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MONDAY 17 AUGUST 2015 • 2 Dhul-Qa’da 1436 • Volume 20 Number 6525 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Labour City ready to Syria regime strike kills 82

BEIRUT: Syrian government warplanes bombed a market in a rebel-held town outside house 50,000 workers Damascus yesterday, killing at least 82 people in one of the bloodiest regime attacks in the Facility has mega medical centre and a police station country’s war. The series of strikes on the DOHA: The Gulf region’s larg- town of Douma overwhelmed est and most modern com- makeshift clinics, with bodies plex of labour camps, Labour lying side-by-side on a bloodied City, located in the Industrial floor as medics struggled to treat Area here, which can accom- waves of wounded. modate tens of thousands of The head of the Syrian opposi- workers is ready for renting tion National Coalition, Khaled out its premises to interested Khoja, called the attacks as “mas- companies. sacre” and pledged they “will not The City, spread over an area go unpunished”. of more than a million square The deaths came as the UN’s metres, consists of 64 buildings, new humanitarian chief visited each with four floors. Syria for the first time since his Each building has rooms that appointment in May. Syrian emergency personnel carry a wounded man following air strikes by can together accommodate 780 The Syrian Observatory for Syrian government forces on a marketplace in Douma, east of the capital workers. In all, the labour accom- Human Rights, a Britain-based Damascus, yesterday. modations are meant for 50,000 monitoring group, said regime workers. warplanes had carried out at town in the opposition bastion of Eastern Ghouta, saying its heavy Workers relax on a lawn at the Labour City in Industrial Area. The City has a cinema, enter- least 10 strikes on Douma, most Eastern Ghouta. aerial bombardment of the area tainment centres, a huge audi- of them hitting a marketplace. In one makeshift clinic, whole was compounding the misery cre- torium for community events, companies that are interested in Labour City project. It said that at least 250 peo- sections of floor were covered ated by the blockade. commercial complexes, restau- taking premises on rent to house The 64 buildings are actually ple were wounded, with civilians with rows of the dead, as volun- The group also accused rebels rants and even sports facilities their workers to come forward grouped into four major sub-com- accounting for most of the dead, teers worked to wrap each victim in the area of war crimes for fir- like stadiums for volleyball, foot- and apply,” said Al Sharq. plexes, each with 16 buildings. and the toll could rise further in a white shroud. ing rockets indiscriminately at ball and cricket, among other Known as Barwa Al Baraha, Besides, there are plans to build because many of the injured were Frantic residents brought in the capital. Yesterday’s strikes sports. the project is built by state-backed other blocks within the City that in a serious condition. the injured, who were treated on on Douma came as new United Besides, there will be a police Barwa Real Estate Company. It is would accommodate senior staff Observatory director Rami chairs, beds and the floor if neces- Nations humanitarian chief station and a branch within the the largest development project of companies that hire space for Abdel Rahman said locals had sary as the clinic overflowed with Stephen O’Brien held talks with City to help maintain law and ever built in the country to house the purpose on rent. gathered after a first strike hit patients. Two young boys sat on government officials in Damascus order and ensure workers’ safety workers. A huge complex that would the market to help evacuate the a stretcher with blood drying on his first trip to Syria since and security. These are modern living quar- house at least 49 used car show- wounded when more attacks on their faces as they awaited being appointed. The City also boasts green ters offering a higher standard rooms, is also to come up in the came. treatment, one resting as though O’Brien met Foreign Minister space spread over an area of of living for those with low City. Obviously, these showrooms At least six raids hit the mar- exhausted while the other cried. Walid Muallem and expressed a 32,500 square metres and a mega income. “It is the biggest and will be on the ground floor. There ket, with the others striking Eastern Ghouta is the regular willingness to work with the gov- medical centre which will have most modern labour camp built will be two more floors above nearby in the centre of town, target of government air strikes ernment to alleviate humanitar- specialist doctors as well as an in the entire Gulf region,” said them to house administrative Abdel Rahman said, confirming and has been under siege for ian suffering, state media said. emergency unit. the daily. offices. that the attack was among the nearly two years, with regime Close to 12 million people have Within the City there would The project has been developed The Labour City is all set to bloodiest regime strikes in Syria’s forces tightening the blockade been uprooted by Syria’s con- also be additional accommodation in two phases. The first phase be a model accommodation in the conflict. since the start of 2015. flict, with more than four million for 10,000 senior workers. consisted of truck and vehicle entire region with star ameni- An AFP photographer in Amnesty International earlier becoming refugees and another “The supervisory authority for parking area and basic facilities. ties for migrant workers, said Douma described the attack as in the week accused the govern- 7.6 million internally displaced. the Labour City has begun asking The second phase comprises the the daily. THE PENINSULA the worst he had covered in the ment of committing war crimes in AFP

Maliki faulted Plane with 54 on board for fall of Mosul

BAGHDAD: An Iraqi parlia- crashes in Indonesia mentary investigation found ex- premier Nouri Al Maliki and 35 JAYAPURA, INDONESIA: later said local residents had others responsible for militants The wreckage of a passenger found the wreckage. overrunning second city Mosul, plane which went missing with “The plane has been found in a report being sent for possi- 54 people aboard in rugged (by villagers). According to resi- ble legal action, lawmakers said eastern Indonesia yesterday has dents, the flight had crashed into yesterday. been found by villagers, an offi- a mountain,” said the Transport While various top command- cial said, with rescuers expected Ministry’s Director-General of ers and political leaders have to head to the crash site. Air Transportation, Suprasetyo, long been viewed as responsi- The plane operated by who goes by one name. ble for the Islamic State (IS) Indonesian carrier Trigana Air Officials were still verifying the group’s disastrous takeover of the lost contact with air traffic con- information from local residents, city, the report is the first time trol just before 3pm (0600 GMT) he said. There was no information they have been named officially. after taking off from Jayapura, about whether anyone may have Investigative committee member the capital of Papua province, the survived. MP Abdulrahim Al Shammari search and rescue agency said. Search and rescue teams, police said that Maliki, who was prime The ATR 42-300 twin-turbo- and the military would head to minister from 2006 until last year, prop plane was carrying 44 adult the site as soon as possible today, was among those named, as did Minister of Information and Communications Technology H E Dr Hessa Al Jaber (left), Chairman of Vodafone passengers, five children and five said Transport Ministry spokes- another member who declined to Qatar Sheikh Dr Khalid bin Thani Al Thani (right), and Baroness Sayeeda Warsi at the launch of London Edition. crew on the flight which was man J A Barata. be identified. AFP scheduled to take about 45 min- After the plane failed to land, See also page 7 utes, it said. Trigana Air sent another flight But the plane disappeared over the area to hunt for it but Syrian refugees Vodafone launches luxury mobile plan about 10 minutes before reach- the aircraft failed to spot any- ing its destination Oksibil, a thing due to bad weather. DOHA: Vodafone Qatar Chairman of Vodafone Qatar, use while in the UK and abroad remote settlement in the moun- Captain Beni Sumaryanto, board Greek ship unveiled details of its world’s said, “We at Vodafone are proud — Vodafone now makes it easy for tains south of Jayapura, shortly Trigana Air’s Service Director of first luxury telecoms plan — to leverage our local and global them to manage their international after it asked permission to start Operations, told AFP that Oksibil KOS, GREECE: Hundreds of London Edition — in London, expertise to launch this first of numbers with one single worry- descending to land. was “a mountainous area where Syrian refugees on the Greek in an exclusive event held at the a kind innovation making it the free plan that is payable through a Officials said initially that vil- the weather is very unpredictable. island of Kos boarded a pas- world famous Harrods store. first time you have one plan for single bill. The single plan innova- lagers in the Okbape district of It can suddenly turn foggy, dark senger ship yesterday that is to The event was attended by both your UK and Qatar num- tion for UK and Qatar numbers Papua reported seeing a plane and windy without warning.” house and process them, aiming VIPs, and Vodafone Qatar and bers. We are certain the London is a first in the consumer market. crash. The Transport Ministry AFP to ease sometimes chaotic con- Vodafone UK’s management. Edition will change what you can With London Edition, both ditions onshore. Greek officials Vodafone’s presence and expect from your telecommu- Qatar and the UK are regarded had delayed the embarkation strength in both Qatar and the nications provider forever with as home countries, eliminating all at the quayside in Kos for more UK enabled the creation of this its rich plan, exclusive privileges, roaming charges on the Qatari Pakistan provincial minister killed than a day, working on plans first of a kind innovation — an access and effortless ease.” and UK London Edition SIMs to avoid disorder among the invite-only limited edition plan London Edition was born out of for both destinations. In addition, SHADI KHAN: Two suicide embraced martyrdom,” said increasingly desperate migrants for both Qatar and UK numbers a demand from Qatar’s frequent customers receive a total of 50GB attackers yesterday killed a chief rescue official Mohammad who have arrived on the island that’s easily managed through travellers to the UK to have a uni- and 30 hours of international call- Pakistani provincial minis- Ashfaq. Khanzada, 71, had in dinghies and small boats from a dedicated account manager, fied service across both countries ing to use between Qatar and the ter and at least 13 other peo- been holding a meeting with nearby Turkey. combined with the very best giving customers incredible value UK on both SIMs, in addition ple, after detonating a bomb local people who had come to The boarding of the car ferry experience, service and security and unmatched service on their to 2GB of roaming data for all at a meeting the minister express their condolences on Eleftherios Venizelos began in the features. Qatar and UK numbers. A large Vodafone Passport countries. was attending. “Punjab Home the death of his cousin. AFP cooler night hours in an organised Addressing guests, Sheikh number of prospective clients Continued on page 3 Minister Shuja Khanzada has See also page 12 and orderly fashion. REUTERS Dr Khalid bin Thani Al Thani, already have UK numbers they THE PENINSULA MONDAY 17 AUGUST 2015 02 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME

Work begins to Hajj package with implement state air tickets costs Ministry stops promotion QR29,000 this year budget from DOHA: Hajj tour packages offered by authorised Qatari January 1 tour and travel operators are costing on average QR23,000 DOHA: Work has begun to pre- campaign of six outlets ($6,316) per person this year. pare and implement the state If air tickets are included, the budget from January 1, 2016 costs can go up to QR28,500. after the government last year Operators aren’t conducting moved the end of its fiscal year Nine fined for flouting rules many trips by road this year as to December 31 from March 31. there aren’t enough pilgrims Discussions to prepare the ini- DOHA: The Ministry of consumers to check prices of going for Hajj. tial draft of budgetary estimates Economy and Commerce has items through price lists before Without air tickets, the pack- for the calendar year 2016 began fined nine retail outlets for making purchases and before and age includes the cost of accommo- yesterday and feedbacks are to be flouting promotion rules and during the promotion to check dation, food and transport. taken from 40 ministries, govern- stopped campaigns of six the difference in prices before and With every group going with ment agencies, institutions and midway. after the promotion. an operator, there will be a doctor authorities. The ministry said in a state- Consumers also have the right and paramedics. The process will continue until ment yesterday that it conducted to get a detailed invoice, includ- “We are ready to provide all September 24 after which the an inspection campaign on malls ing pre- and post-discount prices. necessary services for Hajj tour,” first draft would be forwarded and stores, particularly those All outlets granted discount said an operator, Hatim Mansoor to Prime Minister and Interior having discount sales promo- (promotion) licences have been Al Mansoori. “Hotels are booked Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin tion licences, to monitor their urged to abide by offering real dis- and so are flights for people going Nasser Al Thani. The draft will be commitment to laws and terms counts and avoiding fake ones or with us,” he told local Arabic daily referred to the State Cabinet for under which the licences had been any other malpractices pertaining Al Watan. discussions and approval by the granted. to consumers’ rights. According to Al Mansoori, second week of October. Inspectors from the ministry The ministry warned that it depending on companies and The Cabinet would, by October- fined nine outlets, six of which would be strict with violators their services, package rates are end, refer it to Advisory Council penalised by cancelling their dis- and refer them to authorities to on average up to QR23,000. for review and recommendations, count licences, and fining them ensure they were handed proper Another operator, Mohamed reports Al Sharq. QR5,000. penalties. Mubarak Al Nabit, said if air tick- Qatar changed its fiscal year- The other three stores were Consumers can use the minis- ets are included, the package can end to make government opera- fined QR5,000 each for non-com- try hotline 16001 and email info@ cost up to QR28,500 per person. tions compatible with the needs pliance with the provisions of the mec.gov.qa to lodge complaints. Groups will begin visiting Saudi of the private sector and global ministerial decree No. 5 for 1984 They can also file complaints A picture from the Department of Consumer Protection and Combating Arabia for Hajj from next month. financial institutions that base on sale via public cost reductions through electronic systems in Commercial Fraud at the Ministry of Economy and Commerce shows a their budgets on calendar year. (discounts). shopping complexes. notice of cancellation of promotion put up at a violating outlet. No shortage of Qatar’s fiscal year was from The ministry called on THE PENINSULA April 1 to March 31 and to building materials make changes to the year-end it recently extended its budget DOHA: There are no shortages for financial year 2014-15 which of building materials in the local ended on March 31 this year, until Container-loaded market and prices are stable due December 31. THE PENINSULA to the lean summer months, say businessmen. trucks wreak They say since hectic infra- Workshop begins structure development is taking place in the country and mega to train 25 hygiene projects continue, construction havoc in Doha materials should be treated as inspectors DOHA: Trucks car- huge container from a essential consumer items, neces- DOHA: The Ministry of rying shipping con- moving truck fell onto sitating government monitoring of Municipality and Urban tainers are plying his vehicle on Corniche building materials. Planning yesterday opened a dangerously on Doha Road. In these summer months, the workshop for general hygiene streets. Yesterday, the con- only demand is for painting and inspectors at its headquarters. A huge container tainer-loaded truck décor materials — from individu- Some 25 inspectors from vari- from a moving truck was coming from the als and not for projects, leading to ous municipalities are taking part. fell down at Toyoto port. some increase in the prices of local The five-day session includes Intersection (Najma) The container products. Imported construction two theoretical and practical during the peak morn- shifted from the vehi- materials are also available aplenty programmes. ing hours yesterday. cle and fell onto the and prices are stable and fluctuate The first to introduce inspec- No one was hurt, but street as the driver on demand. “Nevertheless price tors to provisions of public traffic came to a grind- took a sharp turn at monitoring by the government hygiene law, its regulations, exec- ing halt for some time, the intersection. is needed,” suggests real estate utive decisions, types of general before traffic police It seems the driver expert, Rashid Al Dosri. hygiene violations, procedures came and cleared the had accelerated to gain Ahmed Jolo, Head, Qatari of referring violator to security road. speed to avoid the red Engineers’ Association, said in agencies and conciliation proce- This is the sec- light. The truck was remarks published by local Arabic dures with violators. The second ond such incident in reportedly bereft of daily Al Raya yesterday that if includes inspectors’ training on Doha in the past three any support to keep the prices of building materials usage of inspection models to con- months. the container intact, had not increased, they had also trol and confirm hygiene-related Traffic officials fork-lifting the container at the junction yesterday. On May 25, a motor- Al Sharq reports. not decreased due to consistent violations. The models include ist was killed after a THE PENINSULA demand fuelled by development notification, record of evidence projects. and reconciliation statements. Quran contest PHCC extends call winners honoured centre timings Consumer price inflation rose 1.6pc in July DOHA: Dr Khalid bin Ibrahim DOHA: The Primary Health DOHA: Consumer price infla- in CPI basket is 0.27 percent. So have the largest share in CPI bas- Items that became a little Al Sulaiti, Director-General, Care Corporation (PHCC) has tion rose 1.6 percent year-on- it may have hardly had an impact ket — 21.89 percent. cheaper were recreation and cul- Cultural Village Foundation extended working hours at the year in the country in July, on overall inflation. The category showed a price ture, health and miscellaneous (Katara) yesterday met winners telephone call centre from 7am to fuelled by rising costs of educa- Eating out and hotels became rise of 2.3 percent. Since gas goods and services. of the fourth edition of Quran 11pm from Sunday to Thursday. tion, eating out, transportation 3.7 percent costlier in the year, and utility costs remain almost Monthly inflation (compar- memorisation contest held in Earlier, working hours were and house rents. with the cost of transport going unchanged, the increase may have ing July 2015 prices with those Ramadan. The first three win- from 7am to 2pm and 4pm to Official figures show the cost of up by 3.2 percent. mainly come from house rents. in June) was at 0.6 percent, with ners were honoured. The first 8pm from Sunday to Thursday. education went up in double digits Restaurants and hotels as a sin- CPI data released by the much of the price rise coming winner received QR2,500, the (by 11.1 percent) in the year. gle head of a household’s expenses, Ministry of Development from recreation and culture, second QR2,000 and the third Ties reviewed Education has a weight of 5.75 have a share of 6.08 percent in Planning and Statistics show clothing and footwear and house QR1,500. Dr Al Sulaiti said such percent in Consumer Price Index CPI basket — more than the share items like clothing and footwear rents. Food became margin- contests aim to link children to MUSCAT: Omani Minister of (CPI) basket. of education. also became a little expensive ally cheaper month-on-month. the Holy Book of Allah through Tourism Ahmad bin Nasir bin It means that a household Transport, on the other hand, year-on-year, with costs rising However, Food and beverages as memorising, reciting its verses, Hamad Al Mahrazi yesterday spends 5.75 percent of its con- accounts for a larger percentage by 1.6 percent. a head of a family’s expenses have deliberating over its meaning and met outgoing Qatari Ambassador sumption (expenses) on education of CPI basket, at 14.59. World food prices have gener- less weight in CPI basket (12.58 applying its rules. He said these Oman Abdullah bin Mohamed Al of its children. Housing, water, electricity and ally been going down but in Qatar percent) than culture and recrea- contests have become an impor- Khater. Talks dealt with means Tobacco prices went up by 6.3 gas, which include house rent, as a they rose, albeit by 0.9 percent tion (12.68 percent). tant part of Ramadan activities. of developing relations. QNA percent in the year but its weight single head of a family’s expenses, year-on-year. THE PENINSULA THE PENINSULA/QNA Shira’aw Island, Fishermen’s Port cleaned up Ooredoo customers can trade in 2G/3G My-Fi device for 4G

DOHA: Ooredoo has intro- downloading and uploading in duced a new offer, enabling Qatar. With Ooredoo 4G My-Fi customers to trade in their device, customers can enjoy a old 2G/3G My-Fi devices for a high-speed surfing experience new 4G My-Fi device. for up to 10 devices. With the offer, customers The My-Fi device also offers who trade in their old My-Fi enhanced indoor and outdoor devices will receive a QR100 coverage, allowing custom- discount on the new superfast ers to connect to a stronger 4G device and one 3GB data 4G network signal. This is the card worth QR80. first time Ooredoo has encour- The new 4G My-Fi device aged customers to recycle their costs QR299 with the pro- mobile broadband devices. motion, and will work with The company continues to Ooredoo’s fast 4G and 4G+ net- boost environmental issues as work, offering speeds of up to part of its dedication to Qatar double the average 3G network. National Vision 2030. To enjoy The Beaches and Islands Section at the Ministry of Municipality & Urban Planning has cleaned up Shira’aw island of waste, unloaded containers and Ooredoo’s ‘SuperNet’ deliv- the offer, customers can visit replaced the old flag with a new one. It also cleaned up Fishermen’s Port by removing tyres and submerged objects and asked the owners of ships and ers incredible performance, selected Ooredoo shops or www. boats and fishermen not to throw waste into the sea so that the marine environment and the general view of the area are preserved. enabling customers to enjoy the ooredoo.qa/eShop. smoothest browsing, streaming, THE PENINSULA MONDAY 17 AUGUST 2015 HOME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 03

Hospital holds breastfeeding awareness drive DOHA: The Obstetrics and Gynaecology Department at Al Wakra Hospital organised an awareness campaign to mark World Breastfeeding Week. The campaign was held in col- laboration with Mother and Child Education Clinic, Nutrition Clinic and Pharmacy Department at the hospital and the Supreme Council of Health. It raised awareness about the importance of breastfeeding and how to ensure better health for future generations. “Breastfeeding can benefit the mother and the child. It also helps infants develop strong immunity against diseases. We aim to edu- cate the public about benefits of breastfeeding by organising lectures, distributing flyers and Sheikh Dr Khalid bin Thani Al Thani, Chairman, Vodafone Qatar, with Bader Al Darwish and Kyle Whitehill and offering advice to breastfeed- (RIGHT) Sheikh Mohamad bin Hamad Al Thani, Sheikh Abdulla bin Hamad Al Thani, Sheikh Hamad bin Faisal Al ing mothers,” said Fatima Naji, Thani, Sheikh Turki bin Khalid Al Thani and Sheikh Abdulla bin Khalid Al Thani at the event. Staff Nurse, Obstetrics and Gynaecology Clinic. Highlights of the week included educational workshops and lec- Vodafone ‘excelled in Qatari market’ tures in English and Arabic on the significance of breastfeeding Continued from page 1 Vodafone has further pushed the and retailers to be able to offer the and its impact on the mother and Kyle Whitehill, CEO, Vodafone envelope to offer bespoke services very best in lifestyle management the child’s health and difficulties Qatar, said: “Vodafone has excelled to its customers who will receive in London and beyond plus all serv- breastfeeding women could face. in the Qatari market with innova- special treatment for a truly ice requests for Vodafone’s London A medical team toured the hos- tive plans and value-added serv- exceptional London experience Edition clients will be managed by pital to conduct an e-survey on ices such as valet parking, airport while in the UK.” a dedicated account manager, no breastfeeding. lounge access and concierge Vodafone has partnered with matter where in the world the cli- THE PENINSULA services. With London Edition, world-leading service providers ent might be. THE PENINSULA

Hamad Port receives second commercial vessel Clinical Information DOHA: Hamad Port welcomed its second commercial vessel on schedule on August 13. System implemented The vessel brought the second shipment of cranes, including four Ship to Shore (STS) and at Cuban Hospital six Rubber Tyred Gantry (RTG) cranes. The arrival of third and final DOHA: Hamad Medical and PHCC. At the hospital, the shipment is expected by this year- Corporation (HMC) has system is being bedded in and end, taking the total of cranes at announced successful imple- staff are recording patients’ the port to right STS (100-metre mentation of new Clinical details on CIS as and when pre- high and weighing over 1,200 Information System (CIS) at sented at hospitals. As a result, tonnes) and 26 RTG cranes. The Cuban Hospital. appointments may take a little With the completion of marine The hospital has replaced paper longer than usual. infrastructure, installation of patient clinical records system Philip Lowen, CEO of the hos- container handling equipment with a the integrated electronic pital, said his team had put proc- (STSs and RTGs) will achieve one as part of a phased roll- out esses in place to ensure as smooth another milestone in construction across HMC and Primary Health a patient experience as possible the port in that the mega port Care Corporation (PHCC). and thanked patients for patience will be ready for operations on Once the roll-out is complete, during the transition period. certain types of vessels and ship- patient records will be stored and “I want to reassure the public ments before the end of the year. accessible electronically across that all patients are being seen This reflects efforts of the both organisations. The hospi- within a clinically appropriate project management team and all tal is the sixth HMC facility to time-frame during this time of stakeholders under the supervi- Officials with the shipment of cranes at Hamad Port. implement CIS, a comprehensive transition. Implementation of the sion of New Port Project Steering system-wide change designed in system will help us in our aim to Committee. deep and once fully completed, containers per year. which carried the first shipment collaboration with clinicians to provide the safest, most effective The port basin is 4km long, will increase the throughput Hamad Port welcomed the first of cranes for the port. ensure patients receive the safest and most compassionate care. 700-metre wide and 17-metre capacity to over of six million commercial vessel last month, THE PENINSULA and most effective clinical care. “It will ensure patient records The end result will be that are secure and up-to-date and patients will not need to explain reduce the need for paper in the their medical history more than clinical environment. CIS imple- once when they visit a public mentation is one of the key pro- healthcare provider because cli- grammes for the hospital and I nicians will have access to a sin- am grateful for patience and sup- Qatar University begins faculty orientation gle electronic health record for all port shown to us so far by our patients, at their fingertips. patients and to the team which DOHA: Qatar University’s over 190 new faculty on faculty- applicable rules and regulations university’s mission by providing This will include the patient’s has worked on implementation (QU) Human Resources (HR) related issues and other set- and administrative processes. employees with opportunities healthcare history, medication for dedication and commitment.” Department opened its fac- tling-in requirements such as It also featured a screening of a and services that contribute to list, clinical notes and other infor- The importance of an electronic ulty orientation event as part immigration, housing, banking, video produced by QU students to enhancing their introduction to mation. It will free up healthcare medical records system was set of its annual welcoming events residence permit, Talabati serv- welcome the new faculty. the organisation and their cul- professionals to focus more on out in National Health Strategy to new faculty to provide them ices, health insurance and other Welcoming the new faculty, tural and social adjustments in clinical support and will change for Qatar, launched in 2011. with information about QU, the administrative matters. The first QU Vice-President and Chief the country.” THE PENINSULA the way staff work across HMC QNA QU community and the wider day’s activities drew around 20 Financial Officer, Dr Humaid Al society. new arrivals who were provided Midfaa, said: “This important Themed ‘Marhaba’, the 10-day with presentations on the uni- event shows the HR Department’s event until August 27 will orient versity’s organisational structure, commitment to advance the

Beating the heat

P eople relax in the shade of a tree near the Corniche as temperatures rose yesterday. BAHER AMIN MONDAY 17 AUGUST 2015 04 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME Protocol, etiquette training held

Al Khor Community is a housing community of 12,500 Qatargas and RasGas employees and families. Qatar Charity signs deal Female staff from the Foreign and Interior ministries take part in the programme.

DOHA: A training course course which ends on Thursday, international norms concerning with Al Khor Community on protocol and etiquette as part of cooperation between behaviour, conversation, social was organised by Diplomatic the institute and the Department relations, VIP protocol, human DOHA: Qatar Charity (QC) Partnerships Centre said such School and on Earth Day, students Institute at the Ministry of of Human Resources. nature, personal components of has signed a memorandum of agreements help QC promote its organised a food donation drive. Foreign Affairs in collabora- The course aims to provide humanitarian skills, priorities in understanding with Al Khor values and raise solidarity with Some 30 boxes were donated to tion with the Human Resources participants with knowledge and dealing with VIPs, linguistic intel- Community (AKC) – the hous- causes in the community. QC and distributed at one of the Department at the Ministry of skills to enable them to use while ligence and diplomacy in dealing, ing community for 12,500 After the signing of the MoU, labour camps near Al Khor. Interior. dealing with VIPs and introduce the art of the silent language and Qatargas and Rasgas employees AKC presented donations from Abdoulnaser Alzaher Alyafei, Some 22 female employees of them to principles of the protocol. universal protocol. and families. the community to help Syrian ref- CEO, Local Development, praised both ministries took part in the It includes topics such as QNA The MoU is the start of a ben- ugees in their prolonged tragedy. the agreement and AKC for sup- eficial relationship between QC In response to the earthquake port to and solidarity with QC. and AKC and includes many in Nepal, AKC issued an urgent He said the deal is a model of activities, including hosting TAYF call to residents to raise funds how a community can contrib- containers and donation boxes at to support QC through donation ute, volunteer and give to support different locations in the complex, boxes and a “Bingo for a Cause” charity and good causes. making it easier for residents to charity evening. AKC also par- An AKC spokesman said they Qatar Airways to fly more donate clothes and other items. ticipated in ‘The Box Appeal’ to had signed the agreement in rec- QC will organise community show community solidarity with ognition of QC’s appeals and com- events, including for children labourers during World Labour munity development programmes, and awareness campaigns to help Day by giving them gift boxes of including educational, entertain- flights to Eritrea, Bangladesh promote social responsibility and hygiene items. ing and awareness campaigns. charity activities. QC Community It hosts Al Khor International THE PENINSULA DOHA: Qatar Airways (QA) is The Asmara expansion comes nine Business Class Airline Seat continuing its rapid growth across months after the Eritrean capital and Best Airline in the Africa and the Indian subconti- was introduced last December and Middle East. Customers Al Jaber Opticians names promotion winners nent with an increase in flight fre- demonstrates the growing demand flying Qatar Airways can quencies to Asmara, Eritrea, and for the route. also enjoy the new in- Dhaka, Bangladesh. Akbar Al Baker, Group Chief flight entertainment sys- On September 7, flights from Executive, QA, said: “QA is com- tem, Oryx One, with up to Doha to Asmara will be increased mitted to continually enhancing the 2,000 movies, TV shows from four to five times per week, a five-star experience we offer to our and entertainment options. 25 percent increase in capacity and customers and this further expansion Doha-Asmara sched- enhanced connectivity, in particular is in response to a growing demand ule: Mondays, Tuesdays, for customers from North America on these popular routes. Thursdays, Fridays and and Europe. “We are delighted to offer more Saturdays — QR1443 And on December 9, flights from opportunities for our customers departs from Doha at Doha to Dhaka will be increased with across the globe to connect through 21:30hrs and arrives from 10 to 14 weekly, raising capacity Doha’s Hamad International Airport in Asmara at 01:00hrs by 40 percent on the popular route. to Eritrea and Bangladesh, flying on (next day). Tuesdays, Operated with an Airbus 330-300 board one of the youngest fleets in Wednesdays, Fridays, offering 30 seats in Business and 275 the industry.” Saturdays and Sundays in Economy, additional flights will QA has seen rapid growth in 18 — QR1444 leaves Asmara allow more connection opportunities years of operation and flies a modern at 02:00hrs and arrives in for customers flying from the Middle fleet of 163 aircraft to 151 key busi- Doha at 05:20hrs. 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Prizes can be claimed from Al Jaber Opticians City Center Branch on presentation of valid ID. KAMMUTTY VP Commercial Bank backs new arrivals in Qatar DOHA: Commercial Bank has Qatar’ offer that reduces the stress and receive a complimen- ‘Life in Qatar’ continues announced new benefits for those of relocating. tary chauffeur pick-up to offer the most compre- relocating to Qatar. The offer is designed with cus- service from the airport, hensive range of benefits It is the leading bank in the coun- tomers in mind to help them set- exceptional mobile and available for salaried expa- try to provide specialised services tle in faster. 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Qatar’ customers availa- Dean Proctor, EGM, ble since August 2 include Chief Consumer & Private two free Uber taxi rides, Banking, said: “We are complimentary vouchers continuously looking to worth QR300 towards enhance and innovate our driving lessons and assist- services for our custom- ance in applying for a ers, including new arriv- Qatari driving licence with als with our ‘Life in Qatar’ priority registration and a offer. free driving guide book. “Consistently help- To help with the costs ing new arrivals settle in of settling into a new quickly and easily is a pri- country and for a lim- ority and we are providing ited time, ‘Life in Qatar’ the best service by launch- customers who take a ing new benefits and our Commercial Bank credit exceptional account open- card will receive bonus ing times. reward-points worth up “New arrivals will also to QR1,000. These can benefit from our cutting- be used across Qatar to edge digital services mak- buy essential items for ing it easy for them to new homes, cover hidden bank with us anywhere expenses or enjoy a night anytime,” he added. out. THE PENINSULA MONDAY 17 AUGUST 2015 HOME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 05 Two Qatari filmmakers begin training in Paris DOHA: Doha Film Institute fortify their skills. Through our contemporary French cinema (DFI) is supporting two Qatari partnership with the embassy through critical evaluations of filmmakers to attend the sec- and La Fémis, we are highlight- works by major French directors. ond annual edition of Gulf ing global collaborations that are The theory programme will Summer University, created by of great benefit to our filmmakers’ cover production craft, work of the French Ministry of Foreign development.” a producer, co-production, funds Affairs through its Gulf Film Marc Nicolas, Director- and festivals, cinema aesthetics, Office in association with General, La Fémis, said: “We are French cinema, screenwriting, French National Film School, pleased to welcome young aspir- film fundamentals, script conti- La Fémis. ing filmmakers from the GCC nuity, story breakdown, directing A special training programme countries in our school for five and casting. to nurture filmmaking skills of weeks. The participants will also direct GCC-based young directors, the “We hope the training will help a five-minute film based on an university is being held in Paris them develop skills, discover the existing script covering aspects until September 11. diversity of our French cinema such as rewriting, location scout- Founded in 2014, the university and contribute to establish- ing, shooting for one day and edit- is welcoming Qatari filmmakers ing professional basis in their ing in four days. for the first time this year. country.” Each trainee will be in charge DFI joined hands with the The university 2015 is organ- of directing, camera operating French embassy to identify the ised with support of GCC organi- and photography, sound record- two participants, further under- sations, including DFI, Cinescape ing and editing. For that purpose, lining the commitment of France (Kuwait), Total (UAE), Technal they will be taught fundamentals and Qatar to contribute to cul- Middle East, Dadahai, a private of cinematography, sound record- tural and cinematic development donor in Bahrain, and French ing and editing. in the region. embassies and Alliances Française La Fémis was created in 1986, Fatma Al Remaihi, Chief offices in the GCC. and has been chaired by inter- Executive Officer, DFI, said: Open to seven young national national award-winning director “The university is an exceptional filmmakers from the GCC, the Raoul Peck since 2010. opportunity for our young film- programme aims to develop their Supported by the French min- makers to learn from masters of filmmaking skills in a holistic istry, La Fémis trains 50 stu- cinema in the creatively invigor- way across multiple disciplines dents every year to be directors, One of the Qataris, Mohamed Al Mahmeed, takes part in the Gulf Summer University 2015 programme at La ating city of Paris. through classes led by profession- screenwriters, producers, editors, Fémis in Paris. “We are committed to extend- als from the French film industry. directors of photography, sound ing all possible support to nur- The five-week training consists and production designers, conti- by The Hollywood Reporter in film schools, organising common short programme for European ture our emerging filmmakers of classes five days a week, during nuity supervisors, film distribu- its recent rankings. La Fémis is curricula with partner schools, documentary filmmakers and and providing them with access which trainees will explore the tors and exhibitors. It is ranked as involved in setting up exchange creating special programmes for activities within the network of to knowledge and training to craft of filmmaking and discover the sixth best school in the world agreements with international foreign students, organising a film schools. THE PENINSULA Total employees take part in Barwa Bank official promoted to CCO DOHA: Barwa Bank has and Shareholder Relations promoted Talal Ahmad Al Department, demonstrating his Khaja (pictured) to Chief ability to weather business chal- ‘Step into Health Programme’ Communications officer. lenges and lead with proactive Al Khaja will oversee market- value-added initiatives. ing and communications and pub- Khalid Yousef Al Subeai, Acting lic and shareholder relations in CEO, Barwa Bank Group, said: line with the bank’s evolution and “Talal’s efforts have consistently development. Prior to joining the met and exceeded our shareholder bank in 2009, he worked across and investor expectations, build- private sector institutions and ing long-standing relationships organisations. with them and tackling obstacles Holding a Master’s in business and challenges with a solution- management, a bachelor’s degree oriented approach. As we look to from Qatar University, and pro- expand with a focused, progres- fessional certifications, he has sive Shariah-compliant offering, amassed over nine years’ experi- acquisitions of the group’s affiliate we focus on growing the role and ence in administration, market- companies and subscription man- depth of each of our verticals. ing, public relations and corporate agement in capital financing in Talal’s leadership and expertise governance. During his tenure at 2011. His efforts led to the estab- will help us realise this goal.” the bank, he has contributed to lishment of the group’s Investor THE PENINSULA Canon Middle East to educate Senegal kids

Officials with some of the participants at the honouring ceremony.

