic Whether in Iraq or Afghani- the US and the Soviet eign policy in the Middle East secular constitution, in order to stan, the regimes installed and By Tobin Harshaw symbiosis have been wobbly. Spot, TUnion competed for areas region: the spread of democracy. divide and rule the people through supported by the US through a high-tech beast of burden built of influence in the Middle East. The determination of the fear. the spread of democracy have he Pentagon’s F-35 Joint by Boston Dynamics using Penta- The superpowers’ competition US to spread democracy in the Hundreds of thousands of Iraqi remarkable similarities. Sectarian Strike Fighter jet is the gon funds, was field-tested by the was particularly fierce because of region was not dissimilar to that civilians were killed by savage, divisions, corruption, failed states, Tmost expensive piece of Marines last summer after years the region’s strategic importance of the Soviet Union as it sought indiscriminate, shock and awe human rights violation and the military hardware in history. Is of development. Don’t look for it and its vast reserves of oil and to spread communism. Each bombings. Millions fled. A well- absence of the rule of law. it also a centaur? in combat any time soon. Even gas. Effectively, the fate of indi- ideology was, ultimately, propa- respected national Iraqi army If this wasn’t enough, Russia’s That’s the riddle posed by an at the test stage, the robot was vidual countries was at the mercy gated to serve the interest of the was replaced by armies of widows, recent military intervention in intriguing and perplexing inter- controlled not by the encouraging of the balance of power between superpower, and not the people orphans and newborns who suf- Syria should be an unavoidable view given over the weekend by whistles of the men and women in these two global forces. concerned. Both ideologies were fer genetic disorders, the result of wake-up call for the US to change Robert O Work, the deputy sec- uniform but by a trailing techni- The earlier years of the Cold alien to the culture of the region. depleted Uranium contamination. its foreign policy in the region. retary of defence, at the Reagan cian with a PC. War saw the Soviet Union seek Liberated from their previ- National Defence Forum in Cali- Progress has been equally fit- to impose its will on countries in ous commitment to communism, fornia. Work was attempting to ful in the Army’s attempt to the region through armed local the Russians may soon find per- describe the cutting-edge tech- integrate MQ-1C Grey Eagle communist party branches, with- manent political foothold in the nology at the heart of what the drones into units flying Apache out any regard for the social and Unless the US transforms its region. Russia is beginning to be Pentagon calls its “third offset,” a attack helicopters in Afghanistan. religious sensitivities of the people perceived as a saviour of the Arab rethinking of deterrence strategy The idea is that the helicopter being targeted. foreign policy in the region, the people, a shield from the tyranny against China and Russia. crew will eventually control the Such was the case in Iraq, a of a destructive, imposing, inter- But what Work was envisioning unmanned planes, making use nation whose socio-cultural struc- outcome will no doubt be the ventionist US foreign policy. has implications well beyond war- of their surveillance capabilities ture was clearly at odds with the It is evident that US foreign fare: partnership between man and firepower. But the experi- principles of communism. There same as that which the Soviet policy has failed. In Iraq, the cur- and machine to the point where ment was hampered by commu- was no exploitation of the working rent regime is not tenable. Iraq is they function as one. “Human- nications incompatibilities — the classes to speak ofin the produc- Union suffered. a failed state. Therefore, the US machine collaboration is allowing drones were usually controlled tion of Iraq’s natural resources: needs to choose between main- a machine to help humans make remotely from the ground, not the nation’s tribal social struc- taining the status quo of occupa- better decisions faster,” Work told from the cockpit — and was called ture meant that there was, quite tion by supporting a Da’wa Party Thom Shanker of the New York off after it was decided the Grey simply, no working class. Fur- Both were imposed against the Now, those who carry guns are popped up by Iran, but without Times. Eagles were in greater need else- ther, patriotism has long been at will of the people. And both dem- militias loyal to Tehran. Iraqi involvement, or, an inde- This is not to be confused, he where. the heart of the cultural fabric onstrated remarkable ignorance Once again, Iraqis are killing pendent, sovereign, secular Iraq, pointed out, with artificial intel- Frustrations aside, there is of Iraqi society. These factors of—or worse, indifference to—the each other. This time, in the name without the Da’wa Party. An eco- ligence. “There is an AI bias right much to be said for emphasising are, clearly, incompatible with social and cultural practices of of democracy. Once again, Iraq’s nomic force to do business with. now generally in the community,” human-machine collaboration communist ideology, its focus on the people of the region. vast natural resources are being A state capable of maintaining Work said. “Automated systems as opposed to trying to replace working-class exploitation, and The Soviet Union tried to depleted at an alarming rate. Not regional stability in the face of a use algorithms based on old data. flesh-and-blood fighters. Erik demand for absolute party loyalty. change the reality of the Iraqi to serve not the interests of the revived Iranian regional ambition. This assumes we are up against a Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee, Yet Iraq was successfully targeted way of life to suit the ideals of the Iraqi people, but rather the US, Iraq is broken and needs fixing. thinking adversary that is chang- the MIT professors widely seen by the Soviet Union during the communist ideology. This practice and those corrupt individuals of The US policy of sectarian divide ing strategies all the time. ” as the great proselytisers for the military regime of Colonel Abdul proved to be a fundamental error a regime imposed on Iraq by the has proved itself to be counter- Work compared the initiative next “machine age,” would be the Karim Kassem, which followed of political judgment—one which US Sectarian Constitution. productive. Bombing and killing to the game of “centaur chess,” first to point out that the inher- independence from the British in eventually denied the Soviet any To date, the US policy of more Iraqis is not the answer. The popularised by world champion ent shortcomings of mechani- 1958. The political upheavals of area of influence in the region. spreading democracy in the Mid- US needs to persuade Iran to take Garry Kasparov in the 1990s, cal devices include many of the communism in the following years Nonetheless, since then, the US dle East through the barrel of the its hands off Iraq. And to work in which grandmasters team up most vital strengths of the human caused considerable division and has sought to do the same. gun has left a legacy of death, with national political groups to with supercomputers and take warrior: small-motor dexterity, hostilities among the Iraqi people. In order to spread democracy, destruction, and hunger. A leg- establish a government of national on competing pairs. In this case, creativity and social interaction Thousands were killed or disap- the US adopted a policy of direct acy of indescribable human trag- unity—one which will serve and however, the supercomputers fire within a team. peared in the most horrific viola- military intervention, or arming edy. Thus, the refugee crisis that protect the interest of all Iraqis, precision-guided bombs. For those worried that Work’s tions of human rights. and financing a so-called opposi- Europe now faces, as people leave and not only a sectarian minority. “The F-35 is not a fighter military Robocop will go all Ter- Iraqis ended up killing each tion groups. The ‘war on terror’ Iraq, Syria, Libya and Afghani- Unless the US transforms its plane,” Work explained. “It is a minator on its creators, the idea other in the name of communism, became a political platform; it was stan—not because they wanted to foreign policy in the region, the flying sensor/computer that sucks that the machines won’t be fully while Iraqi natural resources were a way to destabilise or eliminate live in Europe, but because their outcome will no doubt be the in an enormous amount of data, autonomous should be (slightly) blatantly drained out, not to the any regime that fell out of favour homes are destroyed and they same as that which the Soviet correlates it, analyses it, and dis- reassuring. Let’s face it, artifi- benefit of Iraqis, but the Soviet with the US, or posed a threat to seek shelter and protection. Union suffered. The US will be plays it to the pilot on his hel- cially intelligent killing machines Union. This practice was repeated Israel’s regional ambition. Thus, the radicalisation of driven out and denied any influ- met.” Work acknowledged that are a terrifying prospect. War in other countries in the Middle The regime of President young people who seek to read- ence or presence in the region. As the plane doesn’t turn as well or is always going to require moral East up to the early seventies; Saddam Hussein had fallen out of dress a perceived injustice. The Marx had it, history repeats itself. fly as fast as some of its predeces- and ethical choices, and at least however, by the late eighties, the favour with the US. So the US put groups they turn to, Al-Qaeda First as tragedy, then as farce. sors, but insisted that is all part in Work’s future there will be Soviets were mostly driven out of this policy into practice in Iraq, to and ISIS, are extremist reli- The author is Fellow of the of the plan. a human intelligence, and con- the region. devastating effect. To get rid of gious groups who were trained, Royal Society of Arts Work’s faithful futurism is science, making the final call. The economic collapse of the one man, Iraq was occupied and financed, and supported by the certainly sincere, but baby steps Soviet Union in the late eighties destroyed. The IraqiState set up US, and who, having outlived THE PENINSULA in the direction of man-machine BLOOMBERG THURSDAY 12 NOVEMBER 2015 10 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com ASIA / AFRICA Philippines must heal rift: China Indonesia says it could take China to court over South China Sea dispute BEIJING: Chinese Foreign Min- “We do not want this knot to that disputes with rival claimants court’s authority in the case. ister Wang Yi said the Philip- become tighter and tighter, so be handled bilaterally. Manila filed the case in 2013 pines’ case against China at an that it even becomes a dead knot,” In a legal setback for Beijing, to seek a ruling on its right to arbitration tribunal over rival Wang said. “As for how to loosen the arbitration court ruled last exploit waters in its 200-nauti- claims in the South China Sea or open the knot, (we’ll) have to month that it had jurisdiction cal mile EEZ as allowed under had strained relations and that look at the Philippines.” to hear some territorial claims the UN Convention on the Law it was up to the Philippines to The nine-dash line also the Philippines had filed against of the Sea. heal the rift. includes parts of the Indonesian- China. “The person who caused the Beijing’s claim to almost the held Natuna islands and Jakarta, The Philippines has welcomed problem should solve it,” Wang Newly-appointed Foreign Affairs minister Geoffrey Onyema (left) shakes entire South China Sea is shown which has kept a low profile in the the decision and its Foreign said. “We hope that the Philip- hands with President Mohammadu Buhari after taking the oath of office. on Chinese maps with a nine-dash dispute, could take China to the Affairs Department said yester- pines can make a more sensible line that stretches deep into the “International Criminal Court” if day it would pursue the case “to choice.” maritime heart of Southeast Asia. Beijing’s claim was not resolved its logical conclusion”. Next week, Manila hosts the Vietnam, the Philippines, Taiwan, through dialogue, Indonesia’s “China’s nine-dash line claim Asia-Pacific Economic Coopera- After long wait, Nigeria Malaysia and Brunei also claim security chief, Luhut Panjaitan, is expansive, excessive and has tion summit, an event at which parts of the waterway. said yesterday. no basis under international law,” the United States says the South The arbitration case against Although he specified the Inter- said foreign affairs spokesman China Sea will likely come up on China in the Hague “is a knot national Criminal Court, which Charles Jose. “If left unchallenged, the sidelines. Chinese Foreign gets cabinet ministers that has impeded the improve- deals with war crimes, it would we could lose about 80 percent Ministry spokesman Hong Lei ment and development of Sino- appear he meant an international of our EEZ (exclusive economic said China hoped “sensitive politi- ABUJA: Nigeria yesterday finally Kemi Adeosun, a former invest- Philippine relations”, a statement tribunal such as the Permanent zone).” cal topics” would not be discussed got a new government after more ment banker and accountant who on the Foreign Ministry’s website Court of Arbitration. China has boycotted the legal there. than five months of waiting, as recently served as finance com- cited Wang as saying in Manila. For years, China has insisted proceedings and rejects the REUTERS 36 ministers and junior ministers missioner in the southwestern swore the oath of allegiance and state of Ogun, was appointed were assigned formal roles. finance minister. The ceremony at President She faces a battle to get Niger- Muhammadu Buhari’s official ia’s crude-dependent economy residence in the capital, Abuja, back on track, with government UN retracts claim brought to an end 166 days in revenues hit hard since last year Myanmar president, army which he has effectively been in by the global slump in oil prices. on schoolgirls, sole charge of Africa’s leading GDP growth is currently running economy. at just 2.35 percent, while infla- says Japan Buhari described the appoint- tion is creeping towards 10 per- endorse Suu Kyi victory ments as a “milestone” and indi- cent and the naira currency weak. TOKYO: A UN human rights cated it had taken so long to Buhari is keen to diversify the envoy has retracted her claim YANGON: Myanmar President confirm the trend, Suu Kyi’s tri- would work with “all other peo- decide because of the need to put economy of Africa’s number one that 13 percent of schoolgirls in Thein Sein and the powerful umph will sweep out an old guard ple” to ensure stability in the “round pegs in round holes” with oil producer, boosting investment Japan are involved in forms of army congratulated democratic of former generals that has run post-election period. the right people for the job. in agriculture, manufacturing and paid dating that can involve sex, champion Aung San Suu Kyi yes- Myanmar since the junta handed The army has also congratu- “I have been conscious of the mining. Since taking office on May the Japanese government said terday, after her party trounced over power to Thein Sein’s semi- lated the NLD on its win in a need not to repeat the mistakes 29, he has given priority to the yesterday. the ruling camp in the first free civilian government in 2011. Such statement posted to the Facebook of the past,” he said, adding the fight against Boko Haram, whose The step came shortly after election in 25 years and was clos- unambiguous endorsement of Suu page of the military’s media por- ministers had been chosen on the Islamist insurgency has left at Tokyo bitterly complained to the ing in on an absolute majority in Kyi’s victory could smooth the tal, Myawady. basis of their abilities and per- least 17,000 dead and made more Office of the United Nations High parliament. post-election transition, ahead The armed forces continue formance. than 2.5 homeless since 2009. Commissioner for Human Rights Thein Sein reiterated that the of the first session of parliament to wield considerable power in As expected, Buhari, who has The defence portfolio was and demanded it show evidence to government would accept the which reconvenes on Monday. Myanmar’s political institutions, been seeking to streamline gov- handed to retired Brigadier-Gen- support the figure. results of the election and agreed “Congratulations... to the chair- under a constitution drafted ernment and cut endemic cor- eral Muhammad Mansur Dan- Maud de Boer-Buquicchio, the to Suu Kyi’s request to hold rec- person Aung San Suu Kyi and her before the end of nearly 50 years ruption, slashed the number of Ali, who was appointed interior UN’s special envoy on the sale of onciliation talks soon, although party for gathering support of the of rule. It is unclear how Suu ministries from 36 to 24, making minister. Intellectual property children, child prostitution and the two are still to agree on the people,” read a Facebook state- Kyi and the generals will work some nominees only junior minis- lawyer Geoffrey Onyeama was child pornography, wrote to the time and location of the negotia- ment on page of the presidential together. Relations between ters. He confirmed he would take appointed foreign minister. Permanent Mission of Japan to tions. spokesman. Suu Kyi and armed forces chief charge of the oil portfolio. Former Lagos state governor the International Organisations Suu Kyi’s opposition National “The government will respect Min Aung Hlaing are said to be The head of the state-run Nige- Babatunde Fashola was handed in Geneva to say she could not League for Democracy (NLD) and follow the people’s choice and strained. The army chief would rian National Petroleum Corpo- power, works and housing while offer hard evidence to support her has won over 80 percent of the decision, and work on transfer- meet Suu Kyi for reconciliation ration, Ibe Kachikwu, will be his the former Rivers state governor claim. Concerns over the sexuali- seats declared so far in the lower ring power peacefully according talks after official results are out. deputy and responsible for over- Rotimi Amaechi got transport. sation of young girls have been house and is well ahead in the to the timetable,” said the state- seeing the day-to-day running of frequently expressed by Japanese upper house. If the final results ment, adding that the president REUTERS the sector. AFP media. AFP

Thailand, China S Korea, Japan Kenyan forces flush out suspected militants hold first talks to hold first MOMBASA: Kenyan security ons handed to the government.” forces have destroyed five camps The militants themselves fled on ‘comfort fighter jet drill used by suspected militants when the operation was launched linked to the Somali Islamist on September 11 and none were BANGKOK: Thailand and Chi- group Al Shabaab in a sweep of a arrested in the raids, he said. But women’ na’s air forces will conduct their forest on the north coast, a com- several people in the surrounding first joint exercise this month, the mander in charge of the opera- area, mostly Kenyans, had been SEOUL: South Korea and Japan latest example of blossoming mili- tion said. detained on suspicion of having yesterday discussed their long- tary ties between Beijing and the The army and police launched links to the group, he added. running dispute over Korean kingdom’s junta. the operation two months ago in “You will be seeing some of women forced into wartime sex- Thai air force officials said the Boni Forest, close to the Somali them in court soon,” he said. ual slavery -- the first such talks 11-day live exercise will involve border, to flush out militants it Military planes and helicopters since their leaders vowed to push fighter jets from both nations and believed were using the area to have been sweeping the area since for a mutually acceptable settle- will start on Monday. launch strikes in Kenya. the operation began and local ment. “It is the first drill with China, Al Shabaab has been behind residents have reported sporadic The meeting between senior part of our cooperation among a spate of attacks on Kenya in sounds of gunfire and blasts from foreign ministry officials from allies,” Air Vice Marshall Pongsak the past two years, including an the area. both sides followed last week’s Semachai said. assault on Nairobi’s Westgate “We are not leaving the Boni summit in Seoul between South “The drill will focus on strate- shopping mall that killed 67 peo- forest anytime soon until we Korean President Park Geun- gic training,” he added. ple and a raid on Garissa univer- ascertain that every terror ele- Hye and Japanese Prime Minister Five Swedish-made Thai sity in the northeast that killed Weapons seized from militants are displayed in Mpekatoni yesterday. ment in the forest has been Shinzo Abe. Gripen fighters will take part in almost 150. cleared,” Serian said, adding “It’s difficult to go into details, the exercise alongside six Chinese The militants also launched includes Boni forest. forest,” the head of the opera- the operation could take more but it can be said that we’re mov- fighter jets, Pongsak said. several attacks in 2014 that left “The combined security units tion, James Ole Serian, said. than the three months originally ing one step at a time towards our China’s state-run Xinhua news more than 100 dead in Lamu discovered five different Al “The hideouts have already planned. goal,” the South’s Yonhap news agency said the joint training County region, an area that Shabaab hideouts inside the been destroyed and the weap- REUTERS agency quoted. would take place at Thailand’s “We have agreed to continue Korat air force base, 300km talks on areas where differences northeast of Bangkok. exist,” the unnamed official said. AFP Tribute to troops South Korea is demanding a formal apology and compensation S Korea gets back $1m for the Korean women forced to serve as sex slaves in Japanese military army brothels during Okinawa refuses World War II. stolen by ex-leader Japan maintains that the dis- order on US base pute was settled in a 1965 nor- WASHINGTON: The United Lynch called the seizure “a pow- malisation agreement, which saw landfill work States has returned more than erful vindication of the rule of law Tokyo make a total payment of a million dollars to South Korea and an important victory for the $800 million in grants or loans to TOKYO: The governor of the that were embezzled by a former people of the Republic of Korea.” its former colony. The two sides southern Japanese island of dictator and hidden abroad, offi- The Department of Justice have now held 10 rounds of talks Okinawa yesterday rejected a cials said last Tuesday. said FBI investigators had traced on the issue since April last year. state order to proceed with land- South Korea’s former president $726,951 to a California account Yesterday’s meeting was in the fill work on a new US military Chun Doo Hwan was convicted linked to the sale of Orange same framework, but was closely base in the latest move in a nearly of corruption in 1996 in his own County real estate by Chun’s son. monitored for any signs that the 20-year battle over the controver- country, but it took US agents A second $500,000 was traced Park-Abe summit had shifted the sial project. Takeshi Onaga said years to track down the assets. to a Pennsylvania company found discussion lines. he will do his best to prevent the The money was returned last to be linked to Chun’s “corruption In what was their first one- government from the base work. Monday and Tuesday, US Home- scheme.” The former leader, now on-one meeting, the two leaders The dispute is over a pro- land Security Secretary Jeh John- 84, seized power after the 1979 had vowed to speed up consulta- posal, to move the US Marines’ son met Korean Justice Minister assassination of longtime military tions to resolve the dispute, which Futenma air base from a densely Kim Hyun-Woong to congratulate ruler Park Chung-Hee. Park called the “biggest stumbling populated city in the central part him. He led South Korea for eight block” to normalised ties. of the island to a remote area in US officials said the return of turbulent years marred by exten- People offer a silent prayer at the UN Memorial Cemetery in Busan, Park had previously rebuffed the north. Onaga said that the the funds, $1.13m in today’s dol- sive corruption. He was convicted South Korea, yesterday, to pay tributes to UN troops killed in the 1950- multiple proposals for a summit government’s recent actions lars, demonstrated Washington’s of insurrection and corruption 53 Korean War. The Turn Toward Busan ceremony was simultaneously with Abe, arguing that Tokyo had towards Okinawa are “extremely commitment to rooting out the and ordered to repay 220bn won held in 21 other countries that fought with South Korea under the UN yet to properly atone for its war- unjust”. profits of theft by foreign leaders. ($212m). flag against invading North Korea in the three-year conflict. time past. AFP Attorney General Loretta AFP AFP THURSDAY 12 NOVEMBER 2015 ASIA / PAKISTAN www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 11 Huge Kabul protest puts pressure on Ghani Killing of seven Hazaras risks inflaming ethnic tension in Afghanistan

KABUL: Afghan President they wake up and make a deci- ing police to fire warning shots to doesn’t belong to a family, a tribe Ashraf Ghani appealed for calm sion,” said Sayed Karim, 40, one scatter the crowd. or an ethnic group, but it belongs after angry protesters from the of thousands who filled Mazari Seven people were wounded, to all Afghans.” ethnic Hazara minority tried to Square in western Kabul. including five from bullet wounds, The killings in the southern force their way into his Kabul “The people are asking why the a spokesman for the public health province of Zabul occurred amid palace yesterday to demand jus- government has been indifferent ministry said. fighting between rival Taliban tice for seven members of their towards these crimes, people are The number of protesters factions and Islamic State mili- community beheaded by Islamist demanding the resignation of the outside the palace dwindled to tants that has underlined the militants. heads of the government because dozens after the warning shots risk of further fragmentation and In one of the biggest demon- they have been inefficient and were fired, though many people reduced the chances of a resump- strations seen in Kabul in years, corrupt and never address the remained in the streets. tion to stalled peace talks. thousands of people marched demands of the people,” Jawad Besides swelling the daily toll Demonstrators said Hazara through the Afghan capital to Sultani, a university lecturer at of killings, the deaths of the people were being killed every demand government action after the protests said. seven Hazara, who included three day on roads between Ghazni, the killers dumped the partially “Ashraf Ghani, we want women and two children, have Bamyan and Wardak provinces beheaded bodies of their victims answers,” a woman protestor heightened the risk of sectarian to the west of Kabul, where the earlier this week. shouted through a loudspeaker. hatred further poisoning relations hardline Islamist Taliban move- The murders, which the United In a hastily arranged television in a country made up of a patch- ment controls much of the coun- Nations denounced as a potential address, Ghani, whose unwieldy work of ethnicities. tryside after international forces war crime, have fuelled a grow- national unity government has The Hazara are a Persian- stopped most combat operations ing sense of insecurity since the come under growing pressure speaking, mainly Shia minority last year. Taliban briefly seized control of because of deteriorating security, who have long faced persecution Besides blaming the Taliban the key northern city of Kunduz promised action but called for in Afghanistan, with thousands and Islamic State, some Hazara in late September. emotions not to spill over. massacred by the Taliban and Al took to social media to point the Chanting “Death to Ghani, “We are committed to avenging Qaeda in the 1990s, but a series finger more generally at Pashtuns, death to Taliban,” the demonstra- our countrymen’s blood. We will of murders and kidnappings this Afghanistan’s largest ethnic group tors marched 10km to the palace, spare no effort,” he said, accusing year has stoked a mood of grow- from which Islamist movements bearing the green-draped coffins the militants of stoking regional ing despair. recruit most of their followers. of the dead and demanding the and ethnic tensions. But he added: “This sends a very dangerous “We’re from this country,” said president come out to face them “We must avoid reactions that message to the people of Afghani- a demonstrator who gave her with a response. end in anarchy.” stan, its government and its inter- name only as Sohaila. “We have People from the ethnic Hazara minority march through Kabul yesterday to “The only way to prevent such At one stage, protesters national allies,” said Abdul Rauf to have the same rights as other protest the killing of seven members of their community by Islamist militants. crimes in the future is to take attempted to scale the walls of a Ibrahimi, speaker of the lower citizens.” over all government offices until building near the palace, prompt- house of parliament. “This issue AGENCIES

