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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2015 THULHIJJA 9, 1436 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Amir extends Eid greetings Pilgrims Revolutionizing Kuwait SC in mass smartphone win eighth KUWAIT: HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah congratulated yesterday citizens and residents movement e-commerce football of Kuwait on the advent of Eid Al-Adha, expressing best wishes, health and prosperity to all. A statement by the to start hajj market in GCC Super Cup Amiri Diwan noted that HH the Amir extended his senti- ments to the Arab and Islamic worlds, wishing everyone security and stability, and asked Allah Almighty to pro- tect Kuwait and its people. — KUNA 13 25 20 Kuwait budget deficit Min 26º Max 44º hits KD 1.09bn by Aug High Tide 05:30 & 20:25 Low Tide Future fund deduction adds to shortfall 13:10 40 PAGES NO: 16649 150 FILS KUWAIT: Kuwait’s budget deficit in the first five months of the fiscal year stood at KD 1.094 billion ($3.62 billion) Qatar to bring in after a deduction for the Future Generations Fund, the e-contracts for finance ministry said yesterday in a statement carried by Kuwait News Agency. The deficit from Apr 1 to Aug 31 workers in 2016 stood at KD 361.38 million before the 10 percent contri- bution of KD 733.50 million to the Future Generations DOHA: World Cup 2022 football host Qatar is to intro- Fund, part of Kuwait’s sovereign wealth fund, the state- duce a pioneering electronic contract system for laborers ment said. early next year, officials said yesterday. The system, The finance ministry said actual expenditure thought to be the first of its kind in Qatar, should be in amounted to KD 7.6 billion, an increase of KD 4.4 billion, place by the end of March 2016, Mohamed Ali Al Meer, a according to the Central Bank’s monthly reports. The senior official at the ministry of labor and social affairs, second half of this year will see more spending after told AFP. “We are working on this system to be in place in paying contractors and importers’ dues, it added. The the first quarter of the coming year,” Meer said. “It will help ministry of finance has been publishing statements on the worker so he knows his rights.” the state’s monthly and quarterly spending on its web- Under the new system, laborers will be able to access site, since there has been an increasing interest by a government website and by entering personal details media outlets and social media in the country’s financial such as their name, ID or visa number, be able to view reports. their work contract. Many workers will be able to see Finance Minister Anas Al-Saleh told reporters on Sept what they have signed up for in Qatar for the first time in 15 that Kuwait plans to issue bonds in local currency by their own language, said officials, as many sign contracts the end of the year to help bridge its budget deficit. The written in English or Arabic only. The service will be initial- National Assembly in July approved a state budget for ly offered in 10 languages, including Nepalese and Urdu. the current 2015-16 fiscal year, which begins on April 1, There have been many reports of laborers being that envisages a budget deficit of KD 8.18 billion duped on contracts, in key areas such as pay. One such because of low oil prices. worker, a Ghanaian laborer called Hassan, told AFP this However, the actual deficit may not turn out to be year he had signed a contract he thought meant he nearly as large. The size will depend on oil prices, while would be paid $900 per month, but it was only for 900 Kuwait has in the past often underspent its budget Qatari riyals per month, or around $250. KUWAIT: A vendor waits for customers at the livestock market in Rai yesterday, ahead of Eid Al-Adha or because of bureaucratic red tape and tensions between Continued on Page 13 the “Feast of Sacrifice”. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat the Cabinet and parliament that have slowed economic projects. This could also limit the deficit. — Agencies WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2015 LOCAL

Amir congratulates Saudi Saudi Arabian embassy Arabia on national day celebrates national day KUWAIT: The Saudi Embassy to Kuwait is controlling Yemen and its institutions to preparing a special ceremony to cele- turn it into a base of foreign influence. KUWAIT/RIYADH: His Highness the Amir brate its national day today, September He added that this was followed by an Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah 23. “September 23 will forever remain a operation to return hope to the brother- sent a cable of congratulations yesterday to historic day for all Saudi citizens,” said ly Yemeni people. Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saudi Ambassador to Kuwait Abdulaziz “Ever since its foundation, Saudi lead- Saud on the kingdom’s 85th national day bin Ibrahim Al-Fayez in a press release. ers have been keen on taking good care anniversary. His Highness the Amir praised Fayez praised this unforgettable day of the two holy mosques,” added Fayez, the kingdom’s achievements throughout the when the whole of Saudi Arabia was noting that the Grand Mosque in Makkah years on many levels, expressing his best united into one larger and stronger and the Prophet’s (PBUH) Mosque in nation under the late King Abdulaziz bin Madinah have witnessed the largest wishes, good health, and prosperity to the Abdulrahman Al Saud in 1932. expansions in their history, and King kingdom, its leadership and people. “One can never think of this historic Salman opened the first phase of the His Highness the Deputy Amir and Crown day without remembering and mention- expansions meant to help pilgrims per- Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al- ing the Arabian Peninsula’s hero, King form their rituals more easily and comfort- Sabah and His Highness the Prime Minister Abdulaziz, who managed through his ably in Ramadan. “More efforts are on to Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah piercing wisdom, determination, persist- complete the King Abdulaziz International sent similar cables to the Saudi king express- ence and the help of his loyal followers to Airport project in Jeddah, the custodian of ing similar sentiments. unite various regions under one flag,” said the two holy mosques’ train and many Fayez, reminding of the great develop- other infrastructure projects,” Fayez Leading role ment and progress that had been explained. Meanwhile, Minister of Information and achieved ever since by King Abdulaziz’s Minister of State for Youth Affairs Sheikh loyal sons - Saud, Faisal, Khalid, Fahd and Major role Salman Sabah Al-Salem Al-Humoud Al-Sabah Abdullah - who devotedly spent their lives “Saudi Arabia has been domestically, hailed the Saudi leaders throughout the years developing the kingdom, while at the regionally and internationally playing a and since the inception of the Kingdom by His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al- King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud same time defending and serving Islam. major role in maintaining security and King Abdulaziz bin Abdulrahman Al Saud and Ahmad Al-Sabah “Remembering the sacrifices of late stability,” added Fayez, noting that being all the way till King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al the holy cities of Makkah and Madinah. Arabia on its national day, affirming the leaders and senior officials, one can nev- one of the first countries to suffer from Saud. The minister made his remarks ahead The minister pointed to the Kingdom’s Kingdom’s steady path towards develop- er forget the efforts of Princes Sultan bin terrorism, Saudi Arabia continues to of the kingdom’s national day today, affirm- prominent and vital role in supporting the ment, progress and stability. Abdulaziz and Nayef bin Abdulaziz (may fight it. “Thanks to its wise leadership Allah have mercy on their souls) for and security efforts, Saudi Arabia man- ing the Kingdom’s staunch leading economic, security and stability of the region. Sheikh Sheikh Thamer extended his congratula- devotedly serving both Islam and their aged to foil many terrorist schemes. Out political, and military role regionally and Salman extended his congratulations to all tions to King Salman bin Abdulaziz, all nation,” added Fayez. “Saudi Arabia con- of recognition of the importance of com- globally. members of the Saudi cabinet and people, members of the Saudi royal family, govern- tinues to develop and modernize in all bining international efforts to fight ter- In a statement, Sheikh Salman said that wishing them good health and prosperity. ment and people, wishing them good fields under the Custodian of the Two this 85th anniversary comes at a time the health and prosperity. The ambassador not- Holy Mosques King Salman bin kingdom is in a leading position, whether on Steady path ed also the strong and historic ties between Abdulaziz Al Saud,” highlighted Fayez, the regional, Arab, Islamic, or international Also, Kuwait’s Ambassador to Saudi Kuwait and the Kingdom and the robust noting that Saudi Arabia was currently arenas, noting its tremendous achievements Arabia Sheikh Thamer Jaber Al-Ahmad Al- bilateral relations between the two govern- going through a phase of prosperity, and services rendered to Muslim pilgrims in Sabah congratulated the Kingdom of Saudi ments. —KUNA welfare and determination to keep ongoing constructions in order to pro- vide all kinds of welfare for its citizens.

The right path Fayez also noted that King Salman commenced his kingship with a number of royal decisions that helped place Saudi Arabia on the right path towards more welfare through investing in all national human powers and potentials. “The custodian of the two holy mosques also shows great care for Saudi women,” stressed Fayez, noting that King Salman opened avenues for Saudi women to Saudi Ambassador Abdulaziz Al-Fayez work hand in hand with Saudi men and take part in the modernization and rorism, Saudi Arabia organized the first development process. international conference to combat ter- “With his great experience in politics rorism and worked on establishing a UN and administration, King Salman bin international center to fight terrorism. Abdulaziz managed to achieve substan- With reference to Saudi-Kuwaiti rela- tial development in various fields tions, Fayez noted that they had always despite recent regional and international been ones of brotherhood, neighborli- KUWAIT: His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al- His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al- developments and complications,” Fayez ness and friendship, and that constant Ahmad Al-Sabah meets His Highness Sheikh Nasser Al- Sabah meets His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al- reiterated, noting that this helped Saudi communication between the Custodian Mohammad Al-Sabah. —KUNA Mubarak Al-Sabah. Arabia maintain its rank as one of the of the Two Holy Mosques and His world’s most politically and economical- Highness the Amir reflect how deep- ly effective 20 countries. rooted and strong both countries’ official Fayez added that under King Salman, and public relations are. Crown Prince receives officials Saudi Arabia continues to defend Arab “On this occasion, it gives me great and Muslim causes and has a special honor to extend heartiest felicitations to place in the hearts and minds of Arabs the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques KUWAIT: His Highness the Deputy Amir and received a phone call from Bahraini Prime wellness and further progress and prosperity and Muslims, thanks to its wise leader- King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, his Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al- Minister Prince Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa to his country and people. ship and principles derived from the Crown Prince, Deputy PM and Interior Jaber Al-Sabah received at Seif Palace yester- to congratulate him on the advent of Eid Al- Meanwhile, His Highness Sheikh Jaber Al- teachings of Islam as well as genuine Minister Prince Mohammed bin Nayef day His Highness Sheikh Nasser Al-Mohmmad Adha. The Premier expressed his sincere wish- Mubarak received a call from his Bahraini Arab traditions. “With King Salman’s suc- bin Abdulaziz, the Deputy Crown Prince, Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, His Highness the Prime es for prosperity to both nations, as well as counterpart who congratulated him on the cession, Saudi Arabia started a new Second Deputy PM and Minister of Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad the Arab and Islamic worlds, wishing His occasion of Eid Al-Adha, wishing him well- phase by confronting regional and inter- Defense Prince Mohammed bin Salman Al-Sabah, Environment Public Authority’s Highness everlasting health and wellness. In being and the Kuwaiti people everlasting national projects to subject the region to bin Abdulaziz, the royal family and the (EPA) Director General Sheikh Abdullah turn, His Highness the Deputy Amir and progress and welfare. In reply, His Highness foreign dominance,” added Fayez, noting Saudi people, asking Almighty Allah for Ahmad Al-Humoud Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, as well Crown Prince thanked the Prime Minister of the Prime Minister thanked his Bahraini that this was behind responding to calls many happy returns of the day and to as Kuwait’s Ambassador to France Sami Bahrain’s kind gesture which reflected the counterpart for such sincere fraternal senti- from Yemen’s legitimate power to lead bestow security, stability and prosperity Mohammad Al-Sulaiman Al-Marshad. strong bilateral relations between the two ments, wishing Bahrain more progress and an Arab alliance in a “decisive storm” to on Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and all Arab and Separately, His Highness Sheikh Nawaf countries, wishing him everlasting health and welfare. —KUNA fight armed outlaw groups that aim at Muslim countries,” Fayez concluded.

KUWAIT: Information Minister Sheikh Salman Al- Information Minister Sheikh Salman Al-Humoud Humoud Al-Sabah meets ambassador of Russia to Al-Sabah receives a memento from Philippines’ Kuwait Alexey Solomatin. —KUNA Ambassador Renato Pedro Villa.

Information Minister Sheikh Kazakhstan’s Ambassador Almas Information Minister Sheikh Salman Al- Salman Al-Humoud Al-Sabah Abdramanov presents a memento Humoud Al-Sabah meets Nepalese meets Pakistani Ambassador to to Information Minister Sheikh Ambassador Yagya Bahadur Hamal. Kuwait Mohammad Aslam Khan. Salman Al-Humoud Al-Sabah. Sheikh Salman, ambassadors discuss boosting media co-op KUWAIT: Minister of Information and Solomatin, the latter delivered Sheikh Abdramanov and discussed several top- Minister of State for Youth Affairs Sheikh Salman an invitation from Minister of ics of mutual interest, especially media, Salman Sabah Al-Salem Al-Humoud Al- Culture Vladimir Maidinski to attend the cultural and youth-related topics. He also Sabah yesterday met with a number of Fourth St Petersburg International met Pakistani Ambassador to Kuwait foreign ambassadors here to enhance Cultural Forum. The meeting emphasized Mohammad Aslam Khan on ways of media cooperation. Sheikh Salman met the depth of bilateral relations between strengthening cooperation in media and with the ambassadors of Russia, the two countries and ways of develop- cultural fields. Sheikh Salman finally dis- Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Philippines and ing them, particularly in the media, cul- cussed with the ambassadors of Nepal KUWAIT: The Embassy of Uzbekistan to Kuwait hosted a ceremony recently to celebrate Uzbekistan’s Nepal, said the Information Ministry in a tural and youth fields. Yagya Bahadur Hamal and the Philippines national day. Kuwaiti government officials led by Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Anas Al- statement. During the meeting with Sheikh Salman then met with Renato Pedro Villa on media and youth Saleh, diplomats and other dignitaries attended the event. —Photos by Joseph Shagra Russian Ambassador to Kuwait Alexey Kazakhstan’s Ambassador Almas relations. —KUNA WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2015 LOCAL Two Kuwaiti organizations mull decision to buy Eurofighter jets

KUWAIT: The Public Authority for Integrity (PAI) has contacted chairman of the Kuwait Association for Protecting Public Funds (KAPPF) Muhalhal Al-Mudhaf over the latter’s reservations regard- ing a government step to buy a number of Eurofighter Typhoons, a statement by PAI said yesterday. The statement indicated that KAPPF had written an official let- ter to API bringing its attention to an editorial essay in one of the PRISTINA: President of the Republic of Kosovo Atifete Jahjaga meets local newspapers, noting some manufacturing faults with the Eurofighter jet planes. Kuwait’s ambassador to the Republic of Albania and non-resident to Kosovo The letter said that a number of Arab, Asian, and European Najib Abdul Rahman Al-Bader. —KUNA governments had backed out of deals aimed initially at purchas- ing the Typhoons, due to manufacturing faults, their exorbitant Kosovo’s President praises cost, and the difficulty in maintaining them. Both Kuwaiti and Italian governments had announced Kuwait’s ambassador’s September 11, during an official visit to Italy by Kuwait’s Prime Minister His Highness Sheikh Jaber Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, efforts in boosting ties that Kuwait had shown interest in buying a number of Eurofighter Typhoons - with training, weapons and support. —KUNA The Eurofighter Typhoon jets PRISTINA: President of the Republic of of the two countries. She also thanked the Kosovo Atifete Jahjaga has extolled the dis- continuous support given to her country tinctive efforts made by the non-resident by the State of Kuwait in all fields as well as Ambassador of the State of Kuwait to Kuwait’s support for her country’s member- IMF urges economic reform Kosovo and his contributions to the devel- ship in international organizations. opment of bilateral relations in all fields. Meanwhile, Bader conveyed the best This came during her meeting with greetings of His Highness the Amir and His in Kuwait to ease deficit Kuwait’s ambassador to the Republic of Highness the Crown Prince to the president Albania and non-resident to Kosovo Najib on the advent of Eid Al-Adha wishing more Abdul Rahman Al-Bader at the presidential prosperity to the friendly country. He stressed Officials advise remedy for ‘unjust’ subsidies system palace in the capital, Pristina on the occa- Kuwait’s appreciation for the continuous sup- sion of ending his tenure. port extended by Kosovo to his country, A statement by the Kuwait Embassy in recalling the evolution of bilateral ties espe- KUWAIT: The fall in oil prices over the past months Value-added tax Prasad told discussions held last week on the Albania quoted Jahajga as praising Al- cially following the signing of a diplomatic and the anticipated deficit in state budget have On introducing a value-added tax (VAT), sidelines of the annual Euromoney conference Bader’s sincere efforts and his eagerness to note on January 15, 2013 on the establish- special importance to the current visit by a delega- Prasad said that it is left to the Gulf Cooperation that Kuwait was the world’s first country in terms promote and develop bilateral relations in ment of diplomatic relations, which embod- tion from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to Council (GCC) states to decide when it should be of offering subsidy, according to 2010 statistics. all fields as well as creating bridges of con- ied a qualitative leap in the history of rela- Kuwait. applied and on what goods and commodities. It He noted that Arab countries as a whole offer 40 structive cooperation between the peoples tions between the two countries. —KUNA During the regular annual visit, the delegation was reported that GCC countries will introduce a percent of the world’s subsidy. renewed their recommendations on state finances five-percent VAT but nothing was confirmed, he Kuwait offered subsidy worth $287 billion in amid rising concern over challenges to the local said. 2011, about 12 percent of the total GDP of all Investment Dar revises economy, as huge financing is needed for infra- Arab countries, and about 32 percent of the gov- structure and other projects. ernment’s revenues. He stressed the dire need for The IMF recommendations and proposals were a mechanism while considering subsidy on fuel, debt restructuring plan made during a joint panel discussion, attended by to define prices and connect them to the interna- World Bank (WB) director in Kuwait Dr Firas Raad. tional levels. DUBAI: Indebted Kuwaiti financial firm of the debt that Investment Dar is seeking The event focused on subsidy reforms, taxes and Investment Dar is seeking court approval to to restructure. the anticipated budget deficit. Too generous help close a 813 million dinar ($2.7 billion) “What’s different about this implemen- The drop in oil prices offers a good opportunity Meanwhile, director of the WB Kuwait office Dr debt restructuring, according to an official tation process is that like the previous for conducting reforms in the structure of the Raad said that they have worked with 20 coun- document seen by Reuters. Financial Stability Law plan, no agreement Kuwaiti economy, IMF’s Deputy Division Chief, tries in designing subsidy reforms and establish- The new plan, called Dasman, is from creditors is formally necessary as the Middle East and Central Asia Department ing social safety network. In a statement, he designed to overcome minority creditor court will impose the deal if the court sup- Ananthakrishnan Prasad, also chief of the Fund’s stressed the significance of realizing; that in dissent to earlier proposals by asking ports the plan,” Arun Reddy, director at mission in Kuwait told KUNA on Monday. He added Kuwait, subsidies are too generous and have Kuwait’s Court of Appeal to impose the Houlihan Lokey, an adviser to Investment that the IMF advised the country for introducing a helped enhance the government’s role in deal on all creditors. The plan involves Dar, told Reuters. 10-percent tax on local and foreign companies’ prof- employment. In general, subsidies in the GCC transferring Investment Dar’s assets, and About 60 percent of creditors have its, while abolishing all other taxes and fees. In the meantime, Prasad referred to the sub- countries benefit expatriates more than nation- the management of their disposal, directly voiced support for the new plan, said There is already a 15-percent tax on foreign sidy system in Kuwait as ‘unjust,’ where people als, he noted. to creditors. It is the latest effort by the Investment Dar. Under the earlier debt-for- firms, while local ones pay fees to certain institu- with high income are the ones who benefit the If the Kuwaiti crude oil price stabilizes at $45 company, which assets proposal, cred- tions such as the Kuwait Foundation for the most from it. A rapid remedy is needed so that per barrel (pb), the budget deficit would reach KD holds assets in sec- itors would have got Advancement of Sciences and the Zakat House, as subsidy would reach those who deserve it, he eight billion, and a no deficit budget required the tors including shares in a holding well as supporting labor. The proposed tax would said, calling for establishing social safety net- oil price to be at least $73 pb, Deputy Prime finance and proper- company controlling make KD 500 million ($1.65 million) to KD 800 mil- works. For him, lifting subsidy directly from Minister and Minister of Finance Anas Al-Saleh ty, to pay off credi- a vehicle that owned lion available for public finances, he noted. some goods is the best way for a reform. told the Euromoney last week. —KUNA tors after becoming Investment Dar’s 35 indebted during the to 40 assets. The new financial crisis. plan instead gives Kuwait donates The company was reorganized under creditors direct control of the asset owning Kuwait’s Financial Stability Law, which was vehicle, shedding any legal links to $15m to UNRWA introduced in 2009 to assist corporate debt Investment Dar. negotiations in the absence of effective “The assets will achieve a higher value in insolvency rules. a creditor owned and controlled vehicle AMMAN: Kuwait has donated a $15 million to support After signing a deal in 2011 covering and the asset owning company will not be and to enable the United Nations Relief and Works about 1 billion dinars, it paid off some cred- viewed as a distressed seller,” said Reddy. Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) to help more itors. Others took up a settlement-in-kind Investment Dar continued to defend legal than half a million Palestinian students to get their edu- offer swapping debt for a share in a pool of action from a minority of creditors not sup- cation this year. assets, which included its stake in luxury portive of the plan and who were pursuing Kuwaiti Ambassador to Jordan Dr Hamad Al-Duaij carmaker Aston Martin. But a subsequent claims against the company independently. handed over this sum of money to the representative debt-for-assets offer tabled last year was It did not say which companies they were. KUWAIT: Dr Mutar Al-Mutairi is seen during the signing ceremony. —KUNA Commissioner-General of UNRWA Omar Al-Rifai yester- rejected by a minority of creditors. They Kuwait’s Supreme Court on June 17 reject- day. Duaij told KUNA that this donation was made included Kuwait Finance House, the Gulf ed an appeal by Investment Dar against an New Blood Transfusion under the direction of His Highness the Amir Sheikh state’s largest sharia-compliant bank by earlier ruling to lift protection it had against Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah who always sup- assets, and the holder of about six percent legal action by creditors. —Reuters ports the Palestinian cause. Center in Adan Hospital Meanwhile, Rifai expressed appreciation to Kuwait’s generous donation that would help the aid agency to KUWAIT: Ministry of Social Affairs and the project through a tender that was pro- expand its operations in the region and to give basic Labor’s Undersecretary and Chairman of the vided by the Ministry which was awarded to needs to the Palestinian refugees. UNRWA is facing a National Commission on cooperative proj- Khalid Ali Al-Kharafi Brothers Company, budget deficit of more than $101 million which led to ects Dr Mutar Al-Mutairi signed yesterday a which offered the lowest bid. The general the shutting down of 700 schools and 123 health cen- contract for the establishment and mainte- coordinator of the project, Nouriya Al- nance of Blood Transfusion Center in Adan Sadani and representatives from Al Jazera ters in Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, the West Bank and the Hospital estimated at nearly KD seven mil- Consultants (JC) attended the event. Gaza Strip. lion ($23.1 million) over a period of 18 This project is part of the Commission’s UNRWA is funded almost entirely by voluntary con- months. vital contribution in serving the society, as it tributions from UN Member States. UNRWA also Mutairi said in a press statement today always supports projects that offer the best receives some funding from the Regular Budget of the that the four-storey project will be built on services to people in various parts of the United Nations, which is used mostly for international an area of 4,000 square meters and will country. The committee is also financing the staffing costs. The Agency’s services encompass edu- include considerably spacious blood cooling establishment of another Center for Blood cation, health care, relief and social services, camp refrigerators, adding that the project has Transfusion in Al-Jahra Health area, while it infrastructure and improvement, microfinance and been approved by the Ministry of Health. is currently working on a number of other emergency assistance, including in times of armed A total of eight companies competed for future projects, he affirmed. —KUNA conflicts. —KUNA

MILAN: A lecturer speaks during a symposium organized by the Environment Public Authority at Kuwait’s pavilion in Expo Milano 2015. —KUNA EPA organizes climate change Kuwait’s Islamic arts exhibition symposium at Expo Milano concludes successfully in Rome MILAN: The Environment Public EPA symposium also addressed various Authority (EPA) has organized a sympo- challenges regarding climate change, ROME: The ‘Art of the Islamic Civilization’ exhibition, run, reflecting the audience’s keenness and interest Kuwaiti initiative for extending bridges of cultural sium in Kuwait’s pavilion at the Expo Ansari noted. He added that the sympo- organized by Kuwait’s Dar Al-Athar Al-Islamiyah in learning about other civilizations and their great and promoting inter-cultural ties with the West, con- Milano 2015 as part of promoting and sium discussed, in a very scientific way, (DAI), concluded Monday at Scuderie del Quirinale impacts on the world. tained roughly 363 works and pieces of Islamic art, boosting the country’s participation in climate change dimensions and negative museum in Rome after two months of success He also said that the museum succeeded in including jewels and manuscripts, in addition to Al- the international event. impacts on the global level, and the marked by large turnout of visitors. shedding light on important historic facts and in dis- Sabah collection, giving visitors a glimpse into the The symposium, entitled ‘Kuwait and international community’s strategy and “The exhibition gained appraisal and admiration playing splendid creative samples of the Islamic art, world of Islamic civilization. Climate Change,’ highlighted Kuwait’s role in facing this phenomenon. by a large number of specialists, intellectuals and expressing his appreciation to the Minister of Amiri It was divided into two parts. The first included efforts in dealing with climate change The symposium also pointed out the Italian media, as well as a wide appreciation by Diwan Affairs Sheikh Nasser Sabah Al-Ahmad Al- manuscripts and artifacts that chronicled main challenges and supplying water and negative impacts of climate change on Italian leaders and officials who stressed the impor- Sabah and Sheikha Hessah Sabah Al-Salem Al- stages in the development of Muslim civilizations, electricity, in addition to highlighting the local level, forecasting temperature tance of Kuwait’s initiative in organizing such his- Sabah, DAI’s Director General and co-founder, for ending with the three great 16th century Muslim Kuwait’s geographic location and popu- increase to about 1.6 degrees Celsius toric exhibitions,” said Mario De Simoni, director- their role in organizing such exhibitions. He also empires. Meanwhile, the second part showcased lation census, Mazen Al-Ansari, head of from its current average, which would, general of the local museums department. commended the efforts exerted by the Kuwaiti artistic themes and modes of Islamic art such as cal- Kuwait’s pavilion, said yesterday. eventually, lead to regression of rainfall, Hosting a significant international expo of the Ambassador to Italy Sheikh Ali Khaled Al-Jaber Al- ligraphy, paintings, geometric drawings and designs, ‘great’ Islamic civilization was very important to Italy, Sabah in boosting bilateral cultural relations imageries of the repeated floral motif, known as Inspired by this year’s expo slogan reduction of water resources, and sea De Simoni said, noting that the museum achieved a between Kuwait and Italy. ‘Arabesque,’ and a collection of valuable and priceless ‘Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life,’ the level rising, he said. —KUNA huge popular success throughout its two-month The exhibition, kicked off on July 24th as part of a jewelries from Al-Sabah collection. —KUNA WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2015 LOCAL

In Brief Interior Ministry Hot to moderate Service centers ready for Eid weather expected closed for Eid

KUWAIT: Director General of the Interior Ministry’s KUWAIT: The weather during the Eid Al-Adha holiday is KUWAIT: The Directorate General of Service Relations and Security Media Department Brigadier expected to be relatively hot during the day and moder- Centers at the Interior Ministry said that all serv- Adel Al-Hashash reassured that all security prepara- ate during night, the Kuwait Meteorological Center at the ice centers around the country will resume their tions and precautionary measures are in place ahead Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) said in a state- activities following the Eid Al-Adha holiday as of the Eid Al-Adha holiday. The procedures include ment yesterday. Temperatures are expected to drop in the usual, the directorate said in a statement yester- providing security coverage and maintaining traffic coming few days, with the maximum expected tempera- day. control in main roads as part of a security plan to be ture ranging between 40 and 44 C degrees, and the mini- carried out on that regard, he added. mum between 24 and 26 C degrees, the statement reads. Photo of the day

KUWAIT: A merchant stands in front of a pen at the main sheep market in Rai yesterday. Sheep prices have reportedly witnessed an increase ahead of Eid Al-Adha. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat

Local spotlight Temporary abattoirs Calls for change in all governorates By Muna Al-Fuzai By Hanan Al-Saadoun

KUWAIT: The Municipality congratulated citizens and expats on the occasion of Eid [email protected] Al-Adha, and declared all main and tempo- rary slaughterhouses were ready to receive sacrificial animals during this occasion. The laughtering an animal in sacrifice is one of the rituals municipality said the main slaughterhous- of Islam. It has some conditions and is limited to cer- es in Hawally, Dhahr, Jahra and Farwaniya Stain cattle such as camels, cows and sheep. Muslims governorates work at full capacity 24 hours have performed this ritual for many centuries, but recently, a a day, in addition to the temporary abat- new call was made by some intellectuals and educated toirs in the governorates. It said the Capital Muslims seeking change in the nature and the means of the governorate has set up three temporary process to ease the procedure for Muslims and alleviate the slaughterhouses at Sulaibikhat and Doha suffering of the slaughtered animals. This article will review if Co-op, Khaldiya Co-op and Jaber Al- the calls of change are achievable. Ahmad Co-op. Hawally has four temporary It is clear that heavenly religions such as Islam, slaughterhouses at Salwa Co-op, Bayan Co- Christianity and Judaism have rituals that may not be wel- op, Zahra Co-op and Salam Co-op. comed by others. The rituals can be seen as cruel or mean- Jahra has opened five temporary ingless, but have gained acceptance and are widely prac- slaughterhouses at Saad Al-Abdullah Co- ticed. Personally, I am not a meat eater because I can’t enjoy op, Qairawan Co-op, Sulaibiya Co-op, the flesh and blood of a creature like me, especially those Naseem Co-op and Nahdha Co-op. In killed by having their throats slit with a knife. This is my per- Ahmadi, four slaughterhouses are in Um sonal opinion, and it has nothing to do with religion. Of Al-Haiman Co-op, Jaber Al-Ali Co-op (block course, this is not consistent with the Islamic act of sacrifice. 3), Riqqa Co-op and Abu Halifa Co-op. In But I am not the only traditionalist here, because the sight of Farwaniya, a temporary slaughterhouse blood scares me. was opened at Abdullah Al-Mubarak Co- A heated debate erupted recently in Egypt among a op. The municipality said the locations of number of Islamists seeking change. A provocative opinion these slaughterhouses were determined was made by a professor at Al Azhar University on the per- according to Environment Public Authority missibility of sacrificing a chicken or any other bird. This call (EPA) conditions. was supported by some as a way to ease the burden on Muslims who can’t afford the cost of a camel or a cow. But this view was not well received, because an opposing group asserted that the sacrifice must only be of camels, sheep and cows. This team used Quranic verses to prove their point of view and the rules of Islam. Opposition is a natural reaction in Arab countries and any introduction of change in religious laws that have been practiced for centuries - even if it is just over a bird - is diffi- cult. I can see that slaughtering a bird is less painful than slit- ting the throat of a camel or a cow, with blood scattering everywhere. Even imagining such a scene is very scary. In Brussels, the Belgian capital, hundreds of Muslims protested last week against a decision on the need to anes- thetize an animal before slaughter. The protesters started a campaign called “Don’t Touch My Sheep”. According to Belgian media reports, the protest came after a court deci- sion to obligate the use of anesthesia before slaughtering an animal, in compliance with European laws. The scientific council of the executive board of Muslims there made it clear in a statement that any Muslim who wants to slaughter must respect the decision. Also, several private associations stated that donating the price of the sacrificial animals is possible. But some Muslims accused officials of “violation of religious freedom”. I am very surprised by these Muslims because they expect to impose their religious practices over the West. They ignore the fact that it is not the duty of Western governments to respond to them, because they may see such practices as not consistent with the values of the West and its ideas about animal treatment. The scientific council of Muslims made the right decision, but in light of the wave of extremism that is sweeping the world, the slo- gan “Don’t Touch My Sheep” may arise even after the season of sacrifice! WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2015 LOCAL

kuwait digest Four released in Jahra murder case

By A Saleh asphalt layer on intersection 82 on Fahaheel Expressway,” he within 10 working days after commencing its work. Street Gangs said, noting that heavily loaded trucks emerging from KUWAIT: The juvenile court yesterday released four sus- Shuaiba Port use that route, which was designed for medi- Educational zone pects accused of murdering a bedoon man in Jahra and um and small-load trucks, and damage the asphalt layer. PAI Minister of Education Badr Al-Essa approved the appoint- extended the detention of four others for another 10 had repeatedly suggested paving the intersection with a ment of Jassim Bohamad and Waleed Al-Ghaith as new edu- days, said security sources. Speaking in court, lawyer concrete layer and tiles, but its suggestion fell on deaf ears. cational zone directors. Earlier, undersecretary Dr Haitham Mohammed Ayed Al-Selaili stressed that suspects should Al-Athari said that a special committee had interviewed be presumed innocent until proven guilty through a fair Cleaning contracts three nominees for the posts and that only two of them trial. The lawyer also denied any relation between his Minister of Communications and Minister of State for would be selected. clients and the main suspect, and demanded releasing Municipal Affairs Essa Al-Kandari ordered forming a special them on bail. committee to investigate the violations referred to in the Court scuffle Audit Bureau report on the municipality’s activities in 2013- MP Oudah Al-Ruwaei stressed that the brawl at the Palace of By Talal Al-Ghannam Public works ministry slammed 2014 over cleaning contracts. The committee was assigned Justice reflected disrespect to the nature of the building it The assistant secretary of the Public Authority for Industry to identify those responsible for the violations, probe the took place in and that such conduct did not match Kuwaiti (PAI) Abdulaziz Al-Failakawi said the Ministry of Public reasons leading to them and suggest ways to avoid them in manners and traditions. “Kuwaitis are brought up to observe ood morning to all and I wish you all a happy eid to Works’ prime concern was contractors’ interests and profits the future. Kandari’s decision stressed that the investigation mutual respect,” he underlined, calling for strict measures to come. In this article, I would like to take you to a trip and not that of citizens. “We realized this after years of corre- committee will have access to current cleaning contracts be taken with those involved, otherwise “things will get Gon Kuwait’s streets to let you imagine the frighten- spondence and repeated pleas to MPW to maintain the and all documents and that it should report back to him worse”, he warned. ing and most intimidating moments once you board your car till you reach your destination and give you the reasons behind such careless behaviors by many drivers. Kuwait has broken the world record in the number of traffic deaths, with 17 deaths recorded in every 100,000 cases on average, according to Chairperson of Traffic safety society Bader Al-Matar. Kuwait’s roads have the capacity to accommodate 700,000 vehicles while almost 1.6 million vehicles drive on the road. Every time you take your car, you must think one hun- dred times and pray to arrive home safely as the roads are full of maniacs who roam the streets searching for a prey or to demonstrate and show off to others their ‘sponge mus- cles.’ Many youngsters roam the streets just to fight with others, start problems, stare at others, flirt with girls, race, being arrogant, you name it. Many of the youngsters who have not been disciplined tend to show off and ignite a fight out of an accidental look or a stare by someone else. One should always look down when walking in the mall or in any place in order to avoid being beaten by those mobs. Another reason why those individuals act this way is because of their assurance that a ‘big boss’ will cover their backs once they are caught by the police; where they can Pictures taken from the scene where police busted what it described as a ‘Satanism den.’ only make a phone call which does not last more than 2 minutes until the ‘salvation’ comes. The telephones inside the police station will keep ringing and ringing until those youngsters are released. So, in this case they would keep repeating what they have been doing because there is no punishment. Another aspect is arrogance. Many feel that since they are Kuwaitis, they can do whatever they want because it is their country. So you see many of them flaunt others espe- cially the Asians and helpless workers who drive peacefully and tend to nag them on the roads till they make an acci- dent. And when the poor man comes out of his car to see what happened, the youngsters start attacking him and put the blame on him knowing that he is helpless and his rights for sure will be taken away. In the United States, roads are respected and those who give a signal to pass you are also respected. In America, Items found with a prison supervisor who attempted to there is no wasta (connection) and the law applies on all. smuggle them to her jailed husband. How I wish to see some of the youngsters who burn their tires in many areas in Kuwait and those who block the streets during weddings do such a thing in the States and try to call their wasta to come save them. I bet both of Satanism den busted: Police them, the driver and his connections, will be put behind bars. Why many do not respect pedestrians’ crossings, handi- capped parking, parking in the designated areas not on By Hanan Al-Saadoun ers raided the place, the green landscapes or on pavements? Why do many demolishing the hut and bother you with their intense xenon lighting, mad driving KUWAIT Farwaniya detec- confiscating a statue as and arrogance? Why police cars only fine the helpless and tives yesterday stormed a well as some objects leave those maniacs do whatever they want? den in Khaitan that was found there. After all, Society must accept that bad manners and used for performing careless behavior are a major cause of road accidents. More Satanist rituals, said secu- Smuggling courtesy and care from road users will help improve road rity sources. Case papers Prison security men safety and reduce the road toll. Courtesy on the road also indicate that detectives arrested a prison supervi- involves recognizing and accepting some responsibility for had been tipped off con- sor with two smart- the actions of fellow road users. It is about being forgiving cerning late night mysteri- phones, two chargers and and making allowances, recognizing that you will benefit ous gatherings in a shack a jar with earphones, when this goodwill is reciprocated. in Khaitan. Following memory cars and a con- Until the next article Insha Allah investigations, detectives nector. The prison super- and municipality bulldoz- visor had obtained per- mission to visit her hus- band at the central prison, and during inspection, the above-mentioned items were found. She was sent to concerned authorities.

Traffic campaigns Hawally Traffic Department carried out several traffic campaigns resulting in issuing 2,765 citations. Fifty-five vehi- cles were impounded and two expatriates were sent for deportation because they were driving without a license. Loaded machinegun magazines found

By Meshaal Al-Enezi

KUWAIT: Five loaded machinegun magazines and a dud bomb were found inside a sack left outside a popular shop- ping mall in Sharq, said security sources, noting that the weapons collec- tion force was notified and summoned to the scene.

Citizen fined The criminal court yes- terday fined a citizen KD 300 for setting the Salwa police station detention ablaze, said security sources. Case papers indi- cate that the defendant got angry when police- men refused to allow him to make a phone call while he was detained, so he used a lighter to set fire to a blanket. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2015 FROM THE ARABIC PRESS

Al-Qabas Al-Qabas Rights and duties Action and By Athra Al-Rifae reaction ducation is no longer as it used to be in the past, and children are not as they used to be because of global- By Ahmad Al-Sarraf Eization and the world of technology. Interest in educa- tion is there because it is the foundation of countries’ advancement, as educational level is placed in the measure- ll societies are practicing some sort of discrimina- ment of how advanced a country is, from the number of edu- tion against minorities among them. We see that cated people and the level of their education, and the possi- Ain the largest democracies such as India, Britain bility of providing it. Kuwait was ahead with education by and US, and we also see it in most backward countries, so making it free and compulsory as mentioned in articles 13 it is natural to find it practiced in our countries against and 40 of the constitution, law 11/1965 with regards to com- the Shiite minority, or against the Sunni minority in coun- pulsory education and university law 29/1966. The ministry of tries of Shiite majority such as Iran and Iraq. I believe that maarif (knowledge), now known as the education ministry, the percentage of Shiites in Kuwait is below 20 percent, was established in 1961. In 1967, the education council was but there are those who think it is more than that, but formed, and the general goals for literacy were determined as the result remains the same and they will remain a well as taking care of the handicapped in item 4 of the educa- minority, but despite this, Shiites have their own ceme- tion law, so it was and still is ahead of others in education and teries and shariah courts and also celebrate their annual its development. rituals without any restrictions, despite what those occa- This advancement of education that we see does not get sions cause in the form of inconveniences to others. to the true wealth that advanced countries seek, which is Shiites remain next to others in their residence or human resources, not petroleum, gas or steel. True invest- work and have representatives in parliament, have their ment is through a student’s education, training and caring, religious societies, parties and political blocs. Everyone because he is the basic human resource to build the country. Al-Jarida deals with them and their commercial interests without The South Korean experience in education is a living example reservation. They have partnerships and affinities with all for the rest of the nations, so the education ministry should components of the society. Yet, there are those who do take interest in this resource before the curricula, through not favor the Shiites, and are inclined towards others, and informing students about their rights and duties, because this is their right. There are those who do not allow their they differ in their capabilities, skills and ambitions. presence in their companies, there are also government Some of them are able to learn while others need aware- Al-Anbaa areas that you rarely find a Shiite in them, while other ness so they can get to the desired educational level, and this areas even refuse to employ them. There are sharehold- is through exercising their rights and meeting their duties, ing companies that do not hire them, and were not even because this is the first training to deal with public life. They Arabs over two centuries asked about the reason why. should be trained on general ethics and behaviors that they There are also restrictions on building Shiite worship should follow in public life, including the respect of laws and By Sami Al-Nisf places. It is being said that there is some prejudice dealing with others with respect. The school’s administration against Shiite government employees with regards to and teachers must adopt the correct method, as the school’s t the beginning of the 20th century, Arabs wars and shedding rivers of blood. The fuel of such promotions and allowances, and in reaching certain deci- behavior reflects either positively or negatively on the stu- watched the severe conflict and competition schemes has misled naive radicals and extremists, who sion making posts. There are tens of other question dent. Abetween the world’s two superpowers at the time immediately lose their minds when one simply whispers marks, as the Shiite bears the responsibility of proving his The student’s basic rights are: - the British and the French empires. In each regional to them and we do have many of these in the Arab loyalty to his country, and the authenticity of that * The student’s dignity should be safeguarded, and should conflict, the British usually took one side and the French world. belonging. But, if all these things were right, and if the not be exposed to insult or discrimination between him and a took the other until the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution in The revolutions implanted in the Arab world in the situation was worse than that, is it considered sufficient classmate for reasons related to religion, gender, color or fam- Russia, when the revolutionists published all the secret period of 1968-1970 paved the way to what is happen- justification to conspire against the homeland? ily association. They are all equal as in Article 29 of the consti- documents of agreements made between Britain, ing nowadays as universities and educational systems Yes, the Shiite is oppressed, with various negative tution. France and Russia, which showed that those competing have been destroyed and manipulated in their respec- practices and malicious behavior against him in jobs, * Rights of security and not harm his feelings and his body in public were secretly conspiring to split regional coun- tive countries, which jeopardized social security and promotions and salary increases, even in areas where he and preserve his property, privacy and secrets. His outstand- tries by what was later on known as the Sykes Picot national unity as well as dragged youths into civil and can work, so, and oppression or maliciousness against ing educational performance should be maintained. agreement. Some people believe the same is happening foreign wars. Public funds and army weapons were loot- them, as they think they were among the first to live in * The rights of gain, to be educated under comfortable nowadays and that regional and international powers ed and handed over to destructive militias like IS, this land and making it their eternal homeland, but does conditions and in a supporting environment that appreciates publicly claim antagonism against each other while their Houthis, Nusra Front and Fajr-al-Islam, that phenomenal- this justify that some people communicate and cooper- his skills, and that he gets the educational subjects and knives are most harmoniously working on chopping off ly became richer and mightier than armies. ate with those who wish their country evil? understands them. what is left of Arab countries.....the world’s sick man! Such plans could only build an Arab alliance whose What did the blacks or Catholics in America do to lift * The right of participation, to express freely, to have his Public claims of antagonism and the disagreements victories quickly limited the power of Saleh’s troops and oppression or reduce discrimination against them? They opinion heard, be party to school laws and legislations that between certain powers are totally different from what Houthis at a time when they were supposed to expand resorted to the ballot box and media. What did the are related to his rights and enjoy the freedom of information, is actually happening behind closed doors, where they and keep winning, such as IS and others in other coun- Shiites in Kuwait and elsewhere do to get rid of oppres- and be made aware of decisions against him. closely cooperate and distribute roles in dividing Arab tries. Therefore, weapons smuggling attempts will con- sion against them? They mostly elected the most As for the duties that he should comply with, they are the countries using sectarian and radical militias in Iraq, tinue flowing to outlaws in Yemen and we might witness extreme persons to parliament who were mostly a rea- rules followed in each school, and they should be informed Syria, Libya and Yemen, who are controlled by intelli- some treason and betrayal in an attempt to return son to increase their sectarian extremism, and increase about what to follow. gence agents closely related to the powers seeking divi- Yemen to the planned course of destruction and waste. - concern against them. — Translated by Kuwait Times sion, fragmentation and destruction through starting —Translated by Kuwait Times Why does the Shiite voter elect the sectarian extreme candidate and ignore others? Is it his belief that the for- mer is more able to get his “rights” from the authority? Reality says otherwise, because most of these “sectarian MPs” used their apparent extremism to get their personal interests and not defend the “rights” of their groups. Electricity It is nearly impossible to eradicate discrimination in any society, but it is possible to close the gap and consumption reduce the size of that discrimination, and this requires more confidence by government in its citizens and less- levels within er sectarian extremism from the other side - but do both sides have the necessary courage? Is secularism not the solution? int’l standards — Translated by Kuwait Times

