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TDT | Manama serving the GCC and praised the landmark achievements at- Queen Elizabeth II he Cabinet chaired by tained. Prime Minister, HRH thanks Bahrain’s ‘Complete projects in leadership TPrince Khalifa bin Sal- man Al Khalifa, yesterday as- Muharraq’ TDT | Manama serted Bahrain’s full solidarity The Prime Minister gave with Saudi Arabia in all meas- directives to complete devel- is Majesty King ures it takes to strengthen the opment projects in Muharraq Hamad bin Isa Al region’s stability and peace. regarding services, education HKhalifa received a The emergency Gulf Cooper- and facilities, according to the cable of thanks from Her ation Council (GCC) and Arab pre-set schedule. Majesty Queen Elizabeth summits, HRH the Premier said, HRH Premier highlighted the II of the United Kingdom, is vital considering the critical importance of the new Muhar- Northern Ireland and the situation the region is currently His Royal Highness Prime Minister Prince Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa chairs the regular weekly Cabinet session at the raq Central Market, which was Commonwealth in reply to going through. Gudaibiya Palace, yesterday opened under his patronage last his congratulatory cable on “Whoever seeks their coun- Wednesday, in providing more her birthday anniversary. try’s stability should be keen on Houthi militias with a ballistic Shaikh Mohammed bin Zayed tended thanks to WHO Direc- services for the Muharraq cit- HM the Queen expressed Saudi security and stability, and missile. Al-Nahyan. tor-General and all those who izens. thanks and appreciation to has to counter any attempts to The session described the at- HRH Premier lauded the attended the honouring ceremo- HM the King for his noble target it,” the Prime Minister tack as a despicable assault on long-standing distinguished ny in Geneva. sentiments, wishing him said calling on to adopt unified the sanctity of the holy sites that solid relations between Bah- GCC march hailed steady good health and hap- GCC and Arab stances in support provokes all Muslims, affirming rain and the UAE, and their joint BD 230 piness and further progress of sisterly Saudi Arabia. Bahrain’s full-fledged solidarity keenness to strengthen them The Cabinet lauded the Gulf and prosperity to Bahrain. The session wished the two with Saudi Arabia. further. Cooperation Council (GCC) as Similar cables were also emergency summits every suc- The Cabinet then welcomed The Premier further voiced an entity that was established million to sent by Her Majesty to His cess in coming up with resolu- the visit carried out by His deep pride in the feelings ex- to strengthen the security and Royal Highness Prince tions that would serve the in- Majesty King Hamad bin Isa Al pressed by well-wishers while stability of its member states and Khalifa bin Salman Al Khal- terests of GCC, Arab and Islamic Khalifa to the United Arab Emir- congratulating him on being se- enhance their peoples’ progress finance ifa, the Prime Minister and countries and their peoples. ates, and his meeting with the lected on honoured by the World and prosperity. His Royal Highness Prince The Cabinet also condemned Abu Dhabi Crown Prince and Health Organisation (WHO) as a Commenting on the GCC’s Salman bin Hamad Al Khal- in strongest terms the brutal Deputy Supreme Commander World Leader in the health field. 38th Anniversary, the Cabinet VRS See page ifa, the Crown Prince, Dep- attack on Holy Makka by the of the UAE Armed Forces, HH The Prime Minister also ex- stressed the importance of pre- 0202 uty Supreme Commander and First Deputy Premier.

US ‘not looking for Crown Prince calls for greater ties with Jordan regime change’ in TDT | Manama hospitality, wishing the King- dom of Bahrain further prosper- DON’T MISS IT Iran RH the Crown Prince ity. The Crown Prince hosted an yesterday called for Iftar banquet in honour of HRH Hfurther deepening the Prince Hashim and the accom- bilateral cooperation between panying delegation. Bahrain and Jordan. HH Shaikh Isa bin Salman bin 40 violations During a meeting with HRH Hamad Al Khalifa, HH Shai- 03 found at Prince Hashim bin Al Hussein, kh Mohamed bin Salman bin pharmacies His Majesty King Abdulla II’s Hamad Al Khalifa, HE Shaikh Chief Royal Councillor at Riffa Salman bin Khalifa Al Khalifa, Stray dogs attack Palace, HRH Prince Salman bin Minister of Finance and Na - 04 man in Manama Hamad Al Khalifa highlighted HRH Crown Prince with HRH Prince Hashim bin Al Hussein tional Economy and HE Shaikh Trump the longstanding bilateral re- Salman bin Khaled Al Khalifa, AFP |Tokyo lations between the Kingdom For his part, HRH Prince Crown Prince, Deputy Supreme Director General of the Royal Trump not of Bahrain and the Hashemite Hashim expressed his appreci- Commander and First Deputy Family Council attended the 05 bothered by NK he United States is not Kingdom of Jordan. ation and gratitude to HRH the Prime Minister on his warm meeting. missile tests Tseeking regime change in Iran, President Donald Trump said yesterday, as GAME CHANGER tensions between the two countries rise with Wash- ington deploying troops to the region. Dubai group ‘agree terms’ for Newcastle takeover “We’re not looking for re- gime change, we’re looking AFP | London Nahyan are in discussions with Mike owner Sheikh Mansour, was close to for no nuclear weapons,” Ashley and his team, about the proposed sealing a £350 million ($443 million) Trump said at a press con- epresentatives of Dubai-based acquisition of Newcastle United Football takeover. ference in Tokyo, adding Sheikh Khaled Bin Zayed Al Club. A spokesman for the club “politely that he thinks “we’ll make RNahyan said yesterday they had “We have agreed terms and are work- declined” to comment, but sources close a deal” with Tehran. “agreed terms” with Newcastle United ing hard to complete the transaction at to the club have indicated there was owner Mike Ashley, moving closer to the earliest opportunity.” interest. completing a deal to buy the Premier The statement said Sheikh Khaled Ashley, the founder of the Sports Di- League club. considered it “an honour to have the op- rect retail chain, bought the club for A statement from billionaire Sheikh portunity to build on the strong support, £134.4 million in 2007 but has faced a Khaled’s Bin Zayed Group said: “We history and tradition of the club”. string of protests from supporters dis- can confirm that representatives of His Reports at the weekend said Sheikh Sheikh Khaled Bin Zayed Al Nahyan has gruntled at what they see as a lack of Highness Sheikh Khaled Bin Zayed Al Khaled, a relative of Manchester City reportedly agreed terms to buy Newcastle investment in players. TUESDAY, MAY 28, 2019 02 BD 230 million to finance VRS TDT | Manama Organisation, the move is in line and another for primary health revealed that the new tariffs with Law 4/2019 on amending care centres. contributed significantly to ra- rime Minister HRH some provisions of Decree-Law The two boards of trustees tionalising the consumption Prince Khalifa bin Sal - 78/2006 on Insurance against will carry out the tasks stipulat- of electricity and water across Pman Al Khalifa yesterday Unemployment. ed in the Social Insurance Law Bahrain. approved one-time funding of The Minister of Finance and promulgated by Law 23/2018. BD230 million to finance the National Economy was request- Hire unemployed doctors government’s Voluntary Retire- ed to take the necessary proce- No impact on realty The session endorsed a pro- ment Scheme. dures to transfer the amount. The Electricity and Water posal to recruit unemployed The fund, HRH Premier while Authority (EWA) yesterday doctors stressing that the project chairing the weekly Cabinet Hospitals to be run by a board informed the Cabinet that the has been implemented already meeting said, will be moved to The session endorsed a rec- adjusted electricity tariffs for through various programmes the public account from the sur- ommendation by the Ministerial Bahrainis with more than one endorsed by the Cabinet. plus of the Insurance against Committee for Legal and Legis- account and non-Bahrainis have The Cabinet then endorsed a Unemployment account. lative Affairs on a draft-decree had no impact on the real estate proposal to exempt foodstuffs Approved by the Board of Di- to form a board of trustees for sector or its stagnation. sold in school canteens from the rectors of the Social Insurance HRH Prime Minister chairing the weekly Cabinet government-funded hospitals On the contrary, the study Value Added Tax (VAT).

Foreign Affairs Minister Shaikh Khalid bin Ahmed bin Mohammed Al Khalifa, signing in the book of condolences yesterday at the Malaysian embassy to Bahrain, in honour of the demise of the Sultan Ahmad Shah, the father of Malaysia’s current King, Sultan Abdullah Ri’ayatuddin. The minister The Gulf Petrochemical Industries Company (GPIC) held an Annual Family Health and Safety evening at the Gulf Hotel. Company President Dr Abdulrahman extended his sincere condolences to the Malaysian government and people. Jawahery, members of the Executive Management, Labour Union Chairman and representatives, employees and their families attended.

The Labour Fund “Tamkeen” in partnership with MENA Center for Investment celebrated the graduation of Intelaaq Student Consultancy Programme participants at Muharraq Model Youth Centre, on Monday. The ceremony witnessed the graduation of more than 90 students from three different batches. The three batches included participants from the University of Bahrain, Bahrain Polytechnic, Bahrain Training Institute, Ahlia University, Royal University for Women, and many other institutes. Registration is now open for Intelaaq’s eighth and ninth batches of the program due to begin in early July 2019.

Attempt to burn police vehicle: Court cuts sentence in fake bomb case TDT | Manama The involvement of the sus- Court rejects appeal pects in the crime was proved he Supreme Criminal Court The appellant was using DNA samples collected TDT | Manama Public Prosecution accused Tof Appeal yesterday re - among a group of from the crime scene. Court records show them of causing damages to duced to five years the ten-year six accused of dis- The Public Prosecution ac- wo Bahrainis found guilty the suspects were public property, serving a ter- jail term awarded to a Bahraini rupting public order cused them of burning objects Tof attempting to burn a po- arrested with four rorist purpose and endangering man accused of planting a fake by placing a fake to serve a terrorist purpose and lice patrol vehicle and torch- minors while partic- the lives of people. bomb in the Capital Governo- bomb on a public endangering lives and prop- ing the walls of a school in the ipating in an illegal The Prosecution also accused rate. road in the Capital erties. The prosecution also Northern Governorate got their gathering near a them of attempting to torch a The appellant was among a charged with planting a fake three-year imprisonment sen- police vehicle and participating group of six accused of disrupt- Governorate explosive device on a publicly, tences upheld by the Supreme school in Diraz village in an illegal gathering of more ing public order by placing a joining an illegal gathering of Court of Appeal yesterday. on 20 March 2018. than 15 individuals to disrupt fake bomb on a public road in more than five individuals and The court also upheld the public order. the Capital Governorate engaging in violence. BD500 fine imposed on each March 2018. The suspects, The Court sentenced them On 6 September 2015, the The prosecution referred the of them. court files say, hurled Molotov to three years of imprisonment group burnt tyres on Oman Av- residents in the area. suspects to the court, which Court records show the sus- cocktails at a police vehicle that and fines of BD500 each. The enue and placed there air-con- Following an investigation, sentenced them to 10 years of pects were arrested with four arrived at the scene. suspects choose to appeal the ditioners cylinders wrapped one of the suspects landed in imprisonment. However, the minors while participating However, the Molotov cock- verdict, which was turned with electrical wires. The de- police custody. He revealed the appellant pleaded not guilty in an illegal gathering near a tail instead his a school wall, down yesterday by the appeals vice, resembling an explosive identities of others involved in and the court commuted the school in Diraz village on 20 causing it to catch flames. court. device, terrified commuters and the crime. sentence by half to five years. 03 TUESDAY, MAY 28, 2019 big story 40 violations found at pharmacies The National Health Regulatory Authority (NHRA) conducts close to 600 inspections in pharmacies here during 2018 finding several violations mostly in the pricing and selling of drugs.