Bangladesh cops to boost Pakistan hands over land to China for economic zone QUETTA: Pakistan handed hun- ing western China to the Arabian Gwadar port, located 540 kilo- security for dreds of hectares of land over to Sea, part of Beijing’s ambition to metres southwest of Karachi, China yesterday for development expand its trade and transport was built in 2007 with technical of a special economic zone in the footprint across Central and help from Beijing as well as Chi- bloggers port of Gwadar, part of a $46bn South Asia while countering US nese financial assistance of some project giving Beijing greater and Indian influence. $248m. DHAKA: A prominent Bangla- access to the Middle East, Africa Experts say access to the port It gives China “new access” to deshi academic and other secular and Europe. of Gwadar will cut thousands of the Arabian Sea, Pakistani ana- writers, bloggers and intellectu- The government of Baluchistan kilometres off the distance which lyst Hasan Askari said, adding als have been given increased province — Pakistan’s poorest — oil and gas imports from Africa that it shows to the rest of the security, police said yesterday, handed over about 280 hectares and the Middle East have to world that “China is willing to amid fears they could be the of a 923-hectare swathe of tax- travel to reach China. help friends and spread its influ- next victims of violence blamed exempt land that Beijing will Pakistan’s planning minister ence through positive economic on Islamic militants. develop under a 43-year lease. Ahsan Iqbal and shipping minis- and trade activities”. Tensions are running high in The rest of the land will be ter Kamran Michael attended the Acquiring the land from private Bangladesh after suspected hard- handed over under the agreement handover ceremony with Chinese owners to build the economic zone line Islamists hacked to death with the public China Overseas development commission vice took several years and cost the four secular bloggers and a pub- Port Holding Company “soon”, chairman Wang Xiaotao. Baluch government around $62m. lisher of secular books this year. senior Pakistani government offi- As part of the wider plans, an Pakistan is raising a special Anisuzzaman, a university cials said. international airport will also security force of between 10,000 Chairman of Pakistan’s Gwadar Port Authority, Dostain Khan Jamaldini professor known for supporting The development is part of the be built with a Chinese grant at and 25,000 men to protect the (centre) and Chairman of China Overseas Port Holding Company, Zhan secular writers and who goes by China-Pakistan Economic Corri- Gwadar, with construction due to port. Baozhang (left) sign an agreement in Baluchistan yesterday. one name, alerted police after dor, a $46bn investment plan link- begin in January. AFP receiving a death threat via an anonymous text message, a police spokesman said. “We’ve provided security to Militants surrender those who’ve informed us that they’re facing security risks,” Dhaka metropolitan police Maldives parliament sacks spokesman Muntashirul Islam said, adding that police were also acting on tipoffs. The comments come after a chief prosecutor branch of Al-Qaeda allegedly pub- lished a hit-list of 34 top Bang- MALÉ: The Maldives parlia- able things in the past. All those as a tool to suppress dissent. The ladeshi writers, bloggers, actors, ment sacked the chief prosecu- things must be looked into. How- MDP said the decision to invoke secular activists and intellectuals tor shortly after the government ever, the problem is the way this the emergency was also designed on a little-known website over the bowed to international pressure is being done through the parlia- to give the government legal cover weekend. and lifted a state of emergency ment,” MDP lawmaker Ibrahim to impeach Adeeb. AFP imposed after an alleged plot to Mohamed told reporters in Male The Maldives, a popular des- blow up the president. early yesterday. tination for honeymooners, has At a hastily convened mid- The government announced been rocked by political unrest night session of parliament on last Tuesday it was ending the in recent months, which reached US sees threat Tuesday, ruling party legislators week-long emergency after the new heights last week when voted overwhelmingly to sack honeymoon island nation’s secu- Adeeb’s impeachment was fast- of more attacks Prosecutor General Muhthaz rity forces advised the security tracked using the emergency laws. Muhsin without disclosing the situation had improved. Adeeb has been accused of high on foreigners allegations against him. The main Yameen imposed the emer- treason over an explosion on the opposition Maldivian Democratic gency last Wednesday in a move presidential speedboat in Sep- WASHINGTON: Foreigners Party boycotted the vote, saying that gave wider powers to police tember that left Yameen unhurt may be attacked again in Bang- it was rushed. The MDP believes and armed forces to arrest and but injured his wife and one of ladesh, the US State Department Muhsin was removed on suspi- suspending freedom of assem- his bodyguards. Yameen said it said in a travel warning last cion of supporting estranged Vice bly and movement. The former was necessary to use draconian Tuesday that urged Americans President Ahmed Adeeb who is colonial power Britain as well as powers to deal with at least three to be cautious and vigilant in that accused of trying to topple Presi- the United States, the European attempts to kill him and to ensure country. A militant from the banned Baloch Liberation Army hands over his dent Abdulla Yameen. Union and neighbouring SriLanka stability in the Indian Ocean A Japanese citizen was shot weapon to provincial Irrigation Minister Nawab Changaiz Marri during a “The prosecutor general has had called for an immediate end archipelago. dead in Bangladesh on October surrender ceremony in Quetta, Pakistan, yesterday. Thirty-four militants undoubtedly done some question- to the emergency which was seen AFP 3 and an Italian aid worker was belonging to the Marri tribe surrendered to authorities with their weapons. killed in the same manner in the capital Dhaka on September 28 in attacks claimed by the Islamic State militant group. “There is reliable information Lift obstructions to vital supplies Bangladesh, French firm to suggest that terrorist attacks could occur against foreigners in Bangladesh, including against large gatherings of foreigners,” reaching Nepal, says UN chief ink $250m satellite deal the State Department said in a travel alert that cited the two UNITED NATIONS: With a The carefully worded state- the impending winter season. DHAKA: Bangladesh yesterday contract was worth 19.51bn taka. killings as well as the October harsh winter looming, Secretary- ment in response to questions “Acute shortages in fuel sup- signed a $250m deal with French- Junior telecoms minister 24 bombing of a Shi’ite religious General Ban Ki-moon has called from reporters avoided any men- plies continue to impede planned Italian firm Thales Alenia Space Tarana Halim hailed the deal, procession. for lifting “obstructions” to essen- tion of a blockade or a direct criti- deliveries to earthquake-affected in Dhaka to build the country’s which would save Bangladesh Attacks on foreigners are rela- tial supplies reaching Nepal. cism of India. villages in Nepal,” he said. first communications satellite, coffers $14m a year from renting tively rare in Bangladesh, despite Ban’s spokesperson Stephane “The Secretary-General indeed Humanitarian organisations officials said. transponders of foreign satellites. a rising tide of Islamist violence Dujarric said last Tuesday, “The reiterates his concern over the urgently require fuel to maintain Thales Alenia Space will build “With the launch of Banga- over the past year that has seen Secretary-General underlines obstruction of essential sup- operations and deliver food, warm the satellite called Bangabandhu-1 bandhu-1, it will become the 57th four online critics of religious Nepal’s right of free transit, as a plies on the Nepal-India border,” clothing and shelter materials for the Bangladesh Telecommu- member of the exclusive club of militancy hacked to death, among landlocked nation as well as for Dujarric said. to high altitude areas that will nications Regulatory Commis- satellite-owning countries,” Halim them a US citizen of Bangladeshi humanitarian reasons, and calls Adding a sense of urgency, soon be cut off by harsh winter sion (BTRC) to be launched into said at the ceremony in the capi- origin. on all sides to lift the obstructions he referred to problems weather.” space in 2017. BTRC chairman tal. REUTERS without further delay.” caused by earthquake and IANS Shahjahan Mahmud said the AFP THURSDAY 12 NOVEMBER 2015 12 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com ASIA / INDIA Investments, defence top PM’s UK agenda India, Britain could announce deals worth £8-12bn during Modi’s visit; more Hawk trainers may be purchased

NEW DELHI: Investment and two nations share the English level in India,” he said. He said community is clear — come, make (the country house retreat of But the visit no doubt will be defence will be the key sectors language, historical ties and an that the working assumption on use of the opportunities India is the British prime minister),” shadowed by the defeat of the in focus during Prime Minister obsession with cricket. Yet Modi Indian investments in Britain was offering and invest in India,” Modi Jaishankar said. Modi-led NDA alliance in state Narendra Modi’s three-day visit has, in his first 18 months in around $500-600m per year for stated on Facebook. Modi will also address the elections in Bihar, India’s second to Britain starting today, while power, made a priority of courting the past few years. Defence is another area of British Parliament, which most populous and one of the the issues of climate change, black global powers like the United “We have 122 FDI investments bilateral cooperation that will be according to the foreign secretary, politically most conscious states, money and IMF quota reforms States and China. in the UK. We are a significant job in focus. will be the first by an Indian in which Modi personally invested will be taken up by India at the “UK is one of the fastest creator there,” Jaishankar said. “We have traditionally been prime minister. He will be hosted a lot of political capital. G-20 summit in Turkey immedi- growing G-7 economies and Terming Britain a significant cooperating extensively on for lunch by Queen Elizabeth II The prime minister’s itinerary ately thereafter. is home to a strong financial trade partner of India, he said defence and security issues and at Buckingham Palace, a signal also includes paying homage at the Modi’s visit to Britain is the services sector,” Modi stated in a that “we have almost $18bn worth this visit will build on strong ties. honour. statue of Mahatma Gandhi near first bilateral visit by an Indian series of Facebook posts ahead of of trade”. Defence manufacturing will be a “I will address the City of the British Parliament, visiting prime minister in nine years after his visit. “I see immense scope for “We have trade in services prime focus in my talks,” Modi London at an event at The Old the house where the father of Manmohan Singh’s visit in 2006. our economic and trade relations of $4bn-plus. We have a very wrote. According to Jaishankar, Library, Guildhall. There will India’s constitution, Babasaheb Singh visited Britain in 2009 to to improve and this will benefit robust partnership in science and government-to-government also be a visit to the Jaguar Land Ambedkar, lived while studying at attend the G-20 summit. both our economies,” he added. technology, education, healthcare, discussions will be held between Rover factory at Solihull,” Modi the London School of Economics India and Britain could Addressing a pre-departure culture. We have 800 Indian Modi and British Premier David wrote on Facebook. in 1921-22, and unveiling a bust of announce deals worth £8-12bn media briefing on Tuesday, companies operating in the UK,” Cameron. This will be the third At 1.5 million, India has one 12th century scholar, philosopher ($12-$18bn) during the visit, Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar the foreign secretary said. Adding meeting between them after of its largest and most visible and statesman Basaveshwara on a according to diplomats, with said that India and Britain were that several business agreements the G-20 summit in Brisbane diasporas in Britain. In his by now bank of the Thames river. Modi keen to buy 20 more BAE leading investors in each other’s will be signed during the course in November last year and the trademark public interactions Following the conclusion of his Systems Hawk trainer aircraft to countries. “Our ballpark figure of the visit. The prime minister UN General Assembly session in with the Indian diaspora, Modi visit to Britain, Modi will leave be made in Bengaluru. for UK investments in India is would also interact with CEOs at September this year. will address some 70,000 people for Antalya in Turkey on Britain is home to an Indian in excess of $22bn. It amounts a roundtable in London. “This will be both at 10, of Indian origin at the iconic November 14. diaspora of 1.5 million, and the to 9 percent of the current FDI “My message to the business Downing Street, and the Chequers Wembley Stadium in London. AGENCIES

Prayer for prosperity Telecoms satellite GSAT-15 launched Chennai rains claim 27 lives CHENNAI: Twenty-seven normal rainfall of 697 mm during According to the Cuddalore CHENNAI: Indian people have lost their lives in the northeast monsoon between administration, 35 health camps telecommunications satellite Chennai’s Cuddalore district in October-December -- received have been set up in the district and GSAT-15 was successfully the last two days due to floods 500 mm rain till date this year the affected people administered launched last Tuesday evening following incessant rain, Chief resulting in heavy floods. injections and tablets to prevent by European space agency Minister J Jayalalithaa said Meanwhile, the state spread of water-borne diseases. Arianespace’s rocket Ariane yesterday. government is trying to restore People living in the flood- 5, the space agency said In a statement issued here, electricity supply to villages in affected areas have been shifted yesterday. Arianespace said it Jayalalithaa said 27 people Cuddalore district through diesel- to camps and food packets are had successfully launched two lost their lives due to floods in run generators as power supply being distributed among them. telecommunication satellites, Cuddalore district, around 230 was disrupted by heavy rain. However, relief measures are GSAT-15 and Arabsat-6B, for two km from here. She said relief The government has also yet to reach some pockets in the customers, namely Indian Space efforts were on in full swing. A deployed personnel from other district, according to reports here. Research Organisation (ISRO) solatium of `4lakh to the family districts to help resumption of Roads and railway lines have been and Arabsat. members of each of the deceased power supply. On November 9, damaged due to flood waters. The launch of the two satellites was handed out yesterday, the a deep depression over the Bay In other parts of the state, takes the total number of statement said. However, there of Bengal crossed near the Tamil standing crops were damaged by consecutive successful satellite was no official figure as to the Nadu-Puducherry coast, resulting the heavy downpour. launches to 69 for Ariane rocket. total number of people who lost in heavy rain and consequent The Indian Coast Guard has The rocket blasted off with two their lives due to rains in the state flood in Cuddalore district. deployed Dornier aircraft and Businessmen offer prayers in front of their record-keeping books as satellites from the spaceport and in the last two days. Unofficial The official statement said the patrol vessels to locate around 120 part of a ritual to worship the deity of wealth on Diwali, the festival of completed the mission in around estimates put the number around government was ensuring safe unmanned fishing boats drifting lights, in Ahmedabad yesterday. The ritual, known as “Muhurat trading” 43 minutes. 40. According to Jayalalithaa, drinking water supply through in the sea. is considered auspicious by traders and marks the beginning of the IANS Cuddalore district -- against a tankers in the flooded areas. IANS new trading year for the Gujarati community, who form the bulk of share brokers and businessmen.

OROP: Veterans Bangladesh hands over top ULFA stage protest chief wanted for killings, extortion march over

NEW DELHI: Bangladesh the help in fighting terrorism”. in 2013. Earlier this year, the ‘diluted scheme’ handed over a top separatist Chetia is wanted in India for neighbours sealed a decades-long leader yesterday, officials on both alleged killings, abductions and border dispute following Modi’s NEW DELHI: Ex-servicemen sides said, after the two countries extortion during his group’s visit to Bangladesh. on Tuesday escalated their pro- spent almost two decades arguing struggle in Assam. Chetia was reported to be living test against the notification on over his extradition. According to media reports, in Bangladesh ever since he fled the implementation of ‘One Rank, Anup Chetia, founder of the New Delhi had long sought his India in the early 1990s after he One Pension’ (OROP) and took separatist United Liberation repatriation, but successive gov- was released from jail in 1991. out a march from Jantar Mantar Front of Asom (ULFA) group, ernments in Dhaka refused. Chetia is the second fugitive to Rashtrapati Bhavan, saying a was arrested in 1997 and sen- Bangladeshi Home Minister brought to India this month after “diluted” OROP scheme was not tenced to seven years in jail in Asaduzzaman Khan said that Indonesia handed over wanted acceptable. Volunteers of the vigilante group Gau Raksha Dal (Cow Protection Squad) Bangladesh for illegally being in Chetia’s extradition was long gangster Rajendra Sadashiv “A protest march was taken out inspect a truck in Taranagar, Rajasthan. the country. delayed as “he did not want to go Nikalje last Friday. from Jantar Mantar to Rashtra- But Chetia, whose group fought at that time. He is released (now) ULFA, which started an armed pati Bhavan against the diluted in northeast Assam state border- according to his wish.” independence struggle in 1979, OROP scheme,” said a spokesper- ing Bangladesh, spent 11 more Dhaka spent years dealing with declared a unilateral ceasefire in son of the ex-servicemen’s front. Vigilantes rule amid years in custody while officials Chetia’s requests for political asy- 2011, paving the way for a peace He said retired military per- struggled to agree on terms to lum in Bangladesh, according to a accord between the government sonnel will try to meet President return him. news report. and the rebel group. Pranab Mukherjee and returned In a tweet yesterday, Prime Chetia’s handover comes at a One of India’s largest rebel him their gallantry and other debate over intolerance Minister Narendra Modi said time of improved ties between groups, ULFA accused New Delhi medals. Delhi Police, however, he spoke with his Bangladeshi India and Bangladesh, and fol- of exploiting the natural resources stopped the protest march before TARANAGAR: As a truck Modi’s Hindu nationalist counterpart Sheikh Hasina lows the signing of an extradition of the northeast. it could reach Rashtrapati Bha- screeches to a halt on an highway government came to power at about Chetia, thanking her “for treaty between the two countries IANS van. Some protesters also tried in the middle of the night, devout general elections last May. to burn their medals but were young Hindus armed with sticks “It is extremely disturbing stopped by the other members. scramble inside, searching for when ordinary people take Group Captain V K Gandhi cows they consider sacred. the law into their hands,” said (retd), general secretary of the Almost every night, the vigilantes Zafarul Islam Khan, president Indian Ex-Servicemen Move- lie in wait for suspected cattle of the All India Muslim Majlis- Authorities foil J&K protest march ment, said they were fighting for smugglers in the desert state e-Mushawarat, a leading Muslim their rights and a “diluted” OROP of Rajasthan, ready to fight to body. SRINAGAR: Restrictions were scheme was not acceptable. protect the animals, a revered “They (right-wing groups) have imposed here yesterday to foil a “The OROP scheme was symbol majority Hindu religion. their goons going around saying protest march called by the sepa- cleared by parliament. Then “Smugglers often open fire or ‘we will dispense justice, there is ratists, police said. why were the changes made in try to run us over. I even get death no need for courts’. What is really “Restrictions have been the scheme? Why did they put threats, but nothing bothers me,” sad is that they seem to enjoy imposed in Parimpora, Maisuma, conditions?” Gandhi asked, and said Babulal Jangir, a leader of the police and political patronage,” Kralkhud, M R Gunj, Safakadal, accused the government of cheat- Gau Raksha Dal (Cow Protection he said. Nowhatta, Khanyar and Raina- ing them. Squad). But Jangir, who runs a furniture wari areas to maintain law and The veterans listed seven “My heart beats only for my business, has no sympathy for order,” a police officer said. changes made by the govern- dear cow mother.” beef eaters and his team have no Hardline senior separatist ment, including annual equalisa- Cow slaughter and consumption qualms about dispensing “rough leader Syed Ali Geelani had called tion, the 2013-14 financial year of beef are banned in Rajasthan justice”, usually in the form for a protest march to the resi- as the base year for calculating and many other states in India, of beatings. “Anyone who eats dence of the 22-year old Gowhar pension, and taking the highest which has substantial Muslim and cow meat should be handed the Ahmad Dar, who died during pension scale of 2013 as the base Christian populations. death sentence,” the 42-year-old clashes with the security forces for calculation and not the aver- But the recent killing of at least said, adjusting buckles on his on November 7. Dar died after a age as announced by the govern- three Muslims suspected of eating bullet-proof vest. Jangir said his tear smoke shell hit his head. Paramilitary soldiers stand guard as Kashmiri women walk during a ment. The new scheme also says it beef or smuggling cows by Hindu squad has grown to some 20,000 The Srinagar district magis- clampdown in central Srinagar yesterday. will be reviewed once in five years mobs have heightened fears of members, ranging from farmers trate has ordered a magisterial and not annually. Gandhi said the rising violence against religious to lawyers and teachers, along probe into the youth’s death. Miwaiz Umer Farooq, Muham- Police and CRPF personnel in veterans asked to rethink over minorities. The deaths have also with a fast growing network of Shops, public transport and other mad Yasin Malik, Shabir Shah, full riot gear have been deployed changes made by the government sparked a wider debate about informers prowling Rajasthan’s businesses were closed in Srina- Asiya Andrabi and others have to enforce restrictions in the city. in implementation of the OROP growing religious intolerance major roads. gar yesterday. been placed under preventive scheme. since Prime Minister Narendra AFP Separatist leaders Geelani, detention. IANS IANS THURSDAY 12 NOVEMBER 2015 EUROPE / AMERICAS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 13

Slovenian army Hungary says won’t let unrolling razor wire on border migrants come back with Croatia