KUWAIT: The Ministry of Electricity and Water’s Undersecretary Mohammad Bushehri said he was satisfied with the power consumption average in Kuwait, saying that it is at par with international Crime rates concerned with measuring the power loads. Report He added that consumption levels averaged only a three percent increase this year compared to last year. Drunk old man chases woman, “We expected the increase to reach eight per- ends up beaten by her husband cent, but because of consumer’s awareness, it did not go beyond three percent,” he said, adding that KUWAIT: A citizen beat a 57-year-old man who chased his NBK family sharing happy moments with the children. the percentage in the Gulf region reached wife all the way to her house in Qairawan in order to give between eight and ten percent in average. her his phone number. The injured man was taken to Bushehri said the reason behind Kuwait’s suc- Sabah Hospital. A security source said that the citizen in NBK shares happy Eid moments cess in maintaining the increase rates within the her twenties got fed up with the man chasing her, so she international levels was due to the increase of con- called her husband and informed him about the man. The with children at NBK Hospital sumers’ awareness regarding the importance of husband waited in front of the house, and as soon as he preserving power and water, in addition to the saw the harasser, he beat him badly, prompting passersby ministry’s keenness to collect its dues since to call the police. The fight was broken up and the harasser KUWAIT: National Bank of Kuwait’s NBK Public Relations Officer, Talal social responsibility program. was found drunk. December 2012, apart from the efforts of the exec- (NBK) family paid a visit to NBK Al-Turki said that NBK staff have “Sharing the happy moments of Hospital at Sabah Medical district to always devoted a considerable part Eid Al-Adha and other similar occa- utive committee to rationalize the use of energy in share Eid Al-Adha happy moments of their time to comfort the children sions with children is our pleasure. which several departments are participating, Family dispute with children suffering from perma- and present them with felicitations We are proud that NBK devotes such including the oil sector. nent and incurable ailments. and gifts as part of NBK’s corporate attention to supporting Kuwait soci- “We expected the consumption rate to reach A citizen accused his wife of entering his house to com- ety and providing compassion and 13,500 megawatts this summer, but we found out mit a crime following a family dispute. He said the support for those in need, including that the maximum load reached 12,810 woman wanted to destroy the contents of the house, sick children. NBK’s commitment to megawatts, recorded on August 30, 2015,” he said. but was able to keep her from doing so. Detectives are its corporate social responsibility was Meanwhile official sources at the ministry said working on the case. the basic motive that led NBK to that the ministry is getting ready to install smart build its children hospital at Sabah water meters on trial basis in order to tender and Medical district many years ago,” generalize them in Kuwait together with the pre- Missing daughter Turki added. The visit to the hospital paid electric meters. The sources said the ministry was emotional and overwhelming for is selecting more than one location to run the trial A citizen reported his daughter was missing, after she both the children and NBK staff. to see how suitable the meters are for customers. told him she was going to the family chalet but disap- NBK’s visits to hospitals and care As for who bears the cost when it comes to the peared. Her phone was switched off, and she never went centers reflect the Bank’s high sense investment and commercial centers, which refers to the chalet. of duty and responsibility towards to apartment buildings and shops respectively, the all those in need from different sec- sources said the owner of the building in both sec- tors of society. It is a well rooted tra- tors will bear the cost, and not the renter. In the Unfinished business dition that has been carried out by private residence sector (government houses), NBK each year in its efforts to con- Four persons beat an Egyptian man in Jabriya to settle each citizen bears his own cost. — Al-Rai tinuously have an active role in the scores with him. The Egyptian told police the four cor- A child with an Eid gift presented by NBK. Kuwait society. nered him and beat him badly, causing the injuries stated in the medical report. Detectives are working on arresting the four for questioning. Solution for Syrian Students cannot communicate with English speaking nurses Maid charged with theft residents soon A citizen accused his Filipina maid of stealing money KUWAIT: Education zones sent circu- dents. The sources said most school from his bedroom. He told Fahaheel police that she stole lars to schools asking them to cooper- principals are disappointed with this KD 800, but she denied it. The maid was arrested and is KUWAIT: The Interior Ministry will soon solve the residents’ problem out of con- ate with nurses in school clinics and situation because nurses are not able being questioned. adopt solutions regarding Syrian nation- sideration to their “humanitarian condi- provide means of communication to communicate with the sick stu- als who are in violation of residency reg- tions and the events happening in their between them and students. This dents, in addition to difficulties of ulations, and who entered the country country.” came after several public schools communication with school adminis- Assault with visit visas but did not leave before The study, which received approval of reported facing problems in operat- trations themselves. They said that it their visas expired while local authorities Interior Ministry officials, states that a ing school clinics, as most nurses is impossible to continually have an An Afghani man accused a Jordanian national of denied their requests to issue a residency family residency visa can be given to the working there do not know Arabic. English teacher do the translation in insulting and beating him and gave police a med- visa for security reasons. According to mother, sister and wife of a Syrian resi- Sources said that some schools are school clinics, and demanded a radi- ical report stating that he sustained bruises in sen- sources familiar with the subject, the dent. As for the cumulated fines, there is seeking the help from English lan- cal solution in coordination with the sitive parts of his body. Detectives are working on ministry’s citizenship and residency a possibility to send the cases to court to guage teachers to translate to stu- health ministry. — Al-Jarida the case. — Al-Rai department submitted a study that will rule on the issue. — Al-Anbaa WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

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AMMAN: Children sit in a classroom at the UN-run Zaatari camp for Syrian refugees. — AFP Moscow sends new arms to Syria Signs grow of major shift in war

DAMASCUS: Syria said yesterday that it had ment to fight IS” including targeting equipment ing supporter of Assad during a conflict that has out almost daily air strikes against IS in Syria for he must go for Syria to have any hope of peace. received sophisticated new arms from Russia and precision-guided missiles, the official said, seen more than 240,000 killed since March 2011, more than a year. After an 18-month freeze in Western diplomats suggest Putin-who has including warplanes and deployed them against speaking on condition of anonymity. insisting it would continue arms deliveries to his military relations triggered by NATO anger over been isolated by the West over the crisis in jihadists, as signs grew of a major shift in the The new weapons had already been regime. But Russia’s intentions have been unclear Moscow’s role in the Ukraine crisis, US and Ukraine-is trying to switch the focus to Syria, country’s four-year conflict. A senior Syrian mili- deployed against IS in the cities of Deir Ezzor and in recent days as it deployed a range of new Russian military officials held talks Friday aimed ahead of a key address to the UN General tary official told AFP Damascus had received a Raqa, the jihadist group’s de facto capital in Syria. weaponry and troops to its airbase near Latakia. at avoiding unintended incidents in Syria. Assembly on September 28. Efforts to find a fresh batch of arms, including at least five fighter “Russian weapons are starting to have an effect On Monday, US officials said Moscow had In another potential sign of an increasing negotiated solution to Syria’s war have repeated- planes, while a monitoring group said there had in Syria,” the official said. Another military source deployed 28 fighter and bomber aircraft at the Russian role, President Vladimir Putin agreed a ly failed, despite the enormity of a crisis that has been a marked increase in regime attacks on the in Latakia confirmed to AFP that the army had airfield, including 12 SU-24 attack aircraft, 12 SU- deal with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin forced millions from their homes, many of them Islamic State group. received spy planes and other equipment “that 25 ground attack aircraft and four Flanker fighter Netanyahu on Monday aimed at avoiding inci- seeking refuge in Europe. The deliveries came amid a rapid Russian mili- will allow Syrian ground and air forces to accu- jets. The officials said there were also about 20 dents in Syria. “A joint mechanism for preventing The UN’s envoy on Syria, Staffan de Mistura, tary build-up in Syria, with US officials saying rately identify targets.” Russian combat and transport helicopters at the misunderstandings between our forces” was held meetings this week in the latest bid to Moscow had deployed 28 combat planes and The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a base and that Moscow was operating drone agreed to at talks in Russia, Netanyahu’s office revive peace talks, his office said in a statement begun drone flights in the country. Syria’s devas- monitoring group, said new Russian equipment flights, but did not give additional details. “They said. Israeli forces have reportedly carried out yesterday. tating conflict has taken on a new dimension in was being put into action, with at least 38 IS are not going to sit around and defend the air- several strikes in Syria on Iranian arms transfers De Mistura in July proposed a fresh approach recent days as Moscow has moved to boost its fighters killed in air strikes in jihadist-held towns field or maybe even the province of Latakia,” said to Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah. that would see Syrians taking part in “thematic” military presence in the country, raising deep in central Syria on Monday. Jeffrey White of the Washington Institute for working groups on resolving the conflict. The concerns in Washington. Near East Policy. Bid to revive talks envoy met with the heads of these groups in the The Syrian military official told AFP the new ‘Not going to sit around’ “This kind of aircraft suggests that the The deployments come as Russia pushes for past two days, with the goal to “set the stage for warplanes had arrived on Friday along with “The number of raids is growing and the Russians intend to exert their combat power out- the coalition of Western and regional powers a Syrian agreement to end the conflict,” the state- reconnaissance aircraft at a military base in strikes are more precise after the Syrian air force side of Latakia in an offensive role.” fighting IS in Syria to join forces with Assad ment said. “This is the defining humanitarian Latakia province, the traditional heartland of received arms and more efficient planes from The deployments have raised fears of an inad- against the jihadists. challenge of our times,” de Mistura said. “The President Bashar Al-Assad’s regime. The regime Moscow,” Observatory director Rami Abdel vertent confrontation between Russian forces Western and Gulf powers have long resisted Syrians deserve that we move faster towards a had also received “sophisticated military equip- Rahman told AFP. Moscow has been an unwaver- and the US-led coalition that has been carrying any role for Assad in the fight against IS, insisting political solution”. — AFP French far-right leader to face With Yorkshire accents, Syrian trial for inciting racial hatred LYON: Marine Le Pen, the leader of France’s far- sion,” she said. Since taking over her father’s party refugees adapt to English life right National Front, has been ordered to stand in 2011, Le Pen has tried to soften its image and trial in October on charges of inciting racial has scored a series of election successes. hatred after comparing Muslim street prayers to However the party remains staunchly anti-EU LONDON: Arrested and tortured back home, responding to public clamor for his government killed about 250,000 people, uprooting some 7.6 the Nazi occupation, legal sources said yesterday. and anti-immigration and Le Pen has seized Khalil, one of the first Syrian refugees to be to help those fleeing civil war in Syria, with million within Syria and creating 4 million Le Pen was campaigning to take over leader- upon Europe’s migrant crisis to win votes ahead resettled in Britain, is finding it harder to adapt 20,000 refugees set to come over five years. refugees, most of them living in camps in near- ship of the FN from her father in December 2010 of regional elections in December. to a new life in chilly northern England than his by Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey. At least 182,000 when she made the comparison, complaining The FN is already leading opinion polls in sev- children. In the vanguard of Britain’s resettle- Family fled Syrians have crossed the Mediterranean to that there were “10 to 15” places in France where eral regions. Le Pen has leaned on traditional par- ment scheme for Syrian refugees, Khalil is grate- Khalil owned a mobile phone shop in Europe so far in 2015, almost 40 percent of the Muslims worshipped in the streets outside ty arguments, calling for an end to Europe’s bor- ful to have avoided a perilous Mediterranean Zabadani near Syria’s border with Lebanon total of refugees and migrants making the sea mosques when they were full. derless Schengen zone as well as actions seen as sea crossing and overland trek through unwel- when, after the war began, he was arrested by crossing. “I’m sorry, but for those who like talking a lot enticing migrants to France. However she also coming nations in southeastern Europe. But government security forces four separate times, Of the small number of Syrians resettled in about World War II, if it comes to talking about stepped up the rhetoric, comparing the flood of challenges lie ahead. and tortured. He suffers from severe pain in his Britain so far, half are in Bradford. The city has a the occupation, we can talk about it, because migrants on Europe’s doorstep to the “barbarian “I find learning a new language at my age a right hip as a result. The family fled to Lebanon proud history of welcoming refugees, with Jews, that (Muslims praying on the street) is the occu- invasions” of the fourth century. little bit difficult,” said the 40-year-old former where they spent two years living in a tiny ram- eastern Europeans and Pakistanis arriving in the pation of territory,” she told a crowd in the south- Speaking to Paris-based foreign journalists on shop owner through an Arabic translator. “My shackle garage. 20th century, said David Green, leader of the eastern city of Lyon. “It is an occupation of part of Monday, Le Pen said of migrants: “We should kids are really amazing, they are learning English His family was hassled by officials to pay for council. Officials meet refugees at the airport the territory, suburbs where religious law is warm them up, feed them and then send them applied. Sure, there are no armoured vehicles, no back where they came from.” Despite its growing very quickly, I am learning from them.” Because needless documents, and suffered discrimina- and slowly induct them into British life, provid- soldiers, but it is an occupation nonetheless and popularity, the party’s image suffered after a bit- of the horrific abuse he had suffered, Khalil’s tion as Sunni Muslims in a predominantly Shiite ing translators as well as helpers to sort out it weighs on residents.” ter public spat between Marine and her father family was put on a United Nations list from area. “When I travelled to Lebanon I had no schools, healthcare and housing. After the comments, which provoked outrage and the party’s founder Jean-Marie Le Pen which which the British government takes Syrians work,” he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. Khalil, wearing a thick black jacket, sits in an in France, Le Pen was investigated for inciting led to her ousting him over a series of controver- deemed most in need. About 200 have arrived “There was no way to heat that place with my English lesson provided for the refugees. “Can racial hatred but the probe was later closed with sial comments. so far, half of them to Bradford, a former indus- kids, the walls were made of mud.” you pass the scissors please?” he and his class- no result. But a complaint by an association led Marine Le Pen decided enough was enough trial city with a long history of immigration. Khalil, who gave only his first name for fear of mates say in turn, some already speaking with a to a judicial enquiry which was opened in after her father repeated his view that the Nazi “In nine or twelve months (refugee children) reprisals against his family in Syria, was eventu- hint of their teacher’s Yorkshire accent. Though January 2012. Le Pen was charged in July 2014 gas chambers were merely a “detail” of history are speaking English fluently with little Yorkshire ally identified by the UN refugee agency UNHCR children learn quickly, adult refugees are often after her immunity as a member of the European and also claimed France should establish close accents, which is lovely to see,” said Gudrun as particularly vulnerable. He was flown to slow to pick up the language, limiting their Parliament was lifted following a vote requested relations with Russia to save the “white world”. Carlisle of Horton Housing Association, which Bradford with his pregnant wife and children in employment options even though many are by French authorities. The FN has also been slapped with charges of helps settle the Syrian families in the city. Prime June, reluctantly leaving his brother and elderly highly qualified, said Gudrun Carlisle. “We have a Le Pen told AFP she intended to attend the fraud as part of an ongoing probe into campaign Minister David Cameron announced on Sept. 7 parents behind. doctor here, we have a woman who started her trial. “Yes, of course. I wouldn’t miss such an occa- financing. — AFP the resettlement scheme would be expanded, Syria’s civil war, which erupted in 2011, has own business.” —Reuters WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2015 INTERNATIONAL

Palestinian dies, another shot as tensions grow in west bank

JERUSALEM: A Palestinian died while handling Tight security in Jerusalem an explosive device and another was shot by Tensions have been running high across the Israeli forces in the West Bank yesterday as ten- West Bank, including Israeli-annexed east sions rose ahead of major religious holidays for Jerusalem, ahead of the Jewish Yom Kippur holi- Jews and Muslims. Both incidents occurred in day which begins at sundown yesterday. The the Hebron area of the southern West Bank Muslim Eid Al-Adha holiday begins on ahead of the Yom Kippur and Eid al-Adha holi- Wednesday evening and continues until days and after three days of clashes rocked Sunday. Israel has deployed thousands of police Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque compound last in Jerusalem and shut it off from the West Bank, week. with checkpoints closed for the holiday as in Jerusalem remained calm yesterday, but was previous years. There were also age restrictions under tight security, with thousands of police on Muslims entering the Al-Aqsa compound in officers deployed and authorities closing off the Jerusalem’s Old City, with men under 40 prohib- city to residents of the occupied West Bank. ited. Israeli authorities implement such age Overnight in the village of Dura near Hebron, a restrictions when tensions are high in a bid to Palestinian was killed by an explosive device he avoid violence. Crowds of Jewish worshippers intended to toss at a military vehicle, an Israeli visited the Western Wall below the Al-Aqsa military spokeswoman said. Residents provided compound yesterday morning. Visits by Jews a similar account. and tourists also went ahead as usual at the Al- Palestinian security officials however said he Aqsa compound. One group of Jewish visitors was shot dead by Israeli troops. They named toured the site under close escort by authorities. him as Dia Al-Talahmeh, 21. The army spokes- Last week’s clashes occurred as Jews celebrated woman said a patrol had been deployed to their New Year, or Rosh Hashanah. clear stones blocking a road outside Hebron. Police said they raided the Al-Aqsa com- “The soldiers heard an explosion and during a pound to stop youths who had barricaded search of the sector they found the body of a themselves inside the mosque from disrupting Palestinian killed by the explosive device he visits by Jews and tourists. Clashes broke out intended to throw at one of our vehicles,” she during the raids, with protesters throwing fire- said. works, stones and other objects at police, who Separately yesterday morning, Israeli troops fired stun grenades. There were also clashes in shot and wounded a Palestinian woman at a the alleyways of the Old City outside the com- checkpoint near the centre of Hebron, witness- pound. Friday saw further unrest in the occu- SANAA: A Yemeni Shiite Houthi rebel stands next to a national flag in the capital Sanaa on September 21, 2015, dur- es said. The Israeli military said she had pied West Bank and sporadically in Jerusalem. ing a ceremony marking a year since the city’s seizure. — AFP attempted to stab a soldier. “An attack was Al-Aqsa, the third holiest site in Islam, is also thwarted when a Palestinian attempted to stab venerated by Jews as the Temple Mount and is an (Israeli) soldier at a military position in considered the most sacred in Judaism. President Hadi returns to Hebron,” an army statement said. Muslims have been alarmed by an increase in “(Israeli) forces responded, fired towards the visits by Jews to the site and fear rules govern- perpetrator and identified a hit.” Witnesses ing the compound will be changed. Jews are named her as 18-year-old Hadeel Al- allowed to visit but not to pray to avoid pro- ravaged Yemen from exile Hashlamon. A string of incidents between the voking tensions. Israeli Prime Minister army and Palestinians in the Hebron area had Benjamin Netanyahu has said repeatedly he is also occurred during the day on Monday, resi- committed to the status quo at the site. Israel Loyalist forces advance on rebel-held capital dents said. Hebron has been a flashpoint in the seized east Jerusalem, where Al-Aqsa is locat- Israeli-Palestinian conflict, with some 500 Israeli ed, in the Six-Day War of 1967 and later settlers living there under heavy guard and annexed it in a move never recognized by the ADEN: President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi cial told AFP. Aden was Hadi’s last refuge when he as a crucial gateway to Sanaa. The United Nations clashes regularly occurring. international community. — AFP returned to war-ravaged Yemen yesterday after fled the rebel-controlled capital after they took says nearly 4,900 people have been killed since late six months in exile in Saudi Arabia, as loyalist over the government. March in Yemen. The UN aid chief has called the forces fight to advance on the rebel-held capital. Much of the city has been reduced to rubble by scale of human suffering “almost incomprehensi- Only hours earlier, warplanes from a Saudi-led the months of ferocious fighting, with the rebels ble”. In the latest bloodshed, Saudi-led warplanes coalition killed at least 21 people in Sanaa, a day backed by former soldiers loyal to ousted presi- yesterday killed 21 people, including civilians, in a after thousands of sympathizers took to the dent Ali Abdullah Saleh. Prime Minister Khaled raid that targeted Houthi fighters in the Sabeen streets of the capital to celebrate a year since its Bahah and several government ministers returned neighborhood of Sanaa, a medical official told AFP. last week to the port city, which was retaken from The death toll was likely to rise because some peo- the rebels in mid-July. ple were missing, another medical source said, as The Saudi-led coalition launched air strikes rescuers combed the rubble. against the rebels on March 26, and expanded its military campaign into a ground operation in July. Drone strike on Qaeda Hadi’s return comes ahead of the Muslim holiday Elsewhere, a US drone strike killed two suspect- of Eid Al-Adha, or the Feast of the Sacrifice. In July, ed members of Al-Qaeda east of Sanaa, an official Hadi said that “Aden will be the key to Yemen’s sal- said yesterday. “Two members of Al-Qaeda were vation,” in a televised address marking the end of killed when a missile from a US drone hit their the holy Muslim fasting month of Ramadan. Since vehicle” on the outskirts of the city of Marib during then, the Houthis have lost five southern provinces the night, the official told AFP. The United states to Hadi loyalists, who are now waging a major has waged a longstanding drone war against Al- offensive in oil-rich Marib province east of the capi- Qaeda’s Yemen-based branch which it regards as tal. The rebels still control much of northern and the jihadist network’s most dangerous. central Yemen. The strikes have continued alongside the Saudi-led military intervention. Al-Qaeda said in Peace talks collapse June that its leader in Yemen, Nasir Al-Wuhayshi, Forces loyal to Hadi began an all-out offensive had been killed by a US drone. Al-Qaeda in the on September 13 against the Houthis in Marib, Arabian Peninsula, or AQAP, controls parts of the OUAGADOUGOU: Supporters of Burkina Faso’s coup leader general aiming to retake the capital a year after it fell to the vast southeastern province of Hadramawt, includ- Gilbert Diendere shout slogans in front of the residence of the king of insurgents. A day later, Hadi’s government backed ing the provincial capital Mukalla which they the Mossi, an ethnic group, as rumors have been circulating that out of UN-brokered peace talks in Oman after say- seized in April. Diendere was there. — AFP Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi ing only days earlier that it was going to take part. On Monday the jihadists angered Mukalla Hadi’s office said at the time that the govern- residents by razing tombs in an old cemetery. seizure by the Iran-backed Shiite Houthi rebels. ment would not attend talks unless the rebels first “Some of these tombs are for religious digni- Burkina coup leaders warn Hadi, who is recognized by the international accept UN Resolution 2216 demanding their with- taries and are 300 years old,” an official said. Al- community, arrived on board a Saudi military air- drawal from territory they have captured. Loyalists Qaeda and its jihadist rival, the Islamic State they will strike if attacked craft that landed at an airbase adjoining the civilian have also been locked in fierce fighting for control group, regard the reverence of tombs as tanta- airport in Yemen’s second city Aden, a security offi- of Yemen’s third city Taez, which like Marib is seen mount to idolatry. — AFP OUAGADOUGOU: Burkina Faso’s coup leader Global condemnation said yesterday he would abide by a deal Diendere has agreed to hand over power reached with top African mediators, but under a deal reached with the regional ECOW- warned his men would defend themselves if AS (Economic Community of West African Hungary puts ads in Lebanese attacked after the army entered the capital. States) group, and vowed to abide by whatever General Gilbert Diendere, whose elite army the bloc decides at an emergency summit in unit freed the interim president and prime Nigeria’s capital Abuja later yesterday. press warning off migrants minister yesterday, called for troops who ECOWAS mediators, led by Senegalese entered the capital Ouagadougou overnight, President Macky Sall and Benin’s leader seeking a surrender by the putsches, to leave Thomas Boni Yayi, have proposed a return of BEIRUT: The Hungarian government placed adver- Drava River. The rightwing government in Budapest 2015-2016 academic year. “Our responsibility is to the city. interim president Michel Kafando, along with tisements in the Lebanese press on Monday warning has come under heavy criticism for its treatment of ensure that every child on Lebanese territory has “We do not want to fight but ultimately we an amnesty for the putsches. Diendere did not of “the strongest possible action” against anyone migrants, particularly over the police’s handling of access to education,” said Education Minister Elias will defend ourselves,” Diendere warned, near- give a definitive date for his departure, saying: attempting to cross its borders illegally. But a full- clashes at the flashpoint Serbian border crossing of Bou Saab. Lebanon, a country of four million people, ly a week after his men detained the interim “The date will be determined by ECOWAS, it’s page notice in other local newspapers featured a let- Roszke. Prime Minister Viktor Orban has said he is hosts more than 1.1 million Syrian refugees, including leaders who had been running the country not for us to determine.” Both Kafando and ter by the Doctors Without Borders group urging the only applying EU regulations and blames Greece for at least 400,000 school-aged children, according to since a popular uprising deposed iron-fisted interim Prime Minister Michel Zida have been European Union to open its borders to refugees. waving the migrants through and Germany for relax- the UN’s refugee agency, UNHCR. president Blaise Compaore last October. The freed-Kafando heading to the French embassy, Lebanon hosts more than 1.1 million of the four ing asylum rules for Syrians. In its own adverts in The $94 million project would cover the costs of powerful Presidential Security Regiment (RSP), and Zida to his residence. The coup leader million Syrians who have fled their homeland since Lebanese papers earlier this month, Denmark warned school registration, supplies, and parental funds for a unit of 1,300 men loyal to Compaore, official- meanwhile said “discussions were underway” 2011, some of whom are now heading to Europe as that it had tightened its own regulations concerning refugees as well as vulnerable Lebanese children ly declared a coup Thursday and installed with the regular troops who have descended the continent faces its biggest migration crisis since refugees. up to grade nine. A similar program last year pro- Diendere, Compaore’s former chief of staff, as on the capital, but warned that his own forces World War II. Hungary’s advertisements in both vided free education and supplies for 100,000 the country’s new leader. would defend themselves if attacked. Arabic and English came two weeks after Denmark 200k refugee kids to get free schooling Syrian children. “This year marks a major break- The putsch plunged the impoverished He said an RSP soldier had been killed in a placed similar adverts in Lebanese newspapers in an Meanwhile, half of school-aged Syrian refugees in through: we will double the number of children West African country into chaos just weeks shooting at a checkpoint, and another injured, attempt to stem an influx of migrants and asylum- Lebanon will receive a free education under a new enrolled in Lebanese public schools compared to ahead of an election planned for October 11, but stressed the incident had not been a con- seekers. campaign launched Monday by the host country and last year,” said Tanya Chapuisat, UNICEF’s Lebanon with at least 10 people killed and more than frontation between the coup forces and regu- “Hungarians are hospitable, but the strongest the UN’s child and refugee agencies. The government representative. “However, with all the efforts 100 injured in the resulting unrest. On Monday lar troops. “We do not want to shed any blood possible action is taken against those who attempt to and the UN agencies said in a joint statement that the expended, at least 200,000 refugee children still night, cheering crowds greeted the regular to stay in power. There is no point in spilling enter Hungary illegally,” warned the adverts in Al- initiative would aim to reach 166,667 Lebanese and remain outside of the formal education system, army units as they marched to the capital to blood or causing massacres,” Diendere said. The Jumhuriya, An-Nahar and French daily L’Orient le 200,000 non-Lebanese vulnerable children for the deprived of their basic right.” — Agencies put pressure on Diendere to surrender. This coup has sparked global condemnation, with Jour. “Do not listen to the people smugglers. Hungary show of strength was the first public stance by former colonial power France urging the lead- will not allow illegal immigrants to cross its territory.” the 11,000-strong army since last week’s coup ers to surrender. French President Francois But medical organization MSF published its own by the RSP. “We must now secure the surrender Hollande demanded “all those involved in the notices in three local papers, appealing to the EU to of the (coup leaders) without gunfire or blood- putsch to immediately lay down their arms and open its borders. It said Europe’s “policies of deter- shed,” Colonel Serge Alain Ouedraogo, the hand over power to the legitimate authorities- rence... have turned a foreseeable and manageable country’s deputy police chief, told AFP. or face the consequences.” — AFP influx of people fleeing for survival into a policy- made human tragedy”. MSF’s Humanitarian Coordinator for Displacement Aurelie Pontie told AFP that “the only way forward is through providing safe IS executes 10 people and legal passage, and not through publishing ads to push back refugees”. “While European governments are using ad space accused of being gay in the Arab region to send messages of deterrence to refugees and migrants, MSF is using those same BEIRUT: The Islamic State jihadist group exe- that had been used to film the killings. IS has channels this week to publicly remind European lead- cuted nine men and a boy it accused of being used brutal violence to enforce its rule in the ers of their responsibilities.” MSF’s letter appeared in gay in central and northern Syria on Monday, so-called “caliphate” it declared in territory Al-Hayat, Al-Quds, and The Daily Star, and included a a monitoring group said. The Syrian straddling Iraq and Syria. large photo of a bright orange life jacket, a symbol of Observatory for Human Rights said the Along with homosexuality, witchcraft the dangerous journey many migrants and refugees jihadists shot dead seven men in Rastan, a and loyalty to President Bashar Al-Assad are are making across the Mediterranean. town in Homs province of central Syria, “after also considered capital punishment offences Last week, Hungary introduced tough new laws accusing them of being homosexual”. in IS-controlled areas. In previous cases, IS giving courts the power to jail people for up to three IS also executed two men and the boy in has beheaded alleged homosexuals or years for crossing its borders “illegally”, rising to five the town of Hreitan, in the northern province thrown them from rooftops. According to years if they damage its frontier fences. Hungary has of Aleppo, for the same reason, said the Observatory, IS has executed more than built a razor-wire fence along the entire length of its Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman. He 3,000 people, including at least 1,800 civil- border with Serbia, and last week hastily erected a said the executions were carried out in public, ians, since it announced its caliphate in June barrier along the 41 kilometers of its border with BEKAA VALLEY: Dutch Foreign Minister Bert Koenders (right) visits a camp housing Syrian but that IS fighters destroyed any cameras 2014. — AFP Croatia which is not formed by the hard-to-cross refugees. — AFP INTERNATIONAL WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2015 Military women told it’s good to ‘Lean In’

WASHINGTON: US Defense Secretary “The simple fact is that women make up chief operating officer. Her 2013 book she commended Carter and the Pentagon two women became the first females to Ashton Carter on Monday encouraged half of the population.” The pair spoke after “Lean In” highlighted the relative scarcity for addressing the problem, she pointed graduate from the Army’s grueling Ranger women troops to participate in groups attending a “Lean In Circle” with about a of women in leadership positions, uncon- to an ongoing “leadership gap” in the mili- School, though it is uncertain they will inspired by “Lean In,” the best-selling dozen women of different stripes from scious biases and the reluctance some tary and in the corporate world. “It is not end up in front-line fighting roles. female leadership and empowerment across the military. These groups provide a women encounter in advocating for them- clear that we are on a path to fix this; we President Barack Obama’s administration book written by Facebook executive Sheryl venue for women to find mentors and dis- selves. have a lot more to do,” she said. decided in 2013 that all combat positions Sandberg. At a time when the US military cuss issues arising from a male-dominated “There are cultural barriers because should be open to women by 2016, is considering opening all combat roles to workplace. Only about 15 percent of the Nine percent of our expectation of leadership is so over- including the infantry and Special Forces. women, Carter said it is vital the armed US military is female. “These Lean In Circles generals are women whelmingly male.” The Pentagon has But military services can request excep- services actively look for more women to have empowered me, have encouraged One famous example she describes is approved service members to hold Lean tions, provided they are justified by oper- fill leadership positions. me to speak up, and speak up for those how women tend to apply for jobs only In Circles during work hours, and they are ational constraints. The head of the US “The people are the strength of our mil- that may not have the courage,” Air Force when they are sure they’re well qualified, encouraged to do so either online or in a Navy this month blasted a Marine Corps itary, and frankly for the all-volunteer force Major Melody Mitchell told AFP. whereas men are more likely to try their military facility. study that found all-male combat teams to stay the strongest ... we need to draw “In the military, you are always worried luck even if they’re only partially matched “This is mission critical if we are going performed better than those that includ- the top talent from the largest and most about what your chain of command thinks to a position’s requirements. to have the force that we need to defend ed women. Carter will have the last word complete pool of Americans,” Carter said at ... When you break away from that, you can Sandberg noted that only nine percent the United States and our values around on which-if any-positions will remain Pentagon appearance alongside Sandberg. achieve a lot.” Sandberg, 46, is Facebook’s of America’s generals are women. While the world,” Sandberg added. Last month, closed to women. — AFP Wisconsin’s Walker exits race with harsh words for Trump MADISON: Warning that the Republican presi- speech. They each had taken a semester off from dential race has become too nasty, Scott Walker college to campaign with him. Anthony exited the 2016 campaign on Monday and Scaramucci , one of Walker’s top fundraisers, urged others to quit, too, and “clear the field” so expressed hope that other struggling candi- someone can emerge to take down front-runner dates will heed Walker’s call to distill the field. Donald Trump. The announcement marked a “I think what he did shows real leadership,” dramatic fall for Walker, who was struggling to Scaramucci said. “He’s sending a signal to the generate money and enthusiasm after surging low single-digiters - the new 1 percenters, if you into the race’s top tier earlier in the year. He will will - that it’s time to go, for the good of the par- return to his job as governor of Wisconsin, ty.” Walker’s departure prompted a good rid- where his term runs through 2018. dance from Richard Trumka, AFL-CIO president, “Today, I believe that I am being called to reflecting the hostility between the governor lead by helping to clear the field in this race so and organized labor. “Scott Walker is still a dis- that a positive conservative message can rise to grace,” Trumka said, “just no longer national.” the top,” Walker said in a news conference. “I Walker’s fall was in many ways more dramatic encourage other Republican presidential candi- than Perry’s. He was thought to be a leader in dates to consider doing the same so the voters the big pack for much of the year and built a can focus on a limited number of candidates massive national organization, with paid staff who can offer a positive conservative alternative spread across the country, that dwarfed many of to the current front-runner.” his rivals in scale and scope. “I don’t think he made any really big mis- takes,” said Iowa state Sen. Mark Costello, who endorsed Walker earlier this year. “But people lost enthusiasm.” Walker, 47, tried to appeal to religious conservatives, tea party conservatives and the more traditional GOP base. He cast him- self as an unintimidated conservative fighter who had a record of victories in a state that has- n’t voted Republican for president since 1984. Like Perry, however, Walker found little room for such a message in a race dominated by Trump. Trump tweeted in response to Walker’s decision, “he’s a very nice person and has a great SANTIAGO DE CUBA: Pope Francis heads to the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption to hold an encounter with families and bless the city. — AFP future.” Walker came to the race having won election in Wisconsin three times in four years, and having gained a national following among After Cuba’s warm welcome, donors and conservatives by successfully push- ing his state to strip union bargaining rights from its public workers. Pope en route to chillier US Walker pointed to those Wisconsin wins, in a state that twice voted for Barack Obama as pres- ident, as signs that he could advance a conser- vative agenda as the GOP’s White House nomi- Pontiff’s first-ever visit to the United States nee. He called himself “aggressively normal” and made a splash in January with a well-received speech before religious conservatives in Iowa. SANTIAGO DE CUBA: Pope Francis travels from United States, as well — 66 percent of Thursday and the United Nations Friday. The Groups backing Walker went on to raise $26 Cuba to the United States, trading the warm wel- Americans approve of him, according to one Jesuit pope carefully prepared his speeches for million, tapping wealthy donors whom Walker come he received on the communist island for a recent poll, compared to 80 percent of Cubans, Washington and New York all summer long. His had cultivated in his years as governor and dur- slightly chillier reception — at least in some in a separate poll. But for some observers, the topics will include critiques of the dominance of MADISON: Wisconsin Gov Scott Walker paus- ing his successful effort to win a recall election quarters — from its old Cold War foe. The pope, dominant themes of Francis’s papacy-concern finance and technology; a condemnation of in 2012. Walker’s primary super PAC, called es as he speaks at a news conference. — AP who played a key role in brokering the two for the poor, his strong stance in favor of action world powers over the conflicts gripping the Unintimidated, had just begun spending for a countries’ recent rapprochement, will conclude on global warming and his critique of con- planet; appeals to protect and welcome immi- Walker said that is “fundamentally important major push in Iowa - reflecting the governor’s his trip to Cuba with a mass and a blessing in sumerism-can be read as an indictment of the grants; and climate change, including a bold to the future of the party and more importantly last-ditch strategy to place all of his chips on second city Santiago, then depart for his first- American way of life. appeal for a radical revolution of the energy to the future of our country.” One of the last that first-to-vote state. ever visit to the United States. That was underlined ahead of his trip when industry and a slowdown in growth. Republicans to enter the race, Walker joined for- The super PAC told federal regulators in a fil- President Barack Obama and First Lady Republican Congressman Paul Gosar, who is His visit will take place under tight security, mer Texas Gov. Rick Perry as one of the first to ing Friday that it had spent more than $1.6 mil- Michelle are to greet him at Andrews Air Force Catholic, declared he would boycott the pontiff’s with US authorities nervous over the complexi- leave it. He found himself unable to adjust to lion boosting Walker this year, most recently on Trump’s popularity or break out in either of the a $50,000 mailing to Iowa voters. It will now Base outside Washington at the start of an itiner- historic address to Congress to protest his “left- ties of protecting a pope who insists on traveling first two GOP debates. Both candidates warned return what it hasn’t spent to its donors. Many of ary that includes landmark speeches to ist” views. in an open vehicle to be close to the masses. The of the billionaire businessman’s influence on the Walker’s troubles were not of Trump’s making. Congress and the UN General Assembly. Francis, The pope will not have won over such con- visit poses a particular security headache in New GOP as they stepped aside, although neither He took days to clarify whether he supported 78, has had a packed schedule since arriving servative critics with his Cuba visit, during York, where Francis plans to criss-cross called him out by name. ending birthright citizenship. He initially Saturday afternoon in Cuba-three cities, two which he has politely refrained from chastising Manhattan at a time when 170 world leaders will showed interest in building a wall between the masses, various blessings and prayer services, the communist regime for its crack-downs on be in town for the UN General Assembly. ‘Personal attacks’ US and Canada, only to laugh it off as ridiculous. countless handshakes with adoring crowds, and dissidents and curbs on civil liberties. In fact, He will preside over an inter-faith ceremony “Sadly, the debate taking place in the He also declared he wasn’t a career politician, meetings with both Fidel and Raul Castro, the he had what a Vatican spokesman described as at Ground Zero in the south, visit a Harlem Republican party today is not focused on that despite having held public office for 22 straight brothers who have ruled the Caribbean island a “very informal and friendly” conversation Catholic school in the north and greet the optimistic view of America,” Walker said. years. After his fade in polls, Walker took a more since its 1959 revolution. with 89-year-old Fidel, the leader who defied crowds on a procession through Central Park. In “Instead, it has drifted into personal attacks.” aggressive approach, promising to “wreak hav- He has at times looked tired in the tropical 10 US presidents across half a century of enmi- Philadelphia, his final stop, he will attend an Walker’s sons, Matt and Alex, attended his oc” on Washington. —AP heat, but that has done little to dampen the ty. In 2006 Fidel handed power over to his international festival of Catholic families enthusiasm of the fans and faithful who have brother Raul, now 84. Saturday and Sunday, delivering his final mass of flocked to see the first Latin American pontiff, the trip. The 10,000 tickets for the mass were Carson under heavy fire who is immensely popular here for his part in Tight security gone within 30 seconds of going online. Tickets fostering the US-Cuban thaw. Francis is expected to be more provocative in were also snapped up with dizzying speed for for anti-Muslim remarks The Argentine pope is broadly popular in the the United States as he addresses Congress events in New York and Washington. — AFP

WASHINGTON: The question has suddenly president, told NBC on Sunday, “I don’t know emerged as a test of US White House hope- if we have to address it right now, but I think it Fiorina: Trump and Putin fuls: can a Muslim be president of the United is certainly something that could happen.” States? The Republican contender Ben Carson The controversy erupted Thursday when ignited a storm of controversy at the week- Trump, who like Carson has not held elected end, by stating that he saw Islam as incompat- office, failed to correct or interrupt a support- ‘have a lot in common’ ible with the charge of head of state. er who told him, “We have a problem in this After leading Republicans echoed his country. It’s called Muslims.” The supporter LOS ANGELES: Carly Fiorina, visiting “The Tonight viewpoint, or gave ambiguous answers, the then asserted that President Barack Obama is Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton on a Muslim, a false claim first aired four years Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” on Monday, said she Monday answered, resoundingly, yes. “Can a ago and still believed by 29 percent of would be “fine” with a Muslim president, she com- Muslim be President of the United States of Americans according to a recent poll. pared Donald Trump to Russian Leader Vladimir America? In a word: Yes. Now let’s move on,” Putin and she sang a verse from a song that she Clinton said on Twitter. She attached to her ‘Waste of time’ sings to her dog, Snickers. tweet an extract of the fourth article of the US Trump has defended his lack of pushback Reflecting the importance of late-night TV to Constitution which read, “No religious test since. “I’ve never had a problem with Muslims,” political campaigns, as she appeared on Fallon, GOP shall ever be required as a qualification to any he told NBC on Monday. “I assumed he was rival Sen Ted Cruz (R-Texas) was guesting on “The office or public trust under the United States.” talking about the radical Islam.” Repeating Late Show with Stephen Colbert.” Meanwhile, Sen That clause was questioned by Carson this comments he made on Sunday, Trump said he Bernie Sanders (I-Vt) was a guest on “The Nightly weekend. “I would not advocate that we put a has “many friends” that are Muslims. “I know Show with Larry Wilmore.” Fresh off what was con- Muslim in charge of this nation. I absolutely so many Muslims that are such fabulous peo- sidered a winning debate performance last week, would not agree with that,” the retired neuro- ple,” he said Sunday. “The fact is, there is a Fiorina has been rising in polls, No 2 behind Trump surgeon said Sunday on NBC. Carson later problem with some, and it’s a very severe according to a CNN/ORC poll released on Monday. confirmed his stance, telling The Hill newspa- problem and it’s a problem that’s taking place She drew big laughs from the audience when per that the next president should be “sworn all over the world.” the topic came to Putin, who she said she had met in on a stack of Bibles, not a Koran.” Long before setting his sights on the presi- once at a conference in China. Asked about the dency, Trump stoked right-wing conspiracy prospect that Trump would meet with Putin when ‘Unfit to lead’ theories in 2011 as a leading proponent of the Putin is in New York for the United Nations Summit, In response, the Council on American- notion that Obama may be a Muslim and Islamic Relations asked Carson to withdraw born outside the United States. Sunday, he Fiorina said, “the two of them have a lot in com- mon,” before adding, “we’ll just leave it at that.” from the race Monday, saying he was “unfit to would say only that he takes Obama “at his NEW YORK: In this image released by NBC, Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina appears lead because his views are in contradiction word” that he is Christian. Other candidates She also addressed rival Ben Carson’s declaration with host Jimmy Fallon during a taping of ‘The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon’. — AP with the US Constitution.” Republicans were have grown increasingly frustrated with the on Sunday that a Muslim should not be able to be split in their response. Senator Ted Cruz dis- resurrecting of old controversies. president of the United States. “I think that’s wrong,” daughters that “running for president is real simple- that Reagan raised taxes and gave amnesty to agreed with Carson’s stance, saying, “I am a Asked about Trump’s punting on the ques- she said. “It says in our Constitution that religion you just have to surgically disconnect your shame undocumented immigrants. “Neither of those constitutionalist.” tion of Obama’s religion Sunday, Senator cannot be a test for office.” Asked if she would be sensor, because you spend every single waking things would allow Reagan to be nominated today,” Senator Lindsey Graham said on Twitter Marco Rubio, polling fourth among fine with a Muslim president, she said, “Yes, I would moment asking people for money.” Colbert said, also pointing out the compromises that “America is an idea, not owned by a par- Republican White House candidates, said the be fine with that.” Colbert asked Cruz what question he should ask Reagan made with then-Speaker Tip O’Neill. Cruz ticular religion” and that Carson’s statement issue was “a big waste of time.” “Of course,” he Her song was to the tune of “Rock Around the Trump, who will be his guest, and Cruz, noting that responded that “as I travel the country, I haven’t seen showed he was not qualified to be president. told ABC on Sunday. “He’s born in the United Clock.” “My name is snick and you’re going to have Trump is rich, answered, “Will you possibly consider anyone saying, ‘The thing we want of Republicans is But Republican frontrunner Donald Trump States. He’s a Christian. He’s the president of to carry me,” she sang. On Colbert, Cruz talked giving $1 million to our campaign?” After Cruz to give in more to Barack Obama in the direction we was more ambiguous. When asked whether the United States for the next year and a half about the “exhilarating” experience of running for talked of the appeal of Ronald Reagan to both far are going.” But Colbert pressed him on whether he he would be comfortable with a Muslim as and we’re going to move on.” — AFP president. He said that he has joked with his young right conservatives and Democrats, Colbert noted would be willing to compromise. —Reuters WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2015 INTERNATIONAL Catalans wage diplomatic battle for independence

BARCELONA: From London to Washington paign for support in power centres such as against independence in a referendum he big world allies, Mas’s camp has sent dele- Living without EU via Brussels, a diplomatic battle is rumbling Brussels and Washington. authorized. gations to various national parliaments and The European Commission has warned as Spain’s northeastern Catalonia region Before Cameron, German Chancellor to Washington for meetings with US con- Catalonia, as it did Scotland, that it would vies to win international backing for its con- Obama urges ‘unity’ Angela Merkel stood alongside Rajoy and gressmen. At least one of those, Dana cease to be in the EU if it left Spain-but tested drive for independence from Madrid. Spain’s Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy voiced her support for the “integrity of Rohrabacher of California, spoke out pub- Mas says that is not a sure thing. Spain’s government has secured support was credited with a coup last week after US Spain”. Rajoy is an economic ally of Merkel, licly this month in favor of Catalan self- Albinyana said “no EU country” would from top world leaders as it resists Catalan President Barack Obama tacitly weighed in having pushed through tough austerity determination. Mas’s government has a want such a rich, strategically located separatists’ vows to break away within 18 against the independence camp, calling for reforms with her encouragement. Her com- network of “diplomatic offices” abroad and land to leave the bloc. If Catalonia did months if they win Sunday’s regional elec- “a strong and unified Spain”. Spain is a key ments came at a meeting at which Rajoy recently opened new ones in Austria and leave, he said, “a mechanism would be tion. strategic ally of the United States, which committed to accepting more refugees. Italy. It has named a permanent representa- activated to keep it in”. Catalonia’s leader regional president has thousands of troops stationed on France’s leaders have not taken a public tive to the European Union and has written “That is a fiction,” said Ignasi Guardans, Artur Mas shrugged that off as “all part of Spanish soil, handy for missions to the stance recently on Catalonia. But its former to foreign embassies defending its inde- a former member of the European parlia- the game” of international relations Middle East and North Africa. president Nicolas Sarkozy is scheduled to pendence plan. But its efforts have so far ment and an estranged former ally of between Spain and its allies. Mas’s foreign Before Obama’s comment, British Prime join Rajoy at an anti-independence elec- yielded few high-profile endorsements. No Mas. “It is a leap of faith that makes no affairs secretary Roger Albinyana said Minister David Cameron warned Catalonia toral rally in Catalonia on Friday, the foreign powers have said they would recog- sense.” If Europe accepted Catalonia’s Madrid must be on the defensive if it “feels it would drop out of the European Union if Spanish premier’s Popular Party said. nize a Catalan republic. But Albinyana secession, that could set a precedent for the need to make the conflict international”. it left Spain. He took the same stance insisted “there are certain countries in “other countries with territorial crises”, Meanwhile, Mas and his Catalan nationalist against independence for Catalonia as he Catalan diplomacy Europe and beyond that are sympathetic to Guardans said-such as Flanders in allies are waging their own diplomatic cam- had on Scotland, which a year ago voted While Rajoy has garnered the backing of the notion of its independence.” Belgium or Venice in Italy. — AFP Tsipras readies cabinet, urges aid for migrants

ATHENS: Freshly re-elected Prime Minister temic corruption and cronyism that has tainted Alexis Tsipras worked yesterday on the makeup Greek political life for decades, while tackling the of a coalition cabinet to steer unpopular eco- migrant crisis with more efficiency and humani- nomic reforms as he urged Europe’s help with ty. Debt-strapped Greece has been the first port the thousands of migrants landing daily on of call for some 310,000 refugees from war and Greek shores. persecution in the Middle East and elsewhere Sworn into office Monday a day after his re- this year, but almost all have moved on to seek a election victory and moving swiftly to kick off a life in more prosperous economies to the west. slew of controversial economic reforms, Tsipras Some 4,000 migrants riding tiny vessels from “will probably announce the makeup of the gov- Turkey wash up on Greek islands a day, yet shel- ernment today,” government spokesman ter for no more than an estimated 2,000 people Rodolphos Moronis told AFP. Outgoing interior is available in struggling Greece, with entire fam- minister Nikos Voutsis had said late Monday that ilies left to sleep out with little access to basic the new government, expected to be a carbon hygiene, food or transport. “If everyone looks to copy of Tsipras’ outgoing team. one’s own yard when we have a common home, The charismatic young premier, who things will be ominous,” Tsipras said in post-elec- romped to victory despite a much-maligned tion remarks. cash-for-reforms deal in July with Greece’s inter- national creditors, has vowed to have the gov- ‘Odd couple’ coalition ernment up and running before he joins EU Analysts expect to see finance in the hands leaders for talks on the migrant crisis in Brussels of Euclid Tsakalotos, who took over the portfolio today. Topping the left-wing government’s in July after the resignation of Yanis Varoufakis agenda is the need to push through as quickly and who is believed to have won the esteem of as possible the painful austerity measures his EU peers during negotiations leading up demanded by Greece’s EU-IMF creditors, in July’s 86 million euro ($97 billion) rescue of order to boost growth and to enhance Athens’ Greece, its third in five years. UNTERPREMSTAETTTEN: Migrants rest near lake Schwarzlsee about 200 kms south of Vienna. — AP credibility in foreign eyes. This hopefully in a Implementation of the cash-for-reforms second stage would allow the Tsipras adminis- package, which will affect everything from the tration to achieve its goal of opening negotia- sale of a loaf of bread to a visit to the doctor, will tions to reduce Greece’s whopping debt. The likely be in the hands of Georges Houliarakis, EU ministers seek deal to coming weeks will see tax hikes across the also involved in the negotiations with the EU, board and pension reforms as well as painful while Georges Stathakis is expected to get the measures that are expected to rile the country’s economy portfolio again. The new government key farming lobby. is also likely to see Tsipras return the defense end migrant quota row In his second mandate, the 41-year-old pre- portfolio to his “odd couple” partner in the coali- mier also hopes to strengthen the credibility of tion, Panos Kammenos, leader of the nationalist UN chief urges ‘compassion and leadership’ from EU his radical left Syriza party by fighting the sys- Independent Greeks (ANEL) party. — AFP

