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Emir gets message from Gambia President Emir to attend Jerusalem key UN meetings

DOHA: The Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad to Palestine’s Al Thani will arrive in New York today to participate in the meetings of the 69th ses- sion of the United Nations freedom: Hamas General Assembly. QNA Yemen rebels sign Islamic world must help rebuild Gaza UN-brokered peace DOHA: Hamas has pleaded square inch of our occupied land deal, PM resigns with the Islamic world to extend and the West Bank will soon a helping hand in rebuilding prove to be a ball of fire for the SANA’A: Rival groups in Gaza which is left destroyed by illegal occupiers and settlers.” Yemen signed a UN-brokered Israel in the recent war. The people who earlier pelted peace deal yesterday after Every Muslim nation on earth stones in resistance and gradu- The Prime Minister and Interior Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani with Gambia’s Shia rebels seized the govern- must contribute to the rebuild- ally took to guns and missiles are Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research Dr Abu Bakar Abdullah Senghor in Doha yesterday. ment headquarters and Prime ing effort in Gaza, said Hamas’ capable of taking the war with the Senghor presented a written message for the Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani from President Minister Mohamed Basindawa charismatic leader Zionists to the West Yahya Jammeh on relations and issues of mutual concern. resigned in the face of raging Khaled Meshaal. Bank and winning it, violence. He, however, dared said Meshaal. “A national peace and part- Israel again yester- He said in today’s nership agreement based on the day and said the war world the war of outcome of the national dia- with the Zionists will words was more Qatar committed to removing logue conference was signed this not be restricted to important than the evening at the presidential pal- Gaza alone but will war fought with ace” in Sana’a, state news agency now be fought in weapons. “Jihad Saba said. Jerusalem and West through word is more exit permit system: Minister President Abdrabuh Mansur Bank. “We cannot important than the Hadi, United Nations envoy Jamal at any cost sepa- jihad waged through DOHA: Qatar reiterated its for adoption at the council meet- difficulties. Benomar and representatives of rate Jerusalem and arms. “In the eyes of resolve yesterday to remove ing, QNA reports. The report was As Qatar has joined many glo- political forces, including the West Bank from the some, Israel is a great the exit permit system whereby submitted in May. bal conventions in recent years Houthi rebels, attended the sign- Palestinian resist- nation, but for us it is foreign workers must seek their The Minister said many of there is pressure on legislative ing ceremony. ance,” thundered a lowly country.” employers’ permission to travel the recommendations made to bodies in the country due to a lack Benomar said the deal calls for firebrand Meshaal. Hamas’ Politburo Chief On Al Qassam overseas. Qatar to improve its human of technical staff. Qatar is con- the formation of a government of Speaking at an Khaled Meshaal Battalion of Hamas A draft law was under study rights situation have been seri- sidering joining two international technocrats within one month. event to celebrate that fought and won that, once implemented after ously studied and implemented. covenants on civil and political Hadi said: “We have reached a Hamas’ victory over the Zionists the Gaza war, Meshaal said what becoming a law, will replace the Qatar got enough time to study rights and one on economic, social final deal with which we can over- in the recent Gaza war, Meshaal it has achieved is nothing short of sponsorship system with one to the recommendations, sort them and cultural rights. come this crisis.” He will appoint said Palestinian unity was “our” a miracle. Praising IUMS, he said be based on employment con- out and discuss them with state On the recommendations to advisers from the Shia Ansarullah duty and political differences can- yesterday’s event held by them tracts of expatriate workers, agencies, civil societies, the com- promote and protect migrant rebels and southern separatists not undermine it. was a symbol of Hamas’ partner- said the Foreign Minister for munity and the National Human workers’ rights, the Minister within three days, Benomar said The celebrations were organ- ship with them. International Cooperation and Rights Committee. Some recom- said sweeping reforms have been at the ceremony. ised by International Union of The battle for Jerusalem is Head of Qatar’s delegation to mendations have not been imple- announced by the state — a ref- The rebels earlier swooped on Muslim Scholars (IUMS) headed central to Palestine’s freedom, the UN Human Rights Council mented because they contradict erence to the sponsorship and key institutions across Sana’a, by noted cleric Dr Yousuf Al he said. They have laid siege on meeting in Geneva, H E Sheikh the principles of Islamic laws, exit permit rules being changed. including the government head- Qaradawi. Meshaal said he wel- Jerusalem. They have tightened Mohamed bin Abdulrahman bin Qatar’s Constitution and Qatari He said fines for employers who quarters and military sites, after comed the union’s call for the their hold over it and they are Jassim Al Thani. identity. would retain the passports of an apparent surrender by security Palestinian resistance to continue changing its Arab character. The initiatives are part of On the recommendation that their migrant workers will also forces. Basindawa accusing Hadi and its insistence that Palestinian “They are Judaising Arab cities, Qatar’s plans to help protect Qatar must immediately join sev- be raised. of being “autocratic”, according to unity should not be compromised but Jerusalem is in our hearts and migrant workers’ rights, he said eral international conventions, Qatar is a candidate again for his resignation letter released by at any cost. it will always be there,” Meshaal while tabling Qatar’s Second the Minister said there is political the membership of the council for the council of ministers. “We will not give up even one added. THE PENINSULA National Human Rights Report will but there are some temporary 2015-2017. THE PENINSULA AGENCIES

Cyprus International Rally Afghan rivals sign New plant to treat growing deal to share power KABUL: Ashraf Ghani, a domestic solid waste likely former World Bank economist, DOHA: The Domestic Solid Waste Management Centre is looking was officially declared the new forward to having a new plant to handle 3,000 tonnes of solid waste, president of Afghanistan yes- said a senior official of Keppel Seghers, the environmental engi- terday, after three months of neering arm of Keppel Infrastructure, which operates the centre. political deadlock was resolved The plant in Mesaieed, which became operational in 2011, is running through a new, untested power- at its full capacity. It was designed to treat 2,300 tonnes of waste per sharing arrangement with his day. However, with the growing population, the daily waste generation arch rival. has increased to 2,700 tonnes, with the remaining 400 tonnes being Ghani signed the agreement dumped in landfills. with Abdullah Abdullah, his The centre, the first fully integrated facility in the Middle East, adversary in presidential elec- aims at reducing the share of domestic waste disposed of in landfills tions in June that left the coun- to three to five percent, thereby decreasing the share of total waste try suspended in fraud allegations going to landfills from 92 percent to 64 percent. and political paralysis. Under the Stefan Kipp, Regional Director, Mena, Keppel Seghers, said: “The deal, Ghani will run the cabinet obvious benefit of waste-to-energy is that it mitigates the need for and be in charge of strategic func- more landfill sites, protecting the open deserts and land of Qatar for tions, while Abdullah will appoint future generations to enjoy. The integrated approach we have taken a chief executive in charge of daily at the centre means that, of the waste we receive, 95 per cent is now duties. See also page 13 converted to energy or recycled.” THE PENINSULA Continued on page 2 Qatar’s Abdulaziz Al Kuwari was crowned champion of the Cyprus International Rally, the fifth round of the FIA Barcelona thrash Middle East Championship, held on September 19-21. Levante 5-0

MADRID: Barcelona overcame a missed penalty from Lionel Messi to return to the top of Most Qataris welcome mandatory pre-marriage counselling La Liga with a 5-0 win away to 10-man Levante yesterday. DOHA: Most in the Qatari community the personal law should be removed and success in reducing divorce rate. families of husbands and wives and some Neymar opened the scor- are happy about a recent proposal by the replaced with the Islamic law. He urged the authorities concerned to necessary information about sex. ing with a finish from Messi’s government to make pre-marriage coun- Many Qataris have commented on the implement the proposal as soon as possible Extensive awareness drive should be through ball before the Argentine selling mandatory to help check rising issue on local social networking sites and and asked people to support it. launched in collaboration with media star missed from the spot after divorce cases. most said they are in support of the idea Earlier, elderly women in families taught and mosques to make youth accept such Loukas Vyntra had seen red for They say making pre-marriage counsel- of pre-marriage counselling to help check girls about the responsibilities of marriage proposals, said Amal Abdul Malik from tripping him inside the area. ling compulsory is a welcome idea, while soaring divorce rates. and older men gave such lessons to boys. Childhood Cultural Centre. Ivan Rakitic’s strike made there are others who say the idea is good A commentator, Mohammad Abdullah But now, such initiatives do not exist The idea is excellent but it should be it 2-0 and goals from Sandro but should not be made compulsory. Al Emadi, who said he was a researcher anymore, so the proposal is a welcome implemented properly by making attractive Ramirez, Pedro Rodriguez and There are still others and they are in a in sociology, said pre-marital medical test move, said Al Emadi. programmes for youth so they are ready to Messi rounded off the scoring minority who say official interference in and social awareness have been made Pre-marriage counselling would include join the courses, she said. after the break to make it four marriages is not advisable. mandatory in several countries, including courses on how to behave with spouses, THE PENINSULA wins in four matches. AGENCIES Those opposed to the proposal argue that Malaysia and have achieved remarkable issues of raising children, dealing with the Continued on page 4 MONDAY 22 SEPTEMBER 2014 02 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME Cessation Clinic helps hundreds to quit smoking Clinic treats 12-year-old smoker; up to five percent waiting to quit are women BY FAZEENA SALEEM However, people seeking sup- the health educator and learn weight gain, says Dr Mulla. cigarette smokers and 14,000 shi- 10 percent of Qatar’s adult popu- port and treatment at the clinic about adverse health impacts The Smoking Cessation Clinic sha (Waterpipe)smokers in Qatar. lation are smokers. DOHA: At least 1,000 people are between the age of 25 and 40 of smoking first, then they visit suggests only clinical and behav- The 2013 Global Adult Tobacco In this backdrop HMC will try to quit smoking in Qatar years. The clinic has also received the doctor who helps them stop ioural support and Qatar does Survey (GATS) was carried out host the second International every year by attending Hamad people as old as 70 years. Between smoking through medication,” not allow electronic cigarette by the Supreme Council of Health conference on Waterpipe smok- Medical Corporation’s (HMC) three to five percent of people try said Dr Mulla. which simulates tobacco by pro- (SCH) in collaboration with ing research: A Collision of Two Smoking Cessation Clinic, to quit smoking are women. Smokers who receive assist- ducing an aerosol that resembles the Ministry of Development Epidemics of Waterpipe and according to a senior official. The Smoking Cessation Clinic ance at the clinic undergo a smoke. Planning and Statistics also Cigarettes in October. The con- The clinic receives both men helps smokers to quit with a three months programme, how- “Electronic cigarettes are not found that some smoke up to 17 ference will examine the sci- and women and the young- combined programme including ever some quit smoking before allowed in Qatar because it’s not cigarettes a day. 51,000 smokers entific evidence on the health est person so far tried to quit pharmacotherapy with advice and the treatment ends. Majority of approved yet as safe by the Food in Qatar aged 15 years and above (biological, physiological) social, smoking was 12-year-old, Dr behavioural support. smokers try to quit their habit and Drug Administration and who constitute 12.1 percent of the economic, and public policy Ahmad al Mulla, Head of HMC’s “We combine health educa- face challenges as peer pressure, World Health Organization,” said adult population. determinants of shisha and ciga- Smoking Cessation Clinic, told tion with medical treatment and nicotine dependence, resistance Dr Mulla. According to a survey According to a 2013 World rette smoking. this newspaper. counseling so that patients visit to lifestyle change, stress and in 2013 there are about 51,000 Health Organization study, some THE PENINSULA

Government plans $20m tyre recycling plant

Continued from page 1 The pre-processing aspect of the Center, first-of-its-kind in the region, is especially impor- tant, because it enables mate- rials suitable for recycling and energy recovery to be separated and transferred to the appropri- ate processing line. This is done through Keppel Seghers’ propri- etary ‘dano drum’, which feeds into magnetic separators, eddy current separators, and infra- red and wind sifters. This entire process can help to recover 90 per cent of metals, and 50 per cent of plastics for recycling. “After separation, some of the reaming waste is burned to convert waste to energy. The fly-ash produced may also find use The officials of Keppel Seghers, Stefan Kipp (right), Regional Director for MENA, and Oon Ee Heng (second right), General Manager, addressing the media at the Domestic Waste Management in making concrete blocks for the Center in Mesaieed yesterday. SALIM MATRAMKOT construction industry. While the organic waste is sent to the Anaerobic then sent to an advanced and fully self-sufficient in terms of power The facility does not treat any with the government. The centre Area, Dukhan and Al Khor). Digestion and Composting plant to controlled incineration process, consumption. Currently it gener- hazardous waste such as batter- has already accumulated about one Keppel Seghers, participated produce soil enhancers for use in where energy will be recovered ates about 36 mega watts (MW) of ies, e-waste or other similar items. million units of tyres which can be in the Waste Management and agriculture and landscaping as well as to generate steam and electric- electricity from the solid waste, of But it has plans to recycle tyres seen piled-up strategically in an Recycling Summit held in Doha energy,” added Oon Ee Heng, General ity. The facility has three separate that only 5MW is used to run the with an installed capacity to handle open area to avoid fire. last week. The Summit was fol- Manager of Keppel Seghers. lines with a combined capacity plant while the surplus is trans- up to 1.5 million tyres per year. A The DSWMC receives waste lowed yesterday by an exclusive The remaining waste, which of 1,500 tons per day. The plant, ferred to Kahramaa, through a separate plant worth $20m for tyre from five transfer stations (South media and delegate tour of the is not recycled or composted, is built in three sq km area, is power grid located at the site. recycling is under consideration Doha, West Doha, Industrial facility. THE PENINSULA HOME MONDAY 22 SEPTEMBER 2014 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 03

2013 was cooler than previous years

BY SACHIN KUMAR down the temperature,” he added. The average highest temperature in 2013 was DOHA: The year 2013 was relatively less hot 39.3 degrees Celcius in July, while the average high- for Doha as temperatures and humidity level est temperature recorded at 43 degrees in 2010, were lower compared to previous three years. 2011 and 2012. Maximum temperature was observed at 46.3 Humidity also followed similar trend. Maximum degrees Celcius in July at Doha International relative humidity was recorded 98 percent at Doha Airport in 2013, which was lower than maxi- International Airport in February 2013 while it was mum temperature in previous years. 100 percent in 2010 and 2011 and 99 percent in 2012. According to the reports of Qatar Meteorology According the to the Meteorology Department, Department and Civil Aviation Authority, maxi- this cycle is not unique to Qatar and is observed mum temperature was 50.4 degrees Celcius in in entire gulf region. July in 2010, 48 degrees in June in 2011 and 47.7 “Level of humidity is dependent on wind direc- degrees in June in 2012. tions. Qatar sees high humidity because of Easterly “It is a weather cycle of four-five years and winds,” said the official. temperature and humidity move as per the cycle. Qatar is characterised by a hot summer starting Currently temperature and humidity are following from June till middle of September. Winter is mild, declining trend. Once the cycle is complete both with little rainfall which starts from December will again show rising trend,” said an official of till the end of February. The weather is generally Qatar Meteorology Department. “Also last year, pleasant during March, April, May, October and Qatar witnessed thundery rains in May which were November, attracting tourist across the globe to highest in past 30 years. It also helped in bringing Qatar. THE PENINSULA QTA gears up for seven days of Eid celebrations Activities will be held at Katara, Souq Waqif and malls

DOHA: The Qatar Tourism for the first time in Qatar, includ- Authority (QTA) has lined up a ing the Smurfs, Made in the Ice wide range of activities to cel- Age, the children’s favorite Ben ebrate Eid Al Adha which falls 10, among others. in the first week of October. The “Once again this Eid, residents celebrations will start on the and visitors can expect to find first day of Eid and continue for activities at all of the usual spots seven days. in Qatar — from Katara, Souq Commenting on the prepara- Waqif to the malls — as well as tions, Rashed Al Qurese, Director special events created solely for of Marketing and Promotion the Eid period,” Al Qurese added. at QTA said: “QTA is pleased Full details of the events will to continue the successful Eid be announced in the coming days. Celebrations in Qatar programme Materials about the activities with a new slate of activities Celebrations in Qatar.” will be made available to visitors planned for Eid Al Adha. Last Eid The celebration will feature arriving via the Abu Samra bor- events were well received, draw- entertainment and cultural der crossing with Saudi Arabia, ing residents and visitors from shows, activities at key locations and the Hamad International across the GCC to attractions in around Doha and activities spon- Airport. malls and venues around Qatar. sored by partners that are spe- More information can be had We’re certain that everyone in cially tailored for the period. from QTA’s social media channels the family will find something Last year saw shows and per- @qtourism @Onqataror. of interest during this year’s Eid formances in Qatar’s malls — held THE PENINSULA MONDAY 22 SEPTEMBER 2014 04 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME Seha a relief to strained QC, Silatech to help young entrepreneurs DOHA: Qatar Charity and Silatech signed yesterday an agreement to support young public health system Arab entrepreneurs, based on a memorandum of understand- ing signed in 2013 to strengthen cooperation in fund-raising NHIC expands service providers’ network campaigns, technology and technical assistance fields. DOHA: With a growing to select from a large number of about the Seha. The agreement was signed by number of citizens now seeking licensed providers who could pro- “The rate at which the use of Qatar Charity CEO Yousef bin treatment at private clinics and vide the services they require,” Seha is growing is phenomenal. Ahmad Al Kuwari and Silatech hospitals under the national said Dr Faleh Mohamed Hussain To have nearly 370,000 encoun- CEO Tarik Mohamed Yousef. health insurance scheme, Seha, Ali, NHIC’s acting CEO. ters with members in less than Under the agreement, Qatar it has greatly eased the pres- “Our ultimate aim is to have five months since Stage 2 was Charity is to finance projects sure on the overburdened pub- every medical facility in Qatar be launched shows the extent to worth QR 1,000,852 in six Arab lic health system, the National part of Seha’s network. We are in which the public has come to countries, including Palestine. Health Insurance Company discussions with providers across accept and rely upon Seha,” said The two entities will work (NHIC) said yesterday. the country and I invite all those Faleh Hussain Ali. together to support Arab young The number of citizens benefit- providers who have not yet done “What is even more remark- entrepreneurs through Silatech ing from Seha has been growing so to contact us to learn more able is that these hundreds of “Narwi” micro-giving platform. rapidly, with more than 400,000 about how to join the Seha net- thousands of doctor’s visits have Speaking at the signing cere- doctor’s and hospital visits since its work,” he added. all largely gone smoothly despite mony of the agreement, Al Kuwari launch in July last year, NHIC said. The inclusion of both public the significant change Seha brings said the move reflects the true part- The Seha network has in recent and private providers in the Seha to the way people access health- nership between Qatar Charity and months grown to include a total network affords Qatari nation- care. We have had just 165 com- Silatech to help the unemployed of 73 providers, including seven als greater flexibility, choice and plaints so far, which represents a youth in the Arab region by creat- hospitals, 31 clinics, 49 clinics and quality in seeking the medical very small fraction, not even half ing development projects to curb specialised medical centers that treatment that best meets their a percent, of the total encounters poverty in the target countries. provide dental services and two needs. and doctor’s visits we’ve had so For his part, Silatech CEO optical providers with 26 a total Of the 403,667 doctor’s and far,” he added. praised the existing cooperation of branches between them. hospital visits under Seha, 34,990 He explained that three spe- between the two entities, hoping Of the 73 providers, just four occurred during Stage One while cialised clinics are currently offer- for further cooperation to imple- Qatar Charity CEO Yousef bin Ahmad Al Kuwari (left), and Silatech CEO are public facilities with the bal- nearly 336,000 visits have taken ing physiotherapy services under ment additional projects in this Tarik Mohamed Yousef exchanging documents. ance made up of private sector place since the scheme was Seha. However, a referral from framework. QNA providers. The Seha provider expanded to cover all Qatari a physician within the provider network is expected to number nationals earlier this year in network is required to access the 100 by the end of this year, NHIC April. treatment. The number of provid- said yesterday. It also announced A further 32,679 visits to den- ers offering physiotherapy serv- the inclusion of physiotherapy tists have taken place since dental ices is also expected to grow over clinics within Seha’s provider coverage was introduced at the the coming months. 15 shops booked for violating rules network. end of June this year, bringing the Seha’s coverage includes both “The inclusion of private pro- total number of visits under Seha in-patient and out-patient serv- DOHA: Government officials The raids were conducted by caught by the officials included viders under Seha has greatly Stage Two to just under 369,000. ices including preventative care, have booked 15 shops at the officials from the Department shops being operated without eased the pressure on the over- In addition, some 36,000 emergency treatment, physi- central market for violating of Registration and Business valid licenses and some shops burdened public health system, Qataris have interacted with Seha otherapy, occupational therapy, licensing rules. Some of these Licensing at the Ministry of being doubly used as residences. while at the same time giving since the launch of Stage 2 via the speech therapy, long-term care, outlets were operating with- Economy and Commerce and The economy ministry, while the public more choice and more scheme’s call center, the infor- radiology, ophthalmology, labo- out valid business licenses Doha Municipality’s Food and urging shopkeepers not to flout access points to receive health mation booths set up at major ratory testing and prescription while some others were being Markets Control Section, Qatar rules, has urged consumers to care services. When waiting providers and the roadshow con- medicines as well as dental and doubly used as residences by News Agency (QNA) reports. report any irregularity they see times at certain providers prove ducted during Ramadan to inform optical services. their staffers. The irregularities that were or suspect. 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Preparations on to prevent Civil Defence holds mock drills in three centres water logging during rain DOHA: The General Directorate of Civil Defence conducted DOHA: As the season when Qatar witnesses scattered to some- mock drills at three different times heavy rains is approaching nearer, the authorities have begun points: Abdulla AbdulGhani and making preparations to prevent water logging in low-lying and vul- Brothers Co. (Toyota) Al Khor nerable areas. Weather forecasters told this newspaper yesterday Branch and Qatar National Bank that normally the time of the year when one can expect rains begins branches at Wakra and Mesaieed from September-end and lasts until mid-November. “With the onset on Thursday. of winter the chances of rain increases in Qatar,” said a forecaster. The operations started as the Meanwhile, Qatar News Agency (QNA) reported that the Department Civil Defence centres in Al Khor, of Service Affairs at Doha Municipality and Drainage Networks Wakra and Mesaieed received Operation and Maintenance Deaprtment of Ashghal (Public Works information about mock fire at Authority) held a coordination meeting yesterday in order to be pre- the prescribed centres. The fire pared to prevent and tackle water-logging in areas during rains. Civic rescue team rushed into the scenes and Ashghal officials come in for criticism from the public as sometimes as the security teams activated they are taken aback with the sudden onset of rains. The meeting fire-alarm in the buildings and was attended by Director of the Department of Public Services at evacuated the building and guided Doha Municipality Nouf Al Maliki, Director of the Drainage Networks the staff and customers to the safe Operation and Maintenance Department at the Public Works Authority assembly points. Ahmed Mohammed Sharif and a number of officials from the two The firefighting team of Civil departments. THE PENINSULA Defence controlled the mock fire and started a search operation for missing or injured persons as the team found there were no missing. The ambulance team also took part in the Civil Defence officials preparing for the drill. operations. The Civil Defence operations have made major the mock drill training as well. safety measures and train the Evacuation officer Capt developments on fire safety He added that the drills were staff of various institutions on Khamis Salim al Sowaidi awareness and most of the estab- conducted as part of the GDCD’s how to address risks during a fire. said that the mock drill lishments were prepared to meet plans to create awareness about THE PENINSULA

Pre-marriage counseling Continued from page 1 Qualified trainers should be hired so they can inter- act with the youths. Critics commenting on the net- working sites say personal law and Islamic laws should not be mixed up. “Doing so is destroying families. People’s privacy is being breached,” said a com- mentator opposing the pro- posal. Another critic said the role of parents is of utmost important as they can help save a marriage which is on the verge of collapse. “The proposal is not a good idea. Don’t interfere in marriages,” said the commentator. THE PENINSULA Kyrgyz minister in Doha

DOHA: The Minister of Education H E Dr Mohammed bin Abdul Wahid Al Hammadi met here yesterday with Kyrgyz Minister of Education Kanat Sadykov and his accompanying del- egation. QNA MONDAY 22 SEPTEMBER 2014 HOME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 05 QRC Patient Support Fund 55 citizens banned from winter camping DOHA: About 55 citizens would not be camping part of the culture and heritage of the country th i s w i nt er a s the y h ave b e en bl a ck l i s t e d for env i- and it provided an opportunity for parents and ronment-related violations last year. The section grandparents to spend time with their children to treat 100 poor people concerned at the Ministry of Environment has in camps and on beaches. announced that camping season will start on He said as part of preparations for this year’s October 30 and end on April 16 next year. season all camping sites have been cleaned up. Applicants for the camp licences must be aged Inspectors from the environment protection QR2,500,000 earmarked for treatment, medical equipment 21 years and above. Saleh Hassan Al Kuwari, department will tighten patrols and any one found Director of the section, said that about 55 citizens throwing wastes in the wrong places whether DOHA: Qatar Red Crescent have not been given permission this year to set up water or land and cause pollution to the environ- (QRC) continues to exert tre- camps because of the violations they committed ment would be penalised. They could face one mendous efforts to serve soci- last year that placed them on a black list. month in jail or fine of QR5,000. ety through its Patient Support Al Kuwari said that registration for the new The Al Rayyan, Umm Salal and Doha munici- Fund, one of its major per- camping season will begin on October 13 and will palities are planning to set up a database for all manent health empowerment continue until December 15. the camps in their locations. The official said it projects locally, which provides Another source from the Ministry told an is expected to have about 2000 camps this year financial and in-kind assistance Arabic daily that authorities were keen to pro- similar to those registered last year. for poor patients to cover some mote winter camping as this was an integral THE PENINSULA or all of the costs of their treat- ment according to certain crite- ria, in coordination with State health authorities and Hamad Qatar Academy Medical Corporation (HMC). The project pays for surgical primary teams hold operations, medication, medical equipment, and travel tickets (if house assembly needed) for severe cases that can- not afford treatment or health- DOHA: New sets of Qatar care, promoting social solidarity Academy student leaders met and strengthening the bonds with their respective teams for among rich and poor society the first house assembly of the members, in light of the Islamic school year. There are four dif- teachings and QRC mission of ferent teams each represented helping the vulnerable. by a local animal and colour This year, the QRC Fund is that make up the house system. planned to assist the treatment A patient, being treated under QRC Fund, with officials. Now on its second year of imple- of 100 poor patients and procure- mentation, it aims to build a ment of medical equipment for 50 necessary surgery, but QRC’s kind Qatar. During 2013-2014, the fund stronger community across the patients, with a total budget of hearts covered all the costs, help- received more than 220 cases, primary school, provide lead- QR2,500,000. ing me to recover, come back to including cardiac problems, dif- ership opportunities, develop To be able to pursue its social work, and secure a good living for ferent cancers, cochlear implants, the learner profile and raise welfare mission for nationals and myself and my family.” liver transplants, bone mar- school spirit through healthy expatriates, the Fund receives Manal Al Sulaiti, Director, QRC row transplants, renal diseases, competition. donations of Qatari benefactors Social Development Department, Thalassemia, body part replace- This is the main message which and institutions. You can send an commented: ments, and hearing aids, with an Al Maha leaders Lulu Al Misned Children participating in the assembly. SMS with the letter “R” to 92769 “We aspire to make the Patient overall budget of QR2,500,000. and Abdulla Borei, Al Shaheen to donate 100 for the Patient Support Fund an umbrella of Ever since its launch in 2002, heads Ahmed Al Mannai and Support Fund. social welfare through which to the Patient Support fund has Ruba Al Mahmoud, Al Hessan encapsulated it best when he school and social lives. The latest case that the fund help most poor segments of soci- played an important role in skippers Nour El Saady and said, “I want to be remembered The assembly ended with a helped recover from his cardiac ety that cannot afford the costs supporting poor patients with Khalifa Al Thani and Al Ghazelle as the leader that was fun, who relatively simple game where disease was an Indian expatri- of treatment, to keep it a bright its assistance and services that captains Sara Al Delaimi and focused more on trying and not students are grouped and tasked ate called Mohamed Basheer, source of hope for hundreds gained the trust of both benefici- Adam Sherwood and their just winning”. to make the first letter of an who said, “Thanks a lot to QRC. of help seekers, to play a posi- aries and donors. respective deputies delivered to Following the promising International Baccalaureate I have been working for years in tive role in improving social and It has become a destination for their groups during the assem- response to the program, the house learner profile word. These the service of the people of this health conditions in Qatar, and to eligible patients who have medi- bly. The young leaders shared points system remains a positive learner profile words make up a good land, leaving my wife and keep serving our beloved nation.” cal reports from HMC, as well a bit about themselves, their reinforcement initiative with stu- set of learning outcomes which three children alone in India. Al Sulaiti pointed out that as a provider of medical aids by leadership styles and why are dents standing to gain a greater help guide student learning and Unfortunately, I suffered a car- health empowerment is part of either by purchasing them or hav- they excited about taking on the sense of wellbeing which in turn development and the groups can diac artery occlusion and was QRC’s social development pro- ing them provided for free by the responsibility of leading a huge encourage individual confidence choose which one is the most became unable to work. I did not grams that secure medicines and competent bodies. group of primary pupils. and build self-esteem, helping them important for them. have enough money to make the medical services for patients in THE PENINSULA Al Maha leader Abdulla Borei to be positive in all aspects of their THE PENINSULA MONDAY 22 SEPTEMBER 2014 06 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME

