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WEDNESDAY 14 SEPTEMBER 2016 • 12 DHUL HIJJA 1437 • Volume 21 • Number 6919 2 Riyals thepeninsulaqatar @peninsulaqatar @peninsula_qatar Emir performs funeral prayers for three martyrs

Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani performing the funeral prayers for Lance Corporal Mohammad Awadh Salem and the troopers Mohammad Dawood Khayyal and Mohammad Nasser Mohammad, who were martyred while carrying out their duty in Yemen, at the Mosque of Mesemier cemetery, yesterday.

QNA & The Peninsula on the martyrdom of three soldiers Affairs H E Dr Khalid bin Moham- Minister of State for Defence Affairs from the Qatari Armed Forces while med Al Attiyah, Chief of Staff of the H E Dr Khalid bin Mohammed Al Atti- Three Qatari soldiers were martyred carrying out their duty in Yemen. Qatari Armed Forces Major General yah also tweeted yesterday conveying The Yemeni President also expressed (Pilot) H E Ghanem bin Shaheen Al his condolences. DOHA: Emir H H Sheikh Tamim on Monday while carrying out their his condolences to the families of the Ghanem, along with a number of sen- On Monday afternoon four Qatari bin Hamad Al Thani performed the duty as part of the Saudi-led Arab martyrs and the Qatari people. ior commanders of the armed forces soldiers were moving in a land cruiser funeral prayers, at the Mosque of The Qatari Armed Forces yes- received the bodies of the three mar- to replace their colleagues at a check- Mesemier cemetery on the bodies coalition forces in Yemen. terday announced the martyrdom tyrs at Al Udeid Air Base last evening. point at the Saudi- Yemen border of the Lance Corporal Mohammad of three of its soldiers in the line of The bodies were directly taken area. Not far from the checkpoint Awadh Salem, and the troopers duty as part of the Arab coalition to Mesaimeer grave yard where the the driver lost control over the vehi- Mohammad Dawood Khayyal and forces for ‘Restoring Hope in Yemen’. martyrs were laid to rest. cle which overturned twice leading to Mohammad Nasser Mohammad, In a statement, the Qatari Armed Foreign Minister H E Sheikh the immediate death of two at the site. who were martyred while carrying offered condolences to the families of Thani and several people. Forces mourned martyred soldiers, Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al The third soldier was rescued but he out their duty within the Saudi- the martyrs, praying Almighty Allah The Emir received last evening who died on Monday while perform- Thani tweeted: “Our brave soldiers died later of severe head injuries, Al led Operation ‘Restoring Hope in to grant their souls rest in Paradise. a telephone call from President ing their duty as part of the Saudi-led have fought with their lives and made Sharq reported yesterday. The fourth Yemen’. The funeral prayers were also Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi of the Arab coalition forces in Yemen and heroism with their bloods defend- soldier is in stable condition and is The Emir participated along with attended by the Prime Minister Republic of Yemen, during which expressed sincere condolences to the ing the rights of the oppressed…May recuperating in the military camp. the families of the martyrs in the and Interior Minister H E Sheikh he expressed his sincere condo- families of the martyrs. Almighty Allah bless our martyrs burying of the martyrs bodies. Emir Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al lences and sympathy to the Emir Minister of State for Defence and let their souls rest in Paradise”. → Continued on page 2

HMC emergency units receive Community Eid events a huge hit 1,891 cases on second day of Eid

By Irfan Bukhari The Peninsula The Peninsula outside during the holidays. Many families don’t follow the safety standards in public places,” said Al DOHA: Expatriates celebrated Eid DOHA: The three emergency units Nuaimi. Al Adha with full fervour across the of the Hamad Medical Corporation Dr Moayyad Qassim, consultant city yesterday while Asian Town (HMC) yesterday received a total at Al Wakrah Hospital emergency remained the hub of their festivities. of 1,891 cases, a good number of unit said that the section received From Corniche to Mesaieed them involving stomach-related 316 cases yesterday, six of which beach, from Al Khor park to Al Wak- illnesses. were admitted, one in the Intensive rah beach; everywhere there were The highest number of cases care unit because of viral infection. people celebrating the occasion with — 966 — were received at the Paedi- A cardiac patient was transferred to traditional passion. atric Emergency section in Al Sadd, the Heart Hospital. Most cases were The Asian Town attracted huge followed by the emergency unit at related to high temperature, cold and crowds yesterday as two separate but Hamad General Hospital (HGH) flu. Interestingly there were no stom- parallel musical shows enthralled the which saw 609 cases. The emer- ach related cases. gathering. gency unit at Al Wakrah Hospital Dr Nasser Al Haider, consult- One event was open-for-all and received 316 cases. HMC’s ambu- ant at Pediatric Emergency at HMC had been organised by the Minis- lance section received 224 calls said the section saw 966 cases yes- try of Interior while the second one yesterday, 14 of which were related terday at it four centers- 592 in Al was a commercial entertainment to traffic accidents. Sadd, 253 in Al Rayyan, 96 at Air- show held at amphitheatre starring Dr Saad Al Nuaimi, an emer- port and 25 in Al Daain. “Most cases Govinda and Rakhi Sawant. gency medical consultant said that were minor and the children were Separately, the Ministry of Inte- HMC’s main emergency unit saw an allowed to go back after treatment. rior also organized a cultural event increase in stomach related disor- Only three cases were transferred at Al Khor industrial area for expa- ders due to improper eating habits to ICU,” he said. triate communities, which drew during Eid. Ali Darwish, assistant executive huge crowds on the second day in The unit also received 11 cardiac director of HMC’s ambulance serv- a row. and chest-related problems, along ice said, of the 224 calls it received “All expats from all the coun- Audience enjoying Tarzan live show as part of the Eid Al Adha celebrations at the City Center, yesterday. with two accident cases, between yesterday, 29 were related to vari- tries are doing good great job here Pic: Kammutty V P / The Peninsula 6 am to 6 pm yesterday, Al Sharq ous accidents , 14 car accidents and in development of Qatar … I am more reported. remaining illnesses. The air ambu- than happy to meet my people and distribute soft drinks for free to the activities are very colorful and thrill- passionate crowd. HMC’s emergency section is all lance had to be used only once. my message on this holy festival is people. Security at Asian Town had ing,” said Appiah Kwadwo from “Whenever any song is sung in prepared for the Eid holidays with The unit has deployed 80 love for all,” said Rakhi Sawant while been beefed up to ensure smooth Ghana, a Christian by faith. Malayalam language, homesick- 81 doctors on duty, 27 in every shift. ambulances across the country talking to The Peninsula. sailing of celebrations without any Expatriates from South Asian ness captures me again. I am feeling However, the section has not seen a in addition to 15 four-wheel vehi- Many companies provided buses untoward incident. countries like India, Pakistan, joyous in this environment,” said noticeable increase in the number cles for quick intervention, and 15 to their workers for celebrating the Eid celebrations at Asian Town Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal Shabbir from Kerala. of cases. motorbike ambulance teams to pro- gala with their community mem- turned to be a display of interfaith were trying to bury their feelings “We expect an increase in cases vide first aid in crowded areas. Four bers. The marketing mangers of harmony. “I am here to enjoy the of homesickness under loud music → Continued on page 3 at the Pediatric section, with possi- medical units have been assigned in other companies were also there to holy festival of Muslims and these and incessant whistles from the → See also page 16 bility of accidents as children play Sealine to serve beach-goers. 02 WEDNESDAY 14 SEPTEMBER 2016 HOME

Emir exchanges Eid greetings Relatives proud of martyrs’ sacrifices

with Arab leaders Continued from page 1

QNA Dr Anwar Gargash, minister of state for foreign affairs of the UAE and Acting Kuwaiti Charge d’Affaires DOHA: Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani exchanged Eid to Qatar, Counsellor Nasir Akar Al greetings with leaders of Arab countries on the telephone yesterday. Ghanim also extended their con- The Emir exchanged greetings with President Beji Caid Essebsi of dolences to Qatar, its leadership, Tunisia; President Hassan Sheikh Mahmoud of Somalia; and Prime government and the people. Minister Tammam Salam of Lebanon. Son of martyr Mohammed Awad Salim said, “My father performed his duty toward his country and the nation. He sacrificed his soul defend- ing dignity”. He added that he was one of the A-G attends IAP forum heroes of The Battle of Khafji (the first major ground engagement of the Gulf War in 1991). “He got the martyrdom he was longing for. He was so proud of being a member of the Qatari Armed Forces,” he added. The son said that his father had called the family and conveyed Eid greeting, before his death. Father of martyr Mohammed Nasser said, “My son joined Qatari Armed Forces four years ago. He called to greet his family during Eid. I also spoke to him. Minister of State for Defence Affairs H E Dr Khalid bin Mohamed Al Attiyah and other officers carrying the “He was very much loved by his coffin of one of the martyrs at the airport. family and friends. “ I am proud of him for his defending the rights and legitimacy relative and close friend. He called later after finishing his duty but he contribution to restoring stabil- of the country.” “Soldier Mohammed and greeted his family on the day of did not,” Mohammed Abdullah, his ity and security in Yemen and for Nasser Mohammed (24 years) is my Arafat and he told them he will talk cousin and friend told Al Sharq.

Qatar’s Attorney-General Dr. Ali bin Fetais Al Marri yesterday participated in the 21st Annual Conference and General Meeting Teams to ensure of the International Association of Prosecutors (IAP) in Irish capital Dublin. On the sidelines, he met prosecutors, including Ireland’s Director of Public Prosecutions Claire Loftus; Switzerland’s Attorney General Michael Lauber; UK’s Director of Public Prosecutions Claire fresh fish for sale Loftus Alison Saunders; and President of IAP Gerhard Jarosch.

The Peninsula fish. It is better not to make several layers so that fish don’t get crushed under the weight. Public places cleaned The last layer should be ice, not DOHA: The Ministry of Munici- fish. Fish become hard after death pality and Environment has set up and the hardness gradually converts up for Eid revellers special inspection teams to ensure into softness leading to the rotting fish traders and vendors do not keep condition caused by factors such as Qatar Haj Mission officials with pilgrims in Mina. stocks for more than three days the type of fish and temperature, he after the catch so that consumers added. The Peninsula in public places, especially those get fresh fish. The fish market is being attracting huge visitors such as the “There are teams (of inspec- developed to keep pace with the Corniche, public parks, beaches and Qatar Haj Mission shifts pilgrims from tors) to force the traders to put ice development of Al Khor City, as per picnic places. on fish to prevent it from rotting and a plan, said Isa Hasan Al Muhan- DOHA: The Ministry of Munici- “People are flocking to the Arafat to Mina in record 30 minutes to sale stocks within two to three nadi, Head, General Monitoring pality and Environment has set up beaches across the country start- days from the date of catch,” said Department at the municipality. a special team and deployed 100 ing from noon of the first day of Eid Matar Mohammad Al Kuwari, Head, The municipality is coordinat- additional workers to keep Doha Al-Adha. The Sealine area and fam- QNA transporting them from Arafat to Health Monitoring Unit, Al Khor-Al ing the project to upgrade the fish Corniche neat and clean during Eid ily beaches at Al Wakrah, Al Farkiya, Mina in a record of 30 minutes, the Dakhira Municipality. market according to the ministry’s Al-Adha as it attracts crowds dur- Arida, Marih, Ras Matbakh, Al Ghar- shortest in the mission’s history. “The unit has made it man- strategy and Qatar National Vision ing festivities. iya and Fuwairit have become major Mohammed Saad Al Saad, datory for the outlets to provide 2030, he added. “A large number of people vis- places of attraction. President of a centre for sup- special vehicles for transporting Meanwhile, Al Khor slaugh- its the Corniche, especially the areas “The cleaners are leaving no DOHA: Qatar’s pilgrims contin- porting Qatar’s pilgrims said the fish and banned the use of old and terhouse dealt with 365 sacrificial between the building of the minis- stone unturned and exerting all ued Haj in Mina for Tashreq days, achievement was a result of exten- decayed refrigerators to ensure animals on the second day of Eid try and the Emir Diwan. efforts to keep these place tidy and throwing pebbles following in the sive planning and coordination proper storage of fish. Al-Adha. Four were destroyed after “A team of cleaners and foremen clean. “Visitors are educated about Sunnah of Prophet Muhammad with Saudi authorities. “Workers at fish market must they were found unfit for human has been set up to ensure cleanli- the importance of cleanliness and (Peace Be Upon Him). The centre helped the mission wear uniform. Doctors at the health consumption by veterinarians on ness and hygiene round-the-clock,” given plastic bags for putting gar- Qatar Haj Mission said all pil- on the best routes to take from monitoring unit inspect imported duty. Inspectors from the health said Safar Mobarak Al-Shafi, Head, bage rather than littering around,” grims from the state are in good Arafat to Mina and the best times fish because they haver found most monitoring unit caught an eatery for Public Cleaning Department at the Al-Shafi said. health. The mission succeeded in to make the trip. rotten fish stocks due to the condi- violating health rules and improper ministry. The beaches are cleaned in tion of storage and transportation,” storage of food items. Also, a worker “Many cleaning workers two shifts — 4am to 11am and 2pm he added. of the outlet did not have health equipped with necessary materi- to 7pm. Some 400 garbage bins, The ice used for cooling fish certificate. als and tools have been deployed including 120 for Eid Al-Adha, have should also be changed to avoid fish Al Khor Park received large been placed at the Slaughterhouses receive 10,500 animals from rotting away, said Dr Ahamd numbers of visitors on the first and beaches. Eid Shadi, from the municipality. second day of Eid. The park is open The depart- First, a layer of ice should be for public from 8am to 10pm. The ment is also DOHA: Five slaughterhouses in the consumption, said Ahmed Kamal, placed in the box, then the fish and cafeteria in the park opened on the focusing on Central Market in Doha received Supervisor of Slaughtering in the there should be ice between two first day of Eid. sweeping roads about 10,500 sacrificial animals Central Market. The abattoirs are and removing during the first two days of Eid Al- going to provide sacrifices to chari- solid waste left Adha. ties for distribution to beneficiaries during the mainte- Al Khor-Al Dakhira abattoir today and tomorrow, Kamal added. nance of homes by received about 1,000 animals. Meanwhile, about 5,000 subsi- citizens and expa- Meat of more than 20 animals dised sheep have been sold as part triates ahead of Eid was destroyed after it was found of an initiative by the Ministry of Al-Adha. infected and unfit for human Economy and Commerce. QDF rushes aid to besieged areas in Syria

DOHA: Qatar Development Fund (QDF) sent humanitarian convoys to the besieged areas in Syria on the first day of the ceasefire in the country yesterday. The convoys were dispatched in col- laboration with Qatari humanitarian organisations and in coordination with United Nations organisations active in the field, to alleviate the suffering of the civil- ian victims of the five-year-long bloody conflict. The aid comes in the wake of the unprecedented growing humanitarian needs in Syria as a result of heightened clashes and continuing humanitarian crisis, which has caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands and displaced millions of Syri- ans. A ceasefire agreement went into effect on the first day of Eid Al-Adha to create safe A fish trader at its outlet at the fish market of Al Khor-Al Dakhira paths for delivery of humanitarian aid to A convoy of aid dispatched on its way to Syria. the besieged areas. Municipality. HOME WEDNESDAY 14 SEPTEMBER 2016 03 Eid events across Qatar drawing huge crowds

By Raynald C Rivera is something new,” said Saad The Peninsula Nasser, a tourist from Saudi Ara- bia in the audience. Saudi Arabia is Qatar’s top tourist source country with visitor DOHA: Qatar continues to posi- arrivals reaching 640,584 from Jan- tion itself as a family destination uary to August this year — a nine of choice in the GCC for Eid holidays percent increase compared to the with the cornucopia of shows and same period last year. Pics: Kammutty VP / The Peninsula activities catered to children and “Watching Tarzan and other families which have been attract- characters live brings cheer to ing huge crowds. children more than just viewing If the sheer volume of visitors the movie on screen. It’s a differ- watching various shows in malls ent and valuable experience when and other venues is any indica- they can interact with the charac- tion, a large number of visitors ters,” said Aditya, who came with are enjoying this Eid’s line-up of his family. events organised by Qatar Tour- Shows in other malls have been ism Authority (QTA) under the ‘Eid seeing huge turnout since Monday, Celebrations in Qatar’ programme. including Beauty & The Beast at Dar All the events staged at six Al Salam mall; Flying Superkids at participating malls and other Al Khor Mall; Alvin and the Chip- organisations appeal to the entire munks at Ezdan Mall; Pirates from family — from stage shows exclu- the Caribbean at Lagoona Mall; and sive to each mall to rotating shows. Sinbad the Sailor at Hyatt Plaza. The first few front row seats Families also enjoy parades and have been allocated for children shows which rotate around the par- ensuring them the best view and ticipating malls, including African sometimes interaction with the Drummers; Kids Magician; Funny characters. Ball Performer; Circus Spectacle; One of the crowd-drawers is a Circus Bear and Clown; and Qatari production of Tarzan, which for the Traditional Dance. first time is running at City Centre The Pearl-Qatar has also been Doha (CCD), one of the more pop- offering multiple children’s shows ular malls in the country. nightly, including Barney; Dora; It did not take long to fill the Finding Nemo; Frozen; Aladdin; CCD’s indoor ice rink where a stage Jungle Book; and Bubble show. has been erected and around 600 Katara’s 50-minute spectac- seats installed. ular ‘Sinbad the Sailor’ has been The 4pm Tarzan show, which attracting hundreds of families was the first of three shows yes- and so it ‘Fafa Saves the Forest’ live terday, was full house, which came children’s show at Qatar National as no surprise with the show’s high Convention Centre main theatre. entertainment value. Souq Waqif, one of the preferred “My kids and everyone tourist destinations, is offering here are happy with the show. amusement rides at reasonable We have been coming back to prices which have been a magnet Qatar because every year there to children. Eid programmes in Asian Town enthral expatriates

Continued from page 1 Majidul Islam, a Bangladeshi expatri- ate said he was enjoying the event though homesickness was also there in his heart. “Nothing can beat the pleasure of celebrat- ing Eid at home with family and intimate friends … but it is a good event,” he said. Another expat from Pakistan, Naat Khan said: “The show is great … it is representing various cultures … to suppress my feelings of homesickness I have talked to my family seven times in these two Eid days.” Nearby, at the amphitheatre, the crowd was waiting anxiously in long queues to secure a ticket of the concert in which Pics: Abdul Basit / The Peninsula Govinda and Rakhi Sawant had to perform. The audience got frustrated when the stars did not appear till 9pm while the scheduled time was 7pm. Rakhi was wel- comed with loud applause and claps when she reached at the stage while Govinda did not reach the venue till 10pm. Rakhi Sawant’s dance somehow appealed the audience who had started expressing their anger over the poorly planned and executed show. “I am performing first time in Qatar … some of my movies are in the pipe- line including Naughty, Chandani Bar 2, Pakeeza 2,” Rakhi told The Peninsula, in brief remarks on the sidelines of the show. 04 WEDNESDAY 14 SEPTEMBER 2016 MIDDLE EAST Saudi King: Use of Haj for sectarian aims abhorrent

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MINA, SAUDI ARABIA: The Custo- dian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz of Saudi Ara- bia said yesterday the Haj should not be used to achieve sectarian or polit- ical aims. Speaking to dignitaries from Muslim countries at a reception at the royal court in Mina, outside the holy city of Makkah, the King added that Muslims should unite to fight what he called an epidemic of “extremism”. The remarks, coinciding with the Eid Al Adha (feast of sacrifice) holiday, follow an escalating war of words between Shia Iran and Saudi Arabia. Responding to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s statement, Saudi Arabia’s top reli- Saudi security forces carrying water arrive to the area where pilgrims throw pebbles at Jamarat, in Mina near Makkah, yesterday. RIGHT: Soldiers are seen on duty at the command gious authority, the Grand Mufti, and control operation centre in Mina. The control centre monitors footage from over 5,000 cameras streaming live videos of the 1.8 million pilgrims from all over the world taking described Iran’s leaders as not part in the Haj. Muslims. The King said extremism dam- aged Islamic unity. political goals or sectarian disputes,” extremism are abhorred... when it before the world. There is no sal- unity of Muslims, to destroy this epi- opposing sides in Syria’s civil war “The kingdom utterly rejects that he said. enters the body of the Muslim nation, vation from this affliction except to demic,” he added. and a list of other conflicts across this great ritual turns to achieving “Exaggeration (in religion) and it spoils its unity, future and image uproot it without mercy, and with the Saudi Arabia and Iran back the Middle East, including Yemen.

Eid celebrations Record US military aid deal with Israel to be signed soon

U.S. National Security Adviser Susan Republican Donald Trump, and to Rice, according to one source famil- give Israel’s defence establishment The deal calls for at iar with the matter. the ability to plan ahead. least $3.8bn a year in Nearly 10 months of drawn-out Obama’s aides want a new deal aid negotiations have underscored before his presidency ends, seeing aid, up from $3.1bn continuing friction between US Pres- it as an important part of his leg- annually under the ident Barack Obama and Netanyahu acy. Republican critics accuse him over last year’s US-led nuclear deal of not being attentive enough to Isra- current pact, which with Iran, Israel’s arch-foe. The el’s security, which the White House expires in 2018. United States and Israel have also strongly denies. Israel has long been been at odds over the Palestinians. a major recipient of US aid, mostly But the right-wing Israeli leader in the form of military assistance decided it would be best to forge a against a backdrop of an ebbing and Reuters new arrangement with Obama, flowing conflict with the Palestini- who leaves office in January, rather ans and Israel’s neighbours, as well than hoping for better terms from as threats from Iran. the next US administration, accord- The 10-year aid packages under- Palestinian families are seen on the beach in Tel Aviv during the Eid Al Adha holiday, yesterday. WASHINGTON/JERUSALEM: The ing to officials on both sides. A deal pin Washington’s congressionally Thousands of Palestinians from the West Bank swam at beaches in and around the Israeli commercial United States and Israel have now allows him to avoid uncertain- mandated requirement to help capital Tel Aviv, after being granted permits to visit during the Eid holidays. reached final agreement on a ties surrounding the next president, maintain Israel’s “qualitative mili- record new package of at least whether Democrat Hillary Clinton or tary edge” in the region. $38bn in US military aid and the The deal, known as a memo- 10-year pact is expected to be randum of understanding, or MOU, signed this week. Israel launches calls for at least $3.8bn a year in aid, Iran threatened to shoot down The deal will represent the up from $3.1bn annually under the biggest pledge of US military assist- new spy satellite current pact, which expires in 2018, ance made to any country but also officials say. Netanyahu had orig- missiles at two US Navy planes involves major concessions granted AP inally sought upwards of $4.5bn a by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin year. Netanyahu, according to officials on The new package for the first both sides. JERUSALEM: Israel says it has time will incorporate money for AFP Iranian air defence. “They were but was not deemed unsafe because Those include Israel’s agree- successfully launched a new spy Israeli missile defence, which until threatening to shoot at us, to shoot the US planes were outside the ment not to seek additional funds satellite that can gather intelli- now has been funded ad hoc by Con- us down, or fire missiles at us,” the bounds of known Iranian anti-air- from Congress beyond what will gence on Iran and other regional gress. US lawmakers have in recent defence official said, speaking on craft missile ranges. be guaranteed annually in the new adversaries. years given Israel up to $600m in WASHINGTON: The Iranian mili- condition of anonymity ahead of a The Pentagon has in recent package, and also to phase out a spe- The Defence Ministry made a annual discretionary funds for this tary threatened to shoot down two formal announcement. weeks denounced a series of “unsafe cial arrangement that has allowed brief announcement of the launch purpose. US Navy planes flying over the Strait According to Fox News, which and unprofessional” maritime Israel to spend part of its US aid on and said more details will follow. Officials say Israel has agreed of Hormuz, a defence official said first reported the encounter, the encounters in the Gulf, including its own defence industry instead of An Israeli security official says not to lobby Congress for additional yesterday, the latest in a string of US planes ignored the warning and one that prompted an American on American-made weapons, the the Ofek 11 is the country’s “most missile defence funds during the life encounters with Tehran. continued on their mission. One ship to fire warning shots at an Ira- officials said. sophisticated spy satellite to date.” of the new MOU, a pledge expected Two “maritime patrol aircraft” unnamed defence officials told the nian vessel that got too close. Navy Israel’s chief negotiator, Jacob Another official says it can trans- to be made in a side letter or annex were flying separate missions in news network that the US military officials say ships from the US and Nagel, acting head of Netanyahu’s mit high resolution images in color to the agreement. But the wording is a similar area in international air had wanted to test the Iranians’ Iranian navies interacted more than national security council, arrived and relay images from nearly any- likely to be flexible enough to allow space earlier this month when they reactions. The defence official said 300 times in 2015 and more than 250 in Washington overnight in prepa- where around the world. exceptions in case of a war or other received three radio calls from the incident was “unprofessional” times the first half of this year. ration for a signing ceremony with major crisis.

