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DOHA: The Traffic intersections, Al Kharji said the Department is planning to smart traffic control system at introduce “mobile” radars on many new intersections is inte- a wide scale to snare speed- grated with a technique to alert ing vehicles, in addition to the motorists before the traffic lights surveillance cameras already turn red. installed on major roads and On the new patrolling team, highways, a senior official of the Al Kharji said they will pro- department has said. mote safety on highways by The Department, for the first monitoring the speed limit, time in the country, will also keeping space between vehicles deploy a specially trained patrol- and handling emergencies like ling team to monitor highways accidents. across the country. The patrolling team received The first batch of the Highway theoretical and practical lessons Patrol Police comprising 50 offic- on controlling traffic on high- ers graduated on Thursday. The ways, safe parking and stopping The Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani with the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia, and the new force is expected to start on highways as well as dealing Emir of Kuwait H H Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Jaber Al Sabah, at the Saudi King’s palace in Riyadh last evening. work next year. with the public. Speaking to the media on the The new initiative is the sidelines of the graduation cere- result of a collaboration between mony, Brigadier Mohammed Saad the Ministry of Interior and Al Kharji said that there is a plan RasGas. to install cameras on patrolling The training programme Egypt, Turkey expel ambassadors vehicles to detect speeding cars. was implemented by the glo- These cameras can take pictures bally-renowned Northwestern CAIRO: Egypt said yesterday it He spoke shortly after Turkey “unacceptable coup” by the army. security forces stormed into pro- of the erring vehicles even when University, Chicago. was expelling Turkey’s ambas- had retaliated to the Egyptian Mursi’s Muslim Brotherhood, Mursi camps on August 14, killing the patrolling team is on the The team has also received sador and accused Ankara of move by declaring the Egyptian which has been staging protests hundreds. move, he added. specialised training in implement- backing organisations bent on ambassador, currently out of the calling for his reinstatement, In some of the worst civil- Most key roads and highways ing traffic laws on tailgating, use undermining the country — country, persona non grata. has close ties with Erdogan’s AK ian violence in decades, security in Qatar have speed radars but of mobile phones while driving, an apparent reference to the Egyptian foreign Ministry Party. forces crushed protests by Mursi’s surprise raids using cameras speeding, use of seat belts etc. Muslim Brotherhood of ousted spokesman Badr Abdelatty Turkish President Abdullah supporters. mounted on vehicles are not com- The officers are equipped with Egyptian president Mohammed made no specific allegations Gul speaking on state-run TRT Militant Islamists, who have mon in the country. advanced skills in investigating Mursi. against Turkey in announcing television before Erdogan, was been attacking Egyptian forces The mobile radars are appar- road accidents, interrogation Turkish Prime Minister Recep the ambassador’s expulsion, but more measured in his remarks. in the Sinai peninsula, stepped ently intended to monitor areas of drivers and preservation of Tayyip Erdogan, himself a sup- said: “(Ankara is) ... attempt- “I hope our relations will again up their assaults in or near major where there is a lack of perma- evidence. porter of an Islamist-led gov- ing to influence public opinion get back on track,” he said. cities. nent surveillance cameras and The new patrolling team will ernment forced from power by against Egyptian interests, sup- Both countries will remain Relations deteriorated between spot motorists who would try to use both radar and lidar (a device generals in 1997, issued a blunt ported meetings of organisations represented in each other’s capi- Egypt and countries that criti- cheat the radars by pressing on used to monitor speed using laser) rebuff to Egypt’s army-backed that seek to create instability in tals by embassies headed by a cised Mursi’s ouster and the the gas as soon as they come out to control speeding. The officers rulers, declaring on live television: the country.” charge d’affaires, effectively a government crackdown on the of the ‘surveillance area’. were also trained to manually “I will never respect those who Turkey has emerged as one of number two. Both had recalled Brotherhood where thousands Asked if there is a plan to intro- control the flow of traffic, if the come to power through military the fiercest international critics their ambassadors in August have been arrested. duce digital countdown system at need arose. THE PENINSULA coups.” of Mursi’s removal, calling it an for consultation after Egyptian REUTERS

Fired up Tunisia signs $500m loan Falling land prices expected deal with Qatar to slow down rise in rents TUNIS: Tunisia has signed a $500m loan agreement with DOHA: The fall in land prices projects have reached the con- from the ripples of the global Qatar to help bolster its cur- in Qatar since May this year struction phase, much of the land financial crisis. After the cri- rency reserves, the official is expected to slow down the is already secured. This could lead sis, real estate prices picked up TAP news agency reported rate of increase in rents, a QNB to an easing of real estate prices. steadily, rising 109pc from July yesterday. Group analysis has said. The Group has analysed data on 2009 to May 2013. The deal, signed on Wednesday, According to the QNB Group, land transactions in Qatar, based However, from May to stipulates that the loan will be the fundamental driver of real on weekly statistics published by September this year, the index paid back over a five-year period, estate prices is the cost of land. If the Ministry of Justice, which showed a drop in prices of 6.2pc. the agency said. land prices rise, the price of villas, indicates that the cost of land has Accordingly, QNB Group expects Tunisia has been struggling apartments and other property is fallen in the last five months — rents to increase at a slower to achieve economic recovery also likely to go up. from May to September. rate. since the 2011 uprising that top- The QNB Group, while ana- This is likely to ease upward Rents are also a key component pled veteran strongman Zine El lysing the Real Estate Price pressures on rents, enhanc- of domestic inflation, accounting Abidine Ben Ali. AFP Index of the Qatar Central Bank ing the competitiveness of the for 32.2pc of the consumer price (QCB), said that the rise in the Qatari economy and relieving index (CPI) basket. land prices up to May 2013 was concerns that the real estate Most of the remaining CPI No-smoking zone mainly due to the acquisition of sector is again experiencing an components are determined by land for major projects that are asset-price bubble like the one international prices. Rents in in Souq Waqif being implemented in Qatar, par- in 2007-08. Qatar fell consistently from the ticularly land for the Doha metro, According to the Real Estate beginning of 2009 until the second DOHA: All restaurants and caf- large shopping malls and mixed- Price Index of the QCB, real half of 2012, but since then they eterias in Souq Waqif have been use real estate development, like estate prices spiked in 2008, have risen. asked to allocate 50 percent of Msheireb and Lusail. Since these before taking a beating in 2009 THE PENINSULA their open space exclusively for non-smokers. A circular issued by the Souq Waqif administra- tion has also banned smoking Sheesha in closed areas at such outlets, according to Al Sharq. New Dubai police chief Katara traditional mart All eateries have been asked to earmark 50 percent of their tables DUBAI: Major General Khamis Mattar Al DOHA: Katara plans to build a traditional market for non-smokers and warned that Stuntman Joe Toedtling during his Guinness World Record ‘Longest Mazeina has been appointed as the General on the high ground, popularly called hilly areas. violation of the new rule will lead Duration Full Body Burn (without oxygen supply)’ in Salzburg, Austria, Commander of Dubai Police, Gulf News reported The new market will include about 35 shops, an to a suspension of the licence of yesterday. The duration was 5 hours 41 minutes and 40 seconds. yesterday. Al Mazeina succeeds Dahi Khalfan Arabic daily reported yesterday. The initiative is the outlet for three months. Tamim. Maj Gen Al Mazeina was the deputy com- part of the new five-year strategy of Katara dis- THE PENINSULA mander of Dubai Police. THE PENINSULA closed earlier this year. THE PENINSULA SUNDAY 24 NOVEMBER 2013 02 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME Road accident major killer of youngsters HMC expert warns youth drivers

DOHA: Trauma is the most Nel Balquin, a Filipino per- common cause of death and disa- sonal trainer and bodybuilder bility among Qatar’s young adult who spent eight months recover- population and Qatar has one of ing at HGH after sustaining mul- the highest traffic death rates tiple injuries when he was struck in the region, said Dr Hassan by a vehicle while crossing the Al Thani, Senior Consultant road, said doctors at the Trauma at Hamad General Hospital’s Centre saved his life. (HGH) Trauma Centre. “I was walking by Ramada Dr Al Thani advised young Hotel. I was crossing the street drivers against speeding and to reach my workplace when I driving without a licence, to wear was hit by a car. I woke up to see safety belts and obey traffic rules myself lying in the hospital with as trauma are preventable. an open abdomen. I had a fracture “They needed a miracle to in the pelvis and required about recover,” is how the team from 20 surgeries,” said Balquin. The medical team with their patients after recovery. Hamad General Hospital’s HGH Traffic injuries cause one out described the conditions of three of every eight deaths (12.5 per- Trauma Centres are uniquely through HIPP to prevent injures condition as critical, Al Shahwani sessions at HGH as an outpatient. patients who were injured in road cent) in Qatar and are the leading designed and staffed to handle first and coordinate the complex said HMC doctors saved his life. Treating the three patients accidents and treated at HGH. killer, causing more deaths than critically injured patients whose care that the multiply injured Khalid Al Kuwari, also a required the expertise of an entire In acknowledgement of World cancer or cardiovascular diseases. needs go beyond what a stand- patient needs second. Qatari national who was injured medical team led by Dr Al Thani Day of Remembrance for Road According to road traffic injury ard Emergency Department is Khalifa Al Shahwani, a 17-year- in a road accident, arrived at with Trauma Consultants Dr Traffic Victims, which is observed statistics released by HGH’s equipped to treat. Traumatic old young Qatari who was injured the centre with a pelvis frac- Ahmad Zarour, Dr Rifat Latifi, on the third Sunday of November Injury Prevention Programme injury is a disease process unto in a road accident, arrived at the ture, ankle fractures and com- Dr. Hisham Abdelrahman, Dr each year, the Trauma Centre (HIPP) earlier this year, pedes- itself and requires specialised Trauma Centre with contusions plex facial fractures. He spent Ruben Peralta and Dr Ashok team invited three former trians are Qatar’s most vulnerable and experienced multidiscipli- in his lungs, fractures to the pel- 20 days in hospital, recovering Parchani and Dr Abdullah Al patients to speak with staff about road users with one in three road nary treatment. Using a systems vis, nose, mouth and bleeding from his numerous injuries and Nuemi, Head of Urology. their experience. deaths being pedestrians. approach, the centre reaches out in his liver. Describing his own also underwent physiotherapy THE PENINSULA

Qatar Steel’s sustainability report gets ‘A’ rating from Global Reporting Initiative

DOHA: Prepared in compliance It was recognised for excellence in environmental, social and eco- environment, in line with Qatar using state-of-the-art produc- component of our business strat- with sustainable development, in producing 2011 sustainability nomic domains. National Vision 2030, and the tion technology and continuous egy, and we are proud of this Qatar Steel’s 2012 sustainabil- report and was awarded among Ali bin Hasan Al Muraikhi, National Development Strategy improvement of efficiency. achievement. We are quite keen ity report has achieved an ‘A’ other seven large-scale leading Director and General Manager of 2011-2016. The GRI is an international to maintain our excellence in sus- rating from Global Reporting industrial companies in Qatar, Qatar Steel, said: This achieve- He also said: “In this respect, we non-profit organisation, with a tainable reporting, and to produce Initiative (GRI) following an with a ‘Runner-Up’ certificate, ment reflects, with no doubt, our are keen to turn all our industrial network-based structure. even more productive, creative external audit for assurance of for commitment to sustainable relentless commitment to sus- operations to be environment- Adil Al Husseini, Technical and innovative reports in the the accuracy of its content, said development, and for the com- tainable development, and our friendly by reducing its overall Manager of Qatar Steel said future.” a statement yesterday. pany’s performance, and progress constant efforts to preserve the environmental impact through that sustainability is a critical THE PENINSULA Al Ahli stresses importance of awareness in diabetes fight

A patient having his blood sugar checked during the World Diabetes Day campaign at Al Ahli Hospital. (KAMMUTTY VP)

DOHA: Al Ahli Hospital should address the importance of from a combination of eating observed World Diabetes Day healthy food and exercise espe- unhealthy food and lack of exer- on Wednesday stressing the cially to young children,” said cise is the main reason why dia- significance of educating the Dr Maher Irshaid, Consultant betes is prevalent in the region. public to fight the increasing Endocrinologist. Type 2 diabetes is now prevalent prevalence of diabetes around He said diabetic patients should even in young children unlike the world and in the region. also be educated to facilitate before when it used to be a dis- Dr Abdel Azim Hussein, effective treatment. ease of people above 30 years old, Medical Director and Chief “We have to explain to them he explained. Surgeon at the hospital, under- why we are treating diabetes, not He said parents should not scored the vital role the hospi- merely concentrate on figures but follow children’s whims such as tal plays in spreading awareness that we are treating them to pre- giving them gadgets which cause and education to fight diabetes, vent complications.” them to just sit and play while which witnessed high prevalence Among the many complica- eating junk food, giving a big pos- in recent years, especially among tions of diabetes when people fail sibility for them to have diabetes women and children. to control their blood sugar are in the future. The hospital conducted a loss of sight, renal failure, stroke The symposium was hosted by number of activities during the and amputation, he said. the Endocrine and Diabetes Clinic day including free blood sugar and Dr Irshaid delivered a pres- and targeted medical profession- blood pressure check-ups and a entation on “Diabetes the New als and the general public. symposium. The free check-ups Epidemic of the 21st Century” at Other topics discussed at the benefited hospital guests and the symposium. symposium were “Treatment of employees alike while the sym- “Type 2 diabetes is the epidemic Diabetes” which was presented posium was catered to medical of the 21st century. It is becom- by Dr Nabeel Isseh, Consultant professionals and the public. ing so frequent all over the world Internal Medicine and Diabetes “Education is very important mainly in our region in the Gulf and “Nutrition and Diabetes” by as prevention is better than area and Arab countries,” he said. Vedaiyan Jayanthi, Dietitian. treatment. The mass media Change in lifestyle resulting THE PENINSULA

SUNDAY 24 NOVEMBER 2013 04 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME Galleria to offer unique shopping in Msheireb Facility to have 100 stores in four levels

DOHA: Msheireb Downtown living and working in Msheireb Doha will feature a wide range Downtown Doha. of retail outlets, including a Sikkat Al Wadi, the develop- mall, designed to transform the ment’s largest pedestrian street, area into an unparalleled retail, running the entire length of leisure and entertainment hub. Downtown Doha will also provide The Galleria is a closed, air- a wide range of shopping options, conditioned shopping mall which including flagship stores in addi- will comprise approximately tion to fashion boutiques, restau- 100 stores set across four levels rants, and cafes. of shopping and entertainment “What sets the project’s retail space. Spanning approximately offering apart from traditional 48,000sqm of gross leasable space, malls is that it will integrate well- the Galleria forms a major part known international brands with of the retail offering at Msheireb smaller local brands or boutiques Downtown Doha. which will provide an authentic The Galleria will comprise an town centre atmosphere whilst anchor supermarket on the lower keeping alive unique Qatari char- ground floor, multi and a six acteristics, traditions and herit- screen cinema. The mall will also age. In this way we hope to offer feature dedicated entertainment a more personal and appealing zone for children, involving both shopping experience than the educational and physical activities massive shopping malls that are An artist’s impression of the retail area in Msheireb Downtown Doha. where children of all ages will be everywhere across the Gulf,” entertained in a safe and friendly said Engineer Abdulla Hassan Al largest shaded open-air square, Al the main streets of the city and system. Host to Qatar’s largest including a dedicated service cor- environment. Mehshadi, Chief Executive Officer Baraha a family destination with an underpass connection to Souq metro station, Msheireb has an ridor for deliveries. In addition to the Galleria, the at Msheireb Properties. restaurants and cafes featuring Waqif will further enhance the integrated road network connect- State-of-the-art IT infra- area features a variety of other Unique to the Msheireb devel- events and large-scale shows, and shopping proposition. ing downtown to the rest of the structure will also enhance retail offerings which will not opment is its blend of casual and special cooling devices known as Complementing this array of city. efficiency and the retail expe- only attract visitors and tourists, high street shopping, stylish pla- ‘cool pools’ to refresh visitors at exceptional retail offerings will be Retail will greatly benefit from rience for shoppers and tenants but will also serve the thriving zas and community spaces. the hottest times of the year. the project’s efficiently planned parking provisions within three to alike. community which will soon be It will also host the region‘s Pedestrian-friendly access from infrastructure and transport five underground basement levels, THE PENINSULA

HMC strives to raise nursing standards

DOHA: The Nursing Education Our specific competency-based and Research Department programmes are designed to fulfil (NER) at Hamad Medical the requirements of each clinical Corporation (HMC) is upgrad- speciality, being carefully tailored ing to international standards toward both new and experienced with an aim to overcome future nurses,” said Marwan Mohammad challenges for healthcare in Ahmad Hamad, Acting Director Qatar, said experts. of the NER Department, who About 140 nurses and nurs- shared the nursing educa- ing educators from across HMC tion journey at HMC with the recently gathered at Hajar audience. Auditorium to celebrate the role “The future challenges for of nursing education in trans- healthcare in Qatar are enor- forming healthcare and the mous: these include expanding achievements made in raising demand for care, older and sicker nursing education and research patients, more complex technol- at HMC to world class standards. ogy, and new healthcare settings, “The Nursing Education and among others,” said Hamad. Research Department (NER) The participants renewed their at HMC has risen to the chal- commitment to preparing HMC lenge and is currently embarked nurses to meet these healthcare on transforming the department challenges and continue to pro- to meet international standards vide the best, evidence-based care of nursing education, such as in line with internationally recog- those of the American Nurses nised standards. The nurses and educators during the programme at Hamad Medical Corporation. Credentialing Centre (ANCC). THE PENINSULA Ooredoo launches ‘Family Option’

DOHA: Ooredoo yesterday launched a new feature for their Business Group service. The new ‘Family Option’ enables business to monitor and limit the costs of per- sonal calls made from company mobile phones, helping reduce costs and increase flexibility. The Family Option was developed after discussions with local businesses revealed that managing personal calls on mobiles — and distinguishing between work and home calls — was placing a strain of company resources, and often led to unnecessary disputes with leading employees. The strain was particularly chal- lenging for small and medium businesses, which require employees to be available on their mobile around the clock. With the management control provided by Business Group, Ooredoo was able to offer a service to resolve this long-running management issues for its customers. Ooredoo designed the new Business Group Family Option to enable companies to combine employees’ work and personal numbers on one mobile for just QR25/month per line. This innovative means businesses no longer have to worry about the expense of company mobiles being used for personal calls. Personal calls by employees can be centrally-tracked, and the costs allocated accordingly in split bills for the employer and the individual. As an added bonus, employees can take advantage of the fantastic rates provided for calls within Business Group, creating a win-win for both employer and employee. Business Group enables companies to create Closed User Groups, so that all employees’ phones can be man- aged as a single account, even with hundreds of different mobile numbers. With the new plan, companies can get more talk min- utes than ever before to use within the group. Business Group Family customers get unlimited minutes for each employee to stay connected around the clock. THE PENINSULA SUNDAY 24 NOVEMBER 2013 HOME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 05

Emir and PM send Annual Research condolences to Russian president DOHA: The Emir H H Sheikh Forum begins Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani sent a cable of condolences to Russian President Vladimir Putin mourning the victims of a passenger plane that crashed today at QNCC on landing at the airport in the city of Kazan in the Republic of Tatarstan in Russia. The Prime Minister and Interior Prominent experts to participate Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani DOHA: The highly antici- culture that brings together the sent a similar cable to the pated Annual Research most intelligent scientific minds, President of Russia on the same Conference 2013 (ARC ’13) will as they engage in stimulating dis- occasion yesterday. begin today at Qatar National cussions and debate some of the Convention Centre, supported nation’s grand challenges.” Speaker to take by H H Sheikha Moza bint Exceptional work by students Nasser, Chairperson of Qatar and researchers will be playing an part in GCC Shura Foundation (QF). integral part in ARC ’13 by pre- Prominent academics and senting their poster and oral pres- Councils’ meeting experts from the local and inter- entations to renowned researchers, national research communities academics and experts. All projects DOHA: The Advisory Council’s attend the two-day event. presented will tackle one or more Speaker H E Mohamed bin The conference highlights of Qatar’s research grand chal- Mubarak Al Khulaifi and his Qatar’s ongoing commitment to lenges, which include protecting delegation left Doha for Kuwait establish a flourishing scientific the nation’s cyber infrastructure, Officials of Qatar National Bank and Qatar Red Crescent during a ceremony to hand over QNB’s contribution to yesterday to participate in the culture, and sheds light on strides developing and deploying solar Qatar Solidarity Campaign. 7th GCC Shura Councils and that Qatar Foundation Research energy solutions, ensuring sus- Parliaments’ meeting in Kuwait and Development (QF R&D) has tainable food supply, integrating today and tomorrow. made in addressing the nation’s health management systems, and QNB donates QR1m to Qatar The participants will discuss critical research needs. supporting Arabic culture, arts, topics tabled on the agenda, During the conference, partici- heritage, media and language. most importantly the annual pants will be encouraged to leave During pre-conference event, report of the Chair of 6th GCC a lasting imprint on society by budding researchers received con- Solidarity Campaign Shura Councils and Parliaments’ embracing innovative research structive feedback after showcas- meeting in addition to a brief- ideas and exchanging valuable ing their poster presentations to DOHA: QNB has given a sub- National Relief Campaign, Saleh The Qatar Solidarity Campaign ing on the progress of the GCC knowledge that can propel science a panel of experts. Before select- stantial boost to the Qatar Al Muhanadi, Secretary General will last for a month and is being joint action 2013, prepared by the towards new frontiers. Students, ing the finalists in each category, Solidarity Campaign by donat- of Qatar Red Crescent said, “In coordinated by five charities and GCC General Secretariat and a scientists and researchers will judges will be taking into consid- ing QR1m to Qatar Red Crescent both countries, typhoons and organisations. study by the Bahraini Parliament forge mutually beneficial collabo- eration research quality, original- in support of humanitarian their aftermaths have claimed Its purpose is to both raise on parliamentary experience of rations, in order to accelerate ity and merit, written content, efforts to help flood victims in many lives and left hundreds of awareness of the scale of the the European Union and similar national research efforts and facil- and relevance to the research Somalia and the Philippines, a thousands of people destitute. plight currently being expe- organisations. itate new discoveries that can help grand challenges. The top stu- press release issued by the bank A basic principle of human rienced in Somalia and the They will also discuss the solve Qatar’s pressing challenges. dents will be recognised at a spe- said yesterday. decency is to support our fel- Philippines and importantly, to planned visit by a delegation Faisal Alsuwaidi, President of cial awards ceremony and gala The donation, given as low brothers and sisters at a raise much needed money for representing the GCC legislative QF R&D, reaffirmed the organi- dinner tomorrow evening. part of the group’s significant time of distress and suffering the international relief operation assemblies to the US Congress sation’s long-standing commit- Souad Berzoy, from Qatar Corporate Social Responsibility and this substantial donation underway. and activating the terms of ref- ment to fostering an environment University said: “I’m really Programme, will be used by from QNB will help our efforts Super typhoon Haiyan was erence of the regular meeting that champions ground-breaking proud to be able to showcase my Qatar Red Crescent to supply considerably. one of the largest and most and the Coordination Committee research initiatives and under- poster at the Annual Research much needed food, water, medi- “QNB was one of the first devastating typhoons ever and the Parliamentary Foreign lined the value of bringing Conference this year. I feel for- cine and tent supplies for the organizations who contributed to recorded when it struck The Relations in addition to the pro- together many of the world’s dis- tunate to have met some of the inhabitants of both countries the relief effort and we hope that Phillippines recently and the posed GCC common topics and tinguished researchers to discuss, world’s most renowned experts displaced by one of the largest other organizations will follow North East Region of Somalia the coordination of the media pol- debate, and examine focal issues. and to have gained such valuable natural disasters seen in modern their excellent example. We are has been affected by floods on icy of the State Legislatures and He said: “We are eager to con- exposure to pertinent research history. very grateful for the outstanding a scale never seen before in the cementing relations with human tinue nurturing productive partner- topics.” Commenting on the QNB support and understanding shown country. rights organisations. ships and a collaborative research THE PENINSULA financial contribution to the by Qatar’s largest Bank” THE PENINSULA QNA SUNDAY 24 NOVEMBER 2013 06 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME Qatargas forms Qatar Society of Engineers Platform for knowledge exchange

DOHA: Aiming to boost knowl- provide an added value for our edge and skill development national engineers as this will among local talents, Qatargas help them be part of the broader has taken an initiative to form engineering community in the ‘Qatar Society of Engineers country. We hope that other com- (QSE)’ enrolling all the Qatari panies and organisations in the engineers working in differ- country will follow suit so that the ent organisations across the Qatari engineering community country to provide a common can benefit from the extensive platform to exchange knowl- networking and training oppor- edge and ideas, said a statement tunities provided by QSE.” yesterday. Al Jolo added: “We value this The members, covering all significant initiative taken by engineers, will facilitate exchange Qatargas in supporting the Qatar of knowledge among national Society of Engineers as it exem- engineers in Qatar and help plifies our policy of widening our them keep abreast with the latest cooperation with different gov- technology and ongoing develop- ernmental and non-governmen- ments in their various engineer- tal organisations in the country. ing disciplines. We encourage other corporate Teachers and trainers during the Qatar TESOL event. This was announced in a cer- organisations and government emony held on the sidelines establishments to follow.” of the recently concluded ‘7th Qatar Petroleum (QP), a major 100 teachers attend Qatar TESOL training IEEE-GCC Conference and sponsor of the event, also took Exhibition’, that took place here part in the exhibition. Many QP from November 17 to 20 at the engineers also attended the con- DOHA: Nearly hundred educators from numerous edu- century. Furthermore, teachers affiliate of the International QNCC. ference that featured plenary English language teachers gath- cational institutions across the need to make use of the huge TESOL Organisation. The The ceremony was attended sessions, tutorials and technical ered for a professional devel- county. potentials of open content, web organisation is run by volunteers by Mansour Rashid Al Naimi, presentations covering a wide opment session organised by Ismail Fayed said that teachers 2.0 interactive tools and rich who work for the improvement Qatargas Public Relations range of topics, including elec- Qatar TESOL, in collaboration should encourage their students media content available through of education in the region. Qatar Manager, and Ahmad Jassim Al tronics and instrumentation, with Qatar University (QU), to engage with technology both mobile technology to create pro- TESOL prides itself on being able Jolo, Chairman, Qatar Society of power systems and energy, as well yesterday. inside and outside the classroom. ductivity and critical thinking to offer professional development Engineers. Also present at the as communications and signals The session consisted of two “Teachers need to pay attention to opportunities for learners. ” events and low conference fees so ceremony were Khalid Ahmed Al processing. workshops on ‘Mobile Learning the next big thing already taking “We looked at the English that all teachers may attend with- Nasr, Board Member and Head The QP booth at the exhibi- in ESL Classroom’ presented place in the field of educational Language Learner and his or her out inflicting financial strain. of Finance Committee of QSE, tion, which was visited by many by Ismail Fayed, an E-Learning technology that is (M-Learning). special needs and introduced some Qatar TESOL serves English Mohammed Hassan Al Naimi, conference delegates including Facilitator and English lecturer Institutions need to provide simple techniques and strategies language teachers of all levels Board Member and Head of engineering students, prima- in QU Foundation Programme. enough training for educators for helping ELLs to succeed. We as well as those teaching other Membership Affairs Committee, rily showcased the corporation’s The second workshop ‘Filling about the ways and methods of hope that each workshop partici- subjects through English such QSE, and Ibrahim Al Sulaiti, extensive operations in the oil up your ESL Toolbox’ was jointly using this new technology.” pant walks away with a full ELL as mathematics, science and Board Member and Head of and gas industry and also it’s presented by Trisha Lamers and “Curriculum developers toolbox that will help guide and computer skills. In February Activities Committee at QSE. newly launched corporate vision Barbara Stoll, English teachers at need to provide the interac- improve their ELL instruction,” next year, Qatar TESOL will Al Naimi said: “We are pleased to be a world-class oil and gas Qatar Academy Sidra. The event tive resources and new teach- said Barbara Stoll. celebrate its 10th anniversary to be the first corporate partner corporation. was open to the public and was ing methods to fit students’ Qatar TESOL is a vol- conference. of Qatar Society of Engineers to THE PENINSULA attended by English-language new learning needs in the 21st untary organisation and an THE PENINSULA