QU laboratories ‘Doha Call awarded ISO accreditation DOHA: Qatar University’s research laboratories at To Action’ Environmental Studies Center (ESC), Center for Advanced Materials (CAM), Central Laboratories Unit (CLU) and Gas Processing Center (GPC) were recently awarded ISO/ shared at UN IEC 17025-2005 accreditation by the American Association for Laboratory Accreditation Document distributed in six languages (A2LA). This followed a series of audits DOHA: The Doha International DIFI’s Doha Call to Action calls over the past 4 years since the Family Institute (DIFI) has on governments to empower and labs initial accreditation by A2LA made available a document call- enable families to contribute to in April 2010. ISO/IEC 17025 is ing on governments to empower development by taking concrete the most important standard for and enable families to contrib- actions and policies concerning calibration and testing labora- ute to development by taking families. tories around the world and is concrete actions and policies It also addresses the immedi- used in developing the compe- concerning families, during a ate social needs in the commu- tence of testing and calibration high-level ministerial review by nity, is considered by academia laboratories. the Economic and Social Council and policy makers to be an In his remarks on the recent at the United Nations in New important document, and one development, QU Vice-President York. that is a great source for civil for Research Dr Hassan Al The document ‘Doha Call society organisations to refer to Derham, said: “It is a clear dem- to Action’ was developed for their programmes and poli- An applicant before the interview board. onstration of our adherence to and announced by the Doha cies concerning families. the highest ideals of quality and International Family Institute The Doha Call to action places international best practice in all (DIFI) following an important special emphasis on the achieve- Ashghal holds Open Recruitment our research processes and lab conference held in Doha earlier ment of development goals, and systems and procedures”. this year. It has been distrib- stresses the importance of design- He stressed that Qatar uted in six languages — Arabic, ing, implementing and moni- University allocates ample French, Spanish, Chinese and toring family-oriented policies, Day to attract engineers resources to equip and staff its Russian. especially in the areas of poverty laboratories to ensure that its In line with the Qatar eradication. DOHA: As part of its efforts infrastructure projects. The systems, among others. researchers, industry partners, Foundation’s efforts to enhance It also looks at full employ- to develop its workforce and various projects are part of the Al Kaabi stressed that the and stakeholders have utmost human and social develop- ment and decent work, work attract competent engineer- biggest comprehensive construc- authority gives priority to quali- confidence in the integrity of the ment, DIFI’s Doha Call to family balance and social inte- ing and technical special- tion process Qatar goes through. fied and specialised Qatari tal- labs’ processes and procedures Action was announced at the gration and intergenerational ists that can contribute to its This requires additional efforts ents through its ongoing plans and in the results of the wide Doha International confer- solidarity. projects, the Public Works to develop specialised talents in to increase the number of its range of experiments and tests ence ‘Empowering Families: A The Doha Call to Action fur- Authority ‘Ashghal’ organised the authority with experience in Qatari employees, to meet its that are conducted on a daily Pathway to Development’. Held ther emphasises that strategic an open recruitment day on the engineering and technology Qatarisation goals. He also basis. in April, under the patronage of focus on families offers a com- September 16. Ashghal offered fields. encouraged the Qatari youth to QU Research Office Quality H H Sheikha Moza bint Nasser, prehensive approach to solving career opportunities for expe- Ashghal’s Human Resources specialise in the various engineer- Manager Dr Mohammed Maqbool Chairperson of Qatar Foundation, some of the persistent develop- rienced engineers specialised Manager, Saif Al Kaabi com- ing fields to benefit from the enor- Ahmed said that the ISO/IEC the international conference also ment challenges facing modern in different fields related to mented: “Due to the large amount mous employment opportunities 17025-2005 standard is used by commemorated the 20th anniver- society such as inequality and roads designs and projects, and of Ashghal’s infrastructure in these areas, with Qatar’s steps QU laboratories in developing sary of the International Year of social exclusion. drainage networks designs and projects that are being imple- to reach its ambitious goals as their management and technical the Family. THE PENINSULA projects. mented or will be implemented defined by “Qatar National Vision systems to ensure competence The recruitment day saw a soon, the authority is seeking 2030.” of the highest level. “During the large number of applicants with to fill numerous vacancies cur- Ashghal organises a number of accreditation renewal audits, all the participation of 400 partici- rently available in the Roads open recruitment days on annual the laboratories’ documents and pants. The authority also received Designs, Roads Projects, Drainage basis, and the last one was in records were thoroughly checked Mercury Mena awarded contract for about 277 CVs during the same Networks Designs and Drainage June 2014. The authority also by the A2LA auditor who also day in addition to a big number Projects departments, through holds briefing days to introduce observed a lab test being carried health centre project in Mesaieed of CVs that were submitted on the open recruitment day. its scholarship programme for out”, he said. Ashghal’s website. The available positions include Qatari students, and has con- A2LA auditor John Kinsella DOHA: Mercury Mena, an engineering specialist solutions pro- The recruitment day happens senior engineers, experts and stant communications with Qatar expressed satisfaction with the vider, has been awarded the contract for mechanical, electrical and at a point when the authority is engineers specialised in civil University to attract outstanding functioning of both management plumbing (MEP) works for the Workers Hospital and Integrated witnessing noticeable accelera- engineering, roads, Intelligent students in various fields related and technical systems used in Health Centre project in Mesaieed, the company said yesterday. tion in the pace of implementa- Transportation Systems (ITS), to Ashghal’s work. the labs. The healthcare project comprises of a 120-bed hospital, an integrated tion of a wide range of nationwide electrical and mechanical THE PENINSULA THE PENINSULA health centre, a mosque and a central utility plant. Hospitals for single workers are among a number of important health projects announced by the Supreme Council of Health (SCH). These health centres offer comprehensive medical services including specialised medicine and emergency services round the clock, part of the SCH’s plans to create a network of hospitals and health centres QA offers return tickets for FC Barcelona match to provide integrated services for expatriate workers. Mercury Mena will carry out the complete MEP works including DOHA: Qatar Airways is cel- winner to receive return tick- with an ever-growing audience on the world’s most popular foot- plumbing and drainage, electrical works, ELV installations, HVAC ebrating its global partner- ets onboard Qatar Airways to social media, the airline is keen ball club, FC Barcelona. works, life safety works, medical gas installations and pneumatic tube ship with football giants FC Barcelona, watch a FC Barcelona to engage with passionate football “Fundamental to our FCB systems with provision for future expansion of up to 200 beds and Barcelona with a brand new match at Camp Nou, and receive and FC Barcelona fans worldwide social media promotions is the related clinical area. Mercury Mena will work in cooperation with social media competition, an official FC Barcelona football who wish to experience the live opportunity for the fans of Qatar Contraco Trading & Contracting who are the main contractors in the “Join the Club”, giving its fans shirt signed by the players. The action at Camp Nou. Airways and FC Barcelona to project, and with consultants, Jain Engineers, the company said in a on Facebook an opportunity name of the lucky winner will Qatar Airways has a robust interact directly with us online. statement. THE PENINSULA to win a number of exciting be announced on 15th October, social media presence and has We are very proud of our partner- prizes. 2014. reached over 5 million fans – ship with FC Barcelona and we To participate, fans Qatar Airways is also hosting the airline is currently in second are always looking for innovative simply need to like Qatar this contest on its official website position on Facebook for the most ways to engage with the fans of Airways’ official Facebook qatarairways.com/jointheclub. “Liked” global airline. the club,” said Al Baker. page www.facebook.com/ Entrants can also participate Launched on Facebook in Qatar Airways entered into a qatarairways, sign up and from their mobile devices, and April 2011, Qatar Airways strategic three-year partnership invite a maximum of 10 share it with their friends on has achieved remarkable fan with FC Barcelona in July 2013 friends to join the contest. Twitter, Instagram, Google+ and growth, due to a wide variety that sees the airline’s brand name The contest which runs Pinterest. Qatar Airways Group of promotions including fan appear on the FCB team shirts until 7th October, 2014, Chief Executive, His Excellency engagement, exclusive airfares, from the start of the 2013/14 sea- will enable the grand prize Mr. Akbar Al Baker said that and the airline’s sponsorship of son. THE PENINSULA Bloomsbury Qatar releases translation of Beirut, Beirut DOHA: Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation pub- lished recently English translation of Beirut, Beirut: A Novel of Love and War’written by Egyptian novelist Sonallah Ibrahim. The novel, published in 1984 and translated this month by Chip Rossetti, is a blend of journalistic and literary styles giving an insight of a foreign eye on the civil war which raged in Lebanon from 1975 1990. Based on the writer’s real-life experience of the civil war in Lebanon, the novel is an exploration of how, even in the midst of chaos and violence, univer- sals such as love, desire and yearning are still always our guiding forces. Sonallah Ibrahim worked as a jour- nalist until he was arrested and imprisoned in 1959 for his political activities. QNA MONDAY 22 SEPTEMBER 2014 MIDDLE EAST www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 07 IS closes in on Syrian border town Militants executing people of all ages to create climate of fear; residents cry for help; thousands flee to Turkey

SURUC, TURKEY/BEIRUT: international intervention. Islamic State militants tight- Some Syrian Kurds compared ened their noose on a northern their plight to the Yazidi minority Syrian border town yesterday in Iraq, which came under attack as the United Nations said the from Islamic State earlier this number of Syrian Kurds fleeing year. Tens of thousands of Yazidis into neighbouring Turkey may were forced to flee their homeland have topped 100,000 and was of Sinjar and other villages. likely to go much higher. The United States has carried Residents fleeing the frontier out air strikes against Islamic town of Ayn Al Arab, known in State in Iraq and has said it is Kurdish as Kobani, and its sur- prepared to extend them into rounding villages said the mili- Syria, but it is not clear when or tants were executing people of all where this could take place. ages in the areas they had seized US Ambassador to the United to create a climate of fear and Nations Samantha Power said slavish obedience. yesterday that other countries Kurdish politicians in Turkey were willing to join Washington renewed their appeal to young in launching air strikes in Syria people in the country’s mainly against Islamic State militants. Kurdish southeast to head to “We will not do the air strikes Kobani to help their ethnic kin alone,” she told CBS’ “Face the push back Islamic State, which Nation”. “But we’re going to leave has seized swathes of Iraq and it to other nations to announce Syria in recent months and pro- for themselves what their specific claimed a caliphate in the heart commitments to the coalition are of the Middle East. going to be.” “ISIL (Islamic State) are con- tinuing to advance. Every place “WHERE IS THE WORLD?” they pass through they kill, Among the tens of thousands wound and kidnap people. Many crossing the border into Turkey people are missing and we believe was Muhammet Abbas, a 40-year- they were kidnapped,” Welat old teacher. He led a group of Avar, a doctor, said by telephone about 20 people including his wife Syrian Kurds wait at the Turkish police checkpoint near the Syria border at the southeastern town of Suruc in Sanliurfa province, yesterday. from Kobani. “We now urgently and six children. “Everybody is need medicines and equipment for scared ... Where is humanity? when those numbers will end, we secular ideology. The group brooks died. Islamic State has seized at a debt of honour of the Kurds but operations. We have many casu- Where is the world? They are don’t know what the future holds no dissent and has persecuted and least 64 villages around Kobani all Middle East people. Just giving alties ... ISIL killed many people killing us and nobody cares.” ... It could well go again into the killed Shia Muslims, Christians since Tuesday, using heavy arms support is not enough, the crite- in the villages. They cut off the Turkey has said an estimated hundreds of thousands. We need and Yazidis as well as moderate and thousands of fighters. It rion must be taking part in the heads of two people, I saw it with 70,000 Syrian Kurds have crossed assistance for core, life-saving Sunni Muslims who reject their executed at least 11 civilians on resistance,” it said in a statement my own eyes,” he said. the border since Friday, but the support,” Batchelor said. hardline version of Islam. Saturday, including at least two on its website. A Kurdish politician from United Nations refugee agency Residents in Kobani said boys, the Observatory said. The PKK accuses Turkey Turkey who visited Kobani on (UNHCR) said that figure may Islamic State was within 15km of TURKEY UNNERVED International cooperation in of covertly supporting Islamic Saturday gave a similar account be too conservative. Kobani and closing in from the The Syrian Observatory for resisting Islamic State may prove State as part of a strategy to of the Sunni militants’ tactics. “I don’t think in the last three east, west and south. The town’s Human Rights, which monitors complicated because of Syrian crush Kurdish militancy, and said “Rather than a war this is a and a half years we have seen strategic location has been block- Syria’s civil war, said up to 150,000 Kurds’ ties to the Kurdistan Ankara was collaborating in the genocide operation ... They are 100,000 cross in two days. So this ing the Sunni Muslim insurgents Kurds had been displaced — inter- Workers’ Party (PKK), a group attack on Kobani. going into the villages and cutting is a bit of a measure of how this from consolidating their gains in nally and externally — since IS listed as a terrorist organisa- Ankara has backed Syrian rebel off the heads of one or two peo- situation is unfolding and the very northern Syria. The group tried launched its latest offensive tion by Western states due to groups fighting Syrian President ple and showing them to the vil- deep fear people have about the to take the town in July but was against Kobani last Tuesday. the armed separatist campaign Bashar Al Assad but strongly lagers,” Ibrahim Binici, a deputy circumstances inside Syria, and repulsed by local forces backed by It also said that clashes over- it has waged for Kurdish rights denies any suggestion that it has from Turkey’s pro-Kurdish HDP for that matter Iraq,” said Carol Kurdish fighters from Turkey. night had killed 10 insurgents, in Turkey over several decades. supported Islamic State or other party, said. Batchelor, the UNHCR repre- Kurds are mostly Sunni bringing the number of Islamic The PKK called Turkey’s Kurds radical Islamist militants, saying “It is truly a shameful situation sentative in Turkey. Muslims but Islamic State views State fighters killed to at least 39. to arms yesterday. “Supporting they pose a major security threat for humanity,” he said, calling for “Quite frankly, we don’t know them as apostates because of their At least 27 Kurdish fighters have this heroic resistance is not just to Turkey. REUTERS Turkey police use tear gas, water US will not be Wife of British IS hostage alone if it pleads for his release cannons to disperse Kurd protest launches air LONDON: The wife of a British to help those most in need,” his MURSITPINAR: Turkish taxi driver being held hostage by wife said. “When he was taken he security forces used tear gas strikes: Envoy Islamic State jihadists implored was driving an ambulance full of and water cannon yesterday his captors to release him, say- food and water to be handed out to disperse Kurds demonstrat- WASHINGTON: US Amba- ing on Saturday that she could to anyone in need. His purpose ing in support of Kurdish refu- ssador Samatha Power pre- not see how his death could for being there was no more and gees fleeing a jihadist offensive dicted yesterday that the United assist any cause. no less. This was an act of sheer across the border in Syria. States would not be alone if it Alan Henning, a Briton who compassion. I cannot see how it Witnesses said the hundreds of launches air strikes against volunteered to drive a humani- could assist any state’s cause to young demonstrators fought back Islamic State jihadists in Syria, tarian aid convoy to Syria for a allow the world to see a man like by hurling rocks and setting up although she said no decisions Muslim charity, was captured 10 Alan dying.” barricades on the road leading to have been reached yet. months ago and is in the hands of Barbara Henning said she a nearby border crossing. The US envoy to the United the IS group. had been trying to communicate “We’ve come to support our Nations’ comments came as the In a statement released with IS and had sent some “really brothers in Syria under attack by United States puts together an through Britain’s Foreign Office, important messages” but had Daesh,” Turkish Kurdish demon- international coalition to fight the Barbara Henning urged his cap- received no response. “I pray that strator Mehmet Eminakma said, IS group, which has seized large tors to “see it in their hearts to the people holding Alan respond referring to the Islamic State (IS) areas of Syria and Iraq in a bloody release my husband”, given the to my messages and contact me jihadist group. drive that has included behead- circumstances in which he was before it is too late,” she said. He said that Turkish authori- ings of western hostages. in Syria. The 47-year-old father of “When they hear this mes- ties were blocking young Syrian France has joined the United two teenage children was shown sage I implore the people of the Kurds who had accompanied their States in air strikes against the in the same video released a week Islamic State to see it in their families to safety inside Turkey group in Iraq, but the IS strong- ago that documented the grue- hearts to release my husband from returning to the battlefront. holds in Syria have so far been some murder of fellow Briton Alan Henning.” The taxi driver’s The security forces forced dem- spared. “The president has said David Haines. family live in Manchester, north- onstrators away from a barbed we’re not going to allow ISIL “Alan is a peaceful, selfless man west England. He joined a group wire border fence that stands to have safe haven in Syria, but who left his family and his job as of Muslim friends who founded just 5km from the town of Ain no decisions have been made in a taxi driver in the UK to drive in the charity “Aid4Syria” and even Al Arab, where Kurdish fighters terms of how we’re going to pro- a convoy all the way to Syria with had the name tattooed on his arm. are confronting the jihadists. ceed in that,” she said on CBS’s his Muslim colleagues and friends AFP After the clashes, security Face the Nation, using an alter- forces closed most of the eight nate acroynym for the group. crossing points in the area, includ- In a separate interview on ABC’s ing one used by Kurdish fighters “This Week,” Power told host heading to Syria. Only two posts George Stephanopoulos: “I will Don’t ease up on Iran for help remain open, and the interior make you a prediction, George, ministry will now register new which is that we will not do the against IS: Netanyahu arrivals. Turkey, which has given air strikes alone if the president shelter to some 1.5 million refu- decides to do the air strikes.” JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yes- gees from the Syrian conflict, had The Syrian piece of the US-led terday warned the West against easing sanctions on Iran to win been refusing to accept any more campaign is unusually complicated its support in the fight against jihadists in Syria and Iraq. As the for fear of being overwhelmed. because the country is immersed Islamic republic and six world powers started a new round of talks President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Kurds demonstrate against the Turkish government and the jihadist Islamic in a civil war that pits both IS and in New York on the Iranian nuclear programme, Netanyahu said yesterday described the refugee State (IS) group on Istiklal avenue in Istanbul yesterday. more moderate, US-backed rebels “respected commentators in the West” were counselling a softer influx as a “major problem” while against the regime of President approach to enlist Tehran in an alliance against Islamic State mili- saying Turkey would continue pro-Kurdish People’s Democracy release. “A bargain for money Bashar Al Assad. tants. “They are fighting the IS out of their own interest,” his office to welcome those fleeing the IS Party travelled to Switzerland is totally out of the question. US Secretary of State John quoted him as telling an audience in Jerusalem. “They are strug- offensive. “It comes with problems yesterday to begin a hunger strike There were only diplomatic and Kerry this week suggested that gling over who will be leader of the Islamist world which they seek attached, we are very well aware outside the UN office in Geneva political negotiations. And this even Iran, which backs Assad, has to impose on the whole world,” he said, referring to Iran. of it, but it would be really cruel to to press the international com- is a diplomatic victory,” Erdogan a role to play against the IS group. leave their destiny in the hands of munity to take action. said. Forty-six Turks abducted “I think what the secretary meant Jordan arrests 11 alleged IS members fate,” Erdogan said. And in Istanbul, around 10,000 by IS militants in the northern was that Iran has made clear that “How can we sit back and watch people staged a solidarity protest Iraqi city of Mosul were freed and it too views ISIL as an enemy and AMMAN: Jordan has arrested 11 members of the Islamic State (IS) when they are being bombed? We in Istiklal Avenue, the city’s main returned to Turkey on Saturday. as a threat,” Power told CBS. group who it said confessed to planning “terrorist operations” in the are embracing everyone regard- pedestrian area, shouting anti- Asked whether hostages had been “And so in that respect, all kingdom, a security official said yesterday. The 11 alleged IS members less of their ethnicity, religion or government and anti-IS slogans. released in exchange for IS militants, of our operations are oriented “admitted their links to the leadership of the Daesh organisation in sect,” he said. “There are good Erdogan said dozens of Turkish Erdogan said: “It doesn’t matter around the objective of degrad- Syria and that they were charged with carrying out terrorist opera- people and bad people in every hostages held by Islamic State whether there was a swap or not. ing and destroying ISIL, and tions in Jordan targeting a number of vital interests”, the official said, nation, but we have to fullfill our militants in Iraq had been freed The most important thing is they we’re waiting to hear whether using the IS group’s Arabic acronym. Security forces were continuing duties as humans and Muslims.” as a result of negotiations and no (the hostages) are back and reunited Iran thinks it has a constructive their investigation into the group, the source added in comments pub- Three lawmakers from Turkey’s ransom had been paid for their with their families.” AFP role to play.” AFP lished by state news agency Petra. AGENCIES MONDAY 22 SEPTEMBER 2014 08 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com

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ENS of thousands of people across the world — from New York to New Delhi — yesterday protested against climate change and the threat posed to Thumanity by the worsening phenomenon. In New York, the protests were held under the name ‘People’s Iran remains the United Climate March’ and included celebrities like film stars and leading US climate activist Al Gore. The branding of the march as ‘People’s March’ reminds one of the climate situation in China, where names of so many government States’ biggest challenge institutions are preceded by the word ‘People’s’. The official name of the country is the People’s Republic of China and the BY ERIC EDELMAN, DENNIS strength are fast eroding. In today’s airstrikes in support of the Kurdish ROSS and RAY TAKEYH parliament is called the Great Hall of the People. disorderly region, Iran sees a unique pesh merga troops and Iraqi security However, there were no reports of any march in the opportunity to project its influence and forces but also significant buy-in from nations on a day most countries, including next-door s the United States begins undermine the United States and its the Sunni tribes who formed the back- neighbour India, raised the heat on climate change with its campaign to destroy the system of alliances. bone of the uprising against Al Qaeda rallies aiming to increase awareness on the subject. Islamic State, many voices In Afghanistan, in the aftermath during the surge. In addition, the sine can be counted on to call for of the 9/11 attacks, the misapprehen- qua non of the administration’s policy A carbon emissions report yesterday put the finger on A cooperation with Iran. Among those has sion was born that the United States is an inclusive government in Iraq that China for being the worst carbon emitter in the world. The been none other than Secretary of State needed Iran’s assistance to rehabilitate can draw support from neighbouring Global Carbon Project report by leading research institutes John Kerry, who insisted that Iran’s its war-torn charge, and this misbegot- Sunni states such as Saudi Arabia and said that emissions by China alone, which overtook the exclusion from the Paris Conference ten notion has since migrated from cri- the United Arab Emirates. Both of these United States as the number one carbon emitter in 2006 “doesn’t mean that we are opposed to sis to crisis. The tactical assistance that will be unattainable if there is a percep- amid fast industrial growth, have soared to eclipse those of the idea of communicating to find out if Iran offered in Afghanistan in 2001 was tion that the United States is seeking a they will come on board, or under what largely motivated by its fear of being the de facto alliance with Iran. the United States and the European Union combined. circumstances, or whether there is the next target of US retribution. Once it During the past decade, and over two Though the United States, China and India have been possibility of a change.” was disabused of that notion, Iran pro- administrations, the United States has seen as the biggest carbon emitters in the world amid On the surface, this may seem sen- ceeded to lacerate US forces in both Iraq been effective in estranging Iran from intransigence shown by all the sible, as both Washington and Tehran and Afghanistan by providing munitions its European and even Asian custom- The fight three giant economies, the civil have an interest in defanging a militant and sanctuary to various militias. In the ers. But Washington has not affected society in the US and India has a Sunni group. But meantime, Tehran sought steadily to Iran’s position in the Middle East to against global we would be wise subvert America’s allies in the Gulf and the same degree. Beyond arms sales to free rein to take their governments to bear in mind to undermine the security of Israel. Arab states and attempts to assuage terrorism to task. However, despite being two points: first, Today, in the two central battlefronts Israeli concerns, the United States has in the wrong, China hardly ever The Islamic Kerry’s proviso of the Middle East — Syria and Iraq — not undertaken a systematic effort to shouldn’t acknowledges that it is responsible on the possibil- Iran’s interests are inimical to those of isolate Iran in its immediate neighbour- for the scourge that is not only republic is ity of change, and the United States. Iran’s stake in Syria hood. Instead of pursuing the chimera of hamper the second, that the has been made clear by its provision cooperation with the likes of Khamenei, affecting world climate, but is also not a normal essential axiom of money, oil, arms, advisers and, most Washington should contest all of Iran’s long-term war making its own population sick. of Middle East important, Hezbollah shock troops to regional assets. From the Shia slums on climate And it shows. The haze in nation-state politics is that prop up the regime of Bashar Al Assad. of Baghdad to the battlefields of Syria, Beijing has become the mother of seeking to realise the enemy of my The United States’ interests, meanwhile, Iran should be confronted with a new, change. all climate change pointers. The enemy is some- strongly argue against working with inhospitable reality as it searches for chronic shroud of smoke and other its legitimate times still my Iran against the Islamic State in Syria partners. enemy. The ebbs lest we lose the very Sunni support that The United States and Iran stand deadly gases that the Chinese capital has become notorious interests but and flows of the will be necessary to eradicate the group. at opposite ends of the spectrum of for is symbolic of Beijing’s stance on the issue — that it will war on terror- By taking a firm stand in Syria against Middle East politics. The Islamic not do much to fight the scourge. an ideological ism should not be both Assad and the Islamic State, we republic’s ideological compulsions and United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, who was entity mired in allowed to conceal can send a strong signal to Iran’s lead- sheer opportunism make it an unlikely one of the participants in yesterday’s marches, is hosting a the fact that the ers that the price for its troublemaking ally for the West. The coincidence of UN climate summit in New York tomorrow. manufactured theocratic Iranian is going to rise. mutual opposition to a radical Sunni regime and its Similarly in Iraq, any putative alli- terrorist group should not blind us to Emissions of carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels and conspiracies. attempt to upend ance with Iran would undo much of the enduring threat that the mullahs cement production will climb by 2.5 percent to a new record the regional what the United States has attempted represent. of 37 billion tonnes in 2014, according to the Global Carbon order remains to accomplish there — the creation of Eric Edelman, a distinguished fellow at project report. Emissions of the main greenhouse gas rose 2.3 the United States’ most consequential a pluralistic, unitary state that does the Center for Strategic and Budgetary percent in 2013 to 36.1 billion tonnes, said the report. long-term challenge in the Middle East. not represent a threat to itself or its Assessments, served as undersecretary of The Islamic republic is not a normal neighbours and which is not a base for defense for policy from 2005 to 2009. Dennis Humanity has to contend with multiple threats of nation-state seeking to realise its legiti- terrorism. The only way that President Ross, a fellow at the Washington Institute terrorism, disease and rogue international politics. So many mate interests but an ideological entity Obama’s objective of not only “degrad- for Near East policy, was special assistant crises have the potential of distracting attention from the mired in manufactured conspiracies. A ing” but also “destroying” the Islamic to the president for the Middle East and urge to fight climate change. However, the world shouldn’t persistent theme of Supreme Leader State can be achieved is by taking back, South Asia from 2009 to 2011. Ray Takeyh forget that the fight against climate change will be a long- Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s speeches over time, much of the territory seized is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign drawn one and would need more fortitude and resources than is that the United States is a declin- by its fighters in Nineveh and Anbar Relations. ing power whose domestic sources of provinces. This will require not only WP-BLOOMBERG the war on global terrorism. The other side Quote of Natural partners build rapport the day

HE Chinese president began Prime Minister Narendra Modi unrolled strong common interest in upgrading business pragmatism. The personal his state visit in a place other for visiting Xi Jinping. their national economies. The comple- rapport Xi and Modi displayed together than New Delhi. The Indian And the Chinese audience at home mentary economic structures of the two may end up outweighing all business Tprime minister received a delighted in the images of the leaders of giant neighbors have inspired many in deals. visiting head of state somewhere other the world’s two most populous nations China to dub the two as “natural part- Despite their similar past experi- than the capital of India. sitting shoulder to shoulder on a swing, ners for cooperation”. Compared with ences, attitudes to global affairs, devel- The two leaders witnessed agree- and the two tying their hands at the the enormous potential, the present opment goals and practical needs, the We must be ready ments between their countries being Charkha at Sabarmati Ashram. volume of China-India trade, even after two neighbors have grudged reaching inked outside the city. India’s helms- A series of major papers on bilateral the “blowout growth” in recent years, is out to each other thanks to lingering to protect our man personally showed the Chinese cooperation have been signed. Given a mere tip of iceberg. mistrust. But as Xi pointed out candor leader around his home state on his the strong business presence in Xi’s The similar rags-to-riches stories and sincerity build up trust and lead country if the 64th birthday. entourage, and Modi’s proud creden- of China’s Guangdong province and to close cooperation. Their agreement peace plan does The banquet was a fancy Gujarati- tials as enabler of the “Gujarat miracle”, India’s Gujarat, known as “India’s to bring the border issues, a historical style vegetarian dinner. more are sure to come, both before and Guangdong”, are a reminder that the burden, under control and to search for not work. “Departure from protocol” has been after the end of Xi’s brief visit. two countries have ready lessons for an early solution via talks will help build the catchphrase in the media descrip- As the world’s two largest develop- each other in pursuing their prosperity that mutual trust. Petro Poroshenko tions of the warm welcome Indian ing countries, China and India share a dreams. But Xi’s visit goes far beyond China Daily Ukrainian President MONDAY 22 SEPTEMBER 2014 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 09 The wrong reaction to Ebola