Representative picture. (Courtesy of the National) TDT | Manama Mohammed Zafran round 40 violations were found last year at the Apharmacies in Bahrain related to selling, pricing and licensing of medicines. The findings follow close to 600 inspection visits by the Na- tional Health Regulatory Au- thority (NHRA) inspection team in 2018. One of the most common types of violation detected dur- ing NHRA inspection was selling related. The authority spotted 15 of them. Altogether NHRA spotted five types of violations which were recurring. The second most detected vi- olation was related to Pricing. NHRA found eight during visits. Others are pharmacy set up vi- olations (5), licensing violations (6) and temperature/humidity/ fridge violation (6). Pharma count jump Online registration on way The NHRA said there are cur- rently 263 licensed pharmacies in the Kingdom, an increase of 50 from the prior year. In 2017, there were 213 phar- macies. Of the 263 pharmacies, 59 are associated with hospitals, while 204 are private pharmacies. Most in Captial According to NHRA, Capital Governorate witnessed the most number of opening in the year 2018. As of now, there are a total of 95 pharmacies in the Capital. Closely following is Northern Governorate in the second spot with 61 pharmacies. Southern were launched in the capital ‘Drug Utilization Review Sys- pharmaceutical products im- he National Health Regula- tical Products Registration and has 57 and Muharraq 51. last year - Eight in the Northern tem’ (DUR) as one of the top ported and utilized in the King- Ttory Authority (NHRA) said Management system,” NHRA Governorate, four in the Muhar- achievements in the department dom,” the NHRA said adding: plans are on the anvil to develop revealed. The move, NHRA said, New openings raq Governorate and 13 in the of pharmaceutical regulations “A total of 3170 medicines have a system for registering Phar- will facilitate hassle-free regis- Capital Governorate also en- Southern Governorate. in 2018. been registered and a temporary maceutical products online. tration and customs release of joys the record for new pharma- “The DUR system plays a key registration has been granted to “This year the focus is on de- pharmaceutical products, along cy openings in 2018. DUR System role in the National Health In- 3391 pharmaceutical products veloping an online Pharmaceu- with the DUR system. A total of 27 new pharmacies NHRA cited the development surance sector by tracking all during the year.”

DTN_03_03082018.pdf TUESDAY, MAY 28, 2019 04 Court to announce verdict in Qatari funding case in April Stray dogs attack man in Manama

Both the suspects were arrested at Bahrain International Airport

The Fourth High sation levelled against him by TDT | Manama claiming that he ‘forgot’ to de- Criminal Court, in its clare the money and was not he Supreme Court of Ap- February 6 judgment, ‘attempting to hide’. Tpeal yesterday upheld the awarded the first He also denied the accusa- verdicts against two Bahraini accused a five-year tion that the money was for men found guilty of receiving jail term and a fine of his electoral campaign. “It was funds from a Qatari minister BD2,000. The Court received for fixing rainwater to disrupt the Parliamentary gave the second isolation equipment”. elections last November. However, a telephonic con- The Fourth High Criminal accused a three-year versation made by the suspect Court, in its February 6 judg- jail term and BD1,000 confirmed the accusations. Ju- ment, awarded the first accused penalty. dicial permission was issued to a five-year jail term and a fine record his calls. of BD2,000. The Court gave the Investigators also found that second accused a three-year jail making frequent visits. both the suspects received a term and BD1,000 penalty. Customs officials arrested total of BD235, 804 from the The first suspect was also a him while he was returning same Qatari official during the candidate in the Parliamentary from one such visit to collect period from 2013 to 2018. elections here. cash from Qatar. According to court files, the Court files say he was ar - Investigators also found that Qatari official also has his name rested, upon his arrival in the the suspect received the money on an international terrorism Kingdom from Qatar through to support his campaign for the list issued by the Anti-Ter - Kuwait last October, with 2018 parliamentary elections. ror Arab Quartet - Bahrain, BD12,000 in undeclared cash. In return for the cash, the Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the Further investigations proved suspect was bound to serve Qa- UAE. that the suspects often received tari interests by harming the Public prosecution charged money from his Qatari contact Kingdom’s legislative works the suspects with exchanging also a former Qatari Interior from the Parliament. intelligence information with Minister Abdullah bin Khalid Officials recorded the arrests a foreign country to undermine Al Thani. at the Bahrain International the national interests and ille- Transactions were made ei- Airport. gally receiving money without ther through bank accounts or During the investigation, the disclosing it to the Customs received by hand from Qatar by first suspect denied the accu- Department.

One of the dogs that attacked the man spotted later

TDT | Manama Mohammed Zafran

man sustained several bite injuries after he was Aviciously attacked by a pack of dogs yesterday morning in Manama. The man, an expatriate, said he was chased and attacked by the dogs at a parking lot in Ma- nama. Describing the ordeal, he said that usually, he keeps an eye out for strays. But on that day, “I failed to notice these strays at the park- ing.” “Suddenly one of them One of the dogs bit the man’s leg growled and lunged at me. “I was shocked and tried to Salmaniya Hospital. are high that the pack is still run, but it was not enough.” “I spent 20 BD there for the there. It’s just pure luck that the anti-tetanus vaccination and In a similar incident recently, man managed to escape. medicine,” he said. a man suffered injuries follow- The man reported the inci- He told Tribune that it is ing what he described as an at- dent to the nearest police sta- dangerous to let children roam tack by a ‘large aggressive dog’ tion and immediately went to around in the area as chances in Salmaniya.

DNA lands man in trouble over refusing paternity TDT | Manama The man, holding a the man of abandoning his wife Bahraini national- and kids, which also resulted man who refused to have ity, also denied his in the nine-year-old girl to skip Afathered two girls landed in school unable to afford fees. trouble after a DNA test proved marriage to the girls’ The man, the court was told, that he was the legitimate fa- mother also refused to get necessary ther. The man, holding a Bah- identification documents for raini nationality, also denied his The Court ordered the man his wife. marriage to the girls’ mother, an to take a DNA test after accept- The High Criminal Court or- African by nationality. ing a video documenting his dered him to process their legal According to the court re - marriage in the Shariat Court identification documents and to cords, the man tied the knot as evidence. The man, however, pay them a monthly remunera- with the woman in 2006. They claimed before that court that it tion and house rent. The Court also have two girls of nine and was his birthday party. also ordered the man to pay his two years of age. Public Prosecution accused wife BD150 for Eid. TUESDAY, MAY 28, 2019 04 05 TUESDAY, MAY 28, 2019 Court to announce verdict in world Qatari funding case in April Stray dogs attack man in Manama Trump not bothered by NK missile tests

• Trump was invited NKorea calls to Japan to be the first Bolton ‘war world leader to meet Both the suspects were arrested at Bahrain International Airport with its new emperor monger’ sation levelled against him by The Fourth High AP | Tokyo TDT | Manama claiming that he ‘forgot’ to de- Criminal Court, in its clare the money and was not he Supreme Court of Ap- February 6 judgment, ‘attempting to hide’. resident Donald Trump Tpeal yesterday upheld the awarded the first He also denied the accusa- said yesterday that he is verdicts against two Bahraini accused a five-year tion that the money was for Pnot “personally bothered” men found guilty of receiving jail term and a fine of his electoral campaign. “It was by recent short-range missile Trump and First Lady Melania Trump are greeted by Japan’s Emperor Naruhito funds from a Qatari minister BD2,000. The Court received for fixing rainwater tests that North Korea conduct- US President Donald Trump (L) speaks during a joint press conference with AP | Seoul, South Korea to disrupt the Parliamentary gave the second isolation equipment”. ed this month, breaking with Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at Akasaka Palace in Tokyo (C) and Empress Masako (R) upon their arrival at the Imperial Palace elections last November. However, a telephonic con- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo The Fourth High Criminal accused a three-year versation made by the suspect jail term and BD1,000 Abe, who is hosting the presi- orth Korea yesterday Court, in its February 6 judg- confirmed the accusations. Ju- dent on four-day state visit full Ncalled US National Se- ment, awarded the first accused penalty. dicial permission was issued to of pageantry curity Adviser John Bolton a five-year jail term and a fine record his calls. Standing beside Trump at a All I know is there a “war monger” and “human of BD2,000. The Court gave the Investigators also found that news conference after hours of have been no defect” after he described its second accused a three-year jail making frequent visits. both the suspects received a talks, Abe disagreed with the nuclear tests, no recent tests of short-range term and BD1,000 penalty. Customs officials arrested total of BD235, 804 from the US president, saying the mis - ballistic missiles missiles as a violation of UN The first suspect was also a him while he was returning same Qatari official during the sile tests violated UN Security going out, no long- Security Council resolutions. candidate in the Parliamentary from one such visit to collect period from 2013 to 2018. Council resolutions and were range missiles going In the statement carried elections here. cash from Qatar. According to court files, the “of great regret.” Abe, who has out and I think that by the North’s Korean Cen- Court files say he was ar - Investigators also found that Qatari official also has his name forged a strong friendship with tral News Agency, the North rested, upon his arrival in the the suspect received the money on an international terrorism Trump and agrees with him on someday we’ll have Korean spokesman said his Kingdom from Qatar through to support his campaign for the list issued by the Anti-Ter - many issues, is concerned be- a deal. No rush country was exercising its Kuwait last October, with 2018 parliamentary elections. ror Arab Quartet - Bahrain, cause the short-range missiles right of self-defense with the US President Donald Trump (2nd R) meets family members of Japanese abductees by North Korea, with First Lady Melania BD12,000 in undeclared cash. In return for the cash, the Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the pose a threat to Japan’s security. DONALD TRUMP launches. North Korea has Trump (R) and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (3rd R) at Akasaka State Guesthouse in Tokyo Further investigations proved suspect was bound to serve Qa- UAE. Trump was invited to Japan to never recognized the UN Se- that the suspects often received tari interests by harming the Public prosecution charged be the first world leader to meet curity Council resolutions, money from his Qatari contact Kingdom’s legislative works the suspects with exchanging with its new emperor . Despite the weekend that they violated have launched the missiles ear- after the US president — at Abe’s which it views as denying also a former Qatari Interior from the Parliament. intelligence information with being far from Washington, he U.N. resolutions. lier this month to “get attention.” invitation — became the first its “rights to existence and Minister Abdullah bin Khalid Officials recorded the arrests a foreign country to undermine didn’t miss the chance to lob Trump continues to hold out “All I know is there have been world leader to meet Japan’s development of a sovereign Al Thani. at the Bahrain International the national interests and ille- another broadside against for- hope of eventually getting Kim no nuclear tests, no ballistic mis- new emperor, Naruhito, who state,” the statement said. Transactions were made ei- Airport. gally receiving money without mer Vice President Joe Biden, When asked if he was both- to agree to give up his nuclear siles going out, no long-range ascended to the throne May 1. The spokesman said Bolton ther through bank accounts or During the investigation, the disclosing it to the Customs one of the Democrats seeking to ered by Pyongyang’s short-range weapons and ballistic missiles, missiles going out and I think The meeting with Naruhito was an “ignorant” hard-lin- received by hand from Qatar by first suspect denied the accu- Department. challenge Trump in next year’s missile tests, Trump said: “No, despite two summits he’s had that someday we’ll have a deal,” and his wife, Empress Masako, er who throughout different presidential election. North I’m not. I am personally not.” with the North Korean lead - Trump said, adding that he is in was preceded by a grand outdoor US administrations pushed Korea’s Kim Jong Un recently The president has sought to er that produced no concrete “no rush.” welcome ceremony at Japan’s provocative policies against criticized Biden as having a low downplay the significance of pledge to denuclearize the pen- Abe reiterated his previous Imperial Palace, where Trump North Korea including en- One of the dogs that attacked the man spotted later I.Q. and Trump told the world the missile tests, despite the fact insula. statement that the tests were walked solo across red carpets, dorsements of pre-emptive he agreed with the authoritarian that his own national security Trump praised Kim, calling carried out in defiance of the UN. reviewing Japanese troops as the strikes and regime change. TDT | Manama leader’s assessment. adviser, John Bolton, said over him a “smart man” who might The leaders held hours of talks guest of honor. Mohammed Zafran man sustained several bite injuries after he was Aviciously attacked by a Melania enjoys Malaysia’s last male Sumatran rhino dies pack of dogs yesterday morning in Manama. The man, an expatriate, said he was chased and attacked by nature-themed the dogs at a parking lot in Ma- nama. Describing the ordeal, he said Japan culture that usually, he keeps an eye out for strays. But on that day, “I failed to notice these strays at the park- ing.” “Suddenly one of them One of the dogs bit the man’s leg growled and lunged at me. “I was shocked and tried to Salmaniya Hospital. are high that the pack is still run, but it was not enough.” “I spent 20 BD there for the there. It’s just pure luck that the anti-tetanus vaccination and In a similar incident recently, man managed to escape. medicine,” he said. a man suffered injuries follow- The man reported the inci- He told Tribune that it is ing what he described as an at- dent to the nearest police sta- dangerous to let children roam tack by a ‘large aggressive dog’ Children perform a traditional dance for U.S. first lady Melania Trump and Veterinarians and rhino keepers have been providing round-the-clock medical treatment tion and immediately went to around in the area as chances in Salmaniya. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s wife Akie Abe then turned into a set of vases Wildlife experts on Borneo island since his cap- nesian island of Sumatra and Tokyo as flower artist Kumiko Kato • ture in 2008, Christina Liew, on the Indonesian side of built a sculpture out of it, dec- estimate that only state minister for tourism, cul- Borneo. DNA lands man in trouble over refusing paternity irst lady Melania Trump orating the vases with curved about 30 to 80 ture and environment, said in a Their isolation, caused by TDT | Manama had a nature-oriented oak branches, maple leaves, Sumatran rhinos statement. habitat loss and poaching, The man, holding a the man of abandoning his wife F KNOW WHAT and kids, which also resulted Japanese cultural experience blue hydrangea flowers and remain in the world The Sumatran rhino, the means they rarely breed and Bahraini national- Monday at Akasaka Palace, other plants, while the flutist smallest species of rhinocer- may go extinct in a matter of man who refused to have ity, also denied his in the nine-year-old girl to skip fathered two girls landed in school unable to afford fees. where she learned that bam- played background music that os, was declared extinct in the decades, according to conserva- A boo trunks can create mu - included “Amazing Grace.” Reuters | Kuala Lumpur wild in Malaysia in 2015. Iman, tion group International Rhino trouble after a DNA test proved marriage to the girls’ The man, the court was told, The rhino known sic and also serve as flower Melania also learned how to a female captured in 2014, is Foundation. that he was the legitimate fa- mother also refused to get necessary vases. summon carp at a pond in the alaysia’s last male Suma- now the only surviving mem- affectionately as Tam, Since 2011, Malaysia has ther. The man, holding a Bah- identification documents for Melania and Japanese first garden: She clapped her hands, tran rhinoceros has died, ber of the subspecies left in the captured by a wildlife tried to breed the species raini nationality, also denied his The Court ordered the man his wife. M lady Akie Abe were enter - following the example of Mrs. an official said on Monday, country. team in August 2008 in captivity through in vit - marriage to the girls’ mother, an to take a DNA test after accept- The High Criminal Court or- tained by tunes from a “shaku- Abe, and the fish raced to her. dashing efforts to save the crit- Another female rhino, Pun- ro fertilization, but without African by nationality. ing a video documenting his dered him to process their legal when he was roughly hachi” bamboo flute, played by Children performing Japa- ically endangered species in the tung, died in captivity in 2017. success. According to the court re - marriage in the Shariat Court identification documents and to 20 years old flutist Yosuke Irie, with a set of nese dance put a smile on Mel- country. Wildlife experts estimate Liew said Tam’s genetic ma- cords, the man tied the knot as evidence. The man, however, pay them a monthly remunera- bamboo trunks standing up- ania at the end of the highly The rhino, named Tam, was that only about 30 to 80 Su - terial has been preswerved for with the woman in 2006. They claimed before that court that it tion and house rent. The Court right like a screen behind him. stylized and educational pro- about 30 years old and lived at matran rhinos remain in the future attempts to reproduce also have two girls of nine and was his birthday party. also ordered the man to pay his The bamboo installation gram. a wildlife reserve in Sabah state world, mostly on the Indo - Sumatran rhinos. two years of age. Public Prosecution accused wife BD150 for Eid. TUESDAY, MAY 28, 2019 06 Banksy, the elusive artist