Aspetar holds symposium Q-Chem hosts annual town on Athlete’s Shoulder hall meeting DOHA: Sports medicine with shoulder injuries, both con- experts shared their insights servatively and surgically. Hence, for Qatari staff on the ‘Athlete’s Shoulder’ at we have dedicated this year’s Aspetar yesterday, marking Aspetar Current Concept con- DOHA: Qatar Chemical the beginning of the hospital’s ference to the ‘Athlete’s Shoulder’ Company Ltd (Q-Chem) held fourth edition of the Current in an attempt to increase the recently its annual town hall Concepts conference. understanding of this part of meeting for Qatari employ- The two-day annual sym- the body.” ees working in the company, posium, developed by Aspetar, “Aspetar’s Current Concept under the banner ‘Qad’ha- We is a platform for sports medi- conferences are crucial to raising can do it’. The meeting which cine experts to share the latest awareness about issues of grave took place at Ritz Carlton Doha advances in the management of importance to the field of sports was aimed at strengthening sporting injuries. Past conferences medicine, not only in the GCC but the Qatarisation drive in the have focused on the athlete’s knee, further afield. Experts from all company. ankle and elbow. over the world have been invited All Qatari Q-Chem employees, This year, in-depth lectures, to take part to ensure a holistic including senior management, panel discussions and interactive approach with regards to the sub- group managers and depart- seminars will delve into shoulder ject matter,” added Dr Al Kuwari. ment managers attended the pathology and cutting-edge treat- During the conference del- event. Also in attendance were ments available to ‘throwing ath- egates will hear from experts Abubaker Al Saiari, QP Chairman letes’ such as tennis players and such as Dr Ben Kibler, the of the Strategic Qatarisation Plan baseball pitchers, offering del- Medical Director for Lexington Steering Committee, Dr Ken egates unique interaction oppor- Clinic Sports Medicine Center MacLeod President of College tunities with the world’s leading in the US and member of the of North Atlantic- Qatar (CNA- experts on shoulder treatment. United States Tennis Association Q), and David Walsh, Dean of Dr Khalifa Al Kuwari, (USTA) National Sport Science School of Engineering CNA-Q, Director General of Aspetar said: Committee. Dr Kibler was invited and other prominent representa- “Shoulder injuries are common in by Aspetar as one of the world’s tives. Q-Chem General Manager, The competition winners during the event. athletes, as repetitive or exces- leading orthopaedic surgeons and Ahmed Ibrahim Al Emadi opened sive arm movement puts a great founder of The Shoulder Center the session and set out the bold deal of stress on shoulder joints. of Kentucky. Qatar strategic development goals Ajyal hosts Instagram contest Aspetar already treats athletes THE PENINSULA for improving the National work- force which have been adopted and aligned with Q-Chem’s objectives. DOHA: The Ajyal Youth Film goal was to find the Anime There were other events also Al Emadi thanked Qatari employ- Festival, presented by the Villains who invaded Katara and during the hunt, including, face ees for their efforts in preparing Doha Film Institute, hosted an take a photo with them to post painting with Anime characters, and presenting proposals in vari- Instagram competition, “Save on Instagram with the compe- trading cards games, and Make ous fields. “Qataris take a central the Day” on Friday at the tition hash tag #instajyal. The Your Own Manga story. role in the company’s development Cultural Village Katara. participants who didn’t have an After the hunt, the participants and sustainability”, he said. Over 150 people signed up for Instagram account had their map were guided to a surprise special Q-Chem has set up a strategic the competition to help Otaku stamped by the villains. Three screening of the Anime Classic, manpower planning and recruit- Man (Otaku Exhibition Anime winners won Sony PlayStation My Neighbor Totoro. ment program for Qataris and Character) save the day. The Vistas, courtesy of Fifty One East. THE PENINSULA has established a Qatarization Steering Committee to over- see the development of qualified Qataris, empower them with skills and education, and retain them Cyber attacks decline in Qatar within the Q-Chem organisation. The organisers prepared a number of self-improvement DOHA: The IT Security ous in terms of the threat they of cyber crimes in the coun- activities and invited key moti- Department of the Ministry of posed to the network. try because of regular security vational speakers to share their Interior (MoI) has disclosed that The department is trying to upgrades. skills and experiences. The meet- nearly 1,786 security breaches shield the internal networks from The IT network of the minis- ing agenda included updates have occurred in the internal viruses and security lapses, Al tries and government bodies will on important achievements in networks of different ministries Sharq reported yesterday. be completely secured by 2016, Qatarisation development strat- and other government bod- The strategic index of the min- when the national shield project egy including success stories of ies. The breaches ranged from istries also showed that there is implemented. Qatari Q-Chem employees. An expert speaking at the symposium. ‘medium’ to ‘highly’ danger- has been a decline in the number THE PENINSULA THE PENINSULA SUNDAY 24 NOVEMBER 2013 MIDEAST www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 07 Iran, West ‘words away’ from reaching deal We don’t want our rights to get twisted: Zarif

GENEVA: The issues the past three days, diplomats dividing Iran and the West said, that text had shrunk. at nuclear talks in Geneva “On some issues, it comes have in some cases been down to a single word, but whittled down to single what that word is and what it words, but those words are means is critically important. important enough to keep We have to get this absolutely an elusive deal just beyond right,” said a western official. reach, according to diplo- Zarif described the talks mats at the negotiations. in similar terms. “We have For the second time in lit- reached the point of writ- tle over two weeks, foreign ing and it’s difficult because ministers from seven coun- we are insisting on Iran’s tries have been holed up in a national interests and its Geneva hotel in an attempt to rights and we don’t want resolve one of the most intrac- Iran’s rights to get twisted,” table problems of the early 21st the Iranian foreign minister century — the international said. “This is why we are pay- standoff over Iran’s nuclear ing a great deal of attention programme. Despite constant US Secretary of State John Kerry (right) shakes to words and phrases that assurances of progress and each have their own mean- hands with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei narrowing gaps, they were still ings. There will be no agree- Lavrov in Geneva yesterday. struggling to strike a bargain ment until we agree on every as evening fell on a third day single issue.” of talks. necessarily finished. We’re here At one point in the tense Much of yesterday;s negotia- because they’re difficult.” proceedings the Iranian deputy tions involved the US Secretary of He added: “They are narrow foreign minister Abbas Araqchi State, John Kerry, and his Iranian gaps but they are important gaps, tweeted: “It’s difficult and takes counterpart, Mohammad Javad and it’s very important that any one’s breath away… I hope [min- Zarif, in encounters chaired by agreement here is thorough, that isters] are ready to make difficult the EU foreign policy high rep- it is detailed, that it is comprehen- decisions.” resentative, Catherine Ashton. sive, and that it’s a deal in which The remaining hurdles are Kerry and Ashton then compared the whole world can have confi- known to include how far a stop- notes with foreign ministers from dence.” He did not spell out the gap deal should go to shut down France, the UK, Germany, Russia nature of the remaining gaps, but construction work on a heavy and China, who flew into Geneva said: “They are the same areas of water reactor Iran is building in the hope of closing a deal. difficulty that we had two weeks in Arak, and how long into the British Foreign Secretary ago, which should be a good clue, future Iran would continue to be William Hague sought to damp when we were last here in Geneva.” treated as a special case, subject to down expectations that the min- The focus of the negotiations particular intrusive inspections, isters’ arrival might mean an is a text which lays out a plan for rather than a regular signatory agreement was necessarily at a short-term confidence-building of the nuclear non-proliferation hand. “The foreign ministers agreement, intended to stop the treaty with routine obligations have come to support these nego- clock on the build-up to a new and rights. tiations and to be able to confer conflict in the Middle East, which Hague said that the narrowing together easily and quickly if we at the same time sketches the of differences meant “there is a need to make fresh decisions of outline of long-term solution to huge amount of agreement and it any kind,” Hague said. “They the decade-old standoff over the remains the case that there has remain difficult negotiations. I Iranian programme. been a huge amount of progress think it’s important to stress that. Text in dispute has been put in being made in recent weeks”. We’re not here because things are brackets, and over the course of THE GUARDIAN SUNDAY 24 NOVEMBER 2013 08 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com

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HE decision of seven of Syria’s most powerful rebel groups to create a new force, though a step forward in the insurgency against Bashar Al Assad, it is Tunlikely to make much difference on the ground. Australia-Indonesia crisis: The new grouping, the Islamic Front, was announced in a video aired on Al Jazeera channel on Friday and features some of the country’s most widely recognised rebel commanders. This, too, will pass Predictably, opposition leaders and some rebels have hailed the new alliance as a major achievement, but many BY MICHAEL WESLEY people are pessimistic about the prospects of the new Navy aircraft carrier groups to the can never be resolved by all-out war. grouping. The reason is that fighting in Syria has been Taiwan Straits in the face of hostile Instead, they have begun to compete following a certain pattern in the past few months: rebels HEN you’re in the midst of missile launches by the Chinese in for the loyalties of smaller countries a crisis, it’s often hard to a bid to intimidate Taiwan’s first in this crucial region that separates making some headway occasionally, only to find that Wsee past it. With the media Presidential election. Australia and the world’s two most important progress snatched away by Assad’s forces. The fighting still running hot, breathlessly reporting Indonesia almost came to blows dur- oceans: the Pacific and the Indian continues virulently, but it’s a stalemate that is most visible. every syllable of outrage it can find in ing the East Timor intervention in Oceans. Assad has been able to regain much of his lost ground and Jakarta, it’s easy to believe that this is 1999, and in 2001, then president As a result, the dilemmas and it’s unlikely that the new rebel union will be able to inflict the biggest crisis we’ve ever faced and Megawati Sukarnoputri refused to pressures faced by Australia in main- that it will take years to repair the take phone calls from Howard over taining positive relations among the sever damage on the president. damage. As Indonesia has withdrawn an asylum-seeker stand-off. Kevin great powers are shared by all of the It’s also said that the new union doesn’t bring much to its ambassador and downgraded mili- Rudd faced his own crisis with other states of Southeast Asia. There the battleground. Most of the participating groups, while tary and intelligence cooperation in China over his “Zhengyou” speech is genuine concern that countries maintaining their own command structures, have long the wake of the Snowden eavesdrop- in Beijing, and with Indonesia over such as Laos and Cambodia appear to cooperated in the battle. Also, since the star of the uprising ping revelations, it’s unsurprising the Oceanic Viking. have thrown in their lot with Beijing, two and a half years ago, a few rebel that Tony Abbott has put other issues There’s one lesson to be drawn as well as some discomfort that the on hold while he tries to deal with from all of these crises: that despite Philippines has been gradually build- formations have been announced, all the fallout. their occurrence, relations were ing its expectations of American sup- The formation of them not faring no better against But a bit of quickly restored to a pragmatic, bal- port for its confrontations with China of a new rebel Assad’s forces. perspective at anced mean. Given the sound and the in the South China Sea. Amidst this Syria is caught in a limbo in every this stage can be fury at the time, it’s astonishing how background tension, Australia and front in Syria sense, with both rebels and Assad refreshing. This quickly each storm passed, and posi- Indonesia – and Singapore, Malaysia, is unlikely to struggling to find a way out, but is not the greatest tive relations restored. Just five years Thailand, etc – have a real interest Australia and diplomatic crisis after Australian troops led an inter- that their neighbours maintain a make a huge both unwilling to do anything that to face Australia vention into East Timor, and three pragmatic balance between the jeal- would bring the fighting to an early Indonesia – not even close. after Megawati refused to take phone ous great powers. difference on end. The opposition unity forged will weather It’s not even the calls, Howard and Susilo Bambang Then why the outrage in Jakarta? the ground. now should have come at the start of greatest crisis to Yudhoyono spontaneously embraced Both Yudhoyono and his foreign the uprising, when they made true the ongoing beset Australia- – with genuine mutual affection – on minister are sensitive to criticisms Indonesian rela- the sidelines of an APEC meeting. that they’re been too pro-western progress on the ground; but earlier diplomatic tions. Far from The reason is that the big stra- in their policies and attitudes. What fighting was marked by some bickering. The presence of it – Australia’s tegic forces in the region are bring- they didn’t bank on was the media’s Islamists and Al Qaeda elements did huge damage to the storm. Despite bilateral relations ing the interests of Australia and its serial exploitation of the Snowden rebel cause. The Western nations objected to supplying arms their occasional with its north- Southeast Asian neighbours closer revelations, stirring the nationalist to rebels on the ground that they would fall in the hands of ern neighbours and closer together. Despite their pot just when the first phase of the Islamists, while some Gulf nations went ahead with helping spats, both have historically occasional spats, there is an underly- crisis had begun to die down, with been crisis-prone, ing realisation that Australia and the Yudhoyono and Natelagawa probably rebels irrespective of their affiliations. countries need as have bilateral countries of Southeast Asia need each feeling they’d hit just the right notes If the latest group is serious about achieving unity, it each other. relations among other, and are gradually developing of anger. must bring all rebel groups and opposition forces under those neighbours. their solidarity amidst the great One gets the feeling that the out- a single umbrella, if there are splinter groups left on the Diplomatic spats forces taking place around them. rage has somewhat slipped the noose ground. They need to clarify their position vis-a-vis the are part of the What are these strategic forces? of what they had expected or were Supreme Military Council, a body created last year under landscape in our part of the world. Simply put, they are the contra- comfortable with, and that the crisis 20 years ago, then prime minister dictory forces of growing economic has assumed a life of its own. pressure from the West to encourage modest groups at Paul Keating upset his Malaysian interdependence and rising security The take-out message for the the expense of extremists. But that body had received less counterpart by suggesting that those rivalries among the region’s great Abbott government? This too, will support than expected and since then many fighters had leaders who had not attended the powers: China, the US, Japan and pass. The structural forces are all considered it irrelevant. first APEC Leaders’ Summit were India. Their rivalries mean that aligned behind a restoration of prag- Syrians are facing a bleak future. It seems that the “recalcitrants”. His successor, John they can’t build genuine collaboration matic and close Indonesia-Australia Howard, angered Beijing by voicing around their economic linkages; their relations. international community, including Arabs, has abandoned his support for the dispatch of US interdependence means their rivalry THE GUARDIAN them. There is no talk of solution nowadays, no talk of intervention, no formulas • The other side Quote of Offensive economics the day ADURO, a protégé of bizarre than his predecessor’s, who in the official rate. With the ruling regime economy and causing untold misery the late president Hugo his 14-years rule, reduced the country losing popularity, Maduro is worried to the masses. His economic offensive Chavez, is battling an to bankruptcy. that some leaders in his Partido against capitalists and the bourgeois Meconomic crisis at home Maduro is waging a battle — Socialista Unido de Venezuela (PSUV) and his political battle with the opposi- We have reached the and also facing the prospects of described as an “economic offensive” may try to ease him out, especially if it tion “oligarchy” are facades to ensure possible defeat for his party in the — against the nation’s businesses. does badly in next month’s municipal that he retains control over Venezuela, point of writing and December 8 municipal elections. The National Guard and his Bolivarian elections. Grabbing arbitrary powers they claim. Opposition leader and it’s difficult because Inflation has shot up to 54 per militas recently “occupied” a chain of for himself and ruling by decree would governor of Miranda state, Henrique cent and ordinary Venezuelans face electronic stores and senior execu- help him unleash populist, so-called Capriles — who lost the presidential we are insisting shortages of essential commodities. tives were sent off to jail. He has also anti-capitalist measures; in the mean- elections in April, but accuses Maduro on Iran’s national While the official exchange rate has warned of imprisoning a hundred time, his storm-troopers would take of stealing it — has called for nationwide been fixed at 6.3 bolivars to a dollar, “parasitic bourgeois managers” for on individual businessmen and cre- protests against the special measures interests and its the greenback is being sold at nearly usury. After parliament passed an ena- ate further instability in the economy, today. The US too has been critical of 10 times the rate in the black market. bling law, allowing the president to rule perhaps justifying the cancellation of the move and is demanding restoration rights and we don’t Businesses have given a thumbs-down by decree, Maduro enacted two laws elections. of the separation of powers between want Iran’s rights to to the economic policies of the socialist capping retailers’ profits and setting Critics of Maduro warn that the the legislature and the executive. Mohammad Javad Zarif president, whose policies appear more up an agency to “allocate” dollars at socialist president is destroying the Khaleej Times get twisted. Iranian Foreign Minister SUNDAY 24 NOVEMBER 2013 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 09 Australians deserve responsible intel services If there is to be a peaceful world, a level of trust between leaders has to be established. It is not worth putting it at risk by snooping on the people whose trust one wants to win.

BY MALCOLM FRASER terrorism attacking innocent civilians, just as much and just as dangerously as oo many Australians seem suicide bombers do today. Such assaults to believe that we have been on our basic freedoms were overcome by there before — that the row persistence and good policy but they were with Indonesia does not really very serious terrorist attacks, which we matter, that it will go away. seem to have forgotten. TThose who fall on this side of the argu- When the Hilton Hotel in Sydney was ment tend to adopt the “we all spy” man- bombed in 1978, I asked our security serv- tra. That simplicity covers a multitude ices whether they needed more powers. of sins. I was told by my department that they The nature of spying has changed didn’t. They did need more intelligence, dramatically with the communications but they had the resources necessary for revolution. Over 40 years ago, I was the task. Australian PM Tony Abbott (left) shakes hands with Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono at the presidential palace in Jakarta. advised that the United States listened When we look at the new $630m ASIO to all phone conversations in and out of building, close to the defence buildings Canberra, providing they went over the and not far from the parliamentary tri- dividends? Or have their activities spread task of re-establishing a working rela- UN, and as foreign minister of Australia, airways. Landlines were secure, at least angle, we get a slightly different view. out too far and too wide in the name of tionship with Indonesia, but would give Evatt’s role was constructive. Move on a in those days. Now, nobody and nothing Since 9/11, the number of ASIO personnel national security, with little or no benefit? Australians the added benefit of know- few years, and ambassador Mick Shann is. Since 9/11, we have been part of the has grown from under 600 to over 1,700. We need an impartial third eye, so the ing that our security services have not maintained access at the highest levels global war on terror. The US government The cost of running the organisation has government and people can be reassured run amok. Who authorised the target- of the Indonesian government during the now believes that if it is in its perceived grown from under $65m to nearly $340m. that security services are in fact giving ing of the president and his wife’s mobile Confrontation; we had the neat diplomatic interest, it has the right to take out a tar- Chief spies can now say to govern- value to the vast resources they consume. phones? What was the basis for that? task of maintaining the relationship with get in virtually any country of the world. ments that they are not going to be able Two things rankled with the Indonesian There is always the risk of being found the country when our troops were fight- That is the new concept for war. to provide sufficient security unless they government in recent times. The first out, as we have learnt to our cost. The ing Indonesian troops in Borneo during But we have in part forgotten that ter- have more resources. If an incident later was the allegations that we are collec- risk of being found out undertaking such the conflict. The British embassy on the rorism is not new. In the 1960s and 1970s occurs, and the security service has not tion information for and on behalf of the surveillance must always be balanced other hand was trashed and destroyed, and in particular, the European world was been given the increased personnel that US. The second was the targeting of the against the possibility of gaining some Britain could not maintain a relationship beset by terrorist acts. The Red Army it required, the government will be held president’s phone and of his wife’s phone, useful information. with Indonesia. and Red Brigades in Italy and Germany. culpable. This is not to say that security which is regarded as a serious and per- In this case, the security services got it We would do well to seek to re-estab- The Lockerbie aircraft disaster spon- services have been wrong to ask for addi- sonal insult. There has been much public terribly wrong. The charter of the inspec- lish the kind of relationship we had with sored by Libya. Both Italy and Germany tional staff; the communications revolu- advice for the government. Hang tough, it tor-general of intelligence and security Indonesia when Shann was ambassador spent enormous amounts on policing, tion has made their task more complex will go away. Others have advised the gov- does not fulfil this role. Occasional judge- for Australia. The government is cor- intelligence and security for senior per- and more difficult. ernment to follow the Obama model as mental reviews are necessary. rect in saying that it is one of our most sonnel – not just for political leaders, but But with the growth of surveillance he dealt with his own country spying on Australia has had a varied relation- important relationships. If there is to be for senior businessmen also. The number services, it is highly desirable that gov- Germany. Obama said it would not hap- ship with Indonesia. It began on a good a peaceful world, a level of trust between of aircraft hijackings also grew signifi- ernments and people know they are get- pen again, and called for a review of how footing when HV Evatt was more helpful leaders has to be established. It is not cantly. Between 1968-1977, the annual ting value for money. How much useful US intelligence operates internationally. than other senior political figures when worth putting it at risk by snooping on number was around 41. In 1969, there intelligence is indeed being gathered? Are This is the course Australia should take. Indonesia was seeking independence the people whose trust one wants to win. were 82 hijackings. This was real time the security services’ activities paying It will not only fulfil the essential from the Dutch. As a leading figure in the THE GUARDIAN Youth may not warm up to Cameron Chinese reforms reveal vindictive: the Future Jobs Fund was abol- The prime minister’s ished; Michael Gove seized back the £270m flaws in their messaging spent on careers guidance, telling schools to conference speech do it themselves with no money; Ofsted finds BY DAMIEN MA only one in six schools “satisfactory”; the edu- cation maintenance allowance was abolished, uch can happen in 48 hours, as Hollywood constantly laid out plans for the though the Institute for Fiscal Studies found reminds us. China’s leaders learned that the hard way last that it increased numbers staying on after 16. week, at the conclusion of the ponderously named Third Tory manifesto to take Connexions, giving advice and support outside MPlenum of the 18th Communist Party Congress. school, was cancelled, and youth services were Put off by an almost comically vague initial communique, the Beijing often the first to go in tight council budgets. confab was quickly derided as a giant “nothing-burger.” Just two days housing benefits away Even the child trust fund, giving some later, however, after Chinese officials released a more detailed list of future capital to every 18-year-old, was abol- reforms, opinions swung wildly. Suddenly the plenum was hailed for from young people, ished. Education policy focuses obsessively on producing some of the most significant proposals in decades — every- the top few, and vocational courses for those thing from relaxing the one-child policy and abolishing labour camps, to not university-bound are neglected. giving farmers more control over their land, migrants more rights and forcing them to stay Cameron’s conference speech laid out plans services, and the market more of a role in disciplining state enterprises. for the Tory manifesto to take the housing This whiplash lurch in opinion holds two lessons for China. First, home even if they benefit away from young people, forcing them major statements such as the plenum communique carry a global sig- to stay home even if they don’t have one. nificance perhaps rivalled only by the State of the Union address in don’t have one. Labour, according to Reeves and Miliband, the United States. Not so long ago, turgid party announcements rarely will make rescuing the lost generation their moved markets. Now, Chinese leaders are finding out that they must British Prime Minister David Cameron main mission – jobs, homes, help and hope. anticipate and respond to an instant global reaction. Such pressures BY POLLY TOYNBEE A £600m tax on bankers bonuses will fund most likely encouraged officials to release the more substantial reform job applications a week, instead of going for their jobs guarantee. Votes at 16 may help document earlier than planned. f Mosquito anti-youth alarms were fixed training – because to do so would cost them shift grey-heavy voting that skews everything Second, the vagueness with which Chinese communiques are written to its gates, this government couldn’t the allowance and so leave them with nothing toward protecting the interests of the old: can- produces confusion. This might seem useful on occasion: Deng Xiaoping have tried harder to repel the lost gen- to live on. didates will need to appeal to sixth form and pioneered the strategy of “signalling left and turning right” to throw Ieration. But the young don’t vote and Many despair or are bullied off benefits: college students. Labour should go further: off potential opponents. But more often, opacity simply allows anyone don’t matter, while castigating them for lack 400,000 Neets have lost contact with anyone why not free bus passes for under-25s, paid and everyone to see what they want to see — not what the leadership of aspiration scores well with David Cameron’s who might help. The IPPR would entice them for by means-testing elderly people’s winter hopes to signal. Bureaucratic culture within the Chinese leadership party. Shouldn’t a million young unemployed back with a £56.80 allowance for unemployed fuel allowance? hasn’t caught up with that spectacular growth. To party apparatchiks be causing a youthquake? 18- to 24-year-olds, even in training (means- David Willetts’s book The Pinch lists with and those deeply embedded in plenum planning and document drafting, The Youth Contract has missed its target tested if parents earn over £25,000). brutal clarity how wealth, property and oppor- everything basically operates as it always has. They are accustomed by miles. Only 2,070 young people were found However, Rachel Reeves, Labour’s work and tunity were seized by the baby boomers, who to communicating in nebulous phrases that only savvy insiders can jobs, when employers were supposed to be pensions shadow, brusquely dismissed such now need the downtrodden young to shoulder understand. subsidised to take on 160,000 by the election. meanness. She won’t have the young unem- the cost of their old age. But are “the young” Today the global cognoscenti demand greater specificity. Time and Some do get work experience, but few get real ployed damned as feckless when there are no a political entity? Like every age group, they again in recent years, China has paid a price for refusing to meet those work. The cabinet secretary, Jeremy Heywood, jobs and little support. She will produce her are far more riven by class, education and cash expectations. Volatile markets have swung based on speculation and is to report on what to do next. definitive social security policy in January, than by chronology. misinterpreted statements. The global press has obsessed over every Top apprenticeships at Rolls-Royce or BAE fleshing out Ed Miliband’s pledge to cut the Sharing tastes in music or clothes only retired general huffing and puffing about teaching Japan a lesson — are gold dust, with more applicants per place benefits bill. That’s not to be done by cutting masks deepening social divides. Attitudes while sometimes missing the broader sweep of China’s evolving reality. than Oxbridge. But most of what the govern- barely survivable benefit rates, (dole is just £71 of the young to benefits make dismal read- Until now, officials have blamed the outside world for misinterpret- ment calls “apprenticeships” are taken by a week) – but by getting people into work and ing for Labour: polls show they are even less ing Chinese statements. My Chinese interlocutors would repeatedly adults already in jobs, doing in-house training. shrinking the housing benefit bill by building supportive of benefits for the unemployed, complain, when the Western news media leaped at the latest offhand A report by the IPPR think tank this week homes. What Labour offers the young will brought up with this dog-eat-dog. Ipsos Mori comment about dumping US Treasuries, “You Westerners are overly called for a youth levy on all large employers be an electoral touchstone. She will improve says those furthest from the foundation of reactive (tai guofeng le)!” Surely, though, the Chinese government failing to offer real apprenticeships: UK busi- Labour’s Jobs Guarantee by cutting the wait- the welfare state appreciate it least, especially realises it is losing control of its messaging — both with its people and nesses offer disgracefully few. ing time from one year to six months, so they when they’ve paid their own fees and have with those trying to make sense of the country from the outside. A The Prince’s Trust – no hotbed of revolution are not neglected for too long. Labour’s Future no good jobs or homes to show for it (though more sceptical, educated citizenry is no longer willing to tolerate overt – says: “If we lined up Britain’s unemployed Jobs Fund was a success, getting 100,000 into they are unexpectedly warm-spirited towards obfuscation. More and more Chinese are relying on other sources of young people, the job queue would stretch good jobs in the nine months before the last pensioners). Outrage at Lib Dem perfidy on information. Events such as the plenum and the political transition from London to Middlesbrough.” It reports a election. tuition fees may have turned many off politics. last year are now live-tweeted. 334 percent rise in young people unemployed Worthwhile work for the public sector and Maybe Russell Brand will rouse them – if he If the reforms announced last week are indeed to lead to a more for two years, warning that when those who charities was paid at the minimum wage, can be bothered to organise a revolution. Some market-based economy, China will have to accept greater market dis- retreated back to education return to seek without displacing other jobs. In contrast, this random event may spark the fires of genera- cipline in its messaging as well. The Chinese central bank learned this jobs, they may “burst the banks of an already government’s Youth Contract replacing it has tional injustice. the hard way over the summer, when it failed to clearly explain a rise flooded jobs market”. been a disaster, except where city authorities But if the young aren’t going to organise, and fluctuation in interbank rates and the ensuing liquidity crunch. Figures from the Office for National took it over: Manchester, Newcastle, Leeds riot or rebel, then at least they’d better declare The central bank was supposedly trying to rein in banks and institu- Statistics on debt-burdened graduates made and others do well, matching skills through an intention to vote with a vengeance, because tions that had engaged in high-risk lending behaviours. The market grim reading, with half in lower-level work local knowledge of employers and colleges, that might rattle Westminster’s cage. saw only that liquidity had dried up, and panicked. offering weak prospects. But as gradu- with personal advisers to help on housing, Labour will put them centre stage, intend- Rather than lamenting the new reality, it’s in Beijing’s interest to ates slide downmarket, they push out those travel and family or mental health obstacles. ing to touch voters of all ages with concern for develop a sustained and sophisticated strategy to telegraph clarity and beneath them. The IPPR report on Neets The national scheme reaches 27.5 percent of the plight of the young: the 1997 New Deal for credibility. This isn’t something that can be done through Xinhua or (not in education, employment or training) 16- to 17-year-old neets, but the cities reach the young unemployed, paid for with a wallop- People’s Daily editorials. In fact, China can learn much from the US and the semi-qualified says 700,000 young 57 percent. ing £5bn windfall on the utilities, was not just and other Western governments about controlling its intended mes- people on jobseeker’s allowance waste their Recessions are hardest on the young, but a great vote-winner – it worked too. sage. Call it “propaganda with Western characteristics.” That might time on jobcentre targets to make 40 futile they must feel this government has been THE GUARDIAN sell in Beijing. WP-BLOOMBERG SUNDAY 24 NOVEMBER 2013 10 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MIDDLE EAST Brotherhood backing unrest, says minister US citizen held for torching tram