time I have been to a doctor’s office since Sensationalism the outbreak, I have noticed an anxious look on the faces of the assistants that and generalisation dissipates only when I say that I haven’t been to my country recently. seem to be the only For Western media, this is just another one of those stories about the “killer virus” and the “poor Africans” who must ways that Africa once again be saved and spoken for by Westerners. And, always, there is the can be presented most important question: Will the virus come to the United States or Europe? in the West. Once Western survivors of Ebola are given heroic adulation, while Africans who get again, my country, the disease are spoken off with hopeless- ness and horror. Where is the reporting we need about why the affected popula- Sierra Leone, along tion has, in some cases, not been coop- erative with health workers and their with Liberia, Guinea governments? The implication has been that they should do so without reserva- and, as far as some tion, again making Africans seem unrea- sonable, unintelligent and unaware of the are concerned, seriousness of the situation. But many West Africans’ experiences with international organisations and the entire African governments haven’t been positive; they know firsthand that governments do continent, makes not always have their interests at heart. Hence the distrust. Likewise, the inter- news because national agencies that arrived during and after the wars in Sierra Leone and of a crisis. Liberia have not significantly improved A health worker prepares to remove the body of a person who died of Ebola, at a community in Monrovia, Liberia. the lives of the population, and they do not enjoy the faith of the people. BY ISHMAEL BEAH “the frontlines of Ebola” and “the war on who have never set foot on our continent mine, along with most international If you are reading this and believe you Ebola,” video clips with somber narrators seem to think they know all about us? organisations whose task it is to assist do not think about us the ways I have t wasn’t surprising that Western and eerie soundtracks and photographs Given our interconnected world, it’s no in dealing with such calamities, haven’t described, ask yourself the following journalists would react with doom- that capture only sadness and hopeless- longer possible to excuse such treatment properly dealt with it. But the way questions: When was the last time you and-gloom when the Ebola outbreak ness, all without the necessary human as a lack of access to the facts. So what is Western media framed the crisis to the saw, and took the time to read, a positive Ibegan in West Africa. Or that the context. We have seen endless images of the explanation? To borrow the words of world hasn’t helped. While of course pre- front-page article about an African coun- crisis would not be treated as a prob- Westerners, covered head to toe, amid Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe, “Quite cautions must be taken, the hysteria and try? Have you ever met someone from lem confronting all humanity — a force crowds of healthy-seeming onlookers; simply it is the desire — one might indeed hyperbole have led to an unnecessary iso- Africa and decided to tell her what you majeure — but as one of “those diseases” given such presentations, it is no sur- say the need — in Western psychology lation that is making the outbreak more know about her country and her conti- that afflict “those people” over there in prise that people would begin to think to set Africa up as a foil to Europe, as difficult to address. nent, even if you have never been there? Africa. Most Western media immedi- that Ebola is an airborne contagion that a place of negations at once remote and The hysteria is also fuelling racism Have you ever noticed yourself speaking ately fell into fear-mongering. Rarely might get on a plane and travel around vaguely familiar, in comparison with beyond the continent. In Germany, an slowly and using exaggerated gestures did they tell the stories of Africans who the world, infecting people on its own. Or which Europe’s own state of spiritual African woman who recently travelled to while talking to someone from Africa, survived Ebola, or meaningfully explore that all Africans are potential carriers. grace will be manifest.” Kenya — far from the affected countries assuming that he doesn’t understand what it means to see your child or par- Once again, sensationalism and gener- This thinking is so deeply entrenched — fell ill with a stomach virus at work; English well? ent or other family member or friend alisation seem to be the only ways that in the minds of people in the West that the entire building was locked down. In Once again, we are a place of fear be stricken with the disease. Where are Africa can be presented in the West. it has become a reflex. Still, the ways Brussels, an African man had a simple and misunderstanding. I am not hopeful the stories of the wrenching decisions Once again, my country, Sierra Leone, in which Africans are portrayed as less nosebleed at a shopping mall, and the that Western thinking about Africa will of families forced to abandon loved ones along with Liberia, Guinea and, as far as human have not lost the power to shock. store where it happened was sterilized. change anytime soon, but it must be chal- or the bravery required to simply live as some are concerned, the entire African Each new crisis, it seems, offers a plat- In Seoul, a bar put up a sign saying, “We lenged. Silence only leads to continued a human in conditions where everyone continent, makes news because of a crisis. form for some to exercise their prejudices. apologise but due to the Ebola Virus dehumanisation and further acceptance walks on the edge of suspicion? Is this the only time we are relevant? Yes, there is an Ebola crisis in West we are not accepting Africans at the by future generations in the West. Instead, we have been given news from Why is it that, once again, even those Africa. Yes, some governments, including moment.” Here in the United States, each WP-BLOOMBERG Fighting terror or abusing rights? The next step for BY DR MOHAMED KIRAT any human rights. From that Terrorism is known to surprise. point of view, we can believe that regulating Uber errorism presents a global the fight against terrorism is a threat to democracy, the fight for human rights, for human Today it doesn’t surprise anymore BY DAVID ALPERT Trule of law, human rights, dignity and for all those ideals more. Government officials now peace and security. It also con- in which liberal democracy has crunch these numbers and, more stitutes an attack on mankind’s and that is the most frightening its roots. In today’s world, fight ow do you deregulate a important, so do travel journal- most fundamental value: the against terrorism leaves a deep transportation service ists, bloggers, watchdogs and right to a life lived in peace, free- thing. Terrorism has become a part mark on the democratic insti- Hlike taxis? The popular- advocates. If an airline starts dom and dignity. The terrorists’ tutions and on the democratic ity of competitors such as Uber, doing shady things, people will intentional, indiscriminate killing process. Every individual, being Lyft and Sidecar has stirred calls know. of civilians is a cynical denial of of our lives and we are already a part of liberal and democratic to loosen regulations and allow Cities considering deregulating the respect for the sanctity of life. society is potential victim of some innovative business models. That’s their taxi markets could require Everyone has the right to life, lib- used to living with it. terrorist attack but in the same good. The question now is what that companies disclose informa- erty and security of person, as the time is a victim of the control and role the government should play. tion about their services, openly Universal Declaration of Human counter-terrorism measures are September 11 attacks as hor- “liberating from freedom” that The best approach for and to everyone. Then we — the Rights states. conducted which may affect fun- rific crimes — mass murders — has been done by legal, liberal these app-based services is public, not just a few people on In the War on Terrorism, what damental human rights. Powers and the government’s mission as and democratic political author- transparency. taxi commissions — can keep an becomes of international human of search, arrest and detention apprehending and punishing the ity. International human rights Traditional taxis are heavily eye on how our transportation rights? It seems without any may be affected by the counter- surviving planners and conspira- law provides a number of rights regulated. Governments control networks are serving us. doubt that the war model poses terrorism measures adopted by tors for their roles in the crimes. on arrest and detention. These fares, paint schemes and the Cities could require that Uber/ a threat to international human states. The threat of terrorism The War on Terrorism is a dif- include the right to be informed number of vehicles. When you can Lyft type services, which govern- rights, because honouring human may also result in limitations on ferent proposition, however, and of the reasons for your arrest and hail a vehicle with an app, many ment agencies often call “trans- rights is neither practically pos- other rights such as freedom of a different model of governmental the charges against you, the right of these rules become unneces- portation network companies,” sible nor theoretically required expression and religion and the action — not law but war. Most to be brought promptly before a sary. Yet existing laws didn’t release data sets with the approx- during war. Acts of terrorism are right to seek asylum. Those sus- obviously, it dramatically broad- judge and the right to bring pro- anticipate these services, meaning imate origins and destinations of under no circumstances justifi- pected of terrorist offences must ens the scope of action, because ceedings before a court for review they often are technically illegal. trips, wait times and fares. Cities able by considerations of a politi- be treated in accordance with now terrorists who knew noth- of the reasons for your deten- (Jeff Bezos, who owns The Post, is already collect this data from old- cal, philosophical, religious or certain basic international human ing about September 11 have been tion. Arrested persons normally an investor in Uber.) style cabs, and some, such as New other similar nature. Terrorism rights standards. earmarked as enemies. have the right to have someone I use these app-based services York, have released it publicly, is like totalitarianism in the sense In a Statement at a special Today in a global world, ter- informed of their detention and to often. Ordering a car is a snap, making useful maps and tools that whoever kills an innocent meeting of the Security Council’s rorism seems to be closer than receive legal advice without delay. payment is seamless and drivers possible. citizen in order to impose his/ Counter-Terrorism Committee ever. On a daily basis, we hear, Unfortunately the last two are friendly. These advantages With this data, people can bet- her views follows a totalitarian with International, Regional, watch or read about some new decades provided us with hun- have won Uber and its competi- ter understand how often and ideology. Terrorism is seen as a and Sub-Regional Organizations, attack, some new threat or some dreds of cases of human rights tors legions of fans in cities across when a service uses “surge pric- major threat to political stability on March 6, 2003, then UN new victims of terrorism. Fear abuses by Western democracies the United States. But for serv- ing,” where a service charges more in many countries. Respect for Secretary-General Kofi Annan pervades the world and people and other countries of the world. ices as fundamental as transpor- during periods of high demand. internationally recognised human asserted: “Our responses to ter- feel unsafe. Terrorism is known Guantanamo, Abu Gharib, Iraq, tation, there are risks of having This practice can upset customers rights is a fundamental respon- rorism, as well as our efforts to to surprise. Today it does not Afghanistan and thousands of no role for the public. These firms but it is helpful if used fairly and sibility of national governments. thwart it and prevent it, should surprise anymore and that is the arrests of innocent people in sev- may displace most taxi services, if consumers are well-informed — Can governments prevent terror- uphold the human rights that ter- most frightening thing. Terrorism eral Western countries are clear as is happening in San Francisco, which open data can ensure. ism while also respecting human rorists aims to destroy. Respect has become a part of our lives and examples of fighting terrorism by where taxi usage has dropped 65 Open data also can show us rights, or must authorities trade for human rights, fundamental we are already used to living with using unlawful measures, proce- percent since early 2012. And how service and wait times off some human rights to reduce freedoms and the rule of law it. Long time ago institutions and dures and means. In response to Uber already has been accused compare between rich and poor terrorism? If the latter is the case, are essential tools in the effort army have started fight against the events of September 11, 2001, of engaging in shady behaviour, neighbourhoods. Government has which human rights can or should to combat terrorism - not privi- terrorism but after September the “antiterrorist policy” both at by some drivers and at least one a clear role in making sure that be sacrificed for the goal of stop- leges to be sacrificed at a time of the eleventh fight it has culmi- international and national levels competitor. disadvantaged areas don’t suffer ping terrorism? States may use tension”. nated because USA, as a leader has gradually led to the restric- Is there a way to encourage when it comes to something as the real or perceived presence of In the immediate aftermath of west liberal democracy, has tion — or even the suppression, innovation but protect the pub- fundamental as transportation. a terrorist threat to justify treat- of September 11, President Bush declared war against terrorism. in many cases — of human rights. lic? We can look to the airline In fact, Uber and its competitors ing prisoners in a way that may stated that the perpetrators of Terrorists and terrorist organi- Does war on terrorism mean war industry, which was deregulated now often serve poor areas bet- otherwise be contrary to inter- the deed would be brought to zations anti – west disposed, as on human rights? in 1978. The federal government ter than traditional cabs, and they national human rights standards. justice. Soon afterwards, the target have symbols, institutions Is it time to think about other stopped prescribing airlines’ exact don’t discriminate based on skin Governments have a clear right president announced that the and citizens of liberal democratic means to fight terrorism than routes and fares but, in addition colour. and possibly a duty, to protect United States would engage in states. war, violence and terror? to continuing to ensure safety, it Hopefully, open data will prove citizens from terrorist attacks a war on terrorism. The first Using innocent victims as a The writer is a professor of Public collected data from the airlines that these services are reducing and to bring the perpetrators of of these statements adopts the method to approach their goals, Relations and Mass Communication about their routes, schedules, unfairness. But if that stops being such acts to justice. It is, how- familiar language of criminal law terrorists are showing that they at the College of Arts and Sciences, fares, how full the planes are, true, open data will help the pub- ever, the manner in which these and criminal justice. It treats the do not respect human dignity or Qatar University. on-time performance and much lic find out. WP-BLOOMBERG MONDAY 22 SEPTEMBER 2014 MIDDLE EAST 10 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Bomb explosion kills 2 Yemen peace deal police officers in Cairo Blast outside foreign ministry headquarters

CAIRO: At least two policemen Two lieutenant colonels died claimed the bombing, saying it were killed yesterday in a bomb- and nine people were wounded by was defending “the oppressed” ing near a checkpoint outside the improvised device, the inte- and was in retaliation for a gov- Egypt’s foreign ministry head- rior and health ministries said. ernment crackdown on Mursi quarters, officials said, shatter- Police cordoned off the scene in supporters. ing a months-long respite from a crowded district of central Cairo The bombing targeted “the forces deadly attacks in Cairo. along the Nile River, and searched of the criminal security appara- The blast brought down a tree with sniffer dogs for more bombs. tuses... to give them a taste of what onto a car, metres from a pool of One of the officers, Mohamed they do to Muslims,” the group blood where one victim had fallen, Mahmud Abu Sarie, had testified said in a statement on Twitter. witnesses said. in a court case on a prison break “Vengeance operations being car- The explosion came hours after involving ousted Islamist presi- ried out by a blessed group from this President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi, dent Mohamed Mursi in 2011, proud people will not stop.” the former army chief who has when he was an opposition leader Militants have killed scores of Abd Al Karim Al Iryani (centre, bending), adviser to Yemeni President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi (centre in blue battled militants since he over- jailed by former strongman Hosni policemen since the military top- tie), signs an agreement as UN special envoy Jamal Benomar (right) looks on, in Sana’a yesterday. Yemen’s threw the ruling Islamists last Mubarak, a security official said. pled Mursi in July 2013. In the Shia rebels signed an agreement with other political parties to form a more inclusive government and end year, left for New York for the It was unclear whether Abu Sarie past, they have set off several days of fighting on the streets of the capital. UN General Assembly where he had been targeted over his role in bombs in succession to target first is expected to discuss militancy the trial. responders after an attack. in the region. The militant group Ajnad Misr Two police bomb disposal experts were killed trying to defuse devices outside the presi- dential palace in June, the last major attack in the capital before Iran set to block social apps yesterday’s explosion. The attack came days after TEHRAN: Iran’s judiciary has Gholamhossein Mohseni-Ejeie, through the applications about Interior Minister Mohamed issued a one-month ultima- the second-ranking member of current officials in the Iranian Ibrahim held a news conference tum for the government to ban Iran’s judiciary, said in a letter government, including supreme to announce the killing and arrest applications WhatsApp, Viber to Telecommunications Minister leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. If of several Islamist militants. and Tango, in a move that could Mahmoud Vaezi. the telecommunications ministry “It is a cowardly act and a polit- boost existing restrictions on Mohseni-Ejeie criticised “mes- does not take the measures the ical message but it won’t hinder Internet use in the country. sages against the founder of judiciary will intervene to “ban the the progress of the Egyptian Iran has a policy of filtering the Islamic republic (Ayatollah social networks that have criminal people,” Cairo governor Galal online content, which leaves pop- Ruhollah Khomeini) that have content,” Mohseni-Ejeie said. The Said said near the scene of the ular websites such as Facebook, been widely circulated on the ministry did not react to the letter. explosion. Some passers-by gath- Twitter and YouTube inaccessible Viber, Tango and WhatsApp net- WhatsApp is a mobile mes- ered around, chanting “The peo- without the use of illegal software. works” in recent weeks. saging application available that ple demand the execution of the “After the order given by the In the letter published by local allow users to swap text, picture Brotherhood,” referring to Mursi’s head of the judicial authority, you news agencies on Saturday, he and video messages. Viber and Policemen inspect the area where a home-made bomb went off near a now-banned Muslim Brotherhood have one month to take techni- stressed that the messages con- Tango let users call other peo- Egyptian Foreign Ministry building in Cairo yesterday. movement. cal measures to ban and to moni- stitute “crimes”. Local media said ple who have the applications AFP tor” Viber, Tango and WhatsApp, similar messages had been sent installed on their mobiles. AFP

Syria says all chemical weapons handed over

DAMASCUS: Syria’s government said yes- President Bashar Al Assad of violating the Syria was not required to declare any chlo- terday that it has turned over all its chemi- convention by using chlorine as a weapon. rine stockpiles, but the toxic agent can be con- cal weapons and adhered to an international “We believe there is evidence of Assad’s use sidered a chemical weapon if used offensively, treaty, after US accusations that it had car- of chlorine, which when you use it — despite it violating the Chemical Weapons Convention. ried out several chlorine gas attacks. not being on the list — it is prohibited under The OPCW has reported “compelling con- “Syria has fulfilled its obligations by adher- the Chemical Weapons Convention,” Kerry firmation” that a toxic chemical was used ing to the Chemical Weapons Convention,” the told US lawmakers. The United States also “systematically and repeatedly” as a weapon foreign ministry said in a statement published had “some questions about a couple of other in northern Syria earlier this year. by state media. items” which were being investigated “so he’s It said it had a “high degree of confidence” “It cooperated fully with the Organisation in violation of the convention,” Kerry added. that the chemical in question was chlorine. for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and After an August 2013 sarin attack outside Syria’s government has always denied respon- no longer possesses these weapons,” it added. Damascus that much of the international com- sibility for the August 2013 chemical weapons The comments come after US Secretary of munity blamed on Assad’s government, the attack, accusing rebels of carrying it out to State John Kerry on Thursday accused Syria’s regime agreed to turn over its chemical arsenal. spur international intervention. AFP Tribesmen fight security forces in south Libya

BENGHAZI: Soldiers and wounded, hospital medics said. police have clashed in the Some commentators on last few days in southern Libyan social media websites Libya, near the country’s linked the fighting to attempts biggest oilfield, with ethnic by an armed opposition group Tibu fighters who had been from the western city of trying to smuggle in fel- Misrata to get access to the low tribesmen from Algeria, El Sharara field after taking medics and residents said. the capital Tripoli last month. Up to 12 people have been Libyan media have reported killed in the fighting, which that envoys from Misrata-based broke out on Wednesday and is groups have visited several areas symptomatic of the anarchy in in western and southern Libya Libya, where the government in the past few weeks to sound is almost powerless to control out the possibility of cooperation former rebel militias who helped with local groups and tribes. oust Muammar Gaddafi in 2011 Misrata, Libya’s third city, but now fight each for control is home to some of the most Palestinian women baking bread in the ruins of their house in Khan Younis and a share of oil revenues. experienced rebel militias, as in the southern Gaza Strip yesterday. According to the UN agency for aid The fighting started in well as Libya’s biggest non-oil to Palestinian refugees, 65,000 homeless Palestinians are still sheltering Ubari, near the El Sharara oil- port. But the city lacks access in UN schools awaiting accommodation and thousands more have sought field, which was shut last week to oil, Libya’s only source of refuge with relatives. because of damage to a storage revenue for the $47 billion facility at the Zawiya refinery annual budget. Rival mili- in the north, which it feeds. tias from Zintan, who have UN warns over Israeli plan to Residents said gunmen had been expelled from Tripoli attacked a police station in the by Misrata’s forces, control town, not far from the main pipelines coming from the relocate West Bank Bedouins southern city of Sabha, after two southern oilfields of El JERUSALEM: The UN’s solution,” he said in a statement. the border smuggling attempt Sharara and El Feel. Palestinian refugee agency yes- “I urge the Israeli authorities failed. Around 27 people were REUTERS terday urged the international not to proceed with the transfer community to oppose Israeli ...and I also urge the donor and Bahrain upholds jail terms for activists plans to relocate thousands of state community to take a firm Palestinian Bedouin from the stand against it.” DUBAI: A Bahraini appeals court yesterday confirmed five- central West Bank. UNRWA added that most of year jail terms imposed on nine Shias, among them a photo- “If such a plan were imple- those slated for resettlement journalist and an online activist, for calling for the overthrow mented this would ... give rise to to Jericho, in the east of the of the monarchy, a judicial source said. concerns that it amounts to a ‘for- Palestinian territory, were regis- Dozens of Bahraini Shias have been handed lengthy prison cible transfer’ in contravention of tered Palestinian refugees. terms after being convicted of involvement in protests that have the Fourth Geneva Convention,” The Israeli military depart- shaken the kingdom since February 2011. banning involuntary population ment responsible for civil affairs The court upheld an April ruling sentencing photographer relocation in occupied territory, in the occupied West Bank had Hussain Hubail and activist Jassim Al Nuaimi, along with seven UNRWA Commissioner General no immediate comment, but other Shia, to five years in prison, after convicting them of pro- Pierre Krahenbuhl said. Haaretz newspaper last week moting the overthrow of the regime “through illegal means via “It might also make way for quoted an official as saying that media and social networks”. They were also convicted of taking further Israeli illegal settlement dozens of meetings were held part in, and calling for, protests last year. expansion, further compromis- with Bedouin leaders. AFP ing the viability of a two-state AFP MONDAY 22 SEPTEMBER 2014 INTERNATIONAL www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 11 Rallies raise the heat on climate change Thousands, including celebrities, march in leading world cities to raise voice against creeping danger

NEW YORK: Tens of thousands of including one that read: “Add climate people marched in New York and change to the G20.” across the globe yesterday, joined by “I’m here because I’m a parent, I’m celebrities and political leaders to here because I’m a scientist, I under- demand urgent action to stem climate stand what climate change means for change. our planet, our children, our economy, Hollywood actor Leonardo DiCaprio, our health,” said John Rainbird, an US former vice president turned advo- Australian biologist. cate Al Gore, UN chief Ban Ki-moon and Hundreds also gathered in Sydney, New York mayor Bill de Blasio marched Australia, and in New Delhi, India, where down Sixth Avenue in what organisers around 300 protesters carried placards hoped would be the largest such protest that read “I want to save forests” and in history. “Coal kills”, as they shouted slogans and In London, an estimated 40,000 people danced to pounding drum beats. paraded past Trafalgar Square and the Police had no immediate estimate of Houses of Parliament, including British turnout in New York, but witnesses told actress Emma Thompson who likened AFP that tens of thousands took part. the threat posed by climate change to a London organisers, who said about 40,000 Martian invasion. marched there, said the turnout exceeded They were the largest of around 2,500 their expectations. events and marches taking place around The “People’s Climate March” in New the world ahead of a climate change York was endorsed by more than 1,400 summit hosted by Ban tomorrow on the organisations, including environment, sidelines of the United Nations General faith and justice groups, as well as labour Assembly. unions. Students have mobilised march- Elderly protesters, leaning on walking ers from more than 300 college campuses. sticks and sitting in wheelchairs, joined The protest wound its way from young parents with children in push Central Park West through midtown on chairs, adults in fancy dress and com- a 3.2-kilometer route that was to end munity groups from all over the world in at 11th Avenue between 34th and 38th New York to march for change. Streets. “It’s very important. Our climate is Ricken Patel, executive director of killing us,” Coula Farris, an 88-year-old Avaaz, a pressure group that is one of the New Yorker told AFP. “Young people Marchers make their way across Central Park South during the People’s Climate March in New York yesterday. organisers, presented a petition signed by deserve a better world and I’m very lucky two million people to Ban. I can walk,” she said. over 2005 levels by 2050. according to police estimates, many on of the Environment Ministry, brandishing “We feel very confident that we will There were chants of “we are idle not The UN secretary general walked nine bikes, with banners that read “Climate signs with slogans including “There’s no achieve our goal, which is to have the more” and “hey, hey, ho, ho, fossil fuels blocks in the parade with Gore, de Blasio, in danger” or “World leaders, act!” Planet B,” “Change your life, not your cli- largest climate change march in history,” have got to go,” as the colourful march French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius “Before we could say we didn’t know. mate,” and “Our climate, your decision.” Patel told AFP. made its way down Sixth Avenue with and French Ecology Minister Segolene Now we know. Climate change is already In Cairns, Australia, where finance After a moment of silence, slightly giant floats, balloons and banners with Royal, who wore a green suit and high underway,” Nicolas Hulot, the president’s ministers from the G20 nations were obscured in the chaos, participants used slogans such as “Urgent, Save our Planet.” heels. special envoy for the protection of the meeting, more than 100 people wearing instruments, alarms and whistles to Ban, wearing a baseball cap and a “Our mission is to make this a decisive planet, told the crowd in central Paris. green paper hearts around their necks make as much noise as possible at 1pm. T-shirt with the words “I’m for Climate moment, a turning point moment and I Hundreds more protested in several gathered outside the venue. The UN meeting tomorrow sets the Action,” praised de Blasio for announcing felt today that I was seeing history start- other cities in France, including up to They repeatedly chanted “Every dol- stage for a crucial conference in Paris yesterday that New York would reduce its ing to be made,” de Blasio said. 700 in the southwestern city of Bordeaux. lar spent, every single cent, 100 per- in December 2015 aimed at finalising an greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent In Paris, nearly 5,000 people protested, In Madrid, hundreds gathered in front cent, green energy” and carried banners agreement. AFP

Ukraine will Sierra Leone likely to extend Sarkozy laments ‘lack defend itself if truce fails, says three-day Ebola lockdown of hope’ in France Poroshenko FREETOWN: A three-day very strong possibility it will be believing they might be infected. PARIS: Nicolas Sarkozy lockdown in Sierra Leone aimed extended,” Stephen Gaojia, head Of these, 56 tested positive for (pictured) painted a dire por- KIEV: President Petro at stemming the worst Ebola of the Emergency Operations Ebola, 31 tested negative and 36 trait of the crisis in France Poroshenko warned yesterday epidemic on record has identi- Centre that leads the national were still awaiting their results, yesterday as the ex-president that Ukraine must be ready to fied dozens of new infections, Ebola response, told Reuters after he said. capped a high-profile political defend itself should a peace plan but has not reached everyone in meeting with President Ernest Ebola has infected at least 5,357 comeback that has kicked off a aimed at ending a five-month the country and is likely to be Bai Koroma. “Even though the people in West Africa this year, battle for supremacy over the war with pro-Russian insur- extended, a senior official said exercise has been a huge success mainly in Sierra Leone, Guinea country’s struggling opposition. gents fall through. yesterday. so far, it has not been concluded and Liberia, killing 2,630 of those, Describing France as “one of The pro-Western leader’s com- In one of the most extreme in some metropolitan cities like according to the World Health the rare countries where there is ments followed a warning by a top strategies employed since the Freetown and Kenema.” Organization. At least 562 have such a lack of hope,” the man who defence spokesman that Ukraine epidemic began, Sierra Leone Gaojia said 92 bodies had been died in Sierra Leone. lost the presidency to Socialist to the party’s presidential prima- would not pull back its forces ordered its 6 million residents recovered across the country by The lockdown was intended leader Francois Hollande in 2012 ries in 2016. from the front line as required to stay indoors as volunteers cir- the end of Saturday, the second to allow 30,000 health workers, said he had had no choice but to Sarkozy’s return to politics under a new truce until all sides culated to educate households day of the lockdown. volunteers and teachers to visit return to politics. comes at a time when France is put down their guns. as well as isolate the sick and Some 123 people had contacted every household in the country. “Can I say: France is collaps- mired in a deep crisis as Hollande Poroshenko delivered an remove the dead. “There is a authorities during the drive, REUTERS ing, people don’t believe in poli- struggles with zero-growth, 80-minute televised defence of tics anymore, my political family record high unemployment, a his high-stakes decision Tuesday (opposition UMP party) is divided bulging deficit and record popu- to hand a wedge of the indus- like never before — Ok then I get larity lows. trial east three years of effec- All that remains it, I’ll stay at home?,” he asked in The former president defended tive autonomy in return for the a television interview. his own record in office from 2007 rebel-held area remaining a part “Not only do I want (to come to 2012, during which unemploy- of Ukraine. A September 5 cease- back), but I don’t have a choice.” ment rose to close to 10 percent at fire was reinforced on Saturday The 59-year-old announced his the height of the financial crisis. in a European-mediated deal return Friday on Facebook after In 2008, “the worldwide crisis signed with separatist leaders and months of speculation, setting the struck France,” he said. Russia that required all sides to scene for a battle among leading “It was a crisis that affected halt fire within 24 hours and set centre-right opposition figures every country without exception up a 30-kilometre demilitarisa- for the 2017 general election end- and every sector. tion zone. Poroshenko had been game as they try and put behind “In 2014, it is the crisis in accused of essentially admitting infighting and scandals that have France that can tip Europe into defeat to the Kremlin by national- torn the UMP party apart. bankruptcy. That’s new,” he ist politicians who are jostling for Alain Juppe, who served as warned. In an interview with the votes ahead of parliamentary polls defence and foreign minister JDD weekly earlier yesterday, at the end of next month. under Sarkozy, and Francois Sarkozy pledged to completely And the 48-year-old choco- Fillon, who was prime minister reform the struggling UMP party late baron came out swinging in during the former president’s five- if elected as its head. his first extended question-and- year term, have both announced “I am going to change the answer session with reporters they plan to give him a run for name of the party, put in place since the day after his May presi- his money. a new organisation, install a new dential election win. While Sarkozy has said he will generation of people and bring “We must be ready to protect stand for the presidency of the back members and donors to our country if the peace plan does UMP in November, Juppe and straighten out the accounts,” he not work,” he said. The remains of a house at the El Vado Santa Rosa neighbourhood after hurricane Odile, in San Jose Los Fillon are looking further ahead was quoted as saying. AFP “Believe me, we have the means Cabos, Mexico, yesterday. to defend ourselves,” he added in reference to supplies of radar and other non-lethal military equip- ment he secured during his visit to Washington on Thursday and talks with NATO allies. Sleuths review security after White House intrusion Poroshenko conceded that the advanced technology was espe- WASHINGTON: The US security incident in as many front doors of the White House during the disturbance. on Saturday, he was charged with cially badly needed because 65 Secret Service is reviewing its days after a man was arrested unimpeded late Friday after Gonzalez, of Copperas Cove, unlawful entry while in possession percent of the military hardware security measures after a man Saturday for trying to enter the sprinting across the North Lawn. Texas, was arrested just after of a deadly or dangerous weapon. — much of it left over from the claiming to be an Iraq war complex with his car minutes He ignored shouts from entering the building. Agents He faces up to 10 years behind Soviet era — sent into the war veteran jumped over a White after attempting to walk into the Secret Service agents after a found a Spyderco VG-10 black bars. After his arrest, Gonzalez zone had been destroyed. House fence and entered the White House. trained attack dog failed to rush folding knife with a 8.90-centim- told a Security Service agent National Defence and Security presidential mansion with a Secret Service spokesman toward him. eter serrated blade in his right that “he was concerned that the Council spokesman Andriy knife. Brian Leary told AFP that Kevin President Barack Obama and front pants pocket, according to atmosphere was collapsing and Lysenko said however that The White House — the presi- Carr of Shamong, New Jersey, had his family had left the White an affidavit. needed to get the information to Ukraine would not withdraw dent’s workplace and home — is been charged with trespassing. House for the Camp David presi- The Secret Service had initially the president of the United States its forces to allow the creation generally regarded as one of the Officials said that the fence dential retreat just minutes said Gonzalez was unarmed. so that he could get the word out of a buffer zone until the rebels most protected places on the jumper, identified as 42-year-old before. Officials and journalists During an initial appearance in to the people,” according to the stopped shooting. AFP planet. The lapse was the second Omar Gonzalez, had entered the were rushed out of the building US District Court in Washington affidavit. AFP MONDAY 22 SEPTEMBER 2014 12 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com ASIA / PHILIPPINES Rajapaksa’s Bangladesh strike party suffers political blow Popularity drops despite poll win

COLOMBO: Sri Lankan The province, which includes President Mahinda Rajapaksa the tea-growing district of suffered a political blow yes- Badulla and sugar-growing area terday when his ruling party’s of Moneragala, was previously popularity dropped sharply in a considered a UPFA stronghold, local election seen as a gauge for led by the president’s nephew possible snap presidential polls. Shasheendra Rajapaksa. Although Rajapaksa’s United “This is a personal setback for People’s Freedom Alliance the president,” Ivan said. “He will (UPFA) won the election in the have to go for radical reforms to southeastern province of Uva, its correct course or he will increas- share of the vote dropped by more ingly become irrelevant.” Ivan, as than 20 percentage points from well as other newspaper column- the last polls there in 2009. ists, had speculated that Rajapaksa The UPFA secured 19 out of would attempt re-election for a the 34 seats in the election for third term in early 2015 off the the Uva provincial council held back of a strong win in Uva. on Saturday and won 51.24 per- In previous local polls cent of the vote, according to Rajapaksa, who has consoli- revised results released by the dated his power since 2005, has Department of Elections. taken advantage of his popular- An overview of one of the main streets during the countrywide strike at Paltan in Dhaka, Bangladesh, yesterday. Jamaat-e-Islami, one of the Islamist UPFA politician Dayasiri ity among the Sinhalese major- parties, called for the strike to press for the release of its leader Delwar Hossain Sayedee, after he was convicted as a war criminal. Jayasekera accused unnamed ity for crushing Tamil rebels and foreign governments of trying ending the 37-year-long separa- to engineer “regime change” by tist war in 2009. supporting the main opposition “People were grateful to him United National Party (UNP), for the war victory and gave which more than doubled its vote. him another term (in 2010), but Nepal’s former “These foreign governments you can’t take that gratitude for Thai police question speedboat stood for the victory of the UNP granted,” Ivan said. “He can no king suffers and treated this election as the longer capitalise on the military start of a campaign for regime success.” heart attack change,” said Jayasekera, who is Rajapaksa has stared down driver over murder of 2 Britons a ruling party chief minister for international allegations of war KATHMANDU: Nepal’s another province. crimes, including claims that his BANGKOK: Thai police said he is a suspect yet” in the mur- of Miller’s British friends and last king, Gyanendra Shah, However, the UPFA expressed troops killed up to 40,000 ethnic they carried out a DNA test late der case, Kiattipong said, adding several migrant workers from was in a stable condition in a confidence in winning future minority Tamil civilians in the yesterday on a speedboat driver that the man drives a speedboat Myanmar. Kathmandu hospital yesterday national elections although the final stages of the conflict. arrested for a drug offence, as between Koh Tao and the nearby Thailand’s most senior police after suffering a heart attack, opposition UNP said it was time Colombo is under international they extended their hunt for the island of Koh Samui. Police are officers have descended on Koh his doctor said. for the Rajapaksa administration pressure to cooperate with a killer of two British holiday- also searching for two friends of Tao amid accusations — led by Gyanendra, 67, was rushed to to go. “The people have rejected UN-mandated probe into the alle- makers on a resort island. the driver, Kiattipong said, with- the British media — of a bungled Kathmandu’s Norvic Hospital late the lawlessness and impunity gations, which Rajapaksa denies. The battered bodies of out giving further details. investigation. on Saturday after he complained perpetrated by the incumbent Just before Saturday’s election, David Miller, 24, and Hannah Deputy National Police chief Critics have said police chased of chest pain. “There was a 100 regime,” the UNP said. Rajapaksa slashed electricity tariffs Witheridge, 23, were found on a Somyot Poompanmoung said that the wrong leads, failed to lock percent blockage in his left artery The election was seen as a cru- nationally by 25 percent, reduced beach on Koh Tao island nearly a the man was being questioned but down the island and poorly and we performed a procedure last cial test of whether Rajapaksa has fuel prices by three percent and week ago. The investigation into had not been arrested or charged secured the crime scene in the night to open the obstruction,” the enough support to call snap pres- secured investments from Japan the grisly double murder has so over the murders. hours after the badly beaten bod- ex-king’s doctor and director of the idential polls for January, when and China that he says promise far drawn a blank, with police Earlier Somyot said the DNA of ies were found early last Monday. hospital, Bharat Rawat, said. candidates need more than 50 more jobs and prosperity. under increasing pressure to find two Asian men was found at the Witheridge’s family, who trav- Rawat said the former king percent of the vote to win. Presidential elections are due the assailants. crime scene and had been sent to elled to Bangkok to retrieve their was recovering well and could be Political analyst Victor Ivan in November 2016, but Rajapaksa A 23-year-old Thai man was Singapore for advanced analysis. daughter’s body, issued a statement discharged as early as tomorrow. said the results were a setback has the power to call them at any arrested Sunday for an unspeci- Forensic experts in Bangkok requesting privacy. “We have now Gyanendra has kept a low pro- for Rajapaksa, who personally time. Saturday’s election came fied drug offence, according to discovered traces of semen at the returned to the UK with our beau- file since stepping down from the campaigned in Uva to shore up after two similar polls elsewhere Kiattipong Khawsamang of Surat scene but could not find a DNA tiful Hannah,” said the statement, throne in June 2008 when the his party’s vote — only to oversee in March in which the UPFA saw Thani provincial police. match with the 12 people they have which was released on their behalf country’s parliament voted to its worst decline since he came to declines of 10 to 12 percent. “We are waiting for the (result) questioned so far over the case. by the British Foreign Office. abolish Nepal’s monarchy, trans- power in 2005. AFP of his DNA test... It is not clear if Those questioned included two AFP forming the Himalayan nation into a secular republic. The former king has largely confined Storm toll rises to 10 in Philippines himself to his hunting lodge on the outskirts of Kathmandu. AFP Storm pounds Taiwan, one dead TAIPEI: Tropical storm Fung- Wong yesterday pounded Taiwan with torrential downpours and powerful winds, killing one per- son and forcing the cancellation of dozens of flights and ferry services. A 50-year-old drowned near his home in Peinan, a town- ship in southeastern Taitung county, the Central Emergency Operation Center said, while another man in the county was injured by falling rocks. The defence ministry has ordered 48,000 soldiers to be on stand-by while fishing boats were advised to seek shelter at ports. A total Children eat porridge distributed by the local government at Tumana village in Marikina City, suburban of 57 domestic and seven interna- Manila, yesterday. Thousands of people displaced by floods triggered by tropical storm Fung-Wong tional flights were cancelled. returned to their homes in the Philippine capital as the death toll from the disaster rose to 10. AFP