An unnamed man supposed to be British street artist Banksy siting next to a montage of oil paintings entitled “Venice in oil” portraying a massive cruise ship surrounded by tiny Venetian gondola boats.

AFP sexual health clinic since 2006. to the centre and watch people Standing on the street trans- paint,” he told the Huffington ive years ago, British street fixed by the image, a group of Post. “He was heavily into hip artist Banksy adorned the French schoolchildren listen hop culture, graffiti.” Fside of a once uninspiring attentively to a guide narrating Banksy then purportedly white brick building in Bristol the remarkable backstory of the joined the DryBreadZ Crew with the familiar image of a girl king of street art. (DBZ), a gang of street artists gazing out solemnly. formed in the early 1990s. The dank courtyard beneath ‘Nobody ever listened to me’ It was a time of cultural blos- the stencil has, like many oth- Banksy’s most famous, or soming for the city, which in- er spots the mysterious artist perhaps infamous, work is now cluded the so-called Bristol has decorated in his purported called “Love is in the Bin”. Sound of Massive Attack and home city in southwest England, Moments after the painting Portishead, pioneers of trip hop become one of Britain’s most “Girl with Balloon” sold for music. photographed places. £1,042,000 ($1.4 million, 1.2 A parody pastiche of “Girl million euros) last year -- a joint ‘Accepted’ with a Pearl Earring” by Dutch record for the maverick artist In 2001, the artist reportedly Golden Age painter Johannes -- it literally went through the accompanied Bristol amateur Vermeer, it bears all the hall - shredder, which was hidden in football club Easton Cowboys marks of Banksy’s cheekily ir- the frame. on a tour of Mexico, playing as a reverent style. The buyer went through with goalkeeper and producing sever- The elusive Briton, whose the purchase, and some art ex- al stencilled works while there. identity is said to be known to perts say it is now worth more His notoriety mushroomed only a handful of friends, has than it had been before the stunt. as his politically pointed murals positioned the work so that a Despite years in the interna- -- denouncing consumerism, the hexagonal security alarm box tional spotlight as he became fate of refugees in Europe and sits in place of the earring. one of the most famous artists of other issues -- began to appear An alleged work by British street artist Banksy depicting a migrant child wearing a lifejacket holding a pink flare, is painted The creation, now one of his his generation, remarkably little around the world, from Calais on the outer wall of a house overlooking the canal Rio de Ca Foscari, in Venice most famous, is known as “The is known about Banksy. to Gaza. Girl with a Pierced Eardrum”. “Nobody ever listened to me But Banksy appears to have cepted,” said Jody Thomas, a Banksy’s “Mild Mild West” conversations or taken actions It attracts admirers dai - until they didn’t know who I never forgotten Bristol, regularly local street artist. mural -- depicting a teddy bear (so) that it’s not happened,” said ly, many of them tourists on a was,” he has said with character- returning to erect new works. ready to fight with anti-riot po- Steve Hayles, of the Upfest Gal- well-trodden trail heavily docu- istic irony.Legend has it he was Over the last two decades he ‘He’s like Santa Claus’ lice -- looms large. lery. mented on social media. born in Bristol in 1974. has helped to make this city of Walking around the city, the What Banksy has given to “He’s like Santa Claus,” he “Well Hung Lover”, around 15 He attended an educational 460,000 inhabitants on the Avon unique relationship it has forged Bristol, the city has returned to added, noting: “People don’t minutes walk away, is another project offering young graffiti River one of the world capitals of with this art form is ubiquitous. him, by helping to preserve his want to ruin the illusion”. popular stop. artists the chance to practise street art, laying the ground for The Bedminster neighbour- anonymity as if there is a secret “You don’t want people going Depicting a naked man hang- their art without breaking the the 150 or so artists who work hood has become an open-air pact with its inhabitants. up to your kids and (saying) San- ing from the ledge of a window, law, according to John Nation, there today. museum studded with urban “There’s been occasions ta Claus isn’t real. below a lingerie-clad woman sometimes nicknamed the “god- “Banksy has led the charge frescoes. where his identity may have “In the same way that you and a suited man looking out, it father” of Bristol street art. and his popularity and his rise In Stokes Croft, between DJ been on the verge of (coming) don’t want to go up to people has graced the wall of a former “As a young boy, he’d come have allowed street art to be ac- shops and falafel restaurants, out and other people have had and go... ‘well this is Banksy’.” TUESDAY, MAY 28, 2019 TUESDAY, MAY 28, 2019 06 07

Germany commits to ensuring Taliban attacks kill security for Jews with skullcaps 10 Afghan troops, 4 Four suspects arrested police Banksy, the elusive artist after Lyon bomb attack