CAIRO: Egypt’s interior min- peninsula. Yet more included men ister yesterday announced the accused of the murders of several arrest of dozens of “extrem- police officers, among them the ists” and accused the Muslim November 17 killing of Lieutenant Brotherhood of deposed presi- Colonel Mohamed Mabruk. dent Mohammed Mursi of Mabruk, an officer involved in financing radical Islamists the crackdown against Islamists linked to Al Qaeda. and the Brotherhood, was shot Mohamed Ibrahim told report- dead in Cairo. ers security forces had arrested Ibrahim also fired off a new more than 50 members of “extrem- warning to pro-Mursi demonstra- ist groups” with ties to the network tors, who have called for a week founded by Osama bin Laden and of anti-military protests under now led by his Egyptian successor, the banner “The Massacre of the Ayman Al Zawahiri. Century”. The slogan refers to the The minister said the suspects August 14 crackdown by security Firemen try to extinguish a burning fuel tank at an oil refinery in the province of Homs, Syria, yesterday. The refinery was set ablaze by mortars fired by were connected with attacks on forces on Mursi supporters in what sources claim were ‘terrorist groups’. No casualties were reported. police and soldiers that have mul- Cairo’s Rabaa Al Adawiya Square tiplied and killed more than 100 where at least 627 people died. people since the army deposed “As of now, any demonstration Mursi on July 3. that is not peaceful or that blocks Syrian rebels capture largest oilfield The Brotherhood “supports and roads will be met with force, massively finances from abroad whatever losses are incurred by BEIRUT: Islamist rebels led by capture of the field, a pipeline In the northern province of the intention is to kill me, they numerous radical terrorists in either side,” he warned. Al Qaeda-linked fighters seized transporting the crude to cen- Aleppo, army air strikes killed will fail. I will continue my mis- several groups” that have since Meanwhile, Egypt has detained Syria’s largest oilfield yesterday, tral Syria for refinement had at least 40 people and wounded sion until I fall as a martyr on the the summer “launched a series of 39 people, including a US citizen, cutting off President Bashar Al still been working despite the civil dozens, most of them civilians, the soil of my country.” terrorist acts seeking to sow ter- accused of torching a tram dur- Assad’s access to almost all local war. Most oil reserves are now in Observatory said. But opposition Haidar, head of the Syrian ror”, Ibrahim said. ing a protest against the over- crude reserves, activists said. the hands of rebels, local tribes or fighters, particularly powerful Social Nationalist Party, was He said some of those held had throw of Mursi, judicial sources There was no immediate Kurdish militias, some of whom Islamist factions, still hold large appointed national reconciliation been pardoned of offences dur- said yesterday. The accused, who comment from the government may be willing to sell oil to Assad. swathes of territory in northern minister by President Bashar Al ing Mursi’s year-long rule, and were placed in 15-day preven- and it was not possible to ver- Assad is also believed to be getting and eastern Syria. Assad in June 2012. He belongs to that others were linked to jihad- tive detention, were members ify the reports of the capture fuel from Iran. Rebels are trying to retake the that part of the opposition which ist groups Ansar Beit Al Maqdis of Brotherhood movement, the independently. A video posted on the Internet town of Oteiba in order to break a is tolerated by the regime and in the Sinai and the Libya-based sources said, adding that they But the loss of the Al Omar oil- showed rebels in camouflage heavy blockade on the opposition- distances itself from the rebels Ansar Al Sharia. were also accused of rioting and field in the eastern Deir Al Zor and black scarves driving a tank held suburbs in the east that ring fighting to overthrow Assad. Ibrahim said that among them attacking policemen on Friday province, if confirmed, could leave under a sign that read “Euphrates the capital. Foreign powers are trying to was Mohammed Al Zawahiri, during protests in Cairo. Assad’s forces almost completely Oil Company – Al Omar field”. bring together the warring par- brother of the Al Qaeda chief, The interior ministry said stu- reliant on imported oil in their The speaker in the video said the MINISTER SURVIVES ties at an international peace who was detained in August after dents linked to Brotherhood had highly mechanised military cam- field was overrun at dawn yester- State television, mean- conference, dubbed ‘Geneva 2’, being freed in the 2011 revolt that torched a tram carriage in Cairo’s paign to put down a two-and-a- day, but the authenticity of the while, reported that National planned for mid-December. Both ousted Hosni Mubarak. Ibrahim eastern district of Heliopolis. half-year uprising. footage could not be independ- Reconciliation Minister Ali the Syrians and their interna- said some of the arrests came Sources said that one of the detain- “Now, nearly all of Syria’s usa- ently verified. Haidar escaped an attempted tional partners are at odds over after a failed attempt on his own ees had a US passport, but it was ble oil reserves are in the hands Syria is not a significant oil assassination yesterday that terms for the talks. Syria’s peace life on September 5 when a sui- unclear if he held other citizenship. of the Nusra Front and other producer and has not exported left his driver dead. The attack envoy Lakhdar Brahimi discussed cide bomber attacked his convoy Authorities have launched a Islamist units ... The regime’s any oil since late 2011, when inter- took place on the road between the conference yesterday with in Cairo. sweeping crackdown on Islamists neck is now in Nusra’s hands,” national sanctions took effect to Masyaf, in central Hama prov- Russian Foreign Minister Sergei He said others were detained in recent months, arresting some said Rami Abdelrahman, head raise pressure on Assad. Prior ince, and Qadmus, in the coastal Lavrov in Geneva. He is expected after an August 19 attack killed 2,000 people, including most of of the pro-opposition Syrian to the sanctions, the country province of Tartus. to meet US Secretary of State 25 police in the Sinai — the dead- the top leadership of the Muslim Observatory for Human Rights. exported 370,000 barrels per day, State news agency SANA later John Kerry later. liest in years in the arid desert Brotherhood. AGENCIES Until the reported insurgent mainly to Europe. quoted the minister as saying: “If REUTERS/AFP

Islamists poised to enter parliament as Iran embassy attack Mauritania votes bombers identified NOUAKCHOTT: Voters in BEIRUT: Lebanese authori- Al Qaeda and for Assir, whom Mauritania went to the polls ties say they have identified the he vowed to “avenge” after the yesterday in legislative and local two men who launched a double clashes with the army. elections expected to bring a suicide attack on the Iranian Assir, also from Sidon, had fre- once-outlawed Islamist party embassy this week which killed quently expressed support for the into parliament for the first time. 25 people in Hezbollah’s south- Syrian uprising and encouraged The legislative polls — the first ern Beirut bastion. Lebanese Sunnis to join it. A secu- since a 2008 army putsch — are Relatives of one of the men said rity official said the second bomber being boycotted by most of the he was a supporter of Al Qaeda was found to be a Palestinian, who West African nation’s opposition and Sheikh Ahmed Assir, a radi- also lived in southern Lebanon and parties. They refuse to recog- cal Sunni preacher in southern supported Assir. nise the authority of President Lebanon who has been on the run In Sidon, two tanks were sta- Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, who since his supporters clashed with tioned near the Abu Dahr home, led the bloodless coup claiming the Lebanese troops in the summer, where neighbours expressed previous President Sidi Mohamed killing 17 soldiers. The embassy shock that Mouin had carried Ould Cheikh Abdallahi was inca- attack was claimed by an Al out the attack. “He was a polite pable of tackling the economic Qaeda-affiliated group that said man who always encouraged me problems squeezing Mauritania’s it was targeting Hezbollah. to pray. I did not expect him to mostly poor inhabitants. One of the suicide bombers was commit such an act,” Ahmed Police use tear gas to disperse teachers demonstrating against education policies implemented by the ruling AK Candidates allied to Abdel Aziz, identified by DNA testing after Al Yaman, who lives across the Party in central Ankara yesterday. who won a presidential election his father came forward when street, said. A close friend said in 2009 and is now a key ally of photos of the suspects were pub- Mouin became far more religious the West in the fight against Al lished, a judge said yesterday. after a recent trip to Sweden, Tensions mount as Erdogan spars Qaeda in the region, are tipped The test on Adnan Abu Dahr where he fell under the influence to secure a comfortable majority. showed that human remains at of a radical imam. The Islamist Tawassoul party the scene belonged to his son, “After he returned from is one of two opposition parties Mouin Abu Dahr, who was iden- Sweden, he started talking about with preacher over education taking part in the vote. Banned tified as one of two attackers, the martyrdom and saying his fam- by the government until 2007, judge was quoted by the National ily was not religious enough,” the ANKARA: Political tensions Erdogan’s government tried to in the Zaman newspaper, mouth- its ideology broadly mirrors that News Agency as saying. The army friend said. are mounting in Turkey ahead close down a network of private piece for the Gulen movement. of the Muslim Brotherhood and confirmed that the younger Abu After Assir was chased into of an election-charged year, schools run by Gulen’s Hizmet Gulen himself reportedly liken- its political platform calls for Dahr, from the southern Sunni- hiding, the friend remembers with Prime Minister Recep (Service) movement that aim to ing the government action to “respect for Shariah and the majority town of Sidon, was one Mouin speaking of an injustice Tayyip Erdogan embroiled in a help students prepare for high the coups staged by the powerful rejection of everything which of the suicide attackers. against Sunnis and making an bitter row with an influential school and university. military which considers itself the violates it”. A Facebook page apparently ominous vow. “He said he would Muslim leader over education. The premier said he wanted guardians of the secular state. Having declared itself prepared belonging to Mouin Abu Dahr, commit an act that everyone The feud between Erdogan and to abolish an “illegal” and unfair Gulen, 72, has been living in for a “revolution via the ballot which had been taken down yes- would talk about.” Islamic preacher Fethullah Gulen, education system which he charged exile in the United States since box” last year, it is seeking to win terday, expressed support for AFP who lives in self-imposed exile in turned children into “competition 1999 to escape charges of plot- out against the only other opposi- the United States, has exposed horses”, and denied his government ting against the secular state in tion grouping participating in the divisions in the Turkish strong- was targeting anyone in particu- Turkey. His powerful network polls, the APP, to claim leadership man’s traditional religiously con- lar. “Those who benefit from these describes itself as a global social of the parliamentary opposition. servative power base. courses are the kids of rich families and cultural movement inspired In light of the boycott, many Erdogan, who has dominated in big cities,” said Erdogan. by Islamic ideals. anticipated a low turnout reflect- 15 killed in Iraq bloodshed Turkish politics for 11 years, faces Hizmet as well as the secular It is especially active in edu- ing disaffection among voters. a key test in local elections next opposition and teachers have cation, with around 4,000 of the However elections observers and KIRKUK: Twin suicide bombings at a Shia mosque in north Iraq March with his image bruised by reacted angrily to the move. so-called prep schools in Turkey poll workers said early turnout were the deadliest in attacks nationwide that killed 15 people yes- mass street protests that erupted It has also sown dissent within as well as more than 500 schools appeared steady. terday. Attacks struck mostly in the north, although Baghdad was against his government in June. Erdogan’s ruling Justice and around the world. Hizmet risks Initial results are expected to also hit. The deadliest violence was in Tuz Khurmatu, where a Differences between Erdogan Development Party (AKP), with losing millions of dollars in rev- trickle in from today. A second suicide car bombing followed by a suicide attack targeting a Shia and Gulen, who remains a highly one lawmaker facing expulsion for enue if the government succeeds round of voting is scheduled for mosque killed at least 10 people and wounded 45. The initial blast influential figure on the Turkish breaking ranks. in closing the Turkish establish- December 7 for those contests in was at 5:30pm near the Imam Ali mosque. Shortly afterwards, a domestic scene, have long been “What crime have we com- ments, which offer education to which no candidate wins an out- suicide bomber blew himself up at the entrance to the mosque. simmering. But the dispute burst mitted to justify being closed,” supplement normal schooling. right first round victory. Unrest in Baghdad and two cities in the north — Tal Afar and Arab out into the open this week after demanded a front-page headline AFP REUTERS Tikrit — left five other people dead, officials said. AFP SUNDAY 24 NOVEMBER 2013 INTERNATIONAL www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 11 Climate meet Cave-in like murder: Latvia president RIGA: Latvia’s president demanded yesterday that a supermarket cave-in which killed at least 53 people be agrees on treated as murder, while rescu- ers and investigators combed the ruins for bodies or clues. Terrifying accounts emerged from survivors of the cave-in at deal in 2015 the Maxima store in the capital Riga on Thursday, as anger and suspicion mounted over its causes. 200 nations break deadlock “I was queueing at the cash desk when the roof suddenly WARSAW: Almost 200 nations allowing emerging economies caved in. It all happened within kept a plan to reach a new UN room to burn more fossil fuels to a few seconds,” said 19-year-old climate pact in 2015 alive yes- help end poverty. Antons Ryakhin, saying “about terday when rich and poor But the United States noted 100 people” had been inside countries reached a compro- that all nations agreed in 2012 with him. mise on sharing out the efforts that the 2015 deal would be “It was dark but still light needed to slow global warming. “applicable to all” and accused enough to see the exit. I ran out. A two-week negotiation in emerging nations of harping back The doors were open, but a lot Warsaw had been due to end on to previous deals. of rubble fell in front of them — Friday, but was blocked over a “I feel like I am going into a I think that’s why some people timetable for the first UN climate time warp. That is folly,” said couldn’t get through.” accord that would set greenhouse Todd Stern, the US special envoy A police spokeswoman told gas emissions requirements for for climate change. AFP 13 people were still reported all nations. The pact is due to Developed nations had wanted missing in connection with the be agreed in 2015 and come into all to take on “commitments”, not collapse, the Baltic state’s worst force after 2020. the weaker-sounding “contribu- disaster since independence Negotiators finally agreed that tions” that they settled for. in 1991. all countries should work to curb Before yesterday, the only con- But two days on, hope was emissions — a process described crete measure to have emerged dwindling of finding more in the jargon as “intended nation- after two weeks was an agree- survivors. ally determined contributions” — ment on new rules to protect President Andris Berzins told as soon as possible and ideally by tropical forests, which soak up Latvian public television the dis- the first quarter of 2015. carbon dioxide as they grow. aster “must be treated as the People light candles near the collapsed supermarket in the Latvian capital Riga yesterday. The agreement ended dead- During the Warsaw meeting, murder of many unprotected peo- lock between rich and poor about no major nation offered tougher ple”, calling for it to be “investi- sharing out the burden of limit- action to slow rising world green- gated at maximum speed”. Speculation as to its causes it was a massive one,” said Marite Meierovics of the Latvian asso- ing emissions blamed for causing house gas emissions and Japan Police investigators could be has centred on the extra weight Straume, spokeswoman for the ciation of building engineers told more heatwaves, floods, droughts backtracked from its carbon seen sifting through the rubble created by a rooftop garden and Re&Re firm that did the build- AFP. Part of the roof at the two- and rising sea levels. goals for 2020, after shuttering alongside rescuers at the site, playground, and on the possibil- ing work. year old supermarket crashed Under the last climate pact, its nuclear industry after the where the latest body was hauled ity that building regulations may “The strange thing is at the down during peak shopping hours the Kyoto Protocol, only the Fukushima disaster. from the mass of tangled steel and have been bent. time of the collapse we were around 6pm on Thursday, in the most developed countries were Even after breaking the dead- concrete yesterday at dawn. “It’s probably the same old replacing the heavy rocks that Zolitude district of the Latvian required to limit their emissions lock over which countries should “Much of the site has been story — do it cheap and pocket the had been there for two winters capital. A second collapse crushed — one of the main reasons the tackle emissions, talks continued checked but the structures that difference. But it is ordinary peo- with much lighter materials to to death the rescuers who had United States refused to accept on another issue that has divided remain include some of the larg- ple who pay the real price,” Riga make the garden. The roof was already entered the building. it, saying rapidly growing econo- rich and poor: the aid that devel- est, heaviest blocks which are taxi driver Arsenijs Smirnovs actually getting lighter,” she Thousands of glowing candles mies like China and India must oped countries pay to developing particularly dangerous,” fire and told AFP. told AFP. and heaps of flowers decked the also take part. ones to help them curb emissions rescue service spokeswoman Maxima spokeswoman Olga A photograph published by perimeter crash barriers sur- “Just in the nick of time, the and cope with to the impacts of Viktorija Sembele told AFP. Malaskeviciene told AFP the Latvia’s Diena daily showed an rounding the site, placed by a negotiators in Warsaw delivered climate change. The Latvian government con- company had launched safety aerial view of the roof prior to the constant stream of shell-shocked enough to keep the process mov- Developed nations, which firmed that two Russian citizens checks at its 140 other stores in collapse, covered in soil, shrub- residents. ing,” said Jennifer Morgan of promised in 2009 to raise aid to were among the victims. Latvia and plans similar reviews bery, a children’s playground and “I don’t even know why I’m the World Resources Institute $100bn a year after 2020 from Latvia declared three days of in nearly 300 others in Lithuania construction materials. here. It just seems important. think-tank. $10bn a year in 2010-12, have mourning following the disaster, and Estonia. “Visually the building looked Maybe if there is still someone China had insisted that devel- resisted calls to set targets for and flags were being flown from “The cause remains a mys- great but it is more important in there they can feel that we oping nations should announce 2013-19. houses across the country with a tery, but it must be discovered. to get the technical engineer- are here,” pensioner Normunds deep cuts in emissions while REUTERS black sash attached. Obviously if a mistake was made ing right than the looks,” Sergejs Andersons said. AFP

Protests erupt Details tumble out on women’s captivity in Britain LONDON: Three women bail pending further inquiries. to an end and how the women arrested on suspicion of slavery floors above the group, said the after two enslaved in London for 30 years Police said the captives, a ended up continuing to live with and domestic servitude as well as women did seem scared. lived in some kind of “collec- 69-year-old Malaysian, a 57-year- the suspects ... for over 30 years immigration offences, were pre- “They were quiet people but tive” where they were control- old Irishwoman and a 30-year-old is what we are seeking to estab- viously arrested in the 1970s, the some people you just don’t trust. Angola activists led by their captors — a couple Briton, had not been physically lish, but we believe emotional and police said, without elaborating. They looked crazy,” he told now in their 60s — through restrained at the couple’s apart- physical abuse has been a feature Police carried out house-to- reporters. The publicity sur- brainwashing and beatings, ment, but were bound to their of all the victims’ lives.” house inquiries near the modern, rounding the case has prompted disappear police said yesterday. captors by “invisible handcuffs” It remains unclear how the low-rise apartment block, seek- a fivefold increase in the number The women were freed four in a “disturbing picture of emo- youngest woman came to be ing evidence for a case which of calls to the charity that first LUANDA: Angolan police fired weeks ago but the police only tional control”. there. Police said the captives they said could take months to alerted police to the women. tear gas and warning shots yes- spoke about it on Thursday after “We believe that two of the were not related. piece together. The women contacted terday to disperse hundreds of making two arrests, detailing one victims met the male suspect in “The 30-year-old woman does Neighbours in Brixton, south Freedom Charity after seeing a opposition supporters demon- of the strangest and longest-run- London through a shared politi- have a birth certificate; however London, expressed shock. representative from the group on strating in the capital against ning cases of domestic servitude cal ideology, and that they lived that is all the official documenta- “It’s horrible that something a television documentary about the disappearance and possible to emerge in Britain. together at an address that you tion we can find. We believe she like this could happen here. This slavery and forced marriages. murder of two anti-government A man and a woman, both 67, could effectively call a ‘collective’,” has lived with the suspects and is where I grew up ... and it is a They memorised the telephone activists. of Indian and Tanzanian origin, Commander Steve Rodhouse said the other victims all her life,” quiet area,” said Valerie Lindo, a number and rang when they President Jose Eduardo dos who came to Britain in the 1960s, in a statement. Rodhouse said. healthcare worker. managed to get access to a phone. Santos’ MPLA party accused the were arrested and released on “Somehow that collective came The suspects, who were Marius Feneck, who lived two REUTERS main UNITA opposition group this week of promoting “chaos” with its plans for nationwide ral- lies to tap into public anger in Africa’s number two oil producer Nosy graffiti at the two disappearances. Prosecutors said last week that Isaias Cassule and Antonio Alves Obama all praise Camulingui, who were involved in organising protests by former presidential guards to demand payment of wage arrears, had for Morocco king been kidnapped and possibly murdered in May 2012. Angola’s WASHINGTON: President Ties between the United States Interior Ministry advised UNITA Barack Obama praised the and Morocco have shown signs of on Friday to cancel the rallies as “leadership” of Morocco’s King tension this year following a US they would coincide with a pub- Mohammed VI on Friday after proposal to task UN peacekeeping lic march planned by the MPLA holding wide-ranging talks with forces in the disputed region of ruling party. A police spokesman the North African monarch Western Sahara, which Morocco later said they were not authorised for the first time at the White annexed in 1975, with a human and would endanger public order. House. rights monitoring mandate. “We met as planned at 0900 In a joint statement released by Morocco cancelled annual joint GMT near the Santana cemetery the United States and Morocco military exercises after angrily but an hour and a half later police following the talks, Obama rejecting the US proposal, which charged on us, using teargas, applauded the king for “deepening was later defeated following anti-riot and mounted police and democracy, promoting economic intense Moroccan lobbying. dogs,” UNITA spokesman Alcides progress and human develop- Earlier on Friday, the United Sakala told reporters metres from ment” in the past decade. States said a Moroccan plan the venue. Angolan police spokes- Obama also welcomed the king’s to grant greater autonomy to persons did not answer several vow to end the practice of trying Western Sahara was viable. Reuters telephone calls asking for civilians in military courts, the “Morocco’s autonomy plan is comment. As Sakala spoke, police statement said. “The two leaders serious, realistic and credible,” charged on protesters behind him, reaffirmed their commitment to White House spokesman Jay firing teargas. Some protesters the UN human rights system and Carney said. responded by throwing stones. its important role in protecting “It represents a potential UNITA planned a march to and promoting human rights and approach that can satisfy the the Primeiro de Maio Square but fundamental freedoms,” the state- aspirations of the people in the a large police contingent, which A man rides his scooter past a graffiti mocking Honduras President Porfirio Lobo as Pinocchio in Tegucigalpa ment said. The two nations also Western Sahara to run their own included helicopters flying over yesterday. Honduras is holding a presidential vote today as the wife of an ousted leftist leader fends off a late “reaffirmed their commitment to affairs in peace and dignity.” the area, continued to break surge from the ruling party heavyweight and both vow a crackdown on drug violence. The winner of today’s continue to deepen civilian and The Algeria-backed Polisario up small groups using teargas election will have to steady state finances, clean up a corrupt police force and fight drug gangs that have military cooperation in the areas Front wants independence for the along the busy avenue that links given the impoverished country the highest homicide rate in the world of more than 85 people per 100,000. of non-proliferation and counter- territory through a self-determi- the venues. REUTERS terrorism,” it added. nation referendum. AFP SUNDAY 24 NOVEMBER 2013 12 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com ASIA / PHILIPPINES China bolsters claim to disputed islands Beijing incursions a threat to peace: Japan minister