HK students to boycott classes in democracy battle HONG KONG: Thousands of Hong Kong their anger. The strike could breathe new nominees will be allowed to stand. The city’s students will begin a week-long boycott of life into the democracy campaign, which democracy activists are demanding free and classes today, the start of what democracy recently lost some steam after its senior open nominations for the chief executive, the activists say will be a wider campaign of leaders conceded that Beijing was highly top government post. civil disobedience against Beijing’s refusal unlikely to change its mind whatever they More than 3,000 students from Hong to grant the city full universal suffrage. do. “This is a turning point,” Alex Chow, Kong’s two main prestigious universi- China dashed hopes last month for full chairman of the Hong Kong Federation ties alone are expected to join the strike, and unfettered democracy in the former of Students, said. “The government has to organisers predict. The strike marks the British colony when it announced plans respond to what so many Hong Kong people beginning of the “battle for public opinion” to vet nominees who want to stand as its are calling an unfair election system.” in Hong Kong, said Sonny Lo, a professor next leader. A coalition of pro-democracy The student agitation comes a week after at the Hong Kong Institute of Education. groups, led by Occupy Central, have labelled more than 1,500 activists marched through “The class boycott is... a testimony to the Beijing’s restrictions a “fake democracy” Hong Kong’s streets carrying huge sheets of students’ affinity to the Hong Kong political and have vowed a series of actions includ- black cloth and banners demanding genuine and legal identity,” Lo added. ing a blockade of the city’s financial district. universal suffrage. The NPC’s verdict still needs to win two- Laying the groundwork for what activ- That marked the first sizeable protest thirds support in Hong Kong’s 70-seat leg- ists call “a new era of civil disobedience”, since China’s National People’s Congress islature, where pro-democracy lawmakers thousands of students from more than 25 ruled in late August that candidates for the control slightly over a third of seats. All 27 universities and colleges will take part in 2017 polls will be vetted by a pro-Beijing pan-democrats have pledged to reject the the week-long strike from today to voice committee — and just two or three approved vetting plan. AFP MONDAY 22 SEPTEMBER 2014 PAKISTAN / AFGHANISTAN www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 13 Ghani named Afghan president-elect Rivals to share power but poll results not declared; Washington welcomes deal, calls for cooperation and calm

KABUL: Former finance min- official results. He appeared to be to sign a long-delayed bilat- ister Ashraf Ghani was named have won a concession to at least eral security agreement with Afghanistan’s president-elect delay making the results public, the United States, as he has yesterday after he signed a deal though Nuristani said yesterday previously declared support for to share power with his oppo- that the full count would be pro- the pact to allow a small force nent, ending months of turmoil vided at a later date. of foreign troops to remain in over a disputed election that Ghani and Abdullah rati- Afghanistan after 2014. destabilised the country as most fied the power-sharing agree- There is a risk that any insta- foreign troops prepare to leave. ment earlier at the Presidential bility could be exploited by neigh- The announcement withheld Palace, joined by outgoing leader bours, like Pakistan, whose past the final election numbers, appar- Hamid Karzai. The rivals-turned- involvement in Afghan affairs ently as part of the political deal partners shared a brief embrace have played a part in the conflicts between Ghani and rival Abdullah after signing the papers. Ghani is that have dogged Afghanistan for Abdullah, a former foreign minis- expected to be sworn in as presi- decades. “A difficult and chal- ter who claimed the process was dent on September 29, according lenged unity structure is still rigged against him. to a senior Afghan official. preferable to conflict between “The Independent Election The negotiated end to the crisis these two groups,” said a US offi- Commission of Afghanistan was far from the smooth election cial in Kabul. declares Dr Ashraf Ghani process that the US and its allies “Having them both working Ahmadzai as the president of had envisioned. They had hoped together within the government Afghanistan,” commission chief for an exemplary democratic and direct their energies toward Ahmad Yousuf Nuristani said. transfer of power ahead of the positive reform is again preferable Under the terms of the unity end of the military mission that to some of the alternatives.” deal, Ghani will share power started with the 2001 ouster of Ghani, an ethnic Pashtun, and with a chief executive proposed the Islamist Taliban for shelter- Abdullah, whose main support by Abdullah. The two will share ing Al Qaeda leaders behind the comes from the country’s second control over who leads key insti- 9/11 attacks on the United States. largest ethnic group, the Tajiks, tutions such as the Afghan army Still, after weeks of election face a difficult task forging unity in and other executive decisions. uncertainty that at times seemed a country riven by ethnic and tribal Nuristani acknowledged deep about to descend into political and rivalries. Abdullah’s accusations flaws in the June 14 run-off vote ethnic violence, the resolution that the run-off election was rigged and said that a UN-supervised was greeted with relief by many in Ghani’s favour had raised fears audit was not adequate to weed Afghans. Afghan rival presidential candidates Abdullah Abdullah (left) and Ashraf Ghani exchange signed agreements for of ethnic violence, which could have out all the vote-rigging. The audit “The six-month election dead- the country’s unity government in Kabul yesterday. ignited a broader conflict. was organised at a cost of $10m lock damaged life for Afghans,” “A spark could have dealt a to be paid for by US aid money, Kabul resident Mohammad Alim new administration faces huge fall and contracts with the Nato- by US Secretary of State John strong blow to the political process, according to the United Nations. said. “We didn’t have normal sleep, challenges in fighting an embold- led coalition dry up with most Kerry, who swiftly welcomed its if today’s deal had not happened,” The final sticking point in the investors fled from Afghanistan, ened Taliban-led insurgency that foreign troops leaving by the end signing. “These two men have put commented Waliullah Rahmani, negotiations to form a unity gov- people were worried about their is launching near-daily attacks of the year. the people of Afghanistan first, director of the Kabul Center for ernment was Abdullah’s insist- future ... but today people are across the country. and they’ve ensured that the first Strategic Studies. “Afghanistan will ence that the official final vote relaxed and happy.” It will also face significant dif- SECURITY AGREEMENT peaceful democratic transition in now be able to move forward for tally not be released, his aides Besides the difficulties of forg- ficulty in improving the lives of The accord signed yesterday the history of their country begins the next five years, he said, “Even have said. Abdullah was widely ing an effective government after Afghans who face hard times as was the finalisation of a broader with national unity.” though it is not an ideal govern- believed to be far behind in the so much acrimony, Afghanistan’s tax revenues plummet, aid flows power-sharing structure brokered One of Ghani’s first acts would ment.” REUTERS

50,000 flood-hit people rescued US to sell 160 ambush-proof vehicles to Pakistan ISLAMABAD: The Obama administra- “the arrangement for North Waziristan”. also saved hundreds of lives in North Congress that the proposed sale would con- in South Punjab tion informed Congress on Friday that it Pakistan will also get spare and repair parts Waziristan,” the source said. tribute to the foreign policy and national planned to sell 160 ambush-proof vehi- for the vehicles. Pakistan had requested The US is in the process of moving out security of the US “by helping to improve ISLAMABAD: The National cles to Pakistan at a total cost of $198m. expedited delivery of a limited number of its weapons from Afghanistan as it pre- the security of a country vital of US for- Disaster Management Authority Pakistani troops in North Waziristan MRAPs before Operation Zarb-i-Azb and pares for a complete withdrawal by the eign policy and national security goals in (NDMA) said yesterday that are using over 20 such vehicles, known the United States obliged with about two end of 2016. But the vehicles delivered to South Asia”. rescuers with boats and helicop- as MRAPs (Mine Resistance Ambush dozen vehicles from their stock, they added. Pakistan did not come from Afghanistan. The notification also clarified that the ters had evacuated about 50,000 Protected), in operations against the US troops also use these vehicles in The deal notified to Congress on Friday sale would have no adverse effect on US people from south Punjab after Taliban and Al Qaeda militants, defence Afghanistan, where the MRAPs “have is a mixed package, including vehicles that defence readiness nor will it disturb the raging floods inundated hun- sources in Washington said. The vehicles proven very effective in preventing are already in stock and can be delivered in a basic military balance in South Asia. dreds of villages there. “have been very useful in preventing ter- ambushes using improvised explosive month or two and those that will have to be Diplomatic sources in Washington noted The NDMA said that death toll rorist attacks on the troops operating in devices (IEDs),” a defence source said. built and delivered, which may take a year. that the State Department’s nod comes as from rains and flooding in Punjab North Waziristan,” the sources said. Hundreds of US soldiers were killed None of these will come from Afghanistan. Pakistan is engaged in Operation Zarb-i- and other parts of the country However, they added, the sale in IED attacks in Afghanistan before The US State Department, which Azb, and has also launched a similar action had reached 346. It said floodwa- announced on Friday was separate from the introduction of these vehicles. “They has already approved the sale, informed in Khyber Agency. INTERNEWS ters wreaked havoc in the Punjab province and were now passing through remote areas in Sindh. Anti-govt rally in Karachi The floods have affected 1.7 mil- lion people apart from damaging standing crops in vast areas. INTERNEWS Teenager injured in acid attack LAHORE: A 16-year-old Pakistani girl has suffered hor- rific injuries after two men hurled acid in her face in a row over a failed marriage proposal, officials said yes- terday. Shabnam Batool was attacked late on Saturday at her home in the village of Qaim Bharwana in Punjab prov- ince. “Muhammad Tauseef and Asmat Ullah, climbed the wall of a house while family mem- bers were asleep and threw acid on the face of Shabnam Batool,” police investigating officer Ejaz Hussain said. Batool sustained 90 percent burns on her face. Pakistani cricketer-turned politician Imran Khan (centre) gestures after arriving at an anti-government AFP rally in Karachi yesterday. The Pakistan Tehreek Insaf (PTI) party of Khan claims that the 2013 general election which swept Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to power was heavily rigged. Pakistani student leaves to address UN session

ISLAMABAD: Pakistani Addressing the function, Rabia UAF Vice-Chancellor Dr Rabia is also the UN global girl, Rabia Faridi, a student of said that she was privileged to Iqrar Ahmad Khan said that youth ambassador on education. the University of Agriculture present a positive image of the the UAF was taking all possi- She is a student of MSc Hons Faisalabad (UAF), left for the country at the elite forum of the ble steps to provide the state-of- (Plant Breeding and Genetics) US yesterday to present her UN. the-art facilities to the students and member of the Debating speech at the UN General She said that education was to sharpen their skills. Club. She is also a winner of Assembly session commencing a key to become the developed He said that the university Bargad Youth Icon Award 2014. from September 22. nation and to deal with different took the students on quota sys- A few months ago, Rabia The title of her speech is challenges. She said that there tem in which rural population Faridi had presented a speech women education. She will also were numerous examples of was encouraged to get admis- on women education at the receive the 2014 Youth Courage women, who had played a pivotal sions. He said: “Our rural popu- Convention Centre, Islamabad, Award at the event. It is second role for the uplift of the country. lation is having a lot of potential where UN Special Envoy for time in the history of the coun- These personalities such as that needs to explored and Global Education and former try that a Pakistani student will Fatima Jinnah must become tapped.” UK prime minister Gordon address the UNGA session. a source of aspirations for the He said that Rabia belonged Brown was the chief guest. Her Meanwhile, the UAF organ- women, she added. She said that to the outskirts of Samundri. speech was highly appreciated ised a function in the honour of her father always encouraged The VC gave a cheque of and admired by the participants. Rabia Faridi at Syndicate Room. her to study. Rs100,000 to the student. INTERNEWS MONDAY 22 SEPTEMBER 2014 14 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com INDIA

Goa CM India could rise to its past glory: Modi questions 75pc Delhi and Washington can develop genuine strategic alliance; Al Qaeda delusional: Premier attendance rule

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister In the interview, parts of last several centuries and were cooperating and moving forward,” people should not break. for exams Narendra Modi has said he which were released on Friday, both growing rapidly together. Modi said. “If I can win the confidence of had a clear road map to chan- Modi, who spoke in Hindi, said “It is my absolute belief that Though he made the remarks the people of India, not from my PANAJI: Goa Chief Minister nelise the immense capability the Indian Muslims will live and Indians have unlimited talent. I in context of concerns among speeches but by actions, then the Manohar Parrikar yesterday of Indians, and refused to be die for India and the Al Qaeda have no doubt about our capa- China’s neighbours over mari- power of 1.25 billion Indians will sa id that he w i l l ta ke up w ith the drawn into comparisons with is “delusional” if it thinks Indian bilities. I have a lot of faith in the time disputes, there is concern in come together to take the country Goa University (GU) officials China even as he stressed there Muslims will dance to its tunes. entrepreneurial nature of our New Delhi over reported intru- forward,” he said. the issue of 75 percent compul- was need to have faith that the The prime minister, who is 1.25 billion people. There is a lot sion by Chinese troops in the On how he relaxed, the prime sory attendance to qualify for neighbouring country would scheduled to travel to the US of capability. And I have a clear Ladakh region of Jammu and minister said he was not the “not- appearing in examinations. accept global laws. later this week, also said that it road-map to channel it,” Modi Kashmir. working” type and derived pleas- Parrikar, who was speaking In an exclusive interview to was possible for the two countries said. Refusing to be drawn into ure from his work. at the Confederation of Indian CNN’s Fareed Zakaria, telecast to develop a genuine strategic Asked about worries among comparisons with China, Modi He said he was thinking of Industries’ (CII) ‘Knowledge in its entirety yesterday, Modi alliance. China’s neighbours about its said high growth can be achieved something new every moment Connect’ project, said current said India had a chance to rise Asked if India will be the next behaviour in the East China and through democracy. and drew pleasure in governance, systems in India did not encour- to its glory of the past. He said China and grow consistently at South China Seas, he said the About developments in Ukraine in doing new things and bringing age people to take healthy risks. the present era belonged to Asia, 8-9 percent, he said that India world was not in the 18th century and about Russia’s annexation of people together. “I will take up the issue with laid stress on education of girl does not need to become anything and was in a different era. the Crimea, he said all efforts He said he has always advised GU also. The GU rules say if you child, on winning trust of people else but remain itself. The way China was focused on should be made to sit together everyone to make yoga a part of don’t have 75 percent attendance, through his actions and revealed “India must become only India. economic development was hardly and talk to resolve problems. their lives. you cannot appear for exams. he derived pleasure from his This is a country that once upon a sign of a country that wants to be To a query about violence “Sometimes, we notice our Why do we have exams? Is the work. time was called ‘the golden bird’. isolated, he noted. against women, he said the dig- mind works on one thing, the exam conducted for attendance Modi, in his first interview We have fallen from where we “It wants to stay connected. nity of women was a collective body on another, and time brings or for knowledge? Then why 75 since becoming prime minister were before. But now we have the That is why we should have trust responsibility. us in conflict. Yoga synchronizes (percent). I would not have passed in May this year, also spoke of chance to rise again,” he said. in China’s understanding and Asked what he would like peo- the heart, the mind, and the IIT because my attendance was the benefits of yoga in integrat- He said India and China have have faith that it would accept ple to say after his first year in body,” he said. only 50 percent,” Parrikar said. ing mind and body. grown at similar paces over the global laws and will play its role in office, Modi said that faith of IANS However, he told students, who were also attending the function, not to blindly imbibe his argu- ment. Parrikar said he was the Dancing away to Navratri only student from his hostel who had opted for metallurgy and this Nurse found was the reason behind his low attendance at the Indian Institute dead in Delhi of Technology (IIT) Mumbai. If lecture schedule was forgot- ten once and there was no one hospital with whom he could cross-check, the chief minister explained. Parrikar said he did the next quarters best thing — hit a library for four hours every night to make NEW DELHI: A nurse was up for his missed classes and gain found dead in the staff quarters knowledge. of a city hospital here, police “The library was my teacher... said yesterday. Reading helped me get good Nirmala, 45, who was working marks. Maybe if I would have been with the Lok Nayak Jai Prakash in class, I would have suffered Narayan Hospital since 1994, was from tunnel vision,” Parrikar said. found drowned in a tub of water Parrikar said the education in the bathroom of her second- system existing in India has floor residence here on Saturday strangulated professional killer night. instinct and illustrated this using Her body was found without a banking sector example. clothes. Police said they were “If a loan appraisal officer (in informed by the woman’s brother, foreign banks) has a 100 per- Anand, who came here to inquire cent recovery rate or if its over about her when he failed to con- 92 percent, he is considered as a tact her over the phone. bad appraisal officer for purpose Every Saturday, Nirmala would of loans. The reasoning is that visit her mother in Sonipat in he does not take risks... But if a Haryana. When she did not reach nationalised bank (officer) has a there and also failed to answer 92 percent rate, he will have to Anand’s calls, he rushed to her res- face CBI for (the remaining) eight idence here only to find her dead. percent. We kill killer instinct Nirmala, who separated from because of many of such mecha- her husband 10-years ago, lived nisms,” Parrikar said. alone in room number 108 of the Women dressed in traditional attire take part in rehearsals for the “garba” dance ahead of Navratri festival in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, yesterday. Navratri IANS hospital’s staff quarters. is celebrated over a period of nine days where thousands of youths dance the night away in traditional costumes. Police said they have regis- tered a case of murder, and are also investigating other angles, including robbery. The CCTV cameras installed at the buildings entry gate and High-level ministerial visits to London next month other places are being scrutinized along with the visitor register to LONDON: India’s Finance and level back-to-back ministerial reportedly because of a procedure to to be less extensive. The meeting joint venture partners. know about the person who met Defence Minister Arun Jaitley sojourns since the BJP-led NDA treat his diabetes, will meet his coun- with Fallon, though, is expected to Jaitley is also slated to open the her Friday and Saturday. is scheduled to visit London on government in India entered terparts George Osborne, the chan- be more exhaustive, as this will be London branch of an Indian bank. The police did not rule out the October 13 and 14 for an inter- office four months ago. cellor of the exchequer, and Michael the first between the two and at Swaraj, too, will meet her involvement of a known person face with financial institutions A British government source Fallon, secretary of state for defence, cabinet level since the new Indian counterpart Foreign Secretary because unknown people are to persuade them to invest in said: “Invitations to the investor the details of which are being worked government’s announcement about Philip Hammond when she is in not allowed to enter the staff India. meet have also been extended to out between the respective Whitehall easing foreign direct investment London. Her visit will take place quarters. The trip by External Affairs Indian ministers dealing with departments and the Indian High (FDI) norms in the defence pro- only a few weeks after she was Like Nirmala, a 54-year-old Minister Sushma Swaraj on energy and infrastructure, but Commission in London. duction sector. startled to hear about Scotland’s nurse in-charge Versha Verma October 17 and 18 to inaugurate their participations are yet to be Information received indicates British defence manufactur- independence referendum and was also found killed inside her the Regional Pravasi Bharatiya confirmed.” that since Osborne met Jaitley ers are especially keen to deepen her slightly indelicate but honest room in the servant quarters of Divas in the British capital com- While in London, Jaitley, who in Delhi in July and held fairly their presence in the hugely response “God forbid!” at a press the hospital in August 2013. bined with the one by Jaitley will, recently missed the G20 Finance threadbare talks on that occasion, lucrative Indian market and are conference. IANS in effect, constitute the highest Ministers’ meeting in Australia, their interaction in London is likely already trying to seek out suitable IANS

Big Bang! stars 55 lose doctorate degrees in Agra

AGRA: Fifty-five people was not totally their own effort. researchers to secure doctorate who did research under Agra Some theses had nothing origi- degrees. “Skeletons are now com- University will now have to nal about them, and the results of ing out of the closets about how remove the prefix “doctor” the research were inaccurate and the so-called academics guided from their names, as the insti- incorrect, the official said. research work,” a former depart- tute cancelled their doctorate Vice-Chancellor Mohammed mental head said. degrees after experts found Muzammil said “the whole proc- There are allegations that one the researchers’ work were not ess was made transparent and researcher got his Ph.D while totally their own. foolproof to ensure that undeserv- sitting pretty in the US without The research scholars had been ing candidates were not awarded having met anyone in Agra, while flaunting the “doctor” title for degrees”. some others had other people three years. However, the university’s image lined up to do all the work, from The decision to cancel their has been dented, and questions writing to data collection. doctorate degrees was taken by are being raised about the com- “Every year, the same set of peo- the university’s executive council. petence of the research guides, an ple decide who would benefit how. The university’s public rela- official said. A governor’s secretary acquired tions officer Manoj Srivastav said Charges of corrupt practices a Ph.D, gift-packed as a token of 36 PhD, 17 D Litt and two DSc are being levelled against the aca- affection from a dean. A don down- theses were sent to experts for demic community of Agra. loaded a theses from a website and re-evaluation. “Undue favours to guides, con- submitted it as his own,” a former The experts panel rejected stituting panels to favour research university official said. “Pick up them, saying they were full of students, and a whole lot of cor- four-five old theses, start rewrit- flaws and were “substandard”. rupt practices have come to light,” ing and presto you are a Ph D,” The list of cancelled doctorate a university official said. a retired departmental head said. degrees has been posted on the The full implications of the Another official said Agra has university website. research work are still being many hack writers willing to pro- Bollywood actors Hrithik Roshan (right) and Katrina Kaif participate in a promotional event for the Hindi film The experts found that some assessed after there were alle- duce a thesis in just six months, if ‘Bang Bang!’ in Mumbai. researchers had taken material gations against many serving one has the money. from here and there and the work and retired dons of assisting IANS MONDAY 22 SEPTEMBER 2014 INDIA www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 15

Limping back to life Kerala’s SJD Modi govt very to merge with Janata decisive, says Dal-United DELHI: The Socialist Janata Democratic (SJD), a constituent of Kerala’s ruling coalition, will Sukhbir Badal merge with the Sharad Yadav- led Janata Dal-United (JD-U), it was announced yesterday. Cutting red tape to boost development Addressing reporters at Delhi, the JDU chief Yadav and SJD CHANDIGARH: The “deci- the cabinet. Now, till Rs1,000 crore supremo and media baron M siveness” in decision-making ($164m), the minister is compe- P Veerendra Kumar said the and “cutting red-tapism” of the tent (to sanction projects). No details would be discussed and Narendra Modi government at Planning Commission, no GoM. the merger would happen in the centre will change the coun- Things are getting cut down from Kerala. try’s governance system, Punjab’s two years to just a few days. They “There will be a merger meet powerful Deputy Chief Minister, are giving power (to ministries) to in Kerala and the time and date Sukhbir Singh Badal, feels. take decisions,” Badal said. would be fixed by Kumar. We will “He is moving in the right Criticised by the opposition all go to Kerala for it,” said Yadav. direction. He has shown two- Congress in Punjab for being The SJD was formed in 2009 three things — decisiveness and unable to get any package for the when Kumar along with his cutting off red-tapism in decision state from the centre, Badal has supporters broke away from making. That alone is the biggest a different take on it. the Janata Dal-Secular after and the most visible factor which “I think we are already get- the Communist Party of India- is going to bring about a change ting results. Within one to two Marxist-led Left Democratic in this system,” Badal said in an months we have got road project Front (LDF) denied him nomi- interview here, as he analysed clearances worth Rs10,000 crore. nation from Kozhikode Lok Sabha the Modi government’s complet- People look at ‘ki sannu paisa kina A man sprays disinfectant at a shop which was damaged by flooding in Srinagar yesterday. The Himalayan constituency, which he repre- ing 100 days. bhejeya hai’ (how much money has region has seen extensive flooding this month with Srinagar particularly hard hit. sented, to contest the 2009 Lok Badal feels that the new gov- the centre given us). In the next Sabha polls. ernment should be given at least 2-3 months, the tendering would JD-S was a full-fledged part six months to set things in order be completed. In two years’ time, of the LDF but when Kumar and settle down. we will be the only state where along with his supporters “After 10 years (of being in every major town connected with BJP admits JDU-RJD-Congress crossed over to the Congress- opposition), you just can’t take a four-lane expressway,” a confi- led United Democratic Front, a off. There is positivity now. We dent Badal said. faction remained with the LDF are positive. Give them another He said that urban infrastruc- and continues to be with them six months and you will see things ture projects worth Rs8,000 crore combine in Bihar a challenge even now. happening. They will be more deci- were being sent to the centre for Kumar named his party as SJD. sive as they will get a foothold in approval soon. “Earlier nothing PATNA: The new combine worry for the party after the challenges from the new combine. “I had raised the issue of having the government,” said Badal, who used to happen. We now have of Bihar’s ruling Janata Dal JD-U, the RJD and the Congress Political analysts here said a common platform of all social- is also the president of Punjab’s access to the (central) govern- (United), the Rashtriya Janata joined hands in the state. “We infighting in the BJP’s state unit ists to work together and spoke ruling Shiromani Akali Dal. ment which was completely Dal and the Congress is throw- should be careful of this new com- surfaced after the party’s defeat in to Yadav and he also agreed that The Akali Dal is part of the denied earlier. We have an admin- ing a big challenge for the bine,” he said. last month’s by-polls to 10 assem- it was the need of the hour. After BJP-led National Democratic istration which listens, which Bharatiya Janata Party, two Both Sinha and Thakur said bly seats. The new combine of the the present Lok Sabha elections Alliance (NDA) and has a min- never used to listen before. We senior state BJP leaders said rivals should not be treated as JD-U, the RJD and the Congress got over and in the changed cir- ister, Harsimrat Kaur Badal were not welcomed before. That’s here yesterday. weak in politics and the party won six of the 10 seats that were cumstances, we want all the secu- (Sukhbir Badal’s wife), in the the difference,” he pointed out. “The party (BJP) should not should review its strategy to take at stake. lar forces to work together,” said Modi government. The Akali Dal The Punjab government, headed treat the JD-U, the RJD and the on the new combination. Besides, some senior party Kumar, adding that this was their and the BJP have run an alliance by 86-year-old Chief Minister Congress combine lightly. It is a Sinha and Thakur also leaders openly opposed the pro- attempt towards this purpose. government in Punjab since 2007. Parkash Singh Badal (Sukhbir big challenge for the party,” said stressed on collective leadership jection of former deputy chief SJD currently has two legisla- “Earlier, things like road Badal’s father), was recently Shatrughan Sinha, who is a Lok instead of reliance on one-man minister Sushil Kumar Modi’s tors in the Kerala assembly — K projects used to go to the road put on the back-foot after union Sabha member of the BJP from show for the party in the next as chief ministerial candidate P Mohanan, who is the state agri- transport ministry, the Planning Finance Minister Arun Jaitley Patna Saheb. assembly polls in the state due while arguing that there are culture minister, while Kumar’s Commission, the feasibility com- wrote a letter saying that Punjab Former union minister and in 2015. several faces in the party for the son M V Shreyams Kumar is the mittee of five secretaries, GoM could not be given more funds. BJP national vice-president C.P. It is for the first time that top post. other legislator. (Group of Ministers) and then IANS Thakur said it was a matter of BJP leaders publicly underlined IANS IANS MONDAY 22 SEPTEMBER 2014 16 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MORNING BREAK