Coalition planes destroy IS chemical Syria truce largely holds; aid preparations under way factory near Mosul Reuters and suppress attempts at violations, the assurances and the peace before civilian death from fighting in the 15 forces for more than a week, was in said the ceasefire had largely been trucks can start moving from Tur- hours since the ceasefire came into dire need of fuel, flour, wheat, baby observed in Aleppo. key. As I speak, that has not been effect at 7pm. milk, and medicines. AFP Around 20 trucks carrying aid the case,” Jens Laerke, spokesman Turkey said on Monday that, in The council wanted to a role in BEIRUT: A nationwide ceasefire bro- crossed into northern Syria from for the UN Office for the Coordina- conjunction with the United Nations, overseeing the deliveries, he added, kered by the United States and Russia the Turkish border town of Cilve- tion of Humanitarian Affairs, said in it aimed to send more than 30 trucks rejecting any presence of govern- WASHINGTON: US-led coalition was mostly holding across Syria yes- gozu, some 40km west of Aleppo, a Geneva. loaded with food, children’s clothes ment forces on the road expected to warplanes destroyed a factory in terday and efforts to deliver badly witness said, although with security a “We need to enter an environ- and toys to besieged parts of Aleppo be used to make the deliveries. Iraq used by the Islamic State needed aid to besieged areas includ- concern it was not clear how far into ment where we are not in mortal within hours of the truce taking “We need 60 tonnes of flour each group to make chemical weap- ing the northern city of Aleppo got Syria they would go. A Turkish offi- danger as humanitarian organisa- effect. day,” he said. ons, the Pentagon said yesterday. cautiously underway. cial said they were mostly carrying tions delivering aid,” he said. The United Nations said on Fri- More than 301,000 Syrians have The production centre — a Syrian state media said armed food and flour. The ceasefire is the second day the Syrian government had been documented as killed since converted pharmaceutical plant groups had violated the truce in a The Syrian government said it attempt this year by the United effectively stopped aid convoys this the start of the conflict in 2011, complex — likely made chlorine number of locations in Aleppo city would reject any aid deliveries to States and Russia to halt the Syr- month and Aleppo was almost run- the Observatory said in its latest or mustard gas, said Lieuten- and in the west Homs countryside on Aleppo not coordinated through ian war. Russia is a major backer ning out of fuel. assessment on Tuesday, although ant General Jeffrey Harrigian, at least seven occasions on Tuesday. itself and the United Nations, par- of President Bashar Al Assad, while The head of the city council for it estimates the actual death toll at who heads US Air Forces Cen- The Syrian Observatory for Human ticularly from Turkey, Syrian state the United States supports some of opposition-held Aleppo expressed around 430,000, in line with the tral Command. Rights said pro-government forces media reported. the rebel groups fighting to topple concern that planned deliveries U.N.’s estimate. Some 11 million peo- “This represents just another had shelled near two villages in the The UN said its trucks had not him. would be conducted according to ple have been made homeless in the example of Daesh’s blatant dis- south Aleppo countryside and a yet entered Syria and that it was still Some air attacks and shelling Russian wishes and would not meet world’s worst refugee crisis. regard for international law neighbourhood on the outskirts of awaiting confirmation that the cease- were reported in the first hours of the needs of an estimated 300,000 U.N. Syria envoy Staffan de Mis- and norms,” he told Pentagon Damascus. But there were no reports fire was holding before sending in its the truce on Monday evening, but people living there. tura was monitoring the ceasefire reporters in a video call, using an of deaths or injuries. own convoy. that appeared to die down and the Brita Hagi Hassan said the rebel- very closely, a spokeswoman said, Arabic acronym for IS. The strike The Russian military, which sent “We are waiting for this cessa- Observatory, which monitors the held part of the city, which has been but she declined to comment on how occurred on Monday near Mosul. reconnaissance equipment to detect tion of hostilities to actually deliver war, said it had not recorded a single fully encircled by pro-government it was being observed so far.

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About 200 Zika Zambia inaugurates Lungu as president cases recorded in Thailand

settle scores. We have work to do,” he said. “It is our duty that as citizens of Reuters Defeated opposition this country we are on this journey candidate dismissed together and be peaceful.” the ceremony Hichilema, a wealthy business- man who has run five times for BANGKOK: Thailand has as ‘illegal and president, has accused Lungu, the recorded about 200 cases of Zika unconstitutional.’ election commission and court judges since January, the health minis- of all being guilty of fraud over the try said yesterday, making it a vote result. country with one of the highest “This inauguration is illegal and numbers of confirmed cases in AFP unconstitutional,” Hichilema said. the region. “There has been no (court) ruling It was the first time Thailand's that President Lungu has been validly health ministry has confirmed the elected. We are drifting to the law of number of Zika cases this year. LUSAKA: Zambian President Edgar the jungle. The truth is that our elec- The announcement comes a Lungu called for national unity in his tion was stolen.” day after health experts called on inauguration speech yesterday, as a Hichilema stopped short of call- Thailand to be more transparent defeated opposition candidate dis- ing for street protests but urged in reporting the Zika threat to the missed the ceremony as “illegal and Zambians to “fight for your rights”. public after health officials played unconstitutional”. “You can’t have free, fair and down risks from rising infections Lungu, who first took power last transparent elections in this coun- of the mosquito-borne virus. year, won the August 11 election by try under this leadership,” he said. Health officials have around 100,000 votes but his oppo- Lungu, 59, first took office last expressed concern that disclos- nent Hakainde Hichilema has alleged year after beating Hichilema in a ing information on Zika, which that the result was riddled with fraud. snap election, and has since faced is linked to serious birth defects, The inauguration was held at falling prices for copper -- the would damage Thailand’s lucra- a Chinese-built sports stadium in country’s key export -- soaring tive tourism industry. the capital, with regional digni- unemployment and inflation rising “Since January, we have Zambian elected incumbent President Edgar Lungu (centre) is escorted as he arrives to swear in as President taries including President Robert to over 20 percent. recorded about 200 cases and Mugabe of neighbouring Zimbabwe Zambia is known for its relative at Heroes Stadium in Lusaka, yesterday. over the past three weeks, we in attendance. stability but the election campaign have confirmed an average of “Now that the elections are over, was marked by clashes between delayed vote count and subsequent election gave Lungu the right to fin- The president has described 20 new cases per week,” Minis- we must say as a people that we stand supporters of Lungu’s Patriotic court hearings. ish Sata’s term. himself as an “ordinary Zambian try of Public Health spokesman as united as ever,” Lungu told tens Front (PF) and Hichilema’s United Zambia last held a peaceful Lungu, a trained military officer of humble beginnings” though he Suwannachai Wattanayingcha- of thousands of spectators, vowing Party for National Development transfer of power to an opposition and lawyer, has used his short stint has a tough reputation and on the roenchai said. to prioritise reviving the country’s (UPND). party in 2011 when Michael Sata in office to present himself as the campaign trail warned he would “The number of cases is sta- stumbling economy. The country has not experienced became president. rightful heir to Sata, who enjoyed “sacrifice democracy for peace” if ble,” he said, without giving “There is no time and latitude to the widely-feared violence during a Sata died in 2014, and the 2015 widespread popularity. necessary. further details. Quake near Seoul triggers safety concerns Angola and DR Congo yellow fever outbreak Reuters to that standard after the disaster at Japan’s tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in 2011. ‘under control’: UN “That will be completed by next SEOUL: Two earthquakes that jolted year,” said Shim Eun-jung, a spokes- South Korea on Monday night, includ- woman at the nuclear watchdog. Reuters had not been vaccinated recently, ing the largest ever recorded in the South Korea’s 25 reactors sup- she said. country, prompted concerns about ply about one-third of its electricity At the end of August the WHO the safety of nuclear plants clustered and make it the world’s fifth-larg- said the trend was “extremely pos- in the quake-prone southeast. est user of nuclear power. It plans to GENEVA: A yellow fever outbreak in itive” but it was too early to say the Korea’s Meteorological Agency add 9 more nuclear plants by 2027, Angola and Congo has been brought outbreak had been stopped com- said the two earthquakes, of mag- according to the nuclear watchdog. under control by a major vaccina- pletely, with 1,000 confirmed cases nitude of 5.1 and 5.8, occurred near Park Jong-kwon, head of an tion campaign, the World Health and up to 6,000 suspected cases of the city of Gyeongju. anti-nuclear civic group in South Organization’s director of infec- the mosquito-borne disease. Nonetheless, Korea Hydro Gyeongsang Province, said no more tious hazard management Sylvie The outbreak is the worst in & Nuclear Power Co shut down nuclear reactors should be built in Briand said yesterday. decades among unprotected Afri- four nuclear reactors at the Wol- southeastern cities like Ulsan and “One (piece of) good news is can populations and has killed more song complex in Gyeongju as a Gyeongju as they are close to an that this outbreak is under con- than 400 people. precaution. active fault line. trol now. We haven’t had any new The vaccination campaigns have South Korea’s reactors are “Even though nuclear reactors cases in Angola since June 23 this depleted the global stockpile designed to withstand a magnitude are designed to withstand an earth- year, and since July 12 in DRC (Dem- of 6 million doses twice this 6.5 or 7.0 earthquake, according to quake of a magnitude 7.0, if they are ocratic Republic of Congo),” Briand year, forcing doctors to switch to the Nuclear Safety and Security hit by 4.5 and 5.8 magnitude earth- told a regular UN briefing in Geneva administering one-fifth of the nor- Commission. quakes several times, they can be recently. mal dose, a tactic that the WHO says A man inspects partially damaged roof of his house in Gyeongju, Orders were given to nuclear knocked down by a real 7.0 mag- The entire Congolese capital of gives at least temporary protection yesterday, after a powerful quake hit the southern part of South Korea. operators to upgrade old reactors nitude earthquake at a single blow.” Kinshasa, 7.7 million people, had from the disease. been vaccinated in less than 10 On Monday, experts from WHO days, as well as 3 million in border and other health agencies met in areas to prevent transmission from Geneva to discuss a long-term Angola, and another 3 million on the strategy to prevent future large out- Angolan side of the border, where a breaks of yellow fever. Taiwan charges Police ban anti-Mugabe protest second phase of vaccinations would The risk of such outbreaks be carried out soon. has risen due to urbanisation and foreigners over “So far in Angola more than 15 increasing mobility of the popula- AFP a coalition of opposition parties “They have no respect for the million people (have been vacci- tion, and this year it was especially ATM cyberheist said they would stage mass rallies law but we are not going to surren- nated), this represents 65 percent acute because of the El Nino across the country on Saturday to der our constitutional right. We are of the population. So we still have weather phenomenon which mul- push for reform before elections going back to the courts to challenge to protect certain districts and tiplied mosquito numbers, she said. HARARE: Zimbabwean police have due in 2018. this illegal ban.” provinces but the risk of a major The recent mass vaccination AFP announced a fresh ban on protests in “These are the last kicks of a An earlier protest ban in Harare outbreak I think is now over,” she campaign aimed not only to stop the capital Harare, state media said dying regime and we expected no was overturned by the courts last said. the transmission of the virus but yesterday, in another attempt to end better from them,” Douglas Mwo- week, despite Mugabe vowing a But there were still 32 endemic also to preempt transmission during demonstrations against veteran ruler zora, spokesman for the Movement crackdown on dissent and blasting countries in Africa, so further out- the rainy season, which is already TAIPEI: Taiwan has charged President Robert Mugabe. for Democratic Change (MDC) oppo- judges for “reckless” rulings allow- breaks could not be ruled out, starting in some areas, Briand said three foreigners over a $2.6m The order came hours after sition party said. ing previous rallies. including in the parts of Congo that recently. cyberheist that used malware to hack into a major local bank’s ATM network, prosecutors said yesterday, adding that they were seeking 12-year jail terms. The attack, the first of its Zuma denies power struggle with Gordhan kind in Taiwan, targeted the First Commercial Bank’s ATM network in July and saw money Reuters The affair has rattled markets in Treasury, it creates uncertainties withdrawn from dozens of Africa’s most industrialised econ- across the economy,” Jonas told 702 machines in three cities. omy, which faces the risk of ratings Talk Radio. The suspects had uncovered downgrades later this year. Divisions “We feel confident there is no a security loophole in a server at CAPE TOWN: South African leader within the African National Con- basis for the allegation. We are not the bank’s London branch office Jacob Zuma attempted yesterday to gress have widened since the ruling worried about that.” and used it to plant the malware, brush aside market fears of a power party suffered its worst-ever local Jonas also said he had met Public according to the Taipei District struggle with Finance Minister election results last month, with ana- Protector Thuli Madonsela, an anti- Prosecutors Office. Pravin Gordhan, declaring: “There lysts blaming the rifts on a conflict corruption watchdog, as part of her Police said last month they is no war between the Presidency between Zuma and Gordhan. inquiry into whether the wealthy believed the heist was carried and the Treasury.” Gordhan declined last month to Gupta family, who are close to Zuma, out by an international crime Zuma twice repeated the phrase obey a police summons linked to the have been influencing high-level ring. in response to a question in parlia- inquiry into whether he had used a political appointments. “This is the first case of ment. “I am clarifying that point. It tax service unit to spy on politicians, Jonas dropped a political bomb- a multi-national crime ring must be as clear as anything,” he told including Zuma. He said he had done shell earlier this year when he said hacking into a bank’s computer lawmakers. nothing wrong, and the opposition the Gupta family offered to secure system to plant malware and An elite police unit is investigat- has called the investigation a witch him his boss’s job. Nhlanhla Nene steal a huge amount of money... ing Gordhan over a so-called “rogue hunt. was the finance minister at the time. which seriously disrupted spy” unit at the tax agency, set up Deputy Finance Minister Mceb- Zuma has said that the Guptas financial order and caused when he was at its helm. Some ana- isi Jonas earlier said that the probe are his friends but denies doing any- public panic,” the prosecu- lysts say Zuma’s allies are driving into Gordhan was causing economic thing improper. The Guptas have also South African President Jacob Zuma answers questions at the South tor’s office said in a statement. the probe in a bid to oust Gordhan, uncertainty. denied making job offers to anyone something the president denied. “It does destabilise, not only in government. African Parliament in Cape Town, yesterday. ASIA / PHILIPPINES WEDNESDAY 14 SEPTEMBER 2016 07 US B-1 bombers fly over S Korea in show of force

pressure cannot ruin our status as a US remained open to nuclear state and evil political and military provocations will only result meaningful dialogue in a flood of reckless nuclear attacks with Pyongyang on that will bring a final destruction.” China urged restraint among all ending its pursuit of parties. “If there is a vicious cycle nuclear weapons: of tensions continuing to rise and mutual provocations, this is not in Envoy anyone’s interests,” Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chuny- ing said. Reuters North Korea’s weapons enhance- ments, including the testing of various types of missiles this year at an unprecedented rate, have alarmed SEOUL: Two US B-1 bombers flew neighbours South Korea and Japan. over South Korea yesterday in a South Korean President Park show of force and solidarity with its Geun-hye maintained her tough ally after North Korea’s nuclear test stance against the North. US General Vincent K Brooks (right), Commander of the UN Command, Combined Forces Command and US Forces Korea speaks as South Korea’s last week, while a US envoy called “I want our government and mil- Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman General Lee Sun-Jin looks on during a press briefing on the flight by US B-1B Lancer over South Korea at the Osan for a swift and strong response to itary to stay fully ready to retaliate, Air Base in Pyeongtaek, yesterday. RIGHT: Soldiers applaud during a celebration rally attended by service members and civilians following the Pyongyang from the United Nations. determined to end North Korea’s Speaking in the South Korean country’s successful test of a nuclear warhead on Friday, in Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang. regime once North Korea fires even capital yesterday, Sung Kim, the US one missile nuclear-armed missile envoy on North Korea, added that the in existing resolutions, which were North’s missile threat, have shown The pair of US supersonic B-1B “These flights demonstrate the toward our territory,” Park said. US remained open to meaningful dia- tightened with Beijing’s backing in reluctance to back further sanctions. Lancer strategic bombers took off solidarity between South Korea, the Kim, the US envoy, said there was logue with Pyongyang on ending its March. “Both sides think that North from their base in Guam and flew United States, and Japan to defend no need to reintroduce nuclear weap- pursuit of nuclear weapons. “China has been very clear that Korea’s nuclear test is not beneficial with two Japan Air Self Defense Force against North Korea’s provocative ons in South Korea. “Our intention is to secure the they understand the need for a new to peace and stability on the Korean aircraft before a “hand-off” to South and destabilising actions,” said Admi- North Korea has refused the US strongest possible (UN Security UN security council resolution in peninsula,” China’s official People’s Korean fighters, according to the US ral Harry Harris, commander of the demand that it accept denuclear- Council) resolution that includes new response to the latest North Korean Daily newspaper said yesterday. military. US Pacific Command. isation as a condition for holding sanctions as quickly as possible,” Kim nuclear test,” Kim said. “At present, we must work hard The B-1Bs were then escorted by North Korea’s official KCNA dialogue. said after meeting his South Korean However, China and Russia, to prevent the situation on the penin- South Korean and US fighter jets in news agency said public anger was “It’s a question of North Korean counterpart. which strongly oppose a recent deci- sula continuing to escalate, and put a low-altitude flight over Osan Air “exploding like a volcano” over intentions and commitment. If North He said the United States would sion by the US and South Korea to the issue of the nuclearisation of the Base, which is 77km from the Demil- Washington’s dispatch of bombers Korea is ready to talk to us sincerely, work with China, North Korea’s major deploy an advanced anti-missile peninsula back on the track of dia- itarised Zone border with the North to South Korea. I think we can work with that within diplomatic ally, to close loopholes system in the South to counter the logue and consultation,” it said. and about 40km from Seoul. “Any sanction, provocation and the six party process,” Kim said. Philippines ‘ends’ joint Beijing to maintain S China Sea peace with Hanoi

Reuters its 200 nautical mile Exclusive Eco- Meeting in Beijing on Monday, and stability and create conditions sea patrol role with US nomic Zone as China grows more Li told Phuc that the South China for the stable development of bilat- assertive in staking its claims in the Sea involved both issues of sover- eral ties,” Li said recently. South China Sea. eignty and maritime rights as well The ministry cited Phuc as saying Anatolia force base in Manila yesterday, BEIJING: China and Vietnam should A court of arbitration in The as “national feelings”, China’s For- maritime issues should be appro- Duterte underlined that he would work together to maintain peace Hague in July said China’s claims to eign Ministry said yesterday. priately handled in a peaceful way no longer allow joint sea patrols as and stability in the South China Sea the waterway were invalid, after a “China and Vietnam should on the basis of equality and mutual he didn’t want the Philippines to and manage and control disputes, case was brought by the Philippines. work hard together, scrupulously respect and not allow maritime ZAMBOANGA CITY: Days after be involved in any hostile acts in Chinese Premier Li Keqiang told Beijing has refused to recognise the abide by their high level consensus, issues to affect the development of stating that his administration “someone else’s territory”. Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen ruling. maintain maritime stability, man- relations. would adopt an autonomous foreign “Whether it is really owned by Xuan Phuc. Vietnam welcomed the ruling, age and control disputes, promote Earlier this month, Indian Prime policy, the president has declared he us, which the judgment says we Vietnam is in the midst of a saying it strongly supports peaceful maritime cooperation, continue to Minister Narendra Modi offered Viet- no longer wants the Philippines to are entitled to... That’s besides my quiet military buildup analysts say resolution of disputes, while reas- accumulate consensus, jointly main- nam a credit line of half a billion participate in joint sea patrols with point,” he said, referring to a Per- is designed as a deterrent, to secure serting its own sovereignty claims. tain maritime and regional peace dollars for defence cooperation. other countries -- seemingly again manent Court of Arbitration ruling turning his nose up at the US. that said that Beijing’s claim to areas Earlier this year, the US of the South China Sea had no basis. announced that it had reached an “The point is I don’t want to ride Australia to shut agreement with Rodrigo Duterte’s gung-ho style there with China or Taiwan braces for super typhoon predecessor to start joint patrols with with America... I just want to patrol sub-Antarctic the Philippines in the South China our territorial waters... We do not go Sea amid a dispute with China. into patrol or join any army because AFP research station Duterte has since lashed out at I do not want trouble,” he added, US criticism of his administration’s according to GMA news. war on drugs, cursed Barack Obama On Tuesday, Duterte also said and American colonization and that Russia and China had agreed to TAIPEI: Taiwan braced for AFP illustrated a speech at Asean meet- provide weaponry and armaments approaching super typhoon Meranti ing with images of Filipinos killed for his military to use in its counter- yesterday, evacuating nearly 1,800 during the American occupation. insurgency campaign in its southern tourists from offshore islands and SYDNEY: Australia will close its In a speech delivered at an air region of Mindanao. closing some schools and offices. permanent station at Macquarie Meranti is expected to skirt past Island almost seven decades after the island’s southern tip, bringing establishing the sub-Antarctic torrential rain and powerful winds research facility, officials said from late yesterday, the Central yesterday, citing environmental Weather Bureau said. contamination concerns and age- “Typhoon Meranti is maintain- ing infrastructure. ing its strength and speed, and its The decision to shut the sta- impact will be the strongest Wednes- tion at Macquarie Island -- which day (today) and early Thursday lies between Australia and Ant- (tomorrow),” said forecaster Hung arctica -- follows an independent Jen-sheng. engineering investigation which A fish worker balances himself while walking between two boats at The super typhoon will likely highlighted growing safety, envi- dampen celebrations and disrupt Yenpu fish harbour in southern Pingtung county as typhoon Meranti ronment and ocean inundation traffic during the four-day Mid- approaches southeast of Taiwan, yesterday. risks, the Australian Antarctic autumn Festival holiday period Division (AAD) said. starting tomorrow, a major holiday and Orchid Island and suspended Offices and schools were shut “Withdrawal of a perma- in Taiwan, Hong Kong and China. ferry services to the two destina- down in Orchid Island from yes- nent presence will be a further Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte gestures as he delivers his Authorities have evacuated tions on Tuesday (yesterday) and terday afternoon while the defence step towards minimising human speech during the 250th Presidential Airlift Wing Command nearly 1,800 visitors from the pop- Wednesday (today), local officials ministry said it had ordered around impacts on the island,” the govern- anniversary celebrations at Villamor air base in Manila, yesterday. ular tourist spots of Green Island said recently. 33,000 soldiers to be on standby. ment agency said in a statement.