SHANGHAI: China yesterday respond to aircraft that do not embassy in Tokyo and reiter- bolstered its claim to islands cooperate in the identification or ated its position that the islands that Japan says it owns, warn- refuse to follow the instructions,” belonged to Japan and China’s ing that it would take “defensive Xinhua said. action was not acceptable. emergency measures” against Xinhua said the rules came into “Setting up such airspace aircraft that failed to identify force yesterday and the Chinese unilaterally escalates the situa- themselves properly in airspace air force conducted its first patrol tion surrounding the Senkaku over them. over the zone. The patrol included islands and has the risk of lead- Ties between the Asian powers early warning aircraft and fight- ing to an unexpected situation,” have been strained for months ers, it said. Japan’s Foreign Ministry said in by the dispute over the islands Japan last afternoon scrambled a statement. in the East China Sea, called the fighter jets against two Chinese Patrol ships from both coun- Volunteers from the South Korea Disaster Relief Team arrive at a damaged airport to help Filipino typhoon victims Diaoyu by China and the Senkaku reconnaissance planes over the tries have been shadowing each in the super typhoon devastated city of Tacloban, Leyte province, in the Philippines yesterday. by Japan, which are believed to be East China Sea, the Japanese other near the islets on and off surrounded by energy-rich seabed. Defence Ministry said. for months, raising fears that a China’s government-run Xinhua A ministry spokesman declined confrontation could develop into news agency published a map to comment on whether there a clash. Typhoon death toll may hit 7,000 and coordinates for the newly- was any connection between the The new Chinese rules mean established “East China Sea Air Chinese patrol activity and the aircraft have to report flight plans TACLOBAN: The number of endures a never-ending battle Amos said huge numbers of Defence Identification Zone”, two reconnaissance planes. He to China’s Foreign Ministry or civil people dead or missing after one against typhoons, earthquakes, people were still exposed to bad which covers most of that sea said one of the aircraft, a TU-154, aviation administration, maintain of the world’s strongest typhoons floods and volcanic eruptions. weather in the nine provinces rav- including the disputed islands. came as close as 40 km to what radio contact and reply promptly struck the Philippines climbed The typhoon has triggered a aged by the storm, as she warned It also released Defence Japan considers its airspace above to identification inquiries, keep towards 7,000 yesterday, as the giant, international aid effort, particularly of the dangers for Ministry identification rules for the disputed islands. radar transponders turned on, United Nations warned much with dozens of countries and relief babies, children and mothers. aircraft in the area. A Japanese Foreign Ministry and bear clear markings of their more needed to be done to help organisations rushing to deliver “I am very concerned that some “China’s armed forces will adopt spokesman said Japan had lodged nationality and registration. desperate survivors. food, water and health services to 1.5 million children are at risk of defensive emergency measures to a strong protest with China’s REUTERS The government’s confirmed more than four million people who acute malnutrition and close to death toll rose to 5,235, with lost their homes. 800,000 pregnant and nursing another 1,613 people still missing However UN humanitarian mothers need nutritional help,” more than two weeks after Super chief Valerie Amos, after visiting Amos told a news conference at Typhoon Haiyan destroyed entire the disaster zones, warned the UN headquarters. towns across a long stretch of world was still not responding In the coastal city of Tacloban, Yangon boy used Tokyo governor hit by dirty islands in the central Philippines. fast enough. one of the worst-hit areas where Haiyan now rivals a 1976 tsu- “Much more needs to be done. five-metre (16-feet) waves surged as drug courier nami on the southern island Food, clean water and shelter deep inland and destroyed most electioneering scandal of Mindanao as the deadliest remain the top priorities,” Amos buildings, survivors continued to BANGKOK: Thai police found recorded natural disaster to said as a UN appeal for funds was complain about a lack of help. a seven-year-old boy from TOKYO: Tokyo governor conference in Tokyo that he was strike the Philippines, which raised from $301m to $348m. AFP Myanmar crying alone at a Naoki Inose has admitted that offered the money by the Tokudas, bus stop with almost 10,000 he had received $500,000 from a the family running the powerful methamphetamine pills in his political family at the centre of medical group Tokushukai. backpack in western Thailand, a dirty electioneering scandal, “I felt it would be rude to refuse officers said yesterday. but denied the money formed a when (the money was) offered,” EU aid envoy The child was discovered slush fund. Inose said. But public broadcaster Lanka military to probe on Thursday evening in the Inose, who is credited for bring- NHK reported yesterday that it Thong Pha Phum district of ing the 2020 Olympics to the capi- was Inose himself who reached decries Myanmar Kanchanaburi province near the tal, told reporters Friday that the out to the Tokuda family and border with Myanmar, local police money -- which he received before asked for ¥100m ($1m) before blocking of media camp conditions said. running in last year’s gubernato- the election. “Officers approached him and rial election -- was a personal Takeshi Tokuda, a lower house COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s mili- spokesman in Colombo, Brigadier YANGON: A European Union asked him questions, but he could “loan” and did not constitute elec- member, relayed Inose’s request tary promised on Friday to Ruwan Wanigasooriya, denied the humanitarian envoy yesterday not speak Thai,” district police tion campaign funds. to his father and the founder of investigate why AFP journal- authorities had imposed any ban voiced concern at the “dramatic chief Colonel Amnuay Pongsawat Under the Japanese election the medical group, Torao Tokuda, ists were prevented from work- on foreign journalists. deprivation” in Myanmar’s said. He said the drugs were found law, campaign treasurers must who then provided ¥50m, NHK ing in the country’s former war “It should not have happened,” camps for tens of thousands of in about 50 plastic bags wedged report all income, such as dona- said. zone this week by soldiers who Wanigasooriya said. “We are very people, mainly Muslims, made into two baby powder bottles. tions, related to electioneering. Prosecutors have investigated said they were under orders to sorry about it. We will look into homeless by deadly unrest in “It is the first time that we have Inose failed to report the the Tokushukai group over an restrict the media. this and those responsible will Rakhine State. seen drug trafficking gangs use a $500,000. Those who violate the allegation of illegal electioneer- An Agence France-Presse be ticked off.” He said field com- Violence in Rakhine last year child as a courier,” Amnuay said. law could face prison terms of ing practice, including providing (AFP) video journalist and a pho- manders did not like their troops killed scores and displaced 140,000 He said he believed the boy had up to three years or fines of up money to campaign workers, at tographer were obstructed in the being photographed, but there people — many from the stateless been dropped off by an uncle. to 500,000 yen ($5,000). Inose the time the younger Tokuda ran Northern province by local mili- was no prohibition on filming in Rohingya Muslim minority. AFP also said at the Friday press for the lower house. AFP tary officials on Monday who said public places, including the war After a visit to the area this they were following directions memorabilia. week, Claus Sorensen, the head from their commanders. Britain’s Channel 4 news team, of the EU’s humanitarian aid The problems followed a summit which travelled to Sri Lanka for department, said in a statement of leaders from Commonwealth the Commonwealth summit, said he was disturbed by the “dramatic countries last weekend that was it left the country early after days deprivation of the affected com- Rare camera overshadowed by the country’s of extensive intimidation and sur- munities and disrespect of funda- human rights record. veillance by security forces. mental rights”. sells in HK “You can see the exhibits, but The organisers of the summit He also voiced alarm at threats we have been asked not to allow in Colombo had invited visiting by “extremist elements” against any journalists to take pictures or foreign journalists to explore news aid workers trying to deliver basic for $620,000 film here,” a military officer said stories outside the summit. necessities to the camps, echoing HONG KONG: An Asian at a site where boats captured “We also welcome foreign growing international concern buyer purchased a rare from Tiger rebels were on display media professionals to explore over the issue. Leica camera, one of only in the district of Mullaittivu. non-CHOGM-related activities His comments on the trip came four of its kind in the The news staff was also given and stories around Sri Lanka,” after Myanmar on Thursday said world, for $620,000 at a the same information at a former the organisers had said in a letter it would not grant citizenship to Hong Kong auction, auc- Tamil rebel base that had been to all visiting journalists. CHOGM people identifying themselves as tioneers said yesterday. converted into a war-tourism stands for Commonwealth Heads Rohingya, despite pressure from The 1932 Leica Luxus attraction after 2009. of Government Meeting. the United Nations. II fetched HK$4.84m However, the chief military AFP AFP ($620,000) late on Friday in an auction where about 80 cameras and acces- Anti-Australia protest sories went under the hammer in the southern Chinese city. But the selling price failed to set a new world record for a camera, as some expected, falling short of earlier sale esti- mates of up to HK$9m ($1.16m). The world record for a camera was set in Vienna last year, when a Leica camera prototype — the 0-Series made in 1923 — sold for €2.16m ($2.79m). Only four of the Luxus II cameras were ever made, auctioneers Bonhams said. The whereabouts of the other three are unknown. The camera, which is gold-plated and comes with a crocodile skin case, had previously belonged to a British amateur pho- tographer who acquired it soon after the World War II, Bonhams said. A spokesman for Bonhams said the buyer was Asian, but did not Indonesian police scuffle with protesters outside the Australian Embassy in Jakarta yesterday during a pro- reveal the nationality. test against reported spying by Canberra that also targeted the mobile phone of the Indonesian president. AFP SUNDAY 24 NOVEMBER 2013 PAKISTAN / AFGHANISTAN www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 13

Pakistan, India sign gas accord Karzai urged to sign US security pact

ISLAMABAD: In a major breakthrough, Pakistan Members of assembly concerned over president’s insistence on signing deal after April poll along with Turkmenistan, Afghanistan and India have KABUL: Members of an — sparking a strong response from “They (the Americans) have for US troops who remain in jirga was called mainly because of signed the Transaction Afghan grand assembly debating Washington, which wants it signed accepted all the conditions set Afghanistan after 2014. article 13 of the BSA. Everybody Advisory Services a crucial security pact with the by the end of this year. out by him and us. It would hurt A draft text released by Kabul gives their suggestions and advice Agreement (TASA) with United States voiced concern US officials warned that failure Afghanistan if he does not accept on Wednesday appeared to show to the loya jirga.” Asian Development Bank yesterday at President Hamid to sign the pact — which governs it,” he added. Karzai had bowed to a US demand Karzai on Thursday told del- (ADB) at Ashgabat, Karzai’s insistence it will not be the conditions of any post-war Amir Mohammad Akhnudzada, that American troops would not egates that the BSA would allow Turkmenistan. signed until after April’s elec- American counterterrorism and a delegate from the volatile south- be tried in local courts if they are up to 15,000 foreign troops to stay Mubin Saulat, the manag- tion to choose his successor. training mission in Afghanistan ern Helmand province, said: “I accused of crimes. in Afghanistan. ing director of Inter State Kabul and Washington have — could jeopardise crucial aid to think President Karzai should But the text, published on the The jirga is to give its deci- Gas System said here yes- agreed a joint draft of the Bilateral the war-torn country. respect the decision of the Afghan Afghan foreign ministry website, sion today on the pact, the text terday the agreement will Security Agreement (BSA), gov- The White House has said it elders, and all the delegates want said Kabul had agreed that the of which was only agreed after enable the Manila-based erning the presence of US troops needs a swift decision to start this Bilateral Security Agreement United States should have “the months of tortuous negotiations Asian Development Bank as in Afghanistan after 2014, which planning the movement of any US signed as soon as possible.” exclusive right to exercise juris- with Washington. Transaction Advisor to find is being debated by the “loya jirga”, troops, and warned that President Earlier, Karzai’s spokesman diction” over its forces. The jirga is widely expected a leading, technically and a gathering of about 2,500 chief- Barack Obama had not yet decided Aimal Faizy said that the presi- “Undoubtedly, article 13 was to approve it, though possibly financially sound company tains, tribal elders and politicians. whether or not to keep American dent would explain the reasons for a matter of concern to the peo- with recommendations or condi- that could form a consortium But in his opening statement on forces in Afghanistan. his stance in his closing speech to ple of Afghanistan. We discussed tions, after which it must also be to generate the finances for Thursday, Karzai told the meeting “Karzai doesn’t have the right to the jirga planned for today. it thoroughly, and approved this approved by the Afghan parlia- the TAPI (Turkmenistan- that the painstakingly negotiated say this, he is making a mistake,” On the penultimate day of the article with some changes,” said ment before it can be signed into Afghanistan-Pakistan-India) deal would not be signed until after said Sebghatullah Mujadidi, the four-day jirga yesterday, delegates jirga member Abdul Qayom. effect. gas pipeline. next year’s presidential election head of the jirga. debated the legal jurisdiction Anarkali Honaryar said: “This AFP Karachi moves closer to 3G No drone strikes KARACHI: Pakistan has Election body appeals just moved closer to getting 3G and higher online access speeds with the Pakistan Telecommunication for population census Authority (PTA) shortlist- ing five consultants for the ISLAMABAD: The Election was completed in April of 2011. spectrum auction for next- Commission of Pakistan (ECP) The exercise was marred by generation mobile services. has urged the government to glitches and subsequent delays, The telecoms regulator will conduct a population census however. The last time the census award the consultancy con- across the country “as early as was carried out was in 1998. Since tract to the finalist in 10 work- possible”, enabling it to carry then the population has increased ing days, official sources said out delimitation of national and 2.3 percent per annum. yesterday. PTA had received provincial assembly electoral The demography of many big cit- seven bids from various con- constituencies well before the ies also had changed substantially. sulting firms in response to next general elections in 2018. Many Pashto-speaking people its advertisements for hiring Sources said here yesterday moved from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa an international consultant that a summary had been sent to Karachi over the years, changing for the spectrum auction for to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, the political dynamics in some of next-generation mobile serv- asking him to place the matter the city’s areas. ices earlier this month. before the Council of Common The summary moved by the The financial proposals will Interests for approval. ECP points out that seats in be opened shortly, while the The population census was the National Assembly are allo- contract will be awarded after scheduled to be completed by the cated to the provinces, Federally the final selection. end of 2011, but the process is yet Administered Tribal Areas and AGENCIES Imran Khan, Chairman of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf party, gestures while addressing a protest rally in Peshawar to commence. Federal Capital Territory on the yesterday. Thousands of activists from right-wing political parties protested against US drone strikes. The house listing exercise, basis of the population. which precedes the main census, INTERNEWS Taliban claim twin bomb attacks

KARACHI: The Pakistani coincided with a sermon at a people which contributes 42 per- Taliban claimed responsibility nearby Sunni mosque. cent of Pakistan’s GDP, is rife yesterday for twin bomb attacks The groups clashed with each with murder and kidnappings and targeting Shia in Karachi over- other, TV cameramen and secu- has been plagued with sectarian, night that killed at least six rity forces. ethnic, and political violence for people and wounded 35 others. Officials said 11 people were years. Shahidullah Shahid, a spokes- killed and more than 60 injured The Pakistani Taliban domi- man for umbrella group Tehreek- while a Sunni mosque and semi- nates northwest Pakistan, but it e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), said nary and an adjacent cloth mar- has also penetrated the central that the attacks in Pakistan’s ket were burnt, with Sunni groups Punjab province and has a strong largest city were carried out in blaming Shia protesters. presence in parts of Karachi. revenge for violence in Rawalpindi Thousands of people in major The TTP has been behind hun- on November 15. cities across Pakistan, including dreds of bomb and gun attacks He said the attacks were aimed Karachi, protested amid high that have fanned instability in at Shia in Karachi, and vowed security on Friday after Sunni Pakistan, killing more than 6,500 further violence. groups called for demonstrations soldiers, police and civilians since “It was to avenge the against the Rawalpindi violence. 2007. Rawalpindi incident, we will carry The explosions overnight in Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan, out more such attacks to avenge Karachi Friday took place within alternatively referred to as the killing of Sunnis,” Shahid said minutes of each other in the city’s the Pakistani Taliban, is an by telephone from an undisclosed bustling, predominantly Shia umbrella organisation of various location. neighbourhood of Ancholi. Islamist militant groups based Fighting erupted in the gar- “At least six people were killed in the northwestern Federally rison-city of Rawalpindi, which and some 35 wounded. Four Administered Tribal Areas along neighbours the capital Islamabad, among the dead were Shia,” sen- the Afghan border in Pakistan. earlier this month when a pro- ior police official Javed Odho said Most, but not all, Pakistani cession by Shia Muslims to mark in Karachi, updating an earlier Taliban groups coalesce under the most important day of the report of five killed and 18 injured. the TTP. mourning month of Muharram Karachi, a city of 18 million AFP

PM’s daughter Insurgents nab 11 Pakistani in charge of teachers in polio drive youth plan KABUL: Militants kidnapped areas,” Gul said. Another Khyber ISLAMABAD: Pakistan 11 Pakistani teachers involved official, speaking on condition Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in a polio vaccination cam- of anonymity, said the teachers has appointed his daughter paign for school children yes- had been taken to an area where Maryam Nawaz chairperson terday, officials said, the latest security forces cannot enter due of the Prime Minister’s Youth in a string of attacks on health to presence of militants. Programme (PMYP) on purely workers trying to eradicate the It was expected that the teach- honorary basis without any pay deadly disease. ers would be released following or perks for the assignment. The teachers were taken from negotiations with local elders, the The chairperson will act as the private Hira Public School official said. focal person with the responsibil- in the Bara area of the Khyber Gunmen frequently attack polio ity to coordinate, manage, finalise tribal agency, one of the semi vaccination workers in Pakistan. and supervise the implementation autonomous tribal areas along Militants accuse them of being of the PMYP. border with the Afghanistan. The Western spies or part of a plot to The programme comprises gunmen arrived just after teams sterilise Muslims. One militant the schemes including Prime administering the polio vaccines leader said he would only allow Minister’s Interest Free Loan had left, officials said. vaccinations in his area if US Scheme, Prime Minister’s Youth Local official Khyali Gul said drone strikes stopped. Business Loans, Prime Minister’s the gunmen took the teachers A global eradication campaign Youth Training Scheme, to an area controlled by mili- has reduced polio cases by 99.9 Prime Minister’s Youth Skills tant leader Mangal Bagh and percent in the last three decades, Development Scheme, Prime his Taliban-affiliated Lashkar-e- but it remains endemic in Nigeria, Minister’s Scheme for Provision Islam group. Afghanistan and Pakistan. of Laptops and Prime Minister’s “Mangal Bagh and his men are There were just 223 cases last Scheme for Reimbursement of opposing polio vaccination for year, according to the Global Polio Fee to Students from the Less children and don’t allow teams Eradication Initiative. Developed Areas. INTERNEWS to immunise children in their AFP SUNDAY 24 NOVEMBER 2013 14 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com INDIA Tehelka founder likely to be arrested, victim alleges pressure NEW DELHI/PANAJI: The statement and also took into Police team left for New Delhi, high-profile ThinkFest conference floor, on De Niro’s floor — and he victim leaving the elevator “in a arrest of Tarun Tejpal, the their possession a string of state Deputy Inspector General on November 7-8. (Tejpal) said again — ‘The uni- hurry” on one occasion. 50-year-old founder of Tehelka emails which circulated between of police O P Mishra told report- The name of legendary actor verse is telling us something’ to Mishra also did not rule news magazine who is accused of her, Tejpal, the victim and her ers in Panaji that media reports Robert De Niro, who participated which I said ‘I’m taking the stairs’ out bringing Tehelka’s alleged sexually assaulting an employee, friends as evidence, according to which suggested that the victim in the event, also finds inadvert- and started to walk out. attempts to cover up the crime seemed imminent, Delhi Police Goa Police sources. would co-operate with the police ent mention in the Goa Police “He pulled me back in, sensing in the ambit of the investigation. sources indicated yesterday, Delhi Police sources said that investigation was an “encourag- FIR. “Let’s go wake up Bob (De that I was on the verge of hyste- Meanwhile, reports quoting the even as the victim claimed that the Goa Police team can also ing” sign. Niro) and I asked him why he ria — by this point, he was totally victim claimed that the accused she was being pressurised by question Tejpal, and might arrest “I have seen news in one of the wanted to do that. I then real- comfortable physically manhan- Tejpal’s well-wishers had gotten people close to him. him, following orders from senior new channels and I do welcome ised that Tejpal was simply press- dling me, but sensing my sheer in touch with her and had started A three-member Goa Police officials of that state’s police force. this. This is an encouraging ges- ing buttons on the lift’s panel to panic.” However, in what could be “pressurising her”. team, which arrived in the Several friends of the victim ture for investigating agency from make the elevator stay in cir- a setback to the police investiga- The victim is daughter of a national capital around 11.30am, who were among the first ones the victim. But I will not discuss cuit, preventing it from stopping tion, Mishra said that the hotel former colleague of Tejpal, who reached Tehelka office in south to learn about the sexual assault anything,” Mishra said, urging the anywhere, and for the doors to had no CCTVs installed in the has recused himself from his post Delhi and scrutinised documents, in an elevator at a Goa five-star media to not “concentrate focus open,” says the FIR quoting from elevators. as editor after being accused of including on the laptop and I-pad resort last week were also ques- of reporting on nitty-gritty of the written complaint sent by the Tejpal in a statement released sexual assault by the victim. The of the magazine’s managing editor tioned by the police team. investigation”. victim to Chaudhury. on Friday has also requested the matter came to light after intra- Shoma Chaudhury. The team is expected to ques- The victim, in her com- De Niro, had most likely retired investigators to “examine and office communication between The team, which was accom- tion Tejpal today, even as police plaint to Chaudhury, said that for the night in his VIP suite, only release the CCTV footage so that Tejpal, Chaudhury and the vic- panied by Delhi Police personnel, sources say that the journalist’s Tejpal had sexually assaulted a few metres away. In another the accurate version of events tim was leaked to the media last questioned Chaudhury and some whereabouts are not yet known her twice in the elevator in the reference to De Niro, the victim stands clearly revealed”. week, even as Chaudhury has other Tehelka employees. to the Goa Police. Club House section of the Grand told Chaudhury in her complaint: Sources however said that the been accused of trying to hush They also recorded her Earlier in the day, as the Goa Hyatt five- star resort during the “The door opened on the second CCTV footage does show the up the matter. IANS

Making a mark Trinamool MP arrested in Terror outfits Saradha scam KOLKATA: Suspended Trinamool Congress MP Kunal Ghosh was yester- may disrupt day arrested in connection with the Saradha Group chit fund scam, police said. “Kunal Ghosh was arrested today. He is now in our polls: Premier custody,” Bidhannagar Commissionerate’s Deputy Commissioner (Detective Department) Arnab Ghosh Security forces urged to be vigilant said. The DC said Ghosh was arrested for several NEW DELHI: There is likeli- scrupulously bipartisan so that offences under sections 420 hood of terror outfits seeking our people do not lose faith in the (cheating), 120B (criminal to disrupt forthcoming assem- professionalism of investigative conspiracy) and 406 (crimi- bly and Lok Sabha polls, Prime agencies and the secular nature nal breach of trust) of the Minister Manmohan Singh said of our polity,” he added. Indian Penal Code. yesterday, while urging security The prime minister said some forces to remain “scrupulously states have witnessed a substan- China honours bipartisan” in dealing with ter- tial increase in the number of ror cases to maintain people’s communal incidents and added scientist Rao faith in a secular polity. that major communal clash in BANGALORE: India’s top Addressing the annual confer- Muzaffarnagar in Uttar Pradesh Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi tries out a bow and arrow presented to her by supporters before address- scientist C N R Rao, who was ence of Directors General of Police last September took a large toll ing a rally ahead of the state elections in Dungarpur town, Rajasthan, yesterday. recently named for the Bharat here, the prime minister also of lives. Ratna, has been elected hon- advocated the need for an institu- “This is most worrisome. We orary foreign member of the tional mechanism to ensure safety simply cannot allow such a state Chinese Academy of Sciences, of women. Expressing deep con- of affairs to continue. Our law the first Indian to be so cern over the substantial increase and order agencies must ensure honoured. “Rao is the first in incidents of communal violence that trivial or local issues are not Indian scientist to be elected in some states, he said state gov- exploited by vested interests to 35 lakh cases settled in a day recently (November 4) to the ernments need to act with utmost incite communal passions. prestigious academy, which firmness. He also called for solu- “And once disturbances occur, NEW DELHI: A National Lok court, all 24 high courts and Adalats should not be allowed consists of several Nobel lau- tions to prevent misuse of social they must be tackled with the Adalat, held simultaneously in all the district and sub-district to be used by unscrupulous ele- reates and eminent scientists media. utmost firmness and speed, with- the Supreme Court and courts courts of the country. ments, who defraud people. of the world,” the Jawaharlal “Resurgence of terrorist groups, out prejudice, fear or favour,” he all over the country, yesterday Till around 8pm, as many as Of the 39 lakh cases that were Nehru Centre for Advanced particularly Lashkar-e-Taiba, and said, adding the states have the settled over 35 lakh cases con- 35,10,390 cases had been settled taken up by different Lok Adalats Scientific Research, where increased infiltration attempts call responsibility to ensure firm han- cerning accident claims, mat- and more were coming up, accord- all over the country, 7,94,484 were Rao is the founder-president, for heightened vigil and coordina- dling of communal situations. “I rimonial disputes, dud cheques ing to figures from the apex court. in Madhya Pradesh, 5,66,102 in said. Rao is chairman of the tion by our security forces. There expect all state DGPs to discharge and traffic fines, among others, In the Supreme Court, out of the Maharashtra, and about four Scientific Advisory Council to is also likelihood of attempts to dis- this responsibility fully,” he said. in a single day. 107 cases that were taken up for lakh cases each in Uttar Pradesh Prime Minister Manmohan rupt the forthcoming Lok Sabha Referring to the misuse of The mammoth exercise was amicable settlement by three and Tamil Nadu. Three lakh cases Singh since 2005 in addi- and assembly elections,” he said. social media to fan violence dur- undertaken in the day-long courts, 51 cases were settled. were before the courts in Delhi, tion to being the national The prime minister stressed ing Muzaffarnagar riots, the Adalat, inaugurated by Chief Inaugurating the National Lok of which 273,000 were related to research professor. that security forces need to be prime minister said there was Justice P Sathasivam, to deal Adalat, Sathasivam had said that dud cheques. careful and measured in their a need to find creative solutions with 39 lakh pending cases relat- the main object of the adalat was Nalsa Chairman Justice G S Dhanush ballistic response to militant attacks and which do not unreasonably curb ing to motor accident claims, to ensure speedy justice to liti- Singhvi, who had initiated the law and order disturbances. the freedom of expression. matrimonial disputes, labour gants and make sure that there move for the convening of the missile tested Referring to terror attacks in Pointing to “declining trend” of disputes, dud cheques, bank were no further appeals. National Lok Adalat, said: “Lok BHUBANESWAR: India Hyderabad, Bangalore, Bodh Gaya Maoist violence over the last few recovery cases, civil suits and He described the resolution of Adalats or mediation is one of successfully tested its and Patna, he said Indian hinter- years, he stressed that operations traffic tickets. disputes through the Lok Adalat the most powerful instruments in nuclear-capable ballistic mis- land remains an active area of against the rebels “should not in This was the first time that as cost-effective, and also provid- speedy justice, which conforms to sile Dhanush from a naval operation for terror outfits while any way affect or disturb the live- cases were taken up simultane- ing easy access to justice. the goals of the preamble of the ship in the Bay of Bengal, urging the skills of intelligence lihood patterns of local people”. ously all over the country for The chief justice urged the constitution.” an official said. Dhanush platforms should be constantly Intelligence Bureau chief Asif settlement. Organised by the presiding judges to ensure that Justice Singhvi favoured early is a naval version of the improved. Ibrahim suggested that foreign National Legal Services Authority parties to the settlement of the resolution of matrimonial dis- nuclear-capable ballistic mis- “However, while dealing with content providers on the inter- and the Supreme Court Legal cases are not intimidated or com- putes either way, so that people sile Prithvi. It has a range of terror cases, care needs to be net be brought within the ambit Services Committee, the Lok promised while arriving at a set- could start their lives afresh. 350km and is capable of car- taken that security forces remain of Indian laws. IANS Adalats took place in the apex tlement. He cautioned that Lok IANS rying a conventional as well as nuclear payload of more than 500kg. It can hit both land and sea-based targets. Aarushi case verdict tomorrow The missile gives the Indian Navy the capability to strike Online services for Andhra NRIs enemy targets with great precision. HYDERABAD: The Andhra The NRIs having valid visa for Pradesh government has going abroad on study or employ- Achuthanandan launched a project to collect data- ment can register by filling a form base of Non-Resident Indians online. The government will issue hits back from the state and to provide a certificate 30 days after the sub- KOZHIKODE: Even as them some online services. mission of the form. The user can Saritha Nair, the main NRIs can now apply online for have access to services offered by accused in what has come to authentication of educational certif- the NRI department and can also be called the solar scam in icates and for attestation of other register his grievances. Kerala, has filed a complaint certificates/documents through The department also proposed against V S Achuthanandan, the web portal www.apnri.ap.gov. to link the website with the pass- leader of the opposition in the in. This will provide a big relief to port and Protector of Emigrants Kerala assembly, and three those who had to stand in queues database, and the data so collected others, the latter hit back to get the work done at the NRI will be used for policy interven- at her. Responding to que- department in state secretariat. tions and also for tracking the ries here after news surfaced Minister in-charge of NRI illegal migrants. that Nair filed a complaint Affairs D Sridhar Babu said that A help desk will be established against Achuthanandan for the applicant on the date of his at the Hyderabad airport and speaking ill of her, the veteran preference may physically appear with the data base with passport Communist said: “I am least before the officer concerned for portal linkage, the illegal migrant bothered by the complaint authentication of the documents. can be identified. because all through I have The government has launched Sridhar Babu said the Overseas fought many cases.” The solar a pilot project for management of Indians affairs ministry had panel scam has been making information/application system of desired that the state govern- headlines in Kerala since June NRI affairs on migration profil- ment create database of overseas 3, when Nair was arrested. A file picture of Nupur Talwar, mother and alleged murderer of 14-year-old Aarushi, is escorted from the Dasna ing and to provide online services. Indians hailing from the state on Two weeks later, her live-in jail to Ghaziabad Court, 40km from New Delhi. One of the country’s most sensational criminal trials comes to This project covers five districts migration/immigration profiling partner Radhakrishnan was a close tomorrow when a dentist couple will learn if they are to be convicted of killing their daughter in 2008. of Adilabad, Kadapa, Karimnagar, in order to address their issues also taken into custody. Nizamabad and West Godavari more effectively. AGENCIES with headquarters in Hyderabad IANS

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PRAYER TIME Twitter toughens   encryption to News in Numbers OutlookCHART: 1 103 Fajr (Dawn) 4:37 thwart online 3 Shorook (Sunrise) 5:57 Zuhr (Noon) 11:20 snooping Asr (Afternoon) 2:23 SAN FRANCISCO: Twitter Maghrib (Sunset) 4:45 yesterday announced it has Isha (Night) 6:15 toughened the encryption of traffic at the globally popular one-to-many messaging service to thwart online snooping. WEATHER Twitter followed in the foot- steps of Google and Facebook, Weather adding a layer of security called Today Monday Tuesday Conditions: Perfect Forward Secrecy to pro- Besides high mobile penetration, the successful deployment of Partly cloudy Partly cloudy Partly cloudy tect data that users would like content-rich applications on mobile, such as Mobile TV, has been Party cloudy - kept from prying eyes. fine. “On top of the usual confiden- a further major contributor to new media exploitation. Different tiality and integrity properties of High: 28° High: 26° High: 27° HTTPS, Forward Secrecy adds a technologies are co-existing for the delivery of audiovisual content, Low: 25° Low: 21° Low: 18° new property,” Twitter explained including 3G (and its upgrade path to LTE) and mobile broadcasting in a blog post. “If an adversary is currently recording all Twitter technologies including DVB-H, the leading technology in the region. In users’ encrypted traffic, and they fact, the Middle East has been a leader in Mobile TV development with the DOHA - SUN & SEA later crack or steal Twitter’s pri- vate keys, they should not be able recent launch of services in Iraq and the award of the Mobile TV licence in SUN TIDE SEA to use those keys to decrypt the SUNRISE | SUNSET HIGH | LOW WIND recorded traffic.” the UAE, with further developments also taking place in Libya and Qatar. The non-profit Electronic 05:57 16:45 09:00 & 21:00 00:45 & 17:15 03-12 KT Frontier Foundation is among online rights champions who THE REGION TODAY TOMORROW Mobile subscription projections for the advocate for this kind of added HI/LO WEATHER HI/LO WEATHER protection on personal Internet Arab Region, 2007- 2013 (m) traffic, according to San MUSCAT 26/20 Partly cloudy 27/21 Partly cloudy Francisco-based Twitter. KUWAIT 24/16 Partly cloudy 25/16 Partly cloudy “We are writing this not just to discuss an interesting piece of BAHRAIN 24/18 Thunderstorm 24/20 Chance of storm technology, but to present what we SANAA 22/08 Thunderstorm 22/06 Partly cloudy believe should be the new normal RIYADH 25/12 Clear 27/13 Clear for web service owners,” Twitter DUBAI 25/21 Clear 25/22 Clear said of the announcement. BAGHDAD 21/12 Partly cloudy 21/13 Partly cloudy “A year and a half ago, Twitter was first served completely over THE WORLD TODAY TOMORROW HTTPS,” the company added. HI/LO WEATHER HI/LO WEATHER “Since then, it has become clearer and clearer how important that ATHENS 19/12 Partly cloudy 17/12 Partly cloudy step was to protecting our users’ WASHINGTON 11/02 Chance of rain 10/05 Partly cloudy privacy.” SYDNEY 22/13 Chance of rain 21/12 Chance of rain US Internet titans whose busi- nesses are based on maintaining LONDON 10/03 Chance of rain 08/02 Partly cloudy the trust of users have been kept PARIS 08/03 Partly cloudy 08/03 Partly cloudy to strengthen privacy protection ISTANBUL 18/11 Mostly cloudy 16/09 Chance of rain in the wake of disclosures of broad MANILA 32/24 Mostly cloudy 31/24 Partly cloudy scale cyber spying by the National DHAKA 26/17 Clear 27/18 Mostly cloudy Security Agency. DELHI 28/16 Clear 29/14 Clear AFP Source : https://www.fas.org ISLAMABAD 25/09 Clear 26/08 Clear