GIBINA, Slovenia: Slovenia’s Refugees on hunger strike in Czech detention centre army began yesterday rolling out razor wire along the border BUDAPEST: Hungary, a major said. “Therefore it is not justified Meanwhile, dozens of migrants with Croatia, a reporter said, in target point for migrants seeking to send any Syrians back to Hun- went on hunger strike in a Czech a move the government says will to get into the European Union, gary.” detention centre to protest help it better manage the influx called the bloc’s relocation rules Hungary has been a point of re- against the length of their stay of migrants. obsolete yesterday and disputed entry to the EU for about 200,000 and the threat of repatriation, the Slovenia last month suddenly any idea of letting people return migrants, many of them Syrians, Interior Ministry and volunteer found itself on the Balkans route to the first EU country they so far this year. They arrived workers said. taken by thousands of migrants entered. mostly in Greece, then left the The Czech Republic has avoided heading to northern Europe after Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto bloc for Macedonia and Serbia large-scale migration through its Hungary sealed its borders with challenged the EU’s immigration before entering Hungary en route territory, as most of the hundreds Croatia and Serbia. rules as the bloc’s leaders met to Western Europe. of thousands who have fled to More than 170,000 passing African counterparts on Malta, In August, Germany decided Europe this year to escape pov- have passed through the small hoping pledges of cash and other to waive for Syrian refugees erty and war in the Middle East EU member state of two million aid can slow the flow of migrants the Dublin rules which oblige have passed via the Balkans to people since mid-October, all but crossing the Mediterranean. migrants to request asylum in the Germany through neighbouring a handful heading for Austria and Hungary has long resisted first EU country they arrive in. Austria. beyond. accepting any returned migrants But since then, Germany has Those who do come through Prime Minister Miro Cerar and Szijjarto told state news struggled to cope with the flood and do not claim asylum are had announced on Tuesday that agency MTI that he rejected Ber- of migrants, the biggest on the detained, often held for weeks in Ljubljana planned to build “obsta- lin’s announcement on Tuesday European continent since the centres and facing the threat of cles” along parts of its frontier that Syrian refugees who have Second World War. The govern- being returned to the EU coun- with Croatia, an outer border of made it to Germany may be sent ment expects 800,0000 to one tries where they did claim asylum Europe’s passport-free Schengen on to other European countries. million overall. or entered the Czech Republic zone. “The Dublin system is dead,” Migrants formed a big backlog from. “These obstacles, including Szijjarto was quoted as saying, in Hungary as they were asked The Czechs say the policy fences if needed, will have the referring to the rule under which to register in the asylum system. is strictly in line with Euro- objective of directing migrants the member state where asylum In September, Hungary closed its pean treaties but the length of towards the border crossings. seekers first apply for protection Serbian border with a razor wire detentions and conditions in We are not closing our borders,” is responsible for examining their fence and police patrols, forcing the detention centres have led Cerar had told a news conference. claims. migrants to head West via EU to criticism by human rights A reporter near the Gibina If migrants leave that country member Croatia. watchdogs. border-crossing point in north- they may be returned. That onus Zagreb, like Greece, was unable The protest erupted on Tues- eastern Slovenia said that soldiers was on Greece, not landlocked to cope with the flow and sped the day at a newly opened facility in were erecting two vertical rolls of Hungary, Szijjarto said. migrants along, another 200,000 Drahonice, some 90km west of the razor wire to about shoulder- “If anyone leaves from Syria of them through Hungary across the capital Prague, and continued height across fields at the rate of toward Europe it is physically an internal EU border. Hungary yesterday. Members of the Slovenian police patrol the barbed wire barrier at Veliki around 100 metres per hour. impossible for them to enter the closed that border too, forcing the Ormoz village, Slovenia border between Slovenia and Croatia, yesterday. European Union in Hungary,” he flow through Slovenia. REUTERS AFP

Serbian PM Steady debate performance banishes gloom for Jeb Bush pays respects MILWAUKEE: A steady per- Trump and mistake-free per- a drop-off in financial donations. world works.” hold their spots at the top of to Srebrenica formance by Jeb Bush in Tues- formances by Rubio of Florida “I thought the debate went That Bush was able to stop the opinion polls and Rubio trying to day’s Republican debate has and Ted Cruz of Texas, two up- well, and I had a good debate bleeding may give him time to build on the momentum of his last halted the sense of desperation and-coming US senators in the because I got to talk about things regain his footing in the unpre- strong debate performance. Muslim victims around his US presidential cam- race. with a little substance instead of dictable Republican race with the Rubio, 44, who is competing paign and may buy him time to But the most relieved candi- the cute one-liners,” Bush said next debate more than a month with Bush, 62, for establishment SREBRENICA, Bosnia and counter the rise of chief rival date after the two-hour encoun- yesterday morning on Fox News. away, on December 15 in Las Republican votes, was attacked by Herzegovina: Serbian Prime Marco Rubio. ter inside the Milwaukee Theatre In the same appearance, Bush Vegas. Bush was campaigning fellow Senator Rand Paul for pro- Minister Aleksandar Vucic paid The fourth Republican debate was Bush, the former Florida announced he had received the yesterday in Iowa, which on Feb- moting what Paul called a $1 tril- his respects yesterday to Mus- in the search for a 2016 presiden- governor who was outclassed in endorsement of former Republi- ruary 1 holds the first nominat- lion increase in military spending. lim victims of the 1995 Srebrenica tial nominee was characterised the three previous debates and can senator and one-time presi- ing contest of the November 2016 “Marco, how is it conservative massacre, four months after by a constant stream of attacks has suffered an erosion of sup- dential nominee Bob Dole. election. to add $1 trillion in expenditures being chased from a ceremony against front-runner Donald port from Republican voters and Trump, a billionaire business- “Jeb Bush was much improved. to the federal government?” Paul in the Bosnian town by a stone- man who has led opinion polls in At a minimum, this buys him said. throwing mob. the Republican race for months, more time to reset and try to Rubio dismissed the criti- Vucic, a former ultra- gave Bush an opening when he advance,” said Fergus Cullen, cism with a promise to do what nationalist turned pro-European, said it was okay with him if Rus- a former chairman of the New it takes to protect US national laid a wreath of white roses at sian President Vladimir Putin Hampshire Republican Party. security, a pledge other candi- Srebrenica’s memorial, in the “wants to go and knock the hell Bush campaign officials, includ- dates embraced, and the crowd presence of the town’s mayor out of ISIS” in Syria and Iraq, a ing finance chief Woody Johnson, roared its approval. “We have to and Bosnian Muslim leader Bakir reference to Islamic State mili- owner of the New York Jets, make our military bigger, better Izetbegovic. tants in the two Middle East offered an upbeat message in a and stronger than ever before,” Some 8,000 Muslim men and countries. Bush, who mostly conference call to donors imme- agreed Trump. boys were killed by Bosnian Serb steered clear of attacking his diately after the debate. Cruz had the highest social forces in Srebrenica in July 1995, rivals after previous attempts “This is a performance you can media sentiment score of 59 with near the end of Bosnia’s 1992-1995 had fallen flat, quickly interjected. sell and help keep the fundraising nearly 9,500 tweets mention- war, in the worst atrocity in Europe “We’re not going to be the going,” Heather Larrison, a top ing his name during the fourth since the Second World War. world’s policemen, but we sure as aide to Bush’s campaign, told the Republican debate, according to There was a heavy police heck better be the world’s leader,” donors, according to one partici- Topsy, an analytics platform that presence at the memorial and Bush said, saying Trump’s views pant on the call. tracks and analyzes mentions and in the town yesterday for Vucic’s of Putin and his policies in Syria It is a critical time in the race trends on social media websites visit, during which the Serbian were “like a board game. That’s for the Republican nomination, Twitter and Google+. premier is also set to speak at an Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush (left) and John Kasich at the like playing Monopoly or some- with retired neurosurgeon Ben economic conference. Republican Presidential Debate at the Milwaukee Theatre in Wisconsin. thing. That’s not how the real Carson and Trump fighting to REUTERS The visit is Vucic’s first to Srebrenica since July 11, when the crowd at a memorial ceremony marking 20 years since the Readying for blast-off atrocity started hurling stones and bottles. The premier was forced to Portugal in limbo as leftist run for cover, shielded by his bodyguards. Vucic said later that a stone hit him in the mouth but he was unhurt. vote topples government During the two-day economic conference Srebrenica authorities LISBON: Portugal was in limbo is that (Cavaco Silva) will name Passos Coelho’s centre-right plan to present investment yesterday as its leftwing opposi- Antonio Costa as prime minister, coalition won the most votes in opportunities in the town, once tion waited for the green light but that decision will depend on last month’s elections but lost the the most prosperous in the to take power, after toppling the the firmness of the agreement absolute majority it had enjoyed Balkan country. 11-day-old conservative minority he’s presented with,” said politi- since 2011. His government, sworn Srebrenica now has some 7,000 government in a dramatic parlia- cal scientist Antonio Costa Pinto. in on October 30, is the shortest- inhabitants compared with 37,000 mentary vote. The president could also leave lived since Portugal returned to before the conflict. President Anibal Cavaco Silva a conservative caretaker govern- democracy in 1974. “We do not want to construct is set to decide whether to charge ment in power ahead of fresh The leftists want to reverse a new Srebrenica but to speak Socialist leader Antonio Costa elections, which could similarly some cutbacks and reforms about what it was before the with forming a new government result in the removal from power demanded by creditors following war and what can be done today in the face of concerns over of Prime Minister Pedro Passos Portugal’s ¤78bn ($87bn) bailout. in order to improve the living whether the fragile leftist alli- Coelho, who was set to meet with But the three agreements standard here,” mayor Camil ance can last. Cavaco Silva yesterday afternoon. signed Tuesday between the Durakovic said as he announced Cavaco Silva, a conservative, The newly-formed alliance of leftists provide few details on how the conference recently. has never hidden his reluctance the Socialist Party (PS), Com- they would govern together. During a visit to Sarajevo to giving the reins to leftwingers munists, Greens and Left Bloc — They do not guarantee the earlier this month, Vucic called he regards as “anti-European” which is close to Greece’s ruling approval of a budget, and there for improved ties between Serbs and “opposed to Nato”, and may Syriza — is the first of its kind is no reference to Portugal’s and Muslims, saying this was require further guarantees of sta- since the birth of a democratic European commitments — a “crucial” for the stability in the bility from Costa. Portugal, and had seemed unim- potential sticking point between volatile Balkans. The uncertainty has fuelled aginable just weeks ago due to the europhile Socialists and He also announced that Serbia nervousness amongst investors differences between the groups. more radical leftists who are FROM LEFT: US astronaut Tim Kopra, Russian cosmonaut Yuri would invest in development in a country that is still emerg- Together the three parties hold traditionally critical of Brussels. Malenchenko and British astronaut Tim Peake in front of Russian projects in Srebrenica. Bosnia’s ing from an international bailout, 122 seats out of 230 in parliament, Any new elections could not take Souyz space vehicle simulator during a preflight training session at the 1992-1995 war between Croats, though Costa has vowed that any a majority that allowed them place until June at the earliest, as Gagarin Cosmonauts’ Training Centre in Star City, outside Moscow, Muslims and Serbs claimed some Socialist-led government will meet to vote down Passos Coelho’s the current parliament cannot be yesterday. All three are scheduled to blast off to the International Space 100,000 lives. its international commitments. government programme on dissolved for six months. Station on December 15. AFP “The most probably scenario Tuesday. AFP THURSDAY 12 NOVEMBER 2015 14 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com FEATURES

Unwashed Skipping lunch a bad idea for productivity, career knife and By Ellie Krieger best at work, it is important to grater can step away from your desk and he hour-long lunch may change your environment peri- be a charming relic of odically throughout the day, and spread bacteria the past, like phone lunchtime is a perfect opportu- cords and typewrit- nity to do so. “For creative think- between foods ers, but in today’s 24-7 ing, one of the most restorative Twork culture, many of us don’t environments is a natural envi- take any lunch break at all. Fewer ronment,” she says, so she sug- o you use knife or grater than 20 percent of American gests trying to eat lunch in a park, in the kitchen to cut workers regularly step away for a on a patio, in an atrium or at least Ddifferent eatables one after midday meal, and 39 percent usu- eat near a window. another, without washing them ally eat at their desks, according Engaging with co-workers in between? to a survey done by Right Man- casually over lunch can also help You could be playing a role agement. advance your career, as impor- in spreading disease-causing This trend is fueled by the tant social bonds can be forged bacteria, warns a study. notion that the most dedicated, over a relaxed meal. According Actually, bacteria latch on to effective workers are constantly to Elsbach, an official business the utensils commonly found in available and on-task, and that To perform best at work, it is important to step part of the benefits of a lunch lunch doesn’t count as a mentally consumers’ homes and spread to taking a lunch break is coun- away from your desk and change your environment break. Technically you could recharging break, but talking cas- the next item. terproductive. It’s a perception fuel your brain by eating - or ually with a co-worker does, and Researchers have known that that’s especially powerful in the periodically throughout the day, and lunchtime is a slugging a Soylent - at your desk. can be an effective way to net- poor hygiene in a consumer’s tech sector, which gave birth perfect opportunity to do so. For creative thinking, But, research shows that there work at the same time. home can lead to food-borne to the meal-replacement drink one of the most restorative environments is a nature. are tremendous performance “People unconsciously per- illnesses, but considering what Soylent so you don’t need to stop advantages to stepping away ceive you as more dedicated and practices in the kitchen are more what you are doing to eat. The So try to eat lunch in a park or on a patio. from your computer, and even dependable if they see you at your likely to lead to contamination has tagline for the product is “free more pluses if you can get outside. desk more, but it has nothing to not been examined extensively. your body,” which implies we’d formance is to skip lunch; and the a 2001 study published in the “Taking a break from cognitively do with the quality of your work,” Lead author Marilyn Erickson be better off liberated from the best thing you can do, it seems, is American Journal of Clinical taxing work improves creative says Elsbach. In fact, according from the University of Georgia pesky burden of needing to be fed. to eat one with a balance of car- Nutrition looking at how carbs, thinking,” says Kimberly Elsbach, to data collected using the time- contaminated many types of fruit But the idea that breaking for a bohydrates, protein, and fat. protein and fats affect thinking, professor of management at the tracking and productivity app and vegetables in her lab - adding meal hinders accomplishment is Carbohydrate is the brain’s researchers concluded that each Graduate School of Management DeskTime, the most productive certain pathogens that often can plainly wrong. The truth is, stop- primary fuel and study after of the macronutrients enhanced at the University of California at 10 percent of its users were those be found on these foods, such as ping to eat can actually make you study, on everyone from children performance on different kinds Davis, “and everybody’s job has who took regular breaks that salmonella and E. coli. much better at what you do. to airline pilots to the elderly, of tasks. So the optimal power- a creative component, such as lasted about 17 minutes each. So Using a knife, Erickson would Part of the reason lunch can show improvement on memory lunch should include all three problem-solving, managing teams for optimal performance at work cut into things like tomatoes or boost your performance at work tests after eating carbs, especially - carbs from vegetables and/or or finding creative solutions.” Not and better health, step away cantaloupe and other types of is that food literally fuels your slow-release carbohydrates such whole grains; a protein such as to mention taking a break from from your desk and enjoy a bal- produce to see how easily the brain, which needs a constant as whole grains and vegetables. lean meat, eggs, beans or nuts; that steady stream of e-mails anced lunch, outside if possible. It bacteria could spread when the supply of energy to function opti- But it turns out that protein and a healthy fat like olive oil or helps reduce stress and, in turn, doesn’t have to take a whole hour. knife was continuously used mally. So the worst thing you can and fat have distinct roles in avocado. can help keep you healthier. without being cleaned. do for your midday mental per- powering our brains as well. In But the food itself imparts only Elsbach says that to perform WASHINGTON POST Erickson and co-authors did not wash between cutting these different items. They also grated produce, such as carrots, to see how easily the pathogens spread to graters. Hilton’s DoubleTree in Doha Self-weighing danger They found that both knives and graters can cause additional cross-contamination in the offers slew of amenities kitchen and that the pathogens for young women were spread from produce to ilton Worldwide recently meals, drink or Shisha. Guests produce if they hadn’t washed announced the opening can enjoy open-kitchen à la carte the utensils. Hof DoubleTree by Hilton experience at the urban restau- elf-weighing can be a useful “Adolescent obesity is a public The study also found that Doha - Old Town, in Qatar. rant, Open. Rudi Jagersbacher, tool to help adults control health concern, but body dissat- certain fruit and vegetables “As one of the world’s key president MEA for Hilton World- Stheir weight, but for young isfaction and weight concerns are spread pathogens to knives to capitals, Doha is a critical market wide said, “Doha is a key centre in women this behaviour may have predictors of eating disorders,” different degrees. for our growing footprint in the the GCC and we are optimistic negative psychological outcomes, Pacanowski explained. “For items like tomatoes, Middle East,” said John Greenleaf, about the growth.” The hotel is says a new study. “This makes it critical that we tended to have a higher global head, DoubleTree by Hilton. in proximity to the financial dis- Among females, frequently obesity-prevention programmes contamination of the knives “It will welcome both business and trict, promenade, the Corniche, self-weighing is significantly avoid exacerbating these pre- than when we cut strawberries,” leisure travellers.” and the Museum of Islamic Art. related to weight concern, dictors by understanding how Erickson said. The hotel has 187 guest rooms Chris Muth, (pictured) general depression and decreases in body behaviours such as self-weighing Erickson found that scrubbing and suites with floor to ceiling manager, said, “The hotel offers satisfaction and self-esteem, the affect teens,” Pacanowski noted. or peeling items like melons, windows, and flexible meeting guests modern comforts and a study found. The researchers tracked 1,902 carrots and celery did not and events facilities, including a location, ensuring it is the number “Females who strongly agreed young adults over 10 years as a eliminate contamination on boardroom, ballroom and three one choice for travellers to Doha.” they self-weighed reported part of project EAT (Eating and the produce item but led to meeting rooms, and inviting din- This is the seventh DoubleTree engaging in extremely danger- Activity in Teens and Young contamination of the brush or ing and lounge venues. The hotel hotel in the Middle East, and the ous weight-control behaviours at Adults). peeler. also offers business and fitness second Hilton Worldwide prop- a rate of 80 percent,” said lead The study was published in the The study was published in the centres, a sauna, steam room, erty in Qatar, joining Hilton Doha. author of the study Carly Pac- journal of Nutrition Education journal Food Microbiology. and rooftop pool. The hotel’s anowski from University of Min- and Behaviour. open air lounge, Pure offers light THE PENINSULA nesota in the US. IANS IANS

Difficult for Africans to work in India, says Nigerian model Secret Angel By Natalia Ningthoujam industry about five years ago. There’s a preference for white models “I went back home and then I came or Indian models who are fair. I am he has a dark skin tone and back. I am finally going back home in the exact opposite of that. I am black, short thick curls. It’s not just March because it’s not easy (to work and have short hair. So, it was bit of a her “uncommon” look that here). I’ve tried it. To be a proper challenge and is still a challenge. But Sbecomes a challenge in getting working model here, you need to have at the end of the day, I just want to work in India but also the strict laws an employment visa. You can’t do big do modelling and no one can stop me,” that discourage foreigners to invest jobs on a student visa. You think mod- she said. and grow in the country, Nigerian elling is easy, but in India, it’s not,” Sometimes, her unique features model Ugochi Igwilo (pictured) says. said the 24-year-old, who came to build interest in people and work in Hailing the India-Africa Forum India to study interior design from a her favour. Summit, which took place in New private university in Noida. “There are people who want to work Delhi last month, Igwilo said such It was her father who wanted her with me. When I am on the ramp, initiatives should happen more often. to pursue higher education in India. some people appreciate the difference. “I would have been there if not here “I thought that travelling to a dif- So I feel that maybe, this is my field... (in Goa). I even featured in a docu- ferent country would help me to learn the fashion shows.” mentary on how Africans are doing as there is exposure and you grow It might have been a challenging good work in India. This kind of a that way.” experience for her in India, but she summit should happen more often But soon, she started modelling. only has good memories to go back because the relationship between “I started when I was in col- home with. India and Nigeria has been going on lege. Fashion students used to get “I always have a good time here. It for years,” Igwilo told IANS on the very curious about me. They would gets tough being a foreigner in India, sidelines of a fashion event that took ‘I want to be in India, start a business approach me for their shows or port- but it only makes you stronger,” said place here. and let it grow’,” she said. folios. Even back home, people would the model, who has already visited “There are so many Indians doing The Indian community in Nigeria ask me whether I am a model or not Mumbai, Amritsar, Jaipur and Delhi, good work in my country. I feel sum- is estimated at about 35,000. Bilateral because of my height. Then when I got apart from Goa. mits like this will perhaps allow more trade between India and Nigeria in the chance, I started. I approached Her next stop would most probably Africans to do work here as well... do 2014-15 stood at $16.36 billion - two a few agencies, choreographers, and be Europe. more business here. The laws over percent less than the previous year did small shows and shoots,” she said. “I will do modelling in my country here are very tight and strict. It’s dif- figure of $16.98 billion, according to It may sound like a cakewalk for and try for Europe as well. I will also ficult for Africans to invest and grow the official website of the Indian High her, but it wasn’t. start my own clothing line targeting here. The laws force Africans to go Commission in Nigeria. “It was not easy to enter the field. my country,” she said. back after five years. We can’t be like Igwilo said she joined the fashion My look is not a common look here. IANS

Model and New Victoria’s Secret Angel Sara Sampaio from Portugal presents a creation during the 2015 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show in New York recently.