Afghan National Army members attend their graduation ceremony

AP | Kabul, Afghanistan

People wear Jewish skullcaps, as they attend a demonstration against an roadside bombing anti-Semitic attack in Berlin Aclaimed by the Taliban Soldiers of French anti terrorist plan “Vigipirate Mission”, secure the area, near the site of a suspected bomb attack in AP | Berlin killed 10 Afghan soldiers everywhere in Germany.” central Lyon in the country’s west while That was criticized strongly AP | Paris insurgent attacks on secu- hancellor Angela Merkel’s by Israel’s president, among they included the mother and Lyon on a bike Friday after - rity checkpoints in north- Cspokesman has stressed others. the brother of the main suspect. noon. The man was seen ar - ern Afghanistan killed four Germany’s responsibility to Seibert said Monday “it’s the rench police have arrest- Lyon mayor Gerard Collomb, riving on foot, pushing his bike policemen, local officials ensure security for all Jews job of the state to ensure that ed four suspects follow- a former interior minister, said along a pedestrian-only street, yesterday. wearing skullcaps anywhere anybody can move around se- Fing a blast in the city of one of the suspects is an IT stu- then leaving a paper bag on a The soldiers were driving in the country without having curely with a skullcap in any Lyon that wounded 13 people dent who was arrested as he concrete block in the middle of back to base after picking up to fear an anti-Semitic attack. place of our country.” last week, authorities said yes- stepped off a bus. the street near a bakery. their salaries in the coun- Steffen Seibert’s comments Government statistics re- terday. “It’s a relief for all Lyon in- The suspect immediately re- try’s western Farah prov- came after the government’s leased earlier this month TV footage showed a police habitants. I believe the case has turned to his bike and left the ince. They were travelling in anti-Semitism commissioner, showed that the number of an- operation underway Monday been resolved,” Collomb told same way. One minute later, the a Humvee when the explo- Felix Klein, was quoted Sat- ti-Semitic and anti-foreigner in a small town outside Lyon BFM TV. “If there was a net - explosion shattered the glass sion took place on Sunday urday as saying he “cannot incidents rose in Germany last involving officers wearing ski work, it has been identified and of a refrigerator in the bakery, afternoon in the Bala Buluk recommend to Jews that they year, despite an overall drop in masks. Police had launched a will certainly be dismantled.” Heitz said. Regional authorities district, said Shah Mahm- wear the skullcap at all times politically motivated crimes. large manhunt after a device French President Emmanuel said the 13 wounded suffered mod Nahimi, a provincial exploded Friday on a busy Macron has called the explo- mostly minor injuries. councilman. pedestrian street in France’s sion an “attack” but no group It was unclear whether the “The blast was so in - third-largest city. has claimed responsibility for suspect first arrested Monday tense that no one in the IS claims responsibility for B’desh explosion Interior Minister Christophe the explosion yet. An inves - was the same person, although Humvee survived,” he Castaner announced the first tigation has been opened for Collomb said the detained stu- added. AP | Dhaka, Bangladesh behind it.Police said Sunday arrest on Twitter, a develop - “attempted murder in relation dent was identified thanks to Elsewhere, the Taliban night’s explosion in Dhaka’s ment later confirmed by Paris with a terrorist undertaking” video surveillance. targeted several check- global monitoring group Malibagh area left three peo- prosecutors, who handle all and “criminal terrorist associ- Investigators at the scene points in northern Sari Pul Asaid the Islamic State ple injured, including a police terrorism-related cases. ation.” have found screws, ball bear- province on Sunday night, group has claimed responsibil- officer. After the explosion, the The prosecutors’ office lat- Last week, France’s coun- ings, batteries, a triggering killing four members of the ity for an explosion targeting van caught fire. er said three other suspects, ter-terrorism prosecutor, Remy device that can be used re - security forces and wound- a police van in Bangladesh’s US-based SITE Intelligence including a woman, were de- Heitz, described video surveil- motely and plastic pieces that ing 22, said Zabiullah Ama- capital, but police said Monday said in a Twitter post that IS tained and formally arrested. lance that showed a suspect may come from the explosive ni, the provincial governor’s they were not sure who was was behind the explosion. According to French media, heading toward the center of device. spokesman. Mexico auctions seized vehicles outside presidential mansion AP | Mexico City

eventeen black, bullet - Sproof Chevrolet Suburbans An unnamed man supposed to be British street artist Banksy siting next to a montage of oil paintings entitled “Venice in oil” portraying a massive cruise ship surrounded by tiny Venetian gondola boats. stretched in a neat, polished row outside the onetime official res- idence of Mexico’s presidents. AFP sexual health clinic since 2006. to the centre and watch people Nearby stood a 2007 Lamborgh- Standing on the street trans- paint,” he told the Huffington ini Murcielago and a 2016 Ford ive years ago, British street fixed by the image, a group of Post. “He was heavily into hip Shelby pickup truck with a video artist Banksy adorned the French schoolchildren listen hop culture, graffiti.” camera embedded in the front Fside of a once uninspiring attentively to a guide narrating Banksy then purportedly grill and a hand-held radio next white brick building in Bristol the remarkable backstory of the joined the DryBreadZ Crew to the driver’s seat. with the familiar image of a girl king of street art. (DBZ), a gang of street artists All were put up for auction gazing out solemnly. formed in the early 1990s. Sunday by the Institute to Re- The dank courtyard beneath ‘Nobody ever listened to me’ It was a time of cultural blos- turn the Stolen to the People, the stencil has, like many oth- Banksy’s most famous, or soming for the city, which in- the new name for a branch of er spots the mysterious artist perhaps infamous, work is now cluded the so-called Bristol the Finance Ministry that is in has decorated in his purported called “Love is in the Bin”. Sound of Massive Attack and charge of selling property seized People look at cars to be auctioned home city in southwest England, Moments after the painting Portishead, pioneers of trip hop from purported drug dealers and become one of Britain’s most “Girl with Balloon” sold for music. tax cheats as well as government photographed places. £1,042,000 ($1.4 million, 1.2 vehicles and other property that A parody pastiche of “Girl million euros) last year -- a joint ‘Accepted’ is no longer in use. with a Pearl Earring” by Dutch record for the maverick artist In 2001, the artist reportedly Holding the auction outside Golden Age painter Johannes -- it literally went through the accompanied Bristol amateur Los Pinos, a mansion nestled Vermeer, it bears all the hall - shredder, which was hidden in football club Easton Cowboys on an edge of the capital’s People look inside a 2007 Lamborghini Murcielago to be auctioned marks of Banksy’s cheekily ir- the frame. on a tour of Mexico, playing as a Chapultepec Park, carried ex- reverent style. The buyer went through with goalkeeper and producing sever- tra significance since President The elusive Briton, whose the purchase, and some art ex- al stencilled works while there. Andrés Manuel López Obrador It was the most heavily attend- past administrations is without identity is said to be known to perts say it is now worth more His notoriety mushroomed turned the once heavily guarded The top seller was ed auction in the history of the a doubt a symbol of what this only a handful of friends, has than it had been before the stunt. as his politically pointed murals compound into an open cultur- the cherry red Finance Ministry, Rodriguez government intends to do with positioned the work so that a Despite years in the interna- -- denouncing consumerism, the al center when he took office Shelby pickup with said, with 800 people register- austerity,” he said. hexagonal security alarm box tional spotlight as he became fate of refugees in Europe and Dec. 1. a license plate from ing to bid. For every person sit- López Obrador has slashed sits in place of the earring. one of the most famous artists of other issues -- began to appear An alleged work by British street artist Banksy depicting a migrant child wearing a lifejacket holding a pink flare, is painted Ricardo Rodriguez Vargas, ting in the auction area under government salaries, includ- The creation, now one of his his generation, remarkably little around the world, from Calais on the outer wall of a house overlooking the canal Rio de Ca Foscari, in Venice head of the institute, said the the northern state the shade of a white tarp there ing his own, and aggressively most famous, is known as “The is known about Banksy. to Gaza. goal Sunday was to raise 30 mil- of Sinaloa, home to were at least another five out- trimmed budgets. He plans to Girl with a Pierced Eardrum”. “Nobody ever listened to me But Banksy appears to have cepted,” said Jody Thomas, a Banksy’s “Mild Mild West” conversations or taken actions lion pesos ($1.5 million) from the one of Mexico’s most side ogling the vehicles, taking sell the presidential jet and trav- It attracts admirers dai - until they didn’t know who I never forgotten Bristol, regularly local street artist. mural -- depicting a teddy bear (so) that it’s not happened,” said sale of 82 vehicles. The money is brutal drug cartels. selfies with their favorite cars els on commercial airplanes, ly, many of them tourists on a was,” he has said with character- returning to erect new works. ready to fight with anti-riot po- Steve Hayles, of the Upfest Gal- to be sent to two poor communi- or watching the bids rise from wears a Timex watch and claims ‘He’s like Santa Claus’ The fully loaded well-trodden trail heavily docu- istic irony.Legend has it he was Over the last two decades he lice -- looms large. lery. ties in the southern state of Oax- monster truck, a vir- beyond the cordoned auction to own fewer than a dozen suits. A man poses for photos next to a Chevrolet Camaro 2010 to be auctioned at the mented on social media. born in Bristol in 1974. has helped to make this city of Walking around the city, the What Banksy has given to “He’s like Santa Claus,” he aca to improve roads, schools tual office on wheels pit. He is also targeting corruption Los Pinos Cultural Center “Well Hung Lover”, around 15 He attended an educational 460,000 inhabitants on the Avon unique relationship it has forged Bristol, the city has returned to added, noting: “People don’t and other infrastructure. Those Holding the auction on the and theft of state-produced gas- the original Beetles — as well vests floated between bidders, minutes walk away, is another project offering young graffiti River one of the world capitals of with this art form is ubiquitous. him, by helping to preserve his want to ruin the illusion”. municipalities were chosen be- with leather seats grounds of the former presiden- oline. as for pristine Audi and BMW yelping like Mariarchi crooners popular stop. artists the chance to practise street art, laying the ground for The Bedminster neighbour- anonymity as if there is a secret “You don’t want people going cause almost all their residents and oversized side- tial mansion was symbolic, said The armored Suburbans, hatchbacks with leather bucket as offers got loftier and loftier. Depicting a naked man hang- their art without breaking the the 150 or so artists who work hood has become an open-air pact with its inhabitants. up to your kids and (saying) San- live in poverty, he said. view mirrors, went Ricardo Alvarado, a researcher many of which were at least a seats. Muscle cars, such as an Red auction paddles soared in ing from the ledge of a window, law, according to John Nation, there today. museum studded with urban “There’s been occasions ta Claus isn’t real. Some of the vehicles put up for 1.9 million pesos with Mexicans Against Corrup- decade old, drew little interest orange Corvette and canary yel- the air, encouraged by a moder- below a lingerie-clad woman sometimes nicknamed the “god- “Banksy has led the charge frescoes. where his identity may have “In the same way that you for sale had been collecting dust ($99,685). tion and Impunity, a watchdog from bidders Sunday, but the low Chevrolet Camaro, also saw ator in a little black dress who and a suited man looking out, it father” of Bristol street art. and his popularity and his rise In Stokes Croft, between DJ been on the verge of (coming) don’t want to go up to people in government warehouses for group. “Using a space that’s competition was fierce for three intense bidding. seduced buyers with warnings has graced the wall of a former “As a young boy, he’d come have allowed street art to be ac- shops and falafel restaurants, out and other people have had and go... ‘well this is Banksy’.” 10 years. characteristic of the luxury of classic Volkswagen sedans — Men in fluorescent yellow like: “Don’t let it go!” THSUCCESS ISN’T MEASURED BY QUOTE MONEY OR POWER OR SOCIAL RANK. 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These are entirely different eco- wants a horts have been queuing up to replace her. nomic and political models, but both require Among the Conservative ministers and MPs as a precondition a withdrawal agreement who have thrown their hats into the ring between the UK and the EU. consensus are former Brexit secretary Dominic Raab, After some initial ambiguity, May opted former leader of the House of Commons for hard Brexit, with the UK leaving not just Andrea Leadsom, health secretary Matt the single market but also the customs un- Hancock, foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt, ion, the system which exempts the UK and on Brexit, backbencher Esther McVey and interna- the rest of the bloc from tariffs on goods. tional development secretary Rory Stewart. It is inconceivable that the Conservative Boris Johnson and current environment party will now elect as leader anyone who the chance of secretary Michael Gove are preparing to advocates a softer Brexit than this. face off once again. But a hard Brexit has a consequence But whoever inherits May’s job will also which would destroy May’s attempts to achieving one inherit most of the problems she faced in ratify the withdrawal agreement she struck delivering Brexit, some of them made worse with the EU. By definition, being outside the by the mistakes she made and the decisions regulatory area of the single market and the is miniscule, she took. tariff area of the customs union means the At the heart of these problems is the leg- UK having a hard border with the EU. And acy of the 2016 referendum. The Leave this would compromise the Good Friday writes campaign assiduously avoided specifying Agreement that ended the armed conflict any particular form of Brexit. All that was in Northern Ireland. promised was that it would not be econom- So in order to ensure that, whatever hap- ically damaging, and that it would be quickly pens, there is an open border between Ire- professor and easily achieved. land and Northern Ireland, the withdrawal The latter set expectations that could not agreement specifies a backstop arrangement be met; hence the repeated refrain from to be used unless another solution is found. Chris Grey Leave voters now is: “Just get on with it”. This backstop would mean the UK as a whole With May having been in office for just un- remaining in the EU customs union and der three years, and having twice postponed Northern Ireland also remaining in many the planned date to leave the European Un- aspects of the single market. 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Theresa May’s successor faces an even more TOP 4 divided country than the one she inherited TWEETS 01 And, like May, any successor will need to event of a no-deal Brexit, there will imme- be mindful that voters were promised there diately need to be new negotiations - about would be no costs to leaving – even more the border, trade and many other things – for so if the person chosen is one of those who which the EU’s precondition will be what made that promise. was agreed in the withdrawal agreement, As for defining what Brexit actually including the backstop. means, this continues to be a matter of This will bring things back to accepting e are immensely bitter dispute. From the outset, the main op- something like May’s deal but with the ad- Wproud of India’s tions were a soft Brexit, meaning, primarily, dition of a major economic crisis. The only culture. Similarly, we membership of the single market, or a hard other possibilities would be to abandon are also optimistic about Brexit, which would mean leaving the single Brexit altogether or shift to a soft Brexit India’s future. We are market and seeking a free trade agreement – each of which would cause a major polit- working to create an In- with the EU. These are entirely different eco- ical crisis. For that matter, a no-deal Brexit dia that is powerful and nomic and political models, but both require would itself cause a political crisis since prosperous, empowered as a precondition a withdrawal agreement it is not remotely what Leave voters were and inclusive. between the UK and the EU. promised in 2016. @HHShkMohd After some initial ambiguity, May opted That all roads lead to crisis reflects the fact for hard Brexit, with the UK leaving not just that public debate is now so toxic, any out- 02 the single market but also the customs un- come will be regarded by some part of the ion, the system which exempts the UK and electorate as a betrayal. May’s main failure the rest of the bloc from tariffs on goods. was that she did not try to build a consensus, It is inconceivable that the Conservative difficult as that would have been, on a realis- party will now elect as leader anyone who tic way of doing Brexit until it was too late. advocates a softer Brexit than this. Her attempt to hold cross-party talks ended But a hard Brexit has a consequence in failure earlier this month and precipitated which would destroy May’s attempts to her departure. n Memorial Day, we ratify the withdrawal agreement she struck Political discourse is now dominated Ohonor the brave men with the EU. By definition, being outside the Recent pictures of the eight contenders declared as of May 26 to replace Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa by the language of sabotage, betrayal and and women who gave regulatory area of the single market and the May when she resigns on June 7: (top L-R) Britain’s Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt, former foreign secretary treachery. May did little to challenge that their lives for our coun- tariff area of the customs union means the Boris Johnson, Britain’s Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Secretary Michael Gove, former Brexit secretary and sometimes encouraged it. Positions on try and the families who UK having a hard border with the EU. And Dominic Raab, (bottom L-R) Britain’s International Development Secretary Rory Stewart, former works and all sides have polarised. So even if a new lost loved ones. Today, this would compromise the Good Friday pensions secretary Esther McVey, former leader of the House of Commons Andrea Leadsom, and Britain’s leader were minded to seek consensus, the we reaffirm a grateful Agreement that ended the armed conflict Health and Social Care Secretary Matt Hancock, all pictured in Downing Street, central London possibility of achieving it is very small. But in nation’s commitment to in Northern Ireland. any case, it also means that the new leader is everyone who has served So in order to ensure that, whatever hap- forced to resign. leave with no deal at all. inevitably going to hold a position that will and to their families. pens, there is an open border between Ire- The key political conundrum is that these It is almost certain that May’s successor polarise things further. @BernieSanders land and Northern Ireland, the withdrawal pro-Brexit MPs opposed May not because will come to office promising to pursue this In the end, the only way forward might agreement specifies a backstop arrangement she failed to give them the hard Brexit they approach. It is also likely that the EU will be another referendum or perhaps a gener- 03 to be used unless another solution is found. wanted but because in agreeing the back- not accept the backstop being abandoned al election. But all the signs are that these This backstop would mean the UK as a whole stop, she was asking them to recognise the or diluted. Indeed it is not clear that they would yield very close results and fail to pro- remaining in the EU customs union and practical realities inherent in a hard Brexit could do so without violating World Trade vide any real resolution, for May bequeaths Northern Ireland also remaining in many and the compromises needed to implement Organisation rules, even if the Good Friday to her successor an even more divided coun- aspects of the single market. That way, there it. This they will not do. Agreement was not an issue. So if the new try than the one she inherited. would be no need for border checks. 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To receive Bitcoin, is a true peer-to-peer transaction, time” of Bitcoin in Venezuela today LocalBitcoins, you send your naira to by capital controls, suffering from the ultimate sacrifice. you just need a smartphone with Bit- done over a global, neutral payment is 15 minutes. Meaning, if you’re in me, and my Bitcoin is only released to hyperinflation, trapped behind sanc- We honor the brave men coin wallet software. According to rail. Of course, what isn’t guaranteed Caracas, I can send you Bitcoin from you when I confirm that I’ve received tions or simply lacking identification and women who gave for the latest Pew data, 45% of citizens is that the recipient can turn Bitcoin Miami and you can be holding bolivar- your naira. Or, we can choose to meet or a bank account, donors can now use us today & all days. We in emerging economies already own a into local currency so they can buy es in your hand within 15 minutes of and make the trade in person, where Bitcoin to reach you directly. thank God for those who smartphone today. While that means a the food, medicine or help that they my Bitcoin arriving on your phone. To you give me cash and I send you Bit- If you are a gift-giving foundation, serve and sacrifice & pray large number of people in the world’s need. That’s a major challenge, but give you an idea of the scale of Bitcoin coin, smartphone-to-smartphone. foreign ministry or development advi- for them and their fami- poorest countries don’t have the inter- it’s changing in a big way. activity in Venezuela today, consider And — voila — I just received Bitcoin sor, could sending your aid via Bitcoin lies. Freedom isn’t free. net in their pocket yet, the fact that According to a global analysis of that on April 26, 639 million bolivar- from across the world and turned it be a better way? Bitcoin’s peer-to-peer @MeghanMcCain nearly half do is significant and this Bitcoin exchange data, individuals es were traded on the Caracas Stock into local, spendable currency. digital payments network could be the number will only continue to rise in in West Africa, Latin America and Exchange. During that same week, the When the highway blockade oc- future of humanitarian aid. the coming years. To receive Bitcoin, East Asia are seeing a significant in- average daily volume of Bitcoin traded curred on the Colombian border, pre- (Alex Gladstein is Chief Strategy Of- they don’t need a passport or an ID or crease in their ability to sell Bitcoin on one online platform alone — Local- venting much-needed aid from get- ficer at the Human Rights Foundation. Disclaimer: (Views expressed a bank account, and they don’t have for local currency. In an interview Bitcoins — was 5.2 billion bolivares. ting into Venezuela, millions of dollars He has also served as Vice President of by columnists are personal and need not necessarily reflect our to ask permission from a government with researchers at the Open Money LocalBitcoins is one of several on- of Bitcoin were freely moving in and Strategy for the Oslo Freedom Forum editorial stances) or a company to accept the funds. It Initiative, I learned that the “liquidity line marketplaces — like Paxful, Hodl out. A big perk of using Bitcoin is that since its inception in 2009)