‘Ludicrous’ Google glasses 2.0 car raises Singapore, Hong Kong films eyebrows at auto show shine at Chinese ‘Oscars’ LOS ANGELES: One TAIPEI: Singaporean family for Singaporean cinema. I hope this 2006 after judges criticised his movie car among the hun- drama Ilo Ilo was the surprise win- award will encourage more young I Don’t Want To Sleep Alone during the dreds on display at ner of the coveted best feature film directors in Singapore.” nomination process. Malaysia-born, the LA Auto Show has prize at the Golden Horse Awards The Grandmaster, inspired by the Singapore-based Yeo Yann Yann took generated a flurry of in Taiwan yesterday while kung life of Yip Man, the mentor of legen- the best supporting actress statuette headlines — not all of fu epic The Grandmaster scooped dary kung fu star Bruce Lee, collected for playing a mother juggling work them complimentary. the most gongs at the Chinese- five awards after being nominated in and family in Ilo Ilo. Despite its whopping language “Oscars”. 11 categories — including best actress “This is a fantastic journey for me $1.1m price tag, the Ilo Ilo — director Anthony Chen’s for Zhang Ziyi, best cinematography to attend the Golden Horse cere- bright blue Youabian first feature-length film — was the and best visual effects. mony in Taiwan. I want to thank the Puma has been called dark horse for the award, beating “Shooting The Grandmaster was director and my family in Malaysia. everything from “mon- off stiff competition from Hong a long and hard but blissful jour- I hope my fantastic journey will con- strosity” to “ludicrous” Kong director Wong Kar-wai’s The ney and I want to thank the mas- tinue,” said Yeo, who was six months’ and “insane”. Grandmaster, Johnnie To’s Drug War, ters before and behind the screen,” pregnant during filming. The huge vehicle Jia Zhangke’s A Touch of Sin and Tsai said an emotional Zhang, the star of Veteran Chinese performer Li is difficult to miss, Ming-liang’s Stray Dogs. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Xuejian was awarded best support- near one of the main Chen also scooped the best new Memoirs of a Geisha. ing actor for his role as a national- entrances to the con- director and best original screenplay Taiwan’s Lee Kang-sheng beat off ist Kuomintang party official in the vention centre. prizes for his film, based on his own competition from Tony Leung Chiu- historical drama Back to 1942. The 10-day show experiences, which tells the story of wai and Tony Leung Ka-fai to win Chinese director Jia Zhangke’s began on Friday. “$1.1m a Filipina maid who befriends the best actor for his role as the father of sensitive social drama A Touch of monstrosity turns troubled son of the Singaporean fam- a homeless family living on the mar- Sin, which has reportedly been heads on showroom ily she works for. gins of society in Stray Dogs. banned in China, collected the best floor,” headlined the LA “We come from a small country The film’s Malaysian-born, Taiwan- film editing and best original film Times in its assessment, and this film probably has the small- based director Tsai Ming-liang bagged score awards, while the best action calling the Hummer- est scale and budget and I never the best director award two months choreography title went to action sized vehicle “flat-out expected to win,” Chen said after after Stray Dogs won the new Grand hero Jackie Chan for CZ12. bizarre”. Julian Moreno Beltran, the CEO of Droiders, wearing a prototype of accepting the best film award from Jury Prize at the 70th Venice film fes- Nearly 40 films were nominated Autoblog.com called new ‘Google Glasses 2.0’ during its presentation in Murcia, south- acclaimed directors Ang Lee and tival. “I didn’t expect to win. I think in the 50th edition of the Golden it “weird-looking,” and eastern Spain, yesterday. Beltran said the ‘Google Glasses 2.0’ will Hou Hsiao-hsien — the first time a it could only happen in Taiwan that a Horse Film Awards, which are styled quoted its maker as Singaporean film has won the prize. Malaysian Chinese who argued with on the US Academy Awards but are feature a more powerfull processor than the previous version, an ear- describing it simply as “I want to thank Ang Lee and the Golden Horse (organisers) can win decided by a jury in a similar way to phone able to recognise the user’s voice by means of larynx vibration a “pleasure vehicle”. the judges for letting the Chinese- the award,” Tsai said. the Cannes film festival. This year’s “Larger Than Life as well as a camera to analyse the eye and identify the owner of the speaking world see Singaporean Tsai had threatened to “forever jury was chaired by Oscar-winning Youabian Puma Is device, among other improvements. The glasses are expected to go movies and opening a new chapter boycott” the Golden Horse Awards in director Ang Lee. AFP Ludicrous Whichever on sale from summer 2014 for around €400 and €500. Way You See It,” added carscoops.com. The car, described as “like a cross-between a sports car and a heavily No ocean required, man-made surf parks are here to stay armoured tank” by the LA Times, is huge, at nearly 8 feet wide and NEW HAMPSHIRE: A surfer drops Surf parks have been around for decades, but to make surfing part of the Olympic Games. The most commonly used surf park wave over 20 feet long, sit- down the face of a crashing swell, crouches a surge in the sport’s appeal and rapid advances “Without man-made surfing waves, our designs are modeled on standing river waves, ting on outsize wheels low and stalls his board into the tube, in wave-making technology have triggered new Olympic surfing dream would be just that - a where thousands of gallons of water are pro- 44 inches tall and 21 achieving the sport’s ultimate goal of a ride construction in unlikely places such as South dream,” he said, adding that reliable, identical pelled against an immobile object to create a inches wide. inside the barrel. Dakota, Quebec, Sweden and Russia. waves, virtually impossible to find in nature, stationary curl. AFP But instead of being on a sunlit beach in Using proprietary designs meant to emu- are needed to insure fair judging in Olympic Although less so than in the past, the cost Hawaii or southern California, this surfer is late waves formed in nature, companies like competition. of building an artificial wave system is still inside a glass-and-concrete building in New American Wave Machines, Weber Wave Pools, Once seen as a fringe sport, surfing now substantial. A standing wave system like the Hampshire — at America’s newest surf park, Waveloch and others are racing to bring the has around 35 million enthusiasts worldwide. one in New Hampshire costs about $3 million an hour’s drive from the Atlantic. ocean sport to the landlocked masses. It is a roughly $6bn retail industry in the to$6 million, while a traveling, or ocean wave, “Part of our mission is to bring surfing Fernando Aguerre, head of the International United States, according to the Surf Industry system is much more expensive. everywhere, including where there isn’t an Surfing Association (ISA), said their efforts Manufacturers Association. Despite the surf park industry’s efforts to ocean,” said Bruce McFarland, president of could be a big boost for surfing and businesses Surfers, desperate for a good wave, have mimic real surf, McFarland, whose company American Wave Machines. The company’s built around it. “Surf parks will give the sought out wind swells on the Great Lakes is now also building a traveling wave park in SurfStream wave system is being used at the opportunity to learn to ride waves in a safe and tried surfing on river rapids and in the Russia using his PerfectSwell technology, said Surfs Up New Hampshire park in Nashua, way to millions of people around the world,” wake of passing barges on the Houston Ship artificial waves will always have their limits. which is set to open in December. he explained, adding it could also help ISA Channel in Texas. REUTERS Sunday 24 November 2013 20 Moharram 1435 Volume 18 Number 5893 Price: QR2

www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 44557741 | Advertising: 44557837 / 44557780 EU states seek Economy Minister seeks roadmap to boost trade ISTANBUL: The Minister of Economy and Trade H E Sheikh Ahmed bin Jassim bin Mohamed Al Thani has called flexibility in on countries participating in the 4th Bosphorus Summit organised by the International Cooperation Platform to apply more efforts to develop a budget talks roadmap for economic coop- eration based on transparency and freedom of information exchange. France, Italy, Spain urge guidelines Addressing the Summit which was held in the Turkish BRUSSELS: France, Italy and time, Chancellor Angela Merkel city of Istanbul, the Minister Spain sought to maximise the has signalled her intention to of Economy said this roadmap flexibility of European Union support a national minimum would create a healthy global budget-deficit rules to boost wage as a concession to the Social economic environment based on their economies as northern Democrats, the party she defeated mutual trust coupled with an euro-area countries saw little in an election on September 22 effective mechanism to remove need for stimulus. and with which she is trying to all barriers to the flow of goods The growth-versus-austerity form a coalition. and services between countries. debate was renewed at a meeting The move would help spur This, Sheikh Ahmed said, is of finance ministers in Brussels on domestic demand in Germany, the ideal way to expand trade Friday, as euro-area governments which the EU and southern euro- and investment between coun- attempted to coordinate budget area nations have said is needed tries in the world, and enable policy for 2014 using powers that to rebalance the bloc’s economy by businessmen to carry out the were introduced earlier this year boosting exports from struggling role assigned to them in real- as part of their response to a debt countries. ising sustainable develop- crisis now in its fifth year. “It’s important, even fun- ment and achieving its noble “No, no, no,” Italian Finance damental, to reduce deficits,” objectives. The Minister of Economy and Trade H E Sheikh Ahmed bin Jassim bin Mohamed Al Thani with delegates during Minister Fabrizio Saccomanni French Finance Minister Pierre The Minister underlined the the 4th Bosphorus Summit in the Turkish capital of Istanbul. told reporters when asked Moscovici said. “But we also have importance of giving an oppor- whether his government would to give more muscle to growth in tunity for entrepreneurs from modify its budget. “Reducing the Europe.” He called for “support new investors in the private This method, he said, could avenues of potential partnership The meet convened for the debt load is also our goal, and we for internal demand in countries sector by providing adequate help in attaining added value to in construction, real estate, con- fourth time in Istanbul, with managed that both with fiscal with external surpluses.” care and guidance, training and the economies of countries as tracting and the health sector, the attendance of high ranking policies by reducing the shortfalls With EU rules stipulating that funding, particularly through well as for the world economy. as the Mena region takes on a representatives from over 55 and with additional measures that countries must not have deficits small and medium enterprises. The Summit focused on key geo-strategic role. countries. QNA they have now fully understood.” of more than 3 percent of gross National budgets are under domestic product and debt of no pressure after the euro zone’s more than 60 percent of GDP, nascent economic recovery nearly governments have been under ground to a halt in the third added scrutiny to show that their quarter. budgets for 2014 would keep them Muntajat: Exports to hit 23m tonnes per year by 2020 The 17-nation economy on track to meet those targets. expanded 0.1 percent, after 0.3 Last week the European DOHA: Qatar Chemical and and petrochemical market. Chief joined forces to promote Qatar’s value chains in future growth percent growth in the second Commission, the EU’s executive Petrochemical Marketing Executive Officer of Muntajat, chemical and petrochemical strategies. Muntajat recently quarter, with unemployment at a arm, said that without changes and Distribution Company Abdulrahman Ali Al Abdulla, industry at the Gulf region’s announced that it has chosen record 12.2 percent and inflation to draft spending plans Italy (Muntajat) says planned invest- said: “Following the positive global largest industry event, the Gulf The Hague in The Netherlands as at its lowest level in four years. would miss its target to reduce ments in Qatar’s chemical and outlook on market demand and Petrochemicals & Chemicals the location for its international The European Central Bank is its debt and Spain may miss its petrochemical industry will consumption patterns, Muntajat Association (GPCA) Annual marketing company, Muntajat BV, considering combating the tor- deficit target because of exces- further increase the country’s plans to expand its portfolio of Forum, now in its eighth edition, which plans to establish up to 36 por by pushing interest rates sively favorable growth assump- export portfolio to 23 million products that will better serve which was held from November offices in key markets worldwide into negative territory for the tions. While the EU cannot veto tonnes per year by 2020, from the needs of worldwide customers. 19 to 21 in Dubai. and will have approximately 150 first time. national budgets, today’s meeting 10 million tonnes as of 2013. Our developing global network Recognised as the flagship employees. Germany remains largely was intended to bring peer pres- A release from Muntajat says of offices and advanced supply event of the petrochemical and Since starting its operations in untouched by the slowdown, with sure to bear. as demand for chemicals and chain programme will ensure chemical industry in the Middle February, Muntajat has migrated figures Friday showing business Saccomanni’s remarks echoed petrochemicals continue to rise, that we offer world-class logisti- East, the GPCA Annual Forum the marketing, sales and distri- confidence surged to the highest those of Italian Prime Minister the Gulf petrochemicals indus- cal support as well as high-quality brought industry leaders from bution activities of 90 percent of level in more than 1 1/2 years. Enrico Letta. “On the European try continues to be the largest products.” more than 39 countries. chemicals, polymers and fertilis- That’s the underlying reason front, for some ayatollahs of rigor, producer and exporter in the Muntajat QJSC, and six of This year’s forum main theme ers produced in Qatar, and is on why the Germans don’t see any this is never enough,” Letta said world, accounting for 11 percent Qatar’s leading chemical and and discussions revolved around its way to complete the full migra- need for stimulus. At the same in Rome. WP-BLOOMBERG of the $600bn global chemical petrochemical producing entities the role of innovation and industry tion soon. QNA

Assistant QTA promotes MICE market prosecutors at Barcelona trade show visit QFMA DOHA: Qatar Tourism At the world’s leading MICE Authority (QTA) led a delega- and business trade show, Qatar DOHA: Qatar Financial tion of sixteen ministries, com- was represented by the Ministry Markets Authority (QFMA) panies and organisations to of Culture, Arts and Heritage, has received a group of trainee EIBTM, the Global Meetings & Katara, Qatar Museums assistant prosecutors as part of Events Expo, the leading global Authority (QMA), Qatar MICE the fourth compulsory training event for the meeting, incentive, Development Institute (QMDI), course, organised by the Legal conferences, events (MICE) Qatar National Convention and Judicial Studies Center at and business travel industry. Centre (QNCC), and Qatar the Ministry of Justice, for the EIBTM took place at the Fira Airways, in addition to a range purpose of becoming famil- Gran Via conference centre in of tour operators and hotels: iar with the nature of QFMA’s Barcelona, Spain from November Gulf Adventures Tourism, work and responsibilities in the 19 to 21, gathering 15,000 MICE Regency Travel & Tours, Qatar control and supervision areas. industry professional from International Adventures, Fraser The visit covers the practical around the world. Suites Doha, Sharq Village & Spa, side of the compulsory training An official of Milaha (Qatar Navigation) receiving an award at the Seatrade Middle East and Indian Subcontinent Participation at EIBTM is one The Ritz-Carlton Doha, Crown course to get acquainted with the Awards 2013 in Dubai. of QTA’s many initiatives to posi- Plaza Doha — The Business Park, nature of the functioning of the tion and promote Qatar as a lead- InterContinental Doha — The QFMA and its role in strength- ing world-class events destination City, Doha Marriott Hotel, and ening the Qatari capital market for the MICE sector. Renaissance Doha City Center through regulation and super- Milaha wins big at Seatrade Middle East awards “Qatar is unique as it offers Hotel. vision. The delegation met a not only the excitement of Doha Staged annually in Barcelona, number of officials in the QFMA, DOHA: Milaha (Qatar dinner attended by more than who have made exceptional con- as a city destination, but also the EIBTM is the leading global who presented QFMA’s objectives. Navigation) has received two 800 leaders and senior executives tributions to the industry in the charm that can only be found in event for the meetings, incen- The presentation also included major accolades at the recent from the regions maritime sector, region and have dominated the an authentic Middle East setting. tives, events and business travel a highlight of QFMA’s legislations, Seatrade Middle East and according to a press release the headlines. In addition, Halul “A combination of world industry. The event delivers in particular Dispute Settlement Indian Subcontinent Awards company issued here on Saturday. Offshore Services Company, a class hotels, a prime convention three days of focused access to a Regulation, procedures of 2013 held in Dubai, the UAE Milaha’s President & CEO, wholly-owned Milaha subsidi- center and excellent accessibil- dynamic business environment, Disciplinary Committee and the recently. Khalifa Ali Al Hetmi, received ary, took home the "Marine & ity makes Qatar an ideal des- thought provoking professional procedures followed before the Known as the "Oscars" of the the "Seatrade Outstanding Offshore Services Award" to com- tination for MICE travel,” said education and business networks Appeals Committee in the QFMA. maritime world, the awards were Achievement Award", a special plete a strong showing by Milaha. Hamad Al Abdan, QTA Director for all attendees. THE PENINSULA presented at a glittering gala award presented to individuals QNA of Exhibitions. THE PENINSULA SUNDAY 24 NOVEMBER 2013 18 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS

QDB holds Bashir seeks reforms to workshop for keep inflation in check partner banks DOHA: Qatar Development Bank (QDB) has organised the Experts meet to find solutions for battered economy second annual workshop for partner banks of Al Dhameen KHARTOUM: Sudan’s also risen since September. Over programme, which is a partial President Omar Hassan Al the past week, a politically explo- guarantee scheme of QDB. Bashir yesterday called for a sive shortage of bread occurred This year, QDB cooperated with battle against inflation as part when the lack of foreign exchange International Faculty of Finance of efforts to reform the coun- limited wheat imports. (IFF), and emphasis was on cus- try’s indebted, cash-starved and The bread supply has since tomer relations managers and sanctions-hit economy. improved, after Vice President Ali credit analysts of the Al Dhameen “We must fight high market Osman Taha ordered officials to programme partner banks as they prices which affect the economy ensure that enough wheat reaches work directly with the customers. and the people,” he said in a the flour mills. QDB held the first work- speech opening a two-day forum In his speech to about 500 peo- shop in 2012 in cooperation of economic experts, politicians, ple, Bashir called for a study of with the International Finance business leaders and others seek- the country’s declining produc- Corporation (IFC), and it was ing solutions to the economic tivity, and urged more balanced limited to senior officials and troubles. development among the coun- members of the higher manage- The government-organised try’s regions. Rebels are fighting ment of a wide range of Qatari gathering follows a similar forum in South Kordofan and Blue Nile banks. last year, and critics predicted lit- states, as well as in the Darfur The workshop lasted for two tle would be accomplished. region, fuelled by complaints of days, in which the programme “The economic situation is get- Sudanese President Omar Hassan economic and political neglect. presented a comprehensive over- ting worse,” Khalid Tijani, chief Al Bashir during the second “We need proposals to increase view of the best practices in the editor of the weekly economic Economic Forum in the capital living standards and reduce pov- field of offering financial services newspaper Elaff, said ahead of Khartoum yesterday. erty,” said Bashir, who took power to small and medium enterprises the conference. in a 1989 Islamist-backed coup. The Group Head of Human Resources at Barwa Bank, Fawziya Al Abdulla, worldwide, and the best methods Khartoum lost billions of dol- In September, the government Criticism of his regime has to adapt those practices to suit after receiving the Qatar Businesswomen Awards 2013. lars in export earnings when slashed fuel subsidies and uni- mounted since the September the local market conditions. South Sudan became independ- fied its multiple foreign exchange crackdown. “We are delighted to hold this ent in 2011, taking with it most rates, measures recommended by Prominent reformers within workshop, which offers training of Sudan’s oil production. the International Monetary Fund. his National Congress Party and consultation for the second Since then the government The resulting jump of more announced they would create a consecutive year to Qatar’s banks has struggled with a shortage of than 60 percent in the retail price new political party, while Tijani Barwa Bank’s Fawziya and other financial institutions to hard currency and revenue as of fuel drove thousands into the and a group of scholars formed a develop their abilities and poten- the pound sank in value on the streets in protest. National Movement for Change. tials to finance small and medium widely used black market and Security forces are believed to The scholars’ movement said Al Abdulla wins Qatar enterprises, and help the banks inflation soared. The local cur- have killed more than 200 demon- it hoped to lead a dialogue on understand the needs of this sec- rency has lost almost 50 percent strators, Amnesty International alternatives to the country’s tor and meet them according to of its value on the black market said, but authorities reported a “failed” political system. “Without the highest international stand- over the past two years. Inflation toll of less than half that. addressing the political problem Businesswomen Award ards,” said Abdul Aziz bin Nasser officially reached 40 percent last The price of bread, a staple food you can’t solve this economic situ- Al Khalifa, QDB’s CEO. month. for residents of Sudan’s cities, has ation,” Tijani said. AFP DOHA: The Group Head of Nine top Qatari busi- Under Al Dhameen pro- Human Resources at Barwa ness and professional women gramme, the partner bank can Bank, Fawziya Al Abdulla, has were recognised by the Qatar finance a start-up or existing won a prestigious award in Businesswomen Association project and QDB guarantees up to the Innovation category at the (QBWA) during the Qatar 85 percent of the finance amount Total to support QF research symposium Qatar Businesswomen Awards Businesswomen award ceremony to the partner bank. for 2013. held under H H Sheikha Moza The idea is to cover a percent- DOHA: Total will support and petrochemicals (catalysis for to Qatar Petroleum (QP) booth, The Qatar Businesswomen bint Nasser, Chairperson of the age of credit risks of the financ- the Qatar Foundation Annual CO2 conversion). Another major a partner in oil and gas and in Awards identify and pay tribute Qatar Foundation for Education, ing institution to encourage them Research conference and be focus on Total’s booth will be solar research. TRC-Q runs in-house to Qatari women who contribute Science and Community to finance projects in the small exhibitor at the Qatar National energy. Total, is stepping up its projects and joins efforts with QP to Qatar’s society and economy Development. and medium enterprises space Convention Centre on November ongoing investment in solar power. and others. through their significant pro- “Qatar International that are viable but cannot offer 24 and 25. For nearly 30 years, specialists Total and QP signed a research fessional or entrepreneurial Businesswomen Forum plays an collateral security or accounting As the focus of the conference at Total and in its subsidiaries frame agreement to develop achievements. important role in opening new records to prove their eligibility is pressing on research challenges, have progressed across the pho- joint research programmes in CEO of Bawa Bank, Steve horizons for businesswomen in for financing. Total and particularly the Total tovoltaic solar energy chain, fos- November 2011 and it was fol- Troop, said: “As a fast-growing Qatar, and receiving this award This initiative comes within the Research Center – Qatar (TRC- tering the emergence of a reliable, lowed in May 2012 by the signing business, we are keen to support, is a great honour. I’m extremely QDB’s commitment to support Q) will showcase expertise and efficient and cost-effective tech- between QP and Total of a spe- attract and retain talent that con- lucky to have a career that I the sustainable development of research achievements in differ- nology. In 2011, by becoming the cific research agreement on acid tributes to our business and we’re enjoy and find highly rewarding Qatar’s private sector by helping ent fields: carbonate reservoirs majority shareholder of SunPower, stimulation and in February 2013 very proud that Fawziya received and I hope Arab women are able the partner banks develop their (geochemistry, acid stimulation of the world’s third-ranked solar by the signing between QP, Total this award. Qatar is dedicated to to strengthen their leadership abilities in the field of offering wells), metrology (smart meter- energy operator, Total has given and Q-Analytica of another spe- the empowerment of women and positions and realise the possi- financial services to small and ing of hydrocarbons production, new impetus to its development. cific research agreement on geo- as a local bank we want to show bilities that are open to them” Al medium enterprises. measurement of the air quality) Total booth will be located next chemistry. THE PENINSULA our full support for this.” Abdulla said. THE PENINSULA THE PENINSULA

QE average daily trading volume hits QR650m BY BASHER KAHLOUT increase in the prices of shares of 23 compa- nies, and decrease in the prices of shares of he stock market performance this another 18 companies, while the share price week was full of surprises but was not of Doha Bank remained stable at a price of Ttaken into account by a lot of dealers QR56.8 since the previous week. and market observers. The average volume Dlala Holding’s share prices witnessed the of daily trading was close to QR650m, but on highest rise of 9.51 percent, despite company Wednesday reached at QR1bn. This sudden reported a loss year. This was followed by the jump was not because of movements made share price rise of Medicare by 9.44 percent by liquidity providers or just ordinary cus- to QR53.9, price rise of shares of Investors tomers, but rather an outcome of big deals partner of Barwa and Vodafone turning into by 8.53 percent to QR38.53, while share price carried by foreign investors. a net profit earning company after recover- of Barwa rose by 8 percent to QR29.6. The Understandably some of them might have ing its losses, in light of the third quarter price of Vodafone shares rose by 7.76 percent been done in accordance with advance pay- results disclosed recently, also affected the to QR10.56, share price of Cinema by 3.49 ment mechanisms creating confusion in the trading prices of some stocks. percent, and the share price of Mazaya by trading system and forcing managers to sus- Moreover, the Islamic Holding Group dec- 3.2 percent. pend trading at the exchange on Tuesday. laration of appointment to offer shares of Shares of Islamic Holding Group was the The index rose strongly on Sunday and those who retarded to pay the value of the highest loser by 3.15 percent, followed by Monday, while dropped on Wednesday and increase in capital, as well as other news con- Doha Insurance which dropped by 2.70 per- Thursday, because speculators sold the stocks cerning Ooredoo, Salam International, Gulf cent. The share price of Gulf International of big companies, especially the leading Qatar International and Ezdan. was down by 1.86 percent. Widam share industries and Qatar National Bank (QNB) The rise of the benchmark and the indices prices dropped by 1.75 percent; the shares realising that profits of these companies will of all-shares were resulted from the rise in of Al Mannai Corp were down by 1.69 per- go down. prices of six sector shares. Where the Real cent, and shares of Islamic Insurance fell by In total, the index surged by about 70 Estate Sector index prices rose by 4.93 per- 1.55 percent. points compared with the previous week cent, and share prices of goods and services Concerning liquidity, despite trading being reaching to 10,283 points. The index of all- sector increased by 1.39 percent, transport restricted to only four days, the total trading shares, besides share indices of six sectors, sector index by 1.17 percent, telecommuni- volume has increased by 37.5 percent, to the added QR3.3bn to the stocks raising the cations sector by 0.91 percent, share price level of QR2.5963bn, and the average of daily market capitalisation to QR553bn. of industries sector 0.34 percent, the bank- trading increased to QR649m, compared The week witnessed some important ing sector index was up 0.13 percent, while with QR377.8m in the previous week. Total developments in the Qatari market such the price of shares of the insurance sector trading on shares of the top six companies as the sale of properties worth QR20bn by dropped by 0.67 percent. reached at about QR1.5242bn, which is 58.7 Barwa Real Estate to Qatari Diar, a strategic The rise of indexes was resulted from the percent of the total. THE PENINSULA Commercial Bank’s new mobile banking app a major hit DOHA: Commercial Bank’s announced another campaign December 28. The new app schools and health clubs, as well recently launched mobile offering customers the chance offers convenient banking as Qatar Cool. banking application has to win a travel voucher for solutions to support day-to- In May 2013, Commercial become a hit with custom- QR20,000 from Regency Travel day transactions online includ- Bank announced a campaign ers with its improved digital and Tours or tickets to attend ing local and international that will run until December banking experience and cut- the Commercial Bank Qatar money transfers, Ooredoo and 2014, offering two free online ting edge design with almost Masters 2014 when they make Kahramaa bill payments as well international transfers each 40,000 downloads to date. a payment or a money transfer as credit card payments. month for customers who pay In celebration of the new app’s using the new app. It also supports customers their phone or Kahramaa bills success, Commercial Bank has This campaign will run till in paying bills for a variety of online. THE PENINSULA SUNDAY 24 NOVEMBER 2013 BUSINESS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 19 US stores in cut-throat fight to lure shoppers Stakes are high for many retailers as consumers may spend $600bn during pinnacle of shopping season