DOHA: Total launched the Winners were Joy Pereira, before, and it was interesting to ‘Step into Health Programme’ Pascal Delille and Madusoodanan see results as they progressed in as part of its healthy lifestyle Parambath based on Aspetar’s the final weeks and almost all initiative, in partnership with random choice system, and hon- were near the minimum 10,000 Aspetar. oured. Other participants were steps per day.” It engaged over 130 employ- also congratulated. Employees Abdulla Al Mohannadi, Senior ees to walk an average of 10,000 shared success stories on how the Health Promotion Officer, steps per day. A milestone of challenge has helped change their Aspetar, said: “Total has set a almost 100,000 collective steps habits and lives. good example for promoting a was reached by an average of 35 Mohamed Basser, HSE healthy workplace I believe will participants over one month. Manager, Total, said: “We have encourage other organisations Pedometers were distributed by made a commitment to move to do the same. Sitting daily for Aspetar allowing them to track towards healthy lifestyle and are a long time in the office leads to progress. Employees logged in trying to inspire our colleagues to chronic diseases, it is important their profiles created by Aspetar do the same in a fun way. to be active and maintain the to monitor daily food intake and “Due to employees expressing minimum number of walking benefit from nutrition-related lack of energy for full physical steps, if not increasing it.” features. The challenge was an exercises after work, we encour- The programme continues for extension of Total Cup, the annual aged them to make small changes participants feeling encouraged to Canon Middle East will educate underprivileged Senegalese children. The initiative is in partnership with Dubai sports competition for employees in the workplace, whether it be carry out more physical activity. Cares and buildOn where a school is being built in Soupe Serrere, with the aid of 13 Canon employees who and families for one month. using stairs instead of the eleva- An inter-company competition by visited the country from July 20 to 26. The project will be completed in 12 weeks. The initiative complements An award ceremony was held tor, or taking a longer route to the Aspetar resumes next month and Dubai Cares’ ‘Adopt-a-School’ programme supported by Canon ME last year by with over AED100,000 raised at the end of the challenge, also office printer. Total employees will compete. by its employees. attended by Aspetar officials. “They were more active than THE PENINSULA Quality Group International to open seventh retail outlet in Qatar DOHA: Quality Group A variety of products and features of the mall. International is opening its sev- brands will be available to cater to Promotions and discounts are enth retail outlet, Quality Mall, different tastes and preferences. planned as part of the inaugura- in Al Hilal, Doha. The ground floor has shops tion, especially in electronics, food Quality Group International and kiosks like pharmacy, opti- and non-food sections, for three Chairman Shamsudheen Olakara cals, flowers and chocolates, coffee more days. told a press conference that the shops, ATMs, automatic util- Olakara said: “We plan two inauguration will be held at ity payment machines, foreign more retail projects in Qatar — 4.30pm on Thursday, attended exchanges, and beauty parlours one in the last quarter of this year by members of the Ruling Family, for men, women and children, in in Al Rayyan and other next year senior officials and the business addition to a supermarket for food in Al Khor. community. and non-food items. “Quality Group International “We opened our first hypermar- Mobile phone, watch, fashion, has one full-fledged retail outlet ket in July 2010 and since then garment and readymade, foot- in Bangalore, India. The second have never changed our priorities. wear, home furniture and décor, project in the city will be opened We continue to see opportunities stationery and jewellery shops are next month. for expansion and development. part of a department store. “We also plan to open one mall “Now we are on the sixth retail The first floor is for electric, and one hypermarket in Kerala project in Doha to take advantage electronic, IT and technology and next year. The mall will be in Quality Group International (Quality) Chairman Shamsudheen Olakara addressing a press conference at the of the potential.” home appliances of leading global Tirur and the hypermarket in company’s seventh retail outlet in Salwa Road. With him are (from left) Rayees K, Media and PR Manager; Mins The mall at the heart of Doha brands. Malappuram.” Mathew, Finance Controller; Aboo Navas, General Manager; and Shahid, Executive Manager. SALIM MATRAMKOT will give a unique shopping expe- Spacious and convenient park- Aboo Navas, General Manager, rience to people. It has two floors ing is ready. Underground parking Quality Retails Division, Mins Controller, Shahid, Executive and Rayees K, Media & Public at the press conference. with a total area of 125,000sqft. and basement shops are special Mathew, Group Finance Manager, Quality Retail Division, Relations Manager, were present THE PENINSULA MONDAY 17 AUGUST 2015 06 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MIDDLE EAST

Arms seized in Pro-Hadi forces Kuwait came from Iran: Media

KUWAIT: A huge arms cache advance in seized in Kuwait last week was smuggled into the country from Iran, two Kuwaiti newspapers reported yesterday. third major city The Interior Ministry said on Thursday authorities had found ammunition, explosives, weapons and grenades in holes dug under 10 rebels killed in heavy fighting houses in an area near the Iraqi border. Three men who owned the ADEN: Pro-government forces Committees in Taez, said 10 rebels houses were detained. supported by Gulf air strikes and four loyalist fighters were Al Anba newspaper reported have made key gains against killed in the past 24 hours. at the time that the weapons had Shia rebels in Yemen’s third However, AFP could not con- been smuggled across the border city Taez, seen as a gateway firm the toll from independent from Iraq for use by members to the capital, military sources sources and the rebels rarely of an Iranian-backed Hezbollah said yesterday. acknowledge their losses. cell. The so-called Popular Loyalist forces have retaken But Al Rai and Al Qabas dailies, Resistance Committees, loyal the intelligence headquarters and citing unnamed sources, reported to exiled President Abdrabuh a fortress from which the rebels on Sunday that the weapons had Mansur Hadi, have seized sev- had been shelling Taez, as well as been brought into Kuwait by sea eral strategic locations in central the highest peak overlooking the from Iran. Taez, military officials said. city on Jabal Sabr, Sharaabi said. They quoted the sources as However, the Iran-backed Shia Saudi-led Gulf coalition war- saying that the new informa- Houthi rebels and their allies still planes, bombing rebel positions tion had come from confessions control entrances to Taez, includ- across Yemen since March, car- made by the detainees during ing its eastern gate to Sana’a, ried out several fresh air strikes interrogation. which has been under their con- in Taez early yesterday, witnesses Al Qabas said the number of trol since September, as well as said. People walk past a building damaged by recent fighting between Houthi militants and fighters of the Southern suspects held had risen to 13. other parts of the city, the sources The latest advance on Taez Resistance, in Yemen’s southern port city of Aden, yesterday. “The suspects have disclosed said. comes after loyalist forces made that there is a direct Iranian The officials reported heavy sweeping gains in south Yemen, to the government’s Sabanew.net reach it”. Military sources say The conflict has cost nearly line in supplying weapons to fighting around the presidential starting with their recapture of website. the coalition has provided Hadi’s 4,300 lives since March, half Kuwait by sea,” Al Rai said. The palace in Taez and the nearby main city Aden in mid-July. In a telephone call, Hadi reas- supporters with modern heavy of them civilians, according to Interior Ministry declined to central security forces’ camp — On Friday, loyalists retook sured the 35th Brigade’s com- equipment, including tanks and UN figures, while 80 percent of comment. held by the rebels. several facilities from rebels in mander in the city Thursday armoured personnel carriers, and Yemen’s 21 million people have Another newspaper, Al Jarida, Rashad Al Sharaabi, spokes- Taez, including police and civil that “Taez is on its way to being Yemeni soldiers trained in Saudi been left in need of aid and pro- said Iranian Revolutionary man of the Popular Resistance defence headquarters, according liberated and support will soon Arabia. tection. AFP Guards had trained members of the cell a year ago, along with citizens from Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, on the use of weapons and explosives, at an unnamed Red Sea island. It said the trainees had Libya calls for Arab air strikes on IS in Sirte travelled to the island through a port controlled by Yemeni TRIPOLI: Libya’s internation- governments — one based in the Houthis, an Iranian-linked ally recognised government east and the other in Tripoli — group which controls much of has called on Arab countries to Arab League to meet on confronting IS have encouraged fighting against northern Yemen. bomb Islamic State (IS) group the jihadist group. Authorities in Kuwait, a Western-allied Gulf targets in Sirte, after warnings Tripoli on Tuesday announced the oil exporter, has been on alert of a “massacre” in the coastal CAIRO: The Arab League will Arab countries to “adopt meas- the Arab bloc, which is head- launch of an operation to seize since a suicide bomber killed 27 city. hold an extraordinary meeting ures to confront” the jihadist IS quartered in Cairo, Jordan’s control of Sirte. people in an attack on a Shi’ite “We urge fellow Arab coun- tomorrow to discuss a Libyan group. Later that day, it issued ambassador to Egypt and Arab Libya’s ambassador to France, Muslim mosque in the capital, tries... to launch air strikes on request for Arab countries to a statement calling for Arab air League representative Bisher Chibani Abuhamoud, said on Kuwait City, on June 26. Daesh terrorist group positions,” take action against the Islamic strikes against the militants, but Khasawneh told reporters. Friday that fighting in Sirte had The interior minister said in the government based in the State group in Sirte, a diplo- it was not clear if it submitted The militants beheaded 12 left between 150 and 200 dead, June it was at war with hardline country’s east said in a statement mat said yesterday. a formal demand to the Arab local militiamen who had been and warned of a “massacre” in militants, who officials said were on its Facebook page on Saturday, The internationally recog- League and whether the bloc battling them in the east of the city. The ambassador, who trying to stoke sectarian strife using an Arabic acronym for IS. nised Libyan government based would discuss such action. the city and hung their bodies represents the internationally in a state where the two Muslim The government also renewed in the country’s east asked for Yesterday’s meeting will be on crosses, official news agency recognised government, said the sects have traditionally coexisted its call for the UN Security the meeting on Saturday urging held by permanent delegates to Lana reported. AFP clashes erupted after IS assassi- peacefully. Council to lift an arms embargo nated an imam from the influen- Ties between Iran and its Gulf that it says is hampering its mil- tial Al Farjan tribe at the start Arab neighbours are strained by itary’s battle against IS, which of Tripoli, raged from Tuesday telephone. “It’s calm. We don’t “They couldn’t get any real of the week. On Friday, the Dar suspicions that Tehran is trying seized control of Sirte in June. to Saturday, but yesterday was know what happened exactly, help from either government, so Al Iftaa Muslim organisation that to extend its influence into Arab Fighting for control of the city, reported to be calm. “There are but some of the armed youth who they had to stop fighting, or even issues religious decrees issued a countries including Syria, Iraq the hometown of slain dictator no battles today,” an official at fought IS left the areas of fighting withdraw from their city,” the statement calling on Libyans to and Yemen. Muammar Gaddafi 450km east the Sirte local council said by and the city. official said. Both of Libya’s rival mobilise against IS. AFP REUTERS

S Sudan leader heads to talks as Indian PM Modi visits labour camp in Abu Dhabi deadline looms ABU DHABI: Indian Prime diplomats raised the minimum Minister Narendra Modi vis- salaries they recommend because ADDIS ABABA: South ited a labour camp in Abu of higher living costs Sudanese President Salva Kiir Dhabi yesterday to highlight UAE officials, including the headed to peace talks aimed at New Delhi’s concern about the labour minister, have said that brokering an end to civil war welfare of its migrant workers labour legislation in the country yesterday, reversing an ear- helping to build glitzy skyscrap- is in line with the UAE constitu- lier decision as international ers, hotels and museums in the tion. Laws regulate the labour threats of possible sanctions oil-rich Gulf state. market, providing protection of mount. Modi’s two-day visit to the workers and their rights, they However, while Cabinet United Arab Emirates coin- said. Minister Elia Lomuro said that cides with international calls Several measures, including Kiir would join rebel leaders and to improve workers’ conditions mid-day breaks for workers in regional presidents at the talks in in Gulf countries, which rely on the country’s sweltering summer neighbouring Ethiopia, it would Asian labour for mega projects heat, better healthcare facilities not be possible to sign a full peace such as the World Expo 2020 in and accommodation have been deal until all opposition factions Dubai. provided across the UAE. But could join the agreement. Some 2.6 million Indians live rights groups think a lot more Kiir will “explain to his col- and work in the UAE, accord- needs to be done. leagues the challenges that are ing to Indian embassy figures. “Lack of proper regula- now confronting the signing The embassy estimates about 60 tion by the authorities in of the proposed signing of the percent of those are blue-collar both India and the UAE of compromise peace agreement,” workers. the booming migrant-worker Lomuro told reporters in the About 200 workers broke into recruitment industry, includ- South Sudanese capital Juba, applause when Modi arrived at ing visa brokers, has allowed before Kiir flew to Addis Ababa. an indoor basketball court at the rogue recruiting agents to South Sudan’s government and labour camp in the Industrial City cause serious human rights rebels are under intense diplo- of Abu Dhabi. Modi chatted with abuses with impunity,” Salil matic pressure to sign a deal by the workers, enquiring about the Shetty, secretary-general of August 17 to end a 20-month civil place and their welfare and jobs, Amnesty International, said. war in which tens of thousands of but made no comments to the “Some welcome improvements people have been killed. media. by the UAE over the last decade Kiir previously said he would Modi was due to attend a pub- have been put in serious doubt by send his deputy after complaining lic event in Dubai today with the crackdown on labour activists it was not possible to strike an some 40,000 Indian expatriates and failure to carry out meaning- effective deal because rebel forces expected to attend. ful reform of the kafala system, have split. “He wants to convey that the further increasing the vulnerabil- Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi (right) inspecting the guard of honour with the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi But on Sunday he decided to go safety, security and welfare con- ity of migrant workers to human himself after consultations with ditions for Indian workers should rights abuses.” Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan during a reception at the Presidential Airoprt in Abu Dhabi yesterday. Modi regional leaders, who have already not be ignored,” a senior Indian Modi had earlier toured the is on a two-day visit, the first by an Indian premier in more than three decades. arrived in Addis Ababa for the government official said in New Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in summit meeting on Monday. Delhi. Abu Dhabi, in what analysts said Mohammed bin Zayed Al in the world, to invest in India countries has always been towards On Sunday, Ugandan President The Indian government is was an attempt to put behind him Nahyan as well as Dubai Ruler as well as expand cooperation US and Europe, but the prime Yoweri Museveni, who has sent aware that the UAE will employ allegations he had done nothing Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashed in the energy sector. Abu Dhabi minister wants to highlight the troops into South Sudan to back thousands of Indian workers to to save Indian Muslims during al Maktoum, who is also the UAE accounts for 9 percent of India’s benefits of investing in India and Kiir, held talks with Ethiopian organise the World Expo 2020. 2002 riots in which hundreds prime minister. energy needs and India wants he wants to engage Abu Dhabi Prime Minister Hailemariam In November, India launched a were killed. He will also be seeking to to increase that, the official on long-term projects,” the offi- Desalegn and Sudanese President campaign for higher wages for its Modi will hold talks with Abu engage Abu Dhabi, one of the said. cial said. Omar Al Bashir. AFP workers in the Gulf states. Indian Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh richest sovereign wealth funds “The orientation of the Gulf REUTERS MONDAY 17 AUGUST 2015 MIDDLE EAST www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 07 Ex-PM Maliki blamed for Mosul fall to IS Report of parliamentary investigation will be sent to prosecutor general for legal action

BAGHDAD: An Iraqi parlia- minister from 2006 until last year, responsible, Juburi said in a Widespread discontent among announced that he had cleared the military judiciary for leaving mentary investigation found ex- was among those named, as did statement. Sunni Arabs, who say they were the way for the military pros- their positions without orders and premier Nouri Al Maliki and 35 another member who declined to IS launched a devastating marginalised and targeted by ecution of senior commanders contrary to instructions (and) others responsible for militants be identified. offensive on June 9 last year, Maliki’s government, played responsible for a more recent despite the issuance of a number overrunning second city Mosul, The inclusion of Maliki’s name overrunning Mosul the next day a major role in worsening the military disaster in Ramadi, a city of orders not to withdraw”, it said. in a report being sent for possi- was a source of controversy on and then sweeping through large security situation in Iraq, culmi- west of Baghdad. Abadi previously said that ble legal action, lawmakers said the committee, with his Dawa areas north and west of Baghdad. nating in the disastrous jihadist IS seized Ramadi in May, after forces in Ramadi “had to resist, yesterday. party pushing for it to be omitted. Multiple Iraqi divisions col- offensive. government forces had held out and if they had resisted, we would While various top command- The report detailing findings of lapsed during the initial assault in He also appointed commanders against militants there for more not have lost Ramadi”. ers and political leaders have the investigation, which has yet the north, in some cases abandon- based on personal loyalty rather than a year. And a senior British military long been viewed as responsible to be publicly released, has been ing weapons and other equipment than competence, and was com- Abadi approved “decisions officer, Brigadier Christopher for the Islamic State (IS) group’s presented to parliament speaker the jihadists then used to further mander-in-chief of the armed of the investigative commission Ghika, said the city “was lost disastrous takeover of the city, the Salim Al Juburi, who said it will their drive. forces during two years in which on the withdrawal of the Anbar because the Iraqi commander in report is the first time they have be sent to the prosecutor general Maliki is widely viewed as hav- the Iraqi military did not carry Operations Command and units Ramadi elected to withdraw”. been named officially. for legal action. ing exacerbated sectarian ten- out necessary training, leading to attached to it from the city of “In other words, if he had Investigative committee mem- “No one is above the law and sions between the country’s Shia a decline in skills. Ramadi”, his office said in a elected to stay, he would still be ber MP Abdulrahim Al Shammari the questioning of the people, and majority and the Sunni Arab Earlier yesterday, Prime statement. Those include “refer- there today,” Ghika said. said that Maliki, who was prime the judiciary will punish those” minority. Minister Haider Al Abadi’s office ring a number of the leaders to AFP

Iraq premier US to withdraw Patriot scraps 11 missiles from Turkey cabinet posts ISTANBUL: Turkey and The move comes as Turkey and BAGHDAD: Iraqi Prime United States said yesterday the US are preparing to jointly Minister Haider Al Abadi that Washington would with- launch coordinated cross-border scrapped 11 cabinet posts as draw its Patriot missile batter- operations against Islamic State part of a wide-ranging reform ies from the country in October (IS) targets in northern Syria. programme, his office said in a after bolstering Ankara’s air The US and Turkish officials statement yesterday. defences against threats from have said that the military from Abadi cut three deputy premier Syria’s civil war. the two sides is currently working positions and four ministries, and The NATO mandate for the to coordinate logistics and once it merged four more ministries with two-year mission will run out in is completed, full-scale operations others, the statement said. October and will not be renewed, against IS would start. He removed the human rights but the US is prepared to return Turkey turned to its NATO ministry, the ministry of state Patriot assets and personnel to allies for help over its troubled for women’s affairs, the ministry Turkey within one week if needed, frontier after shells landed on of state for provincial and par- a joint Turkish-US statement said. its border areas from Syria in liamentary affairs, and a third “They will be redeployed to October 2012, killing several vil- ministry of state. the US for critical modernisa- lagers. The United States, the And he merged the science and tion upgrades that will ensure the Netherlands and Germany have technology ministry with higher US missile defense force remains provided a total of six Patriots education, environment with capable of countering evolving batteries along the Turkish health, municipalities with recon- global threats and protecting border with Syria. Germany on struction and housing, and tour- Allies and partners, including Saturday also said it would with- A protester waves a flag bearing Turkey’s national emblem and a portrait of the founder of modern Turkey Mustafa ism and antiquities with culture. Turkey,” the statement said. draw its two missiles from Turkey Kemal Ataturk during a demonstration against the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in Ankara yesterday. Abadi rolled out a reform plan It also emphasised that early next year. on August 9 aimed at curbing Washington remains committed Originally used as an anti-air- missiles. NATO deployed Patriot Turkey is currently pressing a (PKK) militants in northern Iraq corruption, streamlining the gov- to “support Turkey’s air defense craft missile, Patriots today are missiles in Turkey during the 1991 two-pronged “anti-terror” offen- and southeast Turkey following a ernment and improving services capabilities, including against bal- used to defend airspace by detect- Gulf war and in 2003 during the sive against IS jihadists in Syria wave of attacks inside the coun- in response to weeks of protests listic missile risks and threats.” ing and destroying incoming Iraqi conflict. and Kurdistan Workers’ Party try. AFP and a call from the country’s top Shia cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali Al Sistani. One of the most dras- tic proposals was the elimination of the vice president and deputy Soldier, three Kurdish rebels killed in Turkey unrest premier posts. ISTANBUL: One Turkish sol- Armed Forces (TSK) said in a the southeast of Turkey fol- PKK since the crisis began on July Turkish President Recep Tayyip dier and three suspected mem- statement. Two soldiers were lowing a wave of attacks. But, 20 when a suicide bombing blamed Erdogan said the fight against Clashes over bers of the outlawed Kurdistan wounded and one of them later so far, Turkish air strikes have on IS left scores of pro-Kurdish terror would “continue until Workers’ Party (PKK) were died of his injuries in hospital, the overwhelmingly concentrated on activists dead in the town of Suruc. doomsday.” “Our police, our sol- killed in eastern Turkey in new army said, adding that the secu- the separatist Kurdish rebels, Since Friday alone, at least eight diers buried hundreds of terror- hunger-striking violence blamed on the Kurdish rity forces had shot dead three who have responded by tearing members of the Turkish security ists. But it’s not enough. This rebels, the army said yesterday. PKK members. up a 2013 ceasefire and waging forces have been killed in attacks struggle will continue. We shall Palestinian Fighting erupted in the early Ankara is currently wag- a bloody campaign against the blamed on PKK militants in the not succumb to complacency,” ASHKELON, ISRAEL: Arab hours of Sunday near Kagizman ing a two-pronged “anti-terror” security forces. country’s Kurdish-majority east he said at the service, which was supporters and Jewish detrac- town in eastern Kars province offensive against Islamic State More than 40 members of the and southeast regions. held in the Black Sea province of tors of a Palestinian held by during an operation to capture (IS) jihadists in Syria and PKK Turkish security forces have been Speaking at a funeral ceremony Trabzon and broadcast live on tel- Israel without trial clashed yes- Kurdish militants, the Turkish militants in northern Iraq and killed in violence linked to the for a slain police officer yesterday, evision. AFP terday with police near the hos- pital treating him after he lost consciousness during a hunger strike. Police said they arrested Worsening heatwave more than 10 Jews and Arabs, including Palestinians from east Jerusalem, for throwing stones at officers and disrupting public order in the southern city of Ashkelon where 31-year-old Mohammed Allan is being treated. Arabs and Palestinians had planned to stage a rally outside the Barzilai hospital, but Jewish rightwing activists confronted them, chanting racist slogans and saying they hoped Allan died. Clashes with police, includ- ing stone-throwing from both sides, erupted outside the hos- pital where Jewish protest- ers also broke the windows of a Palestinian television news vehicle. The clashes continued as officers began removing the Arabs to the city’s entrance to prevent further confrontations with the Jewish protesters. Police prevented additional busloads of demonstrators from entering Ashkelon. AFP Egyptian families enjoy the sea in Marsa Matruh, some 500km north of Cairo, yesterday. At least 92 people died in a week in the country’s worst heatwave in nearly four decades.

Tunisian woman killed by soldiers looking for armed group

TUNIS: A woman was killed and a army has since 2012 been chasing jihadists So they (the soldiers) fired,” he said, adding man wounded in western Tunisia late wanted for attacks that have killed several that the incident happened in a “zone closed on Saturday after soldiers opened fire dozens of soldiers and policemen. for military operations”. on their car fearing they were armed, a The car carrying the two young people It was not clear whether the driver’s defence ministry spokesman said. was “a little hidden” on the edge of a road actions had been deliberate or if he had pan- The army had earlier received informa- at the foot of the Sammama mountain, the icked and tried to get away, the spokesman tion about a car carrying an “armed group” spokesman said. said. “We will know from the investigation.” in the Kasserine region and had dispatched When the military convoy passed, “the According to a medical source at the soldiers to find it, the spokesman, Belhassen driver started the car” and drove it between Kasserine hospital, the young woman suf- Oueslati, said. the army’s first vehicle and the one following fered fatal wounds to the kidney, while the The Kasserine region is located at the it. “They could have been undesired armed young man was injured in the shoulder. foot of the Chaambi mountain, where the elements... a car crammed with explosives. AFP MONDAY 17 AUGUST 2015 08 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com

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RAZILIANS hadn’t expected their President Dilma Rousseff to disappoint them so badly, so fast. When she was reelected in October last year, defeating her Bopposition rival Aecio Neves with a narrow margin in an election that largely split the country between the African Americans would poor north and wealthier south, the expectations weren’t very high. Voters get disappointed fast if they expect too much. That Rousseff disappointed them so badly despite low expectations is proof of her abysmal performance. qualify for asylum in US The 66-year-old former leftist guerrilla who was jailed and tortured for fighting the 1964-1985 dictatorship had BY RAHA JORJANI ruled that an individual who had been and destroying 61 homes, an act for pledged to reconcile Brazil, reboot the economy and fight arrested, held for three days and then which not one city official was prose- corruption after the victory of her Workers’ Party (PT). But UPPOSE a client walked into falsely accused of a crime had been per- cuted. That more recently, the subprime the country is now witnessing mass protests demanding her my office and told me that secuted. In another case, it ruled that mortgage scandal — which for the most resignation for runaway corruption and looming recession in police officers in his country persecution included ethnic discrimina- part has also gone unpunished — dispro- Latin America’s biggest country. Crowds chanting ‘Dilma out’ had choked a man to death tion so severe that the petitioner was portionately victimized black communi- over a petty crime. Suppose unable to find a job in his chosen field. ties. Blacks and Latinos were more than and singing the national anthem paraded through the capital She said police fatally shot another man Does this sound familiar? twice as likely as whites to get those Brasilia, Rio de Janeiro, the country’s largest city Sao Paulo, in the back as he ran away. That they The United States claims to be a risky, high-cost loans. and across Brazil. Police estimate a turnout at 419,000 people arrested a woman during a traffic stop country that protects refugees, not I would cite the Justice Department’s in dozens of cities and towns, while organizers claimed a total and placed her in jail, where she died produces them; a country that chas- findings that in Ferguson, Mo., courts of 664,000. This is the third major anti-Rousseff protest this three days later. That a 12-year-old boy tises nations with poor human rights engaged in intentional racial discrimi- year, with 600,000 and at least one million demonstrators in his country was shot and killed by the records. But what of our own human nation while administering the law. I police as he played in the park. rights record, which shows how far we would point out that black men receive taking to the streets in April and March, respectively. Suppose he told me that all of those still have to go in eradicating racial prison sentences that are, on average, 20 The protests have come very early for Rousseff, which victims were from the same ethnic com- injustice and violence? percent longer than those of white men is also good for the country. The president has two options: munity — a community whose members To make an asylum case for black who committed the same crimes. That resign in response to the popular, fear being harmed, tortured or killed by persecution, I wouldn’t have to reach in some cities, police officers engage in swelling demand and give way police or prison guards. And that this back to 400 years of slavery, lynching, racial profiling and unconstitutional to an able leader to rescue the is true in cities and towns across his segregation and Jim Crow. I would focus, stops on a routine basis. I would raise nation. At that point, as an immigra- instead, on the current prolific system of the fact that since 2010, 22 states have Brazilian country from the current malaise, tion lawyer, I’d tell him he had a strong racist policing, mass incarceration and passed new voting restrictions that president or transform herself into a leader claim for asylum protection under US selective prosecution. disproportionately affect black voters. who can solve the problems and law. I might start by telling the story of While I probably wouldn’t need to, I’d must resign rise to the expectations of her What if, next, he told me he was from Albert Woodfox, an African American also throw in that in 2013, the median people. First, she will have to America? Black people in the United man who has spent more than 40 years wealth for white households was about States face such racial violence that in solitary confinement as a result of a $141,900, whereas for black households or transform launch a war against corruption, they could qualify as refugees. conviction that was recently overturned. it was about $11,000. herself into a which is not easy because those Over the past decade, I’ve repre- The United Nations has called for an This country is dangerous for black who are involved are mighty. sented and advised hundreds of nonci- “absolute prohibition” on solitary con- people. Black parents live with an ever- leader who can Prosecutors running the Petrobras tizens facing deportation. Many feared finement beyond a couple of weeks. Yet present fear that their children will deliver. corruption probe have brought persecution in their home countries prison officials keep Woodfox locked become victims of state violence and charges against a who’s who of and sought protection in the United away. While data on solitary confine- terror on the basis of race. States. To win them asylum status and ment is notoriously hard to come by, a Had they remained alive, Trayvon Brazilian movers and shakers, the right to stay, I showed that my cli- study from the University of Michigan Martin, Eric Garner, Malissa Williams, including the billionaire head of ents had a well-founded fear of future shows that the practice disproportion- Timothy Russell, John Crawford, Rekia the global construction company persecution by the government or by ately affects people of colour. Boyd, Michael Brown, Akai Gurley, Odebrecht and a navy admiral once tasked with overseeing groups that the government was unable African Americans make up just Walter Scott, Ezell Ford, Mya Hall, a secret nuclear programme. Rousseff’s Workers’ Party has or unwilling to control. 13 percent of the US population, but Dontre Hamilton, Tamir Rice, Tanisha been badly shaken by the scandal and she has been tainted According to US asylum law, that they accounted for 31 percent of people Anderson, Miriam Carey, Yvette Smith, persecution must be on account of killed by police in 2012. According to Samuel Dubose and so many others by association, even if not directly implicated. Her party’s race, religion, nationality, membership a ProPublica analysis, black teenagers would be able to demonstrate that they treasurer was among those arrested in April. Secondly, she in a particular social group or political were 21 times more likely than white had more than a well-founded fear of will have to implement a slew of measures to revive the opinion. In many cases, courts have said teens to be shot and killed by the police persecution at the hands of their gov- economy and reduce the suffering of people. that violence by police officers, unjust between 2010 and 2012. In the United ernment or individuals whom their Rousseff is unlikely to resign and Brazilians are expected imprisonment, rape, assault, beatings States, there are 1.6 million black men government was unable or unwilling to and confinement constitute persecution. in prison, on probation or on parole, control. to witness more of the same. She has stepped up her public Even nonphysical forms of harm, such double the number who were enslaved Black Americans should not have to appearances this month, defending herself and her plan to as the deliberate imposition of severe in 1850. flee this country to seek refuge. remain in office. She said she never considered resigning economic disadvantage, psychological I’d remind the court that in 1985, the (Raja Jorjani is an immigration and asked Brazilians to reject politics that create chaos for harm, or the deprivation of food, hous- Philadelphia police dropped an actual defense lawyer with the Office of the political gain. But more than Brazilians, it’s she who needs ing, employment or other essentials, bomb on the headquarters of MOVE, Alameda County Public Defender in advice• help make the case. In one instance, the a black political organization, killing 11 California.) US Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit black citizens, including five children, WASHINGTON POST The other side Quote of Between words and deeds the day S HE DID IN his first year as and development was held up as the election campaigner, and not Modi the the Prime Minister himself had fanned. Prime Minister, Narendra antidote. Without doubt, Modi made Prime Minister. Even as the ‘Make in India’ initiative is Modi has used the occasion all the correct noises in his address, Although Modi renewed the emphasis just beginning to gather steam, Modi has of his address to the nation following the template he set last year. on fighting corruption, starting from the introduced a new catchphrase: ‘Start-up Aon Independence Day to talk up his But if his speech is to generate the same top, the fact is that little progress has India, Stand up India’. True, unlike the government’s development agenda, level of hope, Modi might need to do been made in putting in place institu- previous government, the Modi govern- SPD would mount a offering hope to all and offending none. more than just say the right things from tionalised systems to prevent corruption. ment divides its attention among a fleet of challenge to Angela Last year he promised governance the ramparts of the Red Fort. Without The promise to bring back black money programmes without putting all its effort based on consensus without relying on following up on his words with deeds, stashed abroad remains unfulfilled. behind one or two flagship schemes. Merkel’s Christian his party’s majority in the Lok Sabha. without ensuring that his ministerial Modi’s dream of a Digital India, where Alongside the initiative to boost start- This time, despite the rancour of the colleagues and the entire government people are united by information tech- ups, Modi did not forget to mention the Democrats at the just-concluded monsoon session of machinery live up to his well-articulated nology, is not any closer to reality than it importance of raising farm productivity, next election despite Parliament, Modi adopted the same vision, Modi might find the magic of his was last year. Despite the strides made and providing electricity and irrigation tone, insisting that if the country’s oratory doing a disappearing act. Some in providing toilets in all schools, and the facilities to farmers. But the real chal- the conservatives’ unity is destroyed the dreams of the of his Ministers do not seem to have impressive start to the financial inclusion lenge for Modi is finding the resources people too would be. Casteism and any use for the political correctness scheme of Jan Dhan Yojana, the achieve- to give concrete shape to his words; and double-digit lead in Frank-Walter communalism were mentioned in the that he has practised since coming to ments of the last one year have failed to not finding new things to say on each the polls. Steinmeier same breath as ills facing the nation, power. They seem to take after Modi the meet the rising expectations — which Independence Day. THE HINDU German Foreign Minister MONDAY 17 AUGUST 2015 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 09 Baltimore loses its political lustre