China detains 13 in ‘rebel’ village over protests Taiwan company fined for polluting Vietnam canal AFP June, and police said that since then newspaper showed bloodied But when a protest leader died in villagers had “continued to fabricate residents, and others wearing police custody, residents took their AFP That incident was blamed on rumours and deploy measures such motorcycle helmets and holding demonstrations further, barricad- a Taiwanese steel firm called For- as threats, insults, force and bribes bricks. ing roads leading into Wukan, and mosa which was slapped with a LUFENG: Chinese authorities to instigate, plan and launch illegal The road into Wukan from effectively expelling security forces $500m fine for discharging toxic detained 13 residents of the rebel mass gatherings”. Lufeng, a nearby urban centre, was for more than a week. HANOI: A Taiwanese company waste into the ocean. village of Wukan yesterday, police Yesterday’s detentions were for empty yesterday afternoon, with Communist Party authorities has been fined $9,000 for dump- In the latest case, authorities said, after jailing its chief -- who was “disturbing the public order and about a dozen police officers at a unexpectedly backed down and ing waste water in a Vietnamese have accused Taiwan’s Header elected after leading protests against public transport order”, police said roadblock waving away approach- promised rare concessions, includ- canal, an official said yesterday, Plan screw manufacturer of Communist officials -- on corrup- on verified social media account ing vehicles. ing pledges to investigate the land just months after another firm allowing contaminated water tion charges. recently. A Lufeng city official said dispute and allow village polls to be from the island was blamed for to run-off into the Moi canal in Wukan, a 13,000-strong fish- After the arrests, villagers recently that the road was closed but held in an open manner -- a first in mass fish deaths in the country. Dong Nai in southern Vietnam. ing village in the southern province clashed with police, with security would not comment on the situation Wukan. Public anger has mounted State media said residents of Guangdong, became a symbol of forces using tear gas and rubber bul- inside Wukan, and police escorted Lin, 70, was one of the success- against foreign companies have complained of increasing resistance against corruption after a lets, the South China Morning Post journalist out of the area. ful contenders. He was convicted of accused of polluting Vietnam pollution in the canal since 2002. mass uprising over allegedly illegal newspaper reported. The 2011 protests in Wukan were corruption last week and sentenced since April when tonnes of dead The company has been land grabs propelled it onto global Villagers threw stones at police initially seen as just another bout of to three years in prison after confess- fish washed up off the central ordered to clean up the waterway front pages in 2011. with riot shields, according to a video social unrest in China, where tens of ing to accepting bribes worth some coast in the country’s worst eco- and fined more than $9,000, an Lin Zulian, who played a key role posted to the newspaper’s website. thousands of such incidents occur $90,000, the official Xinhua news logical disaster in decades. official said. in those protests, was detained in Photos published by the each year. agency reported. 08 WEDNESDAY 14 SEPTEMBER 2016 VIEWS

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EDITORIAL A tough job What Clinton could learn eports that German blue-chip companies have been able to hire only less than a hundred refugees are disappointing and speak of the huge challenges the from Boris Yeltsin country is facing in rehabilitating and integrating the tens of thousands of refugees who entered the country Rlast year. Chancellor Angela Merkel, who is fighting for political greatness. That was a good strat- dangerous. Besides, Clinton is a egy: Early on, Zyuganov was far The US of 2016 is not woman, so she is especially care- survival after a series of setbacks in elections caused by her ahead in the polls. ful not to be perceived as weak. open-door policy, is trying desperately to correct the situation. Until now, though, the parallel Russia in the mid- The inept coverup, though, has She has summoned the bosses of the top companies to Berlin to was incomplete in one important 1990s, but Clinton only focused attention on Clin- hear from them and jointly explore options that would lead to way. Almost throughout the 1996 should release her ton’s other health problems, some improvement in the situation. And any failure would further campaign, Yeltsin was gravely ill, which include a history of venous damage Merkel’s political career. and before the June 26 run-off he medical records, thrombosis that was treated with suffered a serious heart attack. blood-thinners. The struggle for employment by the refugees was revealed in and she should talk His campaign didn’t let on that Neither candidate in this race a Reuters survey of 30 companies in Germany’s DAX stock market anything was wrong. frankly to voters has released much information index. The survey showed that these companies could point to just Most Russians had no idea about her health. about their medical histories. 63 refugee hires in total. Of this small number, 50 are said to be By Leonid Bershidsky before the decisive round that There now is additional focus employed by Deutsche Post DHL, which applied a pro-active strategy Bloomberg Yeltsin was laid up at his country on Clinton, however, because and deployed the refugees to sort and deliver letters and parcels. house and unable to work. Only of the suspicion — a reasonable The companies gave three reasons for the near absence of his closest circle knew. An una- one based on Sunday’s belated, shamed Yeltsin later described inexplicably, is trying to follow incomplete admissions by her refugees in their workforce – a lack of he failure of Hillary the coverup in his memoir, “The in the Yeltsin team’s footsteps. staff and the candidate herself Top German German-language skills, refugees’ inability Clinton’s campaign to Presidential Marathon,” published Clinton apparently found out — that she will try to hide any ail- companies, to prove any qualifications, and third, disclose that she has in English as “Midnight Diaries”: Friday that she had pneumonia, ment. Secrecy has been a pattern uncertainty about their legal status which come down with pneu- “On the second day after the but the diagnosis did not become in the e-mail scandal and in the which are means doubts about whether they would monia amplifies the heart attack, June 28, a parlor public until she publicly stumbled matter of her well-compensated be permitted to stay once the government Tparallels between this US presi- where my bed had been moved as she was leaving the September speeches to Wall Street bank- baulking dential election campaign and the was turned into a semblance 11 commemoration in New York. ers. Like Yeltsin, she’s generally decides the fate of each refugee. All three at hiring 1996 contest that opposed the first of an office. The cameraman (a Immediately after the episode, unapologetic about not being gen- refugees, reasons sound sensible from an employer’s Russian president, Boris Yeltsin, Kremlin one) took a long time the campaign said she had felt erous with information. point of view. The refugees have been in and the Communist leader Gen- arranging things so that nothing “overheated.” The diagnosis was Yeltsin was 65 when he was have a duty the country only for a year, which is a short nady Zyuganov. tell-tale would be in the frame, only revealed hours later. re-elected, three years younger to support period to learn the German language for The two presidential races are especially the piano that had Yeltsin, with a far graver ail- than Clinton is today. He was a Merkel in her two reasons – first, German is a completely similar in their negative framing. always been there and, of course, ment than Clinton’s, tried to keep Russian male, a hard drinker and new language for them unlike English, In Russia 20 years ago and in the the bed. The medical equipment up a semblance of a working a risk-taker, so he was proba- mission of US this year, both candidates are was covered up with something. schedule. As did Clinton: On Sun- bly far less healthy than she is. which they will have to start learning from rehabilitating unpopular, and many of those Naina [Yeltsin’s wife] begged day, soon after she had to leave But, like her, he had an aversion the A, and secondly, all these refugees have who intend to vote for them see me about one thing: ‘Borya! Just the ceremony, she emerged from to showing weakness. Victory refugees. been busy worrying about their future them as the lesser evil. don’t get up! Stay in the armchair! her daughter Chelsea’s apart- was sweet, but Yeltsin could and working on procedures to regularise Yeltsin’s backers feared a You’re not allowed to get up!’ But ment smiling and waving, trying no longer cover up his health their stay in the country, pushing the study Communist victory, some of I couldn’t hold back and forced to reassure voters she was fine. problems. In September 1996, of German to a secondary status in their priority list. They have Clinton’s are trying to keep out myself to get up to greet my guest. One could argue that none Sergei Parkhomenko, the editor a man they see as a dangerous Lebed was very happy with the of this was necessary. There’s of a weekly magazine in Moscow, fled a war, and so it’s natural that they are not in possession of demagogue. Many of Zyuganov’s meeting. He’d been told that I had nothing unusual or politically found out that Yeltsin was about documents to prove their educational qualifications. supporters would have preferred a cold, and he didn’t ask any pry- damaging about getting pneu- to undergo bypass surgery. More than a million refugees have entered Germany, and the a more hard-line candidate who ing questions.” monia. It’s not as scary as a The Kremlin persuaded him latest news is worrying because it will only add to the woes of the appealed to their Soviet nostal- In the US, a coverup on that heart attack. Yet Trump and to hold the story for a week in government. One argument of pro-immigration activists was gia and imperial yearnings, but scale would probably be diffi- other Republicans have long exchange for an exclusive inter- that the entry of immigrants could help boost economic growth mostly they didn’t want another cult to organize. Candidates for suggested that Clinton’s health view with Yeltsin about his health, and help alleviate the skills shortage in a country where the four years of Wild West capital- top office live in glass houses, is an issue, and she and her aides but then went ahead and made ism and dalliances with the West and media attention is unrelent- probably feel that adding any an announcement about the sur- working-age population is fast shrinking. The new employment under Yeltsin. Many of Donald ing. Yet the Clinton campaign, kind of fuel to that fire would be gery. Later on, the president’s data undermines this argument. Germany is known for its high Trump’s backers don’t see him absences from work became standards – of its industry as well as workforce – and the new as a true conservative, but they’d longer and more frequent, and he immigrants will need time to rise up to these standards. rather elect anyone than Clinton. didn’t serve out his term, handing But the companies have a duty to fulfill their social obligations. The face-off between an over the presidency to Vladimir Merkel must be supported in her noble mission of rehabilitating establishment candidate and Putin. I doubt, however, that a populist outsider is another Yeltsin knew that Putin would refugees. important similarity. Yeltsin, like roll back most of the democratic Clinton, was the establishment: In reforms and business freedoms. addition to being an incumbent, The US of 2016 is not Russia in the he’d reached the top echelon of mid-1990s, but Clinton should Soviet leaders before falling out release her medical records, and of favor with President Mikhail she should talk frankly to voters Quote of the day Gorbachev. Zyuganov’s career about her health. was less distinguished: he was Unpleasant information may Anyone, like Hungary, who the leader of a battered, cash- come out, but if she doesn’t come builds fences against war poor Communist Party that had clean, she will exacerbate what refugees or breaches press little resemblance to the organ- is arguably a bigger problem for ization in which Yeltsin once her: Many voters don’t trust her. freedom and the independence almost made it to the all-power- Yeltsin made that mistake — his of the justice system should ful Politburo. popularity dropped quickly after be temporarily, or if needed Zyuganov ran a populist cam- he had to admit that he’d been forever, excluded from the EU. paign, appealing to those who hiding his poor health. Few peo- had been left behind by the cap- ple were sorry to see him go when italist transition, just as Trump he stepped down on the last day targets those who have suffered of 1999. Jean Asselborn US Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton speaking to Luxembourg Foreign Minister from globalization. Like Trump, Zyuganov tried to sell voters the press after a working session with national security advisers The author is a Bloomberg view on restoring the nation’s past and experts at the New York Historical Society, in New York. contributor, is a Berlin-based writer.

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Had 9/11 not happened, would Daesh not have been spawned?

By John Bahadur Lamb IANS

ever forget” is the oft repeated refrain used when talking about the attacks of Sep- tember 11, 2001. Yet, it“N often seems an empty phrase brought out yearly for memorial services and invoked by politicians seeking to justify the latest round of new counter-terror- ism efforts. Despite the phrase perhaps being overused, the attacks themselves should never be forgotten as they marked a key turning point in modern history and would, arguably, lead to the birth of a much more dangerous enemy in the form of Daesh. Not since Pearl Harbour had the world’s only superpower been attacked within its domestic borders and what was so surprising was that the attack was not carried out by another state but by a then little-known terrorist group — Al Qaeda. The attack itself was carried out by A view of one World Trade Center from the north pool, which marks the former site of the North Tower of the World Trade Center, at Ground Zero just 19 men who hijacked four planes in New York. and successfully flew two into the World Trade Center in New York, one into the Pentagon and the fourth only missed Iraq campaign would lead to a long- presence of American and British troops power of Iranian backed Shia militias. partly to remember and honour the another target due to the heroic actions running insurgency and widespread in Iraq led many to join AQI and it rose Tit-for-tat sectarian violence continued victims but also as a reminder that of the passengers, who caused it to crash sectarian violence between the two in prominence and infamy as it carried and the group survived US/UK attempts responding to terrorism with force can into a field. dominant strands of Islam present in out attacks against coalition troops and to dismantle it. have far-reaching effects which are hard The actions of these few would turn the country. atrocities against Shia Muslims. The Arab Spring then arrived and the to predict. 9/11 into a day that changed history by With the removal of Saddam Hussein This prominence allowed it to form Syrian civil war started. This provided an Fortunately, we are unlikely to see a leading to two American-led invasions and the de-Ba’athification of the Iraqi the Mujahedeen Shura Council in 2004 as ideal opportunity for the group to expand spectacular attack like 9/11 carried out as part of the Global War on Terrorism police and military units, the Americans an umbrella organisation encompassing across the border into Syria and enlarge again as Daesh appears to be focused — Afghanistan and then Iraq. and British forces both created a power all of the Sunni insurgent groups present its geographic footprint. on retaining the land it controls in Iraq Whilst the Afghan campaign was vacuum and deposited hundreds of highly in Iraq. Under the guidance of Abu Musab Between 2011 and 2013 this is exactly and Syria. initially successful and had the back- trained soldiers on to Iraqi streets. Al Zarqawi, the group became more and what the group did before declaring a However, Daesh is more danger- ing of the international community, the Many of these now jobless individuals more sectarian, often focusing on local worldwide caliphate in June 2014 and ous because of its ability to inspire joined the growing insurgency which was Shia militias rather than the occupying changing its name to Islamic State of Iraq those with little or no history of fighting against the Western occupation. coalition forces. and Syria (ISIS, aka Daesh). extremist violence to carry out low Whilst many different groups existed, one This eventually led to a split from Daesh has since gone on to inspire level attacks, such as Charlie Hebdo, We should never forget 9/11, partly group in particular stood out — Tanzim the main body of Al Qaeda and led to the nearly half a dozen attacks beyond the Bataclan and Nice. The legacy of 9/11 is to remember and honour the Qaidat Al Jihad fi Bilad Al Rafidayn aka renaming of the group as the Islamic State borders of Iraq and Syria, in both Europe not just memorials to those who died Al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI). of Iraq (ISI) in 2006. and the Middle East. but an on-going struggle to detect, victims but also as a reminder that Originally founded in 1999, this The group effectively controlled most It is arguable that had 9/11 never hap- disrupt and neutralise plots inspired responding to terrorism with force group would go through a series of of Iraq and likely had a loose member- pened then the specific circumstances by Daesh. name and leadership changes as coa- ship of 300,000 to 500,000 fighters and which led to the formation of AQI would can have far-reaching effects which lition attacks degraded its command allied tribesmen who saw it as a means of never have occurred and Daesh would The writer is a Lecturer in Criminology are hard to predict. and control structures. protecting themselves from an ineffec- now not exist. and Security Studies at Birmingham City Despite these losses, the continued tive Iraqi government and the growing Thus, we should never forget 9/11, University. Hidden data: The new weapon that could beat hunger

farming and food data. small-scale farmers, phone apps processes for sharing it at regional or open data coalition, also are mak- “We believe the solution to end bringing real-time weather and national levels, or putting it online, ing public some of their research. In world hunger lies in the unavailable market data to farmers in lan- Townsend said. Syngenta’s case, that includes data on data,” said Adams. Work is under- guage they understand, or online Then there is the thorny issue of virus resistance and the efficiency of way to find and use that information. land records that help women lay trying to make good use of the data crops in different climates in 41 coun- Global Open Data for Agri- formal claim to the land they farm, that does become available. tries, among other things. culture and Nutrition (GODAN), a Adams said. Countries and regions often Juan Gonzalez Valero, the consortium of 340 organisations But opening up the world’s agri- have different names for crops — for company’s head of public policy from international farming research cultural statistics is no easy task. example, corn in the United States is and sustainability, said Syngenta groups to universities and agribus- Satellite data takes huge amounts maize in South Africa. And informa- believes making the data public iness giants, will meet in New York of storage space. And getting tion is put on the internet in a huge “will allow people to make their on Thursday and Friday to discuss information from reports into a variety of languages and formats, own assessments” of the progress By Laurie Goering progress on their “open data revo- searchable online format is rarely ranging from household surveys to of its work, and will be “of value to Reuters lution to zero hunger”. a priority for those that produce it, satellite photos. farmers”. By making public information she said. Still, progress is being made, US official Adams said gov- already being gathered from sat- In some countries, data on backers of the effort say. In Africa, ernments and other funders are ellites, fields and villages, GODAN groundwater levels or land fertility universities in Kenya, Uganda and increasingly requiring institutions Cutting hunger ith a single smartphone aims to spur innovation — from is considered a matter of national Senegal are all working to open their that win research grants to make app, you can now get a cheaper crop insurance to farm security, to be kept secret. Other research data, Townsend said. their findings available free online. and growing Wpretty accurate forecast of weather apps — to feed more of the countries don’t have enough finan- In many sub-Saharan Afri- But Code for Africa’s Townsend more food is a the weather anywhere in the world. estimated 800 million people who cial resources or trained people to can countries “it’s a lot easier and said turning all the agricultural That’s largely thanks to a decision by go hungry each day. put information online. more palatable” to open up agricul- data coming online into genuinely huge challenge science agencies, a decade ago, to put “I consider a lot of the actions Kat Townsend, who works tural data than other kinds. There is useful solutions to boost harvests as climate change online their satellite data and make we’re taking band-aids,” Adams said. with Code for Africa, a network of greater motivation because 70 per- and cut hunger will require not makes weather it available for free. “For a comprehensive solution that tech workers across the continent, cent of employment and the economy just data-crunching but direct “For hundreds of years, NOAA we can look at long term, we need recently came across university is connected to agriculture in some contact between tech experts and more erratic (the US National Oceanic and Atmos- to put a lot of information together.” computer science students in Sierra way, she said. farmers. around the world, pheric Administration) has been Cutting hunger and growing more Leone who hadn’t even touched a The US Agency for International “You can have all the NASA collecting that data. But when it food is a huge challenge as climate computer until their third year. Development (USAID) and the U.N. data sets open, but if people and as the global was made open and available, that’s change makes weather more erratic The main barrier to opening agri- Food and Agriculture Organization who are really trying to tackle population pushes when the apps started appearing,” around the world, and as the global cultural data “is not a technology also announced last week a $15 mil- the issues aren’t in the coun- said Jaime Adams, an international population pushes from 7.4bn peo- issue, by any stretch” but more basic lion programme to help developing try, working hand-in-hand from 7.4bn people affairs adviser for the US Department ple today toward an estimated 9bn problems such as a lack of trained countries in Africa, Asia and Latin with farmers, then the analy- today toward an of Agriculture. by 2050. staff, she said. America improve their capacity to sis done and the insights that go Now science, computer and Data-based innovation could Villages often have “incredible track agricultural data. out will be steps removed from estimated 9bn by agricultural experts hope to help in the form of cheaper and amounts of data” on things from land International agribusiness giants the problems people are facing,” 2050. achieve something similar for more accessible insurance for ownership to harvest records, but no such as Syngenta, a member of the she said.

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China says more Bombing injures people can speak national four cops in language Reuters

BEIJING: China has managed to Sindh province raise the proportion of the pop- ulation which can speak the national language, Mandarin, but still faces difficulty in remote district where at least 61 were killed areas and places where ethnic The incident occurred in a suicide attack on another Shia minorities live, state media said mosque in 2015. yesterday. in Shikarpur in Sindh Officials said two suicide bomb- As of the end of last year, more province, the same ers tried to enter the Khanpur than 70 percent of the population Imambargah but were intercepted could speak Mandarin, compared district where at by police. with 53 percent at the end of the least 61 were killed “Four of our men are injured of last century, the official China in a suicide attack on whom one is critical,” Umar Tufail, a News Service said, citing the edu- senior local police officer said. cation ministry. another Shia mosque Tufail added doctors were also The ministry believes that in 2015. trying to save the life of the other with greater urbanisation and suspected bomber, who was injured more young people moving into when the first one blew himself up cities, areas that are weak in Man- but failed to detonate himself. Policemen carry an injured colleague at a hospital following a bomb explosion in Quetta yesterday. darin abilities, mostly remote AFP “The attackers came as the wor- places and areas with lots of shippers were gathering to offer Eid ethnic minorities, the level will prayers. Police were able to stop him Ullah Ehsan said it was a part of an group, led to a wave of nationwide while another succumbed to his inju- continue to rise, the news agency at the gate outside the mosque,” A D operation which would be spread to protests. ries later at the government hospital said. KARACHI: A suicide bomber injured Khawaja, chief of police for Sindh every area of the country. In another incident yesterday, in the city,” another police official It hopes to have “basic” four policemen, one critically, outside province said. Pakistan has been hit by fre- two policemen died and four were Abdullah Jan Afridi said. national coverage for the lan- a Shia mosque in southern Pakistan Worshippers overpowered the quent sectarian violence in recent injured when their van was hit by a He said the four policeman guage by 2020, it added. in an attack claimed by the Pakistani second would-be suicide bomber as years, most of it perpetrated by hard- blast in Quetta city in the southwest- injured in the incident were stable. Some officials have previously Taliban as the country marked the the police were reeling from their line Sunni Muslim groups against ern province of Baluchistan. Baluchistan, which borders Iran said that the country was too large beginning of the religious festival Eid injuries, he added. A faction of the minority Shia Muslims, who make up According to local police official and Afghanistan, has oil and gas and had too few resources to get al-Adha yesterday. Pakistani Taliban, Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, around one in five of the population. Abdul Razaq, the van was targeted resources but is afflicted by Islam- all of its 1.3 billion people to speak The incident occurred in Shikar- claimed responsibility for the attack The January 2015 attack on the with a remote controlled bomb ist militancy, sectarian violence Mandarin. pur in Sindh province, around 470km in a statement sent to media. Shiites in Shikarpur, blamed on the planted on the roadside. between Sunni and Shia Muslims China has been promoting north of Karachi, and the same Spokesman for the group Ehsan Sunni militant Lashkar-e-Jhangvi “One policeman died on the spot and a separatist insurgency. Mandarin for decades to ensure national cohesion in a country where there are hundreds, per- haps thousands, of dialects, as well as ethnic minority languages Debate on poverty in China after mother kills four children like Tibetan and Uighur. But some dialects, such as Cantonese and Hokkien, enjoy strong regional support even if AFP later, after the funerals. chief economist for the Agricultural bottle of pesticide, traces of blood, in remote rural areas like Agushan there is little official backing for The family had been among the Bank of China, on his verified social and the bodies of her children, it said. without the resources to strictly their use. poorest in Agushan village, reports media account. “Why didn’t you at least leave me enforce the law were able to have In Tibet and Xinjiang, home said, but were denied a government “On the one hand are the cor- Yifan?” her grandmother cried, refer- more. to the Uighur people who speak BEIJING: The killing of four children low-income allowance by the vil- rupt officials embezzling hundreds ring to the eldest girl, her favourite, China’s boom has seen it rise to a Turkic language, there has been by their poverty-stricken mother lage committee, which claimed their of millions at every turn and the rich with whom she shared a bed every become the world’s second-largest resistance to greater Mandarin -- who then committed suicide, fol- annual per person income put them spending thousands every day, fight- night. economy, but inequality remains education in schools, with people lowed by her husband -- sparked above the poverty line benchmark of ing to compare who can spend more, Yang was taken to a local hospital stark and the Global Times news- fearing Beijing wants to culturally online outrage and debate in China 2,300 yuan ($343) a year. while on the other side are those in and though she did not refuse treat- paper, citing the National Bureau assimilate them, though the gov- yesterday over the gap between rich Multiple media reports alleged such poverty they lose the hope of ment, she kept repeating “don’t save of Statistics, said 70 million people ernment denies this. and poor. corruption was a factor, saying living.” me”, according to the China Youth currently live below the poverty line, Lack of money also means Yang Gailan, 28, used an axe to their benefits had been cancelled Yang, Li and their four children Daily. primarily in rural areas. that some schools in poorer, more kill her three daughters, aged six, five because they had not bribed local lived with Yang’s grandmother and China relaxed its strict one- It quoted Dang Guoying, a rural remote areas have to use teachers and three, and her five-year-old son, officials. father in a small, dirt-floored adobe child policy earlier this year to development expert at the Chinese whose own Mandarin skills may police in the northwestern province “Ours is a brutal, man-eating house with three cows and 12 chick- allow families to have two off- Academy of Social Sciences, saying: not be up to par. of Gansu said. society,” said one poster on China’s ens, their most valuable possessions, spring, but even during the decades “This case shocked urban Chinese China refers to Mandarin She committed suicide by Twitter-like Weibo yesterday. the China Youth Daily reported. it was in effect, rural households people living in developed eastern as “Putonghua”, or “common drinking pesticide, they added in a The situation “exactly reflects the Yang was still alive and able to were allowed two children if their cities, because most of us cannot speech”, while in self-ruled Tai- statement online, and her husband Li painful reality of the extent of Chi- speak when her grandmother found first was a girl. imagine that millions of Chinese peo- wan it is called “Guoyu”, or Keying poisoned himself two weeks na’s poverty”, wrote Xiang Songzuo, her lying in the grass by an empty In many instances, those living ple still live in poverty.” “national language”.