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Chimps caring for disabled infant: Peru’s Caral inspires Researchers modern architecture TOKYO: A chimpanzee mother cared for her disabled infant in the wild in Tanzania, Japanese CARAL: Architects seeking solutions for The world’s architects had previously researchers reported in a study sustainable living in the 21st century are met in Athens in 1933 to sign a landmark published this week, research taking notes from the ancient city of Caral manifesto on urban planning and in Venice they hope will help in under- in Peru, an engineering marvel built some in 1964 to call for the preservation of the standing the evolution of social 5,000 years ago. world’s monuments. “We turn to the past care in humans. A team of Kyoto Caral’s builders created a city of pyra- to see how civilization was organised 5,000 University researchers discovered mids, sunken amphitheatres, seismically years ago, thinking about their commit- that a “severely disabled” female resilient buildings and underground ducts ment to nature, their cosmic vision,” said chimpanzee baby was born in that channelled the wind to keep their fires Jose Arispe, one of Peru’s leading archi- a group in Tanzania’s Mahale burning — all with basic tools. tects and an adviser with the International Mountains National Park in 2011, It was the site of the oldest known civili- Union of Architects. He marvelled at engi- and recorded behaviour of the zation in the Americas, the Caral or Norte neering feats like the ducts Caral used to group for about two years. Chico civilization, which developed from supply air to fires used in religious ceremo- “The observed infant exhibited 3000 to 1800 BC — almost as old as Ancient nies and keep them burning. The system symptoms resembling Down syn- Egypt. Today, architects from around the relies on what physicists now call the Ven- drome, similar to those reported world have convened in Caral to seek inspi- turi effect, the reduction in pressure when previously for a captive chimpan- ration in its sandy brown ruins and discuss a fluid flows through a constricted space. Tourists take pictures of the Caral archaeological complex, in Supe-Peru. zee,” they said in an abstract of the challenges facing humankind five mil- “We are rediscovering the work of archi- the study published in the online lennia later. tects and engineers at the time, when there They also built the city on arid land to The horizon is dominated by seven stone edition of Primates. The International Union of Architects were no instruments like the level or the preserve fertile ground for farming. pyramids that appear to light up in the sun. “The mother’s compensatory met at the Unesco World Heritage Site last plumb line. It’s high engineering,” he said. “This society was very interested in The city is built around two sunken cir- care for her infant’s disabilities weekend and signed a document called the Buildings in the city, which is in a seismi- developing in harmony with nature. They cular plazas, and excavations indicate there and allomothering of the infant by Caral Letter, which hails the ancient city as cally active area, also feature flexible foun- never occupied the valley, they didn’t set- were regular markets that drew traders its sister might have helped it to an example of sustainable urban planning dations called “shicras” that resemble large tle on productive land. Fertile fields were from across a wide region. survive for 23 months in the wild” and living in harmony with nature. baskets filled with stones —a technique to deities,” said Peruvian archaeologist Ruth Fishermen and farmers would trade when the infant disappeared and The letter from the 124-nation group will minimize earthquake damage. Shady, who conducted the first excavations their goods for flutes made of condor was believed to have died, they said. be presented next month at high-stakes Caral’s inhabitants apparently had no at Caral in 1996 and brought the site to bones, or for shells from as far away as The mother and the sister UN climate talks in Paris, where countries weapons and no city walls to keep out world attention. modern-day Ecuador to make necklaces. of the chimpanzee supported will seek a comprehensive agreement on neighboring peoples. “It was a peaceful cul- Caral sits in the Supe Valley, in a semi- Digs to uncover more of the site’s history its body with their arms when curbing the carbon emissions warming the ture and serves as a reference for future arid region about 200km north of Lima, are ongoing. the mother was breastfeeding planet. generations,” said Arispe. just inland from the Pacific Ocean. AFP it, Michio Nakamura, associate professor at Kyoto University’s Wildlife Research Center said. AFP Portrait of Camilla’s ex-husband fetches $35m at auction

NEW YORK: A Lucian Freud spirited bidding. While Warhol’s Camilla, now the Duchess of the $30 million pre-sale estimate. $100m. The sale of 66 works, portrait of Andrew Parker Bow- Four Marilyns, depicting screen Cornwall, and Parker Bowles It was a second consecutive which Christie’s said echoed Mon- les — the ex-husband of Prince siren Marilyn Monroe, drew divorced in 1995. steady night at Christie’s, which day’s “very strong response from Charles’ wife Camilla — sold for the evening’s top price, it was Several bidders competed for scored the second-highest price Asia,” took in $331.8m, beating $34.9m at Christie’s on Tuesday upstaged by The Brigadier, a large- the painting via telephone and in ever for a work of art at auction the low estimate of about $320m. as contemporary works by art- scale 2003-04 portrait of Parker the salesroom, driving the final on Monday when Modigliani’s Thirteen lots went unsold. ists from Andy Warhol to Louise Bowles, sat casually dressed in price to $34.9 million including “Nu couche” soared to $170.4m, Bourgeois drew strong prices and military regalia. Christie’s commission and beating smashing the artist’s record by REUTERS Thursday 12 November 2015 29 Muharram 1437 Volume 20 Number 6612 Price: QR2

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By Satish Kanady ence of a derivatives market would all be BEIJING: Chinese Internet users spent taken into account. Upgrades would only billions of dollars in the planet’s biggest DOHA: The global index provider FTSE occur in response to permanent changes online shopping splurge yesterday, as ‘Sin- Russel has expressed its complete sat- in market status and global acceptance. gles Day’ hit new heights, despite slow- isfaction over Qatar Exchange’s (QE) International investors should be able to ing growth in the world’s second-largest market initiatives in the run up to the invest and withdraw funds in a timely economy. inclusion of its 50 percent stocks in its and secure manner at reasonable cost.” The cumulative national bill for the day- Emerging Market index during the “We must say that Qatar exchange is long commercial orgy dwarfed Americans’ review scheduled in September 2016. enormously engaging with us during this online spending over the five-day frenzy “We are glad to say that Qatar review period. They are meeting with from Thanksgiving to Cyber Monday last Exchange is extremely engaging with us. top international institutional investors, year. Singles Day is not a traditional Chi- During the monitoring process it has holding road shows and is pushing the nese festival, but e-commerce giant Ali- been assessed that Qatar is sitting on a market forward,” the FTSE Chief noted. baba has been pushing November 11 — a pretty comfortable position,” Jonathan On the decision to include Qatari date heavy on ones, the loneliest number Alibaba Chairman Jack Ma gestures in Cooper, Managing Director, Middle East stocks in two tranches, Jonathan said: — since 2009 as it looks to tap the coun- front of a screen showing real-time data of & Africa, FTSE Russel told The Penin- “We don’t want to see a negative impact try’s huge, and expanding, army of Inter- transactions at Alibaba Group’s 11.11 Global sula in an interview. after the inclusion. So it is sensible to net shoppers. shopping festival in Beijing yesterday. Following QE’s upgrade by FTSE give 50 percent in the first phase. What Competition for a slice of China’s 668 from Frontier Market to the Emerging we will be looking at during the review million Internet users is turning increas- in September 2015, the Qatari market period is that the companies haven’t ingly fierce, and Alibaba kicked off this splashed out almost $13bn, according to was initially estimated to attract $1bn Jonathan Cooper, Managing Director, change. We will be using the same year’s mammoth event with a television a company blog. The figures were “very of inflows, considering roughly $70bn Middle East & Africa, FTSE Russel. screening methodology of these 50 per- spectacular at Beijing’s Water Cube Olym- solid evidence for the power of Chinese currently passively tracks the FTSE cent upgrade”. pic swimming venue. consumers”, Chief Executive Officer Dan- QASSIM RAHMATULLAH Emerging Markets Index. After con- The inclusion of Qatar Exchange in James Bond actor Daniel Craig and Hol- iel Zhang was quoted as saying, adding sidering Qatar’s weighting recently, the the emerging market index is not the lywood star Kevin Spacey — in his role that when the company started the event FTSE country classification committee FTSE Global Equity Index Series (GEIS) end of the process, it is the beginning. as President Frank Underwood from the “we never dreamed it could be such a huge observed that Qatar Exchange will see in September 2016 and the remaining “The companies that meet our criteria Netflix series “House of Cards” — were just shopping day”. $1.2bn of passive inflows, Jonathan said. 50 percent will be included during the will be included in our global indexes. two of the galaxy of foreign and domestic Putting all of those purchases into cus- In September 2015, FTSE announced March 2017 review. We have sharia’h global equity index, stars involved. tomers’ hands is a huge task. Alibaba said that Qatar’s inclusion as a Secondary Explaining on the classification proc- real estate index. Qatari companies The company’s efforts paid off in spades. its logistical arm and its partners would Emerging market status will be effected ess, Jonathan said, “we consider the that meet our criteria will be included A little over 12 hours after the promo- use more than 1.7 million personnel, in two tranches. The first tranche of 50 quality of market. The quality of regula- in these indexes,” Jonathan said. tion’s midnight start, sales had already 400,000 vehicles, 5,000 warehouses and percent will be implemented in conjunc- tion, the dealing landscape, custody and outstripped last year’s $9.3bn gangbusters 200 planes to handle deliveries. tion with the semi-annual review of settlement procedures, and the pres- THE PENINSULA effort. By around 10pm, shoppers had AFP THURSDAY 12 NOVEMBER 2015 18 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS Qatar one of the fastest growing in region: Lagarde Qatar made important progress in diversifying economy into non-hydrocarbon activities: IMF

DOHA: Qatar has been one of sizeable financial buffers and con- The banking system in Qatar is tant progress in diversifying its developments as well as the chal- the fastest growing countries in tinued public investments. well-placed to weather lower oil economy into non-hydrocarbon lenges and opportunities facing the region and the near-term Lagarde also welcomed the prices, weaker nonhydrocarbon activities, and policymakers can the region. I conveyed my appre- macroeconomic outlook remains recent steps by the ministry of growth, and higher US interest support this process through ciation for Qatar’s commitment to strong, said a statement issued by finance to improve the budget rates,” she said. additional structural reforms ensure that the IMF’s resources managing director of the Inter- process and formulate a fiscal con- The IMF chief said as hydro- to further enhance the business were sufficient to help IMF mem- national Monetary Fund (IMF) solidation strategy in the context carbon revenues decrease and environment,” she said. bers in need.” Christine Lagarde on the occa- of a medium-term framework are external financing conditions Lagarde said that she met dur- “My visit was a great oppor- sion of her visit to Qatar. welcome. Given the strong start- tighten, the central bank will ing her visit to Qatar with Emir tunity to meet with students and Lagarde said that growth could ing financial position, the fiscal need to remain vigilant for pres- H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad youth leaders, members of the accelerate this year and next, consolidation can be gradual so sures in the system and provide Al Thani, and described her talks private sector, as well as some supported by a large public infra- as to reduce the risk of adverse liquidity to the financial sector if with Prime Minister and Interior leading Qatari women. Our lively structure programme, pointing effects on economic activity, she needed. Further enhancements Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah exchange of views at the George- out that the decline in oil and nat- added. to the early warning system and bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani, town University School of Foreign ural gas prices will substantially “Substantial progress has been addressing data gaps would facili- and number of ministers and sen- Service gave me a better sense of IMF chief Christine Lagarde delivers reduce external and fiscal sur- made on enhancing financial sec- tate a timely monitoring of risks, ior officials as fruitful. the current situation in Qatar and a speech during the international pluses, but its impact on growth tor regulation, including adopt- including from overheating in the “We exchanged views on the across the GCC region,” she said. conference on Islamic finance in will be softened in the near term ing the international regulatory real estate market, she said. important role Qatar plays in Kuwait City yesterday. due to the availability of Qatar’s framework for banks, Basel III. “Qatar has made impor- regional and global economic QNA Islamic finance AB InBev can promote ‘Women in Energy Event’ draws attention stability: IMF DOHA: Some 50 female profes- In order to assist working buys rival sionals and students representing women and draw attention to this KUWAIT CITY: The fast grow- the oil and gas industry attended critical issue, SPE Qatar Section ing, sharia’h-compliant Islamic the ‘Women in Energy Event’ invited local health coaches and finance industry has the poten- SABMiller organised by Society of Petroleum plant based vegans to share their tial to promote financial stability Engineers (SPE)- Qatar Section, stories and advise on a better and because of its risk-sharing and said a statement yesterday. healthier life style alternatives for asset-backed features, IMF man- for $121bn The Qatar Section of SPE, working women. aging director Christine Lagarde chaired by Sheikh Faisal bin Ghanim Al Sulaiti, Saba Rah- said yesterday. LONDON: The world’s top Fahad Al Thani, Deputy Manager bar and Setareh Raeisi shared “Islamic finance has, in prin- brewer Anheuser-Busch InBev Director of Maersk Oil Qatar, their stories and presented ciple, the potential to promote clinched yesterday a gigantic for- organised the second edition of methods of how to recover from financial stability because its risk- mal $121bn deal for its nearest Women in Energy Event recently. unhealthy diets and gaining bet- sharing feature reduces leverage rival SABMiller, in the third big- Working in a male dominating ter eating habits resulting in and its financing is asset-backed gest takeover in global corporate industry like oil and gas, women overall healthier and more bal- and thus fully collateralised,” history. often put their health and eat- anced lifestyle and increased Lagarde told an Islamic finance The blockbuster transaction, ing habits as the last priority. As working productivity as well as conference in Kuwait. worth the equivalent of €112bn a result they might be hit with day to day performance. Islamic banks also offer profit- including debt, will bring together lifestyle, chronic and acute ail- In Qatar, there are over 435 sharing and loss-bearing accounts InBev’s top brands like Beck’s, ments like obesity, backache, professional members and over that can help mitigate losses and Budweiser and Stella Artois, hyper-tension, depression, diabe- 159 student members at Qatar contagion in the event of bank- with SABMiller brands Foster’s, tes, high cholesterol, heart, kidney University and Texas A&M Uni- Participants at the event. ing sector distress, she said. Grolsch and Peroni. disease and many others. As the versity, Qatar. “This leads... to higher total loss- Belgian-Brazilian behemoth work load increases, women put As one of many sections world- absorbing capital, one of the key InBev is eager to tap into boom- less attention on what they eat or wide, SPE Qatar Section’s mis- opment and production of oil and sionals to enhance their technical objectives of the new global regu- ing developing markets in Africa how much physical activity they sion is to collect, disseminate and gas resources, and related technol- and professional competence. latory reform,” Lagarde said. and China, where SABMiller’s have resulting in productivity loss exchange technical knowledge ogies for the public benefits; and to joint venture produces Snow. and poor health choices. concerning the exploration, devel- provide opportunities for profes- THE PENINSULA AFP InBev will pay £44 per share in cash for SABMiller, which has also agreed to sell its 58-percent stake in US unit MillerCoors for $12bn to Molson Coors to help win regulatory approval, its said in a joint statement. QCB to organise information Ooredoo to showcase “The boards of Anheuser- Busch InBev and SABMiller are pleased to announce that they cyber security solutions have reached agreement on the security meet from Sunday terms of a recommended acquisi- tion of the entire issued and to be By Sachin Kumar In a statement, H E Sheikh DOHA: Ooredoo yesterday issued share capital of SABMiller Abdullah bin Saoud Al Thani, announced that it will be one of by AB InBev,” the pair said. DOHA: The Qatar Central Bank Governor, QCB, said that QCB has the sponsors at the second Infor- The transaction is set to com- (QCB) will organise the second worked in the previous years on mation Security Conference for plete in the second half of 2016, conference of Information Secu- the improvement of applications, the Financial Sector in Qatar. subject to shareholder and regula- rity in the financial institutions software and hardware related to Waleed Al Sayed (pictured), tory approvals — otherwise InBev under the title ‘Enhancing IT information security in accord- Chief Operating Officer, Ooredoo will face a $3bn break fee. security in the financial sector ance with the best international Qatar, said, “We are proud to The agreement marks the in today’s world’. The two-day practices to take advantage of the sponsor such an important event world’s third biggest takeover in conference, that will begin on latest technology in this field, in both for the country and the corporate history, according to November 15, aims to shed light order to reach the desired goals region. As more and more busi- financial information provider on Information Technology (IT) and in accordance with the stra- nesses become connected, their Dealogic, and is also the largest security and enhancing its infra- tegic plan for the development online security is our number one ever takeover of a British com- structure. and the achievement of Qatar priority, which is why we invest pany. InBev, which also brews Talking to media persons in He added the recommendations National Vision 2030. in state-of-the-art cyber solu- a number of high profile entities Hoegaarden and Leffe, added that press conference yesterday in of the First Conference of Infor- QCB continues its efforts to tions. We will use our presence seeing their websites compro- the takeover will “strengthen AB QCB main building, Abdul Hadi mation Security in the Financial create a secure and stable finan- at the event to introduce the next mised and systems breached. InBev’s position in key emerging Ahen Ali Ahen (pictured), Act- Institutions were implemented, cial environment, through coor- generation of smart security solu- Ooredoo has been a pioneer regions with strong growth pros- ing Director of Banking Systems, especially those related to remit- dination between supervisory tions and highlight how Ooredoo of introducing the latest secu- pects such as Asia, Central and Payment and Settlement Depart- tance outlets which urged them and oversight authorities of the is protecting financial companies rity technologies to Qatar, and South America, and Africa”. ment at QCB said that the con- to take more measures to ensure financial services sector in the on the Ooredoo Supernet.” its nationwide network of Oore- The group will target annual ference will discuss information continued protection of electronic state and through joint efforts Ooredoo will display a range of doo Data Centres are playing an efficiency savings of “at least” system and challenges facing financial security in the state. between them through the rel- services designed specifically to important role in providing cloud $1.4bn by the end of the fourth this sector and will exchange Ahen stressed that QCB has evant specialised committees. In meet the high security needs of and managed security services ide- year following completion, spark- experiences on how to enhance been working to ensure informa- this regard, the bank has issued a financial service companies at the ally positioned to protect Qatar’s ing fears of job losses. the infrastructure of information tion security protection in accord- number of circulars and instruc- Information Security Conference critical national infrastructure “We believe this combina- system in the financial sector. ance with the best international tions for financial institutions in and highlight how these compa- such as the finance sector. tion will generate significant Ahen, who is also head of the practices to take advantage of the the country regarding the pro- nies can protect their clients with Ooredoo will be exhibiting their growth opportunities and create conference organising commit- latest technology in this field, in cedures to be followed and the cutting-edge integrated security Distributed Denial of Service enhanced value to the benefit of tee, said that around 1,300 par- order to reach the desired goals standards, applications and sys- solutions. This year saw a sharp Attack solution (DDoS), Cloud all stakeholders,” said AB InBev ticipants are expected to attend and in accordance with the stra- tems to be implemented for the increase in the number of cyber- Security services and Out-of- Chief Executive Carlos Brito in this year’s conference. Last year tegic plan for the development information security and safety. attacks targeting companies, Country Disaster Recovery. the statement. around 550 participants attended and the achievement of Qatar organisations and government AFP the conference. National Vision 2030. THE PENINSULA institutions across the GCC, with THE PENINSULA Japan’s first passenger jet makes maiden test flight NAGOYA: Japan’s first pas- oping aircraft following World involved in its development, there Mitsubishi Aircraft boasts that senger jet made its maiden test War II, Japan — and its MRJ jet — is no greater joy.” the fuel-efficient MRJ will offer flight yesterday, a landmark in is competing with other regional “The operation performance more passenger comfort with a decade-long programme to passenger jet manufacturers such of the MRJ was far better than lower operating costs, eyeing the launch the plane aimed at com- as Brazil’s Embraer and Canada’s expected,” Yoshiyuki Yasumura booming regional jet sector. peting with Brazilian and Cana- Bombardier. said, according to a Mitsubishi China is also developing a sim- dian rivals in the global market Hiromichi Morimoto, president Aircraft release. “We had a sig- ilar-sized homegrown regional for smaller aircraft. of Mitsubishi Aircraft Corp — a nificantly comfortable flight.” passenger jet, the ARJ21. It had About half a century after the subsidiary of Mitsubishi Heavy The two-engine MRJ marks a its first test flight in 2008 and last Japanese-made commer- Industries — voiced his delight new chapter for Japan’s aviation the initial commercial delivery is cial plane took to the skies, the and relief at the successful flight. sector, which last built a commer- reportedly expected by year-end. Mitsubishi Regional Jet (MRJ), “We were able to see the beau- cial airliner in 1962 — the YS-11 Mitsubishi unveiled the jet in painted with dark blue, red tiful fuselage of the MRJ taking turboprop that was discontinued October last year and has received and beige stripes, took off from off into the sunny autumn sky,” about a decade later. The MRJ more than 400 orders. It plans to Guests gather around Japan’s first domestically made passenger jet, the Nagoya airport under clear skies he told a press conference. “The is approximately 35-metres (115- make the first delivery to All Nip- Mitsubishi Regional Jet (MRJ), following its maiden test flight at Nagoya for a 90-minute trip. fact that I was able to see that feet) long, has a pointed nose and pon Airways in 2017. airport in Komaki yesterday. After being barred from devel- with you, as someone who was will seat about 80 passengers. AFP THURSDAY 12 NOVEMBER 2015 BUSINESS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 19

China industrial District cooling experts output growth at six-month low, urge stronger research adding to woes

BEIJING: Industrial produc- Seeks sustainable and environment-friendly systems tion growth in China fell to a six-month low in October, official DOHA: The 7th edition of the facilitate the development of new recommendations. Enable and data showed yesterday, the lat- Middle East District Cooling ways of designing and adopting encourage tri-generation of elec- est figures to suggest entrenched Summit (MEDCS), concluded more sustainable and environ- tricity, heat and cooling as this weakness in the world’s second- yesterday after two days of highly ment friendly systems, including technology saves up to 75 percent largest economy. informative presentations from finding practical solutions to some of primary energy and natural Output at factories, work- distinguished resource speakers technical problems faced by the gas that such technology helps shops and mines rose 5.6 percent and lively discussions. industry. reduce carbon dioxide emissions last month from a year ago, the The event saw participation of Accordingly, industry experts in almost the same proportion, National Bureau of Statistics delegates from the region and all have encouraged the adoption of was the other recommendation. Officials at the 7th edition of the Middle East District Cooling Summit. (NBS) said, the smallest increase over the world with several key ideas and solutions proposed by “District cooling is indeed the since March’s identical figure and recommendations for considera- some researchers regarding the way ahead in meeting the steadily edging down from a 5.7 percent tion of key stakeholders within efficient use of water and energy increasing requirements for cool- efits of district cooling systems Environmental Expert of the rise in September. It was also the industry were reached. in district cooling. This includes ing in a region characterised by were conducted. Quality, Safety & Environment below the median forecast of a With the industry being under the end in the use of drinking fast-rising urban centres under These included a presentation Department of the Public Works 5.8 percent increase in a survey of threat of stagnation because the water in district cooling due to extremely hot temperatures espe- from the Qatar Green Building Authority (Ashghal) of Qatar and economists by Bloomberg News. high cost of district cooling is the availability of the technology cially during summer,” said Deep Council on ‘Green Solutions for another presentation on ‘Sustain- The figures come as the world being passed on and shouldered for the use of Treated Sewage Banerjee, Senior Conference Pro- District Cooling’; ‘Water Conser- able Power Generation & District worries about growth in China, mainly by the end-user, industry Effluent (TSE). ducer at Fleming Gulf. vation in District Cooling Plants’ Cooling Projects’ by George Ken- a leading engine of global expan- experts at the summit called for Connection of natural gas to During the second and last day by Vivek Apte, Regional Project ich, Guest Lecturer at Harvard sion. Authorities are trying to stronger links between the indus- the central cooling lines through of the summit, in-depth discus- Director of Johnson Controls University in the USA. transform the country’s growth try and the scientific research the development of distribution sions and presentations on energy Middle East, an ‘Exclusive TSE model to a slower but more sus- community. This they said would network stations was one the efficiency and environmental ben- Session by Dr Ghazi El Sherif, THE PENINSULA tainable one driven by consump- tion rather than infrastructure investment, but the transition to the “new normal” is proving bumpy. Overcapacity in manu- facturing, a slowdown in the New IMF economist sees major challenges to world economy country’s property market and mounting local government debt are among the factors that have WASHINGTON: Just a few back from market integration,” impact of the sharp slowdown in impose macroeconomic risks.” weighed on growth. months into the job, the chal- he said. “One factor is the refugee the world’s second largest econ- The focus of the COP21 sum- “The marginal fall in October’s lenges are already piled high crisis, where there’s a lot of pres- omy, China. mit is obtaining pledges for industrial production growth for the International Monetary sure on open borders and work- An international economics spe- carbon emissions. Obstfeld said showed support from the rapid Fund’s new chief economist Mau- ers’ mobility,” he added. cialist who studied at Cambridge limits can have adverse effects development of new industries rice Obstfeld (pictured). “There is a lot of political pres- and MIT and taught at Harvard for some industries. But, for one, was still insufficient while tradi- There’s the Federal Reserve’s sure coming from the extremes, and the University of California, many industries essentially get a tional industries were having deep plan to raise interest rates — which could undo a lot of the Berkeley, Obstfeld has to keep subsidy by being able to pollute corrections,” the NBS said in a which poses a deep test to econo- economic integration that has watch on multiple hot issues and without paying for it, he added. statement. “The industrial econ- mies worldwide. There’s Europe’s occurred.” broader long-term trends. “Cli- In addition, he said, implementing omy is still facing downward pres- migration crisis. And not to be Speaking in his IMF office mate change is a major economic carbon dioxide limits “stimulates sures looking forward,” it added. forgotten is Britain’s threat to just a few blocks from the White threat. Warming reduces produc- a lot of innovation and a lot of Gross domestic product (GDP) leave the eurozone when the House, Obstfeld, 63, said other tive efficiency, climate disasters investment.” expanded 7.3 percent last year, region’s economy is already frail. pressures were also stressing the can be deeply disruptive to eco- He said incentives need to the slowest pace since 1990, and at That’s all on top of slow global 28-country EU bloc. nomic activity,” he said. be changed to favour emissions 7.0 percent in each of the first two economic growth and climate “Another obvious one is Brit- The Fund looks at how climate reduction, including essentially quarters of this year. It deceler- change. ain wanting to possibly leave the change will hit the economies and putting a tax on carbon. That ated further to 6.9 percent in the In an interview, Obstfeld, an European Union,” he said, raising budgets of countries impacted “would be the most efficient way July-September period, its slowest economic adviser to US Presi- the “Brexit” issue that is increas- the most, and tries to help them to reduce emissions at the lowest rate in six years. dent Barack Obama before being ingly making headlines in Europe. States and Europe. Obstfeld, prepare. With an upcoming glo- cost,” he said. After the bleak third-quarter named to the IMF, spoke of a Obstfeld arrived at the Fund whose position entails advis- bal summit in Paris on action “Unfortunately, many coun- economic data, China cut inter- “nightmare scenario” in which in September to replace French ing the management and mem- against warming, Obstfeld said tries, especially the United States, est rates for the sixth time since various pressures conspire to economist Olivier Blanchard, ber countries of the global crisis countries need to understand it don’t want to put in taxes. But November last year and trimmed weaken the economic bonds of who held the chief economist job lender on economic conditions, is a collective action problem. If it that’s really the efficient way to the reserve requirement ratio to Europe. “I worry a lot about the throughout the unprecedented faces some different challenges isn’t solved, he said, warming “can do it.” boost lending. strong trend in Europe to pull financial crises in the United from Blanchard, particularly the threaten their population and AFP AFP