On the other hand, Hogan’s priorities Baltimore has lost for Maryland seem tailor-made to con- tinue to penalise Baltimore. The governor is committed to the one-third of its restraining of state spending, from which the city has benefited disproportionately. population and It received a special package in 2013 to fund school construction, for instance, and the state paid to build the stadiums three-quarters of where the Ravens and Orioles play. (The Redskins picked up most of the cost of its manufacturing building FedEx Field in Landover.) Baltimore has received special treat- ment partly because most recent gov- base since 1950. ernors were former mayors (Martin O’Malley, William Donald Schaefer) Steel plants and or hailed from neighboring Baltimore County (Ehrlich). Hogan, who grew up in Prince George’s related industries County and lived as an adult in Anne Arundel, lacks such a connection to the shut down in a city. The Red Line decision illustrated how Hogan’s priorities leave Baltimore wanting. classic example Hogan said during his campaign that he thought the Red Line was not worth of postwar the price of nearly $3bn, of which the federal government was in line to pay $900m. He also said after his election that deindustrialisation. he planned to shift attention away from the Democratic-dominated Interstate 95 BY ROBERT MCCARTNEY corridor toward rural, predominantly Republican areas of the state that he said t’s too early to say for sure that have “felt completely left out.” Maryland Gov Larry Hogan is wag- True to his word, Hogan killed the ing a “war on Baltimore,” as crit- Red Line and diverted all of the state ics charge, but analysts say the city Democratic presidential candidate and former Maryland governor Martin O’Malley announcing his candidacy for the 2016 Democratic money elsewhere. Rahn said Monday he I presidential nomination in Baltimore, Maryland. has lost so much political and economic was telling the federal government that clout over the years that the first-term Maryland wouldn’t be using the $900m. Republican is free to spurn the city if he “Baltimore is a fading star compared to city leaders and state Transportation dismissed the notion that the governor Hogan “was elected on a different set of chooses. other communities,” said Anirban Basu, a Secretary Pete Rahn at which post-Red is picking on Baltimore as “absolute and priorities, and that does not include con- In addition, Hogan has strong politi- Baltimore-based economist and chairman Line options were discussed. utter nonsense.” Hogan actively cam- tinuing to increase the amount of spend- cal and budgetary motives to continue of the Maryland Economic Development Adding insult to injury, in Baltimore’s paigned in Baltimore, which is rare for ing that goes to the city,” said Richard to shift planned spending from heavily Commission. eyes, Hogan simultaneously gave tentative a Republican. Vatz, a professor of political rhetoric at Democratic Baltimore to other parts of “A lot of the state’s economic growth approval to a slimmed-down version of the Since the riots, Hogan’s administra- Towson University. the state. The approach pleases his con- has taken place outside the Baltimore Purple Line, a similar light-rail project in tion has provided modest but welcome The politics for Hogan are clear. He servative supporters in rural and outer region, and with economic power comes Montgomery and Prince George’s coun- financial assistance. Clark promised that won less than a quarter of Baltimore’s suburban areas, who have long grum- political power,” Basu said, adding that ties. The choice could be seen as final the governor would be discussing further votes, and analysts said he’s unlikely to bled that the city enjoyed favourable the city retains importance as the state’s confirmation that political power in the measures “in the next few months.” focus on seeking more support there. He treatment and was a wasteful drain of main urban hub. state has shifted from its historic centre Rawlings-Blake expressed hope that would have a better chance of cutting resources. Hogan and Baltimore leaders have in Baltimore to the more populous, more she could work productively with Hogan into the Democratic base in more affluent Hogan’s tense relations with Charm tangled over the response to the April prosperous Washington suburbs. despite the clashes. and independent-minded Montgomery, a City already have become one of the early unrest, school funding and his unilateral City Council President Bernard C “I believe there’s space for us to dif- factor that may have encouraged him to themes of his nearly seven-month ten- decision to close a city jail. “Jack” Young, a Democrat, spoke sadly fer on policy and still work together,” the spare the Purple Line. ure. He’s off to a more contentious start Above all, the city’s establishment about Baltimore’s shrinking influence at mayor said in an interview. “Some people One risk for Hogan is that targeting with Baltimore than the last Republican was aghast that he killed the Red Line, the Monday meeting in Hanover. can focus on the clout that we used to Baltimore could trigger a backlash among governor, Robert Ehrlich, who took office a 14-mile light-rail project that the city “People forget that Baltimore City was have. I’m focused on getting things done.” Democrats around the state who sympa- in 2003. called its top priority both to improve the economic engine of the whole state at Analysts agreed that each of Hogan’s thise with the city. If things don’t improve, the city’s strug- transportation and create jobs. Hogan one time, when we had [nearly] 1 million decisions on Baltimore, taken separately, “We’re being hit at a time when the gle with the governor could lead to years said it was too expensive but hasn’t people,” Young said. “If the city dies, so can be explained by factors separate from city is so totally vulnerable that it’s of bad feelings. It could add to strains offered a comparable replacement plan goes the state.” any supposed hostility toward the city. almost criminal the way the city is being on the city as it tries to recover from to enhance transit. Baltimore has lost one-third of its pop- For instance, Rawlings-Blake bore treated,” said Del Curtis S Anderson, a the rioting in April after the funeral for With the savings from axing the Red ulation and three-quarters of its manu- much of the blame for poor communica- Democrat and chair of the city’s delega- Freddie Gray, who died one week after Line, Hogan sharply increased funding facturing base since 1950. Steel plants and tion with the governor during the riots. tion in Maryland’s House. being arrested by Baltimore police and for road and bridge projects outside the related industries shut down in a classic Hogan didn’t give Baltimore schools all Still, evidence continues to accumu- suffering a severe spinal injury, and the city. His office issued a map of most of example of postwar deindustrialisation. the money they wanted because he pre- late that the state’s political attention has surge in homicides that followed. the state showing where the money was Electoral and economic power has dis- ferred to shore up the state pension fund gone elsewhere. For instance, no promi- It also would offer a bitter reminder going, with Baltimore left off. persed to growing suburbs — especially — and other school systems also received nent Baltimore Democrat is running of how the city’s standing has changed. “Putting politics aside, this is just around Washington, but also around less than anticipated. for the Senate seat about to be vacated Older Marylanders can remember when not the way to treat an entire region Baltimore itself. The city’s population There was broad support for clos- by a Baltimore icon, Democrat Barbara Baltimore had more votes and more of citizens and businesses and other has dropped to 623,000, and Baltimore ing the jail, although even some Hogan Mikulski. The two top Democratic candi- jobs than any other jurisdiction in the stakeholders who have spent 13 years now ranks fourth in the state behind supporters conceded that the governor dates are Rep Chris Van Hollen and Rep state and its leaders routinely moved on working on a project,” Baltimore Mayor Montgomery, Prince George’s and sub- should have shown the routine courtesy Donna Edwards — from Montgomery and to top political posts in Annapolis and Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, a Democrat, urban Baltimore County. of calling Rawlings-Blake ahead of time Prince George’s, respectively. Washington. said Monday at a testy meeting between Hogan spokesman Matthew Clark to inform her of the decision. WP-BLOOMBERG Amazon’s indigenous tribes need limited contact Arizona State University and Rob tribes, sertanistas would hence- Some of the tribes have begun to Walker from the University of forth document their presence Missouri, are now arguing more on the land, then protect it from emerge. The Mashco-Piro of Peru broadly for Amazonian countries incursions by outsiders. Despite to reconsider their “no contact” its flaws, the system has worked. policies, all loosely modelled on Not only does the policy recognise has turned up repeatedly along the approach pioneered by Brazil the inalienable right of the tribes in the 1980s. Better to initiate to their territorial and cultural river banks in the Madre de Dios this sort of controlled contact, integrity; it’s also placed 50,000 they wrote recently in the jour- square miles of virgin rainforest nal Science, than to wait for more — an area nearly the size of New region, begging for food from boat dangerous encounters at the York state — beyond the reach hands of drug traffickers, lumber- of environmentally destructive travellers. jacks, gold prospectors and others development. who represent the spearhead of A comprehensive solution BY SCOTT WALLACE an extraordinary “no contact” the global economy’s seemingly requires the mobilisation of politi- policy to protect the tribes, has inexorable advance into the far cal will. Policing the Amazon is a t may be difficult to believe in confirmed the existence of 27 reaches of the jungle. huge undertaking that requires this age of global connectiv- such groups, and there may be as The problem with this posi- a commensurate commitment of Iity and instant communica- many as 40 others. Peru comes tion is that it ignores the messy resources and trained person- tions, but dozens of indigenous in second with 14 or 15 isolated Indians from the Munduruku, Juruna, Kayapo, Xipaya, Kuruaya, Asurini, realities that often attend even nel. Erecting control posts at key tribes are still living in almost tribes. Ecuador, Bolivia, Colombia Parakana, and Arara tribes in Tapajos and Teles Pires river basins face the most high-minded missions choke points along rivers leading complete isolation from the rest and Venezuela each have a small a riot police officer as they invade the main construction site of the Belo to make contact. For most of into lands of the isolated tribes of the world in the depths of the number. Nearly all such groups the 20th century, Brazil trained can provide cheap but effective Monte hydroelectric dam site in protest against the dam’s construction, in Amazon rainforest. are believed to be the descendants and dispatched teams of contact protection. Vitoria do Xingu, Brazil. While these so-called “uncon- of survivors of massacres, epidem- agents to carry out just such Unfortunately, budgets for even tacted tribes” have experienced ics and slaving raids from centu- machetes, even the occasional to contagion by Western-borne assignments. The results were these measures are often sacri- violent encounters with the out- ries past, who scattered into the rifle, which they do not know how diseases — such as flu, measles nearly always catastrophic. Even ficed on the altar of political expe- side world, they have managed deepest redoubts of the Amazon to use. Speculation abounds as to and tuberculosis — as the first when the contact teams included diency. We should encourage the to maintain a way of life that and continue to shun contact with why the groups are seeking con- natives encountered by Columbus well-provisioned health workers, countries that host isolated tribes is almost entirely independent the outside world. tact now. Are the wildlife and fish more than five centuries ago. massive die-offs ensued. The to secure a future free of coercion from our industrial economy. But in recent months some of they depend on for survival disap- The mounting tensions in casualties invariably included and displacement for these most Everything they need to sur- the tribes have begun to emerge. pearing, as oil exploration crews Madre de Dios have prompted the much of the tribes’ collective vulnerable human beings. And we vive and multiply — food, shelter, One group in particular, the and illegal loggers venture deeper Peruvian government to dispatch knowledge base, built up over would do well to monitor more water, clothing, medicine — comes Mashco-Piro of Peru, has turned into the forest? Have the Mashco- a team of experts to initiate “con- millennia. Nearly every one of closely the origins of the products from the forest, as long as it up repeatedly along river banks Piro simply developed a taste trolled contact” with the Mashco- those deliberate first contacts we consume, lest we unwittingly remains intact and unspoiled. in the Madre de Dios region, for goods they’ve acquired from Piro. Officials say the move is opened a Pandora’s box of death hasten the demise of a living, irre- The tribes are, in effect, the final begging for food from boat trav- theft or ill-advised attempts by necessary to avoid a larger calam- and dislocation. It was precisely placeable treasure. holdouts from the global village. ellers. Their brazen appearances settlers and missionaries to lure ity, and they may be right in this for these reasons that Brazil’s Wallace is author of “The Brazil hosts the largest number with bows and arrows have sown them from the jungle? Whatever instance; the Mashco-Piro are cadre of contact agents, called Unconquered: In Search of the of uncontacted tribes of any coun- panic in some remote settlements, the reason, the incidents are rife clearly seeking interaction with sertanistas, pushed for a radi- Amazon’s Last Uncontacted try in the world. Its Department and they have ransacked others with danger — especially for the outsiders. But a pair of respected cal change in policy. Rather Tribes.” of Isolated Indians, which enforces — making off with pans, clothing, tribes, who remain as vulnerable anthropologists, Kim Hill of than forcing contact on isolated WP-BLOOMBERG MONDAY 17 AUGUST 2015 10 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com EUROPE / AMERICAS

Labour cannot Merkel ally win power as a party of protest: vows to unseat Ex-PM Brown LONDON: Britain’s opposition Labour Party must choose a leader who can make it electable her in 2017 poll and not just a party of protest, former Labour Prime Minister Gordon Brown said yesterday, after a poll found voters believe SPD to field own candidate the current frontrunner would worsen its chances of winning BERLIN: German Foreign “doing an excellent job”, Albig an election. Minister Frank-Walter said, to the disbelief of many of Labour, which in May suffered Steinmeier said yesterday his his party colleagues. its worst election defeat since beleaguered Social Democrats SPD leader Sigmar Gabriel, 1987, is the process of voting for (SPD) would field a candidate who serves as Merkel’s deputy a new leader. Opinion polls sug- to unseat Chancellor Angela chancellor and economy minister, gest left-winger Jeremy Corbyn Merkel in 2017 amid an inter- said this month that he thought is leading the race ahead of the nal debate whether the party Merkel could be beaten in 2017 result due on Sept. 12. should simply capitulate to the and that he was open to a party Many supporters of Corbyn, popular leader. referendum to pick the chal- who wants to return the party to Steinmeier, who lost dismally in lenger. After a decade in power, its socialist roots, have said that a 2009 campaign against Merkel, Merkel is credited with steer- by moving towards the politi- said the SPD would mount a chal- ing Germany unscathed through cal centre ground under three- lenge to her Christian Democrats years of economic crisis in Europe Protesters march at Paulista Avenue in Sao Paulo against Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff and the ruling time election winner Tony Blair, at the next election despite the and occupying the centre ground Workers Party yesterday. Labour sacrificed its principles conservatives’ double-digit lead in in German politics, making main- in pursuit of power. Although he the polls. “The SPD will enter the stream opposition exceedingly avoided mentioning Corbyn by race with its own candidate,” he difficult. Brazil street protests demand name, Brown made a veiled warn- told the Bild am Sonntag newspa- Bild am Sonntag cited a poll ing to the more than 600,000 party per. “A party with a 150-year-old showing that the SPD could only members and supporters eligible history will not just give up before count on support from 24 percent to vote in the leadership contest the campaign has even begun.” of voters versus 43 percent for impeachment of Rousseff that Labour would be unelectable The SPD has ruled as junior Merkel’s conservatives. if it chooses the veteran politician. partner in a left-right “grand coa- The opposition Greens would BRASÍLIA: Tens of thousands along Copacabana Beach. Less than a year into her sec- “It is not an abandonment of lition” with Merkel since 2013 and tally 11 percent and the far-left of prot e s t ers a cro s s Bra z i l c a l le d Another protest was due to ond term, Rousseff is on the ropes principles to seek power,” Brown, during her first term from 2005 to Linke 10 percent, according to the for President Dilma Rousseff to start in the country’s financial as the world’s seventh-largest who was finance minister for a 2009. Merkel has not said whether survey conducted by independent step down yesterday, blaming capital Sao Paulo, with more economy slides into recession. decade before serving as prime she would stand for a fourth term opinion research firm Forsa. her for the corruption and eco- gatherings staged in some 200 Austerity measures have minister from 2007-2010, said in at the next poll, expected in two Meanwhile, Merkel yesterday nomic troubles besetting Latin towns and cities, according to replaced the economic go-go a speech in London. years’ time, but she and her party defended her government’s hard America’s biggest country. organisers. Crowds were boister- years fueled by Chinese demand “The best way of realising our enjoy strong support thanks line in negotiations with Greece The rolling demonstrations ous but peaceful, many people for commodities, while an ever- high ideals is to show that we are largely to Germany’s robust eco- on a new rescue package, saying kicked off in the capital Brasilia, wearing the national yellow foot- expanding bribes and embezzle- an alternative in government that nomic health. it had spurred Athens to commit where organizers said 45,000 peo- ball shirts, waving the Brazilian ment probe centered on state is credible, is radical and is electa- An SPD state leader, Torsten to necessary reforms. Merkel ple attended, while police put the flag and chanting: “Dilma out!” oil company Petrobras is ripping ble ... Protest will not be enough.” Albig, stunned the German politi- told ZDF public television that number at 25,000. “We want things to change and through the country’s elite. REUTERS cal scene last month when he sug- the package approved last week Next came the 2016 Olympic if the people don’t go in the street In April, at least 600,000 people gested that his party might be by the Greek parliament and host city Rio de Janeiro, where that’s impossible,” said retired turned out against Rousseff and better off campaigning to remain eurozone finance ministers for a an Olympic bicycling test event engineer Elino Alves de Moraes, her leftist Workers’ Party (PT) Merkel’s junior partner rather third bailout would help Greece had to be rerouted as large crowds 77, in Brasilia, calling for Rousseff and more than a million in March. Copenhagen than to replace her. Merkel is “get back on its feet”. AFP took over the seafront avenue and her “gang” to be “put in jail.” AFP mosque attack suspect held

STOCKHOLM: Danish police said yesterday they had arrested Hillary hits back at Republican rival Jeb Bush on Iraq a man on suspicion of torching a mosque in Copenhagen earlier WASHINGTON: Democratic George W Bush. With the war in Iraq that set the end of 2011 as even suggested it might be nec- In addition to being a point of in the day. presidential hopeful Hillary dragging into a protracted, costly the date to withdraw American essary to send more troops back contention between Republicans “At 11:31 am (0931 GMT), the Clinton returned fire at her and unpopular conflict, she later troops.” to Iraq. and Democrats, the conflict may police were informed that a man Republican rival Jeb Bush’s called her decision a mistake. On Tuesday, Jeb Bush blamed “Right now, we have around have also cost Clinton the 2008 had started a fire by throwing a claim that a “premature” US “I find it somewhat curious Clinton for allowing the brutal 3,500 soldiers and Marines in Democratic nomination to anti- flammable liquid ... at the Muslim pullout from Iraq fueled the rise that Jeb Bush is doubling down emergence of IS by withdrawing Iraq, and more may well be war candidate Barack Obama. centre,” a police statement said. of the Islamic State group. on defending his brother’s actions troops from Iraq too fast. needed.” IS frequently targets Shias, The fire, which caused only Clinton served as secretary in Iraq,” Clinton said on the cam- “That premature withdrawal His remarks dredged up a bit- whom it considers heretics, fan- superficial damage to the outside of state under President Barack paign trail in Iowa. was the fatal error, creating the ter debate that has long bubbled ning the flames of sectarian ten- of the building, was quickly con- Obama during the rise of the self- “If he’s going to do that, he void that (Islamic State) moved in Washington and that has tar- sions in Iraq, and often strikes tained, police said. proclaimed Islamic State (IS). needs to present the entire pic- in to fill,” he told a crowd in nished his brother’s legacy. crowded areas such as markets The suspect, who was born in In 2002, while serving as a US ture,” she argued. California. “Rushing away from A wildly successful invasion of and cafes. IS overran large parts 1980, will appear in court today. senator from New York, Clinton “And the entire picture as you danger can be every bit as unwise Baghdad was followed by a ham- of Iraq in June 2014 and also holds The religious association whose voted in favor of authorizing the know, includes the agreement as rushing into danger, and the fisted occupation that fueled bru- significant territory in neighbour- members worship at the mosque, invasion of Iraq ordered by Bush’s that George W. Bush made with costs have been grievous.” tal sectarian violence and left the ing Syria. denounced the fire as “an act of brother and then-president the Nouri Al Maliki government Taking a political risk, Bush central government debilitated. AFP terrorism” on its website. AFP Send refugees home after wars end: Swiss politician

GENEVA: A leading Swiss poli- tician said people fleeing conflict should only receive tempo- Body of Syrian boy, 16, found rary protection in Switzerland, calling for a rethinking of the at base of Greek island cliff country’s approach to asylum seekers in an interview pub- KOS, GREECE: The body of a 16-year-old Syrian boy smug- lished yesterday. “People dis- gled from Turkey has been found at the foot of a cliff on the placed by war should still be Greek island of Kos, a Red Cross official said yesterday. taken in but only with the aim “His boat landed in a dangerous area of Kos,” by a cliff, the of sending them back later when official said. “He was travelling with a group, but because he was the situation in their coun- overweight and exhausted, he couldn’t make the climb and was try of origin allows it,” Philipp left behind.” Mueller, leader of the influential It is unclear how long the boy was dead for, but he was only centre-right FDP party, told the reported missing when his brother came from Sweden to find him Schweiz am Sonntag paper. and alerted the UN refugee agency. “People attempting to enter “We launched a search and rescue operation and found his body for economic reasons must be on the beach yesterday (Saturday),” the Red Cross official said. rejected,” Mueller added. “The brother is a recognised refugee in Sweden, and their mother Noting “chaos” on the Greek is still back in Syria. She was obviously devastated when she learned island of Kos, where thousands the news,” UNHCR spokeswoman Stella Nanou said. of migrants mainly from Syria “This is a tragedy that highlights the need for better family and Iraq have turned up in recent reunification processes. This boy was a minor. Had there been weeks, Mueller said Switzerland proper family reunification processes in place, this would not have needed to refocus on the issue of happened,” she said. Greek media also reported the tragedy. migrants. He said too many people Some 7,000 men, women and children — mostly fleeing war in have been granted permanent refu- Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan — were stuck on the eastern Aegean gee status in Switzerland in recent island earlier this week, leading to chaotic scenes with police try- years and not nearly enough have ing to process them. been ordered to return home. He Migrants wait on the platform next to a full train heading to the Serbian border, at Gevgelija station in the former But since then around 3,000 have been allowed to travel on to specifically cited Sri Lanka, where Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, yesterday. Athens after the immigration service sent reinforcements to the a 25-year civil war ended in 2009. island, Kos mayor Giorgos Kiritsis said. “Asylum-seekers are still not He said some 4,000 migrants remained on the holiday island, being sent back there although Toll in migrant tragedy rises to 49 although police put the number at 2,500. the country has become a tour- Meanwhile, German Navy yesterday rescued off the Libyan coast ism destination for Swiss people. ROME: The number of Italian navy patrol boat was sent authorities in the Sicilian port of 103 illegal migrants travelling in a boat into Europe. That is absurd,” Mueller said. The migrants asphyxiated in the to the sinking vessel’s aid as it Catania. A spokesman for the operations command of the Bundeswehr UN Committee against Torture hold of an overcrowded fishing made the journey across the Some 312 survivors — including (German military) said in a statement, German sailors rescued a voiced concern that the federation boat off the Italian coast has Mediterranean to Europe. 45 women and three children — boat clandestinely ferrying 103 people off the Libyan coast follow- “is not sufficiently considering” climbed to 49, Italian media At first around 40 people were were pulled off the boat and were ing a distress call. The passengers, including 97 men four women circumstances in the country of reported yesterday. thought to have died, but the to arrive in Catania on Monday and two children, did not suffer any injuries. origin before sending migrants Authorities made the grim number has been revised upwards aboard the Norwegian vessel AGENCIES home. AFP discovery on Saturday when an to 49, according to reports citing Siem Pilot. AFP MONDAY 17 AUGUST 2015 ASIA / AFRICA www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 11

Southern Africa nations meet on food crisis Cyanide fuelled China blasts JOHANNESBURG: Leaders Hundreds of tonnes of cyanide were stored at the warehouse devastated by blasts of 15 southern African countries will gather for an annual sum- TIANJIN: Hundreds of tonnes Communist Party number two mit today as the region grapples of highly poisonous cyanide were within a kilometre (mile) of the with serious food shortages. being stored at the warehouse blast site, dressed in an ordinary A toxic mix of erratic rains, devastated by two giant explo- white shirt and not wearing a abnormally high temperatures sions in the Chinese port city of mask. and floods have wreaked havoc Tianjin which killed 112, a sen- Last Saturday cyanide den- on farming. ior military officer said yester- sity in waste water had been 10.9 Malawi, Zimbabwe, Namibia day. The comments by Shi Luze, times standard on the day follow- and Botswana are among the chief of the general staff of the ing the explosions. It has since worst-hit. Beijing military region, were fallen, but was still more than An estimated 27.4 million peo- the first official confirmation twice the normal limit. ple out of the region’s combined of the presence of the chemical Environmental campaign group population of 292 million will be at the hazardous goods storage Greenpeace said yesterday it had dependent on food handouts by facility at the centre of the mas- tested surface water for cyanide year end. Yields of the staple corn sive blasts. at four locations in the city and have shrunk by up to 90 percent The disaster has raised fears had not detected high levels of the in some countries of the 15-nation of toxic contamination. Residents chemical. Southern African Development and victims’ families hit out at “These results show that local Community (SADC), the group authorities for what they said water supplies are not currently said in a June report. was an information blackout, as severely contaminated with cya- “Given the hazards faced, the China suspended or shut down nide,” it said. number of food insecure people dozens of websites for spreading Last Saturday a three-kilo- ... increased by 13 percent (to) “rumours”. Soldiers of the People’s Liberation Army’s anti-chemical warfare corps, with gas masks, examine a container at metre radius from the site of the 27.4 million this year compared Nearly 100 people remain miss- the site of last Wednesday night’s explosions at Binhai new district in Tianjin yesterday. blasts was evacuated. to 24.3 million for last year,” said ing, including 85 firefighters, Steve Ra, an American who the report. though officials cautioned that with fresh explosions on Saturday. hundreds of tonnes according to -- exposure to which can be “rap- was evacuated by his employer to Zimbabwe, with a shortfall of some of them could be among State prosecutors said yester- preliminary estimates,” he said. idly fatal”, according to the US another area of Tianjin said, “The 49 percent, will need to import the 88 corpses so far unidenti- day they have started an investi- A military team of 217 chemical Centers for Disease Control -- to main concern is just the air. But I 700,000 tonnes of the staple corn fied. More than 700 people have gation to see if dereliction of duty and nuclear experts was deployed help handle it, and the neutralis- don’t know what I’ll be breathing to feed 1.5 million people. been hospitalised as a result last played a role in the disaster. Shi, early on, and earlier Chinese ing agent hydrogen peroxide has so that’s the biggest concern.” The country’s Vice President Wednesday’s blasts -- which trig- who is a general, said that cyanide reports said 700 tonnes of sodium been used. Tianjin residents, relatives of Emmerson Mnangagwa has gered a huge fireball and a blaze had been identified at two loca- cyanide were at the site. Premier Li Keqiang arrived in the victims and online commenta- already appealed for cash. that emergency workers have tions in the blast zone. Officials have called in experts the city last Sunday to direct res- tors slammed local authorities for AFP struggled to put out since then, “The volume was about several from producers of the material cue efforts. Pictures showed the a lack of transparency. AFP

Support for Abe surges after Japan joins US-Philippine Sri Lanka deploys WWII apology drills amid China sea row 63,000 cops for polls TOKYO: Support for Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe COLOMBO: Sri Lanka election monitors said there had has bounced in the first poll SUBIC BAY, Philippines: were becoming a regular com- and Defence Secretary Voltaire deployed thousands of police been fewer incidents of violence conducted after he expressed Japan has joined US-led mari- ponent of military exercises in Gazmin in Manila, where he yesterday in stepped up security compared to previous elections “utmost grief” for the suffer- time humanitarian exercises the Philippines. expressed interest in hold- on the eve of a general election over the past two decades. Former ing Japan caused during World off the Philippines for the “You are seeing in exercises ing joint amphibious landing after the campaign was hit by strongman Mahinda Rajapakse War Two in a speech marking first time, as concerns mount ... a shift from strictly bilat- exercises and operations with sporadic violence that claimed is seeking a comeback as prime the 70th anniversary of Japan’s among the three allies about eral engagement to multilat- Philippine marines. four lives. Police Inspector minister at the election after defeat. China’s growing assertiveness eral, which is why you see the In a meeting with Gazmin, General N K Illangakoon said his loss at the presidential poll Abe said on Friday he upheld in the disputed South China Japanese here today,” Williams Kawano also expressed interest 63,000 officers were fanning in January to one-time protege past official apologies for the war, Sea. told journalists aboard USNS in sharing information in the out across the country to guard Maithripala Sirisena. but the conservative leader said A Japanese navy replenish- Mercy, one of two US hospital South China Sea and capacity polling booths and counting Many observers were stunned future generations should not ment ship was in Subic Bay, a ships. building, particularly in human- centres for today’s election, by Sirisena’s victory over have to keep apologising for the former US naval base, to refuel China claims most of the South itarian assistance and disaster while paramilitary commandos Rajapakse, who had been in mistakes of the past. a US Navy floating hospital en China Sea, through which $5 tril- relief. were on alert in case of trouble. power for nearly a decade and In the survey by Kyodo news route to Vietnam for the seven- lion in ship-borne trade passes Williams said humanitarian “We have taken additional oversaw the crushing of the Tamil agency published on Saturday, nation humanitarian mission. every year. The Philippines, assistance and disaster relief measures to ensure that the elec- Tiger separatist rebels in 2009. support for Abe’s government It was the first time a Japanese Vietnam, Malaysia, Taiwan and operations were “a great avenue tion is conducted peacefully and Although Rajapakse is reviled rose to 43.2 percent from 37.7 per- navy ship has taken part in the Brunei also have overlapping towards increasing maritime sta- there are no incidents in the post- by large sectors of the minor- cent in the previous poll in July, a humanitarian assistance and dis- claims. Japan and China also bility and security in this region”, election period too,” Illangakoon ity Tamil community, he retains result likely to reinforce the view aster relief drills from Subic Bay. have conflicting claims in the part of Washington’s rebalance to said in a statement. widespread support among ethnic that he is set to win re-election as Japan has participated in past East China Sea. Asia policy. Two party workers were killed Sinhalese voters and his rallies Liberal Democratic Party leader Pacific Partnership missions in Williams said the presence China hit back on Monday and a dozen others wounded have drawn big crowds. in a September party election. other areas. of Admiral Katsutoshi Kawano, at US criticism that it restricts when unknown gunmen opened Sirisena vowed to veto any The disapproval rating fell 5.2 A flotilla of Japanese train- head of Japan’s Self-Defence navigation and overflights in the fire at a ruling United National attempt by Rajapakse to become percentage points to 46.4 percent, ing vessels, including a subma- Forces, “speaks volumes about South China Sea. US Secretary Party (UNP) rally in the capi- premier if their United People’s although it still surpassed the rine, makes annual port calls in their commitment to the of State John Kerry also said tal Colombo two weeks ago. Freedom Alliance (UPFA) wins support rate. Manila. region and their commitment China’s construction of facilities Illangakoon said several arrests today’s poll. Sirisena is the official The survey showed 44.2 percent Rear Admiral Charles to being part of a multilateral on man-made islands for “mili- have been made. Another two leader of the UPFA. of those polled viewed Abe’s 70th Williams, commander of US engagement”. tary purposes” was raising ten- people were killed in two sepa- Some 15 million people are eli- anniversary statement favourably, Seventh Fleet’s Task Force 73, Kawano met early this week sion and risked “militarisation” rate shooting incidents elsewhere gible to vote when polls open at exceeding 37 percent who didn’t. said humanitarian assistance with his Philippine counterpart, by other claimant states. during the month-long campaign. 7am and results are expected by AFP and disaster relief exercises General Hernando Iriberri, AFP Despite the deaths, private tomorrow. AFP