WASHINGTON: Black Friday, “We expect a heightened sense Bowl and we plan to win,” said the pinnacle of the US shopping of urgency among customers,” she chief marketing officer Duncan year, comes on a Thursday this added. Mac Naughton. year. And even earlier. Black Friday got its name More than ever before, the bat- Desperate for consumer bucks, from the shopping frenzy that tle will take place both online and US chain stores, some fighting for accompanied early store openings in stores. Battered by the suc- survival, are upping the ante this and sharp discounts on popular cess of Amazon, which only sells holiday shopping season with cut- merchandise on the day after over the Internet, the brick-and- throat discounts offered earlier Thanksgiving — which falls on mortar retailers are now online than ever, and ever-longer open- the fourth Thursday of November. in force and offering their deals ing hours. But in recent years, some stores however and wherever consumers The prize is not massive prof- moved their openings back to the will take them. its. It is just getting a big enough evening of Thanksgiving, eroding Electronics retailer Best Buy piece of the $600bn consumers what some saw as the sanctity of is promising to discount its way could spend to survive unfazed. a national holiday, for both shop- through Christmas, December Giants like Walmart, Target pers and employees. 25, and will refund the difference and Best Buy, and online goliath Everyone is joining the fray this if someone pays more for items Amazon, are squaring off with year, opening their doors from whose prices were cut again deals launched a week before tra- late afternoon on Thanksgiving afterwards. ditional start of the Thanksgiving- day, November 28, and promis- “We need to be in the game. Christmas shopping season. ing to stay open all night and So that’s what we’re going to do,” Eyes are particularly on two throughout Friday. said chief executive Hubert Joly. department store chains that Going to the extreme, Sear’s The stakes are highest for JC once ruled the holiday market Kmart chain will open at 6am on Penney and Sears. Penney, the — Sears and JC Penney — both Thanksgiving day, and remain 1,100-store chain that has been wrestling for their corporate lives. open for 41 hours straight. gasping to survive, stayed shut on A worker gathers items for delivery from the warehouse floor at Amazon’s distribution centre in Phoenix yesterday. “It’s going to be a very intense Underscoring the tenacious Thanksgiving day last year and shopping season,” with one less fight for shoppers, some retailers lost out hugely. weekend than last year between are already delivering their ultra- This year, they are not mak- week for Sears stores and by five mostly on the willingness of con- spenders cautious, Christopher the two big holidays, said Chris discounts a week ahead. ing the same mistake. The stores days for Kmart. sumers to open their wallets said. “They will buy a bit of lux- Christopher, director of consumer Walmart upped the ante by will open at 8pm on Thursday and “Black Friday itself won’t be wider. ury,” he said, but would also cut markets research at IHS Global kicking off its sales on November stay open through Friday night. a determinant of success,” said IHS’s Christopher forecast back in other areas to do so. Insight. 22, with a list of popular toys and “We are fully prepared to exe- Michael Exstein, a retail industry spending to rise 3.2 percent from “By and large, the consumer Macy’s chief financial officer electronics marked down as much cute our aggressive plans for the specialist at Credit Suisse. last year, for a total of about $600 feels a little bit better,” said Karen Hoguet noted that the as 50 percent. On Black Friday holidays,” chief executive Mike “But clearly, if you are behind billion. Exstein. They are venturing up holiday shopping season will be itself, they will offer a 32 inch Ullman said. after Black Friday, it’s really Flat household incomes and the shopping scale to things they “shorter and more intense” this LED television for just $98. Sears, meanwhile, announced it tough to make it up.” Washington’s political battles want, and not just what they year. “Black Friday is our Super will “move” Black Friday up one Still, the outcome will depend over economic policy will keep need, he added. AFP Sotheby’s chief auctioneer to German minister says no more leave amid investor pressure risks of contagion in eurozone BERLIN: German Finance single currency bloc as a whole, its forecast for the budget surplus NEW YORK: Tobias Meyer, Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble without specifying which country before interest payments for this Sotheby’s chief auctioneer, is said yesterday that there were or countries he was referring to. year. leaving the auction house, the no longer any risks of con- “The euro is stable, financial International lenders are in company said on Friday, just a tagion in the euro zone, and markets are no longer concerned the middle of their latest review week after Sotheby’s recorded Greek Prime Minister Antonis about the future of the euro zone of Greece’s performance on its the highest sale in its history. Samaras stressed his country and there are no risks of conta- reform targets. Posting a budget The departure of Meyer, the did not need a further bailout. gion anymore,” he said at a con- surplus before interest payments worldwide head of contemporary Schaeuble said Greece’s ference organized by German would open the way for Greece to art, comes as Sotheby’s is being achievements in the last 1-1/2 newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung ask for debt relief. pressured by activist investors years, which included better- in Berlin. “I think that this is enough. We including Daniel Loeb to improve than-expected growth and Speaking later at the event, don’t need something else — we its business strategies and earn progress in reducing its deficit, Greece’s Samaras reiterated that don’t need another programme more money for shareholders. merited respect. He also pointed his country did not need a further — we just have to stick by this In a statement, Sotheby’s Chief to the decline in the difference bailout and instead simply needed program,” Samaras said. Executive Officer Bill Ruprecht between yields on German and to fulfill the terms of its existing After more than two months of said that with Meyer’s contract Greek bonds. program. reviewing Greece’s economy, the expiring soon, “we all agreed it He said government crises and Athens has said it will emerge lenders have still not agreed to was time to part ways.” coalition negotiations no longer from a six-year recession next release Greece’s next tranche of “Tobias Meyer is a respected posed contagion risks for the year and has more than doubled bailout funds. REUTERS figure and has been at the centre of signature moments in Sotheby’s history for more than 20 years and we are grateful for all of his Leak halts Iraqi contributions,” Ruprecht said. File picture of auctioneer Tobias Meyer taking bids on a three-piece screen- The announcement of Meyer’s printed ensemble by late designer Gianni Versace during an auction of departure comes after he auc- furnishings and art from his Miami home at Sotheby’s in New York. oilfield output, tioned off Andy Warhol’s “Silver Car Crash” for $104.5m last week. Loeb’s Third Point, which Ruprecht. The company adopted Turkey exports While that helped the auction is the largest shareholder in a poison pill to thwart the move. house have its best sale ever, at Sotheby’s, and other investors A spokeswoman for Loeb did not not affected $380m, it still lagged behind arch have been pushing for change at immediately return a request for rival Christie’s, which earned the 269-year-old auction house. comment. KIRKUK: Oil produc- $691.5m the same week with a Loeb penned a letter to Art industry consultant tion from a major oilfield record-setting Francis Bacon Ruprecht in October criticising Elizabeth Jacoby, who runs BSJ near Iraq’s northern painting. the company’s approach to auc- Fine Art with her mother, said city of Kirkuk was com- The German-born Meyer, 50, tions, private sales and Internet Meyer’s departure did not come pletely halted yesterday was known to jet around the sales, as well as excessive spend- as a complete surprise but called after a pipeline leak, but world to find both sellers and buy- ing and waste at the expense of it significant. exports to Turkey were ers of art and to be able to skill shareholders. Sotheby’s stock slipped nearly not affected, according fully drive up prices with his tim- Loeb, a prominent art collec- 1 percent on Friday to close at to oil officials. ing and sense of humour. tor himself, has suggested that $52.21 but has raced ahead 55 per- The leak occurred in an “I will always cherish my time Ruprecht has not done enough to cent this year, climbing both as ageing section of a pipe- at Sotheby’s and look forward to keep the auction house current the activist investors arrived and line carrying crude from the next chapter in my career,” with growing demand for contem- as wealthy art collectors seemed Bai Hassan oilfield, which Meyer said in the statement porary art. Loeb has offered to poised to buy and sell more mas- produces around 150,000 released by the company. join the board and wants to oust terpieces. REUTERS barrels per day (bpd), to the main crude process- ing facility, officials at the state-run North Oil Company (NOC) said. The output halt did not affect exports via the Brazil awards $9bn airport deals Kirkuk-Ceyhan line, they said. SAO PAULO: Brazil opened over minimum bids as they hope two years to expand Rio’s Galeão “We are working to two of its busiest airports to to cash in on a recent boom in airport before the city hosts the replace the damaged sec- private investors on Friday, Brazilian air travel. 2016 Olympics, sprucing up an tion of the pipeline and awarding $9bn worth of con- It was a welcome victory for underwhelming international expect to resume pro- tracts in a hotly contested auc- President Dilma Rousseff, who gateway to Brazil’s postcard city. duction from Bai Hassan tion as the country overhauls has struggled to restore cred- Brazil’s CCR SA and the oper- within 48 hours,” one oil crowded terminals ahead of ibility with the private sector ators of airports in Zurich and official said. the 2014 World Cup and 2016 as economic growth slumps and Munich edged out builder Queiroz Crude oil flows from the Olympics. investors complain of a heavy- Galvão and Spain’s Ferrovial for OPEC member to Turkey The concessions, in Rio de handed approach to conces- rights to Confins airport in Belo on the Kirkuk-Ceyhan Janeiro and Belo Horizonte, mean sions in the power industry and Horizonte in bidding that lifted pipeline have been repeat- private operators will be running elsewhere. their offer 30 percent. edly disrupted this year the international airports in both “The result of the auction was Airports have been the most due to militant attacks. World Cup host cities next year, exceptional. It proves the coun- appealing aspect of Rousseff’s The bulk of Iraq’s oil but there will be little time for try is on steady footing and it’s plan to privatize some 200bn reais is exported from south- their investments ahead of the attracting great interest from of infrastructure projects, includ- ern terminals. Around tournament in June. foreign investors,” said Wellington ing expansion of Brazil’s notori- a quarter of exports — Local contractors and for- Moreira Franco, Rousseff’s civil ously clogged roads and seaports. just below 400,000 bpd eign airport operators won the aviation secretary. Rousseff pitched her pro- — are pumped through two concessions for a combined Brazilian conglomerate gramme last year as a shot in the the Kirkuk pipeline to 20.8bn reais ($9bn), paying a pre- Odebrecht and Singapore’s arm for an ailing economy. Ceyhan in Turkey. mium of more than 250 percent Changi Airport Group will have REUTERS REUTERS

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The taper on tap, How London housing has sweeteners at ready young people go like rabbits BY JAMES SAFT BY HARRIET WALKER maturity and tolerance of others can stand, believes this further increases pressure on or moving in with a boyfriend or girlfriend young Londoners, because the domestic f you want to know what Janet Yellen will do as Fed hen it came to young before they’ve even developed that very dynamic ends up skewed. People in couples, chair, ignore her congressional testimony and watch Ben people falling in love and maturity and tolerance. They are either he says, tend to side with each other during Bernanke’s lips. settling down, their elders eternal students or premature adults. household disputes. Yellen, approved on Thursday by the Senate Banking used to think they were It sets the scene almost perfectly for a If the worst thing a single person living Committee, will get the job, but the real action is in speeches too impetuous to really nuclear collision of commitment-phobe and with a couple has to endure is a petty alli- Iby Bernanke, who is less inhibited as he is on the way out, and in Wknow their own minds. Then, when young bunny boiler; it paves the way for a new ance over who used the last of the milk, I’m the Fed minutes, released on Wednesday. people began to take a little longer to do wave of Revolutionary Road relationships, pleased for them. Here is how it is going to go: so, the elders started worrying about their with everyone going quietly mad because Truth be told, I’m far more concerned for The Fed will taper, probably early next year, and will try to biological clocks. they rushed a big decision and never spent them if they have to turn the volume right grease the skids by offering some kind of forward guidance to ease Fear not, though: in London, the trendy any time on their own. up on the telly when the couple disappears the pain. A bit of fiddling with the interest rate paid by the Fed festering wound that corrupts the rest Once these young couples live together, to enjoy the sort of domestic bliss only really to banks on reserves is possible too, but a lot less likely. of the country, fools are rushing in again, the logic goes, they’re far less likely to designed for two. Forward guidance is fancy central banker talk for making a because they can’t maintain two separate split up if they’re not right for each other. The lesson we learned long ago, from sort of a promise, or pledge, to keep rates at a particular level households any more. Because neither party wants to go back to our parents’ generation, or from any old in the future if particular conditions prevail. Young people are taking the rather renting the sort of tiny room in a house of Bildungsroman, is that futures flourish In this case, the forward guidance will probably be to keep mature decision to live together sooner three other people that their single, twenty when the chance of independence, self- rates near zero until unemployment falls below the current rather than later, based on how far wages something wage will cover. knowledge and experience is available to trigger level of 6.5 percent, perhaps as low as 5.5 percent. will go in a city in which only the rich can Young people, do you want the bad news young people. “Even after unemployment drops below 6.5 percent… the afford to have their own space. first or the really bad news? For years, that has been the logic and ide- Committee can be patient in seeking assurance that the labour The Financial Times this week named the Not only has the failure of governments ology applied to social mobility and access market is sufficiently strong before considering any increase (in trend “hutching up.” past and present to sort out the property to higher education. Now, depressingly, we the fed funds rate),” Bernanke said in a speech this week. So it’s no longer that young people are market left you high, dry and potentially even apply it to bricks and mortar, unaf- As for the why, no one is being that specific, but it looks as if just going at it like rabbits; they’re now liv- bankrupt, you’re also falling headlong into fordable in the capital and in increasingly Federal Reserve officials are a bit in doubt about bond buying’s ing like them, too. either a doomed relationship or an untimely short supply elsewhere. Housing should be efficacy while having some concerns about its attendant risks. Not only is the London housing crisis breakup, hastened by the exigencies of mov- a basic right, not just one more social struc- Bond buying, Bernanke said, has “drawbacks not associated (watch out, it’s coming to a city near you, ing in with someone you’ve known for only ture creaking under the weight of inequality, with forward rate guidance, including the risk of impairing the too) retarding an entire generation’s devel- three weeks. collapsing before the eyes of a government functioning of securities markets and the extra complexities for opment, it’s also speeding up the natural Or perhaps because you asked someone more concerned with the developers of lux- the Fed of operating with a much larger balance sheet.” patterns of their existence. It’s like putting you’ve known for only three weeks to move ury penthouses than the development of the The Fed is concerned that its pre-taper communications this a tortoise on a treadmill and expecting it in with you – and they ran away. next generation. summer were incorrectly read, with many investors seeing the to cope. And let’s not forget the singletons. They It feels like such a backwards step, not move as a tightening in monetary policy. The capital sucks in bright young things have it just as bad. just in terms of cramped living conditions, That seems to be behind the idea of pairing a tapering with from across the country like a black hole Because, more often than not, they’re the but in the way men and women interact, stronger forward guidance. swallows a flimsy spacecraft. Those who saps that the couples move in with to keep and in the way their children will grow up. The Fed hopes it will dull any market effects of the taper, effec- can’t afford the high rents must choose the costs down. The director of the flatshare What else were the 60s for but ensuring the tively allowing a low-friction way for the central bank to back between occupying a small room in a shared website Spareroom.co.uk, Matt Hutchinson, 50s never happened again? slowly away from bond buying. house for longer than their emotional (an apposite name: it sounds like an order) THE GUARDIAN One other possibility is that the Fed will also make adjust- ments to the interest it pays on reserves, potentially keeping open some facility to allow it to pay less to banks for the money they keep on deposit while not gumming up the vital money market system. One advantage of this is that it represents an actual action, rather than simply a promise. That said, it is not likely in itself to have a profound effect on bank behaviour.

A FEW LOCAL DIFFICULTIES So, tapering with a sweetener, but probably not until March. While Bernanke will hold a press conference after the December FOMC meeting, he may well wish to defer the decision, and the explanation, to his successor. Yellen will have to live with the programme, and as forward guidance is all about effective communication, it makes good sense to allow her to be present and in control when it is paired with tapering. There are, of course, a few small problems with the whole plan. The Fed worries that, as when it promised to taper last time, markets will see this as a tightening. They hope forward guidance will work to keep rates low even as they stop buying the bonds. Markets tightened, sending long rates higher, not simply because they didn’t understand the Fed but because they gave precedence to what the Fed was going to do — buy fewer bonds — over what it said it wanted to see. The point of QE isn’t simply to push people into taking on risk and spending some of their paper gains, it is to make the price of securities with more risk attached rise. The reverse of that implies higher rates for riskier securities, including longer-dated bonds. Moreover, the whole premise of forward guidance is that central bankers will say something and markets take them at their word. That’s nice in theory, but in practice investors understand that the woman making the promise today is a different one than will be called upon to honour it in a couple of years’ time. Asked to weigh the value of real dollars going to buy real bonds versus verbal promises about future states none of us can truly know I am betting that markets give primacy to the money, not the pledge. REUTERS Cartoon Arts International / The New York Times Syndicate Why privately-financed public parks are a bad idea BY FELIX SALMON to Central Park — which is, of But those laws refuse to go something which is even more money through a simple auction percent of any charitable dona- course, the park he lives next away — and in the case of prime insidious. We now live in a world of development rights if and when tion to Central Park or Prospect f you want to find the most door to — and the way in which real estate next to urban open where rich people and big cor- it thought that development in Park be used to support less glam- valuable land in the world, Central Park’s charitable status space, the situation is getting porations actually get richer by such areas was warranted. orous parks in less glamorous you have to look for two means that the US taxpayer is steadily worse, rather than better. donating tax-deductible money If lovely parks like the ones on neighbourhoods. Whether such Ithings. Firstly, find a rich, effectively chipping in a very large The open space itself invariably to supposedly public parks. The the west side are public goods, a bill would pass constitutional densely-populated city. Secondly, chunk of Paulson’s gift, possibly as is a public asset, which belongs big news of the moment is that then the public should pay for muster is unclear, but in any case take a map of the middle of that much as half of it. to everybody — at least in theory. Hudson River Park, which has them — and if they increase it wouldn’t make much difference: city, and look for open space: Which is not an effective use of But you know how it goes: run out of money, is now going property values, then the public there will always be ways around parks, rivers, lakes. Look at the public funds. you move in somewhere, paying to be able to fund itself by sell- should be able to reap the benefit such things, especially when new land bordering that open space, Indeed, more generally, the $10,000 per square foot for your ing its air rights to developers on by selling the newly-appreciated parks are in large part being built where offices and apartments can big problem with the charitable- spectacular view, and it doesn’t the other side of the street. This development rights. Instead, by private-sector interests. avail themselves of spectacular donation tax deduction is that it’s take long before you feel that it’s is far from unprecedented: the private developers acquire their If the private sector is building views — that’s where land is going effectively a multi-billion-dollar yours. High Line, a few blocks west, was development rights at unknown parks like the High Line or the to be the most expensive. Indeed, tax expenditure on the rich, even You’ll donate money to it, you’ll funded in large part by a scheme and unknowable cost, because new Seaport, then those parks ultra-luxury condo developer as charitable donations by the improve it — and, since most where for every $50 you donated it’s all hidden behind ostensibly are going to be designed, from Arthur Zeckendorf recently told majority of the US population philanthropy these days has a to the High Line Improvement charitable activity. (The devel- the very beginning, to privilege the NYT that once he finishes don’t get subsidised at all. transactional element to it — Fund, you could add an extra opment which includes that monied interests and rich-people the building he’s working on right If it were abolished, or scaled you’ll expect a little something in square foot of floor area in any 50-storey tower, for instance, will, preferences in general. (A visit to now, he doesn’t have anything back, the amount saved by the return. Pretty soon, the public’s development you were building we’re assured, “include a still-to- the High Line, any summer week- else in particular that he’d like government would dwarf any parks become rather less egalitar- nearby. be-determined rescue plan for end, will confirm that the people to build: “We have looked at every reduction in charitable donations: ian than you might imagine. Given that developers pay up the financially ailing Seaport who go there are decidedly well- single site in Manhattan, but we in theory, the government could The exploitation of public parks to $600 per square foot for such Museum”.) And development heeled, the presence of large pub- haven’t found one that meets our simply make up the entire short- by private interests is absolutely rights, that was quite the bargain. takes place not because it neces- lic housing projects very nearby criteria to be on a park.” fall and then some, and still come happening, and Alex Ulam has Meanwhile, on the other side of sarily fits into any greater public notwithstanding.) Naturally, the most expensive out ahead. example after example, and Manhattan, the Howard Hughes plan, but just because it’s the only He who pays the piper calls the land in the world tends to attract As a rule, it’s always easier doesn’t even mention the fiasco Corporation is proposing to build way that work gets done which tune. Which is why, if we’re build- the richest people in the world — and cheaper for a government to that was GoogaMooga, where a a 50-storey tower right on the has historically been the job of ing public parks, the public should the kind of people who are very subsidise something directly than huge swathe of Prospect Park was waterfront. the city, rather than the private be paying for them. If we want good at marshalling money, and it is to try to fiddle around with effectively destroyed by a 2-day In all of these cases, it would sector. to raise public income by selling politicians, so that they can get laws which have the same effect for-profit event, which paid the be cleaner, more transparent, and One bill, put forward by Daniel development rights, that’s fine what they want. Last year I wrote but don’t show up on the official park a mere $75,000. more efficient for the public sector Squadron, a state senator from too. But let’s not conflate the two. about John Paulson’s $100m gift accounts. Behind all this, however, is to pay for the parks, while raising Brooklyn, would mandate that 20 REUTERS SUNDAY 24 NOVEMBER 2013 22 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com GECM & TENDERS

GLOBAL ECONOMIC CRISIS MAP (GECM) Every Sunday Faster 8.2pc growth in China’s Germany cuts gold holdings for GDP in 2014 second time in five months BEIJING: China’s annual economic growth UK budget deficit shrinks FRANKFURT: Germany, the world’s is likely to accelerate to 8.2 percent in second biggest holder of gold in October 2014 from an expected 7.7 percent this reserves, cut its bullion holdings in year, driven by stronger domestic demand, LONDON: Britain’s budget October for the second time in five Japan’s trade deficit higher the OECD said yesterday. “Growth is US prices fall 0.1pc in October as deficit fell in October as the months, data from the International due to energy costs economic recovery gathers picking up and inflation remains low, petrol costs drop Monetary Fund showed on Friday. TOKYO: Japan reported a trade pace. The Office for National Gold holdings by central banks are domestic demand has led the turnaround,” deficit in October almost double WASHINGTON: US consumer prices Statistics (ONS) said public keenly watched since the group the Organization for Economic fell 0.1pc in October as petrol prices sector net borrowing fell became net buyers in 2010 after two Cooperation and Development said in compared to 2012, as the cost dropped, the US Labor Department 0.2pc to £8.1bn in the month decades as net sellers. The 2008 its latest report on the global economic for the energy have risen after has said. Petrol prices fell 2.9pc, the when compared with a year global economic crisis triggered a outlook. the accident at Fukushima. biggest drop since April. The cost of before. wave of official sector interest in gold. Government figures showed new cars, clothes and healthcare also that Japan logged a bigger-than- fell. The decrease meant that annual expected Y1.09tril (US$10.9bil) inflation in the 12 months to October Ghana aims for 8pc GDP growth trade deficit last month. Last year, was just 1pc. ACCRA: Ghana will announce an in October, Japan’s trade deficit economic growth target of 8 percent India’s GDP growth to crawl at was Y556.2 billion. in 2014 in its budget on Tuesday and 4.7pc in second quarter: ZyFin will seek to trim its budget deficit to NEW DELHI: India’s economy would 8.5 percent of gross domestic product, expand by 4.7 percent in the second senior government sources told Reuters. quarter of the current financial year, The government of President John according to research and analytical Mahama is under pressure to rein in its firm ZyFin. This is less than the budget deficit, which has cast a shadow Brazil’s economy, inflation under finance ministry’s estimate of 5-5.5 over an economy growing rapidly control: President per cent. The official GDP data is because of oil exports in addition to RIO DE JANEIRO: Brazil has solid fiscal slated to be released next week. gold and cocoa production. stability and its inflation rate is under In the first quarter of the current control, President Dilma Rousseff said financial year, GDP expanded at a NZ dollar continues slide Monday via her official Twitter account. four-year bottom of 4.4 per cent. At SYDNEY: THE New Zealand dollar is The country will see an inflation rate of that time, ZyFin had estimated a heading for a 1.6 per cent drop against less than 6.5 percent (the upper limit growth of 4.5 per cent. set by government policy) for the 10th the greenback this week as world year in a row in 2013, Rousseff said. markets speculate about the Federal Reserve’s intentions for its $US85 billion Accumulated inflation from January to a month money-printing programme. October stood at 4.38 percent, official The kiwi fell to 82.09 US cents at 5pm in data showed. Wellington from 83.41 cents at the start of the week, and from 81.83 US cents at 8am and 82.55 cents on Thursday.