BRUSSELS: EU ministers tried to hammer out a deal on external borders. Tensions have kept boiling over, with every day,” he told AFP in Istanbul where he has worked plans to relocate 120,000 refugees at emergency talks fears that the EU’s Schengen passport-free zone could be odd jobs for three years to save money for a journey yesterday amid deep divisions over how to handle under threat from the tide of migrants, many of whom across Europe he hopes to make soon. More than half a Europe’s worst migration crisis since World War II. The UN are trying to make their way to Germany. German Interior million people have already braved dangerous sea cross- and other international organizations warned it was the Minister Thomas de Maziere, whose country is set to take ings and arduous land treks to make it into Europe this “last chance” for increasingly overwhelmed European in around one million asylum seekers this year, said he year, heaping pressure on countries along the migrant states to agree on how to cope with the tide of people was “optimistic” that they could reach a deal but warned trail, some of which have closed their borders while oth- fleeing conflict in countries like Syria, Afghanistan. that the talks would be difficult. “In the end I am opti- ers have diverted the flow elsewhere. Luxembourg Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn, who is mistic but it’s not done yet,” he said. Some 2,800 people have died this year trying to cross chairing the meeting, said: “We have a text on the table the Mediterranean in flimsy boats. Top diplomats from which should deliver an agreement. It is very balanced. I ‘Existential crisis’ Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic, all of think it will have a good influence on all the delegations EU Migration Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos whom have rejected the EU proposal for binding refugee so we can reach a result this evening.” But central and said the bloc faced an “existential crisis”. The UN refugee quotas, met in Prague on Monday with their counterpart eastern European states still strongly resist plans to force agency, UNHCR, warned that the talks could be the from Luxembourg, which holds the EU presidency. EU member countries to take a share of the new arrivals “last opportunity” for a united response to a crisis it The European Commission has proposed binding from front-line nations. said was becoming more and more “chaotic and unpre- quotas for 22 member states to take in 120,000 refugees: “I want to confirm that both the interior minister and dictable” and was increasing tensions between 54,000 asylum seekers from Hungary, 50,400 from myself... will unequivocally reject any effort to introduce a European countries. On the eve of the talks, UN chief Greece and 15,600 from Italy. Sources in Brussels said the permanent mechanism of refugee redistribution,” Czech Ban Ki-moon urged leaders across the EU to “show EU ministers were considering a watered-down plan Prime Minister Sobotka told reporters in Prague. “We also leadership and compassion” as the continent grapples that would drop binding quotas and leave Hungary out reject the introduction of quotas,” he added. The minis- with the unrelenting wave of migrants, many of them of the scheme, as it refuses to be part of it. There were ters are trying to reach a deal that could be ratified by refugees like Abdullah, a 35-year-old Syrian father of suggestions that some could now be relocated from ATHENS: Greece’s leftwing Syriza leader and newly elected Greek Prime Minister Alexis European Union leaders at a crisis summit today, which two from war-ravaged Aleppo. Germany instead, or additional numbers from Greece Tsipras (left) is congratulated by Greece’s President Prokopis Pavlopoulos after the will focus on wider issues of strengthening the bloc’s “We have no choice but to leave. We are dying here and Italy, the sources said. — AFP oath-taking ceremony. — AFP Is rebellion the road German intelligence concerned to power in Congo? extremists recruiting refugees KINSHASA: Even as an international court tries Hague. The ex-rebel has retained his elected Bosco Ntaganda for alleged war crimes, other post as a senator despite war crimes charges BERLINL: German intelligence warned yesterday that the and to proselytize and recruit among asylum-seekers,” tion potential” in the migrant community. ex-rebels hold key posts in the Democratic arising from atrocities blamed on MLC troops number of Islamic extremists in the country had BfV president Hans-Georg Maassen said in a statement. “We are keeping a particularly close eye on unaccom- Republic of Congo, from President Joseph Kabila Bemba sent to the neighboring Central African increased sharply in recent months and expressed seri- Germany expects to receive up to one million asylum- panied minors among the refugees, who could be easy to government ministers, senators and generals. Republic in 2001 to help put down a coup ous concern that they were recruiting among refugees. seekers this year, five times more than last year. Syrians, targets for Islamists,” he said. Maassen stressed that his Since September 2, the former militia chief has attempt. The Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), who are fleeing their war-ravaged country, form the office had no evidence that jihadist groups were using been on trial at the International Criminal Court Of around 40 ministers in today’s govern- Germany’s domestic security watchdog, said the number largest group. the large influx of refugees to infiltrate Germany. And he (ICC) in The Hague for war crimes and crimes ment, a quarter come from the MLC and the of radical Salafists had surged to 7,900 in September Maassen said that a total of 740 radical Muslims had said the BfV was also concerned that far-right groups against humanity committed in 2002-2003 in RCD, which long since became political parties. from 7,500 in June, and that many were trying to lure asy- left Germany to join jihadists in Syria and Iraq, 20 percent were seizing on the issue of Germany’s openness to the turbulent northeast of the country. The number of army generals and other senior lum-seekers into their ranks. of them female. Around one-third of those who went to refugees for propaganda purposes, saying it contained Nicknamed “the Terminator” because of a officers from RCD ranks is all but countless. “We are very concerned that Islamists in Germany are the region have returned to Germany, while about 120 of “significant potential for escalation”. Maassen warned that pitiless reputation, Ntaganda took part in suc- “Contestation has always been positive,” says trying, under the cover of humanitarian assistance, to them have been killed. He said the BfV was keeping close the risk of clashes with left-wing counter-demonstrators cessive uprisings before he was made an army Tryphon Kin Kiey, minister for relations with par- exploit the situation of the refugees for their own ends watch on such activities given their “significant radicaliza- also “should not be discounted”. general in 2009 under an amnesty given to sev- liament and former RCD communications chief. eral armed groups. For Kinshasa, such was the “It makes change possible. If France is where it is Dawn raids price to pay for peace. Military integration for today, it’s because there have been challenges.” German police carried out dawn raids in Berlin yes- former foes became a recipe for easing tensions Taking up arms “was useful”, says Olivier terday targeting individuals suspected of inciting people in the wake of the Second Congo War (1998- Kamitatu, former minister of planning from the to go and fight for the Islamic State group in Syria. The 2003), when foreign armies and Congolese MLC. Yet “armed rebellion never bears the mark raids began at 6:30 am (0430 GMT) and targeted, among rebels battled the regime of ex-rebel Laurent- of honour... I feel sorry for those who suffered others, a 51-year-old Moroccan suspected of recruiting Desire Kabila, who ousted longtime dictator from it.” For Kamitatu, “the only springboard” to for the jihadists, police said in a statement. Mobutu Sese Seko in 1997. positions of responsibility “remains the people”, A 19-year-old Macedonian thought to be currently in After Kabila was assassinated at his palace by the politician adds. He is one of a small group Syria is also suspected of involvement in the recruitment a bodyguard in 2001, he was swiftly replaced at whose members just left the presidential majori- drive, it said. “We are looking for evidence to see the top by his son Joseph, an officer in the ty and urge Kabila to resist the lure of extended whether these allegations are true,” a police spokesman Alliance of Democratic Forces for Liberation power and stand down in 2016, in line with the said. No arrests were made. One raid was conducted at (AFDL) onetime rebel movement. The Second constitution. In 2010, the United Nations pub- an association linked to a mosque in Berlin’s central Congo War was followed by a transitional period, lished a voluminous report giving details of 617 Tempelhof district, the spokesman said. Seven homes monitored by a large United Nations mission serious crimes that led to the deaths of tens of were also searched. deployed in the vast central African nation. thousands of civilians between 1993, when eth- “We have no indications that anything was being From 2003, Kabila shared power with four nic strife erupted in the east of the country, and planned in Germany,” he said when asked about indica- vice-presidents, two of whom came from 2003, the end of the war. tions of any plot to attack targets here. But people who rebel ranks: Azarias Ruberwa of the go to fight in Syria “gain experience of violence there Congolese Rally for Democracy (RCD) and ‘Gulf of impunity’ and one day or another can return to Berlin”, he said. He Jean-Pierre Bemba, the wealthy businessman Virtually all these crimes have gone unpun- added that there was no link to an incident last Thursday leader of the Movement for the Liberation of ished, while eastern provinces, notably North and in which an Iraqi man with a jihadist background the Congo (MLC). South Kivu, are roamed by many militias and stabbed a German policewoman before officers shot rebel groups whose activities have displaced hun- him dead in Berlin. ‘Sorry for those who suffered’ dreds of thousands of villagers. “There remains a Germany has been spared a major Islamist attack, Defeated by Kabila in a 2006 presidential poll wide gulf of impunity for serious violations of unlike many of its European neighbors, but the country regarded as the first free election in the former human rights” committed by all parties to conflict, has been called a potential target in IS propaganda. In Zaire since independence from Belgium in 1960, says Jose Maria Aranaz, head of the UN Joint BERLIN: German police officers walk through the prayer room at a mosque in Berlin’s central August, two German-speaking jihadists claiming to Bemba is currently also on trial at the ICC in The Human Rights Office in Kinshasa. — AFP Tempelhof-Schoeneberg district, where police conducted a raid targeting individuals suspect- belong to IS threatened Germany with attacks in an exe- ed of inciting people to go and fight for the Islamic State group in Syria. — AFP cution video broadcast online. — AFP WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2015 INTERNATIONAL NATO denies sexual abuse cover-up by Afghan police

KABUL: The top NATO commander in ed by NATO to help fight Taliban insur- afterwards was stripped of his com- tenure as commander,” he said. “I fur- issue. The Afghan government has in Afghanistan yesterday denied reports gents, has a poor reputation and is fre- mand and withdrawn from ther expect that any suspicions of sex- recent times tried to crack down on that the Pentagon had ordered US quently accused by local residents of Afghanistan. ual abuse will be immediately reported the ancient and outlawed practice of troops to ignore the sexual abuse of rape and extortion. The Times based Yesterday, General John Campbell, to the chain of command, regardless of child abuse, which is prevalent across young boys by Afghan police and mili- its report on accounts from multiple who oversees 13,000 US and allied who the alleged perpetrators or vic- rural parts of the country. Teenage tias. The New York Times reported soldiers and the father of a marine troops in the country to train their tims are. “If the abuse involves boys are kept by powerful figures Sunday that US troops in Afghanistan who was killed in 2012. “My son said local counterparts and carry out Afghans, a report shall be forwarded to including warlords for entertainment had been instructed by their superiors to that his officers told him to look the counter-terror operations, denied any me through operations channels, and illicit sex, and are sometimes overlook cases of Afghan police or com- other way because it’s their culture,” such policy was in place. “I personally copied to the Staff Judge Advocate, so dressed up as girls to dance for their manders sexually abusing teenage boys, Gregory Buckley Sr said. The report have served multiple tours of duty in that the Government of the Islamic male patron. In July 22 people were even if it took place on military bases. added that former US Special Forces Afghanistan and am absolutely confi- Republic of Afghanistan can be killed in the northern province of The practice is known as “bacha Captain Dan Quinn beat up an Afghan dent that no such theatre policy has advised and requested to take action.” Baghlan after two local commanders bazi”, literally “boy play” in local lan- militia commander for keeping a boy ever existed here, and certainly, no Campbell also said he had talked to allegedly started a gun battle over a guages. The Afghan Local Police, creat- chained to his bed as a sex slave, and such policy has existed throughout my Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on the young boy. — AFP Sri Lanka PM snubs war crimes probe

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s prime minister yes- International pariah terday rejected a UN call for international Sri Lanka became an international pari- involvement in an investigation into ah after repeatedly resisting calls for a alleged war crimes. Ranil Wickremesinghe credible probe into the horrendous crimes, said talks were under way to establish a including the killing of at least 40,000 credible domestic mechanism to investi- Tamil civilians in the final months of the gate abuses during the decades-long con- war. But in a major shift Washington last flict with Tamil separatist rebels that ended month announced it would support in May 2009. Colombo’s plans for a domestic inquiry, “There is nothing to be got from which is also supported by neighboring abroad,” Wickremesinghe said, after a India. damning UN report recommended When Sirisena came to power in Colombo allow international experts to January-backed strongly by the Tamils-he assist its domestic investigation. “The promised to restore human rights and the media says hybrid (inquiry), but it is not rule of law as well as mend fences with hybrid,” said Wickremesinghe, after UN regional power India and the West. His rights chief Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein asked the government has proposed a series of new government to establish “a hybrid special measures to promote reconciliation and court, integrating international judges, accountability after accusing the previous prosecutors, lawyers and investigators”. administration of breaking promises to Members of Sri Lanka’s Tamil minority deliver justice. Wickremesinghe said he say they do not trust a local inquiry to expected the United States to move a reso- reach the truth about the conflict, in which lution at the ongoing UN rights council more than 100,000 people died. It ended in sessions backing his administration. KAWHMU: Supporters cheer as they wait for the arrival of National League for Democracy chairperson Aung San Suu Kyi during her election 2009 with the defeat of rebels who had “Discussions are going on in Geneva so campaign rally. — AFP waged a long fight for a separate home- I don’t want to talk about it, but we hope land for the Tamils. President Maithripala the US will bring a consensus resolution on Sirisena’s new government has vowed to Sri Lanka,” he said. The new government Suu Kyi encourages ‘brave’ votes, punish war criminals, in contrast to his announced last week that it would set up a hawkish predecessor Mahinda Rajapakse South African-style truth commission, a who had insisted that not a single civilian war reparations office and a commission touts constituency development was killed by troops under his command. on missing people. — AFP Army will still wield considerable political clout

KAWHMU: Myanmar opposition leader Aung San She is excluded from the job by a clause in the jun- region was thrust into the limelight in 2012 when Suu Suu Kyi said yesterday supporters need not be afraid ta-drafted constitution barring those with foreign Kyi won a by-election that parachuted her into when they cast ballots in landmark elections, as she spouses or children from top political office-her sons Myanmar’s military-dominated parliament, one of the railed against government neglect while campaign- are British. She has also come under fire for a lack of most dramatic signs of reform in the long-isolated ing in her rural constituency. Suu Kyi received a rock- concrete policies, although the party has released a nation, where she was held under house arrest for star welcome on the campaign trail in her impover- selection of broad priorities in a recent manifesto, some 15 years. ished constituency of Kawhmu, just two hours from including encouraging investment and improving “If you look around Kawhmu Township, some the bustling commercial hub Yangon, in her bid to tax collection. roads are very good but those roads are not con- lead her party to victory in the first nationwide polls it structed by the government,” Suu Kyi said at the rally has fought in 25 years. Taking credit in Wah Ba Lauk Tauk village. She said most road “It’s not 1990 anymore, so people don’t need to be In her Kawhmu constituency, where ramshackle improvements had happened after she “requested afraid. They can be brave to vote for the National homes nestle under graceful bamboo trees and most help from international organizations”. Kawhmu League for Democracy,” she told a rally in remote Wah people scratch a living from agriculture, people are locals are realistic that improvements will be a long Ba Lauk Tauk village, referring to elections that were beginning to see flickers of development after slog for the government returned by elections, but won by her party but then ignored by the then-junta. decades of neglect under Myanmar’s former military Suu Kyi’s loyal supporters say her influence has The NLD is expected to sweep the November 8 polls, regime, which ruled until 2011. The opposition leader already had an effect. seen as a litmus test of the country’s democratic has showered Kawhmu with over $4 million in devel- “Most of the roads around our village have progress. But beyond that, much remains uncertain. opment aid from donors disbursed by the Daw Khin improved and a new school and religious building The army will still wield considerable political Kyi Foundation, a charity set up in honor of her moth- appeared,” said Pyae Sone Aung, who cycled for 40 clout, with a quarter of parliament’s seats reserved er. Schools and clinics have been opened, while new minutes in the blistering heat with his family to see for unelected soldiers, while Suu Kyi has not concrete roads weave through paddy fields and rub- Suu Kyi speak on Monday. As for future hopes, the revealed her preferred candidate for president-a role ber plantations, but many communities in the area blacksmith said he just wanted “to live peacefully in a BALKH: An Afghan resident man mourns at a coffin containing the body of one of selected by parliament in the months after the vote. are still only accessible by boat or rutted tracks. The developed place”. — AFP the policemen killed in a roadside bomb in Dawlat Abad district. — AFP No peace until foreign After outrage, India rethinks troops leave: Taleban draconian social media policy KABUL: The Taleban’s new leader told trying to boost support among his fol- Kabul yesterday it must cancel a securi- lowers and to get more concessions dur- NEW DELHI: The Indian government ty deal with the United States and ing negotiations,” Amarkhil told AFP. backtracked yesterday on a proposed expel all foreign troops if it wants “Also Mansour wants to show the Afghan requirement for all messages sent on peace, as 10 Afghan soldiers died in an people and the world that the Taleban social media and mobile chatting apps “insider” attack. Mullah Mansour, who are capable of continuing the war.” to be saved for several months as a way formally took charge after the death of of defeating encryption technology. Taleban founder Mullah Omar was con- Rifts and rivalries The proposed law stipulated that all firmed in July, made the demand in a The militants have spent recent social media users would have to save message marking the Muslim festival of weeks trying to patch up a rift in their plain-text versions of messages for 90 Eid-ul-Adha. movement sparked by the power strug- days. Services such as WhatsApp, “If the Kabul administration wants to gle which followed the admission that Facebook, Twitter, Viber and Google end the war and establish peace in the Omar had died in 2013. Many in the Chat encrypt messages as they are sent country, it is possible through ending movement were unhappy the death had between users. There was widespread the occupation and revoking all military been kept secret for two years-during outrage online over the threat to priva- and security treaties with the invaders,” which time annual Eid statements were cy and the possibility of prosecution for Mansour said. Highlighting the precari- issued in Omar’s name. those who refused to save their com- ous security situation, 10 soldiers were Others said the process to choose munications. killed yesterday after a collaborator Mansour as his successor was rushed The uproar comes just days before allowed Taleban militants access to their and even biased. Among Mansour’s India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi post in the northern province of opponents were members of Omar’s heads to Silicon Valley where he is to Jawzjan, governor Lutfollah Azizi said. family, though the dead leader’s son and meet technology entrepreneurs to per- And six police officers including a dis- brother pledged allegiance to the new suade them to invest in India. Modi is trict chief were killed the same day by a chief last week, according to Taleban scheduled to meet the chief executives NEW DELHI: Young Indians use their mobile phones. — AP roadside bomb in the neighboring officials. Mansour addressed the rifts in of Microsoft and Google as well as visit province of Balkh. Washington and the Eid message by accusing the the Facebook campus where he will online activity by individuals, govern- set an Oct. 16 deadline for public feed- and Facebook to conduct diplomacy, Kabul signed a deal in September last Taleban’s “enemy” of trying to sow dis- address a townhall-style meeting with ment agencies and companies increas- back on the law. Modi has been a keen congratulate athletes and explain his year allowing around 13,000 foreign cord in the movement. the social media giant’s cofounder Mark es enormously. The government has user of social media such as Twitter political agenda to the public. — AP troops, including 10,000 US soldiers, to “It (the enemy) directly and indirectly Zuckerberg. stay on after NATO’s combat mission spreads baseless rumors regarding split India has more than 350 million ended in December 2014. The residual and ramification among the united Internet users and that number is Pakistan postpones hanging force is not engaged in day-to-day fight- ranks of Mujahideen,” he said. Despite its expected to grow rapidly as more peo- ing with the Taleban but focuses instead internal struggles, and the recent emer- ple use smartphones to go online. disabled death row convict on training, support and counter-terror- gence of the rival Islamic State group in Communications and Information ism operations. the country, the Taleban’s 14-year insur- Technology Minister Ravi Shankar LAHORE: Pakistan has postponed the execution of a para- They said in a statement last week that attempting to “The Islamic Emirate (Taleban) gency shows no sign of slackening. Prasad said the government was with- plegic death row convict following appeals by human hang a wheelchair-bound convict may not work. Another believes if the country is not under occu- Recent overtures by the government drawing its draft encryption policy. The rights groups, officials said yesterday. Abdul Basit, 43, who jail official, who requested anonymity, said: “The rules are pation, the problem of the Afghans can of President Ashraf Ghani for a peace amendment to an existing telecoms was convicted of murder in 2009, contracted tubercular silent on the hanging of a disabled person. It doesn’t be resolved through intra-Afghan under- settlement have ended in failure. law would be redrafted and would not meningitis in 2010 while in prison which left him paralyzed explain how to execute a prisoner who can’t stand on his standing,” Mansour said in the message Civilian casualties in Afghanistan hit a affect most people. from the waist down, according to rights groups and jail legs. “The hanging has been delayed for the time-being posted in English on the Taleban’s web- record high in the first half of 2015, a “I wish to make it very clear that it is officials. Basit was due to be hanged yesterday, but a court and a new date would be fixed after taking advice from the site. The Taleban, fighting a bloody insur- UN report said last month, as Afghan just a draft and not the view of the delayed the execution after Justice Project Pakistan, the senior officials.” Basit’s mother Nusrat Perveen also con- gency since a US-led invasion ousted forces struggle to contain the expand- government,” Prasad told a press con- human rights law firm handling his case, raised concerns firmed the execution delay, telling AFP that a jail official them from power in 2001, have long said ing conflict without NATO combat ference. The proposed law would also about how the wheelchair-bound man would mount the had called her to inform her “the hanging has been post- the departure of “occupying” foreign troops. The report said 1,592 civilians have required foreign companies scaffold. “The hanging has been postponed. A magistrate poned because of Basit’s sickness”. “Why do they want his troops is a necessary condition for mean- were killed, a six percent fall over last using encryption to submit their soft- in the morning ordered the postponement because Abdul execution? He is already severely sick, what will they get ingful peace talks. But Afghan military year, while the number of injured ware to scrutiny by Indian government Basit is a disabled man,” Usman, an official at Faisalabad jail from his hanging?” she added. Basit’s case is the latest to analyst General Atiqullah Amarkhil said jumped four percent to 3,329. The casu- agencies. Prasad said the government where Basit is being held and who goes by one name, told shine a spotlight on Pakistan’s decision to lift a six-year the demand for the cancellation of the alties have reached their highest level respects the right to freedom of AFP. According to Justice Project Pakistan, prison guide- moratorium on executions last December, after Taliban security pact was new. since the UN began issuing its authori- expression but is also trying to lines require that a prisoner stands on the gallows and the militants massacred more than 150 people-mostly chil- “By issuing such messages Mansour is tative reports in 2009. — AFP enhance security as the volume of Internet communications and other rope’s length is determined by his standing height. dren-at a school. — AFP INTERNATIONAL WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2015 China commemorates priest for rescuing war refugees

SHANGHAI: A long-dead French Jesuit priest has ignored his achievements in recent decades. But the At the time, Shanghai was made up of the British- tering tens of thousands of Jewish refugees escaping found himself with an unlikely role in China’s com- commemorations of the 70th anniversary of Japan’s dominated International Settlement, the French the Nazis in Europe from the 1930s. Jacquinot himself memorations of the 70th anniversary of the end of defeat, which climaxed earlier this month with a huge Concession and a Chinese-governed area. Jacquinot died of illness in 1946, when he was heading the World War II, as authorities highlight how he protected military parade in Beijing, has also seen less combative acted as an intermediary between the mayor, Yu Vatican’s delegation in Berlin for the aid of refugees. around 300,000 refugees. Father Robert Jacquinot de elements, and Jacquinot has been the subject of a flur- Hongjun, and Japanese forces who occupied part of Su has suggested bundling Shanghai’s former Besange set up the Shanghai Safety Zone after Tokyo ry of articles in state media and academic seminars. the metropolis, to broker an agreement setting up the Jewish ghetto, set up by the Japanese in 1943, with launched its full-scale invasion of China in 1937 and Last month, Shanghai authorities unveiled a statue of zone in Nanshi district, the heart of the old Chinese Jacquinot’s zone to apply to UN agency UNESCO for sent millions of refugees fleeing as the Japanese mili- Jacquinot, now residing at a local museum. “The inter- city. “Steamed buns and bread were handed out every World Heritage status. But obstacles stand in the way tary and forces of China’s Kuomintang (KMT) party est in him is certainly greater,” said Marcia Ristaino, day,” former refugee Li Fengxiang told state media. of the coveted title. Competition among Chinese local- clashed. Hundreds of thousands poured into the coun- author of one of the few books about him, “The “There, we finally felt out of danger.” ities to apply is fierce and the country already has near- try’s commercial hub, and an estimated 250,000 to Jacquinot Safe Zone” published in 2008. “Back in those Jacquinot’s efforts inspired other safety schemes in ly 50 World Heritage Sites, ranging from the Great Wall 360,000 found shelter in Jacquinot’s zone over the next days, I didn’t find a lot of interest from the Chinese.” wartime China, and while the original zone closed in to the Terracotta Warriors. three years. mid-1940, partly due to much lower refugee numbers, Hongkou district, site of the former ghetto, wants “He saved the refugees,” said Professor Su Zhiliang Migrant crisis it would later earn a mention in the 1949 Geneva to seek a different designation-UNESCO’s “Memory of of Shanghai Normal University. “During the fighting, Jacquinot, born in 1878 in the western French town Convention and a 1977 protocol as an example of the World” program, which seeks to preserve docu- when Shanghai set up the refugee zone, it was com- of Saintes, arrived in Shanghai in 1913 to serve the “neutralized zones” to protect civilian populations. mentary heritage-for the collection of the Shanghai pletely dependent on Jacquinot alone to create it.” Su church. A striking figure with a long black cassock and Author Ristaino believes Jacquinot still has relevance Jewish Refugees Museum. Still, Su hopes the govern- wants to put up a memorial to Jacquinot at the origi- a white beard in later life, he lost his arm in a chemistry in the light of the migrant crisis now gripping Europe. ment in Beijing-which regularly excoriates Tokyo, nal location, preserve old buildings threatened by demonstration at the university where he taught. His “This is a very positive story that might be even a little accusing Japan of not learning the lessons of history- development in the former zone and even have the knowledge of languages-gained from living in England bit instructive as to how to set up a safe zone,” she said. will back his efforts. area declared a United Nations (UN) World Heritage and instruction in both Chinese and the Shanghai “This kind of application has an extremely impor- Site. As a foreigner and a priest-two categories often dialect-served him well in the international city, help- World Heritage tant meaning,” he said. During the whole of World War considered sensitive by the Communist Party that has ing him coordinate with officials, foreign diplomats Nowadays, the annals of wartime history perhaps II, he insisted, Shanghai was “the city where the most ruled the country since 1949 — China has largely and charitable groups to feed and house the refugees. give a more prominent place to Shanghai’s role in shel- refugees were saved”. — AFP Dinner with frenemies: Tension on china menu ‘Who wouldn’t want to be in the room?’

WASHINGTON: It’s never good when tension is on the dinner menu. When Chinese President Xi Jinping and wife Peng Liyuan visit Washington later this week, President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, face the daunting task of trying to throw a warm and inviting dinner party for guests of honor accused of cyber-spying on the US, trampling human rights and engaging in assertive military tactics. China, in turn, is miffed at the US for what it says are groundless accusations about hacking, and wants the US to butt out of territorial dis- SEOUL: This photo taken on September 9, 2015 shows 70-year-old Kim Ik-Je (right), putes in the South China Sea. Not to mention one of family members separated by the 1950-53 Korean War, during an interview by the Old Faithful of disputes, Taiwan. Where will a Red Cross official at his book store. — AFP all this leave the few hundred guests selected to attend Friday night’s lavish state dinner honor- Separated Koreans shoot ing the Chinese president? Most likely still thrilled to be there, geopolitics be damned. “Who wouldn’t want to be in the room?” says messages of pain, regret Cosmopolitan editor-in-chief Joanna Coles, who attended a 2014 state dinner for French SEOUL: “I miss you so much,” 70-year-old Kim Ik- as a “bourgeois” influence and died soon after, President Francois Hollande. “Die-hard cool peo- Je tells the long-lost brother he knows he will but his brother, now 74, had survived. ple are excited to be there. No one is too cool to almost certainly never see. As he begins to sob, be in the room with the head of China and the the Red Cross video operator recording his Decades of sadness words turns off the camera and allows Kim time “I cannot describe how sad I feel that we have head of the US” So, guests will be happy to be to collect himself before filming resumes at his lived apart for so long,” he tells the camera when there. But also, keenly aware of the dining-with- bookstore in Seoul. recording resumes. The Red Cross teams have frenemies dynamic of an event where all sides will be working to be on their best behavior. BEIJING: In this Nov 12, 2014, file photo, President Barack Obama toasts with Chinese Just one of more than 65,000 mostly elderly taped around 4,000 messages in the past three President Xi Jinping at a lunch banquet in the Great Hall of the People. — AP South Koreans on a waiting list for the chance to years after roughly half those on the reunion be reunited with family members in the North, waiting list responded positively to a 2012 sur- ‘A delicate dance’ ed the White House welcoming ceremony for improve relations between two world powers. Kim is resigned to the probability it will never vey gauging interest in the video project. “It’s a delicate dance, and it always has been,” China’s Hu Jintao and called on President They stress that for all their many differences, happen. And so he opted for a fall-back service With the mortality rate of reunion candidates says Anita McBride, who served as chief of staff George W Bush to stop Hu from persecuting the China and the US have successfully worked offered by the South Korean government: to increasing, the process stepped up a gear in to first lady Laura Bush. She said the Chinese will Falun Gong religious movement. The tirade went together on plenty of other matters, including tape a video message that his brother, or later August, with extra resources allocated in an be looking for a “sign that you are not offending on for several minutes before the woman was climate change, North Korea’s nuclear threat and generations of relatives, might one day be able effort to get another 10,000 on video before the them” while Americans will be looking for a sign removed, as Bush whispered to Hu: “You’re OK.” the Iran-nuclear deal. to view. end of this year. “We’re pressed for time,” said that Obama is “standing up for us.” Under the Adding to the tension, a White House announcer Obama’s challenge, says McBride, will be to Millions were separated by the 1950-53 Jung Jae-Eun, a Red Cross official dealing with best of diplomatic circumstances, the Chinese at the same ceremony made the cringe-worthy “convey toughness with graciousness.” As for the Korean War, and many have since died without separated families. “Compared to 10 years ago, a can be quick to perceive a slight. gaffe of referring to China as the “Republic of White House party planners, their focus remains seeing or hearing from their families on the oth- lot of people are now quite infirm, and many During the last state visit for China, in 2011, China,” the formal name of Taiwan. largely the same regardless of who’s the guest of er side of the border. A reunion is scheduled for may die in the next 10 years,” Jung said. A parallel the pianist Lang Lang’s decision to play a song honor: sticking to the established state-dinner late October in a North Korean mountain resort, project has seen hundreds of people provide from the soundtrack of a 1956 film about the ‘Toughness with graciousness’ framework and executing it with perfection. but it will be only the second such event in five DNA samples to the Red Cross teams. “The data Korean War was widely seen by the Chinese as a When it comes time for Friday’s dinner toasts, “There are always four sets of eyes that look at all years, with just 200 families taking part. At 70 will be an effective tool for verifying family rela- snub directed at the American hosts, although Obama will be in the awkward position of raising the logistics,” says Capricia Marshall, a former years of age, Kim is actually in the waiting list’s tions in the future, and also in settling possible a glass in grand fashion with the leader of a Obama protocol chief and social secretary in the younger demographic, but like those in their 80s legal disputes” Jung said. According to legal the Chinese-born virtuoso himself said that was and 90s, he knows the chances of being selected experts, the peninsula’s eventual reunification nonsense. The escalating US-China tensions of country he’s threatening to punish for industrial Clinton administration. for one of the rare reunions are extremely slim. could unleash a wave of complex inheritance recent months will add extra layers of drama to espionage and faulting for its crackdown on Marshall expressed confidence the Obama claims on both sides of the border. what already would have been a sensitive event. activists. That’s causing palpitations among the team would ensure “there are no protocol slip- Posthumous greetings Will Obama and Xi be photographed toasting president’s critics, especially the Republicans ups.” She added, though, that when “oopsidoo- Red Cross officials who are implementing the Sharing the wealth one another? Probably. Will the promised blunt hoping to succeed him in the White House. dles” do occur, “you try to keep those behind the video project say they hope the North might Ko Yong-Kyun, 72, left his younger sister talk over policy differences during the leaders’ Florida Sen Marco Rubio says the visit should curtain.” Former Obama social secretary Desiree agree to video exchanges for those relatives behind when he fled Kaesong city in early 1951 daytime meetings carry over to their dinner- have been bumped down to a working sessions Rogers said that with everyone focused on show- unable to meet, but the sad reality is that the with his parents and younger brother and head- table conversation? Probably not. Will invited sans pomp and pageantry. Celebrity business- ing Xi a good time, “It’s pretty easy to get some- recordings will most likely be viewed posthu- ed South. “I’m not sure if you’re alive, but I want guests mix it up over US-China policy disputes man Donald Trump says he would’ve offered Xi a body to smile if you’re doing everything that is mously. Pyongyang has a lengthy track record of to see you,” he said in his video message taped at even if the host and guest of honor don’t? We Big Mac - double-sized, at least. Before he their favorite.” And even if not, guests will come manipulating the divided families’ issue for politi- his Seoul apartment, watched by his children may never know. And what about critics who dropped out, Wisconsin Gov Scott Walker said away knowing they were part of something his- cal purposes, refusing proposals for regular and grandchildren. don’t make the dinner list? Will their protests Obama should have canceled the visit outright. toric. “That’s what’s fun about being at the state reunions and cancelling events at the last minute Kim initially struggled before establishing register with those who do? It’s happened White House officials, for their part, defend dinner,” says Coles, “you want to be in the room over some perceived slight. and running an extremely successful electronics before. In 2006, a screaming protester interrupt- the dinner as an important opportunity to when there is something happening.” — AP “Frankly, I doubt this video will be seen by my company, and wants his family to share the brother or any other relatives before my death,” wealth they inherit with relatives in the North. In Kim told AFP after he finished the recording “But 2013, South Korea’s Supreme Court upheld the I agreed to do it because it’s the only other way inheritance rights of North Korean children of a Three foreigners, local abducted to try and get a message across. It’s so difficult to South Korean citizen-even if they are still in the be picked for the family reunions,” he said. The North. The case involved a man who fled to the second son of a transport company owner, Kim South during the Korean war, leaving his wife from luxury resort in Philippine was only five years old when he fled his home- and five children in the North. He remarried in town in the North with his mother and three South Korea, had four more children and, when younger brothers in November 1950, some five he died in 1987, left close to $9.0 million in cash MANILA: Gunmen kidnapped two Canadian months after the war began. and property. His North Korean-born daughter tourists, a Norwegian employee and a Filipina from His father, and the elder brother he now so filed a lawsuit claiming her father’s South Korean a luxury resort island in the conflict-wracked south- desperately wants to see again, stayed behind. children should share the inheritance with half- ern Philippines, while other foreigners narrowly Kim said he had heard his father was persecuted siblings in the North. — AFP escaped, police said yesterday. The abductions add to a string of kidnappings of foreigners in the south since the early 1990s, most often by Islamic mili- Abe’s popularity drops after tants seeking to extort ransoms, although the lat- est culprits were not immediately identified. Japan defense laws passed Police said armed men sailed two motorboats into a marina on Samal Island just before midnight TOKYO: Japanese public support for showed the approval rating fall six points on Monday and seized the four from aboard Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has dropped in to 40 percent, while disapproval rose seven yachts, apparently knowing exactly who they the days since his ruling coalition rammed points to 47 percent. wanted to abduct, police said. “They appeared to through legislation allowing the nation’s A majority of those polled voiced disap- target the foreigners. They went straight for the troops to fight abroad, opinion polls proval of what they said was the way the yachts,” Superintendent Antonio Rivera, a local showed. Parliament in the officially pacifist government bulldozed the legislation police spokesman, told AFP. nation passed the contentious security through Diet and complained that Abe He said a Japanese couple was also nearly bills early Saturday, a move that could see had not offered persuasive and detailed abducted but the pair fought back, while some of Japanese troops engage in combat over- arguments to justify the move. The legisla- the more than two dozen guests jumped into the seas for the first time since the end of tion had sparked angry street protests with water to escape. Law enforcement boats and heli- World War II. tens of thousands taking part, and fuelled copters were scouring the waters around the island A weekend poll taken by the top-sell- anger among Japan’s neighbors. yesterday to try to stop the kidnappers from leav- ing, centre-right newspaper Yomiuri However, the Yomiuri reported Abe’s ing the area, according to Rivera, but they MINDANAO: A fisherman sails his boat past the Holiday Ocean View resort in Samal island, Shimbun showed that public support for supporters were relieved to see only a appeared to have escaped. “We still don’t have any- Davao del norte province. — AFP the Abe government dropped four points moderate drop in public support. “A sense thing. We’re blank. No group has taken responsibili- gave no further details. President Benigno Aquino, $500 a night. The area, about 800 kilometers south- to 41 percent compared with a similar sur- of relief spread among government offi- ty and there is no demand for ransom.” who was at the resort last week for a meeting with east of Manila, is a popular stop for foreign tourists vey taken in mid-August. cials and ruling party members as public A police report identified the Canadian tourists political allies, was monitoring developments and who sail around the nation’s many tropical islands. Its disapproval rating rose six points to support fell only by small margins,” the as John Ridsdel, 68, and Robert Hall, 50. The authorities were doing their best to find the cap- But the Philippines’ southern region has 51 percent, the Yomiuri said. A separate Yomiuri said. The opposition failed to gain Norwegian, who was working at the marina, was tives, his spokesman told reporters. “The investiga- endured decades of conflict, with Muslim rebels poll taken by the liberal Asahi Shimbun momentum because they were not able to identified as Kjartan Sekkinstad, 56. tion is in full swing, simultaneous with pursuit waging a separatist conflict that has claimed tens showed the government’s approval rating offer viable alternatives to the bills, the The 40-year-old Filipina, identified only as Tess, operations,” spokesman Herminio Coloma said. of thousands of lives. down one point to 35 percent compared Yomiuri said, echoing the assessments of was a companion of one of the foreign tourists, Parts of Mindanao are also home to more with a survey taken a week ago, while the survey results by rival media. Proponents Rivera said. The Canadian and Norwegian Dangers for tourists extreme Muslim militants, the most infamous of disapproval rating rose three points to 45 of the legislation have said the measures embassies in Manila declined to comment. A Samal Island, a short boat ride from the south- which is the Abu Sayyaf. The Abu Sayyaf is a ragtag percent. are necessary to beef up defense against Norwegian foreign ministry spokeswoman in Oslo, ern commercial centre of Davao on Mindanao group of several hundred men founded in the And the Nikkei business daily’s poll China and North Korea. — AFP Lothe Salvesen, confirmed to AFP that one of its Island, is famed for powdery white sand beaches 1990s that has withstood US-backed military oper- citizens had been abducted in the Philippines, but and dive spots, with resorts there charging up to ations to extinguish it. —AFP NEWS WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2015 American Muslims fear a new wave of Islamophobia ANAHEIM, California: Muslim Americans with the United States Constitution”. In an responded with a mix of frustration, exas- Anaheim neighborhood known as “Little peration and anger to what many see as a Arabia”, Abdallah Soueidan said the com- growing wave of Islamophobia fueled by ments will inevitably cause trouble. “They two of the Republican Party’s most popu- are stirring things up,” said Soueidan, 57, lar presidential candidates, Donald Trump who moved from Lebanon 37 years ago. and Ben Carson. The Islamic Institute of His 18-year-old son, Radwan - a college Orange County, which houses a mosque volleyball player in jeans and T-shirt - said and a school in Anaheim, in southern he reads hate-filled anti-Muslim screeds California, tensions were already mount- online all the time. But, referring to ing since a group of white men screamed Carson, he said: “I don’t know how a presi- at mothers and children arriving at the dential candidate could say a thing like center on this year’s anniversary of the that. It doesn’t sound American at all.” Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, calling them cow- ards who did not belong in America. ‘We Are Also Voters’ Many of the country’s 2.8 million While the US Constitution forbids reli- Muslims say such tensions could become gious tests for those seeking public office, uglier during a presidential race that they religion and presidential politics have fear is already tapping a vein of anger and long been a combustible mix. In 2007, as bigotry. “It’s pretty troubling that some- Republican Mitt Romney campaigned for one running for president would make his party’s nomination, he faced fears those claims,” Zuhair Shaath, Palestinian- among Evangelical Christians over his American, said of Carson, a retired neuro- Mormon faith. In 1960, John F Kennedy surgeon who on Sunday said Muslims stressed the separation of church and were unfit for the presidency of the state while campaigning to become the United States. Carson’s campaign defend- country’s first Roman Catholic president. ed his comments on Monday, saying he Aicha Fokar, 20, said Carson’s com- was not suggesting a Muslim should be ments perpetuated “a really sick stereo- barred from running for president. But his type that’s been kind of embedding itself campaign said he would not advocate for in the American culture”. “It discourages that person becoming a leader and would young Muslims from standing up for their not support it. rights or for being proud about their faith,” Later on Monday, Carson said he said the student n Lubbock, Texas. “absolutely” stood by his comments but “Everyone’s just trying to say things to get would be open to a moderate Muslim as many votes. I don’t think they under- candidate who denounced radical stand what happens to us. They don’t Islamists. The remarks by Carson, who is understand that we are also voters.” near the top of opinion polls for the In Dearborn, a Detroit suburb home to crowded field of Republican candidates the country’s largest Muslim population, for the 2016 election, followed billionaire Marshal Shameri said Trump should have Trump’s failure to challenge comments done more to dispel misconceptions of made on Friday by a supporter who Islam. But he did not view the comments labeled US President Barack Obama a as an attack on his faith. “As a candidate, Muslim. Trump later clarified his silence, as a businessman, as a man who is run- saying he was not obligated to correct an ning for president, he should have been audience member and that “the bigger much, much sharper and clearer in his issue is that Obama is waging a war response and he wasn’t,” said Shameri, against Christians in this country. originally from Iraq. Christians need support in this country. Anti-Muslim tensions have been on MAKKAH: Pilgrims circle the Kaaba in the Grand Mosque yesterday. — AP Their religious liberties are at stake.” display in another Detroit suburb, Sterling Some Muslims say they fear that the Heights, where city officials this month remarks could strengthen the appeal of denied an Islamic group’s request to Carson and Trump, who have cast them- develop a mosque in a residential neigh- Pilgrims in mass movement selves as non-politicians in a race in which borhood. The mosque’s backers faced blunt comments laced with misogyny and protests and filed a petition on Monday MOUNT ARAFAT, Saudi Arabia: Two million white-clad Muslims from jihadist violence in some Muslim countries, a surge of the potentially xenophobia have done little to derail the with the US Department of Justice, seek- across the globe began the hajj pilgrimage in western Saudi Arabia deadly MERS virus, and the war in Saudi Arabia’s neighbor Yemen. popularity of Trump, who is leading in ing an investigation into whether their yesterday, in one of the world’s largest annual gatherings. A sandstorm About 100,000 police have been deployed to secure pilgrimage sites opinion polls of likely Republican voters. civil rights were violated. blew and light rain fell around the vast plain known as Mount Arafat, and manage the crowds. Authorities say they are on alert for possible The comments also come after a 14-year- In Kentucky, tensions flared last week where the faithful began to arrive ahead of the climax of hajj today. attacks by extremists. The jihadist Islamic State group has carried out old Muslim boy from Texas was taken when vandals defaced a mosque by Many reached Arafat by bus but some walked from the holy city of bombings targeting security forces and Shiite mosques in the king- away in handcuffs last week for bringing spray-painting in bright red the words Makkah about 15 km away, after circumambulating the holy Kaaba, a dom in recent months. Security forces have taken “measures to pre- to his Dallas-area school a homemade “Moslems - Leave the Jews Alone,” “This is black cube-shaped structure toward which Muslims pray worldwide. vent terrorist groups from exploiting hajj season to carry out acts of clock that staff mistook for a bomb. for France” and “Nazis Speak Arabic”. Police manned checkpoints along the way to verify the permits of pil- sabotage,” interior ministry spokesman General Mansur Al-Turki said. Ahmed Mohamed’s arrest sparked allega- Waheed Ahmad, president of the grims. This year’s hajj also comes with Saudi Arabia at war. Since March the tions of racial profiling and turned his Louisville Islamic Center, played down Most of the throng would pass the evening in the tent city of Mina kingdom has led an Arab coalition conducting air strikes and support- school into an object of online outrage the vandalism, blaming it on “a bunch of before moving in the early hours of today to the rocky hill where ing local forces in Yemen against Iran-backed rebels. Most Yemeni pil- that culminated with Obama inviting little rascals” who “got drunk or some- Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) gave his final sermon 14 centuries ago grims performing the hajj this year already reside in the kingdom. Mohamed to the White House. thing”. At Texas Tech University, Saba after leading his followers on the hajj. For many, the hajj will be the Among other challenges facing Saudi authorities is potential transmis- Nihad Awad, executive director of the Nafees, 23, saw some irony in Carson’s highlight of their spiritual lives. This year’s gathering is about the same sion of the deadly Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus Council on American-Islamic Relations, comments. “What is being portrayed in size as last year’s, with 1.4 million foreign pilgrims joining hundreds of (MERS-CoV). called on Carson to “withdraw from the the media is extremism,” she said. “That’s thousands of Saudis and residents of the kingdom. The capital Riyadh saw a jump in infections last month, but health presidential race because he is unfit to what Islam is mistaken for, even though They are undeterred by a crane collapse at Makkah’s Grand Mosque officials say there has never been a case of MERS infection among pil- earlier this month that killed 109 people and injured nearly 400 at grims. Saudi Arabia is the country worst affected by MERS, with 532 lead, because his views are inconsistent it’s not.” — Reuters Islam’s holiest site. A construction crane working on an expansion of deaths since the virus appeared in 2012. The health ministry has the Grand Mosque collapsed during severe winds, killing Saudis, mobilised thousands of health workers to help ensure a virus-free pil- Iranians, Nigerians, Malaysians, Indonesians and Indians, among oth- grimage and to care for routine ailments. Qatar to bring in e-contracts... ers. Previously marred by stampedes and fires that killed hundreds, the The first day of the hajj is known as Tarwiah Day, when pilgrims tra- pilgrimage had been largely incident-free for the past nine years after ditionally watered their animals and stocked water for their trip to Continued from Page 1 electronic contract system is part of an overall safety improvements. Mount Arafat. On the way, modern-day pilgrims stay in specially-built reform package which will also see the intro- Joyous pilgrims like 35-year-old Egyptian Walaa Ali had been gath- fireproof tents during their stop in Mina, a city which only comes alive “If the worker has made any kind of con- duction of a wage protection system in ering for days ahead of the hajj. “It is a gift from God that He has cho- during hajj season. At Mount Arafat they will pray and recite from the tract with an employer, say for $800 a month, November and changes to the notorious sen us to come here,” Ali said with tears in her eyes, as preachers near- Holy Quran. Pilgrims start the hajj by entering ihram, a state of purity and they come here and they are paid $700, “kafala” system, which limits the movement of by explained the history and rituals of the hajj to men and women sit- in which they must not quarrel, wear perfume, cut their nails, or trim the ministry will take up the case for the work- foreign workers, to be announced possibly ting side by side. “I am so happy to be here,” she said in Makkah. The their hair or beards. er,” Meer said. The scheme will not be compul- later this year. Some 1.7 million foreign work- hajj is among the five pillars of Islam and every capable Muslim must During ihram, men wear a seamless two-piece shroud-like white sory but Meer said he expected many compa- ers are based in Qatar, many working directly perform the pilgrimage at least once in his or her life. garment, while women must wear loose dresses, generally also white, nies to sign up. or indirectly on World Cup projects. That num- exposing only their faces and hands. The clothing emphasizes their Qatar has received plenty of criticism for its ber is expected to increase to more than two 100,000 Police unity, regardless of whether they spend the hajj season in Makkah’s treatment of laborers. Officials said that the million by 2020. — AFP This year’s gathering takes place against a backdrop of increased five-star hotels or shabby high-rise hostels. — AFP WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2015 ANALYSIS