Infant Jesus procession Suicide bomber kills three in Nigeria MAIDUGURI: A suicide entrance of the Ramirgo market. of Maiduguri, the capital of Borno bomber detonated an explosive Ishiaku Dawa, a resident who state and the epicenter of the device strapped on her body helped take victims to the hos- insurgency. near a market in the northeast- pital, said the blast damaged two Military spokesman Sani ern Nigerian State of Borno, patrol vehicles and that four bod- Kukasheka Usman confirmed the killing at least three people, ies were sent to the hospital. blast in a statement and said the police and civilian vigilante “Three persons including the suicide bomber had been on the sources said last Saturday. No suicide bomber died on the spot. way to attack the market. one claimed responsibility for Corpses and injured victims Usman said the bomber was the attack that bore the hall- evacuated to General hospital,” accosted by a civilian vigilante, marks of Islamist militant Borno State Police Commissioner but the bomb went off during group Boko Haram, which has Aderemi Opadokun, who visited interrogation, killing the sus- conducted a six-year insur- the scene, said in a text message. pect. The vigilante was injured gency to carve out a caliphate in Opadokun said the attack and rushed to the hospital. Nigeria’s northeast. occurred last Saturday morn- Separately, the air force said A source said four people were ing in Ramirgo Village and vic- last Saturday it had conducted air killed and seven injured when the tims were taken to the general strikes on Sambisa forest, one of explosive went off at a checkpoint, hospital in Askira/Uba town in Boko Haram’s strongholds. targeting the vigilantes at the Borno state about 250 km south REUTERS Senator may get jail term for FB post PHNOM PENH: A Cambodian treason by posting a “doctored” documents, incitement and caus- opposition senator could be version of an old treaty about ing unrest.” “He faces up to 10 jailed for 17 years after a court the border on his Facebook page. years in jail for the first charge, charged him yesterday over the The legal move follows an uptick up to five for the second and up to posting of a disputed document in the campaign by the king- two for the third,” defence lawyer on social media about the border dom’s main opposition Cambodia Sam Sokong said. with Vietnam. Anti-Vietnamese National Rescue Party (CNRP) to The neighbour countries share sentiment is strong in parts of combat alleged encroachment by a testy relationship since the Cambodia and is often used by Vietnam. Hong Sok Hour belongs Vietnam troop invasion to oust the opposition as a touchstone to a CNRP-affliated party active Cambodia’s genocidal Khmer issue to rally support. in the Cambodian Senate. Rouge regime in 1979. Strongman Senator Hong Sok Hour was In a rare holiday court sitting Prime Minister Hun Sen, who has Filipino devotees celebrate next to a statue of Santo Nino (Baby Jesus) during a fluvial parade in Makati city, arrested last Saturday days after in Phnom Penh the senator was ruled Cambodia for three decades, south of Manila, yesterday. Catholic devotees joined 450th Santo Nino de Cebu pilgrimage. Historically, the Cambodian Prime Minister Hun charged with “falsifying pub- is sensitive to criticism that he is image of Santo Nino is said to be the oldest religious relic in the Philippines. Sen accused him of committing lic documents, using fake public soft on Vietnam. AFP MONDAY 17 AUGUST 2015 12 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com PAKISTAN / AFGHANISTAN

Night flights Minister killed in suicide attack at Peshawar airport to start Punjab Home Minister Khanzada, nine others killed at meeting venue PESHAWAR: Bacha Khan International Airport (BKIA) SHADI KHAN: A suicide in Pakistan’s Peshawar is set to bomber yesterday killed a resume night operations, Civil Pakistani provincial minister Aviation Authority officials said and at least nine other people at yesterday. a building where the minister Private carriers had been was holding a meeting, officials pressing the CAA to allow them said. to fly to Peshawar during the “Punjab Home Minister Shuja night, a practice suspended due Khanzada has embraced mar- to security concerns. tyrdom,” chief rescue official “Permission for night flights is Mohammad Ashfaq said. to be granted,” said an official. Saeed Illahi, adviser to the He added the matter was pur- province’s chief minister, con- sued by local airlines. “Permission firmed Khanzada’s death. entirely depends upon secu- He had been trapped with sev- rity clearance,” the official said. eral others under the rubble after “Moreover, the national carrier the blast brought down the roof of will not begin night operations the building in the village of Shadi even if private airlines decide to Khan in Attock district. Nobody do so. immediately claimed responsibil- CAA Spokesperson Parvez ity for the attack, but Khanzada George said, “This decision taken had been active in crackdowns on keeping passengers from rural sectarian militants and Taliban areas in mind.” insurgents in Punjab. On October 10, 2014, the CAA Saeed said there were up to 40 decided to temporarily suspend people in the compound when a flight operations at night, in view suicide bomber blew himself up, of the deteriorating law and order causing the entire roof slab to fall in the provincial capital. in one piece, complicating rescue Shuja Khanzada, Home Minster of Security arrangements on pas- efforts. the central province of Punjab, who Rescue workers use a crane to lift sections of a collapsed roof after a blast near the home of the home minister senger planes are a concern since An interior ministry helicop- was killed. of Punjab province, Shuja Khanzada, in Attock, Pakistan, yesterday. gunmen opened fire at a PIA aer- ter had reached the site to take oplane on June 24, 2014 while it the wounded to hospital while authorities have cracked down December. Laskhar-e-Jhangvi militants, was landing at BKIA. another helicopter with a civil- and cut sections of the fallen roof hard on the myriad insurgent Last month the leader of an including senior commanders, in The gun attack resulted in the ian rescue team was on its way, to reach the victims. groups that have plagued the anti-Shiite group behind some Punjab. death of a passenger while two Saeed added. A police spokeswoman said two country for a decade. of Pakistan’s worst sectarian LeJ was recently accused of others, including a crew member, A specially-trained team of police officers were among those The offensive intensified after atrocities was killed in a shoot- developing links with the Islamic were injured. All international army rescuers with modern killed in the attack 70km north- Taliban gunmen slaughtered more out with police, along with 13 State group and has a reputation airlines suspended their services equipment was working with west of Islamabad. than 130 children at a school in other militants. Malik Ishaq as one of Pakistan’s most ruthless at the airport. civilian rescuers and trying to lift In the past year Pakistani the northwest of the country in was shot dead along with fellow militant groups. AFP INTERNEWS Imran Khan avoids Parliament Land-clerk mafia holding back ISLAMABAD: For more than the PTI for its policies that it chairman said he would start a year, Pakistan Tehreek-e- pursued during its sit-in, Imran participating in the assembly sit- Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan and his other colleagues tings only after the judicial com- computerisation project Khan has attended the House always find an aggressive atmos- mission will conclude and release proceedings hardly twice, thus phere on the floor where they its findings. This happened when RAWALPINDI: The powerful 50 per cent work is still left in of only 22 villages has been com- figuring among the MPs who are forced to show tremendous the commission rejected his ‘Patwari’ (land clerk) mafia is seven tehsils of the district. pleted. In Kahuta, out 160 villages, have extremely low attendance restraint and control while they entire poll rigging allegations, trying to foil computerisation Assistant Director Land land record of only 87 villages has record. feel free to say whatever they like but he prefers to be away from bid by Punjab Chief Minister Record Board of Revenue been computerised. Even when he was a lone elsewhere. the House. Shahbaz Sharif, by not provid- (Punjab) showed strong concerns An official of the Revenue PTI MP in the 2002 NA, he For months, Imran Khan However, the PTI attended the ing land records of more than saying that only 50 per cent land Department said the delay was did not have any good record insisted that the PTI will partake joint parliamentary session when 50 per cent ‘Mozas’ (areas) record was computerized. due to resistance by the ‘patwaris’ of being present in its proceed- in the parliamentary proceedings a resolution was passed highlight- to authorities, even after five Tasleem Ali Khan said, “I (revenue officers), lack of relevant ings and making any valuable only after a judicial commission ing Pakistan’s stand on the Yemen years, Assistant Director Land am trying to collect data from staff and non-existence of record contributions. will be formed to inquire into his crisis, refusing to send troops Record Board of Revenue ‘Patwaris’ but some of revenue from early 1950s, among other Senior PTI leader Naeemul Haq charges of rigging in the 2013 gen- and aircraft to Kingdom of Saudi (Punjab) Muhammad Saleem officials are not providing me data reasons. has stated that Imran will not eral elections. Arabia (KSA) in connection with Awan said last Sunday. yet. We will collect land record The official, who is closely mon- participate in the parliamentary He lived up to his commitment the Yemen crisis. The computerisation system data from Patwaris and the proc- itoring the project, said initially proceedings till the decision of the and spearheaded his party to the Even when the amendments is functioning smoothly in cit- ess of computerisation will be ‘patwaris’ opposed the project and election tribunal on his petition in House after the forum was con- in the Constitution and the ies of Punjab province includ- completed soon.” tried to create hurdles. which he has challenged his defeat stituted. However, before going Pakistan Army Act were unani- ing Hafizabad, Faisalabad, According to fresh data, out of a Sources said that Murree and and victory of Sardar Ayaz Sadiq inside, the PTI chief repeated mously approved by the National Gujranwala, Lahore, Wazirabad, total of 1229 villages in seven teh- Kallar Syedan were ahead as far in NA-122 Lahore in the 2013 outside the parliament building Assembly to pave the way for Sialkot, Gakhar but in Rawalpindi, sils of the district e.g. Rawalpindi, as computerisation of land records parliamentary polls. that the assembly was fake and trial of the civilian terrorists by only 50 per cent land record were Murree, Kotli Sattian, Kallar is concerned, where 60 percent of The PTI lawmakers led by their the result of the rigged elections. the military courts, the PTI did computerised over the last five Syedan, Kahuta, Gujar Khan and land records were computerised. senior comrade Shah Mehmood This provoked Defence not attend the National Assembly years, he said. Taxila, land record of only 627 vil- In Murree, out of 115 villages, Qureshi are continuously taking Minister Khawaja M Asif to although it supported these The Revenue Department fail- lages has been completed and 602 land record of 70 villages were part in the National Assembly subject PTI lawmakers to severe changes. ure to complete computerisation are still left. completed. In Kallar Syedan, of sessions although they are yet to tirades. Not only during the sit-in but forces people to run after ‘pat- Out of 352 villages in 106 villages, land record of 63 vil- make their presence felt. Qureshi However, the PTI legisla- even when the judicial commission waris’ and computerisation staff Rawalpindi, the land record of lages were completed. has been in charge of them even tors are still showing up in the was holding hearings and when it for their property records. only 159 has been completed. In Incidentally, around 11000 rev- when the PTI was faced with a National Assembly but Imran released its findings, the PTI con- The deadline of the project, Gujar Khan, out of 384 villages, enue department officials some very hostile environment on the Khan has never surfaced there sistently claimed that it and not started in 2009 was June 30, 2014, record of only 180 villages has months back resigned to protest floor. after that encounter, which had the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) but revised to August 31, 2014. been completed. against computerisation of land Since the entire National taken them by surprise. was the real opposition. Even after the expiry of the sec- Similarly, in Kotli Sattian, out record in the province including Assembly is bitterly opposed to At another point, the PTI INTERNEWS ond, third and fourth deadlines, of total of 58 villages, land record Rawalpindi. INTERNEWS

Short-term doctor Army drones kill 40 militants Ex-ISI chief Hamid in NW Pakistan Gul passes away ISLAMABAD: Air strikes yesterday killed 40 suspected ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Ahmad Shah Massoud, a national militants in northwest Pakistan former spymaster Hamid Gul, hero. During this period, Gul near the Afghan border as part who trained Afghan resistance maintained contacts with both of a major operation against the fighters against the Soviets and sides in an unofficial role as medi- Taliban and other insurgents, helped create the Taliban, has ator.Gul remained in the limelight the military said. died at the age of 79. after leaving the military and was The attacks took place in Gul headed Pakistan’s Inter- popular among hardline Islamist the Shawal area of the North Services Intelligence (ISI) agency groups for his strong views about Waziristan tribal region, where between 1987-89 during the final Pakistan’s arch-rival India and the army has been waging an years of the Soviet occupation of the United States. India viewed offensive against militant hide- neighbouring Afghanistan. him with deep suspicion for his outs since June last year. But in retirement he was still alleged links to Kashmiri mili- “In precise aerial strikes, 40 seen as reflecting the mindset tants fighting New Delhi’s rule. terrorists were killed this after- of Pakistan’s powerful military Washington worked with him noon in Shawal,” the military establishment and intelligence during the 1980s but later lobbied said in a statement. It said it had agency. for his inclusion on a UN list of reports that several others were Gul died last Saturday at the international terrorists. wounded, without giving details. Combined Military Hospital in Gul also recalled his last visit to The conflict zone is remote and the scenic hill resort of Murree Afghanistan in August 2001, when off-limits to journalists, making north of Islamabad after suffer- he was chief guest at the final it difficult to verify the army’s ing a brain haemorrhage, relatives parade organised by the Taliban claims -- including the number said. government. and identity of those killed. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif The administration was toppled Pakistan has been battling a sent condolences to his family. by a US-led invasion after fail- homegrown Islamist insurgency Following the Soviet withdrawal ing to hand over Al-Qaeda chief for over a decade. from Afghanistan in 1989, the Osama bin Laden following the The military says more than country slid into anarchy. Taliban 9/11 attacks. He was frequently 2,800 militants have been killed fighters trained in Pakistan grad- quoted by both local and interna- since the launch of the latest An Afghan shepherd injects his sheep in Kabul, Afghanistan, yesterday. ually prised control from the tional media on issues related to offensive. AFP Northern Alliance of commander Afghanistan and India. AFP MONDAY 17 AUGUST 2015 INDIA www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 13 Delhi summons Pakistan envoy Modi’s low-key I-Day speech disappoints Govt protests systematic targeting of civilians on border NEW DELHI: After Prime of Modi’s inner circle said Modi Minister Narendra Modi’s was upset about failing to further NEW DELHI: India sum- Kashmir has been divided reforms agenda got blocked in his reforms agenda and decided to moned Pakistan’s envoy in between the two countries since parliament, people in his camp “keep his head down” and focus New Delhi yesterday to pro- the end of British rule but is were hoping the famed orator on improving test against civilian deaths in claimed in full by both. The neig- will use a key Independence performance. Politicians and recent troop firings along their bours have fought two wars over Day speech to renew confidence analysts expected Modi to launch disputed border, hiking ten- control of the Muslim-majority in his leadership. They were a more forceful defence. He has sions ahead of talks between the territory. disappointed. kept silent for months, even as nuclear-armed rivals. Firing resumed along their Modi’s 90-minute-long speech, the opposition Congress party has Six civilians died on the week- frontier yesterday in India’s made from the ramparts of New stepped up its attacks and scan- end in troubled Indian Kashmir Poonch sector, 320 kilometres Delhi’s Red Fort last Saturday, dals have touched members of his after firing and shelling by (200 miles) south of the region’s focused on measures his “Team cabinet. Pakistani troops from across the main city of Srinagar, said Indian India” had rolled out to include A rousing speech would have border, according to Indian police. defence ministry spokesman millions of poor Indians in the also helped his party in a tough Another two civilians were Manish Mehta. banking and insurance systems, election in a few weeks in the killed in shelling by Indian sol- Three civilians including a policies for workers and farmers impoverished state of Bihar, diers into the Pakistani side of woman had died overnight last and successes in the fights against where the opposition is seeking the disputed Himalayan region, Saturday in hospitals from inju- inflation and corruption. to paint Modi as a pro-business- according to a Pakistani official ries sustained in firing, said But it lacked the kind of energy politician whose policies hurt the last Saturday. Danesh Rana, inspector-general and vision that helped propel him poor. “We lodged a protest, and con- of police for the region. to office. “Modi’s speech was not exciting veyed our anger, at the unpro- Three others were killed late He even relied on notes, some- by his own standards,” said Sanjay voked firing by Pakistani troops Saturday when a mortar bomb thing he had never needed to do Kumar, director for the Centre for since August 8” including “the fired from the Pakistani side hit before. the Study of Developing Societies. systematic targeting of our civil- their car in the Balakote area of “We expected him to hit back “It lacked coherence and his ian populations”, an Indian for- the sector, Indian officials have at the opposition and blame the trademark confidence.” Last year, eign ministry statement said said. opposition for the slower-than- when Modi delivered his first after the meeting. Pakistan High Pakistan High Commissioner to India Abdul Basit gestures while leaving “The number of dead civil- expected reform pace, but he Independence Day speech, he was Commissioner Abdul Basit sought the Ministry of External Affairs office in New Delhi, yesterday. ians is now six,” Rana said. The failed to do so,” said a minister in brimming with enthusiasm, impa- to blame Indian troops for the weekend incidents came even Modi’s government. tient to launch reforms to boost uptick in firing incidents in recent as the two countries celebrated Nalin Kohli, spokesman for growth and resolve many social months. “There have been close 2003 ceasefire agreement along in the Indian capital from August Independence Day last Saturday. Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party and economic problems. to 70 ceasefire violations from this their de facto border known as 23 in what Pakistan last week Several rebel groups have for (BJP), said the prime minister For the bulk of his speech this side of the LoC (Line of Control) the Line of Control (LoC) that described as “ice breaking” talks. decades battled Indian forces used the speech to report his gov- year, Modi read out statistics to and working boundary,” Basit divides Kashmir. Firing and shell- After months of stalemate and deployed on the Indian side, ernment’s progress. highlight the challenges he faced said outside the foreign ministry ing between troops has occurred recriminations, Prime Minister seeking either independence or “It is the duty of the govern- and rattle out achievements of 15 office in Delhi where he had been on an almost daily basis for the Narendra Modi and his Pakistani a merger of the territory with ment to inform its citizens and months in office, such as opening hauled up. past week along the LoC. counterpart Nawaz Sharif spoke Pakistan. The conflict has left the prime minister did the right new bank accounts for the poor India and Pakistan often Top security officials of the two for nearly an hour while visiting tens of thousands, mostly civil- thing by sharing updates,” Kohli and building toilets. accuse each other of violating a countries are scheduled to meet Russia in July. ians, dead. AFP said. A bureaucrat who is a part AFP

Odisha monsoon Drug dealer turns to session will be stormy affair writing in Kerala jail BHUBANESWAR: The mon- KOZHIKODE: Prisons may drugs. She claims that she was soon session of Odisha assem- not be providing the ideal set- carrying the drugs packet with- bly beginning on August 18 is ting for the making of a poet- out knowing the contents inside likely to be a stormy affair as cum-writer, but a middle-aged and just to earn some money to the opposition Congress and woman lodged in a Kerala get her ailing sister, who suffered BJP are all set to corner the prison on charges of drug ped- burn injuries, treated. Naveen Patnaik government dling is penning her thoughts to Hailing from Kerala’s hilly over Brahma Paribartan mess good use. district of Wayanad, Lissy had to and deteriorating law and order The story of Lissy, 40, includ- drop out of school despite being situation in the state. ing the tragedies of her life and a bright student after her father The opposition parties have her new love for writing, is com- died in 1988. Her marriage to a decided to raise the issue of ing out in the form of a book in friend also ended in tragedy when mismanagement during the Malayalam called — “Kuttavaliyil her husband died and she was Nabakalebara festival of Lord ninnu Ezhuthukariyileykku” forced to return to Wayanad. Jagannath and his siblings and (From Convict to Writer). “Around two years back, while I police highhandedness during a Lissy has, so far, written 14 was doing a feature on ‘Changing protest where people demanded poems and eight stories. All of face of Prisons’ for a vernacular the arrest of self-proclaimed god- these will be featured in the book. magazine, I had a chance meet- man Sarathi Baba in Kendrapada Written by journalist- ing with Lissy which sparked the in the first week of August. turned PR professional Subin idea of writing a book on her,” Leader of the opposition, Mananthavady, the book is the Mananthavady said. Narasingh Mishra, said the law life story and travails of Lissy who We are hopeful that the jail Ten-year-old Razia Kousar is carried into a medical centre in Rajouri, north of Jammu, yesterday. and order had completely dete- is now lodged in Kerala’s Kannur authorities will allow for the book riorated in the state in recent prison, undergoing a 25-year term release to be done in the jail,” months and the police have for being a drugs carrier. Mananthavady said, adding that resorted to brutality, be it the Lissy’s “new journey” in life the entire royalty of his book, to Kendrapada or the Keonjhar started in 2011 when she was be released next month, will go to Cross-border firing kills two, issues. arrested by the police in Kochi Lissy. IANS for carrying a packet containing IANS death toll rises to seven BJP to give 80 seats to allies in Bihar JAMMU: Two civilians were 120mm and 82mm mortars and civilians — all Muslim residents killed and at least a dozen oth- automatics in Poonch and Rajouri of border villages — have been ers injured yesterday in shelling districts”. killed and over 30 others injured PATNA: The BJP may not give to part with more seats, the Paswan met the BJP president by the Pakistan army in Poonch “Two civilians were killed in in Pakistani shelling along the away more than 70 to 80 assem- allies may not have their way, the last Friday in New Delhi for an and Rajouri districts of Jammu Pakistan shelling yesterday in LoC. bly seats to its allies in Bihar sources said. hour to discuss seat-sharing. region, taking the civilian toll in Poonch while around a dozen oth- Deputy Chief Minister Nirmal though the latter are pitch- On the other side, the Rashtriya According to sources in the the last two days to seven. ers have been injured in Poonch Singh on yesterday visited ing their demands high, party Janata Dal and the ruling Janata LJP, the party wants to put up Heavy exchange of shelling and Rajouri districts,” he said. Government Medical College and sources said yesterday. Dal-United have decided to con- candidates in 54 seats. Earlier, the and firing continued between the The spokesman said MI-17 hel- Hospital in Jammu city and spoke A powerful lobby in the test 100 seats each, leaving 40 LJP staked claim to 75 seats. Indian and Pakistan armies for icopters were pressed into service to the injured and the attend- Bharatiya Janata Party feels that to the Congress and three to The RLSP of union minister the whole day yesterday in at least to evacuate the injured to Jammu ing doctors. Nirmal Singh also it may not be good to surrender the Nationalist Congress Party Upendra Kushwaha wants to four places — Mandi, Balakote, city for specialised treatment announced `5,000 for each injured more than 70 or 80 seats to its (NCP). contest not less than 40 seats and Bhimber Gali and Saujiyam sec- while others were treated in the person. allies including the LJP, RLSP But BJP’s allies, the Lok the HAM of former chief minis- tors — along the Line of Control district hospitals in Rajouri and Meanwhile, anxiety has gripped and HAM. arlier this year, BJP Janshakti Party (LJP), the ter Jitan Ram Manjhi is eyeing (LoC) in Poonch and Rajouri Poonch. villagers living close to the LoC in president Amit Shah announced Rashtriya Lok Samata Party not less than 30 seats. In a bid districts. “We are responding effectively. Poonch and Rajouri districts, who his party wanted to win 185 of (RLSP) and the Hindustan to widen its social support base Defence spokesman Manish There is a lull in the firing by the have been showing visiting jour- the 243 assembly seats on its own Awami Morcha (HAM) are in caste-ridden Bihar politics, Mehta said in Jammu yester- Pakistan army in Bhimber Gali nalists gaping holes made in their strength. putting pressure on the BJP. the BJP is determined to make day evening that “Pakistan army sector of Poonch since 5pm,” homes by shells fired by Pakistan Although some BJP leaders LJP chief and union minister as many new friends as possible. has been resorting to unpro- Mehta said. army. are more flexible and are ready Ram Vilas Paswan’s son Chirag IANS voked shelling on the LoC using In the last two days, seven IANS

Ammonium nitrate seized in Kolkata raid Freedom fighter will kill

KOLKATA: In a major haul, ammonium nitrate, four sacks of if today’s incident has any links Intelligence Bureau and claimed the CID yesterday seized a brown material smelling like gun with the explosives seized in that some terrorist organisation self for Agra liquor ban huge amount of bomb-making powder and some cans of alumin- Raghunathganj. We cannot say along with a political party were chemicals from a warehouse in ium paste,” CID Deputy Inspector for what purpose the explosive conspiring to destabilise the state. AGRA: Chimman Lal Jain, a selling liquor, which he said had Kolkata, police said. General Dilip Kumar Adak said. and raw materials were stored The state government subse- 96-year-old freedom fighter, destroyed numerous families. The The seizure was made by The seizure was made from a but we are not ruling out a ter- quently sounded an alert at rail- yesterday threatened to end his protestors carried placards with the Criminal Investigation warehouse of Jai Durga Transport ror link,” the officer said. way stations, airports, important life by jumping into the Yamuna slogans like “Desh Bachao, Sharab Department (CID), which is Company in Strand Road area. Following the recovery in public places, vital installations river, if liquor sale was not Hatao, Bahu Beti Bachao, Sharab already probing the seizure of The CID last Friday had arrested Raghunathganj on August 9, Chief and public buildings across the banned in Agra by October 2, bikri band karo” (Save nation, nearly 100 kg of explosive mate- the warehouse manager Pankaj Minister Mamata Banerjee had state and the city. Mahatma Gandhi’s birthday. stop liquor sale). rial from Raghunathganj area of Godhai. ordered the CID to take over the Police last Saturday arrested Leading a group of protestors — Jain said that when India Murshidabad district earlier in “Godhai’s interrogation led to probe. seven people including five Sri comprising women and children became independent 68 years ago, the month. the recovery of the materials at Banerjee said she has received Lankans or terror suspicion from from the Dalit areas of Agra, Jain there were only 11 liquor vends in “We have seized 18 sacks of his warehouse. We are looking detailed inputs from the the city. IANS also threatened to torch shops Agra. IANS MONDAY 17 AUGUST 2015 14 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com INDIA Haryana expands ambit Bricks on back of Gurgaon land probe Ex-Congress CM says licences granted as per rules

CHANDIGARH: The Haryana will also probe the grant of documents on financial adequacy. government has expanded the licences by the Hooda govern- Despite that, the firm was granted ambit of inquiry into the issu- ment to Congress president a licence. ance of licences for housing colo- Sonia Gandhi’s son-in-law Robert The commission will probe nies on prime land in Haryana’s Vadra’s company and other firms the circumstances under which Gurgaon city, officials said here for developing commercial prop- licences were granted, whether yesterday. erties in Gurgaon’s Sector 83. the said entities were eligible for The commission set up by the The Dhingra commission had grant of licences as per the appli- government under Justice S N pointed out that earlier terms cable laws and rules, whether the Dhingra (retd.) in May 2015 will of reference were hindering its transfer of licences by the original now probe the grant of all licences probe into the grant of licences. licencee within a short period of to colonisers and individuals in The commission is headed by the time to other entities was viola- four villages of Gurgaon by the retired Delhi high court judge. tive of laws and rules and whether previous Congress government Former chief minister the town and country planning led by Bhupinder Singh Hooda. Bhupinder Singh Hooda recently department (TCPD) had con- The four villages are Sihi, said that there was nothing amiss templated the transactions with Shikohpur, Kherki Daula and in the grant of licences for devel- reference to the loss of revenue to Sikanderpur Bada, where oping colonies. the government. Gurgaon’s Sector 78 to 86 are now “Everything was done as per The commission was asked to situated. the rules. There was no wrong- submit its report to the state gov- The Haryana cabinet took the doing by our government,” Hooda ernment within six months from Women from a Himachal Pradesh village carry bricks loaded in baskets on their backs, at Mandi, yesterday. decision at a meeting held in New had said. the date of its first sitting. Delhi last Saturday night just The commission would also The probe panel has also been before Chief Minister Manohar probe the subsequent transfer asked to recommend “measures Lal Khattar left for a 10-day trip or disposal of land, allegations of to take corrective action to pre- to the United States and Canada private enrichment, ineligibility of vent loss of revenue to the public Mulayam will join our rally, says Lalu to attract investments in the beneficiaries under the rules, and exchequer and also prevention of state. other connected matters. undue private enrichment at the The BJP government in May Vadra and others were allegedly cost of the public exchequer in PATNA: Samajwadi Party the Gandhi Maidan rally which Dal-United leader Nitish Kumar ordered a “probe into issues con- granted favours by the previous such cases in the future”. chief Mulayam Singh Yadav will would attract record crowd. to defeat the “BJP and the RSS”. cerning the grant of licence (s) Congress government. In Vadra’s The role of officers in the grant attend a joint rally of the JD-U, “Mulayam Singh Yadav will “We will reply to Prime for developing commercial colo- case, the licences were allegedly of licences will also be looked into. RJD, Congress and NCP here address the rally,” the Rashtriya Minister Narendra Modi’s nies by the Department of Town issued within a short time. Complaints against the grant on August 30, RJD leader Lalu Janata Dal leader told his party remark about the DNA of Nitish and Country Planning, Haryana, The Comptroller and Auditor of licences and the CAG report Prasad said yesterday. leaders and workers here. Kumar at our rally,” he said. to some entities in Sector 83, General (CAG) had pointed findings will form the basis of the Lalu Prasad Yadav said West The former chief minister “Modi has insulted Bihar, and Gurgaon”. out that Vadra’s firm, Skylight inquiry. Bengal Chief Minister Mamata reiterated he had joined hands Biharis will take revenge.” The one-man commission Hospitality, had not submitted IANS Banerjee would also be invited to with Chief Minister and Janata IANS Seven terror suspects Kerala to ink MoU for Vizhinjam port today THIRUVANANTHA state of India, the port would have annually. State Ports Minister K land, he can raise `3,000cr,” said held in West Bengal PURAM: The Kerala govern- been a reality more than quar- Babu said Vizhinjam was the sin- Achuthanandan. ment will ink an agreement ter of a century back. Everything gle biggest infrastructure project “So, on day one Adani gets KOLKATA: Seven people, know for what purpose they were today with Adani Ports for that a port needs is there in after the Idukki Dam and Kochi `546cr. This is what Chief including five Sri Lankans, were in the city,” said the officer, refus- the proposed Vizhinjam port, Vizhinjam,” said Chandy. airport that’s going to materialise Minister Oommen Chandy claims arrested in the city on suspi- ing to comment if they belonged 25 years after the project was Though the first phase is in the state. to be the dream project of Kerala,” cion of being involved in terror to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil first mooted. The central gov- expected to be ready in four years, “This is going to benefit not he added. activities, police said yesterday. Eelam separatist militant group. ernment too will participate in Adani Ports officials told Chandy only the state, but the whole Adani Ports was the lone bidder The seven people were arrested West Bengal has already the project, to be completed in they would finish it in around two country,” said Babu. Meanwhile, and sought `1,635cr as grant for last Saturday. Yesterday, they sounded a terror alert following three phases at a cost of around years. the Communist Party of India- the project. It would operate the were presented before a court intelligence reports that terror- `7,525cr. Once completed, the port would Marxist (CPI-M) termed the port for 40 years, extendable by which remanded them to police ists groups would be trying to Chief Minister Oommen enable ships with a capacity of MoU as a “rip-off”. another 20 years. custody till August 24. create disturbances in the state. Chandy and Adani Ports even 18,000 TEU (20-feet equiva- Leader of opposition V S The state government would “A group of nine people, includ- “I have received inputs from the chief Gautam Adani would be lent units) to dock. Achuthanandan of the CPI-M, get a portion of the revenue ing several Sri Lankans, checked intelligence agency that some ter- present when the agreement TEU is an inexact unit of cargo said yesterday that of the total from the port after 15 years of into a hotel in Chandni Chowk rorist organisations are trying to is signed between state Ports capacity often used to describe project cost Adani is to bring in operations. without any valid documents. create disturbance in Bengal. We Secretary James Varghese and the capacity of container ships `2,454cr. Prime Minister Narendra While two of them checked out have sounded an alert at railway Adani Vizhinjam Port Private and container terminals. “He has been given 500 acres Modi, who is currently in the subsequently, we have arrested stations, airports, vital installa- Limited CEO Santhosh Kumar The proposed port, located of land, of which the port will UAE, is slated to lay the foun- seven, including five Sri Lankans,” tions and public buildings,” Chief Mahapatra at the Durbar Hall of close to the busy international need 300 acres. The land value of dation stone of the project on said a police officer. Minister Mamata Banerjee said state secretariat. shipping route, is envisaged to the 500 acres is estimated to be November 1, Kerala’s formation “We are interrogating them to earlier in the week. IANS “If Vizhinjam was in any other handle 4.1 million containers `5,000 crore and if he pledges this day. IANS