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welcomed 12 million visitors new modern look and feel, and Caribou is ranked during 2018 who spent in total to open new Fuddruckers out- • BD 960 million mainly on ac - lets in Saar and Muharraq. The among the top three We are confident about commodation, F&B, shopping Bank also plans to open several international coffee the prospects and and leisure (average expenditure Caribou kiosks in busy office shop chains operating growth of this sector, of BD 80 per tourist per day). complexes and several ‘drive- in the Kingdom The continued success of the thru’ service stores, following which will continue F&B sector will contribute to the the success of the ‘coffee-to-go’ to be driven not just Kingdom’s GDP growth,” Janahi concept in the Arcapita Building • US$ 2.5 million was by domestic demand, added. and the ‘drive-thru’ service con- invested in extending the but also by Bahrain’s Since commencing the Bah- cept in Hala Plaza. Caribou Coffee network growing reputation as rain franchise acquisition pro- “This acquisition marks VC- through the opening an attractive tourist cess last year, US$ 2.5 million Bank’s fourth investment to destination. was invested in extending the date in the F&B and related ag- of seven new outlets. Caribou Coffee network through ribusiness sectors in the MENA the opening of seven new out- region and Turkey, where we VCBank and the lets. These are located in Hala have developed considerable founding• partner plan Plaza in Zinj, Royal Hospital for knowledge and expertise since Women and Children in Riffa, 2011. Our investments include to invest a further ABDULLATIF JANAHI, VCBANK BOARD MEMBER & CEO Arcapita Building, Avenues Mall an investment in Oba Makar- US$ 5 million at Bahrain Bay, Garden Plaza in na, Turkey’s largest and leading Budaiya, Hamala Hills Mall and pasta producer and the second TDT | Manama rain in 2007, Caribou has grown Fuddruckers opened its doors in ages (F&B) sector, through well- the Walk Shopping Mall in Riffa. largest in the world in terms its network to 22 stores and is 1995 as one of Bahrain’s earliest known and proven brands such of pasta production capacity; enture Capital Bank (VC- ranked among the top three in- family-friendly casual dining as Caribou and Fuddruckers.” More investment planned Goknur, Turkey’s largest fruit Bank), a Bahrain-based ternational coffee shop chains restaurants, and today has six “We are confident about the VCBank and the founding part- juice concentrate and fruit puree VShari’ah-compliant in- operating in the Kingdom. outlets across the country. prospects and growth of this ner plan to invest a further US$ producer; and Topsu, a farmland vestment firm, acquired a signif- Caribou stores are strategical- Abdullatif Janahi, Board sector, which will continue to 5 million in both franchises in investment in Turkey with more icant stake in the Caribou Cof- ly well located across all of Bah- Member and CEO of VCBank, be driven not just by domestic the coming few years. This will than one million organic fruit fee and Fuddruckers Restaurant rain and it offers its customers commented: “We are very ex- demand, but also by Bahrain’s be used to renovate and uplift trees planted across 10 million franchises in Bahrain. high-quality speciality bever- cited about the Bank’s entry growing reputation as an attrac- some of the older Fuddruck- square meters of farmland,” Jan- From its first outlet in Bah- ages in first-class atmosphere. into Bahrain’s food and bever- tive tourist destination. Bahrain ers restaurants and give them a ahi pointed out.