Boeing expands Middle East Volkswagen McDonald’s drops idea shuts US partnership with growth plans production line to spin off real estates DOHA: Boeing expanded its show, Qatar Airways displayed venture with Tata Advanced WASHINGTON: German auto NEW YORK: McDonald’s said include the rental payments from growth plans with the Middle the airline’s recently delivered Systems to manufacture aero- giant Volkswagen (VW) has it would keep its real-estate franchisees, accounted for 22 per- East’s aerospace industry at 25th 787. The airline currently structures and collaborate on halted production of diesel Pas- assets, including restaurants, and cent of the company’s revenues the 2015 Dubai Airshow with has the largest 787 fleet in the integrated systems development sats at its US factory in Chat- increase the number of its fran- in 2014. After scoring a surprise strong customer and partnership Middle East region. opportunities in India. A manu- tanooga, Tennessee, a news chised restaurants as it pursues increase in third-quarter sales in announcements. Boeing reinforced its commit- facturing centre of excellence will report said, following losses from a belt-tightening restructuring. its US restaurants, accompanied “The 2015 Dubai Airshow has ment to the United Arab Emir- initially produce aerostructures the emissions-cheating scandal. As part of the reorganisation, by forecast-topping earnings, the been very positive for Boeing as ates with a Memorandum of for the AH-64 Apache helicopter Petrol-powered 2016 Passats the world’s leading burger chain company told investors Tuesday we strengthened alliances with Agreement with Dubai South and compete for additional manu- are still due to hit US dealerships had considered spinning off prop- it was making progress in the partners, secured key commer- that set out the company’s plan facturing work packages across by early December, but assembly erties into a real-estate investment renewal program under new chief cial airplane orders and met with to establish its Middle East head- Boeing platforms, both commer- of the diesel version of the mid- trust (REIT), which could convey executive Steve Easterbrook. senior government leaders and quarters in the city’s Aviation cial and defence. sized model has been stopped, considerable tax advantages. “We McDonald’s said it would raise customers,” said Charlie Miller, District in 2017. Key commercial customer Automobile News reported online, have concluded that any poten- its global refranchising target to Vice-President, International Additionally, Boeing and Tawa- announcements at the show citing a factory spokesman. tial value creation from a REIT 4,000 restaurants through 2018, Corporate Communications. “This zun Precision Industries (TPI), a were led by Jet Airways with an Sales of affected VW and is outweighed by the significant from 3,500 targeted in May. show has been especially impor- subsidiary of Emirates Defense order for 75 737 MAX 8s, the Audi models from 2015 and 2016 financial and operational risks to That would bring the share of tant to us as it coincides with Industries Company (EDIC) largest order in Jet Airways’ his- were halted in the wake of the our business and the continued franchised restaurants from our Centennial celebrations. The signed a significant contract to tory. Etihad Airways also exer- group’s September admission, progress of our turnaround, and the current 81 percent to about agreements we announced help manufacture complex metal- cised options for two Boeing 777 according to the German News we do not believe that pursuing a 93 percent by the year-end, the to bolster a growth trajectory for lic machined parts for tactical freighters, part of the airline’s Agency (dpa). REIT would be in the best interest company said, setting a new our second century,” said Miller. aircraft at TPI’s new treatment $67bn mixed fleet order for 199 The group has already signalled of McDonald’s at this time,” said longer-term target of 95 percent. The 2011 Dubai Airshow saw facility, currently under construc- aircraft announced in 2013. that the scandal will significantly Pete Bensen, a senior McDonald’s McDonald’s has about 35,000 loca- the Middle East debut of the tion in Abu Dhabi. dent profits this year. executive, in a statement. tions worldwide. 787 Dreamliner. This year at the Boeing also announced a joint THE PENINSULA QNA The real estate assets, which AFP Domasco launches all-new Honda Pilot

DOHA: Doha Marketing Services Director of Al Futtaim / Domasco our customers at every touch point running lights as standard along Company (Domasco) announced said, “Innovation is everything in in their journey with Domasco, we with tailgate spoiler, power door the launch of all-new Pilot at a the automotive world and Honda will set new benchmarks.” mirrors and LED turn light indi- press conference at Sharq Village continues to impress the indus- Pilot has been completely cators. Doha yesterday. Available across try with its all-new, fully evolved restyled with a bold, new front The Pilot boasts of a 3.5-liter all Honda showrooms in the GCC, SUV. Today, Domasco is proud to grille and flowing, elegant lines of Direct Injected V6 engine with Lebanon and Jordan, the third introduce the all-new 2016 Honda a sport coupe. The new premium Variable Cylinder Management generation Honda Pilot brings Pilot in Qatar. This third genera- features include halogen projec- (VCM). It starts up at the press a new standard of comfort and tion Pilot offers the ultimate level tor headlights in EX and EXL of a button, and with maximum quality to SUV driving. of premium features. It offers an grades whereas LED projector output of 280 horsepower at With its comfortable seating up incredible driving experience and headlights in Touring grade, first 6,000 rpm and maximum torque to eight passengers, Honda Pilot leaves a bold impression.” ever panoramic glass roof on the of 355Nm at 4700 rpm. The Pilot has helped set industry stand- Faisal Sharif, Managing Direc- Touring grade. The all-new Pilot boasts of an engine that combines ards in fuel efficiency, spacious tor of Domasco, said, “It’s 3.5 inch has a wide, low stance contribut- outstanding fuel efficiency with and luxurious interiors and now longer, 300 pounds lighter, sleek, ing to improved aerodynamic per- quick, responsive acceleration and Sheikh Meshaal Al Thani and Sheikh Salman Al Thani with Al-Futtaim also boasts of highly improved off stylish, safer, more powerful, better formance, while large-diametre ultra-smooth power delivery. The Regional Managing Director Colin Cordery (third left), Domasco Managing roading performance with Intel- off-roader with its comfort, fun and 18-inch or 20-inch Alloy wheels fuel efficiency for the Pilot in GCC Director Faisal Sharif (fourth left), Honda’s Head of Sales & Marketing Greig ligent Traction Management sheer luxury altogether in simply add a classy look. Some of the is 11.4Km/L for the 2WD and the Roffey (fourth right) and other officials during the New Honda Pilot launch against existing Pilot. ‘The Honda Way’. We now have other standard features in all 10.8 Km/Lfor the AWD. at Sharq Village and Spa yesterday. KAMMUTTY VP Speaking at the launch, Colin what we long waited for. Combining grades includes front fog lights, Cordery, Regional Managing it with the experience we give to LED tail lights and LED daytime THE PENINSULA THURSDAY 12 NOVEMBER 2015 20 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS VIEWS What ‘hot deal’ means Obamacare’s antiquated on Singles Day in China By Adam Minter structure needs overhaul HINA’S economy is struggling, and the country’s lonely hearts will do their best to put it back on track. It’s Singles Day, when the country’s bachelors and By Jeb Bush care services are delivered. Under my plan, make informed choices and demand value. Cbachelorettes celebrate themselves with online retail instead of an insurer directly paying all Second, my plan promotes innovation. therapy. Alibaba, which accounts for roughly 80 percent of all s gridlock persists in our nation’s the bills, consumers would be empowered It can take 12 to 15 years and more than online sales in China, rung up $9.3bn in sales on Singles Day 2014. capital and good legislation con- to make choices that are right for them. $2bn to develop a new cure for a disease. By comparison, American retailers rang up a comparatively paltry tinues to die in the Senate, it is For instance, an asthma patient could save In a $3.1tr system, efficiency and effective- $2bn on Cyber Monday in 2014. clear the next president will money by choosing a treatment costing ness are desperately needed; yet under the There’s a problem. A report delivered to Chinese lawmakers play a key role in determining $8,000 instead of one from a different hos- current system, health-care start-ups face on November 2 claims that more than 40 percent of the goods Athe future of Obamacare. That means can- pital in the same city costing $34,000. costly and complex government overregula- purchased online in China are counterfeit or of poor quality. Or didates’ positions on the issue will be among Additionally, medical entrepreneurs tion. My plan would overhaul Washington’s both. Earlier government reports found similar levels of fakery in the most important when ballots are cast would be given better opportunities to entire approach to innovation, including the past. Forty percent comes to $269bn of the $672bn in retail next year. develop new approaches to delivering care. modernising the Food and Drug Adminis- e-commerce sales that China, the world’s biggest e-commerce Obamacare’s “three-legged stool” is Instead of getting paid every time a dia- tration, investing in the National Institutes marketplace, is expected to generate in 2015. already collapsing under its own weight. betic patient came into the office, what if a of Health and promoting big-data solutions As China develops from a manufacturer into a consumer-based The failing Obamacare co-ops mean that specialist could manage all of that patient’s in health care. Advances can be led by the economy, that’s a lot of gross domestic product that the Chinese more than 500,000 Americans have lost diabetic care, including the use of remote creativity of America’s scientists, care pro- government should, but can’t, give up easily. With some analysts their health plans, while individuals face monitoring technology, for a one-time pay- viders and innovators. claiming Chinese counterfeiting employs millions, it’s an enter- a new wave of premium increases — about ment? Such an approach might save money Finally, my plan would strengthen the prise that’s too big to shut down. $600 a year on average for a silver-level fed- and lead to better outcomes. safety net. The primary goal of the tax cred- China’s role as an industrialised counterfeiter isn’t new. Before eral exchange plan. The individual mandate But this does not mean patients would its for the purchase of insurance included 2010, law-enforcement authorities were reporting that 70 percent is overreaching and ineffective; Obamacare’s be on their own to cover costs; rather, they in my plan is to finally achieve tax fair- of all counterfeit goods seized by global agencies originated in attempt to stop “pricing out people with pre- could choose from a range of innovative cov- ness between the employer and individual China. That’s no accident. As the world’s leading manufacturer, existing conditions.” It has priced out people erage options. Patients may spend far less health insurance markets. A middle-class China hosts the supply chain for most leading consumer goods. who don’t have preexisting conditions; and on premiums and be able to save more for family that needs to purchase health cov- Want to make a fake iPhone? You don’t have to drive far to find while the subsidies primarily benefit those out-of-pocket costs with a health savings erage should get a tax break similar to someone making parts for the real thing. below 200 percent of the poverty level, the account (HSA), and they may select a high- what another middle-class family receives In the late 1990s, right around the time China was becoming majority of Americans are worse off. I know deductible plan that offers them a defined through an employer. firmly established as the world’s factory floor, it was also becoming there is a better path. That is why I recently amount when they need certain services. Furthermore, these changes would com- its counterfeiting mall. In Shanghai, Beijing and other major cities, proposed the most substantive conservative And states could supplement the value of plement reforms to Medicaid that replace large “fake markets” selling everything from bogus Callaway golf plan to repeal and replace Obamacare pre- plans for the poor by fully funding HSAs. unnecessary rules with an approach that clubs to bootlegged pornographic VHS tapes sprouted in promi- sented to date. My Obamacare alternative The point is that individuals, instead insists on results. Unfortunately, Obamacare nent locations like shopping malls. Sellers flourished with the addresses the root causes of high health- of insurers, would control more of the was built on top of a 1940s- and 1960s-era tolerance of the government; at Shanghai’s legendary Xiangyang care costs, offers patients more options and health-care dollar, via tools such as HSAs. system. Market, police officers were often positioned at entrances. strengthens the safety net for the most vul- My approach would also make these HSAs A 21st-century healthcare system The global economic crisis brought objections from the US. nerable Americans. work better for those with chronic condi- requires innovation and an overhaul of They didn’t have much impact. According to a diplomatic cable First, my plan would lower costs. Health- tions by offering plans with lower deducti- this antiquated structure. Only then will sent from the US Embassy in Beijing in April 2009 (revealed by care is expensive primarily because Wash- bles for certain services related to a given all Americans realise the lower costs, bet- Wikileaks), two members of China’s Supreme Court told US offi- ington has long distorted the meaning of condition and would establish transparent ter options and greater possibilities of the cials that they opposed shutting down counterfeiting operations. “insurance.” Health insurers pay the major- information on the value of services so con- future. One of the judges, Yu Xiaobai, tells the delegation that “closing ity of bills and control how most health- sumers have the information they need to WASHINGTON POST down a business and causing jobs to be lost is not the best solution in cases of infringement.” The better course, he explained, would be to “allow the infringing enterprise to continue its operations so that it might pay the damages in the future.” The cable also details how China’s Public Security Bureau, the chief law-enforcement agency, refused a March 2008 request from Apple to raid a factory manufacturing counterfeit Macbooks “because the raid threatened as many as 100 local jobs.” Another national agency refused an Apple request to do something about a mall where counterfeits were sold because it “feared the action would drive away what little business still existed in the area.” Since then, China’s counterfeiting industry has moved online. As recently as 2012, a mere two years before Alibaba held a record- setting IPO, the US Trade Representative’s office listed the com- pany on its Notorious Markets list of companies and markets involved in piracy and counterfeiting. Alibaba was removed after promising to improve its enforcement, but its efforts have fallen short, at least in the eyes of the American Apparel & Footwear Association, which is asking that the company be relisted. It has a case. Last September, Columbia Sportswear reported that 82 percent of its branded goods found on Alibaba’s Taobao site were counterfeit. A brief search for any well-known foreign brand brings up hundreds or thousands of listings. There were 30,000 Gucci products priced at less than $50 on Taobao in early November, many obviously counterfeit. Alibaba claims it spends millions policing its site for fakes. But that policing is clearly selective. The government isn’t doing much better. Last week, regula- tors announced that they’ll crack down on counterfeit Disney products. Their interest is compelling. Disney is opening its first mainland theme park next year, and the government – which is deeply invested in the project – would prefer to spare itself the embarrassment of fake Little Mermaids popping up all over Shanghai. But the decision to crack down on inconvenient counterfeits only highlights the failure to proceed against the ones that aren’t. It’s a discrepancy that should worry anyone interested in seeing China evolve into an innovation economy capable of developing global brands of its own. So long as China accepts infringement as a jobs programme, that evolution will be stunted, no matter how many billions of baubles are sold to Chinese bachelors on Singles Day.

BLOOMBERG Cartoon Arts International / The New York Times Syndicate What if private banks didn’t create money? By Leonid Bershidsky initiative want is a situation in reserves, and to borrow from the the other. monopoly on money creation say bank is disinclined to do crazy which the Swiss National Bank central bank to make loans. That This, of course, would mean the central bank would take care things and democratic institu- Swiss initiative to ban becomes the sole creator of wouldn’t represent a return to cataclysmic change. In June 2015, to provide resources so the econ- tions are more powerful than in private banks from money. the current system: The central Swiss banks had 1.58tr Swiss omy didn’t choke, but relying on most other places, could be an creating money has Under such a system, private bank would still be in full control francs worth of loans on their that is just a tiny step removed ideal proving ground. A gathered enough signa- banks would only serve as inter- of the amount of money created. balance sheets. Of that amount, from central planning. It’s conceivable that the Swiss tures to put the matter to a ref- mediaries for citizens and busi- The 2008 financial crisis has 942bn francs represented mort- “The idea that the National National Bank wouldn’t cause erendum. This looks like another nesses, in effect keeping current brought the 1930s proposal back gage loans. The asset transfer, as Bank or any other government hyperinflation by printing tons cranky economic idea that Swiss accounts with the central bank. to life. described in the IMF paper, or authority could determine the of new money. It’s possible, too, voters will throw out, as they did It’s a variation on the so-called Martin Wolf entertained it in even a process whereby banks optimal quantity of money fully that non-bank companies would last year’s proposal to require the Chicago Plan developed by Henry a Financial Times column last would gradually repay the central objectively and without any politi- pick up the slack in mortgage and country’s central bank to keep at Simons and supported by Irving year, and a 2012 International bank for the 100 percent reserves, cal influence is unrealistic,” the small business financing. Mutual least a fifth of its balance sheet in Fisher in the 1930s. That plan Monetary Fund working paper would be immensely complicated. pro-business think tank Avenir lending could get a boost. gold. Yet perhaps such an experi- amounted to making banks hold found it workable, after testing Then, if banks are only allowed to Suisse pointed out in response to There’s no need to kill off entire ment needs to be held somewhere 100 percent reserves against all it on a modern model of the US lend money they have made from the initiative. financial markets to keep demand to put to rest all the theoretical demand deposits, from which economy. That paper also pro- commissions and interest, bor- The fall of Communism com- deposits and the payment system arguments about 100 percent customers can withdraw money. vided a detailed description of rowed from the central bank or pletely discredited the idea of safe: It might be enough to move reserve banking. That should make it impossible how the banking system would from depositors, they will prob- a planned economy; even in them outside the banking sector. In the current financial sys- for bankers to inflate bubbles be reformed under a modern-day ably provide less funding to the the Soviet Union for about two For the rest of the world, at tem, private lenders create most with risky lending, while making Chicago Plan. economy than they are providing decades before its collapse, few least, it’s a shame that the Swiss, of the money in circulation: Every bailouts and other nasty conse- Greatly simplified, the idea now. believed state planning could reasonable and conservative as time they issue a loan, they set quences of financial crises obso- is that the central bank would One could argue that much work. Somehow, the idea that they are, will probably vote down up a matching deposit in the bor- lete. Banks would survive on the provide private banks with 100 less is needed if we are to avoid governments are less evil and the proposal. rower’s name, and since banks commissions they made for basic percent reserves against their bubbles. Wolf said only 10 per- better at making financial deci- No other country is likely even are only required to hold some payment services. deposits, in return taking over cent of UK bank lending was sions than private banks has sur- to contemplate such a momen- 10 percent reserves against such Under various versions of most of the banks’ loans, such as going to business sectors other vived that disaster. tous reform and the debates rag- claims, 90 percent of the deposits the scheme, commercial banks mortgages and consumer debt. than commercial property. Yet It’s mainly the banks’ fault: ing among economists will keep constitute new money. would also be allowed to accept This would result in a separation small business owners and peo- They have been flagrantly irre- going, without much real-world Central banks only influence time deposits, which are consid- of the banks’ basic payment and ple planning to buy a first home sponsible. A state monopoly on evidence to support the theories. the process through regulation. ered investments and would not time deposit keeping functions on would probably disagree with that money could test the theory, and What the authors of the Swiss be covered by the 100 percent one side, from risky lending on logic. Proponents of a government Switzerland, where the central BLOOMBERG THURSDAY 12 NOVEMBER 2015 MARKET www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 21

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Energy default alarms get louder as pain seen lasting into 2016

NEW YORK: Eleven months of high-yield energy sector, including oil, Yields on speculative-grade energy about 59 percent since June last year to status is imperiled because it might breach depressed oil prices are threatening to gas, services and coal.” debt have risen to 12 percent, compared trade below $44 a barrel on Tuesday as a covenant under its revolver. The loan topple more companies in the energy That’s partly because investors who with 7 percent a year ago and 8 percent US industry data showed crude stock- requires the company to meet net leverage industry. Four firms owing a combined plowed about $14bn into high-yield energy for all of high-yield Tuesday, accord- piles expanded in the world’s biggest and interest coverage ratios. Emerald said $4.8bn warned this week that they bonds sold in the past six months are sit- ing to Bank of America Merrill Lynch consumer. And most analysts think it oil staying at its “current price levels for may be at the brink, with Penn ting on about $2bn of losses, according to index data. But returns on the debt of will stay there for longer, with Goldman an extended period of time” threatened its Virginia Corp, Paragon Offshore Plc, a data. And the energy sector accounts energy companies have continued to sting predicting crude prices could go as low ability to remain a going concern. Magnum Hunter Resources Corp and for more than a quarter of high-yield investors in the month after banks pared as $20 a barrel because the global surplus In Magnum Hunter’s case, the com- Emerald Oil Inc saying their auditors bonds that are trading at distressed lev- back some energy producers’ credit lines is even bigger than expected earlier. The pany doesn’t have enough cash to make have expressed doubts that they can els, according to the data. to reflect weaker energy prices. Banks firm also trimmed its 2016 estimate for a $29.3m interest payment due Nov. 15. continue as going concerns. Falling oil Between January and October, 23 review oil and gas producers’ revolving West Texas Intermediate to $45 a barrel It’s already in default on its two loans prices are squeezing access to credit, energy companies defaulted on their debt, loans twice a year in April and October, from a May projection of $57. because it has account payable balances they said. And everyone from Morgan with six filing for bankruptcy protection, trimming them back if companies no Oil fell to a two-week low yesterday as it hasn’t resolved in at least six months. Stanley to Goldman Sachs Group Inc. according to Moody’s Investors Service. longer have as much of the fuels in the US industry data showed that invento- “The auditors are saying that they is predicting that energy prices won’t Twelve of the defaults occurred because ground or if the reserves are worth less. ries rose by 6.3 million barrels through don’t think the company can last another rebound anytime soon. the firms orchestrated distressed-debt When the credit line cuts are particularly November 6. West Texas Intermediate 12 months. That can trigger an event of The industry is bracing for a wave of exchanges. The ratings firm estimated in sharp, some producers are unable to meet Crude was down 81 cents at $43.41 a bar- default sometimes and could cause inves- failures as investors that were stung by a recent report that so many US high- requirements imposed by their lenders. rel at 10:12 am in New York. Brent for tors to pull away,” said Spencer Cutter, a bets on an improving market earlier this yield energy companies will implode in Energy bonds have lost 9.4 percent on December settlement declined $1.56, or 3.3 credit analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence. year try to stay away from the sector. 2016 from plunging oil prices that they a total return basis so far in 2015 after percent, to $45.88 a barrel on the London- Lee Ahlstrom, a spokesman at Paragon, Barclays Plc analysts say that will cause will push the overall default rate for spec- generating a gain of 1.5 percent in the based ICE Futures Europe exchange. declined to comment beyond the press the default rate among speculative-grade ulative-grade companies to 3.8 percent, same period last year, according to Bank Penn Virginia said on Monday the release and the earnings call the company companies to double in the next year. the highest in four years. of America Merrill Lynch index data. lower prices have dragged the value of had on November 9. Representatives of Marathon Asset Management is pre- Still, some investors say there’s value When a wave of energy companies was its reserves so much that it would prob- Penn Virginia, Magnum Hunter and dicting default rates among high-yield to be found in the industry, with Oaktree in trouble earlier this year, many of them ably lead to a “further reduction” of its Emerald Oil didn’t respond to telephone energy companies will balloon to as high Capital Group LLC among firms that relied on agreements with creditors to revolving loan, which was cut to $275m and e-mail messages. as 25 percent cumulatively in the next have collectively raised more than $20bn swap some debt for new, higher-ranked from $395m this month. The company is Barclays said that the market is antic- two to three years if oil remains below for investing in the sector this year. borrowings. Halcon Resources Corp, also set to exceed a leverage covenant on ipating “a near-term wave of defaults” $60 a barrel. “All we’re concerned with is: Will we Warren Resources Inc and Midstates the loan by April if it doesn’t take action among energy companies. Those can’t be “No one is putting up new capital get paid, and does the current price over Petroleum Co completed debt-exchange to refinance or restructure the debt or avoided unless commodity prices make “a here,” said Bruce Richards, co-founder or underestimate the likelihood of get- deals that helped reduce their obligations. get permission from lenders to waive very large” and “unexpected” resurgence. of Marathon, which manages $12.5bn of ting paid?” Oaktree co-founder Howard The firms have come under increas- compliance, it said. assets. “It’s been eerily silent in the whole Marks said. ing pressure as the price of oil has fallen Paragon warned its going-concern BLOOMBERG THURSDAY 12 NOVEMBER 2015 22 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BREAK TIME