Time to chill Heavy rains lash Delhi; J&K job panel to go digital

floods disrupt traffic SRINAGAR: The Jammu and Kashmir Public Service NEW DELHI: Heavy rains Many parts of Green Park, Commission (JKPSC), an lashed the national capital yes- Malviya Nagar and Sarai Kale autonomous body tasked with terday afternoon, flooding many Khan were inundated, police said. recruiting gazetted officers neighbourhoods and causing The Met department said the in the state, is all set to use traffic disruptions at a number city received 9.6 mm rainfall till technology to cut the gestation of places. Many roads were yesterday evening. period in selection processes flooded mainly due to choked Delhi woke up to a cloudy and and screenings. drains. Traffic slowed down humid morning, with the mini- According to Commission on the arterial roads, includ- mum temperature recorded in chairman Latief-uz-Zaman ing the one leading to adjoining the early morning at 25.8 degrees Deva, this is being done to over- Gurgaon. Celsius, a notch below the season’s come delays in selection processes “Traffic was affected at differ- average. due to age-old manual means of ent places in many areas,” said a The maximum temperature document checking and eligibil- traffic police official. was recorded at 34.6 degrees, a ity determination and repletion A 29-year-old man going to notch above the season’s average. of the processes. Noida said he was stuck in the However, rain brought welcome A one-time registration process rain on the DND flyway that links respite. of candidates has been introduced. Delhi with Noida. The maximum and minimum Under this, the candidature The traffic official said roads temperatures were likely to hover remains alive once an aspirant caved in due to rain on the famous around 33 and 26 degrees Celsius registers for a job vacancy after Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) corri- respectively. Last Saturday’s completing the eligibility condi- People chilling out in a stream at the Mahadev Pani waterfall on the outskirts of Bhopal, yesterday, during a dor between Saket and Chirag maximum temperature was 33.6 tions. The candidate would con- Delhi and another one in Dhaula degrees, one notch below the sea- tinue to receive system generated period of intense high temperatures. Kaun in south Delhi. son’s average. IANS job alerts through SMS or email till he or she attains the upper age limit or gets a job. “The Commission has also proposed introduction of online Modi greets Kejriwal; Jung sends birthday cake submission and collection of appli- cation forms for the posts adver- NEW DELHI: In developments Chief Minister Nitish Kumar “Spoke to CM Arvind Kejriwal brief you on Delhi’s situation,” be a “working arrangement” tised,” an official said. that could abate Delhi’s power and West Bengal Chief Minister and wished him on his birthday. said Kejriwal. between the prime minister and This would considerably war, Prime Minister Narendra Mamata Banerjee greeted the My prayers for his long life and An AAP source said that Modi the Delhi chief minister. quicken the process of shortlisting Modi yesterday greeted Chief Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader good health,” Modi said in a brief also sent a birthday card. This While admitting that the AAP and screening candidates, which Minister Arvind Kejriwal on over telephone. tweet. is the first known direct com- government had known differ- otherwise would take months and his birthday to wish him “long Jung, with whom Kejriwal has Kejriwal, who lost to Modi in munication between Modi and ences with the Modi government, even a year or so if the number life and good health” while Lt been having a running feud, sur- Varanasi in the Lok Sabha elec- Kejriwal since the latter called on Kejriwal said: “As both the chief of candidates applying was large. Governor Najeeb Jung sent him prised the AAP founder leader by tion, thanked the prime minis- the prime minister after the AAP minister of Delhi and the prime Further, admit cards and other a birthday cake and flowers. sending a cake and flowers. ter for his wishes, saying he was routed the BJP in the February minister of the country live in the communications would be sent Besides several supporters Ahead of his departure to the “touched”. assembly election. national capital, there should be to candidates through the elec- and residents who poured into UAE yesterday, Modi said he had “Thank you so much Sir for Modi’s gesture came a day after a working arrangement between tronic mode with the introduction Kejriwal’s Civil Lines residence, telephoned Kejriwal and wished your wishes. I am touched. I look Kejriwal said in his Independence them for the welfare of the city of e-admit cards and e-summon BJP stalwart L K Advani, Bihar him on his 47th birthday. forward to meeting you soon to Day address here that there must and (its) people.” IANS letters. IANS MONDAY 17 AUGUST 2015 FEATURES www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 15

and storm surge, the study noted. and injury and deaths following expo- the risk of heart failure, says a study. completed a questionnaire about their Climate change “The science of climate change and sure to floods,” said Elisa Petkova The participants who had the low- level of activity at work, home, walking the threat to human and population from the National Centre for Disaster est levels of physical activity had a 47 or bicycling, and exercise in the year may cause conflict, health is irrefutable, and the threat is Preparedness. percent higher risk of heart failure prior at an average of 60 years old and evolving quickly,” said professor Irwin “Although future trends are difficult while those with highest levels had 51 retrospectively at 30 years old. violence: Study Redlener from Columbia University. to project, climate change may also percent higher risk than men with a Researchers assigned each type of limate change presents substan- “Unfortunately, we are now at a point facilitate the re-introduction of vector- median level. physical activity an intensity score Ctial threats to physical and mental where simply slowing climate change, borne diseases such as malaria and den- When analysing the different types and determined walking or bicycling health, and may also create social insta- while critical, is not enough. We need to gue fever to the Gulf Coast and other of physical activity, the study found that just 20 minutes per day was associated bility, conflict and violence, a new study simultaneously develop and deploy ways vulnerable coastal regions,” Petkova walking or bicycling for 20 minutes per with a 21 percent lower risk of heart has revealed. of mitigating the impact and adapting to added. day was associated with the largest risk failure. The study by researchers from the consequences of this environmental The study appeared in the reduction. They found that men who were active Columbia University and the University disaster,” he added. International Journal of Environmental “We found that recent activity may at 30 years old but were inactive at the of Washington said that climate vari- Public health impact in the US Gulf Research and Public Health. be more important for heart failure time of study enrollment did not have a ability and change may also lead to Coast may be severe as the region is protection than past physical activity decreased risk of heart failure. widespread migration away from areas expected to experience increases in levels. The first incidence of heart fail- Heavy physical activity, such as long that can no longer provide sufficient extreme temperatures, sea level rise 20-minute walk cuts ure in men was also later for those who distance running, or manual labour may food, water and shelter for the current and possibly fewer but more intense actively walked or bicycled 20 minutes put stress on the body, which in turn has populations. hurricanes. heart failure risk each day,” said study co-author Andrea adverse effects on the heart. Coastal areas are particularly vulner- “Climate change may amplify exist- Bellavia from the Karolinska Institutet The study was published in the able to the impact of climate change due ing public health impacts, such as oderate amount of physical in Stockholm. Journal of the American College of to hazards such as changing water use heat-related morbidity and mortality, Mactivity, particularly walking When enrolling in the study, par- Cardiology: Heart Failure. patterns, shoreline erosion, sea level rise malnutrition resulting from droughts, and bicycling, can significantly lower ticipants from two counties in Sweden AGENCIES An ice cream cake that’ll melt your heart

By Dorie Greenspan For this tropical cake, I add dulce de leche, my own or jarred. Whir Tropical Ice hen I’m in the just until blended, and then steel kitchen, I love yourself against eating it while Cream Cake to play around. standing in the kitchen. I love riffing. I know you’re ahead of me on MAKE AHEAD: The cake I love tweak- this, but in case you were wonder- needs to be frozen for at least 2 Wing. I love mid-recipe changes. ing, you can use an equal amount hours and preferably overnight. And I love surprises. For me, it’s of Nutella or a cookie spread such The decorated cake needs to be not over until it’s over, and then as Biscoff in place of the dulce de frozen for at least 6 hours or pref- it’s usually not completely done: leche. Or use pureed fruit. Or jam. erably overnight. Undecorated, it I’ll make something and, as I’m Or a bunch of crunchies, like nuts can be frozen for up to 1 month. bringing the dish to the table, I’ll or granola or chopped cookies. Or 16 servings think, “Next time, I can swap this just go with straight vanilla ice Ingredients for that or for something else or, cream. Or coffee. Or chocolate. For the crust or, or . . . .” That’s the fun of cook- Or coconut. See what I mean 8 tablespoons (1 stick) unsalted ing and baking. about playing around? If you butter, plus more for the pan And that’s the fun of this ice can’t decide among flavours, don’t: 2 cups sweetened flaked or the coconut; reduce the heat to preferably overnight. (If you are toasted coconut over the cream cake, which is fabulous the The springform is tall enough for shredded coconut medium-low and start stirring not decorating the cake, you can whipped cream, followed by way it is and great as a jumping- another complementary-flavour 12 chocolate wafers, such as right away. Cook for about 5 min- wrap it airtight and keep it frozen sprinkles or crushed wafers. off point for your own playing layer. Famous Chocolate Wafers, finely utes or until the coconut is lightly for up to 1 month.) Freeze for 6 hours or preferably around — especially because the The cake can be frozen for two crushed to make about 3/4 cup and unevenly browned. Pour in If you’re decorating the cake overnight. ice cream, a custom-made flavour, hours, decorated and then popped crumbs the crumbs and stir to coat. (with optional garnishes), cover To serve, warm the sides of is an easy hack that you’ll use lots. back into the freezer, but the For the ice cream Turn the mixture into the the top of the cake with the the springform pan with a few The cake is essentially a two- spin in the food processor melts 1 1/2 quarts premium vanilla springform pan; use a spatula to crushed chocolate wafers. (If the puffs of hot air from a hair dryer part affair: a crust of skillet- some (and sometimes all) of the ice cream, solidly frozen firmly press the crumbs across surface is too hard to get any- (or wrap a towel dampened with toasted coconut and crushed ice cream, so the cake needs to 1/2 cup dulce de leche (home- the bottom of the pan and about thing to stick, hit it with a puff or hot water around the pan), then chocolate wafers and a filling of live in the freezer until it’s solid made or store-bought) halfway up the sides. Don’t worry two of hot air from a hair dryer.) remove the sides of the pan; leave dulce de leche ice cream. The dec- enough to unmold and cut cleanly. For optional garnish about being exact. Freeze for at Put the whipped cream into a the cake on the pan’s base. Serve oration — a covering of crushed You can get away with six hours, 6 chocolate wafers, finely least 30 minutes; once it’s frozen, pastry bag fitted with a star or the ice cream cake right away wafers, an edge of whipped cream, but eight is better and overnight crushed you can wrap the crust airtight plain tip or spoon the cream into (or, if the sides have melted a bit toasted coconut, melted dulce is best. About 1 cup cold whipped and keep it in the freezer for up a zip-top bag, seal and snip off too much, return the cake to the de leche, sprinkles and a nod to I’m pretty sure you’ll be doing cream to 2 months. a corner. Pipe swirls of whipped freezer until everything is firm Carvel — is optional. But I rarely the ice-cream trick year-round, About 1/4 cup dulce de leche For the ice cream: Scoop it cream around the edge of the again). Use a long slicing knife opt out. and I’m positive you’re going to About 1/3 cup toasted sweet- into a food processor. (If your ice cake. Warm the dulce de leche to cut the cake, dipping the knife I build the cake in a springform do the following unmolding tech- ened flaked coconut cream is too firm to scoop, cut in a microwave on LOW, heat- in hot water and wiping it dry pan, pressing the warm crust- nique from this point onward: 2 tablespoons chocolate sprin- it into chunks.) Spoon dollops of ing it in 10-second spurts until between cuts. stuff over the bottom of the pan When you’re ready to remove the kles or jimmies, or 1 to 2 addi- the dulce de leche over the ice it’s pourable (or melt the dulce Nutrition | Per serving: 270 calo- and halfway up the sides. But you sides of the springform pan, warm tional chocolate wafers, finely cream. Pulse until the dulce de de leche in the top of a double ries, 4 g protein, 27 g carbohydrates, can do this in a deep-dish pie plate them with a hair dryer. It’s so crushed leche is well blended. If you can boiler). Spoon it into a small, 16 g fat, 11 g saturated fat, 45 mg cho- (in which case you won’t unmold much neater than wrapping the manage not to melt the ice cream clean squeeze bottle or into a lesterol, 115 mg sodium, 0 g dietary it), in smaller springforms or in pan in wet towels, although that Method: completely, great; if it melts, just zip-top bag, snip off a tiny bit of fiber, 24 g sugar individual cups (think sundae). works, and equally effective for For the crust: Use a little but- carry on. a corner, and pipe thin lines over Greenspan is the award-win- You start with really good when you’re unmolding cheese- ter to grease a 9 1/2-inch spring- Scrape (or pour) the ice cream the whipped cream. You can also ning author of 11 cookbooks, the store-bought vanilla ice cream, cakes or anything that might oth- form pan. into the frozen crust, smooth the just drizzle the dulce de leche off most recent of which is “Baking scoop it into a food processor and erwise need a (perilous) dunk in Melt the butter in a large top and return the pan to the the tip of a spoon. Chez Moi.” then flavour it any way you want. a sink full of hot water. skillet over medium heat. Add freezer for at least 2 hours or Finish by lightly scattering WP-BLOOMBERG The absurdity of women’s clothing sizes By Christopher Ingraham a depression-era government project to define the The standard included the first modern wom- Average American Woman by sending a pair of en’s clothing size charts, and it provides the first ere are some numbers that illustrate the statisticians to survey and measure nearly 15,000 datapoints. Women’s sizes ranged from 8 to 42. A insanity of women’s clothing sizes: A size 8 women. They “hoped to determine whether any pro- size 8 woman had a bust of 31 inches, a 23.5 inch Hdress today is nearly the equivalent of a size portional relationships existed among measurements waist, and a weight of 98 pounds. 16 dress in 1958. And a size 8 dress of 1958 doesn’t that could be broadly applied to create a simple, The government updated these standards again in even have a modern-day equivalent — the waist and standardized system of sizing,” Felsenthal writes. 1970. But already, manufacturers were getting rest- bust measurements of a Mad Men-era 8 come in Sadly, they failed. Not surprisingly, women’s bod- less, Slate’s Felsenthal writes. It became apparent smaller than today’s size 00. ies defied standardization. The project did yield one that the “representative” women measured for the These measurements come from official sizing lasting contribution to women’s clothing: the statisti- standard weren’t representative at all. Non-white standards once maintained by the National Bureau of cians were the first to propose the notion of arbitrary women were excluded. The group of women from the Standards (now the National Institute of Standards numerical sizes that weren’t based on any specific Army were almost certainly fitter than the average and Technology), and taken over in recent years by measurement -- similar to shoe sizes. American woman. By 1983, the government ditched the American Society of Testing and Materials. Data The government didn’t return to the project the standard completely. Manufacturers were left to visualizer Max Galka recently unearthed them for a until the late 1950s, when the National Bureau of define sizes as they saw fit. blog post on America’s obesity epidemic. Standards published “Body Measurements for the Enter the era of vanity sizing. Clothing manufac- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data Sizing of Women’s Patterns and Apparel” in 1958. turers realised that they could flatter consumers by show that the average American woman today The standard was based on the 15,000 women inter- revising sizes downward. The measurements that weighs about as much as the average 1960s man. viewed previously, with the addition of a group of added up to a size 12 in 1958 would get redefined to And while the weight story is pretty straightfor- women who had been in the Army during World a size 6 by 2011. And different manufacturers defined ward -- Americans got heavier -- the story behind War II. The document’s purpose? “To provide the sizes differently too -- a fascinating New York Times the dress sizes is a little more complicated, as any consumer with a means of identifying her body type graphic from 2011 shows how a size 8 waist measure- woman who’s ever shopped for clothes could prob- and size from the wide range of body types covered, ment could differ by as much as 5 inches of cloth ably tell you. and enable her to be fitted properly by the same size between different designers. As Julia Felsenthal detailed over at Slate, regardless of price, type of apparel, or manufacturer The American Society of Testing and Materials, today’s women’s clothing sizes have their roots in of the garment.” a non-governmental international standards organization, began trying to restandardize women’s sizes in the 1990s. But by then, the sizing genie was well out of the bottle. But if you’ve dealt with the frustration of buying or trying on women’s clothes recently -- particularly if you’re short, tall, or in any way idiosyncratically shaped -- you know that most manufacturers ignore these standards. It doesn’t help that the testing society charges for access to its sizing tables. What good’s a standard if you keep it under lock and key? So women are left to navigate the chaos of arbi- trary sizing on their own. So much for enabling women “to be fitted properly by the same size regardless of price, type of apparel, or manufacturer of the garment,” as the government’s 1958 standard loftily envisioned. WP-BLOOMBERG MONDAY 17 AUGUST 2015 16 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MORNING BREAK

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ANAHEIM, UNITED and media representatives from STATES: R2-D2 will be rolling around the globe. into Mickey Mouse’s neighbour- Disney Studios chairman Alan hood, Disney announced yes- Horn said that on the heels of his terday, unveiling plans for two smashing success with “Jurassic huge “Star Wars” attractions at World,” director Colin Trevorrow existing theme park venues in would be at the helm for the Florida and California. upcoming “Star Wars — Episode With star Harrison Ford on IX.” It is due out in 2019. hand, Disney CEO Bob Iger said The cast of “Star Wars that after Disney’s $4bn pur- — Episode VII — The Force chase of Lucasfilm three years Awakens” — the next chapter in ago, “we wanted to bring ‘Star the wildly popular franchise — Wars’ to every corner of our com- drew a massive round of cheering, pany... Not only on screens but in particularly for Ford, known for real life.” playing Han Solo. “We are creating a jaw-drop- As part of its strategy to ping new world that represents squeeze the most out of the “Star our largest single-themed land Wars” universe, Disney plans to expansion ever,” Iger said. release one film a year until 2019. Competitors in fancy dress jump off Worthing Pier in West Sussex, Southern England, yesterday during the annual International Birdman Competition, “These new lands at Disneyland After “Episode 7” will come a flight contest for human-powered flying machines held each summer. and Walt Disney World will trans- “Rogue One,” in December 2016. port guests to a whole new Star It is currently filming with Gareth Wars planet, including an epic Edwards (“Godzilla”) direct- Star Wars adventure that puts ing, and starring Felicity Jones, you in the middle of a climactic Diego Luna, Ben Mendelsohn and battle between the First Order Forest Whitaker. Japanese singer eyes global domination and the Resistance.” Johnny Depp wowed the crowd In addition to that battle decked out as his popular Jack MAKUHARI, JAPAN: The and become a global star,” Kyary by some Western stars — includ- merry-go-round!” she reports, experience, visitors will be able Sparrow character from “Pirates queen of Japan’s sugar-coated told AFP in a backstage interview ing Gaga and Perry. and in the video — viewed more to drive “one of the most recog- of the Caribbean.” pop scene, Kyary Pamyu before performing at the Summer “We are similar in having a than 83 million times on YouTube nisable ships in the galaxy,” the Its next installment comes out Pamyu has unveiled bold plans Sonic music festival outside Tokyo clearly defined concept or theme — Kyary flutters her eyelashes Millennium Falcon, on a secret in 2017 starring Orlando Bloom to conquer the world — just as this weekend. for our videos or live shows,” and pats herself on the backside mission, he said. and Javier Bardem. soon as she’s done her English “I admire Katy Perry and Kyary said, referring to Perry. as she slips into a dizzying array The Star Wars additions will Disney is planning to keep homework. always looked up to her,” added “But I know I’ve got to improve of wacky costumes. be in Orlando, next to Disney turning animated favourites into Still only 22, Kyary’s rise to the singer and fashion model, my English. My new song’s about “Ring A Bell is really Japanese- Hollywood Studios, and in live-action blockbusters. superstardom has been meteoric, perched on a sofa backstage in a Halloween and has an English English,’ confided the pop phe- Anaheim, next to Disneyland. On the heels of “Maleficent” a coquettish charm and off-kilter fluffy pink skirt with a giant yel- chorus, but my pronunciation nomenon, wrinkling up her The 14-acre (5.6-hectare) sites and “Cinderella,” it is the turn of pop appeal spawning a string of low bow crowning her strawberry isn’t very good. nose. “I’ve definitely got to study will have their own staff and res- Rudyard Kipling’s “Jungle Book” number ones and viral videos and blonde locks. “I don’t have Katy’s “I just hope people think it’s English this year.” taurants will be staffed by wild to shine with live actors next year. thrusting her firmly to the fore- style so I’m focusing on introduc- cute.” Kyary, who released her debut creatures from the space saga. The film was shot using cut- front of Japanese “kawaii” (cute) ing Japan’s unique cuteness and Another English song, ‘Ring a album in 2011, describes her sound “You’ll have a chance to run ting-edge digital technologies and culture. quirky music to the world.” Bell,’ features the helium-voiced as a mish-mash of styles. into all the droids and fantastic has a star-studded cast. Despite extraordinary fame in Kyary’s bubblegum fashion singer demanding over and over, “It’s hard to pigeon-hole it,” she beasts,” Iger added. Ben Kingsley plays black pan- her home country and frequent carefully mirrors the kawaii craze and over: “ring, ring, ring a bell, said. “I suppose it would come It’s the first time the entertain- ther Bagheera, Neel Sethi takes comparisons to American divas sparked in the colourful boutiques ring a bell, ring-a-ring a bell,” under the genre of J-pop but also ment giant is trying the “Star the role of Mowgli and Lupita Katy Perry and Lady Gaga, the of Tokyo’s trendy Shibuya and while the smash hit ‘PonPonPon’ ‘Harajuku girl’ or Harajuku style. Wars” theme at its parks. Nyong’o is cast as wolf Raksha. popette wants to capture hearts Harajuku districts. contains lyrics just as Perhaps it might also be a bit of The three-day D23 expo at the Star voicings also come from and minds further afield. Popular all over Asia, the capable of turning the listener electro pop but I haven’t espe- convention centre in Anaheim — Scarlett Johansson, Bill Murray, “I’m happy for people to liken almost cartoon-like trend reflect- cross-eyed. cially thought of myself as belong- home to the original Disneyland Christopher Walken and me to Katy Perry or Lady Gaga so ing the quality of looking and act- “Everyday ‘pon,’ every- ing to a genre.” Park — has drawn Disney fans Idris Elba. AFP I’m working hard to emulate them ing cute has also been flirted with time is ‘pon,’ I want to ride a AFP

Versailles plans luxury hotel Queen poised for record after rallying monarchy

PARIS: Once home to kings LONDON: Queen Elizabeth (pictured), Philip Murphy, a historian and author of been shown since, reputedly because it and now one of France’s most who rallied support for the monarchy “Monarchy and the End of Empire”. made them seem too ordinary. visited sites, the Chateau de despite presiding over what was once “It’s become a significant part of the way “It is a most remarkable achievement Versailles is planning a new known as the world’s most famous dys- we see ourselves as a nation.” to have been in the spotlight for so long venture with a luxury hotel to functional family, next month becomes and for no one really to have a very strong prop up its finances, local media Britain’s longest-reigning monarch. QUIRK OF HISTORY sense of what her views are,” said Professor said yesterday. She never expected to take the throne Elizabeth only became queen due to a Murphy. The palace’s management has and only did so because her uncle abdicated, quirk of history after her uncle Edward Although she is the world’s oldest living called for a tender to create a but on September 9 she will beat the record VIII abdicated because of his love for monarch, Elizabeth is only the second-long- hotel in three 1680s buildings held by her great-great-grandmother, American divorcee Wallis Simpson and est currently reigning, behind Thailand’s situated just outside the Versailles Queen Victoria, who reigned for more than the crown passed to her father George VI King Bhumibol Adulyadej, who is almost park’s gates, with views of some 63 years. when she was 10 years old. six years ahead of her. of its most famous buildings, the “It is a job for life,” the 89-year-old She was just 25 when she became Queen The longest-reigning monarch of all time Journal du Dimanche said. Elizabeth once said, and unlike some Elizabeth II on February 6, 1952 on the — King Sobhuza II of Swaziland — ruled It would cost ¤4m to ¤7m European monarchs recently, and even a death of her father. At the time she was for almost 83 years until his death in 1982, ($4.44m-$7.77m)to renovate the pope, she is not expected to abdicate. on tour in Kenya with her husband Prince while King Louis XIV of France ruled for run-down buildings and as much While the world and British society have Philip, who has been by her side throughout 72 years, the longest period for any major to build a hotel within their walls, changed dramatically during her reign, the 40th anniversary of her accession the royal her reign. European country. the bid for tender said, according queen has always appeared dependable and family appeared to have become little more “In a way I didn’t have an apprentice- During her reign, she has made more to the newspaper. reassuring. Despite traumas in the 1990s, than celebrity fodder for the tabloids. ship. My father died much too young and than 250 overseas visits to well over 100 A previous plan to build a such as the death of Princess Diana, that While her marriage to Philip, a Greek so it was all a very sudden kind of taking countries and met 4 million people in hotel there was abandoned a few seemed to threaten the monarchy’s very prince, has stayed solid, she described 1992 on and making the best job you can,” she person. years ago. Versailles was trans- existence, the queen has been able to lead as an “annus horribilis” when three of her said 40 years later. “She ... has surely travelled more widely formed by King Louis XIV in the thousand-year-old institution into a four children’s relationships broke up, with She was crowned queen of Britain and than any other head of state in history,” the 17th century from a hunting new era of popularity. scandalous details exhaustively reported in other realms, including Australia and Prime Minister Cameron told parliament lodge into the dazzling heart of “The key to the change has been antici- the papers. Canada, on June 2, 1953, in a televised cer- in 2012. “As she herself has been heard to an absolutist state, with a stun- pating what’s coming next,” Simon Lewis, Diana’s death in a Paris car crash in 1997 emony in Westminster Abbey. say ... ‘I have to be seen to be believed’.” ning palace and gardens. The call her former communications secretary, told was undoubtedly the darkest moment of She became the 40th monarch in a In recent years, she has curtailed her for tender for a 60-year conces- Reuters. “The lesson of these last 20, 30 her long reign, with the queen forced to royal line that goes back to William the timetable of foreign trips with Prince sion on the Grand Controle, Petit years has been for the institution always return from Scotland to address the nation Conqueror, who took the throne in 1066 Charles and other royals taking her place. Controle and Pavillon buildings to be slightly ahead perhaps of where the amid a general outpouring of grief and after winning the Battle of Hastings. While other European monarchs have meant to become a hotel will close British people are.” dismay. While on the throne, she has seen 12 abdicated, there is no prospect of Elizabeth on September 14, the Journal du “For about a week it seemed as though the prime ministers, beginning with Winston following suit. Dimanche wrote. PEOPLE’S QUEEN? institution had been rocked to its foundation,” Churchill, and bade farewell to the British Millions turned out for spectacular cel- The Versailles administration Britain itself has become a more egali- said Lewis. Empire amassed by her forebears from ebrations to mark her 60th year on the could not be reached for comment. tarian society as old class divides were With a more professional and sophisti- Kenya to Hong Kong. throne in 2012, while a few months later REUTERS broken down and deference based on back- cated media operation, the royal family’s her starring role in a spoof James Bond film ground ebbed away, something reflected in reputation has been restored from the dark SILENT QUEEN became one of the highlights of the London the monarchy itself. days of the 1990s and even taken to new Her views on the subject remain a mys- Olympic Games’ opening ceremony. “It’s become much less elitist,” said royal heights. tery as during her long reign she has never However, in keeping with her more usual biographer Robert Lacey. “The monarchy Commentators say that also reflects how given an interview, and insights into her discreet style, aides say she wants little fuss has continued the process of disassociat- the queen has provided stability in a time opinions and character come from brief over next month’s milestone. ing itself from the social pyramid headed of great social upheaval and growing dis- appearances in TV programmes and from “The fact that my mama has been a con- by an aristocracy and attempting to make content with elected leaders, while giving comments by other members of her family. stant feature on the scene has provided itself classless.” Britons a sense of identity. “The fortunes of The most revealing insight into her that sense, I think, of continuity in a time At the start of her reign she was a the monarchy have gone through peaks and private life, a documentary titled “Royal of immense change,” Prince Charles said glamorous figure who seemed to typify troughs, she hasn’t really changed but the Family” broadcast in 1969 after cameras in a documentary to mark her diamond Britain’s post-war resurgence, but by the public reaction to her has,” said Professor had followed the queen for a year, has never jubilee. 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DUBAI: Equity markets across the Middle April peaks, indicating that December’s low of Central banker plays down market fears of a currency war East fell yesterday as weak oil prices depressed 7,226 points could be repeated in the coming investor sentiment, though the Doha bourse months. BEIJING: China’s move to weaken the yuan last did better than others after index compiler Nearly all stocks were in the red, including week could head off further similar “adjustments”, MSCI increased Qatar’s weighting in its blue chips such as petrochemicals giant Saudi and the yuan is likely to move in both directions as emerging markets index. Basic Industries, which fell 2.1 percent despite the economy stabilises, Ma Jun, chief economist at Qatar’s index inched 0.1 percent lower as nearing the August 23 registration date for a the central bank said yesterday. Ezdan Holding and Commercial Bank of Qatar dividend payout. Oil shipper Bahri was one of The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) shocked global (CBQ) offset most of the broader market’s losses. the biggest losers, tumbling 8.3 percent after markets by devaluing the yuan by nearly 2 percent on Ezdan jumped 2.6 percent and CBQ added 0.5 benchmark tanker freight rates from the Gulf August 11. percent after MSCI said it would increase both to Japan dropped 3 percent on Friday to their The PBOC called it a free-market reform but some stocks’ weightings in its emerging markets index lowest in more than 10 months. saw it as the start of a long-term yuan depreciation to at the end of August. Much of the latest fall in oil prices, which spur exports. Qatar Stock Exchange (QSE) index dropped have plunged 30 percent from their May peak, The yuan’s drop last week and its increased flexibility 13.58 points when the bourse closed trading at occurred when many Gulf investors were away could help “sharply reduce the possibility” of similar 11,844.43 points yesterday. on summer holidays, and some investors may be adjustments in future, Ma said. The daily turnover decreased to QR197.57m reacting only now. In the near term, it is more likely there will be “two with a volume of 4,453,568 shares from 3,275 Dubai’s index lost 1.4 percent and builder way volatility,” or appreciation and depreciation of the deals compared to QR268.97m with a volume of Arabtec, the most traded stock, fell 5.4 percent yuan, Ma said in a question-and-answer statement sent 5,239,646 shares from 3,900 deals on Thursday. after reporting that it had swung to a net loss by email. The market capitalisation decreased to of $196m in the second quarter. It was Arabtec’s The central bank would move only in “exceptional QR624.88bn from QR626.49bn registered third straight quarterly loss. Most other Dubai circumstances” to iron out “excessive volatility” in the Thursday. Indices of six sectors ended in red stocks also fell and heavyweight developer exchange rate, Ma said. and one in green yesterday. Emaar Properties was down 1.3 percent. Ma played down market fears that a “currency war” Real estate index topped with 1.62 percent Abu Dhabi’s main index slid 1.3 percent in could be triggered by China’s devaluation, which dragged gain. Insurance index lost 1.63 percent, while another broad sell-off, with Eshraq Properties some other Asian currencies to multi-year lows. Telecom Index declined 0.87 percent. dropping by 2.7 percent after announcing a more “China has no intention or need to participate in a Of the 43 companies listed on QSE, investors than 90 percent slump in second-quarter profit ‘currency war’,” Ma said in the statement. exchanged shares of 40. Of them, 14 gained, 21 to Dh2.4m, citing a decline in revenue. “There is no need to worry” that the central bank went down, five unchanged. Egypt’s bourse was down 3.2 percent at the will continue to intervene in the market to support the Elsewhere in the region, Saudi Arabia’s main close, hitting a one-month low of 7,626 points as yuan as China’s economy stabilizes, Ma said. index dropped 2.5 percent to 8,464 points, its most stocks fell. Juhayna Food Industries tum- “In the future, even if the central bank needed to lowest close since late January, falling through bled 7.5 percent after state media said the stock intervene in the market, it may be in either direction,” technical support around 8,500 points, where it exchange is poised to freeze trading in chair- he added. Ma also said that he expected the economy had bottomed out in March and April. man Safwan Thabet’s shares in the company to grow around 7 percent this year - in line with the A money exchange in Tsim Sha Tsui district, Hong Kong. A second straight close below that level would because of alleged links to the banned Muslim government’s target. REUTERS trigger a double top formed by the March and Brotherhood. QNA/REUTERS Qatar Rail unveils architectural opportunities for Metro stations

DOHA: Qatar Railways the status and opportunities for and culture, infusing traditional Company (Qatar Rail), the materials and FF&E (Furniture, design elements into a modern company overseeing the con- fixtures, and equipment). look and feel. To this end, a rec- struction of Qatar’s integrated The first phase for the project’s ognizable network brand and railway network, showcased architectural works, covering 37 consistent line identity will be the architectural opportunities stations, is slated for completion punctuated by unique curated available in Doha Metro station by 2018 while the second, extend- exhibits across each station that works. ing to 60 stations, by 2030. will transpire in shelter cladding, More than 300 people attended “As is reflected in the develop- ceilings, floors, walls, vaults, inte- a presentation and discussion led ments that our partners and sup- rior and exterior lighting. by the company’s procurement pliers were presented with today, Kaldoon Truman, Senior and architecture departments. our procurement and architec- Director, Contracts and The “Architectural Works for tural strategies are very much Procurement at Qatar Rail, Doha Metro – Phase One” confer- aligned with the vision we had set detailed the project’s material ence served as an ideal platform out for the Doha Metro project: to and tender requirements, gen- to share Qatar Rail’s procure- build an integrated network that eral subcontracting conditions, ment strategy, the packages and serves the Qatari community and tender instructions and pretender prequalification process, and the pays heed to its heritage and cul- requirements. He explained that projects including the interior fit- ture, all the while meeting and a third prequalification round has out for the stations, the structure exceeding word-class standards of been launched to attract more for the elevated stations as well as quality assurance”, said Timbely. participants and this third round the landscaping plans. Branding for the project’s will be completed by September Mohamed Timbely, Senior architecture elements will pour 2015. Director, Architecture and MEP into three subsets of Qatar Rail’s The “Vaulted Spaces” Metro at Qatar Rail, briefed attendees guidelines: network identity, line station design was selected by on the Doha Metro’s architectural identity and station identity. the Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin works — materials and finishes, The project’s branding concept Hamad Al Thani in 2013. It is on Qatar Rail’s architectural stems from a myriad of distinc- derived from the historic Islamic Mohamed Timbely, Senior Director, Architecture and MEP at Qatar Rail, addressing the function. branding guidelines as well as on tive beacons of Qatar’s heritage architecture. THE PENINSULA