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By John Hadoulis

s Alexis Tsipras cruised to victory in Greece’s gen- eral election, the outcome must have tasted even Asweeter for the man considered the “Don Quixote” of Greek politics. It was a historic day for Vassilis Leventis, the wispy-haired 63-year-old anti-corruption crusader at the head of the Centrists Union party who after a dozen failed attempts had finally secured elec- tion. After castigating the corruption of mainstream par- ties for 25 years, the fringe party of which Leventis is the only widely known member picked up over 186,000 Why Europe isn’t creating Googles or Facebooks votes nationwide, or 3.43 percent, winning nine seats in the 300-member parliament. By Matti Huuhtanen National Venture Capital Association. Last year alone, US from one country to the next. By contrast, starting off in the It was a dream come true for the after-hours TV talk investment in startup companies was $50 billion, with nearly US gives a company a single English-speaking market of show host, who has spent half his adult life railing against icha Benoliel grew up in France and launched his half of that amount in Silicon Valley. The European equivalent 320 million people within which to grow. the corruption and cronyism of the Greece’s mainstream first technology startup there, but he never forgot paled at $4 billion. Asia, which has seen the rise of Internet Some European companies have made the extra push political parties, efforts that have earned him the “Don Mthe atmosphere of adventure and optimism in San retailer Alibaba in recent years, also outshone Europe, with and reached global proportions, though none has hit the Quixote” monicker, after the main character in Cervantes’ Francisco, where he studied in the early 1990s. So when he venture capital totaling $22.5 billion in 2014, according to rarefied levels of Google and Facebook. Local success sto- acclaimed novel who devotes himself to bringing justice came up with an idea for a smartphone app that could send Preqin, a data analysis company. That figure is set to surge ries include online calling service Skype, which started as a to the world. Leventis became a household name when messages without Internet or cellular connections, he went further this year, with $32 billion invested already by the end Swedish-Estonian venture, and the Swedish commercial in the early 1990s he began broadcasting his nightly back to California in 2011 to pursue his dream. “I knew the of August. music streaming service Spotify, which has over 60 million tirades against the corruption of the country’s two domi- only way to change the world was from here,” says Benoliel, users worldwide. Two years after Skype started, it was sold nant parties - socialist Pasok and conservative New the CEO of Open Garden, the maker of the FireChat messag- Early Investment to eBay for $2.6 billion and eventually Microsoft acquired it Democracy - on a small private TV station. ing app. Early investment is crucial for startups to be able to get in 2011 for $8.5 billion. At a time when private television was taking baby As technology upends industries and lifestyles at break- their products to market quickly. With technology, several steps in Greece, he quickly acquired a cult following. An neck pace, the Old Continent is not producing any of the competitors often work on the same idea and race to get Connections engineer by training with postgraduate studies in online giants like Google, eBay or Facebook. Its best and out their product first and make it stand out. “These are very Meanwhile, the Finnish are cornering the market for Germany, Leventis originally tried his hand at crooning brightest prefer to emigrate to Silicon Valley, or sell their fast-moving, winner-take-all industries, so if you are slow on mobile gaming. After Nokia’s cellphone demise, a startup and even cut a vinyl folk record in the 1970s before turn- ideas on to US firms before they have a chance to establish the uptake then you will be done from the beginning,” said culture flourished in Finland, helping to create a booming ing to politics. In a long career of trying unsuccessfully to themselves. The European Union’s top executives in Brussels Anand Sanwal, CEO of CB Insights, a New York research firm mobile game industry with companies like Rovio and get elected, he ran for mayor of Piraeus and Athens in are trying to rectify that with a long-term plan of reforms and that tracks Internet startups. Supercell, which created the hugely popular Angry Birds 1982 and 1986, created a short-lived Green party in incentives but face an uphill battle. The 28-nation bloc is, Part of Europe’s struggle to compete in online technolo- and Clash of Clans games. In 2013, Supercell sold a 51 per- 1984, contested European parliament elections and above all, lacking in the risk-taking culture and financial net- gy is not specific to itself, but a reflection of how Silicon cent stake to Japan’s SoftBank and GungHo for Ä1.5 billion. even stood as MP for both Pasok and New Democracy. works needed to grow Internet startups into globally domi- Valley has been able to create a community of tech special- Niklas Zennstrom, the Swedish co-founder of Skype and nant companies. “In the US, especially in Silicon Valley, they ists and venture capitalists who can meet easily, exchange now CEO of Atomico, a technology investment firm based ‘Prophetic’ Sayings are up for any crazy idea,” said Benoliel, 43. “Successful busi- ideas and strike up new collaborations. “It’s really a venture in London, says things are improving. “Since I started Skype In January’s election, he picked up over 110,000 votes nesses often come from crazy ideas.” capital oligopoly where a few people who have tons of cash in 2002, the market has changed tremendously for the bet- partly thanks to a group of young supporters who pro- Europe’s relatively cautious attitude to investment stands agree among themselves to invest in something and that ter,” he said recently at a European venture capital confer- moted his party message through Facebook. “They post- out as one of the biggest hurdles - and among the most diffi- can’t be done in places where investors don’t meet in the ence in Geneva. ed some of my old sayings that were totally prophetic,” cult to change. Investors in Europe want to see that a young same way,” said Anssi Vanjoki, a professor at Finland’s The EU’s executive Commission in Brussels has a long- Leventis told Antenna TV at the time. “People saw some- company can generate revenue from the start. Europe’s Lappeenranta University of Technology who was chief of term plan to speed things up and help European startups one talking 25 years ago about things happening today.” many high-technology companies are focused on manufac- mobile phones at Nokia when the company was the world’s become the next big Internet company. It aims on the one Because of his strong stance on nepotism, Leventis was tured goods that can be sold right away to generate revenue top handset maker. hand to make a more unified EU market by reducing red criticised in the 2015 campaign for placing several mem- - industrial equipment, energy turbines, high-speed trains, It takes time to foster such communities. Even within the tape and differences in business laws. On the other, it is tak- bers of his family on the party ticket. “A ticket full of medical devices, and nuclear energy. US, other cities and regions have tried and failed to replicate ing a tougher stance on dominant Internet companies, par- Leventes!” harped satirical Pontiki weekly, playing on the By contrast, Internet companies often have little to no rev- Silicon Valley’s success, with the exception perhaps of ticularly Google, to foster competition. party chief’s surname which means ‘manly’ in Greek. enue at the beginning. Twitter and Facebook, for example, Seattle, Washington, where Amazon and Microsoft are Experts say that while the policies might help, they are Among them were his wife, sister, brother, and a niece first focused on building up their user numbers. Only once based. Europe’s startup culture has been further hindered by unlikely to be enough in themselves. “Legislation will and nephew, the newspaper said. they were established as global forces did they put more the fact that in many EU countries it often takes more paper- always create a context for growth, whether that’s through The party responded that the specific candidates had attention to making money, through advertising and other work, time and money to do business than in the U.S. For taxation or incentives, but the real value comes from con- “supported Leventis for over 20 years” and that they strategies. This difference in mentality stands out as one of example, the stronger social safety nets make it harder to nections between people and a focus and real desire on were so low on the electoral list they were unlikely to be the key reasons that Europe has fewer venture capital firms fire a worker, which in turn makes it a riskier proposition to solving real human problems,” says Duncan Lamb, who was elected. “In the last 10 days a lot of mud has been flung and less investment in startups than the US or Asia. expand staff for a startup. a software designer at Nokia and is now the new design against me and the Centrists Union. I think the people Over the past five years, US venture capitalists spent $167 The markets of Europe also remain fragmented. director at TransferWise.com, a financial services online will speak, especially the young. I expect a major result, billion on new business ideas compared with some $20 bil- Expanding operations across the continent is made more company based in London and Tallinn, Estonia. “It’s 100 per- not just 3.0 percent but over 6.0 percent,” Leventis him- lion by their European counterparts, according to the difficult because business laws and languages are different cent about people.” —AP self said before the vote on Sunday. ‘Send Them Cancer’ For Walker, cascade of troubles ends campaign For years Leventis called the socialist and conserva- tive parties who alternated in power “scum”, their voters “jackasses”, and in one show even they be struck down By Julie Pace On a February trade mission to Europe from Washington fell flat. At one point, he through cash faster than they could raise by God. “We ask God, let (New Democracy leader meant to bolster his foreign policy creden- said he isn’t a career politician - despite it. Even as donors began to grumble about Constantine) Mitsotakis and (Pasok leader Andreas) or Scott Walker, it wasn’t one thing tials, Walker refused to answer questions having held elected office for 22 straight the expensive operation, Walker’s team Papandreou die, let them both die,” he said. “God is that led to the demise of his presi- about international affairs. He also punted years. “The glare of the klieg lights came resisted scaling back or trimming salaries. called upon to send them cancer.” But he is also credited Fdential campaign. It was just about on a question about whether he believed early for Walker and it’s hard to be pre- Walker’s admission last week that he was with warning against the massive loan-taking that even- everything. Financial troubles. A bloated in evolution. That shallow foreign policy pared for that type of scrutiny when it’s shifting course and putting “all our eggs in tually bankrupted Greece, and stating the country was staff. Repeated stumbles and flip flops. A experience and inability to deftly handle your first presidential campaign,” said the basket of Iowa” was a sharp departure not truly ready to join the eurozone in 2001. “One day candidate that professed to be a fighter, questions became more pronounced as Kevin Madden, who advised Mitt Romney from his campaign’s confident predictions we will all be ashamed of the people we have voted for but too often, didn’t show all that much the campaign went on. He was widely during his second run for president in earlier in the year about plans to rack up these past decades,” he said in 1993. A year later he fight. The Wisconsin governor, who panned for arguing that his experience 2012. Walker also suffered from strategic delegates throughout the South and warned: “We are on the point of bankruptcy.” dropped out of the Republican race for fighting unions in Wisconsin had prepared and structural campaign blunders. While Midwest late in the primary contest. His message this time struck a chord with voters president on Monday after only two him for defeating the Islamic State in Syria Iowa and its kickoff caucus gave Walker In addition to refocusing on Iowa, weary of mainstream parties. “I voted for Leventis months as a formal candidate, did so after and Iraq. He said it was “legitimate” to dis- the best chance to grab an early victory, Walker’s campaign made a last-ditch effort because he speaks sense. None of the other parties making a litany of mistakes and missteps cuss building a wall along the US-Canada his campaign built a wide network of staff to energize Republicans by reaching back seem capable of solving this country’s problems,” said that could make for a “what not to do” border. And he gave three different and consultants in states that don’t vote to the issue that had made the governor Eleni Athanassiou, a 37-year-old. “He’s been trying to get manual for future candidates. answers about his position on birthright until well into March. one of his party’s brightest White House elected for 30 years. We’ve already had criminals from Walker entered the 2016 race as an citizenship in a week. But running a national campaign is hopes. He unveiled a sweeping blueprint (neo-Nazi party) Golden Dawn in parliament, so why not ostensible Republican darling, shot into Even his efforts to separate himself costly, and Walker and his team burned for upending labor unions nationwide, a him?” she says. the national spotlight by his victories over plan so aggressive that it was even criti- Leventis wants to overhaul the civil service, sack unions and his triumph in a recall election. cized by some Republicans. Then Walker 1,500 parliamentary staff allegedly related to politicians, With Midwestern appeal and conservative took the stage in last week’s second and cap pensions at Ä1,500 ($1690), especially for credentials, and buoyed by a rousing per- Republican debate. His union plan gar- retired Greeks who also work unofficially and draw a formance at a Republican forum in nered no mention from moderators or salary. “The arrival of the Centrists Union in parliament January, he rose to the top very of early rival candidates, and Walker didn’t even aims to change the reform agenda and clean up the polls in Iowa. That moment in Iowa proved bring it up himself. public sector,” he told Vima radio this week. —AFP to be Walker’s high point. As presidential Walker needed a standout perform- primaries so often reveal, gleaming ance in that debate, one that would vali- resumes don’t equal votes or big fundrais- date his assertion that he was a ing totals. And early favorites can quickly Washington outsider with a fighting spirit. All articles appearing on these fade. “The support he had was relatively Instead, he generated the least amount of pages are the personal opinion of soft,” said Republican Wisconsin state Sen. speaking time of the 11 eleven candidates Luther Olsen. “He was at the top essential- on the stage and gave middling responses the writers. Kuwait Times takes no ly because of one speech.” when attention did turn his way. The final responsibility for views expressed To some extent, Walker is a victim of a blow came Sunday, with the release of a therein. Kuwait Times invites read- campaign in which voters long-frustrated new CNN/ORC poll. While polls at this ear- with politics are turning their backs on can- ly stage of the race are often fickle, the ers to voice their opinions. Please didates with long resumes in government. message to Walker was unmistakable, send submissions via email to: opin- Walker insisted that he, too, would “wreak according to one campaign aide, who [email protected] or via snail havoc” on Washington, but he was drowned insisted on anonymity in order to discuss mail to PO Box 1301 Safat, Kuwait. out by bombastic billionaire Donald Trump. the team’s internal thinking. Walker, who But Walker’s problems were broader than a Republican presidential hopeful and Wisconsin Gov Scott Walker speaks at had once led the GOP field, was register- The editor reserves the right to edit mismatch with the electorate’s mood and the Iowa Faith & Freedom Coalition’s 15th Annual Family Banquet and ing less than one percent of voter support. any submission as necessary. were foreshadowed even during his cam- Presidential Forum held at the Iowa State fairgrounds on Sept 19, 2015 in His standing as a White House candidate paign’s heady early days. Des Moines, Iowa. —AFP had been reduced to an asterisk. —AP WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2015 SPORTS

Leinster flanker retires English FA launches major Barca aim to field Turan DUBLIN: Leinster flanker Kevin McLaughlin, who won eight caps for Ireland, has quit at survey into grassroots game BARCELONA: Barcelona have asked the Spanish federation and soccer’s ruling body FIFA the age of 31 on the advice of doctors after having been concussed a number of times. to allow them to play Turkish midfielder Arda Turan due to Rafinha’s long-term knee injury. During an injury-hit career he twice won the European Cup with his native province. He LONDON: The FA’s long-awaited survey into grassroots football, backed by Turan was recruited in the close season from Atletico Madrid, as was Aleix Vidal of made his international debut against Italy in the 2010 Six Nations before winning his England striker Harry Kane among others, was launched yesterday, seeking Sevilla, with the understanding the pair would not be available until January due to the views from the estimated 400,000 who are involved at that level of foot- eighth and final cap against New Zealand three years later. After being concussed in transfer ban handed to Barca because they illegally signed under-age players. ball. The survey is part of Greg Dyke’s Chairman’s Commission that is exam- their opening PRO12 game against Edinburgh this month, Leinster said McLaughlin was Rules stipulate that in emergency cases such as injury, players can be replaced outside ining the grassroots in England and has declared an ambition to build the normal transfer windows. “The club has contacted the Spanish federation and FIFA to told it would be in his long-term interests to stop playing. football hubs in 30 cities. “It is upsetting and frustrating to have to retire when I feel I have ask whether they can replace Rafinha,” a Barca spokesman told Reuters. Dyke also wants a 50 percent increase in the number of full-size 3G arti- “Looking into the regulations it seems as though it is possible to regis- so much left to give but it is the right decision and I am glad our ficial pitches to more than 1,000. The long-term aim is to develop more medical staff were so pro-active in encouraging me to see a ter him as the two transfer windows are now passed.” Although Barca qualified coaches and ultimately produce more players skilled enough to have started well, they meet Celta Vigo on Wednesday having won neurologist,” McLaughlin said in a statement. play for England’s top clubs and the national side. He was named Leinster captain in the absence of World Cup their four previous La Liga matches, they have struggled with injuries. The number of domestic footballers appearing for the leading clubs That led to youth players Sandro Ramirez and Munir El Haddadi players, including fellow backrows Sean O’Brien, Jamie Heaslip has dwindled alarmingly in recent years, with overseas players featuring and Jordi Murphy, and his retirement will be a blow to the starting in the win over Levante on Sunday. Coach Luis Enrique throughout the four professional divisions. Kane, 22, who developed remains relaxed about the situation. province’s early-season prospects. through Tottenham Hotspur’s youth programme before breaking into the “I don’t see this as critical,” he told a news conference. “It is per- Concussion-related injuries in rugby have first team and making his England debut last season, said: “It can only fectly normal after the ban and also Pedro went (to Chelsea). “It become an increasing concern and claimed the make the players coming through better and that’s what we all want. is typical of the types of situations that happen at Barca careers of leading players like England’s “We want to have a strong national side and strong club sides for many which is a special club. The ban has passed, those that play Shontayne Hape and McLaughlin’s fellow years to come so this can only help that,” he told the FA’s website are motivated, those who do not perhaps less so but there is Ireland internationals Declan Fitzpatrick, (www.thefa.com). “It’s an investment for the future. The benefits of it won’t still a competitive atmosphere.” Luis Enrique added that Bernard Jackman, John Fogarty and be immediate but in the next 10 or 20 years we will hopefully see the Turan and Vidal had settled in well. “They are training well Dave Quinlan. — Reuters results.” — Reuters and are motivated. —Reuters

LOS ANGELES: Pittsburgh Pirates’ Josh Harrison’s helmet falls off as he runs to first for a single during the ninth inning of aaseball b game against the Los Angeles Dodgers. — AP Blue Jays dump Yankees, Pirates win

TORONTO: David Price pitched seven shutout cruised through the first four innings before an 15th straight defeat. New York stretched its lead East’s basement and ahead of the Rays. save in 49 chances to match the franchise innings, Jose Bautista had two hits and the error in the fifth preceded Tom Murphy’s three- to 6 1/2 games over the second-place Nationals David Ortiz collected his 99th RBI on a night record. Toronto Blue Jays used a three-run first inning to run homer that made it 5-3. with 12 to play and lowered its magic number for he was honored at Fenway Park for hitting his beat the New York Yankees 4-2 on Monday night. clinching the division to seven. 500th career homer. It was his first home game WHITE SOX 3, TIGERS 2 Toronto stretched its lead in the AL East divi- ASTROS 6, ANGELS 3 Niese (9-10) tossed three-hit ball for six since he joined the 500-home run club, hitting it Erik Johnson followed a one-hitter by Jeff sion to 3 1-2 games in the opener of a three- Evan Gattis and Carlos Correa hit two-run innings, keeping the ball down during an against the Rays on Sept. 12. Brandon Guyer Smardzija with six solid innings, leading the game showdown between the division’s top homers, and the Astros beat the Angels in a encouraging outing and getting 13 of his 18 outs homered on the game’s second pitch to spark a White Sox to a victory over the Tigers for a dou- teams. Facing the Yankees for the fourth time matchup of American League wild-card playoff on the ground. three-run first for the Rays, who lost for the sev- bleheader sweep. since joining the Blue Jays in a July 30 trade, contenders. Dallas Keuchel (18-8) pitched 7 2-3 Miller lost his seventh straight start. He threw enth time in 10 games. Samardzija allowed only a leadoff single to Price (17-5) improved to 3-0 with a 1.71 ERA solid innings to remain undefeated at home this a season-high 113 pitches in six innings, allowing Jean Machi (1-0) got one out for the win. Victor Martinez in the fifth inning as the White against New York with Toronto. Roberto Osuna season. More importantly, the All-Star left-han- two runs and seven hits - including Conforto’s Robbie Ross Jr. pitched the ninth for his fifth Sox won the opener 2-0. Gordon Beckham overcame Greg Bird’s two-out solo homer in the der helped Houston keep momentum by win- homer. The right-hander is winless in his last 23 save. Bogaerts homered off Brandon Gomes (2- homered, Jose Abreu had an RBI double and ninth to earn his 17th save. Toronto jumped on ning its third straight. The Astros (80-71) lead the outings, the longest drought for a starter in 6). Jackie Bradley Jr. was hit by a pitch and Avisail Garcia a sacrifice fly in the night cap of the Adam Warren (6-7) with a three-run first. Minnesota Twins by three games and the Angels Atlanta history, since coming within one out of a Mookie Betts and Pedroia singled before split-doubleheader. All the runs came off by 3 1-2 for the AL’s second wild-card spot. The no-hitter in a 6-0 win May 17 at Miami. Bogaerts hit his homer over the Green Monster. Detroit’s Randy Wolf (0-4). Johnson (3-0) allowed PIRATES 9, ROCKIES 3 victory put the Astros within a game of first- a long ball to Alex Avila and a sacrifice fly to Ian Starling Marte homered among his four hits place Texas in the AL West. DIAMONDBACKS 8, DODGERS 4 CARDINALS 2, REDS 1 kinsler. Making his fourth start this season after and came within a triple of the cycle, and Right-hander Jered Weaver (7-12) lasted 5 2-3 Paul Goldschmidt homered after Yasmany Rookie Stephen Piscotty doubled in the spending most of it at Triple-A Charlotte, Pittsburgh beat the Rockies. Aramis Ramirez innings for the Angels, giving up five runs and Tomas and Aaron Hill gave the Diamondbacks go-ahead run in a two-run eighth inning and Johnson matched a career best with nine strike- went deep and Jody Mercer had four hits for the nine hits, including the two homers. the lead with longballs off Brett Anderson as the Cardinals turned it on late for a victory outs. He allowed five hits and two walks. Pirates, who reduced their magic number for Arizona beat Los Angeles. over the Reds. Rookie Tommy Pham tripled off In the opener, no other batter reached base clinching a postseason berth to two. A win METS 4, BRAVES 0 The Dodgers’ loss in the opener of this four- J.J. Hoover (8-2) to open the eighth and against Samardzija (10-13), who struck out six in Tuesday and a San Francisco loss would clinch at Jonathon Niese won for the first time in a game series kept their magic number for clinch- Jhonny Peralta’s one-out single tied it ahead his second shutout this season. Adam Eaton sin- least a wild card for the third straight season. month, Michael Conforto homered and the Mets ing a third straight NL West title at seven, with of Piscotty’s drive off the wall in left-center. gled in Carlos Sanchez in the third, and Sanchez Mercer hit doubles in the second and fourth moved closer to an NL East title with their victory second-place San Francisco idle. Johnathon Broxton (3-5) allowed one hit the homered in the sixth against Kyle Ryan (2-4), innings to drive in Francisco Cervelli, who had over the Braves. Daniel Murphy lined a two-run Jhoulys Chacin (1-1) allowed two runs, six hits eighth and Trevor Rosenthal earned his 47th who allowed six hits in seven innings. — AP three hits, as the Pirates built a 5-0 lead on Jon double, Yoenis Cespedes had three hits and the and four walks over 5 1-3 innings in his fourth Gray (0-2). Pittsburgh starter A.J. Burnett (9-5) Mets handed hard-luck Shelby Miller (5-16) his start for the Diamondbacks, one day after they were mathematically eliminated from postsea- son contention. The seven-year veteran right- MLB results/standings hander posted his first win in the majors since June 12, 2014, with Colorado. The Diamondbacks’ bullpen came up big in the sixth Chicago White Sox 2, Detroit 0; Toronto 4, NY Yankees 2; Chicago White Sox 3, Detroit 2; Boston 8, Tampa after Chacin walked two batters and was pulled Bay 7; NY Mets 4, Atlanta 0; Chicago Cubs 9, Milwaukee 5; Houston 6, LA Angels 3; St. Louis 2, Cincinnati with one out. Andrew Chafin struck out pinch- 1; Pittsburgh 9, Colorado 3; Arizona 8, LA Dodgers 4. hitter Scott Van Slyke and David Hernandez American League National League fanned pinch-hitter Scott Schebler. Eastern Division Eastern Division W L PCT GB NY Mets 85 65 .567 - CUBS 9, BREWERS 5 Toronto 86 64 .573 - Washington 78 71 .523 6.5 Anthony Rizzo had three hits and scored NY Yankees 82 67 .550 3.5 Miami 64 86 .427 21 three runs, Jorge Soler hit a pinch-hit, 3-run shot Baltimore 73 76 .490 12.5 Atlanta 60 91 .397 25.5 and the Cubs beat the Brewers. The Cubs inched Boston 72 77 .483 13.5 Philadelphia 56 94 .373 29 closer to a NL playoff berth as their magic num- Tampa Bay 72 78 .480 14 Central Division ber to clinch fell to four. Rizzo reached in all five Central Division St. Louis 94 56 .627 - of his at-bats after walking twice to go along Kansas City 87 62 .584 - Pittsburgh 90 60 .600 4 with his three hits. Milwaukee’s Adam Lind tied Minnesota 76 73 .510 11 Chicago Cubs 88 62 .587 6 the game at 4 with a two-run homer in the fifth Cleveland 74 74 .500 12.5 inning off Cubs starter Jason Hammel (9-6), who Cincinnati 63 86 .423 30.5 Chicago White Sox 72 78 .480 15.5 allowed three earned runs over his five innings. Milwaukee 63 87 .420 31 Detroit 69 81 .460 18.5 Wily Peralta (5-10) allowed four walks and eight Western Division Western Division hits. He gave up six runs over 4 2-3 innings. Texas 80 69 .537 - LA Dodgers 85 64 .570 - Houston 80 71 .530 1 San Francisco 78 71 .523 7 RED SOX 8, RAYS 7 LA Angels 76 74 .507 4.5 Arizona 72 78 .480 13.5 Xander Bogaerts hit a grand slam in the Seattle 73 77 .487 7.5 San Diego 70 80 .467 15.5 eighth inning to lift Boston to a victory over TORONTO: Blue Jays’ Russell Martin connects with the ball to score teammate Josh Donaldson Oakland 64 86 .427 16.5 Colorado 63 87 .420 22.5 Tampa Bay, moving the Red Sox out of the AL on a pop fly in the seventh inning of a baseball game against the New York Yankees. —AP WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2015 SPORTS Has the ‘scrum doctor’ cured Australia woes? CARDIFF: It’s a tag that’s been thrown at as a scrum consultant for the New South Australia’s rugby team for years. Silky Wales Waratahs in Super Rugby. behind the scrum. Brittle in it. Nearly a year “He’s really passionate about scrums, into the tenure of coach Michael Cheika, and it’s good to have someone who has a the Wallabies are hoping those days are real identity of how he wants to shape the over heading into their first match of the scrum and how he wants the scrum to Rugby World Cup. move forward,” Hooper said. “He’s a great Cheika made improving Australia’s personality, a new face, a new accent in the scrummaging one of his priorities after group. He’s a great addition to the team.” replacing Ewen McKenzie in October. He England and Wales are expected to give saw the Australian eight get pushed Australia most problems in the scrum in around against England - yet again - in Pool A of the World Cup but the pack of the their November international last year, and Wallabies’ opening opponent, Fiji at the acknowledged his players’ technique and Millennium Stadium in Cardiff today, strategy needed to change. “Perhaps we shouldn’t be underestimated. are too honest,” he said. Fiji shoved back England’s vaunted To rectify the problem, Cheika changed scrum at one point in the tournament’s personnel. Benn Robinson and Ben opening game last Friday, and wheeled Alexander, Australia’s two most experi- another on England’s own feed five meters enced props, were ditched ahead of the from its tryline, leading to a try from Fiji World Cup, and younger players such as winger Nemani Nadolo. Scott Sio and Toby Smith were summoned. “They (Fiji) are very physical, and their And in what could prove to be a master- scrum was a bit of surprise for a few peo- stroke, Cheika also hired former Argentina ple,” said Australia attack coach Stephen hooker Mario Ledesma as a so-called Larkham, who was at Twickenham on “scrum doctor.” One of the grittiest interna- Friday. “That’s been building for a couple of tional front-rowers of the past couple of years.” Against Fiji, Australia’s front row will decades may just have found a cure. consist of Sio alongside hooker and captain Stephen Moore and Sekope Kepu. Having Building confidence the grunt of powerful second-rower Kane In its recent Rugby Championship-win- Douglas behind has also beefed up the ning campaign, Australia held its own in scrum, and he is also in the starting lineup. the scrum and even overpowered New Australia is one of the last teams to BRIGHTON: Japanese players celebrate after Karne Hesketh scored the winning try against South Africa during the Rugby World Cup Pool B Zealand’s in a 27-19 win in Sydney. But the begin its World Cup campaign, having match at the Brighton Community Stadium. — AP true test will come over the next six weeks been holed up in Bath in the south-west of in the northern hemisphere. “We’ve had a England while its rivals played their open- lot of tough games, scrummaging-wise, ing games at the weekend. Larkham said Much-changed Japan seeks going through the Rugby Championship that has been a “bonus.” “Getting over here, and the Bledisloe (Cup), so it’s been a great getting the jetlag out of our system and prep for us, and some of the hardest scrum feeling the conditions, albeit we are under sessions we’ve had against each other,” cover tomorrow,” said Larkham, speaking in shock No 2 at World Cup Australia flanker Michael Hooper said. the Millennium Stadium where he won the “We’re building a lot of confidence World Cup final with the Wallabies in 1999. there, and we got a lot of confidence out of “Training in Bath and sort of being away LONDON: Japan produced one of the biggest fall short. This year’s Six Nations was supposed to staged in Britain - in 1991 and 1999 - and is a the Rugby Championship, and as a pack from the spotlight a little bit has been real- upsets in sporting history by beating South be the tournament where the Scots would flour- genuine contender this time round after win- they’re really developing well.” Hooper said ly beneficial for us. We had a pretty good Africa at the Rugby World Cup. In its own way, ish after encouraging results in the November ning the Rugby Championship. It’ll be a family the influence of Ledesma - a veteran of 84 Rugby Championship and the guys have overcoming Scotland today would constitute tests. They finished in last place, on zero points, affair under the Millennium Stadium roof, with caps - has been huge since the Argentine made some improvements since then in just as stunning a result for the new darlings of and lost at home to Italy. It was expected to be a cousins Nemani Nadolo (Fiji) and Tevita Kuridrani came on board in July, having also worked these last couple of days.” — AP the tournament. A four-day turnaround is scant straight fight between Scotland, South Africa, (Australia) facing off. Nadolo is one of 11 players reward for delivering the most jaw-dropping and Samoa for the two qualifications places to be retained from the England game. Expect result of this or any Rugby World Cup, but is from Pool B. Japan has made it a four-team race. some poaching at the breakdown from Australia, something Tier Two teams - like Japan - have Here’s a look at today’s games which named two openside flankers in Michael become accustomed to. Hooper and David Pocock. Pocock is at No. 8. Rugby authorities have tried to make sched- SCOTLAND VS. JAPAN uling fairer for the so-called lesser nations com- (4-0 overall, 2-0 in RWC) FRANCE VS ROMANIA pared to previous tournaments. The top coun- The Japanese have never beaten Scotland. (39-2-8 overall, 2-0 in RWC) tries are still favored, though. And so, Japan However, they had never beaten the Springboks What happened to France and Romania? The must take on a second Tier One team in four before Saturday and look what happened then. oldest of friends haven’t seen each other in ages. days, forcing coach Eddie Jones into making To break another barren run, Japan will have to Their Pool D match will mark their 50th test, but eight changes to the starting lineup and testing be just as canny with their tactics. Against South first in nine years, the longest gap since World his squad depth. Scotland, playing its first match Africa, Japan had the ball in and out of the War II. France helped develop the game in of the tournament, will be both fresh and ready. scrum before its opponent’s stronger pack had Romania, starting with Romanian students “We’ve done a lot of work previewing Japan time to make their power show. Similarly, line- returning to Bucharest from universities in Paris and they look like they can switch it on. It is no outs were quickly taken. and introducing rugby at the turn of the 20th shock,” Scotland center Mark Bennett said. “They “South Africa got caught getting organized, century. looked very strong and took a lot of big hits when Japan were already in and gone,” Scotland Their first test was in 1924. They played from the South Africans, so there will be a few lock Adam Gilchrist noted. In theory, Scotland is almost annually from 1960-2000, and most sore bodies.” The wily Jones, possessing World opening up with its easiest two pool games - results were close. That was until the fall of com- Cup coaching experience with Australia in 2003 against Japan, then the United States. Easy, munism in 1989, when funding dried up and and South Africa in 2007, started the mind though, is not a word being used so often in this Romanian rugby withered. The tests no longer games with Scotland on Monday. World Cup. became contests: France scored 50-plus in seven “It’s interesting that before the tournament, of the last eight, including the last, 62-14 in PARIS: In this Nov 15, 2014, file photo, Australia’s Israel Folau, (center) is tackled by Scotland said we were going to tank the first AUSTRALIA VS FIJI Bucharest, where Thierry Dusautoir made a try- France’s Scott Spedding and Prop Alexandre Menini during their rugby union inter- game,” Jones said, mischievously. “So if we did (16-1-2 overall, 1-0 in RWC) scoring debut. France has two other survivors of national match at the Stade De France. — AP tank the first game, we’ve got a good perform- Like Japan, Fiji has a quick turnaround that game, Romania four. ance coming up in our second.” With the meticu- between games against top-tier teams. Five days Romania has not beaten France since 1990 lous Vern Cotter in charge of the Scots, there after giving England a decent examination on and, remarkably, no Tier One sides in the profes- Cane leads All Blacks for won’t be any danger of underestimating Japan the opening night of the tournament, the Fijians sional era. With its opening win over Italy, France like South Africa did. face another member of the world’s top three in has won three in a row for the first time since first time against Namibia Scotland is a frustrating team, always seem- Australia, which makes its debut. 2012. They should make it four, even with 13 ingly on the cusp of breaking through, only to Australia has won both World Cups to be changes. — AP LONDON: Flanker Sam Cane will captain I’m hugely honored to be asked to do it.” New Zealand for the first time when the All Sonny Bill Williams, who also played a major Blacks meet Rugby World Cup Pool C min- part in steadying the ship for a nervous- Long wait over as Ives finally nows Namibia at the Olympic Stadium looking New Zealand on Sunday as a sec- tomorrow as coach Steve Hansen made 12 ond-half substitute, starts on Thursday in a changes from the side that beat Argentina. powerful midfield combination alongside gets RWC chance for Japan Only lock Sam Whitelock and wingers Julian Malakai Fekitoa. McCaw, Tony Woodcock Savea and Nehe Milner-Skudder remain and Keven Mealamu, each with well over from the team that fought back to beat the 100 caps to their name, are on a bench that LONDON: Japan lock Justin Ives is not afraid to against South Africa,’” he said. Unlike South Pumas 26-16 on Sunday. boasts a remarkable 660 test caps’ worth of admit he “completely lost the plot” after the Africa, the Scots know what’s coming at The 23-year-old Cane, who has played 25 experience. The 23-man squad has a com- shock win against South Africa at the Rugby Gloucester’s compact Kingsholm Stadium matches for his country but made only 11 bined total of 1,061 caps. If McCaw comes World Cup - and he didn’t even play in it. Now today. “It’s their first game, so there could be a starts as Richie McCaw held down the open- on as a replacement, it will be his 18th the 31-year-old Ives, who was born in New little bit of rustiness, but I’m sure they’ve had a side flanker berth, came on as a replace- Rugby World Cup appearance, breaking the Zealand, gets his chance against Scotland on bit of time to look into it,” Ives said. “We have to ment on Sunday to score the All Blacks’ sec- record of 17 he shares with former All Black Wednesday, after watching Saturday’s high dra- be good against the Scotland lineout.” ond try. “It’s a very special moment for Sam,” captain Sean Fitzpatrick. New Zealand are ma from the stands. He’s been waiting long That’s where Steve Borthwick comes in. The Hansen told reporters. “He is a good leader expected to run up a huge score against the enough. 35-year-old Englishman knows the Scots well, and the most important part of leadership is tournament’s lowest-ranked team but Four years, in fact. He qualified for Japan on having played 57 tests for England at lock. He playing well. “He’s never played poorly for Hansen said there would be much his team residency in 2011, but in his eighth test that has coached Japan’s forwards since 2012. the All Blacks and he’s got a reasonably diffi- could gain from the match. year, the last warm-up for the Cup in New “Steve works on the lineouts like no one else cult job following the skipper. “We could “We want to get out there and execute Zealand, he tore ligaments, and had to with- I’ve ever come across,” Ives said. have chose someone else but we thought our game,” he said. “Namibia will have taken draw from the Cup squad because of the sec- “We were running South Africa’s lineouts for we’d look to the future-he’s someone we a lot of heart out of what happened at ond serious knee injury of his career. “I’ve been the last couple of months against each other, believe in a lot.” Brighton and they will be pumped up. waiting longer than most people,” said Ives, knowing what to look out for and what to call Cane, a member of the 2011 Under-20 Starting scrumhalf TJ Perenara echoed that who has 30 test caps. “The sacrifices that so against them. We’re not the tallest team but we World Cup-winning side, played Super after watching Japan beat South Africa last many people have made: My wife, family, and know we’re probably the fastest lineout.” Rugby for the Chiefs as a teenager and Saturday. “A lot of the guys watched that friends, the guys who were there for me four Ives is convinced head coach Eddie Jones made his New Zealand senior debut in 2012. game when and saw what a World Cup can years ago when I got injured. They all encour- will show his tactical nous once again. “With the short turnaround I was thinking it do,” he said. “Everyone plays above them- aged me to come back, so I’m super excited.” “Scotland have a massive height advantage on us, so we’ll just have to be smarter, and I’m would be great to get a start so it took me selves and I think it’s a great lesson for Although not quite as excited as he was BRIGHTON: Japan’s international rugby player pretty sure we’ve got one of the smartest back a little bit when Steve told me I was maybe the better teams in the competition after Japan’s 34-32 win against the Springboks Justin Ives speaks to reporters. — AP coaches around,” Ives said. — AP going to be captain,” he said. “But of course not to take anyone too lightly.” — Reuters in Bristol. “I completely lost the plot at the end of the game. I didn’t know what to do. We were just hug- ging and shouting, unbelievable ... memories Minnows Namibia face for the rest of our lives,” Ives said. “We sat in the team room and watched a replay of the game and everyone was shaking. I don’t know how toughest test of RWC many times I’ve watched the last five minutes. LONDON: The good news for rank outsiders selves and relish the opportunity to play against Unbelievable. Hopefully, it’s changed the Namibia is they will be playing against a ‘shadow’ the world champions,” he said on Monday. “I am mindset of Japanese rugby and what it’s like in team when they begin their latest Rugby World under no illusions but it is going to be a fantastic our country.” Cup adventure tomorrow- the bad news it is New opportunity to see the Namibian flag flying Zealand. Not even the sight of Japan beating alongside that of New Zealand at the Olympic One-hit wonders? South Africa on Saturday in the sport’s biggest Stadium.” Attack coach Pieter Rossouw said The win has brought the World Cup spot- ever shock will fuel the Namibians’ hopes of Namibia are a lot more organised than back in light like never before onto the Brave Blossoms something even more extraordinary against the 2003. “We’re pretty proud of our defense struc- - and helped rugby, a niche sport in Japan, take holders in what should be a lop-sided Pool C tures, which just need to be very good at interna- attention away from football, baseball and clash at London’s Olympic Stadium. But, spared tional level,” he said. While Namibia’s biggest sumo. It’s even impacted in rugby-mad New having to play against Steve Hansen’s preferred name and one of few professionals is Jacques Zealand, where seven of the Japan squad were starting 15, and bolstered by their most rigorous Burger, the Saracens forward, the All Blacks have raised. “I was just talking to Hendrik (Tui, team- build-up to a tournament, they can reasonably an embarrassment of riches-as was seen in the mate). His wife went into a Canterbury store expect to avoid a repeat of the record 142-0 loss hard-fought 26-16 defeat of main group rivals last weekend to buy some jerseys for the kids they suffered against Australia in 2003. Argentina when Hansen called several players off and she couldn’t find any,” Ives said. “Then she The lowest-ranked side in the tournament, the bench to finally overwhelm the Pumas. went in there yesterday and half the store was boasting a dentist, some farmers and a diamond Sonny Bill Williams, Beauden Barrett, Sam full of Japan jerseys. It’s good to know that trader in their squad, they have impressed coach Kane and Charlie Faumuina were all introduced LONDON: New Zealand’s Sam Cane is tackled by Argentina’s Mariano Galarza, Kiwis back home are getting behind us.” and former Wales international Phil Davies who to great effect and Hansen will likely make sure (left) and Lucas Noguera during the Rugby World Cup Pool C match between The team has no intention of being one-hit hopes his players can enjoy the moment. his entire squad has tasted action before the final New Zealand and Argentina at Wembley Stadium. — AP wonders, he said. “We want to back it up, we “It is vital that we get them to express them- whistle sounds tomorrow. —Reuters don’t want people to just say ‘Oh, well done WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2015 SPORTS

This Sept 18, 2015 photo shows the Museu do Amanha, or Museum of Tomorrow, in the Praca Maua neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro. Much of Centro has been under construction as part of the revitalization of the long-derelict port region ahead of the Olympics. — AP photos Rio downtown a window on Olympic city’s past

In this Sept 18, 2015 photo, waiters attend to their clients at the restaurant In this Sept 18, 2015 photo, a visitor looks at an artwork in the Museu do In this Sept 17, 2015 photo, musicians of the samba group “Samba da Cafeteria Colombo in downtown Rio de Janeiro. With its towering mirrors in Arte do Rio, or MAR, in the Praca Maua neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro. Pedreira” perform at the Pedra do Sal in the neighborhood of Praca Maua in elaborate jacaranda frames and fancy fin de siecle tilework, the Confeitaria Rio de Janeiro. Gamboa is also the birthplace of samba, the syncopated Colombo is perfect for afternoon tea. rhythm with African roots that’s become Brazil’s national sound. RIO DE JANEIRO: For most visitors to Rio de the late 19th and early 20th centuries in Down the street is another colonial gem, rate jacaranda frames and fancy fin de display cases and fogged-up windows onto Janeiro, and even for many residents, the city’s response to the then-widespread theory that the Praca XV square. It’s where ships unloaded, siecle tilework, the Confeitaria Colombo is archaeological excavation pits - but it’s a mov- historic downtown is a blur, a canyonland of the mountain spread disease by impeding air and where the Portuguese royal family stayed perfect for afternoon tea. ing and sobering stop. office towers punctuated by the odd colonial- circulation. after fleeing Lisbon and the approaching Much of Centro has been under construc- Gamboa is also the birthplace of samba, the era church - all to be glimpsed through cab Today’s visitors can get a feel for Rio’s colo- British fleet. Upon reaching Brazil in 1808, tion as part of the revitalization of the long- syncopated rhythm with African roots that’s windows en route to the beach. But down- nial times at the Convento Santo Antonio, a Portuguese monarch Dom Joao VI stayed in derelict port region ahead of the Olympics. become Brazil’s national sound. Soak up the town, known in Portuguese as “Centro,” is Rio’s Franciscan convent that, along with a Jesuit the Paco Imperial, a charming stone building Praca Maua square is largely finished, includ- sounds at Trapiche Gamboa, a dilapidated historical hotspot, a motley pastiche of ves- church atop Castle Hill, was a main landmark on one side of Praca XV that’s been converted ing a new museum celebrating the city, the warehouse that’s been converted into a night- tiges of the city’s 450-year-long past. For visi- of early Rio. Tucked behind the entrance to into a cultural center, with free exhibitions. Museu do Arte do Rio, or MAR. And jutting out club, with live tunes and fancy footwork. tors capable of prying themselves off the Carioca metro stop, which on workdays And on Saturday mornings, the square hosts into Guanabara Bay, the Museu do Amanha, or Raucous outdoor samba circles take place Copacabana’s golden sands, the neighbor- bustles with commuters streaming to and an antiques fair where eagle-eyed shoppers Museum of Tomorrow, is taking shape. A $55 Monday nights at Pedra do Sal, a nearby square hood is a fascinating detour. And revitalization from nearby office towers, Santo Antonio is can score anything from a four-post bed wor- million project by famed Spanish architect that was once a slave market and one of the projects in the area ahead of the 2016 all austere grace - a simple-lined white com- thy of Dom Joao himself to a half-used bottle Santiago Calatrava, the building resembles a hubs of samba’s birth in the early 20th century. Summer Olympic Games could help spur its plex atop a hill. of sunscreen circa 1986. great white whale and is likely to open before Pedro Doria, a columnist and author of a rediscovery. The Mosteiro Sao Bento is Santo Antonio’s Should stomachs rumble, one of down- the games begin in August. book about Brazil’s early colonial period, said Centro is where Rio was born, in 1565, dur- rich and showy cousin. While the church was town Rio’s best restaurants, Coccinelle In the nearby Gamboa neighborhood, a that the Centro has been mostly forgotten by ing the bitter battle between the Portuguese founded in 1590 by Benedictine monks, its Bistro, is located opposite the Paco Imperial. modest museum pays tribute to the dark his- Rio residents and tourists alike. With the rise of and the French, and their indigenous allies, opulent interior - a Baroque riot of elaborate Run by a Frenchman and his Japanese wife, tory of slavery. Rio was once the busiest slave 20th century beach culture, “suddenly, the for colonial dominance. The Portuguese wooden sculptures covered in 23-carat gold this lunchtime favorite features bright and port in the Americas, and the Memorial dos emotional center of the city moved” to eventually prevailed and built their outpost foil - is a product of the 18th century gold rush fresh Franco-Japanese fusion, served in Pretos Novos, or New Blacks Memorial, sits Copacabana, Doria said. Centro, with its on a hill overlooking Guanabara Bay in what that was an early peak of Brazilian boom-and- bento boxes. For more local color, try where the bodies of up to 50,000 slaves who reminders of Rio’s slave past, was rejected as is now Centro. That hill - known as the Morro bust economy. A decade-long restoration Confeitaria Colombo, a sprawling art deco succumbed during the punishing journey “repugnant”. But the Olympic makeovers may do Castelo, or Castle Hill for the fortress that recently wrapped up, making the gilded jewel of a restaurant near the Carioca across the Atlantic were burned and dumped. raise its profile. “It’s where we come from,” he crowned it - no longer exists. It was razed in church gleam that much brighter. metro. With its towering mirrors in elabo- The memorial itself is underwhelming - dusty said. “We must embrace it.” — AP Pyeongchang organizers break ground on Village