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MUSCAT 30/28 Clear 29/27 Clear MAKKAH 40/26 Clear 42/25 Clear KUWAIT 42/26 Clear 41/26 Clear BAHRAIN 39/27 Clear 38/30 Clear Apples hanging from strings with the Tien Shan mountains in the background during the Apple Festival at City Day celebrations in Almaty, Kazakhstan, SANAA 27/13 Partly cloudy 28/14 Partly cloudy yesterday. The name Almaty derives from the Kazakh word “alma”, which means “apple”. RIYADH 39/25 Clear 38/25 Clear DUBAI 38/31 Clear 39/26 Clear BAGHDAD 36/21 Clear 37/21 Clear THE WORLD TODAY TOMORROW A new dinosaur species with a giant nose HI/LO WEATHER HI/LO WEATHER NEW YORK: Approximately roughly into “King Nose”, was Gates from North Carolina State and weighed over 3,855.5 kg. ATHENS 32/24 Clear 32/19 Clear 75 million years ago during the a plant-eater and a close rela- University. “The purpose of such a big nose WASHINGTON 23/13 Partly cloudy 22/14 Clear late Cretaceous period, there tive of other Cretaceous hadro- The researchers came across is still a mystery,” Gates said. SYDNEY 20/10 Partly cloudy 20/12 Clear lived a gentle dinosaur species saurs like Parasaurolophus and the fossil in storage at Brigham “If this dinosaur is anything LONDON 18/08 Partly cloudy 19/04 Clear with a giant nose, shows a new Edmontosaurus, the findings Young University. like its relatives then it likely did PARIS 19/10 Partly cloudy 18/11 Clear study. showed. First excavated in the 1990s not have a super sense of smell — The newly-discovered dinosaur, Rhinorex lacked a crest on from Utah’s Neslen formation, but maybe the nose was used as ISTANBUL 25/15 Clear 26/14 Chance of storm named Rhinorex condrupus by the top of its head — instead, it Rhinorex had been studied pri- a means of attracting mates, rec- MANILA 30/24 Partly cloudy 32/24 Chance of storm paleontologists from the North had a huge nose. “This discovery marily for its well-preserved skin ognising members of its species, DHAKA 31/25 Thunderstorm 31/25 Chance of storm Carolina State University and gives us a geographic snapshot impressions. or even as a large attachment for DELHI 36/26 Partly cloudy 35/26 Clear Brigham Young University, lived of the Cretaceous. Rhinorex also Based on the recovered bones, a plant-smashing beak,” Gates in what is now Utah in the US. helps us further fill in the had- the researchers estimated that noted. ISLAMABAD 33/23 Clear 34/23 Clear Rhinorex, which translates rosaur family tree,” said Terry Rhinorex was about 30-feet-long IANS Pets become victims Polly Bergen, versatile of Ebola in Ivory Coast actress, singer ABIDJAN: From monkeys to the cage were new and had yet big cats, people in Ivory Coast to be named. dies aged 84 like to keep wild animals as The youngest arrival, a small pets but are now rethinking the red monkey about 30 centime- NEW YORK: Emmy-winning custom with the deadly Ebola tres tall, came to the zoo at the actress and singer Polly Bergen, virus sweeping neighbouring beginning of September in cir- who in a long career played the countries. cumstances that highlight the terrorised wife in the origi- A visit to the zoo in the eco- fear of Ebola. nal Cape Fear and the first nomic capital Abidjan quickly The disease has killed almost woman president in Kisses for demonstrated the concerns. The 1,800 people across closed bor- My President, died on Saturday, institution has begun to take in ders in neighbouring Liberia and according to her publicist. She animals abandoned by owners, Guinea alone and a total 2,600 was 84. aware that wild beasts can be in the four countries where the Bergen died at her home in vectors of the highly contagious disease has hit, including Sierra Southbury, Connecticut, from haemorrhagic fever. Leone and Nigeria. natural causes, said publicist Judy The green cages in one sec- The zoo’s vet, Daouda Soro, said Katz, surrounded by family and tion of the zoo have filled up with that he had been summoned in close friends. abandoned or donated animals, haste to Abidjan’s military hos- A brunette beauty with a warm, but nobody is allowed to visit pital to deal with “an animal who sultry singing voice, Bergen was them since the area is a quaran- was spreading panic”. When he A monkey, who was abandoned by its owner at the zoo in Abidjan, in a cage in the quarantine ward of the zoo. a household name from her 20s tine zone. got there, he found a “very small onward. She made albums and Behind the bars of one cage, (monkey) who was sleepy but back, Charlotte confidently set “As soon as we can, we’ll put his pet monkey to the zoo under played leading roles in films, monkeys chattered, grunted and shivering with hunger”. about normal primate behaviour the (isolated arrivals) in the zoo” pressure from his neighbours, who stage musicals and TV dramas. gesticulated with excitement. A “It was above all Ebola that trying to pick fleas and ticks off with their own kind, said dep- began to hassle him constantly on She also hosted her own variety sign makes it clear that none caused the panic,” Soro said. him. uty director Richard Champion, account of the Ebola scare. series, was a popular game show carry the virus, but they have As for Charlotte, she was aban- The newcomers “are not who specified that “the length “We have already had to turn panellist, and founded a thriving nonetheless been isolated to pre- doned on the street by her owner. aggressive,” Yapi said with a smile. of quarantine depends on the down about 10 animals” for lack of beauty products company that vent possible contamination. Informed of her endangered state The only employee authorised to species.” space in the quarantine zone and bore her name. Julie, a two-year-old chim- by passersby, Soro sped to the look after quarantined animals, Strident howls suddenly in compliance with strict regula- In recent years, she played panzee, showed off and scamp- scene to find the baboon sur- he wears gloves in the cages and erupted during the visit. Julie tions, Soro said. Felicity Huffman’s mother on ered around, asking to be petted. rounded by people armed with systematically washes his boots in was calling for help. The chilly Instead, advice is being made Desperate Housewives and the past Charlotte, a red baboon, leapt “stones and clubs (who) wanted disinfectant. chimpanzee took fright when Yapi available to pet owners so that mistress of Tony Soprano’s late frantically around the cage. to kill her”, he said. Carrying the Ebola virus, the vanished out of sight after putting they can go on looking after their father on The Sopranos. Louise, a medium-sized mon- Three weeks later, the three- beasts taken in by the zoo could her in a more comfortable cage so monkeys until there is more room Bergen won an Emmy in 1958 key with a white belly and nose, year-old female was clearly doing be infected with a range of dis- that she could spend the night in in quarantine and places become portraying the tragic singer Helen sat stoically on a bar amid the much better. Whenever her care- eases, and at risk of contaminat- a blanket. free. Morgan on the famed anthology series racket. The two males sharing taker Charles Aby Yapi turned his ing other animals. Julie’s owner sadly relinquished AFP Playhouse 90. She was nominated for another Emmy in 1989 for best sup- porting actress in a miniseries or spe- cial for War and Remembrance. Talking to women in a business group in 1968, she said her defini- Don’t use smartphones while walking, say experts tion of success was “when you feel what you’ve done fulfils yourself, makes you happy and makes peo- WASHINGTON: A 14-year- texting, talking or otherwise a problem,” said Jonathan The number of traffic fatalities the Metropolitan Washington ple around you happy.” old boy was injured when he absorbed in their phones are Adkins, executive director of overall has been falling nation- Council of Governments. Urban Bergen was 20 and already walked off a six-foot-high bridge making themselves more vulner- the Governors Highway Safety wide because of safer vehicles, areas tend to have a higher per- an established singer when she into a ditch while talking on his able by tuning out traffic around Association. “I see pedestrians increased seat-belt use and less centage of pedestrian deaths starred with Dean Martin and phone. A 23-year-old man was them, experts say. While there is with headphones on looking down drunken driving, experts say. But because national figures include Jerry Lewis in her first movie, hit by a car while walking down little hard data on the problem, at their phones. They can’t see pedestrian deaths began to tick rural areas, where there are fewer At War With the Army. She joined the middle of a road talking on safety experts say there is plenty or hear.... Anyone who’s out and up in 2010. By 2012, pedestrians pedestrians and less traffic. them in two more comedies, his phone. of anecdotal evidence. Many say about sees it every day. We know accounted for 14 percent of US “As we make progress in almost That’s My Boy and The Stooge. The dangers of distracted they think smartphone distrac- it’s occurring.” traffic fatalities, up from 11 per- everything else traffic safety- In 1953, she made her Broadway driving are well known and have tions are at least partly to blame The problem drew interna- cent in 2007. related, the lack of progress in debut with Harry Belafonte in the sparked new laws, but safety for the number of pedestrian tional attention last week, when In the Washington region, pedestrian safety is concerning,” revue John Murray Anderson’s experts are increasingly con- fatalities beginning to rise again a city in China created a special pedestrian deaths as a percent- said Mike Farrell, the council of Almanac. In 1957-58 she starred cerned about a more recent trend: in 2010 after years of holding sidewalk lane for smartphone age of all traffic fatalities grew governments’ bicycle and pedes- on the musical-variety The Polly distracted walking. steady or declining slightly. users to raise awareness about from 20 percent in 2005 to 24 trian coordinator. Bergen Show on NBC. Pedestrians listening to music, “We definitely think it’s bumping into other pedestrians. percent in 2013, according to WP-BLOOMBERG WP-BLOOMBERG Monday 22 September 2014 27 Dhu’l-Qa’da 1435 Volume 19 Number 6196 Price: QR2

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www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 44557741 | Advertising: 44557837 / 44557780 QFCRA issues Infrastructure projects to hit $26.2bn proposals to Value of new projects across the GCC is expected to surge 77.8pc year-on-year to $86bn strengthen DOHA: The value of new infra- $3bn in 2013. Small contributors in $51m in Q2, 13, the first decline The UAE holds the second-highest percent in Q2, 14, marginally structure projects awarded in 2013, such as Kuwait and Bahrain, in five quarters. Total value of share at 30.3 percent, with project up from 11.2 percent in Q2, 13. QFC activities Qatar is expected to hit $26.2bn are expected to witness ten-fold projects awarded fell to $1.6bn value totalling $717.7bn. However, on a QoQ basis, gross by the end of 2014. The value of and eight-fold jump in total value in Q2, 14 from $2.9bn in Q2, 13, Order backlog surged 10.8 per- margin contracted from 11.6 per- DOHA: The QFC Regulatory new projects across the GCC is of projects to $3.5bn and $3.4bn, mainly due to a decline in the order cent YoY to $13.5bn in the region cent in Q1, 14. Operating margin Authority has released two expected to surge 77.8 percent respectively, in 2014. receipt of UAE-based companies. in Q2, 14, after rising 23.2 percent contracted to 4 percent in Q2, 14 consultation papers containing year-on-year to $86bn. Value of new projects under- The GCC construction market in Q1, 14. Total value of projects from 5.4 percent in Q2, 13. proposals that will strengthen Citing data released by lead- taken in Oman is projected to is valued at $2.5 trillion, includ- awarded was $1.6bn, down 44 per- GCC’s construction industry and streamline the QFC ing Mena construction project increase 35 percent year-on-year ing planned and ongoing projects, cent YoY from $2.9bn in Q2, 13. continued to expand in Q2, 14, Regulatory Authority’s pru- tracker Ventures ONSITE, Global to $7.4bn in 2014. However, the according to MEED. Qatar has On a quarter-on- quarter basis, which is clearly reflected in the dential framework for banking, Investment House (GIH) noted in total value of new projects in Saudi projects worth $270.1bn, account- projects awarded decreased mar- 10.8 percent YoY growth in order investment management and its second quarter of 2014 GCC Arabia declined 13 percent YoY to ing for 11.2 percent of the total ginally by 2.9 percent. The UAE- backlog. However, the sector’s prof- advisory activities undertaken Construction Contractors report $29.3bn from that in 2013. construction market. Saudi Arabia based companies dragged the its, after growing for four consec- by authorised firms in the Qatar that value of new projects in the The GIH note said profits of continues to enjoy the highest mar- sector’s total project awards. utive quarters declined 17.7 percent Financial Centre (QFC). UAE would rise significantly to GCC contractors dropped 17.7 per- ket share of 44.3 percent, with The region’s construction sec- YoY to $42m in Q2, 14. In a press release issued yes- $15.8bn in 2014 from less than cent YoY to $42m in Q2, 14 from projects valued at $1.1 trillion. tor’s gross margin stood at 11.3 THE PENINSULA terday, the QFC Regulatory Authority said the papers call for public comment on draft rules that are designed to clearly dif- ferentiate between the sectors of banking business, and invest- 5th Qatar International ment and advisory business, QNA Qatar banks’ loan reported. Businesswomen It is proposed that the current Investment and Banking Business Forum in December Rules 2005 will be repealed and book up in August replaced by the draft Banking DOHA: The fifth edition of the Qatar Business Prudential Rules 2014, DOHA: Qatar-based banks’ sector deposits grew by 1.4 percent International Businesswomen Forum will and Investment Management and loan book increased by 0.8 per- compared to the previous months. be held in December 2014. Organised by the Advisory Rules 2014. cent month-on-month (MoM), On the private sector front, the Qatari Businesswomen Association in collabo- These initiatives support the up 5.9 percent year-to-date, companies and institutions’ seg- ration with Interactive Business Network, the QFC Regulatory Authority’s while deposits increased by 1.3 ment increased by 4.1 percent, annual businesswomen’s event will be con- ongoing commitment to meet percent MoM in the month of while the consumer segment ducted under the theme ‘Business Women and high international regulatory August 2014. receded by 1.1 percent. the New Age of Innovation, Entrepreneurship standards, and support the con- After posting a decline of 1 per- The overall loan book increased and Social Responsibility’. tinued development of the QFC cent in July 2014, primarily due to by 0.8 percent after a decline of 1 Taking off from last year’s highly successful as a leading financial and business Ramadan and summer lull, loans percent MoM in July. International edition, this year’s event promises to be another centre in the region. increased by 0.8 percent MoM credit, decreased by 6.6 percent in extremely productive and highly informative The consultation period is open with private sector growing by 2.4 August compared to July, but is up forum. It also presents huge opportunities for until November 2, 2014. The con- percent, QNB Financial Services 26.8 percent YTD 2014. exchanges of information, sharing of knowledge sultation papers and draft rules monthly banking sector update Total domestic public sector and networking among participants due to the are available on the website of noted yesterday. loans grew by 0.5 percent and huge number and high quality of speakers and the QFC Regulatory Authority The banks’ deposits also are down 3.7 percent YTD. The attendees from all over the world. at www.qfcra.com. increased by 1.3 percent, after 2.7 government segment’s loan book “Our role in society has been steadily increasing The proposed Banking Business percent decline in July. “Going grew by 1.1 percent (down 0.8 in significance,” said Aisha Alfardan (pictured), Prudential Rules 2014 update and forward, we expect increased percent YTD). The government Vice Chairwoman of the Qatari Businesswomen expand the prudential framework activity in the sector. We expect institutions’ segment grew by 0.7 Association. “We have risen from the ranks to for banking business firms and improvement in the public sector, percent and is down 8.4 percent occupy sensitive and senior managerial posts are designed to align with the in addition to large corporate loan YTD. However, the semi-gov- as well as drive our own businesses to greater principles established by the 2012 growth to be the primary drivers ernment institutions’ segment heights. Today, a significant number of women revised Basel Core Principles for of the overall loan book in 2014 fol- declined by 1.3 percent MoM achievers like us from this region and across the effective Banking Supervision and lowed by the SMEs and consumer (+13.8 percent YTD). world occupy some of the most important posi- Basel Accord (I, II, 2.5 and III) lending. Our view is based on the Private sector loans gained by tions, whether in politics or in business. Thus, as frameworks. The framework as expected uptick in project mobi- 2.4 percent and are up 10.8 per- we continuously gather and discuss our expand- set out by the Basel Committee on lisations in the coming months”, cent YTD. Services segment also ing role in society and find ways by which to Banking Supervision, is aimed at the report said. posted a growth of 7.8 percent and tackle the issues and challenges that lie ahead, promoting a more resilient global The public sector deposits is up 22.7 percent in the first eight I am confident that women and businesswomen banking system. increased by 0.7 percent MoM months of 2014. Consumption and will surely be able to effect even greater change The proposed rules focus on for August. Delving into segment Others increased by 2 percent through this new age of innovation, entrepre- risk management and Internal details, the government institu- (+13.9 percent YTD). The real neurship and social responsibility.” Capital Adequacy Assessment tions’ segment improved by 6.2 estate segment grew by 0.9 per- Raed Chehaib, CEO of Interactive Business Process; capital adequacy and percent MoM and rose 8.5 per- cent (+1.4 percent YTD). Overall, Network said: “With their rapidly increasing capital requirements;. credit risk; cent YTD 2014. Moreover, the services and contractors, rose by roles in creating and shaping policy or mapping market risk; interest rate risk in semi-government institutions’ 22.7 percent 17.1 percent, respec- out growth paths for businesses, it is imperative effectively work together and effect further change for the banking book; liquidity risk; segment posted a growth of 5.6 tively, were the best performing in for women business leaders to have a platform the betterment of our future societies.” group risk; prudential reporting; percent. The government segment the private sector YTD. wherein they can share knowledge, expertise and Last year’s forum witnessed a record number of 1,000 and Islamic financial management decreased by 10.1 percent. Private THE PENINSULA experiences and discuss ways by which they can participants from 39 countries. THE PENINSULA firms. THE PENINSULA

G20 nearing growth goal, to add $2 trillion to global economy

CAIRNS: The Group of 20 growth, and countries are will- get stronger and what Europe leading nations say they are ing to use all our macroeconomic needs is some more tailwinds in tantalisingly close to adding levers — monetary, fiscal and the economy,” said Lew. an extra $2 trillion to the glo- structural policies — to meet That was not an argument bal economy and creating mil- this challenge,” said Australian that found favour with German lions of new jobs, but Europe’s Treasurer Joe Hockey, who hosted Finance Minister Wolfgang extended stagnation remains a the event. Schaeuble who emphasised the major stumbling block. Almost 1,000 measures had need for structural reforms and The finance ministers and been proposed that would boost strict budget controls. central bank chiefs gathered global growth by 1.8 percent by The proposals to lift global in the Australian city of Cairns 2018, nearing the ambitious goal growth will now go for formal claimed progress on fireproofing of 2 percentage points adopted approval at the summit of G20 the world’s financial system and back in February. leaders in Brisbane in November. on closing tax loopholes exploited A common concern was the Chief among them was a global by giant multinationals. They risk of Europe’s economic malaise initiative aimed at increasing pri- also dealt with the thorny prob- pulling others down. US Treasury vate investment in infrastructure, lem of whether to invite Russian Secretary Jack Lew cited “philo- a particular hobby horse of the President Vladimir Putin to the sophical” differences with some Australians who head the G20 G20 leaders’ summit in November of his counterparts in Europe, this year. given events in Ukraine, with the especially on the need for near- While Europe’s failings were consensus being to maintain dip- term stimulus. “The concern that front and centre, there was sur- Japan’s central bank Governor Haruhiko Kuroda (right) with International Monetary Fund Managing Director lomatic pressure but leave the I have is that if the efforts to boost prisingly little said about China’s Christine Lagarde (centre) at the G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors meeting in Cairns. door open for his attendance. demand are deferred for too long, slowdown, at least publicly. “We are determined to lift there’s a risk that the headwinds REUTERS MONDAY 22 SEPTEMBER 2014 18 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS Muntajat promotes industry at GPCA meet Julius Baer eyes Coutts Delegation joins regional discussion outlining strategies for food security

DOHA: A delegation led presented us with the ideal plat- International by Qatar Chemical and form to discuss the issue of food Petrochemical Marketing security and the rise in ferti- GENEVA: Swiss private bank and Distribution Company liser demand. Our participation Julius Baer is interested in (Muntajat) joined industry at this year’s event reinforced acquiring Coutts International, players at the annual Gulf Qatar’s position in the chemical a unit of Royal Bank of Scotland, Petrochemical and Chemical and petrochemical industry and but will not get into a bidding Association (GPCA) Fertiliser highlighted the value proposition war for the venerable British Convention to represent the of Qatar’s downstream products bank’s overseas arm, a Swiss Qatar’s growing downstream to global food production.” paper reported yesterday. industry. “The demand for fertiliser “Coutts has to be an issue for The GPCA Fertiliser products is on the rise every us, if only because of the name Convention, now in its fifth year, day. As per the United Nations and the brand,” Julius Baer was held in Dubai from September Environment Programme Chief Executive Boris Collardi 16 to September18. The Muntajat (UNEP), the world’s population told mass-market newspaper delegation participated in discus- has increased near fourfold in the Sonntagsblick in an interview. sions of emerging trends in the past 100 years. Muntajat under- RBS said in August it was petrochemical industry with a stands the key role that our ferti- considering selling the interna- focus on the role of fertilisers in liser products play in food security tional arm of Coutts in a deal that food security. and we are well positioned to cap- industry sources said could net it Exhibiting for the first time at italise on opportunities to meet as much as $1bn. the convention, Muntajat show- the growing demand of developing Collardi said there had been no cased Qatar’s portfolio of ferti- countries that strive to increase talks with RBS. liser products that includes urea, their food production capacity,” “I’m sure RBS will contact us ammonia, aqueous ammonia and added Al Abdulla. once they have decided what to urea formaldehyde concentrate Muntajat has the exclusive do with Coutts,” he said. “We are (UFC). In addition, the company rights to market, sell and dis- in the comfortable position that strengthened its presence at the tribute the high quality fertilis- we can wait. There are not many event by taking on sponsorship ers produced in Qatar by QAFCO. banks that can integrate a busi- opportunities and partaking in Since the start of its commercial ness of that size.” various awareness activities. operation in early 2013, Muntajat The Swiss bank would not Commenting on the company’s managed to ship around 14 mil- Muntajat officials at the convention. enter an auction for Coutts participation, Abdulrahman Ali lion tonnes of chemicals, polymers International, he added, since Al Abdulla, the Chief Executive and fertilisers to more than 120 is focused on expanding its foot- To date, Muntajat has opened five Kuala Lumpur, and Istanbul , and that would simply drive up the Officer of Muntajat, said: “The countries around the world. In its print by establishing and grow- international marketing offices, in plans to open around 11 more offices acquisition price and would be “a GPCA Fertiliser Convention second year of operation, Muntajat ing its global marketing network. Amman, Melbourne, Cape Town, by year-end. THE PENINSULA waste of time”. People familiar with the sale process have said that the inter- national wing of the 322-year-old British private bank could be split into Asian and European parts to attract more buyers. QE pulls back ahead EU mulls tapping unused rescue RBS, which is 81-percent owned by the British government following a £45bn rescue during of S&P upgrade funds to boost investments the 2008 financial crisis, is under pressure to focus on lending to UK households and businesses DOHA: Heavy profit taking land. BERLIN: Unused funds in the With Europe’s economy struggling the ESM was set up to provide to support Britain’s economic by local institutional investors Dubai’s main index slipped 0.2 eurozone’s rescue mechanism to recover from recession and job- struggling eurozone member states recovery. pulled Qatar stocks down yes- percent as lenders Emirates NBD could be used to boost invest- lessness, European Union member with financial programs, its man- Julius Baer has been an active terday, reversing the bourse’s and Dubai Islamic Bank fell 0.5 ment across the continent and states have tasked the European date would need to be changed for acquirer, picking up Bank of strong positive performance in and 0.6 percent respectively. help it recover from the worst Commission and the European the plan to work and would require America Corp’s overseas wealth the previous session. The bench- The bourse gained 2.3 percent financial crisis in a generation, Investment Bank to propose member state support. arm for 860m Swiss francs two mark index slid 1.49 percent last Thursday as foreign funds according to a German newspa- projects that will create growth. “The ESM has a clearly set years ago and, in July, the pri- to finish at 14,136 and QR10bn bought into local stocks en masse per report on Saturday. Under the plan, some €80bn mandate, a function as a rescue vate banking activities of Israel’s wiped off from the market as the ahead of changes in the compo- Sueddeutsche Zeitung said paid-in-capital in the ESM could mechanism,” a spokeswoman for Bank Leumi in Luxembourg and market cap declined to QR752bn. sition of the FTSE All-World experts advising incoming be put into an investment fund the German finance ministry said. Switzerland for up to 70m francs. The Standard and Poor’s index, which will take effect on Commission President Jean-Claude under the administration of the “Changes to the Treaty, which we Collardi also reiterated his Dow Jones will upgrade Qatar September 22. Juncker want the money that the EIB. The EIB, which has been reject, would need to be ratified by rejection of talk that Julius Baer Exchange from Frontier market Much of that demand focused European Stability Mechanism called upon to do more to help all ESM countries.” The topic of could be taken over by Credit to Emerging today. on developers Deyaar and Union (ESM) did not currently need European growth, could then use how to boost investment is being Suisse. Barring marginal gains by the Properties which will join the index for financial assistance to be set those funds for its infrastructure hotly debated. Among propos- “There is nothing going on consumer stocks, the entire sec- for the first time. Both stocks aside for investments. Juncker projects, the paper said. als are an Italian paper on new between us. Many of our custom- tor indices ended in red. Total maintained positive momentum aims to present a $385bn invest- The ESM and a spokesperson financing tools for companies, a ers have reacted very negatively,” traded volume fell to 16 million yesterday, adding 3.1 and 1.4 per- ment plan in November without for new Commission President Franco-German proposal on how he told Sonntagsblick. shares from 28 million and total cent respectively, even though creating new debt to help Europe Jean-Claude Juncker declined com- to boost private investment and a A Julius Baer spokesman was value declined to QR604m from net buying by foreigners was recover from recession, get people ment but the newspaper reported Polish proposal to create a joint not immediately available to com- QR934m. much smaller than last Thursday, back into jobs and boost growth. Juncker was open to the idea. As fund worth €700bn. REUTERS ment yesterday. REUTERS The banking and financial according to bourse data. services was the main drag. The Saudi Arabia’s main index fell banking stock’s value plunged to 0.5 percent and property develop- QR214m from QR319m. The value ers Jabal Omar and Dar Al Arkan of industrials declined to QR70m were the main drags, sliding 1.5 from QR101m. Property-related and 2.8 percent respectively. Industries Qatar announces board changes stocks plunged to QR206m from Local media reported last week QR407m. that the kingdom’s Supreme Shares in Industries Qatar fell Economic Council, a top pol- DOHA: Industries Qatar (IQ) Sheikh Ahmed bin Jassim bin Industries Qatar was incorpo- owned 80 percent by IQ. 1.36 percent after the company icy body, would consider taxing issued a brief statement regard- Mohamed Al Thani, the Minister rated as a Qatari joint stock com- Qatar Fertiliser Company said it had put its multi-billion- undeveloped urban land as part ing changes by Qatar Petroleum of Economy and Trade, was pany on April 19, 2003. S.A.Q. (Qafco), a producer of dollar Al Sejeel petrochemical of efforts to end a serious housing to IQ’s board of directors and appointed as a Vice Chairman. It was formed with QP as its ammonia and urea, a joint ven- project on hold and was studying shortage in the country. executive management in line The press release further said sole founding shareholder. The ture and owned 75 percent by IQ. a new scheme instead that would Although it is unclear whether with its authority under IQ’s that the Board of Directors also business operations of the com- Qatar Steel Company Q.S.C. yield better returns. the proposed tax would apply to Articles of Association. includes H E Ali Shareef Al pany comprise the direct holding (Qasco), an integrated steel man- Most markets pulled back in developers, it could potentially According to a press release Emadi, the Minister of Finance, of shares in the following subsidi- ufacturer is a fully owned subsidi- the region after strong gains. hurt companies with large land Industries Qatar issued here H E Dr Ibrahim Al Ibrahim, ary and joint ventures companies: ary of IQ. Stock markets in the United Arab banks. Egypt’s bourse slipped 0.1 yesterday, with effect from Hamad Rashid Al Mohannadi Qatar Petrochemical Company Qatar Fuel Additives Company Emirates pulled back yesterday, percent after hitting a six-year September 17, H E Dr Mohamed and Nasser Khalil Al Jaidah as Limited Q.S.C. (QAPCO), a Ltd Q.S.C. (Qafac), a methanol while Saudi Arabia’s property closing high of 9,729 points in the bin Saleh Al Sada, the Minister members, while Saad Sherida Al manufacturer of high quality and methyltertiary-butyl-ether stocks fell after the government previous session. of Energy and Industry, became Kaabi as a member and Managing ethylene and low density producer, a joint venture and is began looking into a tax on unused THE PENINSULA & AGENCIES a Board Chairman and H E Director. polyethylene, a joint venture and owned 50 percent by IQ. QNA

Meet on latest SoftBank sees $4.6bn in gas detection technology gain from Alibaba listing TOKYO: Japan’s SoftBank Corp upbeat about the Chinese compa- DOHA: General Monitors / said it expected a gain of about ny’s future. “My point of view is MSA along with their local 500bn yen ($4.6bn) from Alibaba that this is the true beginning of partner Middle East Business Group Holding’s share listing in Alibaba,” he said. Development WLL conducted New York, where the Chinese SoftBank said it would book a technical seminar on latest in e-commerce leader surged 38 the estimated 500bn yen gain in gas leak detection using ultra- percent on its first day of trade. the half-year to end-September sonic and improving safety layers SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son and would announce a precise of the plant in Doha. also told CNBC that he would figure at a later time. The gain Martin T Olesen Managing want to own more of Alibaba, was recorded to reflect Alibaba’s Director, GASSONIC (General although he reiterated that the increased asset value with the Monitors) spoke about the lat- Japanese mobile carrier and issuance of new shares and the est technology to improve the Internet media company was conversion of preference shares to safety layers of the plant. General happy with the current 32 percent common stock in conjunction with Monitors is recognised as world- stake, which made it the Chinese the listing. The Chinese e-com- wide leader in the development company’s biggest shareholder. merce leader’s shares surged in and manufacturing of high tech Asked if he would like more of their Friday debut on the New gas monitoring and flame detec- Alibaba, Son told CNBC on Friday: York Stock Exchange as investors tion instruments. The seminar “Of course.” Pressed on the likeli- jumped at what is likely to rank as was attended by leading instru- hood of buying more shares, Son the largest IPO in history, betting mentation personnels from Qatar added: “Anything is possible but on Chinese growth and a company Petroleum, Qatar Gas, RasGas, we are happy the way it is.” that accounts for 80 percent of Qafco, Qafac, Dolphin, Woqod and He said SoftBank considered that country’s online sales. People attending the technical seminar on latest in gas leak detection in Doha. other experts. THE PENINSULA Alibaba a core holding and he was REUTERS MONDAY 22 SEPTEMBER 2014 BUSINESS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 19 Limitless holds Dubai World debt rejig deal soon ‘positive’ talks Company badly hit by 2008 global financial crisis; New projects can help dampen inflation on debt