KAFA’A extends T&C efforts for banks Kuwait approves $10bn

DOHA: KAFA’A, the Training led by high GDP per capita and and expat talents, was estimated training, limited access to facili- & Competency (T&C) frame- infrastructural investments. It is at 11,274 professionals by the 2012 ties, lack of consistency in defin- infrastructure projects work incepted by the Qatar also witnessing a transformative Statistics Authority in Qatar — ing competency and a highly Finance Business Academy period punctuated by new growth with the banking workforce alone fragmented structure for con- KUWAIT: Kuwait has approved the construction of a series (QFBA) and mandated by sectors and diversification into aggregating 8,729 profession- tinuing professional development of power plants, desalination facilities and other infrastructure Qatar’s Financial Markets non-hydrocarbon industries. In als — and projected to double in within Qatar’s financial industry; projects worth a total of around KD3bn ($9.9bn), the finance min- Development Committee this dynamic environment, the a matter of five to six years; “a all areas that the KAFA’A project istry said. Like neighbouring Gulf countries, Kuwait is struggling to (FMDC) has initiated a slew KAFA’A project is launching great opportunity as much as it will be actively tackling. Working meet soaring demand for electricity and the planned projects will of activities and seminars with with full speed as a multi-faceted is a challenge. As we set out to closely with Qatar’s leading bank- add around 3,580 megawatts of capacity, as well as waste treatment the banking sector ecosystem framework aimed at not only ele- evolve a competitive talent pool ing institutions and regulators and and developments for the education ministry. players, leading authorities and vating the financial sector’s quali- in Qatar that can hold its own with the support of authoritative The ministry did not set a timescale for most of the initiatives, except institutions. The initiative is in fications and training capabilities against worldwide best practices entities such as QCB, QFMA and for a sewage plant which will start by 2020. It also did not say how they line with its efforts to elevate in Qatar but, also, at building an and codes of conduct, we realize the QFCRA, KAFA’A will hone an will be funded beyond saying 50 percent of the finance will be raised professional development for integrated system to qualify, train that there remain large inconsist- advanced T&C offering to cover through stock market offerings. Among the projects, Kuwait plans a banking professionals, as well and assess industry profession- encies and gaps in training and knowledge, skill and value shar- second phase of the gas-fired Az-Zour North power and desalinated as to assess and address the als against world-class standards professional development for the ing; non-technical, technical, lead- water plant that has an initial capacity of 1,800 megawatts. It will also sector’s competency and train- benchmarks,” said Dr Abdulaziz financial sector,” Al Horr said. ership and administrative skills; build the first phase of the Khairan power plant with 1500 MW of ing needs. Al Horr, CEO of QFBA. KAFA’A’s preliminary sur- and the extension of a network capacity, which will use different types of fuel, and the Al Abdaliyah “Qatar’s financial industry is The size of the Qatari financial veys and research highlight gaps of specialists and expert training power plant with a capacity of 280 MW, of which 60 MW will be from enjoying economic prosperity workforce, a unique blend of local between demand and supply of providers. THE PENINSULA solar energy while the rest will be fed by gas. REUTERS MONDAY 17 AUGUST 2015 18 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS Investors to look at Yusuffali meets Modi Fed, with China filter Federal Reserve minutes may reinforce Sept hike view

NEW YORK: Investors will near 10 percent devaluation of the high-end retailers like Coach comb through Wednesday’s yuan against the US dollar over and Tiffany. Apple, which gets minutes of the most recent the next year. Such a move could about 23 percent of its revenues Federal Reserve meeting for translate to a 5-percent drop in from China, according to Morgan indications on how the US Brent crude LCOc1, they said. Stanley, tumbled this week to a central bank will react to the “Most likely, there will be more near seven-month low. recent yuan devaluation and the volatility in the market and part For importers from China further decline in oil prices. of the reason is oil prices and the like Target, Walmart and Home The recent outperformance of worry that somehow the price of Depot, both reporting next week, bank stocks and underperform- oil is a reflection of inflation and the tailwind is expected to be off- ance of utilities, both on expecta- deflation,” said Quincy Krosby, set by the expectation of a slower tions of higher Treasury yields, market strategist at Prudential global economic growth, accord- Prominent Indian business man Yusuffali MA in discussion with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at support current market bets that Financial in Newark, New Jersey. ing to Michael Yoshikami, CEO of Emirates Palace in Abu Dhabi yesterday. Indian Ambassador to the UAE TP Seetharam (left) and VPS the Fed will raise rates for the “The lower [oil] goes, the more Destination Wealth Management Healthcare MD Dr Shamsheer VP are also seen. first time in nearly a decade after it is a deflationary barometer. The in Walnut Creek, California. its mid-September meeting. lower it goes, the more difficulty Estee Lauder, expected to The performance gap between the Fed has raising rates.” post earnings today, is among the two sectors widened in favor The Fed mentioned “earlier the first high-end retailers to of financials to its largest since declines in energy prices” on its report after the yuan devaluation. Iran expects petrochem exports surge May 2008 shortly after the Fed’s latest statement on July 29, and Its stock was on track on Friday July meeting. their downward pressure on infla- to close the largest weekly drop DUBAI: Iran expects to target the petrochemical sector, Company, was quoted as saying by But this week, following the tion. Since that day, US crude has since late May. increase petrochemical exports but exports have slumped since state news agency IRNA. nearly 3 percent devaluation in fallen more than 12 percent. “The whole Chinese luxury by up to a quarter by the end of banking and shipping restrictions “When banking, insurance and China’s currency and a steepen- Even if the yuan seems to have goods market, especially imported 2016 after sanctions are lifted, were introduced in early 2012. shipping restrictions are lifted, it ing decline in oil prices, it nar- stabilised, its 3-percent drop beauty products, has been on fire a senior official was quoted as “We expect our exports of pet- will become easier to export and rowed to its tightest in more than against the US dollar and the pos- for years, but in the last year saying. rochemical products to increase the costs will decrease,” he added. a month. sibility of a further slide will con- things have really turned around,” Sanctions against Iran, due to by 20 to 25 percent in a short Iran, one of the world’s top oil Strategists at Bank of America/ tinue to be something to watch for said Kim Forrest, senior equity be lifted in coming months after a time, between a year and a and gas producers, exported around Merrill Lynch said in client notes highly exposed companies. research analyst at Fort Pitt July deal between Tehran and six year and a half,” Mehdi Sharifi $14bn of petrochemical products in the past week that China’s The devaluation did hit compa- Capital Group in Pittsburgh. world powers to curb its nuclear Niknafs, managing director of the in 2014, the Fars news agency move may be the early stages of a nies in several sectors, including REUTERS programme, do not specifically Iran Petrochemical Commercial reported in April. REUTERS

Merkel expects Bailout gives creditors IMF to take part unprecedented in Greek bailout say in Greece BRUSSELS: Greece’s inter- BERLIN: German Chancellor Uncertainty over the IMF national creditors will have an Angela Merkel tried to reassure role in the €86bn bailout has unprecedented say over the skeptical lawmakers yesterday become a headache for Merkel country’s government to make that the International Monetary before Wednesday’s vote in the sure Athens sticks to the terms Fund would take part in a new Bundestag. Lawmakers from of its huge third bailout. But bailout for Greece, before a par- her Christian Democratic Union will it be enough to ensure its liamentary vote in which many (CDU) and its Bavarian sister success? of her conservatives may break party, the Christian Social Union The monitoring of the $96bn ranks and reject the rescue. (CSU), want the IMF involved rescue by the creditors — the In her first public comments because of its reputation for rigor. EU, European Central Bank and since her summer break, Merkel Volker Kauder, a close Merkel IMF — will touch everyday life in told broadcaster ZDF that she ally and the leader of her con- Greece, from a visit to the doc- was sure Christine Lagarde, head servatives in parliament, has even tor to the purchase of a daily loaf of the IMF, would ensure the par- described IMF involvement as a of bread. But analysts say all this ticipation of the fund if conditions “condition” for supporting a new oversight, designed to make sure on Greek pension reform and debt bailout. German Chancellor Angela Merkel (left) posing for a photo before the recording of the “Summer Interview” with Athens sticks to the deal, risks relief were met. But Lagarde, who has been ZDF’s Bettina Schausten in their studio in Berlin yesterday. being counterproductive, stoking “Mrs Lagarde, the chief of pressing eurozone countries to the popular resentment against the IMF, made very clear that provide Athens with “signifi- the creditors that put left-wing if these conditions are met, then cant” debt relief, has said the In a nod to its calls for debt support of parties like the Social conservative camp broke ranks Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras in she will recommend to the IMF IMF will wait until October to relief, Merkel said there was room Democrats and Greens. But a and refused to back negotiations office in January. board that the IMF takes part in decide whether to participate. to ease the burden on Greece by rebellion by a large number of her on the bailout. German newspaper Finance ministers from the the programme from October,” That would force lawmakers to extending the maturities on its allies would be a blow for Merkel, Bild estimated at the weekend that 19-country eurozone approved Merkel said. “I have no doubts vote without any guarantees that debt and reducing interest rates. who remains highly popular after up to 120 CDU and CSU members the bailout late Friday, after that what Mrs Lagarde said will the Washington-based institution German approval of the bail- 10 years in office. Last month, a may refuse to back the government Tsipras managed to get the pack- become reality.” will have a role. out is not in doubt because of the record 65 lawmakers from Merkel’s in the vote. REUTERS age through parliament despite significant opposition within his own radical-left party Syriza. Analysts say the creditors too face their own political problems, Schaeuble praises Greek stance shift in debt talks especially in Germany where many voters resent handing over BERLIN: Germany’s hard- debt-mired eurozone partner, the agreement reached Friday among said that he now expects talks on step forward that there is a gen- more money to what they see as line finance minister Wolfgang influential Schaeuble struck an the eurozone finance ministers debt relief given the insistence eral understanding that this is a lost cause in Greece. “This cur- Schaeuble yesterday hailed a upbeat, conciliatory note. “After “responsible” and “in keeping with of the IMF, one of Greece’s key possible without a haircut” or debt rent deal does not guarantee that change in tone in talks with truly arduous negotiations, they the commitments made at a euro creditors, on measures to bring writedown. Greece will continue to stay in the Greece over its next bailout but understand now in Greece that summit in July”. Athens’s debt mountain down to Germany has ruled out eras- euro area,” said analyst Daniela warned Europe would closely the country cannot get around real He said that the eurozone coun- a manageable size. ing any of Greece’s debt from the Schwarzer with the German monitor the pace of reforms in and far-reaching reforms,” he told tries would now be keeping close But Spahn, seen as a rising star books but has indicated it would be Marshall Fund of the United Athens. the Bild am Sonntag. watch to ensure that the reforms- in Chancellor Angela Merkel’s open to giving Athens more time States. “It is an important step Ahead of a key vote in the Schaeuble, who has driven a for-aid deal “is implemented conservative Christian Democratic to pay its creditors back if it con- which confirms all parties’ politi- German parliament to approve tough bargain throughout the point-by-point” in Greece. One of Union, told the Welt am Sonntag tinues to implement pro-market cal commitment at this point in a third rescue package for its crisis talks with Athens, called an Schaeuble’s deputies, Jens Spahn, newspaper it marked “a decisive economic reforms. AFP time,” Schwarzer said. AFP Morgan Stanley’s Fragile Five swells to Troubled Ten in selloff LONDON: Forget the “Fragile Five.” four of the developing world’s eight worst June 30. In turn, the slower growth will The move rippled through global mar- for the first time in nine years, threaten- These days, strategists at Morgan performers since the phrase was coined also put China’s trading partners in the kets, weakening the currencies of the ing to lure capital away from emerging Stanley are worried about what could in 2013. The real, together with Turkey’s crosshairs. There’s some overlap between Asian countries that compete with China markets. Futures contracts show traders be called the “Troubled Ten.” lira, South Africa’s rand, the Indian rupee the Fragile Five and the new at-risk list, for exports and sending developing-nation see a 75 percent chance the US central That’s how many nations they say are and Indonesian rupiah, have suffered as with the rand and real to be found in stocks into a bear market. A Bloomberg bank will move by year-end. particularly at risk since China deval- rising global interest rates make it more both. Also vulnerable to China’s slow- index tracking major emerging-market “We are going to have at least one ued the yuan. While the analysts haven’t difficult for the countries to finance their down are the Thai baht, the Singapore currencies, already under pressure from more episode of pain” before emerg- used the term themselves, it’s as good a current-account deficits. and Taiwan dollars, the Chilean and slowing growth and a slump in commod- ing-market currencies become a com- description as any for the currencies — For Redeker, the biggest challenge Colombian pesos, Russia’s ruble and the ity prices, fell 0.9 percent last week to a pelling buy, Steven Englander, global from the Brazilian real to Peru’s sol and now is a lack of global growth. While won and the sol, according to Redeker. record low. head of Group-of-10 currency strategy South Korea’s won — which have trad- central banks in Japan, Europe and the China is the top export destination for “The move by China has introduced at Citigroup Inc., said on Bloomberg ing ties making them susceptible to a US have rolled out record stimulus, the most of the countries on the troubled 10 further concerns on foreign-exchange val- Television. It will take a sizable fiscal slowdown in the world’s second-biggest world’s economy will expand at the slow- list, data compiled by Bloomberg show. uations in emerging markets,” said Chris package to boost China’s economy and economy. “It’s all about vulnerability,” est pace since 2009 this year, according to The nation accounted for 37 percent of Chapman, a London-based fixed-income reverse the selloff in emerging markets, said Hans Redeker, the London-based International Monetary Fund forecasts. South Africa’s exports and 30 percent of trader at Manulife Asset Management, according to Redeker — and it’s not clear global head of foreign-exchange strategy That “lukewarm” recovery means South Korea’s in 2014. which oversees $302bn. “We have reduced that will be forthcoming. at Morgan Stanley. “Major victims of the China won’t be able to rely on exports Investors were jolted last week as our EM positions over time as the risk- “The biggest concern is that we are policy change this time are currencies to drive expansion, said the strategist, China implemented the biggest deprecia- reward profiles have changed, and will not going to turn the corner and the eco- of countries with high export exposure whose firm was the second-highest tion of the yuan since 1994, raising con- continue to monitor.” nomic performance in China will con- and export competitiveness with China.” ranked forecaster of the dollar versus cern that authorities plan to use a lower Even with the yuan roiling markets, tinue to disappoint,” he said. “Investors Morgan Stanley was right about the the yuan, according to data compiled by exchange rate to shore up the weakest investors still see the Federal Reserve will watch China data closely and trade Fragile Five. Those currencies include Bloomberg for the four quarters ended growth in more two decades. sticking to its plan to raise interest rates the yuan accordingly.” BLOOMBERG MONDAY 17 AUGUST 2015 BUSINESS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 19 Toyota shuts Gazprom woes mount as output dips three lines after Lower oil prices, western sanctions, loss of Ukrainian market hit Russian energy giant badly China explosion

MOSCOW: Facing a cold shoul- firm, said. “What remains to on Moscow over the Ukraine cri- Gazprom. The company, how- According to Mikhail BEIJING: Toyota Motor Corp der from Europe and increased be seen is whether Gazprom sis have undermined Gazprom’s ever, has reiterated that Russian Korchemkin, the director of the said three of its production lines competition at home, Russia’s becomes an appendage of the attempts to turn away from energy resources remain the most East European Gas Analysis in China will stay shut through Gazprom has struggled to assert foreign ministry or evolves into a Europe, its traditional market. accessible to fulfil Europe’s grow- firm, there are “next to zero” August 19 after last week’s dominance on the global energy global energy company.” Washington’s ban on technol- ing demand for gas. chances that the pipeline will be blasts that rocked an industrial market, prompting speculation The decline in Gazprom’s value ogy transfers to Russia for cer- Gazprom’s exports to Europe, completed. area in the port city of Tianjin. the energy giant could have no and gas production coincides tain energy projects, including which are expected to rise this Critics have said Gazprom has Evacuation advisories in the choice but to splinter. with mounting tensions with Gazprom’s Yuzhnoye Kirinskoye year, still provide the company been slow to react to the ever- area mean that none of the three With the Russian economy slip- the European Union, which has field in the far eastern Okhotsk with hefty revenues in spite of changing gas market, clinging to lines at Tianjin FAW Toyota ping into recession on the back accused it of catering to Moscow’s Sea, is stifling Moscow’s ambitions lower energy prices. lengthy contracts pegged to fluc- Motor Co can operate, spokes- of lower oil prices and Western geopolitical interests instead of on the Asian market. After the EU blocked Russia’s tuating oil prices. man Itsuki Kurosu said in an sanctions over Ukraine, the econ- operating according to business Gazprom was set to use the South Stream gas pipeline Analysts have claimed that e-mailed statement. A line at omy ministry predicted Gazprom principles. field to develop its liquefied project — which would have Gazprom could benefit from Xiqing, some 70km away, is shut would produce 414 billion cubic Gazprom is now grappling natural gas (LNG) production brought Russian gas to west- dividing its mammoth structure because it needs parts produced metres of gas this year, an all- with a series of issues, including capacity and, according to some ern Europe via the Black Sea into smaller entities that would at the Tianjin facility. time low for the public company its recent loss of the Ukrainian reports, exchange assets with — Russian President Vladimir be more efficient and transparent. The death toll from sitting atop some of the world’s market, Europe’s energy diversifi- Anglo-Dutch company Shell. Putin announced the country Russian media has reported Wednesday’s blasts at a chemi- largest natural gas reserves. cation efforts and increased com- Without US technology, experts would work on a new pipeline, that Igor Sechin, the influential cal warehouse in Tianjin has Gazprom’s market capitalisa- petition on the domestic market, fear that Russia will not be able to the TurkStream, which would head of Russian oil giant Rosneft, risen to 112, while 95 people are tion has plummeted in recent which jeopardise its status as a exploit the field’s resources. “This run through Turkey. has asked the government to still missing, Xinhua reported. years. Prior to the 2008 financial gas giant. is bad news for Russia because Gazprom is eager to complete open up gas exports to competi- Toyota previously said that about crisis, the company was worth The gas giant struck a $400bn the production of LNG is a stra- the TurkStream pipeline to tion and to split Gazprom in two, 50 employees who live in the sur- more than $300bn. Its value now natural-gas deal with China last tegic objective in the region,” said bypass Ukraine in its gas ship- separating energy production and rounding were injured and that hovers around $50bn, trailing far year, an agreement that was her- Valery Nesterov, an analyst at ments, but its construction, which transportation. its staff suffered no deaths. behind the world’s other major alded as the symbol of Russia’s Sberbank Investment CIB. was scheduled to start in June, “I’m not sure Gazprom survives Two Toyota dealerships were energy companies. pivot to Asia. Moscow and Beijing The Ukraine conflict, which has been delayed. this difficult period,” said analyst closed by the blasts, the company “Gazprom is confronted with have since agreed on Russia sup- has propelled Russia’s relations Experts said it is unlikely that Korchemkin. “It would be easier has said. the greatest challenge in its his- plying natural gas to western with the West to their post-Soviet Ankara will make any decisions for its development if it split into Toyota’s production wasn’t tory,” Chris Weafer, a partner at China. nadir, has meanwhile exacerbated on the project until after upcom- pieces within a couple of years.” affected last week because the the Macro Advisory consultancy But Western sanctions imposed Europe’s desire to dissociate from ing general elections. AFP lines were closed for a public holi- day, Kurosu said. The plant, called TEDA, started production in 2002 and as of 2011 Shortage of basic goods in Venezuela employed 12,800 people making vehicles including the Corolla and Arabtec swings RAV4, according to the company’s to Q2 loss website. BLOOMBERG as costs rise Al Tayyar to buy

DUBAI: Dubai’s largest listed Zakhr stake via construction firm Arabtec swung to a second-quarter net loss yesterday, missing analysts’ share swap estimates as costs rose. The builder had also reported DUBAI: Saudi Arabia’s Al losses in the preceding two Tayyar Travel Group said yes- quarters. Arabtec made a net terday it had agreed on a share loss attributable to equity hold- swap worth SR669.9m ($178.6m) ers in the parent of Dh718.3m to acquire a 25 percent stake ($195.59m) in the three months in Zakhr Investment and Real to June 30, it said in a statement Estate Development. to Dubai’s bourse. The stake, which will come This compares with a profit equally from two existing Zakhr of Dh102.4m in the correspond- shareholders, will be paid for by ing period of 2014. Analysts had issuing 6.51 million new Al Tayyar forecast Arabtec would make a shares, a bourse filing from the quarterly net profit of between travel firm said. Dh88.4m and Dh90.6m. Zakhr Investment has a project “The Board of Directors has in the holy city of Mecca which undertaken a careful review of its includes a hotel and residential accounting policies in respect of and commercial facilities serving recognising revenue, cost and profit pilgrims and residents. and adopted a more conservative The acquisition is conditional approach than that previously on changes to land titles as well used,” Arabtec said in the state- People queue up outside a supermarket in Valencia, 180 km west of Caracas. With shortages of basic goods, more Venezuelans say they are as regulatory and shareholder ment. “The benefits of the restruc- resorting to nighttime waits in front of closed stores. The food shortages in Venezuela, a major oil producer, stem from currency controls that approvals. REUTERS turing programme will be reflected restrict the availability of US dollars for imports. Lower oil prices, a recession and rampant inflation have further darkened the economic outlook. in our Q4 results and fully in 2016.” The firm said its quarterly revenue from continuing opera- tions was Dh1.8bn, down 8.1 per- cent year-on-year. Direct costs Zimbabwe to amend labour law after job losses mount increased by 31 percent, Arabtec said without elaborating. The company has undergone HARARE: Zimbabwe has lost struggling with electricity short- of the main Zimbabwe Congress employment. “More than 20,000 court ruling and set tougher condi- major management upheavals 20,000 jobs in the last month after ages, high finance and labour costs of Trade Unions, said a July 17 workers have lost their jobs due to tions for future dismissals. Under over the past 15 months, cul- a court ruled that companies can and cheap imports, which has seen Supreme Court ruling had opened the Supreme Court ruling and as the proposed amendments, employ- minating in the election of Abu fire workers by giving them three many firms fail to pay wages or a floodgate for dismissals that have a union we are worried that if the ers can only dismiss a worker on Dhabi businessman Mohamed months’ notice, the main labour forced to shut. The latest wave of seen private firms and state-owned situation is not urgently addressed three months’ notice if there is Thani Murshed Ghannam al- union said, as the government job losses are leading to renewed entities laying off employees. more workers will continue to lose agreement with the employee or if Rumaithi as its chairman in May. moved to amend the labour law to anger against President Robert Instead of the cumbersome and their jobs,” Moyo told Reuters. the worker is on a fixed-term con- He replaced Khadem Abdulla stop further losses. Mugabe’s government, which prom- expensive process of paying sev- Mugabe’s government published tract, otherwise they are obliged to al-Qubaisi, who was not nomi- Businesses in the southern ised 2 million jobs after winning the erance packages, businesses now a bill seeking to amend the law to pay retrenchment packages of at nated for renewed board African country, which has a jobless last elections in 2013. only have to give workers three force employers to pay severance least two weeks’ salary for every membership. REUTERS rate of more than 80 percent, are Japhet Moyo, secretary general months’ notice to terminate their packages to workers fired after the year served. REUTERS

AT&T helped NSA in Internet spying

WASHINGTON: relationship with AT&T has been this flow operational prior to the Telecommunications power- particularly important, enabling 10th anniversary of 9/11,” referring house AT&T Inc has provided the agency to conduct surveil- to the September 11, 2001, attacks extensive assistance to the US lance, under various legal rules, on the United States, the Times National Security Agency as of international and foreign-to- reported. the spy agency conducts sur- foreign Internet communications AT&T’s providing of foreign- veillance on huge volumes of that passed through network hubs to-foreign Internet traffic has Internet traffic passing through in the United States. been especially important to the the United States, the New York AT&T installed surveillance NSA because large amounts of the Times reported on Saturday, equipment in at least 17 of its US world’s Internet communications citing newly disclosed NSA Internet hubs, far more than com- pass across US cables, the Times documents. petitor Verizon Communications reported. The company gave The newspaper reported that Inc, the Times reported. AT&T access to contents of transiting the company gave technical assist- engineers also were the first to email traffic years before Verizon ance to the NSA in carrying out use new surveillance technologies started in March 2013, the Times a secret court order allowing invented by the NSA, the Times reported. wiretapping of all Internet com- reported. “This is a partnership, Asked to comment on the munications at the headquarters not a contractual relationship,” Times report, AT&T spokesman of the United Nations, an AT&T according to one NSA document Brad Burns told Reuters by email: customer. describing the link between the “We do not voluntarily provide The documents date from agency and the company. information to any investigating 2003 to 2013 and were provided AT&T’s “corporate relation- authorities other than if a person’s by fugitive former NSA contrac- ships provide unique accesses life is in danger and time is of the tor Edward Snowden, the Times to other telecoms and I.S.P.s,” essence. For example, in a kidnap- reported. or Internet service providers, ping situation we could provide The company helped the spy according to another NSA docu- help tracking down called num- agency in a broad range of clas- ment. AT&T started in 2011 to bers to assist law enforcement.” sified activities, the newspa- provide the NSA more than 1.1 Burns said AT&T would have per reported. The documents billion domestic cellphone calling nothing further to say on the A man walks past the AT&T store in New York’s Times Square. describe how the NSA’s working records daily after “a push to get report. REUTERS MONDAY 17 AUGUST 2015 20 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS Saudi banks worry about liquidity squeeze Banks easily absorb last week’s sovereign bond issue; Multi-year issuance programme could be different

DUBAI: Turmoil in the Saudi banks no more than 40 percent swapping fixed for floating pay- an annual state budget deficit with spending cuts heavy bond deputy chief economist at Samba Arabian money markets sug- of the deficit will be financed with ments with a one-year interest estimated by analysts at between sales may continue indefinitely. Financial Group. gests that financing the govern- bonds; the rest will be covered by rate swap jumped 30 basis points $130bn and $150bn. Some bankers think authori- “We don’t believe that the peg ment’s budget deficit in an era of running down fiscal reserves. from July. The 40 percent issuance ceil- ties may be reluctant to issue a will be broken,” added Reeve, cheap oil may not be smooth as But authorities have not One-year US dollar/Saudi riyal ing suggests that Riyadh may sell public issuance calendar because, who predicted that pressure on banks worry about the risk of a released a bond issuance calendar forwards hit 290 points, their SR15bn to SR20bn of bonds each with oil prices volatile and long- money market liquidity from the liquidity squeeze. or detailed figures for the govern- highest since March 2003. For month. In June commercial banks term government spending plans launch of the government bond The government sold SR20bn ment’s borrowing requirement. most of 2015 they were between had 266 billion riyals in central uncertain, they have little clear programme would be offset by ($5.3bn) of riyal bonds to banks This has left banks in the dark zero and 100 points. The prospect bank bills and non-statutory cen- idea of how many bonds they will reduced private sector credit last Tuesday to help to cover a about how many more bonds they of a US rate rise has added to tral bank deposits, suggesting they ultimately have to sell. demand as the economy slows. huge deficit caused by low oil might be asked to buy in coming upward pressure on Saudi market could buy bonds for a year with- Bankers said that the jump in As yet, investors are far from prices. It was only the second sov- months and years. rates, said Anita Yadav, head of out cutting loans to private sector dollar/riyal forwards was mostly panic-stricken about the peg being ereign bond issue since 2007; the Bankers, therefore, are scram- fixed income research at Emirates companies. “Given the govern- because of changing interest rate broken or Riyadh having trouble first, placed with quasi-sovereign bling to hedge against the risk NBD, Dubai’s biggest bank. ment’s stated intention to finance differentials, but some attributed with its debt. Five-year Saudi institutions, occurred in July. of a liquidity crunch a year or “I expect riyal spreads to go 40 percent of the deficit through it partly to concern that if cheap credit default swaps (CDS) are up Cash-rich Saudi banks easily two from now, causing the Saudi higher from here as liquidity in issuances, we believe the banks oil forces Riyadh to keep draw- only marginally in the past few absorbed last week’s issue, but money curve to steepen even as the system becomes tight due to in the kingdom have more than ing down its foreign reserves, it weeks and well below 2012 levels. money market moves show con- the US curve flattens in anticipa- lower oil revenue-related depos- ample liquidity to support this might eventually have to abandon However, one currency strategist cern about their ability to absorb tion of an interest rate rise this its, large local currency bond issu- endeavour,” said Anirban Kundu, the riyal’s peg to the dollar. at a foreign bank said the minimal the multi-year series of issues that year — an unusual divergence. ance by the Saudi government and head of investment advisory serv- “Markets believe there is an movement in the CDS market is may become necessary if oil prices The cost of two-year riyal increased demand for hedging ices at Saudi Fransi Capital. increasing chance of the dollar partly down to its lack of liquid- remain low. deposits in the interbank mar- from the corporates as US rates The prospect worrying bankers, peg being broken in the medium ity and that CDS spreads could Adding to the jitters is officials’ ket shot up to 1.53 percent last begin to rise.” however, is that unless oil prices term, given low oil prices and at some point reflect the pressure secrecy about their bond plans. week from as low as 1.05 percent With Brent oil priced at about rise sharply or the government potential strains on the balance evident in the currency market. Authorities have privately told six weeks earlier. The cost of $50 a barrel, Riyadh is running commits to shrinking its deficit of payments,” said James Reeve, REUTERS Germany’s Mann + Libya’s oil output to hit Hummel buys US 380,000 bpd BENGHAZI: Libya’s oil pro- duction is between 350,000 and peer for $1.3-1.4bn 380,000 barrels a day, the new chairman of a state oil firm FRANKFURT: German car Cypress put the company’s fil- based in eastern Libya said parts maker Mann + Hummel tration business, which last year yesterday. is buying US firm Affinia’s auto posted earnings before interest, That is in line with recent filter unit for $1.3-1.4bn, a per- tax, depreciation and amortiza- output figures provided by other son familiar with the transac- tion of $156m, up for sale this Libyan officials. Production is less tion said yesterday. year, asking investment bank than a quarter of what the Opec The deal is the third within a Baird to find a buyer. producer used to pump before year in which a US auto supplier The asset also attracted inter- an uprising toppled Muammar is bought by a German peer, fol- est from peers including US-based Gaddafi in 2011. lowing ZF’s takeover of TRW and Donaldson, France’s Valeo and Libya’s official government, Mahle’s acquisition of Delphi’s Germany’s Freudenberg. which is based in the eastern city air-conditioning unit. Mann + Hummel and Affinia of Bayda since losing the capital Consolidation has heated up in were not immediately available to a rival group a year ago, earlier the sector, as valuations are high for comment outside business appointed him as head of its state and suppliers are vying for size hours. oil firm NOC, also located in the in a battle over pricing power in Affinia is the former replace- east. The move is largely symbolic talks with car makers. ment parts business of car parts as oil production and the market- Canada’s Magna scooped up maker Dana, which sold the Filter system manufacturer Mann+Hummel’s plant is pictured in the eastern German town of Sonneberg. ing of exports are controlled by Germany’s Getrag in mid-July, unit to Cypress and co-investor the established state oil firm, also while Fiat Chrysler is said to be OMERS in 2004 for $1.1bn. known as NOC, in Tripoli where exploring a sale of its auto parts The filtration business, which 2014 sales of $967m. was sold separately in June. Federal-Mogul. The whole group a rival government is in charge. unit Magneti Marelli. specializes in after-market oil, Affinia’s South America unit, Last year, Affinia’s chassis com- had net debt of $766m at the end The official government has set Affinia’s private equity owner fuel, air and coolant filters, posted with annual revenues of $430m, ponents business was sold to of 2014. REUTERS up an oil firm also called NOC based in the east but oil custom- ers have refused to deal with it, preferring to pay through existing channels via NOC in Tripoli. Maghrabi, who is currently in S Korean Egypt, confirmed customers were Australia to target firms avoiding taxes still dealing with NOC Tripoli but said he wanted to change this. insurers’ net “We are about to announce SYDNEY: Multinational “Google tax” on companies that measure to actually reveal Australian Treasurer Joe an international conference in firms shifting profits offshore divert profits overseas. what goes on behind closed Hockey revealed earlier this Benghazi so the world can meet to avoiding paying Australian “The worst tax offenders doors between them and the tax year his government’s plans to the legitimate (state oil) firm,” he profits jump taxes should be “named and should be named and shamed, office,” Dastyari added. introduce legislation targeting told Egyptian TV channel CBC. shamed”, the chair of an they should have to justify “The more public expo- 30 unnamed firms for shifting “I call on the world to head this Australian parliamentary publicly why they’re taking sure, the more pressure that’s profits offshore. call and deal with NOC in Bayda.” 30.2pc in H1 inquiry into the practices said the stances that they’re tak- brought upon these companies, While the Organisation for Holding any event in Benghazi yesterday ahead of the release ing,” the inquiry’s chairman the better the policy outcome.” Economic Cooperation and would be major challenge as the SEOUL: South Korean insur- of a report. Sam Dastyari told reporters in One of the report’s 18 recom- Development (OECD), a group- city has been since May 2014 a ance companies’ net profit The inquiry has grilled sen- Sydney. mendations will suggest that ing of wealthy nations, has war zone with daily street bat- jumped 30.2 percent in the ior representatives from some of The inquiry’s report, to be even companies with overseas played a key role in international tles between forces allied to the first six months of the year the world’s biggest firms in the tabled in parliament Monday, is headquarters should disclose efforts to tackle tax avoidance, eastern government and Islamist from a year earlier on a rise in technology, pharmaceutical and set to call for the disclosure of their revenue, tax paid and such concerns are also shared fighters. All hotels and the city’s investment-related earnings, mining sectors on whether they tax avoidance settlements with deductions used in Australia, by developing countries. airport and port are closed. the financial watchdog said were using complex corporate the Australian Taxation Office the Sydney Morning Herald The issue took centre stage One soldier got killed and yesterday. structures to reduce their tax above a certain level — such as said. at a global developing financing five wounded during fighting on The combined net income of burden. Aus$100m, the Sydney Morning Firms quizzed by the upper summit in Ethiopia last month. Saturday, medics said. local life and non-life insurers The push in Australia to Herald reported. house Senate hearings, includ- The UN’s trade and develop- Maghrabi has replaced al- reached 4.47 trillion won ($3.8bn) crack down on multinational “At this point in time, you ing Apple, Google, Pfizer and ment body UNCTAD has said Mabrook Bou Seif as chair- in the January-June period, com- firms has been mirrored in have a series of Australia’s Johnson & Johnson, said they that such practices were costing man of NOC in the east, an oil pared with 3.44 trillion won the other countries, with Britain in most powerful companies fight- had abided by local and inter- poorer countries some $100bn a official said, without giving a previous year, according to the March introducing a so-called ing against any transparency national tax laws. year. AFP reason. REUTERS Financial Supervisory Service. Life insurance firms posted a 40.2 percent on-year surge in profit to 2.8 trillion won over the six-month period, while non-life insurers’ net gained 16.3 percent to 1.68 trillion won, according to COSCO, China Shipping Group in merger talks Yonhap news agency. Increased investment returns contributed to the strong bottom SHANGHAI: China Ocean said the firms would set up a five- years been squeezed sharply by lines, with life insurers earning Shipping (Group) Company member working group to con- a global glut of vessels that were 11.2 trillion won from investment (COSCO) and China Shipping sider the merger plan, with three ordered before the financial cri- in the first half, up 3.9 percent Group are in talks over a possi- members from China Shipping sis, which have weighed heavily on from a year earlier. Non-life ble merger, a person with direct and two from COSCO. China freight rates. insurers posted a 21.5 percent knowledge of the matter said, Shipping’s chairman, Xu Lirong, In July, China COSCO said it on-year increase in investment as Beijing accelerates a drive to would head the team, it said. would post a first-half profit of returns over the same period at reform the bloated state-owned Officials in the communications 1.9 billion yuan, after suffering 3.3 trillion won. Their combined sector. departments of both COSCO and a loss last year, aided by govern- premium income rose 5.5 percent Beijing has promised to China Shipping Group declined ment subsidies, higher revenue to 91 trillion won from 86.2 tril- restructure many state-owned to comment. and lower costs. lion won a year ago. enterprises (SOEs) and stream- In April, state media reported Citi analyst Vivian Tao said in The return on assets, a key line industries to improve their that Beijing would cut the number June that a combined COSCO- gauge of profitability, grew 0.18 global competitiveness. As part of of big state firms to 40 through China Shipping would be the percentage point to 0.83 percent that plan, it merged its top two mergers. Speculation that ship- world’s fourth largest container for life insurers, with that of non- nuclear power firms, and top two including COSCO’s flagship China Caixin reported on its website late ping would be the next industry to shipping company with a roughly life insurers remaining flat at 1.62 train makers this year. “The idea Cosco and China Shipping’s China on Monday that the central gov- see an SOE merger, particularly 8.1 percent share, but would still percent. The insurance compa- (of a possible merger) exists,” said Shipping Development , halted ernment had urged the firms to one between COSCO and China lag behind the top three - APM nies’ combined assets stood at the source who spoke on condi- trading in their shares from Aug. draft a preliminary merger plan Shipping, has raged for months. Maersk, Mediterranean Shipping 903.3 trillion won as of end-June, tion of anonymity. “The matter is 10, adding that they were “plan- within three months, beginning Like many other foreign ship- Company and CMA CGM - who up 11.5 percent on-year from 810.1 being discussed.” The listed units ning major issues”. from August, citing an unnamed ping firms, COSCO and China oversee almost 40 percent of the trillion won. QNA of the two state-owned companies, Chinese business magazine COSCO executive. The report Shipping Group have in recent market. REUTERS MONDAY 17 AUGUST 2015 MARKET www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 21