Eid selfie North Korea floods a ‘major and complex disaster’: Red Cross

AFP triggered massive floods that tore visited on the outskirts of Hoery- through villages, devastating entire ong City, Staines said. communities and washing away “People displaced from the buildings. floods are now in a very difficult SEOUL: North Korea is experiencing Hundreds more are missing and situation and there are real risks of a “major and complex disaster” the 140,000 people are in urgent need secondary disasters, particularly Red Cross has warned, after floods of food and shelter. relating to people’s health,” Staines killed scores of people and left tens “The floods came through with added. of thousands in need of urgent help. such force, they destroyed every- Photographs released by the Rescue workers are struggling to thing in their path,” Staines said. UN Children’s Fund showed fields reach stricken communities in the “People were salvaging whatever of crops destroyed by the flooding country’s far north, where thousands possessions they could from piles of of the Tumen river, which forms the have been left homeless, and the risk debris that used to be their homes.” border with China, and damaged of disease is looming. Some 24,000 houses have been one-storey houses in a rural area “From what we saw, it is clear totally destroyed and thousands of Hoeryong, in North Hamyong that this is a very major and com- more damaged, with the full extent province. plex disaster,” said Chris Staines, of the disaster still emerging as res- A local Red Cross worker was who heads a Red Cross delegation cue workers battle to reach areas shown surveying the damage as a in North Korea and has visited the that have been totally cut off, the group of North Koreans sat among affected areas. Red Cross said. a sea of mud and debris in the pic- Women pose for a selfie after attending Eid Al Adha prayers in Lahore yesterday. At least 133 people are known “There was barely a building left tures UNICEF said were taken on to have died after torrential rains unscathed,” in some villages they September 7. Bullets trump rehabilitation as Asia intensifies war on drugs

Reuters long jail terms in prisons already of draconian anti-drug policies as an to 42 tonnes in 2013, said the United counterproductive government Policy Consortium (IDPC), a global bursting at the seams. HIV/Aids expert in Russia. Nations Office on Drugs and Crime responses. network of 154 non-governmen- The soaring popularity of meth- “We have plenty of data but often (UNODC). They say national drug-control tal groups. “That’s a disincentive for amphetamine - a cheap and highly we forget the history,” said Mona- The only region seizing more policies are skewed towards harsh challenging old ways of thinking.” BANGKOK/YANGON: The Philip- addictive drug also known as meth ghan. “That’s the problem.” meth was North America, where the measures that criminalise users but Meth is a transnational business, pines has launched a bloody “war - is driving countries across Asia to He believes President Rodrigo booming trade inspired the popular have failed to staunch the deluge of worth around $15bn in mainland on drugs” that has killed at least adopt hardline anti-narcotics pol- Duterte’s anti-drugs campaign in the television series “Breaking Bad”. Meth drugs or catch the kingpins behind it. Southeast Asia alone in 2013, the 2,400 people in just two months, icies. Experts say they are likely to Philippines will fuel more violence was the “primary drug of concern” in They also want a greater empha- UNODC says. while neighbouring Indonesia has only make things worse. and entrench rather than uproot traf- nine Asian countries, the UNODC said, sis on reducing demand through Much of the production takes declared a “narcotics emergency” Geoff Monaghan has seen it all ficking networks. including Indonesia, the Philippines, more and better quality drug place in laboratories in lawless west- and resumed executing drug con- before. He investigated narco-traffick- Reflecting the regional explosion Thailand, Japan and South Korea. rehabilitation. “There is so much ern Myanmar. Ingredients such as victs after a long hiatus. ing gangs during his 30-year career as in use, the amount of meth seized in A rising chorus of experts blame scaremongering and hysteria sur- pseudoephedrine and caffeine are In Thailand and Myanmar, petty a detective with London’s Metropoli- East and Southeast Asia almost quad- this surge in production and use of rounding the issue of drugs,” says smuggled across porous borders from drug users are being sentenced to tan Police, then witnessed the impact rupled from about 11 tonnes in 2009 meth in Asia on ineffective and even Gloria Lai of the International Drug India, China and Vietnam. INDIA WEDNESDAY 14 SEPTEMBER 2016 11 Water protests: Modi appeals for calm

Tamil Nadu said they would hold a witnessed on Monday. demonstration in Hosur town, con- Siddaramaiah assured the people Karnataka CM says demning the burning of around 45 of Bengaluru, especially Tamils, of the state has been a trucks by hooligans in Karnataka. protection to them and their property In Bengaluru, India’s IT hub, one “As Bengaluru is an international victim of “injustice” person was killed and two others city with a global image and a brand but his government were injured in police firing to quell as India’s Silicon Valley, I seek coop- would implement the violence on Monday night. eration of all, especially media, in Chief Minister Siddaramaiah said: protecting its reputation.” “difficult” Supreme “It is true that violence is not a solu- Referring to his September 9 Court order. tion to any problem. We have decided letter to Modi seeking intervention, to impose law and order with an iron Siddaramaiah said he was waiting for hand.” a confirmation from the Prime Min- On the Supreme Court’s order to ister’s Office for an appointment with IANS Karnataka to release 12,000 cusecs Modi in New Delhi today. The skeletal remains of buses belonging to a private travel company in the yard after being set on fire by of Cauvery river water to Tamil “I will request the Prime Minis- a mob, in Bangalore, on Monday. Nadu until Tuesday, he said: “We ter to convene a meeting of the chief will ensure enough drinking water ministers of both states to resolve and under control. We relaxed the for three days from early yesterday Buses, taxis and auto-rickshaws BENGALURU: An uneasy calm envel- for Bengaluru, Mysuru, Mandya and the issue (sharing of the river water partial curfew in the city for Muslims in the city’s northwest, southwest, went off the roads. The metro rail was oped Bengaluru even as protests other Cauvery basin areas until June during distress times) through talks/ to offer Eid prayer,” Paremeshwara northeast and central areas. “Section suspended until evening. State-run erupted in Mandya and Mysuru in next by judiciously utilising the water dialogue,” he said. said. Curfew will remain in force 144 of the law, however, remains in and private bus services to and from southern Karnataka yesterday over despite facing distress due to deficit Home Minister G. Paremeshwara until tomorrow in view of Onam fes- force to prevent assembly of over five Tamil Nadu were suspended from the Cauvery water row with Tamil rains this monsoon. said 335 people were arrested in and tival today and immersion of Lord people in public places,” said Police Karnataka. But trains and flights are Nadu. He said the Supreme Court’s around Bengaluru so far for rioting, Ganesha’s idols in lakes and ponds Commissioner N. S. Megharikh. operating to Chennai and other cit- Prime Minister Narendra Modi Monday order reflects Karnataka’s arson and damaging public prop- tomorrow. Curfew was relaxed since morn- ies in Tamil Nadu. Cable operators appealed for peace in both states and inability to implement the Septem- erty. Another 30 were held in Mandya About 15,000 police personnel ing for Muslims to offer Eid prayer in Bengaluru blocked all 52 Tamil said: “The violence and arson seen in ber 5 judgement to release 15,000 and Mysuru for stoning trucks and have been deployed in Bengaluru, at mosques and Idgah maidan in TV channels to prevent retaliatory the last two days is only causing loss cusecs per day. He said though the buses bearing Tamil Nadu registra- Mandya and Mysuru, includ- some 16 localities. Though schools, attacks and check emotions. to the poor and our nation’s prop- state has been a victim of “injustice”, tion numbers. ing 10 companies of Rapid Action colleges, government and private Vehicular traffic on the 150km erty,” he said. his government would implement the Police said 97 vehicles, including Force (RAF) and five each of Cen- offices and banks have holiday for Bengaluru-Mysuru highway Tamil Nadu was peaceful. Over “difficult” Supreme Court order. 78 in Bengaluru, were torched, burnt tral Reserve Police Force and City Eid, several IT firms and back offices remained affected due to protests. 100 police teams were deployed to After an emergency cabinet or fully destroyed and 59, including Armoured Force in Bengaluru to told their techies to work from homes. Domestic airlines, including protect of businesses owned by peo- meeting, he told a press conference 44 in Bengaluru, were damaged on maintain law and order. The RAF Shops, markets, malls, hotels, Vistara, Jet Airways, Air India and ple and popular personalities — of that the image of ‘Brand Bengaluru’ Monday. staged a flag-march in a Bengaluru restaurants, cinema theatres and IndiGo, waived off flight change pen- Karnataka origin — round the clock. as India’s tech capital should not be “The situation in Bengaluru and suburb. commercial establishments observed alties for operations from Bengaluru However, angry truck owners in sullied with further violence, as was other parts of the state is peaceful Bengaluru police imposed curfew an undeclared shutdown. for a limited period of time.

Eid prayer Three die in Kashmir on Eid day; separatist march foiled India and China IANS into the shrine at Awantipora in Pul- discuss NSG wama district. In Shopian, a mob defied curfew membership and began heavy stone-pelting at SRINAGAR: Three people died security forces. The forces retaliated and many were injured as clashes with tear gas and pellets, result- NEW DELHI: In what between protesters and security ing in the death of Shahid Ahmed, can be seen as a sign of forces in parts of the troubled Kash- 24. Ten were injured in the street China relenting on India’s mir Valley marred an Eid Al-Adha fighting. bid for membership to celebrated under curfew for the first Jallaluddin, 45, died of heart Nuclear Suppliers Group time in over two decades. attack when a teargas shell fired at (NSG), a Chinese dele- With the city under clampdown, protesters outside abruptly dropped gation visited New Delhi a separatist call for a march to the into the Awantipora mosque where yesterday and discussed Office of the UN Military Observer he was. the issue even as Beijing Group in India and Pakistan also Another youth, Murtaza, 25, was said it supported a “two- proved a non-starter. earlier killed in clashes in Bandi- step approach” to the All roads leading to the office in pora. Clashes were also reported issue. At the NSG plenary the high-security Sonwar locality from Batamaloo area in Srinagar. in Seoul in June, Bei- had heavy deployment of police and With policeman Rouf Ahmed, jing blocked New Delhi’s paramilitary forces who blocked injured in a gunfight in Nowhatta membership bid say- People offer Eid Al-Adha prayer on a street outside a mosque in Ahmedabad yesterday. vehicles and prevented pedestrian town on August 15 and succumb- ing for a country to be a movement. ing on Tuesday, the death toll in the member of the 48-nation Two of the dead were protesters ongoing unrest has reached 86 and bloc, it has to be a sig- killed in clashes with security forces thousands have been injured. natory to the nuclear — one each in Shopian and Bandi- Eid congregations were disal- Non-Proliferation Treaty. pora districts — while one person in lowed in Srinagar for the first time India ‘to lead world in key categories’ a mosque died, apparently of heart since the early 1990s when the sep- attack, after a teargas shell crashed aratists began their armed struggle. Mukherjee to visit Nepal IANS “In less than 15 years from now has been “on a strong trajectory for — India will be the most populous the past decade, has made great KATHMANDU: Indian nation, with the largest middle class, strides in the past two years in President Pranab Mukher- the largest number of college grad- particular. jee is expected to visit NEW DELHI: US Ambassador to uates, the third largest economy, “Our two leaders, Prime Minis- Nepal from November 3. India Richard R. Verma yesterday the most patent holders, and most ter Modi and President Obama have The visit, earlier sched- said by 2030, India will lead the mega-cities,” he said speaking on met eight times, including last week uled from November 1, world in key categories, including by the theme of ‘Advancing our Shared in China and then again in Laos. has been postponed on becoming the third largest economy. Values’. “We have over 100 initiatives account of Diwali (Tihar “The great promise in our (India- “You will lead the world in launched in three big bilateral festival in Nepal), accord- US) partnership lies in our work Internet and smartphone users. summits and there are nearly 40 ing to media reports. together and India’s rising influence Development and infrastructure government-to-government working The final decision on and confidence on the global stage, growth will be phenomenal, imag- groups that meet regularly on every- the visit will be taken generated from strength at home,” ine how much will change, given that thing from global health and defence during Nepal Prime Min- Verma, who is of Indian origin, said two-thirds of the infrastructure and to cyber security.” He said India’s rise ister Pushpa Kamal Dahal while delivering the 17th Annual Jus- cities of modern India are yet to be not only presented opportunities for Prachanda’s visit to India, tice Bodh Raj Sawhney Memorial Trust built”. the country, but can shape a brighter Kashmiri protesters clash with government forces during a curfew starting tomorrow. Oration at National Law University. He said the India-US relationship future for Asia and beyond. in Srinagar yesterday. Akhilesh no more 1,000 more beds in Delhi to Complaints booked against Kapil and Irrfan State SP chief LUCKNOW: In a signifi- tackle dengue & chikungunya cant development, Uttar IANS Police spokesperson DCP Ashok bribe and accused him of indulging Pradesh PWD Minister Dudhe. in unauthorised constructions. Shivpal Singh Yadav yes- IANS Speciality Hospital and Deep Chand Sharma lives on a ninth floor flat This was stated in a notice to terday replaced Chief Bandhu Hospital. A Control Room and Khan on fifth floor apartment of Kapil, and later Khan came under Minister Akhilesh Yadav with helpline No. 011-22307145 has MUMBAI: Four days after he DHL Enclave in posh Oshiwara area the BMC spotlight. as the state president of also been set up. complained about corruption in Bri- on New Link Road. On Friday, Kapil On Monday, Bharatiya Janata the Samajwadi Party (SP). NEW DELHI: With four deaths each The government’s Health hanMumbai Municipal Corporation, stirred a hornet’s nest by tweeting to Party legislator Ram Kadam led The decision was taken from dengue and chikungunya so far Department said it is prepared to the BMC filed a complaint against Prime Minister Narendra Modi that a noisy morcha to Kapil’s home, by SP supremo Mulayam and hundreds infected, the Delhi deal with vector-borne diseases comedian Kapil Sharma for alleged though he has been paying Rs15crore demanding he should identify the Singh Yadav in New Delhi. government yesterday announced and urged people not to panic. “The illegal construction activities. income tax for the past five years, he corrupt officers and help rid BMC The move is seen as a fall- an additional 1,000 beds for fever government has established fever A complaint was also filed was forced to cough out a bribe of of graft, but he has not yet obliged. out of Akhilesh’s decision patients and a helpline number to clinics in its 26 hospitals (functional against actor Irrfan Khan. Rs5lakh for his office works. Mumbai Congress President to remove Chief Secre- provide information to people. 24 hours), 262 government dispen- BMC Sub-Engineer from South Chief Minister Devendra Fad- Sanjay Nirupam expressed support tary Deepak Singhal, who The beds will be provided in saries (functional from 8am to 4pm) Ward, A. D. Jagtap lodged the com- navis offered to help even as it to Kapil and wrote to Governor C. was considered close to three nodal hospitals for vector- and 106 Aam Aadmi Mohalla Clinics plaint with Oshiwara Police Station assumed political overtones. V. Rao, seeking directions to Fad- Shivpal. borne diseases — Rajiv Gandhi Super (functional from 8am to 2pm),” said under Maharashtra Regional and The BMC requested Kapil to navis to order a probe into the graft Speciality Hospital, Janakpuri Super an official statement. Town Planning Act, said Mumbai name the officials who demanded allegations. 12 WEDNESDAY 14 SEPTEMBER 2016 EUROPE

Bulgaria sticks to EU pushes for UN candidate for now after peace in Ukraine; talk of change 3 soldiers dead Reuters SOFIA: Bulgaria said yesterday that it was sticking to its candidate for the top UN job, Irina Bokova, reporters that the latest deaths for now, after speculation that occurred in both the eastern break- it was considering switching to The deaths bring to away provinces of Lugansk and backing EU commissioner Kris- four the number of Donetsk. talina Georgieva. “Tragically, three Ukrainian Prime Minister Boiko Bori- government soldiers servicemen were killed and 15 of sov said he would think what to killed in combat since our fighters were wounded. One do if Bokova did not come first or serviceman remains unaccounted second in the next round of vot- the latest armistice for,” Motuzyanyk said. Motuzyanyk ing for UN Secretary General, due went into effect on said the two deaths in Lugansk were on September 26. September 1. “especially rare” since the region But he did not spell out has been relatively more quiet than whether that meant he would con- its larger separatist neighbour. sider another candidate, and said “A secret subversive group he would not let other countries Migrants from the ‘Jungle’ camp who have been denied access to a bus heading to a “Welcome and AFP crossed the river and attacked our interfere in Bulgaria’s decision. soldiers. The battle lasted for 15 min- orientation centre” (CAO), in Calais, yesterday. That appeared to be a rebuff utes,” the military spokesman said. to senior diplomats and offi- The deaths come on the eve of a visit cials who told journalists over KIEV: Ukraine said yesterday that by German Foreign Minister Frank- the weekend that Bulgaria was pro-Russian insurgents had killed Walter Steinmeier and his French Expel Hungary for mistreating considering Georgieva, a power three of its soldiers in violation of a counterpart Jean-Marc Ayrault for figure responsible for sorting out truce Germany and France will try talks with Ukrainian officials on end- the bloc’s budget after Britain’s to revive later this week. ing one of Europe’s bloodiest crises vote to leave the EU. The deaths bring to four the since the 1990s Balkans Wars. migrants: Luxembourg FM Speculation mounted after number of government soldiers But some analysts in Kiev expect Russia’s foreign ministry said Ger- killed in combat since the lat- little progress to be made. man Chancellor Angel Merkel had est armistice went into effect on Ukraine says no meaningful Reuters or breaches press freedom and the the essence and values of the EU,” been pushing for a different Bul- September 1. The rebels have also peace talks can be held with the independence of the justice system he said. Hungarian Foreign Minister garian candidate in the race to reported a number of casualties as rebels until it regains control of the should be temporarily, or if needed Peter Szijjarto said his country had lead the international body. Ber- the 29-month war in the European eastern portion of its porous border forever, excluded from the EU.” defended Europe throughout its his- lin later said it had not interfered Union’s back yard drags on at the with Russia that Moscow allegedly BERLIN/BUDAPEST: Hungary The direct call for the exclusion tory, and described his Luxembourg in the process. cost of nearly 9,600 lives. uses to supply the militias with should be excluded from the Euro- of a fellow EU member state was colleague as “condescending, upp- “We have sought support ... The leaders of Germany and weapons and active troops. pean Union for anti-migrant policies unprecedented, and underscored ity, and frustrated.” and we will continue to do so until France helped negotiate a broad Moscow denies the charges and that undermine EU values, includ- the extent of Europe’s divisions Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor September 26. Everyone should February 2015 peace agreement calls Russians spotted or captured ing erecting a razor-wire fence, over sharing responsibility for the Orban has angered many of his EU put utmost effort, me included, for that was supposed to end fighting in the war zone either patriotic Luxembourg Foreign Minister Jean more than 1 million migrants and partners with his tough rhetoric on Bokova to be among the first two and decide the rebel-run regions’ volunteers or off-duty soldiers— Asselborn said, provoking a scorn- refugees who reached its shores migrants and by fortifying his bor- candidates,” Borisov told reporters. status by the end of last year. claims that neither Kiev nor the ful riposte from Budapest. last year. ders to keep them out. He is urging “But there is no way after 26 if But that deal and the subse- West believe. The unusually strong attack Asked about the remarks by the nation to vote in a referendum she is not first or second, to con- quent series of temporary ceasefires Russian Foreign Minister Sergei came three days before a crucial reporters in Moscow, Asselborn said next month against future EU quo- tinue with that topic and then we have done little to halt a war that Lavrov added to the tensions yester- summit intended to project the he had wanted to stress that the EU tas stipulating how many refugees all we should decide how to pro- has driven about two million from day by accusing Kiev of purposely bloc’s unity after Britain’s shock had to protect its core values, and each country should take. ceed,” Borisov said. their homes and destroyed much of dragging out the conflict. decision to leave. “We cannot accept he was not picking on one country. The EU could not tolerate such South Korea’s Ban Ki-moon the former Soviet republic’s indus- “In our opinion, Kiev’s line is to that the basic values of the Euro- “We can resolve the problem behaviour, and exclusion was “the will step down from the top UN trial heartland. The lack of progress establish a complete ceasefire that pean Union are being so seriously of Brexit but we can’t resolve the only possibility to preserve the job at the end of the year and has forced the sides to prolong the is respected for at least a month, breached,” Asselborn told German problems of the survival of the EU integrity and values of the Euro- former Portuguese prime min- so-called Minsk Agreement until the and only then begin discussing the daily Die Welt in comments pub- if we lose the essence of the EU. So pean Union,” Asselborn told Die ister Antonio Guterres, who also start of 2017. political aspects of the Minsk Agree- lished yesterday. what I told the German newspaper Welt. Humans fleeing from war were served as the UN High Commis- Ukrainian military spokes- ments,” Russia’s TASS news agency “Anyone, like Hungary, who is not directed against one nation, being treated almost worse than wild sioner for Refugees, has been the man Oleksandr Motuzyanyk told quotes Lavrov as saying. builds fences against war refugees it’s aimed at better understanding animals, he added. front runner so far.

Austria blames Reindeer camping ground ‘Last British commissioner’ ballot card printer for ‘gluegate’ vows to work for Europe election fiasco Reuters said he was likely to be approved by Reuters parliament later this week. Pressed by Gerard Batten of the UK Independence Party on how long VIENNA: Austria’s interior minis- STRASBOURG: The diplomat nomi- he expected to have the job, King ter put the blame for yet another nated to take Britain’s vacant seat on declined to speculate on how long delay to the presidential elec- the EU executive pledged on Mon- Brexit negotiations would last and tion - termed “gluegate” by local day to serve “only the European insisted he would be entirely inde- reporters - on the company that general interest” if EU lawmakers pendent of the British government made the postal ballots, many accept him as, probably, the last if confirmed. of which fell apart due to faulty ever British commissioner. In an intimation of independ- adhesive. Julian King conceded he was ence from a nominee who unlike Wolfgang Sobotka, ultimately in a “particular situation” that he most commissioners has not been an responsible for organising elections “would probably not have believed” elected politician, he said Prime Min- in the country that almost voted in before the June 23 Brexit referen- ister Theresa May faces a “problem” Europe’s first far-right head of state dum when Britons voted to quit the if she opts out of new EU legislation in decades in May, said his depart- European Union. next year on its Europol police agency. ment was not at fault. However, nominated by Lon- Pro-Brexit figures argue it is illog- “Nothing went wrong in the don after predecessor Jonathan ical to sign Britain up to closer police administration,” the minister told A herder sits atop a reindeer sledge in front of an Mi-8 helicopter carrying members of a local electoral Hill resigned from the Commis- cooperation while it is already nego- reporters on Tuesday, saying that commission during early voting to the lower house of parliament in remote areas northeast of Naryan- sion following the vote, King told a tiating to leave the bloc. But King, he would seek compensation from Mar in Nenets region, Russia, yesterday. confirmation hearing in the Euro- who described Europol as a “fantas- the printing company. pean Parliament for the new post tic organisation”, said failure to opt in “Politicians cannot be held of EU security commissioner that would create a possible “gap” in Brit- responsible for a technical failure he would respect the Brexit verdict ain’s security arrangements until it is ... If you tender for such an order, but also be loyal to the EU if he takes able to strike a new agreement with the government or a minister, just up the post. the EU once it has left the Union. like any normal citizen, trusts that Kazakh leader promotes daughter “I strongly advocated the position Commission President Jean- this order will be executed in an of the British government during the Claude Juncker has offered King, who orderly fashion.” UK referendum campaign,” he said, has also been a senior official at the The company, Kbprint, noting he was the ambassador to Commission in the past, the post of declined to comment. Media in and confidant in reshuffle France at the time, when then prime security commissioner, responsible Austria and abroad derided Mon- minister David Cameron was cam- for promoting closer coordination day’s decision to postpone the paigning to keep Britain in the EU. against militant violence. election for a second time after Reuters The latest reshuffle in Astana out in the constitution. “I have always been proud to be As he noted in remarks to a court annulled a run-off vote follows the transition of power in The Senate Speaker, a posi- British and proud to be European lawmakers on the civil liberties between a former Greens leader neighbouring Uzbekistan where tion Nazarbayeva could now easily and see no contradiction between committee, he has considerable per- and the far-right candidate, due President Islam Karimov, also a secure, becomes acting head of state the two. But on 23 June a major- sonal experience, including as a civil to sloppy ballot counting. ALMATY: Kazakh President Nur- Soviet-era leader, died this month if the president dies or is unfit to per- ity of my compatriots decided they servant responsible for Northern Ministers on the way into sultan Nazarbayev promoted his aged 78 and Prime Minister Shavkat form his duties. In his recent public wanted to leave the EU. We must Ireland and as ambassador to Dub- a cabinet meeting on Tuesday daughter Dariga and longtime con- Mirziyoyev has emerged as a likely and TV appearances, Nazarbayev respect that decision.” lin. The choice of portfolio is also looked annoyed, with Agricul- fidant Imangali Tasmagambetov, two successor. has displayed no obvious signs of Speaking in French, King added: one that Juncker sees as an area in ture Minister Andrae Rupprechter political heavyweights and strong Dariga Nazarbayeva, 53, has health problems. “For the avoidance of doubt ... I will which London will continue to work grumbling: “It’s not great,” as he succession candidates, in a fresh served as deputy prime minister Former defence minister Tas- fulfil my tasks to the best of my abil- closely with Brussels even after Brit- hastily walked past reporters. reshuffle yesterday. since last September, prompting magambetov, who replaced ity serving the European general ain has left the EU. Some officials sought to lay the Kazakhstan is the only nation speculation she could eventually Nazarbayeva as deputy prime min- interest, and only the European gen- King said that while security blame outside of Austria. Franz among the 15 former Soviet republics take over from her father who has ister, is also viewed by many analysts eral interest” Britain is expected to remains primarily a responsibility Lang from the federal crime office that is still run by an ex-Communist been in power since 1989. as a strong contender for the suc- leave the Union in the next few years of member states, the EU had a clear pointed to the fact that one batch boss and country-watchers are wait- While Nazarbayeva’s new job as cessor role, having served at nearly when King, 52, would then have role in promoting coordination as of the glue delivered to the print- ing for Nazarbayev, 76, to designate a deputy leaves her with fewer for- every position of power in the oil- to leave the Commission. He was threats from groups such as Islamic ing company had in fact come an heir - or a group who would split mal powers, it puts her closer to the rich nation, including prime minister nominated by Cameron before he State were ranging across borders and from Germany. his sweeping powers between them. emergency succession line spelled and president’s chief of staff. resigned as premier and lawmakers posing common risks. EUROPE WEDNESDAY 14 SEPTEMBER 2016 13