DUBAI: One of Dubai’s top for more time to handle a larger much leverage was a major prob- restructuring government officials said yes- tranche of cash due in 2018. lem for Dubai and its state-linked DUBAI: Dubai government- terday he expected state-owned “I can say for sure we will reach entities during the previous Dubai property prices owned property firm Limitless conglomerate Dubai World to it. It is there and you will hear boom, the current revival would has held positive talks with reach a deal in the near future about it soon,” Sheikh Ahmed told be different, Sheikh Ahmed said. creditors as it seeks to re-nego- on renegotiating its debt repay- reporters on the sidelines of a real “These (new) projects have noth- show signs of cooling tiate the terms of a $1.2bn debt ment schedule. estate event, when asked whether ing to do with Dubai’s debt pro- facility which has already been Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Dubai World had reached a deal gramme. These are investors who DUBAI: Dubai’s booming property market is showing signs restructured once before, its Maktoum, chairman of Dubai’s with its creditors. will be taking their own risks.” that it may be cooling off, industry data showed yesterday, after chief executive said yesterday. Supreme Fiscal Committee, also Dubai World is offering credi- Sheikh Ahmed added that two years of soaring prices that had drawn warnings of possible “We have a revised business dismissed concerns the emirate tors a series of incentives to many of the new residen- overheating from the International Monetary Fund. plan which we are discussing could overstretch itself again as lengthen its debt restructuring tial projects which have been Property price rises, at close to 30 percent year-on-year, had been with creditors. The discussions it announces a raft of new con- deal, including shares in global announced were needed to help among the highest in the world throughout 2013 and the first part have been positive and we hope struction projects. But he added ports firm DP World as collateral, boost supply and dampen big of 2014, causing many to fear a repeat of the local market crash of we can announce the outcome of that Dubai would need to keep sources said earlier this month. increases seen in prices. Property 2008-9, which saw prices slump more than 50 percent. the se talks soon,” Mohammed inflation under control if it was to The company has secured price rises, at close to 30 percent But average residential rents fell 1 percent in the third quarter, Rashed said on the sidelines of a remain an affordable place to live. agreement with a creditor com- year-on-year, were among the their first decline since 2012, pressured by weaker demand during real estate event. Dubai borrowed heavily dur- mittee including HSBC and highest in the world during 2013 the holy month of Ramadan and a rise in new home supply, a report The discussions were centred ing a boom period in the middle Emirates NBD and is now holding and the first part of 2014, caus- by real estate investment firm CBRE said. on re-negotiating the terms of the of the last decade, but then the talks on the deal with some other ing many — including the United A separate report by property consultant JLL showed that resi- debt, he said without giving any global financial crisis and a local lenders to create a groundswell of Arab Emirates central bank — dential rents and sales rose 2 percent and 1 percent in the same further details. real estate crash in 2008 precipi- backing before approaching the to worry about an overheating period, slower than the respective 3 percent and 6 percent increases The news is a reminder of the tated a number of restructurings full bank group, the sources said. market. posted in the second quarter. “Driven by tighter government regula- debt challenges still facing some at state-linked companies. These Dubai’s economy has rebounded “We are really trying to con- tions and an increasing mismatch between buyer and seller expecta- Dubai companies, despite a robust included Dubai World, which had over the last two years, with its trol the inflation rate. We don’t tions, the residential sector is now experiencing a welcomed period rebound in the economy after the to renegotiate obligations worth property sector and stock market want it to be so high as we believe of stability,” the JLL report said. global financial crisis and a local $25bn. making up ground lost when the Dubai will continue to attract JLL added it expected rents and sale prices to remain relatively real estate crash at the end of the A new debt schedule was prices of both plummeted after more and more people,” he said. stable over the rest of 2014, “with the market behaving in a more last decade. agreed in 2011 for the conglom- 2008. Returning confidence has “As you can see, rents are sustainable and healthy manner”. The data is the first to suggest That period saw billion of dol- erate. However, earlier this year, led to a number of ambitious new shooting up. If these projects don’t that the Dubai real estate market might by cooling off after soar- lars-worth of debt belonging to Dubai World said it was looking projects to be announced, includ- come up, demand will exceed sup- ing since 2012, and will be used by the authorities in the emirate Dubai state-linked companies to revise this plan so that a 2015 ing plans to build the world’s larg- ply and this is not what we want as evidence that measures taken to prevent speculation driving up restructured, with most agree- repayment would be returned est Ferris wheel and the world’s to see,” Sheikh Ahmed added. prices are beginning to impact. REUTERS ing with creditors to extend the to creditors early in exchange largest shopping mall. While too REUTERS debt’s lifespan to allow for assets to recover in value before being sold to service payments. Limitless, a former property Alitalia-Etihad deal moves ahead arm of Dubai World, restruc- tured the Islamic debt facility in October 2012 after several matu- DIFC plans $700m rity extensions by a syndicate of lenders including Royal Bank of Scotland and Emirates NBD. The company, whose ownership sukuk issue by Oct was transferred to the Dubai gov- ernment as part of Dubai World’s DUBAI: DIFC Investments, the Pareek said the lifespan of the restructuring plan, was given an investment arm of the company dollar-denominated issue had initial grace period before sched- running Dubai’s financial free yet to be finalised and a group uled repayments between 2014 zone, is looking to raise as much of local and international banks and 2016. as $700m by issuing a sukuk had been chosen to arrange the The real estate firm’s debt to help repay existing debt and transaction, although he declined obligations are small compared fund real estate development, to name them. to other state-owned companies, its top executive said yesterday. IFR reported last month that most notably its former parent. The sukuk, DIFC Investments’ DIFC Investments was planning The conglomerate is offering first since 2007, comes at a time a sukuk, with key banks on a 2012 creditors a series of incentives to when a number of Dubai state- loan deal among those involved lengthen its $25bn debt restruc- owned entities are raising cash in the new deal. The DIFC took turing deal, including shares in from the market to take advan- out a $1bn syndicated loan in global ports firm DP World as col- tage of historically-low borrow- May 2012 with Emirates NBD lateral, Reuters reported earlier ing rates and improved economic acting as financial adviser, while this month. conditions in the emirate. Standard Chartered coordinated The International Monetary For DIFC, this is reflected in the debt. Dubai Islamic Bank and Fund has estimated the the high occupancy rates in its Noor Bank also participated in Dubai government and state- core buildings, driving an expan- the loan. The sukuk proceeds will linked entities will face $78bn sion of the zone for which the be used to refinance the roughly Alitalia (right) and Etihad planes are pictured before take-off at Fiumicino airport in Rome yesterday. The worth of debt maturing between new funds will partly be used to $650m of the syndicated loan that Gulf carrier entered a deal last month to buy almost half of Alitalia and invest €560m into Italian airline. 2014 and 2017. support. remain, with the rest earmarked REUTERS The company aims to finalise for investment in real estate by the ijara-structured deal by the the DIFC, Kazim said. end of October, Essa Kazim, gov- The DIFC has boomed since it ernor of the Dubai International was set up as a financial free zone GM recalls cars over parking brake fire risk Financial Centre (DIFC) and in 2004, becoming the Middle chairman of DIFC Authority, told East’s top banking hub. reporters at a media event. The number of registered firms WASHINGTON: US car man- recalled was 221,558, the com- condition, there is a potential for now linked to at least 19 deaths. “We are hoping that it will operating in the DIFC jumped 7 ufacturer General Motors Co is pany said, including 205,309 in the the rear brakes to generate sig- The company has recalled be accomplished by the end of percent in the first half of 2014 to recalling hundreds of thousands United States, and the remainder nificant heat, smoke and sparks,” nearly 15 million vehicles world- October. We are in very final 1,113, according to figures released of cars over a defect in the park- in Canada and other countries. the NHTSA said. “Brake pads wide this year over the problem stages,” Kazim said. in a statement yesterday. Some ing brake that could cause a “GM is not aware of any that remain partially engaged with the switches. Ijara is a leasing arrange- 111 commercial licences have fire, a letter by the top US auto crashes, injuries or fatalities as a with the rotors may cause exces- General Motors will also recall ment commonly used to struc- been issued since January. With safety regulator showed. result of this condition,” the com- sive brake heat that may result about 3,200 vans powered by nat- ture Islamic bonds. DIFC joins occupancy rates in commercial The problem occurred with pany said. in a fire.” ural gas because of the possibility a number of other Dubai state- office and retail space owned by GM’s 2013-2015 Cadillac XTS and The problem was that the The NHTSA’s deputy adminis- of a gas leak that increases the linked entities, including Dubai DIFC close to 100 percent, the the 2014-2015 Chevrolet Impala, brake’s indicator light some- trator David Friedman last week risk of a fire, the automaker said Aluminium, Meraas Holding and firm is nearing completion on said the September 19 letter from times failed to illuminate while heavily criticised General Motors on Thursday. Tecom Investments, which are Gate Village Two, which will add the National Highway Traffic the brake was not fully retracted. for not reporting and recalling GM said it knows of no fires, raising funds. 11,000 square feet of serviced and Safety Administration (NHTSA). “If the vehicle is operated for cars promptly over problems crashes or injuries related to this Chief Financial Officer Rajesh furnished offices. REUTERS The total number of cars an extended period of time in this with ignition switches that are issue. REUTERS

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People examine a BMW electric car during the Indonesia International Motor Show (IIMS) in Jakarta yesterday. Car makers expressed optimism about the future of the country’s automotive market. MONDAY 22 SEPTEMBER 2014 20 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS Dollar rally bad news BGC in Basra for oil, multinationals Longest rally since dollar index was created in 1973

NEW YORK: The asset with Analysts have already pointed by gains in others, especially the greatest prowess of late has fingers at the dollar for the retail. Lower oil prices favour been the US dollar, and if its decline in prices of commodities the consumer, who can pocket rally continues, it threatens to like precious metals, corn and oil the savings or spend the cash eat into the earnings of multi- in recent weeks. US multination- in stores. “The stronger dollar national companies. als with large streams of revenue benefits US consumers because The greenback’s recent gains from overseas also stand to lose. they are the lion’s share of the have lifted the dollar index .DXY “If you’re a consumer prod- economy, and any time you get a — a measure of the dollar’s value ucts company that does a lot of tailwind for consumers, it’s good relative to six currencies — for 10 business overseas, it’s not going for the US economy, at least in consecutive weeks. to help you. If you’re a large tech the short run,” Glazer said. That marks the dollar’s longest company and you do a lot of busi- Much of the calculus of whether rally since the index was created ness overseas, that’s not going the dollar’s rise will become a net in 1973 — and could pose signifi- to help you,” said Larry Glazer, negative for US stocks depends on cant headwinds to dollar-sensitive managing partner at Mayflower domestic inflation rates, as well as sectors of the market, particu- Advisors in Boston. “If you look the speed and scale of the curren- larly companies that respond to at Exxon, as well, they’re clearly cy’s gains, market watchers said. commodity prices affected by the very diversified but affected by “The eurozone is fragile ... the greenback, and multinationals the consequences of currencies.” British pound is also weak, and that do much of their business Shares of Exxon Mobil have geopolitical or economic woes overseas. “For the past few years, lost 5 percent over the last 10 remain a threat. As long as it is a the US dollar has been trading in weeks even as the broader market healthy and normal advance, they a relatively quiet trading range. hit repeated new highs. About 36 should be able to adjust and pre- This summer, something changed. percent of Exxon’s revenue comes pare for it,” Sarhan said. We are now seeing a new uptrend from the United States, the rest “But if the move is very large, develop,” said Adam Sarhan, from overseas. fast or erratic, those consequences founder and CEO of Sarhan Yet dollar-driven losses in some [could] be immeasurable.” A worker is seen in Iraq’s Basra Gas Company (BGC) in Basra, southeast of Baghdad. Oil production at Capital in New York. parts of the market may be offset REUTERS southern Iraq’s West Qurna-1 field is running at a rate of 360,000 barrels per day due to problems with low levels of water injection to boost production, the head of the joint management committee said. Nissan defections reignite questions about future CEO Air France

TOKYO: A string of defec- maker Aston Martin. That fol- focus renewed concerns about ranked, also ambitious, but he Renault after the French firm strike enters tions by top Nissan executives lowed the July departure of Johan who Ghosn would install at the would not have a chance to run took a stake in the Japanese is reigniting longstanding ques- De Nysschen, who led Nissan’s top when he decides to step down Nissan by himself any time soon,” automaker which was then on tions about who will succeed Infiniti luxury brand, to become from Nissan and his dual role as said Hans Greimel, Asia editor for the brink of bankruptcy. second week Chief Executive Carlos Ghosn, the head of General Motors’ head of Renault, following a man- US-based magazine Automotive Nicknamed “Le Cost Killer”, the man widely credited with Cadillac unit, while Carlos agement reorganisation last year. News. “I don’t think that Carlos Ghosn, one of a handful of for- PARIS: Air France expects to reinventing Japan’s number- Tavares quit the Renault-Nissan The 60-year-old executive has Ghosn is pushing these guys out, eigners to lead a Japanese firm, operate 41 percent of its flights two automaker. alliance last year to run French only said that the decision was but without doubt he is a very embarked on aggressive cost cut- today as a pilots strike over Speculation about Nissan’s rival PSA Peugeot Citroen. “It’s a up to shareholders, stoking ques- demanding boss to be working ting and won kudos for resusci- cost cuts and plans for the com- future hit a fever pitch earlier this loss for Nissan — they’ll be hard tions about whether the opaque under.” tating the company’s battered pany’s budget Transavia unit month after the resignation of to replace, especially Palmer,” said timeline led possible successors Nissan has aggressively lured balance sheet. “He commands enters its second week. Andy Palmer, a widely respected Christopher Richter, an auto ana- to dust off their resume and try top talent under Ghosn, who came a lot of loyalty, because he is so The French airline, part of Air Ghosn lieutenant, who took up lyst for brokerage CLSA in Tokyo. their hands elsewhere. to Nissan in 1999 as chief operat- smart and skilled at his job,” France-KLM, also confirmed it the top job at British sports car The resignations brought into Andy Palmer was “very high ing officer. He was dispatched by Greimel said. AFP planned to operate just 38 percent of services on Sunday, based on 65 percent of pilots taking part in the walkout. Bundesbank warns of The SNPL pilots union, which has extended the strike until Friday and said it could seek to prolong it further as talks with risky ECB changes management stall, has called on French Prime Minister Manuel BERLIN: The head of Germany’s real economy. He added that plans Valls to intervene to try to resolve powerful Bundesbank sharply announced this month by the ECB the dispute. criticised what he called a to launch an asset-backed securi- “Talks have reached a com- radical new approach by the ties (ABS) purchase programme plete impasse,” the SNPL said European Central Bank of easy could, “depending on how it is set in a statement. “Management is money, in an interview pub- up”, eliminate “risk to banks at playing for time, waiting for the lished yesterday. the expense of taxpayers”. movement to weaken.” The central bank chief, Jens Weidmann said if the bank The industrial action began Weidmann, told Der Spiegel news pressed ahead with the pro- on Monday, and Air France esti- weekly that the bank’s recent gramme it should buy low-risk mates it is costing the company moves of setting interest rates at securities, although he questioned €10m to €15m a day, implying the record lows while pumping liquid- whether there were enough on the cost of the walkout could rise to ity into the financial system set a market to meet the volume the as much as €180m by September risky precedent. The package of ECB has targeted. 26. Air France-KLM is currently measures marks “a fundamental In a bid to prevent deflation, expected to post 2014 earnings change of course and a decisive the ECB this month cut its inter- before interest, tax, depreciation change for the ECB’s monetary est rates to new all-time lows and and amortisation (EBITDA) of policy”, he said. “Whatever you unveiled plans for an ABS pur- €2.28bn and pre-tax profit of want to say about the content of chase scheme to help kick-start €79m, according to the average of the decisions, the majority of the credit in the eurozone. Asset- analysts’ estimates on Thomson ECB Council is saying it is ready backed securities are bundles of Reuters Eikon. to go very far with monetary pol- individual loans such as mort- The StarMine SmartEstimate icy and break new ground.” gages, auto credit and credit-card is for a full-year pretax loss of He said the policy went beyond debt that are sold on to investors, €19m. The airline has forecast encouraging banks to make pri- allowing banks to share the risk 2014 EBITDA of €2.2-2.3bn and vate loans and amounted to of default and encouraging them has not given new forecasts since pumping money directly into the to offer more credit. AFP the strike began. REUTERS

3D printing eyes future

People work inside the Shapeways 3D printing office in the borough of Queens in New York. Shapeways is a young Dutch 3D printing firm that has two factories, one in Eindhoven in the Netherlands and one in New York, that let anyone — from haute-couture designers to cat-lovers — print what they want. MONDAY 22 SEPTEMBER 2014 BUSINESS VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 21

Russia takes double punch as vanishing workers fan inflation Are we in the midst of

BY OLGA TANAS

HE ageing workforce is packing a double punch for the Russian economy. The unborn generation of the 1990s, a period of another tech bubble? Thyperinflation and instability after the Soviet breakup, left the nation depleted of younger workers. Unemployment is at a record MONG the things to wonder if we’re in the mid- the money was blown on buy- founders seem to have narrowed. low, putting pressure on wages and helping keep inflation near the that lead normal, dle of another tech bubble like ing servers, renting offices and Many of them claim, of course, fastest since 2011. well-balanced peo- the one that spectacularly trying to buy market share that what they want to build is The poor demographics are shaving 0.5 percentage point off eco- ple to conclude that popped in 2000. These fears in improbable or nonexistent a company that in the long term nomic growth a year, according to the Higher School of Economics the IT industry is were given an extra boost by a markets (think of Pets.com and will transform the world or dis- in Moscow, which estimates the working-age population will shrink Acrazy are the valuations at which report published last month by Petopia.com). In the current rupt a particular market. But by as many as 15 million people, or more than the size of the Russian Internet companies are launched PricewaterhouseCoopers that boom, instead of buying servers, in actual fact their strategy is capital, by 2030. on the stock market and the showed that venture capitalists startups rent computing time on to create a product or a service Aging populations are unsettling central bankers from Tokyo to prices these companies pay to in the US are pouring increas- Amazon’s Elastic Compute cloud that is sufficiently interesting Frankfurt in their struggle to prevent deflation as older workers acquire apparently minuscule ing amounts of money into tech service; their “offices” are often or annoying to induce Google, tend to defer consumption in favour of savings. Russia faces the start-ups. One thinks, for exam- companies. In the second quar- virtual (at least at first) and Amazon, Facebook, Yahoo or opposite threat: entrenched inflation that risks shackling monetary ple, of the $104bn valuation of ter of this year, for example, ven- they’re not spending fortunes Microsoft to buy the upstart policy already lurching from one crisis to another since Crimea was Facebook when it launched in ture capital investments in seed on advertising. In fact, they’re venture. The poster child for this annexed in March. May 2012. Or of the $19bn that stage, early stage and expansion not paying for advertising full is WhatsApp. “Taking into account low unemployment and tight supply on the Facebook then paid to acquire stage companies were up 55% stop. So even if things were to At the end of the day, though, labour market, wages will remain at a high level, affecting inflation,” WhatsApp last February. And over the corresponding quarter go belly-up there’s less at stake. what’s much more worrying said Natalia Orlova, chief economist at Alfa Bank in Moscow. With then there’s last Thursday’s flo- last year, which apparently is A more interesting ques- than the spectacle of venture the central bank increasingly drawing attention to poor demographics, tation of the Chinese internet the largest quarter-over-quarter tion is: does it matter if we’re capitalists blowing investors’ it’s “in effect saying it can do nothing for the economy, whose prob- firm Alibaba in New York, which growth since the last quarter of in another bubble? For indi- money is the fact that every- lems are structural in character.” Russia is caught in a vise of elevated valued the company at $200bn. 1999 — the last gasp of the first vidual investors, obviously the where state funding for the inflation and stalling economic growth. The central bank, which (The really big news here is the Internet boom. answer is yes. But for society kind of long-term, fundamental has increased borrowing costs three times this year, has pointed to flotation’s confirmation of the This raises two questions. as a whole, perhaps not. As research that is needed to pro- demographics as a long-term drag on the economy in every statement shrewdness of the 2005 deal in First, is history repeating itself? William Janeway pointed out in duce the technologies of tomor- since April after meetings to review interest rates. which Yahoo acquired a 40 per- The answer is no, because his- his splendid book on innovation, row has been shrinking. The Following the decision earlier this month to hold the benchmark cent stake in Alibaba for $1bn; tory never really repeats itself. the irrational exuberance that current wave of innovation and rate at eight percent, the central bank used some of the strong- Yahoo still owns 22.4 percent of All booms have some generic characterises bubbles may also economic development enabled est language yet, attributing “anaemic” economic growth mostly to the company and is expected to features in common — out- be beneficial in that they gener- by the Internet has only come “structural reasons” and saying that “the long-term demographic sell off some of that after the breaks of irrational exuberance, ate technologies that will prove about because 60 years ago the trends” are squeezing labour supply. “We have actually started to IPO.) for example, and availability of significant in the longer term. US government funded the monitor more attentively what happens on the labour market in These are not just telephone- cheap money. But the specific If one wanted to be critical, project that produced first the order to react to factors affecting the pace of economic growth,” book numbers, but astronomi- circumstances of each boom are the most annoying thing about arpanet and then the Internet. central bank Chairman Elvira Nabiullina said at a September 12 cal ones. And not surprisingly different. In the first internet the current bubble is the way the THE GUARDIAN news conference following the policy meeting. “Under the influence they are leading some people bubble, for example, much of visions and ambitions of startup of demographic trends, there is a deficit of labour supply, reflected in the decline of the working-age and economically active population.” That doesn’t bode well for a country already besieged by US and European sanctions over Ukraine and facing the slowest economic growth since a 2009 slump. The government predicts the $2 trillion economy will expand 0.5 percent this year after a 1.3 percent gain in 2013, a far cry from average growth of about 7 percent a year dur- ing President Vladimir Putin’s first two terms in the Kremlin from 2000 to 2008. The probability of a recession in the next 12 months rose to 65 percent from 50 percent, the highest since the first such Bloomberg survey in June 2012, according to the median estimate of 26 economists in a poll last month. Demographic trends are often a bellwether for an economic future. A report by UBS last year traced Asia’s economic expansion during the past five decades to rapid labor-force growth fed by younger and growing populations. In 2012, the Bank of Japan governor attributed the country’s weak growth during the previous 10 years particularly to “rapid aging.” For Russian policymakers, the demographic chal- lenges underscore the limits of their ability to chart an economic path. The central bank has looked past the slowdown and focused increasingly on curbing price growth amid plans to shift to inflation targeting next year. Its main lending rate was last cut in December 2011 and inflation has held above target for 24 months. Last week, the central bank said inflation is on course to miss policy makers’ goal in 2015 for a fourth straight year. Nabiullina said the central bank’s medium-term target of 4 percent will anchor inflation expectations and create the conditions for long- term savings and investment. Prices rose 7.6 percent, almost twice that goal, from a year earlier last month, when inflation expectations registered a “noticeable” jump for the coming year. The tight labor market is fanning price pressures. Wages adjusted for inflation climbed an average of 3 percent in the first eight months even as productivity gains are growing at the weakest clip since 2009. In Germany, real wages are set to grow 1.9 percent this year, the most since 1992, following wage increases negotiated by labor unions. Russia’s joblessness hit a record-low of 4.8 percent in August, decreasing from 4.9 percent a month earlier, the Federal Statistics Service said today in Moscow. That’s more than 5 percentage points below the average unemployment rate in the European Union. After contracting by 500,000 people a year since 2006, the working population is set to shrink at double that pace during the next five or six years, the Higher School of Economics estimates. People aged 41 to 50 make up the most numerous group at Russian companies and the short- age of qualified employees is leading to “overstated” salary demands, according to a 2012 report by Sberbank, Russia’s biggest lender. Cartoon Arts International / The New York Times Syndicate WP-BLOOMBERG Markets volatile as Scotland rejects independence

HE US dollar main- as some described. The central “The labour mar- level in almost Europe, even as the European government debt as he strives to tained its strength bank is expected to hike rates ket has yet to seven years, Central Bank steps up its stimulus. avert deflation in the euro area. against its major coun- next year as the recovery gathers fully recover,” pointing to an The ZEW Centre for European Draghi has signaled he wants to terparts as demand for momentum. GBP/USD reached as Fed Chair Janet uneven pickup Economic Research in Mannheim boost the institution’s balance the currency remained high as 1.6523 on Friday compar- Yellen said at a in the US resi- said its index of investor and ana- sheet to as much as 3 trillion euros Weekly Money Market Review Tintact despite disappointing data. ing to this month’s low of 1.6051. press conference dential real- lyst expectations, which aims to from 2 trillion euros. The ECB’s Additionally, the demand for the However, cable quickly dropped as after a meeting of the Federal estate market that will limit its predict economic developments four-year loans are intended to greenback remained supported investors quickly took their profit Open Market Committee in contribution to economic growth. six months in advance, fell to 6.9 spur lending to the real economy, after the Federal Reserve state- and pushed the currency to close Washington. “There are still too Beginning home construction fell in September from 8.6 in August. with the offers of cheap cash tied ment reiterated that it expects at 1.6288. many people who want jobs but 14.4 percent, the most since April The gauge has decreased every to the size of banks’ loan books. rates to remain on hold for a “con- While investors focused on the can’t find them.” 2013, to a 956,000 annualised rate month since December when Eight TLTROs will be held siderable time”, after its bond pur- Pound, the Japanese Yen was also a Moreover, Fed policy makers following July’s revised 1.12 million it reached a seven-year high. through 2016. The next one is chasing programme ends. notable mover on Friday, weaken- increased their median estimate pace that was the strongest since Economists forecast a drop to scheduled for December. The euro opened the week ing against all other major curren- for the key rate to 1.375 percent at November 2007. 5, according to the median of 33 Bank of England Minutes from at 1.2962 and surged to a high cies. The FOMC confirmation of the end of 2015 against June’s fore- The number of Americans filing estimates in a Bloomberg News the MPC monetary policy meet- of 1.2994. The single currency the start of rate increases around cast for 1.125 percent. Fed Chair applications for unemployment survey. ing held on September 3 and 4 quickly lost its momentum, as the the middle of 2015 has helped Yellen stated that the Fed funds benefits plunged last week to a Mario Draghi is facing renewed and released yesterday reveal that first TLTRO results were below USD/JPY as divergence between rate is expected to move close to two-month low, a sign the labour pressure to implement quanti- the Committee voted 2-7 in favour estimates, signalling that the the BoJ and the Fed policies grew normal levels by 2017. However, market continues to strengthen. tative easing after banks bor- of holding the interest rate at the ECB will be under more pressure wider. USD/JPY opened at 107.30 rates could rise sooner and more Jobless claims decreased by rowed less than estimated in the record low of 0.5 percent and unani- to stimulate the economy, which and reached a low of 106.79. The rapidly as the Fed’s decisions are 36,000 to 280,000 in the period European Central Bank’s first tar- mously decided for keeping the pro- drove investors to sell the euro. Dollar gained as demand from mainly data dependent. ended September 13, the Labor geted-loan offer. The Frankfurt- gram of asset purchases steady at The currency reached a low of investors was ignited following The cost of living in the US Department stated last week. based ECB lent ¤82.6bn ($106.5bn) £375bn. This outcome is in line with 1.2828 and closed the week at the Fed’s statement, pushing the unexpectedly dropped in August Economists called for a decrease to euro-area banks at a fixed market expectations. Ian McCafferty 1.2830. pair to a 6-year high of 109.45. for the first time in more than a to 305,000. Those already collect- interest rate of 0.15 percent in its and Martin Weale were the MPC The Sterling Pound strength- The Japanese currency recouped year, showing inflation still is fall- ing unemployment benefits fell targeted longer-term refinancing members who preferred to increase ened as Scotland overwhelmingly slightly to close the week at 109.04. ing short of the Federal Reserve’s to a more than seven-year low. operations. That was below mar- the interest rate by 25 basis points rejected independence after a The Federal Reserve stuck to goal as policy makers meet. The Companies are retaining workers ket estimates, which gave a range to 0.75 percent, arguing that robust record turnout of voters deliv- its pledge to keep interest rates consumer-price index declined 0.2 as stronger household and corpo- of ¤100bn to ¤300bn. Spanish UK economic growth justified a hike, ered a clear victory for the No near zero for a “considerable time” percent, the first decrease since rate demand fuels order growth. and Portuguese bonds rose, indi- and they said that a sharp pickup campaign. Now that the risk is after it stops buying assets, even as April 2013. German investor confidence cating that investors are betting in wage growth would be seen along behind, BoE is expected to be back it outlined a strategy to exit from Housing starts slumped in dropped for a ninth month amid the ECB president may ultimately with the absorption of slack. on track, and “business as usual” six years of unprecedented easing. August after reaching the highest increasing political tension in resort to large-scale purchases of THE PENINSULA MONDAY 22 SEPTEMBER 2014 22 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MARKET

QE Indices Summary QE Index 14,136.18 1.49 % WORLD STOCK INDICES GOLD & SILVER EXCHANGE QE Total Return Index 21,083.98 1.49 % QE Al Rayan Islamic Index 4,779.6 1.32 % RATE QE All Share Index 3,570.58 1.41 % INDEX Day’s Close Pt Chg % Chg Year High Year Low QE All Share Banks & Financial 3,467.21 1.72 % GOLD Buying Selling Services All Ordinaries 5419.021 7.574 0.14 5672.3 5072.7 QE All Share Industrials 4,691.03 1.47 % QR143.6915 US$ ...... QR 3.6305 QR 3.6500 QE All Share Transportation 2,367.31 0.06 % Cac 40 Index/D 4458.91 27.5 0.62 4598.65 4080.6 QE All Share Real Estate 2,947.51 1.81 % SILVER UK ...... QR 5.9118 QR 5.9938 QE All Share Insurance 4,122.82 1.34 % Dj Indu Average 17156.85 24.88 0.15 17221.1 14719.43 QR 2.1747 Euro ...... QR 4.6633 QR 4.7288 QE All Share Telecoms 1,728.12 1.38 % CA$ ...... QR 3.2875 QR 3.3528 QE All Share Consumer Goods & 7,602.29 0.24 % Egypt Cma Gn Idx 1026.29 32.57 3.28 999.95 312.38 Services Swiss Fr ...... QR 3.8580 QR 3.9134 QE Market Summary Comparison Hang Seng Inde/D 24168.72 -207.69 -0.85 25362.98 21137.61 Yen ...... QR 0.0332 QR 0.0339 Aus$ ...... QR 3.2393 QR 3.3028 Today Previous day Iseq Overall/D 4877.81 39.23 0.81 5195.97 4497.23 CRUDE OIL 21-09-2014 18-09-2014 Ind Re ...... QR 0.0593 QR 0.0604 Index 14,136.18 14,350.50 Karachi 100 In/D 30094.16 -42.41 -0.14 30639.78 25273.11 Pak Re ...... QR 0.0351 QR 0.0358 Change 214.32 185.45 BRENT Peso ...... QR 0.0810 QR 0.0826 Nikkei 225 Index 16067.57 178.9 1.13 16164.01 13885.11 % 1.49 1.31 $ 99.09 SL Re ...... QR 0.0277 QR 0.0283 YTD% 36.19 38.26 S&P 500 Index/D 0 0 0 2011.17 1646.47 Taka ...... QR 0.0464 QR 0.0476 Volume 16,897,247 28,390,115 DUBAI Nep Re ...... QR 0.0372 QR 0.0380 Value (QAR) 604,862,020.83 934,357,633.58 Straits Times/D 3297.29 0.81 0.02 3387.84 2953.01 SA Rand ...... QR 0.3284 QR 0.3351 Trades 5,167 7,521 $ 96.34 Straits Times/D 3274.06 -8.82 -0.27 3291.83 2953.01 Up 06 | Down 32 | Unchanged 04

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Commodities slump to five-year low OMMODITIES suffered broad-based selling slumped for a third across most sectors, not least Weekly Commodity Update week in a row to their the agriculture sector, which Clowest level since July remains troubled by rising sup- 2009 as economic data pointed plies of most key crops. BY OLE S. HANSEN towards continued weakness in All but a few commodities (Head of Commodity China. Meantime, the US Federal were sold, not least agriculture Strategy, Saxo Bank) Reserve is continuing on track products such as cotton, wheat towards the beginning of normal- and coffee. At the top of the table, ising rates sometime next year. we find cocoa which continues to As we head into the low Brent crude, find strong resist- In Europe, the European Central be supported by the Ebola crisis demand season, prices are most ance at $100/barrel with support Bank began its long-term refi- in Africa. This has now spread to likely to remain under pres- being the 2013 low at $96.75. nancing operation (LTRO) while five West African nations, some sure over the coming weeks The combination of a stronger the biggest ever IPO, Alibaba, hit of which are close to the world’s despite OPEC’s best intentions dollar, rising stocks and a rise in the market. largest production areas in the and a renewed scare about the the US Federal Reserve’s projec- Scotland went to the polls and Ivory Coast. Any further spread potential for fresh disruptions in tion for where official interest chose not to separate from the could have a major impact on the Libya. The alarm over the latter rates will be heading all continue rest of the United Kingdom. This country’s ability to harvest and has arisen after a major oilfield to create a strong headwind for returned the focus on the dol- transport beans. halted production following a gold, and especially silver. The lar, which resumed building on Energy prices just about man- rocket attack nearby. current negative momentum has its current positive momentum. aged to trade flat on the week, WTI Crude continues to see seen silver drop to a four-year helped create some additional hold onto support at the 1182 The current divergence between with the recent and ongoing focus its spot crude attract a pre- low below $18/ounce while gold selling. Traders have readjusted level, which represents a dou- Europe and Japan versus the US on over supply and the potential mium over recent months. The continues grinding lower towards their expectations for the future ble bottom in the market. Some has resulted in the dollar rising for yet lower prices somewhat opposite situation continues in key support, some 3% below cur- path of the effective fed funds signs of increased demand in for a tenth straight week, which, being off-set by what seemed Brent crude as falling refinery rent prices. rate, as seen below. the physical gold market has according to Bloomberg, is the to be the first round of verbal demand and increased supply, Although the FOMC has reit- Near-term, the momentum emerged following the recent longest rally since 1967. intervention from OPEC. This not least from Libya, continue to erated its promise to keep official remains negative, not least con- price slump. However, while it Against this backdrop of a occurred together with news that keep spot prices under pressure. interest rates low for a consider- sidering the growing positive has helped reduced the slide it rising dollar, uneven develop- Saudi Arabia had made the deep- Overall, WTI crude oil has, for able time, the revision higher in momentum and the belief that may not be enough at this stage ments in global economic growth est cut to its oil production in 18 now, established a range between terms of where individual mem- the dollar will go higher from to reverse the current negative and interest rates commodities months during August. $90/barrel and $95 while for the bers are seeing rates heading has here. The key for gold now is to trend. THE PENINSULA MONDAY 22 SEPTEMBER 2014 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 23 Reversed New Qatar Amateur League call, missed chances hurt Royals in 3-2 season kicks off today loss to Tigers