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Brazilian farmer hopes for sweeter coffee market

MOCOCA: Brazilian farmer using fertilisers and pesticides. for almost a third of world output, miracle,” says Isabela Raposeiras, Marcos Croce has woken up and But when Croce and his wife took trailed by Vietnam and Colombia. 41, who teaches about coffee and smelled the coffee — embracing over the family business in 2001 But there’s a problem: Brazilian sells coffee at the Coffee Lab in the organic trend and bucking they switched to organic, a shock- coffee is very much at the bottom Sao Paulo. Brazil’s long-held status as a ing — but ultimately beneficial, he end of the market. “There are many stages that mass producer of poor quality believes — change in rhythm. Last year, only eight million need to be done right,” the beans. “Our production dropped 80 bags qualified as specialty grade. renowned specialist said, ticking His Hacienda Ambiental percent,” Croce remembers. However, that was up 59 percent off everything from where the Fortaleza plantation, surrounded Before, the plantation collected from 2013, and specialty coffee bean grows to how it is dried and by tropical plants and trees in Sao 10,000 bags of coffee a year. Croce is hot. It was Brazil’s association toasted, to how the actual cup of Paulo state, goes against every- would not reveal the current that created the Cup of Excellence coffee is prepared. thing that has made Brazil the output. contest in 1999 to promote its cof- In Brazil, the number of regions world’s biggest, though hardly It’s still below old levels, he fee. Today, the competition has producing specialty coffee is most appreciated, source of coffee. said, but the business is sustain- gone international and is consid- growing — and, whether it’s in Croce’s specialty-grade coffee able, selling to about 30 countries, ered a reference. Sao Paulo or Minas Gerais, Bahia, grows organically: some of the including France and Italy. Demand for specialty coffee Espiritu Santo or Parana, each plants in the sun, others in the Now Croce, who also set up the has risen worldwide by 10 to 15 coffee is influenced by the differ- shade, and the soil is fertiliser Bob-o-Link cooperative of some percent in the last few years, ent soils, climate and altitude. free. “We will never manage to 60 small producers, wants the compared to about two percent Mostly these are small-scale compete in terms of quantity, organic approach to expand. for regular coffee, with Europe, producers, but some are also but here we have managed to “We want to set up a sustain- Japan and the United States lead- larger players who want to break stand apart with consistent qual- ability index, not just in environ- ing the way. into the market. ity,” Croce, 62, said as he walked mental terms, but social,” he said. But to date the best known Gradually the trend is catch- between rows of shrubs speckled “When it comes to coffee, producers remain Colombia and ing on. It was only in 2014 that People sit on a bench on the sidewalk at Copacabana Beach in Rio de with red coffee beans. Brazil has always been consid- several African countries -- not a regional designation certifica- Janeiro yesterday. Brazil accounts for almost a third of world output, trailed The hacienda stands 3,280 ered the best team of the second the sleeping giant of Brazil. tion was set up, with Cerrado by Vietnam and Colombia. feet above sea level, some 300km division,” Silvio Leite, president So what’s all the fuss about? Minheiro from Minas Gerais north of Brazil’s financial capital of the Brazilian Specialty Coffee Technically, specialty coffee state so far the only one. Coffee Excellence. On the patio of defects, is difficult, slow and and biggest city, Sao Paulo. Association, which was set up in means scoring 80 points on a 100 “There are incredible coffees Fortaleza, farmer Ivan Santos, 31, expensive,” he said. “But it’s a It has been producing coffee 1991. point scale, standing out for taste in Brazil and they’re increas- showed off the dark, hand-picked dream: we are sending our best since 1890, most of that with With production of 45.3 million and having few or no defects. ingly in demand,” said Susie beans from the recent harvest. coffee around the world and for an eye on the mass market and 60 kg bags in 2014, Brazil accounts A good cup of coffee is “a Spindler, from the Alliance for “Making quality coffee, without the best prices.” AFP 10:20am, 3:30&9:10pm 11:00am, 1:30, 4:00, 6:50, 9:30pm & 12:10am 11:00am, 1:30,4:00,6:50,9:30pm&12:10am 3D Cop Car Pakistani) Vacation 10:00am, 2:00&6:00pm Vasuvum Saravananum Baahubali Love 24X7 Srimanthudu (Telugu) Shad Agza(2D/Arabic) Vacation SCREEN 3 Mission ImpossibleRogueNation(2D/Action) Fantastic Four(2D/Action) SCREEN 2 Brothers (2D/Hindi) Awol 72(2D/Thriller) SCREEN 1 8:15pm SCREEN 3 Mission ImpossibleRogueNation(2D/Action) Vacation SCREEN 2 Brothers (2D/Hindi) SCREEN 1 Zits By Jerry Scott andJim Borgman Scott Zits ByJerry Syndicate York New Times /The International Arts Cartoon Sudoku. a normal like solved is Sudoku aHyper Otherwise, once. only appear 1to 9can from numbers the regions Inall regions). standard nine the with overlap regions 13 (four unlike Sudoku regions has Sudoku Hyper A cells. blank 1 to 9intofrom the numbers by the filling solved is Puzzle Sudoku A Hyper Sudoku: Hyper play to How HYPER Vacation SCREEN 3 Mission ImpossibleRogueNation(2D/Action) Fantastic Four(2D/Action) SCREEN 2 Shad Agza(2D/Arabic) Awol 72(2D/Thriller) SCREEN 1 Grizzly SCREEN 10 SCREEN 9 SCREEN 8 Shad Agza(2D/Arabic) SCREEN 7 SCREEN 6 SCREEN 5 SCREEN 4 SCREEN 3 SCREEN 2 10:10am, 12:50,3:20,6:00,8:30&11:10pm SCREEN 1 ASIAN TOWN 22 MALL NOVO ROYAL PLAZA LANDMARK

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aYESTERDAY’S ANSWER MONDAY 17 AUGUST 2015 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 23 Adidas takes shot at US market $200m sports deal with NBA superstar James Harden underlines new strategy

FRANKFURT: NBA star “Adidas is changing its market- James Harden will soon be drib- ing strategy,” said Cedric Rossi, US forward James bling the ball with Adidas sneak- an analyst at investment bank Harden vies for ers on his feet as the German Bryan Garnier. the ball during sportswear maker hopes to “It no longer sponsors the NBA the 2014 FIBA retake US market share from league, but it is backing a few World basketball basketball giant Nike and key players ... Consumers associ- championships number two Under Armour. ate and identify with these stars final match against Signing up the Houston much more easily.” Rockets guard in a reported Nike will, meanwhile, take over Serbia at the 13-year, $200m (180m euro) deal from Adidas as NBA’s official Palacio de los aims to make Adidas trendy in a apparel supplier from the 2016- Deportes in Madrid market where it has been caught 17 season. in this September flat-footed before. From then, Adidas will real- 14, 2014 file photo. Charismatic Harden, 25, known locate the $10m a year it paid to German sports as “The Beard” to his fans and the league to individual players, giant Adidas voted the NBA’s second best said Rossi, explaining the value on August 13, player last season, will switch of Harden’s contract. 2015 agreed a from Nike to wear Adidas shoes “We must not forget that it is sponsorship deal on the court, and its gear in social for about 13 years. In the end, he with Harden which settings, from October. makes $15 million a year.” was reported to Adidas has stayed quiet about Adidas pulled out its cheque- be worth $200m the sum reported by ESPN, but book because the stakes are in a major blow to confirms it is taking a big bet on high for CEO Herbert Hainer, heavyweight rivals basketball. who is under pressure from Nike. “His connection with the fans shareholders. is unique and unprecedented,” The sportswear maker was rel- an Adidas spokesman said, not- egated last year to number three ing that the salary will be linked rank in the US market, behind ex-company executive. “The The company’s previous costly just starting to bear fruit in the athletes from American football to athletic performance. “He can newcomer Under Armour. view of Adidas has always been a mistakes, made from its head- fitness sector. The German com- and baseball. take the game and our brand to Adidas, a giant in football- European vision on the US mar- quarters in Herzogenaurach in pany has started to shift course “The American subsidiary new heights.” obsessed Germany, presented a ket ... southern Germany, have included and in 2014 brought in American gained independence and it was In a market where teenagers new strategy in March for the “We never allowed the US to declining in 1984 to sign up Mark King as head of the North essential,” said Rossi, who said love custom sneakers, Adidas market across the Atlantic. work as entrepreneurs.” Michael Jordan, then a rising star, America region. Adidas made “the right steps” in is taking on number one Nike, “The United States has always He said this could have included the former executive said. Product design is now done in the US, where sales rose three which already sponsors superstars been a problem,” even in the adapting its marketing strategy Adidas has also had trouble the United States, and King has percent in this year’s first half. LeBron James, Kevin Durant and time of Robert Louis-Dreyfus, and, for example, investing in uni- with the integration of Reebok, a free hand in marketing cam- “Now we expect a growth in Kobe Bryant. its former chief, recalls an versity sports. acquired in 2005 in a deal that is paigns, with plans to sponsor 500 turnover.” REUTERS

Baseball: Badminton: Bradley, Red Imperious Chen Sox blast overcomes Lee Mariners’ ace in final

NEW YORK: Jackie Bradley JAKARTA: China’s Chen Long Jr took advantage of an off day produced a fitting display for a from ace Felix Hernandez to top seed and defending cham- slug two home runs and seven pion to claim a second straight RBIs as the Boston Red Sox lit world title with a pulsating 21-14 up the Mariners’ right-hander 21-17 victory against Malaysian for 10 runs in 2-1/3 innings in nearly-man Lee Chong Wei Saturday’s 22-10 rout. yesterday. “He still looks like the king,” Lee has topped the world rank- said Bradley. “I think everybody’s ings for a record 298 weeks during entitled to have an off day. Today a long and illustrious career but was his day.” once again came up short against Bradley (5-for-6) homered off a Chinese player at the top of his Hernandez in the second inning game in a fourth world champi- as the Red Sox posted five-run onship final defeat in as many innings in the second and third matches. and closed the game with 11 runs Chen has replaced Lin Dan as over the final three. the top male player following his “I wanted to be aggressive with breakthrough world title triumph him because he’s a pitcher that a year ago and the rangy 26-year- attacks the zone with all of his old has also replaced his compa- pitches,” said Bradley, who also triot as Lee’s arch nemesis after added an RBI double in the sixth, repeating last year’s win over the a two-run double in the seventh Malaysian. and a home run in the eighth. Lin has beaten Lee in four Shortstop Xander Bogaerts and major finals, including the last two catcher Blake Swihart each had Olympics, but Chen has emerged four hits for Boston. Designated from the shadow of a player many hitter David Ortiz had three believe to be the greatest ever hits and three RBIs. Left fielder with a complete game built on Alejandro De Aza hit a two-run his supreme agility, speed, power homer and third baseman Pablo Cyclists ride during the 183km third stage of the Arctic Race of Norway between Finnsnes and Maalselv in Norway. Ben Hermans (BMC) won the third and fitness. Sandoval launched a solo shot stage of the Arctic Race of Norway in a dramatic finish, catching and passing late-race soloist Rein Taaramae (Astana) on the hilltop finish in Malselv. At 1.87 metres, Chen also before leaving the game in the Mathias Frank (IAM Cycling) finished the day in third place. boasts a court-covering reach and fourth inning. used all of his attributes to rein in Wade Miley (9-9) gave up two the fast-starting Lee, realising he runs on four hits and struck out was dominating when he attacked eight in seven innings for Boston. and coming off second best in the “The offense was going for me,” tactical rallies. he said. “They were scoring a lot Once he took the lead at 11-10, of runs. I just tried to not give Chen looked unstoppable and up more than they scored to get NFL: White to miss six games reeled off 16-of-20 points to claim them back out there to hit. They the opening game before storming can take all the time they want.” NEW YORK: Chicago Bears season as Logan Paulsen will have out of the blocks in the second Hernandez (14-7) gave up 11 wide receiver Kevin White, the surgery today to repair a turf toe to forge a six-point lead by the or more hits for the third time seventh overall pick in the 2015 condition, head coach Jay Gruden interval. in four starts, as the Mariners’ NFL Draft, needs surgery on a announced. Lee battled gamely as Chen’s right-hander was tagged for 12 stress fracture in his left shin. The news comes two days intensity levels dropped but the hits and three homers in his sec- General manager Ryan Pace after starting tight end Niles Malaysian was unable to get any ond-shortest outing of the year. said yesterday that White will Paul broke his ankle in Thursday closer than within two points of “That was embarrassing,” start the season on the physically night’s pre-season opener against his opponent in the second game Hernandez said. “Every pitch I unable to perform list and could the Cleveland Browns. as a packed Istora Senayan roared threw, they hit it.” REUTERS miss the entire season. Gruden also confirmed that in approval. By remaining on the PUP list, running back Silas Redd is out “Lee is a good player but I Baseball Results White will be sidelined for at least for the season with a torn ACL was better today,” Chen said in NY Yankees 4 Toronto 1 the first six games of the regular and MCL in his right knee. a courtside interview. “This is a season. * * * The lawyers for Tom very special arena, so it feels great Boston 22 Seattle 10 White suffered the injury dur- Brady claim there is a “smear to win the world title here.” Baltimore 4 Oakland 3 ing the Bears’ off-season pro- campaign” by the NFL against Carolina Marin also enjoyed a Milwaukee 4 Philadelphia 2 gramme and missed training the New England Patriots star successful title defence, the top- Arizona 8 Atlanta 4 camp practices as well as the quarterback in the fight over the seeded Spaniard beating Saina Pittsburgh 5 NY Mets 3 Bears’ preseason opener. Deflategate scandal. Nehwal 21-16, 21-19 in a high- Chicago Cubs 6 C W Sox 3 Pace said White suffered a set- Brady’s attorneys on Friday class encounter to deny India a Kansas City 9 LA Angels 4 back in his recovery this week, reiterated their claims of unfair Arizona Cardinals’ president Michael Bidwill talks with coaching intern Jen first world badminton title. Minnesota 4 Cleveland 1 prompting the need for surgery. treatment by NFL commissioner Welter prior to the game against the Kansas City Chiefs in a pre-season The world number one had Detroit 4 Houston 2 In other team news, the Bears Roger Goodell as they seek to NFL clash at University of Phoenix Stadium. been under an injury cloud in the signed wide receiver Jeremy overturn Brady’s four-game sus- build up to the championships St Louis 6 Miami 2 Kelley to a one-year contract pension for his alleged involve- but twice relied on her ability to Texas 12 Tampa Bay 4 and waived linebacker DeDe ment in the deflation of game balls Jeffrey Kessler, the lead attor- Brady as a “propaganda piece” quickly string together points at San Diego 7 Colorado 5 Lattimore. during the AFC Championship ney for Brady and the NFL in documents filed Friday in crucial times to rally from behind LA Dodgers 8 Cincinnati 3 * * * The Washington Redskins game against the Indianapolis Players Association, referred to US District Court, according to in both games and secure victory San Francisco 12 Washington 6 lost another tight end for the Colts in January. Goodell’s written ruling against ESPN.com. AGENCIES in 56 minutes. REUTERS MONDAY 17 AUGUST 2015 24 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT Defiant Coe set to come full IAAF accused of blocking circle in IAAF bid

BEIJING: Eighties icon, former member of parliament and the architect of the 2012 London Olympics, Sebastian Coe is on the cusp of becoming one of the most powerful figures in sport. report on doping cheats The Briton’s first job could be to defend athletics from stinging allegations of widespread doping which threaten to cast a dark cloud over this month’s world championships in Beijing. Coe, who won Olympic gold in the 1,500 metres at the 1980 and 1984 This is not a new story, says world athletics body Games, appears to have edged closer to securing the presidency of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) after receiving strong backing from European countries. LONDON: The world athletics The 58-year-old is being challenged by Sergey Bubka, Ukraine’s governing body blocked the pub- former pole vault king, in the vote to succeed Lamine Diack as presi- lication of a report that showed dent, with the election taking place on August 19 in Beijing, before the as many as a third of the world’s start of the world championships. top athletes admitted using Coe has vented his anger at claims in British and German media that banned performance-enhancing the IAAF had failed to follow up on suspicious blood tests involving techniques, The Sunday Times hundreds of athletes between 2001 and 2012, calling any such sugges- reported. tion a “declaration of war” on the sport. The authors of the report His manifesto includes a commitment to providing increased told the British newspaper that resources for anti-doping and the establishment of a new IAAF eth- the International Association of ics department. Athletics Federations (IAAF) The image of a wild-eyed Coe, arms stretched out wide as he crossed blocked publication of the study, the line to win gold at the 1980 Moscow Olympics remains an iconic which was carried out four years snapshot of an era marked by political tension and Olympic boycotts, ago. while his rivalry with countryman Steve Ovett gripped a nation. However, the IAAF responded First elected an IAAF vice-president in 2007, Coe, who is also chair- by saying there was nothing new man of the British Olympic Committee, has matched his phenom- about these revelations. enal record on the track with a proven record in politics and sports “The IAAF’s delaying publi- administration. cation for so long without good Having put on a successful London Olympics, Coe looks set to come reason is a serious encroachment full circle, if he holds off the challenge of Bubka to become IAAF on the freedom of publication,” president. the University of Tuebingen in The former Conservative MP has been criss-crossing the globe to Germany, which carried out the woo the association’s 214 member federations, pledging to pay $100,000 research, said in a statement (90,000 euros) over four years to each one to fund facilities, buy equip- according to the paper. ment and train athletes and coaches. Researchers from the univer- But as controversy rages over allegations made by the Sunday Times sity were given access to elite This file photo taken on August 14, 2009, in Berlin shows Athletics’ IAAF President Lamine Diack during a press and German broadcaster ARD, Coe’s position on tackling the drug athletes at the 2011 world cham- conference on the sidelines of the 2009 IAAF Athletics World Championships. 214 IAAF members are to choose cheats could define his leadership credentials. pionships in Daegu, South Korea either Sergei Bubka or Sebastian Coe as their new president to succeed Diack, who is due to step down later Coe wants to set up an independent anti-doping agency for track and concluded in their research this month. and field if he becomes president, while Bubka prefers the option of that between 29 and 34 percent continuing to work alongside world anti-doping agency WADA. of the 1,800 competitors at the However, Coe bristles at suggestions that the sport’s governing body championships had violated anti- the prevalence of doping in sport However, the IAAF refuted of doping, and sent shock waves has been guilty of a cover-up following the potentially damaging rev- doping rules in the previous 12 using more of a social science suggestions any veto ever took through the sporting world. elations of leaked data from 12,000 blood tests. months. approach (randomised-response place. The IAAF then hit back at “There is nothing in our history of competence and integrity in drug “These findings demonstrate survey). “The IAAF has never vetoed those allegations also, describ- testing that warrants this kind of attack,” he told BBC Radio. “The that doping is remarkably wide- “The survey was intended to be publication of this article,” it said ing them as “sensationalist and fightback has to start here.” REUTERS spread among elite athletes, extended to multi-sport events in the statement. confusing”. and remains largely unchecked and no publication was ever “The IAAF does however have Meanwhile, German state despite current biological testing evoked.” serious reservations as to the broadcaster ARD reported yes- IAAF Factfile programmes,” the report con- The study was funded by the interpretation of the results made terday that the IAAF had recently BEIJING: Factfile on the International Association of Athletics cluded yesterday. World Anti-Doping Agency by the research group as con- demanded explanations from the Federations (IAAF), track and field’s governing body, which will The IAAF responded by issu- (WADA), but they gave the firmed by high-profile experts in Russian Athletics Federation con- vote between Sergey Bubka and Sebastian Coe as new president ing a statement denying it had IAAF power to veto publication social science who reviewed the cerning a list of athletes accused on Wednesday: suppressed publication of the in exchange for access to the ath- publication on our request. of doping including Olympic 800m % The International Association of Athletics Federations was document. letes at Daegu, WADA confirmed “The IAAF submitted those champion Maria Savinova. formed on July 17, 1912 and has been headquartered in Monaco “This is not a new story, hav- to The Sunday Times on Friday. concerns to the research group A week before the world cham- since October 1993 ing first been raised on German In the months after conduct- but has never heard back from pionships get underway in Beijing, %There are 214 member federations divided into 6 area associa- TV in 2013, and those concerns ing the study, the researchers them.” ARD also claimed that the head of tions: AAA - Asian Athletics Association, CAA - Confederation of were addressed by the IAAF at were told to sign a confidential- Some of the key figures from the Russian federation’s medical African Athletics, CONSUDATLE - Confederacion Sudamericana de the time,” said the statement. ity agreement to prevent them the report were leaked in the department, Sergei Portugalov, Atletismo, EAA - European Athletic Association, NACACAA - North “The study in question was a speaking out about the findings United States in 2013 but the and three national coaches are American, Central American and Caribbean Athletic Association, social science based survey con- but they have now criticised the IAAF continued to prevent full facing life bans from the sport. OAA - Oceania Athletics Association ducted by WADA and a team of IAAF for suppressing the report. publication. Last December, an ARD- %Senegal’s Lamine Diack has been president since 1999, follow- researchers at the Athletes’ vil- “The IAAF is blocking it. I In early August, the newspaper documentary “Secret Doping ing Primo Nebiolo (ITA, 1981-99), Adriaan Paulen (NED, 1976-81), lage in Daegu. think they are stakeholders with published a separate report on a Dossier: How Russia produces Lord Burghley (GBR, 1946-76) and Sigfrid Edstrom (SWE, 1912-46) “The purpose of the study was Wada and they just blocked the leaked database of 12,000 blood its Winners” alleged systematic %The World Championships in Athletics is the foremost athletics to assess the reliability of poten- whole thing,” lead author Rolf tests from 5,000 athletes that doping in Russian athletics. competition held by the IAAF, which also organises the world indoor, tial new methods of evaluating Ulrich told The Sunday Times. revealed “extraordinary” levels REUTERS cross-country, half-marathon, marathon, relays and race walking championships, as well as world youth and junior championships %The IAAF also oversees the Diamond League and World Challenge Meetings as well as a range of road race, indoor, cross-country, com- bined event and race walking events Bubka and Coe – two legends %The body spent $2.3m (€2.07m) in 2014 on testing alone as part of its anti-doping programme battle to save track and field Hardliner Bubka hedges BEIJING: Two modern-day to call. Bubka, 51, is standing for bets in IAAF race legends of track and field will both the presidency and the vice- battle to take over the presi- presidency, the 58-year-old Coe BEIJING: Sergey Bubka has spread his chances in what promises dency of athletics’ world gov- just the former, having announced to be a tight race for the IAAF presidency with Sebastian Coe, hav- erning body next week in the he was also willing to step down ing also put himself forward in the contest to continue in his vice- knowledge that they face a from his role as an ambassador president’s role should he fail. major overhaul to salvage the for US equipment company Nike. Coe, like Bubka also a vice president of the International Association sport’s doping-blighted face. The manifestoes of the two of Athletics Federations, is standing solely for president, with incum- Either Sergey Bubka or former stars are not hugely dif- bent Lamine Diack stepping down after 16 years in charge. Sebastian Coe will become fering to the layman, though Bubka’s gamble of a double nomination has split opinion: is it a clear president of the International one major divergence is Coe’s sign that the Ukrainian fears he might lose against charismatic Coe? Association of Athletics insistence that an independent Or is it a clear reaffirmation that he is completely dedicated to track Federations (IAAF) on drug-testing body be established. and field and will serve the sport no matter what? Wednesday after the body’s 214 Bubka, who also won Olympic Certainly, Bubka, who famously set the world pole vault record 35 member federations vote, with gold in 1988, would prefer to con- times in his sparkling career, claims the latter, insisting that he wants incumbent Lamine Diack step- tinue working with the World to remain at the IAAF even if two-time 1500m Olympic champion Coe ping down after 16 years in charge Anti-Doping Agency (WADA). wins, with the final vote coming at a congress ahead of the August at the age of 82. Interestingly, Coe went for the 22-30 World Athletics Championships in Beijing. Facing the Ukrainian 10-time messenger’s jugular in the wake The Ukrainian, who won Olympic gold and six outdoor and four world pole vault champion and of ARD/Sunday Times claims that indoor world titles, is a hardliner when it comes to doping, a blight on British two-time Olympic 1500m more than 800 athletes recorded athletics which has again resurfaced ahead of the worlds with allega- gold medallist is a monumen- suspicious blood tests between tions of abnormalities in IAAF blood testing results. tal task of tackling the doping 2001 and 2012. This combination of two file pictures made yesterday shows Ukrainian “Zero tolerance for doping,” is Bubka’s simple catchphrase, reiter- scourge that has rocked athletics. He described the finding as former pole vaulting legend Sergei Bubka (left) posing on March 6, 2011 ated in his fluent English to a select group of media outlets including The IAAF has in recent weeks a “declaration of war” against in Paris, and British track legend Sebastian Coe posing on February AFP in a recent visit to Paris. been at the centre of allegations athletics, adding that the cover- 25, 2015, in the southern French city of Marseille. Bubka and Coe are Unlike Coe, Bubka wants the IAAF to continue working closely with of widespread cheating and suspi- age was “wrong” and showed “a candidates for the presidency of the International Association of Athletics the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), the Briton keen to set up an cious blood tests involving hun- breathtaking ignorance or a level independent body to monitor drugs controls. Federations (IAAF). dreds of athletes. of malevolence”. “I can see being with WADA being the most successful because the The Monaco-based body has Bubka, however, avoided taking governments can contribute financially and also offer scientific and responded whole-heartedly, call- aim at the media outlets, instead and a member of the International presidents,” Diack said ahead of medical expertise with government involvement, INTERPOL, we need ing the claims “sensationalist and reiterating his calls for more Olympic Committee (IOC) since the vote. that,” he argued. “There is no excuse (for doping). For me if you cheat confusing”. transparency and admitting that 1999. He decided, rather ambi- “It was for this reason that at you pay the price. It’s finished. I don’t want to see anyone who cheats In much the same way as foot- the IAAF needed to be “more tiously, to run for IOC president the 2007 IAAF elections I asked come back, but legally can we do that? That is the issue.” ball’s world body FIFA has been proactive”. in 2013, but lost to current head two of the four vice-presidents Bubka, like Coe, has also placed much emphasis on galvanising the torn apart by allegations of cor- Both men have some serious Thomas Bach. to voluntarily stand down to sport through attracting more youngsters, and has argued that so- ruption, with Sepp Blatter agree- experience of sports management Coe has also accomplished make room for Seb and Sergey called “street athletics”, where track and field events are staged outside ing to stand down as president as and are masters in confidently much in his life since winning his to advance.” stadiums in street situations, was crucial to attract interest in and a result of the fall-out, the IAAF holding their own in the public second 1500m gold medal in 1984, Be it Bubka or Coe who wins increase popularity. finds itself in turbulent waters. domain. going on to become a Conservative over the bulk of the member Bubka added that the proximity of spectators, as opposed to massed And rarely can someone be Bubka, 51, has been involved politician in Britain and notably states that make up the IAAF, the ranks in tribunes far from the action, was “part of the success of parachuted into a job at such a with the IAAF since 2001 and overseeing the highly successful new president faces a battle roy- athletes”. pivotal time in a sport craving has served as vice-president since London Olympics in 2012. ale to rescue the credibility and “Through my career when I competed, I achieved and won many more public and media interest 2007. “I have for a long time known integrity of track and field, the events and I proved to myself I could do something. Later I started to and support in a world so domi- He has also been president we had two potential candidates biggest Olympic sport but still a compete for the spectators. nated by football. of Ukraine’s National Olympic to lead our sport into the future minnow in financial terms. “It makes for an attractive event. It’s sport and show together. We Insiders say the race is too close Committee in Ukraine since 2005 who would each make good REUTERS must engage in entertainment.” REUTERS MONDAY 17 AUGUST 2015 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 25 Swiss teen shocks Williams to reach Toronto final