BAB in deal to launch sign language banking dictionary Nasdaq withdraws offer to TDT | Manama acquire Oslo stock exchange completion of the offer is inca- ahrain Association of Banks Euronext manages pable of being satisfied,” the B(BAB) signed a Memoran- • company said in a statement. dum of understanding MoU stock exchanges Nasdaq, which controls all with Bahrain Deaf Society aims of Paris, Brussels, the other Nordic stock ex - to launch a unified dictionary Amsterdam, Lisbon changes, has been battling for banking terminologies in and Dublin with Euronext to acquire the sign language. stock exchange since the start The agreement signed by BAB of the year. Chief executive Dr Waheed Al AFP | Oslo Nasdaq had the blessing of Qassim and president of Bahrain the bourse’s board and man- Deaf Society Salma Alasfoor. S stock market operator agement, but Euronext gained Present were Mahdi Alnaimi UNasdaq said Monday it was an advantage by securing the head of translators’ committee withdrawing its offer of nearly support of a majority of the and Yusuf Hasan, Director of 700 million euros ($784 mil- Oslo exchange’s shareholders. Retail Banking Supervision at lion) to acquire the Oslo Stock The US stock operator’s the Central Bank of Bahrain. Exchange, clearing the way hopes were dashed on May “This comes in the framework for its European competitor 13 when the Norwegian gov- of BAB’s social responsibilities Euronext. ernment declared that both towards Bahraini society to sup- “This decision has been Euronext and Nasdaq were port special needs people and to made because under the cur- “suitable owners”. Euronext integrate them in the communi- rent circumstances the mini- aims to complete the transac- ty,” Dr Al Qassim added. Officials during the signing of the deal mum acceptance condition for tion by the end of June. Al Salam Bank holds exclusive training programmes TDT | Manama hakeem Al Khayat, Managing l Salam Bank-Bahrain (ASBB) Director and CEO of KFH shed Aannounced holding three lights on their significant jour- training sessions of its exclusive ney in their professional world. training programme “Succession On this occasion, Anwar Mu- Executive Planning & Capaci- rad, Deputy Chief Executive ty Building” at the Wyndham Officer of ASBB, said, “We are Grand Manama. pleased to collaborate with The The training programme host- BIBF and CASS Business School ed inspirational top tier leaders in facilitating global training in the banking and technology standards for our valued human sectors as key speakers. assets.” The programme was de- Ashar Nazim, Group CEO of signed in collaboration with The Aion Digital, Murad Ali Murad, Bahrain Institute of Banking and Chairman of Bank of Bahrain Participants during a group photo opportunity Finance (BIBF) and CASS Busi- and Kuwait (BBK) and Abdul- ness School in UK. TUESDAY, MAY 28, 2019 11 Tumo teaches them to dream In robotics classes, Armenian teens dream of high-tech future

Tumo is a largely as a result of World War I massacres by the Ottoman cutting edge, forces. The school occupies two after-school floors of a six-storey pink tufa stone building, located on the learning outskirts of Yerevan in the shadow of Mount Ararat which centre, where stands just across the border in Turkey. around 7,000 The Simonians provided the Armenians initial investment of $60 million to set up the project but it is now aged 12 to 18, largely self-sustaining, with the centre renting out several floors from all walks to tech companies. The school’s gleaming facade of life, study and huge windows contrast with dilapidated Soviet-era residen- tial buildings nearby. Inside the futuristic, open- plan premises, mobile computer workstations allow students to move around freely. “In Armenia what Tumo of- Tumo gives youngsters the chance to study web design, robotics, animation, music and digital media, among other things fers is extraordinary,” Julian Se- fton-Green, a professor of new past, has grappled with poverty, media education at Deakin Uni- unemployment and a brain drain versity, in the Australian city of Tumo’s chief development since the breakup of the Soviet Melbourne, told AFP in emailed officer Pegor Papazian says the Union in 1991. comments. ambition is to become “one of But despite a stagnant econ- Tumo offers “a particular vi- the world’s most competitive omy, Armenia’s tech sector has sion of a techno future,” said labour markets” been booming over the past dec- Sefton-Green, who visited the ade, boosting hopes that one day school and studied its educa- the resource-poor country can tional model. for free.Packed become a global IT powerhouse. Tumo is a cutting edge, af - From Merkel to Kanye West with hundreds ter-school learning centre, On average, students spend where around 7,000 Armenians two to three years at the centre. of computers aged 12 to 18, from all walks of They create their own learn- life, study for free. ing plans and are assisted by in- with industry Packed with hundreds of com- structors, many of whom come puters with industry standard from companies such as Google standard software, 3D printers, video and Pixar. cameras and an animation stu- There are no grades and, at software, 3D dio, Tumo gives youngsters an German Chancellor Angela Merkel visited the Tumo school last year, calling it a “philosophy” the end of their studies, students opportunity to study web design, receive digital portfolios show- printers, video robotics, animation, music, digi- casing their work. tal media and more. Tumo has established three cameras and The project has been so suc- satellites across the country and an animation cessful that there is already a Azerbaijan’s breakaway region Tumo school in Paris and plans of Nagorny Karabakh. studio, for others in Europe and the Plans are under way to open United States are under way. more than 20 centres over the Tumo gives In one of the centre’s work- next 10 years. shops, students are buzzing with Papazian said the staff had youngsters an excitement as they learn how to been struck by the poverty in build robots from Lego kits and which some of their students opportunity programme them to perform live. “We are helping them dis- tasks like collecting rubbish or cover a new world,” he added. to study web making a salad. The authorities have em - “We are working on projects braced the initiative and it has design, robotics, that we will be able to later use become a ritual for foreign dig- in our everyday life,” said Davit nitaries and other top guests to animation, Harutyunyan, 14, as he showed visit the school. off a half-assembled robot. Grammy-award winning rap- music, digital per Kanye West, whose wife One third in poverty Kim Kardashian is of Armenian media and The South Caucasus country descent, toured the premises more. of three million people boasts in 2015. a vibrant startup scene and its The project in Armenia has been so successful that there is already a Tumo school in Paris and plans for others in Europe Last year, the school also tech workers have been a driving and the United States are under way earned rave reviews from Ger- AFP | Yerevan force behind a wave of peaceful man Chancellor Angela Merkel. protests that ousted the old elite “This Tumo is not for Arme- n a sleek classroom in Yere- from power in 2018. nia only. It’s international. It’s a van, the capital of Armenia, Tumo aims to raise the next philosophy,” she said in August Ione of the poorest post-So- generation of tech profession- during the first visit to Armenia viet republics, 14-year-old Na- als and play a role in creating a by a German chancellor. zeli Ter-Petrosyan peers at the knowledge-based economy in a In some ways, the Tumo pro- screen of her Apple Mac. country where 30 percent of the ject could be viewed as being During a computer program- population live in poverty. ahead of its time for Armenia, ming course offered at the “We’ve got very ambitious which still lacks the rule of law high-tech Tumo school, Ter-Pet- plans,” chief development of- and a stable economy, among rosyan and her classmates learn ficer Pegor Papazian said. other things. how to digitise medieval texts. “We want to become one of Sefton-Green said that only “I’m developing a programme the world’s most competitive la- time would tell if the pioneering to enable artificial intelligence bour markets,” added Papazian, school would help reshape the to read old manuscripts,” said who holds a master’s degree country. the teen. from Massachusetts Institute of “Unless there is structural Her computer screen features Technology (MIT) in the United economic response to the kind a page from a 15th century Bible States. of investment Tumo has offered, held at Armenia’s famed repos- The non-profit centre was it is possible that benefits will itory of ancient writings, the founded in 2011 by Sam and Syl- not be felt,” he said. Matenadaran. va Simonian, a US-based couple “However the country itself is Armenia, which is known for who are part of the influential in a good place to be able to rise its rich history and troubled Armenian diaspora formed Tumo is a cutting edge, after-school learning centre in the Armenian capital, Yerevan, teaching youngsters high-tech skills to these kinds of challenges.” TUESDAY, MAY 28, 2019 12

Solidarity Bahrain announces key UK Brexit Party scores big employee promotions UK’s governing Conservative• Party Solidarity promoted was all but wiped Mohammed• Awachi as out in voting the Assistant General Brexit Party had Manager (AGM), won• 28 of the 73 Corporate Support, British EU seats Ali Shaban as a Senior Motor Manager, and The pro-EU Ahmed Al Hulaibi as a Liberal• Democrats Manager, Investments took about 20% of and Special Projects the vote and 15 seat Ali Shaban TDT | Manama Labour came third• with 10 seats olidarity Bahrain, one of the Slargest insurance compa- nies in Bahrain and a subsidi- Scotland and ary of Solidarity Group Hold- Northern• Ireland ing has announced the promo- are due to announce tion of a number of employees their results Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage reacts after the European Parliament election results for the UK South East Region are from different departments. announced at the Civic Centre Southampton, Southern England Promotions include man- agerial positions to support The result raises A triumphant Farage said his party dither over whether to the development of Bahraini’s the• likelihood of a party would “stun everybody” in support a new referendum that staff career progression while chaotic “no deal” the next British general election could halt Brexit. enhancing Solidarity’s level of if the country didn’t leave the EU Some senior Labour figures services led by young Bahraini exit from the EU on the currently scheduled date said after the party’s weak per- talents. KNOW WHAT of Oct. 31. formance that it must now take Solidarity promoted Mo- Mohammed Awachi AP | London The election is likely to hard- a strong stance in favor of a sec- hammed Awachi as the Assis- en the rhetoric of candidates to ond referendum on Brexit, tant General Manager (AGM), eteran euroskeptic Ni- The results reflect succeed Prime Minister There- “There should be a (new Brex- Corporate Support, Ali Shaban gel Farage said Britain sa May, who is stepping down as it) referendum and we should as a Senior Motor Manager, should get set to leave an electorate deeply Conservative leader next month campaign to remain,” said La- V divided over Britain’s and Ahmed Al Hulaibi as a the European Union without a after failing to deliver Brexit. bour foreign affairs spokeswom- Manager, Investments and divorce deal, after an election 2016 decision to leave Most businesses and econ- an Emily Thornberry. Special Projects. across the bloc saw his Brexit the EU, but united omists think leaving the EU But party leader Jeremy Ashraf Bseisu, Solidarity Party and pro-EU forces carve in anger at the two with no agreement on depar- Corbyn declined to make his Group Chief Executive, con- up the votes at the expense of long-dominant parties, ture terms and future relations positon clear. He still said the gratulated Awachi, Shaban, the long-dominant larger par- the Conservatives would cause economic turmoil country needed either a gen- and Al Hulaibi on their new ties. and plunge Britain into reces- eral election or a referendum roles. The UK’s governing Conserv- and Labour, who have sion. But many Conservatives on Brexit. On the other hand, Jawad ative Party was all but wiped brought the Brexit think embracing a no-deal Brex- “With the Conservatives dis- Mohammed, Chief Executive out in voting for the European process to deadlock. it may be the only way to win integrating and unable to gov- Officer, Solidarity Bahrain Ahmed Al Hulaibi Parliament, as pro-Brexit and back voters from Farage’s party. ern, and parliament deadlocked, stated: “These promotions pro-EU voters both punished it Boris Johnson, the current this issue will have to go back are part of our ongoing efforts Ali Shaban, ACII, is an Asso- for leading the country into a favorite to replace May as to the people, whether through towards investing in our em- ciate of the Chartered Insur- political impasse, and failing to Britain’s next prime minister, a general election or a public ployee experience.” ance Institute, has joined Sol- lead it out of the EU. tweeted: “The message from vote,” he said. Furthermore, Awachi wel- idarity Bahrain for more than With results announced Mon- last night’s results is clear. It is British politics has been in comed the promotion and 10 years and is managing Mo- day for all of England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ire- time for us to deliver Brexit and crisis since electors voted 52%- thanked the management, tor portfolio, a major business the Brexit Party had won 28 land are due to announce their set out our positive plans for the 48% in June 2016 to leave the and stated: “I am grateful for line of Solidarity’s. Ahmed of the 73 British EU seats up results later. country.” EU. But its departure, scheduled this promotion, and I look for- Al Hulaibi, CFA, a Chartered for grabs and almost a third of The election leaves Britain’s Another leadership contend- for March 29, has been delayed ward towards expediting the Financial Analyst with more the votes. The pro-EU Liberal EU exit ever more uncertain, er, former Brexit Secretary because lawmakers have re - realization of our vision of be- than 8 years of experience and Democrats took about 20% of with both Brexiteers and pro- Dominic Raab, said “voters have jected the divorce terms struck coming the kingdom’s leading he is a key member in group’s the vote and 15 seats — up from EU “remainers” able to claim sent us a very clear message: un- between the government and insurance company.” strategic projects. only one at the last EU election strong support. Labour and the less we get on and actually leave the bloc. in 2014. Conservatives, who in different the EU they will rightly kick us After three defeats for her Labour came third with 10 ways each sought a compromise out at the next election.” Brexit deal in Parliament, May seats, followed by the pro-Euro- Brexit, were hammered. Farage’s Brexit Party was one threw in the towel on Friday, pean, environmentalist Greens The result raises the likeli- of several nationalist and popu- announcing that she will step Gold rises to one-week high with seven. The ruling Con- hood of a chaotic “no deal” exit list parties making gains across down as party leader on June 7. servatives — apparently blamed from the EU — but also of a new the continent in an election that Britain participated in the by voters for failing to deliv - referendum that could reverse saw erosion of support for the EU election because it is still er Brexit in March as planned the decision to leave. traditionally dominant political a member of the bloc, but the — were in fifth place with just “This is the vote that says, parties. lawmakers it elects will only three EU seats and under 10% put no-deal Brexit back on the Labour paid for a fence-sit- sit in the European Parliament of the vote. table,” Farage said. ting Brexit policy that saw the until the country leaves the EU.