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Entire Jamaican anti-doping Pacquiao confident of win board resigns

‘Pac-Man’ aims to bounce back after losing two fights last year JAMAICA: The entire board of the controversial Jamaica Anti- Doping Commission (JADCO) MACAU : Filipino boxing great and the families who have been has resigned, the country’s Manny Pacquiao declared he was affected by this storm, the Manny Pacquiao minister with responsibility for back to his best as he weighed typhoon: This fight is for you.” (left) of the sport said yesterday. in comfortably under the 147 Pacquiao enjoyed huge support Philippines and “The Commissioners have pound limit yesterday ahead from a large Filipino presence at Brandon Rios of taken a decision, in the national of his comeback fight against the Cotai Arena for the 7:30 am the US face-off interest and in order to facilitate American Brandon Rios. (2330 GMT, Friday) weigh-in as on either side of the re-structuring of JADCO, to Asked if his army of fans in chants of “Manny, Manny” rang founder and chief tender their resignations which Asia would see the Pacquiao that around the auditorium. executive officer will take effect on December lost both his last two fights in “I’m so happy that the fight of boxing promo- 31, 2013,” Natalie Neita Headley 2012 or the ferocious destroying is in Asia and very close to the tion company Top said in a statement released in force of 2006, his last ring appear- Philippines,” he said and paraded Rank Robert “Bob” Kingston. ance on the continent, “Pac-Man” a T-shirt on stage reading “WBO Arum (centre) The commission has been under oozed confidence and said it would Rescue Team - Yolanda (Haiyan) during an official fire since former senior JADCO definitely be the today morning. Relief”. official Renee Anne Shirley told weigh-in ahead of “This fight is going to be differ- Rios came in just under the Sports Illustrated in August the their World Boxing ent,” he told HBO television imme- welterweight limit at 146 1/2 authority had carried out just diately after tipping the scales at pounds, a pound and a half heavier Organisation one out-of-competition test from 145 pounds. than Pacquiao who is two inches (WBO) International February 2012 to the start of the Pacquiao, who will be 35 next shorter than the American. 12-round welter- London Olympics in July. month, has put himself though The former lightweight world weight boxing title Three high-ranking officials of two months of intense physical champion has never fought at fight at the Venetian the World Anti-Doping Agency preparation, “like when I was welterweight but said the step Macao Hotel in visited Jamaica last month to young”, in General Santos City in up was no problem. Macau, yesterday. audit the country’s anti-doping the lead-up to the World Boxing “I feel I’m 100 per cent of my programs after weeks of criticism Organisation International wel- weight now. I didn’t have to take following positive tests from sev- terweight championship bout. any off,” said Rios after stepping eral high-profile athletes. “This is one of the longest on the scales. Former world 100 meters training camps I had in my boxing “How am I going to beat him?” Beckham roots for Pacquiao record holder Asafa Powell, career,” a smiling Pacquiao said. he said. “My heart and my balls. twice 200m Olympic champion “We did our best training and I’m hungry. I want that title. MACAU: Asian boxing super- comeback fight. Singing star Real Madrid star at a press con- Veronica Campbell-Brown and we did it like when I was young,” “Here’s a message to Freddie star Manny Pacquiao will not Alicia Keys, who has been per- ference. “I’m a huge fan of Manny’s. London Games 4x100m relay sil- added the only man to have world Roach: Supposedly I’m a bum. only have the support of a forming concerts at the Venetian I met him a couple of years ago in ver medalist Sherone Simpson all titles at eight different weights. I can’t make the weight. I’m a Filipino-packed crowd when Resort where the bout will take the Philippines, when I was on failed drug tests and were left out His Hall of Fame trainer fat loser -- you’ll see in the ring he fights Brandon Rios today, place, is also expected to attend. tour there with the LA Galaxy and of Jamaica’s athletics team for the Freddie Roach agreed. “This was tomorrow.” but also a phalanx of celeb- Beckham jetted in to the also there with UNICEF (United world championships in August. the happiest and most productive Fight promoter Bob Arum said rity cheerleaders, led by David southern Chinese city on Friday Nations Children’s Fund). Outgoing WADA President camp I have had with Manny in that it had been 38 years since his Beckham. The former England and immediately declared him- “He really is a truly inspira- John Fahey had suggested the years,” Roach said. Top Rank organisation had held football captain will be joined self to be a “huge fan” of eight- tional person.” Caribbean nation could face “Based on our last workout, I such an oddly-timed weigh-in, at the Macau ringside by a weight world champion Pacquiao. Beckham also had a message severe penalties if they were don’t see how Rios makes it past designed to cater to TV audiences number of celebrity guests Beckham arrived to announce a for the people of the Philippines declared non-compliant with the the fourth round.” in the US. for the fight, including Oscar- commercial partnership with the as they attempt to rebuild their WADA code. Pacquiao, a Filipino congress- “The last time we did some- wining actor and director resort’s owners, Sands Las Vegas, towns and lives after the dev- But Neita Headley said, man, had to deal during training thing like this early in the morn- George Clooney, Sands China but then let slip the real reason astation wreaked by Super “At no time has WADA ever camp with the tragic distraction ing was Muhammad Ali v Joe CEO Ed Tracy confirmed. why he had decided to travel to Typhoon Haiyan on November deemed Jamaica or JADCO to be of Super Typhoon Haiyan tearing Frazier in 1975,” said Arum, refer- Reality TV star Paris Hilton the the semi-autonomous Chinese 8, which has left nearly 7,000 non-compliant. through his country on November ring to the “Thriller in Manila” and Daniel Wu and Eddie Peng region this weekend. people dead or missing. “At no time has WADA threat- 8, leaving more than 5,000 people which has gone down in history as will also be at ringside, while “(Pacquiao) is obviously one “The eyes of the world have ened to bar Jamaica or Jamaican dead or missing. one of the greatest heavyweight American rap superstar 50 of the reasons why I’m here and been on the Philippines the last athletes from participating in any “I cried when I saw what had contests of all time. Cent is also strongly rumoured why I’m really excited,” said the couple of weeks,” said Beckham. international event - Olympic happened,” he admitted earlier “And what a fight that turned to be flying in to see “Pac-Man’s” former Manchester United and AFP Games, World Championship or this week. “To all the people out to be.” AFP the like.” REUTERS NHL: Crosby lifts Parker shines as Penguins to victory Spurs notch ninth

PITTSBURGH: The New York That’s exactly what happened Islanders ‘up-and-down, fast- and Crosby provided the late paced tempo always seem to game-winner. Crosby’s 12th goal consecutive win bring out the worst defensively of the season was also the 250th in the Pittsburgh Penguins. of his career, and the Penguins’ MEMPHIS: Tony Parker had an 8-0 scoring run to regain con- Fortunately, for the Penguins, captain also had an assist. Chris 20 points and handed out five trol of the contest. French point captain Sidney Crosby was there, Kunitz had two goals and an assists yesterday as San Antonio guard Parker, who scored 11 helping his team prevent a sec- assist, Evgeni Malkin added a goal beat Memphis 102-86 for a ninth points in the final frame, netted ond home collapse in four weeks and two assists, and James Neal straight NBA victory. the first six points of the surge against the upstart Islanders. had two assists. Malkin’s goal Tiago Splitter added 17 points and Tim Duncan’s basket gave Crosby scored with 1:16 remain- ended his career-high 15-game and seven rebounds for the Spurs. the Spurs an 87-78 lead with ing on Friday to give the Penguins scoring drought. Manu Ginobili netted 15 points 4:37 to play. The Grizzlies didn’t a 4-3 victory over the Islanders Penguins goalie Jeff Zatkoff, to go with seven assists and five threaten again. during a game that saw New York playing for the first time since rebounds as San Antonio halted The Spurs, who fell to the rally from a pair of two two-goal Nov. 2, stopped 32 shots in his the Grizzlies’ four-game winning Miami Heat in last season’s deficits for the second time in two fourth NHL start. streak. Mike Conley scored 28 NBA finals, have little time to games against Pittsburgh. “We had a lot of chances, points and had four steals, while rest before going for their 10th “We had the lead, so they but that wasn’t our best game,” Zach Randolph had 16 points and straight win. They host Cleveland started taking chances, and we Crosby said. 10 rebounds for the Grizzlies. today. AGENCIES kind of got sucked into playing “We probably could’ve put it But Memphis lost Marc Gasol that style of game,” Crosby said. away early, but they hung around.” to an apparent sprained left knee NBA Results “Instead of managing the puck, Thomas Vanek scored twice early in the second quarter. Phoenix 98 Charlotte 91 we were taking chances and for the Islanders in his first game The Spanish center, last sea- Philadelphia 115 Milwaukee 107 throwing the puck everywhere, after missing five with an upper- son’s NBA Defensive Player of the Toronto 96 Washington 88 and when you play that game, body injury. Vanek has three goals Year, appeared to hurt his knee whoever scores the last goal is and two assists with New York under the Spurs basket with 10:24 Indiana 97 Boston 82 going to win.” since being acquired from Buffalo left in the second quarter. He Atlanta 96 Detroit 89 last month. Colin McDonald also went to the locker room and the San Antonio 102 Memphis 86 NHL Results got his second of the season for Grizzlies said his injury would be Minnesota 111 Brooklyn 81 Pittsburgh 4 NY Islanders 3 New York. Kevin Poulin made 30 Vancouver Canucks’ defenceman Ryan Stanton (right) is congratulated evaluated further. New Orleans 104 Cleveland 100 saves for the Islanders. He started Even without him, the Grizzlies Montreal 3 Washington 2 by defenceman Jason Garrison after scoring against Columbus Blue Dallas 103 Utah 93 his sixth straight game in place of erased a nine-point fourth-quar- Calgary 4 Florida 3 Jackets’ goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky (not pictured) during the third Portland 98 Chicago 95 injured starter Evgeni Nabokov, ter deficit to pull within 79-78. Vancouver 6 Columbus 2 period of their NHL game at Rogers Arena. The Vancouver Canucks LA Lakers 102 Golden State 95 who is out with a groin injury. won 6-2. But the Spurs responded with Anaheim 1 Tampa Bay 0 AGENCIES

Golden State Warriors’ Rodriguez confident of winning appeal small forward Harrison NEW YORK: New York Despite his apparent confi- verdict likely would be announced of them agreeing to 50-game sus- Barnes (left) Yankees’ slugger Alex Rodriguez, dence, Rodriguez, who opted not in January. pensions, and former National passes the who is at the center of a dop- to testify in the hearing, said he Rodriguez’s lawyers said they League most valuable player Ryan ball away ing case that has rocked Major remained wary about the way the would “release all the evidence” Braun accepting a 65-game ban. from Los League Baseball, has said he is appeal was heard. but delayed the release on Friday, Rodriguez, in appealing the sus- Angeles confident of his appeal. “Now that it’s over, as far as the according to the New York Times. pension, has denied any wrongdo- Lakers’ cen- In an interview with ESPN. state of the case, how the evidence MLB Commissioner Bud Selig ing and argued he was singled out tre Jordan com, the embattled third base- went in, how my team challenged had handed down the season-plus for excessive punishment by MLB Hill during man predicted he would win the it, I feel great, Rodriguez said. punishment in August for violat- and called into question the way the first case. The comments came just “The only thing that concerns ing MLB’s joint drug agreement evidence has been gathered in the two days after Rodriguez stormed me is the process.” through the Yankees third base- case. half of their out of his grievance hearing and Rodriguez’s appeal against man’s alleged involvement with Meanwhile, David Freese, the NBA game declared it a farce. his lengthy suspension ended on the now-closed Florida anti-aging 2011 World Series Most Valuable at Staples “We crushed it,” Rodriguez Thursday, the 13th day of hear- clinic that was accused of dispens- Player, was traded to the Los Center, said, referring to his lawyers’ ings on the grievance filed by the ing performance enhancing drugs. Angeles Angels on Friday, less yesterday. arguments against MLB’s deci- players’ association to overturn Thirteen other players were than a month after playing for sion to suspend him for 211 games. Rodriguez’s lengthy suspension. suspended for their alleged ties the St. Louis Cardinals in another “They had nothing.” Local media speculated a to the Biogenesis clinic, with 12 Fall Classic. AGENCIES SUNDAY 24 NOVEMBER 2013 24 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT

Sanchez on Qatar Team’s Torrente song as Italy downed by Pumas earns provisional first win ROME: Fly-half Nicolas Sanchez kicked 14 points to help a defensively-astute Argentina Podium finish for Qatar’s Khalid Abdullah Al Kuwari in F-4S race to a deserved 19-14 win over Italy in the hosts’ final Test of the November series yesterday. DOHA: The Qatar Team’s Alex Hassan bin Jabor Al Thani, presi- Argentina, thumped 40-6 by Carella and Shaun Torrente dent of the Qatar Marine Sports Wales last week, came to the produced a stunning spectacle Federation (QMSF), on the sub- Italian capital looking for their of driving to dominate the 10th ject of the Torrente collision. first win of their European tour, Grand Prix of Qatar in Doha He added: “It was a very excit- having also succumbed to England Bay yesterday. ing end to a race that both our at Twickenham. The pair was the class of the Qatar drivers controlled from the And the Pumas produced a entire field and looked set for a start. The outcome also means we solid defensive display at a rain- spectacular 1-2 finish until the have a very exciting finish to the hit Olympic Stadium as a Sanchez fourth round of the UIM F1 H2O season in prospect in the UAE drop goal six minutes from the World Championship ended in now at the last two races in Abu whistle Sent Italy back to the dramatic circumstances three Dhabi and Sharjah.” drawing board. laps from the end. Carella and Torrente had the Qatar Team’s After a 50-20 humiliation by Torrente collided with perfect starting positions for their Australia two weeks ago and a pilot Shaun American Terry Rinker and the home Grand Prix, as they lined narrow 37-31 win against Fiji last Torrente (left) latter’s spectacular crash forced up side-by-side at the front of week, Jacques Brunel’s Italy were a yellow flag situation, during the grid as a large crowd eagerly celebrates desperate for a win that would which Carella ground to a halt awaited the start on Doha Bay. with the help boost morale after an unim- with mechanical issues. Both started superbly, but Qatar Marine pressive series. The race finished under the Carella was in sensational form Sports But despite showing glimpses yellow with Torrente leading and he began to pull away from Federation’s of positive, attacking rugby, they from Sweden’s Jonas Andersson Torrente and lapped a struggling Khalid bin were left to rue what might have and Frenchman Phillipe Chiappe. Paul Shepard at the end of the Arhama Al been as Tommaso Allan, making Torrente was duly handed the second lap. Kuwari on his full debut alongside Michele victory in the provisional results Joint championship leader the podium Campagnaro, missed several and at the podium - pending any Sami Selio hit trouble on the run in Doha, chances with the boot. potential appeal from a rival team out to the first turn buoy after yesterday. Allan, a former Scotland - and he will have to wait a little a collision, which also sidelined under-20 player, hit three penal- longer to celebrate his first ever Francesco Cantando at the start ties in the first half. official F1 win. of the 38-lap race. But even before the break he If the results are declared Carella had extended his advan- had shown nerves and Argentina final, the American will take a tage over Torrente to 5.34 seconds ultimately went in for the break four-point championship lead through lap eight and that margin 10-9 to the good after Sanchez over Chiappe to Abu Dhabi next grew to 7.28 seconds after lap 11. had converted Juan Imhoff’s 20th weekend, with Carella a further Carella lost a little time in traffic minute try and added a penalty. four points adrift in third. and Torrente reduced the deficit Heavy rain and a lack of disci- Qatar’s Khalid Abdullah Al to 6.27 seconds through lap 15. pline from both sides had ended Kuwari and Mohammed Al The American was now on a early hopes for a flowing, open Obaidly qualified fifth and ninth charge and he continued to eat game of rugby fairly quickly but for the second of the 19-lap F-4S into Carella’s lead. The margin the second half started in more races for the Eurofin Trophy. was just 5.75 seconds heading into positive fashion. The race was dominated by lap 17. Rinker spectacularly barrel- behind Nicklas Friberg and Al steady pace and he continued to Italy pushed into Argentina’s series leader Mike Sztmura of By halfway, Carella led by rolled out of contention when he Obaidly running for 11 laps and edge through the field; the Qatari 22 and were awarded a penalty Germany, who extended his 2.14 seconds from Torrente and collided with Torrente with three slotting into eighth in practice. held third after 11 of 19 laps when No. 8 Benjamin Macome championship lead to 45 points Andersson, Chiappe and Al Qamzi laps remaining and the race fin- Friberg kept up his form to although Al Obaidly was strug- was penalised for upending scrun- after a sensational start-to-finish completed the top five. ished under a yellow flag with snatch pole position for the race gling at the back. half Edoardo Gori. win. The Qatar duo had now lapped Torrente confirming his first pro- with a best lap of 1min 03.08sec Szymura reached the cheq- Allan, however, spurned the Al Kuwari shadowed China’s everyone up to fifth position ad visional GP win in dramatic cir- and the Qatar pair lined up for uered flag with a 27.86-second chance to restore Italy’s lead Bincgeng Wu to the finish and began to close in on lapping Al cumstances when Carella ground the race from fifth and ninth advantage over China’s Bincheng when he drove his effort just wide confirmed third place, while Al Qamzi. to a halt. positions after qualifying. Wu. Al Kuwari slipped to fourth of the left upright. Obaidly was seventh. He passed the Emirati on lap 27 In F-4S for Eurofin Trophy, Mike Szymura began the race behind Friberg for a couple of Italy enjoyed a dominant spell Al Kuwari now holds fourth in and headed out into clear water after an action-packed two days well and moved into a slender laps and then reclaimed the final but were meeting plenty of resist- the points’ standings with four with an overall lead of 2.96 sec- of Nations Cup action, it was back lead, although he came under podium place with a handful of ance and Allan’s miss was felt races remaining. onds with 11 laps remaining. to the F-4S series for Al Kuwari pressure from Nikita Lijcs until laps remaining. when Sanchez sent an easy pen- “This was a classic racing acci- With eight laps to go the gap and Al Obaidly and they per- the latter hit overheating trouble Al Obaidly reached the finish alty over to give Argentina a 13-9 dent and it can happen in any form between the two QMSF-backed formed well from the outset, with and retired on lap five. in seventh position. lead after Martin Castrogiovanni of marine sports,” said Sheikh drivers was just 3.44 seconds. Al Kuwari slotting into second Al Kuwari was maintaining a THE PENINSULA had been penalised. AFP

A Double victory for West in Qatar SuperBike

DOHA: Australian rider Anthony West won both races of the Qatar SuperBike Championship that took place under the floodlights of Losail International Circuit in Doha. In the first race of the day, there was a red flag after three laps and the race was stopped and restarted again with nine laps. West, the Qatar Motor and Motorcycle Federation (QMMF) Racing Team Moto2 rider, who started in second position on the grid, pushed from the beginning of the race and gave no chance to any riders to ride close to him, crossing the checkered flag with B C a gap of 9.362 from Alex Cudlin. West was very happy at the end Runner-up Alex Cudlin (second left), winner, Anthony West (centre) and of the race taking into account all third-placed Nina Prinz are seen on the podium after race two in the the big stress from yesterday with Qatar SuperBike Championship at Losail International Circuit in Doha. the bike so challenging to ride and so many problems with the gears. West said: “I am quite happy the championship with Nasser chance for him to fight for the with the results with so many Al Malki who finished in fifth victory once once he was over- things that went wrong yester- position. taken by West. day plus Nina (Prinz) and Alex Starting from first position in West was more comfortable in (Cudlin) were so fast, that I was the race, Prinz, ended the race in the second race and had a better a bit worried but at the end, my the third position but was very feeling even if he made a bad start chief mechanic Marco, did a really satisfied with her result. that made Cudlin to take the lead. good job to get the bike handling In the first part of the race, she After the second race, West well. It took me some days to get had a nice battle with Al Malki said: “Something happened to the used to ride it but now I feel that for the third place and in the last bike in the start, I don’t know as I can ride this bike properly.” lap she managed to ride her best the bike is new for me. I had to Cudlin rode easily in second lap time at Losail International fight hard to catch Alex (Cudlin) place for almost the whole race Circuit. and I overheated the clutch so but in the last lap, Prinz increased In the Losail Asian Road once I passed him, I knew I had A) Qatar Motor and Motorcycle Federataion (QMMF) President Nasser Khalifa bin Al Attiyah (left), Stephane her lap timing and managed to Racing Series, the fastest rider to go away from him quickly if Carapiet (second left), FIM Asia President, Ronn Hogg (centre), Promotions Director, Two Wheels Motor Racing get very close to Cudlin. But was the Serbian female rider not it will be difficult to have a along with other officials pose for a picture. B) Al Attiyah (right) presents a memento to Carapiet. C) Hogg there was no time to pass him, so Manca Katrasnik. fight with him with this problem. (left) hands QMMF President Al Attiyah a memento. An appreciation dinner was held for all the riders, teams, Cudlin finished second place and The final result of the second Fortunately, I managed to cool it officials, organisers and sponsors of the PETRONAS Asia Road Racing Championship Championship, which Prinz claimed third spot. race of the day was identical to down and I pushed again.” concludes after the Doha meet. Al Attiyah expressed his happiness in organising the last round of the event For Cudlin this result proved the first race. Prinz claimed the third place for the fourth year in a row. to be very good for the cham- Cudlin led the race during the spot on the podium. pionship as he was co-leading first three laps, but there was no THE PENINSULA SUNDAY 24 NOVEMBER 2013 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 25 Vettel beats the weather India aiming to clinch ODI series against to take pole in Brazil West Indies today

VISAKHAPATNAM: Hosts the third ever batsman to post a The German edges Rosberg, Alonso in wet conditions India can take an unassailable double century before finally get- 2-0 lead against a struggling ting the Test cap after playing 108 West Indies side, when the two ODIs. SAO PAULO: Sebastian Vettel nations clash today in the sec- The Test debut too has been of emerged from plumes of spray ond ODI match. a fairy tale kind as he has posted yesterday to deliver a typically After being beaten compre- back-to-back centuries -- 177 and accomplished lap in treacherous hensively in the Test series, los- 111*, as he has five consecutive conditions and claim pole posi- ing explosive opener Chris Gayle fifty-plus scores in International tion for today’s season-closing to an injury has added to the woes cricket. He would look to enthrall Brazilian Grand Prix. and worries of the Caribbean side, the spectators at a ‘special’ venue Smiling and relaxed, the four- who now face a do-or-die situa- which is his mom Purnima time champion made light of the tion to save the series. Sharma’s home town. heavy rain, repeated postpone- The West Indies, who tri- The ACA-VDCA Stadium has ments and obvious dangers to umphed in the World Twenty20 always been lucky for India who secure his ninth pole of the sea- Championship in Sri Lanka, were have won all the four matches son, the 45th of his career and expected to do better in the short here right from the very first extend his Red Bull team’s run of format but they have failed to put one on April 5, 2005 when a long- poles to nine. up a fight as their batsmen con- haired Dhoni came into promi- “That was a big surprise,” he tinue to struggle. nence with his 123-ball 148 to beamed afterwards. The reversal of fortunes has devastate Pakistanis. “I was so happy after Q3. It was eluded the visitors as India can- Both the teams opted out of a long time for us to get out, a lot tered to a six-wicket victory with practice to give the groundsmen of rain after Q2 so we had to wait. 88 deliveries to spare to take a 1-0 ample time to get the stadium “If there’s too much water on lead in Kochi. ready in time and avoid a second the track, the risk of aquaplaning The victory was soothing for successive washout after the one is too high. We got out and I was the wounded Indian bowlers who against New Zealand in a T20 in surprised how much of the water French Formula One driver Romain Grosjean drives his Lotus during the qualifying session at the Interlagos were pulverised in the last ODI September last year. had gone. racetrack in Sao Paulo, Brazil yesterday, ahead of the Brazilian Grand Prix today. series against Australia as they The rain has subsided after “I went straight to the interme- could finally exert some pressure two days to brighten the hopes diates and got a good lap straight on the batting fraternity. as there’s no shower forecast for away. I tried again and was close. possible to beat Seb who is too far Back after given a rest to heal today. I’m happy with both my laps. It’s ahead. Brazilian Grand Prix Grid his shoulder injury in the Test Meanwhile, West Indies head great in these conditions to get it “I lost seven or eight tenths SAO PAULO, Brazil: The starting grid for today’s Brazilian Grand Prix following yesterday’s final series, Ravindra Jadeja led the coach Ottis Gibson said his side all right. Yes, I am very happy.” in Turn Four and I think second qualifying:- spin attack by taking three wick- needed to execute their plans Vettel clocked a best lap of could have been possible, but I’m 1st row ets to bowl the Windies out for a better if they are to turn around one minute and 26.479 seconds not sad with third. We have an paltry 211. their recent form in the One-day to finish seven-tenths of a sec- opportunity starting so far up the Sebastian Vettel (GER/Red Bull); Nico Rosberg (GER/Mercedes) For a team that had chased International series against India. ond clear of nearest rival and front.” 2nd row down 350-plus totals thrice to win “It’s frustrating because we sit fellow German Nico Rosberg of Lewis Hamilton, the 2008 Fernando Alonso (ESP/Ferrari); Mark Webber (AUS/Red Bull) the ODI series against Australia as a team and we have targets Mercedes. champion, was fifth in the sec- not so long ago, it was a cakewalk about where we want to be at 10 Rosberg, who secured a well- ond Mercedes ahead of Romain 3rd row as they cruised home by six wick- overs, 20 overs, 30 overs, 40 overs, deserved second, said: “It was a Grosjean of Lotus, Daniel Lewis Hamilton (GBR/Mercedes); Romain Grosjean (FRA/Lotus) ets with 88 deliveries to spare. not only in terms of runs, but also good day. Ricciardo and his Toro Rosso 4th row Indian trio of Rohit Sharma, wickets lost,” said Gibson. “Everything went to plan and team-mate Jean-Eric Vergne. Virat Kohli and Shikhar Dhawan “At every stage, we are way the whole team did a good job. Local hero Felipe Massa, who Daniel Ricciardo (AUS/Toro Rosso); Jean-Eric Vergne (FRA/Toro Rosso) have been the force behind the ahead of our targets or on-par We had a perfect strategy in the leaves Ferrari after this week- 5th row batting as they have shown no with where we want to be and end on inters. It’s a great place end’s contest, was ninth and Nico Felipe Massa (BRA/Ferrari); Nico Hülkenberg (GER/Sauber) target is safe. we have lost one or two wickets to start tomorrow, at the front Hulkenberg of Sauber 10th on an Man-of-the-Match Kohli too many. of the grid.” afternoon of heavy rain, lengthy 6th row struck 86 in the first ODI and “In the last 10 overs, it’s then He was more than a second delays and only one major acci- Heikki Kovalainen (FIN/Lotus); Paul di Resta (GBR/Force India) in the process emulated Sir Viv left to the bowlers to negotiate clear of third-placed Fernando dent that saw Sergio Perez slide Richards’s feat of 5,000 runs and this has been something that 7th row Alonso of Ferrari and his own his McLaren into the barriers. from 114 innings as his 133-run has been happening for the last team-mate. retirement bound Perez suffered his accident in Valtteri Bottas (FIN/Williams); Sergio Perez (MEX/McLaren) partnership with Rohit Sharma few series we have played and it Australian Mark Webber. Q2 and wound up 14th on the 8th row (72) set up the chase against the makes it tough on the team.” Alonso was delighted with his grid, one place ahead of his team- Windies. He added: “Judging from the Jenson Button (GBR/McLaren); Adrian Sutil (GER/Force India) best qualifying result since the mate Jenson Button as McLaren After six years of obscurity, series that India recently played Bahrain Grand Prix in April. faced up to completing one of 9th row it is the talented Sharma who at home against Australia, we The Spaniard said: “Usually we their worst-ever seasons without Pastor Maldonado (VEN/Williams); Esteban Gutierrez (MEX/Sauber) has been a revelation since he know that 211 is not really going are better in the wet, so we have a podium position. was promoted to open against to be a competitive total. We had a been waiting for a wet race, but Indeed, if they fail to finish in 10th row England at Mohali in January platform to put 280 on the board. unfortunately it came in the last the top four in Sunday’s race it Charles Pic (FRA/Caterham); Giedo van der Garde (NED/Caterham) this year. We do not know if that would race of the season. will be the first time they have 11th row Sharma relished the role to have been enough, but at least it “It makes a change to be so far failed to do so in a single race perfection in India’s Champions would have been a decent total, up the grid. Obviously it was not since 1966. AFP Jules Bianchi (FRA/Marussia); Max Chilton (GBR/Marussia) Trophy victory in June, became that didn’t happen.” AGENCIES

World Cup Scores MELBOURNE: Leading third round completed scores yesterday at the Day takes one-shot lead ISPS Handa World Cup of Golf at Royal Melbourne. MELBOURNE: Australia’s Australia since capturing the Individual Jason Day (pictured) will take a Queensland amateur title at the Woods’ World 204 Jason Day (AUS) 68-70-66 one-shot lead in what promises Burleigh Heads Golf Club in 2006. 205 Thomas Bjorn (DEN) 66-68-71 to be an emotionally-charged “It would be phenomenal to 207 Matt Kuchar (USA) 71-68- final round of the World Cup of win my first professional event Challenge 68 208 Francesco Molinari (ITA) Golf in Melbourne. in Australia,” he said. 75-67-66 209 Kevin Streelman Day overhauled second round “And if Adam and I were to moving to (USA) 66-69-74 210 Graeme leader Thomas Bjorn of Denmark win the team prize then that McDowell (NIR) 72-71-67 Hideto with three birdies in his closing would be a complete honour given Florida in 2014 Tanihara (JPN) 72-67-71 211 six holes yesterday, in a Australia’s Kel Nagle and Adam Scott (AUS) 75-68-68 score of 66 for an overall Peter Thomson won the LOS ANGELES: The Tiger Kiradech Aphibarnrat (THA) 71-70- nine under par tally on World Cup of Golf for a Woods Foundation said 70 Stuart Manley, (WAL) 67-72-72 a bright but testing day first time here at Royal yesterday that the World Ricardo Santos (POR) 69-69-73 at the Royal Melbourne Melbourne here in 1959. Challenge unofficial event 212 Bernd Wiesberger (AUT) course. “And to bring back the hosted by the 14-time major 71-72-69 Ryo Ishikawa (JPN) Bjorn let slip his grip World Cup of Golf here to champion will move to 71-71-70 on the individual trophy, Australia, in front of the Florida in 2014. Team Event with a level par 71 to Melbourne sporting crowd This year’s World Challenge, 415 Australia (Day/Scott) 416 remain at eight under par. here at Royal Melbourne will be contested at Sherwood USA (Kuchar/Streelman) 422 American Matt Kuchar would very, very special.” Country Club in Thousand Japan (Tanihara/Ishikawa) 424 shot a 68 to be in third The day did not run Oaks, California, west of Los Denmark (Bjorn/Olesen) 426 place at six under par. smoothly for all, with Angeles, December 5 to 8. Canada (Hearn/Fritsch) 428 Ireland Day and fellow Australian Welshman Stuart Manley Sherwood and Grayhawk Golf (McDowell/Lowry) Adam Scott also lead the team lamenting one of the strangest Club in Scottsdale, Arizona, are event by one shot with Scott rounds in professional golf. the only two courses to host LPGA Titleholders recording a second straight 68 The 34-year-old began his the event in its first 15 years. to be just ahead of the defend- round with two birdies and then Next year, Isleworth Golf and Scores ing US side of Kuchar and Kevin saw his 8-iron tee shot at the par Country Club near Orlando NAPLES, United States: Leading Streelman (74). three, third hole take one bounce will be the host course. second-round scores yesterday Day came to the contest with and disappear into the cup. “We have a longstanding in the US LPGA’s season-ending the tragic news of the death in the Manley, along with Japanese relationship with Tavistock Titleholders (USA unless noted, Philippines of his grandmother, playing partner Hideto Tanihara Group and my friend, Joe par-72): six young cousins and an uncle and the crowd, began celebrat- Lewis, and I am thrilled to see 133 Sandra Gal (GER) 64-69 at the hands of Typhoon Haiyan. ing the hole-in-one shot they it grow in support of our foun- 136 Yoo Sun-Young (KOR) 68-68 His Filipino-born mother, thought meant he had won the dations,” said Tiger Woods of Dening, travelled down from new Mercedes sedan parked at the group that owns Isleworth. 138 Gerina Piller 71-67, Brisbane and met with her the back of the tee. “We’ve enjoyed 15 amazing Pornanong Phatlum (THA) US-based son early yesterday. “I was so pumped up after the years in Southern California, 70-68, Cristie Kerr 69-69 “It was great to catch up with hole-in-one that I was absolutely which helped us launch our 139 Morgan Pressel 71-68, Park my mum,” he said. “It was just flying walking up to the green flagship Tiger Woods Learning Hee-Young (KOR) 69-70, good to see her as I am glad she thinking that the car was mine Center... Anna Nordqvist (SWE) 66-73 got to come out to the golf course. particularly as the crowd got “I’m looking forward to 140 Azahara Munoz (ESP) She and about eight of my fam- really excited,” said Manley. this next phase of the World 72-68, Jennifer Johnson ily will be out there tomorrow so However Manley was then Challenge and what it can 71-69, Natalie Gulbis 70-70, it promises to be a very special approached by European Tour bring to Florida.” Park In-Bee (KOR) 68-72, last day.” Chief Referee, John Paramor to This year’s World Challenge Feng Shanshan (CHN) Day has won three times in his be told that the prize was only up includes 14 of the top 20 play- 66-74, Lexi Thompson professional career. But, strangely, for grabs for a hole-in-one on the ers in the world. AFP 66-74 he has not tasted victory in final day. AFP SUNDAY 24 NOVEMBER 2013 26 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT Depleted Barca crush Granada Martino’s side move six points clear at top after 4-0 home win without injured Messi