KANSAS CITY: Max Scherzer and the Detroit Tigers won their Event ‘will foster culture of participation ahead of 2022 World Cup’ appeal on a wild play, and Joe Nathan escaped a ninth-inning D CHAKRABORTY jam to hold off the Kansas City Royals 3-2 on Saturday and DOHA: The Qatar Amateur boost their AL Central lead. League was started last year in The Tigers increased their edge order to use football as a vehicle to 2.5 games over the Royals. to socially integrate all nation- Kansas City fell into a tie for alities, races and cultures and to the second wild-card spot with create a passionate football fan Seattle, which played later at culture among all communities Houston. as the country prepared to host Detroit, seeking its fourth the 2022 FIFA World Cup. straight division title, has won Building on last year’s success, 13 of 18 against the Royals this the Qatar Football Association year, including eight of nine at (QFA) and the Supreme Kauffman Stadium. Committee for Delivery and Scherzer (17-5) outpitched Legacy yesterday announced the James Shields (14-8). The Royals start of the second edition of the put two runners on against league at a joint press conference Nathan, but he retired Nori Aoki at Al Bidda Tower here. and pinch-hitter Raul Ibanez on “The creation and expansion grounders for his 33th save in 40 of professionally-organised ama- tries. teur football in Qatar highlights It was 1-all in the sixth when the passion people in our country a line drive and a wild throw led have for football,” said Nasser Al to an appeal toss and a pair of Khater, the Executive Director of umpire discussions that wound up Communications and Marketing, ruling a Royals runner had left Supreme Committee for Delivery third base too soon. and Legacy. With Salvador Perez on third “The league represents a tangi- and Eric Hosmer on second with ble legacy built on the principles one out, Omar Infante lined that football is for everyone. It Nasser Al Khater (back row, sixth from right) — the Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy’s Executive Director of Communications and Marketing out to Detroit second baseman is further evidence that we are — and Khalid Mubarak Al Kuwari (seventh from right) — the QFA’s acting Executive Director of Operations — pose with representatives from the Ian Kinsler. Trying for a double living up to a key promise made different Qatar Amateur League teams after a press conference at Al Bidda Tower in Doha yesterday. PICTURE: BAHER AMIN play, Kinsler threw to shortstop in our bid to host the 2022 FIFA Eugenio Suarez and the ball sailed World Cup — to develop amateur initiative of the QFA and the QFA will be launching an inter- Qatar Amateur League would be hosting the World Cup in 2022.” into left field. football,” he said. Supreme Committee for Delivery active and dedicated website for released by the end of this year. The matches will be played in Perez, who had been trying to Matches of the Qatar Amateur and Legacy. And they are sparing the Qatar Amateur League, which “We are excited to have played six stadiums — Al Arabi, Al Khor, get back to third after the catch, League will start today. The first no effort in making this event a will be used to communicate with a part in capturing this pivotal Doha Stadium, Qatar Sports Club, reversed course, headed home and edition of the league, which was success. the entire football community moment in the development of Al Gharafa and Al Wakrah. appeared to score the go-ahead launched in May last year, saw “This season, the QFA will be across all demographics. The QFA football in Qatar with an excit- THE PENINSULA run. the participation of 14 teams. This providing a professionally-man- will continue in its effort to make ing documentary capturing the Scherzer got back on the year, 16 teams — including six new aged platform for the teams,” said organised football accessible to incredible stories behind the Today’s Matches mound and made an appeal throw sides — will take part in the event. Khalid Mubarak Al Kuwari, the all communities, thus maintain- league,” he said. to third, saying that Perez never The new teams are: Tadamoon QFA’s acting Executive Director ing our motto ‘be part of it,”’ he “The Supreme Committee for At Al Khor Stadium tagged up. Third base umpire FC, EIS Pear Community, of Operations. Along with that, added. Delivery and legacy will continue Al Matar vs Amwaj from 7pm Larry Vanover called Perez safe, Madinat Khalifa vs Lebanese Community 9pm Sudanese Community, Doha Aspetar and the Qatar Red Al Khater, the Supreme working with the league to ensure prompting Tigers manager Brad Team, Lebanese Community and Crescent Society will provide Committee for Delivery and we meet our objective of spread- At Doha Stadium Ausmus to ask for video review Latin United. medical support for the event. Legacy’s Executive Director of ing football culture to all commu- Losail vs Al Quds from 7pm challenge. The Qatar Amateur League “We would also like to take the Communications and Marketing, nities in Qatar, fostering a strong Al Qiyada Al Aama vs Copros United from The umpires checked with is a joint CSR and grassroots opportunity to announce that the also said a documentary on the culture of participation ahead of 9pm the replay booth in New York, and were told the play was not reviewable. As a replay was displayed on the videoboard, clearly show- Gleneagles in ing that Perez never tagged up, Ravens take back the umpires gathered again and fine fettle and reversed their original call. They ruled Perez out, ending the inning. ready to host Pinch-hitter Tyler Collins and 8,000 Rice jerseys Rajai Davis hit RBI singles in the seventh. Ryder Cup WASHINGTON: The Torii Hunter opened the Tigers’ Baltimore Ravens, under fire fourth with his 17th home run. He LONDON: The greatest tour- for their handling of Ray Rice’s also singled in the sixth for his nament in matchplay golf graces assault case, exchanged almost sixth straight multihit game, the Scotland, the home of the game, 8,000 of the star running back’s longest streak of his career. for only the second time when jerseys, The Baltimore Sun Alcides Escobar hit an RBI Gleneagles marks its 90th anni- reported on Saturday. single in the fifth and Hosmer Chapchai Nirat of Thailand celebrates on the 18th green after winning versary by hosting the Ryder The team offered the exchange singled home a run in the eighth. the Selangor Masters at the Seri Selangor Golf Club in Petaling Jaya Cup from September 26-28. for fans who had bought Rice Jarrod Dyson and Escobar sin- yesterday. Gleneagles was named the merchandise but no longer gled with one out in the ninth. best golf resort in the world for wanted to wear the jersey of the They moved up on Aoki’s ground- the third year running at the player caught on video punching out and were stranded on Ibanez’s 2014 ULTRA awards and follows the woman who is now his wife in grounder. Aoki, who was 13 for 16 Chapchai wins Muirfield in 1973 as the only a casino elevator. in the past four games, put down Scottish venues since the biennial The Rice case — in which his sacrifice bunts in first and third tournament between the United original two-game ban drew sharp innings, but the Royals failed States and Europe — originally criticism as being too lenient — is Baltimore Ravens fans receive to convert that into a run off Selangor Masters Britain and Ireland — began in just one of the cases of off-field new jerseys after turning in their Scherzer. 1927. violence that have the immensely Ray Rice jerseys inside the M&T Meanwhile in Chicago, left KUALA LUMPUR: Chapchai overnight leader Cameron Smith Europe go into the event as popular NFL facing a public rela- Bank Stadium on Saturday. fielder Chris Coghlan went 4-for-4 Nirat ended his five-year title of Australia were among the five odds-on favourites having won five tions crisis. and hit a pair of home runs to lift drought when he held his nerve who shared the fourth spot fur- of the last six contests and having Ravens senior vice president of two games, but after the video of Chicago to a comeback win over to roll in a putt at the first play- ther two shots behind. not lost on home soil since 1993. public and community relations the punch was posted online by Los Angeles. off hole and beat Filipino vet- Chapchai, who won his fourth The United States, captained by Kevin Byrne told the Sun that as TMZ, the Ravens cut Rice and Coghlan reached base five eran Antonio Lascuna to win Asian Tour title, seemed to be Tom Watson, will be without Tiger of noon, 7,115 fans had been to the Goodell banned him indefinitely times for the Cubs, who scored Asian Tour’s Selangor Masters cruising to victory at one point Woods and are still stinging from team’s stadium over the course of from the league. four runs in the seventh and two yesterday. until he bogeyed the two final the “Miracle of Medinha” when the two-day exchange. In a statement on their webstie, in the eighth to erase a five-run The big-hitting Thai carded a holes. Europe came from 10-4 down to Byrne said the team had antici- the Ravens said the ESPN article deficit against the Dodgers. closing three-under 68 for a four- “I felt a lot of pressure. When I claim a remarkable 14 1/2-13-1/2 pated around 5,000 and had given “contains numerous errors, inac- And San Diego handed San day total of 10-under 274, which saw Antonio miss the putt (in the triumph with the greatest singles out 5,595 replacement jerseys and curacies, false assumptions and, Francisco a second straight loss. was matched by the 43-year-old play-off), I knew I had a chance. It performance by an away team in 2,368 vouchers for replacements. perhaps, misunderstandings.” Andrew Cashner came within Lascuna who fired a 63, studded took the pressure off me a bit and Ryder Cup history. Team officials did not give an On Friday, an embattled one inning of a second straight with six birdies and an eagle. I’m delighted to hole the putt,” he The world’s best golfers will tee exact cost for the exchange, but Goodell vowed to put the league’s complete-game shutout for the But Lascuna missed his par said. off the 40th Ryder Cup matches said estimates exceeded $250,000. “house in order” amid grow- Padres, before the Giants scored putt on the first extra hole while “This win is different from the on Gleneagles’ par-73 PGA The Ravens have said they will ing consternation on the part of twice in the ninth. AGENCIES Chapchai made no error with his previous three as it’s my first time Centenary Course. wait until next week to address fans and corporate partners of four-foot putt to win the $410,000 in a play-off. The emotion is dif- Originally named the an ESPN.com “Outside the Lines” the world’s richest sports league event held on the outskirts of the ferent. I’m glad I managed to pull Monarch’s Course, it was rede- investigative article claiming that over a string of violent incidents Baseball Results Malaysian capital. through.” signed by 18-times major cham- team officials overruled coach involving players. Chicago Cubs 8 LA Dodgers 7 “I didn’t think this day would Lascuna, who finished third in pion Jack Nicklaus in 1993 and John Harbaugh’s desire to cut The furor over Rice was fol- Detroit 3 Kansas City 2 happen,” said Chapchai, who was Taiwan last weekend, was happy underwent further renovation Rice after the February assault lowed by similar NFL waffling Toronto 6 NY Yankees 3 drenched with water by fellow with his form and said he will three years ago to ensure a spec- in Atlantic City, New Jersey. in the cases of Carolina Panthers Philadelphia 3 Oakland 0 Thai players who had gathered continue to fight for his maiden tacular but challenging layout for The article also says that defensive end Greg Hardy — con- Colorado 5 Arizona 1 around the 18th green. title. the 12-strong teams. Ravens officials knew the con- victed of assaulting a former girl- Baltimore 7 Boston 2 “I didn’t think I’d have a chance “I hit a good putt but the ball The resort has two other tents of the video that became friend and threatening to kill her to win (after five years). Golf is turned left at the end. I saw it as courses, the King’s Course and public in August — which showed — and Minnesota Vikings running Milwaukee 1 Pittsburgh 0 a game where you need to stay a straight putt but it turned. I’m Queen’s Course, and is the home Rice punching his future wife — back Adrian Peterson, who has Cleveland 7 Minnesota 3 patient. I always talked to my still happy especially with a clos- of Scotland’s PGA National Golf and tried to suppress it while been charged with child abuse in NY Mets 4 Atlanta 2 caddie that if I could keep my ing 63 which is my lowest on the Academy. seeking leniency for Rice. Texas after allegedly whipping his Houston 10 Seattle 1 form, I felt I could get one win Asian Tour,” he said. The King’s Course is also Rice avoided jail time on domes- four-year-old son with a switch Washington 3 Miami 2 again.” “Last week, I also came close. older than its own hotel by five tic violence charges by agreeing in cut from a tree. Tampa Bay 3 Chicago White Sox 1 India’s Anirban Lahiri finished I’m playing really good. The feel- years, dating back to 1919. The May to a pre-trial intervention San Francisco 49ers defender St Louis 8 Cincinnati 4 third, two behind at eight-under ing was exciting. I was trying to Gleneagles Hotel will provide a program. Ray McDonald has also been 276, while Order of Merit leader win. I’ll keep practising more, I sanctum away from the intense NFL Commissioner Roger accused of hitting his pregnant San Diego 3 San Francisco 2 American David Lipsky and won’t give up.” REUTERS transatlantic rivalry. REUTERS Goodell initially banned Rice for girlfriend. AFP LA Angels 8 Texas 5 MONDAY 22 SEPTEMBER 2014 24 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT Qatar set to AlBalooshi moves into final play three friendlies next month round of Carolina Nationals DOHA: Qatar will face Lebanon on October 9, the Qatar Football Association (QFA) confirmed yesterday. Al Anabi’s driver defeats Torrence for his fifth final round of the season The international friendly is part of the preparations of the ENNIS, Texas: Khalid national side that will feature AlBalooshi advanced to the final at 2014 Gulf Cup in Riyadh in round of the delayed Pep Boys November. NHRA Carolina Nationals for Qatar will also play against the Qatar Al Anabi Racing Top Al Anabi Racing Uzbekistan on October 4. On Fuel Team, the three-time and October 14, Qatar to take on Top Fuel Team’s defending World Championship Australia in another friendly. driver Khalid team owned by H E Sheikh Qatar’s last international Khalid bin Hamad Al Thani. AlBalooshi races friendly before the 2014 Gulf Cup Last Sunday in Charlotte, to his quarter- will be against North Korea on North Carolina, AlBalooshi final win in the November 6. defeated his team-mate, Shawn postponed Earlier this month, Qatar Langdon in the first round before Pep Boys played a goalless draw against the remainder of the event was NHRA Carolina Morocco in Casablanca before postponed to this weekend. Nationals going down to Peru 2-0 at home. Yesterday in Texas, the eight race that was Qatar is coached by Djamel teams that advanced to the sec- completed Belmadi who is also preparing ond round completed the seventh yesterday in his side for the 2015 Asian Cup annual Pep Boys NHRA Carolina Ennis, Texas near to be held in Australia in January Nationals, the 19th of 24 races Dallas. next year. that make up America’s 2014 Meanwhile, Al Shahaniya’s NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Spanish coach Miguel Ángel season and the first of six races Lotina has decided to quit the that comprise the Countdown Qatar Stars League (QSL) side, to the Championship NHRA it emerged yesterday. Playoffs. The club has agreed to Lotina’s AlBalooshi raced veteran seven-time NHRA champion had a good day today,” AlBalooshi in the Charlotte race. We will try Fuel point standings. His team- decision, details have revealed. NHRA driver Morgan Lucas Tony Schumacher. said. to win the Dallas race,” he added. mate, Shawn Langdon, dropped Lotina, who was roped in June in the first round and made an Both cars launched brilliantly, “Everybody on our team really With the completion of the from third all the way down to this year, will not lead the side excellent pass advancing to the and the two were side-by-side wanted to win the race. We first race in the Countdown to seventh with his first-round loss against Al Sadd today at Al semi-finals. until about half track when thought we had a chance even the Championship NHRA Play- in the first race of the playoffs. Gharafa Stadium It is believed There, he defeated good friend AlBalooshi’s gold Al Anabi drag- being in the right lane – the right offs and AlBalooshi’s final-round The point standings will change Lotina resigned for ‘personal rea- Steve Torrence to advance to ster slowed allowing Schumacher lane is not as good as the left – appearance, the Dubai driver again after the completion of sons’. Lotina was only the second his fifth final round of the sea- to cruise to the finish line and but Tony made a very good run. moved from seventh up to fourth AAA Texas NHRA Fall Nationals Spaniard to have plied his trade son. In the finals, he raced take the points lead. “Our team We are happy to race in the final in the NHRA Mello Yello Top this week. THE PENINSULA in the QSL. THE PENINSULA Total, REC ink deal for Qatar Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe

DOHA: A staggering 9.2m more than 60,000 fans will cram are part of Qatar’s culture and Euros will be dispersed into Longchamp Racecourse. history,” he explained. among the winners at next Chalmin said Total is delighted to Chalmin said: “Every sport has month’s 93rd Qatar Pric de partner with REC for the Qatar its showpiece event: Cycling has l’Arc de Triomphe, this was Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe, the the Tour de France and football, announced at a news conference most prestigious horse race in rugby and basketball have their where Total and Racing and the world. respective World Cups. The jewel, Equestrian Club (REC) signed He added Total is also the proud in the crown of the horse racing the deal as chief sponsor of the partner of the Qatar Arabian world, is the Qatar Prix de l’Arc race weekend in Paris. Trophy for colts, Qatar Arabian de Triomphe.” Sheikh Mohammed bin Faleh Trophy for mares and the Prix He added: “The amazing vic- Al Thani, Chairman, REC, signed Marcel Boussac as well as the tory of Treve, the fantastic horse the deal with Guillaume Chalmin, H H the Emir Sword Race in of HE Sheikh Joaan bin Hamad Managing Director of Total E&P Qatar. Al Thani in the Prix de l’Arc de Qatar and Group Representative, “Total has been involved with Triomphe last year in Paris, gives at a news conference held to the REC since 2008 and this the opportunity to live a very announce the details of an event hugely popular event is part of entertaining and intense race. that draws more than 1 billion TV Total’s commitment to the Qatar I would like also to thank H E viewers annually. National Vision 2030,” Chalmin Sheikh Mohammed bin Faleh Al “If you look at the sponsors, said. Thani, Chairman of REC, and you can tell it is a popular race,” “Horse racing is important to his team for providing Total with Sheikh Mohammed said. “If you our culture as is the case with the opportunity of this valuable look at the races last week, you Qatar. Both countries have a tra- association.” will see the in-form horses that dition of horse racing. For us, this Chalmin pointed out: “We are are preparing for Qatar Pric is a sport that has lot of value for delighted to establisha longstand- de l’Arc de Triomphe,” Sheikh the supporters of the event,” he ing relationship with REC, an Mohammed added. added. organisation that has profoundly “You can tell our event is “Supporting sports is a main raised the profile of horse racing very prestigious for the race part of Total’s corporate social in Qatar and abroad. Through its fans around the world,” Sheikh responsibility programme; it is a CSR activities, Total is bolster- Mohammed said. major contribution to social devel- ing Qatar’s international image Around 230 horses from France opment, as it values sports as one while also supporting the local and around the world will be com- of the best tools to transcend cul- culture and its traditions. As peting at Longchamp Racecourse tural barriers and cultural inte- horse racing is deeply entrenched Sheikh Mohammed bin Faleh Al Thani, Chairman Racing and Equestrian Club (REC) giving a memento to from October 2 to 5 in Paris. gration,” Chalmin said. in Qatari and French culture, it Guillaume Chalmin, MD Total E&P Qatar and Group Representative, during a press conference yesterday. A total of 17 races including “In addition, horse racing is a was logical for Total to commit PICTURE: ABDUL BASIT 8 Group I races will feature at major tradition in the region and to its development.” the race weekend in Paris where particularly in Qatar as horses THE PENINSULA

Rival vows no easy ride Qatar Juniors Tennis Tournament Kicks Off Today for Pacquiao debut Qatar Tennis Federation (QTF) MANILA: Manny Pacquiao or (be) allowed to drive past me,” led by Nasser bin Ghanim Al will receive no special treatment Belga added. Pacquiao, 35, has Khelaifi is hosting Qatar Juniors on his first foray into profes- won world boxing titles in eight Tournament that kicks off today sional basketball, a rival player different weight divisions and at Khalifa International Tennis has vowed, as the Philippine was drafted by expansion team and Squash Complex. The boxing superstar struggles with Kia in August even though he event will see participation of 31 a hectic training schedule for has no experience in high-level players including Naser Khalid, both sports. basketball. Jassim Al Thani, Adel Ghanem, Beau Belga, a 113-kilogram He is known for playing intense Mesha’al Al Khenji, Noora Al (250-pound), 1.95-metre (6 foot pick-up games during breaks in Khelaifi, Mashae’l Al Khenji 5 inch) Philippine Basketball training for bouts, and remains and Fayy Abdallah. Khalid Al Association bruiser, told Manila’s in top physical condition while Khelaifi, Head of National Teams sports news website Spin.ph that enjoying a successful sunset to Committee at QTF said: “QTF he will be no walkover when the his career in the ring. 1.69-metre (5ft 7in) Pacquiao The boxer was hired as player aims to promote the competition starts playing next month. and coach for Kia, which will open spirit among our national team “I have no intention of hurting their account on October 19 in a players from all age categories him, but I will play my normal league that has produced play- in addition to improve their skills game against him. I don’t have to ers of enough calibre to see the and abilities through this kind of change it just because he’s Manny Philippines qualify for World Cup. organised events.” Pacquiao,” the 27-year-old centre- Kia face another expansion forward of the league’s Rain or team on opening day, and are Shine team added. “This is bas- scheduled to play Belga’s Rain or ketball. He won’t get an open shot Shine later in tournament. AFP MONDAY 22 SEPTEMBER 2014 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 25 Ivanovic beats Wozniacki to clinch Pan Pacific title Serb takes 99 minutes to win battle of former World No.1s in Tokyo Simona Halep Removing TOKYO: Ana Ivanovic charged Serena Williams in the US Open the net repeatedly to over- final two weeks ago, led 3-1 early come US Open finalist Caroline in the second set. Serena a Wozniacki 6-2, 7-6 (7/2) in the The players broke each other final of the WTA Pan Pacific twice and levelled at 4-4 when Open in Tokyo yesterday. the Serb overcame a break point, step too far, The 26-year-old Serb needed smashed in from the net and Ana 99 minutes to win the battle of forced Wozniacki to hit a back- Ivanovic says Halep the former world number ones, hand long. of Serbia stretching her head-to-head tally Wozniacki slumped to 6-2 in WUHAN, China: Simona of wins over the second-seeded the tie-break, hitting four suc- poses Halep looked back on a “special Dane to five-two. cessive shots long and wide. with the year” yesterday following her “It was so hard physically. On match point, Ivanovic trophy after remarkable ascent to number We had a lot of long rallies but slammed a forehand down the defeating two in the rankings, but said to win the title is amazing,” line well clear of a helpless Caroline the top spot remains a distant said the third-seeded Ivanovic, Wozniacki, the 2010 Pan Pacific Wozniacki dream while Serena Williams is who had ousted Germany’s top- Open champion. of Denmark still playing. seed Angelique Kerber in the “I tried to serve and return at the Pan Tha Romanian was speaking semi-finals. well. I tried to play the first cou- Pacific final at the inaugural Wuhan Open “I really tried to come into the ple of balls out wide so she has to in Tokyo, in China days after being named net and finished a lot of points run for it,” said the Dane. yesterday. as the third player to make the at the net,” said the Serb, who is “But Ana was playing very season finale, next month’s WTA ranked 10th in the world and has aggressively.” Championships in Singapore, won 15 WTA titles, four of them Ivanovic also beat Wozniacki which will feature the top eight this year. in their last encounter -- by 7-6 women’s players. “I am happy because Wozniacki (7/5), 6-4 in the semi-finals at It has been a remarkable 2014 is a great defensive player and she the WTA event in Monterrey in for Halep, who started the year gets a lot of balls back.” March. ranked 11th but leapt to sec- It was the first Pan Pacific With her win in Tokyo, the ond after winning WTA titles Open title for Ivanovic, who has Serb earned the top prize money in Bucharest and Doha, as well competed in the Tokyo event for of $196,700 in the $1m event while Venus makes early exit in China as reaching the final at Roland eight straight years. $104,900 went to the runner-up Garros. Ivanovic broke the 24-year-old position. But the 22-year-old down- Dane’s serve in the first, fifth and Both Ivanovic, who topped WUHAN, China: Seven-time two-and-a-half hours, in a tie- forced to retire from her match played her chances of reaching seventh games of the first set on a the world rankings in 2008, and Grand Slam champion Venus break which finished 8/6. with American Alison Riske in the top, saying it was not a goal sun-drenched hard-centre court Wozniacki, who reigned in 2010 Williams crashed out of the She will now face Polish fifth the third set with the scores at with American power-hitter at the Ariake Coliseum. and 2011, are bound for the big- $2.4m WTA Wuhan Open in seed Agnieszka Radwanska in the 6-6. Williams still at her peak. She rushed forward to volley a money WTA event in Wuhan, the first round yesterday in a second round. The 16-year-old wildcard was “Not really, because Serena is cross-court winner at the outset China. nail-biting three-set defeat to Williams, 34, arrived in Wuhan carried of with heatstroke after still playing, so it is hard to get of the eighth and finished the set Both of them are aiming to French player Caroline Garcia. after losing the Quebec City tour- playing more than 2 hours 45 the points,” the second seed in with two straight service aces to qualify for the season-ending Garcia took the first set 6-4, nament final to Croatia’s Mirjana minutes in high temperatures in Wuhan said. gain upper hand. WTA Finals in Singapore next only to suffer a 6-4 reverse in Lucic-Baroni last Sunday. the central Chinese city. “My dream this year is to World number nine Wozniacki, month, which will feature the the second before clinching a Elsewhere in the tournament, The Wuhan Open will reach its play well in Singapore and in looking to get over her loss to world’s top eight players. AFP hardfought victory in more than home favourite Xu Shilin was climax on September 27. AFP my career my dream is to win a Grand Slam.” Williams won her 18th Grand Slam title earlier this month at ‘No regrets’ for retiring Li Na the US Open -- a victory which prompted tennis legend Martina BEIJING: Pioneering Chinese her nine titles and introduced Navratilova to say: “She’s got no tennis star Li Na said yester- tennis to the masses in China, she peer right now.” day she has “no regrets” about maintained that she has “done no Rising star Halep also lauded her decision to retire over per- great thing”. the 32-year-old top seed in sistent knee injuries, but wiped “I want to tell everyone -- Wuhan, saying she was playing away tears as she acknowledged because everyone has his or her some of the best tennis of her she thought long and hard about own dream -- you must keep pur- career. the decision. suing your dream,” she said. “She is very strong and she is The two-time Grand Slam win- The next Li Na may arrive “at playing really well like she did in ner was making her first public any moment”, she added. A woman the US Open,” Halep said. remarks since she announced her “Just keep an eye out,” she said. poses with “She is a great champion so I shock retirement via social media Chinese tennis star Li Na cries “The next player will be even bet- a statue of don’t want to think about reach- on Friday. as she answers questions during ter than me.” Chinese ing number one.” “I’m very satisfied with my ten- a press conference in Beijing Li became a sporting pioneer in tennis star Halep was on Friday named nis career,” the 32-year-old Li China when she decided to break the third player to qualify for yesterday. Li Na at told a news conference at China’s from the state sports system in a park in the WTA Championship, after National Tennis Centre, which 2008 with a group of up and com- Wuhan, her Williams and Russian world hosts the China Open later this characteristic wit. “Here, take ing players, in a move dubbed by number four Maria Sharapova. hometown, month. this,” she said, holding out a tis- local media “fly alone”. “It is very special for me that in China’s “I feel this is the best time for sue from her seat at the podium The move meant she was I qualified for Singapore,” Halep me to retire. I don’t feel sorry or and holding back tears of her own. able to choose her own coaches Hubei said. have any regrets about retiring. Li’s announcement comes just and keep most of her winnings province. “I will have a little bit of emo- When I was making this decision, seven months after she lifted the rather than giving them to the tions there, because it is the big- I asked myself, ‘If I retire, will I Australian Open title, one of her government. gest tournament.” regret it?’” career highlights following her But asked Sunday whether she Halep suffered a disappointing “My heart told me I wouldn’t, historic French Open win of 2011. would encourage future genera- third round exit at the US Open, because I’ve done my best,” she In postings on Facebook and tions of Chinese athletes to do the but vowed to rebuild her confi- said. The event was an emotional Chinese social media Friday, same, she demurred, and focused dence again at Wuhan. one both for Li and the nearly 200 she wrote that “after four knee instead on the positive aspects of “I can say it has been a special journalists who attended. surgeries and hundreds of shots her time within the state system. year for me,” she said. At one point, a Chinese jour- injected into my knee weekly to “I actually don’t like the phrase “I am looking forward just to nalist raised his hand to ask a alleviate swelling and pain, my ‘fly alone’. It’s a term made up by find my confidence again.” question, but then suddenly went body is begging me to stop the the media,” she said. “Personally, The WTA Premier tournament silent before breaking down into pounding”. On Sunday, as she I prefer the phrase ‘more profes- begins Sunday and will reach its tears. Li responded with her ended a career that has brought sional’.” AFP climax on September 27. AFP Injured Watson out of Pakistan series

MELBOURNE: Injury-prone would have been unavailable for “Shane has done everything he said.“Despite my strong desire all-rounder Shane Watson has the T20 and ODI part of the tour can to get up for this tour and to be on the tour, I understand Australia’s been ruled out of Australia’s and significantly limit his bowling left no doubt in our minds that he why the selectors have made this Shane entire series against Pakistan preparation for the test matches.” wanted to push through,” national decision. Watson in the United Arab Emirates Tasmania paceman Ben selector Rod Marsh said. “Given I can’t be with the boys, during a with a calf injury, the country’s Hilfenhaus (pictured) will take “Had the decision been left to my goal now is to work as hard as training cricket board said yesterday. Watson’s place in the Test squad, Shane, he would be on the plane I can to get back to 100 per cent session Watson, recovering from a while Kane Richardson to Dubai, however as fitness so that I can make myself before the sprained ankle that kept him out has been named as a selectors we have taken available for selection ahead of second of the tri-series in Zimbabwe, replacement for the lim- a conservative approach our series against South Africa Ashes Test has suffered a new setback and ited-overs matches. to ensure he has the best in November. match is experiencing soreness in his Australia have already chance of being fit for “I’ve been here before and know right calf, Cricket Australia (CA) lost captain Michael the big summer ahead. what I need to do to get back to against physiotherapist Alex Kountouris Clarke for the limited- The 33-year-old full fitness. That means remain- England at said in a statement. overs matches of the Watson, who has long ing positive and working hard. Lord’s, in this “As Shane has previously had series due to a hamstring struggled with his calves We have a huge summer of cricket July 2013 file similar calf injuries, we plan to injury and the top batsman is still and hamstrings, said he will now at home and my priority now is to photo. hold back his return to running a doubt for the Tests. focus on regaining total fitness play a big part in that.” and bowling for approximately With a home series against before the busy summer. After a one-off Twenty20 7-10 days. India at the end of the year to “I’m naturally disappointed match on October 5, Australia “The unfortunate timing of be followed by next year’s 50-over because I was desperate to play play Pakistan in three one-dayers this calf injury will mean that his World Cup, CA decided against against Pakistan which is our over the following week before the preparation for the UAE tour will risking Watson for the Pakistan opportunity to get back to number first Test starts on October 22 in be considerably affected and he series. one in Test and ODIs,” Watson Dubai. REUTERS MONDAY 22 SEPTEMBER 2014 26 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT F1: Hamilton wins Singapore GP Englishman regains championship lead; Rosberg retires with steering wheel problems