TORONTO: World number one Serena Williams was sent crashing out of the WTA Rogers Cup after being upset by Swiss teen Belinda Bencic in a three- set marathon semi-final on Saturday. The 33-year-old Williams, a 21 Grand Slam winner, suffered just her second loss of 2015 as the old- est and youngest players in the draw clashed in a tense two-hour, 28-minute showdown. Bencic, 18, stormed from behind to win 3-6, 7-5, 6-4, snap- ping Williams’ 14-match win streak in Toronto to book her spot in the final against second seed Simona Halep. Bencic closed out the con- test on her first match point by smashing a forehand winner to the open court. Bencic bent over and covered her face with both hands as she Murray, Djokovic soaked in the biggest victory of her blossoming career. TOP: A multiple “I can’t describe the feeling exposure picture shows right now,” said Bencic. “I was very overwhelmed from Andy Murray of Great the situation on the court, but Britain in action against in Montreal final I’m just so happy the forehand Kei Nishikori of Japan landed in and she couldn’t reach during their semi- it anymore. I’ll keep working hard, says Andy Murray final singles match “It was an incredible feeling. I at the Rogers Cup in have no words,” Bencic said after Montreal, Canada. her win. MONTREAL: Andy Murray Murray beat Nishikori Bencic is the youngest player will replace Roger Federer as 6-3, 6-0. RIGHT: Novak to beat Williams in a complete number two in the world after Djokovic of Serbia match since the American lost to defeating Japan’s Kei Nishikori hits a return against a 17-year-old Maria Sharapova in 6-3, 6-0 on Saturday to reach the Jeremy Chardy of the final at Wimbledon in 2004. final of the Montreal Masters. France during day six Bencic, who also has Slovak cit- The Scot will today move into of the Rogers Cup in izenship through her parents, was second on the ATP Tour’s ranking Montreal. Djokovic just two years old in 1999 when list behind longtime number one defeated Jeremy Williams won her first Grand Novak Djokovic, his finals oppo- Chardy 6-4, 6-4. LEFT: Slam title. nent on the Canadian hardcourts. “I think I played really crappy Switzerland’s Belinda Murray will line up against today,” Williams said. Bencic reacts after Djokovic after the top seed “I played like an amateur to be defeated France’s Jeremy Chardy winning a point against honest.” 6-4, 6-4 in the other semi-final. Serena Williams of the Bencic has won 20 of her last “It’s nice to get back especially US in their semi-final 24 matches, beating two top 10 after everything I went through match at the Rogers ranked players (No. 5 Caroline last year with the (hip) surgery Cup in Toronto. Bencic Wozniacki and No. 6 Ana and dropping out of the top 10,” defeated Williams 3-6, Ivanovic) to reach the semis. Murray said. 7-5, 6-4. BOTTOM: The loss casts some doubt into “A lot of questions were being Williams reacts while Williams’ pursuit of her fifth asked about how my game was playing against Bencic Grand Slam title in a row as she physically. in their semi-final attempts to complete a calendar “It’s good to get back close to match at the Rogers year Grand Slam by defending the top. I’ll keep working hard Cup. her title at the US Open, which and try to get that one spot begins August 31. higher,” he said. A US Open crown would give Beating Djokovic in the final her 22 Grand Slams, matching would be a huge step towards Steffi Graf for the most in the that goal. Open era. Djokovic, with three Canadian Williams pulled out of the titles already to hand, advanced in Stanford tournament last week 80 minutes to win his 10th match with an elbow injury but said against Chardy without a loss in “But I’m happy with my good after winning four of the first after her quarter-final victory in their career series. week.” five in 2015. ATP Montreal Toronto that it was no longer a Djokovic said he was annoyed Murray reached the final in He said he is going to have to problem. during his match against Chardy a little more than an hour as he raise his game another notch to Masters Results Williams had won in Toronto in by the smell of marijuana smoke ran down every shot and left his beat Murray. MONTREAL: Results on her last two appearances in 2011 coming from the stands. Japanese opponent searching for “I played better than I did yes- Saturday from the sixth day of and 2013. “You can’t believe how bad answers. terday, but still I need to get at the ATP Montreal Masters (x But Williams looked sluggish at it was. I think it stopped after Djokovic has dominated least a level or two higher tomor- denotes seeded player): times in the semi-final, failing to a while. Whoever it was ... he Murray over the years, winning row in order to win the title. Semi-finals: Novak Djokovic run down balls in the open court was probably on the seventh sky 19 of 27 matches, including the “But I also have the experience (SRB x1) bt Jeremy Chardy and often turning in frustra- somewhere,” said the Serb. last eight. of playing in the finals of the big- (FRA) 6-4, 6-4; Andy Murray tion towards the stands to speak Murray, the 2009 and 2010 “Andy has been somebody that gest events. I’ve played Murray (GBR x2) bt Kei Nishikori (JPN with her long-time coach Patrick Canadian champion, preyed upon has been around for so many many, many times before on this x4) 6-,3 6-0 Mouratoglou. a tapped-out Nishikori who may years. He knows how to play particular surface. She won four straight to make have run out of puff after win- in the big stage and in the big “I’m going to be obviously moti- WTA Toronto it respectable in the third set but ning a late-night match 24 hours matches. vated to win the title. Hopefully her comeback fell short. earlier. “I know what I need to do, and I’ll be able to rise to the occasion Results “I felt pretty much in con- “It definitely wasn’t a good day that’s playing my best in order and play the best match of the trol until I lost the match,” said TORONTO: Results on for my body,” said Nishikori who to win. So I need to get myself week.” Williams, who had 12 double Saturday from the sixth day beat Rafael Nadal in the quarters. ready,” said Djokovic. Djokovic is aiming for a 25th faults. of the WTA Rogers Cup (x “I had a lot of matches before Djokovic will be bidding for a career Masters trophy. His match “I always felt I still had an denotes seed): coming here, so it wasn’t easy to seventh title this season and a record this season now stands at opportunity to stay in there,” she play today. fifth at the Masters 1000 level 52-3. REUTERS Semi-finals: Simona Halep said. (ROM x2) bt Sara Errani (ITA What she wasn’t in control of x15) 6-4, 6-4; Belinda Bencic at times was her emotions. (SUI) bt Serena Williams (USA Williams had a breakdown x1) 3-6, 7-5, 6-4. in the second set, smashing her Djokovic wants to weed graphite racquet to pieces after she double faulted on game point to go down 5-3. And Bencic kept the American tennis giant off balance with pre- out toking tennis fan cision ground strokes and a neat serve-and-volley game when she MONTREAL: World number “You can’t believe how bad it was. better as I was inhaling.” Djokovic needed it. one Novak Djokovic was “Whoever it is, he’s pretty high advanced in 80 minutes to win his Halep advanced with a 6-4, 6-4 unnerved by the smell of mari- and I hope he doesn’t come back 10th match against Chardy with- win over Italy’s Sara Errani. juana smoke on Saturday as tomorrow. Because it’s a pretty out a loss in the series, taking his The Romanian second seed he advanced to the final of the bad smell. I didn’t enjoy it much.” 52nd match of the season against Halep will play for her 12th career ATP Rogers Cup by defeating The Serb said later that the just three defeats. title and fourth of the year. France’s Jeremy Chardy. same situation happened to him “I also have the experience of Halep’s earlier titles this sea- During his 6-4, 6-4 victory, in a Friday doubles win. playing in the finals of the big- son came in January at Shenzhen, Djokovic complained to the “Yesterday in the doubles gest events. I’ve played Murray February at Dubai and in March umpire about the smell of mari- match, today again. Somebody’s many, many times before on this at Indian Wells. juana smoke. really enjoying his life around the particular surface,” Djokovic said. “Obviously Halep is No.3 in After the match he addressed tennis court” he joked. “I’m going to be obviously moti- Ivan Bencic, father and coach the world and she’s an amazing the issue, which he said had dis- “I think it stopped after a vated to win the title. Hopefully of Switzerland’s Belinda Bencic, player,” Bencic said. tracted him in a prior match as while. Whoever it was .... he I’ll be able to rise to the occasion watches his daughter play Serena “But I’m in the final and eve- well. was probably on the seventh sky and play the best match of the Williams. rything that comes is going to be “Oh my God,” Djokovic said. somewhere. I felt I was playing week.” REUTERS a bonus.” REUTERS MONDAY 17 AUGUST 2015 26 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT Lorenzo wins Czech Grand Prix Spaniard levels with Rossi on top of standings, Marquez says it was a tough race

BRNO, Czech Republic: Spain’s Jorge Lorenzo won the Czech Republic MotoGP Top 5 Results Czech Republic MotoGP race in MotoGP Brno yesterday to level Yamaha 1. Jorge Lorenzo (ESP/Yamaha) 42min 53.042sec, 2. Marc Marquez (ESP/Honda) at 4.462sec, 3. team-mate Valentino Rossi at Valentino Rossi (ITA/Yamaha) 10.397, 4. Andrea Iannone (ITA/Ducati) 13.071, 5. Dani Pedrosa (ESP/ the top of the overall champion- Honda) 15.650 ship standings after 11 out of 18 World Championship Standings (after 11 of 18 races) races. 1. Jorge Lorenzo (ESP/Yamaha) 211, 2. Valentino Rossi (ITA/Yamaha) 211, 3. Marc Marquez (ESP/ Fellow Spaniard Marc Honda) 159, 4. Andrea Iannone (ITA/Ducati) 142, 5. Bradley Smith (GBR/Yamaha) 106 Marquez, the reigning champion Moto2 and winner of the previous two 1. Johann Zarco (FRA/Kalex) 41min 02.500sec, 2. Tito Rabat (ESP/Kalex) at 1.421, 3. Alex Rins (ESP/ races, finished second ahead of Kalex) 1.785, 4. Alex Marquez (ESP/Kalex) 4.393, 5. Sam Lowes (GBR/Speed Up) 7.844 Rossi. World Championship Standings Lorenzo clocked 42min 53.042sec on the 22 laps of the 1. Johann Zarco (FRA/Kalex) 224 pts, 2. Tito Rabat (ESP/Kalex) 145, 3. Alex Rins (ESP/Kalex) 144, 5.4-kilometre (3.36-mile) cir- 4.-5. Thomas Luthi (SUI/Kalex) and Sam Lowes (GBR/Speed Up) 118 cuit, finishing 4.462sec ahead of Moto3 Honda’s Marquez and 10.397sec 1. Niccolo Antonelli (ITA/Honda) 25min 56.866sec, 2. Enea Bastianini (ITA/Honda) at 0.152sec, 3. Brad clear of Rossi. Binder (RSA/KTM) 0.376, 4. Efren Vazquez (ESP/Honda) 0.540, 5. Jorge Navarro (ESP/Honda) 0.560 Both Lorenzo and Rossi have World Championship Standings 211 points at the top of the overall 1. Danny Kent (GBR/Honda) 199 pts, 2. Enea Bastianini (ITA/Honda) 154, 3. Romano Fenati (ITA/KTM) standings but Lorenzo has won 122, 4. Miguel Oliveira (POR/KTM) 111, 5. Efren Vazquez (ESP/Honda) 109. five races this season against three wins for the Italian superstar. Marquez in third has 159 points following a lacklustre start to the season. “Luckily I had a little more pace than Marc and I could win this very important victory for the championship,” said Lorenzo, the 2010 and 2012 champion. “Now I lead the championship with Valentino and for Marc it is more difficult now to recover.” Winner Yamaha MotoGP rider Jorge Lorenzo (centre) of Spain celebrates with second placed Honda MotoGP The first non-Honda rider to rider Marc Marquez (left) of Spain and third placed Yamaha MotoGP rider Valentino Rossi of Italy after the Czech win at Brno since his own vic- Grand Prix in Brno, Czech Republic, yesterday. RIGHT: Lorenzo ahead of Marquez during the Moto GP Czech tory here in 2010, Lorenzo already Grand Prix race, yesterday. dominated the free practice ses- sions in the southern Czech city before smashing the circuit record a bit worried at the end of the the first five or six laps but when bad and I lost some time in the faster in the second half of the Zarco of France took the honours in qualifying on Saturday. race” as the bike slid in traction, the tyres dropped we struggled first laps,” said the 36-year-old, race,” said Rossi, who has won five ahead of Spaniards Tito Rabat On the hot, dry Sunday after- forcing him to “be careful with with the grip. who has won nine championship top-class races at Brno. and Alex Rins. noon, the 28-year-old led all the the throttle.” “I just forgot about Jorge and titles across all categories. Andrea Iannone on a Ducati And in Moto3, Italy’s Niccolo way from pole position, with Marquez admitted that “it was tried to keep the distance with “Jorge and Marc were faster finished fourth ahead of 2014 Brno Antonelli took a maiden vic- Marquez nestled in right behind really difficult to win the race” Valentino,” added Marquez, who than me and I was a bit in trou- winner Dani Pedrosa on a Honda tory ahead of compatriot Enea him. given Lorenzo’s pace. won at Brno in 2013. ble to ride the bike so I tried to and fellow Italian and Ducati Bastianini and South African But unlike at Indianapolis last “But my target was try to win Rossi, who has made it on to push but I wasn’t fast and strong teammate Andrea Dovizioso. rider Brad Binder in a race sus- weekend, Marquez never got a (finish) in front of Valentino and the podium in all races so far this enough to stay with them,” he Pedrosa worked his way up pended for half an hour following chance to get past Lorenzo, who I did,” added the 22-year-old 2013 season, got off to a poor start, los- added, refusing to blame his through the pack from ninth at a series of crashes that required gradually started to broaden the and 2014 champion. ing two positions from third on choice of the hard tyre option on the start following a heavy crash a re-start. gap. “In the beginning I tried to fol- the grid as Lorenzo and Marquez both wheels. in Friday’s practice in which he The next MotoGP event is Riding on two medium com- low (Lorenzo) and I knew that sped ahead. “I chose the best tyre for me injured his left foot. In Moto2, the Great Britain grand prix at pound tyres, Lorenzo said he “was with the new tyres I could do it “Unfortunately my start was during the practice, not to go championship leader Johann Silverstone on August 30. AFP

Brooke M Henderson Day moves two ahead of Spieth of Canada hits on the 18th hole during the after dramatic third round third round of the LPGA Cambia KOHLER: Australian Jason Portland Day used a red-hot run around Classic at the turn and a solid finish to seize a two-shot lead over Columbia Jordan Spieth after a pulsat- Edgewater ing third round of low scoring Country at the PGA Championship on Club on Saturday. Saturday in In pursuit of his first major Portland. victory after several close calls over the past five years, Day Jason Day carded 66 in receptive conditions of Australia at Whistling Straits to post a celebrates 15-under total of 201. The world number five picked after making Henderson extends lead a birdie putt up six shots in six holes from the ninth, including a 13-foot on the 17th eagle putt at the 11th, and later hole during the at LPGA Portland Classic rebounded from a double-bogey third round of at the 15th by draining a curling the 2015 PGA PORTLAND: Canadian teen Championship and US Women’s 24-footer at the 17th. Championship Brooke Henderson fired a Open. He could not break clear of golf seven-under par 65 on Saturday Henderson was a contender at Masters and US Open champion tournament to set a 54-hole tournament the LPGA North Texas shootout Spieth, who reignited his hopes at Whistling record and grab a five-shot lead as well as a 36-hole tournament of a rare third major victory this Straits on after three rounds at the LPGA record-setter in April at the year by firing a bogey-free 65 on Saturday. Portland Classic. LPGA Swinging Skirts Classic in a hot and steamy afternoon high- Henderson, who turns 18 next San Francisco, where she finished lighted by birdies galore. month, is not yet a member of the third. “Today was a good day,” said LPGA Tour but showed a veter- Henderson opened with back- Day, who has recorded nine top- an’s poise in a bogey-free round to-back birdies, added another 10 finishes in the majors, six of that saw her fin- at the par-5 sev- them in the top four. ish on 18-under enth and had “There was some mistakes here 198. LPGA Scores back-to-back and there, but overall I hit a lot of 198 Brooke Henderson (CAN) 66-67-65 “I had a lot birdies again to good quality iron shots, hit a lot of of fun out there 203 Morgan Pressel 71-67-65 open the back great drives out there, drove the today,” said 204 Sandra Gal (GER) 67-72-65, Caroline nine and on 15 ball really well. I’m very pleased Henderson. “I Masson (GER) 70-64-70 and the par-3 got some lucky 205 Jang Ha-Na (KOR) 68-70-67, Candie 16th. with how I’m putting. “So, one when the scoring average was runs like that, and it got me in the breaks out there. Kung (TPE) 69-66-70 American PGA Championship more day left. I got to keep push- 70.6. end.” Day’s lead is tenuous con- I think that’s due 206 Alison Lee 66-71-69, Jenny Shin (KOR) Morgan Pressel ing forward, keep grinding, keep Unheralded Australian Matt sidering the man in second place. to my positive 67-68-71 also fired a 65 to Scores doing the best I can do out there Jones, two ahead after the storm- “On the back nine, it was nice energy. I try to stand second on Scores from the PGA and see how it goes tomorrow.” delayed second round finished to get in the zone,” said world focus on my shots 203, one stroke Championship at the par-72 English world number six earlier on Saturday, briefly moved number two Spieth, who is seek- and block out any negativity. ahead of Germans Sandra Gal course on Saturday in Kohler, Justin Rose (68) was a further three strokes clear before drop- ing to emulate fellow Americans “Overall it was a great day and Caroline Masson and two Wisconsin stroke back at 12 under with ping four shots in the final four Ben Hogan and Tiger Woods as and I’m really looking forward ahead of Taiwan’s Candie Kung -15 Jason Day (Australia) 68 67 66 South African Branden Grace, holes for a 73 and a tie for sixth. the only players in the modern to tomorrow. I feel like I’m in a and South Korean Jang Ha-Na. who spectacularly holed out from Jones had led by three stand- era to have won three majors in -13 Jordan Spieth (US) 71 67 65 really good place.” Pressel changed her putting a greenside bunker to birdie the ing on the ninth tee but bogeyed a single year. The former hockey goaltender, fortune when she squared up her -12 Branden Grace (South Africa) 71 69 64 last and card a best-of-the-day 64. the hole after pulling his tee shot “I’ll go into tomorrow strictly Justin Rose (Britain) 69 67 68 who only booked her spot in this stance for round two. Germany’s Martin Kaymer, into a hospitality area well left of for the history piece of trying to week’s field as a Monday quali- After four birdies and two -11 Martin Kaymer (Germany) 70 70 65 winner of the 2010 PGA the fairway. get my name on a different major. fier, is only playing her ninth bogeys on the front side, Pressel -10 Tony Finau (US) 71 66 69 Championship played at “I’m still in it,” said Jones, who It’s a goal of mine to capture all LPGA event of the year, but two birdied the par-5 10th and 12th Matt Jones (Australia) 68 65 73 Whistling Straits, drained three won his first PGA Tour title at four throughout my career. I’ve of those were shares of fifth place and then birdied three of the last -9 Anirban Lahiri (India) 70 67 70 long birdie putts to shoot 65 and last year’s Houston Open. got a great opportunity to get the in majors – at the Women’s PGA four holes. AFP Dustin Johnson (US) 66 73 68 pull within four shots on a day “I didn’t play great today ... golf third right now.” REUTERS MONDAY 17 AUGUST 2015 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 27

Qatar U-23 continue extensive training in Austria Guptill leads New Zealand to win over South Africa

CENTURION: Martin Guptill hit 60 as New Zealand earned a share of the series by winning the second Twenty 20 inter- national against South Africa by 32 runs at SuperSport Park yesterday. New Zealand made 177 for seven – their highest total in a Twenty20 international against the Proteas – before restricting South Africa to 145 for eight. Stand-in captain Kane Williamson, leading a side miss- ing several key players, some Qatar U-23 team’s players train during an afternoon session in Austria, yesterday. The team is undergoing extensive training injured and others resting, was under coach Felix Sanchez in Austria ahead of the forthcoming Rio Olympics 2016 qualifying tournaments. delighted with what he described as “a much improved effort” fol- lowing defeat by six wickets in the first match in Durban on Friday. Upbeat Qatar SC “We touched on a few areas which we needed to improve on dare to dream after Durban,” said Williamson. QSL champs Lekhwiya “We wanted a few more runs in the middle overs and we managed of QSL glory that. We took wickets at crucial moments but we were also quite DOHA: Qatar Sports Club smart with our bowling.” midfielder Khaled Al Zekiba South Africa were never on expressed his satisfaction over- target in the chase after losing win Al Fujairah friendly the team’s performance during their first three batsmen, includ- their recent overseas training ing world stars Hashim Amla and camp in Spain. AB de Villiers, for 47 runs inside El Jaish suffer 4-0 drubbing against Italian side Udinese Commenting on the prepara- seven overs. tions, he said: “The training camp New Zealand spinners Nathan in Spain has been very good for McCullum and Ish Sodhi both DOHA: Lekhwiya sent out a us, we have reached almost 90% took two wickets and were clear message to their Qatar in terms of readiness for the new economical on a pitch which Stars League (QSL) opponents season.” Williamson admitted got more that they are still a force to be He told qsl.com.qa that: “The difficult to bat on in the second reckoned with without Danish preparations are going well in innings. legend Michael Laudrup, view of the work done by indi- De Villiers, again captaining thrashing Al Fujairah 3-1, yes- viduals responsible for the train- South Africa in the absence of terday at the Abdallah Bin ing camp, be it Hassan Al Ansari, an injured Faf du Plessis, said his Khalifa Stadium. Mesallam Al Hallabi, Jassim Al side were well beaten. Lekhwiya who win the last QSL Hudaifi and Hussein Al Rumaihi. “We were definitely below par edition by a clear margin over All of them have experience in with the ball today and unfortu- Doha giants Al Sadd will be with- holding training camps so they nately we lost wickets at crucial out Laudrup in the new season, made it run very smoothly and times,” he said. which starts on September 11. successfully.” The sides start a three-match However, the defending cham- Commenting on the readiness one-day series at the same venue pions showed signs of their form of Qatar SC to compete for the on Wednesday. in their one-sided victory over Al league title during the new season, As in the first match, Guptill Fujairah. he said: “The club management and Williamson got their side off They took their opponents supported the team by bringing to a fast start, putting on 52 off under pressure right from the in distinguished players. I expect 5.3 overs before Williamson was beginning and gained early lead this season to be very difficult but, caught at third man off Kagiso when Youssef Msakni scored in we will fight for title and to main- Rabada for 25. the seventh minute of the first tain our position among the top The pair put on 68 for the first half. Al Fujairah replied towards four teams.” wicket in Durban before the side the end of the first half to make Al Zekiba added: “Definitely subsided to 151 for eight. it one apiece as the teams headed both Yagur and Belmeallem have With Guptill making his 60 off for the tunnel. good potential and I see the team 35 balls, New Zealand put up a The second half completely in good health as of now.” better performance on Sunday went to the QSL champions who He expressed delight on his selec- but again there were no further scored two goals to seal a 3-1 Action during the friendly match between Lekhwiya and Al Fujairah at the Abdallah Bin Khalifa Stadium, yesterday. tion for the Qatar national team. major partnerships. victory. Lekhwiya won by 3-1. “It’s a great honour and I will do Fast bowler Rabada took three Attacking midfielder Nam Tae my best to represent my country. for 30, including two wickets off Hee scored the second goal in the I’m looking forward to demon- successive balls in the penulti- 62nd minute while striker Ismael in Austria. Udinese came out with minute of the first half with scheduled to return today. El strate my abilities and give good mate over. But New Zealand’s Mohamed took things behind Al a bang and scored two goals early Uzbek forward Rashidov. Jaish will conclude their third performances when called upon,” bowlers struck early, with left- Fujairah’s reach with a goal in the on, the first goal was conceded During the second half, El Jaish and final stage of preparations for he said. armer Mitchell McClenaghan 78th minute. in just two minutes and again made a number of substitutions the QSL with two more friendly “I will work on maintaining my having Morne van Wyk caught Meanwhile, El Jaish lost to in the 8th minute. The Italians bringing on goalkeeper Khalifa games. spot with the national team. I am behind before Amla drove fast Italian side Udinese 4-0 in the clearly dominated the midfield Abu Bakr as well as Mesaab First El Jaish will take on the currently ready to participate in bowler Adam Milne to point. club’s third friendly which was and looked the most like a team. Mahmoud, Mohamed Al Sayed Military team on August 28 before the AFC Asian Cup UAE 2019 De Villiers threatened briefly, played last Thursday during their Brazilian striker Wagner was Jeddo and Abdel Rahman Waleed. playing against Al Shahaniya. and 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia hitting 15 off nine balls with two overseas preseason training camp injured and replaced on the 35th El Jaish’s delegation is THE PENINSULA qualifiers.” THE PENINSULA fours and a six, before he was caught at long-on off McCullum. After that, South Africa never looked likely to win. AFP Barcelona eye famous fightback Scoreboard

NEW ZEALAND M Guptill c Miller b Behardien ...... 60 after being hit for four by Bilbao K Williamson c Abbott b Rabada ...... 25 T Latham c Amla b Leie ...... 3 Ruben Amorim G Elliott lbw Phangiso ...... 20 MADRID: Barcelona boss Luis lacklustre performance. “We J Neesham b Rabada ...... 28 Enrique defiantly backed his Barcelona’s came from competing barely three L Ronchi c Miller b Wiese ...... 6 side to pull off an incredible coach Luis days ago. I made a lot of changes C Munro c De Villiers b Rabada ...... 18 Al Wakrah sign comeback in the second leg of to the starting 11 and I accept the Enrique looks on N McCullum (not out) ...... 1 the Spanish Super Cup today responsibility as always. during a training A Milne (not out) ...... 10 after being thrashed 4-0 by “I believe I had to protect the midfielder Ruben session at the Extras (LB-1, W-5) ...... 6 Athletic Bilbao. players. This isn’t the point of the Total (for 7 wkts in 20 overs) ...... 177 DOHA: Al Wakrah have signed An under-strength Barca side Sports Center season to burden some players FC Barcelona Fall of wickets: 1-52, 2-70, 3-104, 4-113, Portuguese midfielder Ruben were torn apart by Athletic on with 120 minutes. 5-146, 6-166, 7-166. Joan Gamper in Amorim last Friday on loan Friday as Mikel San Jose’s stun- “I don’t think it is the moment Bowling: Phangiso 4-0-40-1 (2w); Abbott Sant Joan Despi, from Benfica. ning opener and a second-half to look for excuses. It is how it is 4-0-44-0 (1w); Rabada 4-0-30-3; Wiese The Club General Secretary hat-trick from Aritz Aduriz put near Barcelona, and I accept that.” 4-0-26-1 (1w); Leie 3-0-32-1 (1w); Behardi- Abdel Aziz Al Obaidly signed the them on the verge of a first trophy yesterday, on Dani Alves was one of those en 1-0-4-1. official contract with the player in 31 years. the eve of the most at fault as he was beaten by SOUTH AFRICA for the duration of one season, “If there is anyone who can Spanish Super Sabin Merino to set up Aduriz’s H Amla c Munro b Milne ...... 14 with the option to renew. turn this around it is Barca. We Cup final second first and then pulled down Borja M van Wyk c Ronchi b McClenaghan ...... 3 A press conference is scheduled will wait till Monday and will give leg match Etxeita for the penalty from A de Villiers c Neesham b McCullum ...... 15 to be held in the coming days to everything we have,” said Enrique. against Athletic which the veteran striker com- R Rossouw c Williamson b Sodhi ...... 26 introduce the player to the local The European champions Bilbao. pleted his hat-trick. F Behardien c Guptill b McCullum ...... 36 media. lifted their fourth trophy of the And he too refused to cite D Miller c Munro b McClenaghan ...... 29 Ruben arrived in Doha last year earlier in the week, but were fatigue as an excuse for his side’s D Wiese c McCullum b Sodhi ...... 2 week and underwent a medical, equally as shambolic in defence as awful defending. A Phangiso c Williamson b Neesham ...... 2 after which Al Wakrah signed the they threw away a 4-1 lead before conceding so many goals,” added had opted to rest a number of “It is not normal to concede K Rabada (not out) ...... 5 player. overcoming Sevilla 5-4 in extra Enrique. his star names from the start in eight goals in two games, but K Abbott (not out) ...... 9 Ruben, 30, is regarded as a solid time. “We will analyse it and try to Bilbao. that is the level of level we are at. Extras (W-4) ...... 4 and versatile midfielder with a It is the first time in 14 years correct it. Football is a game of Barca also recently completed Everything is equal and what you Total (for 8 wkts in 20 overs) ...... 145 high level of technical ability and that Barca have conceded four errors. Curiously, we have gone a gruelling pre-season tour in the have done in the previous games Fall of wickets: 1-15, 2-19, 3-47, 4-75, is known to possess a powerful times in two consecutive games from being the team that it is United States and have a host of doesn’t matter,” said the Brazilian 5-112, 6-115, 7-123, 8-131. shot. and comes as even more of a hardest to score against to con- players returning from interna- full-back. Bowling: McCullum 4-0-31-2; Milne 4-0- Over the years, he has repre- shock as it took 13 games for the ceding easily.” tional duty at the Copa America. “We need to be at our best at 27-1 (2w); McClenaghan 4-0-28-2 (1w); sented Benfica and the Portuguese Catalans to concede eight times Having played 120 minutes in However, Enrique refused the Camp Nou and try to come Neesham 3-0-22-1; Sodhi 4-0-27-2; Elliott national team with distinction. last season. the searing heat of the Georgian to blame his side’s punishing back. We need to compete and be 1-0-10-0. THE PENINSULA “It worries me that we are capital Tblisi on Tuesday, Enrique schedule as an excuse for their better in defence.” AFP Monday 17 August 2015 2 Dhul-Qa’da 1436 Volume 20 Number 6525 Sport Price: QR2 Djokovic, Lekhwiya beat Murray in Al Fujairah 3-1 Montreal final in friendly

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MANCHESTER: Sergio Aguero, Vincent Kompany and Fernandinho scored as Manchester City crushed Chelsea 3-0 yesterday to estab- lish a five-point advantage over the champions in the fledgling Premier League table. After going close several times, Aguero celebrated his return to the starting XI by wriggling through Chelsea’s defence to score a 31st-minute opener before Kompany and Fernandinho made the game safe late on. The well-earned victory contin- ued City’s impressive start to the Qatari players acknowledge fans after defeating Japan in the President’s Cup match at the World Youth Handball season following their 3-0 win at Championship in Yekaterinburg, Russia, yesterday. West Bromwich Albion and gave Manuel Pellegrini a first win over his nemesis Jose Mourinho since the Portuguese returned to Chelsea in 2013. Resurgent Qatar outwit Japan Defeat completed a miserable week for Mourinho, widely criti- cised for demoting his medics Eva Carneiro and Jon Fearn after last to reach President’s Cup final weekend’s 2-2 draw with Swansea City, and means Chelsea have failed to win one of their first two YEKATERINBURG, Russia: league games for the first time Recovering well from their since 1998. defeat against Russia that shat- It was also a day to forget for tered their hopes of reaching the visiting captain John Terry, who last 16 stage of the World Youth watched the second half from Handball Championship, Qatar the bench after being substi- Manchester City’s Sergio Aguero (right) celebrates with his team-mate overcame Japan 27-23 to reach tuted at half-time – the first time Aleksandar Kolarov after scoring a goal against Chelsea during their the final of President’s Cup in Mourinho had taken him off in English Premier League match at Etihad Stadium, Manchester, yesterday. Yekaterinburg, yesterday. 177 league games. Japan did not seem to be quite Qatari After a flurry of near-misses, their speedy selves when they coach Aguero broke the deadlock by Giroud’s superb was furious took to the court against Qatar, Julian exchanging passes with Yaya 16th-minute vol- EPL Results with referee who were the first on the score Toure, darting into the box and ley and a Damien Crystal Palace 1 (Ward 28) Arsenal 2 (Giroud Lee Mason’s board and held a steady two-goal Gomez placing a low shot beyond the Delaney own 16, Delaney 55-og); Manchester City 3 refusal to send lead through the first half. (right) reach of Asmir Begovic, deputis- goal in the 55th (Aguero 31, Kompany 79, Fernandinho 85) off Arsenal mid- Japan had trouble against giving ing for the suspended Thibaut minute after Joel Chelsea 0 fielder Francis Qatar’s taller defenders, with instructions Courtois. Ward had blasted Playing today Coquelin, who their attacks often blocked or to Qatari Hazard forced Joe Hart into a Palace level. Liverpool vs Bournemouth (1900 GMT) avoided a red intercepted. Qatar’s early advan- player save in the second half, but City It was a much- card despite sev- tage proved key, with the two- Abdulaziz looked more likely to add to their needed confidence boost for the eral aggressive challenges when goal difference remaining midway during lead and so it proved as Kompany Gunners and Wenger conceded it he had already been booked. through the half. the match headed home from David Silva’s would have been hard to recover “I said to Lee Mason: ‘Listen, Japan’s Yuya Nomura scored a against 79th-minute corner before if they had left Selhurst Park that tackle before half-time is not left wing shot from an impossible Japan. Fernandinho drilled home from empty-handed. a sending-off at that point, but angle in the 25th to take the score the edge of the box. “I’m very pleased with the that’s his last chance, you know to 11:8, but Qatar were firmly Earlier, Arsene Wenger three points. If we had gone two that,’” Pardew said. ahead and maintained their lead breathed a sigh of relief as Arsenal games and zero points it would “He then makes the foul and until half-time. got their title challenge up and be absolutely difficult and we he’s (should be) off at that point. Qatar played almost the same running with a hard-fought 2-1 knew this would be a tricky one,” Arsene Wenger knew that and seven players for the entire first win at Crystal Palace. Wenger said. took him off. It’s a decision Lee period, only changing their wing- After slumping to a dismal 2-0 “Last week we had a bit of a Mason needs to be braver on.” ers and having Gamal Ahmed, defeat against West Ham United stroll and thought we would win But Wenger claimed Mason who scored their first goal, com- in their opening game, Wenger’s the game. Today we played real had got it right. ing in as a specialist attacker in side had no margin for error at Premier League football from the “I felt it wasn’t fortunate (that the match. Selhurst Park if they wanted to first minute to the last. Coquelin avoided a red card),” Qatar goalkeeper Ahmed Russia 2015, behind their demo- with both teams keeping close avoid being cast adrift in the title “With the ambitions we have said the Frenchman. Abdelrhem made a penalty save lition of Venezuela in the group throughout. With the scores race. made, you have to have full com- “I would like to see that again, to keep his side ahead by six in the stages. at 19:19 and down by one man, They rose to the challenge, mitment and we had that today,” but in the end the pressure cre- 40th minute (19:13), and as the Noah Beyer top scored for Agustin Forlino made a fantastic securing a first league win of he added. ated by the crowd meant I took game entered its last ten minutes Germany on seven and Kamil save from Djeghaba Nidhal Baha the season thanks to Olivier Palace manager Alan Pardew him off.” AFP they retained their lead (23:18). Netz top scored on six for Poland to keep it level as Algeria moved Japan keeper Tatsu Moriwaki, team. to a 4-2 defence to try and break who joined the starting 16 yester- Meanwhile, Argentina over- up Argentina’s court play and fin- day in place of injured left back came Algeria on penalties as the ish the game in time. Ishado Makino, made a spectac- regular 60 minutes ended 24:24 THE PENINSULA ular save of a six-metre break- through in the 54th, but at that point the match was decided. Qatar will take on Germany Arsenal’s Olivier today in the President’s Cup Giroud (right) final which will ascertain the celebrates with 17/18 place in the championship his team-mates ranking. after scoring a goal Germany defeated Poland 45:19 A Qatari against Crystal to reach the final. player Palace during Poland suffered their heaviest (right) defeat of Russia 2015 and one of their EPL match scores their biggest losses to Germany at Selhurst Park, against at youth level, if not their high- Japan. yesterday. est, as they fell by 26 goals at the Uralian. Scoring just seven goals in the first half, Poland were lacklustre and uninterested as Germany continued to play their effective, if not scintillating handball to record their second highest win of