SEOUL: The organizing committee for the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics (POCOG) held a groundbreaking ceremony to mark the launch of construction of the Athletes Village yes- terday. Gunilla Lindberg, who chairs the International Olympic Committee’s coordination committee for Asia’s first Winter Games outside Japan, said she was confident POCOG would make sure the facility was of the highest quality. Lindberg and POCOG President Cho Yang-ho were among those present at the ceremony. Construction is due to be com- pleted in 2017 and will house around 3,500 athletes travelling to the South Korean alpine town for the Games. “The Olympic Village is the heart of the Olympic Games,” the Swede said in a statement. “It is a special place where athletes from around the world come together to prepare and celebrate in peace and harmony under the Olympic values. “I am confident that this Village will be a good facility for the athletes and I know that President Cho and his team will spare no effort to deliver the best conditions and services possible for those Olympians staying here in 2018.” The coordination committee is meeting in Pyeongchang for the fifth time to assess progress in preparations, which got off to a slow start but have hit full stride this year. Concerns about costs and construction delays had raised speculation earlier this year that some of the events might have to be moved away from Pyeongchang, perhaps even to Japan. However, those concerns have eased and major South Korean companies such as Samsung, Korean Air and LG have agreed to pour in funds to support the Games in Pyeongchang, some 180 km east of the capital Seoul. “POCOG is committed to building a Village that will pro- vide the best environment for athletes so they can be in opti- mal condition for their competition,” said POCOG President Cho. POCOG said in the statement that after the Games the accommodation would be sold to the public, saving organiz- ers around $8 million. It also expected the construction proj- PYEONGCHANG: Pyeongchang Organizing Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games (POCOG) officials are seen during a groundbreaking ceremony for the ects to provide an economic boost to the area. — Reuters construction of the Olympic and Paralympic Village yesterday. — AFP WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2015 SPORTS Russian walkers suspended over positive drug tests MOSCOW: Six world-class Russian race stripped of his gold medal last year after a walkers including a reigning European doping investigation. champion have been suspended after fail- Emelyanov faces a lengthy ban if found ing doping tests a year before the guilty of a second offense. The IAAF declined Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Track and to comment on reports in the Russian media field’s world governing body the IAAF told that Emelyanov’s backup “B’’ sample from The Associated Press yesterday that the six the June testing had come back negative. In all tested positive during out-of-competi- July, Russia withdrew its entire walk team tion testing in June in the Russian city of from the world championships the following Saransk, home to a training facility with month, saying it suspected possible doping, links to more than a dozen previous dop- but did not reveal that the six athletes had ing cases. already tested positive. They are not allowed to compete until a At the same time, the Russian national final ruling is handed down by the Russian team’s head coach Viktor Chegin athletics federation, the International announced his retirement while he was Association of Athletics Federations said. the target of investigations from the IAAF Among those suspended is Elmira and Russian anti-doping authorities. More Alembekova, who won gold in the than 25 Russian walkers have been pun- European women’s 20-kilometer race last ished for doping in recent years, with at year, and Mikhail Ryzhov, winner of the sil- least 20 of them trained by Chegin, includ- ver medal in the 50-kilometer race at the ing three Olympic champions banned ear- 2013 world championships. lier this year. The IAAF is also investigating Also suspended are 2014 European claims that other Russian walkers contin- bronze medalists Ivan Noskov and Denis ued to compete while serving doping bans Strelkov, ex-world junior champion Vera and both the IAAF and the World Anti- Sokolova, and Stanislav Emelyanov, who Doping Agency are looking into claims of finished first in the 20-kilometer event at systematic doping in Russian athletics as a the 2010 European championship but was whole. — AP

LONDON: British Prime Minister David Cameron laughs as he listens to a speech during a reception to mark a successful summer of cricket at 10 Downing Street. England defeated Australia to win the Ashes series. — AP Pakistan will not beg India for series, says Shaharyar

LAHORE: Pakistan cricket chief Shaharyar Khan (BCCI) have not yet taken permission from the gov- yesterday ruled out giving an ultimatum to India to ernment which is unfair and there will be two fall play a proposed cricket series, saying if it does not outs of that: one that we are not going to beg.” go ahead he will make alternative fixtures. Earlier Khan further warned Pakistan it will take appropri- this month the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) wrote ate action if India does not honor their understand- a letter to the Board of Control for Cricket in India ing. “We will go to the ICC and to the community,” (BCCI) seeking confirmation as to whether or not said Khan. India would play two Tests, five one-day and two However, the ICC has ruled out any interference, Twenty20 matches in the United Arab Emirates in saying the matter is between the two countries. “It December and January. is only fair they tell us so that we can have alternate But India has so far not replied and current arrangements,” said Khan. “It (any other series) will political tension between the two countries, with not be equal to an Indo-Pak series but we have to PRETORIA: In this Monday, Oct 13, 2014 file photo, Oscar Pistorius gestures as he frequent ceasefire violations on the Line of Control reach a decision.” leaves the high court in Pretoria. — AP in the disputed Kashmir region, has cast serious India halted cricket matches with Pakistan in doubt over the first full series between them since the wake of the 2008 terrorist attacks on Mumbai, Pistorius case to be heard 2007. Khan said Pakistan will not beg India to agree which they blamed on militants based in Pakistan. to the matches which are due to be played in Pakistan paid a short visit to India to play two by Supreme Court on Nov 3 December-January in the UAE. Twenty20 and three one-day internationals in “I don’t want to give any ultimatum to India but December 2012 but that failed to revive the bilater- I am going to talk to them on the sidelines of ICC al series. In July, BCCI secretary Anurag Thakur said LAHORE: Pakistan’s Cricket Board Chairman CAPE TOWN: Oscar Pistorius’ case will be at the murder trial last year. They want (International Cricket Council) meeting next cricket was not possible under the current strained Shaharyar Khan speaks during a press confer- heard by South Africa’s Supreme Court of the Supreme Court to re-examine her month,” Khan told media. “I will tell them that you relationship between the two countries. — AFP ence yesterday. — AP Appeal on Nov 3, when prosecutors will verdict. The Supreme Court could over- ask a panel of five judges to reject his tri- rule Masipa and find the Olympian guilty al verdict and convict the double- of murder, order a new trial, or decide amputee athlete of murder for killing Masipa was correct. A murder conviction Wilder defends piece girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. in South Africa carries a minimum sen- The Supreme Court announced the tence of 15 years in jail. The country no date yesterday. The court said the appeal longer has the death penalty. by prosecutors against Pistorius’ acquittal Pistorius was sentenced by Masipa to of heavyweight title for murder will be heard by a panel head- five years in prison for culpable homicide ed by the president of the Supreme - an unintentional but still unlawful Court. Two of the five judges are women. killing equivalent to manslaughter. He is NEW YORK: Deontay Wilder’s plan for world domi- n’t exactly bring up images of Ali-Frazier or Tyson- Klitschko faces what some think might be a Pistorius was last year found guilty of a currently in jail in Pretoria waiting for a nation of the heavyweight division is, at the Holyfield, it will be the first heavyweight title fight tough test of his own next month when he takes lesser charge of manslaughter for shoot- parole review board to decide if he moment, centered in Alabama. Not exactly the on NBC since Larry Holmes defended his crown on undefeated Tyson Fury in Germany. “When I ing Steenkamp through a toilet door in should be released early to serve the bright lights of Las Vegas, though that will likely against Carl “The Truth” Williams in 1985. think about a Klitschko fight my mind for some rea- his home in 2013. He testified he mistook remainder of his sentence under house change soon. Still, Wilder isn’t going to apologize And it will give Wilder - and the long belea- son has it in the month of September next year,” her for a dangerous intruder. arrest. A second hearing to decide if he for taking two fights in Birmingham to give fans in guered heavyweight division - some much needed Wilder said. Prosecutors accused Pistorius of killing should be released was postponed last his home state a chance to see him defend his exposure for a bout that would have likely previ- “A lot depends on the mandatories being out of Steenkamp intentionally after a fight and week with no date given for when it will piece of the heavyweight title. ously ended up on either HBO or Showtime. “It will the way and having a clear date. But he wants it say Judge Thokozile Masipa made errors take place. — AP “It’s great for the state to give them a different give a lot more people a chance to learn about and I want it. Everybody wants that fight.” point of view of sport of boxing, and add another who I am,” Wilder said. Who Wilder is turns out to While Klitschko is Wilder’s future, Duhaupas is activity to the city and state as far as bringing peo- be a pretty good story in itself. A wide receiver who his present. The 34-year-old Frenchman is 32-2 but ple to Alabama,” Wilder said. Wilder isn’t going to wanted at one time to play for Alabama, the 6-foot- has fought no one of any note and has never Shoaib Akhtar wants to apologize for his opponents, either, including 7 Wilder turned to boxing in 2005 and quickly fought in the US. He comes to this fight as an Saturday night’s opponent du jour, a French jour- established himself as a big puncher on his way to opponent in boxing’s time-honored tradition, with guide returning Amir neyman who has never fought in the United States. an Olympic bronze medal in Beijing. little expectation of winning. Wilder said Duhaupas “We pick our people and our opponent for a He’s won every fight he’s had as a pro, stopping was picked because he has a European style and is KARACHI: Former Pakistan fast bowler “I am planning to buy a team in the reason,” Wilder said. “Either people are with it or his opponent in all but one of his wins. The lone willing to exchange punches. Shoaib Akthar yesterday said he was PSL and would like to have Amir in my against it. But we’re going on our own pace fight- decision was his biggest win ever, though, when he “I’m looking at him to bring it,” Wilder said. eager to take youngster Mohammad team so that I can guide him and make ing who we want to fight to get where we want to defeated Bermane Stiverne in January to win the “Everybody that knows him, even overseas, I’ve Amir under his wing and guide him back him an effective bowler,” Akhtar, who go.” Where Wilder wants to go is toward a unifica- WBC version of the heavyweight title. The work in heard that he’s a tough guy, a very tough guy. to the national team following his return retired in 2011, told AFP. Now 40, tion title against Wladimir Klitschko, the long-run- the ring has been at times spectacular, though the They’ve told me not to take him lightly.” to cricket after a five-year ban. Amir, 23, Akhtar’s career briefly overlapped with ning champion. He believes the fight will happen, dearth of competition among heavyweights Wilder has no intention of doing that as he was suspended along with then-captain Amir, who made his debut in 2009 aged perhaps next year about this time, should both means the 29-year-old hasn’t always fought the continues with a plan he believes will not only Salman Butt and pacer Mohammad Asif 17. The pair shared the attack in two fighters take care of business in the interim. best heavyweights. make him the undisputed heavyweight champi- for bowling no-balls to order as part of a one-day internationals in the 2010 Asia The jury is still out on whether he can take a on one day but a celebrity who can be a complex betting scam exposed by a Cup and two Twenty20s against Prime time punch, or continue to deliver knockouts. And while crossover star. “Now you’ve got an exciting tabloid sting during Pakistan’s tour of Australia in England the same year, In the meantime, he is giving the casual fan the WBC title is one of the more respected in box- American heavyweight who has a great personal- England in 2010. before Amir’s career crashed to a halt fol- something that hasn’t been seen in three decades - ing, the truth is Wilder will not be universally recog- ity and charisma both inside and outside the lowing the ban. a heavyweight title fight in prime time on network nized as a heavyweight champion until he beats ring,” he said. “I’m just made to be a superstar, “Everyone knows how talented Amir television. If the bout with Johann Duhaupas does- Klitschko, who has held his titles for nine years. man, made to be a superstar.” — AP was when he played cricket so on his return he will have to work hard to become the same bowler,” said Akhtar. The Pakistan Cricket Board has devised a rehabilitation programme for all three players, with Amir already playing grade cricket since April this year under a spe- cial dispensation by the ICC. He picked up seven wickets in his last match, a non first-class qualifier for the Sui Southern Gas Company, with a cun- ning mix of inswingers, outswingers, bouncers and varied angles from over and around the wicket. While some influ- ential voices, including ex-captain- turned-commentator Ramiz Raja, have voiced their opposition to the spot-fix- ing trio ever being allowed to represent their country again, Akhtar said it was right for them to get a second chance. “I have seen them suffer in the last Shoaib Akhtar five years so all three must be treated in The International Cricket Council the same manner,” said the former play- (ICC) lifted all sanctions on the trio earli- er, whose own career was dogged by er this month, making them eligible for controversy including a drug scandal, an domestic and international matches. infamous dressing room fight and fre- Akhtar, the fastest bowler in history, said quent claims of insubordination. he was looking to buy a team in the “Imagine Pakistan’s attack with Amir, upcoming Pakistan Super League (PSL) Wahab Riaz, Mohammad Irfan, Shahid Twenty20 tournament that will be Afridi and Yasir Shah and if they play staged in Qatar in February, and wanted together we can win the next World to recruit Amir. Twenty20,” he added. — AFP BIRMINGHAM, Alabama: In this June 13, 2015 file photo, Deontay Wilder (left) punches Eric Molina during a heavyweight boxing match. — AP WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2015 SPORTS FIFA to brief executive committee on probes

ZURICH: FIFA’s executive committee will be about a proposed black market deal for updated this week on the American and 2014 World Cup tickets. Valcke denies Swiss corruption investigations which wrongdoing. involve some of its own members, football’s The agenda said that Brazilian delegate governing body said yesterday. The two- Marco Polo Del Nero will present an update day session starting Thursday will be later this week on the work of the organiz- chaired by President Sepp Blatter, who is an ing committee for the Olympic football expected target of both federal cases. tournament next year in Rio de Janeiro. Del Nine current executive members, includ- Nero chairs that committee, which report- ing Blatter, took part in the votes for the edly met on Monday without him. Del Nero 2018 and 2022 World Cups which are the left Switzerland suddenly in May, hours focus of a Swiss investigation of possible after two FIFA vice presidents and other money laundering and criminal misman- officials were arrested in dawn hotel raids in agement of FIFA assets. In the US case, Zurich on the eve of Blatter’s re-election. Attorney General Loretta Lynch said last Del Nero did not attend Brazil matches at week in Zurich she expects more charges in the Copa America in Chile in June and an expanding investigation of racketeering skipped a FIFA executive committee meet- and bribery worth “well over $150 million” ing in Zurich in July. that has already indicted 14 men and Blatter has denied any wrongdoing and secured guilty pleas from four others. blamed individuals from football’s conti- Blatter’s reluctance to visit countries nental confederations for implicating FIFA which have an extradition treaty with the in corruption. Still, Swiss legal experts said United States appears to have affected this month that Blatter should be investi- FIFA’s business schedule. FIFA said the exec- gated by Switzerland’s attorney general for utive committee will decide Friday on the selling World Cup television rights for the date and place of its next meeting. That had Caribbean to former FIFA vice president previously been scheduled to take place on Jack Warner at well below market rates. Dec. 17-18 in Japan, which hosts the Club Swiss state prosecutor Michael Lauber World Cup and where Blatter could risk revealed last week that his office has seized arrest. apartments in the Swiss Alps and searched property in western Switzerland in a widen- Denies wrongdoing ing case that could take years to complete. One option could be to create a rare five- Lauber said his team must analyze mas- month gap between executive sessions and sive amounts of data and documents seized CAIRO: Zamalek’s Mahmoud Kahraba, (center) and his teammates raise the cup after winning their Egyptian Cup soccer match against Al Ahly to hold the meeting in Zurich days ahead of from FIFA headquarters and suspicious at the Petrosport Stadium. — AP the extraordinary congress on Feb 26 when activity reports from banks in Switzerland. Blatter’s successor will be elected. Blatter’s The case should go beyond the World Cup executive panel will approve an agenda for votes won in 2010 by Russia and Qatar, and Wenger warns Arsenal to the congress this week, FIFA said. FIFA’s move deeper into FIFA’s day-to-day busi- agenda was signed by acting secretary gen- ness during Blatter’s presidency since 1998. eral Markus Kattner, who was promoted last Blatter announced on June 2 he would Thursday after his boss Jerome Valcke was leave FIFA early, and later cited pressure keep cool in London derby suspended from duty following allegations from the dual investigations. — AP LONDON: Arsene Wenger has warned his hot-head- Tottenham have recorded three consecutive victo- “Things are looking very good. We have great ed Arsenal players not to lose their composure again ries to revive hopes of a successful season after a young players and a good mix, so there are great when they face bitter rivals Tottenham Hotspur in sluggish opening. things for the team if we can keep working like this. the League Cup third round today. Wenger’s side And Tottenham’s Belgian defender Jan It looks very good for the future,” Vertonghen said. head to White Hart Lane for the first north London Vertonghen believes boss Mauricio Pochettino is One concern, however, remains the usually-prolific derby of the season after two successive defeats fea- building a young team capable of great things. Kane’s disappointing form. The England striker is turing three red cards for the Gunners. France striker South Korea forward Son Heung-Min, 23, is the new without a club goal this season but Vertonghen is Olivier Giroud was dismissed in last week’s idol of the Lane after his first Premier League goal- confident he will rediscover his touch soon. Champions League loss against Dinamo Zagreb, and third in just three appearances in all competi- “He has just been a bit unlucky,” Vertonghen while Brazilian defender Gabriel and Spanish mid- tions-clinched a 1-0 win over Crystal Palace on said. “He scored for England and in the training ses- fielder Santi Cazorla were sent off in Saturday’s Sunday. Son’s fine start following his transfer from sions he has been doing very well, so the goals will painful 2-0 defeat at Chelsea. Wenger largely blamed Bayer Leverkusen is part of a youth movement also come. “He’s not a guy who will just have one good Chelsea’s Diego Costa for provoking Gabriel into the including 19-year-old Dele Alli, 21-year-old Eric Dier, season and then you never see him again. He has kick that led to his dismissal. 22-year-olds Ben Davies and Harry Kane and 23- the qualities to perform and the goals will come But the centre-back has since been charged with year-olds Erik Lamela and Christian Eriksen. eventually.” — AFP improper conduct for his protests after being sent off and the Arsenal manager acknowledges his team needs to do a better job of keeping their emotions under control even in the face of extreme provoca- tion. “It’s true that we played the last two games with 10 men in the second half and I hope we play the next one with 11 v 11,” Wenger said. “But it’s another derby and that’s not guaranteed as well.” Yet there are few more testing environments in which to do that than White Hart Lane on derby day, when ZURICH: In this Monday, July 20, 2015 file photo, FIFA President Sepp Blatter is pho- the hatred and bile will pour down from the stands tographed while banknotes thrown by British comedian Simon Brodkin hurtle towards Wenger’s players. Another factor that could through the air during a press conference at the FIFA headquarters. — AP negate Wenger’s attempts to clamp down on the rash of red cards is Arsenal’s desperation to get back on track after a pair of defeats that raised renewed UK court asked to judge questions about their ability to win the Premier whether bridge is a sport League and Champions League. Feisty game LONDON: Is bridge a sport? A British gives pleasure to a lot of people, but it Although the League Cup is traditionally well judge has been asked to resolve this certainly isn’t getting the nation any fitter,” down Wenger’s list of priorities and he often fields inexperienced starting line-ups in the competition, weighty question after Sport England he said. Bridge Union spokesman Peter Arsenal midfielder Aaron Ramsey suggested he ruled the popular card game is not a Stockdale said the court case is not just wouldn’t mind skipping an evening’s rest to help his sport. The decision is being challenged in about the lottery money, although he club to a morale-boosting win. Britain’s High Court yesterday and today concedes some extra cash would help “It’s not good enough for a club like Arsenal to by the English Bridge Union, which com- bridge attract more aficionados. “We feel lose two games in a row,” Ramsey said.”Hopefully plains that the adverse ruling by Sport it clearly meets the definition of a sport,” now we can put things right today. It will be a feisty England goes against the views of Britain’s he said, adding the International Olympic game with hopefully some goals in our favor.” Parliament and “significant international Committee has recognized bridge. “There While Arsenal’s spluttering start to the season has LONDON: Arsenal’s Olivier Giroud (left) takes the ball away from Chelsea’s Ramires during the English sporting organizations.” It says Parliament are many different sides to it: the personal taken a turn for the worse over the last week, Premier League soccer match between Chelsea and Arsenal at Stamford Bridge stadium. — AP has recognized “mind sports” that pro- challenge and mental skill that it requires. mote mental skills and contends that It takes years to become a very good play- bridge has known health benefits. er,” he said. Sport England, a national body that At London’s ACOL Bridge Club, where Inter look to reinforce lead, plays a key role distributing lottery funds, the game is a welcome focus on many a has long taken the view that bridge and rainy afternoon, Joan Munro praised its other mental games, such as chess, are central role in her life - but conceded it Juve continue fightback not sports. Its director, Phil Smith, said the may not be a sport. “It’s a fantastic men- agency’s job is to promote physical fitness tal exercise. I’ve been playing 35 years and playing bridge won’t help. “Bridge is a and I keep learning all the time,” said MILAN: Leaders Inter Milan host Verona today looking fielder Paul-Jose Mpoku after he suffered a fractured with a tear in his right thigh, also putting the Croatian to build on their positive start in Serie A as champions cheekbone in an aerial challenge with Inter’s midfield out of the Turin giants’ Champions League clash at fantastic pursuit, and we think it probably Munro, 65. — AP Juventus aim to continue their climb back up the enforcer Felipe Melo. Roma’s 2-2 draw with Sassuolo home to Sevilla in a week. However, coach table. With four consecutive wins and only one goal last weekend came with Francesco Totti’s 300th career Massimiliano Allegri received the more welcome news conceded, Roberto Mancini’s men are already being goal for the club, for whom he made his league debut that Alvaro Morata has been given the all-clear after Anger in Valencia: Cracks talked of as scudetto challengers to four-time consec- in 1994. being forced off late in Juve’s 2-0 win against Genoa utive champions Juventus. But dropping two points has put unwelcome pres- with an abdominal muscle problem. Elsewhere, Mario But Mancini-who won seven trophies including sure on Rudi Garcia’s men ahead of a difficult outing at Balotelli could make his first start since returning to appear in Lim’s project three consecutive league titles in his previous spell in Sampdoria, who have hit nine goals thanks largely to AC Milan as the Rossoneri travel to Udinese yesterday charge (2004-2008) — was quick to dampen any pre- Eder’s five-goal haul. Anything less than a Roma win in looking to build on their gutsy 3-2 win over Palermo BARCELONA: Less than a year after being hailed There have been whistles in previous match- mature enthusiasm. “Our league position doesn’t Genoa would not upset Juventus ahead of the visit of at the weekend. Today, Lazio host Genoa looking to as a hero for saving debt-ridden Valencia, the es but against Betis they were markedly more count at the moment. What does count is being league new boys Frosinone. bounce back after a humiliating 5-0 rout by Napoli, first cracks are beginning to appear in Singapore audible. “The crowd showed they are unhappy among the top sides over the course of the season,” Juventus suffered a blow on Monday after striker who will look to keep banging in the goals when they billionaire Peter Lim’s project. Fans are openly and it showed to me who has overall responsibil- Mancini said after Sunday’s 1-0 win at Chievo. Mario Mandzukic was sidelined for up to three weeks visit new boys Carpi. —AFP questioning his involvement and the atmos- ity for the team,” Nuno told a news conference With a two-point lead over Torino, Roma four off phere in the Mestalla Stadium is becoming afterwards. “I am concentrating on my work and I the pace and Juventus eight points adrift in 13th, increasingly hostile with fans whistling and jeer- won’t comment on what is speculation.” Mancini has some room to maneuver. But with Inter ing under fire coach Nuno Espirito Santo. missing out on the Champions League for the past There were chants of “Nuno go now” and oth- Modest history two seasons, the Italian is in no mood for complacen- ers of “mercenaries” directed at the Valencia play- Despite a modest coaching history at Rio Ave cy. “We always have the weight of expectation, ers following the 0-0 draw against newly-pro- in Portugal, Nuno was given the job of bringing because we’re Inter Milan. We need to be protagonists moted Real Betis on Saturday. The result left about Lim’s ambition of making Valencia one of this season,” added Mancini, who made significant Valencia with just one win from four La Liga the top sides in Europe. Lim is rarely seen at the additions to his squad, notably in midfield and matches and they also suffered a home defeat by Mestalla and his stance of always being in the defense, in the off-season. “Our defense is better, Zenit St Petersburg in the Champions League background has only helped to reinforce an air of because the more you work, the more you improve. last week. Such antipathy may appear exaggerat- mystery about him although he has had some Our new players are helping us a lot.” ed at such an early stage of the season and previous involvement in football which has Inter should welcome Brazilian defender Joao Valencia fans are known for their hastiness in included him holding third-party ownership of Miranda, signed from Atletico Madrid, back for the vis- turning against coaches but this time the causes players. He has also invested in English minor it of Verona after a recent injury, although fellow of their anger appear to run deeper than just league club Salford City with several “Class of 92” defenders Juan Jesus and Jeison Murillo are both results on the pitch. Manchester United players including Phil Neville, expected to miss today’s San Siro outing. Verona are A growing number doubt the credentials of now one of Nuno’s coaching assistants. Lim’s winless and are likely to be without injured pair Luca Nuno to be coach and believe he was put in business interests also extend to Cristiano Toni and Rafa Marquez. place due to his friendship with so called “super- Ronaldo’s image rights after a deal with the Real agent” Jorge Mendes, one of Lim’s close business Madrid forward, also represented by Mendes, Proud Torino contacts. Many also feel former coach Juan was signed by Media Mint, another company Torino have plenty to be proud of having only Antonio Pizzi was unfairly shown the door in July, owned by the Singaporean. dropped points in a 2-2 draw at Verona a fortnight 2014, which Valencia stated at the time was done Under Lim, Valencia are back among ago. Giampiero Ventura’s side boasts wins over to facilitate the sale of the club. Nuno, a goal- Europe’s elite and are looking to move into a Frosinone, Fiorentina and Sampdoria but their trip to a keeper in his playing days, was one of the first new stadium in 2019, but some claim they over- Chievo side still smarting from defeat to Inter looks players to be represented by Mendes in the mid- paid for players like Rodrigo Moreno, Alvaro anything but straightforward. Prior to their defeat at 1990s, negotiating a deal that took him from Negredo and Joao Cancelo who arrived for a the weekend, Chievo sat second in the table with an Vitoria Guimaraes to Deportivo La Coruna, and reported combined total of 77 million Euros impressive tally of eight goals to their account. VERONA: (From left) Inter Milan’s players Fredy Guarin, Juan Pablo Carrizo, Mauro Icardi and Gary he continues to manage his affairs today. ($85.75 million). — Reuters The Flying Donkeys will be missing DR Congo mid- Medel celebrate at the end of a Serie A soccer match against Chievo at Bentegodi stadium. —AP Rio’s downtown Chances of window on past Pak-India of Olympic city series slim

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Kuwait SC win football Super Cup

KUWAIT: Kuwait SC were crowned winners of the eighth Coutinho added a second goal for Kuwait from an expert edition of the football Super Cup late on Monday after com- pass by Khaled Ajab. Hussein Hakem made Qadsiya’s mis- fortably overcoming Qadsiya 3-1. Fahd Al-Ansari scored for sion even harder when he scored the final goal in the 57th- Qadsiya first in the seventh minute from a neat pass by minute, a carbon-copy of Salem’s shot in the first half. This Ghanaian professional Rashid Sumaila. Kuwait equalized in has been Kuwait SC’s third title since start of the annual the 29th-minute thanks to Hussein Salem’s long shot from competition. The game was held at the Peace and Friendship outside the box. Brazilian midfielder Rogerio de Assis Silva Stadium, home ground of Kazma SC. — KUNA Ferguson eyed Guardiola as successor

LONDON: Alex Ferguson lined up Pep family he wanted to retire in May. “It Pay Power Guardiola as his potential successor at became apparent that Jose Mourinho had To maintain his authority over the team, Manchester United but the Spanish coach given his word to Roman Abramovich that Ferguson says that when Wayne Rooney’s didn’t call him before taking the Bayern he would return to Chelsea, and that Carlo salary was increased in 2010 he told the Munich job. In his new book “Leading,” Ancelotti would succeed him at Real Glazers that it was not fair the striker Ferguson said the club “established that sev- Madrid,” Ferguson wrote. “We also knew earned twice as much as the manager. “We eral very desirable candidates were unavail- Juergen Klopp was happy at Borussia just agreed that no player should be paid able” before David Moyes was hired in 2013 Dortmund, and would be signing a new more than me,” Ferguson wrote. “I suspect for an unsuccessful 11-month spell in contract. Meantime, Louis van Gaal had most football managers get paid less - charge. After Guardiola left Barcelona in undertaken to lead the Dutch attempt to sometimes far less - than their star players.” mid-2012, Ferguson had dinner with the win the 2014 World Cup.” former Barcelona coach in New York but, as Van Gaal did eventually take charge at Becks Eclipsed his own retirement was not on the agenda Old Trafford after the World Cup, replacing Ferguson says only four players during yet, there was no “direct proposal” for the Moyes after the Scot failed to qualify United his reign at Old Trafford were “world class” - Spaniard to one day take over at United. for the Champions League with a squad Eric Cantona, Ryan Giggs, Cristiano “I asked Pep to phone me before he that had won the Premier League by 11 Ronaldo and Paul Scholes. One glaring accepted an offer from another club but he points in Ferguson’s final season. “There omission is one of his biggest stars: David didn’t and wound up joining Bayern Munich were some who wanted me to return to the Beckham. But Ferguson says he isn’t trying in July 2013,” Ferguson writes in the book, sidelines,” Ferguson reflects on the firing of to “demean” other great players by listing which was published on Tuesday and co- Moyes, who was recommended for the job that elite quartet. authored with Michael Moritz. Although by his fellow Scot. “But I was not tempted Ferguson publicly announced the end of his for a moment.” Lucky Escape? near 27-year reign as United manager in Ferguson is frustrated that there remains Ferguson reveals that in 2010 he “briefly Alex Ferguson May 2013, he had decided in Dec 2012 to criticism of the squad he left behind, with flirted” with the idea of signing Mario retire after his wife’s sister died. Guardiola United having spent around $500 million on Balotelli before the maverick Italy striker Premier League last year but was a flop at at United: media briefings. Promoting the announced in Jan 2013 that he would take new players since. “You would have thought joined Manchester City that year. “The Liverpool, which has loaned him back to book on Monday, Ferguson said in an on- over at Bayern for the next season. that I had left 11 corpses on the steps of a feedback I got confirmed it was too big a Milan this season. stage interview in London: “One of my The succession process behind the funeral,” he wrote. “It’s hilarious.” Here is a risk,” Ferguson wrote. “It was a godsend.” In retirement Ferguson keeps himself hobbies now is to watch press conferences. scenes at Old Trafford began in March 2013 look at other highlights in the book, which Balotelli lasted three years at City before entertained by watching the one thing he You can kill yourself in a press conference when Ferguson informed the owning Glazer is published by Hodder and Stoughton: joining AC Milan. He returned to the sought to avoid while winning 38 trophies ... it’s an important part of the job.” — AP Bringing ‘sexy’ back for badminton fans SINGAPORE: Badminton’s bid to make women players wear skirts may more money... we have to think about how the sport is presented and have been ill-advised, but the sport is again seeking a “sexy” new indeed how the players present themselves,” he said. image to bring in fans and revenue. Even in China, where badminton Leed said China has 250 million people playing badminton. It also has mass participation and world-beating stars, its visibility dims in the has a stable of athletes which has dominated for years, winning all five glare of more glamorous rivals like NBA basketball, football and tennis. Olympic titles in London in 2012. But even with home-grown stars like Now everything is on the table as badminton looks to capitalize on its multiple world and Olympic champion Lin Dan, badminton’s answer to wide appeal and gain a profile that will bring sponsors running and Roger Federer, Chinese fans are still more likely to tune into the NBA or turn its players into millionaires. the English Premier League on TV. “Without question it’s a top sport in New scoring, new advertising and even new shuttlecocks and court terms of participation and activity at the professional level, it just does- colours are being considered as badminton looks to shed its staid n’t get the commercial recognition,” Leed said. “Tennis is doing an image and stand out in the digital age. Owen Leed, who heads the amazing things globally, not just in China, and we’re struggling to Badminton World Federation’s (BWF) new commercial division created break through this almost invisible radar that’s holding us back. “It’s an last year, said the sport needs cachet if it is to compete. “That’s one of easy sport to take part in, and when you look at modern players the challenges we have - how do we make the sport more glamorous they’re like ninjas.” in terms of the sport itself being sexier, without that being a naughty One of the major issues is technical - people increasingly watch word?” he told AFP at last week’s Sports Matters industry conference in sports on the move, but a fast-moving shuttlecock is almost impossi- Singapore. “That could cross everything from how we run our events in ble to see on a smartphone screen. Different colour shuttlecocks and future to how we present on television to how we profile our stars.” courts, and clever use of slow-motion footage, could all be part of the answer, Leed said. “We’re looking at everything from virtual graphics to Skirting the Issue all sorts of things that we might do to present the sport. Like scoring Leed preferred not to discuss the infamous move to gain popularity systems, (to) make the games shorter, sharper, potentially,” he said. by making women players wear skirts, which was finally shelved in “Competitively, we have a scoring system that works but also needs to SYDNEY: A picture taken on May 25, 2015 shows India’s badminton player Saina 2012 following howls of protest. But he said the players’ appearance evolve. We have fantastic challenges,” added Leed. “Everyone knows Nehwal (left), currently world number 1, posing for pictures in front of the iconic was “all part of the picture” and would also be in focus as the sport what badminton is, to whether you play in your garden in the UK in Opera House with world number 2 Lin Dan (center) of China and Australia’s attempts to modernize. “As a sport we’re still quite conservative and if summer, to whether you play professionally in the Asian environment Gronya Somerville. — AFP we want to grow the sport for the players to have an ability to earn or global environment.” — AFP ADB revises down regional growth as China, India slow Page 22

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DAMASCUS: A Syrian man pulls a cart at a fruit and vegetable market in central Damascus on September 21, 2015. — AFP Sanctions-hit Iran economy stagnates Shoppers hold off on purchases, wait for foreign brands

DUBAI: Two months after Iran reached a nuclear deal the market is facing a recession,” Vice President Eshaq Consumers say the manufacturers cannot procure parts Other sectors of the economy are also suffering. that will open its markets to the world, officials are Jahangiri was quoted as saying by state news agency under sanctions so use replicas or even second-hand “Home appliances sales have fallen 5 to 6 percent warning of economic stagnation as consumers hold off IRNA this month. parts, resulting in poor standards of safety and reliability. after the nuclear deal,” Industry Minister Mohammad on purchases of domestic goods while they wait for Mehdi Pourghazi, head of the industrial committee One customer told Reuters the engine of her new Reza Nematzadeh was quoted as saying by state international brands to arrive. From cars to fridges and of the Tehran Chamber of Commerce, predicted growth Iranian car burned out within 20 kilometres (12 miles) of broadcaster IRIB in August. televisions, shoppers are excited at the prospect of could fall to zero, compared to 3 percent last year, the depot. Last week the Health Minister Hassan A Tehran-based seller of appliances such as fridges, more choice and competition that should force Iranian according to the ISNA agency. Ghazizadeh Hashemi blamed poorly built cars for Iran’s washing machines and vacuum cleaners also reported manufacturers to lower prices and improve quality. high rate of road deaths which, at around 17,000 a year, a slowdown. While Iranian consumers look forward to The deal with world powers in July will likely see OUTDATED CARS is one of the world’s highest. the wider choice they think a freer market would banking and other sanctions lifted in 2016, making it Carmakers, the biggest non-oil sector of the econo- Foreign-made cars are available, but import tariffs of bring, most policymakers want to protect local manu- easier for foreigners to partner with Iranian firms or my, are facing a particularly sharp slowdown. New car up to 90 percent put them out of reach of most buyers. facturers and shore up economic growth. export to Iran. Since the deal, Iranian manufacturers registrations for the first five months of the Iranian year, A Suzuki Vitara, a small SUV, costs $42,000 in Tehran: Nematzadeh said this month the social media cam- have seen growth in sales prices fall far behind inflation, which starts on March 21, were down 15 percent from several times the average household income and dou- paign against carmakers was a threat to the economy, central bank data show, while officials and analysts the year before, traffic police chief Taghi Mehri was ble the Dubai price. calling it “sinful, treasonous and anti-revolutionary”. describe a slowdown in consumer spending and ware- quoted as saying by the ISNA agency this month. Iran Khodro and Saipa are in talks with foreign car- He later apologised under pressure from President houses filling with unsold goods. A social media campaign urging a boycott of carmak- makers to get access to more up-to-date models after “The subsequent rush of Western businesses to enter ers has recently emerged, highlighting frustration at the sanctions. Peugeot sent representatives to Tehran this Hassan Rouhani, Iranian media reported, after his com- the Iranian market informed Iranian consumers that lack of choice. Campaign supporters say Iran’s two car- week alongside more than 100 other French firms inter- ments provoked public outrage. “If we believe in the soon there will be alternative supplies of consumer makers, Iran Khodro and Saipa, take advantage of ested in entering the Iranian market. free-market economy we should accept that the cus- goods priced more competitively and with a substan- import tariffs to sell outdated and unsafe vehicles at tomer is always right,” Mohammad Reza Sabzalipour, tially higher quality and post-sale services,” said inflated prices. Reuters was unable to reach the compa- CUSTOMER IS RIGHT President of Tehran’s World Trade Centre, told Reuters. Mehrdad Emadi, an economist at the Betamatrix consul- nies for comment. Iran’s manufacturing Producer Price Index (PPI) rose “People supported this campaign because there is a tancy in London. That competition is likely to lift Iran’s “I sold my car two weeks ago and wanted to buy a just 1 percent year-on-year in the Iranian month to void in the market.” But Rouhani has also told foreign economy in the long term, but consumer anticipation new one, but I decided to wait until the price is lower. August 22, compared to 11.2 percent in the previous companies not to treat Iran solely as an export market of lower prices and foreign goods is a challenge to man- Iranian car makers should learn they cannot rule the year and far below inflation rates of between 14 and 17 after sanctions. ufacturers used to a captive market. market by monopoly,” one supporter Mehdi posted on percent. PPI growth for vehicle manufacturing fell to 3.3 “If foreign companies or countries think they can “Unfortunately some people thought prices would Facebook. Iran Khodro and Saipa produce versions of percent from 20.7 percent over the same period, data take control of a market of 80 million people, they are fall suddenly after the nuclear deal, and because of this foreign cars but do not have access to the latest models. from the Central Bank of Iran (CBI) showed. mistaken, and we must not allow it,” he said. — Reuters

Gulf stocks consolidate; Gulf countries will stick to dollar pegs: Fitch LONDON: Gulf countries’ currency pegs to oil producers’ pegs has not been limited to eroded. “The central banks - they do not trading thin ahead of Eid the dollar are under pressure from low oil the Gulf. Kazakhstan abolished its peg to have the tools, and they are not preparing prices and a stronger dollar but there is no the dollar in August, while Nigeria has to move for an exchange rate arrange- chance of them being abolished, ratings already devalued twice in the past year ment that is not a peg,” Gamble added. MIDEAST STOCK MARKETS agency Fitch said yesterday. and is under pressure to move further. Fitch rates Saudi Arabia at AA but revised Oil exporters in the region including Saudi Arabia, world’s largest oil its outlook to negative at the end of DUBAI: Most Gulf stock markets hardly moved ing the company’s business. Abu Dhabi’s Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates exporter, has pegged the riyal at 3.75 to August, citing lower oil prices and a in thin trade yesterday ahead of the Eid Al- bourse edged up 0.2 percent with most blue have shackled their currencies to the dollar the dollar while the United Arab spending increase associated with the Adha holiday while ex-dividend stocks chips posting small gains. Qatar’s market in longstanding arrangements that made Emirates’ dirham is fixed at a rate of accession of a new king. dragged down Dubai and Egypt rose on for- slipped 0.3 percent in mixed trade with no clear sense when commodity prices were high 3.6725 since 1997. The negative outlook signalled a more eign inflows. Saudi Arabia’s bourse was already direction, while Kuwait’s index inched down and the dollar was weak. “There is some Contracts used to indicate the direc- than 50 percent chance of a downgrade closed for Eid, and most other markets in the 0.08 percent and Oman added 0.2 percent. The pressure on exchange rate pegs in the tion of bets on the exchange rate have over the next two years, Gamble added. Middle East will follow suit from Wednesday Egyptian index climbed 0.8 percent as region ... (but) it’s not going to happen. I shown Gulf currencies coming under “(The main reason) would be due to inad- and reopen next week. Commercial International Bank, the country’s really don’t see any change for these increasing pressure. One-year dollar-riyal equate fiscal policy response that would Dubai’s index fell 0.8 percent as property biggest lender, rose 1.2 percent. Bourse data exchange rate pegs,” said Paul Gamble, forwards hit 12-year highs in August, erode their sovereign buffers.” developer DAMAC and telecommunications showed that non-Arab institutional investors senior director at Fitch Ratings, adding that though well off highs hit around early Data published late in August showed operator du fell 2.3 and 3.0 percent respectively were net buyers of stocks. abolishing the pegs would be a political 1999 when oil prices bounced around the that the world’s largest oil exporter has as the period for claiming the next dividend on Among the losers was Telecom Egypt, which rather than an economic decision. $10 a barrel level. been drawing down reserves to cover the the stocks ended. edged down 0.4 percent. The stock has been “The pegs are the key and really the “We have seen much worse,” said deficit, though the speed of decline has News of a $100 million debt issue, however, under pressure since the company’s chairman only nominal anchor in these economies Gamble, adding governments’ foreign cur- slowed in July since the government appeared to offset some pressure on DAMAC as resigned on Saturday after just four months in and the pegs are backed by huge reserves,” rency reserves built up during times when began issuing domestic debt to cover part investors may see it as a step towards expand- office. — Reuters Gamble said at a briefing. The pressure on oil prices were higher would of course be of a budget deficit. — Reuters WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2015 BUSINESS

Tunisian govt, union sign deal on public sector wage hike

TUNIS: Tunisia’s government and the UGTT, Habib Essid and Hussein Abassi, head of the accelerate economic reforms, including cuts Abidine Ben Ali in a 2011 uprising, holding the main labor union, yesterday signed an UGTT, which has in the past been one of the in public spending, saying public sector pay in free elections and drafting a new constitution. agreement to increase the wages of 800,000 country’s political powerbrokers. Tunisia accounted for about 13.5 percent of But many Tunisians are concerned about the public sector workers for the second time this The increase will add about 500 million gross domestic product, one of the highest rising cost of living, unemployment and the year after weeks of negotiations. dinars more public spending to the budget. rates in the world. continued marginalization of rural towns - The North African state is under pressure “The economic situation of the country is very The public wage hike will be the second in factors that helped fuel the 2011 uprising. from international lenders to reduce public difficult, and we have to make sacrifices to just a few months and will take effect from The government expects the budget deficit spending and cut the deficit to help economic keep social tensions calm. But we have to get January. In April, the government increased to narrow to 5 percent of gross domestic growth, especially after two militant attacks back to work and productivity to revive the public sector worker wages. product in 2015 from 5.8 percent last year. But badly hurt its vital tourism industry. The deal economy,” Prime Minister Hadid Essib said. Tunisia has been praised as an example of it faces pressure from creditors to cut high for a monthly wage hike of 50 Tunisian dinars International Monetary Fund Director compromise politics and democratic transi- public spending, including subsidies on basic ($25) was signed between Prime Minister Christine Lagarde last week urged Tunisia to tion since the overthrow of autocrat Zine El- foods and fuel. — Reuters