UK lawmakers Germany arrests face uncertain future under three Syrian IS Boundary plans suspects in raids Reuters LONDON: Dozens of British law- makers face uncertain futures that the same trafficking group used under proposals by an inde- by the Paris attackers also brought pendent commission charged More than 200 police the three men who were arrested to with cutting the number of par- commandos took Germany,” he said, adding that their liamentary seats. part in the pre-dawn forged travel documents came from The Boundary Commission “the same workshop”. He said Ger- for England unveiled its propos- raids in northern man police had monitored the men als yesterday to meet parliament’s Germany to detain for months and tapped their phones, decision to cut the number of con- meaning that at no stage was there stituencies, or voting areas, to the men, who were a risk of an attack. 600 from 650 in Britain to make suspected of either Prosecutors said in their state- sure the number of voters in each ment that Mahir al-H. had joined IS region is similar. plotting an attack or in its de facto capital of Raqa, Syria Opposition Labour lawmakers awaiting orders to by September 2015 and received say they will oppose the changes, some weapons and explosives arguing they disproportionately commit one. training. The following month, all affect the left-leaning party. German special police forces escort a Syrian suspected of being members of Islamic State outside the building three men had pledged to travel to The proposals are not final: Europe in talks with an IS fighter of the German Federal Supreme Court (Bundesgerichtshof) in Karlsruhe yesterday. they will be debated by the public who was “in charge of missions and before being presented to parlia- AFP attacks” outside of the Syria-Iraq ment in 2018. They are aimed at region where the group has its self- creating constituencies of 71,000 proclaimed caliphate. French terror investigators to 78,500 voters, compared with In Europe, “the three accused a current range between 55,000 BERLIN: German police yesterday were meant to either execute a mis- and 95,000. arrested three men with forged sion or await further instructions,” “Today’s proposals mark the Syrian passports accused of being the prosecution service said in the grapple with Telegram app first time people get to see what Islamic State (IS) militants and statement, adding that no evidence the new map of parliamentary labelled a possible “sleeper cell” of “concrete orders or instructions” constituencies might look like,” with links to the Paris attackers. had been found. Sam Hartley, secretary to the More than 200 police comman- The men had received mobile AFP Durov, who founded Telegram with up a car filled with gas canisters near Commission, said in a statement. dos took part in the pre-dawn raids phones and four-figure cash sums in his brother Nikolai, insisted that not Paris’ Notre Dame cathedral were on “Parliament has set us tight in northern Germany to detain the US dollars, as well as the fake pass- even he has the power to intercept his contact list. rules about reducing the number men, who were suspected of either ports, from IS, the statement said. users’ private chats. Unable to get past Telegram’s of constituencies, and making plotting an attack or awaiting orders They were detained at three ref- PARIS: Smartphone app Telegram, In France, which has suffered a impenetrable encryption, the best them of more equal size, and to commit one. ugee shelters in the northern state favoured by the Islamic State group string of further jihadist assaults since intelligence officials can hope for is we now need the views of peo- The men were identified only of Schleswig-Holstein by more thanks to the encrypted messaging the Paris carnage, investigators are to sneak into extremist chatrooms ple around the country to help as Mahir Al H, 17; Ibrahim M, 18; than 200 commandos of the fed- it offers, is proving a headache for still dealing with the fallout from by posing as jihadists — but they’re us shape constituencies that best and Mohamed A, 26, in a statement eral police, BKA and police forces French anti-terror investigators. the communications of an IS mem- bound to attract suspicion unless they reflect local areas.” issued by federal prosecutors. They of several states. Police also raided The free-to-download instant ber suspected of using Telegram to talk the talk convincingly. “Infiltrat- The commission said England left Syria last October and travelled several other asylum seeker shel- messenger, which allows people to direct people to carry out attacks. ing is possible, but you have to be a will lose 33 constituencies. Media via Turkey and Greece — a route ters, Die Welt daily said. exchange messages, photos and vid- Rachid Kassim, a 29-year- good actor and have a lot of cultural have suggested this could threaten used by tens of thousands of refu- Warrants for their arrest had eos in groups of up to 5,000 people, old Frenchman who has regularly and religious awareness to get away the jobs of leading politicians gees and migrants — and arrived in been issued by a federal judge on has attracted some 100 million users appeared in IS propaganda vid- with it,” one investigator said. including former Conservative Germany in mid-November. September 7, based in part on intel- since its launch in 2013. eos shot in Syria or Iraq, was able to So confident is Telegram in its finance minister George Osborne Interior Minister Thomas de ligence provided by Germany’s And there are a couple of features urge some 300 contacts to commit encryption, it has offered up to and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn. Maiziere said the three apparently domestic security agency, the Fed- that make it particularly attractive attacks on home soil, notably pub- $300,000 to anyone who manages A spokesman for Corbyn dis- used the same migrant trafficking eral Office for the Protection of the to jihadists, who can not only rest lishing a list of targets and scenarios to crack its system. Moreover, the app puted the reports, saying he still had network as several of the IS gun- Constitution. assured that their private messages for how to carry them out. Among his has a feature that allows users to set a claim to the redrawn boundaries men who killed 130 people in Paris German authorities have urged are out of the reach of intelligence contacts were Larossi Abballa, who messages to auto-destruct, making it in north London. Osborne could not in November last year. the public not to confuse migrants officials, but can disperse propaganda knifed to death a senior policeman impossible to recover them later for be reached for comment. “According to what we know and “terrorists,” but have acknowl- on YouTube-like public channels. and his partner in the Parisian sub- use in investigations. Robert Haywood, an analyst so far, the investigation of the (fed- edged that more jihadists may have After IS gunmen and suicide bomb- urbs in June, and two teenage jihadists Even in the realm of public and member of the upper house eral criminal office) BKA points to entered the country among the ers massacred 130 people in Paris in who slit the throat of an elderly priest jihadist propaganda on Telegram, of parliament, has said Labour links to the attackers of Paris from around one million asylum seekers November, Telegram blocked dozens in a northern French church in July. it is “practically impossible to track could lose up to 30 seats, with the November 2015,” de Maiziere told a who arrived last year. De Maiziere of public channels that were being used Kassim has been back in the news the millions of messages that are ruling Conservative Party set to press conference. also said “it would be wrong to place to spread extremist messages. this week after it emerged that female exchanged every hour”, one investi- see between 10 and 15 of its seats “There is every reason to believe refugees under general suspicion”. But Russian Internet guru Pavel jihadists suspected of plotting to blow gator lamented. disappear.

Call to probe Orgreave events Snowden urges Obama to Britain records warmest pardon him September day since 1911

AFP Reuters such as giving ice cubes packed with tasty morsels to the meerkats. “They come from the Kalahari LONDON: US intelligence whistle- LONDON: Britain recorded its desert in southern Africa so it can blower Edward Snowden called warmest September day in more get very warm during the day but on President Barack Obama to than 100 years yesterday with they weren’t born in the Kalahari pardon him, saying in comments temperatures rising to over 34 desert so they are quite acclimatised published yesterday that it had degrees Celsius in the southern to the UK weather,” zookeeper Grant been morally “necessary” to shine county of Kent. Kother said. a light on mass surveillance. The Met Office said on its Twit- “So although they are quite The former intelligence con- ter page the town of Gravesend hardy when it comes to warm tractor has spent three years in recorded a temperature of 34.4 weather, it is always nice to give exile in Russia after initiating the degrees Celsius (93.92°Fahrenheit), them an option to cool down.” largest data leaks in US history, making it the hottest day of the year. Worldwide, this year is set to fuelling a firestorm over the issue “This makes it the warmest Septem- be the hottest since records began of mass surveillance. “If not for ber day since 1911,” it said. London’s in the late 19th century, due to a these disclosures, if not for these Heathrow airport and Kew Gardens build-up of man-made greenhouse revelations, we would be worse recorded temperatures of 32.8 Cel- gases and an El Nino event that has off,” he told Britain’s Guardian sius, The Met said earlier. warmed the Pacific Ocean, the UN newspaper in a video-link inter- Londoners took to the city’s weather agency says. view from Moscow on Monday. numerous parks to make the most of And Nasa said on Monday that British Labour party Leader Jeremy Corbyn stands with campaigners outside the Houses of Parliament “Yes, there are laws on the the sunshine while in the southern last month was the warmest August in central London yesterday during a protest calling for an inquiry into the ‘Battle of Orgreave’ and books that say one thing, but that city of Brighton, swimmers headed on record. Last year, world leaders the policing of the miners’ strikes. The campaigners are calling for an inquiry into the way that police is perhaps why the pardon power to the beach. meeting in Paris agreed a sweep- handled events outside the Orgreave coking plant, near Sheffield, north-east England, in 1984. exists—for the exceptions, for the At London Zoo, keepers sought ing plan to shift from fossil fuels this things that may seem unlawful in to cool animals down from the heat, century to limit climate change. letters on a page but when we look at them morally, when we look at them ethically, when we look at the results, it seems these were Polish man beaten in hate crime Over half of UK girls harassed in school necessary things,” he said. The 33-year-old insisted he had widespread support, saying Reuters which occurred on Friday night, left the Reuters everyday lives. The report found no action taken. Maria Miller, the the “public by and large cares more man needing hospital treatment for a evidence that almost a third of 16 lawmaker who chaired the commit- about these issues far more than I head injury. Police said the incident to 18-year-olds had experienced tee, said the report found teachers anticipated.” Snowden, whose res- was believed to be racially aggravated unwanted touching at school. often accepted sexual harassment idency permit in Russia runs out LONDON: British police said yes- because of comments his attackers, LONDON: More than half of girls “Surely no one who reads or as “just banter”. next year, explained he was pre- terday that they were hunting for 20 a group of males aged 16 to 18, had in British schools and colleges have hears these striking statistics today Nearly three quarters of 16-18 pared to spend time in jail in the US, youths who seriously injured a Polish made to the victim and his friend. faced sexual harassment, according could now deny how serious ... this year old students said they heard adding he was “willing to make a lot man in a suspected racially motivated “I want to reassure people, to a new report yesterday that called problem is,” Katie Russell of Rape terms such as “slut” used towards of sacrifices for my country”. attack, the latest in a number of hate particularly the local Polish com- for sex education to be provided for Crisis, a charity which works with girls on a regular basis. US anti-establishment direc- crimes against eastern Europeans fol- munity, that we will not tolerate all children in primary and second- survivors of abuse, told the Thom- Miller, from the ruling Con- tor Oliver Stone called for Obama lowing the June vote to leave the EU. hate incidents of this nature and will ary school. son Reuters Foundation. servative party, criticised Britain’s to pardon Snowden while unveiling The 28-year-old Pole was kicked do everything we can to ensure the A parliamentary committee Young people told the committee education department for having his espionage thriller biopic about and punched by a group of teenagers people responsible are brought to report said sexual bullying had that complaints of sexual harass- no “no coherent plan” to tackle the the whistleblower at the Toronto in the northern English city of Leeds, justice,” West Yorkshire police Chief become an expected part of girls’ ment would often be forgotten, with problem. film festival earlier this month. police said in a statement. The attack, Superintendent Paul Money said. 14 WEDNESDAY 14 SEPTEMBER 2016 AMERICAS Obama hits out at ‘unfair’ criticism of Hillary

— young, black and Hispanic voters — secretary of state’s fitness for the turn out to vote. Obama’s appearance nation’s highest office as the race Clinton is set to comes as 68-year-old Clinton was intensifies. return to the fray on sidelined from the campaign trail by Trump and his team have wished a bout of pneumonia that has raised Clinton a rapid recovery. But his cam- Friday after several broader questions about her health. paign manager Kellyanne Conway days of rest when Obama insisted that Clinton had directed stinging criticism at Clinton “been subjected to more scrutiny yesterday. “I think she had a terri- she attends a Black and... more unfair criticism than any- ble week. She certainly had a terrible Women’s Agenda body out here,” while accusing the weekend. Not because she’s sick,” symposium in media of giving her opponent Donald Conway told CNN. “We’re glad she Trump an easy ride. “Our standards said she’s feeling better.” Washington. for what’s normal have changed,” She stressed instead that “trans- Obama said. “Donald Trump says parency and trustworthiness are her stuff every day that used to be con- two pillar problems,” and that Clinton AFP sidered as disqualifying for being suffered “the worst 48 hours of her president. And yet because he says campaign.” Clinton admitted: “If we it over and over and over again the weren’t fast enough, you know, I’ve press just gives up.” talked to my staff. We, you know, take PHILADELPHIA: US President Obama, ran through a familiar responsibility for that.” Barack Obama made his 2016 solo list of achievements — from rescu- But she quickly insisted she has campaign debut yesterday, hitting out ing the economy to killing Osama been far more transparent than at “unfair” criticism of Hillary Clinton bin Laden — and slammed today’s Trump. “The information is out and touting his own record. Republicans as unworthy of lead- there. You can’t say the same thing “It is good to be back on the cam- ing the party of Abraham Lincoln about Donald Trump,” she said, add- paign trail” Obama told a crowd in or Ronald Reagan. He mocked ing that Americans “deserve to know Philadelphia, as he made the case for Trump’s approval of Russia strong- what he’s up to and what he is hid- Clinton and at least four more years man Vladimir Putin. ing.” Trump has promised to release of Democrat-led government. “Even “Can you imagine Ronald Rea- medical records as early as this week, though I have run my last campaign, I gan idolizing somebody like that?” once test results are back. am going to work as hard as I can this Obama said. “He saw America as a US President Barack Obama speaks during a rally for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton at Meanwhile, his running mate fall to elect Hillary Clinton,” he said. shining city on a hill, Donald Trump Eakins Oval in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, yesterday. Mike Pence, the Indiana governor “This not just me going through the calls it a divided crime scene.” and a former congressman, met motions, I really, really, really want Clinton is set to return to the fray On Friday, she sparked a fire- Zero in New York. “It’s just the kind for her in Las Vegas. with House Republicans on Capi- to elect Hillary Clinton.” on Friday after several days of rest storm when she called half of Trump’s of thing that if it happens to you and Facing intensifying scrutiny tol Hill and said he and Trump were Obama was appearing in a city when she attends a Black Women’s supporters as “deplorables” and then you’re a busy, active person, you keep about her health, the Democrat will “grateful” for the support from GOP that will be pivotal in deciding the Agenda symposium Friday in Wash- her campaign failed to be transpar- moving forward.” also release more medical records, lawmakers. presidential race in Pennsylvania — ington, with less than eight weeks to ent when she fell ill at the weekend. She has expressed a desire to as her team acknowledged it stum- But he also turned to Clinton’s a virtual must-win state for Donald go before the election, the campaign Clinton, 68, sought to draw a line swiftly rejoin the race and said she bled when it failed to alert the press remark that “half” of Trump’s sup- Trump. Nick-named “Pennsyltucky” announced. under the health scare rocking her will resume campaigning within the and public about Clinton’s condition porters were in a so-called “basket for its conservative hinterland, the With Republican rival Donald campaign. “next couple of days.” in a timely way over the weekend. of deplorables” because they were state is often described as being Trump in striking distance in national “I just didn’t think it was going to In the meantime, her husband Discussing the event itself, Clinton racist, misogynistic and xenophobic. “Philadelphia in the east, Pitts- polls and some battleground states, be that big a deal,” Clinton told CNN Bill takes over for her in California, explained: “I felt dizzy and I did lose “This was a catastrophic insult to the burgh in the west and Alabama in Clinton has suffered perhaps the late Monday when asked why she attending a fundraiser in Los Angeles my balance for a minute.” American people,” Pence told report- the middle.” worst week of her 15-month quest kept her pneumonia diagnosis under while his wife rests at their home in The incident — captured on ers as he again demanded Clinton The race there could come down to become America’s first female wraps until Sunday, when she fell ill Chappaqua, New York per her doc- amateur video — gave Trump, 70, a “retract those offensive statements to whether the Obama coalition president. at a 9/11 memorial event at Ground tor’s orders. He also will campaign new opening to question the former and apologise”.

Venezuela woes McCain vows to block proposed UN Council approves separation of NSA & cyber command Colombia mission

Reuters AFP committed during the conflict. The British-drafted resolution provides for the cost of the new mis- WASHINGTON: US Senator John sion to be shared equally between McCain said yesterday that he UNITED NATIONS: The UN Secu- the Colombian government and would use his power to block the rity Council yesterday gave the the United Nations and stresses the confirmation of a key cybersecu- formal go-ahead for a new mis- need to speed up the deployment of rity official if necessary to prevent sion to help the historic peace deal the observers. any Obama administration move reached between Colombia’s gov- “With this resolution, the UN to separate the US Cyber Command ernment and FARC rebels take hold. can now complete operational from the National Security Agency. In a unanimous vote, the council planning for its monitoring and “I do not believe rushing to adopted a resolution that approves verification role, which will be separate the ‘dual hat’ in the final the one-year political mission of 450 critical to the agreement’s imple- months of an administration is observers deployed in some 40 sites mentation,” said US Ambassador appropriate, given the very serious across the country. Samantha Power. challenges we face in cyberspace,” Led by French national Jean Colombian Ambassador Maria McCain, the Republican chairman Arnault, the observers will moni- Emma Mejia told the council that the of the Senate Armed Services tor the ceasefire, help disarm the peace accord was already bearing People queue to buy basic food and household items outside a supermarket in Caracas yesterday. Committee, said at a hearing. rebels and verify compliance with fruit, with a first group of 13 minors Venezuela, a once-booming oil giant, is caught in the grip of an economic crisis marked by severe “Dual hat” refers to one indi- the peace deal reached in June after leaving rebel camps and handed to shortages of food, medicine and basic goods. vidual holding both positions. four years of negotiations. the Red Cross this month to begin Current and former US officials The agreement ending the half- new lives. “Colombians will have said in August that President Barack century conflict will be formally the opportunity to open the door Obama’s administration was pre- signed in Cartagena on September to a better future, with a stable and paring to elevate the stature of the 26 and submitted to a nationwide lasting peace that we will have Department of Defence’s Cyber referendum on October 2. built with the support of the Secu- Brazil’s former speaker stripped Command, including separating it A first group of observers, rity Council and the United Nations,” from the NSA. mostly from Latin America, has she said. Officials argued that the focus already arrived in Colombia to Hundreds of FARC rebels are of the NSA, a spy agency responsi- verify the disarmament and mon- converging on a camp in southern of seat over Swiss accounts ble for electronic eavesdropping, itor the ceasefire. Under the peace Colombia to pour cement, shore up is gathering intelligence, often deal, the FARC will begin moving its dirt roads and set up communica- favoring the monitoring of an estimated 7,000 fighters from their tions ahead of the group’s congress Reuters politicians worried because he has control. An ethics committee report enemy’s cyber activities. Cyber jungle and mountain hideouts into this week, where delegates will rat- threatened to bring down others by read out to the chamber said the Command’s mission is geared disarmament camps set up by the ify a peace deal to end 52 years of war. revealing cases of corruption that existence of his accounts and assets more to shutting down cyber United Nations. Representatives from each could endanger members of the gov- abroad was fully proven. attacks - and, if ordered, counter The FARC will then become a unit of the Revolutionary Armed BRASILIA: Two weeks after the ernment of Brazil’s new President Dozens of lawmakers who attacking. He also said he wanted political party and its weapons will Forces of Colombia will debate removal of Dilma Rousseff as Bra- Michel Temer and derail his fiscal Cunha helped elect had sought to the administration to provide his be melted down to build three peace and vote on the accord reached zil’s president, the lower house of reform agenda. delay the committee hearings and panel with detailed plans of its monuments. Special courts will be last month after years of talks with Congress on Monday expelled the Cunha has warned he could tell all managed to drag out the case for proposed reorganisation. created to judge serious crimes the government. lawmaker who engineered her in a plea bargain that could compro- over 10 months. Shortly after hear- impeachment for lying about secret mise many in a discredited political ings began in December, Cunha bank accounts in Switzerland. establishment, where 50 politicians launched the impeachment process The once powerful former are already under investigation for against Rousseff, who was removed speaker Eduardo Cunha, who has taking kickbacks in the Petrobras from office by the Senate on August Money to fight Zika ‘essentially all spent’ been charged with corruption by the scandal. In all, about 60 percent of 31 for breaking budgetary rules and Supreme Court, was banned from the 513 lawmakers in Brazil’s lower decreeing public spending without AFP of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s politics for eight years and faces house are under investigation for vari- Congressional approval. National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious arrest now he has lost his congres- ous allegations, according to watchdog Rousseff argued that her Diseases. sional prerogatives. The chamber group Transparency Brazil. impeachment was revenge by Cunha However, a $1.1 billion funding bill was rejected last voted overwhelmingly 450-10 to Cunha has been charged by the for her Workers Party’s refusal to MIAMI: Money to fight the spread of Zika virus in the week for the third time by US Senate Democrats, after strip him of his seat. Supreme Court for allegedly tak- save him from the ethics probe that United States is “essentially all spent,” top US doctors Republicans inserted language that would end fund- “This shows that Brazil will no ing a $5 million bribe on a drill ship ultimately brought him down. Cunha said Tuesday, urging Congress to come to agreement on ing for a major abortion provider, Planned Parenthood. longer tolerate a politician who contract for state-run oil company is the only sitting Brazilian law- new funding measures. In a conference call with reporters yesterday, leading turned Congress into a business Petroleo Brasileiro SA and for hav- maker to face trial so far in a massive The United States and its territories have recorded doctors from the CDC, the American College of Obste- counter for bribes and favors,” said ing undeclared Swiss bank accounts. bribery investigation focused on more than 19,600 Zika infections, and Florida is seeing tricians and Gynecologists and the American Academy lawmaker Rubens Bueno of the “I did not lie. Where is the proof? Petrobras and other state-run enter- a rise in locally transmitted cases of the virus which is of Paediatrics warned that critical elements of the pub- Popular Socialist Party. Bueno said Where are the account numbers?” prises where engineering companies particularly dangerous for pregnant women because it lic health response and research on vaccines may come Cunha took kickbacks from compa- Cunha asked his peers, appearing siphoned off funds from overpriced can cause microcephaly, an irreversible deformation of to a halt by month’s end. nies and instructed them to donate in the house to repeat his defense contracts to pay bribes to executives the brain and skull, in infants. “Funding for Zika research, for prevention and for to the campaigns of his allies. argument that his assets were held and kickbacks to politicians in Rous- Already, 18 babies have been born with Zika-related control efforts — including mosquito surveillance and Cunha’s downfall has many in trust funds over which he had no seff’s governing coalition. birth defects in the United States, said Beth Bell, director control — is essentially all spent,” said Bell. 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Oil glut to last until mid-2017: IEA

market’s return to balance is “the big of nuclear-linked sanctions. Produc- question”, the IEA said in its monthly tion by the 14 members of Opec rose Saudi Arabia’s report, adding that current prices — slightly in August to 33.47 mb/d. vigorous production above $45 — would suggest supply The IEA, which advises oil con- falling and strong demand growth. suming nations on energy issues, has allowed it to “However, the opposite now said its latest data indicated that the overtake the US and seems to be happening,” it said. “supply-demand dynamic may not become the world’s “Demand growth is slowing and sup- change significantly in the coming ply is rising.” months.” “As a result, supply will largest oil producer. The trend may fuel speculation continue to outpace demand at least of a possible production freeze — through the first half of next year,” aimed at supporting prices — being it said. “As for the market’s return to IMF chief says agreed between Opec and non-Opec balance - it looks like we may have to member Russia at a meeting in Alge- wait a while longer,” it added. ‘get-tough’ AFP ria later this month. As a result of the stubborn supply China and India, which had glut, producers have been hurt by a politicians been key drivers recently of demand An oil pumpjack near Tioga, North Dakota. plunge in crude prices from around growth, are “wobbling”, it said, while $100 in mid-2014 to 13-year lows of PARIS: A global oil glut that has hurt a slowdown in the United States and below $30 at the start of this year. threaten trade producers but means cheaper pump economic concerns in developing in June and July, global oil supplies production has allowed it to overtake World oil prices dropped yes- prices look set to go on at least six countries have also contributed to dropped by 300,000 barrels per day the US and become the world’s larg- terday in response to the IEA report, months longer than previously the surprise development. last month, to 96.9 mb/d. est oil producer,” it added. The US had which came a day after Opec said AFP thought, the IEA said yesterday, send- Global oil demand is now Non-Opec supply is expected held the spot since April 2014. that non-Opec producers, such as ing world oil prices slumping. expected to grow by 1.3 million bar- to rebound next year, after declin- In late 2014, Opec shifted its strat- Russia, would see output rise in 2017, The International Energy Agency rels per day (mb/d) in 2016, to 96.1 ing this year. But, said the IEA, Opec egy to defend market share, rather revising its previous expectations of WASHINGTON: The head said demand growth was slowing mb/d, from its original forecast of 1.4 production edged up last month to than price, a move which has hit high- a drop. of the International Mone- while supply was rising, meaning the mb/d growth. a near-record supply level, which cost non-Opec producers especially In the late European afternoon, tary Fund Christine Lagarde glut was now due to linger “at least The IEA also trimmed its demand “just about offset steep non-Opec hard. Among them, the United States, US benchmark West Texas Inter- (pictured) yesterday said through the first half of next year”. growth forecast for 2017 by 200,000 declines”. formerly the engine of non-Opec sup- mediate for delivery in October politicians who campaigned The Paris-based organisation had barrels per day, to 97.3 mb/d. Producers Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, ply growth, has particularly suffered. was down $1.30 at $44.99 a barrel. on promises of protectionism earlier seen the oil oversupply dis- On the supply side, output fell the United Arab Emirates and Iraq Iran, meanwhile, has been Brent North Sea crude for November and economic barriers were appearing in the latter part of 2016. in August, led by producers out- are all at, or near all-time highs, the “swift” to ramp up its production delivery shed $1.08 to $47.24 a barrel a threat to global trade. The timing of the world oil side of the Opec cartel. After gains report said. “Saudi Arabia’s vigorous after the lifting in January of years compared with the close on Monday. “There is a growing risk of politicians seeking office by promising to ‘get tough’ with foreign trade partners through punitive tariffs or British inflation other restrictions on trade,” S&P proposes Green Bond evaluation tool Lagarde said, according to holds at 0.6% prepared remarks. Both US presidential The Peninsula environmental impact of the projects The output of the Green Bond which is approximately 1.3 per- nominees Donald Trump LONDON: Britain’s annual infla- or initiatives financed by the bond’s Evaluation would include at least cent of the world’s annual output and Hillary Clinton have tion rate held steady last month, proceeds over its lifetime relative three scores-a Transparency score, of goods and services. The sheer announced their opposi- official data showed yesterday, to a local baseline,” said S&P Glo- a Governance score, and a Mitiga- scale of the financing required has tion to the Trans-Pacific giving little indication that the DOHA: S&P Global Ratings has bal Ratings head of environmental tion score and/or Adaptation score, as led to the development of a range of Partnership, the Obama post-Brexit collapse in the pound launched a proposal for a Green Bond and climate risk research, Michael relevant. The approach would eval- green finance instruments designed administration’s signature had lifted prices. Evaluation to analyse and estimate Wilkins. “This would be in addition to uate a bond financing against each to increase investment flows into Pacific trade deal. With- The 12-month Consumer the environmental impact of projects assessing the governance and trans- category, with the resulting scores projects and technologies to pre- out naming any candidate, Price Index rose by 0.6 percent in or initiatives financed by bonds. parency surrounding the bond.” weighted and amalgamated into an vent or mitigate climate change, to she described an anti-trade August, as rising food and trans- The proposed Green Bond When evaluating the environ- overall final Green Bond Evaluation. improve resilience, or help adapt to political climate, noting that port prices were offset by the Evaluation, which is not a credit mental impact, the methodology Financing on a significant scale the impact of climate change. the growth rate for global falling cost of clothing, wine and rating, would be based on a newly would consider both projects that will be required to meet the Paris “As market interest for informa- trade stood at two percent. hotels, the Office for National Sta- developed green bond evaluation aim to mitigate climate change by Agreement’s target of limiting the tion relating to the green credentials “Against this background, tistics (ONS) said in a statement. framework and scoring method- reducing or preventing the emission rise in global temperature to no of capital market instruments con- recent news about multilat- CPI had also risen by 0.6 per- ology. “Our proposed Green Bond of greenhouse gases, and adaptation more than two degrees above pre- tinues to grow, S&P Global Ratings eral trade negotiations have cent in the year to July, the ONS Evaluation methodology looks projects that aim to take practical industrial levels, the report says. believes that development of a Green been quite discouraging,” added. Market expectations had beyond the governance and man- steps toward reducing the exposure The International Energy Agency Bond Evaluation product may further Lagarde said. been for an August increase of 0.7 agement of a bond by providing to and managing the impact of nat- estimates this will cost around $1 serve to meet informational needs of percent. an analysis and estimate of the ural catastrophes. trillion per year globally until 2050, market participants,” said Wilkins. China to be first trillion-dollar air market: Boeing