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THURSDAY 12 NOVEMBER 2015 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 23 Johnson revived as Australia Windies reinstate coach Simmons bid to wrap up Test series BARBADOS: West Indies have Indies’ senior men’s teams,” said reinstated Phil Simmons (pic- Simmons. tured) as head coach of their Former West Indies Rest bats- senior squads after he apologised man and Ireland coach Simmons The fast bowler needs one more wicket to go past Brett Lee’s tally for criticising team selection. took charge in March and led Simmons was suspended in them to a 1-1 three-test series MELBOURNE: A rejuvenated broadcaster ABC during the September for questioning the draw at home against England Mitchell Johnson needs only one Gabba test. continued omissions of all-round- before suffering a 2-0 series defeat victim to become Australia’s “I wasn’t sure if I wanted to ers Dwayne Bravo and Kieron by Australia in the Caribbean. third-highest Test wicket-taker play or not. I played the Matador Pollard, saying he was not getting Meanwhile, t he West Indies but will hope for a bigger haul at Cup games and the Shield game “the best 50-over ODI squad”. have named an unchanged 15-man his home ground in Perth, where and I started to get a bit of fire Eldine Baptiste took over squad for their three-test tour of New Zealand will be fighting to in the belly.” for the tour of Australia. keep the three-match series alive. Late on day two of the open- Sri Lanka which Allrounder Jason The mercurial left-armer’s four ing Test, that fire had become an concluded with a Holder captains wickets in the 208-run thrashing inferno as Johnson and fellow left- Twenty20 match the side for Aus- in Brisbane took him level with armer Mitchell Starc unleashed a yesterday. tralia, which also fellow paceman Brett Lee on lethal 20-minute spell that tore Sri Lanka won includes legspinner 310 wickets and behind only fast through New Zealand’s top order both Tests and all Devendra Bishoo, bowling great Glenn McGrath and took the match away from three ODI interna- one of the few (563) and inimitable legspinner the tourists. tionals on the tour. bright spots from Shane Warne (708). “I feel like getting out there and The West Indies the June series. The exalted company Johnson bowling,” Johnson said. Cricket Board Bishoo took 6/80 now keeps is testament to the “I am committed and raring,” (WICB) said in in the first innings Queenslander’s determination as he added. a statement that of the first Test in much as his talent, having battled Though he was born and raised Simmons’ rein- Dominica. self-doubt and long periods in the in steamy northern Queensland, Australian bowler Mitchell Johnson, receives the ball as he returns to statement involved The first Test wilderness before barging his way the WACA has been Johnson’s his mark, during the first cricket Test against New Zealand in Brisbane him receiving a let- in Australia will back into the side two years ago. spiritual home for most of his in this November 8, 2015, file photo. ter of reprimand start in Hobart on Johnson revealed during the career and the scene of some of and making a pub- December 10, fol- Gabba Test he had come through his greatest triumphs. lic apology. lowed by further another period of introspection A paceman’s paradise, an after- Australia are unlikely to change Three of the matches have been “I regret my pub- Tests in Melbourne in the wake of Australia’s 3-2 noon sea-breeze known locally the winning side from the Gabba drawn. lic outburst during (from December Ashes series loss this year as he as the ‘Fremantle Doctor’ adds but New Zealand have been forced The odds would appear stacked a press conference... 26) and Sydney approached his 34th birthday. a devilish element to Johnson’s into at least one change, with all- against the tourists but they and the revelation of the vote that (January 3). West Indies squad: Johnson, who had almost sin- express pace and swing, bringing rounder James Neesham ruled showed in the tied series in Eng- took place at the selection meet- Jason Holder (capt), Kraigg glehandedly destroyed England the ball into right-handed bats- out for the series. land their ability to hit back after ing,” said Simmons in an audio Brathwaite, Devendra Bishoo, during the 2013/14 home series, men who can then be bamboozled Fast bowler Neil Wagner has defeat and should improve from apology released by the WICB. Jermaine Blackwood, Car- was to have been rested for the by a straighter delivery. been named as cover if Southee the Gabba drubbing. “I extend a public apology to all los Brathwaite, Darren Bravo, Bangladesh tour that was ulti- New Zealand’s own left-armer fails to prove his fitness for the “I think our attack is up there whom I may have offended. I have Rajindra Chandrika, Shane Dow- mately scrapped and sat out most Trent Boult will be keen to return second Test. with the best in the world,” Wag- personally apologised to my fellow rich, Shannon Gabriel, Shai Hope, of the domestic one-day Matador fire after a tough outing in Bris- New Zealand have beaten Aus- ner said. “If we can be more con- selectors and the WICB and now Denesh Ramdin, Kemar Roach, Cup tournament. bane but his swing bowling team tralia only once in six tests at the sistent for long periods of time, do so again publicly. Marlon Samuels, Jerome Taylor, “The six-week period I had at mate Tim Southee remains a WACA, the last time in 1985/86 we’ll definitely show that.” “I am looking forward to Jomel Warrican home was quite difficult, to be doubt after injuring his back at when all-rounder Richard Hadlee putting this behind me and doing honest,” Johnson told state radio the Gabba. torched the hosts with 11 wickets. REUTERS the job I enjoy with the West AGENCIES

NBA: James McIlroy in the muscles Cavs past Jazz NEW YORK: Cleveland forward firing line LeBron James reminded the NBA of his raw power on Tuesday, SHANGHAI: Rory McIlroy has less than a win in Dubai to win his scoring 31 points, including 17 in skipped the BMW Masters start- third Harry Vardon trophy. the fourth quarter, as the Cava- ing today but will still be keeping The world number three is liers muscled their way to a 118- one eye firmly on the scores from determined to give himself every 114 victory over the Utah Jazz. Shanghai knowing that his status chance by arriving early in the The Cavaliers trailed by as as Europe’s number one is hang- Middle East after skipping the many as nine in the fourth, but ing by a thread. second Shanghai event this week. James stole a pass and dribbled World number six Justin Rose “I’ll get to Dubai next weekend, the length of the floor for an is one of five players who could so I’ll be there a few days early,” impressive three-point play. Tennis: Kyrgios, topple McIlroy from the top spot McIlroy said after his final round Jazz guard Rodney Hood did in the Race to Dubai standings 66 at Sheshan International Golf his best to wrap up James and Tomic ignored at Lake Malaren, the final stop Club on Sunday left him in a tie prevent the shot, but the Cavs before the season-ending DP for 11th place in the World Golf forward powered through for for Newcombe World Tour Championship next Championships event. the basket and foul. He looked at week. “I’m just with the mindset that Hood and slapped his biceps as Second-placed Danny Willett, I need to go to Dubai and win and the sellout crowd roared. Medal after his fourth-round 62 and whatever happens from there “Bron is the greatest player in third place in the $8.5m WGC- hope it will be enough, that’s all I the game. I don’t think there’s SYDNEY: Controversial stars HSBC Champions across the can do,” said McIlroy. anyone with a higher basketball Nick Kyrgios (pictured) and city last weekend, is just 74,213 Rose is gunning for double IQ or a better understanding of Bernard Tomic have been ignored points adrift and needs only to glory on Chinese soil following the moment,” Cavs coach David as nominees for the Newcombe finish 28th or higher to overtake his win last month in the Hong Blatt said. Medal -- which rewards Austral- McIlroy at the top of the Race to Kong Open. “I think he just understood the ia’s “most outstanding elite tennis Dubai standings. He knows victory this week on moment. He took over the game player and ambassador”. Shane Lowry, Louis Oosthui- a course which he plays well -- he and lifted the rest of the guys Showman Kyrgios, 20, has zen, Rose and Branden Grace missed out on a three-man playoff with him. He did the things that made headlines for all the wrong also have the chance to knock by one stroke here a year ago -- a great player like him, only him, Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers looks on during a game against reasons with his sex slur at Stan four-time major champion McIl- and the 1,333,330 points that go can do.” the Miami Heat at American Airlines Arena in Miami, Florida. Wawrinka in August sparking roy off his perch, with the first with it will put his destiny into James’ three-point play pulled stinging criticism from fellow three players each needing to fin- his own hands. “I’m about 800,000 the Cavs within 95-94 but gave players. ish second or better to move into points behind Rory and Danny, them all the momentum. It and Derrick Favors each scored 120-105 victory over the Dallas Despite reaching his best form, the number one spot, while only so I’m going to have to win one of revived a slumbering team that 17 points. Rudy Gobert had 15 Mavericks on Tuesday, but cel- Kyrgios earned a suspended ban victory would be good enough for these last two tournaments,” Rose remained unbeaten at home (5-0) points, seven rebounds and five ebrations for a first win of the for the comment to Wawrinka sixth-placed Grace. said before playing in Tuesday’s with their seventh consecutive assists, and Hood fouled out with campaign were muted in the wake and went on to pick up three code McIlroy won the Race to Dubai pro-am. victory. 16 points. of an injury to Andrew Davis. violations in other matches. last year and in 2012 but may find “I think if I win one of them However, Cleveland (7-1) had “They’re a veteran team that Star forward Davis suffered a Tomic also endured a turbulent by Sunday night he needs nothing and play solid in the other then to work for it on a night when knows how to close out games right hip contusion at the con- year in which he was arrested in I’m hard to beat. they were sloppy with the ball (17 and how to win basketball games,” clusion of the first half and did Miami for failing to follow police “If I go win-win then I’m turnovers) and off rhythm. Hayward said. “That’s something not return. He was not on the orders over a raucous penthouse unbeatable, so it’s in my hands, “The win is the only thing that we can learn from.” bench during the second half nor party and clashed with Tennis which is the good thing.” that’s important to me,” James The Jazz trailed most of the in the locker room after the game. Australia, leading to his suspen- Further down the rankings said. “We had some good points, night until late in the third quar- X-rays came back negative. sion from a Davis Cup tie. there is an equally intense scrap we had some bad points, but we ter. They extended their lead to “He got hit with a knee,” Peli- But the 23-year-old remains going on to get into the top 60 and stuck with it.” 95-86 on a dunk by Gobert with can coach Alvin Gentry told the highest-ranking Australian qualify for the riches on offer in James added eight assists and 7:22 left before James and the reporters, adding he was not sure in the world at number 18. Dubai -- $8m in prize money and seven rebounds, while Mo Wil- Cavs began to roll. if Davis would make the trip to The six nominees for the New- a bonus pool of $7.5m to be split liams had 29 points, six rebounds Hood responded to James’ Atlanta for the game against the combe Medal are Sam Groth, among the top 15 in the final Race and six assists. He made his first power play by stroking a three- Hawks. “Such is life,” he added Thanasi Kokkinakis, Sam Sto- to Dubai standings. eight shots and did not miss until pointer at the other end, but with a wry smile. sur, doubles stars John Peers and Trevor Fisher Jnr, in his first 1:37 remained. Kevin Love had 22 it was the only basket the Jazz Ryan Anderson recorded his Casey Dellacqua and wheelchair full campaign on the European points and eight rebounds for the scored for nearly five minutes in first double-double of the season, champion Dylan Alcott. Tour, is 65th at the moment and Cavaliers. the fourth quarter. The drought scoring 25 points and grabbing “It is not just about honouring needs to finish at least 45th or Alec Burks scored 24 points allowed the Cavaliers to regain 11 rebounds off the bench to lead Australia’s most outstanding ten- better in the 78-man field to off the bench for the Jazz (4-3), the lead. New Orleans. nis player, the awards are about secure his spot in the season while forwards Gordon Hayward “You can see why they’re as Davis, Eric Gordon, Ish Smith recognising and celebrating the finale. good as they are,” Jazz coach Quin and Toney Douglas scored 17 exceptional accomplishments and “I need to treat this week Snyder said. “I was happy with apiece for the Pelicans, while Jrue contributions of tennis commu- the same as any other,” said the NBA RESULTS the way we hung in there ... we Holiday added 10 points in a little nities, coaches, clubs and schools 36-year-old South African. Cleveland 118 Utah 114 didn’t get rattled. more than 15 minutes. around the country,” said Tennis “With there being no cut you O City 125 Washington 101 “Our guys need to feel good “Obviously, when (Davis) goes Australia chief Craig Tiley. Marcel Siem of Germany attends can get a little comfortable, so I Miami 101 LA Lakers 88 about how hard we played, and out, guys have to step up,” Ander- The winner will be announced a press conference ahead of will make sure I treat this as a NY Knicks 111 Toronto 109 we need to figure out how to win son said. “We did that. I mean you at an awards ceremony in Mel- normal event. I have to put my some of these, too.” go down the line, guys really just the BMW Shanghai Masters at Boston 99 Milwaukee 83 bourne on 23 November. head down and work.” Meanwhile, t he New Orleans played their hearts out.” the Lake Malaren Golf Club in Charlotte 104 Minnesota 95 Pelicans snapped a six-game los- Shanghai. REUTERS REUTERS New Orleans 120 Dallas 105 ing start to the season with a AGENCIES THURSDAY 12 NOVEMBER 2015 24 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT Guilty athletes, officials Diack resigns as should be punished: IOC IOC member BERLIN: Former world ath- publication of a World Anti-Dop- letics (IAAF) president Lamine ing Agency (WADA) independent Diack (pictured) has resigned as commission report on allegations WADA report on alleged corruption slams IAAF, Russia honorary member of the Inter- of widespread corruption and national Olympic Committee collusion by Russian officials, LONDON: The International “no stone unturned in producing following the launch of a formal including state security services, Olympic Committee (IOC) wants its evidence”. investigation against the Senega- to cover up results of drug tests, disciplinary procedures to be “The report offers a real oppor- lese for suspected corruption and destroy samples and intimidate opened against athletes who have tunity for wrongs in anti-doping money-laundering, the IOC said laboratory staff. The report also violated doping rules as the fallout processes to be righted,” the yesterday. identified “systematic failures” by continued from WADA’s explosive statement read. Diack, who was provision- the IAAF governing body, already report on the issue. “Many of the recommendations ally suspended by rocked by the probe The World Anti-Doping Agency will be on the table at WADA’s the IOC on Tuesday against Diack and (WADA) commission on Monday Board meeting in Colorado and has also resigned other officials. alleged widespread corruption Springs next week.” as president of the Diack served as and collusion by Russian officials, Diack, the former IAAF presi- International Ath- president of the including state security services, dent, quit his position as head of letics Foundation, IAAF from 1999 to cover up drug test results, the IAF, a Monaco-based charity is alleged to have until August this destroy samples and intimidate best known for its work with the received more than year when he was laboratory staff. year-end world athletics gala in one million euros succeeded by Briton It also identified “systematic Monte Carlo. ($1.07m) in bribes in Sebastian Coe. failures” by the sports world gov- Diack, who stepped down as 2011 to cover up posi- His son Papa Mas- erning body, the International IAAF chief in August, last week tive doping tests of sata Diack and three Association of Athletics Federa- was placed under formal investi- Russian athletes. others have also been tions (IAAF). gation by French authorities. The 82-year-old, charged with various The IOC said competitors, Russian Sports Minister Vitaly The office of France’s financial an IOC member from alleged breaches of Swimming: coaches or officials mentioned Mutko prosecutor claims he received 1999 to 2013 before becoming an the IAAF’s Code of Ethics. Diack in the WADA report who were over 1 million euros ($1.07m) in honorary member a year later, was a powerful figure within the Phelps, out of proven to have violated doping any irregularities committed by bribes in 2011 to cover up positive was placed under formal inves- IOC as he controlled the flagship regulations should be punished Russia’s anti-doping watchdog doping tests of Russian athletes. tigation in France this week and sport of the Olympic Games for rehab, on the and stripped of any medals. and its accredited laboratory. While the current scandal questioned by authorities before more than 15 years, with athletics “The IOC has asked the IAAF The overall tone emanat- has focused primarily on Russia, being released on a bail bond of also a big beneficiary, along with to initiate disciplinary procedures ing from Moscow, however, was Kenya is another country facing 500,000 euros and banned from swimming, of the IOC’s Olympic road to Rio against all athletes, coaches and defensive with a string of offi- possible action from WADA if it leaving the country. Games financial contributions. officials who have participated cials denouncing the findings of does not make serious efforts to His resignation from the Olym- WASHINGTON: Michael Phelps in the Olympic Games and are WADA, which has recommended tackle doping. pic body comes two days after the REUTERS (pictured) is heading for the Rio accused of doping in the report that Russian athletes are excluded The chairman of Kenya’s Olym- Olympics next year a new man of the independent commission,” from international events includ- pic committee said on Tuesday after coming through the tough- it said in a statement. ing the 2016 Olympics in Brazil. the country needed to act swiftly est period of his life, he told “With its zero-tolerance policy The Kremlin’s spokesman, to prevent its athletes being Russia ‘could appoint foreigner American magazine Sports Illus- against doping, following the con- Dmitry Peskov, described WADA’s banned at the 2016 Rio Olympics. trated. clusion of this procedure, the IOC doping allegations as “quite Several Kenyans have failed to head anti-doping lab’ In a cover feature entitled “The will take all the necessary meas- groundless”. doping tests in recent years, Rehabilitation of Michael Phelps”, ures and sanctions with regard to The Sports Ministry also said staining the reputation of the east MOSCOW: Russia would be ready to appoint a foreign expert to head the man who has won 18 Olym- the withdrawal and re-allocation Russia’s anti-doping policy had African country whose middle its anti-doping laboratory, the sports minister said yesterday, after the pic titles, more than anyone else, of medals and, as the case may be, strictly complied with WADA and long-distance runners have former director of the facility quit following the lab’s suspension over give a frank account of his descent exclusion of coaches and officials norms. been among some of the globe’s allegations from the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA). into alcoholism before turning his from future Olympic Games.” The now-closed Moscow labo- most dominant athletes. “We are absolutely open and ready as a result of consultations with life around again. The former global athletics ratory processed tests for more WADA last week threatened WADA to appoint even a foreign specialist to lead the laboratory if it Phelps reached rock bottom head Lamine Diack, who is under than 20 sports, suggesting the Kenya with a four-year ban is necessary,” minister Vitaly Mutko told R-Sport news agency. in September 2014 when he was investigation in France on sus- alleged drug cheating could be unless it improved its efforts WADA has accused ex-laboratory head Grigory Rodchenkov of arrested in Baltimore, Maryland, picion of corruption and money widespread. to catch cheats, but Kipchoge being at the heart of a scheme to cover up widespread use of illegal for drink-driving (DUI) after a laundering, was also provision- Russian Sports Minister Vit- Keino, a Kenyan running great drugs among Russian athletes, including deliberately destroying posi- night out at a local casino, the ally suspended by the IOC and aly Mutko said the laboratory’s and chairman of the National tive test samples. second time he had been found resigned as International Athlet- head, Grigory Rodchenkov, had Olympic Committee of Kenya His resignation came after WADA suspended Moscow’s heavily to be driving under the influence ics Foundation (IAF) chief. resigned. (NOCK), said government offi- criticised anti-doping laboratory on Tuesday, the day after releasing of drugs or alcohol. The early effects of the report “Rodchenkov, an experienced cials had shown little stomach to its explosive, 335-page report on the scandal. He pleaded guilty to drunk- were starting to be felt as a Mos- man, took the decision to resign chase down offenders. Russia has tried to shrug off the eye-watering allegations from driving and was given one- cow laboratory used for doping to take all the negativity with “I have personally tried to reach WADA of corruption and doping, with the Kremlin calling the claims year suspended sentence and tests stopped operating after its him,” Tass news agency quoted government officials to agree on “groundless”. 18 months’ probation, but was accreditation was suspended by Mutko as saying. how to act on this menace but I International Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF) president spared jail. WA DA . In the face of defiance from don’t get appointments. I make Sebastian Coe has given the Russian athletics federation (ARAF) “until It served as a wake-up call for The Russian Sports Ministry Russian officials, a WADA spokes- calls that are unanswered,” Keino the end of the week” to respond or risk possible suspension, with the the swimming superstar. said it was open for closer coop- man issued a statement defending said. IAAF Council set to meet in Monaco tomorrow. “I was in a real dark place. Not eration with WADA to eliminate the report, which they said left REUTERS REUTERS wanting to be alive anymore,” he explained. And he checked him- self into rehab and is now ready to return to Olympic competition. Phelps, 30, says after the arrest Russia report no surprise to ex-WADA boss he spent four days in his Mary- land home before realising he had to get his life back on track. MELBOURNE: The explosive my time was that they weren’t Russian It’s probably the most afraid report on Russia’s anti-doping doing enough in their anti-doping I’ve ever felt in my life,” he said. regime came as no surprise efforts and that this report shows whistleblower “I look back now, I lived in a to former World Anti-Doping that it’s only got worse.” bubble for a long time.” Agency president John Fahey Fahey said WADA had regu- urges Kenya, His coach, Bob Bowman, was (pictured), who held grave doubts larly outlined the concerns about even more worried about his about the country’s commitment Russia to the International Olym- Ethiopia focus prodigy. to catching drug cheats during his pic Committee (IOC). “I had been living in fear that I time in charge. “We did everything we could to LONDON: The whistleblower was going to get a call that some- The agency’s chief for six years try to improve the standards of who sparked the global inves- thing had happened. Honestly, I until 2013, one of Fahey’s last Russian anti-doping, we made it tigation into doping in Russian thought, the way he was going, he acts as president was to suspend clear to the IOC of our concerns athletics has called for the sport’s was going to kill himself,” Bow- the accreditation of Russia’s sole on a regular basis. authorities to also look at Afri- man said. “Not take his own life, WADA-approved laboratory in “Nevertheless you just knew can countries such as Kenya and but something like the DUI, but Moscow after an audit found it there was a limited effort being Ethiopia. worse.” had failed to meet standards. made.” Andrey Baranov, a Russian Phelps was arrested after the The same laboratory’s accred- The Kremlin has dismissed sports agent, wrote a signed depo- 2005 Athens Olympics for driving itation was suspended again on the allegations in the report as sition to world athletics’ govern- while impaired, and in 2009 was Tuesday after an independent groundless, while Russian sport- ing body the IAAF (International photographed using a marijuana commission set up by WADA ing chiefs alleged the interna- Association of Athletics Fed- bong in South Carolina. alleged it had destroyed samples tional furore over doping was erations) in April 2014 outlining But after spending 45 days in and its staff had taken bribes in politically motivated. bribery and extortion related to an Arizona rehab clinic, he told exchange for covering up athletes’ Some believe the scandal could doping in Russian athletics. the magazine: “I wound up uncov- positive tests. have bigger ramifications than the IAAF President Sebastian Coe attends the ‘Future Decoded’ confer- It led to the bombshell report ering a lot of things about myself “(The report) certainly didn’t graft affair at FIFA, where presi- ence in London, Britain, in this November 10, 2015, file photo. A World published on Monday by an inde- that I probably knew, but I didn’t surprise me,” Fahey said in a tel- dent Sepp Blatter has been sus- Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) commission on November 9, 2015, recom- pendent commission of the World want to approach. ephone interview yesterday. pended, 14 officials and marketing mended athletics governing body IAAF to suspend Russian athletes Anti-doping Agency (WADA) “One of them was that for a “We had Russia under constant executives have been indicted. from competition as it reported on its investigation into systematic that revealed “state-supported” long time, I saw myself as the watch in my time. Fahey said he made one visit doping in Russia. doping in Russian athletics and athlete that I was, but not as a “What was apparent during to the Moscow laboratory during called for the country to be sus- human being.” his term at WADA. During which pended from the sport. Bowman believes Phelps is the lab’s director, Grigory Rod- the 2010 Winter Olympics in “There’s a lot of a things you But Baranov told yesterday’s healthier than ever and is back chenkov, who was accused in the Vancouver and voiced his con- just can’t get near in Russia. It’s edition of The Guardian newspa- to pre-2008 Olympic swimming WADA report of covering up test cern over what he described as much easier to ask questions in a per: “It is wrong just to be focus- form, which could mean he is on results and bribe-taking, said he Russia’s “miniscule” annual anti- place like England.” ing on Russia. There should be a target for a further six gold med- had doped when he was a track doping budget of $6m at the time The WADA commission similar investigation into coun- als at the 2016 Games in Rio. athlete in the 1980s. -- “about half that of Australia’s”. recommended that Russia be tries like Kenya and Ethiopia too. He has not drunk alcohol since “He showed me a picture of Russia had implemented banned from international ath- “Their top athletes are earn- his arrest, and has vowed not to four runners on one of the walls, some measures during his time letics, including the 2016 Olympic ing far more than the Russians. drink until after the Rio Olympics I asked him who the athletes were at WADA, he added, including Games. Fahey would not offer his Yet their levels of testing are very next August. in the picture,” Fahey said. allowing anti-doping officers from opinion on the recommendation, limited.” After years of enduring work- “He said he was one of them outside the country to visit after but said it would not have been Kenya has long faced accusa- outs with a hangover, Phelps is and all four were doping. I was having previously denied them delivered lightly. tions of doping. training clean. “Haven’t had a somewhat staggered. visas. “It’s abundantly clear that there Baranov’s deposition to the single sip and will not have a sip. “He then said, ‘of course, things But he was never convinced are gross breaches of standards IAAF revealed that officials from The performances were there have changed since then. Those any testing occurred outside the (in the report) and the applica- the Russian athletics federa- because I worked, recovered, slept were my bad days,’ -- or words to capital. tion of the WADA code,” he said. tion had extorted 450,000 euros and took care of myself more than that effect.” “It was pretty clear the testing “Given the importance they ($480,000) from his client, mar- I ever had,” he told Sports Illus- Rodchenkov resigned as the was only going on when the ath- play in the international sport- athon-runner Liliya Shobukhova, trated. lab’s director on Tuesday, TASS letes were being tested in Mos- ing world, it’s really disappointing who was banned and stripped of “You’re going to see a different news agency reported citing cow. And Russia’s a big country,” and does require some very seri- her titles last year due to anoma- me than you saw in any of the Russian Sports Minister Vitaly he said. “What was going on in ous responses.” lies in her biological passport. other Olympics.” Mutko. the vast expanses of Russia, there Fahey said he met Mutko at was no indication. REUTERS REUTERS REUTERS THURSDAY 12 NOVEMBER 2015 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 25