ADB revises down regional News in brief

growth as China, India slow Dollar up to KD 0.302 against Kuwaiti dinar CBs warned of impending Fed rate hike KUWAIT: The exchange rate of the US dollar against the HONG KONG: Weaker growth in China this year is Kuwaiti dinar rose to KD 0.302, while the euro went down expected to cause a slowdown in the rest of Asia, to reach KD 0.338 yesterday, compared to Monday’s rates. the Asian Development Bank said yesterday as it The Central Bank of Kuwait said in its daily bulletin that the became the latest major body to revise down its exchange rate of the sterling increased to stand at KD forecasts for the world’s number two economy. 0.468, as well as the Swiss Franc to reach KD 0.310, while It also warned central banks to prepare for an the Japanese yen was unchanged at KD 0.002. expected Federal Reserve interest rate rise, with many nations already seeing huge capital outflows as dealers look for safer US investments. UAE August inflation The report comes as markets have been hit by extreme volatility driven by fears over the Chinese rises to 4.9 percent economy-and its leaders’ management of it-after last month’s surprise devaluation of its yuan curren- DUBAI: The United Arab Emirates National Bureau of cy. “The combination of a moderating prospect in Statistics released the following August consumer China and India, together with delayed recovery of price data yesterday, showing inflation at its highest advanced countries, weighed on our forecast for level since February 2009. Housing and utility costs, the region as a whole,” said ADB Chief Economist which account for over 39 percent of consumer Shang-Jin Wei, who presented the report at the expenses, jumped 9.9 percent from a year earlier in Foreign Correspondents’ Club in Hong Kong. August and rose 0.1 percent from the previous month. In an update to its flagship Asian Development Abu Dhabi, the biggest emirate in the UAE, hiked elec- Outlook released in March, the Bank said growth in tricity and water tariffs from Jan 1. Food and soft drink the region would hit 5.8 percent this year and 6.0 prices, which account for nearly 14 percent of the bas- percent in 2016. March’s forecast was for 6.3 per- ket, rose 0.6 percent year-on-year and fell 0.5 percent cent for both years. month-on-month. Transportation prices jumped 10.7 Inflation in the developing Asia region was percent year-on-year and 10.6 percent month-on- forecast to ease further, partly due to lower global month in August after the UAE switched from fixed commodity prices. Wei said that the overall outlook fuel prices to a formula based on global oil price. for the region was “still positive” but had been impacted by capital flow reversals and weakened commodity prices for exporters, partly related to Egyptian pound remains the China slowdown. “Developing Asia is expected to continue to be MANILA: Alenor Mangadatu, 26, a former handicraft worker, creates flower sculpture from used plastic bottles that he sells for steady at dollar sale the largest contributing region to global growth around a US dollar each at a street in Manila yesterday. Philippine economic growth in the first quarter slowed to a three-yearlow despite the moderation,” he added. However, it of 5.2 percent, well below forecasts, due to lethargic government spending and weak exports. — AFP CAIRO: The Egyptian pound held steady by the central tipped China-the main driver of global economic bank at a dollar sale yesterday, where $37.8 million was growth-to expand 6.8 percent this year, instead of “Consumption growth continues to look rela- cast for China by 0.1 percentage points to 6.7 per- A tightening of US monetary policy would sold at a cut-off price of 7.7301 pounds per dollar, and the 7.2 previously estimated, following a stream of tively strong. Retail sales look relatively resilient... cent. Forecasts for India were also lowered to 7.4 likely lead to the flight of much-needed capi- weakened on the parallel market. The official cut-off price weak indicators including on trade, inflation, job market employment looks relatively resilient,” percent from 7.8 percent, weighed by the slow tal from developing nations as traders move remained unchanged from Sunday’s dollar sale and two investment and consumer spending. he said. Wei added that stocks volatility was unlike- pace of reform by the new government and weak into the US in search of better returns. This traders said the dollar changed hands at 8.045 pounds in ly to have a long-lasting effect on growth. It added external demand, the report said. The ADB urged would in turn put pressure on central banks the parallel market, weaker than Sunday’s 8.03. Egypt has US rate worries that Southeast Asia was bearing the brunt of regional central banks to move now on monetary to lift rates themselves in a bid to protect sought to tame a once-thriving currency black market The ADB predicted growth rate would be the China’s slowdown, with growth in Southeast Asia policy to prepare for a US rate hike, which Fed chief their currencies, at a time when they are with measures such as a cap on dollar-denominated bank slowest since 1990, a year after the Tiananmen this year put at 4.4 percent, before rising to 4.9 per- Janet Yellen has said will come before the end of struggling to kickstart tepid growth at home. deposits. The central bank gave permission in January to Square crackdown that led to global sanctions cent in 2016. Jurgen Conrad, head of the ADB’s the year. “To counter the impacts of a US rate rise, World markets were rocked after the Fed on trade dollars up to 0.10 pounds above or below the official against Beijing. It is also below China’s official tar- economic unit, told reporters in Beijing that the monetary policy authorities in developing Asia will Thursday held off announcing a rise, with rate, with currency exchange bureaus allowed to trade at get for the year of “about” 7 percent. But Wei said revision was “mainly due to the delayed recovery in need to find a balance between stabilising the Yellen citing the threats to the US economy 0.15 pounds above or below the official rate. The central talk of a collapse in Chinese growth was industrial countries reducing export demand”. financial sector and stimulating domestic demand,” caused by China’s economy as a key reason bank had kept the pound at 7.5301 for five months until “overblown”. Last week the OECD cut its 2015 growth fore- the report warned. for the decision. —AFP July, when it was allowed to slide to 7.6301. On July 5, the bank let it slip a further 0.10 pounds. Saudi bank ANB set to sell Iran cancels import duties on wheat and barley QNB ends talks with KFH capital-boosting sukuk over Malaysian unit DUBAI: Arab National Bank (ANB) is close to but with a clause allowing the issuer to redeem DUBAI/MOSCOW: Iran has canceled import duties complete offloading and finish checks at the cus- completing a 2 billion riyal ($533.3 million) capi- the security after five years. ANB, 40-percent it imposed on wheat and barley in July, according toms, one can expect a spike in export activity to DUBAI: Qatar National Bank (QNB) has halted talks tal-boosting sukuk issue, sources familiar with owned by Jordan’s Arab Bank, could not be to an official document seen by Reuters yesterday. Iran,” a Russian industry source said. with Kuwait Finance House (KFH) to buy its Malaysian the matter told Reuters yesterday. reached for comment as the kingdom’s banks The document said the import duties ended on Iran was the third largest buyer of Russian unit, the Gulf Arab region’s largest bank said yesterday. Order books have closed for the transaction, are closed for the Eid Al-Adha holiday. Sept. 6 for wheat and on Aug. 22 for barley. It gave wheat last marketing year after Turkey and Egypt. “QNB announces stopping of preliminary talks to which will enhance the Tier 2, or supplementary, The transaction was arranged by Deutsche no reason for the cancellation. The Iranian govern- The import duties had applied to all private sector acquire Kuwait Finance House Malaysia without reach- capital of Saudi Arabia’s seventh-largest lender Bank, HSBC, JP Morgan and the Saudi bank’s ment imposed a wheat duty of 1,500 rials per kilo, importers, traders and mills but not to the state ing an agreement,” it said in a bourse filing. Earlier in by assets, according to two of the sources, who investment banking arm, ANB Invest, according or about $45 to $50 a tonne, a level that rendered import agencies Government Trading Corporation the day, KFH’s chief executive Mazin Al-Nahedh told spoke on condition of anonymity as the infor- to multiple sources. Of all Saudi listed banks at wheat imports commercially unfeasible. of Iran (GTC) or the State Livestock Affairs Logistic Reuters the bank had ruled out a sale or merger for its mation is not public. the end of June, ANB had the lowest total capi- The government had originally said the wheat Co. (SLAL). Iran, which was largely self-sufficient in Malaysian unit, adding the largest Islamic bank in the Pricing for the deal was set at 140 basis tal adequacy ratio, an important indicator of a duty would last for one year and the barley until wheat a decade ago, has emerged as one of the Gulf Arab state “will begin restructuring the unit with points over the six-month Saudi interbank bank’s health and which is a mixture of Tier 1, or Sept 22. The cancellation comes despite a state- world’s biggest importers. For the 2015/16 season, immediate effect”. The disclosure from KFH comes offered rate, the two sources added. ANB said in core, capital and Tier 2 capital. ment by the government in August saying that it however, the USDA has forecast a drop in wheat after a source familiar with the matter told Reuters last July it had regulatory approval for a 2 billion riyal Although, the bank’s CAR of 14.83 percent is did not need to import wheat this year. imports to 4.0 million tons from 6.3 million a year week that QNB had bid to buy the unit, with the Qatari issue, which would be privately placed with high by international standards due to the Saudi “Russian ships have not been offloaded in the earlier. Iran is also the world’s third largest lender later acknowledging it was in early talks about investors and would carry a tenor of 10 years regulator’s conservative nature. —Reuters previous two weeks, possibly because they were importer of the animal feed barley, trailing Saudi an acquisition. waiting for the tax to be removed soon. After they Arabia and China. — Reuters EXCHANGE RATES

Al-Muzaini Exchange Co. GOLD Jordanian Dinar 426.815 US Dollars Mint 0.299050 0.303050 20 gram 226.690 Egyptian Pound 38.572 10 gram 116.040 Asia ASIAN COUNTRIES Sri Lankan Rupees 2.174 5 gram 58.700 Bangladesh Taka 0.003425 0.004025 Japanese Yen 2.524 Indian Rupees 4.555 Chinese Yuan 0.046051 0.049551 Indian Rupees 4.604 Pakistani Rupees 2.902 Bangladesh Taka 3.885 Hong Kong Dollar 0.036961 0.039711 Pakistani Rupees 2.898 UAE Exchange Centre WLL Philippines Pesso 6.470 Indian upee 0.004365 0.004755 Srilankan Rupees 2.161 Cyprus pound 576.925 Indonesian Rupiah 0.000017 0.000023 Nepali Rupees 2.852 Japanese Yen 3.515 Japanese Yen 0.002439 0.002619 Singapore Dollar 215.870 CURRENCIES TELEX TRANSFER PER 1000 Syrian Pound 2.600 Kenyan Shilling 0.002858 0.002858 Hongkong Dollar 39.054 Australian Dollar 195.69 Canadian Dollar 231.84 Nepalese Rupees 3.840 Korean Won 0.000247 0.000262 Bangladesh Taka 3.890 Swiss Franc 317.29 Malaysian Ringgit 71.050 Malaysian Ringgit 0.068410 0.074410 Philippine Peso 6.506 Euro 345.54 Chinese Yuan Renminbi 47.895 Nepalese Rupee 0.002899 0.003069 Thai Baht 8.483 US Dollar 302.85 Thai Bhat 9.395 Pakistan Rupee 0.002835 0.003115 Sterling Pound 469.68 Turkish Lira 99.160 Philippine Peso 0.006367 0.006647 GCC COUNTRIES Japanese Yen 2.56 Sierra Leone 0.000067 0.000073 Saudi Riyal 80.750 Bangladesh Taka 3.888 Singapore Dollar 0.211575 0.217575 Qatari Riyal 83.180 Indian Rupee 4.560 South African Rand 0.016593 0.025093 Omani Riyal 786.510 Bahrain Exchange Company Sri Lankan Rupee 2.182 Sri Lankan Rupee 0.001859 0.002439 Bahraini Dinar 804.170 Nepali Rupee 2.850 Taiwan 0.009192 0.009372 UAE Dirham 82.443 Pakistani Rupee 2.898 CURRENCY BUY SELL Thai Baht 0.008175 0.008725 UAE Dirhams 0.08240 Europe ARAB COUNTRIES Bahraini Dinar 0.8048 British Pound 0.463140 0.472140 Arab Egyptian Pound - Cash 40.820 Egyptian Pound 0.03857 Czech Korune 0.004618 0.016618 Bahraini Dinar 0.795579 0.803579 Egyptian Pound - Transfer 38.678 Jordanian Dinar 0.4307 Danish Krone 0.041776 0.046776 Egyptian Pound 0.037809 0.040639 Yemen Riyal/for 1000 1.413 Omani Riyal 0.7864 Euro 0.336596 0.344598 Iranian Riyal 0.000084 0.000085 Tunisian Dinar 155.840 Qatari Riyal 0.08350 Norwegian Krone 0.033001 0.038201 Iraqi Dinar 0.000198 0.000258 Jordanian Dinar 426.870 Saudi Riyal 0.08078 Romanian Leu 0.077148 0.077148 Jordanian Dinar 0.422863 0.430363 Lebanese Lira/for 1000 2.018 Slovakia 0.009018 0.019018 Kuwaiti Dinar 1.000000 1.000000 Syrian Lira 2.158 Dollarco Exchange Co. Ltd Swedish Krona 0.032612 0.037612 Lebanese Pound 0.000150 0.000250 Morocco Dirham 31.724 Swiss Franc 0.305900 0.316100 Moroccan Dirhams 0.020468 0.044468 Turkish Lira 0.096556 0.106856 Nigerian Naira 0.000921 0.001556 EUROPEAN & AMERICAN COUNTRIES Rate for Transfer Selling Rate Omani Riyal 0.779684 0.785364 US Dollar Transfer 302.650 US Dollar 302.900 Australasia Qatar Riyal 0.082419 0.083632 Euro 343.810 Canadian Dollar 230.445 Australian Dollar 0.208498 0.219998 Saudi Riyal 0.080070 0.080770 Sterling Pound 471.680 Sterling Pound 467.985 Euro 343.905 New Zealand Dollar 0.185889 0.195389 Syrian Pound 0.001283 0.001503 Canadian dollar 229.800 Swiss Frank 294.310 Tunisian Dinar 0.151857 0.159857 Turkish lira 100.320 Bahrain Dinar 803.930 America Turkish Lira 0.096556 0.106856 Swiss Franc 313.950 UAE Dirhams 82.765 Canadian Dollar 0.223542 0.232042 UAE Dirhams 0.081419 0.082568 Australian dollar 218.660 Qatari Riyals 90.745 US Dollars 0.298550 0.303050 Yemeni Riyal 0.001368 0.001448 US Dollar Buying 301.450 Saudi Riyals 81.500 WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2015 BUSINESS ‘Putin’s banker’ Kalyan Jewellers launches the Pugachev files $12bn claim against Russia prestigious Bentley campaign PARIS: Sergei Pugachev, a tycoon once dubbed “Putin’s banker” because of his influence in the Kremlin, has filed a $12 billion claim against Russia after his business empire was Benchmark initiative will run till November 21 carved up when he fell out of favor with President Vladimir Putin. “Over the past few years, Russia has pursued a multi- KUWAIT: Kalyan Jewellers, one of the region’s most trusted the GCC and now has expanded its presence in the UAE pronged attack against me, my family, and my investments,” and leading jewellery brands, has launched ‘Win a Bentley’ with 10 showrooms and in Kuwait with three showrooms. Pugachev said in a written statement yesterday. “I refuse to be campaign on Monday, which will last until November 21, The jewellery brand has also expanded its current collec- intimidated by Russia’s tactics.” Pugachev’s notice of arbitration 2015. Through this unique campaign, Kalyan Jewellers is tion by adding additional collection of temple, antique and was delivered to Putin and Russia’s ministers of economy, creating history for being the first jewellery brand to give uncut jewellery across all the showrooms. finance, justice and foreign affairs, his lawyers said at a briefing away Bentley cars in a raffle. The campaign will be rolled Currently Kalyan Jewellers has a total of 85 showrooms in Paris. out in Kuwait and UAE, allowing customers to win a spread across India and West Asia. Kalyan Jewellers has Reuters reported on Monday that lawyers for Pugachev Bentley each in both the markets. acquired a loyal customer base of over 150,000 customers had issued notice of a claim of more than $10 billion against Customers can participate in the campaign by making a in a short span of less than two years in the GCC and has Russia that is likely to be heard in the Permanent Court of minimum purchase of KD 75 across all the Kalyan Jewellers been aggressively rolling out a slew of initiatives to estab- Arbitration in The Hague. It was not immediately possible to showrooms in Kuwait. Those who buy gold will receive one lish a strong proposition The company was the first to coupon, whereas those buying diamonds will receive two launch a Goldback credit card with RAKBANK in the UAE. get a response from the Russian government, which is seeking coupons. At the end of the two-month campaign period, With the roll out of the Bentley Campaign, Kalyan Jewellers Pugachev’s arrest for embezzlement and misappropriation of winners will be chosen in a mega raffle draw on November is looking at expanding its already established customer assets, charges he denies. 24, 2015. A Scratch and Win element is also built into the base in Kuwait and the UAE. Moscow is already fighting a separate ruling by the same coupons wherein customers can win an instant prize of Kalyan Jewellers is one of the most trusted brands and court in 2014, which ordered it to pay $50 billion for expropri- diamond jewellery worth KD 65. has developed a deep connect among its stakeholders ating the assets of Yukos, once Russia’s biggest oil producer T S Kalyanaraman, Chairman & Managing Director, with its brand promise of ‘Trust is Everything’. Kalyan and run by Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Since leaving Russia in Kalyan Jewellers said, “Kalyan Jewellers has always focused Jewellers has developed a distinct image among con- 2011, Pugachev, 52, has accused Putin’s allies of bringing his on providing distinct customer experiences that enable an sumers by smartly leveraging its brand ambassadors. multi-billion dollar business empire to its knees before picking exquisite shopping experience. Through the Bentley cam- Kalyan was the first jewellery brand to have a male as a off some of its best assets. paign, customers can avail a unique opportunity to extract brand ambassador, successfully defying the convention in Pugachev founded Mezhprombank, or International more value from their purchases and also fulfill their aspi- jewellery marketing. Industrial Bank, in 1992, just a year after the collapse of the rational needs.” Amitabh Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan are the Soviet Union. It grew to become one of Russia’s biggest banks. “Our customers are highly evolved and discerning and brand ambassadors of Kalyan Jewellers. The brand also has Pugachev’s business empire had stakes in the ‘Northern’ and we believe that initiatives like the Bentley campaign will regional icons like Prabhu Ganesan, Nagarjuna Akkieni, ‘Baltic’ shipyards, the latter of which built the Tsar’s battleships allow us to engage more deeply with our customers and Shivaraj Kumar and Manju Warrier associated with the and Soviet nuclear-powered icebreakers, and a giant Siberian forge a strong bond”, Kalyanaraman added. brand. Kalyan Jewellers has been ranked among Top 10 coal deposit. —Reuters Within a short span Kalyan has made a strong impact in Trend Setting Brands in India (Pitch, 2013). Turkish CB sits tight after US Fed decision

ISTANBUL: Turkey’s central bank left interest gle-party majority it lost at the polls in June. rates unchanged yesterday, after the US Fed The central bank has also faced pressure held fire citing concerns over emerging from President Tayyip Erdogan and some in economies and before a November election the government to keep rates on hold, raising that has made investors increasingly cautious concerns over its independence. “Considering about Turkish assets. All 16 economists in a the impact of the uncertainty in domestic and Reuters poll had expected the bank to leave its global markets on inflation expectations and benchmark one-week repo rate unchanged at taking into account the volatility in energy and 7.5 percent for the seventh month running. food prices, the Committee decided to main- Still, analysts say the bank will have to tain the tight liquidity stance as long as relent and hike rates to put a floor under the deemed necessary,” it said in a statement. currency and stop its slide from feeding infla- The bank kept the overnight borrowing tion. The lira has lost nearly a quarter of its val- rate at 7.25 percent, the overnight lending rate ue against the dollar this year, making it one of at 10.75 percent and the primary dealers’ the worst performers among emerging mar- overnight borrowing rate at 10.25 percent. The kets. Earlier this month it touched an all-time US Federal Reserve last week kept rates on low of 3.0699 per dollar. At 1123 GMT it stood hold but is widely expected to begin raising at 3.0305. them soon. That is seen as increasing the likeli- Part of the problem is that investors are hood that emerging markets such as Turkey wary ahead of a Nov. 1 election re-run where would have to follow suit to defend their cur- the ruling AK Party is hoping to regain the sin- rencies against a surging dollar. — Reuters Chinese investors protest over metals exchange

BEIJING: Chinese speculators who claim to have One protester named Peng Yuan said he invest- lost money on risky investments mounted a rare ed more than one million yuan ($160,000) in the protest in Beijing yesterday, a uncommon sight in product, using family savings and credit card debt. the capital despite plunging prices on the country’s “I’m in debt-hundreds of thousands that I put in stock exchanges. Several dozen investors-sur- were borrowed money,” said Peng, who is unem- rounded by police-stood outside the office of ployed and in his 50s. “This is outright fraud and China’s top anti-graft agency complaining they robbery.” Zhou Yuanyue, a retired woman from were tricked by the Fanya metals exchange. Jinggangshan in Jiangxi province, said she poured SHANGHAI: Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne delivers a speech at the Shanghai Stock Exchange in Shanghai Many Chinese financial institutions offer high more than three million yuan into Fanya, including yesterday. — AFP return investment schemes based on increasing from her siblings and her parents’ pensions, who asset prices, but slowing growth has heightened trusted her to manage their investments. fears that such products could go bust, potentially “They took our money and it’s gone.” Investors Britain urges closer China sparking social unrest. The Fanya exchange in wore white t-shirts calling Fanya a “scam” and southern China offered investors a bet on appealing for a police investigation into the increased metal prices, promising some double- exchange, pictures posted online showed, with digit returns on their investments. officers far outnumbering protesters. On its web- ties despite economic risk But with commodities plunging worldwide, site, Fanya has blamed “macro-economic condi- metals prices have fallen this year and some of the tions and policy factors” for difficulties traders were exchange’s reported 220,000 investors say that having “getting their cash back”, adding it was tak- SHANGHAI: Britain’s finance minister George economic growth figure to 7.3 percent, the offer investors from both countries more oppor- they are not able to withdraw funds as promised. ing “measures to restore market liquidity”. Osborne called yesterday for closer business weakest in 24 years. In both the first and second tunities and provide Chinese firms with financ- The problems date back to mid-April, reports Tuesday’s demonstration was the latest in a ties with China as he visited its commercial hub quarter this year, growth remained stuck at 7.0 ing. said, predating the Chinese stock market plunges series by Fanya investors, and followed a larger one of Shanghai, despite slowing growth and stock percent. “China’s undergoing difficult change- Shanghai and China’s special administrative that began in June. China’s main financial institu- on Monday, when several hundred gathered out- market volatility in the world’s second-largest but it’s still a huge contributor to our economic region of Hong Kong, a former British colony, tions are government-run, and many expect the side the office of China’s top securities regulator, economy. future,” Osborne said. Valuations on the have already linked their markets-allowing state to step in when the investments they have according to images online which were rapidly Osborne, Britain’s Chancellor of the Shanghai exchange alone have dropped by investors in each location to trade select shares chosen go bad. censored. — AFP Exchequer, visited the Shanghai stock more than $2.4 trillion since mid-June, after a on the other exchange. exchange, which has seen its benchmark index 150 percent surge in the previous 12 months, China is studying a similar scheme for its sec- plummet nearly 40 percent since June as a bub- lifted by a borrowing-driven rally encouraged ond stock exchange in Shenzhen, which bor- ble bursts, while worries over flagging Chinese by authorities. ders Hong Kong, but recent market volatility is growth have shaken world markets. Chinese officials responded with a rescue widely expected to delay the launch. The A day earlier Osborne agreed with top package, whose hallmarks include banning big Chinese and British central banks will also Chinese officials in Beijing to study the linking shareholders from selling and government buy- increase the size of bilateral currency swaps, of trading on the London and Shanghai bours- ing of shares. though no details were given at the close of a es, and the possibility of China’s central bank The package has raised questions over high-level dialogue in Beijing on Monday. issuing short-term bonds denominated in the Beijing’s management and drawn criticism for Osborne threw his support behind China’s yuan currency in London. “Whatever the head- running counter to promised economic reforms. attempt to have its yuan, also known as the ren- lines, regardless of the challenges, we shouldn’t Stock connect minbi (RMB), to be included in the International be running away from China,” Osborne told But the Shanghai market rose nearly two Monetary Fund’s select group of reserve curren- business leaders and students packed onto the percent to the day’s high during Osborne’s cies. trading floor of the exchange. speech, and while it trimmed some of the gains A surprise devaluation of the yuan last “Let’s stick together to grow our economies,” later it closed up 0.92 percent, in part because month sparked worries over the economy and he said, adding he deliberately chose to visit the of news of the possible stocks link. Britain and caused capital outflows from China. “I would like Shanghai bourse, which he called the “epicentre China have agreed to conduct a feasibility study to see it (the yuan) included alongside pound of the volatility in financial markets”. on connecting stock markets, which the British sterling in the IMF’s Special Drawing Rights bas- BEIJING: People protest outside the office of China’s top anti-graft agency complain- China recently revised downward its 2014 Treasury said in a statement Tuesday would ket,” Osborne said. — AFP ing they were tricked by the Fanya metals exchange, in Beijing yesterday. — AFP Xi likens Chinese economy to a ‘large ship’: WSJ

BEIJING: President Xi Jinping compared get unstable sailing on the high sea,” he said, Data generally regarded as weak in the cur- reviewed them”. Days after presiding over a sized the need to balance the flow of informa- China’s economy to a giant ship sailing in adding he was confident investor confidence rent third quarter have raised alarm bells over huge military parade in Beijing, Xi reiterated tion with legal norms. “Freedom and order stormy seas, the Wall Street Journal reported would be restored. “Against the overall global the extent of the slowdown, which has serious that China and its rising defense capabilities- must be upheld side by side in both cyber- yesterday, but Xi was confident it was moving economic backdrop, many countries have implications for the global economy. “The including anti-ship ballistic missiles-do not space and the physical world,” he said. in the right direction. encountered difficulties,” he said. “The Chinese Chinese economy is still operating within the pose a regional or global threat. “Freedom is the purpose of order, and order Xi, who began his first state visit to the economy is also under a downward pressure. proper range,” Xi said. He also defended gov- He also explicitly denied foreign allegations the guarantee of freedom.” United States later, said a long-term view was But it is a problem in the course of progress.” ernment actions to prop up plunging share that Beijing steals corporate information online Chinese leaders stress the importance of essential to understanding the world’s second- Concerns over how much China’s econom- markets, widely seen by analysts as having “in any form”, or encouraged Chinese compa- social stability over individual rights in a nation largest economy as he seeks to ease global ic growth is slowing have helped fan domestic failed. “The Chinese government has taken nies to do so. “Cybertheft of commercial of 1.37 billion, whereas the latter is a US found- worries over its performance. “If you liken it to a and global stock market volatility and raised some measures to defuse systemic risks,” he secrets and hacking attacks against govern- ing principle. Quoting the ancient Chinese large ship on the sea, the question you ask is questions over the ability of Xi and other top said. “Such steps have proved successful.” ment networks are both illegal; such acts are philosopher Mencius-”It’s only natural for whether it is sailing in the right direction, does leaders to manage a delicate transition to a criminal offences and should be punished things to be different”-Xi suggested that differ- it have sufficient engine power and energy to consumer-focused economic model. China’s Freedom is order according to law and relevant international ences must be accepted. “With so much differ- stay long,” he said, part of lengthy written economy expanded 7.3 percent last year, the The Wall Street Journal submitted its ques- conventions.” ence in ethnicity, history, culture, religion, responses to questions submitted by the weakest pace since 1990, and slowed further tions to China’s foreign ministry and officials Asked about Chinese restrictions on the social system, development level and lifestyle, newspaper. to 7.0 percent in each of the first two quarters “pulled together facts and research for the Internet as well as a proposed law to restrict there are things about others that one may “Any ship, however large, may occasionally this year. answers”, the paper said, before Xi “revised and foreign non-profit organizations, Xi empha- find hard to understand.” — AFP BUSINESS WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2015 European shares plunge as Volkswagen dives

LONDON/MILAN: European equities fell the 90-day average and the dive dragged wrote in a note. Volkswagen - Europe’s Shares in Volkswagen fell 17.6 percent, ing emerging market economies. We have sharply yesterday, with Volkswagen plung- lower the whole European auto sector. largest car maker - said it would cut its while Peugeot in France was down 8 per- seen some negative earnings revisions for ing to four-year lows and basic resources South Korea said it would investigate earnings guidance as it sets aside about 6.5 cent and Milan-listed shares in Fiat Chrysler the sector in the past weeks,” Christian firms facing a sell-off after copper prices three of its diesel models, while U.S. law- billion euros in the third quarter to cover fell 6 percent, while the STOXX Europe 600 Stocker, equity strategist at UniCredit in took a hit on concerns about a global sur- makers also planned to hold a hearing on costs related to the emissions scandal in Auto index was down 6.7 percent. The Munich, said. plus of the industrial metal. Shares in its emissions from diesel vehicles in com- the United States and other markets. FTSEurofirst 300 index of top European “If China manufacturing numbers come Volkswagen wiped off more than one-fifth ing weeks. However, one broker said the scandal shares was down 2.3 percent, a day after in better than expected tomorrow, we of their value at one point after slumping “We would continue to avoid the auto could ultimately accelerate potential M&A closing 1 percent higher. The benchmark could see a rebound in mining stocks for nearly 19 percent the day before, as an sector as this issue has the potential to roll- in the sector as car makers might need to index has been hovering within a 75-point some days, but the sector’s medium-term investigation into possible cheating over on and it’s more likely than not to involve share costs in the light of a possible range this month. It broadly traded in a outlook remains bearish.” emissions tests spread to Asia. more than just one original equipment increase in spending to reduce emissions 170-point band in July and August. The European mining index has Volumes in the stock were three times manufacturing,” brokerage Aviate Global and recalling costs. “Concerns over global growth persist slumped about 25 percent so far this year and the cost of restructuring and balance mainly on concerns about the pace of eco- sheet bolstering is finally hitting home,” nomic growth in China, the world’s said Mike van Dulken, Head of Research at biggest metals consumer. Prices of major Accendo Markets. industrial metals such as copper, alumini- The STOXX Europe 600 Basic Resources um and nickel have fallen sharply this year. index dropped 4.5 percent, the second Outokumpu fell 15.3 percent after largest sectoral faller, dragged down by Europe’s largest stainless steel maker Rio Tinto, BHP Billiton, Glencore, Anglo warned its quarterly loss will be deeper American and Antofagasta. than expected, citing weak demand and “It’s a continuation of the negative low nickel prices. The warning dragged trend for basic resources companies as we down its peers such a its peers Aperam have a high degree of uncertainty regard- and Acerinox. — Reuters BUSINESS WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

Revolutionizing smartphone e-commerce market in GCC

By Islam Al-Sharaa

delegation comprising representatives from different media representatives from the GCC including the AKuwait Times was invited to visit the factory of e-brand smartphone Honor in Shenzhen, China on September 9, 2015. We were delighted to meet George Zhao, Honor Business Unit President of at the factory who took us on an exciting tour through the factory and labs and showed us how the smart- phone is manufactured and how it reacts under different cir- cumstances such as heat, water and vibration. Here are some of the important facts and information Chris Sun Baigong, the Vice President of Honor in the Middle East shared with us on Honor smartphone e-brand.

State of Play in the Smartphone Market We at Honor, the world’s No 1 smartphone e-brand, see huge potential in the Middle East market as it has one of the highest mobile penetration rates in the world. We know that more than 80 percent of young adults in the region own a smartphone and most of them change their phone every six months. Having said that, there is a raft of high quality prod- ucts available for them to choose from and we are often asked how we will cut through what is considered a cluttered mar- ket. We at Honor are indeed forging new territory with a brave, factory-to-consumer business model negating the need for bricks and mortar stores. This means that customers can access cutting edge technology, direct from us, at a realis- tic and appealing price. We know that two thirds of young adults (millennials) shopped online last month, with m-commerce becoming increasingly important which highlights the potential that we A delegation of media representatives from the GCC including the Kuwait Times IT Director with George Zhao, Honor Business Unit President (Center) at Honor are tapping into. We are confident that as one of the fastest growing smartphone e-brands in the world, we will the forefront of our innovation, which is much easier for us to revolutionize the Middle East market with this e-commerce implement as we are more directly linked with our consumers only model coupled with our game-changing smartphone due to our factory to consumer business model. devices. We are also developing products packed with ‘world first’ innovation patented by Huawei, including the Honor 6 Plus Why Honor is set to be a hit in the GCC Honor’s performance with its dual parallel camera which far exceeds the photo quality and depth of field ever seen in a smartphone before. Honor is experiencing more than ten times the growth of 1. HONOR 6 PLUS GCC LAUNCH: The Honor 6 Plus which is a different strategy to other smartphone e- The fact that this completely unique technology is available in the global smartphone market with an Honor device sold launch in this region saw the device sell out on brands like InnJoo and Infinix which have launched the Honor 6 Plus priced at AED 1399 also makes our products every 1.5 seconds. So, with smartphone growth worldwide at Souq.com in the first week, prompting Honor to in this region previously. These entry to mid-level far more distinguishable than our competitors. 7 percent, Honor is growing at 100 percent year-on-year, ship more units to meet local demand. smartphone brands focussed predominantly on demonstrating the brand’s huge upward growth despite price differentiation and direct sales tactics. It is Honor next steps launching less than two years ago. 2. THE HONOR 7 LAUNCH: Huawei has publically impossible to compare Honor with other online Having already launched two products to the Middle East, We entered the Middle East market in May this year, with announced that it expects to double Honor sales in smartphone brands that have entered the market the Honor 6 Plus with the world’s first parallel dual camera, the successful launch of Honor 6 Plus which sold out in the 2015; Huawei believes it will sell 40 million smart- previously. Honor is creating an entirely new cate- and the Honor 4X, the fastest selling smartphone device sold first week on Souq.com, prompting Honor to ship more units phone units (double the sales last year), helping to gory. online, we are excited to broaden our portfolio of products to meet local demand. Our second device, the Honor 4X, cement its position among the top players in the spanning varying price points to service the diverse consumer launched on 25th August and broke sales records every day field. Globally Huawei has a 5.2 percent market 7. WORLDWIDE TRENDS: You just have to look at needs and demands. before selling out within a week. The Honor 4X actually share, and they say that their recent growth has worldwide trends - trends at Huawei, and also with We are set to launch the Honor 7 in the next few months, smashed online sales records to become the fastest selling been driven in part by the success of the Honor other e-commerce brands around the world, to see which is already making waves around the world. Before it device sold on Souq.com ever. range. the impact that the internet model is having on the smartphone market. For example, a top Chinese 3. THE HONOR GROWTH STORY: In one year only, smartphone e-brand was launched in 2010, and is Honor has achieved 20 million units of sales and has now a top six leading smartphone brand in the a net worth of over $2.4 billion. Honor has entered world based on market share. At the end of 2015, it 74 markets over the past year, with over (2000 per- was valued at more than $45 billion, making it one cent)revenue growth rate; currently an Honor of the most valuable private technology companies device is sold every 1.5 seconds. in the world. Put this in perspective; it took Facebook six years to generate a value of $35 billion. 4. WE HAVE THE BACKING OF HUAWEI: Unlike other smaller online-only smartphone brands that may 8. CHINA And then there is China: China has been have sprung up over the past few years, Honor seen as one of the most important smartphone comes from a serious position of strength. Huawei is markets in the world due to its size, the fact that one of the most important technology companies in until now it has been considered a developing mar- the world, ranking285 in the Fortune 500 and 94 in ket, and due to the sheer number of smartphone Interbrand’s top 100 Best Global Brands. With that manufacturers to come out of China. So what’s hap- comes a deep infrastructure that cannot be replicat- pening in China? Well the key players now are ed by a start-up, as well as deeply entrenched valu- Apple, Xiaomi and Huawei. able in-market partnerships. This support of Huawei George Zhao, Honor Business Unit President Chris Sun Baigong - VP of Honor MENA Region copy is what has enabled Honor to enter so many new Why? markets so quickly and has helped to catalyse the • Xiaomi massively shook up the market and took brand’s growth. the No 1 spot for the majority of 2014. The Honor 4X is second to none when it comes to quality officially launched outside of China in August, pre-orders of device reached 10 million which demonstrates the huge level and best value for money, and although the evaluated price of 5. AN UPCOMING ONLINE STORE: Honor has been • Apple responded by sheer strength of brand and of demand surrounding the Honor products globally. the device was between 799-999 AED, consumers were pleas- expanding its brand recognition in the international some great product launches, and has managed The Honor 7, a fully-metallic device is purpose-built for sin- antly surprised when we revealed the price of the Honor 4X is smartphone market by taking on a direct sales tactic to take back the number one spot in Q1 2015. gle-handed use, includes a host of unique smart functions 599 AED. We can provide these surprising products and servic- through its own online store. It’s a strategy that rival and multimedia capabilities straight from the Huawei R&D es due to our unique factory to consumer business model, so Xiaomi has employed in parts of Asia and India with • Huawei was No 4, but has now leapfrogged centre including a 20MP camera, voice activated phone finder, we are confident of our success in this region and are looking great success. Whilst we can’t say for sure whether Samsung to take the No 3 spot. WHY? Because of personalized smart button and gesture-enabled fingerprint to achieve 10 percent market share in the Middle East by the Honor will employ this strategy in this market, it is HONOR. Honor was Huawei’s response to the reader. We are dedicated to providing consumers in this mar- end of 2015. nonetheless a strategy that is paying off for it in oth- evolving needs of the Chinese consumer, and it ket with products and services that not only meet but far er regions. paid off big time. Samsung has lost 50 percent exceed expectations. We feel some of the market leaders have Honor products in Middle East market share in China in just one year (although slowed down when it comes to true product innovation which The fact that we are targeting the digital and tech savvy, 6. BRAND CAMPAIGN: Honor is investing in a large- the Samsung S6 launch may show a different sto- has left consumers feeling underwhelmed. We want to blow entrepreneurial young adults of the Middle East, with a scale offline brand awareness campaign in the GCC, ry for Q2). unique e-commerce only approach distinguishes us from consumers away with what is actually possible and look for- competitors. We develop products with the user experience at ward to doing so with our Honor brand.

Media delegation with Honor officials WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2015 BUSINESS Boeing ‘planning China factory’: Report

SHANGHAI: Plans for a Boeing factory in aircraft in the northern port of Tianjin and posal forward-but said an update could craft worth $950 billion to its commercial News reported earlier this month that China have been submitted to the gov- plans to open a new completion and be expected as early as this week. Xi is fleet by 2034, Boeing said last month in its Boeing was exploring whether to open a ernment in Beijing, state-run media delivery centre for long-haul A-330s. A due to visit Boeing’s main airplane factory annual China Current Market Outlook. At factory in China to perform tasks such as reported yesterday ahead of President Xi plan for the Boeing plant in Zhoushan, in in Washington state today, before travel- the launch, Randy Tinseth, vice president painting its top-selling 737 jetliners, Jinping’s US visit, where he will tour one the eastern province of Zhejiang, has ling in Washington DC the following day of marketing at Boeing Commercial which would be its first such facility out- of its plants. been submitted to the State Council, to meet President Barack Obama at the Airplanes, said that “Airbus has its way to side the US. A Boeing factory in China would rep- China’s cabinet, the Shanghai Securities White House. address the Chinese market, we have our Boeing could not be reached immedi- resent an about-turn in the US giant’s News reported. The factory would be the centrepiece way... we have a different path”. ately for comment. Zhoushan sits in the strategy in the crucial market, where The newspaper, which is run by the of a new aerospace industrial zone in But he added that neither strategy Yangtze river delta on the East China Sea European rival Airbus has a final assembly official news agency Xinhua, gave few Zhoushan, it added. was “right or wrong... we always keep our and borders the commercial hub of operation for medium-range Airbus 320 details-including who had put the pro- China is expected to add 6,330 new air- options open for the future”. Bloomberg Shanghai. —AP Audi Kuwait appoints Ihab A Bou Hassan as new marketing manager

KUWAIT: Audi Kuwait represented by Fouad media, advertising and CRM, our manage- Alghanim and Sons Automotive Company ment team is strengthened as we prepare has appointed a new Marketing Manager for the opening of our all new Audi Terminal Ihab A Bou Hassan. - opening in June 2016. Ihab has vast experience in the field of Ihab A Bou Hassan also commented “I am marketing on the client side, the client serv- proud to be a member of the Audi Team and icing side and media side for more than 9 Fouad Alghanim & Sons Automotive years. Along with marketing communica- Company. I look forward to the challenge tions experience, Ihab also has notable auto- ahead and I am fully committed to ensure motive experience in Kuwait and has gained that Audi brand is positioned in line with the knowledge of the local market and con- overall 2020 vision. Working in the automo- sumers alike. tive sector, generally and with Audi specifi- On this occasion, Tarek AlShafie stated: cally has been a personal passion. Audi’s “We are happy to have Ihab on board. With brand values of sportiness, progressiveness his exceptional passion for Audi in the auto- and sophistication will drive me forward to motive sector and his local knowledge of an exciting 2016”,

ATHENS: Republican presidential candidate and former Florida Gov Jeb Bush poses for a photograph with Katie Wong during a tailgate party before an NCAA college football game between Georgia and South Carolina on Saturday in Athens, Georgia. —AP Too many regulations are hurting US economy: Bush Republican releasing plan to fix failed system VIVA announces sixth & MIAMI: Republican Jeb Bush is American people and not special along with a foreign policy strate- law that tightened regulation of seventh daily draw winners releasing a plan to fix a “failed” interests, and reducing govern- gy to defeat Islamic State mili- the financial services industry system of federal rules and regu- ment red tape, according to a tants. In his regulatory reform after the 2008 financial crisis. The of its prepaid campaign lations that he argues are stifling policy paper released by the Bush plan, Bush bashes President northern spotted owl was listed US economic growth and the cre- campaign. Barack Obama’s administration, as a threatened species in 1990 KUWAIT: VIVA, Kuwait’s fastest-grow- experience and reward its prepaid cus- ation of jobs. Bush will share “Federal regulation is holding saying it has imposed too many and became a symbol for ing and most developed telecom oper- tomers for their continued trust in VIVA. details Tuesday when he takes his America back from its potential,” regulations that are costing the Endangered Species Act protec- ator, announced the sixth and seventh VIVA will continue to seek new and campaign to Gladbrook, Iowa, the policy paper asserts. “America’s economy billions of dollars. tions that harm local economies. lucky winners of its weekly draws cam- innovative ways to facilitate the lives of paign that gives prepaid customers a its customers and share with them the where he will meet with local regulatory system has failed, and Bush rattled off a diverse col- If elected, Bush would impose chance to win $1,500 daily cash prize latest in communication technology. farmers and small business own- its families, workers, consumers, lection of examples. He said a freeze on regulations, appoint a for every KD1 they spend on recharge, ers at John Putney’s Farm. He’s and small businesses are paying banking rules under the “heavy- presidential task force to “drive as well as $5,000 monthly. The cam- spending the day in Iowa, which the price: weaker growth, less handed” 2010 Dodd-Frank law his regulatory reform agenda” paign that started on 28 July 2015 will holds its closely watched caucus- opportunity, fewer full-time jobs, hurts small banks and helps big and insist that any costs associat- be valid for six consecutive months. es on Feb. 1. and lower wages.” banks. And he claimed that the ed with a new regulation be off- VIVA’s prepaid daily draws is taking Under his plan, the former Bush’s federal regulatory Endangered Species Act has set by the elimination of old regu- place once a week with seven winners, Florida governor wants to end reform plan is among several pol- “done little to protect the (north- lations. one winner for every day of the week to the “Washington-knows-best icy proposals he has rolled out in ern spotted owl) and much to The latest GOP presidential pri- get the $1,500 cash prize. The winners mentality” by “scaling back” exist- recent weeks. He has detailed decimate” the Northwest’s timber mary polls in Iowa show Bush in for the sixth week are: Hmoud Fayeh ing regulations, making regula- plans to overhaul the country’s industry. single digits, trailing front-runner Aldaihani, Rodolfo Garsiya, Alsideeq tors more accountable to the immigration system and tax code, Dodd-Frank was a landmark Donald Trump and others. Mohammed Ali Ahmad, Gangana Boto Nerilo Boto, Ahmad Darwesh Hussain, Doriti Abdorqadir, Habiba Gebriarigaya. And for the seventh week: Vijaya Bhaskar Yalamili, Tadili Simione, AAW wins Kuwait prime real Masaood Alm Safr Ali, Lakshman Jaialat, Asharaf Parambayi, Joselito Bacani, Abdulaziz Hadi Abdulrahman Alanezi. estate development tenders Both new and existing prepaid cus- tomers are eligible to enter daily and monthly draws throughout the promo- KUWAIT: Ali Abdulwahab Al-Mutawa AAW General Manager, Ali F Al-Mutawa said: exclusive distributor of Bosch and Siemens in tion period, upon recharging their lines Commercial Co (AAW) yesterday announced its “Nolte, Bosch and Siemens are global leaders in Kuwait. with KD 1 credit. 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KUWAIT: As part of the Eid Al-Adha cel- at the KNCC cinema in the Avenues Mall ebrations, Gulf Bank is announcing an to showcase its products and services to exclusive offer for its new red customers potential and existing customers. to watch the latest films at Kuwait Gulf Bank continuously looks for new National Cinema Company (KNCC) cine- and interesting initiatives to reward its mas between September 17 -26, 2015. loyal customer base over the year. Gulf New red customers, who open an Bank is committed to providing its red account at Gulf Bank’s booth at the customers with the right promotions Avenues mall, receive one free ticket to that are tailored to meet their specific watch the latest movies. needs and to better enjoy their holidays. Gulf Bank’s red customers will be Gulf Bank is pleased to celebrate this able to see the latest movie screening occasion with the people of Kuwait. for only KD 1.750 instead of the regular Gulf Bank’s red program is for high KD 3.5 cinema ticket price (every school, college and university students Thursday, Friday and Saturday) by using aged 15 to 25 years old. There is no min- their red ATM cards to purchase from imum deposit required to open the ticket kiosks in all KNCC cinema the- account or minimum balance charge. atres. There is no minimum deposit required During the period of the promotion, to open the account or minimum bal- Gulf Bank will have a red booth present ance charge. technology WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

Microsoft launches ‘collaborative’ new Office software

SAN FRANCISCO: Microsoft launched its “The way people work has changed designed for modern working, collabora- authoring” feature “lets you see others” out to consumer and small-business sub- new Office suite, touting the key soft- dramatically, and that’s why Microsoft is tion and teamwork.” edits as they make them.” scribers next month, and to commercial ware as a collaborative tool which can focused on reinventing productivity and Office 2016, available in 40 languages, By integrating the telephony service customers early next year. The suite is work across multiple devices. The new business processes for the mobile-first, aims to further integrate Microsoft prod- Skype, users can also have video or audio also available today as a one-time pur- software, one of the key products from cloud-first world,” said Satya Nadella, ucts such as the word processing pro- conversations during collaboration on chase for both PCs and Apple Macs. The the US tech giant, is being adapted to chief executive of Microsoft. “These latest gram Word, the Excel spreadsheet appli- documents. Office 2016 will allow users release comes as Microsoft is rolling out Microsoft’s strategy shifting away from innovations take another big step for- cation and the Outlook email and mes- of Office 365 — which requires an annual its Windows 10 operating system which one-time sales to an Internet cloud- ward in transforming Office from a famil- saging platform. A key feature of the subscription fee to download the new can be used across multiple devices, and based system that can be accessed from iar set of individual productivity apps to a updated suite is real-time collaboration apps as part of their subscription. integrating its Cortana digital assistant PCs as well as mobile devices. connected set of apps and services on documents. Microsoft says its “co- Automatic updates will begin rolling software into its devices. —AFP Better photos, animated shots in new iPhones