AFP country reforms its economy to rely of widebody airplanes with new tech- A quarter of Boeing’s deliveries more on consumption and the service nologies, capabilities and efficiencies, over the last three years were to Chi- industry to drive growth, said Randy gives us every reason to expect a very nese airlines, it says. Tinseth, vice president of marketing bright future for China’s long-haul Boeing, maker of the 737 MAX BEIJING: China will become the at Boeing Commercial Airplanes. market,” said Tinseth. and 787 Dreamliner, competes with world’s first trillion-dollar avia- “As China transitions to a more Of the 6,810 new aircraft it will Europe’s Airbus for global dominance tion market as its expanding middle consumer-based economy, aviation need during the 2016-2035 period, in the aircraft market. class takes to the skies in ever greater will play a key role in its economic 75 percent will be single-aisle planes The US firm says it made more numbers, US manufacturer Boeing development,” he said. with 90-230 seats, Boeing said. than half of China’s commercial jet- predicted yesterday. Chinese carriers have been A total of 1,560 widebody aircraft liners currently in operation, while The world’s most populous coun- expanding their fleets and adding are seen as needed, according to the Airbus says it has an almost 50 per- try is expected to add more than new point-to-point services to cater company. cent share. 6,800 new aircraft to its commer- to both leisure and business travel China’s rapidly growing e-com- But both Boeing and Airbus are cial fleet worth $1.03 trillion by 2035, demand from an increasing number merce business — already the largest facing rising competition from Chi- Boeing said in its annual China Cur- of affluent consumers in China and in the world — also drives demand for nese rivals, who are supported by the rent Market Outlook. throughout Asia, Boeing said. cargo planes, with 180 new freighters government as Beijing sees the lucra- A file picture shows a Boeing 737 aircraft in Air China livery as Chinese Passenger traffic is estimated “The continuing expansion of and 410 converted freighters fore- tive, technology-intensive industry as President Xi Jinping speaks after his tour of the aircraft manufacturer’s to increase 6.4 percent annually in China’s middle class, coupled with cast to be added over the next two of strategic importance and a symbol assembly line in Everett, Washington. China over the next 20 years as the new visa policies and a wide range decades. of national pride. 18 WEDNESDAY 14 SEPTEMBER 2016 BUSINESS

French-Romanian Economic Forum Open Text adds Al Rayan Bank to spending spree with unveils low rates $1.6bn Dell deal for UK property Bloomberg

TORONTO: Open Text Corp said lender and repaid with interest, the it will buy Dell Technologies Al Rayan Bank home and property Inc’s enterprise content business The offer is the finance range is based upon the for $1.6bn, the biggest deal ever lowest ever rental Islamic finance principles of Co- for the highly-acquisitive Cana- rates on Home Ownership (Diminishing Musharaka) dian software company. Its stock with Leasing (Ijara). soared the most in seven months. Purchase Plan and A customer buys the property The deal removes one of Open Buy to Let Purchase together with the Bank and pays rent Text’s biggest competitors in its on the Bank’s share in addition to an core area of expertise — helping Plan products. acquisition payment which increases companies organise and access their share in the property. Over time large amounts of their own infor- the customer’s share in the prop- mation. The transaction includes erty increases and at the end of the Documentum, corporate doc- The Peninsula finance term, the customer owns the ument tracking software that property outright. was part of EMC, which Dell This is the latest in a series of French President Francois Hollande (second right) and Romanian President Klaus Iohannis (right) acquired earlier this month, the enhancements to the range, designed stand during the French-Romanian Economic Forum at the Research Center of the National Research company said Monday in a state- DOHA: Al Rayan Bank (UK) has to make Sharia compliant home ment. Open Text’s stock rose 9 Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering “Horia Hulubei” in Magurele yesterday. announced that it has made Sha- and property finance more acces- percent to C$85.01, the biggest riah’ compliant home finance more sible in the UK. Last year, Al Rayan single-day jump since February. affordable to homeowners and Bank introduced new HPP products, Moody’s Investor Service said it landlords with the announcement lowered rental rates and extended would review the company for a of the lowest ever rental rates on discount periods, and in 2014 it possible credit rating downgrade. its Home Purchase Plan (HPP) and became the first Islamic bank to Open Text has been on a Buy to Let Purchase Plan (BTLPP) launch a HPP, backed by the Govern- spending spree, investing nearly products. ment’s Help to Buy: HPP guarantee Samsung and LG accused of $3bn since the beginning of 2014 Effective from September 1, HPPs scheme, designed for people who can on acquisitions as Chief Execu- are available with fixed rental rates afford the payments on a HPP but do tive Officer Mark Barrenechea as low as 2.44 percent, whilst BTLPPs not have large deposits saved. works to grow revenue and main- are available with fixed rental rates As an Islamic bank, Al Rayan Silicon Valley anti-poaching deal tain market share. The company, from 2.99 percent. In addition, the Bank does not charge arbitrary based in Waterloo, Ontario, spe- Bank has reduced the fixed rental administration fees to its home cialises in buying legacy software rate of its 90 percent finance to value finance customers; instead admin- Bloomberg accord, dating back to at least The impact of this bilateral from other companies and work- HPP, which is backed by the Govern- istration fees reflect the effort of its 2005, has eliminated competition agreement is exacerbated because of ing to pull more profit out of them. ment’s Help to Buy scheme by 0.8 employees and the costs incurred by between companies whose similar the similarity between LG and Sam- Earlier this year it bought four dif- percent to 3.69 percent. All rental the Bank. This means that they are SAN FRANCISCO: LG Corp and work cultures resulted in frequent sung’s businesses, and the scope of ferent software products from HP rates on its other HPP and BTLPP lower than many of the administra- Samsung Electronics Co were cross-hiring, according to Friday’s the business lines in which LG and Inc. for $315m. products have been reduced by up tion fees charged by conventional accused in a lawsuit of conspiring complaint in federal court in San Jose. Samsung compete in the United The deal is the biggest acquisi- to 0.5 percent. banks. to suppress wages by agreeing not The lawsuit comes more than States,” according to the complaint tion by a Canadian tech company Following the fixed or discounted The administration fee for the 60 to recruit each other’s employees a year after Apple Inc., Google and by A. Frost, who seeks class-action since CGI Group Inc bought Log- period, all rental rates will revert to percent, 70 percent and 80 percent in Silicon Valley, where allegations other Silicon Valley technology status on behalf of other employ- ica Ltd. for $3.1bn in 2012 and the Al Rayan Bank Variable Rental finance-to-value ( FTV) HPPs is £399 of no-poaching pacts have plagued companies reached a $415 million ees. “Absent the agreements, LG’s the price tag dwarfs that of Open Rate. For HPP products currently and for the 90 percent FTV HPP it is technology companies for years. settlement over similar claims on workers would be the most desir- Text’s other recent acquisitions. this is the Bank of England Base £999. For all BTLPP products there A former LG sales manager behalf of 64,000 employees. Joe able targets of recruiting efforts by The company should put a cap on Rate (BBR) plus 3.99 percent, and for is a product fee of 1 percent of the claims the South Korean electron- Saveri, who represented workers in Samsung, and vice versa.” acquisitions before its debts pile BTLPP products it is BBR plus 4.99 finance amount (minimum £995). ics makers had a “long-standing the Apple-Google case, is the lead LG spokesman John Taylor up too high, said Erik Gordon, a percent. Additionally, there are no penalties agreement” not to “solicit or hire plaintiff’s attorney in the LG-Sam- declined to comment on the com- professor at the Ross School of Unlike conventional mortgages for early settlement, even within a one another’s workers,” includ- sung case, which involves tens of plaint, as did a Samsung media Business at the University of where money is borrowed from a fixed rental rate period. ing top brass at both firms. The thousands of US workers. representative in South Korea. Michigan. “It is time for them to focus on making their acquisitions work,” Gordon said. “If you take on too much debt to finance a string of Global solution providers to showcase products at Hotel Summit acquisitions you may not have enough free cash flow to improve their operations.” Open Text will decide how to The Peninsula facilitator based in Dubai, and Hos- Technology Summit will include Wolfe. “The combination of exper- in organising and bringing together finance the deal before it closes in pitality Financial & Technology Managing Directors, Vice Presidents, tise from the two organisations is set hoteliers and suppliers,” said Ismail three to four months, Chief Finan- Professionals (HFTP), the world’s IT and Technology Heads, Directors to provide a thought-provoking and AlKamal, CEO of Nawatt. cial Officer John Doolittle said on leading global hospitality associa- of Procurement and Purchasing, valuable exchange of ideas amongst “The 20th edition of the Hotel a conference call. Barclays Plc has DOHA: Hospitality buyers and tion and organisers of HITEC. Naseba Heads of Finance and other key deci- hoteliers in the Middle East,” added Technology Summit marks an provided a $1bn debt commitment. experts around the Middle East will and HFTP have been in the hospital- sion makers from international and Wolfe. important turning point for the hos- As of June 30, the company had gather in Dubai on November 16th ity industry for more than a decade, regional hospitality brands. The Hotel Technology Summit pitality industry – where hotels have $1.3bn in cash, according to its lat- and 17th for the Hotel Technology and the past three editions of the The summit’s second day will be will also be the setting of the Middle accepted the realities of digital trans- est earnings report, but it wants to Summit. The two-day summit will summit have been enhanced by their moderated by HFTP leaders: Frank East Smart Hotel Award Ceremony. formation and smart technology, and keep about $1bn of that on its bal- provide a gateway into the growing combined resources. Wolfe, CAE, HFTP Chief Executive The awards will recognise the most are now beginning to fully explore ance sheet, Doolittle said. Middle Eastern hospitality market, Its unique format includes one- Officer; Arlene Ramirez, CHAE, CHE, high-tech hotels in the region, across all the opportunities that they offer. “It’s clear that excess cash which is estimated to worth over to-one business meetings designed to CHIA, MBA, HFTP Global President six categories: Best Booking Expe- It’s an exciting time to be a hotelier will be a key part of the financ- $40bn by 2018. facilitate deals, as well as interactive and a hospitality finance consultant rience, Best Online Concierge, Best and to be involved in the regional ing,” Doolittle said. The company At the summit, global solution panel discussions, informative tech and educator; and Lyle Worthington, Mobile App, Best In-Room Auto- hotel industry, with heightened deal can also draw on an existing $300 providers will showcase their prod- talks, live demonstrations and net- CHTP, HFTP Global Vice-Presi- mation System, Best Use of Cloud activity throughout the market,” said million bank loan, he said. ucts to hoteliers from leading brands working sessions. Day one will focus dent and a hospitality technology Service and Best Smart Hotel. Nicholas Watson, Managing Director Open Text is rated Ba1, the like Accor, Marriott, Starwood, on technology and digital transfor- consultant. “The Hotel Technology Summit is at Naseba. The summit is sponsored highest level of junk, by Moody’s, Mövenpick, Hyatt, Rotana, Al Hokair mation, while day two will revolve “Both HFTP and Naseba have a vital venue for all industry leaders by Ateco, Nawatt, Xnprotel Sys- but that rating could be in danger Group, Swiss-Belhotel and more. around accounting and financial wide-ranging resources for providing to get exposed to the latest technolog- tems, Idiso, Network International, depending on how the company The summit is the result of a part- management in hospitality. hospitality education to the indus- ical trends in the Hospitality Sector. Pagero , Infor and MCOM Media finances the deal, the rating serv- nership between Naseba, a business The 200 attendees of the Hotel try on an international scale,” said Naseba does a great job as always Communications. ice said.

GIP to buy stake in Spain gas firm Fed looks unlikely to hike rates next week after Brainard talk for €3.8bn Reuters specific timing of future rate policy still saw just higher than 50/50 odds changes but she held firm in arguing for a December hike. for caution in what could be the last The central bank last raised AFP word from a Fed policymaker before borrowing costs in December, end- CHICAGO: The Federal Reserve the central bank’s September 20-21 ing seven years of near-zero rates. should avoid removing support for meeting. Policymakers signaled in June they MADRID: Spain’s oil giant Repsol the US economy too quickly, Fed Policymakers will go into the could still hike rates twice in what and investment firm CriteriaCaixa Governor Lael Brainard said in com- meeting divided, with some con- remained of 2016. Over the last year, announced they had agreed to sell ments that solidified the view the cerned current low rates will fuel Brainard has been one of the Fed’s a 20 percent stake in utility Gas central bank would leave interest a surge in inflation while another most vocal defenders of low interest Natural Fenosa to US fund GIP for rates unchanged next week. camp, which includes Brainard, has rate policy, arguing the United States €3.8n ($4.3bn). Brainard said she wanted to see argued that the Fed should not rush is vulnerable to economic troubles In a statement, Repsol said it a stronger trend in US consumer to raise rates. in Asia and Europe. She said the low would sell just over 100 million spending and evidence of rising Many other policymakers think interest rate policies across advanced shares — or a 10 percent stake in inflation before the Fed raises rates, the US job market is near full strength economies could make the United Gas Natural — to GIP for €1.9bn, and that the United States still looked and Fed Chair Janet Yellen argued in States more vulnerable to spikes in and CriteriaCaixa would do the vulnerable to economic weakness July the case for rate increases has the value of the dollar which could same. “The surplus value gener- abroad. “Today’s new normal coun- strengthened. “I think circumstances put downward pressure on inflation. ated by Repsol... reaches around sels prudence in the removal of call for a lively discussion next week,” Republican Presidential candi- €246m,” said the oil company, policy accommodation,” Brainard, said Atlanta Fed President Dennis date Donald Trump accused the Fed which will still have a 20 percent one of six permanent voters on the Lockhart, who will not be a voter at of keeping interest rates low because stake in Gas Natural Fenosa after Fed’s rate-setting committee, told the next week’s policy review but will Federal Reserve Governor Lael Brainard at a meeting. of political pressure from the Obama the sale. CriteriaCaixa, meanwhile, Chicago Council on Global Affairs. participate in discussions. administration. Minneapolis Fed remains the utility’s main share- She said the US labour market Brainard said the labour market will likely be modest and gradual, weakened and yields on US govern- President Neel Kashkari said “poli- holder after the sale with a 24.4 was not yet at full strength, which might still tighten further without requiring a correspondingly mod- ment debt fell. Traders trimmed their tics does not play a part” in the Fed’s percent stake, “maintaining signif- means “the case to tighten policy putting pressure on inflation. erate policy response,” she said. odds for a September rate hike to 15 deliberations and that current low icant influence in the company,” preemptively is less compelling.” “The response of inflation to US stock prices rose following percent from 24 percent on Friday, US inflation means there is no “huge it said in a statement on its side. Brainard did not comment on the unexpected strength in demand Brainard’s comments while the dollar according to CME Group. Investors urgency” to hike. BUSINESS WEDNESDAY 14 SEPTEMBER 2016 19 China’s economy perks up on housing boom

referring to a long-promised overhaul marginally better than expected. Industrial output grew of the country’s often bloated and Still, the rate of growth in invest- inefficient state-owned enterprises. ment remained the slowest since the fastest in five Improvements in August, while December 1999, and details showed months as demand for modest, suggest China’s third-quar- a growing imbalance between pub- ter growth is holding up better than lic and private spending that raised products from coal to expected just a few months ago and questions about China’s longer-term cars rebounded. likely remains within the govern- growth prospects. ment’s 2016 target range of 6.5-7 Beijing-based broker China Inter- percent, despite the alarming drop national Capital Corporation said in in private investment which has left a note that while the headline invest- Reuters the economy more dependant on ment figures were solid, data on new government spending. project starts, a leading indicator for Industrial output rose 6.3 per- future activity, softened in August. cent in August from a year earlier, Highlighting Beijing’s increasing BEIJING: China’s factory output and data showed yesterday. Analysts had reliance on government spending to retail sales grew faster than expected expected it to pick up only slightly drive the economy, investment by in August as a strong housing mar- to 6.1 percent as many plants were state firms surged 21.4 percent in the ket and a government infrastructure closed around Hangzhou to guar- first eight months of the year. China’s spending spree underpinned growth antee blue skies for a G20 summit fiscal spending rose 12.7 percent. in the world’s second-largest economy. of world leaders earlier this month. Property also remained a bright Industrial output grew the fastest China’s steel industry, in partic- spot, despite fears that a near one- in five months as demand for prod- ular, has perked up as capacity cuts year-long housing boom may be ucts from coal to cars rebounded, and production curbs boost prices peaking as more cities impose curbs though analysts warned the outlook and profits, while the infrastruc- on home purchases to rein in sharp is clouded by weakness in man- ture spree and housing boom have price rises. Property investment rose ufacturing investment and a lack spurred demand for building materi- 6.2 percent in August on-year, com- of spending by private firms. “It is als from iron beams to cement. A woman walks out of a shop in Beijing yesterday as data showed China’s industrial output and retail sales pared with 1.4 percent in July, while very clear that the data is improv- China’s crude steel output rose 3 growth accelerated in August. sales by floor space grew 25.5 percent. ing because of the property market. percent in August from a year ago, the “Property sales continue to expand at a This is not sustainable,” Commerz- sixth straight monthly rise. Its big- rapid pace. We are skeptical how long bank economist Zhou Hao said. gest listed steelmaker, Baoshan Iron expectations, with growth accelerat- China this year, hitting a 3-1/2 year first time in nearly two years, while this can last given that fundamen- “It is a good time for China to & Steel (Baosteel) said it has raised ing to 10.6 percent from 10.2 percent high in August as buyers rushed export declines eased. tal factors point to housing demand deliver on structural reform, espe- its prices for October, its eighth price the previous month. Analysts had to get new wheels before a tax cut Fixed asset investment was growth in the low single digits,” Capital cially on the SOE side, to restore hike so far this year. forecast an increase of 10.3 percent. expires at year-end. Trade data last unchanged at 8.1 percent over Economics economist Julian Evans- confidence in the economy,” he said, Retail sales also handily beat Car sales have been strong in week showed imports rose for the the first eight months of the year, Pritchard wrote in a note. Verizon focusing on synergies after Yahoo buy Moody’s warns on HK

AFP rating after elections

SAN FRANCISCO: Verizon is focus- AFP said Tuesday the ratings agency ing on synergies, not job cuts, with should be “fair” to the city. its multi-billion-dollar buy of faded “If they know the situation internet star Yahoo, executives said at better, then maybe they will know a TechCrunch Disrupt conference here. HONG KONG: Hong Kong’s credit whether or not it will truly affect the AOL Chief Tim Armstrong said rating could be at risk after the suc- overall economy or the workings of that while there were likely to be cess of a new generation of young the government,” Tsang said. “job changes” at Yahoo if the $4.8bn anti-China politicians in legisla- Moody’s in March downgraded acquisition closes as expected early tive elections this month, Moody’s the city’s outlook from “stable” to next year, the deal was about com- warned. “negative”, citing increasing political bining strengths in “a bold strategy The first poll since mass riskiness and closer economic ties for the future.” “Umbrella Movement” protests with China, which is facing a growth Armstrong did not lay out details, against Beijing two years ago saw slowdown. The democratic camp saying the strategy was still taking the election of five lawmakers including independence activists shape with input from Yahoo Chief backing independence or self-deter- gained three seats in the 70-strong Executive Marissa Mayer and her mination to the Legislative Council. LegCo at the September 4 poll. That team. While Verizon executive vice But Moody’s said the city’s Aa1 gives them the 30 members needed president and president of innovation rating, the agency’s second highest, to veto key bills, which can only be and new business Marni Walden took could be in trouble if the increased passed with a two-thirds majority. part in the on-stage talk with Arm- ranks of opposition politicians slow However, the overall make- strong, regular Disrupt guest Mayer AOL Chief Executive Tim Armstrong (left) and Verizon Executive Vice-President of innovation and new down policymaking. up of the LegCo remains weighted was noticeably absent. “With these results, filibuster- towards Beijing under a system that business Marni Walden (centre) discuss the acquisition of Yahoo with moderator Anthony Ha at a TechCrunch Verizon bought AOL last year in a ing, which has become increasingly makes it almost impossible for the Disrupt technology industry gathering in San Francisco yesterday. deal valued at $4.4bn, and the Yahoo common in the past two years, is democracy camp to take a majority. acquisition is another move in build- likely to continue, a credit-negative Young campaigners have been ing an online media platform on top acquisition of Silicon Valley-based Commission. Verizon commands Armstrong’s “Project Everest” development that will result in slow galvanised by a number of inci- of the US telecommunication firm’s Sensity Systems, which specializes in about 35 percent of the US wireless strategy reorganised AOL and helped and less effective policymaking,” it dents that have pointed to increased network. “We do not want to be a LED light systems that connect online. market, according to data at indus- focus on digital media, investing in said in a report published yesterday. Beijing interference. The most high- dumb pipe,” Walden said, playing off Financial details were not disclosed. try tracker Statistica.com. the Huffington Post and other news It also said it expects the polit- profile was the disappearance of a question by the moderator at Tech- Armstrong said the Yahoo acqui- Armstrong has steered AOL since sites, while strengthening its ad-tech ical divide to widen in the near five city booksellers known for Crunch, which is owned by AOL. “We sition is on track, with “enthusiasm on 2009 — first when it was part of the services. Arianna Huffington, founder future. “In this environment, polit- salacious titles about Beijing poli- also want to be a platform and a serv- both sides internally.” Time Warner conglomerate, then of the Huffington Post news site that ical friction is likely to continue and ticians. They resurfaced in detention ices company; our lead in mobile lets Yahoo went with Verizon after as an independent company, and has become a global phenomenon, may intensify ahead of the chief on the mainland. Hong Kong was us take advantage of that.” a process involving 51 possible bid- since last year under Verizon. Both announced last month that she was executive election in March 2017,” it handed over by Britain to China in Verizon on Monday ramped up its ders, according to a recent filing he and Yahoo chief Mayer were early stepping down to launch a nonprofit said of the city’s leadership election. 1997 under an agreement guaran- internet-of-things platform with the with the US Securities and Exchange employees at Google. group focused on health and wellness. Financial secretary John Tsang teeing its freedoms for 50 years. PSBC launches $8.1bn IPO GM eyes growth in China as US auto sales ebb in year’s biggest flotation AFP Changan Automobile, BAIC Motor and Dongfeng, which are selling bet- ter due to greater confidence in the AFP owners, and it is the only financial vehicles’ reliability. These compa- institution present in some of the NEW YORK: As the US car boom nies have lower labor and material country’s most remote regions. begins to ebb, American auto giant costs than GM. According to the latest figures, General Motors is eyeing growth in GM has been forced to increase HONG KONG: Postal Savings Bank PSBC’s total assets reached 7.7 tril- China as an even more crucial com- spending on promotions in China of China (PSBC) launched an initial lion yuan by March. Its net profit ponent of its business. to compete with these brands, said public offering in Hong Kong worth rose 11 percent year-on-year in GM auto sales in China through Rebecca Lindland, an analyst at Kel- $8.1bn yesterday, reports said, in the first quarter to 12.48bn yuan. the first eight months of the year ley Blue Book. what is expected to be the world’s “PSBC’s earnings indicators such jumped 8.1 percent to 2.38 million, The operating margin of GM ven- biggest flotation this year. as profit and non-performing loan compared with a 4.2 percent drop tures in China fell to 9.5 percent in The Beijing-based lender (NPL) ratios are better than other to 1.96 million in the US. the second quarter from 10.2 percent is offering 12.1 billion shares at commercial banks in China,” Dong That included 293,537 cars sold a year earlier. That translated into HK$4.68 to HK$5.18 each, according Ximiao, senior economist and visit- in August, a monthly record and up equity income of $471 million down to Bloomberg, which said corner- ing fellow at Renmin University of 18 percent from the year-ago period. A General Motors-made GMC vehicle seen at a dealership in Los Angeles. from $503 million. stone investors would buy the China, said. But he added that the “It has been a surprisingly strong “The overall market has been majority of the stock. bank’s low NPL ratios were due to year,” said Matt Tsien, president of country, as the vehicle of choice of buyers in these regions through joint very competitive,” Tsien said. “There The listing is expected be the it lending less, weakening its earn- GM China. Sun Yat-Sen, China’s first president. ventures with SAIC sold under the has been some downward pressure biggest since that of Chinese Inter- ings capacity. “The bank is trying to “We were expecting growth in GM has also targeted China as Baojun and Wuling brands. across the entire industry.” net giant Alibaba in New York in transform into a modern commer- the sort of low-to-middle single digit a venue for its luxury Cadillac line. GM in 2014 announced plans to GM’s efforts to counter this trend 2014, which raised $25bn. cial bank using funds raised from range compared to last year. So far, GM expects industrywide auto invest $12 billion in China over three include launching ten energy-effi- PSBC is China’s fifth-largest the offering. But the task will be a this year has been running a little bit sales in China will reach 30 million years. It intends to launch 60 models cient vehicles in China. GM also is lender with 40,000 branches — challenging one,” he said. stronger than that.” by 2020, up from 25.1 million in 2015, over the next five years and expects eyeing ride-sharing as a potential more than any other bank in the Previously completely state- GM employs 58,000 in China, Tsien said. a 65 percent increase in production growth area. country — and around 70 percent owned, PSBC raised 45.1bn yuan where it sells sport utility vehicles, Growth is expected due to rising capacity in the country. An overarching goal is to keep in rural areas. Founded in 2007, it by selling a 16.92 percent stake to as well as cars under its Chevrolet demand in rural parts of China and A key challenge for GM is the the crown of biggest foreign auto- provides basic banking services to 10 strategic investors in December, and Buick brands. The latter has a midsized cities that are poised to take rising competitiveness of Chinese maker in China, a title GM seized farmers and agricultural business valuing the firm at $40.6bn. particularly storied history in the off. GM has targeted middle-income companies such as Great Wall, from Volkswagen in 2015. BUSINESS VIEWS 20 WEDNESDAY 14 SEPTEMBER 2016