Oil steadies as trade fears balance tension, supply cuts Reuters | London

il steadied on Monday, trad- Oing below $69 a barrel, as concern over the U.S.-China A gold ingot and gold coins are seen in this illustration picture trade dispute and global eco- nomic outlook offset support Reuters its highest since May 17. from Middle East tensions and $68.74 a barrel was the price of US gold futures were 0.2% supply cuts. brent crude by 0839 GMT old hit a more than one- higher at $1,285.60 an ounce. Figures on Monday showed Gweek peak on Monday as US President Donald Trump that profits for Chinese indus- trade tensions between the said on Monday he was “not trial companies shrank in April United States and China lifted yet ready” to make a deal with while new orders for U.S.-made appetite for assets seen as a China, hinting that the world’s capital goods fell more than ex- “The macroeconomic outlook haven from risk, while weak biggest economies are far from pected in a further sign that the does not look good,” Jakob said. Representative picture U.S. economic data boosted a trade agreement. economy is slowing. Brent crude, the global bench- hopes for a rate cut from the Among other precious met- The main factor preventing mark, was up 5 cents at $68.74 a tered their biggest weekly price tween the United States and Federal Reserve. als, silver was up 0.1% at $14.57 crude prices from rising on the barrel by 0839 GMT, having fall- declines of the year last week. Iran, with Washington’s an- Spot gold inched up 0.1% to per ounce. geopolitical news is the concern en by about 4.5% last week. U.S. Public holidays in the United nouncement on Friday that it $1,285.60 per ounce by 0940 Platinum eased 0.1% to about the global economy, said West Texas Intermediate crude States and Britain on Monday would deploy more troops to GMT. The metal touched $801.50 an ounce and palladi- Petromatrix oil analyst Olivier was down 36 cents at $58.27. limited participation, keeping the Middle East, has had little $1,287.32 earlier in the session, um fell 0.3% to $1,331.60. Jakob. Both crude contracts regis- volumes low. Rising tension be- impact on the market so far. 13 TUESDAY, MAY 28, 2019

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MOVIE REVIEW Between Maybes: An effective love story that goes beyond your usual love team azel Ilagan was a popular child played Louie’s boss in Saga with the actress whose showbiz career unfortunate name of Ms. Sadako (like Hwas on the wane as she grew the girl who crawled out of the TV in beyond her teenage years. Louie Puyat “Ringu”), who showed concern over was a Pinoy who lived in Japan since he his loneliness. was 10 years old, now making a living KNOW WHAT The script gave Barretto some pretty as a fisherman and a waiter in the out- awkward things to do and lines to say. skirts of Saga City. During the first day she met Louie, she One day, Hazel impulsively left for was also the one who broached the Japan after a major argument with her Escape is an underlying theme subject of a sexual hookup right there nagging mother, and fortuitously found of Jason Paul Laxamana’s and then in her hotel room. Later in the herself in the restaurant where Louie carefully plotted Between film, she also took the initiative for her worked. Despite their differences in Maybes. Within the construct to stay overnight in Louie’s house, and interests and attitudes, Louie agreed to and common pleasures of then in his room. While I realize that guide Hazel around town, and eventu- the commonplace rom-com, sexual mores among the millennials are ally, with her life choices. the film builds very familiar more liberal nowadays, these scenes did Julia Barretto had a tough role to not sit well with a person my age who play. Hazel is a very immature and fantasies, only to twist them would be protective of Hazel as my own petulant spoiled brat who believed that and put upon the pedestal the daughter. everyone around her is at her beck and supremacy of real life The shots by director of photography call. Needless to say, this was one loud, Carlos David S. Mauricio were vibrantly annoying, self-centered character who also the reason why the romance angle beautiful with amazingly bright colors, was quite unlikable. The script blamed does not stick too well. Louie felt too especially those scenes in the seaside her parents for raising her wrongly A scene from ‘Between Maybes’ much like an elder brother to Hazel village outside Saga, Japan. The ec - with their misguided intentions. But re- rather than a boyfriend. lectic musical soundtrack went from ally, as she grew up to young adulthood, advantage of this rebelling girl who of actors, eight years apart in real life, In supporting roles were Yayo Aguila “squammy” hip-hop to cheesy ‘90s pop, shouldn’t she already know right from was practically giving herself to him. were not predictable casting choices for as Myra, Hazel’s stage mother from but the main theme song was the chill wrong? She was already aware that her He was kind and patient, keeping a a romantic pair. Louie was older and hell, and Christian Vasquez as Jerry, and romantic “Your Universe,” as sung popularity was sagging, yet there she respectable distance through all her had already mad her wimpy father. Aguila’s characteri- by Acel Van Ommen. was still acting like a diva. foolishness, until that moment came e major decisions in his life -- deci- zation of Myra is a resonant cautionary Overall, this film directed by Jason For me, “Between Maybes” belonged when he already felt that she was finally sions that Hazel was only about to make message to enthusiastic parents who Paul Laxamana not only looked and more to Gerald Anderson. Since he already thinking straight. His calm in her life. This was why there was a are pushing their cute kids into show- sounded gorgeous, but it also deliv- grew up in Japan, his Louie had fully face and demeanor was the personifi- need to cast someone older (and wiser) biz and striking while the iron is hot ered an important lesson about making imbibed the Japanese way of life. He cation of Japanese zen. Anderson and to guide this poor little lost girl to make without regard for the child’s welfare. mature decisions in life as responsible was a true gentleman who never took Barretto, being from different batches the right choices in life. However, this is A Japanese actress Kayoko Iwasaki adults. 14 TUESDAY, MAY 28, 2019

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Al Nusuf hails success of Heritage Hamilton talent saved us from festival TDT | Manama

ahrain Olympic Com- Bmittee (BOC) secretary general Mohammed Al defeat says Mercedes boss Nusuf commended the tre- mendous success of the first edition of the “Nasser bin Lewis Hamilton’s individual ability ‘saved’ Mercedes and delivered the team’s emotional tribute victory Hamad Ramadan Heritage Festival held recently. to Niki Lauda at Sunday’s dramatic Monaco Grand Prix, according to team chief Toto Wolff The event was under the patronage of Representative AFP | Monaco Hamilton secured his third of HM the King for Charity Monaco victory career 77th by Work and Youth Affairs and ewis Hamilton’s individu- resisting every attack from Ver- Chairman of the Supreme al ability ‘saved’ Mercedes stappen, behind him on hard Council for Youth and Land delivered the team’s tyres, with one of the great - Sports, HH Shaikh Nasser emotional tribute victory to Niki est stints of defensive racing bin Hamad Al Khalifa, who Lauda at Sunday’s dramatic Mo- ever seen on the unforgiving attended the closing cere- naco Grand Prix, according to streets of the Mediterranean mony on Saturday. team chief Toto Wolff. circuit. Al Nusuf expressed grat- Without his “performance of a His agitated radio exchanges itude to Shaikh Nasser for champion” drive on badly-worn with engineer Pete Bonnington attending the festivities, and incorrectly-chosen medium punctuated the contest and al- organised by the Bahrain compound tyres, in which he lowed him relief from his con- Olympic Committee (BOC)’s resisted near-incessant pres- centration during what he later Heritage Sports Committee sure from Max Verstappen’s described as the hardest race of during the holy month of Red Bull, the Silver Arrows’ his life. Ramadan. season-opening winning streak “It’s just difficult when you’re The BOC secretary gener- may have been over. out on your own for so long and al said that the festival has “Obviously, it was the wrong ‘Bono’ can’t say anything,” said achieved the desired objec- call,” admitted Wolff, referring Hamilton. tives, with significant num- to the decision to fit ‘mediums’ “Nothing he can say, or anyone ber of sport enthusiasts and instead of ‘hards’ at Hamilton’s can say, or do to help – it was all fans turned up at the festival pit-stop after only 10 laps. down to me to bring it home for venue to witness the action. “We thought the tyre would the team and for Niki. The just Al Nusuf also noted the make it to the end. felt immense.” efforts of the organisers “But, of course, it didn’t. He Lewis Hamilton holds up his Niki Lauda helmet in tribute after winning the Monaco Grand Prix Three-time world champi- in the success of the event saved us. His driving saved us. It on Austrian Lauda, Mercedes programme, held at the is something that we really need “It didn’t seem like a huge would be very, very difficult to slow speeds. non-executive chairman, died hall of the Bahrain Sports to analyse now. stretch, but then we realised 20 make it to the end…. “You could see that around last Monday, aged 70. Federation for Disabilities, “We calculated that the laps into it that some graining “Everybody knew it would the Loews hairpin – the car It was a measure of his where Shaikh Nasser wit- medium would make it, if we was appearing on the front left be a huge stretch and, probably wouldn’t turn anymore… We achievement that Hamilton’s nessed the final rounds of changed on lap 15 or 16, with the – and he started to complain. 20 laps from the end, he had were close to losing and if it was former team-mate and rival the electronic and heritage right management. It seemed a “Under-steer resulted from nought percent rubber left and a normal track – like in Montreal Nico Rosberg gave him unstint- games, before honouring the straightforward strategy. the graining and it was clear it with massive under-steer at – you lose that race.” ing praise. winners.