NEW YORK: Photography gets even better ground. Snap a shot, and the phone saves with Apple’s new iPhones. Although the some of that video leading to that shot, plus iPhone is already among the best smart- some afterward - three seconds in all. Now, phones for everyday shots, images from pre- that photo comes to life when you view it. vious iPhones haven’t been as sharp as what Apple calls this “Live Photos.” Just tap and rival cameras produce. The new iPhone 6s hold the screen to see the three-second ani- and 6s Plus models address that, with 50 mation. Share it with other iPhones, the percent more detail, while introducing ani- Apple Watch and Mac computers - and mation for still images and brighter low- soon, through Facebook. HTC’s One camera light selfies. had a similar feature, but you have to know Screens remain at 4.7 inches and 5.5 about it and turn that on. With iPhones, it’s inches diagonally, but they have new tech- on by default. It takes practice and requires U2 rocks global tour with EMC’s nology offering shortcuts to frequent tasks. about double the storage of a regular photo. The iPhone 6s starts at $200 with a two-year But it’s worth it - especially for parents and contract in the US, and $649 without. The pet owners. Imagine taking a shot of your flash and storage technology Plus costs $100 more. Both models start kid blowing out birthday candles, then tap- shipping Friday in the US, China, Japan, the ping the screen to see it in action. DUBAI: EMC Corporation is proud Visuals are a major component The DD2500 protects the data need to rely more on the kind of UK and several other markets. Last year’s to announce its partnership with for U2’s legendary shows - and and reduces storage require- all-flash solutions that EMC models are now $100 cheaper than the new A NEW TOUCH SCREEN Grammy Award-winning U2 for recording them represents a ments up to 30 times. With each brings. With their iNNOCENCE + ones. You might not need a 6s if you just got The iPhone’s screen is now three-dimen- their latest iNNOCENCE + major challenge. The VNXe 3200 camera at the show capturing eXPERIENCE tour, U2 have pro- a new phone last year, but go for the 6s over sional, as the phone responds differently to eXPERIENCE global tour, one of the simplifies the task of storing around 1TB of data per night, the duced a tour de force and EMC is the 6 if you’re ready to upgrade from an old- light, medium and hard touches. A light biggest musical spectacles of all thousands of hours of footage, band need just one device to proud to provide the multi-plat- er model. After testing both new models for touch does what the phone does today. You time and a benchmark-setting one. recorded by twenty high-defini- manage all their data protection, inum selling band with an end- nearly two weeks, I find the price difference can open an app or move a cursor when In the face of dwindling record tion cameras placed across the while also eliminating the need to-end storage solution that worth it. typing. Press a bit harder on an app icon to sales worldwide, live shows have length of the stage to record the to transport bulky excess equip- allows them to bring to life and access a contextual menu, similar to right- become the most lucrative form of members as well as the audience. ment. archive the stunning visuals that CAMERAS GET BETTER clicking the mouse on Windows computers. income for touring bands and per- All this footage is conveniently As shows get bigger and more have made them famous the At 12 megapixels, instead of 8 megapixels, Do this with the camera app to quickly take haps no other band is known for archived within EMC’s DD2500. sophisticated, musical acts will world over. the new cameras produce sharper photos. a selfie or record video. Normally, you have its dazzling effects-driven shows The difference is particularly noticeable when to open the camera first, then choose what than U2. With their latest world cropping or enlarging photos for printing. you want to do. tour, which just grossed a whop- Samsung’s high-end phones are at 16 Inside apps, this medium touch opens a ping USD 22 million in the space of megapixels, but their images are wider. If you preview, such as a map when you click on an just eleven days, the legendary chop off the sides to match the iPhone’s 4-by- address in a message. Lift your finger, and Dublin quartet are pushing the live 3 ratio, resolution is about the same. More you’re back to the message. But press even performance envelope, supported important is getting your shot in focus, and harder to launch the Maps app. In some by increasingly sophisticated tech- the automatic focus on both cameras is good. apps, options slide up from the bottom with nology which also includes flash Other improvements in the iPhone’s a medium touch. storage and back-up systems from camera result in better contrast and less dis- This feature, called 3D Touch, takes get- EMC. tortion than before. Trees look greener and ting used to. Out of habit, I still open apps For shows of the scale that U2 buildings browner in several test shots. the regular way, even though 3D Touch is bring (Between 2009 and 2011, the Samsung’s phones have also been good at quicker. But it could one day be as useful as band travelled four continents with contrast, but colors are sometimes off. the fingerprint reader on phones. Now that I their unique 400-ton, 360-degree Orange construction barriers look red using am used to that, I rarely enter passcodes stage and the world’s largest video Samsung’s Galaxy S6 phone, while a green- anymore. screen), having the right storage ish statue came out grey. The iPhones repro- technology makes all the differ- duce colors more accurately. For video, the WHAT ELSE? ence. Adopting all-flash technolo- iPhone catches up with several Android The new iPhones are stronger and faster. gy has enabled U2’s creative team phones and can now record at Ultra HD, also Inside, the chips are laid out differently to to shift from USB-based flash and known as 4K. There aren’t many 4K displays improve battery performance and let you hard drives to a single, centralized available yet, so this is mostly about record- activate the Siri voice assistant simply by storage service. They use the EMC ing memories for tomorrow’s screens. But saying, “Hey, Siri.” In the past, the phone had VNXe 3200, in conjunction with the new phones do let you zoom in during to be plugged in for that. their Mac OS X and Windows 7 playback, so you can see some of that 4K Storage remains at 16 gigabytes for platforms, to create, store and detail today. The Plus model also has better starters, 64 gigabytes for $100 more and 128 deliver the stunning visuals that anti-shake technology, so scenes don’t look gigabytes for $200 over the base model. the arena rock stalwarts are known as though you’re on a boat. With Live Photos and 4K videos, your phone for. This gives U2 a huge amount of Still images on the front camera improve will fill up even more quickly, even with bet- flexibility, allowing the group to to 5 megapixels, from 1.2 megapixels, ter compression to compensate for the tailor the set list and visuals for matching Samsung’s phones. Better yet, the higher resolution and animation. Many rival each stop of the tour. new iPhone’s screen functions as a flash so smartphones, including Samsung’s, start at faces come out when snapping selfies in 32 gigabytes. Apple believes most entry-lev- bars and other low-light settings. This is rare el consumers should be fine with 16 giga- in smartphones. bytes, as that’s still enough for a few thou- 5 years after Facebook pledge, sand shots. ANIMATED PHOTOS That might be so, but if you plan to take When you open the camera app, the lots of photos and video, consider springing phone continually records video in the back- for at least 64 gigabytes. —AP Newark schools still struggle

NEWARK, NJ: When Facebook founder Mark and where test scores and graduation rates are often Highly effective Zuckerberg appeared on Oprah Winfrey’s show five better - have received about $58 million, according “Conditions on the ground have not improved. years ago this week to announce a $100 million to “The Prize: Who’s in Charge of America’s Schools?”, They’ve gotten worse,” Sciarra said. Still, the graduation donation to remake education in Newark, it was pre- a book by journalist Dale Russakoff released this rate made a big jump from 2011 to 2012 and has been sented as an effort to make a struggling city a nation- month. The number of students in charters has more relatively steady since then. Cerf, the superintendent, al model for turning around urban schools. than doubled since 2010 and now represents just said the improving graduation rate is significant and so Advocates see success in the most visible result so over one-fourth of Newark’s 48,000 school students. is another development - that teachers rated as “ineffec- far - many more students in charter schools. But the Ryan Hill, the chief operating officer of the New tive” started leaving their jobs more often than those exodus of students and the public funding that Jersey schools run by national charter operator KIPP, deemed “effective” or “highly effective.” As traditional comes with them from the Newark Public Schools has said the contributions allowed the group to expand public schools shrank in Newark, Cami Anderson, the deepened a financial crisis in a district that still edu- from two Newark schools to eight. Children in Newark state-appointed superintendent, wanted to avoid laying cates most of the children in New Jersey’s largest city. - and especially African-American pupils - are now far off teachers because the union contract would require A big part of Zuckerberg’s mission was also to more likely to be in a good school, Hill said. “Starting ousting the newest teachers first, even if they were improve the traditional public schools. While there new high-performing schools is a lot easier than turn- doing a good job. Instead, she moved teachers rated as have been major changes there, too, indicators such ing around an enormous system,” he said. less effective to support jobs, where they remained on as student test scores have been mixed. David Sciarra, director of the Education Law Center, the payroll. Add to that frustration that the reformers weren’t a Newark-based group that has sued the state seeking Partly because of that, budget problems remained using input from the people of the city, and it’s safe to say that the awe of Zuckerberg’s high-minded inten- tions for using his first major foray into philanthropy to try to effect sweeping change has receded. So has Zuckerberg’s donation, which was matched with another $100 million from other donors, shown that big-scale philanthropy guaran- tees quick change? SAN FRANCISCO: People look over the new Apple iPhone 6s models during a product display following an Apple event in San Francisco. Photography The answers vary gets even better with Apple’s new iPhones, making them worth getting for “The gift has been enormously productive and $100 more than last year’s models. —AP beneficial,” said Christopher Cerf, the district superin- tendent. “It’s also been pretty deeply misunder- stood.” On the other hand: “We’ve proven at this point Report says Apple moving that answer is no,” said Derrell Bradford, a supporter of Zuckerberg’s effort and leader of the New York forward on building a car school reform group NYCAN, who previously worked for similar groups in New Jersey. Bradford pointed SAN FRANCISCO: Apple is speeding up automotive technology. In recent months, out that $200 million is a tiny portion - about 4 per- work on a project that could lead to the Apple has hired a number of engineers cent - of what it has cost to run the school district for NEWARK: In this Saturday, Sept 25, 2010 file photo, Mark Zuckerberg, left, founder California tech giant building its own elec- with backgrounds in automotive and bat- the past five years. and CEO of Facebook and NJ Gov. Chris Christie listen as Newark Mayor Cory Booker tric car, according to a new report. tery design. Apple representatives also Even Zuckerberg didn’t expect quick results. In an talks about Zuckerberg’s donation of $100 million to help Newark public schools dur- The maker of iPhones and iPads is met in May with officials at an automotive interview last year with The Associated Press, he said ing a press conference in Newark. —AP tripling the number of engineers on the testing facility located east of San it would take years to measure. project, code-named Titan, and has set a Francisco. Site officials later confirmed to The donation to Newark schools, which were tak- better educations for low-income children, believes even as donations rolled in, including more than $48 mil- “ship date” of 2019, the Wall Street Journal The Associated Press that Apple requested en over by the state in 1995, came about as a meet- Newark is in worse shape now. lion to fund a new teacher contract that included back said Monday. The newspaper said that information about using their facility. ing of the minds of Zuckerberg with Gov. Chris From 2010 to 2014, the percentage of district stu- pay and something new for teachers in New Jersey - merit could just be a target for engineers to sign And last month, an Apple attorney met Christie, a Republican, and Cory Booker, a Democrat dents meeting standards on statewide tests fell in pay. Anderson left the job in July. Cerf’s duties include ush- off on the design, not necessarily when a with officials at California’s Department of who was then Newark mayor and is now a US sena- many cases. For instance, a lower portion of both ering the district out from under state control. Sharon car would be available for sale. Apple Motor Vehicles to discuss the state’s regu- tor. The politicians agreed on a strategy focused on fourth and eighth graders score as at least proficient in Smith, a schools activist with two daughters in Newark declined comment Monday on the Journal lations for self-driving cars. A department closing the worst schools, offering incentives to high- language arts. The passage rate also declined for fourth traditional public schools and one in a charter, said she report, which cited unidentified sources. spokesman confirmed that meeting to er-performing teachers and launching new kinds of graders in math, while a slightly higher percentage of was excited after the donation was announced and While Apple has never officially con- The Associated Press on Monday, after it schools - and they sold it to Zuckerberg. eighth-graders passed. Sciarra believes the growth of attended meetings to give ideas. “Finally, there was an firmed it’s planning to build a car, there are was first reported by the Guardian news- Charter schools - run by private entities, with charter schools has hurt traditional schools by siphon- opportunity,” she said. But instead of using parents’ ideas strong indications it’s at least interested in paper. —AP more freedom than traditional public schools to set ing off money, as well as students from the families to improve public schools, she said, officials used their hours and curriculum and to choose their students, most motivated to succeed. criticism to justify expanding charters.—AP WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2015 HEALTH & SCIENCE

INDONESIA: Palm oil seeds at a plantation area in Pelalawan, INDONESIA: Trucks carrying palm oil seeds and acacia wood for pulp INDONESIA: A girl pushing a cart while working at a palm oil planta- Riau province in Indonesia’s Sumatra Island. — AFP (left) in Pelalawan, Riau province in Indonesia’s Sumatra Island. tion area in Pelalawan, Riau province in Indonesia’s Sumatra island. Indonesia acts against timber, palm oil firms over haze

JAKARTA: Indonesia has revoked the license of a timber insisted this year that law-breakers will be punished. “Our team has learned fires have been spotted in into several companies and arrested executives, while supplier and suspended the operations of three palm oil The environment ministry on Monday decided to these companies’ concession areas and that they have more than 170 individuals are also being probed over the plantation operators over fires that have blanketed revoke the license of Indonesian wood supplier Hutani contributed to the haze disaster,” Sugiri said, adding the fires. Air quality on the Indonesian part of Borneo island Southeast Asia in haze, an official said yesterday. The ille- Sola Lestari, based on the western island of Sumatra timber supplier was deemed to be the worst offender. worsened yesterday, hitting hazardous levels in some gal blazes in Indonesia have sent smog floating over the which is at the centre of the haze outbreak, ministry AFP sought comment from the companies but none areas, although it was improving on Sumatra. Smog also region in recent weeks, causing thousands to fall ill, wors- spokesman Eka W Sugiri told AFP. It also suspended could be contacted. The wood supplier will no longer be clouded the skyline in Singapore, with the acrid smell of ening air quality and reducing visibility in the archipela- operations of three Indonesian companies that operate allowed to operate, while the three other companies burning wood and foliage creeping into offices and go, as well as in neighboring Singapore and Malaysia. The palm oil plantations on Sumatra, the spokesman said. must cease operations until legal action against them has homes and some people wearing masks. Parts of fires, mostly started to clear land for palm oil and pulp Palm oil is an ingredient in many everyday goods, such as been completed, Sugiri said, adding more companies Malaysian Borneo, a vast island shared by Malaysia, and paper plantations on Sumatra and Borneo islands, biscuits and shampoo, and high global demand has been would likely have their licenses suspended. Indonesia and Brunei, also registered “unhealthy” air qual- are an annual occurrence. But President Joko Widodo has blamed for fuelling deforestation in Indonesia. Police have in the past week launched investigations ity. — AFP

Iowa company gets first USDA Americans overpaying license for bird flu vaccine

DES MOINES, Iowa: The first license to develop U.S. poultry imports during another outbreak. hugely for cancer drugs a bird flu vaccine has been awarded by the US Department of Agriculture, a crucial step How effective is it? toward preventing another devastating out- A: Testing shows a single dose is 95 percent Research, to be unveiled at cancer congress, fuels price debate break like the one that led to the destruction of effective in adult hens and 93 percent effective 48 million chickens and turkeys this spring. The in day-old chicks, Harrisvaccines Vice President LONDON: Americans are paying way over the odds for widely-used TKIs are expected to become available as certain drugs. On this basis, he found that Novartis’ conditional license given to Ames, Iowa, com- Joel Harris said Monday. Testing continues on some modern cancer drugs, with pharmaceutical com- generics within the next five years, as patents expire. leukaemia drug Glivec actually cost $159 for a year’s pany Harrisvaccines authorizes it to continue chickens and turkeys. panies charging up to 600 times what the medicines Hill calculated that large-scale production could treatment, against the $106,000 charged in the United testing the vaccine’s effectiveness and stand cost to make, according to an independent academic achieve treatment prices in the range of $159 to $4,022 States. Roche’s Tarceva for lung cancer cost $236, ready if the USDA gives the order to begin man- What does it mean? study. The United States also pays more than double per person a year, against current US prices of around against a US price of $79,000, and Novartis’ Tykerb cost ufacturing. The license does not mean the vac- A: Another widespread outbreak could the price charged in Europe for these drugs - so-called $75,000 to over $100,000. “It shows there is a lot of $4,000 against a price of $74,000. cine has been approved for responding to the drive chicken, egg and/or turkey costs up tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs), a potent class of cancer scope for prices to come down,” he said. “There has to In all these cases the US cost was far above that bird flu yet. Here are some questions and higher than they already are. Egg prices more pills with fewer side effects than chemotherapy. The be some middle ground between the prices that com- charged in certain western European countries, where answers about what the vaccine licensing than doubled this year after about 10 percent analysis by pharmacologist Andrew Hill of Britain’s panies are charging, which may not even be cost-effec- Glivec costs approximately $29,000-35,000, Tarceva means: of the nation’s egg-laying chickens were University of Liverpool, who will present his findings at tive by the standards set by some healthcare authori- $26,000-29,000 and Tykerb around $35,000, Hill destroyed by the H5N2 outbreak, while some the Sept. 25-29 European Cancer Congress in Vienna, is ties, and the actual production cost.” reported. Roche declined to comment. Novartis said it What was developed? cuts of turkey meat are expensive and in likely to fuel a growing storm over US drug costs. had no immediate response. The issue is not unique A: The vaccine targets the H5N2 virus that short supply. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s Research costs to cancer drugs. Earlier this month, for example, circulated earlier this year by using the genetic declared aim to lower the cost of prescription drugs by Drug companies argue that they need to make Amgen launched its new injectable cholesterol drug code of the virus to grow it in specialized cells, Why is the government involved? ending what her campaign describes as “excessive profi- decent profits to pay for the billions of dollars needed Repatha in Europe at around half the US price. “Why extract and purify it and formulate it into a vac- A: Vaccine development is part of the teering” triggered a sell-off in drug stocks this week. Hill for drug research. Many companies also have exten- should the US bear this huge burden cost? It is not as cine. The company’s process, licensed last year USDA’s preparation plans should the bird flu told Reuters he had shared his work on the cost of pro- sive low-cost or even free access schemes for patients if the GDP of the United States is so much higher than by the USDA for the porcine epidemic diarrhea virus return this fall as wild birds migrate ducing TKIs with the World Health Organization (WHO), who cannot afford their medicines. But the high prices that of European counties, but they just seem to pay virus that wiped out millions of pigs, eliminates south. The federal agency began accepting which is keen to add such treatments to its list of medi- charged for modern drugs is generating increasing these big premiums,” Hill said. The future pricing of the need to handle live viruses, making the vac- bids for vaccine development last month. cines deemed essential for a basic healthcare system. push-back from healthcare providers, patients and TKIs could also have major implications for develop- cine safer. WHO officials have used the findings in determining some doctors. Hill used Indian government data on the ing countries, Hill believes, since mass production Harrisvaccines will be able to update the Why did the company receive that the drugs can be made at low cost, he said. cost of pharmaceutical ingredients and allowed for a could open the way to widespread cancer treatment vaccine quickly if the H5N2 virus mutates, as a conditional license? The first such TKI was added to the WHO’s latest 50-percent profit margin - but no money for invest- in the same way that cheap generic drugs helped viruses often do. It’s also detectable in poultry A: A conditional license is issued in cir- draft Essential Medicines List earlier this year. Several ment in research - to work out the costs of producing fight HIV/AIDS. — Reuters as a vaccine, which means trade partners can cumstances where rapid development of a tell the difference between an infected animal vaccine is necessary, allowing the company and one that has been vaccinated, possibly pre- to continue research and prepare for rapid Researchers say new dinosaur venting some countries from shutting off all production if needed.—AP found in northern Alaska

ANCHORAGE, Alaska: Researchers have uncovered a new species of plant-eating dinosaur in Alaska, accord- ing to a report published yesterday. The animal was a variety of hadrosaur, a duck-billed dinosaur that roamed in herds, said Pat Druckenmiller, earth sciences curator at the University of Alaska Museum in Fairbanks. Northern Alaska likely was once covered by forest in a warmer climate. The dinosaur lived in dark- ness for months and probably experienced snow, researchers said. The fossils were found in rock deposit- ed 69 million years ago. For at least 25 years, the fossils were lumped in with another hadrosaur, Edmontosaurus, a species well- known in Canada and the US, including Montana and South Dakota. The formal study of the Alaska dinosaur DES MOINES, Iowa: A flock of young turkeys stand in a barn at the Moline family revealed differences in skull and mouth features that turkey farm after the Mason, Iowa farm was restocked. — AP made it a different species, Druckenmiller said. The dif- ferences were not immediately apparent because the Alaska dinosaurs were juveniles. Researchers teased Poor executive functioning in out differences in the Alaska fossils, Druckenmiller said, by plotting growth trajectories and by comparing them girls tied to future weight gain with juvenile Edmontosourus bones. Researchers have dubbed the creature Ugrunaaluk NEW YORK: Poor “executive functioning” in girls activity levels and eating habits - can influence kuukpikensis (oo-GROO’-nah-luk KOOK’-pik-en-sis). The at age ten may be linked to weight gain during whether people become obese, emotional and name means “ancient grazer” and was chosen by scien- ALASKA: A handful of dinosaur bones are seen after they were discovered at the Liscomb their teen years, and some of the excess pounds behavioral tendencies can also play a role, mak- tists with assistance from speakers of Inupiaq, the lan- Bonebed on the Colville River, near Nuiqsut , Alaska. — AP photos might be tied to binge eating, a US study sug- ing it important that doctors understand any guage of Alaska Inupiat Eskimos. The dinosaurs grew gests. Researchers assessed almost 2,500 girls at psychological factors that might contribute to up to 30 feet long. Hundreds of teeth helped them and catalogued more than 6,000 bones from the cializes in using bone and tooth histology to interpret multiple points between ages 10 and 16 to see weight gain. To explore the potential role of chew coarse vegetation, researchers said. They proba- species, more than any other Alaska dinosaur. Most the paleobiology of dinosaurs, also was part of the how their behavior and personality traits might binge eating in the connection between execu- bly walked primarily on their hind legs but could walk were small juveniles estimated to have been about 9 study. They published their findings in the “Acta be linked to their eating habits and weight. Girls tive functioning and excess weight, the on four legs, Druckenmiller said. feet long and 3-feet tall at the hips. “It appears that a Palaeontologica Polonica,” an international paleontol- whose parents said they were more impulsive or researchers assessed girls’ weight relative to Most of the fossils were found in the Prince Creek herd of young animals was killed suddenly, wiping out ogy quarterly journal. Researchers are working to name less adept at planning at age 10 appeared to their height four times over the course of the Formation of the Liscomb Bone Bed along the Colville mostly one similar-aged population to create this other Alaska dinosaurs. “We know that there’s at least gain more weight through age 16. study period. Based on their weight relative to River more than 300 miles northwest of Fairbanks. The deposit,” Druckenmiller said. 12 to 13 distinct species of dinosaurs on the North About 10 percent of the girls reported binge their height, as many as 35 percent of the study bed is named for geologist Robert Liscomb, who found UA Fairbanks graduate student Hirotsugu Mori Slope in northern Alaska,” he said. “But not all of the eating at some point during the study, and participants were overweight or obese between the first dinosaur bones in Alaska in 1961 while map- completed his doctoral work on the species. Florida material we find is adequate enough to actually name doing so at age 12 appeared to account for the ages of 10 and 16, the study found. ping for Shell Oil Co. Museum scientists have excavated State University researcher Gregory Erickson, who spe- a new species.” — AP some of the excess weight gain the more impul- sive girls experienced by age 16. “Children are Planning skills constantly cued to eat by food commercials, Researchers also evaluated executive func- vending machines, etc., so it is easy to imagine tioning and planning skills using standardized how a child who is poorly inhibited could have tests and assessed the participants for symp- difficulty resisting these cues to eat,” said lead toms of attention deficits or hyperactivity disor- study author Andrea Goldschmidt, an eating dis- ders. Even though poor impulse control can to orders researcher at the University of Chicago. some extent be a hallmark of adolescence, the Even though the study only found a small findings suggest that poorer behavioral regula- difference in weight gain for the more impulsive tion at age 10 may lead to greater weight gain girls, it was still statistically meaningful and during the teen years, the authors conclude in might mean the teens are more likely to be the journal Pediatrics. One limitation of the overweight or obese as adult women, study, however, is its reliance on teens to accu- Goldschmidt said by email. “For some people rately recall and report their eating habits and gaining only a few pounds could move them note whether they were prone to binges over from the non-overweight to overweight range,” the past year, the researchers note. Similarly, the Goldschmidt said. study relied on parents to accurately note their Globally, roughly 1.9 billion adults are over- daughters’ levels of impulsiveness. weight or obese, as are about 42 million children Even so, it’s possible that certain brain under the age of 5, according to the World regions may orchestrate a range of self-control Health Organization. Obesity increases the risk behaviors that include impulsivity and binging, of heart disease, diabetes, joint disorders and said Myles Faith, a psychology researcher at the ALASKA: Researcher Greg Erickson works in a spot of the Liscomb Bed ALASKA: Sample of frozen bone is seen after researchers excavated certain cancers. While many things - including University at Buffalo.— Reuters dig site. it from the Liscomb Bed. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2015 HEALTH & SCIENCE

WISH presents cancer research to Australian policymakers

DOHA: The World Innovation Summit for advances in patient treatment, the disease is Health (WISH), a global initiative of Qatar still one of the top three areas of health Foundation for Education, Science and expenditure, and that cancer care is too Community Development (QF), presented its expensive for most patients and nearly all research on affordable cancer care to governments. Australian Members of Parliament (MPs) in The report predicts that the burden of Canberra last week. The WISH report, entitled cancer will intensify with new cancer diag- ‘Delivering Affordable Cancer Care: A Value noses expected to increase by around 16-32 Challenge to Health Systems’,aims to bring to per cent over the next 10 years. It further the forefront best healthcare practices while asserts that from 2008 to 2030, cancer cases inspiring innovation and discussion, remain- would rise by 65 per cent in high-income ing closely aligned to the vision and mission countries, 80 per cent in middle-income of QF to unlock human potential and trans- countries and 100 per cent in the world’s form Qatar into a knowledge-based econo- poorest countries. my. The Australian policymakers were The trip to Australia comes in a bid to informed of the report’s policies to counter- reinforce Qatar’s pioneering role as an act excess spending and a number of innova- emerging centre for healthcare innovation tive projects from around the world were and generate discussion on how to over- raised to demonstrate how efficiencies could come the world’s most urgent healthcare be driven and treatments improved for challenges. Encouraging the international patients. QF’s health policy research, once community to take action will place Qatar at again, served to inform the decisions of poli- the forefront of the discussion and will mean cymakers globally, and following the recent that the nation, where statistics have shown forum, Australia is set to implement some of cancer is the third most common cause of the key changes recommended in the death, will be able to reap the benefits of research, including the ‘Data Analysis of vital developments. Optimum Care Pathways’, a key recommen- Professor Robert JS Thomas, OAM Chief dation of the WISH report. WISH CEO Egbert Cancer Advisor, Victorian Government, Schillings commented: “WISH is delighted to FORKS, WASHINGTON, United States : An ochre sea star (Pisaster ochraceus), commonly called a starfish, sick with Sea Star Wasting syndrome is Australia, led last week’s discussions on the work with Forum Chair Prof Thomas to carry the tidepools of Kalaloch Beach 3 in the Olympic National Park. — AFP report with 100 Australian lawmakers. During the message of the report with clarity and the forum, MPs heard that despite outstand- conviction to the highest levels of policy ing progress made in cancer research and leadership around the globe.” Is climate change killing Critically endangered American starfish? Sumatran rhino is pregnant ‘They are as charismatic as you can be as an intertidal species’ MIAMI: A rare Sumatran rhino in Indonesia is preg- means one percent more animals. That is not a lot nant with her second baby and is expected to give but it is certainly an upward trend,” Ellis said. FORKS, United States: On the remote warmer conditions, they die faster.” are tracking the numbers of stars in loca- agreed that money for the extensive birth in May, raising new hope for the critically Sumatran rhinos are the only Asian rhinoceros- rocky shores of the western United States, “We’ve had anomalously warm oceans for tions over time, gauging the temperature research is scarce. It doesn’t help that the endangered species, conservationists said yester- es with two horns. They are covered in wooly hair low tide brings visitors to wave-splashed the last two years. Really, what we would and chemistry of the water, and logging starfish are not an animal humans eat, day. The mother is Ratu, a wild rhino who wan- that ranges from reddish brown to black in color. tide pools to marvel at ocean wonders call hot water. It is really the dominant the data as part of ongoing research into and thus there is no industry raising the dered out of the rainforest and into the Sumatran Births of Sumatran rhinos in captivity are rare. Just usually hidden from view. But recently, thing to consider,” she said. the ecosystem. They are even recruiting alarm about their decline. “Out of sight, Rhino Sanctuary in Indonesia’s Way Kambas four Sumatran rhinos have been born at breeding largely missing from the bounty are the “citizen scientists” to help search for the out of mind,” she said. “We need to be National Park 10 years ago. She got pregnant in facilities, including the Sumatran Rhino Sanctuary biggest draw: a rainbow-hued array of Data collection difficult stars and record their condition. Melissa concerned about the health of our January 2014 after mating with Andalas, a male rhi- and the Cincinnati Zoo. Ratu’s first baby, Andatu, starfish. “I don’t know what you would call A primary challenge for researchers is Miner, a researcher with the University of oceans. We could be so much farther no at the park, said Susie Ellis, director of the was born at the Sumatran Rhino Sanctuary in 2012, it other than catastrophic,” says Drew simply the massive amount of data need- California at Santa Cruz, is one of the peo- ahead if there had been enough money International Rhino Foundation. Sumatran rhinos marking “the first Sumatran rhino born in an Asian Harvell, a biologist at Cornell University, ed to get a good understanding of what is ple leading the data collection, but said available.” Congressman Denny Heck, have very long pregnancies that last about 16 breeding facility in more than 140 years,” said a describing what is widely regarded as one happening. The animals are found on the widespread nature of the outbreak whose district in Washington state months, even though they are the smallest of the statement by Siti Urbana Bakar, the Indonesian of the worst marine disease events ever thousands and thousands of miles of adds to the challenge. includes much of the inland waters living rhino species. “We just wanted to be sure it Minister of Environment and Forestry. recorded. coastline, and sufficient funding is simply “It is pretty difficult to collect the data where starfish have been dying off in would take before we made an announcement The current pregnancy “represents nearly two “It’s staggering, really, the millions of not available to thoroughly count them we need on a big scale,” she said. “I really huge numbers, is trying to help by estab- because in early pregnancy any number of things decades of international collaboration to save the stars that have died. It is not apocalyptic and consider all the possible variables. But want to stress that it isn’t understood at lishing a framework for declaring a can go wrong,” Ellis told AFP. species,” he added. Andalas, the father of both or extreme to say that.” In recent years, scientists are nevertheless trying. They all what it is causing this disease.” Harvell marine disease emergency. — AFP The pregnancy announcement was made on Andatu and the expected calf, was born at the millions of the starfish, also called sea World Rhino Day, which aims to raise awareness Cincinnati Zoo. He was moved to Indonesia from stars, have had their legs curl up and pull about the five remaining species of rhinos. The ani- the Los Angeles Zoo in 2007. The only remaining away from their bodies, breaking the ani- Coca-Cola: We spent $118.6M mals are under increasing threat by poachers and Sumatran rhino in the United States is Harapan, mals to pieces before they turn to mush, continue to lose precious forest habitat. Only Andalas’ younger brother. He will be moved from often in a matter of days. Scientists have about 100 Sumatran rhinos are believed to exist in the Cincinnati Zoo to Indonesia later this year in an been left racing to figure out why. Once on health efforts in 5 years the entire world, so the pregnancy is seen as effort to boost the breeding population at the rhi- densely packed onto the rocks and on the tremendously good news for those trying to save no sanctuary, which is currently home to five ocean floor, the key predators are simply NEW YORK: Coca-Cola disclosed yesterday that it spent $118.6 North America, in a statement yesterday. In a post on its web- the animals from extinction. “One more rhino Sumatran rhinos. — AFP missing from some locations, their num- million on health research and partnerships in the US over the site, Coca-Cola said it spent $21.8 million on scientific research bers cut by 95 percent or more. The phe- past five years, including funding for a group that was criticized since 2010. It also spent $96.8 million on “health and well-being nomenon, called Sea Star Wasting for downplaying the role of sugary drinks in fueling obesity. The partnerships,” including payments to dozens of dietitians and Syndrome, was first noticed by rangers in world’s biggest beverage maker had vowed last month to be others who share their views with the public. Olympic National Park in Washington more transparent about the various health programs and mes- In March, The Associated Press reported that Coca-Cola had state in 2013. saging it funds. The pledge came after a New York Times story worked with fitness and nutrition experts who each suggested It has now been documented from detailed the company’s financial support for the Global Energy a mini-Coke or mini-soda as a snack in columns for American California to Alaska, and led to die-off that Balance Network. The story said the group promotes the idea Hearth Month in February. The pieces appeared on nutrition is bigger and more widely spread than that people are overly fixated on how much they’re eating, blogs and other sites. Coca-Cola’s website lets users search its any seen before. Late last year, a group of rather than how much they’re exercising. In a video announcing partnerships and research efforts by keyword and year. The researchers published findings in the the network, one of the group’s leaders had said the media organizations it has provided money to include The Obesity Proceedings of the National Academy of focuses on “eating too much, eating too much, eating too much Society and the American Diabetes Association. Yoni Freedhoff, Sciences saying they had found strong - blaming fast food, blaming sugary drinks, and so on.” Some a nutrition and obesity expert at the University of Ottawa, said evidence that a virus was causing the dis- health and nutrition advocates say it has become common for the disclosures by Coca-Cola provide a degree of transparency, ease. Researchers now are looking into food companies to try and deflect criticism about their prod- but said the information doesn’t necessarily capture what Coca- why the virus is suddenly so much more ucts by talking about the need for more physical activity. Cola got in return from the organizations. “Consciously or widespread and deadly. A primary consid- Following criticism sparked by the New York Times story, Coca- unconsciously, (the organizations) might pause before saying eration is how warmer water, brought Cola CEO Muhtar Kent said he was disappointed the company’s anything that would in turn be negative for their funders,” about by climate change, is affecting the actions created “more confusion and mistrust” and vowed to be Freedhoff said. The Global Energy Balance Network previously stars, the virus and the wider ecosystem. more transparent. The maker of Sprite, Dasani and Powerade had not listed its funding source on its website, but posted it “There are components that certainly said its transparency effort will start in the US, and expand inter- after Freedhoff pointed out the oversight to the group. The net- WAY KAMBAS NATIONAL PARK, LAMPUNG, Indonesia: (FILES) This June 25, 2012 file track with temperature,” Harvell said. “We nationally. “We understand that our efforts in dealing with the work has said that the suggestion that its work promotes “the handout photograph taken on June 24, 2012 and released by the Indonesian think the magnitude in our waters is due obesity epidemic are not seen as credible, so we must - and idea that exercise is more important than diet in addressing Ministry of Forestry, shows one day old male baby Sumatran rhinoceros named to temperature. We know that under want to - do better,” said Sandy Douglas, president of Coca-Cola obesity vastly oversimplifies this complex issue.” — AP Andatu walking beside mother Ratu at the Sumatran Rhino Sanctuary. — AFP WHAT’S ON WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

TSC develops its future retail supervisors and managers

riven by its commitment to constant- and e-learning, in addition to a secondment be involved in the induction of our latest training plans, each supervisor or manager deep belief that they are the cornerstone ly develop its people, The Sultan to their new role. group of talented employees. Good luck will be placed into a store where they will of its success and prosperity. Therefore, DCenter (TSC) has inducted the latest Mr Tom Hammer, Retail CEO said “We to you all!” be extensively coached by subject matter we haven’t spared any effort in taking batch of retail supervisors and managers on are a people driven company, we are in the The program involves a 6 month individ- experts, supporting them in their new roles. the necessary measurements to help our its Becoming a Supervisor and Becoming a people business; these talented employees ually focused technical training plan, “People Development is at the core of staff boost their skills by designing cus- Manager program. This 12 month program are the role models for our future. TSC has aligned to a 3 month behavioral training our Human Resources strategy”, said tom-made internal programs which is unique as it blends together work based made a commitment to promote our plan, giving our employees the skills they Antoinette Sullivan, HR Director at TSC. develop skills not only for the present projects with technical on-the job training, supervisors and managers from within our need to develop into their new roles. “TSC is highly committed to invest in the but for our future. We are very excited behavioral skills using both taught seminars existing employee base and I am proud to Following the technical and behavioral development of its workforce out of its with this program”. Embassy of India announcement he Embassy will be closed on Thursday, 24 September 2015 on the auspicious occasion Eid Al- TAdha. However, emergency services will be provided by the Consular section of the Embassy. The Embassy will function as usual on Wednesday, 23 September and on Sunday, 27 September 2015. Eid greetings from Archbishop

rchbishop of Kuwait, Baghdad and dependen- Acies, Gattas Hazeem con- gratulated HH the Amir, HH the Crown Prince, HH the PM, the speaker and the Kuwaiti people on advent of Eid Al-Adha. Hazeem also expressed heartiest congratulations on the first anniversary of naming HH the Amir as the Humanity leader and naming Kuwait as Humanity center. CBK services continue during Eid

he Commercial Bank of Kuwait (CBK) announced that it would continue to serve its customers at its Kuwait TInternational Airport branches, through its 24/7 call center number 1888225, online at: www.cbk-online.comm and through smart phone applications. —Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat Kids’ Club ‘Kenya The Animal Kingdom 3D’ at Scientific Center fun place for your child to learn life skills with different activi- ties such as games, crafts, videos, Quran memorization and he Scientific Center is ready to receive Eid visitors Al-Mutawa added that the movie, which was Further, Al-Mutawa added that the center would be Amuch more. Snacks will be served. This club is designed for by launching a new 3D movie on its IMAX gigantic launched in US in March 2013, had been shown in more open for visitors from 2:00-11:00 pm on the first day of boys aged 5-8 and girls 5-12. Registration fee: KD 30 (includes all Tscreen, said the chairman of board and executive than 16 IMAX cinemas around the world and that this Eid and would be open from 9:00 am- 11:00 pm days) - KD 5 discount for siblings. Sundays, September 13 to manager, Mejbel Suleiman Al-Mutawwa noting that the screening would be the first in the Middle East. He throughout the rest of vacation. “Visitors can buy their December 27 at 5 - 7:30 pm. center would screen the “Kenya, the Animal Kingdom’ added that the movie script was translated by Emad tickets online at: www.tsck.org.kw, through their smart 3D movie taking viewers into the heart of African jun- Hamza, Abdullah Al-Shetael, Nawaf Al-Rudaini and phone applications or inquire by calling 1848888”, he gles in an unforgettable tour. Heba Abulreesh. concluded. What’s On - Submission Guidelines

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—Photos by Joseph Shagra 360 MALL launches Kuwait’s first in-mall ‘Mother and Baby Lounge’

he iconic 360 MALL, from the Tamdeen ing and young mothers, the ‘Mother and needs of its shoppers in a timely and mean- them to the services. their shopping experience and we stepped Group, has set an industry-first in the Baby Lounge’ is located centrally near cus- ingful manner. This latest facility at the mall, A thoughtfulness in the lounge is high- up to meet their need with the first of its kind Tcountry with the launch of a dedicated tomer service 2 by Gate 4, and is open from is an example of the mall’s deep commitment lighted in the way the lounge has been lounge in the country. The lounge not only ‘Mother and Baby Lounge’ in direct response 11 am to 10 pm every day. Spacious at over to understanding the needs of its shoppers designed with comfortable sofa seating, assures them privacy but also every possible to the demand of young mothers to enhance 120 sq meter, the lounge features a wide and providing quality service through inno- books on children care, and a large television amenity needed to ensure that their visit to their convenience during their visit to the range of amenities that include private feed- vation. screen with relevant programming - all aimed the mall does not affect childcare priorities.” mall. The famous shopping destination is the ing rooms with comfortable sofas, a fully The nursing facilities in the lounge include at making mothers feel at home. Elegantly designed to put children at ease, first in the region to understand and embrace equipped kitchenette and a lounge area that seating areas, a changing table and baby Claudia Lopusinska, Marketing Manager, the lounge also serves an educational pur- the needs of its largest customer segment- allows mothers who are shopping to take a wraps. Just like home, the lounge also has a 360 MALL, said: “The opening of the ‘Mother pose by providing insights and information young women with children. The mother break and tend to their children up to the age kitchenette with a microwave oven, refrigera- and Baby Lounge’ underlines our deep com- to young mothers on various aspects of child and baby lounge opened in the presence of of four years. tor, sink, tissue dispenser and bottle warmers. mitment to enhancing customer service stan- care through the numerous books available Hiba Al Doori, a famous Arab celebrity. The ‘Mother and Baby Lounge’ is part of To make mothers and children welcome, a dards by meeting the diverse requirements of to read. The ‘Mother and Baby Lounge’ is sup- Aimed at providing an inviting home away 360 MALL’s larger strategy which focuses on charming and trained hostess is available at our customers. Nursing and young mothers ported by retail partners such as Pampers, from home and an easy experience for nurs- excellent customer-service and meeting the the lounge to assist mothers and introduce need a comfort zone in malls to truly cherish ToysRUs and SebaMed Cosmetics. Your journey to El Clasico begins at McDonald’s

cDonald’s Kuwait is offering its cus- Bernabéu and Camp Nou Stadiums. Coutry also added, “We have always been tomers a once in a lifetime opportu- Customers will also get the chance to win committed to encouraging people to adopt Mnity to attend the highly anticipated one of Iniesta’s FC Barcelona autographed a healthy and balanced lifestyle, therefore Clasico match between FC Barcelona and jerseys, either through a raffle draw or via sports has always been a huge part of the Real Madrid on November 22, 2015 in competitions taking place on the McDonald’s culture. We have always been Madrid, the winners will also have the McDonald’s Kuwait Instagram page. proud of being official sponsors for two of chance to meet Spanish football legend “We know that the people of Kuwait are the world’s most important sports events: Andrés Iniesta. huge football fans, and that the Clasico is the Olympics and the World Cup.” Operating With every purchase of an Extra Value something everyone here looks forward to all in Kuwait since 1994, McDonald’s today has Large Meal, customers will enter a weekly year long. We at McDonald’s Kuwait wanted 72 restaurants geographically located to raffle draw for a chance to win a fully paid to make dreams come true for some of these service customers across the map, commit- VIP package for two people to attend the lucky fans, putting them right in the middle ted to the wellbeing of the society with an Clasico. The winners will not only attend the of the action at one of the greatest sporting active social responsibility agenda, while game live, they will also be meeting Iniesta events in the world,” said Sherif Coutry, maintaining high-quality products served in and enjoying a splendid tour of the Santiago Marketing Director at McDonald’s Kuwait. a safe and friendly atmosphere.