US funds and Brexit chills M&A activity Iceland square up over bond freeze despite some big deals

By Marc Jones and legal action that followed. Ragnhildur Sigurdardottir “The Icelandic authorities Reuters have made a careful analysis of the legal implications of the strat- egy for lifting capital controls and are confident that the strat- group of US funds bat- egy is fully consistent with both tling with Iceland after it domestic law and Iceland´s inter- froze $1.4bn of the gov- national obligations,” the central ernment’s bonds they bank spokesman said. Aown are limbering up for a legal The finance ministry added: fight if Reykjavik continues to “Particular attention has been stonewall efforts at a deal. given to ensuring that this bill of While the players and legislation does not conflict with amounts of money involved the EEA (European economic mean the situation is unlikely area) Agreement.” to develop into an years-long But the central bank is also Argentina-style standoff, it is keeping the hopes of some kind overshadowing Iceland’s come- of deal just about alive. The head back from one of the world’s most of central bank said when the extreme banking crises. lifting of capital controls was A few weeks ago it took a big announced last month that the A man using a mobile phone walks past an advertisement board of Softbank Corp in Tokyo. step in dismantling its 8-year old ‘offshore Krona’ issue could be capital controls and the smooth revisited next year. progress so far has earned the “The lifting of controls on By Guy Faulconbridge, Kate Holton “There is no doubt about it: M&A activity has fee pot than volume because of the lumpi- country a double-notch credit these off-shore investments is and Andrew MacAskill declined,” Tim Gee, London-based M&A ness of volume,” the banker added. rating upgrade and has been a matter of sequencing,” the Reuters partner at law firm Baker & McKenzie, said. Without Softbank-ARM, the value of driving up its currency. spokesman added. “You see very significant caution.” “There M&A involving British companies and deals One headache, however, is However, “As these (bonds) is still a reasonable amount of activity by targeting British businesses would also both that it remains deadlocked with are fairly liquid assets and the outside investors buying into the UK but be significantly below trend for the last dec- funds Autonomy Capital, Eaton total claims amount to roughly 10 ritain’s shock vote to leave the there is very little UK to UK activity,” Gee ade, and around the lowest level since the Vance, Loomis Sayles and Discov- percent of Iceland´s GDP it would European Union chilled deal- said. “This year is going to be off — there is 2008 financial crisis. ery Capital Management — whose be too risky to lift restrictions on making activity involving British no doubt about that.” The ARM deal generated several hun- frozen bonds are worth roughly the offshore investments at the companies to the lowest level in The Brexit vote took many investors and dred million dollars in fees for bankers and 10 percent of Iceland’s annual same time as the focus turns... at least two decades as bosses chief executives by surprise, triggering the advisers and also ensured Goldman Sachs , economic output — after they toward lifting controls on local Bgrapple with what Brexit will cost, Thom- deepest political and financial turmoil in Lazard and UBS topped the ranking of post- spurned what they saw as low- households and corporates.” son Reuters data shows. Britain since World War Two and the big- Brexit UK involvement M&A. ball government offer to unlock For now it leaves the funds in The figures give a glimpse of how Brexit gest ever one-day fall in sterling against the Goldman, which said before the June them back in June. limbo. Not only is ending years of and an array of wider global uncertainties dollar. But less than a week after Theresa 23 vote that it may restructure its British Two of the funds, Autonomy capital controls a delicate process, are affecting the behaviour of chief exec- May entered Downing Street to replace operations if voters opted to leave the EU, and Eaton Vance, have filed a but Iceland is holding elections utives, and the teams of bankers, lawyers David Cameron as British prime minister, was top of the ranking, advising on $49.6bn complaint to the European Free next month which is dominating and advisers who make money from buying Softbank founder Masayoshi Son made his of UK deals, followed by Lazard and UBS. Trade Association (EFTA) in the government’s attention. and selling companies. Headline-grabbing move for ARM. Softbank advisers Raine, a US boutique Brussels which is ongoing, say- Boston-based Eaton Vance deals such as the audacious $32bn bid by Despite warnings before the vote that investment bank, London-based Robey ing that the quarantining of their told Reuters that they remain Japan’s SoftBank for Britain’s most valua- Brexit would shatter economic confidence, Warshaw and Japan’s Mizuho Securities bonds amounts to a discrimina- open negotiations though ble technology company ARM might make it some positive data since the vote has stoked came fourth equal in the rankings, again tion against foreign investors. attempts at contact continue to appear that all is well in the world of merg- the perception that the British economy due to the ARM purchase. Autonomy has made a separate be rebuffed. “We are very will- ers and acquisitions (M&A). However, the could prosper. The Confederation of British Even after the turmoil triggered by the approach to a court in Iceland. ing and ready to work toward a aggregate number paints a different picture. Industry said this month that the economy Brexit vote, bankers said the deal data was Iceland rejects the claims solution,” the company said in a The number of deals involving UK com- had largely avoided a big hit from the Brexit better than they had expected on June 24 — saying that some domestic inves- statement. But “we have made a panies fell to 707, a total value of $87.43bn, vote but ratings agency Standard & Poor’s the day of the Brexit result. tors are also affected and that the number of different proposals in the 11 weeks since said that signs of a recovery may prove to Bankers pointed to other big trans- moves are necessary to allow a and have received minimal feed- the Brexit vote. That be a “mirage”. actions including last week’s proposed smooth lifting of capital controls, back from the other side.” was down from 1,060 The Softbank deal and much better purchase by Britain’s Micro Focus of so barring any sudden change Autonomy declined to deals worth a total economic data than was predicted have Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co’s software of tack the situation looks set to comment, Discovery Capital of $125.22bn in the been cited by May as evidence that inves- business in an $8.8bn deal. “The summary escalate. “Offshore investors (the Management said its policy was same period last year, tors are confident that Britain will make a is that UK M&A activity is stronger than we USfunds) have made a concerted not to discuss specific market according to Thomson success of Brexit. “The single biggest vote would have anticipated in the aftermath of effort dating back to 2015 to pro- positions while Loomis Sayles did Reuters data of pending of confidence on investment in the United the UK’s EU vote” said Matthew Smith, co- vide multiple solutions (to the not respond. One of the world’s and completed mergers Kingdom since we had the vote to leave the head of UK investment banking at Barclays. deadlock),” one of the funds’ lead- top sovereign debt lawyers, The number of and acquisitions. European Union came, of course, from a “Based on what we have seen in the last ing lawyers in EFTA case, Morrison Cleary Gottlieb’s Lee Buchheit, deals involving UK While the total Japanese company — from SoftBank with three months we expect a fairly robust pat- & Foerster’s Gary Lee said. “The who represented Iceland’s gov- value of deals where its £24bn takeover of ARM,” May told par- tern of M&A,” said Smith, who pointed to the Icelandic government has refused ernment in cases over its failed companies fell to British companies were liament last week. devaluation of sterling and cheap borrow- to engage, and has instead chosen banks but says he is not involved 707, a total value targets rose to $45.77bn Softbank’s takeover of ARM accounts ing as positive for the British M&A market. a discriminatory path that will in in the current squabble, is skep- of $87.43bn, in the from $45.66bn over the for more than a third of the value of deals The decline in sterling has made it the short and long-term only harm tical of the funds’ legal chances. period, it was bolstered involving UK companies in the post-Brexit cheaper for foreign companies to snap up the Icelandic economy and the “I don’t want to predict the 11 weeks since the by the Softbank-ARM vote period, Thomson Reuters data shows. British targets, said Eamonn O’Hare, chief Icelandic people.” outcome but it is going to be a Brexit vote. That was deal. The number of “The Softbank-ARM deal really skews executive of the listed investment firm Zeg- An EFTA spokesperson said challenge I think for these people deals involving Brit- the data on the value of deals. If you take ona, set up to buy TMT companies in Europe. the funds’ deadline to clarify the to mount an effective legal com- down from 1,060 ish companies and the out Softbank-ARM, it was pretty quiet,” said “UK assets are very vulnerable to inter- next stage of the complaint was plaint before EFTA here,” he said, deals worth a total of number of deals where one top banker who spoke on condition of national takeovers because of the impact September 20 but a spokesman adding that it would also be diffi- British companies were anonymity because he was not authorised of the 20 percent depreciation,” he said. for Iceland’s central bank played cult to pursue the case in another $125.22bn in the same takeover targets both to speak publicly. “For a bank the revenue “There are quite a few companies that have down the threat from any formal country’s courts. period last year. fell to the lowest level pool is driven by the number of deals which got foreign currency incomes and their in at least two decades. is a better approximation of the available share prices have fallen.” China’s $1 trillion makeover of SOEs attracts sceptics

Bloomberg exports to one powered more by services and shaping up to be the biggest overhaul of massive layoffs, SOE closures and spin-offs consumer spending. One strategy has been state-owned companies since the 1990s. to the private sector. to embrace mergers — about $1 trillion of In August last year, two train makers In 2003, Sasac was established by former o grasp the scale of the challenges asset combinations have been announced combined to create a nearly $130bn behe- Premier Wen Jiabao as the ultimate parent facing Chinese leaders in revamp- since late 2014. moth called CRRC Corp. that will help China and universal regulator of non-financial ing their sprawling and inefficient The broad government sector overhaul compete more aggressively for overseas rail SOEs, with 196 central SOEs under its wings. state-owned enterprises (SOE), con- adds up to a major triage effort, keeping deals. Other mergers spanned across energy, Li Rongrong, the inaugural and longest serv- Tsider this: The combined revenue of 100-plus healthy or strategic state firms like banks, agriculture, manufacturing, machinery, ing Sasac chairman, vowed in the same year government-owned firms, spanning from energy and telecoms under tight control shipping and steel-making, representing to reduce the number of central SOEs to 100 train makers to banks and power companies, while orchestrating supersized consolida- 10 percent of assets the central government by 2010 — a goal that’s yet to be achieved. rivals Japan’s entire $4.1 trillion economy. tion among ailing giants in shipping, cement controls through the State-Owned Assets While there are far fewer SOEs than back China’s SOE sector, traditionally a source and metals to improve efficiency and slash Supervision and Administration Commis- in 2003, the government-controlled entities of political patronage and economic power over-capacity. Without a major overhaul, sion, or Sasac. are bigger as a group in terms of assets and China’s SOE sector, for the Communist Party, accounts for about China’s low labor productivity growth — now “The recent push by the central gov- still woefully inefficient, according Nicholas 40 percent of China’s industrial assets and less than a tenth of European, Japanese and ernment to quicken reforms is a step in Lardy, a senior fellow at the Peterson Insti- traditionally a source 18 percent of total employment, according to US levels — isn’t likely to improve. the right direction,” BMI Research, Fitch tute for International Economics. “From of political patronage Bloomberg Intelligence economists Fielding “The outlook for China’s medium-term Group’s research arm, said in a note on Aug. around 200 companies [in 2003] to 113 com- Chen and Tom Orlik. These government cre- growth depends on the government’s capac- 30. “However, as these reforms require the panies [in 2014], the return just went steadily and economic power for ations are also dragging down growth, with ity to reform a sprawling, inefficient state cooperation of various stakeholders ranging down,” said Lardy in a phone interview. “It’s the Communist Party, their return on assets in 2015 estimated to sector,” according to BI’s Chen. “Increasing from the provincial governments to indi- been in my judgment a colossal failure.” accounts for about be at 2.8 percent, versus 10.6 percent for pri- efficiency doesn’t require wholesale priva- vidual SOEs and involvement by private Beijing is showing no sign of abating the vate sector-firms. tisation of major firms. It does require state companies, we believe that the actual imple- consolidation, let alone rethinking its strat- 40 percent of China’s Cutting SOEs down to size and improving giants in strategic sectors to slim down and mentation is likely to be gradual.” egy. A potential tie-up between Shenhua industrial assets and their profitability is critical to President Xi focus on their core competence, opening Chinese leaders have been trying to Group Corp, China’s biggest coal producer, Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang’s signature more space for private firms to compete.” place their bloated state-owned industrial and China General Nuclear Power Corp, the 18 percent of total economic policy of rebalancing the $10 tril- In the last 20 months, the government conglomerates on a crash diet since the country’s biggest nuclear power operator, for employment lion economy away from an over-reliance on has announced SOE deals involving 6.9 late 1990s, when then-premier Zhu Rongji instance, would give birth to a company of debt-fuelled infrastructure investment and trillion yuan ($1 trillion) of assets in what’s embarked on a shock therapy program of over 1 trillion yuan in assets. WEDNESDAY 14 SEPTEMBER 2016 21 Kiwis eye reverse swing to escape India’s spin trap

New Zealand coach Hesson upbeat ahead Eoin Morgan gets Jos Buttler’s backing amid criticism for skipping of a challenging task Bangladesh tour. in three-match Test series Buttler stands by ‘captain’ Morgan over tour call Reuters

AFP captains’ speculation over Morgan’s future was nonsense. NEW DELHI: New Zealand will bank “He’s very much still the cap- heavily on reverse swing to emerge tain of the England ODI side,” said from the trial by spin that awaits LONDON: Eoin Morgan is very Buttler. them in the Test series in India, coach much still the captain of the Eng- “He’s done a fantastic job over Mike Hesson said yesterday. land one-day international cricket the last 18 months. Last time they hosted a team, team says the man who stepped in “He’s been one of the main rea- India rolled out turning tracks and to replace him for the tour of Bang- sons, if not the main reason, for the flexed their spin muscles to crush ladesh Jos Buttler. turnaround in fortunes. South Africa 3-0 in the four-Test Morgan and batsman Alex Hales “The style of cricket he’s got series last year. both decided not to go on the tour as the side playing is something we Kane Williamson and his men they were concerned, despite reas- want to continue and keep playing can look forward to a similar surances from team security chief that brand of cricket,” added the treatment in the three-Test series Reg Dickason after he came back 26-year-old. beginning in Kanpur on September New Zealand will face India in three-match Test series starting from a fact finding trip, over their Buttler, who made his ODI debut 22 but Hesson sounded upbeat. on September 22. safety. back in 2012, said Morgan would “It’s a huge component of playing The tour – which begins on Sep- have not taken the decision lightly. cricket overseas,” the bespectacled tember 30 and will include two Tests “There has been some unfair coach told reporters. and three ODIs – had been called criticism,” he said. “On surfaces that aren’t respon- the series) can be different to what the task against the world’s second- The series, which also includes into question after an attack on a “Cricket is not the be-all and sive in terms of seam movement, and we have been operating with, the ranked Test team. matches in Kolkata and Indore, was cafe in Dhaka in July which saw end-all. they are abrasive and they lose their Kookaburra.” “It’s a tough place to play, par- to feature the first day-night Test 20 hostages killed, including 18 “He has made the decision that shine very quickly, you need to find New Zealand have picked three ticularly in recent years,” said the in India before the proposal was foreigners. is right for him and it is not one he another way. spinners – Mark Craig, Mitchell Sant- 26-year-old who will need to lead shelved. Morgan especially came in for has taken lightly. He has come to “Hence overseas teams are pretty ner and Indian-born Ish Sodhi – in from the front with the bat if they “There’s no doubt that the pink- some criticism over his decision – one which he is comfortable with keen to find ways to get the ball to their squad and Hesson said they are to succeed in the series. ball Test was discussed,” said Hesson, former captains Michael Vaughan and people should respect that. reverse, obviously in a legitimate could prove quite a handful on the “The pitches have been very whose team played the first ever and Nasser Hussain leading the “Reading things in the press and fashion.” turning tracks. tricky and you throw in world class day-night Test against Australia at charge with both questioning having a lot of information about it, Hesson conceded it would be a “All three... are keen learners of spinners, the challenge is very tough. Adelaide in November, 2015. whether he could resume being you do have some worries. But you different ball game for his side, lit- the game and certainly we’re going to “At the same time, we see it as a “Having played one, we were skipper. try and think long and hard about erally. “The challenge for us is firstly put a lot of faith in them in the com- very exciting opportunity... You want obviously quite happy to play one but Test captain Alistair Cook by it, let the dust settle for a bit and try adjusting to the different ball,” he ing weeks.” to be playing the best in their back- for some reason, it was deemed not contrast has said he will skipper and work through it logically. said. Captain Williamson was confi- yard and the guys are excited and appropriate. Certainly was not some- the side against the Bangladeshis. “For me personally I’m happy “The SG balls (to be used for dent his team would prove equal to looking forward to the challenge.” thing that came from our camp.” However, Buttler said the former to go.” Cubs and Blue Jays NFL: San Francisco thrash Los Angeles register victories Rams 28-0 in season-opening game Agencies Baltimore. Chris Young had a homer, two doubles and a single, and David Ortiz and Hanley Ramirez (three AFP RBIs) also homered to power the NEW YORK: Chicago Cubs right- Red Sox’s rout. hander Kyle Hendricks entered his The win, the eighth in the last Monday night start as the relatively 11 games, kept Boston two games SAN FRANCISCO: Carlos Hyde anonymous National League leader ahead of the victorious Toronto Blue scored two touchdowns as the San in earned-run average. Jays atop the division. Francisco 49ers routed Los Angeles He exited with that title still The Orioles, who came in tied 28-0 in the Rams’ season opener and intact, and came within three outs with Toronto for both second place first game since returning to south- of a no-hitter to boot. and the top AL wild-card spot, fell ern California following a 21-year Jeremy Hazelbaker ended Hen- three games off the division lead. absence. dricks’ no-no bid with a leadoff Nationals 8, Mets 1 Quarterback Blaine Gabbert homer in the ninth, but it didn’t keep Hot-hitting Anthony Rendon threw a touchdown pass as the 49ers Chicago from reducing its magic belted a three-run homer and Dan- were in control throughout, giving number for clinching the National iel Murphy had three hits against his new San Francisco coach Chip Kelly League Central to three with a 4-1 former team as Washington blitzed a victory in his debut Monday night win over the St. Louis Cardinals. New York in the opener of a three- at Levi’s Stadium. Hendricks (15-7) walked two game series between the top teams “The credit goes to our defence -- Yadier Molina in the second and in the National League East. and our defensive staff,” said Kelly. Jedd Gyorko in the eighth -- and The first-place Nationals (86- “They did a very nice job. It is some- struck out seven in his 87-pitch 58) now lead the second-place Mets thing for us to build on.” masterpiece. It would have been the (76-68) by 10 games in the division. It was a tough night for the Rams first no-hitter in Busch Stadium III’s Washington has won eight of whose return to Los Angeles after a 11-year history and the second no- its last 11 and is a season-high 28 21-year stay in St. Louis had created hitter in the majors this year. Cubs games above .500. New York is 16-6 a buzz around the National Football righty Jake Arrieta authored one on in the last 22 games and still in the League only to be shutout in their April 21 in Cincinnati. wild-card hunt. season opener. Blue Jays 3, Rays 2 This was among the league’s top Ezequiel Carrera led off the rivalries back in the 1970s and 1980s eighth inning with a pinch-hit home BASEBALL RESULTS when the Los Angeles Rams or the LA Dodgers 8 NY Yankees 2 run, leading Toronto to a victory 49ers won all but two NFC West Divi- San Francisco 49ers running back Carlos Hyde (second left) scores a touchdown against the Los Angeles over Tampa Bay. Washington 8 NY Mets 1 sion crowns. Rams during the first quarter at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara on Monday. The loss eliminated the Rays Philadelphia 6 Pittsburgh 2 San Francisco backup quarter- (60-83) from postseason conten- back Colin Kaepernick continued his Toronto 3 Tampa Bay 2 tion while the Blue Jays (79-64) American anthem protest Monday by sit well with a few of the fans located The 49ers’ defence held the Rams starting lineup and was in street hold second place in the American Detroit 4 Minnesota 2 kneeling during the playing of the behind the 49ers’ bench who yelled to 185 total yards. clothes for the final game of NFL’s League East. Boston 12 Baltimore 2 Star-Spangled Banner. at Kaepernick to stand up during the Los Angeles running back Todd first week of action. Jose Bautista hit a two-run Atlanta 12 Miami 7 He was joined on the ground playing of the song. Gurley ran for just 47 yards on 17 In the earlier Monday contest, homer for the Blue Jays. Evan Cincinnati 3 Milwaukee 0 by team-mate Eric Reid and Anto- Hyde gained 88 yards on 23 car- carries. Gurley was the league’s Ben Roethlisberger threw for 300 Longoria and Brad Miller homered ine Bethea and Eli Harold, who both ries and Gabbert completed 22-of-35 offensive rookie of the year last year. yards and three touchdowns and the Oakland 16 Kansas City 3 for the Rays. Neither starter factored raised their right fists in a similar passes for 170 yards and an eight- Quarterback Case Keenum Pittsburgh Steelers stomped the host in the decision. C White Sox 11 Cleveland 4 fashion to US Olympian Tommie yard touchdown to tight end Vance struggled mightily in the first sea- Washington Redskins 38-16. Wide Red Sox 12, Orioles 2 Texas 4 Houston 3 Smith’s black power salute at the McDonald. son-opening start of his career. He receiver Antonio Brown grabbed David Price won his seventh Chicago Cubs 4 St Louis 1 1968 Mexico City Games. Two mem- Running back Shaun Draughn completed 17-of-35 passes for 130 eight passes for 126 yards and two straight start as Boston, which leads Arizona 12 Colorado 9 bers of the Rams also joined in as scored on a three-yard run in the yards with two interceptions. touchdowns for the Steelers. Roeth- the American League East, opened a Seattle 8 LA Angels 1 Robert Quinn and Kenny Britt also second quarter, and wide receiver Rams rookie quarterback Jared lisberger completed 27-of-37 passes crucial seven-game homestand with held up fists. Jeremy Kerley grabbed seven passes Goff, the first overall pick in the with one interception at FedEx Field a resounding win over contending San Diego 4 San Francisco 0 But Kaepernick’s protest didn’t for 61 yards. 2016 draft, wasn’t able to crack the stadium. 22 WEDNESDAY 14 SEPTEMBER 2016 SPORT

RESULTS First Round Aliaksandra Sasnovich (BLR) bt Mis- Nothing left for me aki Doi (JPN x1) 7-5, 6-3 Katerina Siniakova (CZE) bt Antonia Lottner (GER) 6-1, 6-4 Johanna Larsson (SWE x4) bt Sab- ine Lisicki (GER) 6-3, 6-2 to prove: Kerber Viktorija Golubic (SUI) bt Yanina Wickmayer (BEL x2) 6-1, 7-6 (9/7)