MADRID: Barcelona made opener arrived after 20 minutes light work of Lionel Messi’s when Dimitri Foulquier brought SPL: Late absence to move six points clear down Fabregas and captain for Barcelona’s at the top of La Liga with a rou- the day Iniesta took responsibility forward Pedro tine 4-0 home win over Granada to slot the spot-kick low into the Rodriguez cel- goals help yesterday. corner of the net. ebrates after First-half penalties from Granada came close to an scoring during Celtic beat Andres Iniesta and Cesc Fabregas equaliser four minutes later with the Spanish put the Catalans in command at their best effort of the game as League match the break. Piti drilled a shot from 25 yards against Granada Aberdeen Granada were then left to play off the crossbar. the final quarter of the game with Foulquier then made amends at the Camp 10 men as Manuel Iturra was for conceding the penalty with Nou Stadium in GLASGOW: Celtic scored shown a second yellow card. a fine last-ditch tackle to pre- Barcelona, yes- twice in stoppage time as they Alexis Sanchez added a third vent Sanchez making it 2-0 from terday. INSET: left it late to secure a 3-1 win soon after from Neymar’s pass Fabregas’ fine pass later on in the Barcelona’s over Aberdeen at Parkhead before Pedro Rodriguez rounded match. Lionel Messi yesterday. off the scoring a minute from However, it didn’t take long for poses with the Kris Commons had capital- time. Barca to double their advantage Golden Boot ised on a poor punch out by Dons Barca’s title rivals Real Madrid as Fran Rico clipped Iniesta’s trophy before keeper Jamie Langfield to fire and Atletico Madrid can close heels just inside the area and this the Granada Celtic into a 35th minute lead. the gap as they face Almeria and time Fabregas stepped up to rifle match. Messi However, Aberdeen grabbed Getafe respectively. the ball into the roof of he net. won the an equaliser in first half stop- With Victor Valdes, Xavi Youssef El-Arabi had a chance award for page time as former Hoops player Hernandez, Dani Alves and Jordi to halve the deficit from Yacine scoring 46 goals Niall McGinn finished off a well- Alba also out injured, Barca boss Brahimi’s cross two minutes in Europe’s worked move from a corner. Gerardo Martino was forced into after the restart, but he headed Langfield made amends for domestic league making seven changes from the wastefully. his earlier error as he made fin- last season. side that started their last outing It should have been three for gertip saves to deny Joe Ledley against Real Betis two weeks ago. Barca moments later when Pedro and Commons while Georgios In Messi’s absence, Neymar was somehow blazed over when pre- Samaras hit the post. tasked with playing in the false sented with an open goal after McGinn came close to putting nine role, but it was from a free- Roberto had flapped at Martin Sanchez made it 3-0 when he Adama Traore replaced Neymar Roberto smothered his low effort. Aberdeen in front late on as he kick that he nearly created the Montoya’s cross. lifted the ball over the advanc- to make his Barca debut. And Pedro put the shine on struck the post with a fierce opener as he picked out Sanchez The visitors’ task became even ing Roberto from Neymar’s The debutant nearly sealed another comfortable afternoon strike before substitute Boerrigter and Granada keeper Roberto tougher 23 minutes from time well-weighted through ball five his first match with a memo- for the Spanish champions scrambled home his first Celtic made a brilliant save to turn away when Iturra saw his second yel- minutes later. rable goal as he weaved past when he turned home Fabregas’ goal a minute into stoppage time. the Chilean’s flicked header. The low card for upending Pedro. With the game won 17-year-old three Granada defenders before cross. AFP Commons then secured the win with a tap-in in the third minute of stoppage time to keep Celtic five clear at the top and give his side a boost ahead of Tuesday’s PSG move seven clear must-win Champions League clash with AC Milan. PARIS: Paris Saint-Germain kept their unbeaten Agassa cleanly beaten. Menez made sure Laurent Reims’ The hosts had started in deter- start to the season intact with a dominant 3-0 Blanc’s men head to Benfica for their Champions defender mined fashion but Langfield was win at Reims which extended their lead at the top League tie on Wednesday in fine fettle, after another well-placed to deal with a fierce Mickael of Ligue 1 to seven points yesterday. explosive finish with 30 minutes remaining. Samaras strike from long range Tancalfred (in PSG who suffered their last league defeat at Reims Christophe Jallet made a penetrating run into the before he collected a weak header last season when they lost 1-0 in the champagne Reims penalty area before finding Marco Verratti red) vies with from Scott Brown. AFP region, gained a slice of revenge in a controlled, pro- who then found Menez at close range to set up the Paris Saint- fessional performance away from home. strike for Menez. Germain’s Lucas Moura and Jeremy Menez shared goals Verratti’s clumsy challenge at the other end min- Swedish Bundesliga either side of half-time and Zlatan Ibrahimovic utes later appeared to hand Reims a life-line with a forward Zlatan added a late insurance marker while Reims missed penalty but Grzegorz Krychowiak’s spot-kick mir- Ibrahimovic Results a late penalty as Laurent Blanc’s men rumbled to rored Roberto Baggio’s spectacular miss in the 1994 during the BERLIN: Nuremberg 1 (Ginczek 72) their 10th victory in 14 outings. World Cup final shootout when he blazed his shot French Ligue Wolfsburg 1 (Arnold 39) Second-placed Lille host lower table Toulouse wildly over the bar. 1 match at today while Cote d’Azur big spenders Monaco also Ibrahimovic, who finished last season as top scorer the Auguste Augsburg 2 (Halil Altintop 17, 23) face a must win situation at Nantes in a bid to keep with 30 goals, moved joint top of this campaign’s Delaune Hoffenheim 0 pace with the runaway leaders. charts with his ninth goal in the dying minutes. Stadium Eintracht Braunschweig 0 Freiburg 1 The defending champions took a deserved lead A clearance from Agassa was gratefully scooped in Reims, (Fernandes 52) on 24 minutes when ‘keeper Salvatore Sirigu found up by the Swede outside the box and he rifled the ball yesterday. Lucas with a clearance who in turn played a neat into the back of the goal to equal Radamel Falcao Eintracht Frankfurt 3 (Flum 56, Joselu 61, one-two with Swedish team-mate Ibrahimovic which and team-mate Edinson Cavani’s tally. 68) Schalke 04 3 (Flum 14-og, Matip 18, broke the Brazilian behind the home defence. Marseille moved up to fourth spot on Friday Hoewedes 86) A composed touch allowed the 21-year-old to tee with a 3-1 triumph at Ajaccio, although Nantes can up a right foot shot that flew into the left hand cor- reclaim the Europa League spot if they can pick up Hertha Berlin 0 Bayer Leverkusen 1 ner of the goal with Reims’ Togolese ‘keeper Kossi at least a point at home to Monaco today. AFP (Kiessling 29)

Your TV guide for Al Gharafa hit six past Umm Salal live matches today DOHA: A hat-trick by Nene inspired Al Gharafa to a crush- QSL Results Event Competition Time Channel ing 6-2 win over bottom side Umm Salal, and move up to Al Gharafa 6 Umm Salal 2 Lokomotiv vs Dinamo Russian Premier League 12:30 +4 fifth position in the Qatar Stars Lugo vs Sporting Spanish 2nd Division 14:00 +2 League (QSL), yesterday. Al Kharaitiyat 2 Muaither 1 Levante vs Villarreal La Liga 14:00 HD2 The former PSG striker com- pleted his hat-trick two minutes Al Khor 2 Al Wakra 2 RKC Waalwijk vs Feyenoord Eredivisie 14:30 .TV from time, courtesy of a penalty, Al Rayyan vs Qatar Qatar Stars League 15:30 Global having struck the net in the 1st Today’s Fixtures and 79th minute. Lekhwiya vs Al Ahli Qatar Stars League 16:00 2 Lisandro Lopez (5), Miku (17) Al Rayyan vs Qatar SC, 4.00pm at Lille vs Toulouse Ligue 1 16:00 .TV and Lawrence Quaye (64) also Al Wakra Stadium scored for the home side. Man City vs Tottenham Barclays Premier League 16:00 HD6 The visitors’ goals came from Lekhwiya vs Al Ahli, 4.00pm at Groningen vs PEC Zwolle Eredivisie 16:30 .TV Ahmad Al Sayyid (16) and cap- Lekhwiya Stadium Go Ahead Eagles vs Vitesse Eredivisie 16:30 .TV tain Othman El Assas (62). In other results yesterday, Eljaish vs Al Sailiyah, 6.30pm at Udinese vs Fiorentina Serie A 17:00 .TV Yahia Kebe (30) and Jesse John Lekhwiya Stadium Torino vs Catania Serie A 17:00 .TV (66) helped Al Kharaitiyat beat Sampdoria vs Lazio Serie A 17:00 .TV Muaither 2-1. Fozil Musaev (14) Al Sadd vs Al Arabi, 6.30pm at scored for Muaither, but wasn’t Al Sadd Stadium Sassuolo vs Atalanta Serie A 17:00 .TV enough to claim any points. Livorno vs Juventus Serie A 17:00 .TV A brace from Julio Cesar (12, 35) wasn’t enough for his side Al restore the two-goal cushion for a TOP: Al Gharafa’s Rio Ave vs Estoril Portuguese League 18:00 .TV Khor to claim all three points 3-1 scoreline at half-time. Ibrahim Al Ghanim Eljaish vs Al Sailiya Qatar Stars League 18:30 2 after being held to a 2-2 draw Zico’s side continued to domi- (in yellow) and Twente vs Breda Eredivisie 18:30 .TV against Al Wakra. nate but El Assas reduced the Ismael Mardelli Anwar Diba (46) and Jubiyare deficit with a penalty. of Umm Salal vie Al Sadd vs Al Arabi Qatar Stars League 18:30 Global (55) scored for Al Wakra. A well-taken free-kick by for the ball dur- Rayo vs Espanyol La Liga 19:00 HD2 Coach Zico, didn’t have to wait Lawrence Quaye made it 4-2 to ing their Qatar long to see his side score against Al Gharafa, and the hosts were Nice vs St Etienne Ligue 1 19:00 +3 Stars League Umm Salal. soon 5-2 up through Nene. Two Cardiff vs Man United Barclays Premier League 19:00 HD6 After being 1-0 up in the first minutes from time, the Brazilian (QSL) match at Al minute, former Lyon striker struck again to complete his hat- Gharafa Stadium Pacos Ferreira vs Belenenses Portuguese League 20:00 .TV Lopez doubled the hosts’ lead trick. yesterday. RIGHT: Ponferradina vs Deportivo Spanish 2nd Division 20:15 +1 when he volleyed Nene’s cross After the match, Quaye was Al Kharaitiyat’s Elche vs Valencia La Liga 21:00 +3 into the roof of the net. delighted with the team’s per- Mohamad Salam The visitors pulled one back formance yesterday. Rahama (in white) Flamengo vs Corinthians Brazilian Championship 22:00 .TV through a wonderful long-range Speaking to Al Kass, Quaye takes the ball Guimaraes vs Sporting Portuguese League 22:15 .TV effort by Al Sayyid, which gave said: “The match wasn’t easy at past Muaither’s Sevilla vs Real Betis La Liga 22:30 HD2 Umm Salal hope of getting some- all. We were more determined Campos Dafalas thing from the match. and started the match very during their QSL Bologna vs Inter Serie A 22:45 HD6 However, their chances got well.” match at the same Recreativo vs Eibar Spanish 2nd Division 23:00 +4 even more difficult after conced- He added: “This is my third venue. Nantes vs Monaco Ligue 1 23:00 .TV ing a goal merely a minute after game and was I happy to score. PICTURES BY: ABDUL Al Sayyid’s goal. I hope we can continue with this BASIT Old Boys vs Arsenal Sarandi Argentine Primera División 01:00 2 Poor defending allowed Miku to run.” THE PENINSULA SUNDAY 24 NOVEMBER 2013 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 27 Brash crowned Longines Global Champions Tour champion Double delight as birthday boy registers dramatic victory at Grand Prix of Doha

DOHA: Birthday boy Scott Brash of Britain yesterday pro- duced a dream performance, winning the Longines Global Champions Tour championship and the Grand Prix of Doha with stunning rides on his Olympic and European team gold medal horse Hello Sanctos. Scott’s dramatic series victory - propelling him from 8th to 1st place in the overall ranking - was perfectly timed on his 28th birth- day and came after one of the most intensely fought champion- ship battles in the Tour’s history. The €1m bounty were shared among the top 18 riders in the overall championship with Scott winning around €450,000 for both titles. Hello Sanctos’ delighted owners Lady Harris and Lady Kirkham were at the spectacular Al Shaqab final leg in Doha to witness another crowning moment for the star 11-year-old bay gelding. It was a tense cliff-hanger in Qatar with top German rider The podium winners at the Longines Global Champions Tour Scott Brash, Christian Ahlmann and Laura Kraut pose for a picture at Al Shaqab Arena in Doha yesterday. Brash, won both the Christian Ahlmann missing out on overall Longines Global Champions Tour champion title and the Grand prix of Doha. Ahlmann finished second while Kraut came third. Fahad Saad Al Qahtani (left) Director of Al Shaqab, the championship when he picked Walter von Kanel, (right) President of Longines, Jan Tops, (third left) President and Founder of Global Champions Tour are also seen. PICTURES BY: VP KAMMUTTY up one time penalty putting him in second place for the series despite a superb clear round on the amazing a narrow gap separating the top grey Aragon Z. two riders. In the final ranking American “Now I know this time is ****,” rider Laura Kraut on her incred- laughed Ahlmann said. “It wasn’t ible gelding Cedric was placed so good. After the second round, third overall despite leading the I was disappointed as I was slow series for much of the season. and didn’t have any chances to “I didn’t know that it would be win. a double today,” Scott said when “But in the end, I must say the asked if he planned winning the horse jumped very good. I like to world title and the Qatar trophy. say ‘thank you’. I was able to get “He is a horse of a lifetime. He a good result. He did a very good has given me so much. So many job. In the end, I am very happy people are involved in it,” the with the horse. That’s the reason Briton said. “It was just a perfect I got such a good result. So fin- day. There are so many people to ishing second is not so bad,” the thank,” he added. German added. Earlier, Italy’s Emanuele Kraft said it was a roller- Gaudiano and his mount Admara coaster ride. 2 won the CSI5* 1.50m speed “I was definitely nervous,” class by just 0.3s from Ireland’s Kraft said at the news conference. Denis Lynch and All Inclusive “It was a sickening feeling going NRW in second, and Portugal’s into the afternoon session. I was Luciana Diniz and Fit for Fun very disappointed. I just had an in third. lucky ride. That’s show jumping. Ahlmann said he was pleased I am disappointed because I got to finish in second spot despite up this morning that I could do it,” the American said. Global Champions “I am pleased that he was jumping well with confidence Tour Results after recovering from an injury,” Longines Global Champions Tour Ranking she said. “It is no bad,” she said. of 2013 (read under as ranking, rider, prize “I didn’t look at the results money and points) before coming here. Looking at Laura Kraut of the US on Cedric in action. RIGHT: Christian Ahlmann of Germany on Aragon Z in action. 1 Scott Brash, 294,500, 203.00 the results wasn’t going to change my efforts,” Kraft explained. 2 Christian Ahlmann 190,000, 194.00 “Unfortunately I didn’t per- The Grand Prix of Doha Kraut and Cedric jumped a crown. An impressive clear round certainly stepped up to the plate 3 Laura Kraut 123,500, 187.00 form as well as I could but ... my proved to offer a challenging, strong round, but failed to clear came from Brash and Hello Sanctos with Aragon Z. A horse that has 4 Doda de Miranda 76,000, 185.00 mother knew how much money I heavily-built first round, deliv- the second to last fence, earning a early on. Working through the tough been delivering later this sea- 5 Edwina Tops-Alexander 47,500, 181.00 got,” Kraft said with a huge smile. ering several blows to a few key very surprising 4 fault score, pre- Longines triple combination, Scott son, but by no means has the 6 Ludger Beerbaum 33,250, 180.00 Earlier, the thrilling climax Championship contenders. venting the Season Leader from displayed that very-same skill and experience that Taloubet Z or 7 Luciana Diniz 33,250, 178.00 to the 2013 Longines Global Edwina Tops-Alexander and qualifying for the second round. resolve that earned him an Olympic Codex One earned this season. Champions Tour Season saw an Luciana Diniz were the disap- An impressive clear round from team gold medal last year. Nonetheless, the combination 8 Rolf-Göran Bengtsson 19,000, 177.00 intense and tough-fought first pointed pair as both leading lady both Brash and Ahlmann meant Ahlmann, who came to Doha looked more than capable of per- 9 Harrie Smolders 19,000, 170.00 round with Ahlmann and Brash riders went out of the running for that both riders could quite easily without either of his two best forming well in the second round. 10 Nick Skelton 19,000, 165.00 homing in on the championship. the Championship win. narrow in on the Championship horses, Taloubet Z or Codex One, THE PENINSULA

9th GCC Men’s Volleyball Championship: Bahrain, Kuwait begin campaign on a winning note in Doha

The officials of Qatar Volleyball Association and other guests watching the inaugural match of the 9th GCC Men’s Volleyball Championship between Bahrain and Oman at Al Arabi Indoor Stadium in Doha, yesterday. RIGHT: Naser Anan of Bahrain tries to spike past the defensive block of the Omani players during their match. Bahrain began their campaign with a three sets to one win (27-25, 23-25, 25-18, 25-17). Five teams are taking part in the tournament which will end on November 29. Today hosts Qatar take on Oman at 5.30pm, while in the second match Saudi Arabia clash with Bahrain at 7.30pm. The tournament is played on the round-robin league basis and the team with maximum points will be declared the winner. In the second match, Kuwait defeated Saudi Arabia by an identical margin of three sets to one ( 25-21, 20-25, 25-21, 25-23) PICTURES BY: SALIM MATRAMKOT Sunday 24 November 2013 20 Moharram 1435 Volume 18 Number 5893 Sport Price: QR2

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BRISBANE, Australia: England were fighting to save the opening Ashes Test after a demoralising third day domi- nated by Australia at the Gabba yesterday. Skipper Michael Clarke left the tourists toiling in the field chas- ing after the ball, before calling a halt with just over an hour left and setting England an improb- able 561 runs to take a 1-0 lead in the five-Test series. England will have to create Ashes history to win the Gabba Test, with their previous high- est winning fourth innings score at 332 for seven in Melbourne in 1928. The world record for the highest successful run chase is the West Indies’ 418 for seven against Australia in Antigua in 2003, while the highest winning Liverpool’s English striker Daniel Sturridge celebrates scoring his team’s chase at the Gabba is Australia’s third and a late equaliser during the English Premier League match 236 for seven against the West against Everton at Goodison park in Liverpool, yesterday. The game Indies in 1951. ended in a 3-3 draw. England had a wretched start to their marathon salvage opera- tion when Michael Carberry was bowled by Ryan Harris through his legs for a duck in the fifth Arsenal extend EPL over, and Jonathan Trott com- Australia’s paceman Mitchell Johnson tosses a ball while approaching to his bowling mark during day three pleted a sorry match when he of the first Ashes Test match against England at the Gabba Stadium in Brisbane, yesterday. RIGHT: England pulled straight to Nathan Lyon batsman Jonathan Trott walks after his dismissal. at deep square leg for nine. lead to four points England went to stumps at 24 for two with Alastair Cook on 560 as the home side set out to LONDON: A calamitous mis- West Ham manager Sam 11 and Kevin Pietersen not out protect their 25-year unbeaten Scoreboard take by Southampton goal- Allardyce reacted by sending on three. Pietersen almost ran out run at the Gabba ground. keeper Artur Boruc set Arsenal Mohamed Diame and Modibo his skipper when he took off for a “We’ll take the third wicket Australia (I innings) ...... 295 5-294, 6-305, 7-395 en route to a 2-0 victory that Maiga before half-time, but quick single on his first ball faced tomorrow morning and hope- England (I innings) ...... 136 Bowling: Anderson 19-2-73-0, Broad 16-4- sent the Premier League leaders although the hosts exerted more and Cook just made his ground. fully we take the rest after that,” Australia (II innings): 55-2, Tremlett 17-2-69-3, Swann 27-2-135-2, four points clear yesterday. pressure on the Chelsea penalty Clarke held on to his declara- Warner confidently predicted. Chris Rogers c Carberry Broad ...... 16 Root 15-2-57-0 Arsenal had already hit area, Lampard made the game tion decision, seemingly to inflict “Our bowlers are bowling fast at David Warner c Prior b Broad ...... 124 England (II innings): the woodwork through Jack safe in the 82nd minute when he maximum mental damage on the moment. England are on the Shane Watson c Broad b Tremlett ...... 6 Alastair Cook (batting) ...... 11 Wilshere and Aaron Ramsey swept home from 18 yards. Michael Clarke b Swann ...... 113 Cook’s team to set the tone for the back foot. It does look like they’ve Michael Carberry b Harris ...... 0 at the Emirates Stadium when Earlier, Daniel Sturridge came Steve Smith c Prior b Tremlett ...... 0 rest of the Tests, after England’s got scared eyes at the moment.” Jonathan Trott c Lyon b Johnson ...... 9 Boruc attempted to outwit Olivier off the bench to earn Liverpool George Bailey b Swann ...... 34 3-0 series win three months ago Dashing opener Warner scored Kevin Pietersen (batting) ...... 3 Giroud with some fancy footwork a 3-3 draw against Everton with for their third straight Ashes his first Ashes Test century, and Brad Haddin c Anderson b Tremlett ...... 53 inside his penalty area in the 22nd an 89th-minute equaliser in a Mitchell Johnson (not out) ...... 39 Extras (LB1) ...... 1 triumph. skipper Clarke raised his 25th Test Total (2 wkts; 15 overs) ...... 24 minute. frenetic and richly entertaining Clarke and David Warner hit ton and sixth against England as Peter Siddle (not out) ...... 4 The Poland international Merseyside derby at Goodison Fall of wickets: 1-1, 2-10 centuries as Australia accumu- the Australians rammed home Extras (B4, LB8) ...... 12 attempted one drag-back too Park. Bowling: Harris 5-2-7-1, Johnson 4-2-7-1, lated an imposing 401 for seven, their 159-run innings lead to seize Total (7 wkts decl.) ...... 401 many, however, enabling Giroud A brace from Romelu Lukaku representing an overall lead of control. AFP Fall of wickets: 1-67, 2-75, 3-233, 4-242, Siddle 3-1-6-0, Lyon 3-1-3-0 to steal possession and stab home had put Everton on the brink of the opening goal. a first win over their city rivals Giroud made sure of victory in seven matches, but Sturridge’s Payback time in Ashes, with four minutes remaining, reg- header gave Liverpool a share istering his 10th goal of the season of the spoils after a breathless from the penalty spot after Jose encounter. Fonte had been penalised for pull- Philippe Coutinho’s fifth- says Australian press ing Per Mertesacker’s shirt. minute opener for Liverpool was Victory left Arsenal four points swiftly cancelled out by Kevin BRISBANE, Australia: performance to the raw aggres- above second-place Liverpool, Mirallas, before Luis Suarez Australia’s newspapers gloated sion of Dennis Lillee and Jeff while Chelsea leapfrogged restored the visitors’ lead in the yesterday that it’s payback time Thomson in the 1970s. Southampton to third place -- 19th minute by bending a 25-yard in the Ashes after their team’s “Fast bowling is in Australia’s level on points with Liverpool -- free-kick into the bottom-right bowlers humbled England’s DNA. It has a loud and proud her- after winning 3-0 at West Ham corner. batsmen at the Gabba. itage which was enhanced at the United in the day’s late game. Mirallas was fortunate to avoid Recalled paceman Mitchell Gabba as terrified England bats- Frank Lampard opened the a red card for a knee-high foul Johnson returned to his bru- men were humiliated,” Conn said. scoring against his former club on Suarez before half-time, but tal best as Australia blew away “It was a bone-rattling, helmet with a 21st-minute penalty after he teed up Lukaku for both the England for just 136 to turn the crashing display from Johnson Jussi Jaaskelainen sent Oscar equaliser and the 82nd-minute first Ashes Test on its head. and on Friday’s performance it is tumbling, and Oscar then made header that put Everton in front. Australia, trying to avoid losing remarkable to think that Johnson it 2-0 with a low drive. Everton would have moved level four Ashes series in a row for the was not considered among the on points with Liverpool if they first time in 123 years, are in a best five fast bowlers in the coun- English Premier had won, but Sturridge had the commanding position to remain try when he was ignored for the final say when he smartly headed unbeaten at the Gabba for 25 last Ashes tour.” League Results past goalkeeper Tim Howard years. The Australian said Michael LONDON: English Premier League result on from a Gerrard free-kick. “It’s payback time at the Gabba Clarke’s team swung “a remark- Saturday: Freshly-appointed Crystal this weekend,” News Limited’s able heist” in stealing the lead Palace manager Tony Pulis Arsenal 2 (Giroud 22, 86-pen) Robert Craddock trumpeted. and the front-running in the first watched from the stands as his Southampton 0 “A Test victory should await Ashes Test and now appear set to new side overcame the dismissal rampaging Australia .... the next get a break in the series. West Ham 0 Chelsea 3 (Lampard 21-pen, of Yannick Bolasie to win 1-0 few days are a rare and precious “Mitchell Johnson was mag- 82, Oscar 34) at Hull City. Victory at the KC chance for Australia to set them- nificent. A man of many guises Everton 3 (Mirallas 8, Lukaku 72, 82) Stadium took Palace off the foot selves up for the summer by try- -- and one who is remembered Liverpool 3 (Coutinho 5, Suarez 19, of the table at the expense of ing to break England’s four-man more for his bad days than his 209 Sturridge 89) Sunderland, who went down 2-0 attack in the field, getting a pre- Test wickets -- there have already Fulham 1 (Parker 64) Swansea 2 (Hughes at Stoke City. Fulham remain in viously ropey top order into form been two Johnsons on display at 56-og, Shelvey 80) the bottom three after losing 2-1 and keeping England’s key batting the Gabba,” the newspaper’s Peter Hull 0 Crystal Palace 1 (Bannan 81) at home to Swansea City, while Australian batsman David Warner reacts after scoring his century on weapons pondering where their Lalor said. Newcastle 2 (Remy 2, Gouffran 38) Newcastle United closed to within day three of the first Ashes Test against England at the Gabba Stadium next run is coming from.” Fairfax Media’s Greg Baum said Norwich 1 (Fer 80) two points of the Champions The Daily Telegraph’s Malcolm the Ashes series had been re-set. League places after winning 2-1 in Brisbane, Australia, yesterday. Stoke 2 (Adam 30, Nzonzi 81) Sunderland 0 Conn likened Johnson’s bowling AFP at home to Norwich City. AFP