Brave CF expands in Team Vineeth cruise past Team Fuad in FCTG tournament Colombia with second event TDT | Manama to level the match to 2-2. In the decisive fifth match, TDT | Manama for the sport. Not just Colom- eam Vineeth scored 3-2 Ebrahim and Vic defeated Lara bia, but all of South Ameri - Tagainst Team Fuad in divi- and Joan 6-2, 6-4 to claim victo- rave Combat Federa - ca and the Spanish-speaking sion one of the 15th FCTG Team ry for Team Ching 1. Btion has reaffirmed its MMA community. We are Tennis Tournament, being held Both teams will be playing commitment with the Latin glad to have held a successful at Bahrain Tennis Federation in the semi –finals along with America sports market by an- press conference discussing courts in Isa Town. Team Leah. nouncing recently its return the long-term future of mixed The tournament, which is Other Results to Colombia, this time for an martial arts in the region with sponsored by Grand Safir Hotel Division One: Team Viomel event in Bogota, the country’s BRAVE Combat Federation at Bahrain, is organized by Filipino beat Team Vineeth 3-2, Team capital, in partnership with the helm of this development. Club Tennis Group (FCTG). Randy beat Team Fuad 3-2, LFC. MMA today is an event busi- Pravin and Nilesh won over Team Mundeng beat Team Al- President Mohammed Sha- ness and BRAVE CF is here to Haroon and Riad 6-0, 6-3, Team of Pravin and Nilesh with the team of Riad and Haroon dwin 4-1, Team Aldwin beat hid was in the city to official- take this mixed martial arts to Praveen and Stalin scored 6-2, Team Roni 3-2, Team Faro beat ly launch the show and was the sports business”. 4-6, 10-5 tight win against Mo- jnesh 0-6, 3-6, while Moham- feated Abby and Chiqui 6-2, 4-6, Team Randy 3-2, and Team greeted to a packed crowd of Also in attendance for the hammed Sanad and Hisham. med Salman and Abdulrahman 10-4 while Maria and Sheng Mundeng beat Team Manny 4-1, journalists, who were all ex- landmark pre-fight event was Uday and Imran sealed the vic- Thawadi beat Shwetank and scored 2-6, 7-5, 10-7 tight victory Division Two: Team Leah beat cited by HH Shaikh Khalid bin MMA legend Stephan Bonnar, tory for Team Vineeth after a Lloyd 2-6, 1-6. against Isa and Ray. Team Mac 3-2, Team Ching 1 Hamad Al Khalifa’s vision for who himself is a supporter of 6-2, 6-4 win against Adnan and In division two, Team Ching 1 Team Ching 2 clawed its way beat Team Aalya 3-2, Team the sport. BRAVE’s mission of globaliz- Abdulrahman Rajab. scored a narrow 3-2 win against back as Thess and Zyra scored Ching 2 beat Team Mac 3-2, For Shahid, the return to ing the sport and has shared Team Fuad won two conso- Team Ching 2. 7-6, 6-2 against Helen and Len- Team Aalya beat Team Ana 3-2, Colombia is a testament to his support for BRAVE’s future lation matched when Fuad and Team Ching 1 took the lead len, Ellen and Joy defeated and Team Ching 1 beat Team BRAVE’s vision of empowering endeavors and HH Shaikh Khalid defeated Vijay and Ra- 2-0 when Alvin and Henry de- Kathy and Malou 6-0, 2-6, 10-5 Leah 4-1, the business of mixed mar- Khalid’s vision. tial arts in all corners of the “It was great to have world and taking the sport to Stephan Bonnar with us. He’s the next level. He also praised a pioneer of the sport and the success of the conference, someone who had a big role Al Qaseer bowls perfect game in The Godfathers Tournament as he held court to dozens of in taking MMA to where it is journalists from all over the today and he’s excited to be a TDT | Manama rare perfect game of 300 pins top form. Each bowler rolled a second from each group advance country gathered to hear more part of the next evolution of on Sunday. It was the first of leading score in their respective directly to Round Three, while about BRAVE’s vision for the the sport through HH Shaikh li Al Qaseer stole the spot- the event and it earned him a groups, with Algaoud posting a those ranked third through 12th development of Colombian Khalid’s vision”, commented Alight on a day when Ahmed generous cash prize. He was 697 amongst the elite bowlers of move on to Round Two. These MMA and the role the country Shahid. Algaoud, Patrick Toney and congratulated by Funland Gen- Group A, Toney scoring a 672 to stages will be played on Thurs- will play in implementing HH BRAVE’s return to Colombia Leah Siruno scored the daily eral Manager Adel Rasti and lead the intermediate players of day and Friday (May 30 and 31) Shaikh Khalid’s vision for the will take place on September high series in The Godfathers his fellow competitors after Group B, and Siruno registering night, along with the ensuing world of MMA. 7th, the same date when the Tournament, currently being play. a 517 series to top the beginners Step-ladder Final round. “Colombia is a very impor- only truly global MMA promo- played at Funland Centre. Al Qaseer’s perfect game was of Group C. With just two days of trials tant place for the implemen- tion landed for the first time in As the competition’s quali- part of an exciting night of ac- The qualification phase con- remaining, the hunt for a spot tation of HH Shaikh Khalid the country last year for BRAVE fying round headed into its fi- tion during which Algaoud, tinues until Wednesday. At the in the top two of each division bin Hamad Al Khalifa’s vision 15. nal days, Al Qaseer bowled a Toney and Siruno were also in end of this stage, the first and continues to intensify. TUESDAY, MAY 28, 2019 16 Nadal cruises through at Roland Garros

my confidence. Now we’ll see.” “I ran out of steam in the end and Rafael Nadal starts bid The 32-year-old Nadal raced into made some unforced errors that I • a 3-0 lead in the opening set before don’t usually do, so that was very frus- for title No 12 in style with a second break of serve in the eighth trating.” win over Yannick Hanfmann game sealed it after just 40 minutes. Sixth seed and two-time Wimbledon The second set was over in a flash as champion Petra Kvitova was forced to Serena survives scare Nadal crushed nine winners past his pull out before her scheduled opener • beleaguered opponent. against Sorana Cirstea with a left arm Wozniacki knocked out The winning line honed into view injury, but said she should be fit for • when Nadal broke after a lengthy game Wimbledon, which starts on July 1. to take a 2-1 advantage in the third, and “(I’ll be out for) two to three weeks, AFP | Paris the Spaniard completed the job on his so I’ll do some fitness and everything first match point as world number 184 that I can do to prepare my body efending champion Rafael Na- Hanfmann blasted long. for the tennis on the grass,” said the dal got his bid for a record-ex- Meanwhile, Serena Williams sur- Czech. Dtending 12th French Open title vived a first-set scare before defeating Dutch fourth seed Kiki Bertens off to the perfect start by brushing Russia’s Vitalia Diatchenko 2-6, 6-1, looked in fine fettle, though, beating aside German qualifier Yannick Han- 6-0 to reach the second round. home player Pauline Parmentier 6-3, fmann in the first round at Roland The 37-year-old American, who is 6-4. Garros yesterday. attempting to equal Margaret Court’s Elsewhere in the women’s draw, The 17-time Grand Slam champion all-time record of 24 Grand Slam titles, Australian eighth seed Ashleigh Barty cruised to a 6-2, 6-1, 6-3 victory on racked up her 800th career main draw saw off American Jessica Pegula 6-3, the rebuilt Court Philippe Chatrier to win with her victory in front of a half- 6-3, while Britain’s Johanna Konta set up a clash with another German full Court Philippe Chatrier clinched her first Roland Garros win at qualifier -- world number 114 Yannick the fifth time of asking with a 6-4, 6-4 Maden -- in round two. Wozniacki dumped out victory over German Antonia Lottner. Nadal had suffered three consecu- Earlier yesterday, former world In the men’s event, Australian Alex tive semi-final defeats earlier in the number one Caroline Wozniacki col- De Minaur, seeded 21st, beat the Unit- clay-court season, but appeared to lapsed to a 0-6, 6-3, 6-3 loss to Russian ed States’ Bradley Klahn 6-1, 6-4, 6-4, find his best in an Italian Open title world number 68 Veronika Kuder- although Georgian 15th seed Nikoloz success sealed with victory over old metova in the first round. Basilashvili fell to a surprising 6-4, 6-1, rival Novak Djokovic, while his French The Danish 13th seed had retired in- 6-3 thrashing at the hands of Argen- Open win-loss record now reads 87-2. jured from her two previous matches tinian world number 78 Juan Ignacio “It’s always amazing to play here, in the lead-up to Roland Garros, and Londero. the new Chatrier is very nice,” the sec- fell away badly after a strong first set. Russian 12th seed Daniil Medvedev ond seed said. “It’s been an important “I think she got very lucky at the also exited the tournament, blowing a place in my career. start of the second set and took ad- two-set lead to lose 4-6, 4-6, 6-3, 6-2, “I played a good tournament in vantage of the opportunities she got,” 7-5 against Frenchman Pierre-Hugues Rome which was very important for said Wozniacki. Herbert. Spain’s Rafael Nadal serves the ball to Germany’s Yannick Hanfmann Pochettino upbeat about Morata determined to Kane ahead of CL final extend Atletico stay Reuters | Madrid “If it was up to me it would have AFP | London Spurs’ first appearance in a European been sorted a long time ago, that’s Cup final. pain striker Alvaro Morata says what I want,” Morata added. “I’d ottenham Hotspur manager Mauricio “Today no one is more im - She wants to remain at Atletico have liked to have signed my con- TPochettino has said Harry Kane is in a portant than the game that Madrid until the end of his career tract with Atletico already. I did “very positive situation” and could be fit to we have ahead, Tottenham and has no plans to return to Chel- everything to come here and I’ll face Liverpool in Saturday’s Champions League deserve that we are all 100 sea, who he left in January to join do everything to stay.” final in Madrid. percent focused on the game. the Spanish side on an 18-month England forward Kane has been out of action We can make history, we can loan deal. since suffering an ankle injury during the first provide our fans the best hap- “I am very clear that I want leg of the quarter-final against Manchester City. piness in football,” he said. to stay here. Leaving here has Alvaro But Pochettino, speaking to reporters yes- Spurs midfielder Mous- not crossed my mind. I hope it Morata terday , indicated Kane was close to a return. sa Sissoko said the players gets resolved as soon as possi- “Harry Kane in the last week, Friday and were in a positive frame of ble, I’m happy here and I want Saturday, started to be involved in the group, mind ahead of a final against to be here for the rest of my it’s a very positive situation for him,” Pochet- English rivals Liverpool, five- career,” Morata told Spanish tino said. time kings of European club newspaper Marca. “We will wait and see how he is progressing football. “As long as the club in his problem.” “The spirit is fantastic, every time wants me and the fans The Spurs manager was equally positive we were close to be out but we showed are happy I want to regarding the prospects for the injured trio of a lot of character to win the game,” said be here. I’ve found Davinson Sanchez, Jan Vertonghen and Harry Sissoko. happiness here. I’m Winks. “We know we can challenge against where I want to be.” Meanwhile Pochettino faced fresh questions every team,” the Frenchman added. “I Morata has redis- covered about his own future. am not scared of Liverpool or any team. his form at Atletico after a poor The Argentinian has been linked with Ju- “We all need to challenge and we have spell at Stamford Bridge, scoring ventus following the recent departure from to give our best and if we do it, we can six goals in 13 La Liga starts, but the Italian giants of Massimiliano Allegri, but beat any team. In the past we have showed Harry Chelsea have the option to recall Pochettino insisted his focus was firmly on it.” Kane Morata from his loan spell. Archer, Root strike as Afghanistan collapse in England warm up

AFP | London vious warm-up fixture, were Mohammad Nabi. Hashmatullah could not get four wickets in a mere seven He was last man out when a too strong in the field for rank Afghanistan were in danger of going and that prompted As - deliveries, Hashmatullah and thick edge off Archer carried to ofra Archer and Joe Root outsiders Afghanistan in south being dismissed for under 100 ghar Afghan to attack the occa- Najibullah Zadran carelessly run Jonny Bairstow on the boundary. Jtook three wickets apiece London. before Nabi, with 44, helped the sional off-spin of Test captain out, Gulbadin Naib holing out Before play started, England as Afghanistan slumped to Fast bowler Archer, in what last two wickets add 68 runs. Root. to Moeen Ali and Rashid Khan were boosted by the news that 160 all out in a World Cup is tournament hosts England’s Archer dismissed Hazratullah But, having missed out on a steering Root to slip for a golden fast bowler Mark Wood had warm-up match at the Oval last match before they open the and Rahmat Shah in a brisk new- first-ball full toss, Asghar tried duck. been passed fit to face South yesterday. World Cup against South Africa ball spell. to drive Root over the top but Nabi’s defiant hitting, which Africa after a foot injury and that England, fresh from their at the Oval on Thursday, struck Meanwhile opener Noor Ali found Jason Roy in the deep in- included three sixes, at least en- one-day captain Eoin Morgan 12-run defeat by world cham- twice with the new ball before saw scrapped his way to 30 be- stead. sured England would have some was back in the team following pions Australia in their pre - ending some late resistance from fore he played on to Ben Stokes. Afghanistan lost their next sort of target to chase. a fractured finger.