Slam, it was a bit different,” she told Doi, Wickmayer New world number a news conference in Munich follow- ing her return to Germany. “I don’t one returns home have anything to prove anymore. I crash out of after clinching the US am at the top, number one. I waited for this moment all my life,” she said. Japan Open Open title and silver “Melbourne was different as it medal at Rio Games was my first Grand Slam. I had to deal with a lot of things off the court AFP after that.” Kerber, who beat Pliskova in three sets in New York, having TOKYO: Top seed Misaki Doi Reuters secured the top spot days earlier fol- and defending champion Yanina lowing Serena Williams’ exit, said her Wickmayer tumbled out of the improved fitness and mental strength Japan Women’s Open tennis had been key to her success. tournament at the first hurdle MUNICH: Newly-crowned world “This year everything came yesterday. number one Angelique Kerber has US Open winner Angelique Kerber together. The experiences, specif- Local favourite Doi, the world nothing left to prove after clinching poses with her Olympic silver ically dealing with pressure. I am number 35, was stunned 7-5, 6-3 the US Open for a second Grand Slam medal after a news conference even fitter now than earlier this by Aliaksandra Sasnovich while this year and securing a place in the at the airport hotel in Munich, year. I am more positive and can Belgian Wickmayer also failed to record books, the German said yes- yesterday. deal with things even if they do not win a set as she went down 6-1, terday. go that well.” 7-6 to Switzerland’s Viktorija Gol- The 28-year-old became the old- “This mental strength was a life- ubic in Tokyo. est player to rise to that rank when that is where the questions about saver when I was trailing 3-1 in the “It’s a real pity to let it slip as I the new list was published on Mon- number one started coming up and third set,” she said. don’t get to play in Japan much,” day, capping a memorable summer that is where the additional pressure “At 28, I am now at the peak of said Doi. that also included the Olympic sil- started,” she said. my career and can enjoy it.” “The games were all tight but I ver medal at the Rio de Janeiro Kerber had started the year by Kerber said she would now put was never able to get momentum. Olympics and the Wimbledon final winning the Australian Open but her tennis racquet to the side for a It’s really disappointing.” appearance. said her triumph in New York on few days and would treat herself to Wickmayer had no answer The new world number One Angelique Kerber of Germany poses during Her success in Rio was followed Saturday, coupled with the number a special gift with some of her $3.5m to Golubic’s variety of spin and a photo call after her arrival at the Franz-Josef-Strauss-airport in Munich, up by a final defeat in Cincinnati to one ranking, had now taken off any prize money. “It will probably be in clever use of angles on a day when Katerina Pliskova, who she then beat pressure. the direction of jewellery. But exactly wet weather forced organisers to southern Germany, yesterday. in the US Open final. “In Cincinnati, “Winning the second Grand what it will be I do not know yet.” close the centre court roof. Sharapova appeal verdict Nadal hails Wawrinka as ‘super dangerous’

set for October, says CAS AFP US Open men’s singles champion AFP would allow her to spearhead the Stan Wawrinka of Switzerland Russian tennis team at the Rio NEW DELHI: Rafael Nadal described yesterday poses with his trophy on Top of Olympics Games. Stan Wawrinka as “super dangerous” after he the Rock Observation Deck at Delays have been caused by clinched the US Open championship to claim his Rockefeller Center in New York LAUSANNE: The Court of Arbitra- both parties carefully prepar- third Grand Slam title. on Monday. tion for Sport (CAS) said yesterday ing defences of their position as Fifth-ranked Nadal said the 31-year-old from it would deliver an appeal verdict Sharapova seeks a reduction of the Switzerland was capable of matching any of the on the two-year doping ban for Tribunal’s decision to sanction her top players on the world circuit after taking the Maria Sharapova in early October. with a two-year period. title on Sunday in New York. The 29-year-old Russian The two-year ban on the five “Stan is a player that over the last couple of tested positive for the banned time grand slam winner who has years has been playing great tennis. When he is medication meldonium during spent most of her life in the United playing well he is able to play very well against January’s Australian Open. In a States was backdated to January all opponents,” Nadal told reporters in New Delhi severe blow to her reputation, 26 this year, when she tested posi- before a Spain-India Davis Cup clash. the infringement was revealed in tive for the previously unheralded Nadal suffered a shock fourth-round exit from March. meldonium. the US Open, after being forced out of Roland Gar- “The CAS will issue its deci- The product had just been ros and Wimbledon this year because of a wrist sion in the arbitration procedure added to the world anti-doping injury. between Maria Sharapova and WADA list on January 1. The 30-year-old Spanish superstar said his the International Tennis Feder- Sharapova openly admitted injury layoff was a “very negative part of the year ation (ITF) during the first week she had been taking it for 10 years for me” and he was “just happy to be on tour again”. of October 2016,” CAS said in a to help treat illnesses, a heart issue Nadal said he was focused on staying healthy statement sent from its Lausanne and a magnesium deficiency. so that he could keep on playing for a few more headquarters. She also claimed it had entirely years. The 14-time Grand Slam champion is in The original ruling had been escaped her attention that the Delhi with the Spanish Davis Cup team for their expected by July 18, with Shara- product had been added to the clash against India in the world group play-off on win their meeting against India, but Nadal said he believed we were the favourites (for) and we were pova hoping a successful appeal banned substance list. September 16-18. was taking nothing for granted. in a good position to win, so maximum respect for Five-time champions Spain are favourites to “We lost a couple of confrontations that we all opponents, for India.” Woods input key to Love’s approach All Blacks wary of Springboks: Kaino Reuters the golf course ... helping us prepare Tiger Woods for a big golf tournament. “Everybody automatically thinks, Reuters in Christchurch yesterday. “We got just look at the (Hazeltine National) that at the weekend and they’ll have NEW YORK: Meticulous planning scorecard, it’s a really long course, definitely learned a lot from what and a democratic approach have we need long hitters. Tiger looks at happened in our game on Saturday already highlighted the early stages it a whole lot differently. WELLINGTON: Flanker Jerome so we’re not going to be complacent of Davis Love III’s second stint as “Over the last two or three Kaino said the All Blacks would at all. United States Ryder Cup captain weeks, he has made us really think never take South Africa lightly and “Argentina put us under a lot of with Tiger Woods playing a signif- hard about not only pairings but are expecting a tight Test match pressure and they’ll have put that icant role as team tactician. other things we need to look for when the traditional southern hem- under the microscope and they’ll Love announced Rickie Fowler, in our players. He’s taken the stats isphere heavyweights meet in the try and put that into practice this JB Holmes and Matt Kuchar on Mon- package that we get and has broken Rugby Championship this weekend. weekend.” day as three of four wildcard picks it down to what we really need.” While the world champions go Although New Zealand ulti- for this month’s Ryder Cup against Love has made it a priority that into Saturday’s match in Christch- mately ran out 57-22 winners last Europe, and paid tribute to the inval- his players have a vested interest in urch with three wins from three, weekend, the Pumas had them on uable help he received from his four the team that will take on holders South Africa are in disarray after the ropes for the first 50 minutes assistants in making those selections. Europe from September 30 to Octo- following their opening win over with a hugely physical forward “I’ll never be able to thank them ber 2, so he also relied on the input of Argentina with a loss to the Pumas effort allied to some penetrating enough for their devotion to this the automatic qualifiers for his wild- and then a struggling Australia side. running out wide. event,” Love said about Woods, Steve card selections. Blindside Kaino, however, said Kaino said the All Blacks had Stricker, Jim Furyk and Tom Lehman “We were still watching at the Argentina had put enough pressure analysed where they had come during a news conference at Hazel- end, calling guys,” said Love, refer- on New Zealand in last weekend’s under pressure from Argentina tine National Golf Club in Chaska, ring to Sunday’s final round of the test in Hamilton to encourage any and, among other things, were Minnesota. for catain’s picks well into Sunday year while recovering from multi- BMW Championship in Indiana. side, let alone one of the pedigree determined to offer scrumhalf “They have spent an incredible evening before reaching a consensus. ple back operations, Love has relied “When Zach Johnson got off of the Springboks. Aaron Smith quicker ball against amount of time, not only over the last “There were questions late as last heavily on tactical input from the the golf course, I called him. When “We know that every time the the Springboks. year-and-a-half, but in the last two night,” said Love. 14-times major champion. Jimmy Walker got off the golf course, All Blacks play the Springboks it’s “We pride ourselves on quick or three weeks flying back and forth “We went through a lot of sce- “Tiger looks at things from I called him.” always been tight. They’ll want to ball and for Aaron to have an easy cross-country, on the telephone.” narios. It was a very, very tough maybe a little bit of a higher view- Love will announce his final bounce back and they want to get night and in that first half we didn’t Love said that he and his four decision but we kept coming back point than all of us,” Love said of wildcard pick on September 25, after a win so we’ll be preparing as we do that. As a pack, we took that per- assistants had deliberated the pros to these three.” With Woods having Woods, a veteran of seven Ryder the Tour Championship in Atlanta, to always do and we’ll be expecting sonally and that’s one massive area and cons of various contenders been sidelined for much of the past Cups as a player. “His strategy on round out his 12-man team. something tight,” he told reporters we want to improve on this week.” SPORT WEDNESDAY 14 SEPTEMBER 2016 23

Sheikh Jassim Cup triumph: Belmadi relishes fine start to season

The Peninsula and it was a tough match. The Ismael Mohammed, who was players did their best and I am bearing down on the Rayyan happy with the achievement. It goal. is an ideal start for us” The Red Knights made their DOHA: Lekhwiya coach Djamel The Lekhwiya coach said numerical advantage count in Belmadi has termed his team’s the win will also boost the stoppage time to grab the win- victory at the Sheikh Jassim Cup team’s confidence. ner. Midfielder Luis Matron’s as a ‘positive development’ to “Our preparations are very powerful free kick had Rayyan the new season, saying his side good and this win will give us keeper Saud Al Hajiri beaten, is prepared for the challenges confidence. I am satisfied with but the ball struck the wood- ahead. start.” work. Ismael Mohammed was Lekhwiya lifted the Sheikh Lekhwiya opened the scor- on hand to tap in the rebound Jassim Cup following a 2-0 vic- ing early as the 5th minute and ensure that Lekhwiya head tory over rivals and Qatar Stars summer signing Yusef El Arabi into the QSL season in the best League champions Al Rayyan pounced on defensive uncer- possible form. at Al Sadd Stadium on Monday. tainty and slotted from just Belmadi said the game will The tie, is seen a traditional cur- yards out following a Nam Tae also help him to address the tain raiser to domestic football Hee corner. The first half ended mistakes. in Qatar. 1-0 in favour of Lekhwiya. “ We will work on our weak- “ This is a positive develop- The tie swung in favour of nesses before heading into the ment for the upcoming season,” Lekhwiya on the 88th minute new season,” he said before Belmadi said while commenting when Pascua was shown a expressing satisfaction on the on his team’s triumph. straight red card for his attempt performance of new signing Lekhwiya captain Karim Boudaif receives the Sheikh Jassim Cup from QFA President Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa bin Ahmed Al Thani. “Al Rayyan are a good team to stop Lekhwiya midfielder Yusef who scored the first goal.

Sampaoli set to liven up Real Madrid begin title defence group stage

Reuters as Ronaldo faces emotional test

MILAN: Jorge Sampaoli’s unique brand of whirlwind is a privilege for me. “I football is set to be unleashed The Portuguese wanted to draw Sport- Five reasons on an unsuspecting Champi- ing again because I think ons League when his Sevilla forward ready they have a good team, team face Juventus today. for ‘special’ they have a good coach Real Madrid can win Sampaoli turned Chile (Jorge Jesus) and it will be into one of the most enter- game against another special moment Champions League taining teams at the World boyhood club in my life.” Cup two years ago and the No team has retained Argentine’s first few games Sporting Lisbon the Champions League with Sevilla have shown that title since the competi- AFP he is not afraid to bring his tion was revamped in 1992 unique style to the European but Ronaldo said Real, club game. Reuters who have been kings of MADRID: Ahead of the start of their 2016-17 Champions The Europa League Europe a record 11 times, League campaign against Sporting Lisbon today, AFP Sports champions kicked off their were capable of bucking takes a look at five reasons defending champions Real La Liga campaign with a 6-4 the trend. Madrid can conquer Europe for the 12th time: win over Espanyol and on MADRID: Real Madrid “It’s a great chal- Saturday, after failing to turn talisman Cristiano Ron- lenge and I think at Real IT IS “THEIR” COMPETITION up for the first half hour, hit aldo faces an emotional we have a chance to win Understandably given Madrid are by a distance the most back to beat Las Palmas 2-1 reunion with boyhood it again,” the Portuguese successful team in the history of the competition, no club with a 94th minute winner. club Sporting Lisbon forward added. associates themselves more with the history of the Sampaoli’s teams play when his side begin the “We know it’s a very Champions League. with a fast and furious style defence of their Champi- difficult competition...but A second title in three years took Real four clear of AC which often threatens to blow ons League crown today. we think positive, that it’s Milan as the undoubted kings of Europe and when it their opponents away but can Ronaldo, who scored possible to win it again.” comes to big European nights come the springtime, the leave their own defence dan- the decisive penalty in Ronaldo played 65 Santiago Bernabeu is transformed into a cauldron. gerously exposed at the back. the shootout win over minutes against Osasuna, A huge part of their success comes from the fact when it Whenever they have the Atletico Madrid in last his first appearance since ball, they sweep forwards in season’s final, returned injuring his knee in Portu- comes to balancing priorities at the business end of the relentless waves with seven to club football follow- gal’s Euro 2016 final win season, unlike some others, Madrid always side with the or eight players joining the ing an injury layoff when over France in July, and is Champions League over domestic duties. Expect this attack. he scored in the 5-2 expected to start against season to be no different. Spanish media have been thrashing of Osasuna on Sporting. scratching their heads trying Saturday. Karim Benzema is SETTLED SQUAD to work out what formation The Portugal captain likely to return to the Coach Zinedine Zidane and president Florentino Perez Sampaoli’s team plays, with netted in a 1-0 win and a starting lineup for the insisted Real’s squad was “impossible” to improve upon one venturing that it was a 2-1 triumph over Sporting first time this campaign as they shunned splashing on a Galactico signing in the 2-1-5-2. while he was with Man- after struggling with a transfer market. Shaven-headed and chester United but has hip problem but mid- The return of Alvaro Morata from Juventus was Real’s sometimes with a wild stare, yet to face them in a Real fielder Isco, defender only significant move, which has left an unusual air of Sampaoli also brings an extra shirt. Fabio Coentrao and goal- stability at the Bernabeu. dose of energy to the touch- Ronaldo moved keeper Keylor Navas are Morata’s arrival also adds depth in one of the few posi- line, where he leaps up and from his family home injured. tions that needed strengthening as the Spanish interna- down and rants with his play- in Madeira to Sporting’s Sporting are top of tional will battle Karim Benzema to be Zidane’s first- ers, a complete contrast to academy at the age of 12 the Primeira Liga after choice central striker between Cristiano Ronaldo and Juve’s phlegmatic coach Mas- and spent one season in winning their fourth Gareth Bale similiano Allegri. the first team, scoring five consecutive game of the Sevilla’s visit will be an times in 30 appearances season on Saturday, eas- Real Madrid’s Cristiano interesting test for the Serie A in all competitions before ing to a 3-0 victory over RONALDO NEARS CHAMPIONS LEAGUE CENTURY champions who have won their joining United in 2003. Moreirense. Ronaldo attends a training Top scorer in the competition for the past four seasons first three league matches of “It’s a special match, Left back Jefferson, session at Valdebebas and of all-time, Cristiano Ronaldo is Mr. Champions the season and are finding little it’s a special team,” he nursing a hamstring prob- training grounds in Madrid, League and has another significant milestone in reach. resistance domestically. told www.uefa.com. lem, is their only injury Spain yesterday. The Portuguese is just seven goals short of a century in “To play Sporting again concern. the Champions League and having hit double figures in Europe for the past five seasons and recently returned to fitness following knee ligament damage, another barrel load of Champions League goals to take him into three Spurs seek uplift in Wembley fortunes against Monaco figures seems certain. BALE EYES GLORIOUS HOMECOMING As if Madrid needed any more motivation to defend their title, one of their superstars has an extra special Reuters because their atmospheric White final, with each subsequent visit the squad will be challenging hard and it’s going to be an incredible reason to make it back to the final. Hart Lane stadium has been ending in disappointment. again at the top of the table with atmosphere, amazing,” he said. Gareth Bale said he came to Madrid to win the Champi- reduced to a 31,000 capacity for its The ‘old’ Wembley was also Saturday’s 4-0 win away to Stoke “We’re all excited, we can’t final season while a new 60,000- used by Arsenal for Champions City their best performance of the wait.” ons League and has done just that in two of his first three LONDON: Tottenham Hotspur seat arena is built adjacent to their League games in 1998 and 1999 season so far. Tottenham and Monaco have seasons. However, the chance to win it in front of a home have bitter recent experiences at current ground. and they hardly made it a for- Striker Harry Kane ended his recent history. They faced each crowd in Cardiff on June 3 next year is especially enticing. Wembley but will try to make the Next season they will use tress, winning twice, losing three lean spell in that victory, regis- other in the Europa League group “It would be very nice. I’ve experienced the Super Cup in stadium a home from home as the national stadium for all their times and drawing once before tering his first goal of the season stage last season, Spurs winning Cardiff before and it would be amazing to experience an they begin their second Champi- fixtures as the old ground is abandoning the experiment. For while Son Heung-min scored 4-1 at home with an Erik Lamela actual Champions League final in Cardiff as well,” said ons League campaign against AS bulldozed. the past year Mauricio Pochetti- twice and Dele Alli once. Kane, hat-trick having drawn 1-1 in the Bale last week. Monaco today a few miles away Whether the vast expanse of no’s Tottenham side have certainly who won the Golden Boot award away tie. But Monaco have shown from their own ground. Wembley will inspire Tottenham played football worthy of a big last season as the Premier League early-season form and top Ligue CHALLENGE OF REPEATING ENTHRALS The north London club have any more than the opposition is stage. They qualified automat- top scorer, said the team were rel- 1, having crushed Lille 4-1 away at One of the very few feats left for Madrid to conquer in the sold 80,000 tickets for their the big question, however, and it ically for the group phase of the ishing playing at Wembley as they the weekend. Champions League is breaking the remarkable 26-year Group E opener -- boasting that has not been a particularly happy Champions League after finishing try to lay down a marker in a com- In Radamel Falcao, who is run since the trophy was last retained. Madrid have tried the crowd will be the biggest home hunting ground. third in the Premier League last petition in which they reached the back from injury, they have a and failed four times since Milan did it in 1990, but the attendance for an English club in Of the five matches Spurs have season, having pushed title-win- quarter-finals in 2010-11. striker of proven pedigree and experience gained from six successive semi-finals means the competition. played at the new Wembley only ning Leicester City hardest until a “Wembley will be amazing. It’s they also have the recent mem- they are better-placed than ever to defend the trophy. They moved their Champi- once did they triumph, against buckling under the pressure at the going to be a record crowd for the ory of a last-16 defeat of Arsenal ons League matches to Wembley Chelsea in the 2008 League Cup death. Early indications are that club, it’s at our national stadium in 2014-15. www.thepeninsulaqatar.com PAGE | 22 PAGE | 23 Nothing left for Real Madrid begingin me to prove, says Champions Leaguegue champion Kerber title defence

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Qatar’s Al Kubaisi impresses at Paralympic Games in Rio

Qatari para athlete Mohammed Rashid Al Kubaisi (left) in action during the Men’s 100 metres T34 final at the Olympic Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil yesterday. Al Kubaisi finished eighth as Tunisia’s Walid Ktila won the gold medal. RIGHT: Brazilian team members consisting of Diogo Ualisson Jeronimo da Silva, Gustavo Henrique Araujo, Daniel Silva and Felipe Gomes run with their guides on their way to a gold medal finish during the Men’s 4x100m - T11-13 final of the Rio Paralympics. Five-star Jeonbuk, Al Ain El Jaish eye semi-finals storm into ACL semis

leg after they were awarded the reason to be confident going into Reuters an own goal for last year’s Chinese win after Al Nasr were found to the return fixture. Lamouchi’s side Super League runners-up when he ACL: Sabri Lamouchi’s have fielded an ineligible player in saw off compatriots Lekhwiya in a poked the ball home trying to make side confident after their first meeting three weeks ago high-scoring Round of 16 meeting a clearance with Leonardo lurking in Doha. over two legs after qualifying for JEONJU, SOUTH KOREA: Leonardo close. Leonardo converted a penalty 3-0 advantage as QSL Al Nasr had triumphed 3-0 the knockout phase of the compe- and Lee Dong-gook both scored a in the 83rd minute before substitute giants meet Al Nasr before the result was overturned tition at the top of Group D, which brace as Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors of Lee, the 37-year-old South Korean by the Asian Football Confedera- also featured Al Ain, Al Ahli of Saudi South Korea produced a dominating striker, added two more goals to tion’s disciplinary committee due Arabia and Uzbekistan’s Nasaf. second-half display at home to thrash make it 5-0 for the hosts, who will to irregularities surrounding the Brazilian defender Lucas Mendes China’s Shanghai SIPG 5-0 on Tues- make their first ACL semi-final The Peninsula nationality of striker Wanderley, will be missing for El Jaish as Lam- day to march into the semi-finals of appearance since 2011. who scored two of his side’s three ouchi attempts to take the Qatari club the Asian Champions League. In the last four, Jeonbuk will meet goals in the first leg. into the semi-finals of the competi- After a goalless first half, the the winner of the quarter-final clash “We are now in a good position tion for the first time in their history 2006 champions took complete between FC Seoul and Shandong DOHA: Qatar’s Stars League side and our main target is to get to the and become only the third club from control of the second leg of their Luneng. El Jaish will be looking to book semi-finals and hopefully our play- the country - after 2011 winners Al quarter-final at the Jeonju World In the day’s other quarter-final, their ticket to the semi-finals of ers will have a good performance,” Sadd and 2009 semi-finalists Umm Cup Stadium against the Chinese 2003 champions Al Ain sealed their the Asian Champions League when said Lamouchi. Salal - to make it to the last four since debutants, coached by former Eng- second semi-final appearance in they take on Al Nasr of the United El Jaish were second-best the competition was launched in land and Manchester City manager three seasons with a 1-0 win over Arab Emirates in the second leg of throughout the first leg with 2003. Sven-Goran Eriksson. Lokomotiv Tashkent. the quarter-finals today. Jonathan Pitroipa also finding “After the first leg we tried our Brazilian Leonardo opened the After a goalless first leg, Al Ain’s El Jaish coach Sabri Lamouchi the back of the net in addition to best to fix the mistakes and our floodgates in the 52nd minute when Caio Lucas Fernandes scored the is confident his side can do enough Wanderley’s brace, but with strik- preparations were different as the he curled in a left-footer from the only goal of the match seven min- to make it through to the next clash ers Abderazzaq Hamadallah and domestic season didn’t start yet in edge of the box after a brilliant build- utes before the break with a strike against 2003 champions Al Ain. Romarinho having impressed in Qatar,” said Lamouchi. “The first-leg up by the hosts, who are on course from the centre of the penalty area The Qataris gained the advan- the group stages of the compe- match was our first official match this for their third straight K-League title. and the club survived a second-half El Jaish coach Sabri Lamouchi tage 3-0 advantage from the first tition the Qatari side have every season so it was very hard for us.” Six minutes later, Shi Ke scored Lokomotiv fightback. Belgium’s D’Hoore on track for Doha after La Vuelta victory

The Peninsula lead-out by her Wiggle-High5 Hosking is Australia’s main teammates. female rider for Doha 2016, and It was a great way to confirm she has already met success on her candidacy for the rainbow Qatari soil by winning two stages DOHA: With less than one month jersey on October 15 in the Wom- of the Ladies Tour of Qatar. to go until the historic UCI Road en’s Road Race of the UCI Road Organised by Union Cycliste World Championships in Doha, World Championships Doha Internationale (UCI), the world- the Vuelta a España has given 2016, which will also be decided class cycling event is taking a taste of the exciting competi- with a mass sprint. place against the striking back- tion to expect in Qatar from the Right after her victory, her drop of the Arabian Gulf and world’s best cyclists. best result of the season along The Pearl – Qatar from Octo- In the male version of La with the bronze medal in the ber 9 to 16. Vuelta, Nairo Quintana netted Omnium track event of the Rio It will see 1,000 racers from an awesome victory over great Olympics, D’Hoore confirmed 75 countries compete for the rival and three time Tour de her hopes of victory at the UCI title, cheered on by about 30,000 France winner Chris Froome. Road World Championships fans and millions of spectators The Colombian won the race by Doha 2016: “This was my big from all over the world. proving his supremacy over the last test before the Doha Worlds. Twelve titles of UCI World rest of the contenders in several I really hope to do well in Qatar.” Champion will be on offer mountain stages. Second to the finish line was throughout the event, with each Meanwhile, the female edi- Chloe Hosking. The Aussie rider of the 12 races finishing at Qatar’s tion of La Vuelta was held as a spent a huge amount of energy flagship development, The Pearl. one-day race in Madrid. Bel- helping her teammate D’Hoore, The annual competition Belgium’s Julien d’Hoore wins gium’s Julien d’Hoore seized yet she was able to hold her began in 1921 and Qatar will be the female edition of La Vuelta the victory with an exceptional wheel and obtain a podium the first country in the Middle a España in Madrid on Sunday. sprint after enjoying a great placing. East to host it.