Rugby: World Cup failure ends Lancaster’s England reign

LONDON: Stuart Lancaster car- ried the can for England’s woe- ful World Cup campaign when he stepped down as head coach yesterday. Lancaster’s departure, three- and-a-half years after his appoint- ment, was “by mutual consent”, according to a statement issued by England’s governing Rugby Football Union. His exit was expected in the light of a World Cup which saw England become the first host Qatar football players are seen listening to coach Daniel Carreno during a training session at Lekhwiya Stadium yesterday. Qatar are preparing for their friendly against Turkey tomorrow. nation to be eliminated in the The friendly will be played at Lekhwiya Stadium. The kick-off time has been set for 8:30pm. group phase. “I am obviously extremely sad- dened to finish the way we did in this World Cup and to step down from the role,” Lancaster said in the RFU statement. Germany take on France in friendly “As I have always said, I ulti- mately accept and take responsi- bility for the team’s performance German striker Mario Gomez gets set to play his first international for more than a year and we have not delivered the results we all hoped for during this tournament,” added Lancas- BERLIN: Germany striker who is on loan at Besiktas in ter. Mario Gomez is poised to play his Istanbul from Fiorentina. Suspended FIFA The 46-year-old won 28 of his first international for more than “France are a very, very strong 46 Tests in charge and took Eng- a year against France tomorrow, team with big ambitions for the chief Blatter land to four successive second- while teenager Leroy Sane is set European Championship next place finishes in the Six Nations to make his debut. year. “The Dutch are undergoing in hospital: Championship without winning The world champions play major changes, we’ll have to see the title. the first of two friendlies in four what to expect from them.” However, this year’s World Cup days at the Stade de France The team that starts the game Spokesman was always his primary objective. before hosting the Netherlands is likely to be the strongest avail- It proved a spectacular fail- in Hanover next Tuesday with able to Loew, however, with goal- GENEVA: Suspended FIFA ure, with England crashing out the Dutch rebuilding under new keeping coach Andreas Koepke president Sepp Blatter has been following defeats by Wales and coach Danny Blind after missing confirming yesterday that Bayern hospitalised after being placed Australia, while Lancaster faced out on qualifying for Euro 2016. Munich’s Manuel Neuer will line under medical observation for strong criticism for unsuccess- Sane, 19, a right winger or up between the posts. stress, but he is expecting to leave ful selection gambles such as his striker, is poised to make his The games will be Loew’s last the facility early next week, his decision to place his faith in rugby first appearance for his country chance to look at his squad before spokesman said yesterday. league convert Sam Burgess. despite making just 26 Bundes- Germany play England and Italy “He is now, at this moment, But Lancaster, initially liga appearances for Schalke, at home in friendlies next March. in hospital,” Blatter’s spokesman appointed on a caretaker basis while 30-year-old striker Gomez The Germans may have fin- German soccer players Mario Gomez (left) and Jerome Boateng warm Klaus Stoehlker said by phone. after Martin Johnson quit fol- is poised for a recall. ished first in their qualifying up during the team’s training session in Munich, Germany, yesterday. “He is preparing to leave on lowing England’s quarter-final Gomez has won 60 caps, but group for Euro 2016, but lacked Germany will face France in an international friendly match at the Stade Monday and will be back on the exit at the 2011 World Cup before missed the 2014 World Cup tri- consistency throughout the cam- de France tomorrow. job on Tuesday.” taking on the job full-time, said umph with injury and has made paign. Stoehlker added that 79-year- the future was bright for a largely just three appearances for Ger- They have won their last two old Blatter had “regained his youthful England side. many since playing all five games matches against the French, a on July 10 and forward Thomas already played there and it was a good humour” and has vowed to “I took on the role in difficult at Euro 2012, when Joachim Mats Hummels header sealing Mueller said the Germans are great game. We want to have fun persist with “his fight against the circumstances and it has been a Loew’s side lost to Italy in the a 1-0 victory in the 2014 World looking forward to running out at and soak up the atmosphere, but (FIFA) ethics committee” which huge challenge to transition the semi-finals. Cup quarter-finals after a 2-1 the venue. “I’m looking forward to it won’t have much to do with the suspended him for 90 days over team with many hurdles along the “I’m on the right path after success at the Stade de France playing a big opponent in a super European Championship. corruption allegations. way,” explained Lancaster. a few difficult years and I was in a friendly in February 2013. stadium in front of a great crowd,” “It’s still too far away to think Blatter, long the most powerful “We have played some excellent pleased when the national trainer The final of Euro 2016 will said Mueller, who scored against about that.” man in football, suffered a medical rugby and it was always going to (Loew) called me up,” said Gomez, be held at the Stade de France France in the 2013 triumph. “I’ve REUTERS incident last weekend and had be tough to get the right level of been placed under medical experience into them in time for observation from his home. 2015. Blatter’s daughter Corinne “It is a young group of play- has said that her father had ers with the huge majority avail- been forced to cancel all of his able for the Rugby World Cup Neymar the best, says Dunga appointments up to November 15. in Japan in 2019, where I believe Stoehlker previously said the their recent experience will make stress-related medical incident them genuine contenders.” SAO PAULO: Neymar is the best player in Venezuela due to a ban imposed for violent is still Argentina,” he told reporters shortly had been brought on by the When Lancaster first took the world right now and his return to the Bra- conduct which saw him sent off in their 1-0 before his team flew out to Buenos Aires. pressure the embattled Swiss over, he stressed his desire to zil team to face Argentina in the World Cup defeat by Colombia in the group phase of the “You lose a talented player but you get one national has faced in recent “reconnect” the Test side with the qualifiers will give the visitors a vital boost, Copa America earlier this year. that is maybe more focused, with more power weeks. grassroots of English rugby after coach Dunga said yesterday. Without him Brazil lost 2-0 to Chile but and speed, and they can create problems. It’s Blatter has been at the centre a World Cup exit made worse by “If we look at the ranking by numbers and beat Venezuela 3-1 at home and are in fifth Argentina, their players all play at the highest of the worst scandal to ever hit several embarrassing off-field statistics, Neymar is superior right now,” place in the 10-team table, with the top four level in Europe.” world football. Swiss prosecutors incidents. Dunga said when asked to compare the qualifying automatically for Russia 2018 and Dunga has an excellent record as coach opened a criminal case against him But former England fly-half 23-year-old with Lionel Messi and Cristiano the fifth-placed side facing a playoff. against Argentina but the game has lost some in September, an announcement Stuart Barnes was among those Ronaldo, who have dominated the World Argentina, who have one point from their intensity now that so many Latin American that led to his suspension from who said it was wrong to conflate Player of the Year award since 2008. opening two games and lie in seventh spot, players are in Europe, he said. FIFA. Before he was suspended, off-field behaviour with the rea- “Messi is injured, Cristiano is expected to come into today’s fixture with serious injury “It used to be a war but now it is a competi- Blatter, who has been in charge sons why England, who last won repeat what he did last year,” Dunga added. worries. A front three of Messi, Sergio Aguero tive contest with professional mutual respect,” of FIFA since 1998, had said he the Six Nations under Johnson in “Neymar has improved consistently since he and Carlos Tevez are all sidelined but Dunga he said. would step down on February 26, 2011, were beaten in the quarter- arrived at Barcelona (in 2013). He has done all played down the advantage to Brazil and said “They all play together now. But they want next year, when a FIFA congress finals by France. that was expected of him with Messi out. He’s replacements could bring unforeseen problems to beat Brazil just like we want to beat Argen- elects a new president. Nevertheless after thanking in great form.” Neymar missed Brazil’s first as they seek to make their mark. tina,” he said. players, staff and the RFU for two World Cup qualifiers against Chile and “They will have players out injured but it REUTERS REUTERS their support, Lancaster said yesterday: “Most of all, I would like to thank the England rugby fans...The team feels a close con- nection with everyone across the grassroots game, which has been ‘Restoring German football will take time’ important to us all.” From the outset of Lancaster’s BERLIN: Lifting German foot- Last month, Der Spiegel mag- vice-president Jack Warner, time as England coach, there ball out of its current malaise will azine alleged that a 6.7 million banned from football for life since were questions about whether require plenty of patience and the euro ($7.2m) transfer to soccer’s September, was signed four days the former Leeds rugby director support of both professional and governing body was a return on a before the FIFA vote in 2000. and England Saxons (the national amateur players alike, Germany’s loan from then Adidas CEO Rob- It offered a series of services, A side) had sufficient elite-level joint interim FA chief Reinhard ert Louis-Dreyfus to buy votes at including friendly matches and experience for the job. Rauball said yesterday. a FIFA election in 2000 in favour coaching support to the head of And earlier this month, former Rauball and Rainer Koch have of Germany’s 2006 World Cup bid. the CONCACAF, the governing Australia and Japan boss Eddie been tasked with leading the Niersbach, a vice president of body for North and Central Jones said England had erred in world’s largest national football the 2006 organising committee America and the Caribbean, having a “rookie coach” at the association after their predeces- at the time, is under investiga- which Warner headed from 1990 World Cup. sor Wolfgang Niersbach resigned tion for tax evasion in relation to to 2011. “The Rugby World Cup was on Monday over a World Cup the payment but has denied the The DFB said there was no hugely disappointing for every- 2006 scandal involving a multi- claims of a slush fund, accepting financial offer in the contract, one associated with the England million dollar payment to soccer’s only “political responsibility” but which was never fulfilled, but team and the subsequent review governing body FIFA a year ahead insisting he had done nothing has urged Beckenbauer, who has into the team’s performance was of the finals. wrong. not commented on the latest always intended to be extremely “The DFB is currently going He said last month, however, he document, to provide answers. comprehensive, which it has through a highly problematic did not know why the payment to Warner, who sat on the FIFA been,” said RFU chief executive situation. So for the good of our FIFA was made in 2005 and had Executive Committee for 28 Ian Ritchie. A file picture dated July 6, 2000, of FIFA President Joseph Blatter (left), sport, together we need to get to ordered an internal investigation. years, and 13 other soccer officials “Following the review, Stu- Franz Beckenbauer CEO President Germany 2006 (centre) and Fedor work, the Bundesliga as well as World Cup wining player and and sports marketing executives art and I met, where we agreed Radmann, delegate of the coordination for the bid to host the 2006 the amateurs,” he told Bild news- coach Franz Beckenbauer, who led were indicted in the United States that he should step down as head FIFA World Cup, posing for photographers after a press conference in paper. the 2006 World Cup organising on May 27 on bribery, money coach.” Ritchie will now lead the Zurich, Switzerland. Beckenbauer is behind an agreement drawn up with “This will take much more time committee, has also rejected the laundering and wire fraud charges search for Lancaster’s successor, disgraced former FIFA executive committee member Jack Warner days than is expected,” said Rauball, allegations of a votes-for-cash involving more than $150m in which the RFU said would begin before the 2006 World Cup vote in 2000 won by Germany, the German who also heads the German Foot- deal but suspicion has grown payments. “immediately”. Soccer Federation (DFB) confirmed on November 10,2015. ball League (DFL) that runs the with the DFB saying a contract top two divisions. between him and former FIFA REUTERS REUTERS THURSDAY 12 NOVEMBER 2015 26 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT Future of US Top seeds have it easy at Doha Open Formula One Belgian pair of Koekelkoren and Van Walle aiming to match Antalya best at Al Gharafa Grand Prix in DOHA: Top seeds Nick Lucena ver on the FIVB Beach Volleyball match their best finish of the sea- and Phil Dalhausser went straight World Tour. son when they advanced through doubt into the Doha Open second elimi- The duo are in a race against the first elimination round. nation round after they wrapped time to secure a place at the Rio Having finished second in their up pool play with an unbeaten de Janeiro 2016 Olympic Games. pool the Belgians had to face NEW YORK: Formula One’s record yesterday. After the Doha Open they Qatar’s Ahmed Tijan and Assam commercial supremo Bernie The USA pair had a tough will have completed half of the Ahmed Mahmoud and duly won Ecclestone has expressed concern final pool encounter against Den- required 12 tournaments and if 2-0 (21-15, 21-15). for the future of the US Grand mark’s Peter Dilling Kildegaard they can continue their form into “It was not as easy as it looked Prix in Austin following the Andersen and Kristoffer Abell, the New Year, then there is the because of the wind and it is reduction of a Texas state subsidy. but fought back after losing the strong possibility that they will do always windy here,” van Walle “If it’s changed, it’s going to be opening set to win 2-1 (16-21, enough to earn a place at Copac- said. “You try to put the serves difficult to continue the race in 22-20, 15-9). abana Beach. on the net, but that isn’t so easy. Austin,” the Briton told the Aus- “I was terrible, I think I missed “It’s great fun, it’s the most fun “But we are happy to win and tin American-Statesman (www. six serves,” Lucena said. I’ve had playing and having Paul happy to have ninth place and mystatesman.com) from Brazil, “We haven’t practiced in three (Baxter) as our coach as well is that is the most important thing.” where the sport holds its penul- weeks, but it is good that we won great too,” Lucena added. Koekelkoren and Tom van timate race of the season this our pool and hopefully we will get “Phil is the best player in the Walle reached the quarterfinals weekend. better, otherwise we’re in trou- world, so it’s the most fun I could at the Antalya Open in Turkey The newspaper said the gov- ble.” have. three weeks ago, but otherwise it ernor’s office had confirmed that Lucena and Dalhausser only “Hopefully we’ll do well here has been something of a struggle state payments to support the teamed up midway through the and then Trinidad for the Con- to build up their presence on the 2015 race would drop by more 2015 season and they made their tinental final, then we’ll be done World Tour. Until recently both than 20 percent. debut as a pair at the Long Beach and we can rehab and rest a lit- played volleyball professionally in It said that this year’s payment, Grand Slam where they won sil- tle bit.” the Belgian league before switch- based on a different formula for ver. Since then they have won two Dries Koekelkoren and Tom ing to the beach. calculating how much economic sets of gold and two sets of sil- van Walle remain on course to It has meant they have had to activity the race generates for work hard to build up experience Texas, would be closer to $19.5 and ranking points to qualify million than the previous $25 for World Tour events and now million. they will now have to play USA’s “To use a technical term, I John Hyden and Ty Bourne if think we’re screwed,” said Circuit they want to reach the last eight of the Americas chairman Bobby in Doha. “It will be hard,” van Epstein, who has to pay Eccle- Walle said. “We really wanted to stone a significant annual sum in be ranked first in our pool so that race hosting fees. we would have a rest game and “The state clearly made prom- see what was coming, but we lost ises. I think we made a deal, and to Ingrosso and Ingrosso (Matteo we lived up to our end of the deal,” and Paolo). he said of the recalculation. “Still we look forward to play- “It’s like if you go to a restau- ing a first ranked team and see rant and order a dinner, and then what happens.” Action from the Doha Open Beach Volleyball Championship at Qatar after you’ve eaten the meal they Qatar team in action at the Doha Open Beach Volleyball Championship. Beach Volleyball Academy in Al Gharafa yesterday. change the price.” THE PENINSULA The Austin circuit is Formula One’s first purpose-built track in the United States and has hosted a grand prix since 2012. This year’s event, which saw Younis Khan Bravo shines Britain’s Lewis Hamilton take a Hafeez hundred helps third world championship last month, was badly hit by the retires from as West Indies weather with Epstein saying the heavy rain had been “financially one-day cricket Pakistan thump England level T20 series devastating”. Saturday’s final practice took ABU DHABI: Mohammad hit half centuries for England in place behind closed doors and, ABU DHABI: Pakistan bats- Hafeez hit a sparkling century a below-par total of 216 all out in COLOMBO: West Indies ended when fans were admitted, quali- man Younis Khan (pictured) has to help Pakistan beat England by 49.4 overs. their dismal tour of Sri Lanka fying could not go ahead and announced his retirement from six wickets in the first day-night Pakistan, just like England, with a consolation victory after was postponed until the Sunday one-day cricket, saying the first international at Abu Dhabi yes- were rattled at the start, as Dwayne Bravo’s all-round bril- morning. day-night international against terday, taking a 1-0 lead in the left-arm paceman Reece Top- liance secured a series-levelling The race also attributed the England in Abu Dhabi will be his four-match series. ley (3-26) dismissed Azhar Ali 23-run win in the second and final reduced crowd in part to the last match. The 35-year-old finished with (eight), Bilal Asif (two) and Twenty20 International yester- return of neighbouring Mexico The 37-year-old had wanted to an unbeaten 130-ball 102 to steer Younis Khan (nine) to leave day. to the calendar after a 23-year leave the format on a high after Pakistan to the modest target of Pakistan at 41-3. Blanked in the preceding Test absence. he was selected in the 16-man 217 in 43.4 overs, carrying his bat- Younis, who before the start of and one-day series and beaten in The race day crowd in Mexico squad for the four-match series ting form from the preceding 2-0 the match announced his retire- the first Twenty20 International City was put at 135,000. against England despite patchy Test series win last week into the ment from one-day cricket, fin- on Monday, West Indies posted “The big question now is: “Is recent form. Dropped from the one-day limited-overs clash. ished his career with 7,249 runs 162-6 before bowling out the hosts the race coming back?,” Epstein The game will be Younis’s 265th team against Australia last year, Hafeez added 106 for the unbro- in 265 matches. for 139 to salvage a bit of pride. told the newspaper. one-day international, nearly 16 Younis smashed a total of 468 in ken fifth wicket stand with Babar Hafeez and Malik steadied Bravo blasted a run-a-ball 31 years after making his debut the 2-0 Test win against Australia Azam (62 not out) and 70 for the Pakistan to 111 before Malik fell before returning to claim four against Sri Lanka in Karachi in that forced the selectors to recall fourth wicket with Shoaib Malik to a reckless shot off spinner wickets at the R Premadasa Sta- February 2000. him to the one-day team. (26). Moeen Ali. dium. For Sri Lanka, Tillakaratne Going into his last match, But he failed miserably in Eoin Morgan and James Taylor AFP Dilshan top-scored with a breezy Leader Hamilton Younis has scored 7,240 runs with the World Cup 2015, managing 52, and Shehan Jayasuriya made seven hundreds and 48 half-cen- 6, nought and 37 in the three Scoreboard 30 before Ravi Rampaul (3-20) unwell but will turies in one dayers. matches he played before being and Bravo wrecked their middle “He will retire from one-day dropped from the side again. ENGLAND Bowling: Irfan 10-2-35-3 (w3); Anwar 6-0-32- and lower order. Opting to bat race in Brazil cricket after Wednesday’s game Younis said he had consulted J Roy b Irfan ...... 0 2; Malik 10-0-45-2; Shah 10-0-38-1; Riaz first, West Indies made a quiet and he has conveyed this to us,” with those close to him before A Hales c Younis b Anwar...... 10 9.4-1-29-0 (1w); Asif 4-0-32-0. start, managing 17 runs off the team manager Intikhab Alam reaching the decision. J Root lbw Anwar ...... 0 PAKISTAN first four overs before plundering LONDON: Triple Formula One said. “I am proud to announce that E Morgan c Ahmed b Malik ...... 76 Azhar Ali lbw Topley ...... 8 44 of the next two. world champion Lewis Hamil- Younis had retired from after playing for Pakistan for J Taylor c Ali b Malik ...... 60 Bilal Asif lbw Topley ...... 2 AFP ton (pictured) is unwell and has Twenty20 cricket after leading 5 years I am announcing my J Butler (run out) ...... 1 Mohd Hafeez (not out) ...... 102 delayed his flight to Brazil on Pakistan to the World Twenty20 retirement. I consulted with my Moeen Ali c Azam b Shah ...... 7 Younis Khan c Rashid b Topley ...... 9 Scoreboard medical advice but will compete title in England in 2009. close friends and family mem- C Woakes (run out) ...... 33 Shoaib Malik c Roy b Moeen ...... 26 in this weekend’s penultimate He was subsequently out of the bers before taking this decision,” Adil Rashid c (sub-Gohar) b Irfan ...... 7 Babar Azam (not out) ...... 62 WEST INDIES race of the season, Mercedes said one-day squad for most of 2013 Younis said in a statement. D Willey b Irfan ...... 13 Extras (B-2, LB-2, W-4) ...... 8 A Fletcher lbw Siriwardana ...... 23 yesterday. before being selected for the tour “As a batsman I played a posi- R Topley (not out) ...... 0 Total (for 4 wkts in 43.4 overs) ...... 217 J Charles lbw Siriwardana ...... 34 A team spokesman said the of Sri Lanka in June last year. tive role in the team’s wins in one- Extras (LB-5, W-4) ...... 9 Fall of wickets: 1-12, 2-15, 3-41, 4-111. M Samuels (run out)...... 1 30-year-old He managed to score just three day cricket and now I realise that Total (all out in 49.4 overs) ...... 216 Bowling: Willey 7-0-43-0; Topley 9-1-26-3 D Bravo c Mathews b Malinga ...... 31 Briton had a in the only match before he had to it’s time to keep myself away from Fall of wickets: 1-0, 2-7, 3-14, 4-147, 5-148, (3w); Woakes 8.4-0-40-0; Rashid 9-0-60-0; A Russell c Chandimal b Chameera ...... 9 fever but flew return home following the death limited overs cricket. 6-157, 7-161, 8-180, 9-213. Moeen 7-0-32-1 (1w); Root 3-0-12-0. D Ramdin (not out) ...... 34 to Sao Paulo of his nephew. AFP K Pollard b Malinga ...... 5 yesterday, a D Sammy (not out) ...... 12 day later than Extras (LB-6, W-7) ...... 13 planned. Total (for 6 wkts in 20 overs) ...... 162 Hamilton Fall of wickets: 1-62, 2-65, 3-75, 4-97, had earlier Five-star Mustafizur sinks Zimbabwe pulled out of a 5-138, 6-147. Bowling: Malinga 4-0-16-2 (w1); Kulasekara sponsor event DHAKA: Paceman Mustafizur Scoreboard after occasional spinner Sab- 4-0-22-0 (w1); Senanayake 3-0-38-0; Cha- in Sao Paulo, Rahman grabbed 5-34 as Bang- bir Rahman broke their 80-run meera 3-0-36-1 (w2); Siriwardana 3-0-17-2 triggering spec- ladesh thrashed Zimbabwe by 61 BANGLADESH ZIMBABWE fourth wicket stand. Mortaza then (w2); Jayasuriya 3-0-27-0. ulation locally that he could miss runs in the third and final one- Tamim Iqbal st Chakabva b Cremer ...... 73 C Chibhabha b Mustafizur ...... 4 removed Williams, who faced 84 SRI LANKA the race. day international to complete a Imrul Kayes st Chakabva b Raza ...... 73 R Chakabva c Nasir b Mustafizur...... 17 balls, before 20-year old Mustafi- K Perera c Bravo b Taylor ...... 12 The Briton clinched his third whitewash in Dhaka yesterday. Mushfiqur Rahim st Chakabva b Waller ...... 28 C Ervine lbw Nasir ...... 21 zur took out Sikandar Raza and T Dilshan c (sub-Holder) b Rampaul ...... 52 title in Texas last month, with Mustafizur jolted Zimbabwe Liton Das c (sub) b Cremer ...... 17 S Williams c Sabbir b Mortaza ...... 64 Luke Jongwe off successive balls. S Jayasuriya c Russell b Bravo ...... 30 three races to spare, and Mer- with two early strikes and then Mahmudullah (run out) ...... 52 E Chigumbura b Sabbir ...... 45 Tamim and Kayes earlier put D Chandimal c (sub-Carter) b Rampaul ...... 1 cedes have also retained their returned in his final spell to polish Sabbir Rahman c Cremer b Jongwe ...... 1 M Waller c Nasir b Al Amin ...... 32 on 147 runs in their opening part- A Mathews c (sub-Carter) b Bravo ...... 5 constructors’ crown. off the tail to grab his third five- Nasir Hossain c Cremer b Jongwe ...... 0 S Raza c Sabbir b Mustafizur ...... 9 nership to lay the foundation for M Siriwardana st Ramdin b Narine ...... 15 “No, he’s not going to miss the wicket haul in just nine ODIs. Mashrafe Mortaza b Panyangara ...... 16 L Jongwe c Sabbir b Mustafizur ...... 11 Bangladesh’s total. Zimbabwe hit C Kapugedera c Charles b Pollard ...... 2 race,” the spokesman said. “He’s His heroics left the visitors all Arafat Sunny (not out) ...... 3 G Cremer (not out) ...... 5 back after removing the duo in S Senanayake c Pollard b Bravo ...... 3 going to be a day late... the doctor out for 215 in 43.3 overs, in reply Mustafizur Rahman (run out) ...... 1 T Panyangara c&b Mustafizur ...... 3 quick succession but Mahmudul- N Kulasekara c Narine b Bravo ...... 4 advised him to cancel the earlier to Bangladesh’s decent 276-9. Extras (LB-2, W-8, NB-2) ...... 12 T Muzarabani c&b Sunny ...... 0 lah smashed a rapid-fire 52 off S Malinga b Rampaul ...... 2 flight so he missed a press confer- Bangladesh had won the first Total (for 9 wkts in 50 overs) ...... 276 Extras (LB-2, W-2) ...... 4 40 balls to help the hosts recover D Chameera (not out) ...... 3 ence today.” two matches by 145 runs and 58 Fall of wickets: 1-147, 2-173, 3-190, 4-222, Total (all out in 43.3 overs) ...... 215 for a decent total. Mahmudullah, Extras (B-1, LB-4, W-3, NB-2) ...... 10 Hamilton has never won the runs to seal their fifth successive 5-226, 6-226, 7-263, 8-275, 9-276. Fall of wickets: 1-4, 2-43, 3-47, 4-127, who hit five fours and a six, got a Total (all out in 20 overs) ...... 139 Brazilian Grand Prix at Inter- ODI series win. Bowling: Panyangara 10-1-49-1 (nb2); Muz- 5-186, 6-188, 7-207, 8-207, 9-214, 10-215. reprieve when he was on 32 as he Fall of wickets: 1-23, 2-93, 3-94, 4-102, lagos, the home race of his late Imrul Kayes and Tamim arabani 4-1-21-0; Jongwe 9-0-50-2 (w3); Bowling: Mustafizur 8-0-34-5(w1); Mortaza walked assuming he was run out. 5-117, 6-126, 7-129, 8-133, 9-135, 10-139. boyhood idol and fellow triple Iqbal both scored 73 to set up Chigumbura 6-0-29-0; Raza 8-1-48-1(w4); 9-0-40-1(w1); Nasir 7-0-36-1; Al-Amin 8-0- The two teams will play two Bowling: Narine 4-0-24-1 (w1); Rampaul champion Ayrton Senna. Bangladesh’s score after skip- Cremer 10-0-53-2 (w1); Waller 3-0-24-1. 44-1; Sunny 9.3-0-47-1; Sabbir 2-0-12-1. Twenty20 internationals on 4-0-20-3; Taylor 2-0-22-1 (w1); Pollard 4-0- The Briton’s German team per Mashrafe Mortaza opted to November 13 and 15 at the same 23-1 (w1); Sammy 2-0-17-0; Bravo 4-0-28-4 mate Nico Rosberg won the race bat first at the Sher-e-Bangla Sean Williams scored 64 runs to give Zimbabwe some hope but venue. (nb1). last season. National Stadium. and Elton Chigumbura added 45 Bangladesh did not look back AFP THURSDAY 12 NOVEMBER 2015 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 27 Global Champions Tour set for thrilling finish Twenty six top riders of the world competing for top prizes in the four-day event at Al Shaqab Arena in Doha