KIB continues its electronic channels throughout Eid uwait International Bank announced the continuation of pro- viding electronic banking services to various clients inside and Koutside Kuwait during the Eid Al-Adha holidays. This goes in line with the exerted efforts to maintain constant connection with its customers and meeting their needs on this occasion and at all times. KIB noted that its electronic banking services will be available round the clock so that its clients may follow and complete their normal duties without delay, whether through “KIB Mobile”, short message service “SMS”, or communicate with KIB through any mobile phone without the need to use the Internet service , as well as its website LOYAC distribute Eid attire to 100 needy families services . This is in addition to the telephone call center service “Al- n preparation for Eid Al-Adha and in collaboration with DOW Chemicals Company, LOYAC launched a campaign to distribute Eid attire and Ediya( Eid money gifts) to over 1000 needy chil- Dawli Wayak” on (1866866), which offers various services around the dren. Commenting on the campaign, DOW general director, Ahmed Do’alah said that LOYAC had a good reputation in implanting charity values in the souls of youth through various volun- clock through an efficient human cadre well qualified and trained to tary campaigns and make them make use of their free time in the best possible manner. He added that in addition to distributing new Eid garments, the campaign also plans to visit the eld- use advanced technology which enhances their readiness to deal I erly and needy families. On her part, the head of the HOMES program, Najat Al-Dalali said that LOYAC was so keen on helping and aiding needy families and children. The head of LOYAC’s vol- with customers in a professional manner, especially in such occa- untary programs, Yosra Al-Essa said that the new garments had been distributed to over 100 needy families and children to bring joy and happiness to them on such a holy occasion. sions and throughout the year. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2015 TV PROGRAMS

14:30 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 03:00 American Crime 15:00 Lost 15:00 Man Fire Food 04:00 The Voice 16:00 Grey’s Anatomy 15:30 Man Fire Food 06:00 Once Upon A Time 17:00 MasterChef - The 16:00 Chopped 08:00 Drop Dead Diva Professionals 17:00 The Kitchen 09:00 The Voice 01:00 The Letter 18:00 Switched At Birth 00:20 Misfit Garage 18:00 Siba’s Table 12:00 Emmerdale 03:00 Eternal Sunshine Of The 19:00 Desperate Housewives 01:10 Marooned With Ed Stafford 18:30 Siba’s Table: Fast Feasts 12:30 Coronation Street Spotless Mind 20:00 The Secret Life Of The 02:00 Dual Survival 19:00 Chopped 13:00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 05:00 I Am Ali American Teenager 02:50 River Monsters 20:00 The Next Iron Chef 14:00 Drop Dead Diva 07:00 Jack And The Cuckoo Clock 21:00 The Great State Of Georgia 03:40 Auction Kings 21:00 Chopped 16:00 Emmerdale Heart 21:30 The Great State Of Georgia 04:05 Auction Hunters 22:00 Kitchen Inferno 16:30 Coronation Street 09:00 One Chance 22:00 The Simpsons 04:30 Baggage Battles 23:00 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 17:00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 11:00 The Letter 22:30 The Simpsons 05:00 Dallas Car Sharks 23:30 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 18:00 Drop Dead Diva 13:00 Mr. Pip 23:00 Lost 05:30 How Do They Do It? 20:00 Royal Pains 15:00 Metallica: Through The 06:00 Ice Cold Gold 21:00 Marvel’s Agents Of Never 06:50 World’s Top 5 S.H.I.E.L.D. 17:00 One Chance 22:00 White Collar 07:40 Misfit Garage 19:00 The Butler 00:00 Storage Wars 08:30 Auction Kings 21:30 The Invisible Woman 02:00 Storage Wars: New York 08:55 Auction Hunters 00:10 The Chase 23:30 The Way We Were 03:00 Wwi: The First Modern War 09:20 Baggage Battles 01:05 Who’s Doing The Dishes? 04:00 Duck Dynasty 09:45 Dallas Car Sharks 02:00 Emmerdale 05:00 American Pickers 10:10 How Do They Do It? 02:25 Come Dine With Me Ireland 06:00 American Restoration 10:35 Marooned With Ed Stafford 02:55 Coronation Street 00:00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 07:00 Ice Road Truckers 11:25 Dual Survival 03:25 Doc Martin 08:00 Swamp People 12:15 River Monsters 01:00 Good Morning America 01:00 Sabotage-PG15 04:20 Shetland 03:00 Better Call Saul 09:00 The Legend Of Shelby The 13:05 Auction Kings 05:15 Murdoch Mysteries 03:00 Guardians Of The Galaxy 04:00 House Of Cards 05:00 The Boxtrolls-PG Swamp Man 13:30 Auction Hunters 06:10 Who’s Doing The Dishes? 10:00 American Restoration 13:55 Baggage Battles 05:00 Good Morning America 06:45 Need For Speed-PG15 07:05 Coronation Street 07:00 Emmerdale 11:00 Counting Cars 14:20 Ice Cold Gold 07:30 Doc Martin 09:00 How To Train Your Dragon 2 07:30 Coronation Street 11:00 Guardians Of The Galaxy 12:00 American Pickers 15:10 World’s Top 5 08:25 Shetland 13:00 Storage Wars 16:00 Misfit Garage 08:00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 13:00 Good Deeds-PG15 09:20 The Doctor Blake Mysteries 09:00 Criminal Minds 13:30 Storage Wars 16:50 Dallas Car Sharks 10:15 Come Dine With Me Ireland 15:00 Maleficent-PG 10:00 Emmerdale 17:00 How To Train Your Dragon 2 14:00 Pawn Stars 17:15 How Do They Do It? 10:40 The Chase 14:30 Pawn Stars 17:40 Man vs Expert 10:30 Coronation Street 19:00 The Other Woman-PG15 11:35 Who’s Doing The Dishes? 11:00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 15:00 Shipping Wars 18:30 Deadly Dilemmas 12:30 Murdoch Mysteries 21:00 Le Weekend-PG15 12:00 The Fosters 23:00 Welcome To The Punch 15:30 Shipping Wars 18:55 Deadly Dilemmas 13:25 Emmerdale 16:00 Storage Wars 19:20 Outback Truckers 13:00 Witches Of East End 13:50 Come Dine With Me Ireland 14:00 Live Good Morning America 16:30 Storage Wars 20:10 Auction Hunters 14:15 Coronation Street 17:00 Storage Wars: New York 20:35 Baggage Battles 16:00 Criminal Minds 14:40 The Chase 17:00 The Fosters 17:30 Storage Wars: New York 21:00 Man vs Expert 15:35 The Doctor Blake Mysteries 18:00 Pawn Stars 21:50 Deadly Dilemmas 18:00 Witches Of East End 16:30 Agatha Christie’s Poirot 19:00 Criminal Minds 18:30 Pawn Stars 22:15 Deadly Dilemmas 18:20 Murdoch Mysteries 01:00 Scooby-Doo! Ghastly Goals! 19:00 Storage Wars 22:40 World’s Worst... 20:00 The Fosters 02:30 Kikoriki: Team Invincible 19:10 Coronation Street 21:00 Witches Of East End 19:30 Storage Wars 23:30 Amish Mafia 19:35 The Doctor Blake Mysteries 04:15 Krazzy Planet 20:00 Ax Men 22:00 Better Call Saul 06:00 Patoruzito: The Great 20:30 Agatha Christie’s Poirot 23:00 House Of Cards 21:00 American Pickers 22:20 Coronation Street Adventure 22:00 Swamp People 22:50 Emmerdale 07:45 Justin And The Knights Of 23:15 Murdoch Mysteries The Valour 09:45 Postman Pat: The Movie 11:15 JLA Adventures: Trapped In 00:00 Violetta 00:00 Rush Hour Time 00:45 The Hive 12:45 Kikoriki: Team Invincible 00:50 Sabrina: Secrets Of A 02:00 Prisoners Of The Sun 04:00 Wrath 14:30 Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius 01:20 Thunderbolt And Lightfoot Teenage Witch 00:10 Ultimate Survival Alaska 16:00 Luke And Lucy: The Texas 03:15 Hero’s Island 01:15 Sabrina: Secrets Of A 06:00 Falcon Rising 01:00 Richard Hammond’s Wildest 08:00 Absolute Killers Rangers 04:50 Nobody’s Fool Teenage Witch Weather 18:00 Postman Pat: The Movie 06:35 A Guy Thing 01:40 Wolfblood 10:00 Reign Of Fire 02:00 Wicked Tuna 12:00 Rush Hour 20:00 Ernest & Celestine 08:20 Punks 02:05 Wolfblood 02:55 Taiwan: Island Of Fish 22:00 Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius 09:55 Fast Food 02:30 Violetta 14:00 Marvel’s Next Avengers: 03:50 Ultimate Survival Alaska Heroes Of Tomorrow 23:30 Luke And Lucy: The Texas 11:25 Alexander The Great 03:15 The Hive 04:45 Nazi Underworld Rangers 13:40 Agent Cody Banks 03:20 Sabrina: Secrets Of A 16:00 Absolute Killers 05:40 Caught In The Act 18:00 Assassin’s Bullet 15:20 Agent Cody Banks 2: Teenage Witch 06:35 Mega Food Destination London FALCON RISING ON OSN MOVIES ACTION HD 03:45 Sabrina: Secrets Of A 20:00 Reign Of Fire 07:30 Ultimate Airport Dubai 22:00 Getaway 17:00 The Beautiful Country Teenage Witch 08:25 Aftermath 19:00 The Limey 04:10 Wolfblood 20:30 Doubt 20:02 Adventure Time With Morgan Freeman 15:35 Ducktales 09:20 Nazi Underworld 20:13 Adventure Time 21:35 How The Universe Works 16:00 Miles From Tomorrow 04:35 Wolfblood 10:15 Danger Decoded 00:00 40 Days And Nights-PG15 22:15 The Limey 05:00 Violetta 02:00 Hercules-PG15 23:45 Capote 20:25 Johnny Test 22:20 Mythbusters 16:30 Sofia The First 10:40 Danger Decoded 21:10 Regular Show 23:08 Mind Control Freaks 16:55 Doc McStuffins 05:45 The Hive 11:10 Hacking The System 03:45 Saving Mr. Banks-PG15 05:50 Mouk 06:00 Streetdance: All Stars-PG15 21:55 Total Drama World Tour 23:32 Mind Control Freaks 17:15 Jake And The Neverland 11:35 Hacking The System 00:00 Prisoners Of The Sun-PG15 22:20 Total Drama World Tour 23:55 Food Factory Pirates 06:00 Lolirock 12:05 The Border 08:00 Heaven Is For Real-PG 06:25 Hank Zipzer 02:00 Wrath-PG15 10:00 Marvel’s Hulk vs. Thor & 22:40 Grojband 00:19 Food Factory 17:35 Sheriff Callie’s Wild West 13:00 Aftermath 04:00 Falcon Rising-PG15 23:05 Grojband 00:42 How It’s Made 18:05 Mickey Mouse Clubhouse 06:50 Girl Meets World 14:00 Ultimate Airport Dubai Wolverine-PG 07:15 H2O: Just Add Water 06:00 Absolute Killers-PG15 12:00 Hercules-PG15 01:20 Grojband 23:25 Transformers: Robots In 18:35 Sofia The First 15:00 Money Meltdown Disguise 19:00 Adventures Of The Gummi 07:40 Jessie 15:30 Money Meltdown 08:00 Reign Of Fire-PG15 14:00 American Warships-PG15 02:05 Total Drama World Tour 08:05 Wizards Of Waverly Place 10:00 Rush Hour-PG15 16:00 Heaven Is For Real-PG 02:50 Teen Titans Go! 23:50 Regular Show Bears 16:00 Danger Decoded 00:35 Johnny Test 19:25 Chip n Dale Rescue Rangers 08:30 Wizards Of Waverly Place 12:00 Marvel’s Next Avengers: 18:00 3 Days To Kill-PG15 03:10 Grojband 16:30 Danger Decoded 19:55 Ducktales 08:55 Sabrina: Secrets Of A 17:00 Science Of Stupid Heroes Of Tomorrow-PG 20:00 Hummingbird-PG15 03:35 Grojband Teenage Witch 22:00 Transit-PG15 04:00 Regular Show 20:20 Lilo & Stitch 17:30 Science Of Stupid 14:00 Absolute Killers-PG15 20:50 Zou 09:20 Sabrina: Secrets Of A 18:00 The Border 04:50 Uncle Grandpa 01:10 Henry Hugglemonster Teenage Witch 16:00 Assassin’s Bullet-PG15 05:10 New Adventure Time 21:05 Henry Hugglemonster 19:00 Russia’s Mystery Files 18:00 Reign Of Fire-PG15 01:20 Calimero 21:20 Calimero 09:45 Austin & Ally 20:00 Danger Decoded 05:20 Adventure Time 01:35 Zou 20:00 Getaway-PG15 21:35 Zou 10:10 Austin & Ally 20:25 Danger Decoded 05:35 New Clarence 01:45 Loopdidoo 10:35 Wizards Of Waverly Place 22:00 The Baytown Outlaws-18 05:46 Clarence 21:50 Loopdidoo 20:50 Science Of Stupid 01:06 How It’s Made 02:00 Art Attack 22:05 Art Attack 11:00 Wizards Of Waverly Place 21:15 Science Of Stupid 01:00 Bad Company 06:00 The Amazing World Of 02:25 Henry Hugglemonster 11:25 Jessie Gumball 01:29 How Do They Do It? 22:30 Henry Hugglemonster 21:40 The Border 03:00 Secret Liaison 01:53 How Do They Do It? 02:35 Calimero 11:50 Jessie 04:30 Greenberg 06:20 Ben 10 22:45 Calimero 22:30 Russia’s Mystery Files 02:16 The Big Brain Theory 02:50 Zou 23:00 Zou 12:20 Hank Zipzer 23:20 Caught In The Act 06:15 Frankenweenie 07:10 Ninjago Master Of Spinjitzu 03:00 Loopdidoo 12:45 Hank Zipzer New 03:03 Through The Wormhole 23:15 Loopdidoo 07:45 Then She Found Me With Morgan Freeman 03:15 Art Attack 13:10 Good Luck Charlie 00:00 Major Payne 07:30 Regular Show 23:30 Art Attack 09:30 Secret Liaison 03:50 How The Universe Works 03:35 Henry Hugglemonster 13:35 Good Luck Charlie 02:00 The Pretty One 11:00 Deep Rising 07:55 Dreamworks Dragons: 23:55 Henry Hugglemonster 04:37 How It’s Made 03:50 Calimero 00:05 Calimero 14:00 Dog With A Blog 04:00 AmeriQua 12:45 Love And Other Impossible Riders Of Berk 04:00 Zou 14:30 H2O: Just Add Water 08:20 Total Drama World Tour 05:00 How It’s Made 00:20 Zou 06:00 The Waterboy Pursuits 04:15 Loopdidoo 14:55 H2O: Just Add Water 08:40 Johnny Test 05:23 Mythbusters 00:30 New Girl 08:00 Vamps 14:30 Freelancers 06:08 Spider-Man Tech 04:35 Art Attack 15:20 Liv And Maddie 16:15 Terminator III 09:30 Steven Universe 01:00 The Nightly Show With Larry 10:00 The Pretty One 06:53 Prototype This 05:00 Calimero 15:45 Jessie Wilmore 18:00 The Eagle 09:50 Uncle Grandpa 12:00 The Waterboy 07:38 Food Factory 05:10 Zou 16:10 Violetta 04:30 The Tonight Show Starring 20:00 The Reunion 10:15 Teen Titans Go! 05:25 Jake And The Neverland 17:00 The Next Step 14:00 The Little Rascals Save The 10:40 Regular Show 08:01 Food Factory Jimmy Fallon 21:45 Inside Out 08:23 Outrageous Acts Of Psych Pirates 17:25 Liv And Maddie 06:30 2 Broke Girls Day 23:30 02:22 11:25 New Adventure Time 05:55 Sofia The First 00:30 Loopdidoo04:00 The 7D 17:50 Jessie 11:35 Adventure Time 08:46 Outrageous Acts Of Psych 07:00 Late Night With Seth Meyers 16:00 Vamps 09:08 Through The Wormhole 06:20 Doc McStuffins 04:10 Randy Cunningham: 9th 18:15 I Didn’t Do It 09:30 Manhattan Love Story 18:00 Catch That Kid 12:10 Steven Universe 06:45 Loopdidoo Grade Ninja 18:40 Gravity Falls 12:35 Total Drama World Tour With Morgan Freeman 10:00 Benched 20:00 She Wants Me 07:00 Limon And Oli 04:35 Mini Ninjas 19:05 H2O: Just Add Water 13:00 Ben 10: Omniverse 09:53 How Do They Do It? 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Aries (March 21-April 19) Libra (September 23-October 22)

You are resolved to fulfill your heart’s desires, but may be grow- A simple relationship issue rattles your world today when some- ing frustrated because everything you want seems to take longer than one reveals his or her emotions and then impatiently waits for your response. anticipated. Fortunately, you aren’t so quick to give in to negativity now. However, you might not have a clue about what you what while non-con- Recent delays were only temporary and your persistence will ultimately formist Uranus is rocking your key planet Venus; you just can’t seem to shake play out in your favor. Nevertheless, there’s no reason to hide your impa- off the restraints on your heart. In fact, your current indecision might be tience. Ultimately, your undying enthusiasm will be your key to climbing insurmountable, so it’s in your best interest to let the other person decide for the ladder of success or winning the love of someone special. both of you now. Conflict does not serve you well; thankfully, you’re a cham- pion of practicing the art of compromise.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) Scorpio (October 23-November 21)

Your coworkers might get a sudden taste of your obstinate Someone might be maneuvering you into a corner today and you nature today, even if you aren’t expressing the full intensity of your feel- don’t like one little bit. However, events are unfolding too quickly to manage ings. You may believe that what you really want is so far outside the range and you resent being coerced to fall into line. You may seem willing to play of acceptability that you must refrain from saying anything at all. However, along with the crowd now, but you’re probably busy cooking up your own your well-intended discretion can backfire now, making you feel alienated resistance so you can plant your feet when the time is right. Don’t react imme- from others. Luckily, it’s not an all-or-nothing proposition. Taking smaller diately; your position will only increase in strength if you can delay your risks is much more likely to be rewarded if you’re willing to exercise response until the frenetic pace settles down. The element of surprise is a per- patience and display a generosity of spirit. fect secret weapon when you use it at the just right moment.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) Sagittarius (November 22-December 21)

Your desire to do things differently today can be a bit disorien- You may appear like a footloose and fancy-free Archer today, but tating for everyone involved. Nevertheless, you still want to impress others behind your fun-loving demeanor lurks a more serious character. ACROSS DOWN Nevertheless, electrical Uranus is zapping seductive Venus in your 9th House with your famous multi-tasking skills while you juggle many tasks at once. 1. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of 1. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake of Big Ideas, drawing your attention away from work and aiming it toward Innovation may be your strong suit now, but too much originality could intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and Chad. social pleasures. But you’re also acutely aware of pressing obligations that end up sending you back to the drawing board. Instead of shocking others yielding a yellow dye. 2. The sixth month of the civil year. must be addressed before you go out in search of adventure. Normally, you with your radical ideas, transform your unconventional approach into a 4. Causing alarm or fear. 3. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a are the one who tells others to lighten up and stop taking life so seriously, but slightly more conservative one for the best results. 12. The portion of the vertebrate nervous sys- skewer usually with vegetables. now you should remind yourself. You only live once. tem consisting of the brain and spinal cord. 4. A dark-skinned member of a race of people 15. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit living in Australia when Europeans arrived. juice. 5. Soviet physicist who worked on low tem- 16. (formal) Ordinary and not refined. perature physics (1908-1968). Cancer (June 21-July 22) Capricorn (December 22-January 19) 17. Headdress that protects the head from 6. An associate degree in nursing. 7. Climbing palm of Sri Lanka and southern bad weather. Although you may blast through your regular self-imposed limits You’re caught between two opposing strategies in response to your 18. Large terrestrial monkeys having doglike India remarkable for the great length of the current circumstances. On one hand, you’re determined to reward yourself for stems which are used for Malacca canes. today, you still might have mixed feelings about revealing your true intentions. muzzles. You’re eager to engage with others by sharing your deepest emotions; howev- your hard work. There are treats already waiting for you and it would be all-too- 20. Brief episode in which the brain gets insuf- 8. United States naturalist (born in England) er, you simultaneously wish you had more personal space to call your own. Even easy to take advantage of what the universe is offering. However, on the other ficient blood supply. who advocated the creation of national parks if you are resistant to letting go of your fear of rejection, this impulsive self-dis- hand, you might not be able to forget about your responsibilities, even after you 21. Lower in esteem. (1838-1914). closure is a great opportunity to stretch outside of your comfort zone. complete your chores. Honestly, you have earned the right to relax; give yourself 23. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey 9. (Old Testament) The second patriarch. unmitigated permission to enjoy the good times while they last. (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows 10. A hard malleable ductile silvery metallic generally eastward through Armenia to the element that is resistant to corrosion. Caspian Sea. 11. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control 24. (British) Traditional jazz as revived in the Leo (July 23-August 22) Aquarius (January 20- February 18) 1950s. using precision approach radar. 26. The biblical name for ancient Syria. 12. Green algae common in freshwater lakes There is a palpable high-frequency buzz in the atmosphere today. of limestone districts. Keeping your emotions in check is more challenging than you 27. United States writer of poems and plays think. You know what the logical thing is to do, but something still drives you Luckily, you can use this exciting energy to move closer to your current heart’s about racial conflict (born in 1934). 13. An independent agency of the United desires as your key planet Uranus shocks sweet Venus. Unfortunately, someone States government responsible for aviation to take a different course of action that brings you right to the edge of rebel- 30. South African plant widely cultivated for lion. Don’t waste time in unnecessary deliberation. Instead, speak up and ask might stand between you and the fun you know you deserve. Acknowledging its showy pure white spathe and yellow and spaceflight. the resistance you receive from others now enables you to consider their feelings 14. (linguistics) The form of a word after all for what you really want, even if it’s not what others expect. Take pride in the spadix. prior to exploring a whole new world of alternatives. Ultimately, it’s up to you to affixes are removed. aspirations of your heart; be the Lion you are and roar like you mean it. 32. A class of proteins produced in lymph tis- judge if the potential pleasure is still worth the consequences. sue in vertebrates and that function as anti- 19. Port city on southern Honshu on Osaka bodies in the immune response. Bay. 34. A branch of the Tai languages. 22. Elder brother of Krishna. 25. A light touch or stroke. 35. The cry made by sheep. Virgo (August 23-September 22) 38. Tropical American tree producing cacao 28. The 17th letter of the Greek alphabet. Pisces (February 19-March 20) beans. 29. Something of sentimental value. 42. Intense anger (usually on an epic scale). 31. Legal document setting forth rules gov- Living on your own little island sounds like an idyllic situation Taking a leap of faith and exposing your dreams to the outer world 44. The capital and largest city of Japan. erning a particular kind of activity. today. People think you’re fully engaged in a friendly conversation or is risky business. However, your timing couldn’t be better now, so don’t give up 45. Asian rat snakes. 33. A member of an agricultural people in engrossed in your work, but you are actually busy hiding your passionate even if you also experience a strong reality check in the process. Keep in mind 48. Title for a civil or military leader (especially southeastern India. emotions. There’s no need to satisfy anyone else’s expectations of you now. that some of your fantasies may be better left unrealized. Nevertheless, your in Turkey). 36. An antibiotic (trade name Erythrocin or E- Be true to yourself and take whatever personal time you need to sort out your friends and coworkers are unusually receptive to your far-out ideas. Move for- Mycin or Ethril or Ilosone or Pediamycin) 49. Of or relating to or characteristic of feelings. Sometimes separating from the crowd is justifiable so you can work ward with your plans today; step out of your imagination and into your future. obtained from the actinomycete Morocco or its people. things out on your own. Streptomyces erythreus. 52. A thick sweet sticky liquid. 37. Metal shackles. 53. A member of a rural Finnish people living 39. French painter of Italian landscapes (1796- in eastern Russia. 1875). WORD SEARCH PUZZLE 54. Relating to the abomasum (the fourth Yesterday’s Solution 40. A port in southwestern Scotland. compartment of the stomach of ruminants). 41. The 19th letter of the Greek alphabet. 55. A soft cotton or worsted fabric with an 43. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of open mesh. the Old World. 57. Relating to or accompanying birth. 46. Deciduous trees with smooth usually sil- 58. From fermented juice of black morello ver-gray bark of North America and Europe cherries. and Asia. 60. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of 47. A detailed description of design criteria for the lateral columns and anterior horns of the a piece of work. spinal cord. 50. A member of the Siouan people formerly 61. Australian shrubs and small trees with living in the Missouri river valley in NE evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense Nebraska. clusters of showy flowers. 51. Round gourd of the calabash tree. 63. A public promotion of some product or 56. Of or relating to or characteristic of service. Thailand of its people. 65. West Indian tree having racemes of fra- 59. Large South American evergreen tree tri- grant white flowers and yielding a durable foliate leaves and drupes with nutlike seeds timber and resinous juice. used as food and a source of cooking oil. 73. A loose sleeveless outer garment made 62. The 10th letter of the Greek alphabet. from aba cloth. 64. Acute delirium caused by alcohol poison- 74. Having columns at one or both ends but ing. not along the sides. 66. In bed. 77. An unforeseen obstacle. 67. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism. 78. A spacecraft that carries astronauts from 68. Able to act at will. the command module to the surface of the 69. Type genus of the Gliridae. moon and back. 70. Any tree or shrub of the genus Inga hav- 79. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat ing pinnate leaves and showy usually white trimmed off. flowers. 81. Long and light rowing boat. 71. Characteristic of false pride. 82. A federal agency established to regulate 72. Oval reproductive body of a fowl (espe- the release of new foods and health-related cially a hen) used as food. products. 75. Any of various dark heavy viscid sub- 83. A city in northwestern Somalia. stances obtained as a residue. 84. The part of the nervous system of verte- 76. A cgs unit of work or energy. brates that controls involuntary actions of the 80. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali smooth muscles and heart and glands. earth group. Yesterday’s Solution

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Fashion Drake sells big in new surprise release ap superstar Drake, whose unexpected mixtape earlier championships. “I do not chase girls, but they run a mile for download on iTunes but not on competing streaming plat- this year became a top-seller, has dropped another sur- me,” Drake boasts. Drake also uses a sports analogy to take on forms such as Spotify or on CD or vinyl. Nonetheless, Billboard Rprise release-to an enthusiastic commercial response. his critics-presumably including Meek Mills, a rapper who predicted that “What a Time To Be Alive” was on course to The Toronto rapper teamed up with Atlanta-based rising star sparked controversy by charging that Drake did not write his debut on the next weekly chart at number one and to be the Future to release a mixtape entitled “What a Time To Be Alive.” own songs. “Are we talking teams? ... This game is different, top-selling new release since Drake’s previous work. The two rappers had been known to be collaborating with you only get one shot,” Drake raps. Drake in February put out a Previously, Billboard had forecast a number-one debut for each other, but they released the mixtape at short notice late mixtape on his own, “If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late,” that “Honeymoon,” the highly anticipated fourth album by the Sunday on Apple Music, where Drake is a key player. has been the only album released this year to go platinum, gloomily introspective singer Lana Del Rey. Drake’s celebrity The mixtape features a cover of glittering diamonds and defined as selling more than one million copies, in the United has grown with a series of headlining performance at major has multiple references to precious gems as the rappers States. festivals, including Coachella in California in April. — AFP address their recent successes. “Man, what a time to be alive,” Like his previous release, Drake has described “What a Time each rapper says separately on “Big Rings.” Drake starts the To Be Alive” as a mixtape rather than as a full-fledged album of Canadian rapper Aubrey Graham, aka song by asking for a cash advance, despite his recent success. new material. In a still unusual commercial tactic, Drake put ‘Drake’, arrives for the premiere of the “I got a really big team / And they need some really big rings,” out both mixtapes first on Apple. “What a Time To Be Alive” movie ‘Get Hard’ at the TCL Chinese Drake raps, an allusion to sports teams’ jewelry for winning was available Monday for streaming on Apple Music and for Theatre in Hollywood, California. — AFP New York Film Carlos Santana, Pitbull in pro-immigrant song Festival to host Albert atin music stars including Carlos Santana and Pitbull on harassed and made to be scapegoats for the ills of their Monday launched a music video in celebration of immi- respective countries of residence,” it said. “The song celebrates Maysles tribute Lgrants, voicing alarm at the harsh turn of US political dis- the positive contributions of immigrants in the United States course. “We’re All Mexican,” in English and Spanish with a Latin as a balance to the negativity being expressed publicly,” it incoln Center will host a tribute to the late documentary beat and mariachi brass, features images of famous Mexicans said. Stars involved in the song include the Cuban-American filmmaker Albert Maysles during the upcoming New such as painter Frida Kahlo as stars say the song’s title. With US rapper Pitbull, Chicano rock legend Carlos Santana and LYork Film Festival. The Film Society of Lincoln Center and Mexican flags waving, the video also shows images of Mexican American actress Eva Longoria. announced Monday that the event, co-hosted by the Maysles immigrants’ contributions to US society ranging from farm Other stars in the project include Haitian-born rapper family, will take place October 4 at Alice Tully Hall. Maysles will labor to Mexican cuisine. Wyclef Jean of Fugees fame and Oscar-winning actress be celebrated with in-person guests, clips from his work and Cuban-American producer Emilio Estefan led the initiative Whoopi Goldberg. Trump, the property mogul and television special attention to his work with Maysles Documentary given the popularity in the Republican presidential nomina- star who has defied all political odds to lead the Republican Center, the Harlem nonprofit he co-founded. tion contest of tycoon Donald Trump, who denounced undoc- race ahead of the November 2016 election, stunned many Maysles died in March at the age of 88. His 60-year career umented Mexicans as rapists and drug dealers. “‘We’re all across the United States when he described Mexican immi- spanned seminal documentaries of so-called “direct cinema,” Mexican’ is a metaphor symbolizing that we can all become grants as rapists. Hispanic-Americans are the largest and including “Gimme Shelter,” “Grey Gardens” and “Salesman.” The the victims of racism and bigotry at any moment,” said a state- fastest growing US minority; most Latinos are of Mexican 53rd New York Film Festival begins Friday. — AP ment accompanying the video. Without referring directly to descent or origin. And Republicans need to court Hispanics’ Trump, the statement denounced the vilification of Mexicans votes to win the White House. Trump, 69, also wants to build a but said their situation was not unique. wall along the US-Mexican border. — AFP Carrie Underwood “Around the world, different immigrant groups are Neeson to star in action movie ‘The Commuter’ iam Neeson is set to star in the Studiocanal suspense thriller “The Commuter,” sources confirm to Variety. LByron Willinger and Phil de Blasi penned the script with In this Jan 21, 2013 file photo, filmmaker Albert Andrew Rona and Alex Heineman producing with Maysles poses for a portrait during the 2013 Sundance Studiocanal through their shingle the Picture Company. No Film Festival to promote his film, ‘Focus Forward’ in director is currently attached. Plot revolves around a busi- Park City, Utah. — AP nessman on his daily commute home, who unwittingly gets caught up in a criminal conspiracy. It threatens not only his life but the lives of those around him. Production is set to Bille August Omar Sharif start sometime next spring. Studiocanal will finance the pic. Neeson has become the Country singer go-to actor for suspense thrillers and action movies, like Fox’s “Taken 3” and Warner Bros.’ “Run All Night,” both of which August to head Cairo Film debuted earlier this year. Neeson has Martin Scorsese’s Underwood says “Silence” and the Focus movie “When a Monster Calls” both bowing in the next year. Universal also recently acquired the Festival jury, Sharif to be honored pitch “The Revenger” with Neeson attached to star and scar-winning Danish Director Bille August (“Pelle the A UCLA graduate, Fahmy has served as United Nations Ruben Fleischer on board to direct. Willinger and de Blasi are her songs are for Conqueror”) will head the main jury of the 37th Cairo Film Development Program Goodwill Ambassador to the Arab region both repped by Verve and most recently wrote “Skyscraper” Festival which will pay tribute to the memory of the late and North Africa and is also a former president of the Cairo fest. for Universal and “The Crossing” for Screen Gems. The pic O great Omar Sharif and also honor popular Egyptian actor Hussein The Cairo fest is under new management with the appointment ‘real people’ marks one of a handful movies the Picture Company has set Fahmy with a lifetime achievement award. August (pictured) a earlier this year as president of Magda Wassef, former head of the up since Rona and Heineman announced the creation of the inging a live-streamed concert in London, seven-time double Palme d’Or winner, also known for “Smilla’s Sense Of Luxor fest, and of prominent film critic and academic Youssef banner last year with “Escape From New York” and a “Robin Grammy award winning American country singer Carrie Snow,” “The House of Spirits,” and “Les Miserables,” will bring his lat- Cherif Rizkallah as artistic director. The new toppers at Cairo were Hood” retelling also in the works. CAA reps Neeson and the Underwood said she thinks her style of music knows no est film, “Silent Heart,” to the Cairo fest which will run November installed by Egypt’s culture minister after the resignation late last S Picture Company. The news was first reported by Deadline boundaries because it’s about “real people” everywhere. “I def- 11-20. The tribute to Omar Sharif, who died aged 83 in July, will year of esteemed veteran critic Samir Farid who cited health rea- Hollywood. — Reuters initely get that country music has most of its culture in the take place November 12 and involve onstage testimonials from sons for stepping down. (United) States and in the southern part of the States. But we several international and Egyptian artists who worked with the Farid had successfully revamped the oldest film fest in the sing about real people and real stories and people that work first Arab actor to achieve worldwide fame. Middle East and Africa, giving it a new configuration, following a hard, and I feel like that’s universal,” Underwood told Reuters Besides classics Sharif starred in, such as “Lawrence of Arabia,” hiatus and downfall due to post-revolutionary turbulence. The on Monday night at London’s Roundhouse music venue. the Cairo fest will also screen lesser known gems such as a new team, which has plenty of previous experience, is talking its “So country music has evolved a lot over the decades and I restored version of French director Jacques Baratier’s 1958 cue from his internationally well-received 36th edition. But they feel like there’s a lot of artists like myself that are just working romancer “Goha,” featuring one of Sharif’s earlier roles which he have also reinstated the Cairo Film Connection co-production hard to break stereotypes and just bring good music to every- plays opposite Claudia Cardinale. Hussein Fahmy, who has platform market component for Arab filmmakers which Farid has body,” Underwood said before stepping on stage to perform appeared in more than one hundred Egyptian movies and plenty scrapped. —Reuters for the live-streamed Apple Music Festival. Underwood, 32, of TV shows, will receive the Faten Hamama Lifetime rose to fame after winning the musical talent contest Achievement Award, named after the Egyptian icon who died in “American Idol” in 2005. After her debut album “Some Hearts” January. Hamama and was married to Sharif for nearly twenty was voted the top country album of the past decade by trade Liam Neeson years. publication Billboard, she said she’d felt under pressure for the follow-up, but now has her career in hand. “I felt like there was a lot of pressure on my second album, and like my first headlining tour. There’s certain things that have been in my career that I felt like I was just needing them ‘Sicario’ sequel in the works at Lionsgate to work,” she said. “At this point in my career, 10 years in, I feel ionsgate is developing a sequel to “Sicario” that will center on added that he hoped that “Sicario” with its eerie shots of nighttime like some of that’s off because I feel like I’ve solidified a place Benicio Del Toro’s mysterious hitman. The project is being raids and violent border cronfrontations might finally score an in country music, on the radio... I have an amazing fan base overseen by Taylor Sheridan, the writer of the acclaimed Oscar for Roger Deakins, who is zero for twelve despite nomina- that’s incredibly supportive. “So I don’t feel like I have to top L thriller. Director Denis Villeneuve is also involved, although it’s ear- tions for the likes of “Unbroken,” “Fargo,” and “Skyfall,” calling the what I did last time and because of that I feel like I’m able to ly in the process and it’s not clear if he would come on board to award, “past due.” Wachsberger also agreed with critics who have make better music and be more creative and just do things direct. “Before the release of this movie, I was talking to Denis and I been predicting Oscar love for Blunt and calling her performance that are good for the sake of being good and not like for the said what happened to this character?” said Patrick Wachsberger, as tough agent forced to question her beliefs one of the finest of sake of trying to sell albums or trying to get played on the co-chair of the studio’s motion picture group. “Where is Benicio her career. radio.” going?” “She is totally credible,” said Wachsberger. “You end the Underwood, who is among the top selling US female The studio executive was thrilled Monday after “Sicario” movie wondering what’s going to happen? What happen to her vocalists, and whose fifth album, “Storyteller”, will be released debuted to a sizzling $401,288 last weekend from just six theaters. character? Is she becoming a wolf?” Despite the strong box in October, said social media is increasingly important in her Its per-screen average of $66,881 is the highest of the year. The office response, Lionsgate is going to roll out “Sicario” at a delib- career. “It is playing a bigger and bigger role in the careers of film centers on a steely FBI agent (Emily Blunt) who finds herself erate pace. It expands to eleven cities and roughly 65 locations music artists especially. But you know it is what it is and it’s involved in an off-the-books operation to bring down a Mexican next weekend, before going wide on Oct 2. “This is a movie that wonderful to be able to connect with people that you might drug kingpin. Josh Brolin co-stars as a morally flexible govern- needs word of mouth,” said Wachsberger. “It’s not an easy title. British actress Emily Blunt, poses between Puerto Rican not ever get to see. “You know there’s people in other coun- ment operative. Lionsgate is planning an Oscar campaign, ‘Sicario’? You have to Google that. You’re not going to wear a t- actor Benicio del Toro, right of her, Canadian film director tries that are like ‘Carrie please come to Brazil’ and I’m like, ‘Oh Wachsberger said. “This movie has multiple Oscar potential-best shirt of that.” — Reuters Denis Villeneuve and film producer, Edward McDonell, my gosh, people in Brazil have heard of me, that’s incredible.’ movie, best director, best cinematography, best music, and, of left, after arriving at Victoria Eugenia cinema to promote So that part’s really cool.” — Reuters course, the actors,” he said. “All of the characters feel real.” He their film ‘Sicarios’. — AP Bale, Pitt’s ‘The Big Short’ gets release date, AFI Fest premiere aramount Pictures opted for “Good Morning players out there. These guys, who were really just could be an awards play for Christian Bale and par- America” yesterday to announce that Adam trying to stick it to the big banks (which themselves ticularly Steve Carell, with other hopes for best pic- PMcKay’s “The Big Short”-with an all-star cast would of course be bailed out), hit the jackpot while ture and best adapted screenplay lingering. It’s a featuring Christian Bale, Brad Pitt, Steve Carell, Ryan the American dream was being flushed down the potential power player for New Regency, already rid- Gosling, Marisa Tomei and Melissa Leo-would be toilet for regular Joes in the real world. ing a one-two best picture punch in “12 Years a getting a December 2015 release. Not only that, but The announcement comes on the heels of a Slave” and “Birdman.” Like David Gordon Green’s “Our the film will see its world premiere as the closing wave of successful test screenings and at a time Brand Is Crisis,” it tackles current events from a dark night selection of November’s AFI Fest in Los when the studio could really use some more fodder humor angle and that could resonate amid other, Angeles. The film, based on the book by Michael for the awards season. Paramount picked up deadly serious contenders like “Black Mass” and “The Lewis (“The Blind Side”), tells the story of bond and “Anomalisa” at the Toronto Film Festival last week, a Danish Girl.” The AFI Fest premiere will be held at the real estate derivative geeks who saw the housing challenging animated endeavor from Charlie TCL Chinese Theatre on Nov 12. — Reuters crash of 2008 coming and bet against the collateral- Kaufman and Duke Johnson that has inherent limi- ized debt obligation bubble, thus striking it rich. It’s tations as a broader Oscar play. “The Big Short” will Christian Bale, Brad Pitt and Ryan Gosling kind of like betting the “Don’t Pass” line, for the craps hit theaters in limited release Dec 11 and, as I hear it, lifestyle WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

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Burberry hits London Fashion Week with leather and lace

ritish fashion heavyweight Burberry Prorsum sum- nation mesh and macrame lace hinted at Bailey’s penchant for moned a biker spirit as it presented the Spring/Summer juggling fabrics. “It’s not so much about the trend, its more B2016 collection at London fashion Week on Monday. about an emotion and an attitude,” he explained to the press. Models wearing leather jackets over fine lace dresses paraded in front of a star-studded audience, in a marriage of the deli- A ticket for the ballet cate and the powerful. Burberry’s chief creative officer Nautical influences were explored through double-faced Christopher Bailey had treated fans to a sneak preview of the cashmere pea coats with crested buttons and rounded shoul- collection on “Snapchat” on Sunday, ahead of the show at ders and the Royal Navy-inspired wooden toggles on the col- Kensington Gardens, close to the iconic Royal Albert Hall. lection’s silk satin duffel coats. Moving to the accessories, the Among the hundreds of guests in the church-like glass design house presented flexible nylon backpacks with leather venue were actress Sienna Miller, supermodels Kate Moss and fastenings carried by models wearing semi-transparent lace Cara Delevingne and Vogue chief Anna Wintour. Soul singer dresses and light coats. Earlier in the day, Serbian designer Alison Moyet-accompanied by a symphony orchestra-kicked Roksanda Ilincic helped transform Marylebone’s Seymour off the ambitious and eclectic show with four songs live from Leisure Centre into a dream world of geometric shapes. Her the catwalk. The lambskin biker jackets-made at a British fac- show was marked by long, fluid dresses that glided down to tory famed for creating army uniforms since the 18th centu- the ankles in, soft, almost pastel tones of blue, white and pur- ry-featured ornate goldwork cording and metal detailing and ple. The soft-cut designs, which included jumpsuits and a were “influenced by twentieth century motoring styles,” transparent coat with black bands, were conceived with com- according to the company. fort in mind, giving both freedom of movement and of They covered dresses made of lace, one of Bailey’s favored expression. “I started with references from the modern ballet, fabrics that he used extensively during the most recent men’s from contemporary ballet, but also ballets from 1930s, 40s, collection in June. The designer returned to another classic with 50s, 60s...all the way through to our time,” the designer told a slim fit adaptation of the Burberry trench coat, whose combi- AFP. lifestyle WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

Fashion “I was particularly influenced by female overlooking the runway at her Sunday show. As dancers and artists who had such beautiful the lights came on, the focus was on signs like strong bodies, who moved in a very liquid way,” “Austerity is a crime” and “Climate revolution,” she added. Her show also attracted the rich and and only after a few moments did models wear- famous, with Samantha Cameron, wife of Prime ing the new season’s designs begin to strut out. Minister David Cameron and a fashion-week Guests cheered as the 74-year-old designer, regular, securing a front-row seat. who looked feisty in a metallic brown outfit, Based this year in the edgy central London closed the show by leading her models and neighborhood of Soho, London Fashion Week protesters down the runway in a spirited march. will showcase the work of more than 150 She also led a brief demonstration on the designers and host dozens of fashion shows streets outside the venue just before the show and presentations throughout the city. began. “These people are model and activist friends of mine. They have asked me ‘what can Party like the ‘80s we do?’ and I said to them ‘you’ve got to Giant polka dots, leopard print, fur stoles: demonstrate! Let’s build demonstrations,’” she The ‘80s are back at Topshop Unique. The label, wrote in her show notes. Westwood has which is the retail giant’s higher-end line, sent embraced diverse causes in recent years, cam- models down the catwalk with a youthful, paigning to raise awareness for climate change cheery collection of summery floral print dress- and the release of WikiLeaks chief Julian es with thigh-high splits, leopard blouses and Assange. She made headlines last week when fluffy fur jackets. Marabou fur kitten heels, fur she drove a tank to Prime Minister David grab bags and oversized jewel earrings com- Cameron’s home to protest fracking, the contro- plete the sassy ensembles. A key look was long- versial process of extracting oil and gas. line, boyish blazers - pinstriped or double- breasted - worn over a flimsy dress and cinched Classics and fetish at Westwood in with a colorful thin belt. The show was round- Westwood’s politics may have upstaged her ed up with a series of dainty lace dresses fashion, but her designs are no less covetable to embroidered with pretty strawberry vines, fans. On Friday, she showcased a collection of which the brand says is inspired by prints on floral print kimono dresses, monochrome leaf Wedgewood china. “It’s very vintage, very prints, cropped cigarette trousers and opulent throwback,” said US singer Ciara, who squeezed draped lace evening gowns. The unmistakable in the front row with Topshop boss Philip Green Westwood signatures, which fans know and and US Vogue editor Anna Wintour. “Those love, were all present: Corsets, scooped neck- leopard print moments were awesome, and the lines, tartan, and tiny waistlines created by art- high splits. High splits always work.” fully nipped-in jackets. Fetish-inspired acces- Models present creations during the Burberry Prorsum spring / summer 2016 collection show at London Fashion Week in London. — AP/AFP photos sories, like plastic chokers and crystal body har- Placards on the catwalk nesses, kept things interesting. Boy George and A Vivienne Westwood fashion show isn’t Lily Allen were among the celebrities attending complete without some kind of political mes- in the front row. — AP sage. But this time the grand dame of British fashion has stepped things up a gear. Westwood, who is known for her activism as much as for her designs, placed about two dozen placard-waving protesters in a gallery

British fashion designer Vivienne Westwood takes part in a demonstration ahead of her show during the Spring / Summer 2016 London Fashion Week British model Kate Moss. British model Cara Delevingne. in London.

Models wear outfits during the Christopher Kane.

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Models present creations by designer Vivienne Westwood. Models wear outfits during the Emilio de la Morena 2016 Spring / Summer collection. Must de Cartier: The birth of a legend

rom its very inception, Must de Cartier has been at tacular event featuring a disco dance show and fire- nomenon. First and foremost an aesthetic revolution, lision of fresh notes and sensual, opulent warmth. This the vanguard of fragrance ingenuity. It was the works, attended by an unprecedented gathering of the embodied in an oval shape, vertical gadroons and a debut perfume by Cartier defined the signature of Ffirst ever green oriental essence, while the jewel- international jet set, all set against the backdrop of a golden metal frame, Must de Cartier was also an olfac- Cartier fragrances, a simultaneous expression of excess like refillable bottle was also the first of its kind. Created giant perfume bottle. tory shockwave that shook up the very boundaries of and minimalism. in 1981, the fragrance captured the heady 1970s deca- Roger Moore and Dalida were among an impressive the fragrance world. dence of the Must de Cartier line. In another first, Cartier guest list of film stars, singers and VIPs who gathered at An oriental marked by a heavy presence of jasmine debuted the concept of the perfume launch in a spec- the Ch‚teau de Versailles to honor of this olfactory phe- and vanilla underpinned with galbanum. A brilliant col- Burberry hits London Fashion Week with leather and lace

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Muslim pilgrims touch Islam’s holiest shrine, the Kaaba, at the Grand Mosque in the Saudi holy city of Makkah, late on September 21, 2015. The annual hajj pilgrimage began yesterday, and more than a million faithful have already flocked to Saudi Arabia in preparation for what will for many be the highlight of their spiritual lives. — AFP Korean webtoons intrigue Belgian comic artists elgium has long been a leading exponent of the traditional webtoons. “People are watching this everywhere in South Korea,” comic strips known as manhwa first surfaced in 1909 under the to Earth” by Manu Larcenet and Jean-Yves Ferri-but the book is printed comic book, but a recent exhibition of South he said. Japanese occupation with the aim of stirring people against completely unknown in South Korea. BKorean “webtoons” has caused soul-searching in the land of imperialist rule, exhibition organizers said. In the middle of the “Never heard of it,” replied a smiling Hong. At 33-years-old, his Tintin and The Smurfs. The animated online comics, which are Smartphones and tablets 1960s, people started flocking to “manhwabangs,” libraries and compatriot Ancco, who goes by one name, recalled having “dis- wildly popular in South Korea, have made some Belgian artists Webtoons, sometimes known as web comics, are published private rooms where they could read Manhwas. A decade later, covered European authors in a museum for comic books” in South wonder whether they might be falling behind the times after a online and are usually accessible for free on smartphones or the historic graphic novel dominated until a wave of Japanese Korea, but admitted “not having real personal contacts” with her long period of global success. The Belgian-Korean Comics tablets. They combine fixed and moving images, changing Manga comics invaded South Korea in the 1980s. Korean artists peers in Europe. Ancco’s accounts, which draw from her recollec- Exhibition running until the end of October at the Korean Cultural colours, special effects, sound and music. And what works well in reacted by creating comics about sexuality, everyday violence and tions of an “unhappy” youth in the suburbs of Seoul, has echoes of Centre in Brussels offers a chance to compare the old and the new Seoul is now being exported, with some leading webtoons being other adult themes and distributed their work on the Internet and the story that young Flemish artist Delphine Frantzen tells in forms, with clips of webtoons being shown on screens. published in English language versions. Yet the traditional printed eventually via smartphones. “Madame Pipi”, about a caretaker at public toilets who sees people Belgian comic artist Bernard Yslaire, whose works include the comic book became what the French-speaking academic world from all walks of life come to meet the same basic need. “In read- fanciful saga “Sambre” and the romantic series “Bidouille et dubs the “Ninth art form” thanks in large part to Belgian artists like ‘Screens are the future’ ing Belgian authors, I find similarities, both in the way the images Violette”, said Korean readers were trend setters. “That’s Herge, who produced Tintin and his canine companion Snowy, Both Belgian authors and their South Korean counterparts say and storylines are presented. Each one can reveal emotion,” Ancco (webtoons) all they read. It’s very rare in Korea to publish comic and Peyo, who gave the world The Smurfs, small blue creatures they find similar sources of inspiration, often from everyday life. said after contemplating both Belgian and Korean comic strips. books,” says Yslaire, whose originals are on show at the exhibition. who live in mushroom-shaped houses in the forest. For example, the Brussels exhibition features pages from “A Frantzen agreed even if she said she has “not yet tried to publish “But that really grabs me. It’s been 15 years that I have been trying And old-fashioned comic books remain enormously popular Couple’s Story,” a graphic novel by South Korean author Hong work on the Internet.” She added: “I still prefer a book to a screen, to do the same thing. Everyone knows that Korea is the future, but in Belgium. A comic book festival at the start of the month in Yeon-sik, about a comic artist who decides to leave the big city but the latter is the future. We have to find an audience for these we have the weight of the past,” he added. The centre’s director Brussels drew up to 100,000 fans, enticed by the opportunity to with his wife and settle in the countryside. For French-speaking kinds of things.” — AFP Chung Hae-tal says South Koreans are now massive consumers of meet artists or take part in creative workshops. In South Korea, readers, this immediately brings to mind the comic book “Return

A woman looks at an exhibition about South Korean and Belgium comic strip artists at the Korean Cultural Center, in Brussels. — AFP photos Dutch aim to buy two Rembrandts for 160 million euros he Dutch government is to help acquire two rare lic ownership so that they are accessible to the public and Rembrandt paintings for some 160 million euros ($179 remain in Europe,” Bussemaker told Dutch radio. “Art belongs Tmillion) from a private collector and bring them back to to us all collectively,” she said, adding it “would be highly the Netherlands, officials said Monday. Culture Minister Jet undesirable” if the paintings were sold “to some rich oil Bussemaker told national radio hopes were high that a deal nation”. between the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and the current The government has agreed to fund half of the purchase owners of the two portraits by the Dutch master was nearing price, Bussemaker’s chief press secretary Job Slok confirmed completion. The full-length portraits of Maerten Soolmans to AFP. The rest of the funds, some 80 million euros, will have and Oopjen Coppit, painted just before their marriage in 1634, to be raised by the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, which houses An Afghan boy carries a sheep on his shoulder at a livestock market ahead of the sacrificial Eid Al-Adha festival have been in the French branch of the wealthy banking a large collection of Dutch art through the centuries, includ- in Kabul yesterday. Muslims across the world are preparing to celebrate annual festival of Eid Al-Adha or the Rothschild family since the mid-19th century and have rarely ing many Rembrandts. “This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportuni- festival of sacrifice which marks the end of the Hajj pilgrimage to Makkah and commemorates prophet been seen in public. ty to get the paintings back to Holland and show them off to Abraham’s (PBUH) readiness to sacrifice his son to show obedience to God. — AFP They are now believed to be held in the collection of Eric the Dutch public,” Slok said. — AFP de Rothschild. “It is of utmost important to us that the paint- ings, which are now in private hands, should come under pub-