SINGAPORE: Lewis Hamilton Safety Car interruption reduced Hamilton came home 13.534 on the pit apron as the team regained the Formula One driv- his lead and forced him to attack seconds ahead of Vettel, with changed his steering wheel and Singapore Grand Prix Results ers’ world championship lead again in the closing stages when Daniel Ricciardo third in the sec- settings again - and Hamilton SINGAPORE: Results from the Singapore Formula One Grand yesterday when he claimed vic- he passed Sebastian Vettel to win. ond Red Bull ahead of Fernando flew by to lap him. Prix yesterday: tory in the Singapore Grand It was the 29th win of Alonso of Ferrari and Felipe The suspense was tangible as 1. Lewis Hamilton (GBR/Mercedes) 2hrs 04.795sec, 2. Sebastian Vettel (GER/Red Bull) at 13.534sec, Prix after his Mercedes team- Hamilton’s career, his sev- Massa of Williams. Rosberg struggled to re-start 3. Daniel Ricciardo (AUS/Red Bull) 14.273, 4. Fernando Alonso (ESP/Ferrari) 15.389, 5. Felipe mate Nico Rosberg limped out enth this year and his second He moves up to 241 points, before waving his arms in sur- Massa (BRA/Williams) 42.161, 6. Jean-Eric Vergne (FRA/Toro Rosso) 56.801, 7. Sergio Perez (MEX/ with electronic problems. in Singapore, ending four-time three clear of Rosberg, with five render. “Ok park it, park it,” said Force India) 59.038, 8. Kimi Raikkonen (FIN/Ferrari) 1:00.641, 9. Nico Hülkenberg (GER/Force India) The 29-year-old Briton led champion Vettel’s run of three races remaining in one of the a voice on team radio. “Stop.” 1:01.661, 10. Kevin Magnussen (DEN/McLaren) 1:02.230, 11. Valtteri Bottas (FIN/Williams) 1:05.065, from pole position and dominated straight wins on the south-east most tense and closely-fought “It wasn’t so much a roller 12. Pastor Maldonado (VEN/Lotus) 1:06.915, 13. Romain Grosjean (FRA/Lotus) 1:08.029, 14. Daniil the 61-laps race before a lengthy Asian street circuit. championships of recent years. coaster ride because it was all Kvyat (RUS/Toro Rosso) 1:12.008, 15. Marcus Ericsson (SWE/Caterham) 1:34.188, 16. Jules Bianchi “I had dream this would happen downhill for me,” he added. (FRA/Marussia) 1:34.543, 17. Max Chilton (GBR/Marussia) 1 lap. last night,” said Hamilton. “It was very frustrating to Retirements “Things have changed for me drive behind a Caterham and sit absolutely. I looked for a clean on a grid and watch everyone else Kamui Kobayashi (JPN/Caterham): did not start, Nico Rosberg (GER/Mercedes): 14th lap, Esteban weekend and this was it. We leave. But that is the way it is.” Gutierrez (MEX/Sauber): 18th lap, Adrian Sutil (GER/Sauber): 41th lap, Jenson Button (GBR/McLaren always strive to get both cars 1-2 After swallowing his disap- Mercedes): 53th lap. that was our goal, so things still pointment Rosberg watched the Overall standings to work on.” finale of an incident packed race Drivers British Formula Rosberg turned up for the from the Mercedes pit wall with 1. Lewis Hamilton (GBR) 241.0pts, 2. Nico Rosberg (GER) 238.0, 3. Daniel Ricciardo (AUS) 181.0, 4. One driver Lewis Marina Bay street circuit night Hamilton winning to take a three Fernando Alonso (ESP) 133.0, 5. Sebastian Vettel (GER) 124.0, 6. Valtteri Bottas (FIN) 122.0, 7. Jenson Hamilton of race 22 points clear of Hamilton. point advantage to the Japanese Button (GBR) 72.0, 8. Nico Hülkenberg (GER) 72.0, 9. Felipe Massa (BRA) 65.0, 10. Sergio Perez But the German endured a Grand Prix on October 5. (MEX) 45.0, 11. Kimi Raikkonen (FIN) 45.0, 12. Kevin Magnussen (DEN) 39.0, 13. Jean-Eric Vergne Mercedes AMG wretched evening, his car failing As Hamilton controlled the (FRA) 19.0, 14. Romain Grosjean (FRA) 8.0, 15. Daniil Kvyat (RUS) 8.0, 16. Jules Bianchi (FRA) 2.0. GP celebrates to set off for the warm-up lap race the safety car emerged on Constructors after winning from second on the grid. lap 31 after Mexican Sergio Perez the Singapore 1. Mercedes 479.0pts, 2. Red Bull 305.0, 3. Williams 187.0, 4. Ferrari 178.0, 5. Force India 117.0, He eventually started from the lost the front wing on his Force 6. McLaren 111.0, 7. Toro Rosso 27.0, 8. Lotus 8.0, 9. Marussia 2.0. Formula One pitlane, in an under-performing India after colliding with German Grand Prix car with restricted electronic pro- Adrian Sutil’s Sauber. night race in grammes available. This interruption, to clear laps behind the Safety Car which gap, pit and then pass cars in the Singapore, By lap five, he had climbed to debris, saw Alonso dive in for pulled in after lap 37. final laps to win. For Mercedes, yesterday. 20th while Hamilton was control- another pit stop, gifting Vettel Hamilton responded with a and Hamilton, it was a chal- ling a lead of 2.3 seconds ahead second ahead of Ricciardo with measured charge. lenge that required a precision of Vettel. the Spaniard fourth. He opened up a 3.3 seconds lead response. Finally, the Briton pit- Hamilton pitted after 13 laps, After enjoying a comfortable on lap 39, knowing he had to pit ted after 52 laps, re-joining sec- but when Rosberg limped in one lead, Hamilton faced a tense finale again for the standard ‘soft’ tyres ond behind Vettel for a dramatic lap later, it was terminal for the knowing he had to re-establish and, at the same time, hold off his attack that saw him regain the German. speed superiority to make up for rivals running on the ‘super softs’. lead with a bold move on lap 54 as Struggling without fourth gear, the advantage handed to his rivals By lap 45, he led by 16 seconds, Rosberg stood, watched the action he was asked to stall the engine by running gently through six but faced a need to increase that from the pit wall. AFP Lampard ends Chelsea’s perfect start; Leicester stun Man United

LONDON: Emotional Frank van Gaal after goals by Robin van Stoke win against one of the big down inside the area following a Lampard rescued a point for Persie, Angel di Maria and Ander forces in English football is very slight touch by the full-back. champions Manchester City Herrera left them 3-1 up with just satisfying. Leicester were all square against former club Chelsea yes- over 30 minutes remaining. “When you add to that coming minutes later when Cambiasso terday while Manchester United But a controversial penalty, from 3-1 down, it is a testament became the third Argentinian to gave up a 3-1 lead to slump to a converted by David Nugent, to the quality, belief and spirit score in the match, with a low shock 5-3 defeat at Leicester. reduced the Foxes’ deficit to amongst us.” shot from inside the box. Lampard’s equaliser ensured 3-2 after they had got on the United, fresh from their 4-0 Then came Ulloa’s penalty that a 1-1 draw against the Premier scoresheet through Leonardo thrashing of QPR, like Leicester set the seal on a memorable win League leaders who lost their per- Ulloa. Two minutes after Nugent’s a newly-promoted side, 2-0 up for Leicester. fect start to the league season but penalty, Esteban Cambiasso drew inside 16 minutes. Meanwhile West Bromwich still moved three points clear of Leicester level at 3-3 before Jamie Van Persie opened the scor- Albion and Crystal Palace, who second-placed Southampton. Vardy, given time and space, made ing in the 13th minute when the had started the day as the top- It seemed Jose Mourinho’s side it 4-3 in the 79th minute. Dutch striker headed in an excel- flight’s bottom two clubs, moved were set for a fifth straight league Four minutes later, Ulloa made lent cross from Radamel Falcao. up after wins away to Tottenham win when Andre Schurrle put the game safe for promoted Di Maria then showed why Hotspur and Everton respectively. them ahead in the 71st minute, Leicester when, after United’s United had paid a British record At White Hart Lane, Scotland shortly after City had been Tyler Blackett had been sent off fee of £59.7m to Real Madrid with international James Morrison’s reduced to 10 men by the send- for bringing down Vardy in the a sublime second goal, courtesy 74th-minute header secured a 1-0 ing off of defender Pablo Zabaleta. box, the striker scored his second of a perfect chip over Kasper victory for West Brom over Spurs. But former Chelsea great goal and Leicester’s fifth from the Schmeichel -- son of United goal- West Brom’s success meant Lampard, only playing for City penalty spot. keeping great Peter. But just two Palace kicked-off bottom of the after being loaned to them by “How is it possible to give this minutes later Leicester pulled a table at Goodison Park later New York City, the club he left game away?,” a disbelieving van goal back through an Argentinian Sunday, but they responded with for at the end of last season, drew Gaal told Sky Sports. ace of their own when Ulloa pow- a 3-2 win the hosts level five minutes from “We have given the game away. ered in a near-post header follow- Palace were behind early time following a typically late run Leicester has proven already ing an excellent cross by Vardy. on after Romelu Lukaku gave into the box. in four games that they have a Herrera made it 3-1 before Everton a ninth-minute lead. The drama at Eastlands was as strong character and that when Leicester were given a conten- But the Eagles soared thanks to nothing compared to events ear- they are 3-1 down, you can play tious lifeline in the 62nd minute. Mile Jedinak’s 30th-minute pen- lier in the day at Leicester’s King all the game with more possession Vardy barged Rafael outside the alty and second-half goals from Manchester City’s English midfielder Frank Lampard restrains his cel- Power Stadium. but you cannot do these kind of box but referee Mark Clattenburg Fraizer Campbell and Yannick ebrations after scoring his goal against his former club during the English It seemed big-spenders United things.” let play continue only to point to Bolassie, with Leighton Baines’s Premier League football match against Chelsea at the Etihad Stadium were on course for their first com- Delighted Leicester boss Nigel the penalty spot when, with roles 83rd-minute penalty too little, too in Manchester yesterday petitive away victory under Louis Pearson said: “To back up the reversed, the Leicester man went late for Everton. AFP English Premier Celtic rescue point League Results Bundesliga: Paderborn Everton 2 (Lukaku 9, Baines 83-pen) Crystal Palace 3 (Jedinak 30-pen, Campbell 54, at Motherwell Bolasie 69); Leicester 5 (Ulloa 18, 83-pen, Nugent 62-pen, Cambiasso 64, Vardy 79) GLASGOW: Celtic needed a winner but a series of saves by retain pole position Manchester United 3 (Van Persie 13, Di Maria second half penalty from sub- Motherwell keeper Dan Twardzik 16, Herrera 57); Manchester City 1 (Lampard stitute Kris Commons to res- earned his side a point that leaves 85) Chelsea 1 (Schurrle 71) BERLIN: Bayer Leverkusen pass from Rodriguez. The Swiss cue a point in a 1-1 draw with Celtic in fourth place, five points Tottenham 0 West Brom 1 (Morrison 74) missed a chance to reclaim the defender added a second goal in German League Motherwell as their stuttering behind leaders Dundee United Played on Saturday lead in the Bundesliga yester- the 63rd and Aaron Hunt added start to the season continued. who thrashed rivals Dundee 4-1 day, suffering a 4-1 loss at VfL the fourth in the 81st minute. Results Aston Villa 0 Arsenal 3 (Ozil 32, Welbeck 34, BERLIN, Germany: The Hoops dominated early yesterday. It was not the 39th Cissokho 36-og); Burnley 0 Sunderland 0; Wolfsburg, meaning that pro- “The whole thing was too much German possession but it was Motherwell birthday present manager Deila Newcastle 2 (Cisse 73, 87) Hull 2 (Jelavic 49, moted Paderborn’s magical for us,” said Leverkusen coach League results yesterday: who took a 19th minute lead when would have wanted and leaves Diame 68); QPR 2 (Caulker 42, Kranjcar 88) weekend continued by staying Roger Schmidt. VfL Wolfsburg 4 (Rodriguez 8-pen, 63, John Sutton volleyed home Josh him with just five wins from his Stoke 2 (Diouf 11, Crouch 51); Swansea 0 atop the Bundesliga. “They are a strong opponent, Vieirinha 45, Hunt 81) Bayer Leverkusen 1 Law’s cross from close range. first 13 matches in charge of the Southampton 1 (Wanyama 80); West Ham 3 Ricardo Rodriguez scored there was an early red card and (Drmic 29) The English striker should Scottish champions. (Reid 2, Sakho 7, Amalfitano 88) Liverpool 1 two goals and set up another as goal. And then the goal right FC Cologne 0 Borussia Moenchengladbach 0 have had another minutes later “I’m not happy with the result. (Sterling 26) Wolfsburg handed Leverkusen before the half-time. It was just On Saturday but somehow sliced his effort wide We wanted to win the match and their first defeat of the season too much for my young team.” VfB Stuttgart 0 Hoffenheim 2 (Modeste 15, from four yards out. I think we deserved it in the end Scottish Premiership and picked up their first victory. Leverkusen’s seven points Elyounoussi 84) Ronny Deila had handed a host but we made it so difficult for Leverkusen went a man down leave them fifth behind a quartet Results FC Augsburg 4 (Baier 14, Verhaegh 45+3- of first team stars a rest follow- ourselves as the first half was so after just seven minutes after of teams with eight points - one pen, Werner 77, Matavz 90+3) Werder Celtic 1 (Commons 68-pen) Motherwell 1 ing their Europa League exertions poor,” the Celtic manager said. a red card for Giulio Donati, more than Schmidt’s side. Bremen 2 (Selke 3, Di Santo 56-pen) away to Salzburg on Thursday “I think in the second half we (Sutton 19); Dundee 1 (Stewart 90) Dundee whose foul in the box resulted in The other match yesterday Hamburg 0 Bayern Munich 0 but brought captain Scott Brown had two good subs coming on who United 4 (Bilate 25-pen, Dow 54, Morris 59, Rodriguez’s first goal in the eighth saw FC Cologne hold Borussia and Commons off the bench at brought energy into the game and Watson 79) minute. Moenchengladbach to a scoreless SC Paderborn 2(Kachunga 71, Stoppelkamp the break. The pair combined to I think we played quite well.” Played on Saturday Leverkusen, who came into the draw at home. The biggest win- 90+3), Hanover 96 0 haul Celtic back on level terms as Motherwell manager Stuart Aberdeen 3 (Rooney 20, Goodwillie 26, weekend as table-toppers, equal- ner of the weekend was promoted Schalke 04 2 (Choupo-Moting 40, Draxler Brown won a 68th minute penalty McCall was delighted to end a Pawlett 50) Ross County 0; Hamilton 0 ised in the 29th minute through Paderborn, who beat Hanover 96 50), Eintracht Frankfurt 2 (Meier 15, Russ 24) that Commons converted. nine match losing streak at Celtic Kilmarnock 0; Inverness CT 2 (Watkins 61, Josip Drmic but Vieirinha made 2-0 on Saturday to take first place Mainz 05 2 (Okazaki 66, Ginter 74-og) Celtic continued to push for a Park. AFP Christie 66) St Johnstone 1 (Graham 78) it 2-1 after 45 minutes after a with eight points. AFP Borussia Dortmund 0 MONDAY 22 SEPTEMBER 2014 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 27 Hagino stuns Sun, Park in Asiad pool 20-year-old Japanese new rising star

INCHEON, South Korea: a powerful Japanese men’s swim Japan’s Kosuke Hagino gate- Asian Games team that won six gold medals at crashed the much-hyped the Pan Pacific Championships in showdown between Olympic Medals Table Australia last month. champions Sun Yang and While South Korean and INCHEON, South Korea: Park Tae-hwan to win the 200 Chinese media focused squarely metres freestyle gold at the Asian Games medals table on the clash between Sun and Asian Games yesterday, while after yesterday’s competition: Park, Hagino slipped under the four more weightlifting world G S B T radar and steamed past his two records fell on the second day of South Korea 12 10 9 31 big rivals to win gold. competition in Incheon. China 12 9 11 32 Hagino took down Olympic A day after North Korean Om Japan 7 8 11 26 great Michael Phelps in Australia Yun Chol lifted more than three last month and all signs point to Mongolia 2 2 4 8 times his bodyweight to break a career filled with world and Kazakhstan 2 1 5 8 Japan’s Kosuke Hagino reacts after winning in the men’s 200m freestyle final swimming competition at the the world clean and jerk record, Olympic titles. Munhak Park Tae-hwan Aquatics Center during the 17th Asian Games in Incheon yesterday. compatriot and fellow Olympic North Korea 2 0 3 5 “I cannot say I have gained a champion Kim Un Guk set new Vietnam 1 2 4 7 lot of confidence by winning today marks in the snatch and total lift Taiwan 1 1 2 4 but I will continue this momen- to win gold in the 62kg category. Malaysia 1 1 0 2 tum for the remaining games,” “This is something that all ath- Hong Kong 1 0 3 4 said the 20-year-old Japanese stu- Asian Olympic chiefs open letes wish for in weightlifting,” dent. Sun and Park both had their India 1 0 3 4 said the triumphant Kim. excuses. China’s 400 and 1,500 Kazakh and Taiwanese lift- Indonesia 0 2 1 3 Olympic champion said he had a ers also set world records in the Kuwait 0 2 0 2 sore thumb, while South Korean women’s 53kg event as Asian Macau 0 2 0 2 Park, who won gold in Beijing, door to Oceania athletes weightlifters proved they will Lebanon 0 1 0 1 said he had struggled under the INCHEON, South Korea: be hard to beat at the Summer Turkmenistan 0 1 0 1 weight of expectation. everything. “Let’s do it step-by- Asian Winter Games in Sapporo, Olympics in two years’ time. “They are both great swim- Asian Olympic officials have step. Indoor will be good. Then we Japan, taking place the year Singapore 0 0 3 3 South Korean sharpshooter mers. Just being able to compete agreed to let countries from will think more.” before South Korea hosts the Kim Cheong-yong will only be 19 Uzbekistan 0 0 2 2 with them meant a lot to me,” Oceania compete at the region’s Sheikh Ahmad, already one Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang. when Rio rolls around and who learn from him. As shooting is said the gracious Hagino. next indoor Games, a signifi- of the most powerful men in the Australia has been investing knows how many titles the high not done so much by your physi- Japan’s Daiya Seto proved the cant move that could open the Olympic movement, said the deci- heavily in its winter sports pro- school student will have accumu- cality as it is by your mind, he class act of the men’s 200m but- door for sporting powerhouse sion to let Oceania teams into gramme, winning medals at each lated by then. gave me much precious advice,” terfly, Ryosuke Irie roared to gold Australia to integrate more into Asia had been approved by the of the last six Olympics, including Kim has idolised Olympic added Kim, who won a silver at in the men’s 100m backstroke, Asia. OCA general assembly. two silvers and a bronze at Sochi champion Jin Jong-oh since first the recent Youth Olympic Games while China’s women also won Sheikh Ahmad Al Fahad Al The decision means the 17 earlier this year. picking up a pistol in middle in Nanjing. three golds at the Munhak Park Sabah, the influential presi- Oceania nations, including But Australians rarely get to school, but yesterday sentiment A springboard to success for Tae-hwan Aquatics Center. dent of the Olympic Council of Australia, New Zealand and other compete in big regional champi- was shot to pieces as the 17-year- many of the region’s emerging Zhang Yuhan touched first in Asia (OCA), said there were no smaller Pacific nations, will be eli- onships because there is no major old won 10m air pistol gold. athletes, the Asian Games wit- the 400m freestyle, Shi Jinglin current plans to allow Oceania gible to join the existing 45 Asian winter games event for Oceania Despite proving the sharpest nessed the emergence of Chinese won the 100m breaststroke and countries to compete at the main member countries at the 2017 or Commonwealth nations. shot in Incheon, Kim, who along stars Sun Yang and Yi Shiwen in Yi Shiwen led her team to gold in Asian Games but he did not rule Asian Indoor and Martial Games, “They have all those athletes in with Jin and Lee Dae-myung also Guangzhou four years ago and the 4x100 freestyle relay. At the it out in the future. to be held in the Turkmenistan winter sports and they only have won gold in the team event on yesterday another young swim- end of the second day of compe- “I think we have an opportu- capital Ashgabat. the Olympic Games, so maybe it Sunday, said his mentor still had mer made a huge splash. tition, China are tied with South nity,” he told a news conference at Sheikh Ahmad said the OCA will be the corridor for their prep- so much to teach him. The 20-year-old Hagino has Korea on 12 golds, with Japan in the Asian Games yesterday. “But might also consider allowing arations,” Sheikh Ahmad said. “There are so many things to surfaced as the new rising star of third place on seven. AFP we don’t want to go directly for Oceania to compete at the 2017 REUTERS Qatar impress in beach volleyball; Abdullah and Rashid crash out

INCHEON, South Korea: Qatar had an easy win over Bangladesh in Asian Games Sheikh Saoud bin beach volleyball with the duo Abdulrahman Al of Tiago Santos and Santos Thani (second Perreira blanking Monir right), Secretary- Hussain and Horosit Biswas General of 21-12, 21-10. Qatar Olympic Meanwhile, Qatar’s Abdullah Committee (QOC) Al Tamimi crashed out of the watching the squash tournament at the Asian Asian Games Games, falling in five games to action in Incheon, Hong Kong’s Lee Ho Yin in the South Korea, quarter-finals yesterday. yesterday. RIGHT: Lee won the marathon match Qatari shooter 11-4, 11-5, 9-11, 8-11, 11-2 to progress, but Abdullah learned Rashid Al Athba a tough lesson about competing competing in the at this level that would serve him men’s trap event. well in the future. Pictures by: QOC “I had my chance after I fought back from two games down, but the in the decider I let myself down,” he said. “I am used to long matches, but of the men’s trap event, failing gold with Kuwait’s Fehaid al- Abdullah had beaten Kuwait’s Lee proved too good in the final to get past the qualifiers after Dheehani clinching silver and Ammar Al Tamimi on Saturday set,” he said. finishing in ninth place with a Kazakhstan’s Andrey Mogilevskiy in five sets, but denied tiredness Meanwhile, Qatar’s ace shooter score of 118 out of 125. China’s taking bronze. QOC had anything to do with his defeat. Rashid Al Athba also bowed out Bo Gao later went on to win the

A Qatari player is challenged by an UAE oppo- nent during their Asian Games handball match at the Seonhak Handball Gymnasium yes- terday. Qatar won 27-15 for their second straight win in their Group C preliminaries. RIGHT: Qatari players listen to instructions from coach Alvaro Rivera dur- ing their match against UAE. SEE ALSO PAGE 28 Monday 22 September 2014 27 Dhu’l-Qa’da 1435 Volume 19 Number 6196 Sport Price: QR2

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www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 44557741 | Advertising: 44557837 / 44557780 Second Qatar off to winning start successive win for Qatar Asian Games volleyball: Ibrahim excels in 3-0 win over Chinese Taipei in handball ANSAN, South Korea: Qatar and absorbing pressure. “This is overcame a tense first set before my third Asian Games, so I am DOHA: Qatar outplayed Gulf overpowering Chinese Taipei used to all the pressure. The team neighbours UAE 27-15 for their in their opening match of the also does a good job handling second straight win in their Asian Games volleyball tourna- pressure.” Group C preliminaries at the ment at the Ansan Sangrosku Qatar were off to a flier, taking Seonhak Handball Gymnasium Gymnasium yesterday. a 3-0 lead when the game started yesterday. The much taller and muscu- but perhaps as a result of over- After Saturday’s convincing vic- lar Qataris took time to find confidence errors crept into their tory over Oman, Asian champions their rhythm initially but when game allowing Taipei to breathe Qatar virtually enjoyed a stroll in they settled down they clearly down their necks. the park with Abdulrazzaq Murad emerged the better side, clinch- After drawing level at 7-7, single-handedly demolishing the ing a 25-21, 25-17, 25-21 victory Taipei even managed to take the opposition by scoring a whopping in the Group A fixture which lead for the first time but a cou- eight goals. lasted 75 minutes. ple of searing smashes by Jumah The win put Qatar in the main Qatar had been camping in Mohamed and Nadir Sidikh round but they before that they South Korea since September restored Qatar’s advantage as will get to test their skills today 10, training hard and acclimatiz- they went ahead 13-11. when they take on mighty China, ing to the conditions, and their From then onwards, Qatar the silver medallists in 2010, in superior fitness level was very kept themselves marginally ahead their last preliminary. much on show yesterday as they all the time, and when Ibrahim Left-winger Murad was in daz- played without any fear or pres- produced a brilliant block, they zling form as he found the net sure. They smashed hard and pro- suddenly had a three-point cush- four times in each half, ducking duced daring dives to retrieve the ion at 20-17. That came in handy and weaving past the hapless UAE ball from seemingly impossible as Qatar closed out the set with- defence with effortless ease. situations out much trouble. Rafael Capote and Mahnoud Ibrahim Ibrahim, primarily a Chinese Taipei’s morale Hasballa gave him able support blocker, allowed himself the lib- appeared shattered in the second with three goals as Qatar led 15-7 erty of contributing as an all- set, and with Jumah and Mubarak at half-time. rounder, coming up with several Hammad drilling holes in their For the UAE, Mohamed Al smashes to win key points for defence with a string of powerful Balooshi top-scored with six goals. Qatar. smashes, Qatar were soon 14-7 “Two win in two days, I have The 6’8” genial giant was all ahead. Qatar’s Ibrahim Ibrahim (second left) blocks a spike from a Chinese Taipei player during their Asian Games no complaints,” said Qatar coach smiles later, posing for pictures Jumah then finished off the set, volleyball match at the Ansan Sangrosku Gymnasium yesterday. Qatar registered a 25-21, 25-17, 25-21 victory Alvaro Rivera. and giving interviews in fluent placing what could have been a in the Group A fixture. BOTTOM: Players of Qatar celebrate a point. PICTURES BY: QOC “Tomorrow will be interesting English, Arabic and French. explosive smash gently into the when we take on China.” “Yeah, I like to make chip in vacant space. up several key points for Qatar. Before the UAE could realise for the team’s cause in whatever Taipei showed some resolve in Qatar coach Juan Cichello, how- what was happening, Qatar had manner I can,” said the Senegal- the third set, with Feng Huan, ever, refused to single out any raced to a 6-0 lead in the first born Ibrahim, who added that the Hao Chang and libero Shun single player for praise after the six minutes and that was pretty players were a well knit unit who Lin combining well, but after match. much the end of the match. back each other up. another close battle, Qatar broke “It’s the team. Always,” the “We cannot be complacent “We have been training hard at away for a 20-17 lead which Argentinian said. as there are several important our camp here, but at the same proved crucial. “All the players performed well. matches ahead,” said Rivera, a time we were also building team But while Ibrahim, Jumah Volleyball is always a team game World Championship winning spirit, which is a key element of and Mubarak stole most of the where several elements have to coach with Spain. the preparations.” honours, Qatar’s libero Sulaiman combine well in order for the Qatar are expecting a podium But he was nevertheless Saad also deserves special men- team to succeed.” finish this time after finishing relieved Qatar had won the tion for going about his business Qatar will take on Kazakhstan fifth in Guangzhou, but Rivera opener. in a calm and purposeful manner. tomorrow in their second Group was focused on the current job “It was the first match of the Despite being only 5’9” tall, A game. on hand. “Of course every team is tournament and it is always a Saad simply excelled in his tough The Kazakhs will be looking here to win the tournament, but weight off your shoulders when defensive role which is designated to avoid a second straight defeat, we must take one day at a time,” you start off with a victory, but at the start of the game. after losing to South Korea 75-60 said the Spaniard. we are under no illusions because The libero’s position cannot be on Saturday. Meanwhile China suffered there are many teams in the event rotated which means he has to Sixteen teams divided into four a shock defeat at the hands of who are capable.” have enough stamina to play the groups are playing the prelimi- Oman, losing 27-22. The gold He added that he had enough full match without a break. And nary rounds which will finish on medallists will be decided on experience playing tough matches Sadd had plenty of it as he set September 27. QOC October 2. QOC QERT tops Superstock category at 24H Le Mans

LE MANS: Qatar Endurance the best time in the Superstock and there is no doubt that Qatar Racing Team (QERT) won category despite being 7th over- Endurance Racing Team now has the final round of the FIM all at the start to win the 24H a special achievement under its Endurance World Championship Le Mans race. belt,” Al Attiyah said. in the Superstock category, the QMMF President Nasser bin “This win would inevitably lead Qatar Endurance Qatar Motor and Motorcycle Khalifa Al Attiyah expressed the team to post more achieve- Federation (QMMF) said in a his delight after the foursome of ments for Qatar, which is our Racing Team statement yesterday. West, Cudlin, Al Naimi and Al utmost objective behind such par- (QERT), win- The QERT team comprising Sulaiti produced the win. ticipation,” Al Attiyah said. ners at the final of Australian duo of Anthony “Such an achievement is con- Al Attiyah stated that the inte- round of the FIM West and Alex Cudlin and sidered a real indicator of the grated performance of QERT - Endurance World Qatari riders Mashel Al Naimi team’s ability to achieve the best headed by the team manager Championship in and Saed Al Sulaiti produced results on the international level, Rashid Al Sulaiti - came against the Superstock cat- all odds. egory, celebrate on A member Heavy rain and wet conditions the podium at 24H of the Qatar made riding difficult, Al Attiyah Le Mans, yesterday. said. Endurance The QMMF President said win- Racing Team ning against stronger European (QERT) com- sides was ‘an absolute delight’. petes in the Al Attiyah said QMMF man- Superstock agement deserved credit for category at backing the riders and providing QERT Team Manager Rashid Al Sulaiti kicked off the race competing. We were monitor- 24H Le Mans, the aforementioned four riders Al Sulaiti said: “We always had course in brilliant fashion for ing each and every detail. Our the final round with experience of competing trust in these riders to do well. QERT. plans and strategies paid off in of the FIM against the top names in the The team members Anthony He did well until the 8th hour the end.” Endurance world. West, Alex Cudlin, Mashel Al of the race and then slipped back He added: “Today we are cel- World He said the team was well Naimi and Saed Al Sulaiti were to second spot for a while. ebrating this new achievement. Championship, placed to corner future glory as brilliant. Since their performance However, Al Sauliati restored QMMF has recorded many wins in Le Mans, QMMF had developed a mecha- was distinguished for the whole 24 the top spot going into the early in such races. We won this cat- France nism that could provide young hours, and they were responsible hours yesterday. egory three consecutive times in yesterday. riders with opportunities to learn for achieving this brillant result Al Sulaiti said: “It was tough 2008, 2009 and 2010. We did it an excel at top events. for Qatar.” out there. We had 32 tops teams again.” THE PENINSULA