DOHA: A nail biting finish is on Scott’s current total, and two- showjumping has evolved and GLOBAL CHAMPIONS the cards at the Longines Global time Olympic Silver medallist grown year on year, at the final Champions Tour here today with Rolf-Göran Bengtsson; both of 10th anniversary event, Jan said: TOUR SCHEDULE the top 26 out of the top 32 riders whom will be hoping to clinch “I’m very proud of how LGCT has Today in the world competing at the Al the crown from the British rider’s grown and it is important for our 12:00 National Competition 1.20/1.25m Shaqab. grasp in what’s set to be one of sport. We broadcast our events on against the clock (no jump off) From today till November 14, the most exciting sporting finals TV worldwide, and year on year Following National Competition 1.35/1.40m the best showjumpers in our sport showjumping has seen. the audience is increasing. Our against the clock (no jump off) will compete for the final time Longines Global Champions sport is global, and we connect the 16:00 CSI5* - Two Phases, 1.45m with LGCT this year, after what’s Tour President and Founder Jan world together, with our horses.” 18:30 CSI5* - Table A - with jump off, been an incredible season of top Tops said an exceptional sport- Throughout the ranking board, 1.50/1.55m (€ 91,500) sport and competition. ing drama that will play out this the best riders in showjumping Tomorrow The final dramatic Grand Prix weekend. including Ludger Beerbaum, of the season will take place on “It’s very special for us to be Lauren Hough, Daniel Deusser, 14:30 National Competition 1.20/1.25m Saturday afternoon at 5:15 Qatar here, and it will be a very special Edwina Tops-Alexander, Kevin against the clock with jump off time. occasion. We have three riders Staut, Maikel van der Vleuten, 16:30 National Competition 1.40m against World Number 1 and Ranking here who can win the final event, Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum the clock with jump off leader Scott Brash is in the top and it’s every sporting event’s and Ben Maher will be competing 18:30 CSI5* - Table A – with jump off, spot and has potential to make dream to have such attention to at the magnificent state of the art 1.50/1.55m (first round) history by taking his third con- the last circuit. Last year it was Al Shaqab stadium and looking to 20:35 Arabian Horse display secutive title - a record that is yet the final rider who decided the claim their share in over €1.4m in 20:55 CSI5* - Table A - with jump off, to be broken within the Longines season outcome, and we will have prize funds. 1.50/1.55m (jump off) Global Champions Tour. the same again this year which is With the 2015 season about Workers giving finishing touches to the Al Shaqab Arena in preparation On Saturday Hot on his heels is Luciana quite exceptional,” tops said. to reach it’s thrilling climax and for the Longines Global Champions Tour. ABDUL BASIT 10:45 National Competition Diniz, just two points away from Speaking further about how the history books poised to add 1.20/1.25m Two phases another star show jumping name to the Tour’s Hall Of Fame, the Every time we host the Tour, the Tops added: “Five years ago to Following National Competition Longines clock is ticking down to demand increases, and this helps achieve a podium would have 1.35/1.40m Two phases the final which will take place in the development of community been a dream. The way the team 14:30 CSI5* - Table A – just four day’s time. and awareness of equestrianism.” are working means that they will no jump off 1.50m (€61,500) Speaking earlier, Group Execu- “We are happy to see so many continue to progress and will be 17:15 CSI5* Longines Global Champions tive Director Administration of people involved and we would like on the podium again soon.” Tour Grand Prix of Doha, 1.60m two rounds Qatar Foundation and Al Shaqab to say thank you to Jan Tops and There will be free entry for the against the clock with jump off (€ 450,000) Executive Director, Fahad Al his team who work so hard.” public on Thursday and Friday, Qahtani said: “We will have the The highest ranked Qatari as well as to all school children learn many things. We wish all best ranked riders in the world riders will be in action during and university students, enabling the best to the riders competing here at Al Shaqab and this will the Grand Prix this weekend, more people to witness top-level here.” allow the next generation to be in preparation for next year’s equestrian sport and to encourage LGCT Sport Director Marco inspired and have athletes to Olympic games where they have riding, part of the country’s herit- Danese said: “It is fantastic to see look up to. It impacts everyone; recently qualified. Highest ranked age, among the youth in Qatar. equestrian sport in Qatar growing riders, trainers, grooms. After rider Sheikh Ali bin Khalid Al Omar Al Mannai, Commercial year on year. There are 9 Qatari every Longines Global Champions Thani currently sits 6th on the Manager of Al Shaqab, said: “It is riders competing at this level now, Tour event at Al Shaqab we see LGCT Ranking board after his an honour for our Qatari riders and it continues to grow - the the interest and enquiries grow, best season so far, with compa- to compete on the Longines Glo- level of competition is excellent. and more and more numbers of triot Bassem Hassan Moham- bal Champions Tour. We will also All of the facilities at Al Shaqab horse riders have enrolled in our med securing a silver and bronze have a local competition which are world class, not just the arena, Academy. The presence of the medal while on the Tour this year. will give national Qatari horse but the technical facilities and the Al Shaqab Arena is watered yesterday ahead of the Longines Global Longines Global Champions Tour Speaking of the growing suc- riders the chance to get to know stables.” Champions Tour which begins today. has added value to our vision. cess of the Qatari riders, Jan the top international riders, and THE PENINSULA

Wanderers Qatar finish runners-up QNB reach top Qatar team trains for GCC Women’s Cricket event spot in Aspire Banks League DOHA: Qatar National Bank maintained its position at the top of the rankings at the Aspire Banks League at the end of the third week of the exciting com- petition between participating banks. Qatar International Islamic Bank crushed Commercial Bank with a 7-0 victory, while Qatar Islamic Bank defeated the Inter- national Bank of Qatar with a score of 2-1. Elsewhere, Qatar National Bank achieved a 3-2 Four-time national hockey champions Wanderers Qatar team which win against Masraf Al Rayyan, finished as runners-up in the Bahrain Open six-a-side championship while Al Ahli Bank closed the day Qatar Women’s National Cricket Team training in Doha for the GCC Women’s Cricket Championship to be held held at the St Christopher’s School in Isa Town last week. After finish- with 3-1 win against Al Khaliji in Qatar from November 29 to December 24. All the matches will be played in Asian Cricket Town Stadium ing their group engagements on top, Wanderers beat Kuwait HC 3-1 in Bank. Doha Bank scored six goals located at Industrial area near Karwa workshop. Final match of the GCC Women’s Cricket Championship will the semi-final, but lost 0-2 to UTSC in the final. Former India captain against Qatar Development Bank, be held on December 3 starting at 4PM. Qatar, Oman and UAE, will be participating in the tournament. Jude Felix was the guest of honour at the tournament, which featured who was only able to return two. 12 teams from the region, including six from the host nation. THE PENINSULA Revenge mission for Japan in Singapore QVA Cup: Al Arabi down El Jaish SINGAPORE: Japan coach game yet,” said Halihodzic, who Vahid Halihodzic said his players will be taking his team on to will be on a mission for revenge Phnom Penh for their next quali- when they face Singapore in a fier against Cambodia on Tuesday. World Cup qualifier today. While Japan and Singapore are The Lions spoiled Halihodzic’s tied on 10 points in the group, first competitive match as the two points behind leaders Syria, Blue Samurai coach five months Singapore coach Bernd Stange is ago when they repelled every- insisted that qualifying for Russia thing that came their way to earn 2018 is not a target for his side. a surprise 0-0 draw at Saitama “World Cup qualification is Stadium. more of a matter for Japan but Japan have since found their we are aiming to go all the way feet in Group E, reeling off three to the Asian Cup in the United consecutive wins in which they Arab Emirates in 2019,” said the have scored 12 goals without con- German. ceding. However, Halihodzic is “We are very proud with what determined to see his side banish we have achieved so far. Ten the memories of their first meet- points is a good result for us and ing when they face the Southeast we now want to go all the way to Asian side at Singapore’s National the United Arab Emirates. That Stadium. is our goal and the players are “We have a bad memory of the very convinced they can do that.” result of our first game against The region’s 2018 World Cup Singapore so we want revenge. qualifying process doubles as a Of course, Singapore have a team means of entry to the 2019 Asian that will be playing for their peo- Cup, which is expanding to 24 Japan coach Vahid Halihodzic speaks to reporters during a pre-match ple but we have determination teams for the first time. press conference for the 2018 FIFA Group E World Cup qualifier against and quality to look for the vic- However, Stange does not tory,” said the Bosnian. Singapore, in Singapore, yesterday. Japan will play against Singapore intend to make things easy for “I said to the players that we at the National Stadium today. Japan as they seek another mem- have to show more determination orable result against the four- because this game is more diffi- time Asian Cup winners. cult than the first one because our ficult thing in football.” a factor in selection. “I think that all of us are rather opponents are playing at home, With 11 of Japan’s 23 players “Some players have just arrived curious to find out whether the but we have the quality to get the arriving in Singapore after playing from Europe and they are still 0-0 draw in Japan was an acci- Action from the QVA (Qatar Volleyball Association) Cup match between win. for clubs in Europe last weekend, getting used to the differences in dent or if we can deliver another Al Arabi and El Jaish at Al Arabi Stadium in Doha yesterday. Al Arabi “I want us to attack and score, travel fatigue and acclimatisation the temperature and the heat so surprise,” he said. won 3-1(25-21, 19-25, 25-22 & 25-21). SYED OMAR but to score a goal is the most dif- to the tropical conditions could be I don’t know who will start the AFP Thursday 12 November 2015 29 Muharram 1437 Volume 20 Number 6612 Sport Price: QR2

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www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 44557741 | Advertising: 44557837 / 44557780 Al Bayt Stadium begins Qassy wins Al Daayen Cup at QREC to rise from the ground Exterior facade inspired by traditional Bedouin tent

DOHA: One of Qatar’s most important stadium construction sites is evolving rapidly and is beginning to take shape on the ground. The main contractor for Al Bayt Stadium – Al Khor City, pro- posed host venue up to the semi- finals of the 2022 World FIFA Cup Qatar, has been recently mobi- lised on site. With the design based on a Qatari tent also evolving to incorporate new and more dura- ble materials, Al Bayt Stadium is starting to rise from the ground on a specially designed hill which resembles the traditional areas A computer generated image of Al Bayt Stadium – Al Khor City, pro- chosen to make these types of posed host venue up to the semi-finals of the 2022 World FIFA Cup tent more visible for visitors. Qatar. Several milestones have already been reached at Al Bayt Stadium, which will have a net seating achievement towards the safe and As the site continues to capacity of 60,000. Enabling and timely delivery of this stadium.” progress, the team behind the Trainer Jassim Al Ghazali, celebrates after Qassy, with jockey JP Guillambert (left) in the saddle, won the Al early works including the site He added: “The main contrac- design has also continued the Daayen Cup, the feature race at Qatar Racing and Equestrian Club (QREC), in Doha yesterday. Meghwaar, ridden offices for the Project Manage- tor has arrived with the construc- evolution of the project with by Richard Mullen, and Ashkal finished in second and third spots respectively. Today’s action starts at 4:00pm. ment Team and hoarding have tion site in a very good situation. updates made to the unique exte- been completed, while the con- They will be able to continue the rior façade, which is a Qatari con- struction supervision consultant good work on the ground and we cept inspired by the traditional – KEO International Consultants expect the first concrete activity Bedouin tent. – has been named. to take place before the end of this The design team has made A joint venture between Gal- year.” the adaption to guarantee longer far Al Misnad, Salini Impregilo Meanwhile, Eng Mohemed durability of the stadium, as Al Group and Cimolai are the team Ahmed, Supreme Committee for Bayt Stadium will be made of that will be in charge of main con- Delivery & Legacy (SC) Project long-life material called Poly- struction which is planned to be Manager for Khalifa Interna- tetrafluoroethylene (PTFE), a completed by the end of 2018. tional Stadium and Al Bayt Sta- white type of plastic mixed with Dr Nasser Hamad Al Hajeri, dium – Al Khor City said: “This other components. This design Al Bayt Stadium – Al Khor City is a very positive achievement for evolution means that the updated Project Director at Aspire Zone Al Bayt Stadium. A lot of prepa- stadium design includes more Foundation, highlighted the ration work has been completed. bright colouring elements than recent safety milestone by saying: Now we are looking forward to previously seen. “Achieving more than one mil- the steel and concrete arriving, The technical team is already lion man hours without suffering and the stadium really starting undertaking the necessary tests a Lost-Time Accident is a major to take shape.” to ascertain the resistance in Qatar’s environment of this mate- rial, which is used in well-known football venues like the Allianz Arena in Munich and the roof of Stadium Mário Filho (Maracanã) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Additionally, the precinct mas- ter plan has been modified to fit more green areas including walk- ing and jogging track, horse track, cycling track and family areas as well as playing areas for families in the inner circle immediately surrounding the stadium bowl. This will bring the car park to the outer perimeter, providing An artist’s impression of Al Bayt Stadium – Al Khor City. The unique more spatial areas for the local exterior façade of the stadium is a Qatari concept inspired by the community to benefit from. traditional Bedouin tent. THE PENINSULA QFA announces fans’ activities for Qatar vs Turkey friendly

DOHA: Qatar Football Associa- and Turkish made products and will have the opportunity to tion (QFA) have lined up many artifacts. Football related games witness one of a kind Turkish events and activities for fans on and activities which the fans can military performance and it will the day of the Qatar vs Turkey enjoy before the match will also consist of 16 dancers performing friendly. be setup. to traditional Turkish music. The football governing body in A market will also be setup The QFA has announced that Qatar they have shortlisted many and will consist of a “Bazaar” there has been high demand for events and activities that will go type atmosphere where fans can online tickets, and is anticipating along with the thrilling match. to buy handmade products and get to continue selling heavily until be played tomorrow at Lekhwiya a taste of the traditional food of match day. Tickets can be bought Stadium. To enhance the overall Turkey. through QFA’s website on www. fan experience, QFA announced Organising this activity-packed qfa.qa Ticket booths will start that a fanzone will be setup out- fanzone serves as an ideal oppor- selling at the stadium on match side of the stadium and will open tunity to make the match day day at 4:30pm where regular tick- its doors to the public at 4:30pm. an even better day out for the ets are available from gates 2, 3, Anticipating over 2000 fans whole family, QFA said. QFA and 4, while VIP tickets are will to attend the fanzone, QFA is added that organising a match be sold from gates 1 and 5. Regu- announcing that the match’s fan- against Turkey promotes both lar ticket holders can go though zone has something for fans of all countries’ traditional cultures gates 2, 3, and 4 to watch the ages to enjoy. through organising different cul- match while VIP’s can go through The fanzone will feature tra- tural activities that accompany gates 1 and 5. ditional authentic Turkish food, the match. Turkish folklore performances, During match half time, fans THE PENINSULA